From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live.
Mate.
Happy Wednesday. Now, as we know, this is a really special week in Australia. I did up at you.
But everywhere I go I see the banners in the streets. I see bunting out the front of people's houses to celebrate two years since Anthony Abenezi became the Prime minister. But you can just feel it in the air. How amazing the country is. Well, of course things have changed ever so slightly since he just won power with the lowest primary vote that they'd had in the best part
of a century. The polls well, unsurprisingly they started to turn against the Prime Minister as he was more focused on spending half a billion dollars on the Voice rather than dealing with cost of living. And in actual fact, well, yes, they're leading a news poll in the turnbul Times, the Guardian. They have a poll where they actually count the number
of people who don't know. I remember that number was significant ultimately when it came to being able to work out what was going to have and at that referendum last year and today on two party preferred in the Guardian, the Liberal Party is leading forty seven to forty six with six percent undecided. So in terms of that divide, what is it, Well, just four percent of men are undecided because at this stage most of them seem to
be leaning the coalition's way. The problems for Labor in part are because of female voters, with almost one in
ten nine percent saying they are undecided. Now that is why all of the uga booga politics will all be about, you know, Petered up in his evil Petered ut in his trumple all the rest of it right where the Liberal Party has a problem with women, despite the fact that it's the leader of the Labor Party who of course went to the domestic violence rally and well he made the women cry who were organizing it.
But you know, nothing to see here.
Well, of course, what was supposed to change all of that was the amazingness of the federal budget, which is now a week and a day old.
It's a great potent provide cost of living support whilst also.
Having that eye on the economy of the future.
Now, as we know, the polls not so great because people have seen too little too late when it comes to the tax cuts average thirty six dollars. The idea of the energy rebate, which is really seventy five dollars every three months, which is really twenty five dollars every It's not amazing.
It's not amazing.
So what do you do when you're in a world where the cost of living relief is too little.
Too late.
Well, you reach for other people's money, an endless supply of abilities to turn that public opinion around. Now you may well have started seeing and hearing ads which are talking about the two little too late tax cuts. There are plenty on radio, there's a few popping around on television. But of course it's pointless because it's not like you have to apply for them.
They just take place anyway.
And while the big numbers that they like to put around them are that this is going to change the cost of living, the reality is that you pay your tax weekly, fortnightly, and monthly.
I made the point how many times.
Over, Well, guess what, There is a limitless amount of other people's money when you are trying to use taxpayers dollars to get the political effect that the government cares
about you. And today Daily Telegraph broke the story that one hundred and seventy two million dollars worth of other people's money is being spent by this government right now in overtly political games, political ads to tell us the silly Australian public who don't believe the government is doing the right thing certainly enough on cost of.
Living that yeah, they're in our corner.
The Aberdezi government is forking out more than one hundred and seventy two million dollars on spooking various government initiatives across their different portfolios, including ten million dollars to raise awarenarth about the new vehicle efficiency standards. Oh, I've got someone to say about that in a couple of minutes.
Another ten million dollars on the net zero transition. The total figures come as Treasurer Jim Charmers has been forced to defense spending forty five million dollars on advertising for the future Made in Australia policy. Another forty million dollars on the Stage three tax cuts. Now again, public advertising should be information about public health or welfare. When it starts going on about the Australian government, who's doing this, that and the other, go to this website to learn
it's not public education. It is overtly political. Story continues among the spending was ten million dollars set aside for a national communications campaign to raise the awareness of the new vehicle efficiency standard, while another ten million will be spent over two years from twenty three to twenty four to deliver public information on the net zero transition and ensure affected workers and communicate are aware of the support available.
It's just all puff, but it's other people's money. And while the very significant number of people that are amongst us, well, they don't pay as close attention to the news as you and I do, because if you do, you are where the polls are. But if you just sort of pick up the vibe through the ads here here in the radio or the TV, oh my gosh, greatest government of all time, it's doing something for me. And then
you actually check your bills and you realize they're doing nothing. Now, obviously this Prime Minister would not want to be at odds with what he had said when he was the opposition leader. I mean, that's not the way this guy goes. This guy is exactly the same as he was when he's in opposition. Right, like two seventy five power bills, like they lived up to that cost living to be cheaper they lived up to that, we'd be a more
transparent government. They lived up to that, right, Anthony abneasy about government advertising other people's money used to promote politically the previous government, because this prime minister is addicted to spending taxpayers money as if it was liberal party money, and the ads you see from the government on TV, which are promoting liberal and National parties are paid for by the taxpayer. It was a bad idea back then, but guess what, it's not a bad idea now.
Could there be a name for this type of personality trade of the prime minister.
