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- 0:01S1: From the newsrooms of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
- 0:04S1: This is inside politics. I'm Jacqueline Maley, it's Friday, the
- 0:08S1: 2nd of May. Well, it is finally here. Tomorrow is
- 0:14S1: election Day, and by tomorrow night we will have some
- 0:17S1: idea of who is going to govern Australia for the
- 0:19S1: next three years during this volatile and pivotal moment in
- 0:22S1: global history. Today we're going to talk about the seats
- 0:26S1: to watch on election night, the ones that will determine
- 0:28S1: the outcome of the poll. And we'll also zoom out
- 0:30S1: to the bigger picture. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have
- 0:34S1: depicted duelling visions of the Australia that they want to build.
- 0:37S1: They also have sharply different leadership styles. Which one is
- 0:41S1: the more appealing to voters in the current moment? Joining
- 0:46S1: me to discuss all this, we have chief political correspondent
- 0:49S1: David Crowe and our senior economics correspondent Shane Wright. Welcome, guys.
- 0:54S2: Great to be here. It is always a pleasure to
- 0:56S2: see you, Jack.
- 0:57S1: Are you guys feeling tired? You must be a bit weary.
- 0:59S2: The adrenaline still pumping through the body.
- 1:02S1: Okay, good. I was I wasn't talking physically. I was
- 1:04S1: talking more on an existential level. But but that's fine.
- 1:07S1: It's good to know.
- 1:08S3: The coffee covers all levels.
- 1:10S1: Yeah. It does. Um, I want to start with the
- 1:12S1: nerdy stuff today. The seat by seat detail. Because while
- 1:15S1: we tend to focus on the grander narrative when we're,
- 1:17S1: you know, sort of reporting on things at a federal level,
- 1:20S1: actually election campaigns are very much fought seat by seat. David,
- 1:24S1: which electorates will you be watching on election night?
- 1:28S3: A lot of the city fringe electorates, because we know
- 1:30S3: that that is where Peter Dutton is basically, uh, staking
- 1:36S3: his future because his message to the liberals has been,
- 1:39S3: we can win the outer suburban seats. Uh, I'm thinking
- 1:42S3: of places like McEwen on the northern fringes of Melbourne.
- 1:45S3: And one of the big factors here for the Liberal
- 1:48S3: campaign is the cost of living on families in outer suburbs.
- 1:54S3: They're distant from those inner city areas where, you know,
- 1:58S3: there's a more progressive agenda. And some of these seats,
- 2:02S3: like Wairoa on the south western fringe of Sydney around Liverpool,
- 2:08S3: are seen as prime targets for Peter Dutton, especially with
- 2:11S3: things like his, uh, 25 cent a litre cut to
- 2:15S3: fuel excise. He gets photographed every day at a petrol
- 2:18S3: station for a very good reason. That's his message to
- 2:22S3: those voters.
- 2:23S1: I'm also interested in Bradfield on Sydney's North Shore, because
- 2:26S1: that's sort of a prime next target for the teals.
- 2:28S1: Nicolette Bulla has been campaigning for that seat. She came
- 2:32S1: very close to winning it last time, more or less.
- 2:35S1: Some would say knocked off Paul Fletcher, the sitting liberal,
- 2:38S1: because he retired for this election. But it has been
- 2:42S1: reported that he retired after seeing some polling that wasn't
- 2:45S1: so good for him. What do you think's going to
- 2:48S1: happen there?
- 2:49S3: I think that's going to be a very tough race
- 2:52S3: for the Liberal Party. They've got a good candidate, Giselle Septarian.
- 2:56S3: She's been a liberal sort of loyal member for many years. Um,
- 3:01S3: she's a younger woman. She can present herself as as
- 3:04S3: part of the future for the Liberal Party in that
- 3:06S3: part of the world. There are conservative branches for the
- 3:09S3: liberals in that part of the world. So I don't
- 3:12S3: think that it's a, you know, it's it should be
- 3:15S3: liberal territory and it should stay liberal territory. Yeah. However,
- 3:18S3: Nicolette Buhler is running a very good campaign, and when
- 3:20S3: I visited some of the early polling stations in Bradfield recently,
- 3:24S3: I was struck by the number of volunteers that the
- 3:27S3: teal campaign has got set aside, that sometimes they don't
- 3:30S3: like the teal word, but I'm going to use it.
