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- 0:01Speaker 1: Live from the sky New Center.
- 0:03Speaker 2: This is the Kenny Report.
- 0:06Speaker 3: Thanks for joining The Kenny Report Live from Adelaide tonight,
- 0:10Speaker 3: two days out from this state's election.
- 0:13Speaker 1: I'll share with.
- 0:13Speaker 3: You a sit down interview with the Liberal Leader, the
- 0:16Speaker 3: Opposition leader, Ashton Hearne. I'll also catch up with Liberal
- 0:20Speaker 3: Senator for South Australia Anne Rustin, and we'll have live
- 0:23Speaker 3: here on the banks of the Tyrans, Cory Bernardi, the
- 0:26Speaker 3: One Nation South Australian leader and Star candidates. I'll also
- 0:30Speaker 3: be joined by former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to talk
- 0:33Speaker 3: about events in the Middle East War and we'll try
- 0:36Speaker 3: and squeeze in some footy with Robbo before wrapping it
- 0:39Speaker 3: all up with Tim and Mark.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Let's get cracking well.
- 0:46Speaker 3: As I said here, I am on the banks of
- 0:49Speaker 3: the Torrans, right in the heart of Adelaide in South Australia,
- 0:53Speaker 3: two days out from an election, and you.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Wouldn't read about it. All the talk is about One Nation.
- 0:59Speaker 3: It's Pauline Hansen and her political movement of One Nation
- 1:02Speaker 3: that is dominating discussions here in South Australia.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Now. One Nation has been around for three decades now.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson has been a.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Political force from Queensland for three decades. It's essentially a
- 1:16Speaker 3: Queensland political force. So what's it doing down here in
- 1:21Speaker 3: South Australia dominating events?
- 1:24Speaker 1: This place? Love it as I do.
- 1:25Speaker 3: I spent most of my life here until moving to
- 1:27Speaker 3: Sydney fifteen or sixteen years ago. South Australia is not Queensland.
- 1:33Speaker 3: There are no crocodiles in that river. In fact, if
- 1:36Speaker 3: that river was in Queensland, they wouldn't call it a river,
- 1:38Speaker 3: It'd be a creek. In this part of the world,
- 1:42Speaker 3: there is no such thing as throwing a football. It's
- 1:46Speaker 3: sacrilege to throw a football. You kick and hand pass
- 1:49Speaker 3: a football. And in South Australia this is a city state.
- 1:52Speaker 3: One nation generally appeals to the regions that the large
- 1:56Speaker 3: and prosperous regions of northern New South Wales and queens
- 2:00Speaker 3: That in South Australia, Adelaide is virtually a city state.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Seventy five percent of the state's population live in the
- 2:06Speaker 3: Greater Adelaide region, so the regional censers are tiny by comparison. Yet,
- 2:12Speaker 3: as you saw yesterday in the CBD of Adelaide when
- 2:15Speaker 3: we went for a street walk with Pauline Hanson and
- 2:18Speaker 3: Corey Bernardi.
- 2:20Speaker 1: She and they were wildly popular.
- 2:23Speaker 3: One Nation is currently outpolling the coalition, well, the Liberal Party,
- 2:27Speaker 3: there's no coalition here.
- 2:28Speaker 1: They're outpolling the Liberal.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Party in all the polls, and come Saturday it looks
- 2:33Speaker 3: like One Nation will be the second political force in
- 2:37Speaker 3: this state, pulling ahead of the Liberal Party. And that's
- 2:41Speaker 3: why even the Labor Premier, Peter malanowskis is wary of them.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Pauline Hanson comes down from Queensland and starts telling us
- 2:49Speaker 4: what her problems are, and then she doesn't offer us
- 2:52Speaker 4: single solution.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Not one.
- 2:55Speaker 4: If you don't have a policy or a plan, you're
- 2:57Speaker 4: a pretender. And I haven't seen any policy or plans
- 3:00Speaker 4: from One Nation, none whatsoever.
- 3:04Speaker 3: And so this is now one of the few issues
- 3:07Speaker 3: on which Labor and the Liberals agree.
- 3:12Speaker 5: And there's no doubt that Pauline has been around a
- 3:15Speaker 5: long time. She does politics a little bit differently, But
- 3:18Speaker 5: you've got to look at who is actually capable of delivering.
- 3:21Speaker 5: It's not just about spicing things up or having grievances.
- 3:24Speaker 5: You've actually got to have a costed plan and a
- 3:27Speaker 5: pathway to deliver.
- 3:28Speaker 6: And I don't think that the minor parties do have that.
- 3:33Speaker 3: I'll have that full interview with Ashton hern In just
- 3:36Speaker 3: a few moments later in the program. But with all
- 3:38Speaker 3: this going on today, One Nation we're out campaigning. Corey
- 3:42Speaker 3: Bernardi and Pauline Hanson headed just south of Adelaide to
- 3:45Speaker 3: the Wine regions and they were pushing their cause.
- 3:49Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a very important election
- 3:52Speaker 1: for the whole of Australia.
- 3:53Speaker 7: Will be one.
- 3:54Speaker 8: Host to see what to see what One Nation.
- 3:58Speaker 7: Or how we are going to fair in this election.
- 4:01Speaker 7: If the polls are true.
- 4:02Speaker 9: This is unprecedented since the Queensland state election when we
- 4:06Speaker 9: received about twenty three percent of the mate.
- 4:08Speaker 10: Well, our measure of success is having a One Nation
- 4:10Speaker 10: voice in the Parliament. So I say, if it's one
- 4:12Speaker 10: seat in the upper House, that's great. If it's two
- 4:14Speaker 10: or more, fantastic. If we win any in the lower House,
- 4:16Speaker 10: that's good too. But we just want to be a
- 4:18Speaker 10: voice for South Australians and what we're trying to build
- 4:21Speaker 10: here is something that is going to be sustainable and
- 4:23Speaker 10: is going to actually change.
- 4:24Speaker 2: His state for the better. So that starts this Saturday.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Corey Bernardi will join me live here later in the program.
- 4:32Speaker 3: He's a major asset for One Nation.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Here.
- 4:34Speaker 3: As I say, everybody knows Pauline Hanson and they know
- 4:37Speaker 3: she's a Queenslander. Cory Bernardi gives One Nation a very
- 4:42Speaker 3: recognizable and popular South Australian face.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Now, as I said, I love this place. I love
- 4:48Speaker 1: Adelaide dearly, but it's not really New York City, is it.
- 4:52Speaker 3: The point I want to make is that in this place,
- 4:56Speaker 3: which is this state, which is mainly desert, wh is
- 5:01Speaker 3: really a city state. There are not strong regions where
- 5:03Speaker 3: there aren't any crocs, where there aren't any cane toads.
- 5:07Speaker 1: One nation is running strong. One nation is.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Dominating the debate in the election in this southern state.
- 5:17Speaker 3: If one Nation can make it here, they can make
- 5:20Speaker 3: it anywhere. Now I want to update you on the
- 5:29Speaker 3: fuel crisis with major developments today.
- 5:31Speaker 1: National Cabinet was held.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Of course, Anthony Albanesi announced that yesterday, but when you
- 5:37Speaker 3: see what he's talking about and what he's doing, you
- 5:39Speaker 3: have to wonder what he's up to.
- 5:41Speaker 11: I want to assure Australians at this time that Australia.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Is well prepared.
- 5:46Speaker 11: Our fuel supply is currently secure. However, I want us
- 5:50Speaker 11: to be over prepared, well prepared.
- 5:54Speaker 1: He says they were well prepared.
- 5:55Speaker 3: I thought the whole reason, the whole point of having
- 5:58Speaker 3: an urgent national Cabinet is because they're not well prepared.
- 6:02Speaker 3: And now he's telling us it's all our fault. Anyway,
- 6:04Speaker 3: There's plenty of supplies, but we're buying too much.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Have a look.
- 6:08Speaker 11: I again reiterate today my message to Australians is please
- 6:14Speaker 11: do not take more fuel than you need. That is
- 6:18Speaker 11: how you can help. It's the Australian way to think
- 6:21Speaker 11: of others, to think of their neighbors, their community, and
- 6:25Speaker 11: also to think of the national interest. Only take what
- 6:29Speaker 11: you need.
- 6:32Speaker 3: So there's no supply problem. We're just buying too much.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Yet he's decided to appoint a new Fuels Are to
- 6:40Speaker 3: control supplies around the nation.
- 6:43Speaker 1: That doesn't make much sense much sense.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Does it? And have a look at who Albow has
- 6:48Speaker 3: appointed as the new Fuels Are.