Where he's one way and then another, But it's all okay because even more gifts come his way as a result of other people's money. Don't forget this budget, and it's worth mentioning as often as possible. While you're looking down the barrel of thirty six dollars a week on a tax cut, whoo, twenty five bucks a month on power bills, they're spending four point fifty four to fifty million dollars on not one, but two brand new planes
for the prime minister. Now, the Prime Minister may well end up using other people's money to advertise why it was important for him to.
Have one of these planes.
But one thing that I will give him for free is what he can name this new two plane airline airbus Elbow. I mean, we've got that and the logo ready for you right now. If you want other people's money, they always find a way to spend it. One hundred and seventy two million dollars on ads to tell you
how amazing their policies are. While they spend what four hundred and something million dollars on planes, Oh yeah, but they're really in it for you Meantime, in the real world, cost of living still the number one issue has been since the day this government came to be, and it remained so two years after they are here now. To the Prime Minister's credit, he did launch the Red Shield Appeal today. But the Red Shield Appeal and the Salvation Army which is kicking off right now, these people do
incredible work. Any opportunity you can to support them in any way possible, with your time, with your money or with goods, please do so give and give very generously.
To the Red Shield Appeal. Well.
While the Prime ministers spend one hundred and seventy two million dollars on ads to pump his own tires, and four hundred million dollars on bran new planes to fly him in Toto around the world. A survey of fifteen hundred of the Salvation Armies financial service clients found that two thirds were often going without food so their children could eat, and one in three feared that they could
lose their home and effectively become homeless. Even more strikingly, one in five were living in darkness, using candles or torches at night to save on power bills.
Of course, the best they get out.
Of this government twenty five dollars a month, and that's the exact same amount of money they're giving people with mansions fared income. These people also use public amenities such as bathroom's shopping centers to avoid using.
Water at home.
An example of a family that has had to go without before they were able to be helped by the Salvos and now are not living on the streets. The stories we're telling here because again all about the Salvos, But in the quariyer Mal the Queens, their mother is revealed that she went three days without eating to ensure her children had food. When the family found themselves homeless
and forced on the streets. There were times that I had twenty dollars to feed the kids for four days, I'd actually go without something to eat and then end up going to a food bank.
She's not alone.
The new research by the Salvation Army, he's found sixty nine sixty nine percent of parents revealing that they would go without food so their children can eat, that being the people who access the Salvation Army. Now, our friend Joe Hildebrand was with the Prime Minister as it was all launched today. He's a big supporter of the red Shield appeal. He'll be in discussion in a moment or
two time with Bromb and Bishop. Because if the reality of your prime ministership after two years of a prime ministership is that people who are accessing welfare services are literally going without eating so their kids can eat, we have a problem that no amount of other people's money can fix. And while this Prime Minister will just fly over the top of them in a brand new jet, the reality is is that this speaks to, in my view, the lack of morality about this government. Mainmetime Angus Taylor,
the Shadow Treasurer. He was at the National Press Club to now, this is an away game for a liberal politician, but he was able to get through a couple of points to even the people living in the what second most livable city in the world, Canberra, About the number of people who have to pull back on things like organized sport because their kids playing team sport is too expensive.
The sidelines who are quieter, the crowds thinner. When I asked why, the answer was simple but heart wrenching. Many families can no longer afford organize sport for their children. This isn't just anecdotal, it's a trend we've seen nationally.
Now that was a story informedo his own experience on a netball court in Sydney. The parents who sacrifice oh so frequently is not something that is exclusively to be mentioned at the National Press Club. We talk about it here each and every night, and you may well know it as your own life, or your kid's life, or somebody who you know and loves life.
While are their pride and make sacrifices. Haunted by the fear of failing to provide for their loved ones, they work extra hours and dig deeper into savings, savings which are the foundation of their future aspirations.
And I will not have it heard that this government does not care.
I mean they care so much that they are spending one hundred and seventy two million dollars on ads for themselves.
And yes, I'll mention it again, they're spending four hundred and fifty million dollars on brand new planes for the Prime minister. Oh but they care, They really care, don't they. Now the conversation about migration, what's the right number? Is there a.
Goldilocke's number about the number of people coming into the country. Well, as you know, Peter Dutton is exactly where the public is where pole off the pole is constantly said that Australians want a dramatic reduction in the number of people that are coming to the country because in the years since COVID, this government has got it grossly wrong, so much so that this government's had to admit themselves that
they have got it wrong. But there's another group that's out and about and telling us why any further reduction to immigration would be terrible. Well, of course that's the big business community. Big business would of course be desperately I mean, this is going to affect our.
Skills space, et cetera, et cetera.
None of these people wing when it's the Labor Party promising to do the same thing. But when it's Peter Dutton promising to match their cuts and go even deeper. Oh, the sky is going to fall in the big end of town is about to collapse. Well, please, any decent person understands what this is really about. It is not
about robbing Australia of skilled workers. That still be one hundred thousand that would come in each year, but we wouldn't end up with the hundreds of thousands of more people who turn up, including family reunion, under this government. For his part, Peter Dutton understandably is doubling down on
where he knows the people are. That when there are as many problems that come about everything from problems in our hospitals to cues for rental properties, that you don't add more people to the problem.
