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The Bolt Report | 15 May · The Bolt Report

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  Speaker 1: He's the perform it.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Chalmers astonishing budget, the craziest bit of the most
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  Speaker 3: illusional budget I've seen from a federal government, and why
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  Speaker 3: this billionaire is that budget's biggest winner. But also tonight
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  Speaker 3: I've got to give it to him. A brilliant zinger
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  Speaker 3: today from the Prime Minister at the cost of the
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  Speaker 3: most sanctimonious steel politician in Parliament. Plus vandals destroy an
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  Speaker 3: other statue? Is some of a premier falsely accused of
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  Speaker 3: a racist crime? How the police managed to give them
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  Speaker 3: two goes at it?
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  Speaker 2: I do not know.
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  Speaker 3: And the King's shocking you portrait Plus two French police
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  Speaker 3: shot dead in France as government free a Muslim prisoner,
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  Speaker 3: and just then the Labor senator goes rogue and chance
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  Speaker 3: to call for the destruction of Israel the first the budget.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe the spin behind this reckless, big spending
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  Speaker 3: budget like this.
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  Speaker 4: Do we strengthen the budget and pay down debt?
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  Speaker 3: Pay down debt? I mean this budget does the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Chaplins has got no shame here. It's the
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  Speaker 3: government's got record taxes flooding in never had more yet
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  Speaker 3: every year for the next decade. This government says it's
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  Speaker 3: going to spend more than it earns, deficit after deficit.
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  Speaker 3: The next four years alone, the government will add to
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  Speaker 3: our debt are one hundred and twelve billion dollars, and
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  Speaker 3: that means to gross step will for the first time
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  Speaker 3: be well over one trillion dollars. In this government, this
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  Speaker 3: Treasurer has the hide to claim is actually cutting debt
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  Speaker 3: paying it down when it's actually soaring.
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  Speaker 4: Do we strengthen the budget and pay down debt?
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  Speaker 3: You had to hear it twice to believe he really
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  Speaker 3: did say that, And I told you deluded. Now Here
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  Speaker 3: is a government which last night said he would give
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  Speaker 3: us more debt, more unemployment, lower growth, and twice as
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  Speaker 3: many immigrants as we normally take. Yet the treasure is
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  Speaker 3: there claiming it's a job well done.
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  Speaker 5: These are the dividends of our responsible economic management.
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  Speaker 2: That I have to get to the craziest bit.
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  Speaker 3: I said the craziest bit because there are some people
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  Speaker 3: who are winners from this budget, and the one, the
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  Speaker 3: biggest winner in fact, from Jim Chalmer's budget is this guy,
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  Speaker 3: billionaire global warming.
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  Speaker 2: Hysteric Andrew Forrest. And when I say this billionaire is
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  Speaker 2: an hysteric.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it, you're at extreme risk, so children, grandparents,
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  Speaker 6: or the already ill. Why it's called lethal humidity. Millions
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  Speaker 6: of people will die.
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  Speaker 3: Andre forus is global warming is causing lethal humidity. Don't
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  Speaker 3: panic because he has got the solution.
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  Speaker 6: That's green hydrogen, the pure source of energy in the
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  Speaker 6: world and one that could replace up to three quarters
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  Speaker 6: of global emissions.
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  Speaker 3: Green hydrogen. Hey, small problem. Nowhere in the world is
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  Speaker 3: there a plant working commercially to make hydrogen fuel on
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  Speaker 3: the kind of scale we'd need. Nowhere, But forest has
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  Speaker 3: been going around procing new schemes around the world to
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  Speaker 3: use huge amounts of wind and solar power to create
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  Speaker 3: this hydrogen from water. That's how it works. And last
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  Speaker 3: triture Gym Chalmers said, yes, we must back this.
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  Speaker 4: This budget invests in our renewable energy superpower ambitions, including
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  Speaker 4: thirteen point seven billion dollars in production tax incentives for
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  Speaker 4: green hydrogen and procest critical minerals.
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  Speaker 3: That's only some of the spending that Charmers promised last
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  Speaker 3: night on the screen Hydrogen. There's also two billion dollars
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  Speaker 3: for the new hydrogen Headstart program to splash cash on
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  Speaker 3: flagship projects of the kind that Forest is investing in.
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  Speaker 3: There's a hydrogen production production tax incentive that don't cost
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  Speaker 3: US nearly seven billion dollars in tax write off. There's
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  Speaker 3: billions more in the Governor's New Future Madenustralia scheme. There's
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  Speaker 3: especially for green energy schemes like these. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: the government is betting the house effect, building your house
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  Speaker 3: on this green hydrogen, which Chris Bowen, the Climate Change
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  Speaker 3: and Energy Minister, are real evangelical, is also selling very
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  Speaker 3: hard now.
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  Speaker 1: Green hydrogen future is fundamental to that clean energy future.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I get why the government is so desperate
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  Speaker 3: for green hydrogen to work. But if wishes were fishes,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and that's because we're running out of electricity
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  Speaker 3: precisely because of the late's global warming policies. The wind
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  Speaker 3: and solar power are simply too unreliable to make up
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  Speaker 3: for all the cold fired power stations now being closed down.
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  Speaker 3: And saw the government last week panicking we need more gas.
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  Speaker 3: The whole thing's a disaster. But green hydrogen, You're going
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  Speaker 3: to ask what the government's falling for here. Now ask
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  Speaker 3: yourself if green hydrogen is such a world beating sure,
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  Speaker 3: thing money spinning, great solution. Why have all the investors
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  Speaker 3: in all the world doesn't need Australia's government to chip
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  Speaker 3: into make it work? And if it's that easy, why
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  Speaker 3: did so many of andrew Forest projects to make or
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  Speaker 3: use hydrogen get delayed or called off of no known progress.
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  Speaker 3: For instance, three years ago, Forests and Queensland Premier Anastasia
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  Speaker 3: Palachepe back then promoted Forest planned hydrogen project on Gibson
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  Speaker 3: Island to make ammonia, and they made it sound like
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  Speaker 3: it was already a done deal.
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  Speaker 7: What we're saying is an industrial grain revolution.
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  Speaker 6: Queensland leads Australia, where Queensland leads the world in really
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  Speaker 6: exciting sustainable green industries.
