From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Burray Live. Thank you so much for watching.
Yeah, of course I'll get to Zalie Stegul showing how mean the left can be.
For there apparently as they're compassionate.
There's an amazing story about China interfering in the debate here in Australia. It was been years you probably didn't hear about it.
And today was actually a very good day to Donald Trump, not just because of the way he handled himself, but also new opinion polls, new data. I'll get to all of that as always, and i'd love to know you think that Winna Musa of the Week is going to be.
But first, as we know in the UK, it's been tough watching this place of which we've either visited or many people are from, and that we love, that has descended into a form of chaos that's been a long time coming, and of course once you get to that stage it is too late.
But something has also devolved.
In the UK over a long period of time, which is the normalization of knife crime of stabbings.
London is on a knife edge, with the capital recording a new knife crime incident every thirty minutes.
Zombie style knives and machetes.
Knife crime in London, stabbing attack on the British seaside town of Southport.
Literally anyone who pays attention to English news or has family every day, every day and as you just heard, there every thirty minutes and they say they're going to crack down on it, and then nothing happens. Well, as you have heard today, a little Australian girl who was doing what many little Australian girls do, which is have a dream holiday in the UK, going to the place where there's the Lego store, the eminem store, it's the equivalent of Times Square. A little eleven year old girl
was stabbed. It was confirmed in the past twenty four hours that this little girl is from New South Wales.
Now, this shock attack happened in broad daylight Michael in London's busy Leicester Square. She was with her thirty four year old mother at the time of the attack, and the ABC understands that the family, who is on holiday in London at the moment, is from New South Wales. The girl was taken to hospital with serious but non life threatening injuries. She received plastic surgery, but has since been released from hospital.
An excellent part of the story is how, just like in the scenario in Bondi, that there were security guards who were there. Thankfully, unlike the Bondou situation, a life was saved because of the actions of this security guard who spoke to the ABC.
I heard a screen I sold said there was a guy who was stabbing a girl. So as I saw them, I stabbing the girl, I started running towards the guy. I jumped on the guy, hold his hand in which she was cutting a knavee him down on the floor, and then kick the knife away from him. At that time, there was only one thought to save the kit, to save her more, nothing else.
From everyone in Australia. Mate, thank you, well done.
You welcome here anytime you want, come for holiday or stay for even a little bit longer.
But this isn't the only.
Part of what I wanted to mention at the start of tonight's show, because, of course, in and around Paris and the phenomenal Olympic Games that we all sat there and watched and enjoyed. Before the games, there were a couple of terrible stories, including of course, significant assaults that had happened on a couple of people who worked for
the Channel Line broadcasting team. Also, the gold medalist of the BMX had been robbed a couple of days before he was set to compete, and thankfully they swamped the area with police, because you can do that during something like an Olympic Games. And apparently crime was dealt with quite aggressively. Now to the bit I really want to talk about. At the time, the chef to Micheon of the Australia Olympic team and Emirs said this about the crime situation in Paris.
We're in a big international city.
Crime is a part of life.
Unfortunately, we just need to have some common sense and stay safe where we can and make those smart decisions and be grateful for the people who are putting themselves in a position to keep us safe.
Well that makes sense. I can't stand that view.
Because slowly but surely, like we've all heard of the frog in the pot that doesn't realize it's in boiling water until eventually it is too late. Societies crumble when they start to look the other way and start to normalize the idea, Yeah, this stuff happens, fingers cross, it doesn't happen to you.
This is a terrible attitude for people to have.
I understand why people say it, We've all probably said it to ourselves, but it's something that links back to Australia and our attitude towards crime. Now increasingly people are telling us that as a dominant political issue at state and even federal level is things like crime. But just like I said, we don't want to ever become a place that ends up having race riots in whichever direction, with whomever is stoking them or whoever is the focus
of them. We also don't want to get to a stage where an eleven year old girl can be stabbed in the middle of the equivalent of whatever our version of Times Square is, be it Federation Square in Melbourne, be it Circular Key, be it the Valley in Brisbane, or anywhere else around the country. But sadly, the way that we get information about crime in Australia tends to show us that the attitude is what you're going to do.
You see if you actually have a look at the numbers which are served up in the crime statistics and what I'm just going to focus in on New South Wales because I know how to read how they do this data. Now we'll tell you that domestic violence is up and non domestic violence is up, and breaking end as are up, and stealing from a car is up, and stealing from a store is up, and other stealing
is up. There's this horrible word that is used by crime statisticians, and it's not because they're heartless.
It's just this is their description that.
If it doesn't really go up and it doesn't really go down. The term that they use is stable, and in New South Wales murder is stable. Murder is stable, and assaulting police is stable, and sexual assault is stable, and other sexual offenses are stable, and abductions are stable, and blackmail and extortion is stable. But the reality is that behind stable or behind up or behind down are human beings. For crimes to be committed, there obviously is
a perpetrator, there are obviously is a victim. So think about this from the perspective of these statistics are not statistics. They are victims on the other side of somebody who has been arrested and potentially gone through the court system. This is the numbers from March this year to March last year in New South Wales. These are the categories that are of course referred to as stable sixty five people were killed non domestic violence they say is up
just by six percent. What if I told you that there was a football stadium of victims of domestic violence in New South Wales, that number feels a lot different, doesn't it than just six point six percent up? Or the general assault figures another football stadium of people, the number of people have been sexually assaulted, a smaller but still football of people.
In terms of police officers, we've.
Broken this down many times where there are what the best part of six assaults that take place every day, public holiday, Monday, Tuesday, middle of the week, middle of the year. So you get to two and a half thousand police officers who were assaulted last year, twenty thousand examples of somebody breaking in and stealing something from a house, a car, or somebody who smashes up property. Now, each
and every one of those numbers is a person. So when I hear people say big city crimes, part of it, just remain vigilant. At the heart of that, well, I understand what the cautious statement that is being given is. At the heart of it is, Yeah, somebody's going to get stabbed, but fingers crossed, it's not you. Now, the same way that people rage about certain types of crime that take place and demand that the only acceptable result is zero h next to some of these offenses, well
that applies to all offenses. Now, Can you live in a crime free society that doesn't have a police state?
Probably not.
And just like we talked last night about education and mental health, and I'll get to that in a second, about some of your incredible responses to that, we have to remain vigilant that the goal of policing, the goal of the people who pass the laws, and theoretically the goal of the people who end up handing out the punishments, is not stable. Is not it'll happen, fingers cross It's
not your eleven year old daughter, But it's zero. When these numbers come out, so very few politicians comment about it, and so very few people follow up as to why these numbers are the way they are. Again, certain categories of crime get, you know, their own little day and their own little ribbon. But if you are somebody who is the victim of that general assault number, which again was as I say, thirty four thousand people one state one year, those.
Are people whose lives are changed forever.
So as always we remain very pro police on this show that they have to deal with all of this each and every day. But I wanted to take the chance it started the show to say, if you are one of the people who has been a victim of crime in this state, in these stats, we see you as people not as slightly up, slightly down, or stable.
Sat as.
I hope that we remain getting as much information as possible about that little girl and doesn't just become a day where it comes and it goes, because you know, that's just what happens. It's not acceptable, it's not okay. It's a sign of a society in a world of trouble. And again, strength and love to everyone who's having to deal with or any of those things in your recent or way back when history. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out in the past twenty four hours.
I don't think we've got as many emails in a day as we have in the past day. Now, the way to send an email to us is polotsgnews dot com.
That are you, But there are lots of other ways, and some people remember my personal email address I used to give out on the air before we had polots gonews dot com that are you and I got flooded lots of people, lots of messages, lots of Facebook, and all of it was in and around the difficulties are in and around mental health and how this country needs to put front and center it as big a priority
as trying to cure cancer. The child psychologists clear Row was very supportive of what we had to say, but equally said it's not just about money. Well said, well done. We'll have a chat to her in the next few days about it. And lots of people told us their version of the story about how the system sometimes worked but mostly didn't work, or they didn't interact with it, or there even some people who reached out to tell me that I was the first person that they were telling about a certain story.
To all of you, thank you.
It is not lost on me how much strength that takes, and it has not lost on me the honor in which it was that you put your trust in me to have that information. I look forward to replying to all of those messages over the next couple of days. As anyone knows, even my family, I'm not the world's best at returning phone calls or text messages, let alone emails.
But I will to all those people that told beautiful stories.
But there's a couple of other extensions to the story that I wanted to bring you tonight, which was the cost of living. The obsession of this program, because it is the focus of the nation, does have an effect on the amount of people who just don't have the cash to go and seek some of the support that may well help them deal with whatever is going on.
Psychologists say that patients are unable to access their help because of rising costs and shortening wait lists are being triggered because people are simply unable to afford psychological care. In April, a survey by the Australian Psychological Association found that more than forty.
Percent of psychologists reported costs.
As the main barrier for patient access. The President said that psychologists were reporting they're shortening waiting lists were a result of patients simply not accessing their services. Patients currently face putting food on the table and paying their rent rather than dealing with mental health. And there were a couple of people who seemed to doubt what I was
saying about the government and the access to the telehealth system. Now, generally speaking this is mostly used for access to your GP, but for people when it comes to mental health, that is the first step sometimes on being able to work out which way to go, and it's a really valuable and important step. Now, at the height of COVID, when people physically couldn't go to the doctor because they weren't allowed to leave the house, you know all of that nonsense. Well,
ten free telehealth visits were available to all Australians. Then this government came to power and of course one of the first things they did to announce that this was going to start to wrap up. At the time, there were plenty of things where vulnerable Australians were filled with dread over the potential telehealth cuts. The government decision to limit telehealth services will make vulnerable Australians suffer more, said
the GPS. Now this was put back ever so slightly for some people in regional areas, but in terms of automatic access it is no longer the case. This must be changed. Tomorrow there'll be a meeting of all of the mental health ministers around the country. I hope they come up with the opportunity of finding ways for more people to get free access to the very least their GP or other services, to be able to make sure that you can start a journey, a journey that I
hope is as fast as possible. I hope it involves as little medication as possible. But the reality is for some people it will be long and it will involve medication. But I want people to be able to be taken care of. And in the same way, we don't want to ignore the lump on the back of your neck. I want you to ignore the lump that may well be in here because of what's going on up here. We'll all find out what happens in a meeting, But when these things happen on Friday and normally go for
two hours, the agreement has probably already been made. But of course I've done my best to try to bend arms in the past loudly on television, but I will try to continue to do so quietly behind the scenes. This is an important thing that needs to be done.
And yeah, I'm going to link this back to the cost of living stuff that I've talked about over the past or for years, because you see, when a government turns around and takes fifteen hundred dollars automatic tax returns off people like this government did in their first budget in twenty twenty two. It meant that there was fifteen hundred dollars automatically taken away from families that may well have been able to be spent on reaching out for
the correct services. It was, of course, the load of middle income tax bracket as it was called back then. Both sides of politics were committed to it. As I said, if the Liberals had been returned, you know, I would have been not bending arms, but I would have been making sure that this would not have happened. But Labor they don't care what we think. Well, they'll find out what the reality of that and ignoring what we've been
talking about will be at the upcoming election. But even the Australian Institute noticed ten million people get screwed over here. And if you don't have fifteen hundred dollars to be able to go and seek out services, this is what some people are used with that fifteen hundred dollars. That's why the smartasses in Canberra who thought, let's just take the three and a big billion dollars that would automatically
be the fifteen hundred dollar thing. We'll move it over to student dead because it doesn't really cost the budget, but it's more politically advantageous over here. Ten median people should still be getting access to that money as a way of being able to keep themselves Afloat meantime, another huge amount of reaction from people about our education system. So many teachers who understood the nuance of what I
was saying. That I understand the well meaning and well talented and well trained and the honest teachers that would watch a program like this or certainly their family members who are proud of the teachers in their life. And that's why it didn't bash teachers last night about this issue. The Naplan results were horrific. They remain horrific. They remain something that is deeply emotionally difficult for anyone who wants
the future of the country to be good. That won in three kids are not meeting basic literacy or numeracy expectations. Now again, there's a consequence to this Naplan. Literacy and numeracy failure is a ticking time bomb. Say employers organizations in US Willicks who works for one of them, will represents bosses around the country says the latest Lapland tests are a bad sign for our country and paint ablik
picture for a more productive and competitive future. The sheet number of Australians falling behind basic and necessary foundation skills is simply unacceptable. We must get the basics right to develop the skills that we need for tomorrow's workforce. That's the consequence too. It's not just ay you didn't do well at school, see you later. There's a job that has to happen on the other side of it.
Why.
Because we want to make sure that people are able to determine their own future with their own money, not to be determined and tied into a welfare system. The funding issue must be resolved and the political blame game has to stop. We have well passed the time that this is to be settled. Absolutely correct. Now you've heard everyone else talk about this tonight, and largely I would agree with many of what you have already heard over
the past twenty four hours. But as you know, the way things were put yesterday, I had my issues with what was being said by the Opposition leader when it came to people coming from a war zone. As I said at the time, it will double down Now, of course, the concept of all Palestinians automatically hamas is as ludicrous as all Chinese are part of the CCP or so one and so one and someone. However, today was ridiculous. To try to pretend that the position of the leader
of the opposition was racist is absolute garbage. Now, his view, as you know, is that it's all about national security, it's not about race.
Now.
While I stand by the criticism of the way things were said yesterday, and I know some of you didn't like that I said it, but I'm not going to flip day in, day out, I do appreciate what was said today, and I do appreciate how he presented himself today and how this issue got a little more detail
behind it. As you know, the media, of course, are desperate and have been desperate since day one, and certainly since the Voice campaign, as I told you, as I've shown you, and I've shown you the receipts all the way through, and when inevitably this conversation is cut out of context and is put into the giant montage of Sky News Primetime crazy Talk in and around all of this, of course they'll miss all the other stuff I said last.
Night or tonight. But you get the point. You know, we'll we're up against.
They have been waiting for the moment to try to cast Peter Dutton is too extreme, too much the Aussie Trump. They've tried it on multiple fronts, multiple times and they thought, Aha, we've got this today.
It's comments have drawn more accusations of racism, prompting a warning from one Independent whose fled war that it could inside fear and hatred in the community.
The Opposition leader's comments leading to angry scenes in Parliament and more claims of racism.
Peter Duttan's calls for a ban on Palestinian refugees has brought the conflict in Gaza back to the floor of Parliament.
Again.
We all know where he was coming from and it definitely was not from the position of race. It was about vetting a national security. For it to be deliberately twisted as it was by, among others, Zalie Stegel, who sort of was doing the racism version of the Manique Ryn put your mask on today in parliament.
These are families that you are seeking to paint that somehow they are all terrorists and.
We hurt you in silence you can hear me in silence.
Stop being later of the opposition.
Of course she represents a diverse but not as diverse as other parts of the country. Part of the country in the northern beaches of Sydney, I would be fascinated to know whether there is about to be a great opening of the arms so people can live on the tennis courts of Mossman. We'll all, of course wait and see till then. I'm not going to fall for the
guard whiche. We know what he was talking about. I called out what I thought was too much yesterday, but I am not going to double down on this crap today. We'll debate it among others with Michael Kroger in a moment or two time. Unemployment went up today, not a good thing when it comes to our economy. Now, ironically it went up despite the fact that yes, more jobs
were created in the past month. But this all feeds into the overly complicated mix of what will happen when it comes to the Reserve Bank, and as millions of Australians are holding on frightened about what may will happen politically, we know that certainly a thirteenth rate rise. Why it's the tenth, not the twelfth, Not the tenth, not the eleventh, not the ninth or the eighth rate rise that apparently
will cause trouble for the UB and easy government. Well okay, but I've got to say some of the reporting today was interesting. Talk about a sitting on the fence headline from AAP Mixed jobs data gives RBA more food for thought, thankscoup In, what do you think is going to happen? But of course there was another bit of data too, which you may well not have heard about today, and it is going to heavily effect the Prime Minister and his treasure is capacity to deliver yet another budget surplus,
another lucky budget surplus, because it's not by design. Spending has gone up, Revenue has of course been what has been able to hide the structural deficits that the Treasury itself has promises promised in the Intergenerational Report for the next forty years, meaning the way the thing is put together, we spend more than we have coming in. Currently there's a surplus because they have been kissed on the proverbial by the amount of money we are making from the
mining sector among others. Well, today the beginning of a potential wobble in this area. There's some problems in the Chinese economy right now. Again, I'm not going to pretend to play an economist on television, but I am paying attention to the news that tells us that the Chinese economy is starting to have some real troubles.
Now.
Of course, if that's the case, and they don't buy what we make here, or they don't buy what the world makes, well guess what starts to happen The record prices, which in part are based off what China needs to buy or China chooses to buy, or what we choose to sell them at a crazy price.
You get the point. The tax take starts to fall.
Now iron ore and the iron ore price is always undervalued by the Treasury, so that when it over delivers, you have surprised revenue when you end up with the surpluses, which by the way, include the future fund. But today an insight unemployment is going up not great. The Reserve Bank right on the line about whether it raised interest rates for the thirteenth time, and potentially the revenue coming into the federal government way will be about to crack wh because of what.
Is happening in China.
But I thought we'd learned the lesson, hadn't we about being overly dependent on China when it comes to our economy. Oh No, that was just silly talk during the pandemic, wasn't it. Now speaking of China and its government, the CCP again, you know you shouldn't have to point this out.
It is obvious in my mind.
But we know people like to pretend they tell you what you think when you start to talk about this. And when I talk about China, I talk about its government, the CCP, and we know the position of this government is to suck up to the CCP. Why because there are votes in them Nah Hills. And if the relationship between China and Australia is on level and China isn't finding ways to punish us economically to serve up an example to the rest of the world, then maybe maybe
maybe the votes come your way. We certainly know that that was the case at the last federal election. But fascinating Exclusive and World under the at news dot com, you who are able to work this one out? That China the CCP, not the Chinese people, not the Chinese people here in Australia, but China the CCP is trying to control debate in Australia, says an intelligence analyst. Now this is five thousand AI run accounts on social media sites like x. It's all part of an information war.