The outrage from the usual suspects about you know why you're proposing to cut the migration program because I'm putting Australians first. That's why i want to make sure that our migration program works for our country, not against the interests of our country.
And all of the people inside the bubble of the bubble of the bubble of Canberra, they say that this is ugly politics, nationalist politics, that's code for Trump politics. Perfect example is a cartoon that sums up just you know, the nuance of the argument in the City Morning Herald, where apparently the number of people that will be migrating to the country, well it gets cut and then they all fall into what a.
Nuclear vat of acid.
Seriously, again, none of this stuff when it was the government that was promising to cut. But because people don't believe that the government's actually going to cut, well, supprise suppose And there's actually another person who agrees with the position of Peter Dutton, and it's the Queen's Land Premier.
He says that the amount of population movement that's happened, particularly intra state move as well as internationals, is starting to cause problems in road congestion and a whole bunch of other things.
But probably the less said about him the better. Okay, I'll keep talking about him.
So Stephen Miles, the Queensland Premier is in a world of trouble.
More evidence that.
He is sinking by the day. And once Queensland has get the chance to go to the polling booth. They will walk right past him, no matter how much morone he tries to wear, no matter how much he tries to say, oh.
Come on guys, on one of you, I'm like go Queensland. People don't care.
New prole in the Brisbane Times shows that the primary vote of the Labor Party could well be down as low as twenty six percent. Now I don't believe that that's the case, but still it's way down from where it was at the election when it was closer to forty percent, and the LNP is now well over the forty percent, meaning that the minor parties such as One Nation, UAP, a whole bunch of others their preferences well should be
able to help the government to change in Queensland. Fingers cross And just in case people think that maybe Stephen my is the answer to the political problems of the Labor Party, well he preferred premier. He's twenty eight percent, don't know is sitting at thirty three percent, and at thirty nine percent right now is none other than David Cruci. Fully, so fingers crossed, there is going to be a change
in Queensland. But if you need to get another reminding, if you're watching us in the Sunshine State about why there needs to be a change, let's get back to hospital ramping. This is when forty five percent of all people who end up in the back of an ambulance have to wait about thirty minutes, but most likely longer because there's no space in the hospital for the people who have called the ambulance. Now, this situation is the
worst that has ever been in Queensland history. So understandably the LNP says, can we sack the health Minister?
And how long have I said? Shannon Fnjaman said she'd be different, Well, she's different, alright, she's worse. Shannon Fnsaman said that she would be transparent. Well, Queenslanders can see right through Shannon Fenceman cannot trust Shannon Fentman and that is why she must go.
But of course Stephen Myles has no interest in sacking the Health Minister and I no matter how bad she is, because remember, of course, at one point in time she wanted to leave frog Hin to become the premier. They ended up not having a fight, which meant it didn't have to go to the members and fentlemen probably would have won. So unsurprisingly, Stephen Milesy is backing one of the worst health ministers in Queensland's history.
What I know is that Shannon as our Health Minister, is doing a very good job in what is a very difficult job. I know how difficult that job is, and she is doing it well. We are giving her and Queensland Health extraordinary resources because we know the growth in demand that we are currently experiencing. Those resources are what's allowing us to employ more doctors and nurses and paramedics, and to build more hospitals and deliver more hospital beds.
Yet, just this week we hear stories about a person in the seventies who died of a heart attack in the back of an ambulance because they weren't able to get into a hospital.
Seriously.
Now, meantime, there's another minister who deserves a little bit of attention here, and it is a minister who has been spending the people's money going off on cultural diplomacy while many Queenslanders a struggling to keep a roof over the head. Queensland's Communications Minister Lianne Enoch was jet sitting around North America in business class with three senior staffers. Documents obtained by nine News under the Right of Information
reveal the trip, which was led by her. Her other minister of responsibilities are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships in the treaty. She's also the Arts Minister. And it cost one hundred and twenty six as I say, one thousand dollars. It was a ten day trip.
It took in New York.
Edmonton and Vancouver in Canberra in Canada for the purposes of cultural diplomacy that was approved by the previous premiere before she got da hepho. And speaking of terrible governments, the Victorian government now this has been an election winning machine, no matter how how bad they've been as a government, no matter what they've done to the state's finances, and no matter how badly they ran their health system. Because
you know, I've got a north face jacker. Well, since the removal or since the resignation of Daniel Andrews, the replacement premier isn't quite as attractive to the people of Victoria. In fact, again polling, same organization, but this time in the Age newspaper shows that the primary vote of the Labor Party is allegedly twenty eight percent. Now twenty eight percent. It was, of course close to forty percent around the last election. The LMP is edging up at thirty seven percent.
