1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, feace of mind 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: for New Zealand business Murray old Ozzie correspondents for that's 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: a muz Hello head, they're good afternoon. No on. 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: Then, what do you make of Elbow getting the upgrades? 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, well he's not the only one. 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: He apparently may have breached ministerial responsibilities. 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: He was. He was the Transport Minister under Kevin Rudd 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 3: and then under. 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: Then under Julia Gillard and under run again, and then 10 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: he became the Shadow Minister up until twenty nineteen, so 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: he was right in that transport space. And so yeah, 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: look he did put the squeeze on Allen Joyce apparently, 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: which would be a breach of ministerial guidelines in operation 14 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: at the time. 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 3: The opposition's feasting on this, as you might expect. 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: So to the Murdoch mob over here, they're saying, oh, Albow, 17 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: fess up, fess up. 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 3: But you know, I mean they all do it. That's 19 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 3: the thing. 20 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: Perhaps they don't pick up the phone and dial Ala 21 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: Joyce directly, but you know, Peter Dutton takes flights on 22 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: Gina Reinhart's plane. 23 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 3: I mean, is it a big deal. Well, the opposition's. 24 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: Desperately trying to make it a big deal, and Labor, 25 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 1: of course, as she might expect, trying desperately to play 26 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: it down. 27 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 2: Is the problem for Elbow that he's supposed to be. 28 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 2: It's a branding problem, isn't it. I mean, we expect 29 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 2: these guys to fly fancy class, don't we. But he's 30 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 2: supposed to be the man of the people. He's the 31 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 2: labor guy, and yet he's got himself a very fancy 32 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: house and he's getting himself all the upgrades. Is that 33 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: the problem here? 34 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: Look part of it? I think yeah, I think you're right. 35 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: I mean, he's made his entire political life the whole 36 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: narrative has been about his single mum raising him in 37 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: a government in government housing, and she did it tough 38 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: all her live as she did, and that's been the 39 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: alb and easy narrative. But you know, when he goes 40 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: and buys a four and a half billion dollar house 41 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: and gets up the point the end of the plane, 42 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: it just doesn't look right. Now, yes, they all do it, 43 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: but for Elbow, the good point you make is that 44 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: it just doesn't look Does it pass the pub test? 45 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: We ask over here, Well, maybe it doesn't. 46 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it doesn't. Speaking of which this government has 47 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 2: said no more election bribes, don't expect them. 48 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. There's going to be two budgets, a 49 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: couple of mini ones. I suppose it's well, perhaps not 50 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: next marks. That may be a biggie because we're going 51 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: to go to the polls and may it looks like 52 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: and Jim Charmers, the Treasurer, saying to people, do not 53 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 1: expect handouts because big hand I mean all the economists 54 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: that talk over here now is that inflation is really 55 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: dropping through the floor. They've had the brakes on so long, waiting, waiting, waiting, 56 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,839 Speaker 1: and maybe maybe the reserve banks held on too long. 57 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: Well know, I suppose in a month or two we've 58 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: got inflation data out this week and all the talk 59 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: is that it's going to be a very good number, 60 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: which would lead possibly to an interest rate cut early 61 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: in the new year, which would feed into Labour's narrative, 62 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 1: who you know who loves your baby as we head 63 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: into an election? Is it old Southpus Peter Dutton, or 64 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: is it you know, the beaming elbow? 65 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 3: So look who knows? 66 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: But there's no doubt in the past that labor has 67 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: a given hand out set with energy help, with rental 68 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: assistance and the like. But what charmers the Jim charmers 69 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: the treasurer is saying, do not expect it in the 70 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: run up to the election. 71 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 2: Must tell me about this woman who faked her own 72 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 2: death to get the insurance money. 73 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 3: Very strange. We don't know a whole lot that this 74 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: happened in perv. There's a woman, she's forty three years old, 75 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 3: and she had a gambling problem apparently, and as such 76 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 3: was the extent of the problem that she's bizarrely has 77 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: faked her own death and then gone through all this 78 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 3: elaborate paperwork to actually receive to clamor then receive seven 79 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: hundred and eighteen thousand dollars Australian more than a million 80 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 3: dollars in New Zealand. Now this happened in February. She 81 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 3: claimed that she had died in a car accident and 82 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: broom in the Christmas month of the preceding year. 83 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: So she said she had died, puts in the claim. 84 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: The money's paid out very very quickly, and she gets 85 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: the Gregory. 86 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: Peck in February. 87 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: Well, it didn't take long for them to put two 88 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: and it together and come up with five and this. 89 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: You know, as she was charged with them obtaining money 90 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: by deception, pleaded guilty. She'd been sentenced today to more 91 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: than three years in prison, so she has a bit 92 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: of time to reflect on what she's done. You know, 93 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: she looks she faked the death curtificate, she faked funeral documents. 94 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: She even faked a letter from the coroner's caught to 95 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: the insurance company. 96 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 2: So I mean, she can't be filing a thing to 97 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 2: saying I'm dead. So who did it? 98 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 3: She might have been saying, you know, not Karen, but 99 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 3: maybe Kevin selk. I just don't know the Maybe. 100 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: They're deliberately not telling us here because everybody's going to 101 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: be into it. 102 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 2: Oh jeez, I love how the links she went to Murray. 103 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: Thank you appreciates Murry Olds, Australian correspondent. For more from 104 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news talks. It'd 105 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.