- 3:33S3: I ran into some of the climate 200 operatives that
- 3:37S3: I've seen in other independent campaigns, so I know that
- 3:41S3: the climate 200 funding for Nicolette Buhler is considerable, so
- 3:45S3: they're not to be dismissed. Ah, and Peter Dutton hasn't
- 3:49S3: visited that seat during the campaign. Mhm. So that's a
- 3:53S3: real live question about whether he is a net asset
- 3:55S3: for Giselle or whether a liability Reliability.
- 3:58S1: And Giselle, captain, as you say, is a very good,
- 4:01S1: credible candidate. She presents well, but she was preselected very late.
- 4:04S1: Whereas Nicolette Buhler has been calling herself the shadow member
- 4:07S1: and basically has has had an electorate office up and
- 4:11S1: running for the last three years.
- 4:12S3: That's right. And that's I think that shows a kind
- 4:15S3: of a commitment that she's having a second go. And
- 4:18S3: sometimes we've seen in history it can take a couple
- 4:21S3: of goes before you get elected. You've got to keep
- 4:23S3: at it.
- 4:24S1: Let's go to Queensland briefly because there's some really, really
- 4:27S1: interesting match ups in Queensland. We've got Brisbane and we've
- 4:30S1: got Griffith. Talk to us about those.
- 4:32S3: Brisbane and Griffith are seen by labor as essential targets
- 4:37S3: and this is totally rational. These are seats that were
- 4:41S3: won by the Greens at the last election. And labor
- 4:44S3: believes that they can turn them to labor. Griffith is
- 4:49S3: Kevin Rudd's old seat, but it's now held by Max Chandler-mather.
- 4:52S3: That's a grudge match. Okay. Max does not like Anthony Albanese.
- 4:58S3: Anthony Albanese does not like Max, so there's a lot
- 5:01S3: riding on that. There's a lot of personal egos at
- 5:03S3: stake there. And there's also this question of whether Labor's
- 5:06S3: got a good policy on housing or whether Max has
- 5:08S3: won the argument because he's the housing spokesperson for the Greens.
- 5:11S3: So that's a real one to watch and I can't
- 5:14S3: pick that one. But I do hear from labor people
- 5:18S3: that they're more confident of Brisbane. That's held by the
- 5:21S3: Greens MP Stephen Bates. Labor thinks that he does not
- 5:25S3: have the same kind of brand recognition that Max Chandler-mather
- 5:29S3: has in the seat next door, so they think that
- 5:31S3: their candidate has a pretty good chance in Brisbane. Nearby
- 5:37S3: there's a there's another Brisbane seat which is called Ryan.
- 5:41S3: It's a bit more outer urban. And that's where I
- 5:44S3: think the liberals are hopeful of winning that from the Greens.
- 5:49S3: But look, it's it's pretty hard to tell at a
- 5:52S3: national level. We don't see any increase in vote for
- 5:55S3: the Greens. Right. There are about 13% in primary vote terms.
- 5:59S1: They're even talking about possibly dropping off a little bit
- 6:01S1: because they were at a high watermark last election.
- 6:04S3: But we're talking highly local contests. It's really about the
- 6:09S3: character of the competing candidates and local issues. That's what
- 6:13S3: really worked for Max Chandler-mather in Griffith last time. And
- 6:16S3: so we can't make predictions. All we know is that
- 6:19S3: those races are really ones to watch. If labor wants
- 6:21S3: an increased majority, as they do, they've got to win Brisbane.
- 6:25S3: I think that's essential for them and they would really
- 6:29S3: like to.
- 6:30S2: And they have to head off the greens in MacNamara
- 6:32S2: in Melbourne and Wills in Melbourne as well, where the
- 6:37S2: Greens have really heavily targeting those two inner city seats against,
- 6:44S2: like Josh Byrnes, the labor member for MacNamara has been
- 6:47S2: like a lightning bolt around the whole Gaza issue for
- 6:50S2: some time. Yeah, and then you get into Wills again.
- 6:55S2: Peter Khalil, the Labour member, has been really heavily like targeted.
- 6:59S2: He's even this week I believe there were people are
- 7:03S2: camped out outside his office or on top of his office,
- 7:05S2: a bit more graffiti. Um.
- 7:09S1: pro-Palestinian.
- 7:10S2: Yeah, pro-Palestinian. Those things are really blowing up in those
- 7:13S2: those tight inner seats where it's it's left versus really left,
- 7:18S2: as opposed to a more traditional left versus right argument.