But before anyone gets too excited and thinks that Persudo is going to end up as the premier, he's currently the preferred premier choice of but just twenty six percent of the electorate. She's thirty one percent of the electorate and the extreme majority undecided. So thea regularly the next election is up for grabs, but no doubt both of those leaders will probably be replaced and then we'll get back to the way politics has.
Normally played in Victoria.
But one thing I wanted to update you on that we brought to you over the past couple of nights was, of course, that the treaty process which is playing out in Victoria right now, is one where things are put on the table, and then as soon as anyone reports about what's put on the table, everyone pretends there's nothing to see here. However, the government has said they will not rule anything in or out.
When it comes to the treaty negotiations.
Remember the story this week that the Allen government has refused to rule out giving compulsory acquired private property to Indigenous groups and establishing seats designated for Indigenous members in the Victorian Parliament.
Now Artie Jill, remember Artie Jill.
We spoke about her previously when her ten points suggestions, which among other things were interest free loans and no rates and no taxes effectively for Indigenous people to be paid.
And then after we reported it, she turned around said, oh, no, there's no Idea's not happening.
She's turning around and saying that the compulsory acquisition thing definitely not happening. But then when she was on the radio this morning on through Our w with Tom Elliot, she says, I think reparations should be on the table, and it might not be in the form of money. It may will be in the form of empowerment, it may be by the way of land. But then she goes on to say, no, it definitely won't be about
the acquiring of private property. So see how this process works because the government will not rule a line where negotiations go too far. Everything's on the table. As soon as anyone reports what's on the table, it's quickly taken off the table and then when nobody's looking at it
goes back on the table. All in all, a bad look, a bad reality, and a bad government that it would be feeling like as they're trying to write some history, either on their way out or on their way to a fifth term, will they sign up.
To a bad deal? Probably?
Now I mentioned before the vehicle emission standards, the big car tax, which is on its way as a price dis incentive, will be built into high polluting vehicles. Yet the standards are going to be said so low that basically anything that is a popular carr in Australia will be too polluting and therefore well our extra taxes will be put on top of the cost of the vehicle. It's all the brilliant brainchild of the three D Chess champion Chris Bowen, the Climate Change and Energy Minister. Why
because he wants everyone driving an electric car? Why because you know, we've got to do our bit to save the planet, despite the fact that our bit to save the planet is one percent of global pollution one percent. Well, last week, when the Senate was sitting and people were looking the other way, guess what actually happened. This became the law. And how did it become the law. Well, the Greens got together along with a couple of the independents and they got it over the line. Now what
effectively here? And I've got to say I find this particularly amusing is that remember when petrol tax under this government went up to forty nine cents per lita.
That was the same day that Chris.
Bohm was pretending that these changes in fuel efficiency standards mean that if you buy the right car on the right day and it has the right fuel efficiency standard, you might end up saving money when it comes to petrol. It started off as hundreds, and then it became thousands because you can just make these numbers up. And then because they made a slight tweak, slight tweak to just how low the bar would be, and when the bar would kick in.
Everyone said, oh great, we've had a victory.
No, the exact system that we talked about for months is now the law of the land. And guess what happened today. And entirely other group of cars that nobody was talking about before this legislation had passed are now being singled out by lefty media to tell us they may not be as fuel efficient as you think, and if they're not as fuel efficient as they think, then they're going to be potentially the ones that end up
with the brand new tax. Oh but it's not a tax, and you have your choice to buy whatever car you want. We're just going to make the one that you want to buy so expensive that you'll have to buy the EV which is still really expensive, but it's not as expensive as the one that we've loaded up with taxes in the tray of the ute or in the back of the suv. The Suzuki Swift recorded the highest discrepancy in fuel consumption small car, using six point three liters
per fuel of fuel per one hundred kilometers. That's thirty one percent more than the lab tested.
Version of it. In terms of the.
Suv, Mazda's CX five was found to use fifteen percent more fuel when it's in the real world compared to the lab.
A.
Scoda uses fourteen percent the CX three as well as the SUPERU forest A hybrid. Will they end up using ten and eleven percent more? Why do I point on all of that out, Because what is the way the system works? They set the bar here and if it's a tax, they just keep increasing it or a levee with a stroke of a pen. When it comes to the fuel efficiency standards, you just keep dropping them because the media, who want nothing but electric cars will cheer
it in. Those of us who are aware that Australians are choosing to buy the cars that they currently do, who don't want to buy an electric vehicle for a whole bunch of different reasons. If you want to buy one,
good luck to you. But essentially forcing everyone to make the choice is a little bit like if they've ever opened a toll road in a capital city near you or the one that you live in, where magically all of the streets you used to be able to use to get around the traffic all suddenly become one way and you get forced onto the toll road. Well, that's exactly what's going to happen here. They said it was
about youths, they said it was about SUVs. Mark my Wurtz used, cars are going to start to fall into this. There'll be state governments that will introduce limits on the number of cars of a certain age that will be allowed to be registered, forcing you into buying a car you can't afford, and interest rates that can continually go up, because this is the greatest government of all time. And
if you complain, well, that's on you. Now speaking of all things to do with climate change and the importance and difficulty that it provides for an awful lot of people tooling around on the internet today, and I noticed this story from the United States which further goes into the rather recent psychological phenomenon of eco anxiety.
