Paul Murray Live | 15 September

It was pretty windy in Sydney today and sadly there was a lady who ended up losing her life today as a tree branch fell, fell quickly and ended up crushing her. Here's what locals said about what they saw. Try to reside to their tab but unfortunately, I think kem Let she already passed before they came. Very terrible unscared because our family here in evan of which kid might be walking around and then thing like this happen.

Good examples about Australians trying to help somebody, and of course all of us who live around trees, it's a fear that we all have. The second, though, is one that never should have happened. It is not an accident, now you know. I talk about ambulances a lot. I talk about the failures in and around our ambulance network because there's just not enough of them. There's not enough paramedics,

and the pressure on paramedics is pretty unbelievable. Now. For the last state election in Victoria, I made much of what I thought was one of those things that would actually move the dial about whether people think that they should rehire a government that oversaw such a stuff up with the TRIPLEO system, that ambulances weren't turning up, calls weren't being connected, and thirty three people died as a

result of those failures. I've also talked a lot about a reason why you should probably get rid of your local state government, because every state government in the country is currently overseeing hospital ramping, hospital ramping that is at

near record levels. As I've explained before, if you call Triple O and an ambulance turns up, most likely the ambulance won't take you straight to the hospital, and then you go straight into find a bed because there's not enough beds, you end up sitting in the back of the hospital, back of the ambulance. This becomes very significant, and we have seen examples of people dying as a result of the lack of care because they're not physically

in the hospital. They're in the car park in the back of an ambulance, which of course is not able to go and collect anyone else because of that hospital ramping. Well, apparently there were fifty fewer ambulance crews around this weekend in and around central Melbourne because of the exhaustion, that burnout, the stress. Now, I in no way when I make this point and making the point about your average paramedic.

These people's entire reason for why they picked the job they did is to save as many lives as possible. But something is going very wrong when fifty ambulance crews, meaning fifty ambulances, weren't around this weekend. The Ambulance Union was making the point today about why.

Hill Is, of course, the representative of the union, said that the neighbor couldn't access the property themselves and had heard the man call for up to two hours after the initial call to emergency services. At some point after that two hours, the voice disappeared and presumably he was getting sicker or had actually died. It wasn't until another two hours before the ambulance crew actually got to the home cow for help.

being collected if someone calls. Now, of course, none of us want to have a moment where we have to call Triple OW, but our assumption is when we do, it's an emergency, it's a real emergency. And when we're calling about a neighbor that for whatever reason we can't physically get into their home because maybe we are disabled, we are unable ourselves due to ill health, to be able to get next door and help somebody that for

two hours you can hear their pain. In two hours, when you call Triple O anywhere in Australia, an ambulance should turn up, but in this case it didn't, and in this case the man died. Ambulance Victoria of course, will not release any further details because it's now a matter for the coroner, meaning of course that the hope is that some report will come out many months from

now and we won't notice. The statement though that was released by Ambulance Victoria is your classic holding statement where you say everything, but you really say nothing. Our deeper sympathies are with the patient's family at this very sad time. We would like to thank the community members who alerted Triple zero. That's it. Not we failed, not we will do better. Not we need the government to give us more money, or more equipment or more people. Just thanks

for your call. Honestly, this is like you're on hold with an insurance company and you're being told that you're seventeenth in the queue, but your call is important to us. Any call to Triple O is an emergency. There are too many calls, yes, hundreds, nay even thousands of them every year in every state, which are idiotic, stupid, rubbish calls. But clearly here the neighbor calls Triple zero and says

I can hear my neighbor screaming they're in pain. Pain that continued for at least two hours, and help not offered for another two hours. My advice is that tomorrow morning the Health Minister should resign because when a system fails like this, it is beyond your capacity to control it, or you are out of your depth being able to respond to it. So though same way she turned and left a press conference, she should turn and leave the Ministry.

