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- 0:01Speaker 1: Lateens General Man, Welcome to the Late Debase.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program.
- 0:10Speaker 3: I'm Caleb Bond with Joe Hildebrand and Liz Storer.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Well, would you believe it?
- 0:14Speaker 3: Yet another thing the Victorian government has managed to bugger up.
- 0:18Speaker 3: We told you the other night that they've now got
- 0:21Speaker 3: hard call criminals murderers being put into medium security prison
- 0:25Speaker 3: because they don't have enough room left in the maximum
- 0:27Speaker 3: security prisons.
- 0:29Speaker 2: There is a prison.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Shortage, except for the fact that there are four hundred
- 0:33Speaker 3: beds lying unused in Victorian prisons and they might be
- 0:36Speaker 3: about to demolish them.
- 0:37Speaker 2: We'll tell you what's going on with that soon.
- 0:39Speaker 3: In the papers, Anthony Albanezi has a big tax promise
- 0:43Speaker 3: for trade's it's all on for young and old, and
- 0:45Speaker 3: later the politician who's changed football teams for a photo op.
- 0:49Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, you can not do it.
- 0:53Speaker 3: But some good news, it would seem the idea of
- 0:56Speaker 3: DOGE is starting to get through here in Australia and
- 0:59Speaker 3: of course in my hometown of South Australia. In Adelaide,
- 1:03Speaker 3: the Chairman of the Productivity Commission, Adrian Temble, has said,
- 1:07Speaker 3: well there's merit in doing this here. I'm glad people
- 1:11Speaker 3: are starting to wake up. He gave a speech yesterday
- 1:14Speaker 3: entitled does doge have any relevance to essay?
- 1:17Speaker 2: And his answer was yes.
- 1:19Speaker 3: He said that the public sector must be just as informative,
- 1:22Speaker 3: reform innovative, sorry, reformist, and generally open to change as.
- 1:26Speaker 2: We expect our private sector to be.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Funny about that, and his suggestion the way to do
- 1:32Speaker 3: it is that every year there should be at least
- 1:35Speaker 3: a day or perhaps even a week set aside where
- 1:37Speaker 3: Parliament comes together to debate where the departments have actually
- 1:42Speaker 3: met performance targets. You know those things we deal with
- 1:46Speaker 3: in the private sector where the boss says you've got
- 1:49Speaker 3: to achieve KPIs by the end of the year and
- 1:51Speaker 3: if you don't do them, your job might be on
- 1:54Speaker 3: the line. But of course for many public servants it's
- 1:56Speaker 3: far too cushy for that.
- 1:57Speaker 2: You know, we're just going to say, well, but we'd
- 1:59Speaker 2: like this.
- 2:00Speaker 3: One in a time frame that no one really knows
- 2:02Speaker 3: what it is, but we'll come back and look at
- 2:04Speaker 3: it in four years time, and then when it hasn't
- 2:06Speaker 3: been done, we'll give you some more money to perhaps
- 2:09Speaker 3: get the job done. I'm glad Liz that the message
- 2:12Speaker 3: is finally getting through. We need a doge federally, we
- 2:15Speaker 3: need a doge in every state. People are starting to
- 2:18Speaker 3: wake up to the fact it's the Trump effect that
- 2:21Speaker 3: has been permeating the world since he was elected in November. Again,
- 2:25Speaker 3: the Trump affix saying, look, we do actually have to
- 2:28Speaker 3: care a little bit about how our governments are operating.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Oh one hundred percent. Who doesn't want government efficiency? But
- 2:34Speaker 1: as I've said before, when the Trump administration just last
- 2:38Speaker 1: month passed a continuing resolution that meant government spending was
- 2:43Speaker 1: going to stay at the same levels as the Biden
- 2:46Speaker 1: administrations until at least September, then all the doge rave
- 2:51Speaker 1: for me went out the window. Because while you're slashing
- 2:55Speaker 1: these projects and this bit and that bit, and it
- 2:58Speaker 1: all looks wonderful and it's made Goodness knows how many
- 3:01Speaker 1: incredible headlines, is massively looking amazing to the public, And naturally,
- 3:07Speaker 1: people in other Western countries are saying, we'll have what
- 3:10Speaker 1: they're having, thank you very much, spending our tax dollar
- 3:14Speaker 1: better than you have been. The bottom line is, if
- 3:17Speaker 1: government spending is staying at the same levels, it's a
- 3:21Speaker 1: pile of hot air. They're simply fun funneling those funds elsewhere.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Now one could argue, well they're funneling it in a
- 3:29Speaker 1: better way, but we simply don't know that yet. And
- 3:33Speaker 1: so I do wonder if much like this fellow in
- 3:36Speaker 1: South Australia has cottoned onto making these announcements. Sounds absolutely wonderful.
- 3:42Speaker 1: While we'll get you a doge, we'll take on this
- 3:45Speaker 1: doge like style of slashing this and that these politicians
- 3:49Speaker 1: have figured out, Well, we can get those headlines, we
- 3:52Speaker 1: can look just as good. But are we actually going
- 3:55Speaker 1: to be cutting government spending and thereby reducing inflation. No,
- 4:01Speaker 1: but we'll get the headlines and will look amazing.
- 4:04Speaker 4: Joe, I would not be holding your breath to see
- 4:07Speaker 4: this great new revolution descend upon the fine free state
- 4:10Speaker 4: of South Australia.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Valley's a sensible now.
- 4:14Speaker 4: He's a fantastic guye and I love him. He's also
- 4:17Speaker 4: a pragmatist. The exact quote from the Productivity Commissioned chairman
- 4:22Speaker 4: was that there was a quote small level of validity
- 4:25Speaker 4: that dose could have a role there, which is the
- 4:28Speaker 4: most bureaucratic thing you could possibly say. There is some
- 4:31Speaker 4: element of programmatic specific specificity within certain parameter bound widths,
- 4:37Speaker 4: which perhaps we could pursue with a view too at
- 4:40Speaker 4: some point in the future, reviewing the existing operations as
- 4:44Speaker 4: they currently stand, and seeing if at some point there
- 4:47Speaker 4: might be scope for further examination of a business case
- 4:50Speaker 4: for developing certain other procedures that might then lead to
- 4:54Speaker 4: greater efficiency beyond the forward estimates period.
- 4:56Speaker 3: You could not have put it better, Jo, I mean
- 4:59Speaker 3: you clear as a Jada journalist like me have read
- 5:03Speaker 3: through so many of these things. I think the reason
- 5:06Speaker 3: it's so important now is that over the last few
- 5:09Speaker 3: years what we've seen is an effective recession in Australia.
- 5:13Speaker 3: It didn't show up on paper because we pumped the
- 5:16Speaker 3: country up with so many migrants that it looked like
- 5:19Speaker 3: there was economic growth because of course naturally if you
- 5:21Speaker 3: have more people, you have to service more people, and
- 5:24Speaker 3: so that creates some level of economic growth. Now it's
- 5:27Speaker 3: been minuscule, you know, zero point one percent of whatever
- 5:30Speaker 3: each court of it, just enough to say we weren't
- 5:32Speaker 3: in recession, except of course that in real terms household GDP,
- 5:37Speaker 3: we were going in recession. People have had less actual
- 5:40Speaker 3: money in their hands relative to inflation to spend and
- 5:44Speaker 3: If you look at the jobs that have been created
- 5:47Speaker 3: for all of these new mirgrants that have come into
- 5:49Speaker 3: the country, eighty percent of them, more than eighty percent
- 5:52Speaker 3: of them are linked in some way to the government,
- 5:55Speaker 3: so it's in the health sector, or it's in some
- 5:58Speaker 3: sector that gets from the government in order to create
- 6:02Speaker 3: these jobs.
- 6:03Speaker 2: There's not actually any growth in the private sector.