There are a variety of consequences a changing climate can have on people's mental health. It's a growing area of research, but the American Psychiatric Association says that impacts fall into three buckets.
There are the direct impacts of heat on the brain and the prevalence of mental illness. There are indirect effects that are the many ripples of putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and then there are psychological impacts.
Finally, mental health proof that people go a little bit crazy on a hot day.
But please continue this edable research.
One of the psychological impacts trauma from living through an extreme weather disaster. Some also struggle with mental distress, sometimes called eco anxiety, as they watch the world grapple with climate change.
I'm pretty sure that floods and cyclones and tornadoes were not pleasant for previous generations either. But hopefully this news reporter was able to find on the level kids who understand that, while yes, the world does need to do something about climate change, it's not about to end tomorrow.
I feel anxiety constantly about the weather, about like the weather, overheating.
I do get stressed fairly often.
People expect us to be the generation that fixes the problem that no one asked for. A lot of young people are thinking about how this is going to impact their futures, their safety, The idea of wanting to have children.
Goodless greensmiders seriously. Now, of course, the reason.
I had the anxiety is because the information and that's constantly being pumped at them again is climate change of problem. Yes this it need to be dealt with, sure, but the idea that Western countries.
Need to bend themselves into it.
Not while China can do whatever they all at once with a billion people until twenty thirty because it's a developing nation. Oh that's right, a developing nation with a space station.
Please, wouldn't it be.
Nice if all of the pressure that's constantly put either onto our kids or onto our governments was actually turned to the great polluters of the world like China, India, or Russia, or the Global South, or third worlders the rest of us would have known it to be, or developing worlders if he wanted to be more polite. Now, in a moment or two, Broman Bishop and Joe hide
brand here, it's going to be a ding dongs. We talk about the greatest government of all time, a report card from those who mark harshly and those who mark lightly on two years of the Prime Minister, and then the greet. Meghan Kelly and Meghan Kelly had a conversation today with Bill maher broadcasting comedian in the United States, and it got pretty nasty. Not from Megan's end, but he was an e and looking at her while sitting face to face and just dismissing everything she had to say.
Bill, I think that that Honter Biden was a hot mess and Joe Biden was embarrassed by him but had to deal. Now, I really think he was doing Joe Biden's bidding. Joe Biden is the bad guy who sent his drug adult son out there to collect money.
That's what the laptop shows, and that's.
More important than what I was bringing up about not abiding by election results, not not respecting what always made this country great, the peaceful transferrence of power.
I don't disagree with you on that. You're not going to get me to say it.
I don't have to get you to agree to disagree.
You're obviously someone who looks at an elephant in a mouse and can I tell which one is bigger?
Colossi stuff, Bill, really Colossi stuff. But he's on a book to it right now where he's saying, you know, I think we all hate each other too much.
Okay, Mirah pal Ll right, quick break back when the wall, Roman, Bishop, Joe Hilderbrain just the way you lock it, and Nawston poncheet' and on on a windstad On he on, Paul Murray Live.
And then Meghan before wed None.
I've been so excited to do meet with my dear friends Bromban, Bishop and jo Hildebrand who were just furiously agreeing that the two years of the greatest Prime Minister of all times.
Next subject.
Yeah, now, kudos to you.
Much of the quoting in the editorial today about the Salvo stuff was from your story about the launch of it in and around with some Elbow stuff that we'll get to in a moment or two his time.
But bromin the two year mark, what.
Do you think, Well, if for failure because he promised three very important things one year, all feel better after he got elected as Prime minister, he would take responsibility for everything and it would be a transparent government. Fail fail fail correct, people feel worse. Twelve interest rate hikes. We've got criminals that they've led our under the streets because they wanted to High Court only said one had
to come out direct. Every time you look at something, and the cost of fuel is through the roof, and that in fact, Joe drives the cost of living through the sky. From the apple you buy to give your kid to take the school, to the pair of shoes that you buy at another shop. It affects everything you do. Cost of everything is fuel. And the insane policies, the insane policies of mister Bourne and Albow the Trot, have
done nothing but force those prices up and worse. Again, there's been no leadership on anti Semitism, none at all.
So I'm going to give equal time here, but I'm not going to keep a clock right, So Joe obviously your thoughts would be the exact opposite that they are what they say.