- 6:52Speaker 12: So I want to tell you a bit about how
- 6:54Speaker 12: the Climate Change Authority has thought in the past about
- 6:57Speaker 12: the issue of setting targets and trajectory, and to give
- 7:01Speaker 12: you an indication of the work that we're doing right now,
- 7:04Speaker 12: because we've been asked in special terms of reference to
- 7:07Speaker 12: conduct a review, and part of that review is also
- 7:10Speaker 12: to make recommendations about what our future emission's reduction goal
- 7:13Speaker 12: should be.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Yes Anthea Harris, formerly of the Climate Change Authority, someone
- 7:21Speaker 3: whose previous job was to try and focus on reducing
- 7:24Speaker 3: emissions from fossil fuels. So the Albanezi government has appointed
- 7:29Speaker 3: as the person to ensure we've all got adequate fuel supplies.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Somebody who's committed to the elimination of our dependence on
- 7:37Speaker 3: fossil fuels have a look.
- 7:39Speaker 12: We have to start and always remember that it's very
- 7:42Speaker 12: much in Australia's national interest to support international efforts to
- 7:48Speaker 12: try and limit warming to two degrees above pre industrial levels.
- 7:51Speaker 12: This is very important to the welfare of future Australian
- 7:55Speaker 12: so we need to keep that in mind when we're
- 7:57Speaker 12: thinking about what our contribution should be.
- 8:01Speaker 1: It's funny, isn't it.
- 8:02Speaker 3: All the people who are telling us we don't need
- 8:04Speaker 3: fossil fuels, we can do it all with renewable energies,
- 8:07Speaker 3: and we need to get rid of fossil fuels. They're
- 8:09Speaker 3: all now are running around in the panic because they're
- 8:11Speaker 3: worried we won't have enough fossil fuels. Now, with the
- 8:21Speaker 3: war still raging in the Middle East, attacks still unfolding
- 8:24Speaker 3: against Iran and Iran attacking its neighbors, we've learnt today
- 8:28Speaker 3: that the Iranian women soccer team has arrived back in
- 8:33Speaker 3: their home country. They've arrived there with five women who
- 8:37Speaker 3: of course claimed asylum in Australia and then changed their minds.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Have a look at this.
- 8:44Speaker 13: The Iran women's soccer team has arrived back home, welcomed
- 8:48Speaker 13: by a large crowd with flower wreaths and celebratory music.
- 8:52Speaker 13: They're us crossing the border with Turkey. Just hours ago,
- 8:55Speaker 13: six players and one support staff member were granted humanitarian
- 8:59Speaker 13: visas in a Strea, but only two remains.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Yeah, look at them being used there as very much
- 9:14Speaker 3: a part of wartime propaganda. You can see the pictures
- 9:17Speaker 3: for yourself. To me, they don't look ecstatic to be home.
- 9:21Speaker 3: A little smile with one of the young girls who
- 9:23Speaker 3: was greeting them, but generally they don't look particularly happy
- 9:27Speaker 3: and why would they notice the veils were back on.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Those five who were granted asylum in Australia took their
- 9:33Speaker 3: veils off for photos here before they changed their mind
- 9:36Speaker 3: presumably under threats to their families. They're now back in
- 9:39Speaker 3: Iran with their veils on, and I hope they're happy,
- 9:42Speaker 3: but like you, I'm deeply worried that we may not
- 9:46Speaker 3: see or hear much from them ever. Again, let's go
- 9:54Speaker 3: to our first guest tonight that I'm joined here by
- 9:56Speaker 3: the shadow Health Minister and Rustin who's a Liberal senator
- 9:58Speaker 3: for South Australia. Good to talk you and I'll get
- 10:01Speaker 3: your thoughts on the state election in just a moment.
- 10:03Speaker 3: But first up on fuel security? Is this the right
- 10:05Speaker 3: move by Anthony Alberzi to appoint a fuels a well,
- 10:09Speaker 3: I just because.
- 10:09Speaker 14: The pop out for Anthony for some time that there
- 10:13Speaker 14: were going to be challenges as a result of the war,
- 10:16Speaker 14: which are exacerbated because we've already got a cost of
- 10:18Speaker 14: living crisis in this country, you know, in flesh and
- 10:21Speaker 14: everybody is struggling to pay their bills and the like.
- 10:23Speaker 14: And you know, some nearly three weeks into this, Anthony
- 10:26Speaker 14: Alberanezi decides to hold a national Cabinet and appoint an
- 10:30Speaker 14: independent person to actually once again deflect from the responsibility
- 10:34Speaker 14: of his government and what they haven't been doing in
- 10:37Speaker 14: responding to this crisis. I mean, one day there's no crisis,
- 10:39Speaker 14: the next day there is. One day, apparently it sets
- 10:42Speaker 14: our fault because we're buying too much fuel. The next
- 10:44Speaker 14: day apparently it's the supplies. I mean, the mixed messaging
- 10:47Speaker 14: that we have seen on this issue.
- 10:49Speaker 7: It is no wonder Australians are confused.
- 10:52Speaker 14: And now today he wants to put the blame on,
- 10:54Speaker 14: you know, give somebody else the opportunity to take the blame.
- 10:56Speaker 7: So he's appointed a FULSA in the country.
- 10:59Speaker 14: It is just, it is such a terrible indictment on
- 11:02Speaker 14: this government's handling of this issue.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Is she the right person?
- 11:05Speaker 3: Would she have the right capabilities to make sure we've
- 11:07Speaker 3: got adequate fuel supplies around the country.
- 11:10Speaker 14: Well, I don't know why the Minister and the Prime
- 11:12Speaker 14: Minister aren't actually using the resources of the departments that
- 11:15Speaker 14: they have at their disclosal. I mean, all of the
- 11:18Speaker 14: information that Anthony Albanesi should be receiving in order to
- 11:22Speaker 14: make decisions should be contained within these departments. I've ad
- 11:25Speaker 14: a loss as to why we need to have an
- 11:27Speaker 14: external person. Look, if it resolves the issue and it
- 11:30Speaker 14: gets fuel into the tractors of our farmers and into
- 11:32Speaker 14: the cars of Australian citizens. That's great, but quite frankly,
- 11:36Speaker 14: it just looks like another deflective cop out by the government.
- 11:39Speaker 3: Let's have a quick look at Anthony Alberanezi responded to
- 11:42Speaker 3: questions on this today.
- 11:44Speaker 5: He said Australia had enough fuel, but how can you
- 11:47Speaker 5: say that when petrol stations are running out.
- 11:49Speaker 15: That can't be true.
- 11:50Speaker 11: There is not less fuel in Australia today than there
- 11:53Speaker 11: was three weeks ago. This is an issue has been
- 11:57Speaker 11: an issue of increased demand.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Yeah, Anthony Albaneasy there.
- 12:02Speaker 3: It is a strange situation appointing a fuels having a
- 12:05Speaker 3: national Cabinet but telling us we've got plenty of fuel
- 12:07Speaker 3: and there's no lesson we had a few weeks ago.
- 12:09Speaker 3: So we will see what unfolds there. But I want
- 12:12Speaker 3: to get your thoughts on the South Australian election.
- 12:14Speaker 1: You'll be deeply.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Involved in it, of course, but I want to start
- 12:17Speaker 3: off by reminding viewers of what we showed yesterday with.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson's reception in Adelaide. More right in the heart
- 12:24Speaker 1: of Adelaide.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Absolutely a pleasure media, thank you very much.
- 12:29Speaker 7: Should be the Prime Minister of Australia every day of
- 12:31Speaker 7: the week.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I'm Peter.
- 12:33Speaker 7: Hello Peter, thanks, thank you very much.
- 12:37Speaker 1: A photo for you and cast for the photo. Is
- 12:41Speaker 1: we vote for?
- 12:42Speaker 16: You know, you have to tell me whether you're voting
- 12:44Speaker 16: for one nation and why. Yeah, I was relegated to
- 12:50Speaker 16: being a photographer for all the people who wanted to
- 12:52Speaker 16: be seen with Pauline Hanson yesterday.
- 12:54Speaker 3: She and Corey Bernardi very popular. I was there, I
- 12:57Speaker 3: saw it. There's something on the move. The polls tell
- 12:59Speaker 3: us that going to get more first preference votes than
- 13:02Speaker 3: the Liberals. Are they going to become the second political
- 13:05Speaker 3: force in this country?
- 13:05Speaker 1: Comes Saturday?
- 13:06Speaker 14: Well, I'm certainly not going to get ahead of Saturday.
- 13:09Speaker 14: I mean, I think we'll wait and see what Saturday
- 13:11Speaker 14: actually brings. A lot of people have already voted, and
- 13:14Speaker 14: obviously the only poll that really matters is the one
- 13:16Speaker 14: that gets counted on on Saturday night.
- 13:18Speaker 7: So I'll reserve my judgment to see what happens.
- 13:20Speaker 14: But you know, quite clearly, Pauline Hanson is a good
- 13:23Speaker 14: retail politician and she has very cleverly tapped into I
- 13:26Speaker 14: think there are a lot of Australians who are really
- 13:28Speaker 14: angry about the drop in their standard of living and
- 13:31Speaker 14: they are protesting that, and you know, I think the
- 13:34Speaker 14: Liberal Party has a lot more to do to make
- 13:37Speaker 14: sure that our communication is much better with Australians about
- 13:41Speaker 14: what we would be offering.
- 13:42Speaker 7: As an alternative.
- 13:43Speaker 14: But quite frankly, the thing that I think has been
- 13:46Speaker 14: so positive for the Liberal Party in this election campaign
- 13:48Speaker 14: has been the incredible performance by Ashton Hearn. I mean,
- 13:52Speaker 14: she's only had barely one hundred days to about it.
- 13:54Speaker 3: We're going to get a look at her in a minute.
- 13:55Speaker 3: Sorry to cut you off, but I just wanted to
- 13:56Speaker 3: finally get your thoughts.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Then.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Obviously there is a concer in the community. Obviously people
- 14:01Speaker 3: are unhappy with government, but they've got a labor state
- 14:04Speaker 3: government and a labor federal government. So why isn't a
- 14:06Speaker 3: Liberal party able to capitalize.
- 14:08Speaker 1: On that, on those grievances rather than one nation.
- 14:12Speaker 14: Well, I think that was the point I was actually
- 14:14Speaker 14: getting to, Chris, is that I think that we've got
- 14:16Speaker 14: to do better at communicating. I think Australians are getting
- 14:19Speaker 14: their information by many, many different sources than they used
- 14:22Speaker 14: to it, and I think that we our campaigning skills
- 14:25Speaker 14: are quite antiquated in comparison to our competitors. So I
- 14:29Speaker 14: think is Australians lift off the Labor government and they're
- 14:32Speaker 14: pretty angry about what they're finding. They're they're protesting against
- 14:37Speaker 14: about where they find themselves and that protest vote has
- 14:41Speaker 14: gone to the minor parties, including one Nation. We need
- 14:44Speaker 14: to do better about communicating what we need we are offering.
- 14:47Speaker 14: And as I said, I think Ashtonhon's done a great job,
- 14:50Speaker 14: but she was left with very little runway in which
- 14:52Speaker 14: to do it in she was given.
- 14:53Speaker 1: A pretty tough job.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us and Rust and I appreciate at
- 14:56Speaker 3: Liberal Centator for South Australia and rustin there she talks
- 14:58Speaker 3: about Ashton. I had the pleasure of catching up with
- 15:01Speaker 3: her today. You have a look for yourself.
- 15:03Speaker 1: You make up your own mind of.
- 15:05Speaker 3: How she's doing as a Liberal leader fronting an election
- 15:08Speaker 3: just one hundred days after getting the job. Joining me
- 15:14Speaker 3: now is the South Australian Liberal leader, the opposition leader,
- 15:17Speaker 3: Ashton Hern Ashton, welcome to the program.
- 15:19Speaker 6: Thank you, great to be with you.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Look what a difficult task has landed on your desk.
- 15:26Speaker 5: Oh, look, there's certainly some challenges, but to be honest,
- 15:29Speaker 5: I've really enjoyed it. I've been the leader now for
- 15:31Speaker 5: just over one hundred days, which is slightly unconventional to
- 15:35Speaker 5: change leaders so close to the election, But you've just
- 15:37Speaker 5: got to make every post a winner and put forward
- 15:40Speaker 5: the practical policies that are going to improve the lives
- 15:43Speaker 5: of South Australians and that's what I've been focused on
- 15:45Speaker 5: with my team.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Yeah, but one hundred days, as you say, just three
- 15:48Speaker 3: months out from the election, here's a basket case of
- 15:50Speaker 3: a Liberal party. You lead it to the election. Do
- 15:53Speaker 3: you ever wonder what you did to deserve this? You
- 15:55Speaker 3: haven't even been in Parliament for four years yet.
- 15:57Speaker 5: No, But look at the end of the day, you've
- 15:59Speaker 5: got to try and make every post a winner, and
- 16:00Speaker 5: you can only play the cards that you've been dealt.
- 16:03Speaker 5: And what I was saying off air about some politicians
- 16:06Speaker 5: becoming naval gazers and becoming commentators, it's true to say
- 16:11Speaker 5: that you can always reflect on what could have been,
- 16:14Speaker 5: having more time or not. But the reality is that
- 16:17Speaker 5: I'm here in this role. I'm loving every moment and
- 16:20Speaker 5: I think we've got some really exciting policies out there
- 16:22Speaker 5: for people to consider, and there's not much longer to
- 16:25Speaker 5: go before.
- 16:26Speaker 6: All South Australians will be able to decide just a.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Couple more sleeps.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Now you talk about the hand that you've been dealt,
- 16:31Speaker 3: What about the rap sheet? The list of criminals and
- 16:36Speaker 3: criminal prosecutions in the Liberal Party? The former leader running
- 16:41Speaker 3: now as an independent but actually prosecuted for dealing in drugs,
- 16:46Speaker 3: another MP, former Liberal MP in jail, the seat vacant.
- 16:52Speaker 3: Another former Liberal MP running in this campaign as an
- 16:54Speaker 3: independent with an ankle bracelet facing domestic violence charges.
- 16:59Speaker 1: And then there's another.
- 17:00Speaker 3: Former Liberal MP who's been prosecuted and found guilty of
- 17:05Speaker 3: deception over parliamentary entitlements.
- 17:08Speaker 1: He's appealing and running in this election.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Do you feel that it's just so difficult to get
- 17:12Speaker 3: clear air for the Liberal Party when so much of
- 17:15Speaker 3: this stuff is lingering around even at this election.
- 17:18Speaker 5: There's certainly been some historical challenges, and I don't shy
- 17:21Speaker 5: away from that at all. I think you've got to
- 17:24Speaker 5: own things that have happened in the past, but you've
- 17:26Speaker 5: also got to move forward.
- 17:28Speaker 6: I'm presenting a really a fresh approach.
- 17:30Speaker 5: We've got some exciting policies and that's what I'm focused on.
- 17:33Speaker 5: I mean, Chris, no one's stopping me in the street
- 17:35Speaker 5: wanting to speak to me about former Liberals who are
- 17:39Speaker 5: now independents or whatnot. People are wanting to speak to
- 17:42Speaker 5: me about the policies that we've got. What can you
- 17:44Speaker 5: do about affordability, what are you doing for the housing market?
- 17:48Speaker 5: And by the way, crime's a big issue, so what
- 17:50Speaker 5: are we doing there. So that's what I've been pleased
- 17:52Speaker 5: to speak with people about.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Well, let's get into some of those issues.
- 17:55Speaker 3: A starting off with the government, the challenging you're challenging
- 17:58Speaker 3: the malanowskis labor governor been a largely competent government. Then
- 18:02Speaker 3: it's certainly popular and the state's doing very.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Well compared comparatively.
- 18:07Speaker 3: So often South Australia lags behind the other mainland states
- 18:10Speaker 3: when it comes to economic development.
- 18:12Speaker 1: At the moment is doing very well.
- 18:13Speaker 5: And I said this as much on Sky News that
- 18:16Speaker 5: we are a great state and the best in the
- 18:18Speaker 5: nation really, but I think we can be better, and
- 18:22Speaker 5: we can be better if we've got a government that's
- 18:24Speaker 5: actually focused on getting those bread and butter issues right.
- 18:27Speaker 5: And it's one thing to have events which are fantastic,
- 18:30Speaker 5: right they do add to the vibrancy of the state.
- 18:32Speaker 5: But you've got to get the basics right and that's
- 18:35Speaker 5: where this government is failing. We've seen energy prices go
- 18:38Speaker 5: through the roof, up some forty three percent. We've got
- 18:41Speaker 5: record ramping in South Australia, despite the fact that the
- 18:44Speaker 5: Premier said vote like your life depends on it at
- 18:47Speaker 5: the last selection, and we've got young South Australians who
- 18:51Speaker 5: are seeing that dream of home ownership kind of be
- 18:53Speaker 5: pushed further off into the never never. And if the
- 18:56Speaker 5: government was deadly serious about getting those basics right and
- 18:59Speaker 5: getting the important and things right, then that wouldn't be
- 19:01Speaker 5: the case.
- 19:03Speaker 6: And that I'm focused on.