- 6:06Speaker 3: No, unless they're getting money from the government in order
- 6:09Speaker 3: to do it. That's not growing an economy. It's just
- 6:11Speaker 3: spending more text to make it look like you're growing
- 6:14Speaker 3: an economy.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Indeed, and it's not sustainable, which is why it's encouraging
- 6:19Speaker 1: that Dutton. Despite the fact that I'm sorry, he's not
- 6:23Speaker 1: going to be the next prime minister, they're there. It
- 6:25Speaker 1: is just honestly, if I hear what conservative commentator say
- 6:30Speaker 1: that this is neck and neck. I had a friend
- 6:32Speaker 1: of mine on the phone to me just today and
- 6:35Speaker 1: she's all downhearted because she's like, you know, do you
- 6:39Speaker 1: think we're gonna make it? And I said to her,
- 6:41Speaker 1: anyone telling you that this is possible, I'm sorry, is
- 6:46Speaker 1: simply flying high. I'd love to have whatever they're having,
- 6:51Speaker 1: but I do love this promise by Dutton to slash
- 6:53Speaker 1: forty one thousand out of the public sector employees, because
- 6:59Speaker 1: we all though this is bloated for the very reasons
- 7:02Speaker 1: that you just outlined. This is bloated, This is unnecessary,
- 7:06Speaker 1: and we all know that you could slash more than
- 7:08Speaker 1: that tomorrow and nobody would know a difference in the
- 7:12Speaker 1: levels of service that we receive from our government. Speaking
- 7:16Speaker 1: of we all know that Victoria is now going to
- 7:20Speaker 1: be looking at an uptick as high as twenty percent
- 7:24Speaker 1: in terms of how many prison beds they need in
- 7:27Speaker 1: the next twelve months, due to the fact that just
- 7:30Speaker 1: last month they rushed through those tougher Bayer laws because
- 7:33Speaker 1: they're finally cracking down on crime.
- 7:36Speaker 2: This is it, This is the dawn of a new era.
- 7:39Speaker 1: They're going to be punishing criminals, revelatory. But they have
- 7:43Speaker 1: a massive problem on their hands because two new prison
- 7:47Speaker 1: builds are proving to be infested with mold, which means
- 7:53Speaker 1: that over four hundred and fifty brand new prison beds
- 7:57Speaker 1: are unusable. Terrible timing for this to make the news,
- 8:03Speaker 1: isn't it. Corrections Minister Enver Erdagan, sorry if I got
- 8:08Speaker 1: that wrong, buddy, says the government has hired lawyers and
- 8:12Speaker 1: they are ready to take the contractors who did these
- 8:15Speaker 1: dodgy builds to court.
- 8:18Speaker 2: So these two allegedly faulty.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Builds at two maximum security prisons, namely the Metropolitan Remand
- 8:25Speaker 1: Center in raven Hall and Bar One Prison at Lara,
- 8:30Speaker 1: are just sitting there. Nobody can actually be in these beds,
- 8:35Speaker 1: and the Corrections Minister is saying, no, no, this isn't
- 8:37Speaker 1: going to be a problem because we've got the brand
- 8:40Speaker 1: new maximum security center opening.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Mid this year.
- 8:44Speaker 1: But that, good sir, is replacing the Port Philip prison,
- 8:49Speaker 1: and the new one that you're referring to, which has
- 8:52Speaker 1: twelve hundred beds, is only got one hundred more breds
- 8:57Speaker 1: than the prison that's closing. Again, you're not really making
- 9:02Speaker 1: up the gap of the fact that you guys are
- 9:05Speaker 1: going to need twenty percent more prison beds. The math
- 9:08Speaker 1: isn't mathing, buddy over the next twelve months. And you're
- 9:12Speaker 1: pointing to this brand new one called the Western Plains
- 9:17Speaker 1: Correctional Center saying no, no, no, this is opening mid
- 9:20Speaker 1: this year, so nothing to see here. Yeah, but it's
- 9:23Speaker 1: replacing the one that you're closing Port Philip prison, and
- 9:28Speaker 1: the new one only has one hundred more beds than
- 9:30Speaker 1: that one, which one assumes is already pretty much at capacity.
- 9:35Speaker 1: So it's not reassuring for Victorians at all.
- 9:39Speaker 4: The Victorian government can't do Maths's suggesting there is anything
- 9:43Speaker 4: wrong with the Victorian governments finances, forward planning, cost business.
- 9:49Speaker 2: I don't think you need to get easy.
- 9:51Speaker 4: I feel cost benefit analysis. Look, these guys are just
- 9:56Speaker 4: obviously just a BASTONCA. It's getting to the point where
- 9:58Speaker 4: it's kind of like fast, isn't it? Like sorry? What sorry?
- 10:01Speaker 4: We can't open the prisons because because the beds are rotting,
- 10:06Speaker 4: it's not burning like the midnight oil. So like every
- 10:09Speaker 4: time there's a riot in a Victorian prison, which seems
- 10:11Speaker 4: to have been quite up frequently as well, but they're
- 10:13Speaker 4: just rotting, and it's just such a it seems like
- 10:16Speaker 4: such a metaphor for my old home state as well,
- 10:20Speaker 4: that that is literally just sort of decaying, just slowly
- 10:24Speaker 4: falling apart into some weird formless primordial gunk.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Overgrown with molds. Two things.
- 10:31Speaker 3: One, it's a maximum security prison, right, so the sort
- 10:34Speaker 3: of people they're putting in here are reasonably unsafe, right,
- 10:38Speaker 3: So the keys, if they have to live in a moldy.
- 10:42Speaker 2: It doesn't much matter to me them in there.
- 10:45Speaker 3: But the other thing, of course, is we know that
- 10:47Speaker 3: Victoria is running out of money.
- 10:49Speaker 2: I mean, the state is essentially broke.
- 10:51Speaker 3: They are a mindicant state now right, And they're trying
- 10:54Speaker 3: to get taxes here in Texas here, and they've jacked
- 10:57Speaker 3: up the land text to high heaven, on on and
- 10:59Speaker 3: on it goes. They don't have the money to pay
- 11:01Speaker 3: for these things. Meanwhile they're trying to do the suburban
- 11:03Speaker 3: rail loop, et cetera. So is this a case of
- 11:06Speaker 3: they just found like the cheapest guy they could in
- 11:08Speaker 3: the white pages or the yellow badges, and was like.
- 11:11Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll get you. We'll do a cashy job.
- 11:14Speaker 2: I will see how it goes well.
- 11:16Speaker 3: They're finding out how it goes now. It reminds me
- 11:18Speaker 3: of you might remember in Faulty Towers when Basil gets
- 11:22Speaker 3: the builder o'reiley to come in and do some work
- 11:25Speaker 3: on the hotel, and his wife Sybil pleads with him
- 11:28Speaker 3: not to get this cut price.
- 11:30Speaker 2: O'Reilly's loke in to do the job.
- 11:32Speaker 3: It gets him in to do the job, and it
- 11:33Speaker 3: goes about as well as you'd expect.
- 11:36Speaker 5: I don't care right now on my dining room door
- 11:38Speaker 5: put back, and it's other one take it away by
- 11:40Speaker 5: one o'clock. You understand, no, no, no, I don't want
- 11:42Speaker 5: a debate about it. If you're not over here in
- 11:44Speaker 5: twenty minutes with my door, I should come over there
- 11:46Speaker 5: and insert a large garden room and you're good there.
- 11:51Speaker 6: I'm sorry, mister faulty, but my man just won't work
- 11:54Speaker 6: on the Sunday. And that's the way it is.
- 11:56Speaker 4: There's nothing they can do about it.
- 11:57Speaker 2: How long is it going to take you? Well, I'm
- 11:59Speaker 2: not going as fast as we can.
- 12:01Speaker 3: I mean there's a probably the discussions they're having it
- 12:04Speaker 3: the moment they won't work on tu we're doing it
- 12:06Speaker 3: as fast as so disgracefully.
- 12:08Speaker 4: I mean, we talked about this last time. I'm sick
- 12:10Speaker 4: of my people, the Irish already colonized and enslaves. They
- 12:14Speaker 4: bring it to overlords being treated to this ongoing intergenerational
- 12:18Speaker 4: racism by wasby British Protestant elites. I won't have it.
- 12:23Speaker 4: And if you would like a cheap bill, just call
- 12:26Speaker 4: Jolly Joe's Bonds. The bills we do it three hundred.
- 12:31Speaker 3: You know, I've said this before so many, so many
- 12:33Speaker 3: government contracts I wish I could get my hands on.
- 12:36Speaker 3: I mean, couldn't the three of us not together a
- 12:38Speaker 3: building that doesn't turn moldy?
- 12:40Speaker 7: Like?
- 12:40Speaker 2: How hard can it be?
- 12:42Speaker 4: I don't know how your youth is tracking, Kayla, but
- 12:45Speaker 4: I have to say that every single bed that I
- 12:47Speaker 4: encountered in every sharehouse ended up pretty much the saver
- 12:51Speaker 4: as the.
- 12:51Speaker 3: Bar it stood it out for the people in the
- 12:53Speaker 3: sharehouses exactly frizzy and.
- 12:56Speaker 4: Give them scabies for good measure. Oh dear, No, let's
- 13:01Speaker 4: talk about liberation data.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Let's let's go on to that. Of course, it's the
- 13:04Speaker 2: story of the day.
- 13:06Speaker 3: And I'm not going to go chapter and verse into
- 13:08Speaker 3: what's happened, because if you haven't heard it by now,
- 13:09Speaker 3: well you've been living under a rock. But of course,
- 13:12Speaker 3: the pertinent thing for us is that the United States
- 13:15Speaker 3: has put a ten percent tariff on any product that
- 13:18Speaker 3: we export to the United States. They say that's because
- 13:22Speaker 3: we have some sort of reciprocal tariff on them. Simply
- 13:26Speaker 3: not true. The justification here seems to be that we
- 13:29Speaker 3: slap the GST on US products that come into Australia,
- 13:33Speaker 3: but we also slap the GST on Australian products that
- 13:36Speaker 3: are made here in Australia.
- 13:38Speaker 2: It is not a tariff.
- 13:40Speaker 3: So the justification for all of this I cannot see.
- 13:43Speaker 3: But Trump, of course is not doing it for the
- 13:45Speaker 3: rest of the world. He's doing it for the people
- 13:48Speaker 3: at home. He's doing it for America first, which is
- 13:51Speaker 3: what he was elected to do. And here he is saying,
- 13:54Speaker 3: this will be the rebirth of American industry.
- 13:58Speaker 7: Fellow Americans, is Liberation Day waiting for a long time.
- 14:06Speaker 7: April second, twenty twenty five will forever be remembered as
- 14:10Speaker 7: the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny
- 14:15Speaker 7: was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make
- 14:19Speaker 7: America wealthy again.
- 14:23Speaker 3: And Trump specifically pointed out Australian beef because we send
- 14:27Speaker 3: a lot of beef to the United States. It is
- 14:29Speaker 3: the best beef in the world, of course, but we
- 14:32Speaker 3: refuse to take us beef because of concerns over mad
- 14:36Speaker 3: cow disease. Now the experts in the US say that's
- 14:38Speaker 3: not a problem anymore. The experts heresay, we're not quite
- 14:41Speaker 3: so sure about that. But he opened up the possibility
- 14:44Speaker 3: and we don't really know yet how this is going
- 14:46Speaker 3: to land of banning Australian beef all together.
- 14:50Speaker 7: Well, Australia bans and they're wonderful people and wonderful everything,
- 14:55Speaker 7: but they ban American beef. Yet we imported three billion
- 14:59Speaker 7: dollars of Australian beef from them just last year alone.
- 15:03Speaker 7: They won't take any of our beef. They don't want
- 15:05Speaker 7: it because they don't want it to affect their farmers.
- 15:08Speaker 7: And you know what, I don't blame them, but we're
- 15:09Speaker 7: doing the same thing right now, starting about midnay to night.
- 15:15Speaker 2: We'll see where all of this actually lands.
- 15:17Speaker 3: And of course it's one thing that both leaders of
- 15:20Speaker 3: the government and the opposition are on a unity ticket
- 15:23Speaker 3: on that these tariffs are bad. The Prime Minister Anthony Alberze,
- 15:27Speaker 3: he tried to make hay while the sun shone today.
- 15:29Speaker 2: He said this was not the act of a friend.
- 15:33Speaker 6: President Trump referred to reciprocal tariffs. A reciprocal tariff would
- 15:39Speaker 6: be zero, not ten percent. The administration's tariffs have no
- 15:45Speaker 6: basis in logic, and they go against the basis of
- 15:48Speaker 6: our two nations partnership. This is not the act of
- 15:52Speaker 6: a friend.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Now what he says is right, and I suspect quietly
- 15:57Speaker 3: Albanize might have been a little bit pleased that all
- 15:59Speaker 3: of this played out as it did today because it
- 16:02Speaker 3: allows him to stand up so well, I'm going into
- 16:05Speaker 3: that for Australia. So it comes at a good time
- 16:06Speaker 3: in the middle of an election campaign. But what justification
- 16:10Speaker 3: is there for a ten percent tariff on Australians products.
- 16:13Speaker 4: There's none whatsoever, And Albo is completely right, there is
- 16:16Speaker 4: no justification whether Trump and the administration have got confused
- 16:19Speaker 4: by the ten percent GST on imports because remember there
- 16:22Speaker 4: were some that were exempt. If you buy bought stuff
- 16:25Speaker 4: on the wine from overseas, it was exempt, and then
- 16:27Speaker 4: a GEST was put on that. So does he suddenly
- 16:29Speaker 4: think that that's what the GST is. Of course in
- 16:31Speaker 4: America they have different states have different sales tax all
- 16:34Speaker 4: over the country. Is that a tariff because you go
- 16:37Speaker 4: to Wyoming and you pay a seven and a half
- 16:38Speaker 4: percent or whatever it might be. I don't know. So
- 16:41Speaker 4: it's absolutely right about that and the issue, as you
- 16:44Speaker 4: rightly said, the reason we have an issue with uncooked
- 16:49Speaker 4: American beef coming to Australia is the same reason why
- 16:51Speaker 4: anyone who brings a banana in here basically gets strip search.
- 16:55Speaker 4: Because we have really really strict biosecurity laws because we
- 16:58Speaker 4: are an island continent nation. But the interesting thing here
- 17:02Speaker 4: is not what the US tariff what will happen just
- 17:07Speaker 4: because the US tariffs on Australia will do it's because
- 17:10Speaker 4: it's the tariffs that they're going to put on everyone else.
- 17:12Speaker 4: So they're putting like thirty four percent on China. I
- 17:16Speaker 4: think it's twenty six percent on India. Now they are
- 17:18Speaker 4: two of our biggest trading partners. I think India's our
- 17:21Speaker 4: biggest market for education, which our third of something biggest export.
- 17:25Speaker 4: China of course our biggest export partner full stop. So
- 17:28Speaker 4: if those countries can't do trade with the US on
- 17:32Speaker 4: even terms, it can't export to them anymore. Suddenly their
- 17:35Speaker 4: growth collapses, Their growth goes down, Global growth goes down
- 17:40Speaker 4: from like three to two percent some people are suggesting.
- 17:42Speaker 4: But their growth in particular is going to get smashed
- 17:44Speaker 4: because they're to be hit by tariffs that are a
- 17:46Speaker 4: quarter to a third of the cost of the goods.
- 17:49Speaker 4: And then of course they don't have their economies strong enough.
- 17:52Speaker 4: They don't have big consumers there who want to buy
- 17:54Speaker 4: Australian iron ore to build stuff because they're not getting
- 17:57Speaker 4: richer anymore. They're not making more money. So the real
- 18:01Speaker 4: worry is what it does to China and India and
- 18:03Speaker 4: the effect that that then has on us rather than
- 18:06Speaker 4: just each way. And then the other big thing to
- 18:08Speaker 4: worry about will be what happens if they go after
- 18:10Speaker 4: the PBS. Will they start telling the government that it's
- 18:13Speaker 4: not allowed to negotiate. But basically, you know, bulk buys
- 18:18Speaker 4: of goods that it then subsidizes and sells off to
- 18:21Speaker 4: us for cheap prices so that we don't die. So
- 18:25Speaker 4: if I think if that happens, you know, I suddenly
- 18:28Speaker 4: you hear stories of people not being able to get
- 18:30Speaker 4: access to life saving cancer medication because you know, the
- 18:34Speaker 4: pharmaceutical big pharmaceutical companies in America, who Donald Trump's health
- 18:38Speaker 4: minister is meant to be going to war with and
- 18:40Speaker 4: keeping in check whatever happened to that RFK Junior.
- 18:43Speaker 8: That's when I think people will get really, really furious.
