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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome the Late Debate. Good evening and welcome to the program.
- 0:09Speaker 2: I'm Caleb Bond with Liz Storer and filling in for
- 0:12Speaker 2: tonight James McPherson is Danika di Giorgio, who, of course
- 0:16Speaker 2: you can see as one half of Doneka and James
- 0:18Speaker 2: on a Sunday night, or two halves of Doaneka on
- 0:22Speaker 2: a Friday night. Of course, you know, we know the
- 0:25Speaker 2: coalition is stuffed at the moment here in this country,
- 0:28Speaker 2: but it's a different story over in the UK, where
- 0:30Speaker 2: Nigel Farage's Reform Party had an excellent result on the weekend.
- 0:35Speaker 2: We'll tell you a bit more about that later on.
- 0:38Speaker 2: In the papers, some of the coalition's biggest donors, the
- 0:40Speaker 2: Liberal Party's biggest donors, are saying they may not ever
- 0:44Speaker 2: donate to the party again, what's that telling you? And
- 0:47Speaker 2: obviously you were watching our election coverage here on Sky
- 0:50Speaker 2: News on Saturday night, but one of the ABC Star
- 0:53Speaker 2: guests in its coverage has had some, let's say, rather
- 0:57Speaker 2: not so nice things to say about the program he
- 1:00Speaker 2: was part of. Will tidy his assessment a little bit later.
- 1:03Speaker 2: But amongst all the other stuff that has happened in
- 1:05Speaker 2: this election and we'll get into some.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Of it very shortly.
- 1:09Speaker 2: A story that you may have missed and one that
- 1:12Speaker 2: you may well be happy about. You're not getting text
- 1:15Speaker 2: messages from Hfong anymore from the Trumpet of Patriots telling
- 1:19Speaker 2: you which way to vote, getting about ten of them
- 1:21Speaker 2: a day, as we were, and you may well never
- 1:25Speaker 2: get them again, because Clive Palmer has said it's time
- 1:28Speaker 2: to hang up his hat. He says, after all this time.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Of course, he started more than a decade ago, the
- 1:34Speaker 2: Palmer United Party, and then he started the United Australia Party,
- 1:38Speaker 2: which he for some reason de registered after the last election,
- 1:42Speaker 2: even though he got a senator in Victoria, Ralph Babett.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Then tried to re register it for this year and
- 1:47Speaker 2: couldn't do so, so he started the Trumpet of Patriots,
- 1:50Speaker 2: which by the way, pulled one point eighty five percent
- 1:53Speaker 2: of the national votes. All those millions of dollars that
- 1:56Speaker 2: Clive spent was basically a donation to the news media
- 1:58Speaker 2: in the form of advertiser.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Can we thank him for that because it's keeping us
- 2:02Speaker 1: in work? But he says it's time.
- 2:05Speaker 2: To say goodbye. He says, I'm seventy one and I'm
- 2:08Speaker 2: getting too old for politics. I'd rather spend time helping
- 2:11Speaker 2: the tens of thousands that are homeless and hungry in
- 2:14Speaker 2: this country. That's why I've donated five million to food Bank.
- 2:18Speaker 1: So it would seem.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Finally it is cyanara from mister Palmer in this regard.
- 2:23Speaker 2: And I talked about those text messages before, seventeen million
- 2:27Speaker 2: text messages Trumpet of Patriots sent out ten thousand complaints.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Palmer said they received about those and as I said before,
- 2:34Speaker 2: they turned that into one point eight five percent of
- 2:37Speaker 2: the national vote. So I'm not sure that was the
- 2:39Speaker 2: greatest return on investment. And of course Sewell and Wrightson,
- 2:42Speaker 2: who we kept seeing in the advertisements saying you know
- 2:45Speaker 2: she'd be the next Prime Minister of Australia, she pulled
- 2:48Speaker 2: three point four percent in the seat of Hunter, so
- 2:51Speaker 2: a great success. It was againleause it seems he's finally
- 2:54Speaker 2: woken up and decided and maybe I shouldn't piss my
- 2:57Speaker 2: money up the wall.
- 2:58Speaker 3: And I think this is sad.
- 3:00Speaker 4: I like Clyve.
- 3:02Speaker 3: I love the love.
- 3:04Speaker 5: That he has for this country because despite what you
- 3:07Speaker 5: think of him personally, he loves this country and that
- 3:12Speaker 5: is why he's happy to what it looks like on
- 3:16Speaker 5: the outside, squander tens of millions of dollars every time
- 3:20Speaker 5: we have a federal election. Because he believes in these
- 3:23Speaker 5: policies which many of us actually agree with, he simply
- 3:27Speaker 5: doesn't have everything else that it takes to get something
- 3:30Speaker 5: like this.
- 3:30Speaker 3: Off the ground.
- 3:32Speaker 5: But I'm sorry to see the back of him. I mean,
- 3:35Speaker 5: this is a guy who during all that COVID nonsense,
- 3:38Speaker 5: he was very staunchly, adamantly against it all.
- 3:41Speaker 3: And think what you will of hydroxy chloroquin.
- 3:44Speaker 5: My point about this is that this guy spend over
- 3:48Speaker 5: thirty million dollars importing a ton of it before the
- 3:52Speaker 5: TGA was like, where, we're actually not going to be
- 3:55Speaker 5: using this to treat COVID, but thanks anyway. How many
- 3:58Speaker 5: people do you know who would gladly do that? And
- 4:01Speaker 5: that was a donation. He was like, I'm doing this
- 4:03Speaker 5: off my own bat. I'm trying to help my country.
- 4:06Speaker 5: This is something that I see as a solution. It
- 4:09Speaker 5: turned out not to be. But he's someone who believes
- 4:12Speaker 5: in what he believes in, and he's happy to put
- 4:15Speaker 5: his money where his mouth is. And yet now he's
- 4:17Speaker 5: talking about, you know what, I'm just going to go
- 4:19Speaker 5: the philanthropic route and help all the people who don't
- 4:22Speaker 5: have money and desperately need help in this country. That's
- 4:25Speaker 5: the heart of the guy, and that's why I.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Like the problem. The problem that I have with Clive
- 4:31Speaker 4: Palmer is he doesn't know when to stop with his advertising.
- 4:35Speaker 4: I honestly feel like he thinks that we're all sitting
- 4:37Speaker 4: there and we get a text and he were like, yes,
- 4:39Speaker 4: it's the trumpet of patriots. Yes, thank goodness, thank you
- 4:42Speaker 4: for that message, when really we go, oh no, no,
- 4:45Speaker 4: not again, please spare us. And look, I do applaud
- 4:49Speaker 4: the guy for giving it a crack. He's tried, He's tried.
- 4:52Speaker 4: He is a you know, like him, all owe them.
- 4:54Speaker 4: He is actually a successful Australian businessman. You know, you
- 4:57Speaker 4: don't get to where you are, you don't get to
- 4:59Speaker 4: that position without having some successes. He knows what to do.
- 5:03Speaker 4: But the problem is is he goes overboard and he
- 5:05Speaker 4: bombards us and that's what drives us nuts. And as
- 5:08Speaker 4: for Suellen Wrightsen, as you mentioned, Caleb dubbed Australia's next
- 5:13Speaker 4: Prime minister look good on the ambition was out look
- 5:16Speaker 4: the ambition. I applaud her for having the ambition. Okay,
- 5:19Speaker 4: but now the poor woman's had to delete all of
- 5:21Speaker 4: her social media, can't She's had enough. She doesn't want
- 5:25Speaker 4: to you know, obviously it's been very embarrassed. But look,
- 5:29Speaker 4: come on, the campaign overall was a full nightmare. It's
- 5:32Speaker 4: time to go, Clive. You've given it a crack. But
- 5:35Speaker 4: well done for bowing out.
- 5:36Speaker 2: I think it gets me about it though, is obviously
- 5:39Speaker 2: last election he did get a seat in the Senate
- 5:41Speaker 2: in the form of Ralph but as I said before,
- 5:43Speaker 2: then for some reason to register the party, and you
- 5:46Speaker 2: could argue that in twenty nineteen the preferences flowed in
- 5:51Speaker 2: a way from all that money he spent, you know,
- 5:54Speaker 2: teams of millions of dollars in order to help Morrison
- 5:57Speaker 2: get re elected.
- 5:58Speaker 1: But what has he achieved this time?
- 6:00Speaker 2: Because I don't think he's got anything to show for
- 6:03Speaker 2: the money he spent this time. And that was always
- 6:05Speaker 2: the question is what does he actually want to do?
- 6:07Speaker 2: Because of course, you know, Trumpet and Patriots or United
- 6:09Speaker 2: Australia Party is never going to seriously get up.
- 6:12Speaker 1: So what was the point of spending all this money.
- 6:16Speaker 5: I guess he figured if he could get another Ralph
- 6:18Speaker 5: for that into the Senate or anywhere for that matter.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Then it'd be worth it.
- 6:24Speaker 5: I love Senator Ralph Babet is an absolute wild card.
- 6:28Speaker 5: But when you look at the state of politics in
- 6:30Speaker 5: this country, the more wild cards we have the better.
- 6:34Speaker 5: He's now on the sidelines being like, I'm glad the
- 6:36Speaker 5: Liberals lost the fake Conservatives.
- 6:38Speaker 3: What were they going to do anyway?
- 6:40Speaker 5: And we do we need to see a radical revamp
- 6:44Speaker 5: of what was once the Conservative Party, and hopefully this
- 6:48Speaker 5: catastrophic loss for the Libs is going to give birth
- 6:52Speaker 5: to that revamp that's been a long time in coming
- 6:55Speaker 5: and unfortunately it's just taking this catastrophe to get there.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree with you, but I also do
- 7:02Speaker 4: think Clive Palmer provided an alternative that I think that
- 7:06Speaker 4: the Liberals should have provided. Indeed, because he was straight
- 7:09Speaker 4: to you know, the man. When he says something, he
- 7:12Speaker 4: says it, and that's what we needed in this country.
- 7:14Speaker 4: So again like him, all owe him. He actually gave
- 7:17Speaker 4: a genuine alternative which we didn't see from the Liberal Party.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Indeed, while we're talking about all this election stuff and
- 7:23Speaker 2: we're going to get into more of than nitty gritty now,
- 7:27Speaker 2: you have to feel bad for Peter Datknoan, amongst all
- 7:29Speaker 2: the other things that happened obviously, you know, the worst
- 7:32Speaker 2: result for the Coalition since the nineteen forties, since the
- 7:36Speaker 2: Coalition has existed. I believe he's lost his own seat
- 7:41Speaker 2: of Dixon. So after twenty four years in politics, he's
- 7:44Speaker 2: had to bow out of the entire game. And he
- 7:47Speaker 2: may well be glad of that because it means he
- 7:49Speaker 2: doesn't have to hang around and deal with all the
- 7:51Speaker 2: recriminations in the Liberal Party now. But to add insult
- 7:55Speaker 2: to injury, we found out today that Donald Trump, the
- 7:59Speaker 2: guy that he was linked to all through the campaign.
- 8:03Speaker 2: You know, they kept saying what was a dogie? What
- 8:07Speaker 2: was the line that Jim Chalmers came out with the
- 8:11Speaker 2: dogie Dutton?
- 8:12Speaker 1: I think it was right. I mean that they worked
- 8:13Speaker 1: so hard the Labor.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Party to link Peter Dutton to Donald Trump, and Donald
- 8:19Speaker 2: Trump doesn't even know the guy's name.
- 8:22Speaker 6: Albanis.
- 8:23Speaker 3: I'm very friendly with I haven't I don't know anything.
- 8:25Speaker 6: About the election. He's been very very nice.
- 8:27Speaker 3: To me, very respectful to me.
- 8:29Speaker 6: I have no idea who the other person is that
- 8:31Speaker 6: ran against.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Him, And you know, we've had a very good relationship
- 8:36Speaker 1: I mean, the poor fella, How.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Bad must you feel after they linked.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Him so much to Trump and Trump? I don't even
- 8:43Speaker 1: know who he is.
- 8:44Speaker 2: Interesting though, that he says, there, you know, I've got
- 8:46Speaker 2: a great relationship with Alberans and they had a phone
- 8:50Speaker 2: call today, actually Alban Easy and Donald Trump. But he's
- 8:52Speaker 2: talking about how great the relationship with albo is and
- 8:55Speaker 2: he doesn't even know the guy who was apparently going
- 8:58Speaker 2: to be Trump two point zero.
- 8:59Speaker 3: Well, why would you?
- 9:00Speaker 5: Because I think Trump's people knew Albanezi was a sure win.
- 9:05Speaker 5: So it's not like you're going to do any extensive
- 9:07Speaker 5: research on the potential other prime minister.
- 9:10Speaker 3: It was pretty obvious this was well. I always said anyway.
- 9:14Speaker 5: I know a lot of people were hopeful that this
- 9:16Speaker 5: could be a liberal when but I kept telling you,
- 9:19Speaker 5: just come back to the electoral math. It doesn't matter
- 9:21Speaker 5: what the polls say, and it doesn't matter what the
- 9:23Speaker 5: liberals are promising. At the end of the day, the
- 9:26Speaker 5: electoral math was staunchly in favor of Labor, and in
- 9:31Speaker 5: my humble opinion, it wasn't a case of will Labor win?
- 9:34Speaker 5: It was only a case of buy how much? And
- 9:37Speaker 5: that is what we've seen take place ever since. But
- 9:40Speaker 5: how do you like this, because we've been slamming, just
- 9:44Speaker 5: like Dutton got slammed for being like, oh, copy paste
- 9:46Speaker 5: Trump and he's bringing all these Trumpian policies and that
- 9:49Speaker 5: his campaign did bend over backwards to try and be like,
- 9:53Speaker 5: oh no, no, no, that's not us, that's not who we are, that's.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Not what we're trying to do.
- 9:58Speaker 5: But at the same time, Alban Easy was being slammed
- 10:00Speaker 5: as having no relationship whatsoever with Trump. Just the other
- 10:04Speaker 5: week he was saying, Oh, I don't have Trump's phone number.
- 10:07Speaker 5: I don't even think he is a phone. No, we
- 10:09Speaker 5: don't speak whatsoever. Well, very different tune today. You would
- 10:14Speaker 5: have thought they've been mates for ages. Here he was
- 10:18Speaker 5: talking about what a wonderful phone call he'd just had
- 10:21Speaker 5: with the President of the United States.
- 10:24Speaker 7: I had a very warm and positive conversation with President
- 10:27Speaker 7: Trump just a short while ago. We talked about her.
- 10:33Speaker 7: Orcus and Tarifs will continue to engage. We will engage
- 10:40Speaker 7: with each other on a face to face basis at
- 10:43Speaker 7: some time in the future.
- 10:46Speaker 5: Turns out they're the ones who have been best friends
- 10:49Speaker 5: all along.
- 10:50Speaker 1: What a twit.
- 10:52Speaker 4: Who would have thought? Who would have thought. You know
- 10:54Speaker 4: the funniest thing about this whole thing is that Anthony
- 10:57Speaker 4: Albaneze he couldn't actually get a call for Donald Trump
- 11:00Speaker 4: several months of course we had the tariff slapped on us.
- 11:02Speaker 4: But suddenly, wow, what by some miracle, he manages to
- 11:06Speaker 4: actually get on the blower to Donald Trump. And while
- 11:08Speaker 4: all is forgiven, they're all suddenly best friends for life
- 11:11Speaker 4: and holding hands. And what does this prove? What does
- 11:14Speaker 4: this prove? Well, you had the Labor Party saying, oh,
- 11:16Speaker 4: we don't want cut and paste US policies. You had
- 11:19Speaker 4: the Greens calling Peter Dutton the t MoU Trump. You
- 11:22Speaker 4: had Jason Claire out there day in day out saying, oh,
- 11:25Speaker 4: we've got to be very careful we don't import a
- 11:27Speaker 4: US based health system here in Australia. And all this
- 11:31Speaker 4: proves was that, well, actually, Donald Trump and Peter Dutton
- 11:35Speaker 4: had nothing to do with each other. Peter Dutton was
- 11:38Speaker 4: never a threat from the very beginning, never a threat.
- 11:41Speaker 4: But I think it does open a broader conversation though
- 11:43Speaker 4: about the Liberal Party's policies here because the Libs they
- 11:47Speaker 4: went into the center, they went center left with their policies.
- 11:51Speaker 4: So as a voter. You don't actually have any clear
- 11:54Speaker 4: distinction between the Labor Party and the Liberal Party. I
- 11:57Speaker 4: actually think that the Liberals should have been more like Trump.
- 12:01Speaker 4: And I'm not necessarily saying by way of policy, but
- 12:04Speaker 4: I'm talking by way of decisiveness. If you're going to
- 12:07Speaker 4: put out a policy, you stick with it. Instead of course,
- 12:10Speaker 4: they backflipped on their key policies and Peter Dutton at
- 12:13Speaker 4: the start of the campaign, you'll remember he was very firm.
- 12:15Speaker 4: He said, I'm only going to stand in front of
- 12:16Speaker 4: one flag, the Australian flag. Australia Day is to be
- 12:19Speaker 4: celebrated on January twenty sixth. What is a woman? It's
- 12:22Speaker 4: an adult female. But towards the last couple of weeks
- 12:26Speaker 4: he hasn't been able to answer that they backpedaled on it.
- 12:28Speaker 4: So if you're not going to provide a point of difference,
- 12:30Speaker 4: you're not going to bring the country with you. Well, no,
- 12:32Speaker 4: one day, you lose votes. And that is what Donald
- 12:34Speaker 4: Trump did well.
- 12:35Speaker 2: And this is what really annoyed me about the way
- 12:38Speaker 2: the campaign was run for the Libs, because there was
- 12:42Speaker 2: always the problem that Dutton was apparently not likable. You know,
- 12:46Speaker 2: people didn't see Dutton as the kind of bloke they'd
- 12:48Speaker 2: want to have a beer with in the same way
- 12:50Speaker 2: they might Anthony Albanizi.
- 12:52Speaker 1: But you were never going to overcome that.
- 12:54Speaker 2: I mean, unless you can change the way that Peter
- 12:57Speaker 2: Dutton presents in front of a camera, and he's been
- 13:00Speaker 2: in politics for a very long time, you're never going
- 13:03Speaker 2: to change that. And everyone who knows him personally will
- 13:06Speaker 2: say that he's got a wicked sense of humor and
- 13:09Speaker 2: he's great company, and he's a great guy. But for
- 13:12Speaker 2: whatever reason, that has never translated on screen. So forget
- 13:16Speaker 2: about trying to soften him, which they tried to do
- 13:20Speaker 2: and failed dismally at. It's never going to happen. They
- 13:23Speaker 2: should have just let him lean into what he can
- 13:26Speaker 2: do on screen, which is be a hard taskmaster and
- 13:30Speaker 2: put it to Peter, put it to Anthony Alberizi. And
- 13:34Speaker 2: I think the record will now show that Labor ran
- 13:38Speaker 2: a dirty campaign against Peter Dutton, but a very effective one.
- 13:42Speaker 2: They played the man rather than the ball but it worked,
- 13:47Speaker 2: and I think people got to the ballot box and
- 13:48Speaker 2: they didn't necessarily endorse Albanesi and say.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Gee, I love this elbow bloke.
- 13:53Speaker 2: He's the best Prime Minister Australia he's ever had. But
- 13:55Speaker 2: they were dead certain that they didn't want Peter Dutton
- 13:59Speaker 2: anywhere near the lodge. It was the result of a
- 14:01Speaker 2: personal campaign that they ran against him. But at no
- 14:04Speaker 2: point did the Coalition let Peter Dutton do the same
- 14:08Speaker 2: thing to Albanzi.
- 14:09Speaker 5: No, Well, they were all obsessed with like we've got.
- 14:12Speaker 3: To soften his image. And I actually think that was.
- 14:15Speaker 5: The downfall of Pete Dutton because the one thing in
- 14:20Speaker 5: politics that is worth its weight in gold is authenticity.
- 14:24Speaker 5: And if you're just yourself, whether people like it or lumpet,
- 14:29Speaker 5: people know, okay, this guy stands for something and he's
- 14:33Speaker 5: being himself. I'm looking at the genuine article, so I
- 14:36Speaker 5: know what I do or don't want to vote for.
- 14:38Speaker 5: And we know in politics perception is reality. And so
- 14:42Speaker 5: what Labor was able to create this narrative around who
- 14:46Speaker 5: Peter Dutton is and this hardliner and oh he's so
- 14:49Speaker 5: Trump Voldemort, et cetera and so on, which was such
- 14:54Speaker 5: a low blow. The guy has alopecia for crying out loud,
- 14:58Speaker 5: if you want to pick on his baldness, that is just.
- 15:00Speaker 3: Way too low.
- 15:02Speaker 5: But it worked, Like you say, and at the end
- 15:05Speaker 5: of the day, after all the votes accounted, that's all
- 15:09Speaker 5: that matters. So obviously the big question now is who
- 15:13Speaker 5: will be the new Liberal leader. We know Dan Tian's
- 15:16Speaker 5: hat is in the ring. We know Susan's Lay's hat
- 15:20Speaker 5: is in the ring. We know Angus Taylor's hat is.
- 15:24Speaker 3: In the ring.
- 15:24Speaker 5: These are the three names that are being bandied about.
- 15:29Speaker 5: But we know one Liberal senator by the name of
- 15:31Speaker 5: Holly Hughes, a regular hero on Sky News, has said,
- 15:35Speaker 5: whoever it is, it can't be Angus Taylor.
- 15:39Speaker 8: I know who I won't be supporting. I think when
- 15:43Speaker 8: you've had roles leading what was supposed to be the
- 15:46Speaker 8: economic narrative, when you were supposed to be putting.
- 15:49Speaker 4: Together tax policies, when.
- 15:50Speaker 8: You were supposed to be delivering that sort of messaging
- 15:55Speaker 8: for the coalition, when you are aky member of the
- 15:58Speaker 8: EERC we're quite frank clear as a shadow who submitted
- 16:01Speaker 8: seven costed policies last October and.
- 16:03Speaker 4: Then never heard anything back.
- 16:06Speaker 8: There's certain people that I think need to do a
- 16:08Speaker 8: lot of reflection themselves on what their role was the
- 16:11Speaker 8: miss laws and perhaps putting your hand up for the
- 16:13Speaker 8: leadership is not exactly where your strength lies.
- 16:18Speaker 5: We certainly didn't see a strong performance from Angus Taylor
- 16:21Speaker 5: this campaign. I don't think anyone would argue with that,
- 16:24Speaker 5: and certainly anyone who watched the debate, I think it
- 16:26Speaker 5: was pretty much across the board.
- 16:28Speaker 3: Everyone was like, ah, yeah, Charmers won that one.
- 16:31Speaker 5: Sorry, even though we know what team we support, Chalmers
- 16:35Speaker 5: won that debate, and that seemed to be a reoccurring
- 16:38Speaker 5: theme whenever you saw Angus Taylor on our screen.
- 16:41Speaker 4: I agree, And the problem is is that the Liberals
- 16:43Speaker 4: really did, I think, failed to sell an economic narrative,
- 16:47Speaker 4: and August Taylor, being the shadow Treasurer, he was key
- 16:49Speaker 4: part of that. And the guy's a smart guy. You
- 16:52Speaker 4: cannot deny he is a Rhodes scholar. He knows what
- 16:54Speaker 4: he's talking about. But I don't think he particularly came
- 16:56Speaker 4: across as strong in that debate that you were talking about, Liz.
- 16:59Speaker 4: I don't think he came across strong. There are a
- 17:00Speaker 4: lot of fumbles, but you look at the other candidates
- 17:03Speaker 4: as well, and I've got to say I'm actually disappointed
- 17:05Speaker 4: that Andrew Hasty, the West Australian, dropped out of the
- 17:08Speaker 4: race late this afternoon. I thought he would have been
- 17:10Speaker 4: a brilliant opposition leader. He is strong. He would have
- 17:14Speaker 4: been a great representative for WA who often feels like
- 17:17Speaker 4: they are the loaner of the country. I would know
- 17:20Speaker 4: that I'm from Western Australia. But the problem is is
- 17:22Speaker 4: that the Liberals also hid him throughout the campaign because
- 17:25Speaker 4: of comments that he made back in twenty eighteen. I
- 17:28Speaker 4: think Susan Lee is now the best out of all
- 17:30Speaker 4: of them. Why because the Liberals have a women problem.
- 17:33Speaker 4: Now the voters think that the Liberal Party have a
- 17:36Speaker 4: women problem, So you put Susan Lee in there. She's
- 17:39Speaker 4: probably the most known out of them as being the deputy,
- 17:41Speaker 4: so she does have that public profile. But you've got
- 17:44Speaker 4: to sell her as the package. You've got to sell
- 17:46Speaker 4: her in a way that they didn't sell Peter Dunnon.
- 17:48Speaker 4: She's a grandmother, she's got kids of her own. You've
- 17:51Speaker 4: got to appeal to that market. I do think that
- 17:53Speaker 4: Dan Teene is particularly strong on immigration, but they're going
- 17:57Speaker 4: to be in the wilderness for many years no matter
- 17:59Speaker 4: what Caleb that thing.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Which is why Hasty doesn't want to put his hand
- 18:03Speaker 2: up yet. In there's an argument, there's an argument to
- 18:05Speaker 2: be made that if you don't want to put your
- 18:07Speaker 2: hand up now and you want to come in and
- 18:08Speaker 2: collect all the prizes later, then you perhaps don't deserve to.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Collect all the prizes.