- 7:21S1: Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it? Shane, you've been working on
- 7:24S1: a story this week about sort of swing swing booths
- 7:28S1: within electorates. So even like when you narrow it down
- 7:32S1: to the micro electorate level within an electorate, it's impossible
- 7:36S1: to sort of generalise about the area. Can you tell
- 7:39S1: us about that story?
- 7:40S2: Yeah. For instance, like we haven't mentioned Gilmore, which is
- 7:45S2: like Fiona Phillips won that seat from Andrew Constance by
- 7:48S2: 373 votes at the last election.
- 7:50S1: And that's the New South Wales south coast. So the
- 7:52S1: lovely sort of.
- 7:53S2: New South Wales south coast coming from about Kiama all
- 7:56S2: the way down just south of Batemans Bay. Now right
- 7:59S2: at the top is a beautiful spot called Kangaroo Valley.
- 8:03S2: Bucolic might be the term. If I was in England,
- 8:05S2: that'd be the term I'd use. Um, that area has
- 8:09S2: been swinging towards Labour for the last two two elections,
- 8:12S2: even though there had been a swing back against the
- 8:15S2: Liberal Party. And you can see it's a little bit different.
- 8:19S2: It's within 20 minutes of a place called Bomaderry, which
- 8:22S2: has been swinging the same way as the rest of
- 8:25S2: the seat. So we've got these, like we've talked, say,
- 8:28S2: about McEwen on the northern outskirts of Melbourne, the suburb
- 8:31S2: of Doreen. This is mortgage Belt Central. Huge big homes,
- 8:35S2: people really heavily indebted. It has been swinging consistently towards
- 8:41S2: the Liberal Party over the last couple of elections, even
- 8:43S2: though Rob Mitchell, the local labor member, has been able
- 8:46S2: to hold on. So those sorts of areas really, we're
- 8:51S2: targeting into tiny bits of electorates. So it's easy to
- 8:55S2: say as both parties talk about particular seats, they generalize.
- 9:01S2: But even like we've looked at Bulleen, which is a
- 9:04S2: suburb of the seat of Menzies, there's a split within
- 9:08S2: that particular suburb, um, where there's a is an older
- 9:12S2: Italian Greek population which swung nine points towards labor at
- 9:18S2: the last election. Um, so you can see even within
- 9:22S2: these the we talk broadly, you've talked about how we
- 9:24S2: look federally, the 150 seats, how they all add up
- 9:28S2: the the electorate by electorate battle. But often it can
- 9:33S2: come down to Booth by booth. And that's what we've
- 9:36S2: really picked up.
- 9:37S3: Can I just add something about Gilmore? Because I do
- 9:39S3: think that that's so important, it's so marginal. And I
- 9:42S3: think on the polling we were seeing up until the campaign,
- 9:46S3: people would have just assumed the liberals would win it. Um,
- 9:49S3: it's a very mixed seat. When I was talking to
- 9:51S3: somebody on the labor side about a recent visit down there,
- 9:54S3: because I've got extended family in in that part of
- 9:56S3: the world. The question to me was, you know, is
- 9:59S3: my extended family New Gilmore or Old Gilmore? Old Gilmore
- 10:03S3: is farming families and so forth. New Gilmore can be
- 10:06S3: see changes and tree changes. And I think that's what's
- 10:08S3: happening in places like Kangaroo Valley. When I went through
- 10:13S3: and was staying in the area in East Nowra, for instance,
- 10:16S3: that's not a that part of the world is doing
- 10:19S3: it hard with the cost of living crisis. And I
- 10:21S3: saw signs up for the Liberal candidate, Andrew Constance, in
- 10:25S3: a low socioeconomic part of the electorate. And I think
- 10:28S3: that's something that we need to remember when we see
- 10:30S3: Peter Dutton talk about crime and safety. I think that
- 10:35S3: resonates with people, and it's not an economic issue. They
- 10:38S3: feel the cost of living crisis, but they're also worried
- 10:40S3: about safety. And I think that works for the Liberal Party.
- 10:45S3: I kept driving and in a farming part of the community,
- 10:49S3: there were signs up for Fiona Phillips, the Labour candidate.
- 10:53S3: She's a farmer's daughter from a dairy farm. I mean,
- 10:55S3: this is playing with some of the stereotypes about which
- 10:58S3: side of politics appeals to which part of the electorate.
