1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,800
Speaker 1: We'll go in Australia. At the moment, how are you, mate?

2
00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,640
Speaker 2: I guess you'll have to start supporting the Aussie swimmers.

3
00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,880
Speaker 1: Really, I knew this was coming. I knew this was coming.

4
00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,119
Speaker 1: I was reading over the weekend. Suddenly yet not only

5
00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,360
Speaker 1: winning goals, but you were the top of the middle

6
00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:15,880
Speaker 1: table in the whole world.

7
00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,439
Speaker 2: Correct, we were, and we won another one overnight with

8
00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,320
Speaker 2: Jess Fox in the kayaking of courts. We all become experts.

9
00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,240
Speaker 2: I know nothing about kayaking, but it's a wonderful sport.

10
00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,040
Speaker 2: Every four years I pay a lot of attention to it.

11
00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,560
Speaker 2: And of course we have area and Tipmas is just unbelievable. Yeah,

12
00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,080
Speaker 2: so we are on top of the world here and

13
00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:40,040
Speaker 2: the Matilda's managed to survive in the women's soccer winning

14
00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,360
Speaker 2: six goals to four.

15
00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,280
Speaker 1: So now it's exciting.

16
00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:44,320
Speaker 2: We're enjoying it.

17
00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,960
Speaker 1: Good on you as you should. What's your success Because

18
00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,720
Speaker 1: we were talking about swiol we haven't won a middle

19
00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,400
Speaker 1: and the pul since nineteen ninety six and swimming for

20
00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,640
Speaker 1: US is one of those sports where every now and

21
00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,440
Speaker 1: again someone unusual comes along, so they're not represented above

22
00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,280
Speaker 1: the sport. They just happen to be a freak Catholic,

23
00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,360
Speaker 1: whereas you seem to churn them out like a factory.

24
00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,280
Speaker 1: So you must put shedloads of dough into swimming.

25
00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,680
Speaker 2: No, Gina Reinhardt, the Australians riches woman, puts shed loads

26
00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,280
Speaker 2: of money into swimming. She personally sponsors all of the

27
00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,360
Speaker 2: female swimmers in the Australian Dolphins swimming team, and she

28
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,840
Speaker 2: spends millions of dollars. She actually pays these people not

29
00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:24,640
Speaker 2: to work so they can go and train and be

30
00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,640
Speaker 2: gold medal swimmers. I mean, that's the bottom line of it.

31
00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,840
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, the government does put in some money,

32
00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,720
Speaker 2: but Queensland turns these people out. They've got great coaches,

33
00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,840
Speaker 2: they've got great conditions. It's all as warm and I

34
00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,160
Speaker 2: guess most of your swimmers, I don't know, maybe they're

35
00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,560
Speaker 2: over here. I don't know why. It seems very odd,

36
00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:40,920
Speaker 2: doesn't it.

37
00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,440
Speaker 1: It's interesting talk to me about the reshuffle yesterday. So

38
00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,800
Speaker 1: a couple of the people who needed to be moved

39
00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,400
Speaker 1: aside to just for the record, they didn't get booted

40
00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,960
Speaker 1: out of cabinet. They lost their portfolios.

41
00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,920
Speaker 2: Is that right? One got booted out of cabinet. But

42
00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,880
Speaker 2: these are people you have never heard of so I

43
00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,000
Speaker 2: won't concentrate on their names, but two of them were

44
00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,640
Speaker 2: involved in Home Affairs and immigration. Now that's been a

45
00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,400
Speaker 2: complete disaster. We've got so many migrants coming into the country.