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  Speaker 3: How exciting and the outbyes A government of course last
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  Speaker 3: year gave even this project thirteen point seven million dollars
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  Speaker 3: of your money, and still it wasn't enough because Forrest
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  Speaker 3: has now missed these deadlines to commit to investing in
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  Speaker 3: that gives an island project. He blames Australia's structurally high
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  Speaker 3: green electricity costs. Not surprising these global warming schemes don't work.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe now with charms offering billions more in hell,
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  Speaker 3: Forest may finally calculate he could clean up by cleaning
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  Speaker 3: out taxpayers. Look, the whole thing's really nuts. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: here's the treasurer thinking, gee, we really are running out
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  Speaker 3: of power moment, We really are, and we really need
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  Speaker 3: something green to replace fossil fuel. So far, so good.
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  Speaker 3: So he thinks, what should I be backing in the
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  Speaker 3: budget with taxpayers money? Either nuclear power, which by the way,
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  Speaker 3: is safe, it's green, already operating in thirty two countries.
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  Speaker 2: We know nuclear works good, back that?
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  Speaker 3: Or should he back andrew forest green hydrogen a highly
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  Speaker 3: explosive gas, by the way, that's grossly expensive to make,
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  Speaker 3: difficult to pipe and transport, never been proven at scale,
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  Speaker 3: working commercially nowhere in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Last night you saw.
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  Speaker 3: Charmers answer in the budget it's going to go for
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  Speaker 3: the unproven hydrogen over the proven nuclear. The government's backing hydrogen,
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  Speaker 3: not nuclear, unproven over the proven and promising billions of
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  Speaker 3: your dollars on this Hail Mary pass to save us
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  Speaker 3: from blackouts. As I said, is the craziest thing about
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  Speaker 3: this most crazy budget. But for Fotus today, the big
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  Speaker 3: problem with his budget actually seems to be the handouts
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  Speaker 3: of billionaires, including to twiggy forests. Now the big energy
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  Speaker 3: relief rebate we're talking about here, the government offering promising
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  Speaker 3: three hundred dollars for every single household, whether the people
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  Speaker 3: there are poor or mega rich. It's to cut their
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  Speaker 3: powerball bills, but for only one year. Mind and the
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  Speaker 3: Opposition today had a great question for Labour, using rich
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  Speaker 3: labor MP Andrew Charlton as an example, a man who
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  Speaker 3: moved from his twenty million dollar home in Sydney's Bellevue
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  Speaker 3: Hill to go.
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  Speaker 2: And represent the working class in Paramatta.
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  Speaker 8: If we take a typical Australian, let's call him Andrew,
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  Speaker 8: who recently had to relocate from Belvie Hill to Paramatta
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  Speaker 8: for work reasons and happens to own five houses, including
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  Speaker 8: a newly acquired twelve million dollar beach house at Palm Beach,
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  Speaker 8: you be eligible to receive the rebate on all five houses.
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  Speaker 2: The promise wouldn't give us straight answer to that.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps surprisingly and out in the suburbs today it did
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  Speaker 3: seem many voters don't understand this whole thing either, even
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  Speaker 3: if some are personally happy to get the three hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars themselves.
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't think it's I think it's just buying bats.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds like it's the money.
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  Speaker 10: No, really, we've got a solar panters at home, so
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  Speaker 10: you won't help us much of their energy.
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  Speaker 11: Bet I think that this was this is going to
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  Speaker 11: be helping us a fair bit after a very tough time.
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  Speaker 11: Inflection is taking us to our level that it's been
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  Speaker 11: unheard of in my situation for a long long time.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was very easy just to say everyone's
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  Speaker 7: going to get it.
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  Speaker 12: But there are a lot of people that do not
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  Speaker 12: need a three hundred dollars rebate.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of people.
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  Speaker 13: I think it should be be interested right because I
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  Speaker 13: think it's unfair that we are providing money to those
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  Speaker 13: people who don't need it.
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  Speaker 3: But the opposition today is in court between criticizing the
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  Speaker 3: handout tax it breaks for billionaires, but not actually wanting
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  Speaker 3: to stop the rich from getting their share as well.
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  Speaker 5: Restraint allowed us to forecast the second surplus to pay
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  Speaker 5: down lots of debt and to keep the pressure off inflation.
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  Speaker 5: We're seeing a substantial moderation in inflation in the forecasts
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  Speaker 5: and in the last couple of years as well, and
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  Speaker 5: that is largely because of how we're managing the budget,
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  Speaker 5: but it will also be increasingly about how we're managing
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  Speaker 5: the population as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: That was not in fact the opposition leader of the
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  Speaker 3: smart people watching will have spotted that. Joining me is
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  Speaker 3: the panel former New South Wales Labor treasure and Michael
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  Speaker 3: Cosser and GXO Strategies director Cameron Milner, chief staff to
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  Speaker 3: Labor leader Bill Shorten.
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  Speaker 2: A camera and the budget.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't been well received even in the media left.
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  Speaker 2: What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 14: Well, it hasn't because it's not progressive, and that's why
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  Speaker 14: the media left don't like it. But listening to your
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  Speaker 14: own viewers and the people before, I mean this could
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  Speaker 14: actually end up being a big fat elbow bride. This
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  Speaker 14: three hundred dollars because it's going to billionaires. I mean
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  Speaker 14: his tax cuts already going to billionaires anyway. So the
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  Speaker 14: average Australian gets a fifteen dollars big mac meal while
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  Speaker 14: the mega rich his mates get a bottle of Bollinger
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  Speaker 14: and an artisan baget every week as a tax cut.
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  Speaker 14: So this guy is throwing cash, throwing cash in a
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  Speaker 14: desperate attempt to buy popularity. This guy's walking out of
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  Speaker 14: a fist full of fifty is looking for love from
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  Speaker 14: the electric and it's a disgraceful look on the budget
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  Speaker 14: and it's awful that so much money would be splurged
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  Speaker 14: so sprayed everywhere, sprayed everywhere in a desperate attempt by
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  Speaker 14: this prime minister to be popular. And that's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got to say, three hundred dollars will help
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  Speaker 3: me buy one bottle of Highland Park eighteen year old whiskey.
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  Speaker 3: But I can't say that I'm needing the taxpayer to
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  Speaker 3: help me with that. But Michael, what do you make
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  Speaker 3: of the budget.
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  Speaker 12: It's a mediacre budget from a mediacre government and a
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  Speaker 12: mediacre treasurer.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to say, look this three hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 12: The reason it's going across the water course is it's
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  Speaker 12: not designed primarily for cost of living help.
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  Speaker 7: For the needy.
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  Speaker 12: It's designed to get down headline inflation so that they
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  Speaker 12: can argue that inflation is coming down.
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  Speaker 7: That's the only reason it's designed this way. You could
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  Speaker 7: easily have given more money to the needing and.
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  Speaker 12: Handed back as a direct tax rebate, but this is
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  Speaker 12: not directed at that. It's a manipulation of headline inflation.
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  Speaker 12: But I don't think the Reserve bank is going to
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  Speaker 12: fall for that, they'll be looking at the underlying inflation
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  Speaker 12: rate and the structural deficit. There's forty billion dollars of
• 12:45
  Speaker 12: additional spending going in this and I nearly checked when
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  Speaker 12: I just heard Jim Chalmers claim that his budget was
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  Speaker 12: putting downward pressure on inflation. I don't know where he
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  Speaker 12: studied economics, but clearly he has a very limited grasp
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  Speaker 12: of the macro situation. The fact of the matter, this
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  Speaker 12: is an inflationary budget. It has to be by its
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  Speaker 12: very nature. It doesn't address the structural deficit, which is
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  Speaker 12: about one percent, about thirty billion dollars that's going to.
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  Speaker 7: Go on and on and on.
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  Speaker 12: And the only surp plus he can point to is
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  Speaker 12: the one that's been generated outside of.
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  Speaker 7: His own economic activities. You know, they brack a creep.
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  Speaker 12: And the and the wind fall line, commodity prices. Mediocre budget,
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  Speaker 12: it's terrible and this non means testing. I mean, if
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  Speaker 12: you're a labor person, it just really greats that they've
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  Speaker 12: structured it this way to get a short term benefit
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  Speaker 12: on the inflation rate.
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  Speaker 3: But Cameron, it seems to me that the two big giveaways,
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  Speaker 3: the three hundred dollars energy relief handout, even to billionaires.
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  Speaker 3: That's to fix a labor caused problem, which is the
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  Speaker 3: green energy scheme state and federal, which has driven up
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  Speaker 3: power prices, and of course the increase in the Commonwealth
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  Speaker 3: rent relief for people struggling with their rents I think
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: ten percent increase in that that is designed, of course
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  Speaker 3: to fix the problem course of immigration, mass immigration, which
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  Speaker 3: is caused so all these people to come in and
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  Speaker 3: compete for homes to rent.
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  Speaker 2: Or to buy now.
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  Speaker 3: But that three hundred dollars energy relief handout also strikes me.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the way to paper over.
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  Speaker 3: This labor disaster of a promise, that promise to cut
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  Speaker 3: out power bills. We're getting more win and solar power.
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  Speaker 3: Remember this from before the election.
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  Speaker 15: Households will benefit by two hundred and seventy five dollars
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  Speaker 15: on average, reducing power prices by two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 15: five dollars. Prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars
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  Speaker 15: two hundred and seventy five dollars two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 15: five dollars a year, two hundred and seventy five dollars
• 14:48
  Speaker 15: two hundred and seventy five dollars a year.
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  Speaker 3: So the government chose to make the rebate three hundred dollars,
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  Speaker 3: which sounds more than two hundred and seventy five. But
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  Speaker 3: a journalist today the club reminded the treasure that power
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  Speaker 3: process in fact rose so much that even this three
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars rebate will not cover the rose who she
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  Speaker 3: is in him.
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  Speaker 16: So, based on the latest default market offers for the
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  Speaker 16: next year, even with a three hundred dollars rebate, the
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  Speaker 16: average typical household power bill will be between two hundred
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  Speaker 16: and seventy five and seven hundred and twenty seven dollars
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  Speaker 16: higher than that target. So is it time now to
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  Speaker 16: concede that that promise can't be kept?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think part of the answer to your question, Claire,
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  Speaker 5: is in the question itself. You are referring to a
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty five outcome based on a twenty twenty one forecast,
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  Speaker 5: and we found a way to help people with their
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  Speaker 5: energy bills. Right now, in twenty twenty four, when the
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  Speaker 5: pressure is.
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  Speaker 3: On Camerny, are you convinced that that two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: seventy five dollars promise was.
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  Speaker 2: Actually just a forecast? We just heard it wrong. Not
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 14: And this is this is Labour's problem, is that the
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  Speaker 14: Prime Minister gets caught out lying. You know, our own
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  Speaker 14: Howling said, people think he's a liar. That's what people
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  Speaker 14: are saying out there.
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  Speaker 2: Look, this government's court.
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  Speaker 14: They promised fiscal discipline, they promised to be restrained. This
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  Speaker 14: threehun of dollar rebate, the tax cuts, the money, the
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  Speaker 14: forty billion dollars Michael, that you say has been squirted
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  Speaker 14: into the economy. This is the three am frig errate
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  Speaker 14: from the diet who's gone for the mouthful of cheese
• 16:20
  Speaker 14: whiz backed up with a tub of ice cream. I mean,
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  Speaker 14: these guys are glutton us in terms of what they're
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  Speaker 14: doing with out taxpayers dollars right now, Andrew, I.
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  Speaker 3: Can't get that image out of Mama Cameron. But thank you, Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Purists people who know budgets like you do, having presented
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  Speaker 3: a number yourself as New South Wales Treasurer. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: the most left wing commentators too, which surprised me, are
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  Speaker 3: all canning this budget. That said, it's not aimed at
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: the experts, this is aimed at voters to win an election.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think this is an election winning budget?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I thought they were going to win the next election.
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  Speaker 12: Anyhow, you'll have to go back to Sculland to see
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  Speaker 12: your first term federal government that loses.
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  Speaker 7: So I expected them to win. The issue was whether.
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  Speaker 12: They're going to go into minority or they're going to
• 17:11
  Speaker 12: get a majority. Look, if they go early, I think
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  Speaker 12: they can build an election winning strategy on this budget.
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  Speaker 12: But if they leave it till next year, I think
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  Speaker 12: this is going to wind quicker than a cheap watch,
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  Speaker 12: and that'll be the problem for the government. They now
• 17:26
  Speaker 12: have to make a decision about when they go to
• 17:27
  Speaker 12: an election, and I think it's more likely to be
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: an early election if you want to capitalize on this
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  Speaker 12: political budget. You're right, it's a political budget, not an
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  Speaker 12: economic budget, and that's their big challenge now.
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  Speaker 2: A camera millon the amount of time.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm just going to quickly ask you do you
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  Speaker 3: think this is an election winning budget.
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  Speaker 14: It's certain election and political budget. I'm not sure it's
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  Speaker 14: necessary election winning yet because if the RBA move interest rates,
• 17:54
  Speaker 14: labor's got huge problems.
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  Speaker 3: That much is true, Michael Costa Camera. Thank you very
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  Speaker 3: much to you both, But I mean I've got to
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  Speaker 3: give I've been tough, but I'm not Robinson Crusoe on
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: that I've got to say, but give Anthony Albanizi credit today.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: He could be a funny guy, you know in private,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: and in the end he really doesn't like Greens or
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: for that matter, it seems now sanctimonious teel MPs, but
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the most sanctimonious of them all.
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  Speaker 2: Minique Ryan. Critical background.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Miniqu Ryan got elected to a Victorian seat of Coujong,
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  Speaker 3: you might recall, with the money of global warming crusaders,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: so she should have thought twice before asking Alberanzi this
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: attempted gotcha today.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that you attended a five thousand dollars ahead
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  Speaker 4: post budget dinner last night.
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  Speaker 7: Can you tell the.
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  Speaker 9: House whether any fossil fuel industry lobbyists or other fossil
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: fuel industry representatives were in attendance.
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  Speaker 15: Stood and had the great honor of been the Australian
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  Speaker 15: Labor Party candidate in ten elections. During those ten elections
• 19:07
  Speaker 15: as a candidate for Greenler, I have spent less money,
• 19:11
  Speaker 15: less money on those ten campaigns.
• 19:13
  Speaker 17: Than the member of the Kuyong did in her.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: Way joining me on culture wars as rowan dean and
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: sort of the spectator Australian hosts of Outsiders and Sky
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: News on Sundays every Sunday nine Am.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Rowan Dean, I love that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: The lack of self awareness from Ryan there is one thing,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: but the other is the double standards. You've got money
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: coming from fossil fuel companies. Oh, that's terrible, democracy in danger.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Money come from big green and renewable energy investors, carpetbaggers.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: That's democracy enhanced.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent, Andrew, and it is. It is
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: kind of gauling that these days the big end of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: town those you know, when we're all students at university
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: or whatever, it was always all these big bad evil capitalists. Well,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the big bad capitalists who are having undue influence on
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: all our politics these days are of course the renewables investors.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: That's where the big end of town is. That's where
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the big money is. That's where we see, for example,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, environmental wreckage occurring when windmills have been put
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: out to sea or across farmland. Where anything to do
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: with renewables because it is virtuous, because it is good,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: because it is compassionate, these people literally get away with
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: whatever they want and the teals have to be really
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: really careful. They're bankrolled by big money from the big
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: end of town. I wouldn't be looking too closely at
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: where a lot of that money originally came from in
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: terms of fossil fuels or not fossil fuels. But what
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is equally what should really disturb every Australian, every Australian
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: small business person, every Australian mum and dad. Are we
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: seriously demonizing fossil fuels to the extent that we want
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to throw ourselves back into caves, into some kind of
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: stone age existence, because there is no way we, or
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: our society, or our way of life can survive without
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: fossil fuels. So if I have members of Parliament.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Now around the corner green hydrogen, it's right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Well, of course, the great fantasy, the great fantasy product,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: which again is another massive boondog or for the big
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: end of town. Whether it will ever be achievable or
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: whether it will ever actually deliver anything, I suspect not.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But we've seen in the budget. Andrew, you know, I'm
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: glad that Anthony Albanize he can point the finger at
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the hippocrisy of the Teals and hypocrisy of the Greens.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Is legendary, but let's be honest. This budget is pouring
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars into industries that don't actually exist. It's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: been called the magic Putting budget and those sorts of terms,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: but it is worse than that. It's a kind of
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter fantasy magicians, which has brew budget where we're
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: going to conjure up these extraordinary industries and great wealth
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and prosperity for this nation out of pure fantasy. It's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: terrifying and it should terrify every single person who's ever
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: held a job wants to hold a job, and by
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a job, I don't mean a government job one of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the thirty six thousand jobs that they've magically conjured up
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: again in this kind of Harry Potter budget, but real jobs,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: where you create something, you sell it for it has
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: its own value because you've crafted it well. Those sorts
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of jobs. Should be terrified that we have a government
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that is literally running on fantasy ideas and fantasy economics
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and it's not going to end well.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Andrew, look, that's exactly what's freaking me out as well.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Roan got to be honest there. Look meanwhile, having just
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: said well done Albanzi for calling out Monik Ryan he's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: got trouble landing on his lap again. This afternoon, Labour's
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Afghan born senator Fatima Payman has defied Albanzi and falsely
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and then called out
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a known genocidal chant that Anthony Albanezer says shouldn't be said,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: a chant for the destruction of Israel.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: She said, from the river to the sea, Palestine must
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: be free. What does this tell you.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it tells me what Judah Sloan has written in
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: this next week's Spectator Australia that multiculturalism is dead. Multiculturalism
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: is the great failed policy that the left in particular,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Labor in particular, have built the last few decades on,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: going back to GoF Whitlam five decades, six decades, and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: it is a complete failure and it has wreaked havoc
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: on this country where we are now seeing members of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Parliament to the children of immigrants who presumably we welcomed
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: into this country with open arms to become a part
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of the Australian way of life, to become integrated into
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the Australian way of life. And I'm sure this young
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: lady has. But part of the deal of multiculturalism is
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: that you leave behind the old hatreds that was non negotiable,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: or should have been non negotiable. But if you come
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: here to Australia, whatever it might be there, it might
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: be your hatreds from I remember as a kid there
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: was a hatred between Yugoslavia and whatever, and there was
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: these serbs, whatever. Those sorts of things were quickly left
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: behind and abandoned, and that's why those people from those
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: parts of the world became such successful Australians. Similarly, there
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: were long standing issues in Greece, Turkey, et cetera. Separates
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: all these issues island between the Catholics and these issues.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: The Australian compact was you leave it behind, it's over.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: You're an Aussie now and over and where we have
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a labor MP not accepting that premise.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, this is exactly the issue. You import people, you
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: import the culture with them, and we were stupid, Well,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: those immigration busters are stupid believe that would not happen.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Immigration has too often now become colonization. That's how it's
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: going to be recognized now. Rowendine, thank you so much,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: indeed for your time well after the break and related
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: really the student protests against Israel today got even ugly.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: You now a takeover of a building at Melbourne University
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and to news watch. But before I get onto something
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: disturbing about the ABC even more disturbing developments this afternoon
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: at Melbourne University. I'm a free speech guy and I
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: was the first trouble to read former Treasurer of Josh
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Fridenberg today saying these camps at anti Israel protests has
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: set up at many universities are camps of hate and
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: should be removed to make university safe for other students. Now,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that a blanket man like that is
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: consistent with the kind of debate I'd like to see
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: in universities, although I must say they've been clamping down
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: in a few themselves. In fact, only two university have
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: so far said yes, we do want these camps to
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: go off. You go people, we might call the police.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: One is Victoria's Deacon University. The other is Canbra's Australian
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: National University, where two of you are Protests organizers might
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: recall said they support the most terrorist group. Conditionally, a
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Jewish students said that other protests say they support a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: masterly chanting and taking over bits of the campus and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. Now that's already making me
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: feel the free speech does end when violence is threatened
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: or students are sort of harassed out of using the
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: university they also pay for, right, So I got that
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: there is a line between protests free speech standing around
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: saying your piece and aggression, harassment, bullying, stopping other students
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: from going about their business like you know, learning. Now
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: we've seen that line crossed already at Monish University as well.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: He's just one example of the outrageous bullying, the deafening
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: even of a Jewish student.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Needs to leave inside support us.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Were not leaving.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I don't understand how proud.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Now I understand Munish has called police in for a
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: couple of incidents like that, and today at Melbourne University,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: that line between protests and bullying was crossed again when
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: protesters took over the Arts West building, renamed it Marmoud
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Hall and then made it a threatening place for Jewish
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: students and an impossible one for anyone to study. In
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: joining me, Sophie Ellsworth, media writer of the Australian newspaper Sophie.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Great to see you again after we've bumped into each other.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: The budget lock up yesterday, ban the student campus, yes
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: or no?
• 28:51
  Speaker 18: Well, Andrew, I'm all for free speech like yourself. I
• 28:54
  Speaker 18: think it's critically important that we are able to speak
• 28:58
  Speaker 18: our views freely in society. But when it comes to
• 29:01
  Speaker 18: disruption of people's right to learn, they're paying to be
• 29:05
  Speaker 18: at these universities, they should be moved on. In my view,
• 29:09
  Speaker 18: that footage that we saw from my colleague from The
• 29:13
  Speaker 18: Australian that she put on Twitter is appalling. This is
• 29:16
  Speaker 18: in the Melbourne Uni Arts building. I actually studied there.
• 29:20
  Speaker 18: I did an arts degree at Melbourne University. That is
• 29:23
  Speaker 18: nothing short of disgraceful that they're disrupting people's right to learn.
• 29:28
  Speaker 18: And Andrew, I don't think there should be a blanket ban,
• 29:31
  Speaker 18: but when it comes to interfering with people's right to
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: go about their business at university safely, freely and to study,
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: I think this is appalling.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look for me, really the issues summed up in
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: this image. Right, you can protest on the side of
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the road, don't stand in the middle of the road.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Once a protest.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: The other is just bullying and that is the kind
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: of bullying I mean as well, So when's it all going.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: The thing is, of course for universities that if they
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: don't nip these camps in the bud, they self radicalize,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: you know, And that's the whole thing professional protesters drop in.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: We've seen a guy, for instance, have been arrested by
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: police for some very serious alleged defenses over at the
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Munish University camp Palestinian Go. Seriously, you know, you let
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: them go too long, they fester and people get to
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: invest it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: So where do you.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Actually draw the line? You know, maybe you know you
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: say you can stand there, but you can't camp there.
• 30:36
  Speaker 18: Well, Andrew, that's the million dollar question. I suppose where
• 30:39
  Speaker 18: do you draw the line? And I would argue that
• 30:42
  Speaker 18: a lot of these camps have been able to go
• 30:45
  Speaker 18: on for too long and they have grown into these
• 30:49
  Speaker 18: big camp sites that to some students are very distressing
• 30:53
  Speaker 18: and some of the conduct that's coming out of this
• 30:55
  Speaker 18: from what we've seen online, is quite threatening. So this
• 30:59
  Speaker 18: is now a problem the universities and they need to
• 31:02
  Speaker 18: deal with it swiftly before something incredibly serious does happen.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Well, there's some terrible weakness going on there, including they
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: you know, some very senior university administrators have got to
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: say to the budget.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: It says something.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: The budget actually says something very telling about the I
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: said it was disturbing and it should be disturbing for
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: the ABC. I'm just thinking, yeah, right, you know, you're
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: paying the wages of sin here. The ABC turns out
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: to be getting more money from the budget, but for
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: worse performance.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Tell us about it. You read about this in the Australian.
• 31:42
  Speaker 18: That's right, Andrew. So in the budget papers last night
• 31:45
  Speaker 18: it showed that the audience reached the ABC has aimed
• 31:49
  Speaker 18: for this financial year is about sixty seven percent. Now
• 31:53
  Speaker 18: that is going to drop down. It's expected to sixty
• 31:56
  Speaker 18: four percent and then drop down further to sixty three.
• 32:00
  Speaker 18: So they are not meeting To basically explain this in
• 32:05
  Speaker 18: simple terms, they are not meeting their audience targets that
• 32:08
  Speaker 18: they set out. But curiously, Andrew, they're getting more money.
• 32:12
  Speaker 18: They get about one point two billion dollars every year,
• 32:18
  Speaker 18: so go figure. The ABC gets more money, but they're
• 32:21
  Speaker 18: losing audience and they're losing audience across television and radio. Andrew.
• 32:26
  Speaker 18: So this is a problem for the ABC, and I
• 32:28
  Speaker 18: think there would be many taxpayers wondering why they are
• 32:32
  Speaker 18: getting so much money when people are turning off.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: And also why they're getting so much money to preach
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: to their left wing friends and exclude a single known
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: conservative host from any main well any of their current
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: affairs show that anyone can tell. I just think it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: it's just discussing. It's theft, essentially, it's theft of taxpayer money.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: So for else, thank you so much to Deed for
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: your time. After the break, another statue is destroyed by
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: the totally ignorant left. I mean, there's so much no
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: nothingness going on now, don't you think. And even a
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: council wants this statue gone before I get to the budget.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: The ignorance and the savagery so many protesters now got
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: to say, many seen typically Green's voters. You see it
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: with the anti Israel thugs. You saw it with the
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: destruction of the people who destroyed that Captain Cook's statue
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: in Melbourne and Australia day now in Hobart, the tearing
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: down of this statue of a Premier, William Crowther, a
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: premier in the nineteenth century, is also a prominent surgeon
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: and humanitarian. Now the statue was first found yesterday with
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: the legs almost sawn through, and then last night the
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: police must have been asleep. Even after that it was
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: cut through completely. And this on the day that Tismani
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: has left wing civil and Ministry of Tribunal upheld moves
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: for Hobart Council to tear down the statue anyway, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: all out of ignorance. You see the councilors and the
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: activists they say, oh, Crowther had to go to that
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: statue because this man souvenired the skull of an original
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: man and centered to London's Royal College of Surgeons. They're racists.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: But it seems that the claims are actually fake or
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: at least unproven. Crowded denied taking the skull, the statue,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: denied receiving it, no proof, but who cares about the
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: truth these days, right, It's all tribal. It's all tribal.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: It's enough that people identifying as Aboriginal but also identified
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Crowded as a skull stealing racist white guy in the
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: council caved.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: That's race politics in Australia today, all.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Virtue signaling few facts and it's gone knock over something else.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Join me as Louise Elliott, business consultant, Hobot City Council
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: in Federal Leberal MP Garth Hamilton. Louise Ellott, you actually
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: fought to save this statue on the council. Why did
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: so many councilors cave in? Do you think to the
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: statue smashes.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: Yes, that's right I did.
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: I was one of a few of the council elective
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: members on ho About City Council that fought to protect
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: this statue. I think there is obviously a lot of
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: pressure in today's society and this is a real low
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: point for Tasmania. Really sad day from Hobart in my perspective,
• 35:12
  Speaker 10: for multiple reasons. Firstly, there's the night before last. As
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: you saw, there was a really solid attempt to bring
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: the statue down. They saw through they had grind ground
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: through two thirds of the statue's legs. I expressed serious
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: concerns about the security of the statue and asked for
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: security to be on the statue all of that night
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: last night. Turns out that didn't happen and the statue
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: has now fallen down. What was now dragged to the
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: ground with a rope and an angle grinder It's also
• 35:39
  Speaker 10: a sad day because yes, the decision came back from
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: the tribunal that the tribunal upheld the Council's decision to
• 35:47
  Speaker 10: remove the statue, which I know a lot of people
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: will find that completely mind blowing, you know, unfathomable really,
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: but it raises a much bigger picture because obviously this
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: statue and I was really emotional that on the ground
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: this morning, because it's so symbolic so many things that
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: are wrong with today's society. It seems it's a huge
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: double standard in place where only some people's hurt and
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: offense matters, only some people's history and culture matters, and
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: only some people's history and the culture is worth saving.
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: I'm also really troubled about the message on there around decolonization,
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: because it seems that decolonizing is removing statues, But as
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: I've said before, does decolonization also mean removal of our hospitals,
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: our education, our judicial system, our welfare system. So all
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: in all, a really sad day and I'm gutted.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: And don't forget it wasn't even the Council's statue to
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Chair dan down or Viktz the knockover, because it was
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: raised by public subscription of Hobart Hobart people at the time.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: This is cultural vandalism. But Garth, I need to I
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: don't want to run short on the talking about the
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: budget you have been following, of course, is a loyal
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: in Queensland. You notice a few more strange things about
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: this budget that we've discussed so far tonight, tell us
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: about what caught your look.
• 37:11
  Speaker 19: I think Angus and Peter have done a great job
• 37:12
  Speaker 19: of describing the broader problems with this budget, but I
• 37:16
  Speaker 19: want to point out just two stars and the galaxy
• 37:18
  Speaker 19: of problems that this budget has won.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: The Warrigo Highway.
• 37:22
  Speaker 19: Now, this is a seven hundred and fifteen kilometer highway
• 37:25
  Speaker 19: from just passed Tips. It's all the way out the
• 37:28
  Speaker 19: Charlie for seven hundred and fifteen kilometers. Only five percent
• 37:31
  Speaker 19: of that thirty five kilometers are in a labor seat,
• 37:35
  Speaker 19: the seat of Blair, which is oriagonably marginal seat at
• 37:38
  Speaker 19: the moment. Now, surprise, surprise, in the budget we see
• 37:41
  Speaker 19: one hundred and seventy seven million dollars of new funding
• 37:44
  Speaker 19: for the Warrigo. That sounds great, Andrew. That's the sort
• 37:46
  Speaker 19: of thing people like me want to hear, except when
• 37:49
  Speaker 19: we find out that one hundred percent of that new
• 37:51
  Speaker 19: funding is going to the five percent of the highway
• 37:56
  Speaker 19: in labor hands. It's the most blatant coincide.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Who would have thought, Andrew, Oh, those are unworthy thoughts
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: in your mind, Louise. Surely politicians don't do that kind
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: of you know, little here, let me help you out
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: to my side this whiteboard stuff.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, surely not.