- 18:46Speaker 8: And the reason why I won't say it's good for
- 18:48Speaker 8: Anthony Abernezi, but the reason why it's bad for Peter
- 18:50Speaker 8: Dartner is because previously he'd sort of tried to wedge
- 18:53Speaker 8: the government and Donald Trump said, oh, I could have
- 18:54Speaker 8: got a better deal, and he's been accused of being
- 18:57Speaker 8: a bit like Trump himself, rightly or wrongly, fairly unfair,
- 19:00Speaker 8: but that sticks, and the worst Trump is the worse
- 19:04Speaker 8: it is, I think for Peter Dunn.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Yes, it's definitely interesting.
- 19:08Speaker 1: I think a few people would have been exhaling a
- 19:11Speaker 1: sigh of relief actually with this baseline of ten percent
- 19:15Speaker 1: when you see how high some of the tariffs are
- 19:18Speaker 1: on the other nations which we just had on the
- 19:21Speaker 1: screen earlier. Some of these are extortionate and targeting some
- 19:25Speaker 1: of the poorest countries, So you really do wonder what
- 19:29Speaker 1: the heck's going on there and what effect that's going
- 19:32Speaker 1: to have on their economies, given that there are many
- 19:36Speaker 1: of them poverty stricken nations as it is. So I
- 19:39Speaker 1: do think Australia is getting off light here. We'd already
- 19:42Speaker 1: been told that we weren't going to be exempt, and
- 19:46Speaker 1: even the farmers, from what I've read today, are breathing
- 19:49Speaker 1: a sigh of relief, saying, look, ten percent we can
- 19:52Speaker 1: live with, and what we can't live with we can
- 19:55Speaker 1: find other markets. And due credit to Albanzi, he's acted
- 19:59Speaker 1: very swiftly on this today, announcing a response package, including
- 20:04Speaker 1: fifty million dollars to pursue other markets for those sectors
- 20:09Speaker 1: that are like, Okay, well we're really screwed now, we
- 20:12Speaker 1: need to find other places to sell our product to.
- 20:15Speaker 1: But I learned something today that the largest Australian export
- 20:20Speaker 1: to the US is meat products.
- 20:21Speaker 2: We made four billion off.
- 20:23Speaker 1: Them just last year alone. I had no idea they
- 20:26Speaker 1: loved our meat that much.
- 20:28Speaker 3: Well, so they should. It's a bit since thing. I
- 20:31Speaker 3: heard an interview overnight. I couldn't sleep this morning, I
- 20:34Speaker 3: should say not last night. I was up at five
- 20:36Speaker 3: in the morning listening to an interview on two GB
- 20:39Speaker 3: of as you are a farmer, who was talking about.
- 20:43Speaker 2: How big the export market is for our meat.
- 20:46Speaker 3: And the fact that it's actually become nigh on impossible
- 20:48Speaker 3: to sell your product locally because all the avatars have
- 20:52Speaker 3: been bought up by big multinational congloberates that get the
- 20:56Speaker 3: meat in specifically to send it overseas. Lot of me wonders,
- 21:01Speaker 3: and I've written about this in my advertiser column tomorrow,
- 21:04Speaker 3: whether this will be a moment where we actually start
- 21:07Speaker 3: to wake up and think about, well, if America is
- 21:09Speaker 3: doing America first, we should think about Australia first as well.
- 21:13Speaker 2: And I don't mean putting tariffs on other nations.
- 21:16Speaker 3: I think they're anachronistic in the modern market and they're
- 21:19Speaker 3: a punitive measure. But things like we have two oil
- 21:22Speaker 3: refineries left in this country right they're guaranteed by the
- 21:26Speaker 3: federal government till the end of the decade.
- 21:28Speaker 2: After that what happened last We produce no fuel.
- 21:32Speaker 3: In this country, so we're entirely reliant on other countries
- 21:35Speaker 3: that are pulling all out of the ground, like Saudi Arabia,
- 21:38Speaker 3: and we've already seen them in recent years artificially inflate
- 21:42Speaker 3: the price of oil by shrinking the market because they
- 21:45Speaker 3: have total control of the market. So if they say
- 21:48Speaker 3: we'll put less oil out tomorrow, it means.
- 21:50Speaker 2: If your prices go up.
- 21:51Speaker 3: We've got all this coal and gas under our feet
- 21:55Speaker 3: that we dig up an export and send overseas and
- 21:58Speaker 3: refuse to burn for ourselves because we say is bad
- 22:00Speaker 3: for the environment, but we're happy for other people to
- 22:03Speaker 3: burn it, and it's bad for the environment over there
- 22:05Speaker 3: and not here, and we're paying through the nose for
- 22:08Speaker 3: our renewable energy here. So maybe this is a moment
- 22:10Speaker 3: where we have to wake up and say, well, actually
- 22:12Speaker 3: we need to start thinking about looking after ourselves as well,
- 22:16Speaker 3: not just you know, letting every other country take advantage.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Yeah, here, you won't find an Australia and he'll disagree
- 22:22Speaker 1: with that. Extraordinary announcement by the Trump administration just yesterday
- 22:27Speaker 1: with Attorney General Pam Bondie announcing that they want the
- 22:31Speaker 1: death penalty for Luigi mangione which you may recall, is
- 22:36Speaker 1: charged with murdering Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare in
- 22:40Speaker 1: cold blood.
- 22:42Speaker 2: Earlier this year, she posted.
- 22:44Speaker 1: A general statement saying, Luigi Mangioni's murder of Brian Thompson,
- 22:49Speaker 1: an innocent man and father of two young children, with
- 22:52Speaker 1: a premeditated, cold blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration,
- 22:58Speaker 1: I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty
- 23:01Speaker 1: in this case as we carry out President Trump's agenda
- 23:04Speaker 1: to stop violent crime and make America safe again. It's
- 23:09Speaker 1: an extraordinary instruction given he has yet to be convicted.
- 23:15Speaker 2: All of that is still underway.
- 23:17Speaker 1: But of course the deranged left who have enshrine Luigi
- 23:23Speaker 1: Mangioni as this incredible anti capitalist taking down the system
- 23:29Speaker 1: by murdering a corporate businessman in cold blood. They've made
- 23:35Speaker 1: an absolute hero out of this guy. And so upon
- 23:39Speaker 1: this announcement from Attorney General Pam Bondi, the usual looney
- 23:45Speaker 1: left have taken to their social media to make known
- 23:50Speaker 1: their disgrundlement.
- 23:53Speaker 4: We love Luigi's let's pull out a question card here randomly,
- 23:57Speaker 4: what makes life worth living?
- 24:00Speaker 2: Luigi jumped there to hold on to that card. Oh oh,
- 24:05Speaker 2: that's that's awful. It's awful, this is this is it's
- 24:11Speaker 2: a joke game, it's comedy, right, it's nae. Let's see
- 24:14Speaker 2: what this one has to say.
- 24:16Speaker 1: Oh oh, oh, that's terrible. Calling for the assassination of
- 24:25Speaker 1: President Johnald Trump because you know, it's actually perfectly okay
- 24:30Speaker 1: to the deranged left that it's totally acceptable to get
- 24:33Speaker 1: around shooting corporate businessmen in.
- 24:36Speaker 2: The cold, hard light of day.
- 24:39Speaker 1: According to them, that makes him a hero and renewed
- 24:43Speaker 1: calls now for President Trump's assassinations simply because they're asking
- 24:48Speaker 1: for the death penalty, which we know is oh, wouldn't
- 24:51Speaker 1: go so far as to say common in the United
- 24:53Speaker 1: States of America, but they still have death rows in
- 24:55Speaker 1: several states.
- 24:57Speaker 3: It's interesting because this is federal charges, And my understanding
- 25:01Speaker 3: of the reason they charged him federally as opposed to
- 25:04Speaker 3: in New York was specifically to open up the possibility
- 25:07Speaker 3: of death penalty, right because they don't have the death
- 25:09Speaker 3: penalty in New York, so there are certain circumstances where
- 25:12Speaker 3: you can be charged federally. And I think what they're
- 25:14Speaker 3: using here is to say that it's an act of terror,
- 25:17Speaker 3: and that then opens up the possibility of facing the
- 25:20Speaker 3: death penalty. But is it not extraordinary for an attorney
- 25:23Speaker 3: general to come out and say that someone has murdered
- 25:27Speaker 3: someone before they've even been convicted. Maybe they do things
- 25:30Speaker 3: differently in the United States, But as far as I'm aware,
- 25:34Speaker 3: that's prejudicial, I.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Think you can. I think if I don't know, I'm
- 25:38Speaker 4: not a lawyer, I'm an art student. I spent my
- 25:40Speaker 4: entire university years just kicking back on Scabe's infested rotting beds.