The Premiere should sack this minister. Now, I don't know anything else about this situation other than what I have

read and what I have told you. But how is it acceptable in a state where thirty three people died before the last state election because the triple O system didn't work, and this man dies because an ambulance doesn't turn up for four hours, and not four hours during the busiest time of the day, but at two o'clock in the morning, all the way till six o'clock in the morning, there was no one there to take care

of this person. We will learn in the next twenty four hours whether the Victorian government is interested at all in first accountability but secondly treating this with the urgency that it deserves. Or most likely you won't hear anything from anyone tomorrow. No one will do a press conference. There'll be nothing happening in and around Parliament. The media will move on because they won an election even after thirty three people had died as a result of the

tripolo system that failed on their watch. Now we've debated long and half here on Sky News about the absolute idiocy of the decision which was made by the Environment Minister based off one activist about whether or not a certain amount of water could be used for the tailings of a gold mine in central New South Wales. It's Blainey, which is not too far from Bathurst. This is a huge project that would have hired thousands of people and may well have ended up producing at least a billion

dollars worth of gold. Now the Environment Minister listening to the one piece of advice that she wanted as opposed to all of the other advice that was on the table, and even her Prime Minister who allegedly said he fully supports the mine. Let alone other local Indigenous people, let alone the local community, let alone the nwsappals Premier No no, Tanya knows best. So this project disappears. But the Prime

Minister says he fully supports it. He couldn't possibly overrule or tell the minister to go back and make a different decision because of course these people don't talk to each other. Why because you see their factional factional enemies. He's the leader of the left, the Unicophals left in particular, Tanua was the former deputy leader from the Nusopas left, who of course had to get out of the way,

so Albo could make his run towards the leadership. But you know it's the Liberal Party that has a problem with women. But the bea Toloo gas basin, the bead basin, i should say, and the gas project in the Northern Territory. This is huge now according to the Northern Territory Government and reporting at the time, the amount of gas that is in this part of the Northern Territory is five

hundred trillion cubic feet of gas. Gas, of course is high in Australia because whatever we come out of the ground, for some reason, we have sent more of it overseas than we keep for ourselves. That's an issue for another day. But it also would have provided six three hundred jobs the Northern Territory, which has a population of just a

couple hundred thousand people. That is a significant number of jobs and it's something that the Northern Territory government under not the most recent but the one before that Chief Minister supported this project for too long. They had dragged their feet, but finally they came out and they said that they had backed the Terloo Basin gas project. In actual fact, at the time it was something that they were trying to use to try to hold onto power,

something that of course they lost. Despite the fact that the person who replaced this Chief Minister as Labour's Chief Minister also supported the project.

not have been interested in the project. In fact, she most likely would have tried to throw the project under the bus, because remember she ended up losing her seat in Parliament to the Greens, but she supports the project. Of course, there was a change of government and they too support this project because firstly, that amount of gas would obviously help with the territory's capacity to have permanent

energy backing up the renewable energy. There's so much that gas that would be able to do the same potentially for other parts of the country, straight down to South Australia, across the Queensland Diagonal, down to places like New South Wales. But guess what, Tanya Plubisek has now found a reason

to delay the project. Fresh after the scandal that was how she destroyed the mine in the middle of New South Wales, she is now in a position where she has decided to push this off to an independent committee. And I think we all know how the independent committee's going to rule, because it wasn't her choice, it was the committee's choice. Environment Minister Tania Plebisec will force controversial gas fracking projects and the straight is far north to

under go tough environmental checks. Of course, they're deliberately so tough that nothing would get approved. As the federal government brows with its political opponents and miners of the future nature law reforms, plubi sc intervened on the weekend. Now remember she did this on Saturday, hoping that everyone would be distracted by football finals or local government elections in