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: But it seems that when the evidence stacks up, there
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: is smoke and fire, it seems.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: But that's a pretty blatant one.
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: So but nothing, nothing would surprise me, especially under this
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: labor government, to be honest.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: No, Unfortunately, I think you're right, Garth. Was there anything
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: else in that budget that you said a couple?
• 38:45
  Speaker 19: Sadly, I have another one, and this is one I'm
• 38:46
  Speaker 19: not going to laugh about, because the Department of Veteran
• 38:49
  Speaker 19: Affairs is and it provides an important service to veterans,
• 38:54
  Speaker 19: making sure they get the support they need when they
• 38:55
  Speaker 19: come back into civilian life. Sadly, we're seeing a reduction
• 38:59
  Speaker 19: in numbers of staff at DVA guaranteed in this budget. Now,
• 39:05
  Speaker 19: you ask any veteran, and I asked quite a lot
• 39:06
  Speaker 19: on Anzac Day, how things are going. The service that
• 39:09
  Speaker 19: they're getting from DVA is still an issue. It is
• 39:12
  Speaker 19: still a problem. It's been a problem for a while
• 39:15
  Speaker 19: and it certainly hasn't gone away. So it's really sad
• 39:18
  Speaker 19: to see Labor reduce the number of staff helping out
• 39:21
  Speaker 19: our veterans. But I'll tell you what, Andrew, there's a
• 39:24
  Speaker 19: group of people whose numbers aren't dropping, and that's ABC staff.
• 39:28
  Speaker 19: The budget confirms there is no drop in ABC stuff,
• 39:32
  Speaker 19: Absolutely no drop. So when it comes to protecting their mouthpiece,
• 39:36
  Speaker 19: the people that they're going to need to push their
• 39:38
  Speaker 19: case in the election that's obviously coming just around the
• 39:40
  Speaker 19: corner now, Labour want to make sure they have a
• 39:43
  Speaker 19: full team on deck, but it comes to providing the
• 39:45
  Speaker 19: service that our veterans need, support that they need, they
• 39:49
  Speaker 19: turn their back on them just days, just days after
• 39:51
  Speaker 19: Anzac Day too.
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  Speaker 13: By the way, now, Louise, you know, obviously people who
• 39:59
  Speaker 13: live in mainly do it to commune with nature, because
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: you know we're talking about the forest state there.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I saw something today that I first thought, well, how lovely,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: and well now I'm thinking how lonely. It's this guy
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: in Scotland who just got a thrill.
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  Speaker 2: Hea't looked.
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  Speaker 3: I've spent three days searching for this.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I've got it. That is amazing. Bye, guys, just look
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: at this.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Look at where I am in Scotland in.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: The UK, and there's a.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Cook o bruh, So, louis a cooker barrow in Scotland
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: sitting up there in the tree.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: All very nice for the Scots. But should I feel
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: sorry for the bird?
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: To be honest, my first reaction was a bit of
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: a humorous one. I think maybe a bit of self reflection.
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: I think he might just be on a working holiday,
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: that little fellow, and he is planning his.
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: Next Kentiquy tour.
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: He's going out, He's saying the world now, good on him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud, you're proud.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: I feel a little bit like I did when I
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: went to Beijing in winter and I saw a kangaroo
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: freezing in a concrete pen. But maybe you're right. Maybe
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: if I found him in New York or something like that,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I'd be happy for him. Garth Hamilton, Louise Elliott, thank
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: you both so much for your time.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: After the break the King's latest portrait, Oh just you
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: think what is the artist got against this? Bloke and
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: two French police murdered as gangster has rammed their van
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: and free a criminal. Isn't it multicultural France so wonderful?
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: An extraordinary crime in multicultural France. A gangster was being
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: transported by police in northern France. The van got rammed
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: at a toll booth. Guman jumped out of the cars
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: started shooting. Two police are dead and others seriously injured.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: The prisoner gone. He is a man born in France,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: but he has a Muslim name Mohammed Amarra, which may
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: or may not be relevant may given his reported Tysoon
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: African gay and Marseille called the blacks. Meanwhile, Patrick Christie's,
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: the gb News host in our Wednesday Regular, explored a
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: bit of multiculpitalism himself and an anti Israel protest at
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Oxford University, which is the ultimate university town. But even
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: there free speech is now not welcome by anti Israel
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: protesters and bullying is in. As Patrick soon discovered, it's.
• 42:41
  Speaker 20: A bus a freedom of speech Oxford University.
• 42:44
  Speaker 17: Do you think this might be a bit fushist side?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: A little bit.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Joining me? Is Patrick Christie's Patrick remarkable?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Isn't it that everywhere I see it's here, it's in Britain,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: it's in Canada, it's the US. Yes, the protesters against
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Israel tend to be bullies and fags, not interested in
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: free speech. And now even at Oxford, where am I
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: being a little too harsh?
• 43:13
  Speaker 17: No, you're not being harsh.
• 43:15
  Speaker 20: You mentioned a lot of very very true things and
• 43:17
  Speaker 20: your introduction there. You know, we can't possibly criticize multicultures
• 43:20
  Speaker 20: and diversity. As we all know, Andrew, it is our
• 43:23
  Speaker 20: greatest strength. And you only have to look at that
• 43:25
  Speaker 20: when you see these Palestine protests popping up everywhere, or indeed,
• 43:28
  Speaker 20: how many people are on a terror watch list in Britain.
• 43:31
  Speaker 20: People talk about the woke mind virus, don't they, But
• 43:34
  Speaker 20: actually it's infected at Oxford University.
• 43:37
  Speaker 17: And I think things have got very very serious. Now.
• 43:39
  Speaker 20: Oxford University is one of the top academic institutions in
• 43:42
  Speaker 20: the world, and what you have is people there who
• 43:45
  Speaker 20: have historically been straight A students. Otherwise they wouldn't have
• 43:49
  Speaker 20: got into Oxford University, who now as a result of
• 43:52
  Speaker 20: this particular cause they're backing, have dyed their hair pink,
• 43:55
  Speaker 20: decided to put masks on and live in their own
• 43:58
  Speaker 20: filth in a field, So going to support for a
• 44:01
  Speaker 20: group of people that would quite possibly throw them off
• 44:03
  Speaker 20: a building if they had half the chance.