- 11:00S1: Look, it's absolutely fascinating because it goes to a trend
- 11:03S1: that Anthony Albanese, I think, referenced in one of the debates,
- 11:06S1: which is that people are much less likely now to
- 11:08S1: be rusted on labor or rusted on liberal or rusted
- 11:11S1: on that they they share their vote around much more easily.
- 11:14S1: And there's less tribal loyalty now. It's really fascinating.
- 11:17S2: I was just going to say, like, I'm interested in Wannon,
- 11:21S2: which is Malcolm Fraser's old seat in the western districts
- 11:24S2: of Victoria and Cowper, which to go even further back,
- 11:28S2: was Earl Page's seat when he was the leader of
- 11:31S2: the Country Party. Where you've got two you've got these independents.
- 11:36S2: Climate independents like Dan Tehan is defending Wannon frontbencher and
- 11:41S2: everyone believes he's in trouble against Alex Dyson. Over down
- 11:46S2: that way. Then you head up to Cowper where you've
- 11:49S2: got Pat Counihan representing the Nats in a seat that
- 11:53S2: has been National Party territory forever. In a day where
- 11:59S2: he's in trouble fighting off another teal, a climate tinged
- 12:05S2: independent in Caz highs. And you go like we've talked
- 12:09S2: about like the theory around or the whole discussion about
- 12:12S2: teal independence has been particularly in the Liberal Party. It's
- 12:16S2: focused on inner city traditional. Yeah. Soft a small l
- 12:23S2: liberal type voters. But Kath McGowan going back away. She
- 12:27S2: won Indi in rural Victoria as an independent. Independence in
- 12:33S2: rural areas have a great and long storied history.
- 12:36S3: And what we've seen with the Liberal Party vote is
- 12:39S3: their primary vote has fallen during the campaign, not just
- 12:42S3: in our surveys but in others. And if there is
- 12:44S3: this weakness for the liberals, that's actually going to play
- 12:48S3: into the hands of those independent candidates, and there's a
- 12:50S3: lot of resources going into those campaigns. There's some published
- 12:54S3: data that shows that in the seat of Monash, held
- 12:58S3: by the Liberal former Liberal Russell Broadbent, south eastern Victoria,
- 13:02S3: just outside Melbourne, $476,000 has gone into the teal independent campaign. Now,
- 13:10S3: not all the teals are declaring how much money they're
- 13:13S3: getting from climate 200. But if climate 200 is putting
- 13:17S3: that much money into that campaign, just imagine what they're
- 13:21S3: spending elsewhere. And so there's a high level of unpredictability
- 13:25S3: about whether that pays off.
- 13:27S2: And we we've talked about the teals, but I think
- 13:29S2: One Nation will be a discussion point on on Saturday night.
- 13:34S2: How it's like our our poll is not showing a
- 13:37S2: lot of change, but there's been definitely an improvement. So
- 13:42S2: and this is part of the Liberal Party tactic is right.
- 13:45S2: Our vote might be down in these outer suburban seats,
- 13:49S2: but it may be moving towards one nation. So I
- 13:51S2: think of, say, Andrew Giles seat in Scullin. I because
- 13:55S2: I lived in that area growing up. John Cain, the
- 13:58S2: former labor premier of Victoria. The working class neck of
- 14:01S2: the woods. And they showed voters there. There was a
- 14:04S2: big lift in One Nation and Clive Palmer vote at
- 14:07S2: the last election. I don't think we'll be talking about
- 14:10S2: how low their vote is. I think we'll be talking
- 14:12S2: about how high and their preference flows out of one
- 14:16S2: out of one nation. And what's Clive's trumpets, whatever that
- 14:21S2: party is at the moment.
- 14:23S1: Trumpet of patriots.
- 14:24S3: Just refer to your text message. You'll see the name.
- 14:26S1: Yeah, he'll text you in a few minutes and you
- 14:28S1: can refresh your memory. Um, I want to just ask now,
- 14:31S1: zooming out, focusing or trying to think about the narratives
- 14:34S1: that each of the major party leaders has presented and
- 14:39S1: the sort of the narrative arc or the vision for
- 14:41S1: the future that Peter Dutton has presented versus Anthony Albanese.
- 14:44S1: I want you guys to reflect on what those different
- 14:47S1: visions are, if they've been very clear and whether or
- 14:50S1: not they've been particularly sort of sharply divided.
