From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Hello. I couldn't be feeling better. I had a long weekend. Thank you so much to James Morrow for filling in on Thursday night.
I'm mighty excited because the mighty West Tiger's won just keep them at like, can't keep them there. The victories will keep piling up, and the poles are turning the way of common sense. But most importantly, I'm here, we're chatting. That's my favorite place to be. So let's get straight into it now. The air cover that has been coming for the Prime Minister and his cause has been not
very subtle in the past couple of weeks. In fact, in just one newspaper outlet alone, these are the types of cartoons which have been running against Peter Dutton.
Remember when all else fails, Get Doteon, Get Dotteon, Get Dotton.
Now, of course they moved through everything to do with the Paris stuff, and then they just come right out and say, Ozzie Trump. I've been talking about this for some time. The narrative, not the news. It doesn't matter what's actually going on. It's about trying to create anything but the existing power structure. As a threat to democracy. Extreme two extreme, you know all of that stuff, right.
These are the people who said that the Liberal Party did the wrong thing when it came to not backing the voice ended up being where.
The people are.
It's been in the wrong place when it comes to talking about immigration instead, that's where the people have been.
It's in the wrong place.
Going after that, idiot Andrew Giles will guess what more proof in the right place.
But last week or the damn walls had broken.
Remember the great detail we went in last week about the Labor Party inventing the idea that the Liberal Party was going to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. Now was the week rolled on? Yes, the opposition came out and said we're not going to lock ourselves into the targets that the Labor Party said that we didn't vote for, and if Australia makes us the government, we
wouldn't have to honor. You know, crazy stuff, right, But goodness me, the political establishment clutching at their pearls they have been.
But what about the investment opportunity aspective? It is like the hard reality is if you had this confusion and the companies that are putting the money into different types of energy. What happens for them in this period.
Create more problems about the level of investment that is going ahead and more confusion. And it's certainly not going to improve prices.
To be really clear, our nation has no hope of hitting that zero by twenty fifty if we do not have interim targets. And the people of North Sydney are incredibly pragmatic. They understand that.
Oh more about these soon to be former MP for North Sydney in a moment or two is time now.
I won't lie.
When I sat here a week ago and I had read the headlines all day, I'd started to think, well, hang on, we know that climate change a very definite view of that under the age of fifty, there are more voters under the age of fifty than over.
How does this work?
And then I've got to say, Matt Canavan, put me right, just like you did with that Greens person by the way, put me right by saying, well, hang, it's just about right or wrong, don't overcomplicate it.
That's what their view is.
Well, what about this the set of stones that it takes for the Labor Party to now come out and say that the Liberal policy of not going renewables exclusively will there'll be too much of a cost in that transition, the same cost of transition that they wouldn't earn up to in twenty nineteen, and they lost an election that they lied about in twenty twenty two.
And now Australians are noticing.
That all of these extra targets they end up costing you and I to build the relevant infrastructure instead, they imagine it's already already been built for hundreds of billions of dollars, almost to trillion dollars, if you will. But we've already chosen that path and that's the way that it goes. So Penny Wong today is out and about
saying Peter Dutton will increase your power bills. Yes, seriously, the Labour Party is now arguing that the the other guy is going to raise your power bills, when they of course have seen power bills go up by hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars. The too little, too late that they offer in the budget was about three hundred dollars or twenty five dollars a month as a credit only for twelve months. Well, the cost of transition
plays on. Yep, that's what Penny Wong's trying to get people to believe today.
This won't fly. This won't fly. But here we go.
Mister Dutton's walking away from climate action again is a recipe for higher energy bills in Australia. And I'll come back to that. It is also him yet again abandoning the field in the Pacific. You know, I still get when I move around the Pacific people remembering him joking about climate change by talking about water lapping at the door of Pacific nations. People still remember that.
Yeah, But when the Chinese premiere is in town, as he is right now starting in at making his way towards Canberra, the Reagan Australia is going to mention at all that. As we've shown to you how many times austraightly one percent of the world's problem, China about thirty percent of the world's problem. We're meaning those Pacific island
nations are not actually being swamped by Australia. They are being swamped by the climate outputs of China, among other nations that will continue to pollute however much they want till twenty thirty. Now again, all of this is about appealing to apparently everyone under age of fifty who doesn't believe in God.
But does believe in Gaya, who believe that we.
Must ruin the earth with solar panels and wind farms to.
Save the atmosphere.
We're having a debate, as we had all last week, about what percent of one percent of the world's climate emissions?
Oh no, but what about per capita? Yeah, that's not how they're measured.
It's not measured off population, it's measured off how much is up there in Australia, one China thirty times. For his part, Peter Dutton says that while the destination remigns the same, Ne's zero twenty fifty.
Now the Labor Party.
Thinks they can do it with windmills, but it doesn't says we can do it with nuclear power. Both will cost money to build, but one will ultimately be a more reliable source of energy. And this entire week that has gone and we went in chapter and verse and
we showed you how. It was a couple of lines in an interview in the Australian newspaper last week that got whipped up into the Paris stuff, which was apparently a giant distraction from the government who for months has been on the back foot, and they thought that last week we were on the front.
Foard and we're kicking backside.
But Peter Dutton has nailed the fundamental issue that has constantly been in polling in and around climate change in Australia since it became a mainstream political issue in two thousand and seven, ten, thirteen, sixteen, nineteen and twenty two elections, is that Australians would like some action on climate change, but we're not willing to pay for it, and we're currently paying for.
It and we're fully signed up to zero by twenty fifty. But if you think it's a linear progression, they will cripple the economy. So I think we have a look at all of that information and if there are settings that we need to change, then we were changing. But if it means helping families with the cost of living crisis that labor has created.
So all week hair on fire, the media bubble inside the bubble, clutching its pearls, the media trying to give cover to the Prime Minister who is constantly failing on his central promise of doing anything about cost of living. And finally, Peter Dutton gave them the opportunity to get into what they were going to. Only problem was, guess what. The Australian public always has a way of bursting the
camera bubble, and that bubble is burst tonight. The City Morning Herald, the Age of the Brisbane Times, as well as their Channel nine newspapers, well their version of an opinion poll is called the Resolve Political Monitor. It was put in place after the failures of polling in the twenty and nineteen election that didn't quite see what you
and I saw coming at the time. So they don't give us two party preferred, but they do go deep on all sorts of other issues, and tonight the headline is that Peter Dutton, not Anthony Albanezi, is leading right now as preferred prime minister.
Now again, one poll, not an election.
An awful lot of people in the middle would still trying to make their mind up. But you would think the unelectable politician who has just come up with the most insane idea Australia's ever heard, would be going backwards. And I know that's the Prime minister who's going backwards. This poll was in the field from Tuesday of last week till Saturday of this weekend, meaning it was there
for the entire time and guess what happened. Labour's vote went down dramatically, so they are now sitting at just twenty eight percent primary. Now, the last election they were able to get about thirty two percent from memory, but that number of twenty eight percent is the lowest number since this pole was put in place for the Labour Party. Now again it's one pole, but as part of a trend.
Remember Newspoll told us that things were fifty fifty. This would clearly be two party preferred in favor of the Liberal Party. But who knows, of course, with teals and their seats and all the rest of it. But this should be the kick in the backside the Prime Minister needs, firstly to sack the idiot Immigration Minister. Secondly to actually start to understand that his cost of his transition for his target that he passed through the Parliament with the
Greens is not working with the Australian public. Because the Australian public is always worried about our own back pocket and our kids' chances of ever owning a house, and this government, while yap yap is not actually interested in those things, and I can prove it to you again issue by issue. Let's have a look here on economic management. During this term Labour was in front of the coalition. The coalition is now well and truly in front forty
to just twenty four percent significant number of people. In fact, the equal number of undecideds are there as well as the government. Now, what this pole seems to have shown is that they've stepped back from the government rather than jumped to the opposition. But on economic management, Oh but role Gold greatest ever? Are two surpluses in a row? Jim Chalmers's best ever? Yeah, well, guess what polling not working? Which party do you think performs the best when it
comes to national security? In defense forty two to twenty three. Which party do you think performs the best when it comes to managing the finances the Liberals forty one to twenty six for the Labor Party. Which party do you think performs the best when it comes to immigration? Jesus is there a surprise there that it is thirty eight to twenty one. The only place where the Labour Party has and advantage, but not a particularly big one. Despite the fact there was a week of extreme reactions. So
the destination is the same NED zero twenty fifty. But how we get there and how fast.
We get there?
Well, Labor is two points in front of the Liberal Party. Someone else other than the other two presumably is Greens or teals, and undecided is the biggest number in the bowl. See, I've sat here for long enough, and you have sat there with me that every pole, every time.
Tells us would we like some climate change action?
Yeah, it'd be nice, But Australians know that we're not't a going to vacuum. Well, we are a very significant continent, one percent of the world's problems, China thirty percent of the world's problems. Now, by the way, despite the fact that is the cold, hardcore data, what I've just said to you is referred to as misinformation by climate groups because they go for the per capita number, not the how much.
Do you put in the sky?
Some of the.
Comments in this pole again is the wake up call for the Prime Minister, the kick in the backside that he should have got a.
Long time ago.
But this is the same blow who decided that an entire year of Australian political discourse should be spent on a yes no vote that went from sixty forty yes to sixty forty no.
He spent four.
Hundred and fifty million dollars on it, and even after it happened to the next day trup nothing to see here, misinformation, misinformation, let's try to censor the internet. Something he still hasn't been able to get through the Parliament and hopefully won't.
Now.
Interestingly, the people behind the pole the result of political monitor people. They say two very important things. One, as I said before, that's the lowest number for the Labor
Party since this thing has ever been published since twenty nineteen. Secondly, they ask comments of people while they are also taking their overall views on issues, and they say that the attitudes when it comes to cost of living, job security and housing affordability is now turning from distrust to anger, meaning people can see what we have seen a long time.
Now. I take no victory LA because it's one pole. It's one pole months out from an election.
If the election is about climate change, where we know the government's going to be on sure a footing, but if it's about cost of living, it's going to be in trouble. Now they have desperately wanted interest rates to fall, but in their budgets they keep spending money. They just tell you it's not inflationary. Well, if it wasn't inflationary, of course the economy could afford, if you, interest rate cuts.
But no, that hasn't happened by every prediction, it won't happen until maybe maybe end of this year, probably mid next.
Year, after a federal election.
Some of the people responding to the Pole sale, there's a lot of talk about palisine and immigration. I'm not happy with either. Interstrates are high, prices are high. I think it's their fault. That's really important. Labour focused on minority groups and not everyone, as any government should be important. The current government's handling of the economy has been terrible. Again,
these are not your fellow viewers of this program. These are people responding to a poll in the Sydney Morning Here, all the Age and the Brisbane Times. I don't think Labour has done a good job on immigration or housing. What were they thinking. I've traditionally voted labor, but I think they're going to bankrupt us because the number one issue in Australia is the issue that they promised to solve,
but they knew they couldn't. It's cost a living. Now, there was plenty of global effects that come after the way the world handled or mishandled the COVID nineteen pandemic. But they decided to make a campaign to become the governor of the country by pretending everything in the economy was Scott Morrison's fault. Well, guess what now it's Jim chalmers responsibility and in my view, Jim Charmer's fault, Albanesi's responsibility,
Albanese's fault. Let's play them on their game. In the Australian newspaper, they have a look this weekend at a pole that underlines the point that I've been trying to make public approval for Labour's handling of cost of living. Housing initial straits has dropped ten points since the election, Concerns about cost of living up fifteen points since the
election since the election. The importance of environment and climate change, you know, that whole thing they were scared about last week, has dropped ten points.
It's the bottom of the top five issues now.
Since the election, cost living has extended its lead dramatically as the most important issue, going from sixty five points at the election when we had to change the government, to now eighty points where the government's going to try to get hired again for another three years. The importance of the environment has gone down by ten points, just twenty nine, and as I.
Say, is the bottom of all of the issues that people care about one pole.
One pole does not mean that we have hit the final line that it's all over for the government. The media is utterly invested in pretending there are no problems with this government. They're the ones who told you, oh, no one cares about Andrew Giles. Well, the newspaper came out and said fifty to fifty oh cost of living. Really, you know, government's nailed that with two little too late tax cuts of or twenty six bucks a week, or they've solved energy bills because of twenty five dollars a month.
Sorry it was thirty six bucks, just in case the fact checkers get involved. But we knew instinctively it's not enough.
They're going to pretend that it's enough. And because everyone inside the bubble gets paid oh so well, and they don't really feel the same pressures that you do, they just want to move on to something else, like let's have a chat about the climate wars when the actual casualties are about an economy that this government has made worse per capita recession for six quarters in a row. Interest rates the highest they have been in a generation.
They've gone up twelve times under this government. Oh but if it comes down ever so slightly, then everyone will say the government's doing a great job. No they won't. You know it, I know it. The media will pretend it is otherwise. So, just like the voice when all the media was all one way, the public will end up somewhere else. They'll all wake up shocked and surprised. Let's all wait and see how the next few weeks going. Now again, one of the reasons why these people are
off with the ferries is because of the institution itself. Now, I'm going to get in trouble for this little part of the editorial. But let's see Parliament House in Canberra and all of the people who feed into it, right, they all love spending other people's money because literally they don't make anything. They just clip the ticket, have clipped the ticket the ticket. There is no ticket lift. It's all just stub holes. There's all whole punches through the ticket.
Now the MP's they got their biggest pay rise in a decadd So do they feel the pain.
In your feeling? No, all of them are on two hundred or more.
But then what about this bloke the Attorney General seen here yelling at a female reporter. But remember that doesn't matter because it's a labor guy. Well, he's decided to give a twenty percent pay rise to one of the nation's key public servants. The Director of Public Prosecutions at the federal level is now going to be paid seven hundred and ten thousand dollars. That's about two hundred grand
more than the Prime Minister. It's almost three hundred grand more than the minister is paid the current salary five hundred and ninety two thousand dollars, just above the Prime Minister. Instead, this goes up now to seven hundred and ten thousand dollars.
She got the hike after the Attorney General, Mark Dravis wrote to the Independent Renuneration Tribunal because you know it's independent right to assist in its pay review, Meaning the senior public servants almost earned double what a cabinet minister is paid.
Lost the plot.
The elected officials who are already paid very well, are having the people who give them advice or supposedly the people who are accountable to the ministers are ruining twice as much and they're therefore way longer than any politician. So they just know, in rugby league parlance, how to slow play the ball, literally weight them out. Certainly, if it's a conservative you actively stand in their way. But if it's a labor person you like what they do,
you wave it through. Otherwise you slow plow the ball. Now, this is the same government, by the way, think of this. The Director of Public Prosecutions, the person who is on the behalf of the Commonwealth government. Whenever the Commonwealth Government takes somebody to court, they of course the person who is bringing the charges against people. Significant job, right, But let's have a look at the scale of moneies that are being spent by this government. A speechwriter has been
hired for just two years. Six hundred thousand dollars is what they are going.
To get paid.
Six hundred thousand dollars. That's for two years. This public servant seven hundred and ten thousand dollars, up from almost six hundred thousand this year. It's not the only one the chair of the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority. I'm sure a vital job gets paid a million dollars. Sorry, nine hundred and forty seven, five hundred and ninety if you want to go and complain to the ghost. The Australian Public Service Commissioner is paid eight hundred and seventy nine
thousand dollars. The chair of the a trip will see, you know, the ones who were supposedly there to tell us, you know, we're going to bang heads together and bring down prices because you know, the supermarkets, the petrol companies, but of course nothing ever changes.
Eight hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.
The Chief Executive of Services Australia, the people who, among other things, take care of the welfare system. Seven hundred and ninety nine thousand dollars. The Police Commissioner at the federal level. Seven hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars. The Anti Corruption Commissioner who seems to let an awful lot of people off the hook, but clearly also doesn't do much of his work in public. That's a brand new job.
Seven hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars. The boss a Border Force six hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars, the same as the Director General of the Australian Submarine Agency, which has paid more than the Productivity Commission, which is paid more than the Prime Minister, which has paid more than the ministers and the deputy.
By the way, at the a Triple C.
Don't feel too bad for them because while their boss is earning a big chunk, so's the deputy.
The whole point is.
Is that the people in the system, in the public service, say, oh, we've got to have money so we can we can compete with the public with the private sector. Well, the private sector now can't compete with the government. It's about putting the government at the heart of everything. A system where even the ministers, who supposedly outrank all of these people.
Paid half of what the bureaucrats are.
Remember the PM, the Prime Minister, the a one in the country five hundred grand and these are just some of the numbers that we know about the tippy top, let alone all of the money all of the time, which is why we don't believe them when they turn around and say twenty five dollars a month for your power bills, please vote for us because we care about you. Here's two little too late tax cuts. I have a dog called Turto, and remember I grew up in Housing Commission.
I feel your pain.
But then also in the financial world, in private companies and private business can pay anyone whatever they want to pay them. But part of the frustration that the left of Australian politics makes the most out of, particularly the far left, say the Greens, are things like this, which is why it's running in the Turmbul Times. Chief executive salaries rose by an average of fourteen percent in the past financial year. Managing directors received an eleven percent pay rise.
The Institute's survey found the general staff, however, working for those companies got about five percent. Now, settle down, I'm not turning lefty. I'm not turning on the chief executives of Australia. I'm not having a crack at managing directors. What I'm saying is is that there is a class of people in our public service and in our private companies who have got big responsibilities. But the numbers just keep going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and.
Up and up and up and up and up.
And up and up and up and up.
But the average person in Australia is not going up and up and up and up and up. So when we get told we feel your pain, we know they don't global factors. Trust me, I'm the genius. Now, the Prime Minister won't like me telling you about this, but I'm going to you know how.
His nickname is.
Airbus Albow and all the lefties hated because well, why don't you compare it to other progners, say the most recent problems, and according to per capita he travels less than the premier.
It's different.
Of course, the reality is because of cost of living, because Australians are doing it tough because three point seven million people in Australia don't know where their food's coming from.
Sometimes we think the overseas travel thing not entirely urgent.
When the Prime Minister tells us all day every day he's about focusing on this issue, Well guess.
What he's going overseas again? Now. He was at the White House for State dinner late last year. All very exciting, but.
It's now going to be the fourth time since he became the Prime Minister that he's going to be going to the White House, and this announcement was not made by the Prime Minister's office because of course they want to pretend nothing to see it.
He doesn't travel that much, apart from the fact that he needs two brand new private jets. Oh yeah, sorry, media Watch.
They were ordered by Scott Morrison, but they weren't canceled under this prime minister. So yeah, he's fine with them having two new private jets for him to fly around the world. Well, according to Daily Telegraph, it was the American government that's actually told us where our prime minister is going. Before the Prime Minister tells us where he is going, whether he will or won't have the new private jet, I just don't know. While mister Albernese's office
is yet to confirm the trip. So I wonder why the US Secretary, the Deputy US Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell as let's slip that the White House was expecting him to come to Washington. It'll be his fourth visit
to the US. He'll be there for the NATO seventy fifth anniversary, which is very important because he will be there along with Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, isn't actually a NATO nation, but should no, Wry Abber, he's there to basically be a photoh op for Joe Biden during an election campaign.
That look at all these world leaders who agree with me. More about him in a second.
But also it'll be interesting to know whether Anthony Abernezi would like to lock future governments into foreign policy decisions like his mate Joe Biden.
Why do I say this, Well, we.
Know the Prime minister happy to give plenty of money to Ukraine. I don't really have a problem with it, but it shouldn't be forever for obvious reasons. Now we've got a selfie out of it, and he gave him my whole bunch of cash. I think we're up to about one hundred million. Now we'll double check the number in a second. Well, Joe Biden has decided to Trump proof foreign policy, where they've signed a ten year funding arrangement.
With Vladimir Zelenski.
Now this is fascinating and interesting to me, because you don't govern for ten years, you governed in.
Four year increments. Instead.
What he's trying to do is if Trump comes in and says, no, we're not paying for that, it'll be willing on No, we've signed this piece of paper.
Will the same happen with Albow? I don't know.
We'll all find out together, or maybe we'll just find out via the Deputy Secretary of State from the United States as opposed to our government, who would tell us where our prime minister is going and whether he's going on the old clapped out or the brand new Toto one. Now, you know, I like to get into the detail, show you the data. Well, yes, having a strong opinion, but I try to show you the source material. I don't pretend that I've come up with it all. I tell
you the newspaper articles that things come from. I show you the reports then when they come from places, so we can all learn together, and if you'd like to, you can go off and read the source material yourself, because I think when you watch a show like this that you are into the detail. And while elections, yes, in the end about how many voted this way, how many voted that way, who won the most number of
seats and you get to be the government. So I am completely aware that maybe you do not obsess about the boundaries under which the election fight takes place, But there are one hundred and fifty one members of the Parliament. And due to population movements, some seats disappear, some up here, and according to population, the boundary of the place where you live moves a little this way, moves a little that way.
Well, this is the new map of the city metropolitan area.
When it comes to the upcoming election, what it means is that one seat is going to disappear from New South Wales. That seat has now been to be not Sydney, former political homeland of the zimzim Man before, of course he ended up losing to the Teals, and before that, of course Joe Hockey famously as the local MP. Ted
mackis an independent. Before these fake Teal party independence kicked in. Well, when the seat was seemingly abolished on Friday, I've got to say that the MP, well, didn't she put on a show? Now I think there's a very good chance she'll end up running in the seat of Bradfield. Bradfield is in the north of Sydney. It voted yes a little bit Teal curious but whether the Teals can pull it off again, well we'll all find out together. But
this is what she said upon her seat disappearing. It's kind of beauty queensh isn't it.
This whole experience of having an independence stand for an advocate for the seat of North Sydney was never about me, not even for a minute. It's always been about our community.
It wasn't about me, of course, it was your name was on the ballot and people trusted you and they voted for you. Well, okays, a lot of preferences wach away, but still it's not about me.
Then if it's not about you, don't stand.
But of course it was about you, and it was about you knocking everyone else out and getting that sweet climate money from Homes of Court all the rest of it. Now it looks like again, Not Sydney disappears. Will she be part of the parliament the next time around. We'll all find out whether she's going to run in Bradfield or whether she gives.
It up completely. Who knows.
But I wanted to show you about some of the things that have actually happened that will kind of tell us about whether the Liberal Party gets closer to seventy six, whether the Labour Party gets to hold on to a majority. Now let's look here of the three teals which were on the northern side of the harbor. They now become
two Teals. There's another Teal across the harbor, a legal spend and nothing really happens to her in Wentworth, although I'll explain that in a second ben along the former House of John Howard, it is going to become a lot more liberal with some of the hardcore Liberal votes from North Sydney falling into ben along Hughes south of Sydney, that gets a little less liberal. Labour think they can potentially win that seat. Riverena is going to become a
little bit less national. So will there be a Teal effect there. I'm just pointing this out just so you hear about it here rather than learn about it all.
In the Sydney Morning Herald.
When they decide to do the soft promo for them, and yes, Wentworth becomes a slightly more marginal seat. Now, whether that's good for the Liberal Party or whether that is good for Labor and the areas they run, we'll all wait and see. But a couple of reactions to this, and I want to knock them on the head straight away.
One somebody's saying that the bloke who is the current candidate, and this apparently people inside the Liberal Party who's currently been pre selected for Ben along that he should go because it's a more Liberal seat. No, this bloke would be great in parliament. He truly would be. I'd love to see him. I'd love to get him on the show. I hope he does very well and I think that he'll be able to get up and over the Labor Party,
who only hold the seat by a couple hundred votes. Meantime, Matt Keane reckons that he'll be the one to take on the former teal from North Sydney because he'll push the current MP out of the way. Look, if that's the case, I'm all in on Paul Fletcher, and I'm not really all in on Paul Fletcher. Now in a moment's time, the dumbest story of the weekend the great Paul and Hanson cartoon, which pops up each and every week,
each and every Friday. The way that you can help pay for it is to buy the rum support them on the websites. The people who put it together very clever, very funny. And you may well have heard that Robert Erwin has got a problem with this clip or at least lawyers on his behalf. So they have a problem with this clip because they've.
Used his likeness.
Now, what really is behind this joke is that the Queensland government is already paying Robert Erwin and Bluey to be it's statewide ambassadors. That's what they were taking the piss out of roll the clip.
Now we get to walk the beautiful Bruce Highway.
Oh no, blooey cable, the podoles Bluey lucky. The State of Queensland's got a world class medical system.
Back of the line, How long's the wait? Six months? Oh no, it's the juvenile delinquents again. Oh no, Bluey's being bashed. Were lucky for us.
We've got an awesome premium here in the State of Queensland. Oh man, yes, the tagline being that's what's happened in the State of Queensland. Well, one nation isn't budging. The man who els right the cartoon is none other than the Great James Ashby, He joins us straight after the break. Don't go anywhere, just starting up here, fired up this Sunday night. Thanks for watching it again. Thanks to James
Morrow for doing a great job on Thursday night. But we're back, re energized and ready to run as hard as we can.
Happy Sunday.
Let's get straight into it right now with Lisa got from a media who is in Brisbane up the road in your pun is the man who is of course running the seat of Keppel and I read some good things about that campaign this weekend of the Paper's Knowing the great James Ashby. But let's get to the cartoon. So you mark the step, mates, you all get around. You do the cartoon each and every week. It's funny.
People love it. You take the pee out of a tourism campaign where the Queensland government is paying Robert Irwin and the Queensland Government, a taxpayer, is playing Bluey and you obviously point out the obvious floors of the state that won't be appearing in any of the ads.
However, whose likeness has been stolen. Are you going to take the cartoon down?
Hell no, no, it's staying up there, and we've gotten until tomorrow afternoon apparently to take it down.
But I ain't going anywhere, Paul. You know this has now had in.
Three days three million hits on a range of different social media platforms. You know, eat your heart out queens and Tourism and the state government. We paid eleven thousand dollars for this episode that we put out on Friday. We've had three million hits. How many of you had for your out across the country and how much did you pay for it? That's the big question here. Look, I don't know why Robert's upset at this. I'm quite disappointed that Robert's upset, to be quite frank, because it
was never the intention. We actually set about to make Robert and Bluey the heroes in Friday's episode, and I think they were the greatest villains in this episode was the Queensland government, who after nine years, have destroyed our state. They've made a mockery of our Bruce Highway. It's a goat track. I traveled it yesterday all the way back up from Brisbane back into Yupun and it is littered
with potholes that Bluey fell down. We've got a hospital system that's failing, We've got housing cues for people to try and get rentals out the wazoo, and juvenile crime which has just deteriorated over these years because the Labor Party just don't want to deal with young juvenile delinquents. And I'm sorry to think that Robert thinks that this is an attack on him.
It's not.
Robert.
I'm happy to have dinner with you on Friday night if you want. I'll get the boss together. We'll get some good steaks, a nice wine and sit around the fire and we'll just talk this over. Leave the lawyers aside, and let's be honest here. This was a great marketing tool on behalf of one nation. And it's really it's well, it's paid dividends for us anyway.
Well you and again I stand by if you want to back the thing in. You buy the run, you buy the gin, you buy all of those things, and you can keep the whole thing going. I think it's amazing what you're able to produce. You know, it's I think world world class level sort of animation stuff, and you're able to do it in a very efficient fashion. So world under step mates. Again, it's one of these things Lisa, where if you've seen the cartoon, you go, yeah, Bob's not no one's having a crack at him. No
one's having a crack at Blue. It's about they're out and about selling the tourism of Queensland. But the reality is there's plenty of stuff that government wouldn't want you to.
Talk about about Queensland.
I was hearing somebody on the radio saying that it was that's right, Sorry, it was planning all before on the Sunday Showdown. That was a great idea because you know, no one's going to sue anyone. But he's put distance between himself and one nation. Again, seriously, did anyone need that distance to be created?
Yeah?
No, And James, I have a question for you. Was I right in reading that people approach you wanting to be in the cartoon and that some people even offered money to be featured in this cartoon. So and put to the one side that the tourism events queens lated have paid what nine point three million I think they spent on their advertising campaign. And look, it's a great campaign that it will go around the world and no
doubt would be great for tourism numbers here. But I do think that young mister Irwin is taking umbridge at something that was that was meant not targeted at.
Him at all. And I have a horrible feeling.
Sorry, lest I was going to say, I think my horrible feeling is. I'm not enttally sure he has any opinion about this, but some people in and around and protecting the brand and all the rest of it sort of fired something off and it just seems a little excessive, although we'll all find out if it look as I'm sure James is saying, can the controversy go for another week?
Please could keep as much noise.
As possible if whoever count down to the deadline, you know, all the rest of it, well, just we'll keep it going, keep it going, all right.
It's up. It's up everywhere. If people do want to find it, though, James, where can you find it?
Where's the easiest place each and every Friday to see these cartoons?
Then start sending them around?
Paul and Hanson's Facebook page, her YouTube channel. It's just please explain cartoon series. You'll find three years worth of these. I haven't been suited for three years, Paul. I don't want Robert to be the first one that gets me.
All right, well, I think you look again.
I won't push lawyer too much here, but I think things like satire and all the rest of it might be fine here. So at least let's talk about the poles now again, one pole does not everything make However, newspaper last week gold standard that was fifty to fifty. We're seeing relentlessly in the polling that'll be there everywhere from the Turnbull Times through to the Financial Review right, which is cost of living a one issue and they are now starting to correctly hold the government to account.
Again.
I don't know what happens in the next few few weeks, but this poll was out and about while the sky was falling in because Peter Dutton wasn't going to do what the Greens want to do on climate change. Guess what, nothing happened, Lisa, In fact, quite the opposite.
Gee, do you think all of the people who are pushing their trolley through Woolworths and Coals and having to do that calculation in the head about what they can afford are so worried about what the technicalities are as far as the Paris Agreement goes, or what is being done in relation to a twenty thirty or a twenty thirty five target, which Labor has not come out and
said it will set anyway. But no, I think what Peter Dutton is doing, and he's doing it coming out hard on the economy, he comes out hard in its supported defense. He's hitting all of the right marks. As far as that's concerning, I think most average Australians are out.
There doing it tough.
Yeah, I mean again, James. The result Pole in particular is murky about things like one Nation.
One Nation.
However, has gone up in the polls in the places that actually are straight out and give.
You an opportunity to be counted.
We've seen before a couple of points here, a couple of points there, about seven percent nationally right now they put you in with other right, so as everything from the Victorian Socialists to the Teels One Nation to the Australian Democrats. However, it does seem like, well, not just gloss is gone, but people are now stepping back from
openly saying I'm all in on this government. And that is the beginning of either a lesson learned by the government or the beginning of a change that, once it starts, doesn't get undone.
Yeah, there's a lot to be said for the path that Peter Dutton seems to be treading right now. He's going down a very distinct path where he wants to form government at the next election, and he actually has policy that is starting to resonate with the Queensland and National voters out there. The big thing for me is Peter has been very strong on the deportation of these foreign criminals who labor have allowed to stay in the country.
And then he's starting to raise the big issue in this country right now, and that is cost of living under the energy prices that have been dictated.
By net zero. They're unachievable.
Paul, it to you like me saying to you, listen, I want you to lose fifty kilos in ten weeks on a water and let us diet. It's unsustainable. You will not lose the weight, it'll cause more harm to you than good and it's not going to achieve anything at the end of the day.
So look this.
Imagine. I don't want to go to there. But my point is you had to distract me. Peter Dutton has a message.
The message is clear from Peter Dutton finally, and I'm glad to see the majority of the people within his own party are starting to him finally, and I think the Australian people are also starting to do it.
So I think he's on a winning streak.
Here.
If he keeps this up, he'll destroy.
Labor at the next election, and one Nation will make sure that we put Labor and the Greens last, which will help him get across the line.
Well, and that's the thing too, I mean, remember those preferences one nation, UAP, but certainly one nation and bigger size, bigger vote twenty nineteen. If two out of three end up going to the Liberal Party, then this thing gets competitive. If it goes fifty to fifty, you blame them all, bugger them all, all the rest of it. Then it's going to be a very interesting picture, I do have to say. And no doubt the people trying to dismiss this poll, I'll get in and do it for them.
In New South Wales, preferred Prime Minister is thirty three thirty one, in favor of Albanezi Victoria is thirty nine thirty four, and in rest of Australia it is thirty.
Seven thirty four.
Queensland though forty eight percent to twenty nine percent, so clearly the average is affected by what's happening in Queensland. But what really matters in there, Lisa, is that we're being told that the Teals might be on the march around southeast Queensland.
Not on those numbers.
On those sorts of numbers, there are Cabinet ministers who would end up losing their seats because of what is going on in Queensland. Whether this is all linked in with the state election, who knows, but certainly Labor as a brand is on the pong there.
But are you seeing a distinct.
Hostility at times towards the Prime Minister in Queensland or is it about labor?
I think it's more focused on what's happening here under state based political sort of circus, if you like, because, like I said, labor here people are frustrated. It's the long laundry list of everything we spoke about earlier in the program. You've got housing, you've got health, Everything that James is Bluie and Robert Irwin cartoon pointed out is
what's concerning people up here. So I think what will happen is you'll see the election hit here in October and then it would be very interesting to watch what the Holing does federally in relation to what impacts Queensland will have on the federal government moving into when they call an election. I think that's what they'll be watching what happens here.
Yeah, well, once I get into state state breakdown again, this is where one nation. I can see what's happening there. Federally, the L and P is at forty percent, labor at twenty four percent in Queensland, twenty four percent in Queensland. Now again they will all say, oh, mate, you know, it's all fine, it's all you know, nothing will change.
If that happens at an election, Lily, a seat like Lily would go, There'd be a couple of others and then be a couple of ministers who would see the back of that would be magnificent.
May it happen, But it's just.
A pole a few months out, all right, quick break back with more bold predictions arehead and plenty more. I'll make sure that we put up the Paul and Hanson video.
On the socials as well, just to when we're the left views.
James ashby Lisa Goddard, both here from Queensland.