- 18:13Speaker 2: But there's also an argument that it's not worth burning
- 18:16Speaker 2: good talent early because if things go really badly at
- 18:19Speaker 2: the next election, you know, that could be the end
- 18:21Speaker 2: of it. But of course there is a man called
- 18:23Speaker 2: John Winston Howard who famously lost an election as Opposition
- 18:27Speaker 2: leader and then came back and became the second longest
- 18:30Speaker 2: serving Australian Prime minister in history. So it's not like
- 18:34Speaker 2: there isn't a roadback from this stuff. But Angus Taylor,
- 18:37Speaker 2: I mean, one of the biggest mistakes that the Coalition
- 18:41Speaker 2: made in this campaign was to not allow the tax
- 18:45Speaker 2: cut that Labors said they were not a sed to
- 18:47Speaker 2: the tax cut that Labour said they would pass on,
- 18:50Speaker 2: you know, five dollars a week. It was seventeen billion dollars,
- 18:54Speaker 2: which in the context of a trillion dollar debt that
- 18:56Speaker 2: we already have, wasn't a great deal of money. So
- 19:00Speaker 2: you have Angus Taylor come out and say we won't
- 19:03Speaker 2: pass on that tax cut.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Now there are two problems with that. It handed a
- 19:07Speaker 1: free kick to Labor.
- 19:09Speaker 2: I mean he fell for the three card trick, and
- 19:11Speaker 2: they then got to say for the rest of the
- 19:13Speaker 2: campaign that this is the Liberal Party, the coalition that
- 19:16Speaker 2: won't give you a tax cut, and that was born
- 19:18Speaker 2: out in the polling that people legitimately started to think
- 19:22Speaker 2: that the Labor Party was more likely to be the
- 19:24Speaker 2: party that would give them a tax cut. So they
- 19:27Speaker 2: handed that as a free kick, and it was never
- 19:29Speaker 2: going to get through the Senate anyway. I mean that
- 19:31Speaker 2: was legislated within two days, that tax cut. So if
- 19:34Speaker 2: the Coalition would form government, they'd have to repeal it,
- 19:37Speaker 2: which means they'd have to get it through the set
- 19:39Speaker 2: And do you think the Senate would ever allow a
- 19:42Speaker 2: tax cut.
- 19:43Speaker 1: To be repealed.
- 19:44Speaker 2: It was one of the dumbest decisions they made. So
- 19:47Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, he's not up to the job.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Susan Lay I don't think is particularly electable.
- 19:54Speaker 1: You know, she just doesn't do it for me. I
- 19:56Speaker 1: don't think she's been particularly.
- 19:57Speaker 2: Impressive as the deputy leader of Liberal Path.
- 20:00Speaker 5: It could be a smart move for the Libs, though
- 20:02Speaker 5: it gives them that massive point of difference. She would
- 20:05Speaker 5: be the first female leader of the Liberal Party again
- 20:09Speaker 5: in terms of a revamp, optical and otherwise, it could
- 20:14Speaker 5: be really helpful for them. And I think Dan Tian
- 20:18Speaker 5: being such a part of the Old Guard now, if
- 20:21Speaker 5: it were Angus Taylor, if it were Dan Teen, they're
- 20:25Speaker 5: considered Dutton's right hand men already, So if what the
- 20:30Speaker 5: Libs want is to do a revamp, I think Susan
- 20:34Speaker 5: Lay is actually the.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Best though he's proven himself to be a good campaigner.
- 20:40Speaker 2: And I was down in the western districts of Victoria
- 20:44Speaker 2: last week at the races in Warnabulle and everywhere were
- 20:48Speaker 2: the signs for Alex Dyson because he got money out
- 20:51Speaker 2: of the Climate two hundred mod this time, and it
- 20:53Speaker 2: was absolutely everywhere we stay in Port Fairy and every
- 20:55Speaker 2: second bloody house in Port Fairy had an Alex Dyson
- 20:59Speaker 2: sign on it. And I spoke to Tea and at
- 21:00Speaker 2: the races on Thursday and said are you worried? And
- 21:03Speaker 2: everyone I spoke to at the races during the week said, jeez,
- 21:06Speaker 2: I Reckon Teen's in a bit of travel.
- 21:08Speaker 1: And he managed to hold him off. There was a massive.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Campaign that Alex Dyson ran down there and he managed
- 21:14Speaker 2: to fend it off.
- 21:15Speaker 1: So he has some campaigning chops, which which clearly the
- 21:18Speaker 1: coaletion struggled with.
- 21:20Speaker 4: But he's been strong as well. But I think overall
- 21:22Speaker 4: we have to ask the question as well, is this
- 21:24Speaker 4: almost like the death of the Conservatives, because we're not
- 21:26Speaker 4: just seeing it here in Australia. We're seeing it the
- 21:29Speaker 4: Canadian election that was held last week as well. The
- 21:32Speaker 4: Conservatives were decimated. But you look at what's happening as
- 21:35Speaker 4: well over in the UK. The Conservatives are not performing
- 21:38Speaker 4: very well over there. But you know who is actually
- 21:41Speaker 4: outperforming the Conservatives Nigel for Raja's Reform Party. Now, over
- 21:47Speaker 4: the weekend the local council elections were held in the
- 21:51Speaker 4: UK and Reform did so much better than expected. In fact,
- 21:57Speaker 4: it took out multiple counties and it really really was
- 22:01Speaker 4: a warning sign. I would say to the Labor Party
- 22:04Speaker 4: that hey, people have genuinely han that had enough. But
- 22:07Speaker 4: also it just goes to show that when you actually
- 22:09Speaker 4: are tough, when you talk tough, when you walk the
- 22:11Speaker 4: walk and talk the talk like Nigel Farage, and you're
- 22:14Speaker 4: not scared to back away, you actually can make a
- 22:17Speaker 4: key difference. Here was Nigel Farage sending a message to
- 22:21Speaker 4: other parties.
- 22:23Speaker 6: The measure to Keir Starmer sarcastically, is please keep doing
- 22:26Speaker 6: what you're doing, and the message it can be made
- 22:28Speaker 6: not is well. Frankly, the Conservative Party's finished today. It's gone,
- 22:32Speaker 6: it's dying in the shahs. It has no future, It
- 22:35Speaker 6: stands for nothing.
- 22:36Speaker 5: It serves no purpose, any chance of doing a deal
- 22:39Speaker 5: with them to unite the right.
- 22:41Speaker 6: I don't want to do a deal with them. We're
- 22:42Speaker 6: going to win the next election on our own.
- 22:44Speaker 4: Okay, Nigel Franch, thank you very much, thank you. And
- 22:46Speaker 4: you know what, he probably may have a good chance.
- 22:49Speaker 4: The polls are right now in reforms favor. Why because
- 22:54Speaker 4: people over there have had enough of mass immigration. They're
- 22:56Speaker 4: sick to death of jobs being given to immigrants who've
- 23:00Speaker 4: come to the country as opposed to people who were
- 23:02Speaker 4: born and raised there. Hello, we're seeing issues here in
- 23:05Speaker 4: this country as well. But what I particularly like about
- 23:08Speaker 4: Nigel Ferajus he's not mucking around. He said that he's
- 23:12Speaker 4: coming after DEI in councils. Have a look.
- 23:16Speaker 6: We are going to be quite radical. Work from home.
- 23:19Speaker 6: Forget it. If you're a DEI officer, I suggest you
- 23:22Speaker 6: look for another job.
- 23:23Speaker 1: So things are going to be different.
- 23:25Speaker 6: We can't wagh magic ones. We don't pretend to, but
- 23:28Speaker 6: it'd be a very different approach to local government.
- 23:31Speaker 4: So I think that this result was quite telling and
- 23:33Speaker 4: it goes to show, as I said, when you actually
- 23:36Speaker 4: have policies and you stick to them and you don't
- 23:39Speaker 4: back down, you don't go all scared, you don't go
- 23:41Speaker 4: all light like what we saw with the Liberal Party here.
- 23:44Speaker 4: You can actually make a difference when you have a
- 23:47Speaker 4: point of difference. It was a really really successful win
- 23:50Speaker 4: over a former even former gb News host Darren Grimes.
- 23:54Speaker 4: He even managed to get a seat in one of
- 23:56Speaker 4: the councils, which was which was quite quite astonishing and
- 23:59Speaker 4: good on and he's done very well up there. But
- 24:02Speaker 4: I really think that Reform is a party. We need
- 24:05Speaker 4: something like that here in Australia because we don't have
- 24:07Speaker 4: it the Conservatives. If you're going to move over to
- 24:10Speaker 4: the left like the labor left, then what's the point
- 24:14Speaker 4: You're not taking voters with you.
- 24:15Speaker 5: And this is just remarkable in a matter of months.
- 24:18Speaker 5: So it was just August last year UK went to
- 24:21Speaker 5: the polls.
- 24:22Speaker 3: We know that Kirstarmer got up.
- 24:24Speaker 5: Reformer party just got fourteen percent of the vote share, modest,
- 24:31Speaker 5: not too bad. Here we are in the following year
- 24:35Speaker 5: and in these local elections they romped in thirty percent
- 24:40Speaker 5: of the vote, winning six hundred and seventy seven council seats.
- 24:46Speaker 3: This is huge.
- 24:47Speaker 5: They crushed Labor, they crushed the Conservatives. Labor lost over
- 24:51Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty seats. The Conservatives lost over six
- 24:55Speaker 5: hundred seats in these local elections. So those guys are
- 25:00Speaker 5: absolutely really You will remember, just months after the national
- 25:05Speaker 5: election last year, over two million English people signed a
- 25:11Speaker 5: poll saying, please, we are crying out Parliament go to
- 25:15Speaker 5: an early general election because.
- 25:17Speaker 3: We already have by a remorse.
- 25:19Speaker 5: They had punished the Conservatives at election because the Conservatives
- 25:24Speaker 5: had not delivered on their Brexit promises, namely to clamp
- 25:28Speaker 5: down on the mass rampant immigration that was sweeping the UK.
- 25:32Speaker 5: Kiss Starmer then became Prime Minister, took the narrow win
- 25:37Speaker 5: and proceeded.
- 25:39Speaker 1: To just keep doing.
- 25:40Speaker 5: All these progressive policies that everyone in the UK had
- 25:44Speaker 5: said very loudly they didn't want any more. But worse
- 25:48Speaker 5: than that, Kiers Starma then enacted these draconian policies to
- 25:53Speaker 5: silence everyone and censor everyone who was still complaining, still noticing,
- 25:59Speaker 5: still posting on their socials being like my country's being
- 26:03Speaker 5: overrun and I'm absolutely sick of it. And that's where
- 26:06Speaker 5: reform is now absolutely transcendent because they're just like, Okay,
- 26:12Speaker 5: the Conservatives aren't cutting.
- 26:13Speaker 3: It for you.
- 26:14Speaker 5: We are replacing them. We will be the Conservative party
- 26:17Speaker 5: that you long to see. It's going to be really
- 26:20Speaker 5: interesting when they go back to the polls for a
- 26:22Speaker 5: general election reform.
- 26:24Speaker 3: I have no doubt that Farage can do this.
- 26:27Speaker 5: And he means business when he says, you guys are
- 26:29Speaker 5: dead in the water.
- 26:31Speaker 3: We're going to win a majority government.
- 26:32Speaker 5: By ourselves come the next general election.
- 26:35Speaker 3: We're just getting started.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Well, they picked up another MP on the weekend as
- 26:38Speaker 2: well as the election, so they've now got their fifth
- 26:40Speaker 2: MP in the Parliament in the UK. And of course
- 26:43Speaker 2: they have a first pass the post system in the UK,
- 26:46Speaker 2: which makes things a little more difficult in terms of
- 26:49Speaker 2: getting candidates over the line because you look like at
- 26:52Speaker 2: a party like the lib Dems for instance, and they've
- 26:54Speaker 2: got you know, seventy eighty odd seats or something, but
- 26:56Speaker 2: they only pull two or three percent of the national vote,
- 26:59Speaker 2: but they have strong support in small parts of the country.
- 27:02Speaker 2: So on a first past the post model you can
- 27:05Speaker 2: actually get a lot of candidates in. So the trouble
- 27:08Speaker 2: for the Reform Party is to be able to turn
- 27:11Speaker 2: national support into a genuine first past the post result
- 27:15Speaker 2: in multiple electorates. But to make it clear just.
- 27:18Speaker 1: How extraordinary this was.
- 27:20Speaker 2: In the council elections, there's one thy six hundred and
- 27:23Speaker 2: forty one seats across the UK. Six hundred and seventy
- 27:26Speaker 2: seven of them, forty one percent went to the Reform Party.
- 27:30Speaker 2: The lib Dems won three hundred and seventy, the Tories
- 27:33Speaker 2: three hundred and nineteen, as Liz said before, that's down
- 27:36Speaker 2: six hundred and seventy seven on where they were, and
- 27:39Speaker 2: Labor one ninety eight, which is down one hundred and
- 27:41Speaker 2: eighty nine seats. So the Tories and Labor, the two
- 27:45Speaker 2: major parties, combined one quarter of the seats the council
- 27:50Speaker 2: seats in the UK, and Reform, what was previously a
- 27:55Speaker 2: minor party that started up last year about four or
- 27:59Speaker 2: five weeks before for the general election in the UK,
- 28:02Speaker 2: has taken forty one percent of them. I mean, that
- 28:05Speaker 2: is absolutely extraordinary. But the one thing I will say,
- 28:08Speaker 2: the advantage that Reform, and Farage has in the UK
- 28:12Speaker 2: as opposed to the situation we have here is that
- 28:16Speaker 2: Reform is essentially the only alternative Conservative party that exists
- 28:22Speaker 2: in the UK, whereas here you've got one Nation, and
- 28:25Speaker 2: you've got Rennick and you've got family First. But we
- 28:28Speaker 2: are so trumpet to patriots, we are so splintered that
- 28:31Speaker 2: the effort to actually create a genuine alternative to the
- 28:35Speaker 2: Liberal Party or the Coalition would require a lot of
- 28:38Speaker 2: people to knock their heads together and have to make
- 28:42Speaker 2: sacrifices on their various little bug bears and whatever to say,
- 28:45Speaker 2: we've got to get together and create something here that
- 28:47Speaker 2: could actually be a genuine alternative, because the way it
- 28:50Speaker 2: is at the moment, you could never do what Reform.
- 28:53Speaker 4: The thing is, the Conservatives are being decimated right now
- 28:55Speaker 4: across the world, other than Donald Trump, who has done
- 28:57Speaker 4: exceptionally well. But again it comes down to good life leadership.
- 29:00Speaker 4: And people criticize Nigel Farage saying he's Donald Trump two
- 29:03Speaker 4: point right. Hey, the guy is highly successful because he
- 29:06Speaker 4: says it like it is and that's the difference. And
- 29:09Speaker 4: I do agree, well, correct, It's all about authenticity. It's
- 29:12Speaker 4: not about backing away I do agree. Here in Australia
- 29:15Speaker 4: it is very different. But it also comes down to
- 29:18Speaker 4: the Liberal Party pulling up their socks. And I believe
- 29:20Speaker 4: that they can get there, but they're not going to
- 29:22Speaker 4: get there anytime soon. That is the problem. So who's
- 29:25Speaker 4: going to come up in the ranks and actually do it.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Can you imagine how the Tories must feel. They could
- 29:28Speaker 2: have had Nigel Farage.
- 29:30Speaker 4: And it will be Averen story.
- 29:32Speaker 2: They said no and he's gone and proven and wrong.
- 29:35Speaker 2: And I can't get over this business. Today Donald Trump
- 29:38Speaker 2: saying he's going to put one hundred percent tariff on
- 29:42Speaker 2: films made overseas that are then screened in Hollywood, and
- 29:47Speaker 2: here he is talking about it.
- 29:50Speaker 4: We're making very few movies now, Harleywood, He's being displayed.
- 29:53Speaker 5: Now.
- 29:54Speaker 1: You haven't jarfenent grossly and garpending.
- 29:56Speaker 4: Governor that allows that to happen.
- 29:57Speaker 2: So I'm not just blaming nations, but other nations, a
- 30:01Speaker 2: lot of them have stolin.
- 30:03Speaker 5: I'm moving in them.
- 30:05Speaker 2: So he says Hollywood is dying and we have to
- 30:07Speaker 2: do something to try and revive Hollywood. I mean, I
- 30:10Speaker 2: would suggest there are a multitude of reasons that Hollywood
- 30:13Speaker 2: is dying. I mean, it went woke and no one
- 30:14Speaker 2: wanted to watch the crap that was coming out of it.
- 30:16Speaker 2: Just look at the snow white film that Disney just
- 30:19Speaker 2: put out. Of course, Disney's now miraculously turned around and said, oh,
- 30:22Speaker 2: maybe we won't make woke films anymore. Funny about that,
- 30:25Speaker 2: because reality eventually comes to bad. Also, has anyone noticed
- 30:29Speaker 2: that there are no original ideas in the movie industry anymore?
- 30:33Speaker 2: I mean, can we stop with all the remakes that
- 30:36Speaker 2: seems to be all they put out.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Now, remake after remake after remake.
- 30:40Speaker 2: They've genuinely run out of ideas. So no wonder Hollywood
- 30:43Speaker 2: is in trouble. And I wish I could tell you
- 30:45Speaker 2: the detail around this plan, but it doesn't actually exist.
- 30:49Speaker 2: I mean, all we've been told is that Trump wants
- 30:52Speaker 2: to put one hundred percent tariff on films that come
- 30:54Speaker 2: from overseas. We don't know whether that means that it
- 30:57Speaker 2: would be one hundred percent tariff on the production cost
- 31:01Speaker 2: that would then have to be paid by the production
- 31:04Speaker 2: company so their film could be screened in the US,
- 31:07Speaker 2: or whether it means that the cinemas would have to
- 31:09Speaker 2: pay one hundred percent tariff on the tickets that they sell,
- 31:13Speaker 2: or the netflixes and all the other streaming services of
- 31:16Speaker 2: the world, or the television stations of the world would
- 31:19Speaker 2: have to pay another one hundred percent on top of
- 31:22Speaker 2: what they've already paid in rights in order to screen
- 31:25Speaker 2: the film, or whether it's the total box office taking.
- 31:28Speaker 1: No one knows what this actually leans. I mean, this
- 31:32Speaker 1: was a brain fart from Donald Trump.
- 31:33Speaker 3: Seriously, he's an ounce They've got to make it work now.
- 31:36Speaker 3: All the Hollywood exects, by the way, like, we got
- 31:39Speaker 3: no heads up about this.
- 31:41Speaker 5: We found out about it when it came out of
- 31:43Speaker 5: the man's mouth. And given the scrambling the Trump admin
- 31:47Speaker 5: is now trying to do.
- 31:48Speaker 3: To enact this, apparently it's happening.
- 31:52Speaker 5: I don't think they knew either, because obviously a movie
- 31:56Speaker 5: isn't a product. It doesn't travel through ports, so how
- 32:00Speaker 5: is such a tariff going to work. It's also startled
- 32:04Speaker 5: a lot of other people in different other sectors because
- 32:07Speaker 5: they're like, well, hang on a minute, we thought these
- 32:09Speaker 5: tariffs would just be on products. Now you mean to
- 32:13Speaker 5: tell me we're talking movies. Who else is he going
- 32:16Speaker 5: to hit up?
- 32:16Speaker 3: Now?
- 32:17Speaker 5: But this was Trump's post from his Truth social platform.
- 32:21Speaker 5: He said the movie industry in America is dying a
- 32:24Speaker 5: very fast death.
- 32:25Speaker 3: I'd say that's a great thing.
- 32:27Speaker 5: But anyway, other countries are offering all sorts of incentives
- 32:30Speaker 5: to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.
- 32:33Speaker 5: Hollywood and many other areas within the USA are being devastated.
- 32:37Speaker 5: This is a concerted effort by other nations and therefore
- 32:41Speaker 5: a national security threat. Oh, this is reaching hysteric levels,
- 32:45Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. It is in addition to everything else,
- 32:49Speaker 5: messaging and propaganda.
- 32:51Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.
- 32:52Speaker 5: How about you get rid of the Pentagon Department that
- 32:55Speaker 5: works in collusion with Hollywood to pump this crap out.
- 33:00Speaker 5: It's therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and
- 33:03Speaker 5: the United States Trade Representative to immediately begin the process
- 33:07Speaker 5: of instituting a one hundred percent tariff on any and
- 33:10Speaker 5: all movies coming into our country that are produced in
- 33:13Speaker 5: foreign lands. We want movies made in America again in
- 33:18Speaker 5: his usual caps, Now, he's not wrong. According to data
- 33:22Speaker 5: from prod pro, spending on film production TV production in
- 33:27Speaker 5: the United States has gone down by twenty eight percent
- 33:31Speaker 5: just between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four. That
- 33:35Speaker 5: is a lot of money we're talking about, and he
- 33:38Speaker 5: wants to keep it in the country. But you can't
- 33:41Speaker 5: deny that if you haven't made things. The production companies
- 33:47Speaker 5: are obviously like, well, we can produce this cheaper elsewhere anyway,
- 33:50Speaker 5: not to mention all the exotic locations that they film in.
- 33:54Speaker 3: Of course they're going to do it, but rather than.
- 33:56Speaker 5: Make it more affordable for them to do so in
- 33:59Speaker 5: the US, he's just saying, no, I'm going to make
- 34:01Speaker 5: it far too expensive for you to do it anyway.
- 34:05Speaker 1: Try use VHS. That's why you think so well, I.
- 34:10Speaker 4: Highly doubt a billionaire like Donald Trump still on the
- 34:12Speaker 4: old VHS. Yeah, but look, you never know. Look but
- 34:15Speaker 4: one can dream. But I completely this was a thought bubble.
- 34:18Speaker 4: There is no doubt this is a thought bubble. This
- 34:19Speaker 4: is not only going to cripple the overseas market, We're
- 34:23Speaker 4: going to be impacted here in Australia as well by this.
- 34:25Speaker 4: Don't forget there's been major films. If you look back,
- 34:27Speaker 4: there's been major films film here. It's going to have
- 34:29Speaker 4: an impact on our market. It's going to cripple the
- 34:32Speaker 4: independent movie scene. I was reading as well, over seventy
- 34:36Speaker 4: five percent of box office Hollywood films actually reportedly come
- 34:39Speaker 4: from outside of the US, so it probably will encourage
- 34:42Speaker 4: Hollywood to seek to move out of the United States.
- 34:47Speaker 4: But you know, Hollywood only has itself to blame here, because,
- 34:50Speaker 4: as you said, Caleb, Hollywood went woke years ago snow white.
- 34:53Speaker 4: For example, there was that ridiculous one Amelia Perez where
- 34:56Speaker 4: it was a Mexican drug law and that was transgender.
- 34:59Speaker 4: I mean, where are they getting this from. They've got
- 35:01Speaker 4: quotas for when you win awards. They've got quotas. You
- 35:04Speaker 4: have to have certain demographics to win awards. So you know,
- 35:07Speaker 4: maybe if I actually stopped with this white nonsense, they
- 35:09Speaker 4: could revive the movie scene. It's very clear Donald Trump
- 35:12Speaker 4: has no idea what he's doing here with this one.
- 35:14Speaker 4: I've got to say, I think this was a complete
- 35:15Speaker 4: thought bubble. I think there'll be a lot of pushback
- 35:17Speaker 4: as well.
- 35:18Speaker 2: You may have a point though. Crocodile Dundee was pretty
- 35:20Speaker 2: good Australian propaganda, wasn't it.
- 35:22Speaker 5: It was bring back Crocodile Dundee before we leave you
- 35:26Speaker 5: for a break tonight. Chinese, one of their humanoid robot factories,
- 35:31Speaker 5: has made headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons.
- 35:35Speaker 5: It's called China's Unitree Robotics. They were supposed to be
- 35:39Speaker 5: showcasing this humanoid robot called H one, and well it
- 35:46Speaker 5: went very badly in fact, with someone kind of This
- 35:50Speaker 5: guy was lucky to escape with his life. There's a
- 35:53Speaker 5: humanoid absolutely going tropo. These guys are running for their lives.
- 35:59Speaker 5: They almost got bashed in the head, taken out by
- 36:02Speaker 5: this robot, which Unitree is trying to sell.
- 36:06Speaker 3: You can go online and buy one of these now.
- 36:08Speaker 5: I think sales are probably going to plummet, but it
- 36:12Speaker 5: certainly doesn't dissuage the fears that so many people have
- 36:16Speaker 5: about these humanoid robots. Elon Musk has been like, oh,
- 36:20Speaker 5: we're going to produce five to ten thousand of them
- 36:24Speaker 5: in the next few years. Those people, those techie people,
- 36:28Speaker 5: are very excited about this expanding industry, and the rest
- 36:31Speaker 5: of us are watching on with horror at things like
- 36:34Speaker 5: this terrifying.
