From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray live boy. Hello, thank you so much. Do you want to show we have for you tonight? Seriously some great stuff, great debate. We'll get to that as always You've always send me in my Paul. It's Gonews dot com dot you. But a bunch of stuff that you may will not have heard to this point in time. I think we're going
it breaks in new ground for you today. Now. One of the great lines that Peter Dutton has been able to use against this Prime Minister is that he's weak and rattled. Now almost each every day there's an example of the week and every couple of days as an example of a bloke who is panicking that he's going to lose his majority in the parliament. Now he is confident that at the next election the teals will mean
there's not going to be a change of government. But believe you me, if they're not a majority government, there is going to be problems for Anthony Abernezi. Him and his ministers are a little overly confident at times, a little of the belief that they're there forever, but of course nothing is forever. And one of the examples about the weak and rattled nature of Anthony Abernezi is he hasn't actually learnt the lesson that the last election was
just the last election, it's not the forever election. And yes there's a moment where all the planets line up and you get the result that you want. But three years earlier the Labor Party didn't get the result that they wanted in the so called miracle victory of Scott
Morrison that you and I saw coming. And who knows exactly where we're going to land at the election, either at the end of this year or early next year, but I can tell you the idea of a government being returned with its current majority well is pretty damn slim.
There's an indicies that I have been mentioning to you for a long time now, because it has been building for a long time, and I think mirrors our worldview and certainly mine that I present to you each and every evening that the Prime Minister's politics and spin and the gallery playing the narrative and the get Dutton is not actually connecting with normal people. It's a pole which
comes out every couple of weeks. The Essential poll published in the turbul Times otherwise known as the Guardian right track, wrong track. Have a look at today, because today it didn't just bust through fifty percent, it roared past half of the country saying that we're in the wrong place. Sixteen point turnaround from May of last year. The numbers at times were even lower, of course at the very
start of the electoral cycle. But where we are now more than half of the country believes we are headed in the wrong direction. That's why I think weak and rattled actually applies. Have a look. These are the numbers which have stretched all the way past the last election, all the way through to where we are today. The blue line is the wrong track. It has been steadily building. As I say, May of twenty twenty three is when
things started to a round. They held for a while, they went up, they came ever so slightly down before going back up again to basically fifty and then a huge jump. Now, the reason this took place was because of those inflation numbers. That is the big thing that happened since the last pole. Now, if there's an ability to slightly tweak the numbers or slightly ask different people questions, that number may change by the next pole. But when
there's a big change in a poll. You think, well, okay, what's happened now fifty to fifty which has become fifty one to forty nine in favor of labor. Well, of course that's the nuclear announcement. The number of undecideds has tightened. That's going to be the issue for the opposition. But what changed and went badly for the government it was that inflation that they had promised they were dealing with
in actual fact had started to roar up again. Remember, the Reserve Bank will make a decision on interest rates in order to get the inflation figure between two and three percent. It's currently four percent off the monthly numbers. Also, the Prime Minister is weak and rattled because a very significant number of Australians do not approve of his leadership. Now again, this was something that in June of twenty twenty two, a new prime minister, only eighteen percent of
people were disapproving of his approach to things. And we were in that camp. I was well and truly in that camp. Remember the countdown. I knew what this government would be. I did not give it a benefit of the doubt, because they use that benefit of the doubt to build an arrogance that eventually gets them to where they are today. Forty nine percent of people disapprove of the Prime Minister's leadership. That is a phenomenal change since
the early parts of his Prime ministership. Now, principally it's about cost of living. Principally, it's about a bloke who does not take responsibility. Principally, it is about political solutions to real life problems. And how often have I used the term too little, too late when it comes to the tax cuts? Well, guess what that worldview has now made it all the way into the heart of the beast.
This question was asked of the Prime Minister tonight on Channel two, a question that I have been placing as too little, too late since all of these numbers started getting fiddled with six seven months ago. We were right then, we are right now, and we will be right into the future. It is too little, it is too late, and even the ABC brings it up with the Prime Minister. Roll this tape.
For someone earning fifty thousand dollars, the tax cut's worth just over seventeen dollars a week. Is that going to alleviate the very clear suffering of thousands of Australians and thousands more than last year who are now regularly accessing food banks.