As news dot com AU says that China is waging against Australia. The cybersecurity firm, which is called cyber x said it also picked up that some Australian focused activity was happening on these social media sites.
What was happening?
The network is clearly trying to throw divisive content about particularly nuclear energy. What side of that debate fairly obvious. If it is to help the government that sucks up to them as opposed to the opposition who doesn't the embattled CFMU and the government's immigration policies, As the analyst told News dot com that are you today. They use a look at private companies. The way they do that is so that the CCP can say it's not us. But of course there is really no such thing as
a private company in China. Why because just like the Wagners technically will kill us for hire, we all know they were really under Russian control. That's how the CCP uses these things. We're basically these network of allegedly private companies fiddling around in things like Australian debate is clearly being done on the behalf of the government. It goes beyond meddling. The end goal is not only to quote unquote control the narrative, but to control the infrastructure through
the means of political discourse. China's goal is to subjugate Australia cognitively, to control the narrative and control the way Australians think. Hence why I am not on and I strongly recommend that you are not on or your kids are not on. As fun as the dancing videos might be the Chinese surveillance app TikTok, it is why we remain critical of a government that would prefer to slide up to these people as opposed to stand up to them and when they injure members of the Australian Defense Force.
A couple of quick ones before we get to our debate tonight, and I'm ken you know who do you think is the winner and loser of the week? Send me the email Paultzky News dot com dot Au or jump onto the socials. Rex Airlines if you have a ticket with Rex Airlines to fly a regional flight, it is now guaranteed by the government. So worst case scenario if the airline disappeared, and at this stage there is no sign of that happening right now, you would be
able to get your money back. Why because the federal government is now backing them in. The AFL of course, has its relationships with TV and radio networks to make sure that well it can spread how many people see the game and obviously make the majority of money for the game from those TV and radio arrangements. A sharp eyed person worked out a couple of weeks ago that inside some of these details of the contracts with those companies was a demand from the AFL for greater diversity
in the people who cover the game. We're talking about everyone from the panel shows all the way through to the commentary box.
Well, today, the CEO of.
The AFL did an interview on one of the stations that has the financial arrangement with the AFL, that being three aw and it didn't make any sense.
Giving fewer middle aged white men like Brian Taylor and James Brayshaw and more, I don't know, more indigenous commentators more female commentators, more gay commentators.
What are you actually I.
Don't think it's less of anything. I think it's just more of but it will be not necessarily.
I just picked the best commentator.
I mean, I don't think especially on radio, no one cares what they look like or what their background is.
They just want to know that they're the most interesting and well informed football people around.
That's right.
But I think you get that time when you have a diversity of thought and a diversity of background.
But in the document is still in Melbourne.
This may be an unpopular opinion, and I apologize if it does offend, but I like the scooters in Melbourne. Whenever I am luck enough to travel around the country. One of the best ways to get around cities if you are a tourist or a visitor, are those little scooters. Now, yes, some people carry on like pork chops. As best as possible. You try to ride them in the bike lanes. You shouldn't be trying to scare people, and you should always
be wearing a helmet all the rest of it. Right, They've got them in Brisbane, great way of getting around. You can go from the hotel to the movies, the shops. It's really cool, right, rather than jumping into the uber or the taxi or walking and in Melbourne, I particularly really like them. But as you know, decision has been made by our mates, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Nicholas Reese and his counselors do banned to get rid of
them from the CBD. They're not banned from Victoria. If another council wants to take them up, they should.
And I'll tell you what.
There are some places where you might be surprised where these scooters are. They've got them in Bunderberg and they're awesome.
Again.
Maybe they be unpopular view but I like them. I'll get and find out what Michae Kroger thinks. I think you be more than happy that they don't exist anymore. Now, good day for Donald Trump. Yes, overall the averages are still slightly behind for him, but good day for him. Why brand new pole? It's a Fox newspole now the most recent of the Fox News poles. Before this actually showed Harris in front. It now shows Trump in front. Nationally now again the national numbers fifty to forty nine.
A Republican needs to be sorry. A Democrat needs to be at least two to four points up for them to be able not just to have big wins in New York and California, but also start to win some of the swing states. Once you throw in everyone else is on the ballot, it becomes forty five forty five, so raise a thin but still Harris was up, so we may well have hit a bit.
Of a peek.
