1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: Right do us, Frady we go Steve Price, very good 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: morning to you. 3 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 2: Good no doubt. 4 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Now when we last talked about it, of course there 5 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: was divorced time. And now where are we out with 6 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: the Libs and the Gnats. 7 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: Well, it split lasted, not overnight really, I mean two 8 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 2: or three days and they were back together. They had 9 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 2: to do that. The Liberal Party were just floating along them, 10 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 2: were about to disappear and without their coalition partners, Thents, 11 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: they're nothing. So they're back together and the new Liberal leader, 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: Susan Lee, will probably announce her shadow cabinet this week 13 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 2: now that obviously is going to be minus Peter Dutton 14 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: who lost his seat. And so this is a battle 15 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: between the Conservatives which were aligned to Peter Dutton and 16 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,919 Speaker 2: the Moderates which are aligned to Susan Lee. So we'll 17 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: see who gets punished and who doesn't. There's going to 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: be a mix. You would think the Gnats must have extracted, 19 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: you would reckon Micah Price out of negotiating to get 20 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: the coalition back together. So it'd be interesting to see 21 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: what front bench seats they get. The recriminations on the 22 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: election loss continues during Australian at the weekend, suggesting that 23 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 2: the President of the Liberal Party, John Olson, actually went 24 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: to Andrew Hurst, who was running the Liberals campaign, on 25 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: election night and said, hang on a minute. You told 26 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 2: me three days ago that the swing was on, that 27 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: Peter Dutton was safe in his own seat, and that 28 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 2: we were going to pick up ten labor seats. What 29 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: the hell happened? So clearly the campaign and the polling 30 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: in particular just fell over and it was hopeless. I 31 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: should point out the Melbourne Sea of Goldstein. Even though 32 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: a blow called Tim Wilsoner used to hold it get 33 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 2: he lost it to a pel He looks like getting 34 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: that back, but she won't conceive he's in front. Well 35 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: since finished. 36 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, but see here's the why doesn't she the hear 37 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: of the rules? Because I was following this with a 38 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: great deal of interest on Friday because it kept moving. 39 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: At one point it was down to seven votes and 40 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: I thought, anyway, so he's got it by two sixty, 41 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: and the rules are if it's one hundred or less, 42 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: it's a recount, fair enough, it's too sixty, not one 43 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: hundred or less. 44 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 2: She loses yep, And the AEC is showing the Electric 45 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 2: Commission will be the ones who make that decision. They'll 46 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 2: make that decision quite quickly. She's going to look pretty 47 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: silly if they say, well, bad luck, he's got enough 48 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 2: votes in front, didn't continue to hold the seat. You 49 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: can just bad luck. Obviously, she's obviously suggesting, and you 50 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: know it's almost actionable for Tim Wilson. She's trying to 51 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: suggest someone's cheating and that some of these votes have 52 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: been incorrectly counted, so the scrutinies will have to go 53 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: back over it. But I don't think there'll be a recount. 54 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: He'll to be fair and once again, and watching it Friday, 55 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: I did think to myself because the way the votes 56 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: moved and the preferences and stuff like that. One it's 57 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: a complicated system too. It seems to take a ridiculous 58 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: amount of time. I mean, this was weeks ago the election. 59 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and these votes that you're talking of are mainly 60 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 2: postal votes people who live in that area, who travel. 61 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: I mean, these could be votes in an envelope that 62 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: have been sent from London or somewhere in Europe where 63 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: there's a vote both open for Australians to vote who 64 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: are not in the country. That's why it take so long. 65 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 2: But it's a crazy system and we're never going to 66 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: reform it. No one's going to put their hand up 67 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 2: and say let's get rid of preferential burning, let's go 68 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: first parts hosts. They should do that, but it won't happen. 