1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Well mate, Stevie Price. 2 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 2: Happy New Year, you too, Welcome back. He's got a 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 2: very long holiday. 4 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Ye I thought I was watching you on sky TV 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: on must have been Friday night? Was it Friday night? 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Would have been Friday night? Anyway, I thought, as soon 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: as I talked to this clown on Tuesday Wednesday, he's 8 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: going to give me a hard time about my holiday. 9 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: And well done. Having said that, speaking of holidays, how 10 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: was yours? 11 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 3: I spent two weeks in New Zealand and I've saved 12 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 3: this up for you, so just briefly, because I know 13 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 3: we're short, have tied my likes and dislikes of your 14 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 3: country as a tourist. Had not been to the North 15 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 3: Island for probably twenty years or more. Lack of graffiti 16 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 3: in Auckland, big tick, very clean city, loved it. The 17 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 3: chicken sandwich at the Federal Delhi in Auckland. Outstanding lunch 18 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 3: at Amarno Italian at Brito Mart. 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: You've got to go there. 20 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: Did you find the service except or not? 21 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 2: Except? Well? I thought it was fantastic. 22 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 3: They were full and they found us at table, set 23 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 3: us on the footpath. 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: But that didn't matter. 25 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 3: The food was great and the cheese scones at Tyrower 26 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 3: to die for. So when you're going south from is 27 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 3: it Tyroller or ty just down from Hamilton a little 28 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 3: place called the Canteen cheese. 29 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: SCons I dreamt about for the last three weeks. 30 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 3: Dislikes the bunkers at Royal Oakland Golf Club. You know 31 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 3: they truck the sand in from the bottom of the 32 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 3: South Island. 33 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: How did you get on the Royal Auckland not being 34 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: a member? Did you flash some flesh card out of Victoria? 35 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: Correct? 36 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 3: I'm reciprocals with Royal Sorrento one way bridges on the 37 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 3: Coromandel nightmare a bottle of bottle of water four dollars 38 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 3: the bottle of water, but when you use your card 39 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 3: four dollars seventy five? What the hell's going on there? 40 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 3: And the traffic lights in Auckland they tacked too long 41 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: to change. 42 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: Agree with you. You've nailed New Zealand absolutely superbly. My 43 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: only question for you is I thought you were going 44 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: to New Plymouth and none of that was even close 45 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: to New Plymouth. 46 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 3: I did go to New Plymouth and there was a 47 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 3: couple of outstanding golf courses there as our top rating 48 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: Breakfast show ever been sponsored by Toyota, are likely. 49 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: To be in the future Toyota No, We're currently sponsored 50 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: by Jaguar Landrover, a vastly superior vehicular form of transportation. 51 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 3: Event two weeks in the Toyota Yaris Cross at the 52 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 3: cost of three thousand, seven hundred dollars. 53 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a crap car and cost too much. There's 54 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: driven in a nutshell. 55 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: Very well done. Now did you personally know the punisher, 56 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: Sam Abdul Rahman by any chance? 57 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: Thank god, I didn't know. 58 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: He was a number of attempts on his life over 59 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 3: the years, but he was finally ambushed outside an apartment 60 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: complex in Preston and the northern suburbs of Melbourne yesterday, 61 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: shot in the head, ambush in an underground. 62 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 2: This is a guy who has a lot. 63 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: Of criminal enemies, many of whom we believe live offshore 64 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: in places like the UAE and in Lebanon, and he's 65 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 3: been involved, we believe in these tobacco shops being burned down, 66 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 3: Jim's being burned down. He was supposed to have a 67 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 3: boxing match at one point and the place where the 68 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 3: gym where he was going to stage this boxing match 69 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 3: was also torched one night, so probably no one except 70 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: his close family and friends going to miss him on us. 71 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: This is just the underworld of Melbourne. I mean, you know, 72 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: for all the television programs they made about the underworld 73 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: of Melbourne, still as underworld as it ever was. 74 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: Clearly yes it is. 75 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 3: I mean it's not quite as bad as Sydney, where 76 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 3: you get hits like this on a regular basis. Melbourne 77 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: used to have that back in the two thousands, but 78 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 3: it's been slowed down slightly. But that was a completely 79 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 3: brutal assassination of this criminal yesterday. 80 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: And following your economy with a great deal of inentrast, 81 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: So you're standging. I mean, elbow is going to be 82 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: desperate for a cut. Is a cut coming? Do you think? 