New South Wales. But guess what. Thanks to the reporting of, among others, the Sydney Morning Herald, we have noticed this plub a se devend on Saturday in the debate over the impact of gas exploration in water resources in the Begloo Basin, five hundred kilometers south of Darwin, declaring the three projects would be subject to scientific assessments. Now remember they've already gone through all of the assessments to be able to laudge all of the paperwork to get the

approval of both sides of territory politics. But this decision will deeply damage labor. The best case scenario for the COLP representing the LNP and the National Party of the next federal election is to win the seat of Solomon, that's the one in and around Darwin, because many of the jobs would be connected back to Darwin. The energy

projects would be connected back to Darwin. But equally so, when places like Alice Springs have been plunged into darkness because and I'm not joking, a cloud goes over their soul of farm, this would be the way to guarantee that the lights stay on. If this project is killed, so too would at least one of those two territory seats in my view for the Labor Party. Now Marian Scrimjaw, who is the local Labor politician, she was skeptical about

the Voice. She is not a left wing advocate, of course, she's telling the line that this is the right decision. But as Alla Springs has shown us in the territory elections and in the Voice elections, they don't quite care what they are told by Labor, which is their own good interests, what they believe to be the best interests of the public. The public turns around says no, we want energy that works, and if we can have some

jobs on top of that, even better. In The Guardian, the most left wing view of this decision, Plibask said environmental decisions must be guided by science and natural environment law. Now again that's all code for indigenous issues. That's why I've asked scientific experts to look at these projects to settle any concerns about potential impacts on water. Well, how did they get to the place where they had been announced,

they had been supported. There is hard equipment that is on those sites right now without all of this already have been done. No, this is a way of trying to delay the projects. This is a way of trying to kill the projects. Anyone concerned should respect the independent scientists and not rush to judgment on the basis of assumptions. But of course this may well be in and around doing her bit for Green's preferences because they keep her alive in the city of Sydney and the Seat of

Sydney as well. The Federal Green's Environment spokesperson, Sarah Hanson Young said that the company could start fracking any day and Plebisk should use her powers under the expanded water trigger to stop it, letting the company drill for months while the report is being written as too risky for the environment in the local water supply. So all of

this had already been approved. This is just another bit of red green tape that's being found at the last minute to wrap up the project, to try to lay it till eventually the private company walks away, or to kill it off to win Green's preferences that they would already be guaranteed of getting at the next election. Watch this space if you look. The gold mine was a big story. The Begloo Basin is much bigger, not just for the territory, not just for those two seats, but

for the country in general. A lot of people have had something to say about the welcome to country ceremony, not just the general existence of them. We certainly know there are some local councils with people that have been re elected that have turned around said no, enough of this stuff. I don't want to be welcome in my own country, all the rest of it. You know, the arguments against it. Well, there was Welcome to Country of the AFL Finals this weekend and it was the match

between the Lions and the Giants. Lions one, Giants out of the finals. If you haven't heard, this is what the bloke had to say. And I think this is a bit of a preview of the future where the Welcome to Country ceremony will be an opportunity for somebody to lecture.

they are going to get rougher. They are going to be how some people are going to try to lecture the assembled crowd about either the crimes that have taken place or the crimes that never been atoned for. Now, of course, this is all supposed to be an opportunity

from people like the AFL to reach out. But if the person will take your money to appear but still slap the hand that pays the money to appear, well then I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the exercise is, but as if it's going to change anytime soon. Sadly now, the Reserve Bank of Australia, after a dozen interest rate rises under the Albanezi government, they themselves have said that at the last meeting they were more likely

to put them up than put them down. They ended up holding and holding just But as we've talked about ever since the last election, one interest rate rise was apparently a sign of a cost of living crisis that was out of control, and the former Prime Minister had to go, well what do you say when there's been

twelve more of them under your watch? Well, of course Jim Chumas has an answer to all of this, which is to change the Reserve Bank so it doesn't make the decisions that the government doesn't want them to make or becomes politically difficult. The python, of course that is around Australians when it comes to trying to pay off their own homes, or cost of living in general, or rent that goes up as a result of the person

trying to pay off the house of which you are renting. Well, it is now so tight around people's necks that, as I often say, people they're not just bright red, they're not purple. They're like rabina purple with how much pressure they're on. But Jim Charmers has a plan. He wants to put a law through the Parliament that will change

the way the Reserve Bank works. Firstly, the current group of people who are making the decisions which clearly are about trying to get inflation in this country down to between two and three percent, despite the fact that inflation remains closer to four percent in this country rather than three percent, while in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, all of their inflation is lower than ours. But nothing