I'll be in Queensland soon. We've got an outstand coming up there, very very soon.
Return to the spiritual home, my favorite state. Can I become the Queenslander? I say it every week.
I love them. Yes, I'm even willing to trade up on the state of origin. Yes, that's what I'm willing to do.
Anyway, pleenty to talk about with them, including let's talk about in Victoria. Though the Victoria Education Minister Lisa has apologized for ongoing racism in our schools.
Now, I would have thought that.
The gross under performance of the public education sector, particularly in places like Victoria, would be what you're apologizing for. But no, it's the ongoing racism around every corner. It's the segregated bubblers. It's you know, only kids have certain this, that and the other that are allowed to play at ours. Is this the racism that's happening in Victorian schools?
Of course not. It's systemic.
Yeah, the same racism where they have a welcomed a country not only on parade of a morning, but then I'm told at nearly every classroom around the state and not just Victoria, Paul, I put some calls out to nights and teachers, I know, and it's common practice to have the welcome to country on parade and then the classrooms they go and that's the next thing they do. So I came through as you would have with the
Lord's prayer back in the day. But anyway, but what I find interesting more than five thousand teachers is a projected shortfall in Victoria. So perhaps the Education Minister would be better focused on that as opposed to going out there and saying sorry for somehow driving a wedge and creating basis.
But then, of course, over the turbul times James, they say, apart from dealing with systemic racism, we should also have media literacy, which means, of course the children will be able to work out the difference between news and opinion. But let's be honest, it's about just saying anything that is to the center of Australian politics, let alone to the right of center, must be ignored. That's what it's really all about. It basically is if sky newses on the headline, don't.
Read it.
Well.
I would love to see critical thinking brought back in the classroom. That will then allow kids to determine whether they want to believe.
Something or not.
My dad still works in the school system, not as a teacher, thank goodness, but as a groundsman.
He's sick the death of seeing the things that come out of schools. But so am I.
I was a school over the weekend, and just notice some of the stuff that's up on the walls in classrooms now. Wonder so many more parents suggesting that they're looking at homeschooling their kids today. That is a growing trend across this country, and I can see why. I just remember the first thing I learned. Every morning before we went into a classroom, we had to sing the national anthem.
Maybe it's about Tom we brought that back.
Now I'm going to start a brand new segment here.
Imagine there's really fancy graphics, and we planned all of this out rather than be just coming up with it right now, which is the dumb question of the day, Where I'm going to take a new story that feels a little dumb, but let's talk about it anyway. This one comes from the New Daily, which tells us that apparently Americans they put on the subtitles to watch Stradan
shows because they don't quite get the accent. Lisa, are you a person who will put the subtitles on because they speak too softly and then it's an explosion or you know, just you hold on for grim life and you forget what they're talking about, and you just will pick it up later.
Well, first of all, I lived in the States for three years as a bureau chief. I can tell you that you quickly learn to ask for your water or you're the coffee in a certain way.
I appreciate you to thank you.
Almost have to travel with some subtitles, but no, I find it interesting. Twenty eight percent of kids under the age or people under the age of thirty have the subtitles on, and my sixteen year old is one of them here in Australia. And it's not because she doesn't understand the American language. It's that she just finds it easier to watch. And I'm like, I don't understand it annoys Jesus at a month anyway. So it's not just in America, it's here as well. So when your kids are older, watch out.
I'm with you, but James, I mean, look, everything on the Internet, of course, comes with these subtitles, and I'm going, who can't hear what's being said?
I'll be honest.
Every now and then, if I'm in the middle of a binge and there's a bit of a drama, I might occasionally turn them on. But are you a subtitles man?
No, only iTunes.
I listen to my music with subtitles now because some of this more modern music I can't understand.
They sort of like a lyric and so what was that? I remember?
Bring back the eighties and nineties where you could actually understand the lyrics and they had meaning.
Yes, I'm certainly learning that these songs that had the little E next to them not appropriate for the six year old who remembers every word of every song she's ever heard, even if once. All right, bold predictions for the week ahead, Lisa, what's definitely happening?
Well, here's one win.
If they are watching subtitles, at least they're reading win.
Good point, very good point.
All right, what's your bold prediction, James, And we'll getting to Lisa in a second.
I think Robert Erwin's going to pull his head in like a snapping turtle and leave us alone.
After Monday.
I've got a prediction more people are going to watch your video and it's a good one and it's worth it. They remember it, particularly in the seat of your poom when it comes to voting.
All right, Lisa, Yes, I think crayfish.
And lobsters may well be back on the table in China, if China's worried about a trade war, if Trump gets in in America and they're trying to love up and be friend Australia, who's no longer the gum under the sole of their shoe, then perhaps we'll see crayfish and lobsters back.
Good to see.
Thank you guys, do appreciate it, as of course they stand up for our values. Yeah right, thank you guys to appreciate it. That's our show for tonight. See you again tomorrow night for a big one. Looking forward to a big Monday. No sooks, no lefties, all of that business. If you want to be part of it, see me an email Paul. It's gonews dot com dot au.