Too little, too late, because it is too little too late. Huge reaction last night to people sending me emails and also news stories around Emma who was on a current affair last night. Her and her partner work ninety hours a week. Yet they are the people who were promised by this Prime minister a better world. But no that on his watch week and rattled leader is not stepping.
Up pretty much nothing at all, not just the tax cuts come in, but everything else that is armed. So it's not justifiable.
So I know you're going to have this little extra in your account each week, but as.
You just kind of pointed out, everything else is going up at the same time, right including childcare.
Yes, that's one of the biggest things that has gone up with our budget. We got an email a couple of weeks ago saying that our daily rate is increasing by seventeen dollars a day, which is quite a lot realistically when you think about everything else going up, like car insurance, food prices, fuel rent rates, all of that type of stuff.
Every time we've talked about cost of living, start, middle or end of the show Emma and people like her other focus. I explained that in great detail last night. I played again for you tonight. Because fifty four percent of the country is like Emma, is like you, is like me. They think the joint is headed in the wrong direction. They think it's headed in the wrong direction
for a whole bunch of different reasons. But the single biggest change that has happened since that industy was under fifty percent and is now at fifty four percent is because this government is failing on inflation. Its solution to the problems last year was to take fifteen hundred dollars away from ten million workers, ten minium workers like Emma. They now want credit for handing back crumbs off the table. Well,
guess what. People won't give it to them. But they also won't change your government unless the opposition actually has a solution to their problem, not just saying what the problem is. They actually have to say what is their solution to cost a living Now at some point they're going to have to serve that up before the election. But these people are winnable because they have been lied to by the Labor Party, lied to about energy, lied
to about inflation, lied to about tax cuts. These people are willing to move because they are angry and they are desperate. And the Prime Minister's spin and the canber press gallery trying to pretend that it's anything but this is the biggest issue in the country, means they are ripe for moving. We'll all find out what happens at an election whenever it comes. It's Prime Minister's decision, obviously
not ours when that happens. So when it comes to energy, as you know, the opposition is where well and truly in the nuclear camp. Their belief is that the system is essentially one where the existing sites of power stations get replaced and turned into nuclear generation. It's a plug in and play system, you don't have to rewire the nation and it costs less than the renewables. Of course, when it comes to nuclear we have the scenario where Peter Dutton is all in its.
Likely disruption to power, which means not just that your fridge goes off at home, but that the could rooms go off at the supermarket, that we don't have reliable energy for the manufacturing process, so jobs are lost in the Australian economy. Why would we tolerate that situation. That's why I think we need to have a proper, mature discussion about how we migrate to a new energy system where we can have renewables that are firmed up by zero mission's latest generation nuclear technology.
But as you know, the Prime Minister thinks that this will save his political bacon by pretending that three eyed Koalas and all of that will move people all.
The time when the rest of us are working to get power bills down. He's picked the one option guaranteed to priss power prices up.
What Chris power price is up? The economics of nuclear do not stack up.
That doesn't worry those opposite. They spent a decade in power without a single surface and then left Australia with a trillion dollars of debt.
Yeah, because job keeper wasn't a thing. I think that the Labor Party wanted to be bigger. And remember they wanted us to buy an airline. Please they of course, we'll take it up to one point two trillion dollars in debt, but don't tell anyone. And of course we know the Prime Minister is all in when it comes to renewables and the building of them, despite the fact that the CSIOO toll is at one point it was
going to be more than a trillion dollars. Now it's half a trillion dollars and the cost of nuclear is way less than half a trillion dollars. But don't tell anyone. But fascinating again, more of this polling which comes out today. And I do appreciate the detail that they make publicly available to people, even though I'm sure they love that. I use this detail to make our points as regularly as we do. But I want you to think before I show you the pole. Where do you think most
Australians get their information about this issue? How are they putting two and two together about whether the government is trying to race as far as it can down its pathway, or that that pathway is foolish and there is a better option. Would you think that it's scientists or government experts or political figures. According to this polling, No, Almost eighty percent of people trust their friends and family on
this issue. How much do you trust the following sources of information when it comes to providing accurate information about energy transition? Now you put together the two blues, which is where you trust a little bit, or you trust a lot, and then you end up with seventy nine
percent of people having a conversation at home. This is why it's so important to what shows like this to commit to channels like ours to get information because my belief is that while we have this conversation, I know there's lots of other stuff on the Tellian, there's lots of other people doing other things. But the information, the data that I try to give you here is all about arming you with the tools to have the conversations
with your families. Now, this was also the major source of information when it came to people about the voice last year. All of the experts, all of the media, we all know where they were. Well, of course we all know where it ended up. Now this is really fascinating here because we have a scenario where obviously that
information isn't all uniformally pro nuclear or pro renewables. But if this is the big source of information, then the people you have to convince, the people who have the power are you to have the conversation with your mates and with your family. Put it up again, because the next best community members and spokespeople. Now I'm not entirely sure what that means, but your local community groups potentially having issues with offshore wind or more solar, perhaps that's
what people are turning to. And then it starts to fall away. Yes, the majority of people do trust the information that comes from government agencies, but that is still well below the number. So the CSIRO and their numbers, which are obviously thrown around a lot dwarfed to the information that people are finding out on their own researching and their own and having the discussion at home. The least trusted the federal government. That's the third from the bottom.