to see here, right. The government, of course then turns around and spends billions and billions and billions of extra dollars that they didn't spend before. But then they say it won't be inflationary. But then our inflation rate is higher than the rest of the world. Nothing to see here,

of course. So the first thing they did was after appointing their own version of the Reserve Bank boss, that now being Michelle Bullet, to replace the previous one because remember he was mustache twirling and monocle owning and he didn't care. Oh that's right, he just was trying to return the country to the agreed rate of inflation. She also now has to give press conferences after the decisions are made, because of course she will be therefore held responsible,

not the government. And they don't meet every month, they meet every six weeks or so. But the law, the Charmers wants to put in place is to take the current group of people who are making those decisions the Reserve Bank Board and create an entirely separate group of people who are not connected to the board to make the decisions about interest rates. Among those they would like to put on that board union members, people who would put simply not represent workers but do the bidding of

the government in the independent Reserve Bank. Now, the Greens believe that this really isn't necessary because they think that the current laws should be actually beefed up, meaning that the current Treasurer would be able to overrule the Reserve Bank. But today we learned that the Liberal Party won't be having this. They'll do a deal in age care, but they won't do a deal on changing or dare I say, rigging the Reserve Bank. Jane Hume on Channel Too.

That's the best way to get inflation down, which should be the number one priority.

what it does. You can disagree with this decisions violence democracy, but this is a bloke who is just literally trying to novel the Reserve Bank from making the independent decisions to bring inflation down, inflation that in part still remains high because of the decisions of this federal government. I mentioned the Greens before. Now remember, most likely after the next election, it's a minority government and the Greens are the tail that's wagging the dog.

originally ordered by the previous government. But Jess, isn't it inconvenient to cancel a brand new plane because I like flying around the wall on my own private plane that I even nickname after my dog. So guess what airbus elbow this week? Back up in the air where he loves to be, just looking at clouds. That was a real grab. Remember we showed you that he's off in the United States. He's going to be there for a meeting of the Quad leaders. That of course is among

others Australia, the United States, India that are there. It means we'll get the opportunity of seeing a couple of losers together this time, Joe Biden and in my view, Anthony Abernezi Bubba all wait and see now. No doubt they'll probably be a little side meeting with Kamala Harris. No conversation at all when it comes to Trump, but I'll get to that in a moment or two is time.

But good to know, right, he will be up in the air again, where he loves to be, on a plane that he nicknames after his dog, sitting with a president who is a lame duck president who does not even have the strength to run for reelection, let alone to actually remain the president because of course, as we know, he spends more time at the beach than he does actually talking about global affairs. But also worth noting about

global affairs is the latest escalation of the Ukraine War. Now, for anyone who's half listening, I'm not somebody who believes that the Ukraine War is a hopeless fight that no one should be involved in. For obvious reasons, one's at democracy, Russia ain't, and for obvious reasons, Ukraine should do everything

it can to try to repel Russia. But there's been a change in the past couple of weeks that maybe you haven't noticed because there's a lot of other things going on, And it is now a scenario where as you know, the United States can't fight with Russia because if they fight with Russia directly, well, of course Russia has a deal with China to defend Russia, and we're

off to the races. World World War III, of course, what Ukraine is doing to defend itself to use weapons that are made by the United States shipped to them from the United States, and the United States get to decide what they can use. This month, Joe Biden has decided that missiles that will go further into Russia can now be used by Ukraine to shoot in to Russia. Now, again, the logic here is to try to weaken the Russian forces or cut off their capacity to go back into Russia.

But still, is it not still an American weapon landing in Russian territory just because it wasn't fired by an American How will Putin respond? I don't say this is a Putin apologist. He's the bad guy, right, But there has been an escalation where it's not just giving them money, it's giving them weapons and now giving them weapons to actually hit Russia with. And this is not a one off.