- 36:35Speaker 2: It's incredible to think where we could be going. I
- 36:37Speaker 2: just got to say, that thing looks like me. When
- 36:39Speaker 2: I went through my bit slips at Warnable Lab, I
- 36:42Speaker 2: realized that back two inns All Week book, He's cleaned
- 36:44Speaker 2: me up I meaning two minute noodles for the rest
- 36:46Speaker 2: of the year, it would see. After the break we'll
- 36:48Speaker 2: get into the papers, big time Liberal donuts.
- 36:51Speaker 1: Saying they may will never donate to the party again.
- 36:54Speaker 2: That is how bad things have become. Don't go away,
- 37:05Speaker 2: all right, let's get into tomorrow's papers. We'll start with
- 37:08Speaker 2: the Australian, where I have to say, right up the top,
- 37:10Speaker 2: the best story I've seen all week, perhaps all year,
- 37:15Speaker 2: a bit of avoidance from the election. Oscar Piastre, who
- 37:18Speaker 2: has won again in the US. I mean he is
- 37:21Speaker 2: just it and a bit boy from Brighton in Melbourne.
- 37:24Speaker 2: He will win the championship this year, mark my words.
- 37:28Speaker 2: But another story underneath it, completely hopeless, furious top Liberal
- 37:32Speaker 2: donors to close wallets. Top Liberal party donors are pulling
- 37:35Speaker 2: their financial support for the party, blaming the combination of
- 37:39Speaker 2: a disorganized election campaign and Peter Dathen's labor light policy platform,
- 37:43Speaker 2: saying without early wholesale changes, they won't be giving in
- 37:47Speaker 2: three years time. And it goes on to name some
- 37:51Speaker 2: of these people, soul Pats, Robert Milner and plenty of others.
- 37:55Speaker 2: Stockbroger Angus Aiken saying you know, we just can not
- 38:00Speaker 2: get over exactly how bad this was.
- 38:05Speaker 1: To quote soul Pats.
- 38:06Speaker 2: Who's given more than a million dollars in the past
- 38:09Speaker 2: to the party said it's been a disaster. I will
- 38:12Speaker 2: be seriously thinking about whether I ever donate again.
- 38:17Speaker 1: I don't know where they go to from now. It
- 38:19Speaker 1: was a very poor campaign. There were too many mixed messages.
- 38:22Speaker 2: They didn't convince voters that labor spending billions on renewables
- 38:25Speaker 2: is a bad idea. That Libs have to change their
- 38:28Speaker 2: way of thinking and get more of the swing voters.
- 38:30Speaker 2: I mean, when you've got people who punt up a
- 38:32Speaker 2: lot of money, say I don't know that I'll ever
- 38:34Speaker 2: give them money again, you own big traup.
- 38:36Speaker 4: Absolutely, this is a real worry for the Liberal Party.
- 38:39Speaker 4: They would be absolutely crying to read this article because
- 38:42Speaker 4: if you haven't got the money, you haven't got the backing,
- 38:44Speaker 4: then what's the point of putting out a campaign. But look,
- 38:47Speaker 4: they've done it to themselves. They will have to rebuild.
- 38:49Speaker 4: They're going to have to really convince donors that they
- 38:52Speaker 4: are not in the wilderness, that they are going to improve,
- 38:54Speaker 4: that they're going to fix the mess but it's going
- 38:56Speaker 4: to take a lot of time. But they need that money.
- 39:00Speaker 5: It would be such a good time, like we were
- 39:03Speaker 5: talking about earlier, if there was a legitimate alternative like
- 39:06Speaker 5: worm have managed you out of the blue, like they
- 39:09Speaker 5: haven't even been around for that long at all, and
- 39:11Speaker 5: look what they have achieved. Because people are desperate for
- 39:15Speaker 5: a Conservative party and they're like, well the Conservatives aren't
- 39:19Speaker 5: doing it for you, We're going to do it for you.
- 39:22Speaker 3: If one of those were to.
- 39:23Speaker 5: Spring up in Australia pretty soon, they could count on
- 39:27Speaker 5: these backers arguably just say hey, if those are the
- 39:31Speaker 5: policies that you want to see pushed, that's our bread
- 39:34Speaker 5: and butter. We're going to do it legitimately, unapologetically, and
- 39:39Speaker 5: we're going to create some wins in this country for
- 39:41Speaker 5: the Conservative vote. You wonder if you wouldn't Just like
- 39:45Speaker 5: the Conservatives in the UK, the Tories have lost a
- 39:49Speaker 5: lot of big donors to form. These guys could do
- 39:54Speaker 5: the same if and when they actually exist, said here
- 39:56Speaker 5: in Australia.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Well, it'd be good to see them given a scare,
- 39:59Speaker 2: wouldn't it. One day scare they had on the weekend
- 40:02Speaker 2: is enough to shock them into action. But of course,
- 40:05Speaker 2: now that albow is back, all the old people are
- 40:08Speaker 2: starting to circle again, and one of them is Marsha
- 40:10Speaker 2: Langton says. On the front of the aus Tomorrow sees
- 40:12Speaker 2: the moment, Langton tells PM, and don't forget that Penny
- 40:16Speaker 2: Wong sort of suggested in the dying days of the
- 40:19Speaker 2: campaign that there could be a legislated voice, But Langton says,
- 40:23Speaker 2: here it says Anthony Albernez, he must use he's once
- 40:25Speaker 2: in a generation election win to be courageous in Indigenous
- 40:29Speaker 2: policy and go beyond warm acknowledgments of traditional owners to
- 40:33Speaker 2: address extreme disadvantage. Voice and architect Marshall Langton says. The
- 40:37Speaker 2: wipeout of the coalition on Saturday is being seen by
- 40:40Speaker 2: some supporters of the Ularu statement from the heart as
- 40:42Speaker 2: a rejection, sorry of opposition attacks on welcome to Country ceremonies.
- 40:47Speaker 2: It's shunning of the Aboriginal flag and for an eleventh
- 40:50Speaker 2: hour attempt to convince voters that Labor had a secret
- 40:53Speaker 2: plan to revive.
- 40:55Speaker 1: An Indigenous voice.
- 40:57Speaker 2: To anyone who actually believes that, to to borrow a
- 41:01Speaker 2: line from the Prime Minister, who I believe he borrowed
- 41:04Speaker 2: from some influencer podcast, is you are de Lulu with no, Slulu,
- 41:08Speaker 2: I mean to think that this election was actually a
- 41:12Speaker 2: rejection of Datton saying that Welcome to Country is overdone
- 41:16Speaker 2: and that he would only stand in front of the
- 41:18Speaker 2: Australian fact. I'm sorry, no one walked into a ballot
- 41:21Speaker 2: box Saturday and said I'm voting on the basis of
- 41:24Speaker 2: welcome in the country. They voted on the basis of
- 41:27Speaker 2: cost of living and the fact that they just didn't
- 41:29Speaker 2: like Peter Datton to say, well, this is a rejection
- 41:32Speaker 2: of wokeness and well, you know this is people saying, actually,
- 41:35Speaker 2: like work does something.
- 41:37Speaker 4: Yeah. But you know what, though, the Liberals actually should
- 41:40Speaker 4: have gone harder on the voice. I think throughout the
- 41:41Speaker 4: campaign they should have they should have narrated it out.
- 41:45Speaker 4: As for Marsha, you know, they just pipe in their
- 41:48Speaker 4: heads up again now that Labor has been re elected.
- 41:50Speaker 4: And what struck me the other night now Beneze his
- 41:53Speaker 4: victory speech when he really enthusiastically acknowledged Elder's past president
- 41:57Speaker 4: emerging and that that line he was really husiastics So
- 42:00Speaker 4: you know, the gang is back together. The gang are
- 42:02Speaker 4: back together.
- 42:03Speaker 1: Kate.
- 42:03Speaker 2: Well, I mean, God help us always like to say
- 42:07Speaker 2: to that, but I don't. I just don't think if
- 42:09Speaker 2: they think that's what people were voting on.
- 42:13Speaker 4: Okay, we'll look at the Herald's sun now. Now, this
- 42:16Speaker 4: is one of the most delicious moments of the election campaign.
- 42:19Speaker 4: If there is any Bant in fight to survive, hallelujah.
- 42:22Speaker 4: There eight Victorian seats remain in doubt as the race
- 42:25Speaker 4: titans in the Liberals favor in three key electorates, offering
- 42:28Speaker 4: the party a silver lining amid the devastating defeat. Greensley
- 42:31Speaker 4: that Adam Banty is at risk of losing his seat
- 42:33Speaker 4: of Melbourne to Labor, while t LMP Monk Ryan on
- 42:36Speaker 4: Monday had to walk back claims she'd won Kugyong. God,
- 42:39Speaker 4: how embarrassing, admitting that the count was too close to call.
- 42:42Speaker 4: Postal votes in at Kuyong have favored the Liberal candidate there,
- 42:45Speaker 4: Amelia Hamer, who on Sunday night said we can win this.
- 42:50Speaker 4: So you've got doctor Monique Ryan. Firstly, she was out
- 42:52Speaker 4: there celebrating she'd won. I saw she even put on
- 42:55Speaker 4: her ex account Thank you Cooyong. She was all excited. Oh,
- 43:00Speaker 4: you might have to backpedal. How embarrassing. And as for
- 43:03Speaker 4: Adam Bant, Trella see you later. Adam off you go goodbye.
- 43:08Speaker 4: Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
- 43:10Speaker 4: That's your only silver lining from this whole election campaign.
- 43:13Speaker 2: When you see now delicious not about to talk about
- 43:15Speaker 2: Sidney sweeneyws on the front. Well, I mean you would
- 43:17Speaker 2: think that would be It would be much much better
- 43:19Speaker 2: than Adam band, much better vision than Adam Banter or
- 43:22Speaker 2: menik Rah.
- 43:23Speaker 1: And that's for sure.
- 43:23Speaker 2: But I mean, for goodness sake, you know they say
- 43:26Speaker 2: don't count your chickens before then, and given the advice
- 43:30Speaker 2: of eggs these days, they're very expensive chickens to be counting.
- 43:35Speaker 1: I mean, wouldn't it be magnificent?
- 43:36Speaker 2: And we saw, of course that the Greens have gone backwards,
- 43:39Speaker 2: they lost two seats.
- 43:40Speaker 1: In Queens It I mean, how.
- 43:42Speaker 2: Delicious would it be see Adam indeed, to see Adam
- 43:47Speaker 2: Bant go with them. I suspect Bant is going to
- 43:50Speaker 2: hold on and most of the Teals, it should be noted,
- 43:54Speaker 2: even if two of them say go in Victoria, most
- 43:57Speaker 2: of them will hold on in the rest of the country.
- 43:59Speaker 2: So it's not like the days are over for the Teals.
- 44:03Speaker 2: But it is a window into their bravado to say
- 44:06Speaker 2: on election.
- 44:10Speaker 1: And then the couch starts coming in. So sorry, I
- 44:14Speaker 1: got that wrong.
- 44:16Speaker 5: Very humiliating to the front page of the Townsville Bulletin.
- 44:19Speaker 5: Now odd story bin police to check waste come again.
- 44:25Speaker 5: Residents and ratepayers in Townsville will soon be treated to
- 44:28Speaker 5: a strange site on their streets, that of Townsville City
- 44:31Speaker 5: Council employees popping open their bins to take a look inside.
- 44:35Speaker 5: The move comes as a part of Townsville City Council's
- 44:39Speaker 5: new Bin health check program, running until September across seven suburbs.
- 44:45Speaker 5: These guys are going to be armed with clipboards. The
- 44:47Speaker 5: council's rubbish crops are doing visual checks of your recycling
- 44:51Speaker 5: bins on collection day to make sure there's no mix ups.
- 44:56Speaker 3: The mayor says this blitz is all about.
- 44:58Speaker 5: Boosting recycling and cutting land fell So she says they
- 45:03Speaker 5: won't be rifling through rummish.
- 45:05Speaker 3: Just taking a look.
- 45:07Speaker 5: So to Townsville residence, all that matters is what's on top, okay,
- 45:10Speaker 5: So just whatever you do, make sure you sprinkle the
- 45:13Speaker 5: good stuff on top, get the tick from these clipboard
- 45:17Speaker 5: council employees and you're in the clear.
- 45:19Speaker 1: Anyway, How would you like to be a bin coop.
- 45:21Speaker 4: I mean, they wouldn't be the best job. Can you
- 45:23Speaker 4: imagine the smell out of everyone's bins?
- 45:25Speaker 1: I know.
- 45:25Speaker 2: It reminds me of one of my favorite stories ever
- 45:28Speaker 2: published in the history of journalism, which was by a
- 45:30Speaker 2: little paper in a small town in the US where
- 45:34Speaker 2: the local government had decided that what was in the
- 45:37Speaker 2: bin once it was on the footpath was public property,
- 45:39Speaker 2: so anyone could come.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Along and take it.
- 45:42Speaker 2: So these small time journos of this little paper went
- 45:44Speaker 2: rifled through the bins of all the local politicians and
- 45:47Speaker 2: then published what they found in their bins, and very
- 45:49Speaker 2: quickly that policy was turned back. I wonder whether that
- 45:53Speaker 2: might happen in this case. After the break, the conclave
- 45:56Speaker 2: begins this week to decide who the new Pope will be.
- 46:00Speaker 2: What if it was Donald Trump will show you that
- 46:02Speaker 2: after this, Well, the new Pope will be decided this week.
- 46:08Speaker 2: But it would seems the White House has designs on
- 46:10Speaker 2: Donald Trump talk.
- 46:11Speaker 4: Oh look, I think this is absolutely brilliant. Yes, it's
- 46:14Speaker 4: a big moment for the Vatican, of course, as they
- 46:16Speaker 4: look to elect a new pope, and we saw this
- 46:19Speaker 4: fascinating image. It's an AI generated image that Donald Trump
- 46:22Speaker 4: has put out today of well, none other than himself
- 46:26Speaker 4: is he's nominated and selected himself to be the new Pope. Gosh,
- 46:29Speaker 4: if you don't you know he looks. This is the
- 46:31Speaker 4: problem with AI. You never know what's real or fake.
- 46:33Speaker 4: But you've got to have a look at this AI video.
- 46:36Speaker 4: And well, I thought it was a classic personally, isn't
- 46:57Speaker 4: it just brilliant? And look, of course the left to
- 46:59Speaker 4: the left, they're all upset, they say it's offensive. I
- 47:02Speaker 4: actually think it was quite funny. Personally, I think we
- 47:04Speaker 4: shouldn't take things so seriously. He put it out as
- 47:07Speaker 4: a little bit of a joke. He thought it was funny,
- 47:09Speaker 4: and you know what, we've got to take it with
- 47:11Speaker 4: a bit of humor. But AI is scary because it
- 47:13Speaker 4: didn't look real in my opinion.
- 47:15Speaker 1: Well one was he who actually goes to Catholic church?
- 47:17Speaker 3: Yes, I do. All thought it's hilarious. Trump's not even
- 47:22Speaker 3: a Catholic.
- 47:23Speaker 5: He doesn't even attend church church of any description.
- 47:27Speaker 3: He's absolutely trolling.
- 47:29Speaker 5: And then the White House's official ex otherwise known as
- 47:32Speaker 5: Twitter account, re shared the video, so they're clearly just
- 47:36Speaker 5: having a laugh.
- 47:37Speaker 3: Can everyone please come now?
- 47:39Speaker 2: I have to say, though surely being a poping a
- 47:43Speaker 2: priest involves celibacy. I don't think Donald Trump would ever
- 47:47Speaker 2: get the job.
- 47:48Speaker 5: I mean, for all his faults, and everyone's always rushed
- 47:51Speaker 5: to Trump's defense. And I've used the line myself to
- 47:53Speaker 5: be like it was an elected to be pope. He
- 47:55Speaker 5: was now.
- 47:59Speaker 3: Here, he has been light well.
- 48:00Speaker 1: Actually well he's already had.
- 48:03Speaker 2: I had the second coming in the White House, so
- 48:05Speaker 2: who knows what he can do over at Vatican City.
- 48:07Speaker 2: But before we go, Tony Barry, who works with our
- 48:10Speaker 2: mate Cos Samaras over at Redbridge. He's one of the
- 48:12Speaker 2: co directors of at Redbridge, was on the ABC's election
- 48:15Speaker 2: coverage on Saturday night. I know you weren't watching that,
- 48:18Speaker 2: you were watching us, but you would think, given he
- 48:20Speaker 2: was on the coverage, you would have wonderful things to
- 48:22Speaker 2: say about it. But his assessment was thus, the ABC
- 48:25Speaker 2: was the only telecast of six hours of no data
- 48:28Speaker 2: analysis and insight, just six endless what I reckon journalism
- 48:33Speaker 2: ours unwatchable drivel. He said they should burn the ABC
- 48:39Speaker 2: to the ground quote unquote, and then sort the earth
- 48:42Speaker 2: underneath and on behalf of all of us. Tony Barry,
- 48:46Speaker 2: we say thank you here, Thank you so much for
- 48:48Speaker 2: joining us.
- 48:49Speaker 1: Tonight, Britta Panecky Show is Up.