• 44:05
  Speaker 17: It is absolutely astonishing.
• 44:07
  Speaker 20: You expect this kind of behavior during the Eurovision Song contest,
• 44:10
  Speaker 20: but not from the future, you know, political and business
• 44:13
  Speaker 20: leaders of this country and dare I say the world
• 44:16
  Speaker 20: as well. The irony of course there though, is that
• 44:18
  Speaker 20: they do behave a lot like fascists. They call themselves
• 44:21
  Speaker 20: anti fascists. They want to silence any debate, they want
• 44:24
  Speaker 20: to mask up, they want to hound anybody out of there. Yeah,
• 44:27
  Speaker 20: it is an absolute disgrace really, but the saving grace
• 44:30
  Speaker 20: is that they are just embarrassing themselves.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Well, gee, I hope you're right there.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: I hope you know, working class Britain is sitting there
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: at home looking at this in the TV sits and thinking,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: dear God, you know who are these people? Petrie. I
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: love paintings. Don't tell anyone, but I even collect paintings.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: I spent whole days happily at ourt galleries.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: But I've got to say the latest portrait of the
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: King is an eyesore.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: It's all an inflamed rid and all that.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe someone will like that, But does
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: it actually have many fans?
• 45:15
  Speaker 17: No, it doesn't really.
• 45:16
  Speaker 20: I can only assume that the same people who advised
• 45:18
  Speaker 20: King Charles to sit for that painting are the same
• 45:21
  Speaker 20: people that advise Prince Andrew to do the Emily Matelist interview.
• 45:24
  Speaker 17: It does look as though he's.
• 45:26
  Speaker 20: Decided not to leave a house fire at Buckingham Palace,
• 45:29
  Speaker 20: doesn't it really?
• 45:31
  Speaker 17: Yeah? Remarkable.
• 45:31
  Speaker 20: Maybe it's a visible portrayal of the hell that Prince
• 45:34
  Speaker 20: Harry has put him through over the years. Apparently Queen
• 45:38
  Speaker 20: Camilla does like it though, she said ah, you've got
• 45:40
  Speaker 20: him when the portrait was unveiled, but I'm not quite
• 45:43
  Speaker 20: sure exactly what she meant by that. The artist himself
• 45:47
  Speaker 20: actually just seem like quite a nice guy, to be
• 45:49
  Speaker 20: honest with you. Jonathan Yeo has got a credible pedigree.
• 45:52
  Speaker 20: Made a joke about how if the King didn't like it,
• 45:54
  Speaker 20: then he might end up finding himself at losing his
• 45:56
  Speaker 20: head in the Tower of London. So it's a bold move.
• 45:59
  Speaker 20: It's a bold with not a lot of people get it.
• 46:01
  Speaker 20: The Republicans have said, ah, look at this, it's a
• 46:04
  Speaker 20: visible representation of the blood that the monarchy was built on.
• 46:08
  Speaker 20: I think in reality it is just maybe a modern twist.
• 46:12
  Speaker 20: A lot of people have said, look, what is wrong
• 46:14
  Speaker 20: with tradition? Yeah, he is the king after all, Why
• 46:17
  Speaker 20: did we need to have him in blood red and
• 46:20
  Speaker 20: you know, kind of a towering inferno.
• 46:23
  Speaker 17: But hey, if the king's happy, that's all that matters.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but the thing is so you know, politic
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: and polite that he'd never say he hated it. They
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: just wouldn't get shown anywhere. And I think what his
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: views are will be a scene and where it's hung
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: in the long term, I think Patrick, we'll see from that.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: By the way, there's been an attempt in Britain to
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: stop public servants wearing the rainbow lenyard you know a lenyard?
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Do we hold your little pass in the colors where
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: you go in the colors of the rainbow? You know, LGBTQ.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: And it's a change actually led by this minister without
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: portfolio that I don't really know much about. But is
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: she asking too much? I mean, this is again a
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: free speech issue. Should I be saying naughty naughty conservative?
• 47:15
  Speaker 17: Well it's a tricky one really.
• 47:16
  Speaker 20: So this is Este McVeigh, who is the informally known
• 47:20
  Speaker 20: as the Minister for common sense, which after fourteen years
• 47:24
  Speaker 20: of conservative rule, if you right at the end of
• 47:26
  Speaker 20: that need to impose a Minister for common sense, it
• 47:29
  Speaker 20: implies that maybe you've not been particularly conservative throughout the
• 47:32
  Speaker 20: course of those fourteen years.
• 47:33
  Speaker 17: But we can leave that at the door.
• 47:34
  Speaker 20: Andrew, so Ester McVeigh wants to get rid of the
• 47:37
  Speaker 20: Rainbow Landyarsk because she says it's more of a political
• 47:39
  Speaker 20: statement and the civil service is far too political.
• 47:43
  Speaker 17: She's right, they are far too political.
• 47:45
  Speaker 20: They're taking the government to court over the Ruanda scheme,
• 47:47
  Speaker 20: They're threatened.
• 47:48
  Speaker 17: To go on strikeover pay.
• 47:50
  Speaker 20: I mean, it is NonStop political activism from within our
• 47:52
  Speaker 20: civil service. The big problem though, is that the actual
• 47:54
  Speaker 20: cabinet of this country, so a table full of conservatives,
• 47:58
  Speaker 20: cannot decide whether or not this is a good idea.
• 48:00
  Speaker 20: So the whole thing doesn't really matter anyway, because the
• 48:03
  Speaker 20: actual governments can't decide whether or not the Minister of
• 48:05
  Speaker 20: common Sense should impose something that people think is common sense.
• 48:08
  Speaker 20: And you know it's we're witnessing a fall of row.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Andrew.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Look, I'm just going to say, Patrick, you know, it's
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: interesting to me that these tribal gestures of we're in
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: this cause and we're going to you know, put it
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: in your face. Tend almost invariably to come from the left,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: and I do think that says something about that mentality
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: that I think you said, the hive mentality. I think
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: that's what we're looking at here. Patrick christ is always
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: great to talk to you, See you next week. That's
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: it from me Now it's Sherry Markson.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Good night.