In fact, the Biden administration is now currently this week meeting with the UK's brand new prime minister telling them, hey, you should do the same thing. So again, unpredictable, wrong, bad guy Russia. How do they respond when weapons of the United States and the UK will be dropped into Russia? How will China respond? Of course, nothing to see here.

Right at the end of October, Hopefully Queensland will do what fingers crossed we have been asking them to do for a long time, and that is to flush the ridiculous labor government that they have there right now, giggles Miles, Hopefully the gig will be wiped off his face and

the person to do it, we hope will be David Crucifully. Now, remember we spoke about David Crucifully all the way back when he was a shadow minister, and we're backed him in from the first day that he became the opposition leader.

We talk about Queensland politics a lot because I love Queensland now amazingly Today the decision from both sides of politics was to permanently keep the fifty cent public traansport fares because there has been our giant surge in the number of people that have been catching buses and trains. Sure it costs spillions, but who cares right. Also worth noting though, is that this is the start of the soft election campaign before we get to the actual election campaign.

At the end of the month, Parliament's no longer around, so basically election campaign has begun, and these are the issues that matter. According to the opinion polls that show that an undecided number at forty percent is a lot higher than the low twenties for preferred premier. Right now, for Stephen Miles, the economy number one issue, daylight second fifty one percent. That's got to be good for the LNP.

Housing and rental affordability, well, you'd think that may well help the Greens, certainly in lefty areas crime and antisocial behavior. We know that's going to help the opposition and everything under that is single digits, including climate change, which is not even on the list now. As we know, last week was the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and the expectation is that's it, and you know what, that's all it should be, because we know how rigged

it was in terms of the moderators. We know that Trump certainly got himself into trouble with the whole cat business. But essentially we don't need another debate. This is more of a media event than anything else, right at least that's what Trump says right now.

So Obama in a pants suit, But as I've argued, it's more of an empty pantsuit than Obama in a pantsuit, because in part she says crap like this.

and see fifty one days to go. We'll talk about it every day between now and then, not to do the stuff you need to know. We'll ignore all the garbage as well. And I can't wait to be in the States for the election and a little bit before and most certainly after quick break back with more lots of talk about lots of debate, bold predictions for the week ahead, and a very special friend of mine with an conversation that I know you're going to absolutely love warness.

How good is this Sunday night? So good to see two people who've got a smile on the die for very different reasons. James Ashby's got a smile in his die because he knows the election is on its way and he's running there in the set of capable for one nation. It's getting closer and there you go at his chances go up by the day, and the wonderful Linda Scott's happy because she's done with local council. Right,

twelve years of your life finished done. Congratulations, Thank you for your service all of that business in relation to local government. Thank you for always coming on this program. But let's get to my favorite topic, which is the censoring of the Internet, the Misinformation Bill, James. It was announced on Thursday. It's there if anyone wants to go and find the details of seventy five pages of it. I've had plenty to say about why I think this is dangerous, What do you think of it?

as misinformation as well. I can't gather get over the fines here, Paul. They're trying to say they're going to charge five percent of the global revenue of some of these big corporations. And we're talking companies like Facebook here global turnover one hundred and thirty five billion. They want to hit them with a five percent fine. Like, I

don't quite get it. Is this labour's way of somehow also trying to balance their budget and try and bring some revenue in because that's about a seven billion dollar fine. If people are caught doing the wrong thing and Facebook face the penalty, it just doesn't make sense. This has got a lot of holes in it, this bill, and no wonder so many people have had a lot to say, all negative.

in a democratic world. Where As Stephen Jones rightly says, we're allowing criminals to put false different you know, false disinformation that can cause harm onto the internet, and we all say, oh, that's okay, that's not okay.

most to me. It is top three issue. It is not number one, but it is top three issue for people. L ANDP came out today claiming that assault or victims of assault had actually increased one hundred and ninety three percent since the government came to power. You would no doubt, no and agree and people would come up to you in the street that crime is one of the tipping points of this election.