I mean, obviously hasn't been the perfect government, There's no question about that. A lot of these things are beyond the government's control. And I think it was probably a mistake to promise that they could fix cost of living, and they obviously hung it around the previous government's neck when it suited them and said that everything to be fine to them. I'm always wary of those that I'm
always wary of those kind of promises. But again, this is an economic crisis that is gripping the entire world. It is because of the overhang from the pandemic measures that we put in place that frankly a lot of which should never have been put in place, and people like you want to be like people like you, and I were saying, well, you know you can. You know, no one wanted to go back to having just one airline in Australia.
So he's looking so the taxpayer should by the said, this is.
Just a possibility, it's not beyond the realms of possibility. But I think firstly Albo maybe he was a tried He's not a trot anymore. Alba has no love, has no love for the trot Trots are making his life a misery. Is making a misery on Palestine and making life misery on.
The women's He's making life miseries, making himself taking No.
They're attached to his office like barnacles. They're making news to themselves on campus, They're screaming at him at rallies. He has no love for the Trits. I can promise you that he is someone who is very much moving to the center. And I think that it's a.
Government that shows in the left wing gutter.
It's a government that is a bit wobbly. All first term governments are John Howard's first term governments very wobbly. Lost three ministers went on to become one of the greatest prime ministers the country's ever had. So I don't think. I don't think it's been right off by any means.
So, okay, I'm gonna want there's a couple of ministers would be a good start, wouldn't it.
Immigration, there's one I wouldn't mind going.
Yeah, there's one I wouldn't mind going. Home Affairs can stay, but immigration, I think maybe should be Assistant Minister for the time.
Now also interesting that Pedic Costello and I do find this look Petic Costello obviously a fantastic treasurer, but long out of government and your circumstances were the river of good times as opposed to the river of bad times right through through the mining boom.
Hey, you don't forget when when the Howard government was first elected there was a huge Asian collapse. Yes, true, and we came through that in a pretty steady manner.
But I'm just saying, is that there is a little thing that happens after every budget, which is generally speaking, a week and a bit later, PEEDT. Costello tells us thumbs up or thumbs down. He says, absolutely inflationary. Basically every opinion poll says that those who think that their life is really going to be changed by it was
for fifths of bugger all. But now we learn that we're just going to Basically, I think they've made a whole bunch of decisions which were about giving them a slogan for an election whenever it would be about every
household and every taxpayer. But if Costello is telling us that it's inflationary, the consequences of that are interest rates up, whereas the Prime Minister is holding on for dear life that interst rates go down so they can turn around and say, look, look it's look, you've gone from Robina purple to slightly mow.
Vote for us.
But that's why I say there'll be an early election because snake snake Charmer the Treasurer has said, oh well this is anti inflationary this budget, and therefore there's going to be a rate cut. And I know better than the Reserve Bank who says there may be a rad rise. So is he going to want to play Russian roulette and get tested? Not on your nelly already, I can said it. I know what happens in the party room. I know what happens when a leader starts to fail,
as Albow is failing. They get restless, They see their seats, they look at them. Am I going to get re elected? Is this going to be? Am I going to have to pay the price? And they start to get really restless. And Charmers is over there. He thinks he's the god given solution to reinventing capitalism and having a whole different thing. It's going to get very tricky for them. There are so many reasons why it's going to go earlier. It doesn't matter what you told Albo to say.
The fact that Okay, so your theory is so that Jim Charmers is going to fall. Albo to go to an early election so he'll lose and Charmers can take over the leadership. Is that the theory?
I wouldn't the first and make the final conclusion.
And Albo such a spring chicken, he'd never see that coming. I mean, it's not like he's got a history in politics. Do you think they're going to go You think they're going to go to an election before the Queensland state elections, so that every vote.
State election matters the world beans, you.
Don't think, I don't think that they're just going to line up and belt the Jesus out of him after they struggled to do well as well as they should have been.
Queensland now in the opinion polls preferred the only place.
Suicide. Note this is I mean, everyone keeps saying this is the Albaneze Government's an absolute idea, and that's why he's going to call the election. He's lower than he's ever before, and that's why he's going to March. The files. It's insane.
They are going to go.
The distant cuts in the budget aren't going to last till next May.
No, that's right. He's not relying on the tax cuts. He's relying on interest rates coming down. And when interest rates come down, or if interest rates come down, which everyone.
Is predicting, broken the back and everything, then.
The first half of next year he can say, Look, the worst is over. It's nothing better.
You're saying he's going to go to August the.
First half of next year, in the second half of the mate the first five months.
Now, the only thing you and I agree on is the Salvation Army.
Well, the Salvation Army is episode and they love Albo. They love him. He's a strong stone.
Grateful on the weekend. And I won't have I won't have the Salvation. I mean defamed in that manner.
You should just knock on Elbow's door and I'll pop in the pineapple for you.
Well, maybe you can go to one of the rental properties that he owns and the bloke's about to boot, but you know that's a nothing.
Sorry, Now I.
Can save fifty thousand dollars my landlord charge be half the market right on a three bedroom townhouse I'm living in on my own.
Oh the humanity.
No, it does make perfect sense that you brief against your tenant to the Australian media.
But anyway, let's get to let's get off. So because he crossed the PM, I wish him well and here it goes.
It's like that lady has never been heard of again, you know, after calling the Prime Minister out at the women's rally for the crying and all the never.
Never heard of it because they realized I wish them well.
Stuff up and the camera show.
Video crying too, right, remember that tape is there as well.
Cry Oh my god, oh my god.
Know what is the change in the prime minister circumstance then he needs?
That's a bit personal, isn't it.
I think it's I think it's been in the papers.
Getting married.
Now that's the pay for the wedding.
No, it's the change in circumstances.
It's rubbish.
Okay, let's talk about Let's talk about something that is something that all of us, in some one version or another has spoken about with people or people say hey.
Can you find a way to start talking about this?
On the telly the worry people have for their kids and their grandkids financially right about how they're going to get into a house, how they're going to get into a position to be able to earn a house. Basically, are you in the world that's lucky enough to be inheriting something eventually or the people who never bought a house, and how you end up in that hole? This yees does drive and certainly for the younger voter's going to drive them further to the hard left in terms of voting.
But what does this country have to actually do to start to give those opportunities to break out of the circumstances that were your parents in order to be able to supersede their financial structures.
Okay, let's look at the things that have changed. If you go back to the Person War period, the people who are responsible for providing sewerage, water, electricity, gas, kirby and guttering roads was the government. Yes, then these things changed. Now it's the developer who's responsible for that, and all of that is built into the cost of the land. And when we talk about the difficulty of buying houses or we're really talking about is land and they're not
making any of that anymore. It's a limited and limited supply. We have it decentralized in the way that there was a great hope we would decentralize, except in Queensland they're a decentralized state. But the thing is that two thirds of the population are affected by high interest rates because it affects mortgage holders and renters both in the same way.
So they're all hurting.
But if you also look at that generation, they're going to inherit the wealth that comes from the baby boomer generation, and in the meantime, that generation is still helping kids with deposits, with paying expenses, with school fees, with a whole range of things. The bank of mom and dad is very real. The kids who miss out are the ones where the parents get divorced and there's a new bride and they take the dough. They're the ones who missed out.
That's interesting.
So when you're looking at how do you enable people to get access to enough deposit to be able to get a loan from the bank, then Peter Dutton's policy of saying you can have access to your fore gone wages. It's your money which has been taken and you can have access to that to buy yourself a home, which is the best thing you can have in retirement because you have a guarantee of a roof over your head.
Yeah, I'm hard up against the chat. We're about to have a Megan, But your thoughts on this, Joe, because it's something we're going to have to bring.
Back, is absolutely insane. I think that the biggest problem is simply simple capitalism. It's supply and demand. There is too much demand, not enough supply. It's immigration. No, because half the reason why there's not enough supplies because there was no immigration during the COVID lockdowns, so everyone stopped building it. Yes, that is absolutely so. That is absolutely so. And so what you've got to do. You've got to
free up the land. You've got to yes, de centralize, and you've got to get more people living in the region of the bush. Got to make that more attractive to people. You've also got to make sure that people are prepared to cop medium density around transport hubs and that you don't have Nimbi's just jumping up and down saying oh, yes, I support more housing, but not in my street. What about the parking? And you've got to have people who are willing to willing to build it.
And it's as simple as that. And if people don't think there's going to be a buck in it, then they're not going to build it.
An even tougher conversation than text and sessions and all the rest of it downsizing. Put it on the table for it in a few weeks time.
Appreciate it. Thank you Bromman, Thank you, Joe.
All right, quick breakback with more Meghan Kelly about everything to do with Trump in the US and a sect favorite time of the week to talk about favorite person in the world.
Meghan Kelly joins us now from the United States. How are you done? Hi?
How are you now?
I've got to say, well, I've had many sleepless nights watching all the details of the Trump trial.
I've always tried.
To give the benefit of the doubt to the judge that he's trying to be fair. The past couple of days, though he has shown he has got it in for Trump, and he, when he has the chance to sentence him, will probably send him to jail. Why do I say that, because anyone who was there for the prosecution could talk for as long as they want about anything that doesn't
have anything to do with the actual case. But when a defense witness is brought forward, every single question was objected to, and when the person in the witness box was sort of frustrated that they could never start to answer questions, the judge clears the court room and loses his brain.
They never should have called Costello. He was useless.
He did not add to the defense's case. They should have projected strength by saying, we feel no need to call any witnesses projecting to the jury. The case hasn't been made and we don't need He didn't add anything.
I know he said. Cohen has said repeatedly that he.
Had nothing on Donald Trump. He had nothing on Donald Trump. They'd already gotten Coen to admit that on cross examination. That was already in the record. They didn't need Costello for that. And I think it was pretty clear that Trump wanted him and probably.
Overruled his lawyer's advice not to call him.
And while Costello is a very smart guy to me, at least from what I read because I didn't get to see his testimony like everybody else, he sounded pretty arrogant and smug and disrespectful to the judge as much as you may hate the judge, the jury doesn't. The jury sees the judge like dad. He takes good care of us. He makes our meals for us, gets our meals for us. He makes sure that if I.
Have an appointment, I make it there on time. They like the judge. The judge is their handholder.
And they really don't want you to want to see anybody be a prick to him. So it wasn't a good strategy.
They shouldn't have called him.
But it's all academic because this judge is not on the defense's side. He's been on team prosecution from the start. And I think again, with the jury selection the way it went, the jury's probably been on the prosecution side from the start. And I remain today as I was in the beginning, with the opinion that while he shouldn't be he's likely to be convicted. And if I have to put my money on one or the other, I say, you will be.
Now again, maybe I'm off in pixie land here, But they haven't proven the case. They truly have not proven the case. Now, yes, there are two dots that are kind of near each other, but nobody has been able to successfully say Trump knew how this was going to be accounted for, and that is the charge. Surely there's someone on that jury who, as much as they may hate Donald Trump, has seen the case has not been proven.
I don't think that Trump ever stood a chance here. I really don't. I mean, I see why some people think there could be a hung jury, because you never know. Maybe there's one guy on there who says, I'm not going to do it. But all of this Tea Leave reading is playing the odds, and the odds are that this is a jury that is overwhelmingly part of and that hates Donald Trump, not just like, eh, he wasn't my favorite president, you know, the feelings that Trump can
engender in some people. And liberal Democrats in New York are amongst the most partisan. They are not like normy Democrats in the middle of America who are registered Democrat because they think the Democrat Party is going to take better care of them than the Republicans will.
But they're not hard partisans.
Most New Yorkers are very politically astute and steeped in the news and that they all read the New York Times, so they have been manipulated emotionally and intellectually for the better part of their adulthood, if they're like your typical New Yorker in New York City, Manhattan went eighty seven percent for Joe Biden eighty seven percent. Maybe they found one of the thirteen percent. Maybe they found the one who's gonna say eh, but I doubt it. So it's
not that he stands no chance. He stands a ten percent chance of getting such a person on his jury.
I guess around ten.
But what's going to happen now, Paul, is that this judge is going to craft jury instructions that are going to even with that one person who might be over there, lead them right our here to the water drink Coursey drink.
Look, it's me the judge telling.
You that this is the very very low legal standard that you have to pass in order to convict him. And so those jury instructions have never been more important than in this case because it's a complex case, and the judge kept out the elections expert who could have explained to them what is a campaign expenditure? Would a hush money payment to a porn star count as one, and if so, could Trump have paid for it out of his campaign Coffers why wouldn't we take expert testimony
on that. Well, it didn't happen. The jury's going to be confused, and the judge their daddy, is going to confuse or going to clear it up for them in a way that will only be helpful to team prosecution.
So let's imagine he's found guilty.
There's even a chance of him being immediately sentenced the appeals process. A lot of people say that the unfairness of the way that the judge has been dealing things, including keeping away from the court a person who would be able to say this is not a crime and explain why they used to work for the Electoral Commission in the United States. So is the appeal going to be the only way Trump's going to get a fair crack heat?
Those things will be grounds for appeal and they will be successful. There's no way the appellate courts are going to uphold this verdict if it's a guilty verdict.
I zero chance. There's just no way.
I mean, maybe the immediate appellate court will uphold it, but will eventually go up to New York State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, which.
Is still a rational body.
They're the ones who just struck down the conviction against Harvey Weinstein for very good reasons, so they're not completely irrational, even though I'm sure they all hate Trump too. Doesn't do Trump any good. That'll all help happen well after the election. It's kind of irrelevant at this point, and the Democrats know that. That's why in this case and all the others, they're keeping the pedal down to the medal.
They have plans to make sure this case gets dried before the election, and we hear from a source close to the j six federal trial that they have a plan to get that case going at least before he takes office.
If he wins.
That the goal would be even if he wins in November, try the case against him anyway, even as the president elect, and see if you can stop the certification of the vote. On January sixth of twenty twenty five.
Thank you, Rock Style. Look forward to saying you again.
Next way, all right, Paul, thanks for having me, Thanks very.
Much for watching the losers of the wait. Next way we will discuss. We will also look forward to parks on Sunday. But right now here is the light to mind