But the really good news for Donald Trump today was the issues polling, which much of the narrative media have not gone on because they're just on the She's doing better than Biden did, but we're basically back to a team red team blue race. And after all of that's concern and change, the number one issue remains the economy thirty eight percent. Immigration and abortion are next. And I've told you before, if it's about the economy and immigration,
trump wins. If it's about abortion, then Harris is going to win. But a whole bunch of other things in here again start to work Trump's way. In fact, once you start to break these things down, look at the lead that he has. It's the best part of twenty points on the border, it's the best part of fourteen points on immigration. On foreign policy, it's seven points.
Now.
I don't know how Kamala Harris has been able to rebuild herself in terms of management of the economy, but he is up and clearly up there as well as on crime and on guns. You start to get really into fringe issues when you're talking about things like climate change and Supreme Court nominations. But again, the significant issues of access to healthcare and access to abortion is where Kamala Harris is currently leading. But Trump, after all of the nonsense, the issues.
Are still in his favor.
If he can run on the issues, then he is a good chance of getting as close as possible to the win. But who knows will be in the United States when it all takes place, and talk about it plenty of times between now and then. But again, another good day for Donald Trump because Kamala Harris is expected in the next couple of days to announce a whole
series of motherhood statements about the economy. She will, of course, pretend she has nothing to do with the economy that people hate under Joe Biden, despite the fact that she of course was the one who cast the tie vote in the Senate to spend trillions of dollars to whack up inflation, no matter what the bill.
Was actually called. So she can't pretend this didn't.
Happen on this vote, the years of fifty, the nays of fifty, the Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill as a mandate is passed.
That's a deep think. It's a deep fect. She wasn't involved. She's qualified to be president because she was a vice president when she didn't do anything.
Is the vice president she did twice trillions of dollars have made everything worse.
But now I'm going to go.
After the price gouging because it's the evil billionaires, nothing to do with the government.
Please.
But again, good for Trump today, Why because again he started to show a little bit more discipline. Now those of us who would like to see him win because we want to stop Harris and all of the crazy that's going to come with all of that. Right, Well, he gave a rally today and not really a rally and economic speech in North Carolina, one of the states that he kind of was taken for granted because the poles were so good. But he needs to double check
that it is still going to be in place. So he went there and he kind of acted like an old school politician. Why because behind him in Allder, the speeches today were giant signs about what he was planning to do. This would be great because every time he says something else, at the very least this message will end up on the television. And then he made one heck of a promise that I don't know how he can deliver it. In fact, I do know how he
can deliver it, which is basically drill, baby, drill. But this promise, this promise is just about as big as no tax on tips. Let's watch Kamala try to pretend this can be done, but I can't.
Save announce today that under my leadership, the United States will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy and electricity praiss by half, at least half. We intend to slash praices by half within twelve months, at a maximum eighteen months.
He's more likely to do that than Albo, because of course Albo wants to spend, of course, a trillion dollars of the two seventy five and all the rest of it. He's able to make that promise because you just double down on the stuff that's worked for generations, and the Paris Accord, which means China can do whatever it wants till twenty thirty.
Rip it up.
Fascinating. He's back in the game winning, not yet morenessing so much to get too all shut up because they've got plenty to say. The wonderful Michael Kroger is here, always there to help.
Just quickly the.
Thirty second view on scooters in Melbourne. I say save him, You say, dumpham, what do you reckon?
Couldn't care less?
Oh?
Really?
Okay, fair enough, there's just a lot of them down there, and the wonderful Frailer Leitch from the Center of Independent Studies.
So let's get to the main game here.
You've seen some of the reaction and the gallery assumption is there's the political consequence becomes quite terrible for Peter Dutton because now he sort of becomes the big uga booger of Australian politics that they were desperately trying to make him. I wouldn't think that's actually going to be the political response here. But what did you think of day two of this?
Michael?
To me, it felt like it was said in a more nuanced fashion than it was yesterday.
Well, look, Peter Dutton is winning on this issue and I'll explain to you why, which will become more public over the next week or two as to why Dutton is winning on this issue. And I'm happy to be corrected, and Tony Burke's office hopefully will put out some statistics to correct me, and all Australia will benefit from having the exact statistics. And I credit Cameron Milner for some of these stats. There are one hundred and ninety three members of the United Nations. I can only find four
countries that are taking refugees from Gaza. Four France have taken them. France have taken two hundred and sixty but you can only apply from the visa if you're in
Ramala or in Jerusalem, So they've taken none from Gaza. Right, those countries which haven't taken and won't take any refugees, those racist countries, according to Zali Stegl, include these countries have taken zero refugees from Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Russia, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kwait, North Korea, Turkey, Germany, France, etc. There's only four who appear to have taken refugees. They are the United Kingdom
in fourth place. They've taken one one. The United States have taken sixteen, although last year they took fifty six. Canada have taken forty one. So one hundred and ninety two members of the United Nations out of one hundred and ninety three have taken the title of fifty eight refugees from Gaza. Fifty eight, I hope, and I'm sure this is wrong, But on the research that I've done and others have done, fifty eight Australia two thousand and nine and twenty two. What the is going on here?
What does Tony Burke and Albanezi know that those racists leaders of other countries that racist? In Egypt, President el Sisi, What does President Elcci, that racist know that Tony Burke doesn't know, the racist President Kamenie in Iran who won't take any refugees, that racist president and Erduan in Turkey who's taking no refugees, and all of us, you know, for goodness sake, poor our president Kim John Kim Jong Un, the Orange man's friend from hes a racist too from
North Korea. What is it that Albernizi and Burke know that no one else in the world seems to know. Why doesn't any enterprising journalist David Crowe stop writing this rubbish about Dutton. Go round to the Egyptian embassy, my friend, and ask the ambassador why Egypt, which is one meter from Israel. You walk straight from Rafa into Egypt, it's one meter away. Ask President Alcese's representative in Australia, why if you've taken not a single refugee? Go and ask
the ambassador from Jordan. You know, to gate from Gaza to Jerusalem, it's about eighty kilometers right to one hour drive.
I did it in January.
And then to get to a man in the capital of Jordan's two hour drive. It's about one hundred klometers. But you're gonna go through a check board. It's three hours to go from Gaza to Jordan. No refugees, none, none of those our countries. What do you know, Albo that these other one hundred and ninety two countries do not know? My friend, this is a national disgrace. Peter Dutton is one hundred percent correct. It's not about racism, Zale.
You fool.
This is about national security and all credit to Dutton and James Patterson. And let me tell you, the working middle class in this country are right on Dutton's side.
Yeah, Frey, thank you for the infirm I don't appreciate it. Again.
The political calculation here again is that the assumption was, oh, Dunton has gone too far yesterday.
Wezali went too far today.
So we're sort of straight back into this whiplash where once you start to why he said what he has said, that information starts to back it up and instinctively we know Australians are absolute about their border.
Yeah, that's exactly right. You're not racist. If you care about national security, you're not racist. If you don't want Harmas supporters coming into the country. The fact that you can offer rhetorical support for her Maas and that's not an issue for ASIO when they're approving of visa, that is absolutely disgraceful. And I'm on campus at Sydney UNI last week we had a pro Hamas motion get moved.
It was voted eight hundred to eight. Insane stuff. We're already young people in this country are already overwhelmingly at our universities pro Hamas. Imagine if we have bad actors coming in because we can't stand up for our national security, this is only going to inflame the declining social cohesions.
And look and again all I observed last night and I stand by tonight, which is what I'm very sure you would all agree with as well, the idea that everyone in Palestine is Hamas or its interrelated. I'm sorry, I'm not there. I can't go there. I want dog whistle in that direction. However, I am absolutely okay with it being a process for you to come to the country. If you go through a proper process, a proper security check, well then yes we have a lifeboat.
It has so many people.
But if it is disproportioned to the rest of the world, as Michael has been pointing out, well be pretty obvious how Australians.
Will react when they learn more of that.
Now, I want to talk about a couple of other quick ones here, including there's a bunch of Coalition MPs that are started to say that members of the CFMAU should be banned from any polling place in Australia. They shouldn't be able to, for want of a better term,
be the heavies for traditionally the Labor Party. But Michael, I think the four hs here is it's more likely that they're going to end up being the heavies for the Greens because it seems like that's where they're going to end up and sort of pushing in that far left being their money and their muscle will be more than welcome. There's other people that there's other political people that will be reaching out for it. I would love to see the muscle nowhere near the polling boot.
But what do you think.
Well, I've seen many occasions over the years where the CFMU have been very intimidatory on polling bers. But I don't think you can ban people from attending poly booths unless they're guilty of some offense against the candidate. They're a threat to the physical safety of a candidate or others. It breaches the freedom of association rules in this country. So as much as I agree with the sentiment, I don't think it can happen unless there are restraining orders
by candidates or electoral officials against certain CFMU officials. It's not going to happen. Although the bigger issue is why the Labor Party won't pay back the donation. I mean they should pay back this money to the CFMU. I mean, forget about some fat old Blake's having too many four and twenties standing on a polling booth. What about the millions? What about the millions they received from the CFMU won't
pay back? Who was it? Was it Chris, who's otherwise done a good joe up there, said Oh, we've spent all the money, which is what we can't pay it back. We'll go and get a loan mate, like everybody else, go and get a loan done and repay the money.