- 19:05Speaker 1: Let's go through some of those policy issues on your right.
- 19:07Speaker 3: I do recall four years ago ramping at hospitals was
- 19:10Speaker 3: the number one issue pushed by the Labor Party and
- 19:13Speaker 3: their union mates to try and make sure they wont government.
- 19:17Speaker 3: They've come into government and completely failed to fix the problem.
- 19:20Speaker 3: Here was the Premier on Sky News yesterday.
- 19:23Speaker 4: I've been very candid about the fact that despite all
- 19:26Speaker 4: the government's investments and effort that we've made in the
- 19:29Speaker 4: public hospital system, we have not been able to achieve
- 19:31Speaker 4: the results that we wanted.
- 19:34Speaker 3: So if ramping was the number one reason for labor
- 19:37Speaker 3: to get into power and they've failed on it.
- 19:39Speaker 1: Surely it's a reason to vote against them.
- 19:41Speaker 5: And this is what I've been saying as well, Chris,
- 19:43Speaker 5: in that you've got to take everything that the Premier
- 19:45Speaker 5: is committing to now with a massive bag of salt,
- 19:48Speaker 5: because he you know, he's great at the pr and
- 19:52Speaker 5: he's great at the media management, but he's really got
- 19:55Speaker 5: a big f when it comes to delivering. And so
- 19:58Speaker 5: that's what i'd encourage people to look at it.
- 20:00Speaker 3: And I can't believe his Health Minister hasn't resigned after
- 20:03Speaker 3: trying to defend a horrible case of hardship cause for
- 20:08Speaker 3: a South Australian Stephen King because of the ramping crisis,
- 20:12Speaker 3: using another Stephen King's email to defend it. The Minister
- 20:15Speaker 3: apologizes and still has the job.
- 20:17Speaker 5: And that's becoming what I think is a pattern of
- 20:19Speaker 5: behavior by the ALP.
- 20:21Speaker 6: We saw also with.
- 20:22Speaker 5: Monica Monica Wolstadt. She was someone who had her elective
- 20:26Speaker 5: surgery canceled on multiple occasions, and when she had the
- 20:30Speaker 5: courage to speak up and shine a light on her
- 20:32Speaker 5: experience in the system, the government came out trying to
- 20:36Speaker 5: discredit her.
- 20:36Speaker 6: Immediately and you know how they.
- 20:38Speaker 5: Did it through giving journalists specific medical information about the
- 20:43Speaker 5: type of medication that she was on. Good look, I
- 20:46Speaker 5: mean the medical information that you provide to your doctor
- 20:50Speaker 5: and those conversations that you have, they're absolute Sachris act
- 20:53Speaker 5: and politics and they're not for politics. But this is
- 20:56Speaker 5: a government that's much more focused on the pr and
- 20:59Speaker 5: the politics less so about the delivery and actually about
- 21:02Speaker 5: turning things around in South Australia.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Well, let's have a look at your other opponent, probably
- 21:07Speaker 3: your main opponent in this election, and that is one
- 21:10Speaker 3: nation they are currently polling above the Liberal Party.
- 21:13Speaker 1: Why do you think that's happening.
- 21:16Speaker 5: I think all major parties need to reflect on this.
- 21:19Speaker 5: It's not just the Liberals, but I think one nation
- 21:21Speaker 5: will also have a bit of a hit to the ALP.
- 21:24Speaker 5: And ultimately, when people feel like they're being ignored, they're
- 21:28Speaker 5: looking for someone who's going to spice things up a
- 21:31Speaker 5: little bit. And there's no doubt that Pauline has been
- 21:34Speaker 5: around a long time.
- 21:35Speaker 6: She does politics a little bit differently, but you've.
- 21:38Speaker 5: Got to look at who is actually capable of delivering.
- 21:41Speaker 5: It's not just about spicing things up or having grievances.
- 21:44Speaker 5: You've actually got to have a costed plan and a
- 21:46Speaker 5: pathway to deliver, and I don't think that the minor
- 21:50Speaker 5: parties do have that.
- 21:51Speaker 3: We on are the issues that are driving this. Immigration
- 21:54Speaker 3: is the number one issue for One Nation. It's been
- 21:56Speaker 3: a constant of theirs for thirty years, almost thirty years.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Of course it's not a state issue, but do you
- 22:01Speaker 3: think resentment about record levels of immigration is.
- 22:05Speaker 1: Helping to drive the one nation vote now? And if
- 22:07Speaker 1: you were.
- 22:08Speaker 3: State premier, would you be looking to see the federal
- 22:11Speaker 3: government drastically cut immigration.
- 22:13Speaker 5: Immigration is certainly one of those issues. I think that
- 22:16Speaker 5: people are looking to one nation over and at the
- 22:19Speaker 5: end of the day, I don't think it's radical to
- 22:21Speaker 5: say that we want to see immigration levels matching our
- 22:24Speaker 5: ability to build the homes because getting a home right
- 22:27Speaker 5: now is a big challenge. It's on the minds of
- 22:30Speaker 5: all South Australians in particular. So I think that we
- 22:33Speaker 5: do need to see a bit of a parody on
- 22:34Speaker 5: our ability or our need for skilled migrants in particular,
- 22:38Speaker 5: but we need to see that matched with our ability
- 22:41Speaker 5: to build homes.
- 22:42Speaker 1: What about energy?
- 22:42Speaker 3: Another big one for One Nation is that they're completely
- 22:45Speaker 3: opposed to net zero. Forget about net zero, let's just
- 22:47Speaker 3: have reliable, affordable energy. Why wouldn't you adopt that approach here?
- 22:52Speaker 3: Because South Australia has the most expensive electricity in the
- 22:55Speaker 3: country and the least secure because it's rushed headlong into renewable.
- 23:00Speaker 5: Well, we've been really clear that we're putting affordability over ideology.
- 23:06Speaker 5: We think it's fine to have an ambition into the
- 23:08Speaker 5: future and we haven't changed our position in terms of
- 23:11Speaker 5: net zero. Where we have changed our approach though, is
- 23:14Speaker 5: that we are not for having one hundred percent net
- 23:18Speaker 5: renewables by next year in South Australia, so that's legislated
- 23:22Speaker 5: in the State Parliament. We think that we need to
- 23:25Speaker 5: have an eye into the future for sure, but you've
- 23:28Speaker 5: got to be focused in the here and now, and
- 23:30Speaker 5: at the end of the day, with power prices surging,
- 23:33Speaker 5: will power bills surging some forty three percent, we've got
- 23:36Speaker 5: to do something differently.
- 23:37Speaker 3: Would you support nuclear energy based in South Australia.
- 23:41Speaker 6: I'm agnostic to the source.
- 23:43Speaker 5: We need to make sure that we I mean, there's
- 23:45Speaker 5: there's fantastic technologies out there.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Part of the.
- 23:48Speaker 5: Challenge with nuclear, of course, is that it's very expensive
- 23:51Speaker 5: and it's quite a way off into the future. But
- 23:55Speaker 5: at the end of the day, we're putting affordability ahead
- 23:58Speaker 5: of ideology because people are hurting. I was with a
- 24:03Speaker 5: business the other yesterday whose power bills have started six
- 24:07Speaker 5: years ago six hundred dollars a month and fast forward
- 24:10Speaker 5: to today's day and age at two.
- 24:12Speaker 6: Thousand dollars a month.
- 24:13Speaker 5: Now, that type of increase is unsustainable and we've got
- 24:17Speaker 5: to have a level of practicality about our approach.
- 24:20Speaker 3: What's a pass mark for your party at this election?
- 24:23Speaker 3: Is it just finishing with more seats and higher vote
- 24:26Speaker 3: than one nation.
- 24:28Speaker 5: I mean, there'll be varying views about what success looks
- 24:30Speaker 5: like for us, and I'm not too focused on kind
- 24:33Speaker 5: of crafting the analysis after polls close, and I think
- 24:37Speaker 5: that's what people are drawing me to do.
- 24:39Speaker 1: But I don't expect to win the election.
- 24:42Speaker 6: Well, it's not over until it's over.
- 24:43Speaker 1: What would be the worst case scenario?
- 24:44Speaker 3: Are you ending up looking like the Western Australian Liberal Party.
- 24:47Speaker 6: It's not over until it's over.
- 24:50Speaker 5: You know, you've got to take note of the polls,
- 24:52Speaker 5: of course, and it is a way for voters to
- 24:54Speaker 5: send a message whether that transpires on election day is
- 24:58Speaker 5: yet to be seen. Been around long enough, Chris to
- 25:01Speaker 5: know that the only poll that matters is election day,
- 25:04Speaker 5: and I'm going to keep fighting right up until six pm.
- 25:07Speaker 3: Just before you go there, I've got to ask you
- 25:09Speaker 3: an important question. I think one of the biggest problems
- 25:11Speaker 3: with Peter Malinowskis is that he's a Port Adelaide supporter.
- 25:15Speaker 3: Here's your local team, either a whisper. You might be
- 25:17Speaker 3: a bit of a West Coast Eagles supporter given your
- 25:19Speaker 3: brothers a performance there.
- 25:21Speaker 5: I I'm a West Coast fan, so they're my number
- 25:23Speaker 5: one team. Shunn And played there for eighteen years and
- 25:27Speaker 5: captain the premiership as well. But before he was drafted,
- 25:31Speaker 5: I actually I hate to break it to but I
- 25:33Speaker 5: was a.
- 25:33Speaker 1: Port Oh no, oh no, that's terrible.
- 25:36Speaker 6: No, we've all got some flaws, I suppose.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us and good luck on Saturday.
- 25:41Speaker 6: Thanks very much, Ashton Hern.
- 25:45Speaker 3: They're doing a pretty good job in difficult circumstances. But
- 25:49Speaker 3: what's her fight? What's her main bone of contention with
- 25:52Speaker 3: the Malinowskis labor?
- 25:53Speaker 1: Government?
- 25:54Speaker 3: Is it energy prices, is it immigration? Is it government spending?
- 25:59Speaker 3: I don't know we will see.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Got to take a break.
- 26:02Speaker 15: Now.
- 26:02Speaker 3: On the other side, I'm going to catch up with
- 26:04Speaker 3: Alexander Downer. I'll find out what he thinks of the
- 26:06Speaker 3: state election and also get his analysis of the latest.
- 26:09Speaker 1: In the Middle East War.
- 26:14Speaker 3: Joining me now is former Foreign Minister Australia's longest serving
- 26:17Speaker 3: foreign minister, Alexander Downer in his hometown of Adelaide.
- 26:20Speaker 1: It looks pretty good, doesn't it, Alexander.
- 26:22Speaker 17: It looks spectacular this evening. It looks really great. Makes
- 26:27Speaker 17: me proud to be a South Australian.
- 26:30Speaker 1: It's great to be out here.
- 26:31Speaker 3: We'll talk get your thoughts on the South Australian election
- 26:33Speaker 3: in a moment, but I want to first up get
- 26:35Speaker 3: your update on the Middle East War.
- 26:37Speaker 1: It is getting prolonged.
- 26:39Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are surprised by how
- 26:41Speaker 3: much damage Iran is being able to afflict, inflict on.
- 26:44Speaker 1: The Gulf States. Where do you see it heading from?
- 26:46Speaker 8: Here?
- 26:46Speaker 3: Is Donald Trump forced with a situation we might have
- 26:51Speaker 3: to cut and run with the regime in place and
- 26:53Speaker 3: some of its military apparatus still in place.
- 26:55Speaker 17: I think most of their military apparatus has been destroyed
- 26:59Speaker 17: by the way think their missile capabilities. It's not to
- 27:02Speaker 17: say they have no missile launchers left and no missiles left,
- 27:07Speaker 17: but it's been very substantially diminished. And the same can
- 27:12Speaker 17: be said for drones. They're firing drones, in particular drones
- 27:17Speaker 17: now because they're running out of missiles at targets. That
- 27:23Speaker 17: will generate media coverage and generate, in particular in the West,
- 27:28Speaker 17: a sense of panic, and that part of the Iranian
- 27:32Speaker 17: strategy is working quite well, getting people to panic. But overall, no,
- 27:37Speaker 17: I think the Americans in the Israelis have done an
- 27:41Speaker 17: excellent job substantially suppressing any military capability. Iran has to
- 27:47Speaker 17: change the regime.
- 27:49Speaker 1: I've always thought that was heroic.
- 27:51Speaker 17: That's going to take if it happened, it will happen
- 27:54Speaker 17: one day, but it will take a long time.
- 27:57Speaker 3: Let's have a listen to what Donald Trump has said,
- 27:59Speaker 3: because he thinks his critics will eventually be silenced.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Here is.
- 28:03Speaker 18: They're very happy that I'm getting rid of a nuclear power,
- 28:06Speaker 18: a nuclear terrorist, and as soon as that wars over,
- 28:10Speaker 18: which will be soon, your prices are going to drop
- 28:13Speaker 18: like a rug you watch.
- 28:16Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the president they're very optimistic both about
- 28:23Speaker 3: fuel prices and the outcome of the war.
- 28:25Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on it by other way.
- 28:27Speaker 17: He's right. Fuel prices, of course, will come down again.
- 28:30Speaker 17: In twenty twenty three oil was over one hundred dollars
- 28:34Speaker 17: a barrel. It's got down to like sixty two sixty
- 28:38Speaker 17: three dollars a barrel. It's about one hundred, one hundred
- 28:40Speaker 17: and twentieth barrel now.
- 28:42Speaker 1: But don't worry.
- 28:44Speaker 17: As the year wears on, the little oil price will
- 28:47Speaker 17: come way down as.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Long as long as the fighting stops.
- 28:50Speaker 3: Now, I want to get your thoughts on the prospects
- 28:52Speaker 3: for those Iranian soccer players, especially the five women who
- 28:57Speaker 3: accepted asylum sort and accepted asylum ministry then change their minds.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see much of them in the future.
- 29:05Speaker 17: I don't think they'll be playing for Iran in the
- 29:08Speaker 17: next round. I think that's the end of their football
- 29:12Speaker 17: in careers, at least in the national team. I don't
- 29:16Speaker 17: know this for sure, but I'm assuming their families were
- 29:20Speaker 17: threatened when they applied for and were accepted as asylum seekers.
- 29:26Speaker 17: I assume that's the reason they've gone back to help
- 29:29Speaker 17: save their families. But gosh, I hope no ill comes
- 29:34Speaker 17: to them and we don't know.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we're all worried about. And let's hope
- 29:38Speaker 3: we get good news on that front.
- 29:40Speaker 1: I want to bring you.
- 29:41Speaker 3: Back to South Australia and this state election here. You
- 29:43Speaker 3: write a column in the Adelaide Advertiser this week which
- 29:46Speaker 3: really summed up the issues for people, and you said,
- 29:50Speaker 3: if you like Labor, vote for Labor. If you want
- 29:52Speaker 3: to change a government, vote Liberal. That one Nation is
- 29:56Speaker 3: only a protest movement. They can't change anything. But it
- 29:59Speaker 3: seems that more people are going for that protest movement
- 30:02Speaker 3: than are going for the Liberals.
- 30:03Speaker 17: Well it's a protest though, and they can't form a government,
- 30:08Speaker 17: and they won't form a government, and they, as Pauline
- 30:12Speaker 17: Hanson herself admitted the other day, they don't have any
- 30:16Speaker 17: state based policies at all. They have almost no policies.
- 30:21Speaker 17: So you know, you're voting for nothing. It's a spoiler
- 30:25Speaker 17: vote and in the end it's going to be a
- 30:29Speaker 17: huge advantage to Labor that so many people who had
- 30:34Speaker 17: previously voted Liberal will vote One Nation this time. It's
- 30:38Speaker 17: a great win for the Labor Party. So I am
- 30:42Speaker 17: worried about it. I mean, I think people who are
- 30:46Speaker 17: socialists should vote for Labor, not for the Greens. I
- 30:50Speaker 17: think be people who believe in freedom and a free
- 30:53Speaker 17: society should vote for the Liberals, not for something like
- 30:58Speaker 17: one Nation led by Queensland MAVERI.
- 31:01Speaker 3: Now, the Federal Coalition have got plenty of time to
- 31:03Speaker 3: deal with this.
- 31:04Speaker 1: They've got the.
- 31:05Speaker 3: Pharaoh by election in May, sure, but they've got a
- 31:07Speaker 3: couple of years to the next election where they can
- 31:10Speaker 3: sort of deal with these issues and win back that.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Support from One Nation.
- 31:14Speaker 3: But the South Australian Liberal Party looks like being decimated
- 31:18Speaker 3: on Saturday.
- 31:18Speaker 1: You must be worried about its future in this state.
- 31:21Speaker 17: Well, it's going to be a tough day, I suspect
- 31:25Speaker 17: for the South Australian Liberal Party, but they will eventually
- 31:29Speaker 17: claw their way back. I don't think there's any doubt
- 31:33Speaker 17: about it. And excuse me for saying so, but I
- 31:36Speaker 17: think everybody who watched your interview with Ashton hern would
- 31:40Speaker 17: agree with me. She is a really effective political leader,
- 31:46Speaker 17: but she hasn't been in the job for more than
- 31:49Speaker 17: a few months, so she's come to the job I
- 31:51Speaker 17: suppose too late. But if she can hold a seat
- 31:55Speaker 17: and she can remain the leader, then I think they've
- 31:58Speaker 17: got a good path for avery.