on the wrist and letting them out. I'm sorry. We talk about human rights all the time and the person who's committed the offense can't spend too much time in prison. Sorry, what about the human rights of those poor victims out there who are left languishing, often because they can't afford to get over the nightmares I've been broken into and having their cars style and sometimes at knife point, and

these things have monumental impacts on people. We've got to start looking after the people who have been offended against and start locking up these offenders. If you've only got three hundred and six detention center beds in this state, Paul tough luck trying to lock them up for too long, because that's why they get a free ticket. They go in for a couple of weeks and then they're let go,

so it's really no deterrent for them. We've got to build more detention center beds, and we've actually got to make them a punishment, not a holiday camp. So we've got to get tough on a few fronts there if we're going to deal with the crime that seems to continue to escalate in this state.

why she's not a great Lord Mayor of Sydney. But as you start to look back at your time on that particular local council, what do you want to say about the more things change, the more things stay the same.

a remarkable term. But I think it will be interesting given that today she's gotten up and announced that she doesn't want to run for another term, and so really, will it be sort of four years of a job interview for her successor or will it be four years of governing, which is of course what Sydney needs.

there gets there. Minor is still alive thankfully. If you would like to join us day after the Grand Final in spring VA in Melbourne, that's what we'll be for the next outown. If you'd like to send me an email, please do so. Fill the joint now, all right, don't let the word get out for the lefties only ends, have any anything, No fill the job without people. Okay, outdound it's gonews dot com dot you. Outsound, it's Kye

News dot com dot you. Now you know that I always talk about what's going on inside here, what's going on in here, about how important it is to have just a legitimate open honors, no frown mouth, just a normal chat about what's going on. And for an awful lot of people, they get really dark and really lonely, and often our conversation is about okay, those moments. But there is a fabulous resource for all of us who would like to know about the path up and out.

And that is exactly what my dear friend John brogged In has done because not only his own journey, but plenty high profile Australians he's put together and had a chat to them in a thing called Profiles of Hope. All right, I make sure I keep it behind me each and every night, so you'll see it. I'll tell you how to buy it in a moment or two's time. But this is an excellent book which has got everyone from James Packer, Ian Thorpe, Preston Campbell, you name it

talking about their journey back. And I please to say the great man's in the man cave.

twenty years. But my point is, you know, as a journey this was so different how you talked about mental health, so was like everything twenty thirty years ago, you wouldn't talk about suicide at all on the show and mental health, you know, anxiety depression began to get talked about in the right way, and we talk about it really well now, and we hear the stories of footy stars and other people, you know, sports people who come back and learn to live with that, but we don't hear the stories of

how people get through suicide. And of course you can't. I mean, it's self evident. You can't interview somebody who took their own life. We'd love to know those journeys, but we can't. So what we've got in the book is fifteen stories of people who live with suicidality who made a plan to kill themselves or in fact, have

I tried to take their own life and survived. And we have to give the message after the heavy blanket that falls out of the discussion about how can you get through this, because at the beginning and the end of the day, we want people to be alive and that's not a value judgment. And Pauly, we want to normalize missal illness. So there's nothing wrong. You've got a problem with your kidney, you've got a problem with your brain.

There's nothing wrong. We actually don't want to normalize suicide because we want people to get through it.

in common? At the end of the conversation with you, well, not all.

my story as well. You know, I knew something was going to go wrong and I probably had to get there to turn it around. There's a great farmer Peter Maloney. Great, yeah, you love the bush, this great farmer mate. Can I come and see you? He said, oh, I'll come and see you. I said where? He said, I just ate our strive from to one. No, just around the corner and loved it. Yeah. Yeah, And he's changed his life now and he's out talking all these other farmers and

he's extraordinary. But he's changed his life to two meditations every day in a three minute ice bath.

what we want. So yeah, there's that thing that did I have to get this low to get out of it and to get high back again, And I think that's it as well.

One is there's a lot of people in crisis and stress and risk of suicide, but thank god they're calling. And during COVID, Paul, when the calls went through the earth, the best call and it's your age group, was Bloke ring In saying, not only is this the first time I've called Lifeline. I never thought I'd need a Lifeline and that was a big tick for me. Because that's what we've been saying for sixty years.