- 14:53S3: David, from Peter Dutton. It's very clearly a question mark.
- 14:56S3: Do you feel better off than you were three years ago?
- 14:58S3: The answer on the metrics is that households will not
- 15:01S3: be feeling better off, because inflation has eroded their household finances,
- 15:06S3: and wages over the three years have not kept up
- 15:09S3: with that inflation. So there's pressure on households. He galvanizes
- 15:14S3: the grievance.
- 15:15S1: Do you think he offers a sort of a particular
- 15:18S1: kind of narrative or vision for what he wants, apart
- 15:21S1: from ameliorating people's bottom lines in their household budgets for
- 15:24S1: what kind of Australia he wants to see or build.
- 15:27S3: I think he asserts that the coalition are the better
- 15:30S3: economic managers, but he asserts it as an article of faith.
- 15:34S3: And I think one of the problems for his campaign
- 15:38S3: has been going off message, setting up little side distraction disputes, um,
- 15:43S3: working from home, not knowing the EV policy on on
- 15:46S3: electric vehicles clearly enough.
- 15:48S1: Welcome to country stuff.
- 15:50S3: Well that especially I think, Jackie, because I think to
- 15:54S3: spend some of the last week on a culture war
- 15:57S3: when you could be hammering the government on the economy
- 16:00S3: and what you're offering on the cost of living and
- 16:02S3: a better way for households, I think is a very
- 16:05S3: interesting kind of gamble. And I am really curious on
- 16:09S3: Saturday night as to whether it pays off.
- 16:11S1: And what about Albanese?
- 16:13S3: Well, I think it's very much a message about, yes,
- 16:17S3: we hear you. You're doing it tough. We have these
- 16:21S3: solutions and we've started acting and we've got more to do.
- 16:24S3: It's a classic political line, um, heading in the right direction,
- 16:29S3: but more to do. They're not asking for too much
- 16:31S3: of a pat on the back for what they've already done.
- 16:35S3: Anthony Albanese is weak on the key question are households
- 16:39S3: better off? He couldn't answer that clearly at the Press
- 16:42S3: Club on Wednesday.
- 16:43S1: Well they're not. I mean, it's incontrovertible that we're just not.
- 16:49S3: But he has a list of things about the future.
- 16:52S3: And this has been fundamental to the Labour campaign from
- 16:55S3: the beginning. Don't just talk about the last three years.
- 16:59S3: Talk about the forward. Offer what you're getting in the
- 17:02S3: next three years. You're getting childcare. You're getting Medicare bulk billing,
- 17:07S3: you're getting school funding, you're getting hospital funding, you're getting
- 17:11S3: all these other things energy rebates and a tax cut, which,
- 17:15S3: by the way, the coalition would reverse. So all those
- 17:18S3: things have played into a narrative about the forward offer.
- 17:21S1: So it's basically trust us. Hang in there. We're onto it. Yeah. Um, Shane,
- 17:26S1: what do you think about the competing visions of both leaders?
- 17:29S2: I'm thinking more in the context of previous leaders over the,
- 17:33S2: over the years. So. So Peter Dutton, like you, the
- 17:37S2: best opposition leader I think I've seen there's two Tony
- 17:40S2: Abbott and Kevin Rudd both winning from opposition and Abbott.
- 17:46S2: Abbott was yep. Absolute grievance. Absolute attack. But he did
- 17:51S2: keep saying, When I'm when we're elected, if the Liberal
- 17:54S2: Party is elected in 2013, there'll be people will feel
- 17:57S2: confident again.
- 17:58S1: He did. Yeah he did.
- 17:59S2: He was talking about the confidence fairy sprinkling her pixie
- 18:03S2: dust everywhere and people would feel better. And I think
- 18:06S2: that's part of the missing message from from Dutton. He
- 18:10S2: has played very strongly and played very well in terms
- 18:12S2: of the grievance and the darkness. Um, but I think
- 18:17S2: he has missed that element of Abbott that I think
- 18:20S2: was really important as well, saying, right, there will be
- 18:23S2: there are better days with me.
- 18:26S1: And I think that's such a liberal, a Liberal Party
- 18:28S1: message and it's an aspirational message. John Howard was particularly
- 18:32S1: good at conveying it. It's an optimism. It's like, you know,
- 18:34S1: we've got great economic times ahead. They just we just
- 18:37S1: need the Liberal Party to, to manifest it. Yeah.
