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Speaker 1: Murray Old's Australia correspondent Heymus very.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoons, speaking of weird years. There you go.

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Speaker 1: Speaking off with Ntinya. Who's had another cracked elbow, has he?

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Speaker 1: He certainly has doubled down on his criticism of the

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Speaker 1: Australian Prime minister earlier this week. I mean he's he's

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Speaker 1: appearing on sky News tonight, but of course sky News

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Speaker 1: has been teasing some of the audio and basically Netanna

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Speaker 1: who has backed up his description from earlier in the

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Speaker 1: week that Alba was weak and you know, had abandoned

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Speaker 1: Australian Jews by recognizing, you know, a Palestinian state and

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Speaker 1: by and by basically deny the federal government denying a

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Speaker 1: visa with this right wing fellow to come and have

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Speaker 1: a speaking to of Australia. Netna Who's told sky News

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Speaker 1: Albanesi has shown weakness by pledging Australia will recognize the

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Speaker 1: state and by banning this member of Cabinet from coming here.

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Speaker 1: Australian Jewish leaders have written to both Prime ministers and

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Speaker 1: basically told who a very clumsy and mentioned a woneful

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Speaker 1: lack of understanding of the social and political conditions here

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Speaker 1: in Australia. But this afternoon the Israeli Minister for Diaspora

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Speaker 1: Affairs has weighed in. He says that the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: here Albanzi, a political calculation of quoting now here, a

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Speaker 1: political calculation of appeasing Islamists and radical leftists here in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Because of course, Tony Burke, the.

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Speaker 1: Home Affairs Minister, said, listen, if this fellow comes and

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Speaker 1: starts talking, he could really upset Islamic people in Australia.

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Speaker 2: So look, it's a mess.

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Speaker 1: It's not pleasing to have two very long and strong

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Speaker 1: allies in Israel and Australia had odds in this way,

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Speaker 1: but Albanzi won't be swayed. And I mean I think

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Speaker 1: perhaps it's a badge of honor almost that he's there

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Speaker 1: with Canada, with France, with the United Kingdom in saying

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Speaker 1: you know what, along with about one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: other countries that they're going to say, of the United Nations,

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Speaker 1: we recognize a Palestinian state. What are we expecting out

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Speaker 1: of this economic roundtable?

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Speaker 2: Gosh, that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: If I knew the answer, I'll be at the share

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Speaker 1: market this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: But look, the big thing to come out of it

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Speaker 2: so far this week.

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Speaker 1: And don't forget a lot of this has been in camera,

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Speaker 1: right it's business leaders, bankers, unions, all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's in camera, in camera, so a little bit to

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Speaker 1: dribble out. But the big news this week is a

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Speaker 1: major reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be tightened to rain in exploding costs. There are

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Speaker 1: huge numbers of children diagnosed with mild autism or developed

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Speaker 1: develop mental delays. And these children who you know, I

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Speaker 1: needy kids, no doubt about it. But what they're doing

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Speaker 1: is putting extreme financial pressure on a scheme here that

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Speaker 1: that wasn't intended originally to support people with severe and

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Speaker 1: lifelong disabilities. Think you know the guys and girls in wheelchairs,

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Speaker 1: for example, amputees have been injured in the workplace accident,

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Speaker 1: not children who are having trouble at school. So what

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Speaker 1: the government's proposing here is a separate scheme to start

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Speaker 1: from mid twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: It's called Thriving Kids.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be funded jointly by the states and

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Speaker 1: by the federal government.

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Speaker 2: I'll just give you a quick couple of stats.

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Speaker 1: Three quarters of a million people are now getting financial

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Speaker 1: support from the National Disability Insurance Scheme right. One hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand joined the scheme last year, seventy percent with children

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Speaker 1: under fifteen. And I mean those conditions autism, mild autism

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Speaker 1: and so on were previously diagnosed and treated by general practice.

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Speaker 2: The government says, unless.

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Speaker 1: They reign and spending and wind back some of the stuff,

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Speaker 1: the ndis in ten years time is going to cost

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Speaker 1: more than defense, Aged care and medicare combined over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and five billion dollars a year.

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Speaker 2: Unsustainable. Heah, totally.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of Queensland's government selling meetings with

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Speaker 1: ministers to businesses?

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Speaker 2: Cheeky made cheekye.

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Speaker 1: They haven't been in power for ten years, right, So,

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Speaker 1: David Chris Fully, I've got the big you know, the

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Speaker 1: first the first national state convention in government for a decade.

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Speaker 2: So on the eve of this convention they had a

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Speaker 2: big powerwoll today in Brisbane. And guess what.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that this is fifteen minute meetings

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Speaker 1: for a minister.

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Speaker 2: It might be the health minister.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's going to cost you ten thousand dollars basically,

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Speaker 1: and all sorts of people were signing up for this.

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Speaker 1: Mining companies, business leaders, insurance companies, the Australian newspapers say's

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Speaker 1: even publicans and botox clinics were spending money. I was

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Speaker 1: spending ten fifteen minutes to say, buddy, hell, I got

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Speaker 1: a great botox clinic.

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Speaker 2: Don't shut me down.

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Speaker 1: All lining up to bend the minister really is. The

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Speaker 1: invitation was leaked, you know, and the ministers were to

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Speaker 1: be numbered in order of preference. So I mean basically

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Speaker 1: David Christoph Fooley, he's led the coalition to power last October.

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Speaker 1: They won fifty two out of ninety three seats, tossing

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Speaker 1: out labor. As I say, label was on the nose

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Speaker 1: big time, so they got to make hay with the sunshines.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see a minister on this one day,

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Speaker 1: only ten thousand dollars fifteen minutes, So Dodgy, hey, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, MAS appreciate it. Murry Old's Australia correspondent.

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