I repeat, the federal government is the least trusted source of information about the energy transition. All of that feeds back into a country that believes by fifty four percent we're in the wrong direction. Action means lots of different things.
I think you can conclude that when it comes to the two seventy five promise that never happened, the over commitment towards renewables, the obsession with cutting x percent of one percent of the world's global emissions, where all of course China it can be thirty times more polluting than we are and nothing gets measured until twenty thirty. It can be the handling of the immigration system, lots of different things, but people believe the joints centered in the
wrong direction. That number has only grown since this government came to power and does what it does. The Prime Minister's disapproval numbers have only become more serious the longer his stays in power. Now, people who will defend a certain type of politics or certain type of politician or certain type of party will say, well, but it's just
one part. Yeah, but the trend is clear. The trend is clear disapproval of the Prime Minister's leadership and fifty twy four percent of people saying we're headed in the wrong direction. And that's why when we do the documentaries that we do here, we do the editorials in our programs, we have the discussions that we do. I am so
thankful that you are here each and every night. I'm so thankful that we share the information, and then you're able to share the information with friends and family who ultimately make the decisions when it comes to the polsters first and then at the polling booth. Each and every time,
nothing is inevitable. We say it for a long time, and that's because off of the real world is a very different place than where most of the media and certainly the politicians would pretend they are the most important people in it. Now, a couple of little things to say about the most recent movements in and around the Senator from Western Australia is stepping slowly but surely out
of the Labor Party. But I want to get to some again data which kind of is going to pour some cold water on this idea that the Muslim vote is about to run away from the Labour Party. As you know, of course, outside of the Parliament, Senator Payment is someone who as we know, was effectively not quite booted out of the Labor Party officially, but she's not
really talking to any of her colleagues. She's not allowed to meet with any of her colleague She's getting the formal version of the cold shoulder after crossing the floor. But before I talk about her apparent moves towards considering some sort of weaponization of the Islamic community for political purposes, can we just deal with a little bit of each
way elbow, Because there was a bit of spin. I meant to get to it last night, but there was so much other information and I did quickly mention it in the debate last night with Steve with the Sam Crosman. But have a look at the spin that the Prime Minister put on why he permanently suspended this senator for crossing the floor. It wasn't because of Palestine, it wasn't because of her vote, but it was because she was a distraction from the two little too late tax cuts. Well,
unsurprisingly that didn't really float with anyone. But these were the excuses. He didn't ever want to punish her. He ended up having to punish her. Remember, he wanted to slap on the wrist, but he had to punish because the colleague said, hang on one rule for everyone. That's kind of the point of the way we do things. Well, now he's out and about and apparently saying people saying of him that he's shown strength in restraint by not expelling her further. So firstly he apparently put it on
one side because she was a political distraction. But now he's amazing because he hasn't booted her out of the party because of what she did. That would be what we call each way albo, right, which is it it's about the Palestine vote, or it's not about the Palestine vote. But let's get to this concept of the Muslim vote, whether the Labour Party is about to lose it or
could be punished by it, all the rest of it. Now, as you know, certain sections of the Arab community and the non Arab community of course, had been marching quite relentlessly in support of people in Palestine by proxy. Some people have been doing so because they are happy with what her Mass has done, and some are doing it specifically because of course they are not happy with what
Israel has been doing. But this group also occupies an awful lot of noise in the media and online, which is why you get a senator from Western Australia crossing the floor to vote with the Greens on essentially a one state solution, not a two state solution. But you've heard all of this. Now, what is fascinating is in the past couple of days this person has been kind of winging about getting the cold shoulder from the organization