- 25:49Speaker 4: But I think you can say we are prosecuting this person,
- 25:51Speaker 4: this is our case, and we will be seeking the
- 25:53Speaker 4: death penalty. I don't think.
- 25:54Speaker 2: But she said his murder of Brian Thompson, she said
- 25:58Speaker 2: that he murdered him, not.
- 25:59Speaker 4: Not alleged his murder of bread, this is this is
- 26:04Speaker 4: the case that we're going to be making and so
- 26:07Speaker 4: but yeah, maybe maybe it's a little bit cut before
- 26:09Speaker 4: the hospital. I just trotskyite humor. I just don't understand it.
- 26:14Speaker 4: Like the little kind of crazy lefties on Twitter who
- 26:17Speaker 4: think that, you know, what are they doing? They're starting
- 26:19Speaker 4: a revolution now or something. It reminds me, you know,
- 26:21Speaker 4: is this male's cultural revolution again, where just everyone just
- 26:25Speaker 4: kill all our elders, kill all the kill the teachers,
- 26:28Speaker 4: kill the professors, kill the rich, eat the rich. That
- 26:31Speaker 4: I do not understand. But also I was just wondering,
- 26:35Speaker 4: imagine if the CEO that was shot allegedly by Luigi
- 26:39Speaker 4: Manoni in cold Blood was a woman, or imagine if
- 26:42Speaker 4: it was a black man, or imagine if it was
- 26:45Speaker 4: any other monery, Like what would they do then? Would
- 26:49Speaker 4: it still be totally justifiable because because there are plenty
- 26:51Speaker 4: of females well out there, will they'd be women get
- 26:54Speaker 4: jobs now in the workforce. I'm not sure if the
- 26:56Speaker 4: left is aware of this, but you know, some of
- 26:58Speaker 4: their hard work is paid off.
- 27:00Speaker 2: It's a good point.
- 27:02Speaker 3: We have had this discussion many times when James McPherson
- 27:05Speaker 3: is here on this disc about the death penalties are
- 27:07Speaker 3: the viewers at home, no were Liz and I stand,
- 27:09Speaker 3: how do you feel about the death pinny?
- 27:11Speaker 4: I don't look. I think it's like I don't really
- 27:14Speaker 4: care about Luigi MANNGIONI. I think he's an absolute nutter allegedly,
- 27:17Speaker 4: and I certainly wouldn't die on a hill trying to
- 27:21Speaker 4: defend his right not to die in prison. But I
- 27:26Speaker 4: don't think. I don't like the death money for a
- 27:29Speaker 4: couple of reasons. One is it's inefficient because if you
- 27:33Speaker 4: get the death penalty, then you basically exhaust every possible level,
- 27:37Speaker 4: every avenue for appeal. You tie up lawyers whose time
- 27:40Speaker 4: could be better spent elsewhere, probably defending less murderous types
- 27:45Speaker 4: on combing through anything that might justify a retrial or
- 27:49Speaker 4: redamination of the case, a podcast perhaps, remember that. So
- 27:54Speaker 4: that's a problem with as well. And also it just
- 27:56Speaker 4: you know, like imagine if and there have been cases
- 27:58Speaker 4: where people you know, been convicted of murders and then
- 28:01Speaker 4: science has evolved to the point where DNA evidence can
- 28:05Speaker 4: now prove that they didn't do it.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Whatever.
- 28:06Speaker 4: If they've been you know, they've been fried in the
- 28:09Speaker 4: electric chair, that was what that wasn't what Bob Carr
- 28:13Speaker 4: always said I was, and he said no, And I
- 28:17Speaker 4: said why not? He goes, what if you get it
- 28:19Speaker 4: wrong enough?
- 28:22Speaker 2: Reason, I've always thought it's.
- 28:24Speaker 4: Too good for them anyway, Why I give them all
- 28:26Speaker 4: the glamor and everything.
- 28:28Speaker 3: I've thought for a long time that we've sort of
- 28:30Speaker 3: scientifically got to the point now where you can moral
- 28:33Speaker 3: lesk convict.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Someone beyond any doubt like the d and.
- 28:37Speaker 3: There are the tech that we've got enabled to be
- 28:40Speaker 3: able to do it now is better than it's ever been.
- 28:42Speaker 3: But one thing that has been playing on my mind
- 28:44Speaker 3: recently is the advent of AI and the idea that
- 28:47Speaker 3: you know, you could previously say in the court room,
- 28:49Speaker 3: here's the CCTV vision that shows this specific man killing
- 28:54Speaker 3: this specific man.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Like you've got him. It's all over.
- 28:57Speaker 3: But now with the advent of AI, and it gets
- 29:00Speaker 3: better and better and better every day, do we start
- 29:02Speaker 3: getting into territory where you can entirely fabricate.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Evidence that could be used to convict them.
- 29:08Speaker 1: Indeed, and that has been done in the past, long
- 29:10Speaker 1: before we had this kind of technology. If the powers
- 29:14Speaker 1: that be one to get you, they can set up
- 29:16Speaker 1: any amount of evidence or discard any amount of evidence
- 29:21Speaker 1: or behind the scenes make it so that certain evidence
- 29:24Speaker 1: never makes it into the courtroom. So yeah, someone like
- 29:30Speaker 1: myself who is obsessed with dark government and all the
- 29:33Speaker 1: many things that go on behind closed doors. Historically, dating
- 29:37Speaker 1: all the way back to the fifties with the birth
- 29:39Speaker 1: of the CIA post World War Two, in insane, unspeakable
- 29:44Speaker 1: things have been done by what we've always perceived to
- 29:47Speaker 1: be the good guys. And in those cases, again, people
- 29:52Speaker 1: have no way at the time of differentiating between what
- 29:57Speaker 1: is real and what is false, and therefore the narrow
- 30:00Speaker 1: tive of the day, which again is pushed by the
- 30:02Speaker 1: powers that be through the media, through the government at
- 30:05Speaker 1: the time, this is how they get rid of people
- 30:07Speaker 1: who are going to squeal, et cetera, and so on.
- 30:09Speaker 1: So that is definitely a strong case against the death penalty.
- 30:13Speaker 1: But when it comes to rapists, when it comes to pedophiles,
- 30:17Speaker 1: I'm just like.
- 30:18Speaker 2: Get it done, guys.
- 30:23Speaker 1: So Joe's Joe's misgivings with penalty when they.
- 30:30Speaker 4: Just quickly I'm on an unrelated note, all those videos
- 30:33Speaker 4: of me doing dodgy things circulating from there, they're all.
- 30:39Speaker 3: That's the one David spears the for opposition leader, which
- 30:42Speaker 3: South Australia tried to reven video came out of how
- 30:45Speaker 3: you feel mate was a white powder and brother you
- 30:49Speaker 3: said it was ai and then pleaded guilty to supply drugs.
- 30:52Speaker 2: So we're all that landed.
- 30:53Speaker 4: It was a accidutely the.
- 30:55Speaker 2: More the old world we live in.
- 30:56Speaker 3: Speaking of Murphy, we talked last week about the fact
- 31:00Speaker 3: that the Albanzi government invited influences to be part of
- 31:04Speaker 3: the federal budget lock up, and the Labor Party actually
- 31:07Speaker 3: paid for the accommodation and flights of some influencers to
- 31:11Speaker 3: go along and.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Cover the federal budget.
- 31:13Speaker 3: And you'd think, well, if you're being paid to be
- 31:15Speaker 3: there by the Labor Party, they're probably expecting you to
- 31:18Speaker 3: give them some positive press.
- 31:20Speaker 4: Right.
- 31:20Speaker 3: Well, one influencer and she says she has not been
- 31:23Speaker 3: paid by the Labor Party. I'll take her at face
- 31:26Speaker 3: value for this, but she's come under the scrutiny of
- 31:28Speaker 3: the Electoral Commission. Abbi Chatfield is her name. She is
- 31:31Speaker 3: one of the biggest influencers in the country right now.
- 31:35Speaker 3: She's recently done interviews with the Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi
- 31:39Speaker 3: and the Greens leader Adam Bant. Now she posted these
- 31:43Speaker 3: two social media along with other videos where she essentially
- 31:47Speaker 3: explained labor policy and endorsed the Labor Party and said
- 31:51Speaker 3: you should put the liberals last, etc. And so there
- 31:55Speaker 3: was a question last week in the Senate as to
- 31:57Speaker 3: whether this actually constitutes a lie advertising and ought to
- 32:02Speaker 3: have an endorsement on it.
- 32:03Speaker 2: I'll show you a few of the videos. This is
- 32:05Speaker 2: one of Abby with the Prime Minister Dune's nuclear plant.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Did everyone laugh when they heard it for the first time?
- 32:12Speaker 3: What's going on there?
- 32:13Speaker 2: It's a fantasy.
- 32:14Speaker 6: Can you imagine this bloke ever thinking or getting a
- 32:17Speaker 6: policy that was aimed solely at women to reproductive health?
- 32:22Speaker 5: He hasn't and he won't.
- 32:25Speaker 2: There I know. And Adam Band. We have the incredible
- 32:29Speaker 2: leader of the Greens, Adam Bands. Who is Adam Band?
- 32:33Speaker 2: We thought we'd ask someone who knows you very well,
- 32:36Speaker 2: and it's Peter Duttonham getting.
- 32:39Speaker 4: How is Peter Dunton's war on going to help you
- 32:42Speaker 4: pay the rent and won't or help you with the
- 32:44Speaker 4: increase morgage? You won't, the.
- 32:47Speaker 3: Incredible leader Adam mad Now the AEC has cleared her
- 32:52Speaker 3: over these posts. They've seid their genuine commentary and I
- 32:55Speaker 3: think that's probably the right decision. Just as I can
- 32:58Speaker 3: sit here on TV and say that I endorse a
- 33:01Speaker 3: particular government or a particular party, and that is editorial comment,
- 33:05Speaker 3: an influencer should be able to do the same. But interestingly,
- 33:08Speaker 3: the AAC is still looking into whether some of these
- 33:12Speaker 3: posts posts sorry, may have breached the rules because on
- 33:15Speaker 3: Instagram you can co post right, so two people can
- 33:19Speaker 3: be linked on the same post as though they are
- 33:21Speaker 3: posting it together, and Abbi Chatfield has done this with
- 33:25Speaker 3: Adam Band and Anthony Albanisi, so they are essentially posting
- 33:29Speaker 3: what could be considered election material together, and the AAC
- 33:34Speaker 3: is looking into whether that ought to have an authorization
- 33:38Speaker 3: on it because it is essentially political advertising. It's in
- 33:42Speaker 3: this new media world, the social media world. We are
- 33:46Speaker 3: moving into murky territory here. And like I said last week,
- 33:49Speaker 3: I've got no problem with an influencer or whoever it is,
- 33:51Speaker 3: showing up and reporting on something if they want to,
- 33:54Speaker 3: as long as they're not being paid for it. But
- 33:57Speaker 3: it is opening up a serious discussion about why real
- 34:00Speaker 3: commentary in media.
- 34:01Speaker 2: Who is looking like in the new.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Work, Well, I don't think anyone prior to this was
- 34:06Speaker 1: in the dark about where Abbi Chatfields stood politically. I mean,
- 34:10Speaker 1: nobody is surprised that she's having elbow on, She's having
- 34:13Speaker 1: Adam bant on. These are guys that she's cheered on
- 34:17Speaker 1: in the past. She is a lefty and she's backing
- 34:20Speaker 1: her team.
- 34:21Speaker 2: She's got over.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Half a million followers and she's using that clout in
- 34:26Speaker 1: the upcoming election to ensure that her guys are seen
- 34:30Speaker 1: by her followers and with regards to them.
- 34:33Speaker 4: This is just smart.
- 34:34Speaker 1: This is a younger audience, especially in Australia, completely disengaged
- 34:39Speaker 1: from politics, but they follow Abbi Chatfield and her I
- 34:43Speaker 1: would say, in my humble opinion, degenerate content. But here
- 34:48Speaker 1: she's ventured into politics and she wants everyone to know
- 34:51Speaker 1: where she's putting her vote. And we've seen countless movie stars,
- 34:56Speaker 1: sports stars do this over it's relatively knew, but they've
- 35:01Speaker 1: started doing this very much in the American elections we've
- 35:04Speaker 1: seen in the past. It's creeping into Australian culture as well.
- 35:08Speaker 1: It's just smart and whether or not it has an
- 35:10Speaker 1: authorization on it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference
- 35:14Speaker 1: to her kind of audience.
- 35:15Speaker 2: They wouldn't bat an eyelid.
- 35:17Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I completely agree. I think it's it's ridiculous.
- 35:20Speaker 4: It was never going to be something that required authorization.
- 35:23Speaker 4: The authorization rules are there basically to apply to political advertising,
- 35:27Speaker 4: so any paid spots in the media, and it's particular,
- 35:32Speaker 4: it's particularly to discern so that people can discern where
- 35:37Speaker 4: it's actually coming from. So if you've got someone staying
- 35:39Speaker 4: next to Anthie Albanese saying I reckon Anthe Albanese is
- 35:42Speaker 4: great for Anthie Alberesi, doesn't take much brains to figure
- 35:45Speaker 4: out that that's probably being promoted by Anthony Alberanesi or
- 35:48Speaker 4: someone who supports the Labor Party. Where the authorization rules
- 35:53Speaker 4: come in particularly handy is when you are trying to
- 35:56Speaker 4: sort of if you're making a claim about something, did
- 35:58Speaker 4: you know that Peter has a secret share portfolio who's
- 36:02Speaker 4: not telling you about or whatever? And you go, oh,
- 36:04Speaker 4: I didn't know that. I wonder where that came from?
- 36:06Speaker 4: Authorized by the ALP camera and so that is why
- 36:10Speaker 4: that is why that's there, So that if something if
- 36:13Speaker 4: it is unclear as to who is trying making a
- 36:15Speaker 4: particular assertion or allegation about someone in an election campaign,
- 36:19Speaker 4: you know where that's coming from and you're not confusing
- 36:22Speaker 4: it with real news. I don't think anyone would confuse
- 36:24Speaker 4: Abby Chatfield.
- 36:26Speaker 3: This is very organic, very quickly, before we get to
- 36:29Speaker 3: a break, that the poor state politicians in South Australia
- 36:32Speaker 3: are in trouble. Apparently they've been parking illegally at the
- 36:35Speaker 3: front of Parliament the House too much and they've been
- 36:37Speaker 3: a scan.
- 36:39Speaker 2: By the Parliament telling them do not do this. We
- 36:42Speaker 2: will not be covering your fines. This is not okay.
- 36:46Speaker 3: I mean, for heaven's sake, I have to say that
- 36:48Speaker 3: they already have parking provided in the city.
- 36:50Speaker 2: I'm not sure why they need to park illegally out.
- 36:53Speaker 3: The front of Parliament House, but they ain't going to
- 36:55Speaker 3: get away with it, just as you and I don't
- 36:57Speaker 3: get away with it, and that seems fair enough to me.
- 37:00Speaker 3: After the break, we'll get into the papers. Anthony Albanezi
- 37:02Speaker 3: has a big tax promise for trade.
- 37:04Speaker 2: ES will tell you what it is after this. Of course,
- 37:13Speaker 2: the story of the.
- 37:13Speaker 3: Day has been Trump's tariffs and it carries on on
- 37:16Speaker 3: tomorrow's os Li's it does.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Indeed, PM seeks critical minerals path out of tariff's one
- 37:23Speaker 1: hundred percent disorder, reads the Splash. Anthony Albertezi is working
- 37:28Speaker 1: on a plan to stockpile key critical minerals to use
- 37:31Speaker 1: a strategic leverage with Donald Trump amid expectations the US
- 37:36Speaker 1: president could remove the ten percent tariff on Australian products
- 37:40Speaker 1: within months. The Australian can reveal the Trump administration is
- 37:44Speaker 1: considering a tariff deal with Camera that would incorporate a
- 37:47Speaker 1: critical minerals agreement designed to address US strategic priorities. Now
- 37:52Speaker 1: this is what I'm talking about. If you want an
- 37:56Speaker 1: exemption or anything close to it, what levery do you
- 38:00Speaker 1: have Australia instead of chucking a tanty like you did initially,
- 38:05Speaker 1: this is what you should.
- 38:06Speaker 2: Have always done.
- 38:07Speaker 1: What do we have that they might want that we
- 38:10Speaker 1: can use as leverage to get ourselves a better deal.
- 38:13Speaker 1: It took him a few days, but they got there.
- 38:15Speaker 3: And that's essentially they have been that motus operandi the
- 38:18Speaker 3: whole time, hasn't you You used the tariffs's leverage to
- 38:23Speaker 3: get something out of another country and then when they
- 38:25Speaker 3: deliver it, you whack the tariff off and away we go.
- 38:27Speaker 4: The exactly work for Ukraine. And now it's where we've
- 38:29Speaker 4: asked it's the exact same stuff, critical memories. But look,
- 38:32Speaker 4: he has been saying that they've been playing this for
- 38:34Speaker 4: a long time, and I think they've been pretty you know,
- 38:35Speaker 4: they've been They've been pretty cool headed about it. I
- 38:37Speaker 4: haven't been going too crazy. At least the PM hasn't
- 38:39Speaker 4: challenged him to fisty cuffs.
- 38:42Speaker 3: I'd pay to see that. That would that would be
- 38:44Speaker 3: a serious fight to watch. Get Greg Norman involved in
- 38:47Speaker 3: it as well.
- 38:47Speaker 1: I reckon, oh, Greg, Yeah, the ultimate go between Trump's
- 38:52Speaker 1: middleman to the second headline stumbling PM seismic nook scare tactic.
- 38:58Speaker 2: Will it work?
- 39:00Speaker 1: Anthony Albanizias suggested residents in the New South Wales Hunter
- 39:03Speaker 1: Valley would be in danger under the coalition's energy policy,
- 39:07Speaker 1: declaring a major earthquake in the region more than thirty
- 39:10Speaker 1: years ago, shoot, it was the last place a new
- 39:13Speaker 1: Clear reactor should be built.
- 39:16Speaker 2: He said.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Our opponents need to find six hundred billion dollars to
- 39:19Speaker 1: pay for their new Clear reactors. I was in Young
- 39:22Speaker 1: Labor at the time when that earthquake devastated this community.
- 39:26Speaker 1: This is the last place you put a new Clear reactor.
- 39:30Speaker 1: There will be no no Claire under our government. Hire laid,
- 39:34Speaker 1: says Anthony Albanesi in the Hunter Valley. Do you think
- 39:37Speaker 1: that people in the Hunter are actually worried about that?
- 39:41Speaker 2: Probably?
- 39:41Speaker 3: I think people in the Hunter are worried about where
- 39:43Speaker 3: jobs come from, and they understand energy jobs more than
- 39:46Speaker 3: probably anyone else in the country indeed, to be perfectly honest,
- 39:50Speaker 3: but it's almost as though he's talking about this as
- 39:52Speaker 3: though if it got to the stage where we were
- 39:55Speaker 3: seriously looking at building nuclear plants, that you wouldn't have.
- 39:58Speaker 2: To go to the inter A.
- 40:00Speaker 3: Sure all of this stuff up in order to happen.
- 40:02Speaker 3: We we just wake up one day. Is a bloody
- 40:04Speaker 3: plogt There no no barn, Middle studies.
- 40:06Speaker 4: Toad a god. So yeah. So the modern nuclear actors,
- 40:09Speaker 4: I think the Fushema reactors there was an issue obviously
- 40:12Speaker 4: with the earthquake in Japan, but that's because they were
- 40:14Speaker 4: built decades and decades and decades ago, very old. And
- 40:16Speaker 4: also my understanding is that all the ones that are
- 40:19Speaker 4: built now are earthquake proof and they have the reactors
- 40:22Speaker 4: kind of believe they actually have them floating in water,
- 40:25Speaker 4: so even if outside around them kind of shakes and everything,
- 40:29Speaker 4: it doesn't impact the actual reactor itself because it's sort
- 40:34Speaker 4: of floating there. I'm not a nuclear scientist, as you
- 40:37Speaker 4: know about. Remember when Asia the Foo Kashima stuff happened
- 40:41Speaker 4: and everyone was saying, this is why we can't have
- 40:43Speaker 4: nuclear There are all these experts coming out and say,
- 40:45Speaker 4: oh no, the modern mones are totally fine, but seismic
- 40:48Speaker 4: activity in the Hunter is a real concern because, as
- 40:51Speaker 4: you can see by the photo that they ran with
- 40:53Speaker 4: that particular story, there was an incredibly localized earthquakes just
- 40:58Speaker 4: underneath the Prime Minister's feet finished giving it.
- 41:00Speaker 2: And well we'll show you that vision a little less.
- 41:04Speaker 3: It would have been a bigger, bigger earthquake if he
- 41:06Speaker 3: hadn't lost all that Wait a few years ago.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Ye, do still mean picking on someone for tripping over?
- 41:14Speaker 2: He doesn't. I'm not going on it.
- 41:16Speaker 4: I'm not picking on him. Remember John Howard tripped. He
- 41:18Speaker 4: brought it up Joe John Howard tripped over I think
- 41:21Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety six and won about twenty seats.
- 41:24Speaker 2: I know.
- 41:24Speaker 3: But of course at the time they made it out
- 41:26Speaker 3: like this was the end of the campaign. He's fallen
- 41:29Speaker 3: over in the campaigns.
- 41:30Speaker 1: Then he got all the pity votes and under I don't.
- 41:34Speaker 2: Know that we've seen that a bit.
- 41:35Speaker 4: Why do we fall down, Master Bruce, so we can
- 41:38Speaker 4: learn to pick ourselves up again. Yes, that's right. Anthey,
- 41:41Speaker 4: Albeasy is batman. Anyway, let's go to the mighty Daily Telegraph,
- 41:45Speaker 4: an absolute cracker of yarn on the front page. Speaking
- 41:48Speaker 4: of which, anything you can do, get it. I aren't
- 41:51Speaker 4: going to do better. Rivals, Jewel over Western Sydney, Tradees,
- 41:55Speaker 4: tradees and other small businesses will be promised an instant
- 41:58Speaker 4: twenty thousand dollars asset right off Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi
- 42:01Speaker 4: at today's Future Western Sydney event at Blacktown, which I
- 42:05Speaker 4: will be going to thank you very much. I'll see
- 42:07Speaker 4: both Albo and dot O there. Cannot wait. It's going
- 42:09Speaker 4: to be awesome. But his pledge fall short of the
- 42:11Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars permanent incidant right off pledged by Opposition
- 42:14Speaker 4: leader Peter Dutton, who will today also unveil an extra
- 42:18Speaker 4: two hundred million in Western Sydney road funding. So it's great.
- 42:20Speaker 4: We've got a bidding war over who's going to do
- 42:22Speaker 4: more from Western Sydney, which is exactly the point of
- 42:25Speaker 4: these forums we have, which is the future the future
- 42:29Speaker 4: Western Sydney thing, which is in Blacktown, I think, as
- 42:32Speaker 4: I mentioned, and it's going to be a massive event.
- 42:35Speaker 4: Albow and Darton are both going to be delivering a
- 42:38Speaker 4: speech and if that doesn't float your boat, I will
- 42:41Speaker 4: also be speaking. Oh in compensation, I am.
- 42:46Speaker 2: I'm convinced.
- 42:48Speaker 3: If there's already an offer on the table and then
- 42:51Speaker 3: you're like, we'll get two thirds of the way there, is.
- 42:54Speaker 2: It really an impressive thing?
- 42:55Speaker 3: I mean, Scott Morrison did twenty grand instant right off
- 42:59Speaker 3: back in twenty nine nineteen, and then in twenty twenty
- 43:02Speaker 3: mid COVID he made it twenty five grand. So duttens
- 43:06Speaker 3: up in that to thirty and saying he'll make it permanent,
- 43:09Speaker 3: and Albo comes in and says, old, what scomo six
- 43:12Speaker 3: years ago?