- 18:40S2: And we've got into like the tax cut has been
- 18:42S2: the missing tax cut has been really interesting. Like Peter
- 18:46S2: Dutton has a tax cut. It lasts for one year.
- 18:49S2: But he has not been. He has barely mentioned it.
- 18:52S2: Like the people, the journos travelling with Dutton, I want
- 18:56S2: to get them their health tested because of the amount
- 18:58S2: of time they spend at service stations over the last
- 19:00S2: five weeks, but hearing anything about tax, because as soon
- 19:05S2: as he brings up, it's then why is the Liberal
- 19:07S2: Party opposing tax relief straight off and repealing tax relief.
- 19:12S1: Instead of pointing out that they're also offering a.
- 19:14S2: Tax.
- 19:15S1: Cut, whereas.
- 19:15S2: Anthony Albanese, I'm actually thinking of him as John Howard
- 19:19S2: in 96, as in like relaxed and comfortable because that's
- 19:24S2: where Albanese he has tried to play. Look, I'm not
- 19:27S2: volatile like the other bloke or that the big orange
- 19:30S2: bloke over in the US. I'm calm. We are methodical.
- 19:34S2: I don't know. I've lost track of the number of
- 19:36S2: times he's talked about being methodical. He was mentioning it
- 19:39S2: again at the Press Club this week about a cabinet
- 19:42S2: process where we've got a plan for the future, but
- 19:45S2: we're not going to scare the bejesus out of you.
- 19:48S2: And and that is very much a Howard approach to
- 19:52S2: campaigning as well. So that's that's where I like I'm
- 19:56S2: an historic nerd and that's where I play into it.
- 19:59S2: And I can I can see you laughing at that. Uh, Jackie. Uh,
- 20:02S2: but yeah, that's that's how I, I've been feeling throughout
- 20:06S2: the campaign.
- 20:07S1: We we love the history nerds. We love it. Um, guys,
- 20:10S1: just tell us quickly where you're both going to be
- 20:11S1: on election night.
- 20:13S3: Uh, in Sydney on election night, because that's where we'll
- 20:16S3: be coordinating the coverage. Uh, there's a chance, if deadlines permit,
- 20:21S3: that I could duck out and perhaps attend the labor event. Uh,
- 20:26S3: but that's very challenging to do. It's challenging to write
- 20:29S3: in real time while you've got this noise around you.
- 20:32S3: I did it in 2019 when I was at the
- 20:35S3: Bill shorten event in, in outer Melbourne, where, of course, uh,
- 20:40S3: they lost. They were crying. They were they were crying.
- 20:43S3: They really were crying into their beer. Right. Um, but
- 20:47S3: it was hard to write. When you've got the noise
- 20:49S3: and the drama all around.
- 20:50S1: Too much emotion.
- 20:51S2: I'll be in the Sydney office with Matt Wade calling seats.
- 20:57S1: It'll be so fun. I'm going to be at the
- 20:59S1: elbow event, which will be somewhere in, um, the inner
- 21:02S1: west of Sydney. We don't know where yet, and so
- 21:05S1: I'll be the person writing in the corner on their laptop.
- 21:08S3: They're always big moments of drama, and we've got colleagues
- 21:11S3: who will be in Brisbane for Peter Dutton's night, which
- 21:14S3: is going to be interesting to see what the room's like.
- 21:17S3: You never know what you're going to get, because I
- 21:20S3: think if the coalition win more than ten seats, gain
- 21:27S3: more than ten seats, there'll be some on their side
- 21:29S3: who think that that's a good outcome. When things are
- 21:31S3: looking pretty tough for them right now. So a lot
- 21:35S3: of the questions are about how many seats does it
- 21:38S3: take for the Liberals and Nationals to hold their heads
- 21:41S3: up high on Saturday night?
- 21:43S1: And the and the recriminations and the bloodbath will happen
- 21:46S1: very quickly. I predict it's going to be such an
- 21:49S1: interesting night. Guys, I think we're going to be doing
- 21:51S1: a podcast super late on Saturday night, which will be
- 21:55S1: out on Sunday morning, just so everyone knows. Thanks, fellas.
- 21:59S1: See you Saturday.
- 22:00S3: Thank you.
- 22:01S2: Thank you Jackie.
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