of which she joined. And we all know where this is going to end up, which is that she's either going to end up as an independent. She of course has got another four years left in the Senate before she'd have to go up for reelection or should go out and join the Greens. Now I don't think you're going to go and join the Green because I'll get
to that reason in a second. But you may well have also heard that potentially there have been some discussions happening behind the scenes with Glenn Duruy, the Preference Whisperer, to try to work out is there a way to crowd a new political force, one that of course at its heart and center, would have the key issues that she has been talking about that are forcing her breakup with the Labor Party. But okay, if that's the case,
remember she's from Western Australia. How many people in Western Australia would have Gaza as kind of the a one issue one where they want to punish the Labor Party and they think the Greens aren't even good enough. Well, let's look at the census. Two point five percent of Western Australians listed their religion in the most recent census as being Islamic. Fourteen percent of the vote voted Green,
yet it only produced one senator. Now, those existing senators are hardly going to get out of the way for her to have a new spot, and it's very unlikely that the preferences that you would need to pull together to eventually become a Senator would be able to get you there. If they're not Labor, who obviously wouldn't send her anything, Liberals who obviously wouldn't send her anything, one Nation who obviously wouldn't send her anything. You're notited Australian
Party who obviously wouldn't send her anything. And the Greens only just get enough of a vote to get one person. So even if she got all of the Greens preferences and the Socialists preferences and whatever the invented parties might be, the likelihood of her being able to get into the Senate at a normal half Senate election, not the Malcolm
Turnbull genius half the quota, it's pretty unlikely. But interestingly, here we keep hearing that the Muslim vote is now going to move from just protesting at the Labour Party, but apparently there's a particular focus maybe on four specific MPs to try to get rid of those Labor MPs at the next federal election. The reason the fuse that
lights the fire, yes is what's happening in Gaza. But specifically they're going to try to use this senator issue to be the reason the Islamic community is apparently going to hold as Bowler's move away from the Labor Party and either towards a series of independence rather than the Greens, who already have the same position that all of those independence would end up having. How do I know because this bloke told Channel nine so.
How Anthony Albernizi has treated senator payment. It is disgusting, It is deplorable, and we expected a lot better.
Marmoodh Willa says he's advising a collection of Muslim organizations tonight, vowing to target for Amps in multicultural seats, including two members of cabinet, whether.
She forms her unpiety, whether she becomes an independent, whether she goes to the Green. She has the Arab, Muslim and past ten and communities support.
Okay, so you're gonna hear a lot about this. It was a big obsession with the seven point thirty report when they were talking with Elbow. But let's actually have a look right. Apparently the seats. Now they claim that they've got a significant capacity to impact about twenty different seats, but according to that report on Channel nine, the four seats that would be of particular focus for whatever this
movement may be. Well, the seats are Blackslain, Watsman where are were and Wills Blackslan Watson where we're all in Sydney, Wills is in Victoria. But have a look the Islamic population Blaxland about a third, Watson about a quarter lower in where or were lower in Wills. Now imagine those numbers one hundred percent voting the way that this new movement would want it to be. That's the only way you're going to unsee labor MPs with very big margins.
But can I also say before I show you the next graph, why I don't think a bunch of labor MPs at this election are going to be swept away by this movement Because for it to work, you basically have to do a teals And the way that that works is that you want the teal to end up with the second most votes before preferences start kicking in, and then basically everyone but the liberal preference the teal. A teal gets over fifty percent, the Teal becomes the MP.