- 32:00Speaker 3: All right, well, we'll see you Saturday night as part
- 32:03Speaker 3: of the Sky News coverage. Sadly you and I are
- 32:06Speaker 3: going to be at the Liberal camp, so it'll be
- 32:08Speaker 3: something of a duge.
- 32:09Speaker 2: I think.
- 32:09Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, Alexander down a former Foreign Minister
- 32:12Speaker 3: of this great country.
- 32:13Speaker 1: We will take a break.
- 32:13Speaker 3: On the other side, we'll speak with the One Nation
- 32:16Speaker 3: South Australian leader and their star candidate, Cory Bernardi.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Welcome back to Adelaide.
- 32:25Speaker 3: We're here on the banks of the Tyrants, two days
- 32:27Speaker 3: out from the South Australian state election where One Nation,
- 32:30Speaker 3: the Queensland political force is moving south and dominating political
- 32:34Speaker 3: debate here. Their star candidate, the One Nation state leader,
- 32:38Speaker 3: is Cory Bernardi, the former Liberal senator.
- 32:40Speaker 1: He joins me. Now, good to talk to you again, Corey.
- 32:42Speaker 3: You must be amazed, obviously pleased, but amazed by the
- 32:47Speaker 3: response that both you and Pauline Hanson are getting in
- 32:50Speaker 3: this state in the polls and in your campaigning around
- 32:52Speaker 3: the place.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Look I'm not amazed.
- 32:54Speaker 10: I am pleased, of course, because the people of South
- 32:56Speaker 10: Australia clearly want an effective and strong voice.
- 32:58Speaker 2: It's going to stick up for them after.
- 33:01Speaker 10: Being let down by uniparty politics for far too long.
- 33:04Speaker 10: All the problems that people are experiencing today are actually
- 33:07Speaker 10: a result of policies introduced yesteryear. It's a paradigm that
- 33:12Speaker 10: hasn't served this state particularly well and they clearly want
- 33:15Speaker 10: a fresh voice.
- 33:16Speaker 2: I want to be part of that.
- 33:17Speaker 10: I want to speak up for all the people in
- 33:19Speaker 10: South Australia and make sure we leave no stone unturned
- 33:21Speaker 10: or no one left behind and making this state great.
- 33:24Speaker 3: Your main battle for votes is with the Liberal Party,
- 33:27Speaker 3: but you're doing so well that the Labor premier is
- 33:30Speaker 3: lashing out at one nation as well.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Here's Peter malinowskis today.
- 33:34Speaker 4: Pauline Hanson is traveling around on the private plane of
- 33:38Speaker 4: the richest person in Australia and that says to me that,
- 33:42Speaker 4: you know, it's not really sincere about the whole thing
- 33:45Speaker 4: being for battlers, but these hypocrites flying around on private
- 33:47Speaker 4: planes owned by the richest people in the country. That's
- 33:51Speaker 4: one thing, But having actual no plan or policy for
- 33:54Speaker 4: the future of the state, that, in my assessment, that's unforgivable.
- 34:00Speaker 3: Around with Gina rein Hart looking after the richest people
- 34:03Speaker 3: in the country. Not really a party for the battler's
- 34:05Speaker 3: How do you plead as the old politics of envy.
- 34:08Speaker 10: Peter is obviously desperate after four years not been challenged
- 34:12Speaker 10: by anybody, He's now recognized that he's going to be
- 34:15Speaker 10: held to account with his lousy policies. The simple fact
- 34:17Speaker 10: is I paid for a ticket to get to communities
- 34:20Speaker 10: that have been left behind. It's the only effective way
- 34:23Speaker 10: in which you can commute across this state. I went
- 34:25Speaker 10: to koober Pedi, but Peter Melanowskus has probably never been
- 34:29Speaker 10: This is really the politics of envy. The simple fact
- 34:32Speaker 10: is that ultimately we want to stick up for everyone
- 34:36Speaker 10: in this community in South Australia, to make sure that
- 34:39Speaker 10: they have a voice and a represented. Peter Malinowskus on
- 34:42Speaker 10: one hand says we've got no policies, and then he says, oh,
- 34:45Speaker 10: we haven't. Our policies haven't been costed. The bloke is
- 34:47Speaker 10: actually desperate and it shows well.
- 34:49Speaker 3: Both major parties here have failed at one policy, and
- 34:53Speaker 3: that is the hospital system and ramping.
- 34:55Speaker 1: What's your policy to fix that problem?
- 34:57Speaker 10: You know, it's pretty straightforward if you actually talk to
- 34:58Speaker 10: the people who are in the business and I've spoken
- 35:00Speaker 10: to Ambos about it, and they will say that what
- 35:02Speaker 10: we've got is a problem of repeat callers for ambulance systems,
- 35:06Speaker 10: and there needs to be more ability for ambulance officers
- 35:09Speaker 10: to say no, you don't need to go to hospital.
- 35:11Speaker 2: That's one.
- 35:11Speaker 10: But secondly, there are a lot of patients in the
- 35:14Speaker 10: hospital system who shouldn't be there, age care, mental health,
- 35:17Speaker 10: so we need to make sure the facility is are
- 35:19Speaker 10: there for them. And the third case is that there's
- 35:22Speaker 10: a lot of people in the system who are in
- 35:23Speaker 10: beds waiting to be discharged. They've been cured, they've been fixed,
- 35:26Speaker 10: they need a doctor to come and see them.
- 35:28Speaker 2: And Ambo said to me the other day, you can get.
- 35:30Speaker 10: Six or eight lounge chairs recliners into where there's one
- 35:34Speaker 10: bed currently. We could put people who are waiting to
- 35:36Speaker 10: be discharged in those rooms. They'd be perfectly comfortable, perfectly safe,
- 35:40Speaker 10: and we would then be able to treat people with
- 35:42Speaker 10: acute needs. These are common sense solutions. They've been ignored
- 35:46Speaker 10: by the government. Ambulance ramping is three times four times
- 35:49Speaker 10: worse because they insist upon listening to the bureaucrats or
- 35:52Speaker 10: other than the people on the ground.
- 35:53Speaker 3: What about energy you're opposed to net zero, But what
- 35:56Speaker 3: specific South Australian energy policity you have.
- 35:59Speaker 1: There's a renewables on the march in this state.
- 36:01Speaker 3: There's no coal fire generation left yet, the most expensive
- 36:05Speaker 3: power in the country.
- 36:06Speaker 1: How would you fix that?
- 36:07Speaker 10: They're absolutely related. Let me tell you renewables are unreliable.
- 36:11Speaker 10: We do need to build new power stations in this
- 36:13Speaker 10: state and we need to. I'm a free sort and
- 36:15Speaker 10: where I'm a free market here, all right, but I
- 36:17Speaker 10: think there is a case for government to build a
- 36:19Speaker 10: coal fire power station in South Australia because quite.
- 36:23Speaker 2: Now no one on Triangle.
- 36:25Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that would be the natural place for
- 36:27Speaker 10: it will provide lots of employment.
- 36:28Speaker 2: We've had generation there before.
- 36:30Speaker 10: But the critical thing is this private enterprise will not
- 36:34Speaker 10: invest because it's a moving feast for government. And that
- 36:36Speaker 10: means that where there's a market failure, government has to
- 36:39Speaker 10: intervene and get involved in it. And for the cost
- 36:42Speaker 10: of a couple of billion dollars, which is a lot
- 36:44Speaker 10: of money, we can actually provide some energy security for
- 36:47Speaker 10: this state. And let me tell you, energy security is
- 36:50Speaker 10: critical to regional communities.
- 36:52Speaker 2: I live in a regional community.
- 36:53Speaker 10: We have eight hour blackouts regularly. We have to have
- 36:56Speaker 10: diesel generators for our homes and our businesses because the
- 36:59Speaker 10: energy grew it is not fit and that's the product
- 37:02Speaker 10: of the green policies, the net zero pursuit. As you say,
- 37:05Speaker 10: it's the most expensive electricity in the country and it's
- 37:07Speaker 10: not delivering for us.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Now, just one other issue.
- 37:10Speaker 3: You and Pauline both say, if you doubt the One
- 37:12Speaker 3: Nation policies, go to the website. All our policies are
- 37:15Speaker 3: there are very prominent Australian not in politics contacted me
- 37:18Speaker 3: and I followed this up. Looking for a defense policy
- 37:21Speaker 3: on the One Nation website.
- 37:22Speaker 1: It's not there, or a policy on the ABC. Now
- 37:25Speaker 1: these are federal issues.
- 37:26Speaker 3: But where is the one nation defense policy and what
- 37:29Speaker 3: we'll do.
- 37:29Speaker 2: With the age?
- 37:30Speaker 10: I'd suggest you take them up with the federal of course,
- 37:35Speaker 10: I've got a view on the ABC spends one point
- 37:40Speaker 10: two billion dollars attacking and undermining Australian values.
- 37:43Speaker 2: We're patriots.
- 37:44Speaker 10: We want to see Australia supported by the media outlets
- 37:47Speaker 10: and particularly taxpayer dollars.
- 37:49Speaker 2: And just on defense. It's it's actually.
- 37:51Speaker 10: Critical that we have a fit for service defense force.
- 37:55Speaker 2: We don't. That's the big problem.
- 37:57Speaker 10: Everything's we're going to have submarines in thirty five years
- 38:00Speaker 10: or something like that. We're not allowed to have nuclear
- 38:02Speaker 10: power in Australia, but we're allowed to have him in
- 38:04Speaker 10: our submarines. We've got transgender service people that are getting
- 38:10Speaker 10: surgeries at taxpayer expense, and you've just got to go
- 38:13Speaker 10: what are we doing here?
- 38:14Speaker 3: Indeed, well, Cory Bernardi, as of Saturday night, I reckon
- 38:17Speaker 3: you'll have eight years in the South Australian Upper House
- 38:19Speaker 3: and a mate or two with you. We'll see how
- 38:21Speaker 3: it goes. Speak to you on Saturday night.
- 38:23Speaker 10: Now I have a few mates, Chris, thanks for joining us.
- 38:25Speaker 3: Cory Bernardi there, who's the former state president of the
- 38:28Speaker 3: Liberal Party, a former Liberal Senator for South Australia. He
- 38:31Speaker 3: will go into the Upper House as one nation's leader
- 38:34Speaker 3: in South Australia on Saturday night. The big question is
- 38:37Speaker 3: how many will go in with him in the Upper
- 38:39Speaker 3: House and of course also in the Lower House whether
- 38:41Speaker 3: they can win seats there. Let's catch up with Robbo
- 38:44Speaker 3: now in the Victoria Mark Robinson, the former chief footy
- 38:49Speaker 3: writer for their herald Son and Robbo. I'm out here
- 38:51Speaker 3: on the banks of the Torrens. You'd know this area well.
- 38:54Speaker 3: The Adelaide Oval is just across behind the cameras here.
- 38:57Speaker 3: Gather Around is only a month or so away, and
- 39:00Speaker 3: that's why I wanted to start on.
- 39:01Speaker 1: This issue, because the fuel crisis in the.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Country and all the doubts about fuel availability and.
- 39:07Speaker 1: The prices of fuels I'm told are already deflating bookings
- 39:13Speaker 1: for gather around.
- 39:14Speaker 3: They gather around could be ruined a bit, of course,
- 39:15Speaker 3: because most of the visitors are people who drive over
- 39:18Speaker 3: from Victorian.
- 39:20Speaker 8: Yeah, there is I've heard that as well, just on
- 39:22Speaker 8: the Great Bomb. We have to see what happens.
- 39:23Speaker 9: Ever, the crowds were down in opening round. I don't
- 39:26Speaker 9: know why we have it and round one they've got
- 39:29Speaker 9: to be a concern.
- 39:30Speaker 8: To the AFL.
- 39:30Speaker 9: They usually sprook record making crowds on these rounds and
- 39:35Speaker 9: it's down, so it'll be very interesting and they'll probably.
- 39:38Speaker 8: Blame the war.
- 39:39Speaker 9: I don't know why everyone else is any wrong in
- 39:42Speaker 9: this country. It's now getting blamed on the blamed on
- 39:44Speaker 9: the war. But we've got a cost of living crisis
- 39:46Speaker 9: which you talk about every night, Chris, and maybe affecting
- 39:51Speaker 9: taking a say of family.
- 39:53Speaker 8: Mum and dad and two kids. The footing cost you
- 39:55Speaker 8: two hundred bucks. They haven't gone to the moment.
- 39:59Speaker 1: Yeah, it is very, very expensive.
- 40:01Speaker 3: I spoke to someone yesterday trying to scrounge your ticket
- 40:03Speaker 3: up for Friday night here at Avlaidable.
- 40:05Speaker 1: The cheapest they could get with it was one hundred
- 40:06Speaker 1: and ten bucks. That's pretty tough if you're trying to
- 40:08Speaker 1: get your family there.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Just on other footing news, I want to get your
- 40:11Speaker 3: thoughts on these Hawthorne players, the video released of them
- 40:15Speaker 3: being arrested in the US. These sorts of scandals are
- 40:19Speaker 3: the last thing we need in footing.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Ah.
- 40:21Speaker 8: Yeah, you're going to a scandal again.
- 40:23Speaker 9: It's two blokes got a bit drunk and they thought,
- 40:27Speaker 9: look at each let's jump up on this. I mean,
- 40:29Speaker 9: I've been in footy for a long time and Chris,
- 40:32Speaker 9: you've followed football. You love your footy. This is just
- 40:37Speaker 9: when I The coverage of this incident I think is
- 40:40Speaker 9: so over the top.
- 40:42Speaker 8: They thought, will jump on this is the ladder.
- 40:44Speaker 9: It wasn't smart, you know, it's not ideal, but there's
- 40:48Speaker 9: been a lot worse happening in football than that. But
- 40:52Speaker 9: Hawthorn chased to handle it like they did hasn't affected
- 40:54Speaker 9: the players. I played really really well last week against Esdon.
- 40:58Speaker 9: I tell you what, Chris, we're going to see that's
- 41:00Speaker 9: a scandal. We're going to have a more scandals this year.
- 41:05Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
- 41:06Speaker 3: There is no doubt that it wouldn't even make the
- 41:08Speaker 3: news if they were at AFL footballers. But that's the
- 41:10Speaker 3: nature of the game and our interest in the players,
- 41:13Speaker 3: that's for sure. There's another one I want to get
- 41:15Speaker 3: you to comment on because I think this is a scandal.
- 41:18Speaker 1: I think it's a real problem and it upset me
- 41:21Speaker 1: at the time.
- 41:21Speaker 3: But I'm an Adelaide Crows supporter, so you can discount
- 41:24Speaker 3: anything I say about it. But Isaac Rankin will play
- 41:27Speaker 3: again for the Crows tomorrow night. After being suspended for
- 41:31Speaker 3: five games last year over a homoperbic.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Slur in the heat of battle. He missed the finals.
- 41:38Speaker 3: He was publicly shamed, but it's going to be great
- 41:40Speaker 3: to see him back out there playing tomorrow night.
- 41:43Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on how he's been treated.
- 41:48Speaker 9: Again, because he's a footballer and he's living under the
- 41:51Speaker 9: AFL rules, he sent a homophobic slur. The AFL have
- 41:54Speaker 9: tried to clamp down on that, and they're very inclusive.
- 41:59Speaker 8: Position. Take now five weeks he was worn.
- 42:03Speaker 9: But I'm not going to judge Isaac ranking on saying
- 42:06Speaker 9: something in a head of moment playing one game of
- 42:09Speaker 9: football by juje. Isaac Rankin is one of the best
- 42:11Speaker 9: players in the competition. And this Friday night against the Dogs,
- 42:15Speaker 9: you've got rank and fil Walker, Foggerty and up against
- 42:20Speaker 9: you know, Darcy Norton, bondeleg Down.
- 42:22Speaker 8: There a few others. I mean, this is an old
- 42:25Speaker 8: fashioned match of the round. Are you going, Chris?
- 42:30Speaker 3: I will be there, mate, I'll be across there this
- 42:32Speaker 3: time tomorrow night, and obviously I'm hoping for a Crow's win,
- 42:36Speaker 3: but I'm looking forward to seeing the bond. I haven't
- 42:38Speaker 3: seen him playing in the flesh for a long while,
- 42:40Speaker 3: and he's the best going around at the moment.
- 42:42Speaker 8: I would say that he's the best player in a competition.
- 42:44Speaker 9: Marcus fond the pellet, and he has been I reckon
- 42:46Speaker 9: for three, four, maybe even five years.
- 42:49Speaker 8: Max Gorn is certainly up there as well.
- 42:51Speaker 9: But you know you're talking about you had you had
- 42:54Speaker 9: the previous play. I'm talking about the election on the weekend.
- 42:57Speaker 9: I'm sitting there listening to him, he was he was
- 43:00Speaker 9: walking like a river up coach. We're going to do this.
- 43:02Speaker 8: We're going to do that. We're going to do this.
- 43:05Speaker 9: I don't think the South elections the biggest event in
- 43:07Speaker 9: Adelaide this weekend.
- 43:08Speaker 8: I think it's the Dogs, but he pros.
- 43:13Speaker 3: I think you're spot on, Robo. Thanks for joining us, Robo.
- 43:17Speaker 3: They're joining us from Victoria.
- 43:18Speaker 1: He's right. This footy match tomorrow night it's going to
- 43:20Speaker 1: be a ripper.
- 43:21Speaker 3: I'll be back with Tim and Mark to talk about
- 43:23Speaker 3: our whole range of issues after this short break.
- 43:30Speaker 1: Welcome back to the program, I mean Adelaide.
- 43:32Speaker 3: Mark Nicholson is in Melbourne and Tim Blair is in
- 43:35Speaker 3: his hideaway in western Victoria.
- 43:37Speaker 1: Good to talk to all of you tonight, guys.
- 43:40Speaker 3: I've got to get your thoughts on Pauline Hanson and
- 43:43Speaker 3: One Nation sort of taking Adelaide by storm. They this
- 43:47Speaker 3: is a city is as far removed from Queensland in
- 43:49Speaker 3: many ways as you can get in Australia.
- 43:52Speaker 1: But Tim, I suppose you're not surprised.
- 43:55Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
- 43:56Speaker 19: And this is this is incredible to see its repudiation
- 44:01Speaker 19: to both the mainstream parties that they've shunned one nation
- 44:04Speaker 19: for so long, they've shunned the interests that have been
- 44:06Speaker 19: expressed by one nation for so long, And the fact
- 44:09Speaker 19: that's happening in Adelaid just makes it all the more delicious.
- 44:11Speaker 19: The fact that it's happening in such a progressive heartland,
- 44:14Speaker 19: if you like, just makes it all the sweetest.
- 44:16Speaker 3: Still, Yeah, remark, you've traveled with Pauline, you've seen how
- 44:22Speaker 3: people respond to her. But I was out with her yesterday.
- 44:25Speaker 3: I've seen this over the years. Twenty years ago I
- 44:28Speaker 3: was at events in South Australia where there are more
- 44:31Speaker 3: protesters against her than there were people turning up to
- 44:34Speaker 3: hear or speak.
- 44:35Speaker 1: But now she's embraced so widely.
- 44:37Speaker 3: I think even people who don't agree with her respect
- 44:41Speaker 3: her staying power and her honesty.
- 44:46Speaker 8: Mate. Yeah, you're exactly right.
- 44:48Speaker 15: So we traveled for this whole time. When we're doing
- 44:50Speaker 15: the movie, it took hours to move fifty meters, Like
- 44:54Speaker 15: the amount of people that just wanted selfies to just
- 44:56Speaker 15: come up to say thank you. And even though even
- 44:58Speaker 15: those people that wanted to come up and and argue
- 45:01Speaker 15: with her or say that they didn't agree with her
- 45:04Speaker 15: on something, ended up getting her selfie anyway, Like she's
- 45:06Speaker 15: an absolute star and she's yeah, like, you're right, she's
- 45:09Speaker 15: got the staying power. I saw it there. I don't
- 45:11Speaker 15: watch that little Secret yesterday. You can feel the surge.
- 45:14Speaker 15: It's on in Adelaide, it's on in South Australia. It's
- 45:16Speaker 15: so exciting. Everyone's calling this a test for one nation.
- 45:19Speaker 15: I actually think this is a test for South Australia
- 45:21Speaker 15: at this point. Have you got your head screwed on right?
- 45:24Speaker 8: Do you know what's good for?
- 45:25Speaker 15: Come on, get around one nation because the flow and
- 45:28Speaker 15: effects are going to be so much fun. In the
- 45:30Speaker 15: by election in Pharaoh, Victoria could be hilarious. The federal
- 45:34Speaker 15: election it's a cat amongst the pigeons moment. It's really exciting.
- 45:40Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fascinating stuff to watch. And as I said
- 45:42Speaker 3: on the program last night, that changed my mind seeing
- 45:45Speaker 3: the human reaction to Pauline Hanson.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Because the polls are.
- 45:48Speaker 3: Indicative, but sometimes one nation has failed to live up
- 45:51Speaker 3: to the polling that's been produced in the lead up
- 45:55Speaker 3: to people actually casting their votes.
- 45:56Speaker 1: I think this time it is happening.
- 45:59Speaker 3: And the point is when you listen to the major
- 46:02Speaker 3: parties here and Peter Mallonouscus is pretty popular, that hasn't.
- 46:05Speaker 1: Done a hell of a lot wrong.
- 46:06Speaker 3: Things are going along reasonably well for the States comparatively.
- 46:10Speaker 3: But Tim, I don't know what the liberal's key argument
- 46:13Speaker 3: is with him. What are they attacking him on. They're
- 46:15Speaker 3: just leaving the field open really for one nation.
- 46:19Speaker 19: Absolutely, and we've seen this federally. We're seated in other states.
- 46:23Speaker 19: This is really there's a whole layer, a generational layer
- 46:27Speaker 19: of liberal advisors, younger types I suppose, who were very
- 46:32Speaker 19: prominent in the policies expressed both the federal libstury in
- 46:35Speaker 19: the last election.
- 46:36Speaker 2: Look how far agot them.
- 46:37Speaker 19: Their basic advice is always go as close as you
- 46:40Speaker 19: can to labor without actually changing your name to labor.
- 46:43Speaker 19: It's not working, and they've left the let's just say
- 46:45Speaker 19: they left the field open to one nation.
- 46:49Speaker 3: Well, you're both enjoying the resurgence of Pauline Hanson. How
- 46:52Speaker 3: do you feel about the story in Victoria that just
- 46:54Speaker 3: sent to Allen might be facing a leadership challenge?
- 46:57Speaker 8: Mark Ah, They know, you.
- 47:01Speaker 15: Know, it would be incredibly intelligent and smart of them
- 47:04Speaker 15: to get rid of her for the election. But I
- 47:07Speaker 15: really hope they don't.
- 47:08Speaker 8: I really hope they don't.
- 47:09Speaker 15: It would be so much more fun to see her
- 47:12Speaker 15: go to the election because and get a report card,
- 47:14Speaker 15: because it has I can tell you right now she's
- 47:17Speaker 15: so unpopular. I can feel it. I can feel it
- 47:20Speaker 15: on the street. I don't think I'm stuck in my
- 47:21Speaker 15: little bubble. I can feel it everywhere. There is such
- 47:24Speaker 15: an appetite for change, but so many people.
- 47:27Speaker 8: She was never well.
- 47:28Speaker 15: She never went to an election as a leader, so
- 47:30Speaker 15: she's never actually gotten the report card. I'd love for
- 47:33Speaker 15: her to face the music. So I hope it's the
- 47:36Speaker 15: smart thing for them to dump her before they're going
- 47:38Speaker 15: into this and get a little makeover. They don't deserve it,
- 47:40Speaker 15: they deserve the report card instead.
- 47:45Speaker 3: It'd be pretty cynical to get rid of her now.
- 47:47Speaker 3: She should face the music. Thanks for joining us, guys,
- 47:49Speaker 3: appreciate it. Tim Blair and Mark Nicholson joining us from Victoria.
- 47:53Speaker 3: I just got some time to squeeze in some of
- 47:55Speaker 3: your reaction to what we saw last night, what I
- 47:57Speaker 3: shared with you from Pauline Hanson and One Nation and
- 48:00Speaker 3: Cory Bernardi in Adelaide. Pauline is a lot more popular
- 48:03Speaker 3: than people think. Australia is crying out for a patriot
- 48:06Speaker 3: to run the country, says Craig. Another viewer says, the
- 48:09Speaker 3: more they try to belittle One Nation supporters, the more
- 48:12Speaker 3: they will get their backs up. And another viewer says
- 48:14Speaker 3: people have lost all faith in the major parties. It's
- 48:17Speaker 3: forcing them to vote One Nation. It'll be in an
- 48:20Speaker 3: interesting election day that it will. And Jazz says, great stuff, Chris,
- 48:24Speaker 3: Pauline is resonating with a lot of people. I love
- 48:26Speaker 3: her authenticity. I think authenticity is key. Even those people
- 48:32Speaker 3: who disagree with Pauline can see that she's.
- 48:34Speaker 1: The real deal.
- 48:35Speaker 3: Been great bringing the program to you from Adelaide tonight.
- 48:38Speaker 3: Don't forget the election coverage on Saturday Night.
- 48:40Speaker 1: Here's Peter Credlin.