All right, let's get to a winner and loser. Freyer, who is your winter or loser this week?
Winner this week? It's hard to say. I actually don't know. It's been a pretty depressing week all round for loser of probably the one hundred and fifty New South Wales Council candidates.
Yes, yes, and you know, well anyway you can't get your own house in order.
We'll see what happens, Michael, you'll winner, loser.
Two losers. President Shaffik of Columbia University, who's finally resigned allowing campus any Semitism in America a fantastic, fantastic victory, and Elbows had another shocker winn of the week. Well, you know, I'm partisan, but I think Dutton is winning more votes amongst middle Australia than I've seen any opposition leader for a long long time. So Peter Dutton is the winner of the week.
Good stuff.
Guys, have a wonderful weekend. Thank you very much much. We'll see you again next week or straight after the break. The people of the coal industry have had enough, have been pushed around, demonized, all the rest of it. They start their fight back next Thank you so much for watching the coal industry in Australia use something that pays a lot of tax employees a lot of people, but obviously creates an awful lot of controversy.
Why because the extreme left would like it gone. They aren't going anywhere.
In fact, they've got a new group to advocate on their behalf and a new add to help change hearts and minds.
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Nick Jaws represents a new organization called Coal Australia. Is it's only joins us now, what is Coal Australia, mate.
Ok Paul Cole Australia is a grassroots movement. It's really representing our workers, our communities. We've got forty thousand plus direct workers in the coal industry in Australia, another court three hundred thousand plus additional knock on jobs. The colonistry touches an awful lot of people. It's our second biggest export industry. It's the biggest export industry in Queensland. It's putting one hundred billion dollars into the economy in the
community every year. It's something we should rightly be proud of. So what we're aiming to do is just restore that pride in the coal industry and get that message out there.
Yeah, Niko talking about the few I did it hosted an event for the Qureia mark or to the future of the resources sector in Queensland and literally sort of after i'd sort of heard sort of a couple of people be a little bit cheapy shows, come on, you know, chest out, you know, be proud of what you do because of what you've put into the economy via as you say, employment and taxation. So for this moment to be here is I'm happy to see. But also, what
don't people get about coal? For want of a better term, we all understand how the left paints it, but what don't people get about it that you'd.
Like them to know?
Yeah, as you will, well remember Paul I was on that panel on the Future Resources Day, which was a fabulous celebration. Look, I think the coal industry has just been kind of kicked to the curb a little bit. We haven't been in the debate. You know. The Australian Coal Association was effectively subsumed in the Minerals Council over ten years ago now and sort of effectively snuffed out,
So we haven't had a voice in the debate. You know, coal industry, as I say, employees tens of thousands of people directly on hundreds of thousands indirectly, it builds communities, and it builds communities that we can be proud of people in the industry I speak to and we've done some polling and this is this is consistent. They are proud of the industry. They just haven't had permission to feel that pride and to speak about it. So you know,
cole also builds the future. We literally our coal creates the steel that's building our buildings and our bridges and infrastructure, without which you know we wouldn't we wouldn't be here today. So you know, it is about restoring that pride, unleashing that pride, telling our story. As I say, our workers should rightfully be proud of their position in this critical industry for Australia.
So we know that the rough costs cso RO twenty eighteen. I believe it was.
They say it's now half the amount, But it's about a trialling dollars to move from the system that has been around for a while cold a big part of that obviously to the new one where they claim coal is no part of it. We see that has to be paid for somewhere and the cost of transition is what we are all living through right now Trump's out there saying that he can have their power bills. Clearly he's going to have that as part of the mix
in the US. How important is it to the mix here in terms of prices.
Look, it's critical, Paul. I mean, you know, if you hark back only less than ten years ago, electricity prices wholesale prices were under fifty dollars a mega what hour cold still pumping out of Victoria cheaper than that. You know, we've now got to around one hundred and fifty with
the current system. This quarter has gone up again, so we've doubled the triple wholesale electricity prices on the back of real energy targets and also turning her back on the cheapest, lowest cost, most reliable form of energy we've got. So you know, it's a critical part of the mix. It will remain a part of the mix. Energy demand is incre and you know, as you may well know, globally, eighty two percent of energy, total energy, not just electricity, is provided by Colon and gow I've got to Joel
being the biggest part of that. In Australia it's ninety one percent. So you know it ain't going anywhere.
Good stuff.
Thank you, Nick, appreciate it. Sorry to go, I've got to get out of the way for the late debate. Thank you, mate, appreciate it. All the best with the efforts. All right, have a great weekend. I won't be here on Sunday Leo's birthday, so go Yankees.
See you Monday.