1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Stephen Price, how are you going. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 2: Well, I'm fine where I am, but I wouldn't have 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: wanted to be. I couldn't have wanted to be in 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:16,080 Speaker 2: little town of Olion yesterday. Some Well, I don't advise 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 2: you to go there. I'm going to hope no one 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: from Olians listening to us this morning. But it's not 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: the sort of place you'd want to go. It's in 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: the northwest of Victoria, on its way to mill Dura. 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: It was the hottest place on earth yesterday it got 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 2: to forty eight point nine degrees. Now that is the 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 2: highest hottest day since eighteen fifty five when they had 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 2: similar temperatures in Melbourne itself. Yesterday I got to forty three. 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: It was forty five degrees in the western suburbs and 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: one fire officer yesterday said the radiant heat is so 15 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: extreme it can kill you before you even get hit 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 2: by a bushfire. So that's how hot it was. We 17 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: were the hottest place on earth. There are a number 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 2: of fires burning right across the state. The worst one 19 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: is in the Otway Ranges, which is southwest of Melbourne 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: on the way to South Australia. A little town of 21 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 2: Jellybrand had to be evacuated. There's a whole lot of 22 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: emergency places set up and the fires were continuing late 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: into last night. There was then a cool change and 24 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: the wind changed and that really didn't help the firefighters, 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 2: but it certainly has cooled everything down. It's twenty degrees 26 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: where I am at the moment. 27 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: I've been in Melbourne on forty three on a couple 28 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: of times, and i've been in Sydney in forty four 29 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: and it's generally Melbourne. It's the wind, isn't it. It's 30 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: the hot It's like standing in front of a hair dryer. 31 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, the northerly winds are the ones that get you. Yesterday, 32 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 2: interestingly it wasn't that windy, so it was just pure heat. 33 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 2: And of course you've got the Australian Open Grand Slam 34 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: tennis at the moment. They had to shut the roofs 35 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 2: of the roof stadiums, which thank god they've got those 36 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 2: all court. All the play on the courts was suspended 37 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 2: but they'll be able to get back into it today. 38 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 2: But it was an ambient temperature sixty degrees on Center 39 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: Court before they shut that roof. 40 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: It's amazing in it this isn't a spill, It's a joke, 41 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: was what I was reading yesterday. So is Lay safe 42 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: or is this just like death by a thousand cuts? 43 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: Lee safe? 44 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 2: Other Well, it's interesting you say that because Parliament resumes 45 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 2: next week. Now, the suggestion this morning is the National Party, 46 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: led by David little Brown, who pulled on this split 47 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 2: from the Liberals, won't announce his own front bench now 48 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 2: that he's out of coalition because they believe that if 49 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: he were to do that, that would then force the 50 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 2: Liberals to announce new ministers and in what would become 51 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 2: the opposition, because the Liberals have still got the numbers, 52 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 2: and that would mean that the signal would be the 53 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: coalition's not going to be put back together anytime soon. 54 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: So multiple National MPs fear that that might happen. Now, 55 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: if that were to happen, of course, I mean you 56 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 2: think about preservation when you're one of these people. If 57 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 2: you were if you are a shadow minister from the 58 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: National Party in coalition with the Libs, and you lose 59 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 2: that position of shadow minister, you're going to lose sixty 60 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 2: thousand dollars in salary, You're going to lose staff, Your 61 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: offices are going to be smaller, So self interest always 62 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: comes into these things. If I was a punter, and 63 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 2: I'm not, I would suggest that these two are rapped 64 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: really behind the scenes, peddling very hard to try and 65 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: get this thing back together again. 66 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: Oh interesting. If you had to pick somebody to challenge Lee, 67 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: would it be Hasty or Taylor? They were the only 68 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: two they're at. Pick one. 69 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 2: Well, it's a very hard question because and Angus Taylor's 70 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: not very smart and doesn't work very hard. Andrew Hasty 71 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: lives in Western Australia and it's very hard to run 72 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: a major political party from that side. The world is 73 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 2: fairly inexperienced. If I had to, I wouldn't pick either 74 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: of them. But if I had to pick one, I 75 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: would probably say, you're going to go with Angus Taylor 76 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 2: and make sure that the guy works harder. They're not 77 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: going to be back in government any Well, you and 78 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: I are still alive, so you know it doesn't really 79 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 2: matter clearly. 80 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: What about k rud for the UN is that real 81 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: or not? You reckon? 82 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: Well, he'd thinks, so, I mean, you can't ask me 83 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: about cay Rope because I've told you before that he 84 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: called me a gutlass coward and the biggest waste of 85 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: space in Australian journalism history. So I am a bit 86 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 2: jaundice when it comes to talking about kay Rope. He 87 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 2: tried to make a run before, you might remember, and 88 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: the then Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he wouldn't back 89 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: it and so it all fell over. I think Anthony 90 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: ALBERNIZI is very close to Kevin Rudd, would certainly put 91 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 2: the money behind a bid for him to take that job. 92 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: Interesting, now, what about Scomo and Israel? Is how politically 93 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: relevant is he still on the Australian landscape? 94 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 2: Not much better? I mean this speech that he made 95 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: overnight is pretty extraordinary. I mean he is in Israel. 96 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 2: He's urged Muslim leaders in our country to a credit 97 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: their preachers translate religious teachings into English, clam down on 98 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 2: links with foreign Islamust groups. It was a real intervention 99 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: by him. He was speaking, as I said, in Israel. 100 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 2: He told Imams of Australia they faced a postpond I reckoning, 101 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: as Christians did after the Child sexual Abuse Royal Commission. 102 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: And this was at an anti Semitism conference. He was 103 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,239 Speaker 2: speaking and he said in Middle Eastern countries like Saudi 104 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: UAE and I think we've talked about this before, doing 105 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: a better job than Western world in curtailing radical political Islam. 106 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 2: So he is a former Prime minister and his voice 107 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: is heard pretty loudly, and that's preach I think is 108 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 2: quite extraordinary and it's going to be interesting to see 109 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 2: what the Islam Councilor of Australia says to those comments today. 110 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: Good on you mate, go well, we'll see you next week, 111 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: Steve Price out of Australia. The k rated thing that's 112 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: interesting is I was told that Jacinda durn is dead 113 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: set determined to be the next Director General of the 114 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: United Nations. It won't happen for the simple reason, and 115 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: you've got a team around her and there's some real 116 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,559 Speaker 1: energy behind it, it won't happen for the simple reason 117 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: that apparently, I'm also told the Americans are one hundred 118 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: percent certain that a woman will not be given the job. 119 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 2: For more from the Mike Asking Breakfast, listen live to 120 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 2: News Talk Set B from six am weekdays, or follow 121 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.