But for that to be the case, the Labor Party kind of had to run dead in those seats. Now they're never a chance of winning those seats, as the Liberal Party is never a chance of winning the seats in these so called Islamic areas of places like Western Sydney and Outer Melbourne. But they're not going to run dead at the next election. They're also not going to send their preferences towards candidates who would obviously have a different worldview on what's happening right now and since October
seven than their worldview. So the preference system doesn't work, which is why I should show you the Liberal vote in each of those seats. Now, remember to pull off atial to knock off a major party, you've got to get to finish second. Currently in blackslen Watson, where are the Liberal Party finished second At the last election. The Greens finished second in the seat of Wills. But do you really think the Liberal Party is going to preference the Greens over the Labor Party. If it does, it's
a disgrace. So my point is this is it interesting to talk about. Sure, maybe one day demographically and statistically it becomes more of a chance. But if I was a betting person right now, would the Muslim vote move in such a fashion that the Labor Party would completely lose its capacity to get into a two way fight when it comes to preferences. I don't think so. It could be wrong, but again, the data is always our friend. Now forgive me for going back to the each way
elbow thing, but there's another example of it tonight. In fact, this one has to do with a meeting of NATO. Now, NATO, of course is largely the European nations post World War two, getting together to try to have a universal Pact, where basically an attack on one is an attack on all, and it's a way of trying to prevent World War III. You will know how complicated this has been in relation to which nations pay, America ends up paying the most,
and of course what's happened right now in Ukraine. But as you will have noticed, Airbus Elbow loves going to an international meeting. He has been to the last two NATO meetings. Why well, i'll let him say it.
Well, thank you so much, Secretary General. It is good to be here at my second NATO summit.
But he's not going to this year's NATO meeting. Why because we might be getting ready for an election. And definitely the airbus albow thing really hurts him. Hence the weak and rattled. Remember the two new planes that are coming and how they desperately tried to debunk that as any sort of a thing to attack the Prime Minister with yes ordered by the previous government, but not canceled by this government. This bloke, of course loves overseas traveler.
It has been now baked into his personality about Airbus Albo and because he's afraid of the airbus elbow tag, he is not going to the third of these meetings. But what I find is that we've got to get a bit of each way elbow here. He was justifying on the seven thirty report tonight why he is not going to attend the meeting that he has already attended last year and the year before that that in part led to the each way Sorry to the airbus elbow tag. There's so many to remember.
I'm not going because we're not members of NATO. Now, what I find extraordinary is that Peter Dutton who moved a motion in the Parliament last year saying that demanding that I not go to APEC where Australia is a member, where we are a founding member of APEC and needed to participate in that forum as opposed to NATO where for a lot of the NATO summit as an observer country, we're not there. We're not in the room with the NATO members when that takes place.
So I'm not going because we're not a member. And even if you go, you're not really part of the real thing, kind of on the side of it. So why did you go last year? Why did you go the year before? You learned this lesson the first year, but you went back the second year. But because you know airbus albow is going to be pinned on you, you now say, oh, there's no real reason for us to go. We're not really members. Hence why we say
each way albo ridiculous. Right now, a couple of things out of the States, huge massive news out of the Supreme Court, which you may well have heard now the crazy and I'll get to that in a second. But essentially they have said that anything that a president does while they're the president that is called an official act, you cannot be held legally responsible for after you leave
the presidency. Now, for the left ease, they view this exclusively through the world of Donald Trump, because of course there is the charges there are the cases, and he's the one who argued it. But think about this as a principle. Joe Biden was part of a drone strike that killed civilians. Oops, sorry, mistake. Because he's the president. Because it's an official act, there is no consequences once he leaves office. George W. Bush, he said there were
weapons of mass destruction. They're clearly weren't, and how many people died, including his own soldiers. No consequences because once you leave office. That's it. Now, that is what is at heart of being debated in and around the January
sixth stuff. Now we will learn collectively together because a court is now going to have to work out everything that the prosecution will allege is the proof of Trump doing the wrong thing, Whether those things are official acts just like dropping bombs, just like picking up the phone and trying to negotiate a piece of legislation, Whether those things are presidential acts. If so, nothing to see here,
or their personal acts. The debate will of course be, well, if you are the president, then you are the president twenty four to seven, so all of it is an official act. I would suggest eating dinner and watching Telly. Probably not, but you get my point. But of course this is Trump soque some of the reaction from the lefties who now believe that this will result in the enemies of Donald Trump being lined up and taken out.
This is a clarion call to every American. By the way, that debate is like thirty four felony counsel and.
It does not matter anymore.
All that matters is that you do not allow the person back into office who will use this power that he has been given by this court, this Imperial Court, to implement that agenda they wrote down and published because they know that no one will stop them except voters.