83 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: Before the vote? 84 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: Well, the jury is still out. There will be a 85 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: figure out today a couple of hours time, lunchtime, out 86 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 3: of time. The inflation rate. So if the inflation rate 87 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 3: continues to go south, then the chances of a rate 88 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: cut in February by the Reserve Bank are on and 89 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 3: Anthony Albanize and Jim Charmers must just go to bed 90 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 3: every night and pray that this happens. I mean currently 91 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: it's headed toward the two to three percent ban. That's 92 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 3: inflation the Reserve Bank. I was still a little worried 93 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 3: about the fact that we've got a very strong jobs market. 94 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 3: Unemployment's very low, but the government is spending like drunken 95 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 3: sailors and that's adding to inflation, and our dollar is 96 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: collapsing against the US dollar. So to the year to 97 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 3: December inflation in this country was three point three percent. 98 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 3: It's got to have it to in front of it 99 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: if the reserve's going to move. If the Reserve moves, 100 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 3: that's when Anthony Albanize will say, right out there, go 101 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: see what's happened inflation since we've been in office. Let's 102 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: go to an election. You can put me back in 103 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 3: charge because I know how to manage money. No one 104 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 3: believes that. 105 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 1: No, indeed not would you call the election right now. 106 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 3: If I was Anthony Albinezi, I think I'd wait until 107 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 3: the last possible date, probably mid April or early May, 108 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 3: because his polling is atrocious. 109 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 2: While you've been away, he's just in a free fall. 110 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 3: It's just sad to watch, and his leadership, particularly over 111 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 3: the anti Semitism thing. 112 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: Is exactly Yeah, that's what I was going to two 113 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: part question, Actually, what just give us a price? This 114 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: anti Semitism thing? Where the hell has all that come from? 115 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: Lack of action immediately after October seventh allowing people to 116 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 3: protest every Sunday in Melbourne for the last what is 117 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 3: it two years? Almost one and a half years unbridled 118 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 3: being able to wear Kefia's takeover universities. 119 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just. 120 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: Come from the far left and particularly agitated by the 121 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 3: social gender in both Sydney and Melbourne. And it's got 122 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 3: out of hand in Sydney with all of the burning 123 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 3: down of childcare centers and mosques and sorry and Jewish 124 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 3: places of religion. 125 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just. 126 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 3: It's really frightening to watch the Jewish community, of whom 127 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: I know a lot are very frightened at about it all. 128 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: A second part of the question was, and I was 129 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: asking you made of mine in Sydney the other day 130 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: and he didn't know the question. So these polls I'm 131 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 1: watching this week two party preferred and single party coalitions ahead, 132 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: given the preferencing and all that stuff, how far ahead 133 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: does a coalition need to be in front on two 134 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: party preferred to feel good about winning a. 135 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 3: Bit more than where they are. They've got to win 136 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 3: eighteen seats to win majority government. That's a hell of 137 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 3: an ask in two party preferred If you looked into 138 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 3: those figures that released a newspot yesterday or on Monday, 139 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 3: they would fall short. Probably they'd win fifteen on that 140 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 3: if it was they needed something like a five point 141 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 3: three percent swing against the government nationally because the Green's 142 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 3: obviously always preference Labor. I think we're headed still at 143 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 3: the moment to a minority Labored government, which would be 144 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 3: a disaster because they would have to do deals with 145 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 3: the teals who do survive some will, and that would 146 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 3: be bad for Australia. I think Dutton's on the right path. 147 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 3: He's got a number of things have to go right 148 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: for him. But if he continues to be as strong 149 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: as he is on things like energy policy and immigration, 150 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 3: I think he's got a chance. 151 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: Very interesting year. Just to correct this, I might have so. 152 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: Was it Tyruha, which is a place, or was it 153 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: tim Raw. 154 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: It's spelt t i r a. 155 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: You yeah, t raw that's separate to tyrue right Glad. 156 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: Apparently they're the cheese businesses particularly famous in that part 157 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: of the world. Well then mate, we'll catch up again 158 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: on Friday. I appreciate, No, we won't. 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