69 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: As well as I know Melbourne, I thought I knew it. Well, 70 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: where's the shopping center? I couldn't work out where it was. 71 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 2: Poor Northland is in the northern suburbs. Westfield has shopping 72 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: center called Chadston. It's got one called Southland. That's got 73 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: one called north Land. Now, apparently yesterday two gangs of 74 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 2: young males decided that they would gather in the food 75 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: court and take each other on, armed with machetes. The 76 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: shopping cenate went into excuse me, into lockdown. Security shutters 77 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 2: down on most of the retail stores. As these blokes 78 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: ran around wielding these long, sharp edged machete knives. There 79 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 2: was a ten person brawl. One of them was a 80 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 2: fifteen year old boy. The police Superintendent Kelly Lawson said 81 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: it was a planned to meet up between opposing groups 82 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: to have a fight. Now. The reason I raise this 83 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: and no one wants to see that happen. The state 84 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: government has decided to ban the sale of machetes. Now. 85 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 2: They put that through in legislation about a month ago, 86 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 2: but it takes until September until this becomes law. So 87 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: if you're a machetee shop seller, like you know, a 88 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 2: Mine to ten or something, you don't have to take 89 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: these things off the shelf until September. I just don't 90 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: understand the delay. And when you see fifteen year olds 91 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 2: running around trying to kill each other, you would think 92 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: we could perhaps bring the machete ban forward to look 93 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 2: quicker than what it is. 94 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: Is there outrage when that sort of thing happens, Because 95 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: you've talked many times before about Melbourne Victoria generally being 96 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: a problem crime wise. I mean when the sort of 97 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: madness happens to people go nuts. 98 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 2: Well, the people in the shopping center do, but the 99 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 2: rest of the community seems to get on with life. 100 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 2: But I mean it is very confronting. I mean, you've 101 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,679 Speaker 2: seen that TV vision of the blog running down Chapel 102 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: Street where we live, and I'm in the city with 103 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: a machine. I mean, it only takes you to look 104 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,239 Speaker 2: someone in the either wrong way or in my case, 105 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: be stupid enough to make a verbal remark you get 106 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: your arm chopped off. 107 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: Unreal. Hey, the flooding in New South Wales and just 108 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: reading over the weekend, the one particular person thirty five 109 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: thousand dollars after last time they said, sure, if you 110 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 1: want to ensure your place, that'll be thirty five thousand 111 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: dollars premium. So of course obviously they can't afford it, 112 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: so they're not getting This has become seemingly a real issue, 113 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: hasn't it. 114 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, it has. And you know we had the twenty 115 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: twenty one floods in Lismar, which was further north this done. 116 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 2: It was tarid, The amount of water that came down 117 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,679 Speaker 2: places like the Mounting River was extraordinary and people simply 118 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 2: can't afford to ensure. And so when you get all 119 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,119 Speaker 2: that water through your shop, in particular a retail shop. 120 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 2: There was pictures of the people in Tarre on Friday 121 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: that basically they had to empty all of the stock 122 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: in the shop. Think about a little retailer, I don't 123 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 2: know what selling whatever, They had to empty all of 124 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: their stock out on the street, everything spoiled, and then 125 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 2: they had to start sweeping with brooms mud out of 126 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 2: their store. That's all of that stock could be worth 127 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 2: hundred grand. They're gone and you can't and you can't 128 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 2: claim it on the train. 129 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: But you can kind of track though, aren't you. Because 130 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,679 Speaker 1: if you're in a flood prone area and you can't 131 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: ensure yourself and you know it's going to happen again, 132 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: what do you do? 133 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 2: Nothing you can do, and that insurance question. Obviously the 134 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: insurance company's then spread the load around, so everybody in 135 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 2: Australia's insurance all of a sudden goes up. 136 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: Are we happy about Oscar? I thought Oscar. Oscar gave 137 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: me the vibe, not this weekend but generally that he's 138 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: going all the way. But you got pipped this morning 139 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: by his mate. 140 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: Well, he started third, started third and finished third. I mean, 141 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 2: Monaco is a beautiful place to watch F one on 142 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: television because it's so spectacular, but it's a dreadful racetrack 143 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: because no one can pass anybody. So the two McLaren's 144 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: were the quickest car, separated by one Ferrari and nice 145 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 2: to see Liam Lawson get some point exactly, But it's 146 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 2: not one of those races that you sit and watch 147 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 2: thinking that someone's going to come from fourth and win 148 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: the race. Max for stepping a bit the most frustrated 149 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 2: bloke on the planet today. 150 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right mate, go Wendsay go well see Wednesday. 151 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: Appreciate it very much. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, 152 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: listen live to news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, 153 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.