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Speaker 1: Jomb mission with Jones and Amanda Ndet announcement yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: winners in this year's budget include the age care sector,

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Speaker 1: families with childcare, lots of money spent in the area

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Speaker 1: of women, infrastructure entrepreneurs. The losers are our tourism industries,

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Speaker 1: it seems are the environment, climate change. The future taxpayer

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Speaker 1: deficits are eyewatering. But this year we're almost fifty three

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Speaker 1: billion dollars better off than originally forecast. A lot to discuss.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Scott Morrison hullo.

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Speaker 2: He is, hey, Amanda Jase, how are you.

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Speaker 3: Well, very very focused on the big job we've got

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Speaker 3: ahead of us. This pandemic is just still raging and

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Speaker 3: it's another pandemic budget and it's just a plan to

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Speaker 3: ensure that we keep this recovery going. It can be

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Speaker 3: lost so easily. We're seeing that in Europe at the

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Speaker 3: moment they're going into and gone down again into another recession.

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Speaker 3: And so while we're doing really well here in Australia,

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Speaker 3: Australia has done the amazing job. We've got to make

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Speaker 3: sure we stay on this and the budget is a

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Speaker 3: plan to make sure we stay on this.

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Speaker 2: What do you say to those people that say, well,

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Speaker 2: you've just done this to win the next election, plugging

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Speaker 2: the holes.

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Speaker 3: No, only they're thinking too much about politics. Politics is

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Speaker 3: not the issue. The pandemic's the issue. On fighting the pandemic.

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Speaker 3: The only opposition that I'm focused on is that virus,

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Speaker 3: because that virus can come and steal Australian selves and

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Speaker 3: steal their jobs. And so that's the contest I'm in

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Speaker 3: As Prime Minister. You've just got to put all that

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Speaker 3: other stuff aside and focus on the job that you have,

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Speaker 3: and that is to protect Australian secure their jobs, secure

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Speaker 3: their livelihoods, and secure their health. And that's what's going

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Speaker 3: on here. I mean, the pandemic and the recession that

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Speaker 3: it's caused is thirty times worse than the global financial

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Speaker 3: crisis of over a decade ago. That's how much worse

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Speaker 3: it is. If we'd had the same fatality rate from

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Speaker 3: COVID in this country and the average of countries like

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Speaker 3: ours what's called the OECD countries, thirty thousand more people

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Speaker 3: will have died in this country. That's what we've prevented

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Speaker 3: here together as Australians, and we've got more people in

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Speaker 3: work today than we had before the pandemic started. So

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Speaker 3: we're doing Australians doing really well, but we can't take

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Speaker 3: it for granted. This budget is about ensuring we secure

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Speaker 3: that recovery and keep those jobs, we keep those livelihoods,

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Speaker 3: and we practice and protect Australian's health.

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Speaker 1: I know he said, it's not politics, it's keeping Australia going.

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Speaker 1: But a number of these initiatives for families with childcare,

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Speaker 1: for money being spent for women, women in violence situations,

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Speaker 1: and a whole lot of equal opportunities this could have

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Speaker 1: come around years ago. It seems that this is a

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Speaker 1: knee jerk or a great reaction to the trouble the

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Speaker 1: government had with focus on women in recent months.

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Speaker 3: No, I'd disagree, Amanda. We'd already put a billion dollars

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Speaker 3: into women's safety through the National Plan for Addressing Violence

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Speaker 3: against Women. We'd already put in the biggest changes to

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Speaker 3: childcare several years ago. This adds to those changes and

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Speaker 3: deals with a particular problem phased by families on Lowlane,

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Speaker 3: particularly middle incomes that have two and three children, that

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Speaker 3: childcare can become a much bigger struggle for us. This

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Speaker 3: builds on the things that we're doing so the think

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Speaker 3: down here in Canberra of people often here focus on

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Speaker 3: the last five minutes, but the fact is the government

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Speaker 3: has been working away steadily on these issues for many,

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Speaker 3: many years. And what we've done here tonight, the last night,

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Speaker 3: I should say, mental health is another good example. We

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Speaker 3: double down on our support for mental health. This is

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Speaker 3: a huge challenge for the countries. I know, you and

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Speaker 3: Jamesy and your listeners know. I mean there's virtually not

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Speaker 3: a household a family in this country that hasn't had

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Speaker 3: some connection or direct personal experience and mental health challenges.

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Speaker 3: And what we're doing here is taking people will know

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Speaker 3: about Headspace, which has been fantastic for young people, the

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Speaker 3: great reform of the HOWD government. Now we're taking that

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Speaker 3: to the whole population with what's called head to Health

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Speaker 3: and that's a digital that's in forty centers around the

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Speaker 3: country and there's fifteen centers that are being established for

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Speaker 3: young children and to support their mental health. So these

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Speaker 3: are things you've got to do. And so while we're

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Speaker 3: getting Australians back into jobs, that is enable us to

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Speaker 3: support invest in these very important services that Austrains rely on.

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Speaker 2: And other fish to fry. What about China. How are

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Speaker 2: we going with China?

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Speaker 3: Well, we want to have a positive relationship. We want peace,

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Speaker 3: we want trade, we want all of those things. But

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Speaker 3: we're not going to trade away who we are. We're

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Speaker 3: a liberal democracy and we'll behave like one. And so

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Speaker 3: we've drawn very clear lines. But we want to continue

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Speaker 3: to engage, but we'll ensure that we're in a position

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Speaker 3: to stand up for ourselves and to ensure that Australia's

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Speaker 3: interests are not compromised. But that can all be accommodated.

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Speaker 3: I had no doubt. So we'll continue to take an

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Speaker 3: abstractive path. We're always happy to sit around the table.

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Speaker 3: And so that's where I think that sits.

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Speaker 2: And which analogy do you like the most to describe

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Speaker 2: this budget. We've had the hot chocolate analogy that everyone's

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Speaker 2: a winner? Ain't that the truth?

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Speaker 1: That was an ABC commentator last night. He said that.

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Speaker 1: We've had Bill Shore he said, or she didn't see it? No, no,

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Speaker 1: there's no melody and see it. We've had Bill Shorten

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Speaker 1: who said it was it's like if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: get a Donald's berger and you end up eating a

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Speaker 1: vegan one.

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Speaker 2: Where's the meat, Where's the meat, that's what Bill's saying.

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Speaker 2: But he's going to say he's not going to praise

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Speaker 2: your budget, is he. I went with the Farnham one,

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Speaker 2: John Farnham like everyone loves it, Mum's loves it, Dad's

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Speaker 2: loves it, Grandma loves it.

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Speaker 1: I went with the Sellis Putty one that this plugs

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Speaker 1: the holes that may have been the trouble spots. So

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Speaker 1: it's an election budget, So which of these do you prefer?

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're going to like the Farnham one.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's nice. But I mean, at the

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Speaker 3: end of the day, that to you guys to come

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Speaker 3: up with to come up with the playlist with the budget.

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Speaker 1: But I suppose you want to sing a bit of

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Speaker 1: My Chocolate.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, you don't want me to either get

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Speaker 3: on the playlist to you guys, and I'll stick with

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Speaker 3: the plant. That's what we need.

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Speaker 2: Well, got on your out because that's all you need,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Like with all of this that you got

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Speaker 2: on your plate. Now you're going to come up with

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Speaker 2: a catchy song for the budget.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm happy to take suggestions. Arena song Australia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. We'll get you down of the Sharks Bench

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Speaker 2: to get out some words of encouragement mate, but it's

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Speaker 2: always great to talk to you. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Giry, it's good to talk to you all at

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's gamination.