46
00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,840
Speaker 2: The illegal boat people operation is again flowing out of

47
00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,400
Speaker 2: Indonesia towards Australia. We're turning boats around, we're actually buying

48
00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,280
Speaker 2: brand new boats to put people who are trying to

49
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,440
Speaker 2: get into the country back to Indonesia so they get

50
00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,640
Speaker 2: back there and don't try and come back here again,

51
00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,000
Speaker 2: so they're gone. That's Claire O'Neill and Andrew Giles. I

52
00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,600
Speaker 2: guess the promotion is Tony Burke, the leader of the

53
00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,840
Speaker 2: Government in the House, has now taken over on the

54
00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,040
Speaker 2: whole Home Affairs portfolio. Some suggesting in the media this

55
00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,680
Speaker 2: morning that this might be again another hint at an

56
00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,320
Speaker 2: early election, because Anthony alben Easy when the Anausis yesterday

57
00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,359
Speaker 2: said this is the team I'll take to the election. Well,

58
00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:49,839
Speaker 2: if the election is going to be eight or nine

59
00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,400
Speaker 2: months away, then that's a pretty bold statement because anything

60
00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,840
Speaker 2: could happen. So I've given up on predicting when the

61
00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,679
Speaker 2: election is going to be. But the new faces are there.

62
00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,079
Speaker 2: Anthony Albernezi is probably now ready to fight an election,

63
00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,320
Speaker 2: although there's some poles around them.

64
00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:05,720
Speaker 1: Well, I was going, I was just going to ask

65
00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,519
Speaker 1: how does he go to an election? With the poll

66
00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,240
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at right now.

67
00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,400
Speaker 2: Redbridge was in the weekend papers yesterday Coalition leading fifty

68
00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,760
Speaker 2: one and a half to forty eight and a half Labor.

69
00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,480
Speaker 2: It's a huge change. Labour's gone from fifty two percent

70
00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:26,120
Speaker 2: ahead to forty eight and it's completely flipped since April

71
00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,040
Speaker 2: of Coalition's primary vote's gone from thirty seven to forty one.

72
00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,560
Speaker 2: And some interpretation of this is that the Coalition's policies

73
00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,840
Speaker 2: are starting to work with working class and outer suburban

74
00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,840
Speaker 2: voters now without getting too deep in the weeds. That's

75
00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,040
Speaker 2: where they need to win it. They've given up on

76
00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,400
Speaker 2: inner city seats that they lost to the teel movement

77
00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,360
Speaker 2: last time, and they're now saying it's all cost of living.

78
00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,520
Speaker 2: Your electricity builders, bloke can't give you a cheaper cost

79
00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,240
Speaker 2: of living, and so you've got a vote for us.

80
00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,520
Speaker 2: And it's starting to work, particularly in outer metropolitan Melbourne

81
00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 2: and Sydney where people who have probably been at some

82
00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,440
Speaker 2: stage union members, blue collar workers. They're starting to listen

83
00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,080
Speaker 2: to what Dutmon's having to say. And there's a big

84
00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,360
Speaker 2: day to Wednesday when the latest inflation figure MC comes out.

85
00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,200
Speaker 2: If that is still stubbornly high, you could then see

86
00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,080
Speaker 2: an August interest rate rise and that would be a

87
00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,320
Speaker 2: disaster for exactly.

88
00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,600
Speaker 1: So the poll is interesting to the extent people earning

89
00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,280
Speaker 1: less than a thousand bucks a week the support for

90
00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,600
Speaker 1: coalitions up six percent. For those earning one thousand to

91
00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,200
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars up by four percent. So that is

92
00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,680
Speaker 1: a policy thing as opposed to I'm just sick of

93
00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,160
Speaker 1: the government.

94
00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,080
Speaker 2: Huge turnaround. It is a huge turnaround. Those people would

95
00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,920
Speaker 2: normally be voting labor, labor, labor, but they don't see

96
00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,080
Speaker 2: that the policies of the current government have been there

97
00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,080
Speaker 2: for two years, are actually putting any more food on

98
00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:44,559
Speaker 2: their table.

99
00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:49,120
Speaker 1: Wow. Speaking of the Olympics, is the strike by the

100
00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,000
Speaker 1: Sidney Morning Herald and the Age and stuff all tied

101
00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,880
Speaker 1: in the channel line given that are all the same owners.