- 43:15Speaker 1: Well, the other guy's given us more. Obviously, votes don't
- 43:18Speaker 1: come cheap. And whoever is in the whoever's aware of
- 43:22Speaker 1: these announcements, which is always my biggest thing. I don't
- 43:25Speaker 1: know how much attended people are actually baying.
- 43:28Speaker 2: That's going to kinch their deal.
- 43:30Speaker 1: If that you if you were a trade in Western Sydney,
- 43:34Speaker 1: Dutton just got your Dutton just got your vote.
- 43:37Speaker 4: There obviously the whole package of stuff. Like you know,
- 43:39Speaker 4: Albo's also doing free tay for everybody. So traders and
- 43:42Speaker 4: builders and stuff who have got an apprentice shortage, they're
- 43:44Speaker 4: going to be looking that. Actually maybe that might be
- 43:46Speaker 4: better for it. But it's great to say that if.
- 43:48Speaker 3: We had Tony's Trade's that was Tony Abbott's thing.
- 43:51Speaker 2: What are we going to have the elbows artist.
- 43:53Speaker 4: Howard Battler's Tony's tradees and elbows awesome tasker.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, I don't think that.
- 44:06Speaker 3: Let's go to the Gold Coast bulletin tomorrow. Interesting story
- 44:09Speaker 3: here Meir calls for bed tax on tourists. Your snooze,
- 44:14Speaker 3: you lose, says the Gold Coast bully meyor Tom Tate
- 44:17Speaker 3: wants a bed tax imposed on visitors to the Gold Coast,
- 44:20Speaker 3: saying it is needed to pay for tourist infrastructure. However,
- 44:23Speaker 3: a hotel's boss blasted the idea as a self defeating tariff.
- 44:28Speaker 2: I'm wondering whether he's just looked over to the US
- 44:30Speaker 2: and gone, oh.
- 44:31Speaker 4: Tax, Why would you Gold Coast Liberation days?
- 44:38Speaker 3: But why would you voluntarily make it more expensive for
- 44:42Speaker 3: a tourist to come to your region?
- 44:43Speaker 2: I don't get it.
- 44:44Speaker 1: No, and obviously everyone who's going to be copying the effects.
- 44:49Speaker 4: Of this is like, excuse me, what?
- 44:52Speaker 2: Also, since when does the.
- 44:53Speaker 1: Mayor impose these kinds of things. When we think of
- 44:56Speaker 1: these extra taxes, it's usually the Feds or the state governments.
- 45:01Speaker 4: Now we've got a mayor weighing in being like.
- 45:03Speaker 1: Oh, we're a local government idea, we've decided No, it
- 45:07Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense, especially given of course Gold Coast
- 45:10Speaker 1: he's most known for its massive tourist attractions, so I
- 45:15Speaker 1: don't think he's made anyone in his constituency happy with
- 45:18Speaker 1: this announcement.
- 45:19Speaker 4: The media maids maybe they have to pay bed Tech.
- 45:22Speaker 4: And finally, in the Mercury, the Tasmanian Mercury hobout Mercury
- 45:26Speaker 4: cross Bench crosshairs MPs take labor to task over stadium support.
- 45:29Speaker 4: This is a huge issue in Tazzy about this huge
- 45:33Speaker 4: if old stadium in Quari Point that's being built. A
- 45:35Speaker 4: whole bunch of hippies and lefties are saying, hang on it, no,
- 45:38Speaker 4: we should be spending all the money on housing, so
- 45:40Speaker 4: we'll never have any football ever again because of housing. Anyway.
- 45:43Speaker 4: Ten of parliaments cross Bench MP's have condemned Labor for
- 45:46Speaker 4: its decision to unconditionally back the proposed Macquarie Points stadium,
- 45:50Speaker 4: prompting a furious response from Dean Winter. Go Labor, what
- 45:55Speaker 4: a patriotic decision we need in tazzy forty forty forty
- 45:58Speaker 4: forty footy and if there's time more footy, absolutely I
- 46:02Speaker 4: a love it more than Melbourne.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Any any part of the country where you can get
- 46:06Speaker 3: more Ossie rules footy into the place, I think that's
- 46:09Speaker 3: a good thing.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Spread it far and wide across the country.
- 46:13Speaker 3: While we're talking about ossie rules football, it's verboten to
- 46:18Speaker 3: change your team. You simply can't do it. But would
- 46:21Speaker 3: you believe one liberal politician has We'll tell you who
- 46:24Speaker 3: it is and why after the break. Jane Hume, what
- 46:32Speaker 3: are you thinking? The Liberal senator for Victoria is a
- 46:36Speaker 3: renowned and Kilda Football Club fan. You can see her
- 46:41Speaker 3: here with her kid scarf on. Everyone knows she's a
- 46:44Speaker 3: Saints fan and that's good. Well, I mean, apart from
- 46:46Speaker 3: the fact that they haven't won a premiership for fifty
- 46:48Speaker 3: nine years. But that may explain why she's instead decided
- 46:52Speaker 3: today to put on Hawk's scaf Because, of course, she
- 46:56Speaker 3: was in on Territory at glen Ferry that if the
- 47:00Speaker 3: Libs win there will be money coming in for an
- 47:03Speaker 3: Oval upgrade. You can't do it like it's one of
- 47:06Speaker 3: those you're just not able to change your football team.
- 47:10Speaker 3: When I moved from Adelaide to the Herald Son in Melbourne,
- 47:14Speaker 3: I had people coming up to me in the newsroom
- 47:17Speaker 3: saying it should have been written in your contract that
- 47:19Speaker 3: you had to pick a Melbourne team when you moved
- 47:21Speaker 3: over here.
- 47:21Speaker 2: There is no way. It's like saying you've got a
- 47:25Speaker 2: favorite kid, like you just can not change.
- 47:27Speaker 4: We all do, but we don't. Absolutely right. This is
- 47:34Speaker 4: disgraceful behavior. It is UnAustralian. It's even worse, it's Unvictoriano. Yes, yes,
- 47:40Speaker 4: that's right. I've got a mate, one of my best
- 47:41Speaker 4: mates move on from Melbourne. Originally one of my best
- 47:44Speaker 4: mates moved from Sydney to Melbourne just so we could
- 47:48Speaker 4: go for the Swans. Still going for the Swans, still
- 47:51Speaker 4: rocking up and Jane's there. Just I mean, you think
- 47:54Speaker 4: you know.
- 47:54Speaker 1: Someone unbelievable for shame Jane Hume before we.
- 47:59Speaker 2: Leave, you ton't.
- 48:00Speaker 1: The Prime Minister has taken a tumble today when he
- 48:04Speaker 1: was posing for photos after a speaking engagement in Cessnock.
- 48:07Speaker 1: Here it is.
- 48:08Speaker 3: Photos with everyone.
- 48:10Speaker 4: Okay.
- 48:24Speaker 1: I feel terrible even bringing this up because I'm the
- 48:26Speaker 1: kind of person who does that kind of thing.
- 48:29Speaker 2: Every other day.
- 48:31Speaker 1: But here he was in the RVO on ABC Radio
- 48:35Speaker 1: and Newcastle assuring everyone he's absolutely fine.
- 48:39Speaker 5: We saw that you fell from the stage and says
- 48:41Speaker 5: not this afternoon, are you okay?
- 48:44Speaker 2: No, I stepped back one step.
- 48:47Speaker 5: I didn't fall off the stage, just one leg went down,
- 48:50Speaker 5: but I was sweet.
- 48:54Speaker 4: Reminds me of that song.
- 48:55Speaker 2: I got back down, but I got up again. God, John,
- 48:58Speaker 2: I've gone.
- 48:59Speaker 4: That's him, the song of ourminds me of Neil Armstrong.
- 49:02Speaker 4: One small step from man, one giant leap for a
- 49:05Speaker 4: prime minister.
- 49:05Speaker 2: But how can he say he didn't fall? I mean
- 49:08Speaker 2: we all mind the footage there, mate. If you can't
- 49:10Speaker 2: be if you can't even tell the truth about whether
- 49:15Speaker 2: that's it for us this week? Up next to the
- 49:17Speaker 2: reader Panecky shirt.
- 49:18Speaker 3: Good night