Oh god again, I'm not a lawyer, don't play one on television. But this common sense here in the same way, and remember this is nonsense about oh now he's got the PA. If he wants to order Seal Team six to kill his enemies, then he'll be able to not face criminal prosecution. Well again, in the same way that the use of the military to make mistakes to kill civilians or send us off to wars that we all
know we shouldn't have been part of. There's no consequences except one massive consequence, which is under the American system, you can be impeached and removed from office. So God forbid, the worst did happen where a president, any president, Trump as president did something like oil seeds, seem to seek to kill his political opponent. Even a Republican House and Senate would vote to get rid of him and bar him from office. Ever, again, it had happened almost as
fast as whatever the reason for it was. And certainly if it's a divided government where it's a Democrat president, a Republican House and Senate, or the other way around, they do it like that, which brings me to old mate Joe Biden. So you often hear about opinion polls, and these opinion polls again, I want to try to
explain they sort of break down in different ways. A lot of people will turn around and say, well, the national numbers between Trump and Biden, which assumes there's only two people running for president and there's one national election, Well, the most recent of those all show that Trump is up anywhere from one to four points, so all of
it leaning in his favor. But as we've told you a thousand times before, it's not just two people running for president, it's five people who are on the ballot nationally so it's Trump, Biden, it's Kennedy, it's Cornell West, it's a lot of them. Well, these numbers grow where it goes from tie all the way to ten percent. And then again, it's not really about the national numbers,
it's about the swing states. And the latest numbers from those swing states show that Wisconsin a tie, Michigan low margin, but then Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, at North Carolina, and Georgia all of them starting to run away. So Trump is
in front. He's in front on the measure that he was never in front of in twenty twenty when it came to the two way race, and never in front in twenty twenty when it came to the swing states, which again brings us to old mate Joe and Joe ain't going to go, And despite the fact that Joe should go, Joe's family, because it's kind of the family business, are desperately going to try to hold him up no
matter how bad that performance was. So, as we told you last night, one of the reasons why the family apparently think it all went wrong was because and I quote that CNN and their makeup staff had made him appear too pale, and this was three different people who said that the family believes the reason he had a terrible debate flubb was the word. By the way I was looking for just in case was because apparently, according to the footage, he was not sick and old, not
dottery and losing it. He just had got the makeup that made him look too pale. Do we have that footage well for us if we can, where he apparently was again looking to pale during the debate. Well, I noticed something today in Biden's response to the court case in around presidential power. See if you notice a slight difference and perhaps a new makeup artist for the President of the United States, because he was kind of orange today. Did you not notice he went from white to orange?
Is he trying to trick the voters of America that he's Donald Trump, that it's not a battle of two kind of older guys. It's a battle of two orange guys, and you should vote for that orange guy, not this orange guy. As for the actual serious news today in and around the Biden camp, the way they're going to try to stay in office is they're going to move up the meeting to maybe the middle of this month to actually formally lock him in as the Democratic nominee.
So the family ain't going anywhere. The machine is going to be working out to lock him in, and apparently if he keeps adding orange makeup, you somehow will like the guy. Good luck, mister Biden. Quick break, lots to talk about, lots of debate. We'll get him to eight moment or two here on Pal Murray Life. Thanks for watching, Thank you so much for watching. Joining us right now are two of our favorites. So I'm the wonderful James Ashby running for One Nation in the set of Keppel
at the upcoming Queensland election. Back him in as hard as you possibly can. And the wonderful Linda Scott, who's in Canbra Because four hundred and twenty eight thousand mayors are currently in Canberra for the Local government conference. What was first on the list international affairs, the Trump presidency or rates roads? And what did we get to, Linda? Because a lot of people are named.
Clime change, Paul Mury, but look we do have. We got twelve hundred men's and councils here in Camber this week. It's huge, and most of them are here to talk about their own financial sustainability.
We've seen the cost and.
Outlays of local government's flat line, while the expenditure of state and federal governments has gone up.
Across the board. We're doing much more with less.
We're very efficient, but we are not financially sustainable. We do need a bit more funding from the commwealth.
All right, let's get to the poll. Fifty four percent of people saying Australia is heading in the wrong direction Prime Minister disapproval. We can get into that, James, I'm deliberately going to make this an open question, but why do you think fifty four percent of Australians now think we're headed in the wrong direction? A major change even in the past eighteen months.
Well, the simple fact is that people are seeing less bang for buck.
They appear to be doing it tougher.
There's less money in their accounts at the end of the week, there's no savings, there's no money left over.
The kids are offering, the mums and dads.