102
00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,760
Speaker 2: Yes, nine owns the free Towere TV network, the Freeware

103
00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,000
Speaker 2: Radio and it also owns the left leaning newspapers Cidemony Herald,

104
00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,280
Speaker 2: the Age, Financial Review. They've got one hundred and fifty

105
00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,000
Speaker 2: staff in France to cover the Olympics for print that

106
00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,039
Speaker 2: is not television and prints, so the TV is separate,

107
00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,160
Speaker 2: and they're all on strike. I mean they've sent these

108
00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,200
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty people over there, paid for their hotel accommodation, airfares,

109
00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,680
Speaker 2: and they've done months and months and months of work

110
00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,080
Speaker 2: to get the papers ready for great coverage and nothing.

111
00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,200
Speaker 2: They're on strike for five days. I mean the other

112
00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,240
Speaker 2: thing about this, when was the last time you had

113
00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:33,760
Speaker 2: a major strike in New Zealand.

114
00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,400
Speaker 1: We don't well a little bit in the last government,

115
00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,080
Speaker 1: but we don't tend We're not like you and that

116
00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,839
Speaker 1: unit heavily unionized. I mean we had some nurses and

117
00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,200
Speaker 1: teachers last time, but that was about a year ago

118
00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,360
Speaker 1: over pay. But it's not the same. You guys do

119
00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,640
Speaker 1: seem to go on strike a lot more than we do.

120
00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do well used to. I mean I can't

121
00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,880
Speaker 2: recall the last big strike. I mean there's been a

122
00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,840
Speaker 2: couple of ghost sloughs from as you mentioned, people like

123
00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,480
Speaker 2: ambulance drivers nurses. Has not been a big, all out,

124
00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,240
Speaker 2: let's walk off the job strike as this one is,

125
00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,640
Speaker 2: and so the papers have been produced by management presumably

126
00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,160
Speaker 2: all of the hard work that they put in there

127
00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,040
Speaker 2: to cover the Olympic Games is out in the window.

128
00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,480
Speaker 2: Nine's in turmoil. The chairman was the CEO folk called Sneezeby,

129
00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,800
Speaker 2: who's over in Paris running with the Olympic torch while

130
00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,320
Speaker 2: Harpy's staff going out on strike and getting sack was

131
00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,600
Speaker 2: not a good book. And they haven't had a chairman

132
00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,120
Speaker 2: of the board since Peter Costello, the ex treasurer, ran

133
00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:30,960
Speaker 2: over that reporter in the Cambra airport.

134
00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,160
Speaker 1: Can I just ask you, because I was reading over

135
00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,000
Speaker 1: the weekend. You've got a COVID report out, and you've

136
00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,359
Speaker 1: got an investigation like everybody else in the whole world's

137
00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,560
Speaker 1: got an investigation is COVID and it's sort of you know,

138
00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,200
Speaker 1: having a look at it and how you handled it

139
00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:47,760
Speaker 1: and whether you're going to learn your lessons? Is that

140
00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,359
Speaker 1: a thing for people or we've just all.

141
00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,480
Speaker 2: Moved on, removed on. I think COVID is still around.

142
00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,480
Speaker 2: But look, if you live in Victoria, you will forever

143
00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,760
Speaker 2: remember what Daniel Andrews did to Victor and was locked

144
00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,479
Speaker 2: him upward than anyone else in the world. But who

145
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,640
Speaker 2: cares now it's gone to past now one wants to

146
00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,360
Speaker 2: think about it.

147
00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,680
Speaker 1: All right, mate, we'll catch up Wednesday. I appreciate it

148
00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,280
Speaker 1: very much. Deeprice out of Australia. Ladys veragically and was

149
00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,240
Speaker 1: the other thing by the way, forming New South Wales premier.

150
00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,280
Speaker 1: She lost her court bit on Friday to overturn the

151
00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,800
Speaker 1: i CAC thing, that corruption thing she had. The boyfriend

152
00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,720
Speaker 1: gave some money. It all got taken to court and

153
00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,559
Speaker 1: had the investigation. She lost, She appealed, she lost again.

154
00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,280
Speaker 1: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to

155
00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,440
Speaker 1: news Talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow

156
00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,080
Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio