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- 0:00Speaker 1: Line from the Skying New Center. This is the Kenny Report.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Thanks Ross.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Yes, Indeed, tonight we'll look at Labour's housing intervention House
- 0:10Speaker 2: of cards. Is it pushing first home buyers into negative equity?
- 0:15Speaker 1: And we will we all end up paying the price?
- 0:18Speaker 2: With one nation again out polling both Labor and the Coalition.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Pauline Hansen will join me live. Tom Switzer will pinpoint
- 0:25Speaker 2: the moment he reckons the Coalition lost its way and
- 0:28Speaker 2: the clue.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Malcolm Turnbull's involved.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Paul Murray's going to drop by to preview his doco
- 0:34Speaker 2: it's airing tonight.
- 0:35Speaker 1: I can't wait for that.
- 0:37Speaker 2: He's having a look at Trump's America, the two hundred
- 0:40Speaker 2: and fiftieth birthday of the Great Republic. I'll check you
- 0:42Speaker 2: in on the political chaos in the UK with s
- 0:45Speaker 2: the Kraku and in the Wednesday wrangle with Denika the
- 0:48Speaker 2: Giorgio and James bolt Well says Chris Bowen's efforts.
- 0:52Speaker 1: To save the planet. Let's get into it.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Look, there's a simplistic way of looking at Australian political
- 1:01Speaker 2: and economic life and it goes like this. Labor comes
- 1:05Speaker 2: in promising to give people more stuff, They wreck the
- 1:08Speaker 2: budget and the economy, and then the Coalition has to
- 1:12Speaker 2: come in and clean up the fiscal and economic mess.
- 1:15Speaker 2: The reason this simplistic analysis lingers is because in the
- 1:19Speaker 2: main it's true. I mean, there's the odd exception that
- 1:23Speaker 2: proves the rule, like the Hawke government with Paul Keating
- 1:27Speaker 2: as Treasurer. But eventually Keating took over and we got
- 1:30Speaker 2: the recession. Recession we had to have, of course, and
- 1:34Speaker 2: the coalition's Howard and Costello team had to repair the
- 1:37Speaker 2: joint And if you want to understand how Anthony Albanesi
- 1:40Speaker 2: and Jim Chalmers, two lifelong ALP operatives without real world experience,
- 1:46Speaker 2: well to understand how they have no idea about economic management,
- 1:50Speaker 2: you'd look at their interventions in the housing market. They've
- 1:54Speaker 2: helped first home buyers get into the market with just
- 1:56Speaker 2: a five percent deposit by getting the government to guarantee
- 2:01Speaker 2: the loans.
- 2:02Speaker 3: In April, at our campaign launch in Perth, we committed
- 2:06Speaker 3: to give every first home buy the chance to buy
- 2:09Speaker 3: their own home with just a five percent deposit and
- 2:12Speaker 3: to cover the cost of lenders mortgage insurance. Together, these
- 2:16Speaker 3: changes white years off the time it takes to say
- 2:20Speaker 3: for a loan.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Sounds great, doesn't it.
- 2:23Speaker 2: But there was always an obvious risk which we've long highlighted.
- 2:29Speaker 4: And I don't like the idea of getting the government
- 2:31Speaker 4: involved in guarantees for basically low down payment loans, right.
- 2:36Speaker 4: That's setting people up for financial difficulties later on down
- 2:40Speaker 4: the track. So it really is a band aid. Has
- 2:42Speaker 4: been done before this kind of thing, and I think
- 2:45Speaker 4: longer term it can set people up for financial distress.
- 2:47Speaker 2: I've seen that movie before, when that House of Cards
- 2:50Speaker 2: falls down, it can be terrible.
- 2:53Speaker 1: So that's the concern here.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Yeah, that was last year and since then the government
- 2:58Speaker 2: has continued with its can promises on negative gearing and
- 3:02Speaker 2: capital gains tax and also insisted that none of this
- 3:06Speaker 2: will drive house prices down.
- 3:09Speaker 5: You're saying that the house prices could come down taxes
- 3:11Speaker 5: fitting house prices, and is that a.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Good thing for Allustrokes.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Well, I'm not saying that. I'm saying what comes out
- 3:17Speaker 3: of my mouth is what I'm saying, and I continue
- 3:21Speaker 3: to say that Treasury has done modeling which shows that
- 3:25Speaker 3: they'll still continue to be an increase, but it will
- 3:29Speaker 3: be smaller than it would have been otherwise. But what
- 3:33Speaker 3: I'm saying is that we're giving young people a fair
- 3:36Speaker 3: crack that they've been excluded from for a long period
- 3:39Speaker 3: of time.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Fast forward to today, and with the government failing to
- 3:44Speaker 2: control its spending, failing to control inflation, and seeing interest
- 3:48Speaker 2: rates go up again at the same time that it's
- 3:51Speaker 2: increased taxes on housing investment.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Well, guess what, well, prices have dropped.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Of course, right around the country, in every state, prices
- 4:01Speaker 2: have fallen. Your house is now worth less, and real
- 4:07Speaker 2: estate experts say this is far from over.
- 4:09Speaker 1: Prices will fall further for.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Another year, especially especially if we get even more interest
- 4:15Speaker 2: rate rises. So already, as of now, Albanesi and his
- 4:19Speaker 2: treasure have got it wrong again. They promised prices would
- 4:23Speaker 2: not fall, and they have. So how does this relate
- 4:26Speaker 2: to the first time buyer scheme, the five percent deposit scheme. Well,
- 4:30Speaker 2: with markets falling, people on this scheme might already be
- 4:34Speaker 2: in negative equity.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Let's take a simple example.
- 4:38Speaker 2: If you buy a million dollar house through the government
- 4:40Speaker 2: help with five percent deposit scheme of fifty thousand dollars,
- 4:45Speaker 2: you'll own nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars and your
- 4:47Speaker 2: equity is fifty thousand dollars. But if the market falls
- 4:51Speaker 2: by say just ten percent, then the house is only
- 4:54Speaker 2: worth nine hundred thousand dollars, but you still owe nine
- 4:58Speaker 2: hundred and fifty grand, so you're in negative equity. The
- 5:02Speaker 2: house is worth fifty thousand dollars less than you owe
- 5:06Speaker 2: on it. Now, that's not a comfortable position to be in,
- 5:10Speaker 2: and as we saw in Parliament yesterday, it's not a
- 5:13Speaker 2: position the Government wants to contemplate.
- 5:16Speaker 6: Does the Minister know how many first home buyers now
- 5:20Speaker 6: owe more money than their home is worth?
- 5:24Speaker 7: Over time, the house prices in Australia will continue to
- 5:27Speaker 7: increase just a little bit more slowly than they otherwise
- 5:30Speaker 7: would have. Speak up, how many first home buyers now
- 5:33Speaker 7: owe more money than their home.
- 5:35Speaker 8: Is actually worth?
- 5:37Speaker 1: Speaker?
- 5:37Speaker 7: The premise of the question is factually and utterly incorrect.
- 5:41Speaker 9: Does the Minister know how many first home buyers now
- 5:45Speaker 9: owe more money than their home is worth?
- 5:48Speaker 7: This is a variation on a question that I've now
- 5:51Speaker 7: been asked multiple times, and I'm not changing my answer.
- 5:56Speaker 1: Yeah, labor is running from this problem.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Now, let's be clear, if if you face negative equity,
- 6:02Speaker 2: it's not necessarily a pressing problem as long as you
- 6:06Speaker 2: can keep making your mortgage payments. You just keep going
- 6:09Speaker 2: and hope the market recovers over time, as it usually does.
- 6:13Speaker 2: But if interest rates go up too far, too quickly,
- 6:16Speaker 2: and you can't make your repayments, or you lose your job,
- 6:20Speaker 2: or you get divorced, or there's injury or illness, etc.
- 6:24Speaker 2: You could be forced to sell at a loss. Then
- 6:28Speaker 2: you have a debt that you can't pay. Now, this
- 6:32Speaker 2: is bad enough for the individuals, of course, this is
- 6:34Speaker 2: what we saw during Keating's recession. I was there myself
- 6:37Speaker 2: with my first home paying seventeen percent interest rates.
- 6:41Speaker 1: What's different here is the government scheme.
- 6:44Speaker 2: They've learned nothing from the global financial crisis, which was
- 6:48Speaker 2: triggered by the so called subprime crisis in the US,
- 6:51Speaker 2: where government pushed lenders like Fanny May and Freddie Mack
- 6:55Speaker 2: to give home loans to people who couldn't really afford them,
- 6:59Speaker 2: and it eventually all fell down like a house of cards. Now,
- 7:03Speaker 2: Australia's housing market won't change the global economy, of course,
- 7:07Speaker 2: but it could create a lot of pain for this
- 7:10Speaker 2: country and the government because under Labour's scheme, the government,
- 7:14Speaker 2: that is, taxpayers, are on the hook for these loans.
- 7:19Speaker 2: So if people are forced to sell at negative equity.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Taxpayers will eventually get at least some of the bill,
- 7:26Speaker 2: or more likely, government is going to have to bail
- 7:28Speaker 2: them out to avoid social and economic disaster. This is
- 7:33Speaker 2: bleak and it's worrying, especially when other cost of living
- 7:36Speaker 2: pressures play a role. For instance, Labour keeps promising that
- 7:40Speaker 2: power prices will go down. They said so again just
- 7:43Speaker 2: weeks ago, but today we see again that electricity prices
- 7:47Speaker 2: are going up. Still in Parliament Labour seems to be
- 7:51Speaker 2: in denial.
- 7:53Speaker 1: I'll tell you what's also going up. Pay for readily.
- 7:56Speaker 10: I'm way two weeks.
- 7:58Speaker 1: I'll tell you what else is going up.
- 7:59Speaker 3: The number of cheap be home batteries four one hundred
- 8:03Speaker 3: and fifty.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Thousand six last July. I tell you what else is
- 8:08Speaker 1: going up?
- 8:08Speaker 3: Buck Billy rains expanding and growing.
- 8:11Speaker 1: What else is going up?
- 8:13Speaker 3: The number of people are tending urgent care clinics are
- 8:16Speaker 3: going up.
- 8:17Speaker 1: I tell you what else is going up?
- 8:19Speaker 3: The number of first homeowners.
- 8:23Speaker 11: Home Housing is a long term investment, so people shouldn't
- 8:26Speaker 11: get too carried away by weekly or monthly movements in
- 8:30Speaker 11: house prices. The Treasury assumption in the budget is that
- 8:33Speaker 11: house prices will continue to grow a bit more slowly.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Yeah, everything's rosy according to Albow and Charmers, except that
- 8:41Speaker 2: everything that's going up is what tax payers pay for,
- 8:44Speaker 2: which is why debt and deficit are going up. But crucially,
- 8:48Speaker 2: while labors guarantees they guarantee people into their first homes,
- 8:53Speaker 2: the value of those homes is already in decline. It's
- 8:58Speaker 2: a worry for anyone who understands the market and recent history.
- 9:03Speaker 12: Housing data released today shows house prices have already fallen
- 9:06Speaker 12: further than Treasury predicted, around three percent in Sydney and
- 9:10Speaker 12: Melbourne over the last quarter, and HSBC and Morgan Stanley
- 9:15Speaker 12: predict further falls of eight to ten percent. Well, the
- 9:19Speaker 12: Prime Minister guarantee house prices won't fall any further.
- 9:24Speaker 3: And I'm more than happy to announce that our tax
- 9:27Speaker 3: policy is indeed about helping first homeowners get into their
- 9:31Speaker 3: own home.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of that could be the problem.
- 9:36Speaker 2: The government's policies could be sending first homeowners and taxpayers
- 9:40Speaker 2: into a bit of a bind. But rather than confront
- 9:44Speaker 2: this risk, the Prime Minister was reduced to quoting real
- 9:48Speaker 2: estate agents in aubury.
- 9:52Speaker 3: Andrea Leva from Ray White Aubrey North managing director said
- 9:57Speaker 3: this first home by Confidence was on the I don't
- 10:00Speaker 3: feel they're competing with as many investors. Jason Barnett in Geelong,
- 10:06Speaker 3: the managing director of Barnett real Estate, first time buyers
- 10:09Speaker 3: are the active market.
- 10:12Speaker 1: You got to love it.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Don't you have the Prime Minister quoting the real estate agents.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Have you ever met a real estate agent who isn't
- 10:18Speaker 2: talking the market up.
- 10:20Speaker 1: I'd rather stick to the facts.
- 10:22Speaker 2: And as you saw in the previous half hour, Ross
- 10:23Speaker 2: Greenwood has crunched the numbers and they show that the
- 10:27Speaker 2: value of medium homes in the key markets already are
- 10:32Speaker 2: falling by substantial amounts, over thirty thousand dollars per house
- 10:36Speaker 2: in Sydney, more than twenty five grand in Melbourne, and
- 10:39Speaker 2: dropping all around the country.
- 10:41Speaker 1: That's real money, real values, and.
- 10:44Speaker 2: The experts predict the falls will continue for a year.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Yet this is a deep worry, especially when the sustainable
- 10:53Speaker 2: way to make houses more affordable that is increasing supply.
- 10:57Speaker 2: When it comes to that the trend is all wrong too.
- 11:00Speaker 2: New building approvals have fallen for the third month in
- 11:04Speaker 2: a row.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Experts are worried.
- 11:08Speaker 13: There's people that have come into the market really since
- 11:11Speaker 13: September of last year when the five percent deposit scheme
- 11:13Speaker 13: went live, and now they're looking at potentially being in
- 11:17Speaker 13: negative equity. Now, negative equity only really matters if you sell.
- 11:21Speaker 13: But as you alluded to earlier, you know, if we
- 11:23Speaker 13: start to see the unemployment rate lifting, we've seen a
- 11:26Speaker 13: bit of a slow down in economic growth, people start
- 11:28Speaker 13: losing their jobs and they do have to crystallize those losses,
- 11:32Speaker 13: then that's really problematic because these people don't have any
- 11:35Speaker 13: equity in the property market. They've probably stretched themselves enter
- 11:39Speaker 13: the housing market and now they face really tough conditions
- 11:42Speaker 13: if they have to sell.
- 11:44Speaker 2: Yeah, but alb and Easy charmers and Labor don't seem
- 11:47Speaker 2: to care what market experts think.
- 11:51Speaker 1: They prefer their ideological and political campaigns. Be afraid, be
- 11:57Speaker 1: very afraid.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Let's set down to camera now and catch up with
- 12:03Speaker 2: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Pauline, thanks for joining us again.
- 12:07Speaker 2: I got to go first to the Sky News poll survey,
- 12:10Speaker 2: the latest poll. There you are thirty percent ahead of Labor,
- 12:14Speaker 2: crushing the coalition, riding this wave. You know, you've always
- 12:20Speaker 2: got to keep a lid on it, but this has
- 12:22Speaker 2: been sustained, and it's across a wide range of polling.
- 12:27Speaker 14: Look, Chris, it is and I'm not going to change
- 12:30Speaker 14: my tune on this what I've said constantly as psych
- 12:33Speaker 14: stock exchange. Look, I was down what a few days ago?
- 12:35Speaker 14: I was down a couple of points. Morgan wrought, Roy
- 12:39Speaker 14: Morgan Pole had me down what five percentage points?
- 12:42Speaker 1: Stook.
- 12:43Speaker 14: The real polling day is on election day. That's it,
- 12:46Speaker 14: all right, So but it is a clear indication also
- 12:50Speaker 14: that the people have had enough of this government and
- 12:53Speaker 14: the opposition. So that's what it's clearly telling us. They
- 12:56Speaker 14: don't want what they are offering. And especially now as
- 13:00Speaker 14: I just listened to your editorial about the housing prices,
- 13:03Speaker 14: that type of thing. People can't get into their own homes.
- 13:05Speaker 14: The younger generation have no future whatsoever. They're destroying the economy.
- 13:10Speaker 14: We're tanked out, we're basically in a recession that they're
- 13:13Speaker 14: only keeping a float by pouring more money into it
- 13:16Speaker 14: all the time, buying votes. That's all they're doing. So
- 13:19Speaker 14: until we get control of this parliament and throw the
- 13:22Speaker 14: Labor Greens out, we're going to be in see worse
- 13:26Speaker 14: than what we see now if they get elected again
- 13:29Speaker 14: for another term.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Look, I think this housing situation is really worrying. You
- 13:33Speaker 2: don't want to be scaremongering, but you don't want to
- 13:35Speaker 2: be blind to what we've seen in the past. Right now,
- 13:38Speaker 2: most of us have been there before. I went through
- 13:40Speaker 2: out myself. You know, when you stretch yourself for a
- 13:42Speaker 2: mortgage and times are tough, and you know that you
- 13:47Speaker 2: owe as much as the house is worth, and you're
- 13:50Speaker 2: worried about your employment security, you're worried about your family.
- 13:54Speaker 2: It's terrible, right, You've got to be able to hang
- 13:56Speaker 2: in there, so people in negative negative equities not to
- 13:59Speaker 2: be sneezed that. And this is a worry that the
- 14:02Speaker 2: government's actually using taxpayers guarantees to push more people into
- 14:06Speaker 2: that situation.
- 14:08Speaker 14: Correct, and they did the wrong thing. And I oppose
- 14:11Speaker 14: that five percent government helping you to get into your
- 14:14Speaker 14: own home. You've set them up for failure. You know,
- 14:16Speaker 14: if you're going to get fifty thousand dollars towards your
- 14:18Speaker 14: own home and if you've find out saving the money's
- 14:22Speaker 14: for it. I know it's hard for the young ones,
- 14:24Speaker 14: but I blame labor about it. And when you're going
- 14:26Speaker 14: to drop in the equity of your home, and you've
- 14:29Speaker 14: got this, You're owing more now than what you know
- 14:34Speaker 14: can sell the house for. This is a problem. It's
- 14:36Speaker 14: not good economics by this government. They've created the housing
- 14:40Speaker 14: shortage by the mass migration they've had coming into the country.
- 14:44Speaker 14: They say they're going to build all these houses. It
- 14:46Speaker 14: hasn't happened. You've got a shortage of materials. You've got
- 14:49Speaker 14: construction industries going under build us walking away. We don't
- 14:52Speaker 14: have the trade is to build the houses. That's why
- 14:55Speaker 14: the ones we do have, it's escalating prices. We have
- 14:58Speaker 14: a real problem out there. It's going to take a
- 15:00Speaker 14: lot to turn it around.
- 15:01Speaker 1: Chris, Yeah, I think it's a real worry.
- 15:03Speaker 2: I think six months a year down the track we
- 15:06Speaker 2: could be in dire straits when it comes to the
- 15:08Speaker 2: housing situation.
- 15:09Speaker 1: As if it's not bad enough at the.
- 15:10Speaker 2: Moment, Pauline, I did ask you about the term monoculture
- 15:13Speaker 2: last time we spoke, but there's been a bit of
- 15:15Speaker 2: a kerfuffle about it ever since.
- 15:18Speaker 1: I want to get some more thoughts from you on it.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Here's what the Prime Minister had to say about it.
- 15:22Speaker 3: Australia is not a monoculture and it never has been.
- 15:28Speaker 3: I was an Assyrian function. It was a wonderful function
- 15:32Speaker 3: in south western Sydney, you know. Should that be allowed
- 15:36Speaker 3: to happen?
- 15:38Speaker 1: All right? So that's the Prime Minister's view.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Just before I come back to you, Pauline, let's have
- 15:42Speaker 2: a look at how Angus Taylor had a bit of
- 15:44Speaker 2: a problem with the same term.
- 15:46Speaker 8: Mister Taylor, do you believe Australia should be a monoculture?
- 15:51Speaker 15: You explained to me what you've been by these See
- 15:53Speaker 15: there's always vague words running around. The one thing I
- 15:57Speaker 15: want all of us to share is those calls Australian dames.
- 16:02Speaker 15: That's what we believe in. And I can't be clearly, Pauline.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Can you explain to us then what a monoculture is
- 16:09Speaker 2: compared to what we now experience and most people call multiculture, right.
- 16:15Speaker 14: Mono meaning one is that that we are one Australian,
- 16:19Speaker 14: one nation. We've had people come from all different parts
- 16:22Speaker 14: of the world, from all different nationality. It's possibly about
- 16:24Speaker 14: one hundred and sixty hundred and seventy crests at that stage.
- 16:27Speaker 14: But people come here, they knew they were coming to Australia.
- 16:30Speaker 14: They knew that they're not coming to going to China
- 16:34Speaker 14: or going to England, or going to France or Germany,
- 16:36Speaker 14: they knew that by plying to come here. It was Australia.
- 16:40Speaker 14: It's about our culture, our values, who we are. It's
- 16:43Speaker 14: like the soccer team, and I'll refer it back to
- 16:45Speaker 14: that playing. We can see that from different cultural backgrounds,
- 16:49Speaker 14: but they're all playing with the Green and Gold. They're
- 16:51Speaker 14: all of the one team. They're all following the same
- 16:53Speaker 14: rules and how to play as a team together. And
- 16:56Speaker 14: that's what I want for Australia. When you had sixty
- 16:59Speaker 14: six percent people out of eleven thousand that were actually
- 17:03Speaker 14: questioned over this, sixty six percent said they agree with
- 17:06Speaker 14: monoculture and don't tell me we never have been. We
- 17:09Speaker 14: are multi racial, but at the end of the day,
- 17:11Speaker 14: we must be of the one culture. And I'll put
- 17:14Speaker 14: people out there. If you want to multiculturalism, well then
- 17:18Speaker 14: prepared to Do you want sharia law, I don't. Do
- 17:21Speaker 14: you want multiple marriages, I don't. Do you want the
- 17:23Speaker 14: gangs that come here from other countries think it's quite
- 17:26Speaker 14: all right to roam the streets with machetes, I don't.
- 17:29Speaker 14: So when you talk about you want multiculturalism, be ready
- 17:33Speaker 14: to be prepared for all these other cultural traditions that
- 17:36Speaker 14: they want to bring to this country. And that's why
- 17:38Speaker 14: I'm defending the Australian culture, way of life and respecting
- 17:41Speaker 14: the men and women that have fought and died for
- 17:43Speaker 14: this country, for our values, our morals, our principles, our culture,
- 17:47Speaker 14: our laws. That's what monoculture is. And if you are
- 17:51Speaker 14: the twenty one percent that are opposed in it, then
- 17:54Speaker 14: that tells me are you really Australian? Do you really
- 17:57Speaker 14: want to be here? Or are you just passing through
- 18:00Speaker 14: use in this country to your own advantage, to gain
- 18:02Speaker 14: from what you want to without wanting to defend it
- 18:04Speaker 14: and fight to be Australian.
- 18:06Speaker 2: It's a fascinating debate because some people try and make
- 18:10Speaker 2: it one that is polarizing. Whether are two extremes arguing
- 18:14Speaker 2: against each other, Whereas to me, it seems very much
- 18:17Speaker 2: about emphasis. For instance, that analogy that you use and
- 18:20Speaker 2: Anthony are been easy used.
- 18:22Speaker 1: That is the soccaos.
- 18:23Speaker 2: He looks at the soccaroos and says all sees all
- 18:26Speaker 2: the different ethnicities involved and says, doesn't that show how
- 18:29Speaker 2: we're multicultural? You look at the socceros and say how
- 18:33Speaker 2: they're all in Green and Gold playing for Australia. So
- 18:35Speaker 2: it's a matter whether do you want to emphasize what
- 18:38Speaker 2: brings us together or do you emphasize what our differences are.
- 18:42Speaker 14: Well, I'll tell you one thing, Chris. These people that
- 18:44Speaker 14: come up to me from all different cultural backgrounds come
- 18:47Speaker 14: up to me and say, Pauline, we love Australia, we
- 18:49Speaker 14: are Australian. You're actually insulting them if you don't consider
- 18:53Speaker 14: them to be Australian and only regard them by the
- 18:55Speaker 14: cultural background. So they want to be Australian. They see
- 18:59Speaker 14: themselves as Australian. I embrace them as Australians, and that's
- 19:03Speaker 14: what we are. We are Australians.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a pretty simple test, that isn't it.
- 19:08Speaker 2: Are you Australian first or you're something else first? Well,
- 19:13Speaker 2: I'm happy to say, you know, talk up my Irish,
- 19:16Speaker 2: share my Irish ancestry and connections, and my children have Italian,
- 19:23Speaker 2: Croatian Punjabi connections.
- 19:25Speaker 1: We'll celebrate that. But it's what you are first and
- 19:28Speaker 1: first and foremost.
- 19:29Speaker 14: You're Australian, right, And will you actually if war ever
- 19:34Speaker 14: touched our shoulders, would you be prepared to go out
- 19:36Speaker 14: and fight to defend this nation. That's another question needs
- 19:39Speaker 14: to be asked.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good, good thing.
- 19:42Speaker 2: You're not asking me that question right now, Paul and
- 19:45Speaker 2: I'm a bit too old for it, probably, but yeah,
- 19:47Speaker 2: very very good points. So I think there's a lot
- 19:49Speaker 2: to be discussed in this space. A little bit more discussion,
- 19:53Speaker 2: a little bit less to yelling across at each other
- 19:55Speaker 2: would be pretty useful.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I reckon, thanks for joining us.
- 19:58Speaker 14: Yeah, thanks, Chris, Pauline.
- 19:59Speaker 2: How there live from a camera the Midwinter Balls on
- 20:04Speaker 2: in Canberra tonight. That's the epitome of the camera bubble
- 20:08Speaker 2: getting together.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Paul and Hanson won't be there. I'm not surprised. Let's
- 20:11Speaker 1: catch up.
- 20:12Speaker 2: With the Shadow Assistant Minister for Finance, Simon Kennedy.
- 20:15Speaker 9: He's in camera. You're going to the ball tonight, Simon,
- 20:19Speaker 9: I am Chris. Are you be happy to know I'm
- 20:21Speaker 9: sitting with news good man.
- 20:23Speaker 2: I'm glad they gave you an invite. They didn't invite me,
- 20:26Speaker 2: although I did complain about having to go last year,
- 20:30Speaker 2: I must admit.
- 20:30Speaker 1: But let's hope it's a fun night.
- 20:32Speaker 2: It raises a lot of money for charity, and there's
- 20:35Speaker 2: a bit of soft fly the.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Flag for I'll fly the flag for ball guys.
- 20:40Speaker 9: With birds, mate, I't worry I'll get mistaken for you.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Mate, exactly. You go with my look. You just need
- 20:44Speaker 1: a bit more gray now.
- 20:46Speaker 2: I want to get your serious thoughts then, on this
- 20:49Speaker 2: issue of negative equity and the government guarantees on people.
- 20:53Speaker 1: With negative equity.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Now, this will lead to no problems at all if
- 20:58Speaker 2: the housing market stabilizers and the unemployment remains low and whatever.
- 21:03Speaker 2: But we have seen this movie before and there's a
- 21:06Speaker 2: huge risk here, not just for those home rwners, but
- 21:08Speaker 2: also for taxpayers.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Now that's correct.
- 21:12Speaker 9: So what we're in the situation is a lot of
- 21:15Speaker 9: people have put a five percent deposit down. We've seen
- 21:19Speaker 9: corrections overseas in Canada and New Zealand of over fifteen percent.
- 21:24Speaker 9: If that happens in Australia, which we're on track for.
- 21:26Speaker 9: We're already down three percent in the last few weeks
- 21:28Speaker 9: since the budget in Sydney. We will have people in
- 21:32Speaker 9: negative equity and if they can't make repayments and the
- 21:37Speaker 9: house is then sold at a loss, the government is
- 21:40Speaker 9: responsible for up to fifteen percent of that negative equity.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a worry we're all paying.
- 21:47Speaker 10: Now.
- 21:47Speaker 2: That means if we get to that situation, I imagine
- 21:49Speaker 2: the government's going to be pressured to try and help
- 21:51Speaker 2: those people stay in those homes or pick up the
- 21:55Speaker 2: bill one or the other, because there are so many
- 21:58Speaker 2: problems associated with it. I mean, the point is, we
- 22:01Speaker 2: all want banks to be reasonable, we all want them
- 22:05Speaker 2: to be prudent. This is the lesson of previous financial disasters.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Yet here they are encouraging banks to offer these low
- 22:15Speaker 2: deposit loans. The reason that banks demand loans or deposits
- 22:20Speaker 2: on loans is because they want to protect the asset
- 22:23Speaker 2: and they want to help the customer, of course, protect
- 22:25Speaker 2: their own interests, make sure they've got enough equity. So
- 22:28Speaker 2: these sort of government interventions almost invariably create market distortions
- 22:33Speaker 2: and not for the good.
- 22:36Speaker 9: And let's look what this government's done. They've primed this
- 22:40Speaker 9: five percent deposit scheme. They've taken off any income cap,
- 22:44Speaker 9: they've uncapped it, they've increased the price for the houses
- 22:48Speaker 9: you could do it. So they've lured tens of thousands
- 22:52Speaker 9: of Australians into this scheme. Fifty thousand foreigners too, by
- 22:55Speaker 9: the way. And then after luring that and stoking demand.
- 22:59Speaker 9: They've then rush the housing market with these huge new
- 23:02Speaker 9: taxes that they've actually created the situation to lure these
- 23:06Speaker 9: people in and now have smashed them with negative equity.
- 23:09Speaker 1: And we know they were planning.
- 23:10Speaker 9: We know they were briefing Treasury over six months about
- 23:13Speaker 9: these tax changes, so this isn't something they thought of
- 23:16Speaker 9: on a whim. They tried to run it in twenty
- 23:18Speaker 9: nineteen and they've deliberately left bringing this in late to trick.
- 23:23Speaker 9: The Australian public and people in negative equity deserve to
- 23:26Speaker 9: be very angry. I almost wonder could they sue the
- 23:30Speaker 9: government if they knew these guys did this negligently.
- 23:32Speaker 2: Look, there are a couple of critical points there worth
- 23:35Speaker 2: re emphasizing. One is that key one you were making
- 23:38Speaker 2: that the government has led people into this situation of
- 23:40Speaker 2: exposing themselves in the market, and then they've crushed the
- 23:43Speaker 2: market with their taxation changes or broken promises into the mix.
- 23:48Speaker 2: So they've created this situation which is such a worry,
- 23:54Speaker 2: such a worry.
- 23:56Speaker 1: And the other aspect.
- 23:57Speaker 2: There that you mentioned was that fifty house and non citizens,
- 24:01Speaker 2: fifty thousand foreigners are in this scheme, So we have
- 24:04Speaker 2: this situation where a government's running deficits and debt and
- 24:08Speaker 2: we've got a housing crisis, yet taxpayers are subsidizing non
- 24:13Speaker 2: citizens into housing in Australia and guaranteeing it.
- 24:18Speaker 1: Absolute madness.
- 24:19Speaker 9: What other country would be subsidizing foreigners to buy homes
- 24:23Speaker 9: in their country in the middle of a housing crisis.
- 24:26Speaker 9: We know Australians are struggling to get into the home
- 24:28Speaker 9: market and I actually called out this the Prime Minister
- 24:32Speaker 9: across the floor this week and he said, oh, you're mean,
- 24:35Speaker 9: you have no heart. Well, actually, not wanting foreigners to
- 24:39Speaker 9: be subsidized and get taxpayer subsidies to buy Australian homes
- 24:42Speaker 9: isn't about being mean. This is about putting the millions
- 24:45Speaker 9: of Australians who are struggling to buy homes first. And
- 24:48Speaker 9: that's what the Liberal Party stands for. To shame, the
- 24:51Speaker 9: Labour Party doesn't.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Extraordinary stuff. Thanks for joining us, Simon, I appreciate it.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Simon Kennedy there, who's the Shadow Assistant Minister for Finance.
- 24:59Speaker 2: I think about often, Marvelo, as you know on this program.
- 25:02Speaker 2: I'm astounded at the national energy self harm that we've
- 25:06Speaker 2: seen introduced over many, many years we've turned an energy
- 25:09Speaker 2: rich country into an energy poor one. We seem to
- 25:12Speaker 2: be doing the same thing here. Labour seems to be
- 25:14Speaker 2: doing the same thing here. They are giving us self.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Harm when it comes to the housing market.
- 25:20Speaker 2: We've got a housing crisis, but tax players are subsidizing
- 25:24Speaker 2: and guaranteeing non citizens to get into that market, the
- 25:28Speaker 2: same market they're crushing with new taxes.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Bizarre times.
- 25:32Speaker 2: I fear a reckoning is going to hurt us all
- 25:35Speaker 2: sometime down the track.
- 25:36Speaker 1: We've got to take a break.
- 25:37Speaker 2: On the other side, I'm going to talk to Tom Switzer.
- 25:39Speaker 2: He's going to pinpoint the moment he reckons the.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Coalition lost its way.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Okay, let's catch up as we do with columnists at
- 25:50Speaker 2: The Australian. Tom Switzer joining me on the desk. Good
- 25:52Speaker 2: to see you, Tom.
- 25:53Speaker 1: I know you've written for the Olds Tomorrow.
- 25:55Speaker 2: There's an auspicious anniversary tomorrow.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Tell us about it.
- 25:59Speaker 5: Well, it's ten years since Tony abbott electoral majority, if
- 26:04Speaker 5: you like, was squandered by one Malcolm Turnbull. You may
- 26:06Speaker 5: recall Tony Abbott was Prime Minister from twenty thirteen to
- 26:10Speaker 5: twenty fifteen.
- 26:10Speaker 1: You want a.
- 26:11Speaker 5: Massive landslide, well, at that election in July two, twenty sixteen,
- 26:16Speaker 5: Malcolm Turnble squandered that electoral majority.
- 26:18Speaker 1: He lost what fourteen or fifteen one.
- 26:21Speaker 5: And he won by the narrowest of margins one seat.
- 26:23Speaker 1: I'll never forget the election nights speech. It was late.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Turbule didn't want to turn up, He couldn't claim victory,
- 26:30Speaker 2: couldn't concede defeat. He lashed out, he called in the police.
- 26:34Speaker 2: It is also controversy. But why is it? Why do
- 26:37Speaker 2: you say this is the most significant turning point for
- 26:41Speaker 2: the Liberal Party? Why did this start the demise that
- 26:44Speaker 2: they're still working through now.
- 26:45Speaker 5: I think the reason why is because the Liberal Party
- 26:47Speaker 5: of that election led a lot more votes to its
- 26:50Speaker 5: right than.
- 26:51Speaker 1: It did to the left. And this is very significant.
- 26:53Speaker 5: What happened was the fragmentation of the vote that has
- 26:58Speaker 5: since transformed ostrich Stralian politics. That was evident in that
- 27:02Speaker 5: July to election. About thirty percent, maybe thirty three percent
- 27:07Speaker 5: of Australians voted for minor parties or independence. And in
- 27:12Speaker 5: that election, Pauline Hansen returned to the political theater and
- 27:17Speaker 5: her One Nation Party. I know you just interviewed Pauline
- 27:20Speaker 5: her One Nation Party Wiley, seen as dead and buried,
- 27:24Speaker 5: won four Senate seats.
- 27:25Speaker 1: This was on Turnbull's watch. Yeah, it's a very very
- 27:29Speaker 1: important point.
- 27:29Speaker 2: We'll talk about it a bit more because I've always
- 27:31Speaker 2: seen the Turnbull taking down Tony Abbotts as the time
- 27:35Speaker 2: when the Coalition lost their way. As you say, a
- 27:38Speaker 2: prime minister who was elected in the landslide surely made
- 27:40Speaker 2: plenty of mistakes and was the master of his own
- 27:43Speaker 2: internal problems in many ways, but you shouldn't have been
- 27:45Speaker 2: taken down that way. And Turnbull took the party lurching
- 27:49Speaker 2: to the left, of course. But as you say, the
- 27:51Speaker 2: election results, yes, the major party vote went down to
- 27:55Speaker 2: historical low and that has continued. The major parties can't
- 27:58Speaker 2: get fifty percent of the vote between them now but
- 28:01Speaker 2: one nation. That was their comeback election. Four senators and
- 28:05Speaker 2: now look at them.
- 28:06Speaker 5: And Bill Shorten, who was the opposition leader, did very
- 28:08Speaker 5: well for a first term opposition leader. It came very
- 28:11Speaker 5: close to whin you had election, but it was in
- 28:13Speaker 5: many respects of pocks on both your houses for the
- 28:16Speaker 5: reasons you just mentioned. But this was a week after
- 28:18Speaker 5: the Brexit vote. A few months later, Donald Trump would
- 28:22Speaker 5: win the unthinkable the twenty sixteen presidential election, and I
- 28:27Speaker 5: think a lot of Australians believed in the old Henry
- 28:29Speaker 5: Kissinger line during the Iraq Iran War, it's too bad
- 28:33Speaker 5: both sides can't lose exactly.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Well, that's essentially what one Nation voters are saying. Now.
- 28:39Speaker 2: I've been out there talking to them around the country.
- 28:41Speaker 2: They're saying they talk about the UNI Party, they don't
- 28:44Speaker 2: like the Coalition, they don't like Labor, so they think
- 28:47Speaker 2: one nation is the solution. Now, this is all very
- 28:50Speaker 2: historically significant, and I think you're right in picking that
- 28:53Speaker 2: election as a turning point because I've been looking back
- 28:56Speaker 2: at the major party vote in previous eras. Back in
- 28:59Speaker 2: the Hawk years, about ninety three percent of first preference
- 29:04Speaker 2: votes went to either the Coalition or Labor. Even at
- 29:07Speaker 2: the end of the Howard Area era, it was still
- 29:10Speaker 2: over eighty five percent of first preference votes going to
- 29:13Speaker 2: Labor or the Coalition. At the moment, according to the polls,
- 29:18Speaker 2: less than half of all.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Votes go to the major parties.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Is this just a temporary aberration or are we going
- 29:25Speaker 2: the way of Europe where it's a fractured vote and
- 29:27Speaker 2: fractured parties Forevermore well.
- 29:29Speaker 5: The short answer is it's too early to tell. But
- 29:32Speaker 5: if these trends continue, then certainly I think that the
- 29:35Speaker 5: fragmentation of the electorate that we're witnessing in Australian politics
- 29:39Speaker 5: does reflect those broader trends. I mean, if you look
- 29:42Speaker 5: at Britain, the Tory Party, in the Labor Party, these
- 29:44Speaker 5: are the two leading center right and center left parties.
- 29:47Speaker 5: They're in dire straits reform parties doing well. And then
- 29:51Speaker 5: of course you've got the Greens. And then of course
- 29:53Speaker 5: in France the two mainstream center left Socialists and the
- 29:57Speaker 5: center right Gauless parties. I think betw win them. They've
- 30:00Speaker 5: only got ten percent of the vote they used to
- 30:02Speaker 5: dominate French politics. Next year's presidential election in France will
- 30:06Speaker 5: be between the so called far right National Rally Party
- 30:10Speaker 5: led by Marine Le penn who's the Pauline Hands into France,
- 30:13Speaker 5: and a communist on the far left.
- 30:16Speaker 2: That so, these are trends that are global, but you're, yeah,
- 30:18Speaker 2: fascinating because they're really hitting us here hard right at
- 30:22Speaker 2: the moment. Thanks for joining us times a pleasure, christ
- 30:24Speaker 2: Tom Switzer there you can read his article about all
- 30:26Speaker 2: this is column in the Australian tomorrow, but as he mentions,
- 30:29Speaker 2: look at the UK. Well, after the break we'll across
- 30:31Speaker 2: to London. We'll catch up with us the Krakhu and
- 30:33Speaker 2: find out the latest about politics there.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Now Tonight here on.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Sky News soon to be in News twenty four, we
- 30:44Speaker 2: are in for a treat at eight o'clock with Paul
- 30:46Speaker 2: Murray's special doco on the two hundred and fiftieth birthday
- 30:49Speaker 2: celebrations for the Great Republic the USA.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Paul travels all.
- 30:53Speaker 2: Over the country and he looks at how it's changed
- 30:56Speaker 2: under President Donald Trump. And one place where that change
- 30:59Speaker 2: is under liable is at the southern border.
- 31:03Speaker 10: The message was, come, do you see that train just
- 31:09Speaker 10: full of illegal immerinus? One after another, these caravans, tens
- 31:14Speaker 10: of thousands of people, and just with one simple policy change,
- 31:18Speaker 10: it shuts it off.
- 31:20Speaker 1: The Great Paul Murray joins me on the desk. Good
- 31:22Speaker 1: of you to drop by, mate, Happy to be here, mate.
- 31:25Speaker 1: You know I've done a few docos for Sky News.
- 31:27Speaker 1: This is the one I wanted to do. How good
- 31:29Speaker 1: was this.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Charlie around the US and looking at the strength as
- 31:32Speaker 2: weaknesses out it's changing.
- 31:33Speaker 6: It's pretty amazing. I mean I love the joint you do. Obviously,
- 31:37Speaker 6: let me make it very clear. Best country in the world,
- 31:39Speaker 6: this one, right. But you know, as gen x is,
- 31:43Speaker 6: so much of our culture comes from the United States,
- 31:45Speaker 6: everything from you know, the cartoons we grew up to
- 31:48Speaker 6: the music that we like, the movies we watch, the
- 31:50Speaker 6: TV shows we've been enjoy the rest of it, right,
- 31:52Speaker 6: And obviously it's politics, and the more you learn about
- 31:54Speaker 6: the way the world works, it's how it matters. But
- 31:57Speaker 6: one of the key things about trying to do this
- 31:58Speaker 6: was to try to talk to as many normal people
- 32:00Speaker 6: as possible. It wasn't about politicians. It was about people
- 32:03Speaker 6: like these guys with the practical experience on the border.
- 32:07Speaker 6: And you know, Americans, they're all built for TV. It
- 32:09Speaker 6: doesn't matter when hard to get a grab out of
- 32:11Speaker 6: the Homborne bar. It's not like you know, when you
- 32:13Speaker 6: try and sort of coke somebody sometimes here in Australia.
- 32:16Speaker 6: But you know, it is such an inspiring place. And
- 32:19Speaker 6: the message I always like to say is that everyone
- 32:21Speaker 6: talks about America through the lens of conflict. I think
- 32:24Speaker 6: of it more as contrast, in that they're a super
- 32:27Speaker 6: rich super poor. If you've got money it's Disneyland. If
- 32:30Speaker 6: it's no money, it's pretty cold. But it's just the
- 32:34Speaker 6: best of everything. And yeah, sometimes for some people the worst.
- 32:38Speaker 2: It's still the most can do culture on the planet
- 32:41Speaker 2: and economy. We mentioned your doco with Kristen Tate last
- 32:46Speaker 2: night and she said that the greatest country in the
- 32:49Speaker 2: history of the world. Now, I like you prefer Australia
- 32:52Speaker 2: as our culture, although we're borrowed a lot from America.
- 32:55Speaker 2: But when you come to the simple fact of the matter,
- 32:58Speaker 2: in terms of economic might, global influence, military might, it
- 33:03Speaker 2: is the greatest nation that this planet has ever seen.
- 33:07Speaker 1: So it is endlessly fascinating.
- 33:09Speaker 6: And the tectonic plates of the future. Right, we know
- 33:12Speaker 6: that the post World War two environment is breaking down,
- 33:16Speaker 6: we know that the rise of China. I'll take America
- 33:18Speaker 6: all day, every day, twice on Sundays, right. But also
- 33:21Speaker 6: what I love about America is it's a place where
- 33:24Speaker 6: you can stand out and people like that, ye stand out.
- 33:28Speaker 6: In Australia, sometimes there's oh, he's leading with his gin,
- 33:32Speaker 6: she's too full of herself, what do well?
- 33:34Speaker 2: They don't have a tall poppy syndrome. Hence you get
- 33:37Speaker 2: someone like Donald Trump. You're a big Trump fan. You've
- 33:40Speaker 2: been going to America pre Trump post Trump? How much
- 33:43Speaker 2: has it changed under the Donald.
- 33:45Speaker 6: I think that people who felt that they were being
- 33:49Speaker 6: pushed to one side certainly pre Trump in the Obama years,
- 33:54Speaker 6: during those Biden years, they absolutely feel back at the
- 33:57Speaker 6: center of things. The hardcore Trump is They've all got
- 34:01Speaker 6: a different reason why it's not working out for them,
- 34:04Speaker 6: but they always say, look, I'll take it over the
- 34:05Speaker 6: alternative that was there.
- 34:07Speaker 1: But one thing that I've got to say kind of
- 34:09Speaker 1: frightened me.
- 34:09Speaker 6: And it didn't matter where we went, whether I was
- 34:11Speaker 6: talking to you know, young blokes at a NASCAR event
- 34:14Speaker 6: or a couple of UNI students or college students as
- 34:16Speaker 6: they call them. Of course in DC, they're all really
- 34:19Speaker 6: reticent about having kids. And that frightens me because we
- 34:22Speaker 6: all know that, you know, if the birth rate continues
- 34:24Speaker 6: to fall in any country in the world, the only
- 34:27Speaker 6: way the financial Ponzi scheme works is bring him in,
- 34:29Speaker 6: Bring him in, bring him in. But more importantly, it
- 34:32Speaker 6: speaks to I mean, and all of us go through
- 34:34Speaker 6: this moment in our lives, right in our twenties.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Oh oh, might put it off, might put it off.
- 34:38Speaker 6: There's never a right time to have kids, and I
- 34:40Speaker 6: would talk to them about that, but it would be
- 34:41Speaker 6: everything from climate change for the left, through the war
- 34:45Speaker 6: for the writings, and worry.
- 34:47Speaker 1: In this country too.
- 34:49Speaker 2: To me, I want to show a little bit from
- 34:50Speaker 2: the dock at and I've got to show this bit that.
- 34:52Speaker 1: There's two reasons I really love it.
- 34:54Speaker 2: Is because because you talk about some of the great
- 34:56Speaker 2: qualities that make Australia and America good mates. And also
- 35:00Speaker 2: because it's the road trip. I'm loving the Poor Murray
- 35:03Speaker 2: road trip.
- 35:04Speaker 6: You have a look, this place is clearly resilient, proud,
- 35:09Speaker 6: and fiercely loyal to those words written two hundred and
- 35:11Speaker 6: fifty years ago. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. They're
- 35:17Speaker 6: not empty slogans. They're the unbreakable foundation that these people
- 35:22Speaker 6: still live by.
- 35:23Speaker 1: Every single day.
- 35:25Speaker 6: And right now, millions of ordinary Americans are still standing
- 35:30Speaker 6: firm by that original, defiant spirit. They haven't surrendered it,
- 35:34Speaker 6: they haven't watered it down. They're carrying it forward. Happy
- 35:39Speaker 6: Birthday America, from one free country to another. Let's keep
- 35:44Speaker 6: that flame burning bright.
- 35:47Speaker 2: Terrific stuff, labor, fantastic words, fantastic pictures.
- 35:52Speaker 1: Can't wait to see.
- 35:53Speaker 2: It all at eight o'clock tonight, and then you're in
- 35:55Speaker 2: the man cave over here from nine to review your
- 35:57Speaker 2: own work.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Double duty there.
- 35:58Speaker 6: Well, so you know what it's like when you put
- 36:00Speaker 6: these things together right near those little piece to cameras.
- 36:02Speaker 6: All the rest of it, I won't lie. Maybe a
- 36:04Speaker 6: couple of the mistakes that I had while I was
- 36:05Speaker 6: driving up and to the Pacific Coast Highway, I did
- 36:08Speaker 6: on purpose stretching.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Out great stuff. Mate, wait to see it tonight at
- 36:14Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight.
- 36:15Speaker 2: You can watch that two hundred and fifty years the
- 36:17Speaker 2: American celebration. Trump's America, brought to us by the great
- 36:22Speaker 2: Paul Murray.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Now let's go to the UK.
- 36:24Speaker 2: As we were discussing, politics in London is a pretty
- 36:28Speaker 2: spectacular at the moment and the newly elected now British
- 36:31Speaker 2: MP returning to Whitehall is the front runner of course,
- 36:35Speaker 2: to take up residents at number ten.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Now.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Andy Burnham has spoken in Manchester and he's promised big
- 36:40Speaker 2: changes to the country.
- 36:42Speaker 16: We will bring about the biggest rebalancing of power our
- 36:46Speaker 16: country has seen.
- 36:49Speaker 1: It is time for.
- 36:50Speaker 16: Waite All to accept that growth cannot be ordered from
- 36:54Speaker 16: the top down. This is Manchesterism. It is a vision
- 36:59Speaker 16: for good growth and a rejection of the old trickle
- 37:04Speaker 16: down model.
- 37:06Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul Marriage just told me that he sees Burns
- 37:09Speaker 2: the skinny Dan Andrews might he might be just about right.
- 37:13Speaker 2: Let's cross to London down catch up with writer and broadcaster?
- 37:17Speaker 2: Is the cracker you might know who might not know
- 37:19Speaker 2: who Daniel Andrews is? Is there, but the point being
- 37:22Speaker 2: that he is another bland and hard left labor apparatic.
- 37:27Speaker 17: Yes, a platitudinous halfway, I should say, But I'm going
- 37:31Speaker 17: to be like today because I've had a wonderful weekend.
- 37:35Speaker 17: Burnham is going to be experiencing.
- 37:37Speaker 18: The worst of both worlds.
- 37:39Speaker 17: Because this is a man who has not been elected
- 37:42Speaker 17: and so it doesn't have a mandate from the British people.
- 37:44Speaker 18: So he's extremely limited in what he can do, and
- 37:47Speaker 18: unfortunately Kirs Starmer has left him.
- 37:49Speaker 17: With the dumpsterfire of a government that he's going to
- 37:52Speaker 17: have to trudg through while also uttering platitudes like Manchesterism,
- 37:56Speaker 17: which is absolutely incredible to me, because he has left
- 37:58Speaker 17: Manchester billions of pounds in debt. I don't understand this
- 38:01Speaker 17: reputation that he has as King of the North because
- 38:04Speaker 17: there's no one.
- 38:04Speaker 18: Trying to immolate the city of Manchester because it's a
- 38:07Speaker 18: dumb and this idea that this is.
- 38:09Speaker 17: The man that's going to save the Labor Party I
- 38:11Speaker 17: think is indicative of how bereft the party is of
- 38:14Speaker 17: actual talent.
- 38:15Speaker 18: They have to parachute in a man who hasn't been in.
- 38:17Speaker 17: Westminster for eleven years, who doesn't have a team to
- 38:20Speaker 17: speak of, who Kirsta are basically left to run the
- 38:23Speaker 17: show and said, listen, you want me out so badly,
- 38:25Speaker 17: cobble together a team of recent graduates and special advisors
- 38:29Speaker 17: who don't know anything and see if you can do
- 38:31Speaker 17: a better job.
- 38:32Speaker 18: This is a man it pains me to say who
- 38:34Speaker 18: lost in leadership election.
- 38:36Speaker 17: Not once but twice, one of them being to Ed Miliband,
- 38:38Speaker 17: which is their feet so embarrassing, I personally would leave.
- 38:41Speaker 18: Politics and hang my head in shame.
- 38:43Speaker 17: But this is supposed to be the hoop of the
- 38:44Speaker 17: country and you can see from the mood in the
- 38:48Speaker 17: city in particular that people are not feeling very hopeful.
- 38:50Speaker 18: I mean, the country is not in a state where
- 38:52Speaker 18: you should really be talking.
- 38:52Speaker 17: About higher spending when we can't even cut our welfare budget,
- 38:56Speaker 17: when one in six people claiming universal credits on a
- 38:58Speaker 17: credit I've not even British citizens when asylum hotels and
- 39:03Speaker 17: housing assylum seecause many of whom have no business in
- 39:05Speaker 17: the UK, just keeps going up and up.
- 39:07Speaker 18: It's embarrassing to speak of.
- 39:09Speaker 2: Yeah, it's extraordinary to see because you know the labor
- 39:12Speaker 2: and place. It's like they're parting the sea to welcome
- 39:14Speaker 2: this guy that annoint him as the next prime minister.
- 39:17Speaker 2: Yet there doesn't seem to be any nunciation of anything
- 39:19Speaker 2: it's going to change. What about the key issues like immigration,
- 39:23Speaker 2: like NED zero, like the budget, like the cost of living?
- 39:26Speaker 2: Is he promising any substantial policy changes?
- 39:30Speaker 18: Well, he can't one because he doesn't know what they are.
- 39:33Speaker 17: I'm not even exaggerated when I say his team has
- 39:35Speaker 17: literally been cobbled together with DUC tape and chewing gum
- 39:38Speaker 17: in the last six weeks.
- 39:40Speaker 18: And secondly, if he does say anything and.
- 39:42Speaker 17: Spooks to markets, well, our borrowing costs are going to
- 39:44Speaker 17: go up, which is really going to you know, throw
- 39:47Speaker 17: the cat among the pigeons because there's nothing he can do.
- 39:49Speaker 18: Then if our borrowing costs keep going up and up
- 39:51Speaker 18: and we literally can't do.
- 39:52Speaker 17: Anything, increasing taxation is not an option because unemployment is
- 39:56Speaker 17: at a record high, particularly youth unemployment. Our youth unemployment
- 39:59Speaker 17: is higher than the average in Europe for the first
- 40:01Speaker 17: time since records began.
- 40:03Speaker 18: So he really is in a sorry state.
- 40:04Speaker 17: I'm not I'm not really understanding what he's trying to
- 40:07Speaker 17: achieve with these platitude and his speeches that are empty
- 40:09Speaker 17: and fluffy. His references to Manchester actually kind of filled
- 40:12Speaker 17: me with horror because the last time I went to
- 40:13Speaker 17: Manchester I couldn't wait to leave.
- 40:15Speaker 18: So it's really a quite.
- 40:18Speaker 17: Tragic state of affairs because we have three more years
- 40:20Speaker 17: of this nonsense. And when the Tories were going through
- 40:23Speaker 17: their infamous leadership changes, the Labor Party were crying from
- 40:27Speaker 17: the rooftops and there needs to be a general election.
- 40:28Speaker 18: It's exactly that they're not having the same attitude for themselves.
- 40:31Speaker 2: Exactly. That is a double standard that is very obvious.
- 40:35Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us Air, Sir. I appreciate the circus
- 40:37Speaker 2: continues in the UK, and of course Burnham will be
- 40:41Speaker 2: Prime Minister most likely within a couple of weeks. We've
- 40:43Speaker 2: got to take a break. On the other side of
- 40:45Speaker 2: the Wednesday wrangle with Denika to Georgio and James Bold.
- 40:47Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about Chris Bown. He's pushing our our
- 40:49Speaker 2: prices up. How's he going saving the planet. Let's get
- 40:57Speaker 2: into the Wednesday wrangle with de Georgia, I Sky News
- 41:00Speaker 2: host of course, and a new sparring partner, Justin's.
- 41:03Speaker 1: Run for the hills. I don't know what Justice said,
- 41:05Speaker 1: he could.
- 41:05Speaker 2: Make it Bold in the chair, Skuy used digital Gura.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Good to have it on board, mate, what I hack
- 41:10Speaker 1: that with you?
- 41:11Speaker 2: I want to bring up Chris Bowen because he's escaped
- 41:15Speaker 2: the attention the last couple of days. He said a
- 41:18Speaker 2: few weeks ago, our power prices were going to go down.
- 41:21Speaker 2: They're going up again as of today July one for
- 41:24Speaker 2: most people. Yet he's out there running around as the
- 41:26Speaker 2: cop president, saying that he's going to save the planet.
- 41:29Speaker 19: I also, like I was saying that don't expect anything
- 41:32Speaker 19: big from this cop like it's all just you know,
- 41:34Speaker 19: all these discussions, is that the first recorded case of
- 41:37Speaker 19: Chris Bowen showing any humility whatsoever?
- 41:40Speaker 1: Quite?
- 41:41Speaker 19: I mean, if they're supposed to be fail like, then
- 41:42Speaker 19: why did we spend nearly spend so much money trying
- 41:45Speaker 19: to get this thing over here and then Chris Bowen
- 41:47Speaker 19: the second is going to start up again. He goes, actually,
- 41:49Speaker 19: you know what, it's not going to be a big success.
- 41:51Speaker 2: That's the biggest success that Bowen has has been failing
- 41:54Speaker 2: to get the COP for Australia. We dodged a bullet there,
- 41:57Speaker 2: although our great mate Tim Blair says it would have
- 41:59Speaker 2: been good to have here.
- 42:00Speaker 1: Would everyone be seeing what a face it was?
- 42:02Speaker 2: Well, I reckon the last night, I was saying, I
- 42:04Speaker 2: think they call it COP because we all cop it
- 42:06Speaker 2: in the neck with everything they.
- 42:08Speaker 1: Do we do.
- 42:09Speaker 2: How is it that they keep getting away with saying
- 42:11Speaker 2: that this the green revolution, it's reliable, it's cheap, and
- 42:15Speaker 2: all we see is our reliability go down and our
- 42:18Speaker 2: prices go up.
- 42:19Speaker 20: Exactly. It's the biggest con job, isn't it.
- 42:21Speaker 21: And you're right, you know Chris Bowen saying, don't expect
- 42:23Speaker 21: any massive breakthroughs from the COP summit. Well, Chris Bowen,
- 42:26Speaker 21: we haven't seen any massive breakthroughs since Labor was elected
- 42:29Speaker 21: because our power bills are going in the other direction.
- 42:32Speaker 21: He also said that he believes that it's the quiet
- 42:34Speaker 21: Australians who support climate change. I'd actually argue, it's the
- 42:37Speaker 21: quiet Australians who have gone, gee, we've been really dotted
- 42:41Speaker 21: by this renewables only charade because you know, we're not
- 42:45Speaker 21: considering any other options like nuclear, and yet we're paying
- 42:48Speaker 21: about one hundred and fifty million dollars to send him
- 42:51Speaker 21: over to this COP summit for what We're not getting
- 42:53Speaker 21: a return on investment.
- 42:55Speaker 2: With Matt Kean. Well, he's going over Matt Keen, is he? Honestly,
- 42:59Speaker 2: he's gone on with this nonsense. He treats Australians like
- 43:02Speaker 2: they have an IQ of room temperature supporting climate. Actually,
- 43:06Speaker 2: Australia's going to change the global climate, is it?
- 43:09Speaker 1: It's just insane. Listen to this. He's spreaking his battery
- 43:11Speaker 1: scheme today.
- 43:13Speaker 22: I do acknowledge this very real progress today. It's no
- 43:16Speaker 22: coincidence that fifty percent renewables and four hundred and fourteen
- 43:22Speaker 22: three hundred and ninety six home batteries installed and the
- 43:25Speaker 22: cheaper home batteries policy which are reducing prices for them
- 43:28Speaker 22: but for everyone well I know.
- 43:31Speaker 2: Sorry, that was him a couple of weeks ago saying
- 43:33Speaker 2: that this is the reason prices are going down. He
- 43:36Speaker 2: was spreaking the battery scheme again today, James just like
- 43:39Speaker 2: glossing saying that it's wonderful people have taking them.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Well, only rich people can afford them.
- 43:43Speaker 2: You know, people who are battling to pay the power
- 43:45Speaker 2: bill can't afford to put the batteries in.
- 43:47Speaker 1: But even then the government subsidized, so taxpayers, those.
- 43:50Speaker 2: Poor people who can't afford their power bills, some of
- 43:53Speaker 2: their taxes are helping richer people put in roof for
- 43:57Speaker 2: roof panels and batteries.
- 43:58Speaker 19: I think he hit the nail on the head, Like
- 44:00Speaker 19: when you think about an energy policy, when you think
- 44:01Speaker 19: about bringing us down, the people that are struggling in
- 44:04Speaker 19: this country should be first and foremost in your mind.
- 44:06Speaker 1: Yeah, people who need to help the most.
- 44:08Speaker 19: But at the altar of climate consciousness, of the altar
- 44:10Speaker 19: of trying to make sure that you're looking good on
- 44:12Speaker 19: the global stage, Chris Bonen's putting them to one side
- 44:15Speaker 19: so we can out to batteries program.
- 44:17Speaker 1: Unbelievable stuff.
- 44:18Speaker 2: Let's go to the housing crisis, Deneka, and I've got
- 44:20Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on this thing. Housing prices are
- 44:23Speaker 2: already going down thanks to Labour's interventions and high interest
- 44:27Speaker 2: rates and the like, Yet they're subsidizing people, even non citizens,
- 44:30Speaker 2: into five percent mortgages.
- 44:33Speaker 1: This has the look of a house of cards.
- 44:35Speaker 20: Well, it absolutely does.
- 44:37Speaker 21: And you know, people my age Chris are dreaming about
- 44:40Speaker 21: being able to enter the housing market. And for those
- 44:42Speaker 21: who have been able to enter the housing market, now
- 44:45Speaker 21: they're completely being dutted since Labour's tax went through, and
- 44:49Speaker 21: they're losing a lot of money already. You'd be absolutely
- 44:52Speaker 21: tearing your hair out. And Labour's big pitch was, you know,
- 44:55Speaker 21: we're going to get young Ozzie's This was their whole
- 44:58Speaker 21: budget stick that if you're a young person, we're putting
- 45:00Speaker 21: you first.
- 45:01Speaker 20: And it's done the exact opposite.
- 45:03Speaker 21: And have you noticed this intergenerational equity line. It's sort
- 45:06Speaker 21: of disappeared into the never never. They're no longer bringing
- 45:09Speaker 21: it up because they know how much of a joke
- 45:10Speaker 21: it is. And in the end, we've got a supply problem.
- 45:12Speaker 21: Supply is the biggest issue we've got when it comes
- 45:15Speaker 21: to housing. You can't tax your way out of supply.
- 45:17Speaker 21: And now the housing market is going completely bust under Labor.
- 45:21Speaker 1: It seems to be going in reverse. Everything they're doing
- 45:24Speaker 1: in this space is wrong.
- 45:25Speaker 2: As Denika says, some new housing supply going down, prices
- 45:30Speaker 2: going down, mortgage stress going up.
- 45:32Speaker 19: Yeah, And what I think about this is like when
- 45:35Speaker 19: Labour brings in this policy, the five percent thing, they thought, Okay,
- 45:37Speaker 19: we are going to get a baked in massive demographic
- 45:40Speaker 19: of people that are always going to vote for us
- 45:42Speaker 19: because we're.
- 45:42Speaker 1: The ones that help them get a house.
- 45:44Speaker 19: Then now the people that have helped them go back
- 45:46Speaker 19: on their houseworth and making people really stay down the
- 45:49Speaker 19: battle of pretty financial stress. Their friends who don't have
- 45:52Speaker 19: a home are aware of this.
- 45:54Speaker 1: I just think a.
- 45:54Speaker 19: Lot of people our age have just become quite up
- 45:58Speaker 19: for grabs for both major parties. I think they might
- 46:01Speaker 19: go Greens, they might go One Nation, but certainly they've
- 46:03Speaker 19: been told labor are not the party that's going to
- 46:05Speaker 19: help you get a home, and Labour's not the party
- 46:07Speaker 19: that's going to help your financial future.
- 46:09Speaker 2: Well, I hope you both forgive me for my sins,
- 46:11Speaker 2: but I'm about to have a bit of a laugh
- 46:13Speaker 2: at the Liberal Party's expense.
- 46:15Speaker 1: Let's remind everybody.
- 46:16Speaker 2: Of this silly divention from a few days ago from
- 46:20Speaker 2: Melissa Macintosh.
- 46:22Speaker 23: I've taken a bit of inspiration from Sky News this
- 46:25Speaker 23: morning with your rebrand to News twenty four. I think
- 46:28Speaker 23: it's time. I'm putting myself out on a limb a
- 46:30Speaker 23: little bit. I think it's time for the Liberal Party
- 46:32Speaker 23: to rebrand itself. Some people think that we're stuck in
- 46:37Speaker 23: the past and our policies need to resonate with the
- 46:41Speaker 23: Australia of today and the future. So I think it'd
- 46:43Speaker 23: be really good time for us to revisit our values,
- 46:46Speaker 23: what we stand for, and the way we project ourselves
- 46:49Speaker 23: to Australians.
- 46:51Speaker 1: Okay, the rebranding.
- 46:52Speaker 2: She's proposing a rebranding of the Great Liberal Party.
- 46:55Speaker 1: Now I have to dips my lid.
- 46:56Speaker 2: I don't dips my lid very often to Labour's tenure Plippus,
- 47:00Speaker 2: but her retorts in question time today was pretty funny.
- 47:04Speaker 24: Shadow Minister says they should do a rebranding exercise.
- 47:09Speaker 20: They're going to get Scotty from.
- 47:10Speaker 24: Marketing back and he's going to ask modern liberals where
- 47:15Speaker 24: the hell are they?
- 47:17Speaker 20: Oh no, I mean, look, that was a credit where
- 47:22Speaker 20: credits you? That was? That was a really good one.
- 47:25Speaker 21: And look part of me for my crass commentary here.
- 47:28Speaker 20: But you can't put lipstick on a pick.
- 47:30Speaker 21: I'm sorry, but you can't right now with the Liberal Party,
- 47:33Speaker 21: and maybe Chris just maybe they do need a rebrand.
- 47:38Speaker 1: You do that, no branding.
- 47:41Speaker 2: Its policies is the issues, it's the values. And she's
- 47:44Speaker 2: just distracted the argument all week from a bad labor
- 47:47Speaker 2: government onto coalition chaos.
- 47:49Speaker 19: She said in that clip, I'm about to go out
- 47:52Speaker 19: on a limb here. It's a pretty good idea of
- 47:53Speaker 19: your politician. Whatever you're going to say after you say that,
- 47:57Speaker 19: don't say it your gut, but I got it. Like
- 48:00Speaker 19: this whole rebrand brandan brand it's called the Liberal Party.
- 48:04Speaker 19: Like that's the brand, that's the words been there, It's
- 48:06Speaker 19: been there since the start. It's a word that's been,
- 48:08Speaker 19: you know, in politics for two hundred years now. A
- 48:10Speaker 19: lot of people myself classical liberal, we subscribe to it.
- 48:13Speaker 19: You don't need to rebrand. It is the brand that
- 48:15Speaker 19: you need to go back to.
- 48:17Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 48:18Speaker 2: And if you look at their value statement, the timeless
- 48:22Speaker 2: statement about what.
- 48:23Speaker 1: We believe, it's all there.
- 48:24Speaker 2: I'm just going to make sure their politics reflects that.
- 48:28Speaker 2: We've got a little bit of time just to recap.
- 48:30Speaker 2: I think on Princess Kate, the Princess of Wales, on
- 48:34Speaker 2: her effort for charity post her cancer troubles.
- 48:37Speaker 1: Let's hope it's those troubles are gone for good.
- 48:40Speaker 2: And she went and climbed the three Peaks of the UK,
- 48:43Speaker 2: and there was an encounter or two along the trail.
- 48:45Speaker 1: We're all very heartwarming and friendly. Have a look at this.
- 48:48Speaker 8: One, you, Denika.
- 49:08Speaker 2: There's plenty of people that bring shame upon the royal family.
- 49:11Speaker 1: She's a ripper and she.
- 49:12Speaker 20: You know that that is a classy woman.
- 49:14Speaker 21: What a wonderful woman who has been through cancer herself,
- 49:17Speaker 21: has climbed the three Peaks to raise awareness and money
- 49:22Speaker 21: for cancer charities. I think that she's an incredible woman.
- 49:25Speaker 21: But how would you be bumping into her? And the
- 49:27Speaker 21: way she speaks to people, it's just normal. She's a
- 49:29Speaker 21: normal woman and she's a father. I think she's wonderful.
- 49:32Speaker 2: Good go for a bushwalking you bump into the Princess
- 49:35Speaker 2: of Wales.
- 49:36Speaker 19: I have to climb five five flights of stairs to
- 49:38Speaker 19: get home each night. I'm more out of breath talking
- 49:40Speaker 19: to my wife than what she's healthy.
- 49:44Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, James, and again that's all the
- 49:48Speaker 2: time we got for you tonight. Thanks so much for
- 49:50Speaker 2: watching his Jamie hosting Redlin