Are certainly cutting back on a raft of different measures. And if you actually click on the female contingent of those surveyed, they have a higher dislike what's going on in society right now. So it's the women. The bloke's probably a little less likely to feel the pinch because they're probably not handling the pay packets if there are. Anything like my mum, she used to take dad's paypacket at the end of the week and she managed it, so she knew the full effects of.
What was happening to the household budget. So that's why.
People don't have much confidence in the economy and certainly in this labor government.
Lud, why do you think fifty four percent of the country thinks we're headed in the wrong direction?
Look, it's a significant figure, but the reality is, of course people have not yet seen most of the omnisi's cost of living measures which kick in, of course this week. Every Australian who's working gets a pay gets a tax cut, increased superannuation in increased paper and to leave. There's so many different cost of living measures that kick in with a new financial year, which of course has only begun this year. I do want to say that it also of course matters which pole you look at.
Right.
Of course, a recent.
Poles from the Center of Australians Watch Out, seventy three percent of Australians think moving towards renewables is the right direction. So a huge majority of Australians when you poll across the board don't think that moving towards twelve nuclear power plants.
Is the right direction.
You've got to look at all these poles across time and across the issues.
I think it's about I think too across the floor.
Lender.
Yeah, but she's not going to I think that. I truly think that it's the inflation fear. Right. When the inflation number came out last week, that the verbal bomb of that right, and it goes into it and it's one of those things. There are these moments when James, you know this right, which is as does Linda. But there are these moments where there's a certain type of news that we'll get all fired up about, the zeven type of news at the six pm news or fire back,
certain type of news and papers will be into. And then there's the type of news that makes it to FM radio right or TikTok or social media. And the inflation figure last week made it to that level. It went far wide and loud because it helps inform the potential of the rate rise. Again, it's not me making it up. It's not me cheering it on. It's the Reserve Bank saying that they didn't even talk about cutting.
Instead they were right on the verge of lifting. The information going back up pushes them back in that direction. I think if there is an interest rate rise, and obviously I hope not, I don't want to pay any more than anyone else does. But if it does, that's the one that the government's going to have to own, and they're going to own it hard. And I think the politics, as it did positively and negatively for Howard, as it did positively and negatively for Rudd, it's going
to turn on elbow. And this meeting in August is the stakes couldn't be higher, James, the politics behind it massive.
Well, you've only got to talk to businesses like I have this week. I've spoken to a couple of restaurants change their menu list to actually make cheaper menu items.
You may not get as much on your.
Plate, but at the end of the day, they're making it more affordable for people to go and eat out. And if you go and talk to the blake behind the counter of the butcher, he's telling you red meat cells are way down because people cannot afford the red meat at the moment because costs of livings just through the roof. More sausages, more chicken, more cheaper cuts. That's what people are going for to be able to sustain the family. It's hard now. Cole's used to run that
ad feeder family for ten bucks. Good luck, you can't do it these days. And that's the pinch that people are feeling. So no matter which way you carve this up, it can be interest rates, can be inflation. Whichever way people are feeling the pinch, they just know at the end of the week they don't have as much to play with in their bank balances.
Linda, let's talk about the Greens, because you know, my world view is that I think they're the most dangerous thing on the ballot. But I'm also aware that they have a stubborn number of supporters. It sits somewhere around ten, it goes up to twelve in a poll that goes up to fourteen. But there is a significant number of people who keep wanting to park their vote with the Greens. Right, you're a progressive member of the Labor Party, so you prefer them to vote for you than vote for the Greens.
But how does nothing ever happen to their support when their senators come out like Jordan Steel John did and basically back in the use of graffiti on a war memorial to make a point about a war on the other side of the world, Like, how is there no line that ever seems to hurt them? Why do you
think the criticism of them is seemingly so impenetrable. I'm not talking about mine, I'm just talking about the general Australian public that there are people who go, you know what, I'm going to keep backing in these people who say and do stupid things all the time.
Well, look, it is not new news, is it.
That the Green have taken some pretty nutty public policy positions, And I do agree with you that this is one of them. Obviously, As you know, I tried to get my own counsel the City of Sydney to remove hate speech graffiti in an hour. Unfortunately Clover Wore voted that down.
But you know, we do believe in removing graffiti. But I've had Greens on my own council say that we should just let graffiti run wild wherever it is, that it's just such a great feature of our cities, something that I certainly don't agree with.
So look, I mean, I think.
It is true though, and your right to identify that there are a group of rusted on Greens voters and that is something that's emerged in our lifetimes. They're pretty stuck on the Greens. They're not going to shift their vote. For many young Australians, it is also the case that they've been Green's voters for much of their voting life,
for all of their voting life. And as we see that generational slide change through Australia, as we start to see younger voters becoming middle aged voters, what will happen.
I think it's a really interesting question.
The big problem, though, I want to counter to that, though, Paul, is the Liberals. The Liberals are not able to pick up these young voters. And so what we are seeing is as young voters start to vote progressive, unlike other demographics in the past, they're sticking with their progressive vote, be that Labor or Greens. And that is a real demographic problem for the conservative side of politics that they have not yet confronted.
The rule.
I mean, look, you know, James, obviously the raw numbers. If you put say the Liberal Party of the UAP one nation all kind of in the same world, that number is bigger than the left number in Australia. It's the preference discipline in part in and around the Greens
that gets us there. I've got to go to a break in a second, but just a quick response to this here James, about why they are seemingly so impenetrable, because even you know the stories and criticism of them, and this senator today about the graffiti that was on the ABC, but it just bounces off like I now right.
Yeah, But the problem is, Linda, you say vote for Labor first, but the problem is you're saying vote Greens second.
That's Labour's mantra.
If you know you do preference arrangements with the Greens and you let them off lightly, you let them get away with everything.
And that is the problem that we face today.
The other big thing I'll recognize is the Greens play a very good game when it comes to door knocking. If you have a look at seats around Brisbane, they're knocking on doors left, right and center.
And I've seen young kids answer the doors.
Friends of mine who've got eighteen year olds just about the vote and the eight ends year old say.
I'm going to vote for them. They seem really nice people when they come to the door. Well it helps when a really good door knocking game.
Yeah, it also helps win. You know, let's get the sixteen year old vote and let's legalize pot. I mean all of that as part of the issue too. Thank you mate, appreciate it right quick breakback when more less to talk about it, including amazing number came out today about how many people are relying upon inheritance when it comes to the financial future, and in my view a strange number about how many would prefer it before someone dies.
Did you know that about about a third of Australians doing financial calculations that the inheritance they will receive from their parents, from their grandparents is part of their financial plan and about forty percent of people would prefer the inheritance to come as a gift before they passed on, as opposed to when they didn't need the money anymore post life. Let's talk about it with Linda Scott from the Labor Party and none other than James Ashbeet from
One Nation. James, again to you on this right. It doesn't make It doesn't surprise me at all that that many people it's part of their plan. That's fine, But I am a little bit wobbly on forty percent of people saying, hey, can you give it to me before?
It might be good for your kids you've got that bloody mansion in Sydney, but for.
My mega, mega, incredible, my mum and dad.
I've said that my folks spend it, enjoy life. I don't expect that anything out so with you. They've worked hard for everything they've got. I just want to see them enjoy life. For what they've got left. They've probably got another good twenty twenty five years left in them.
I hope they spend a whole lot of it, leave us nothing.
Yeah, I'm completely the same, right like I want you to spend it on your care, take care. Look look again, I understand the memories. Yeah, I mean I get it, Linda. Where you know, if there are people who understand it, you know what the financial impact. I get all of that, right, So please don't write me letters. But the idea that forty percent of people would like it up front, I don't know that very It's a bit squaremy for me, I don't like that.
Yeah, look, I think it is important that across the world intergenerational wealthy inequality is growing and governments should have a think about how best to address that.
Or you know this, but I should be you.
Are retiring to the policies death taxes.
No, that's not what I'm proposing. I should disclose.
Of course, as you know, I'm the chair of an industry superannuation fund. People should go and talk to their superannuation funds about this issue and to see whether they both have enough, but also how to spend it, how to make sure that as James has rightly pointed out, people are spending in their retirement on all those beautiful things if you want to, because of the magic of compound interest, like having holidays and spending time with their families.
So people should go and get some advice, talk to your superannuation fund and make a good financial plan. But so often when you talk to people about this, they're just anxious and they hold on to money and don't spend it on doing lovely things in retirement, when in fact they're really financially secure and they're able to do that.
So I think getting advice is a good way forward.
Well, as I used to say, who's that person on television? It didn't matter what it was. There was to say shop around. Shop around was constantly at six p shop around. Now that's the easiest job in news that person. Thank you, guys, I do appreciate it.
Love you.
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