From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Burray Live.
What a Thursday night I've got for you on the Telly. I stand by everything I said this morning.
When I watched the Joe Biden speech live, it was pathetic. He was lost like he was in the debate. He was so weird. It was weird. We'll talk about it in a second.
Obviously, go Australia when it comes to the Olympic Games, I of course plea that while all of those live events are on, please make sure that you watch the show, either live or on demand, or get the podcast, because the news rolls on regardless of what's happening. And wait till I tell you what the Queensland government is now going.
To allow at school is this year.
This will frighten anyone with kids of that particular rage or grandkids. But obviously all of us are heading in one direction. Some of us will get it there sooner than others. But it is of course some form of aged care. Now Australia has a system. We try to stay in their house for as long as possible, but then sometimes we have to go to somewhere else to be.
Taken care of. This is a very serious.
Important thing, because we all know somebody who's gone through it, is going through it, is about to go through it, or it might be us ourselves. And obviously we've had things like an Agecare World Commission, which you've seen so many terrible stories about the way that people are treated
in these organizations. Now, of course, I should say before we get too deep into this, many, if not all, of the people who actually are there, face to face, the nurses, the care as, all of those people, they are all in and they love the people that we love, okay, but sometimes the companies that are in charge of them, well, they don't seem to share the love that we do, and they also don't seem to share the sense of care that you would think is there when you have
to sell your house to pay to go into an age care facility. It's something that was discussed at the last federal election, and this government claimed that they were going to change the world first with a nurse in every agecare facility in the country.
Twenty four to seven nurses, twenty four to seven nurses twenty four seven four seven nurses, nurses twenty four seven, twenty four seven nurses twenty four to seven nurse in a nursing home twenty four to seven.
Now that promise has not happened, and there are options where facilities have somehow been able to opt out of that system. So surprised that promise has not come to full effect. The other one is about the type of food that people have in aged care. Too many reports have told us for too long about the quality of nutritional the outright lack of it that many people in their final years are actually getting.
From these institutions.
So the now Prime Minister made a very obvious promise, and he even had a famous face to help him change the food in aged.
Care, that the Maggie Bear Foundation would play a role in lifting up the standards in providing the quality of food which provides the nutritious content that older residents need and that they deserve.
Frankly, well, I hope you're sitting down, because this is how the Australian reported a shocking number today.
Four out of ten people.
In nursing homes are malnourished, not because they are not choosing to eat, but because of the food that in part is put in front of them. The first comprehensive survey of nutrition in age care undertaken in Australia found that forty percent of residents were malnourished, including six percent
who were severely malnourished. Severely malnourished means starving. The study, published in the journal Healthcare, said this was likely underplaying the extent of malnutrition, so these numbers are a best case scenario forty percent, given that it did not include nursing home rescus cidence with dementia because of issues of consent. Other studies have shown that almost sixty percent of dementia residents in aged care are at risk of malnutrition.
This is a disgrace.
I do not understand in the web of complicated rules around who gets to have an aged care facility, who gets to set one up, and the extraordinary fees and charges that mean that one of the reasons why Australians want to buy a home is that one day they will be able to sell the home to pay for things like aged care. You work your whole life to pay the house off and then you cash in the house to make sure you're as comforted and cared for
for as long as possible. But to see that there are forty percent of people who are in aged care tonight and that's the low number that they are malnourished or in some cases, depending on how severe mental conditions may well end up being, it could be way worse than that. This is a disgrace. It is a disgrace that this was not the lead news story today. It is a disgrace that it will not be on a
front page anywhere tomorrow. It is a disgrace that the Prime Minister is able to give a press conference today and nobody asks about it.
It is a disgrace.
That when the Prime Minister plans to reshuffle, there will be no conversation about changing the age care minister. This is not acceptable now. I don't care what numbers the government will put out to say, well, this is slightly better than it used to be.
It's unacceptable, it's not on it's not okay. It's despicable. Now.
If people choose not to eat the meal in front of them, that's their right. But if the meal in front of them is not good enough to give them the nutrients to be able to stay alive or to have a better quality of life, while you can have that quality of life, this is a red line.
This is an absolute scandal.
I do not understand how we do not have a system that inspects these homes that they are put on the shortest leash possible, that if their people inside them are malnourished, that they are able to continue on with their businesses.
It is not acceptable.
The organizations must be fined, The organizations must be shut down.
Now.
There is an awful lot of money in aged care, which means there will always be somebody else that will open.
Up a new facility. But this is not accept now.
We in this country are generous with the tax that we pay to our government because we know that there are people that are less fortunate than us. That's why we have a thing called the social safety net. And it doesn't matter where you sit on the spectrum from the right to the left or anywhere else in between.
We all believe that when.
Somebody is in the darkest days of their life, that something should be able to help them to get back into the system, to be able to go and work and provide for themselves and for their families. When it comes to things like disabilities that sometimes mean that the type of work you can do is limited. We are completely okay with a system where substantial amounts of federal funding go to make sure that that person has a
quality of life. As a taxpayer, I have no problem with state or federal government money being spent in the age care facilities to make sure that the people in them are taken care of. And if we need to double the amount of money to make sure that the
food is up to standard, fine by me. And let's not pretend that this government doesn't have the money to fix this problem tomorrow, because of course, as we've shown you, the Prime Minister is going to spend four hundred million dollars, in fact, four hundred and fifty million dollars on not one, but two brand new planes for himself and his mate, the Governor General. Oh but those were ordered by the previous government. Well, they weren't canceled by this one. That's
what they spent four hundred and fifty on. Let me get you to close to a billion. There was a referendum. It cost how much four hundred and fifty million dollars? All right, Now we're at nine hundred million dollars that could be spent right now to make sure that the forty percent of people who are malnourished in age care will not be so.
Into the future.
The government is going to spend six hundred million dollars helping to set up a rugby league team in Papua New Guinea and on top of all of that, they're future made in Australia plans all the rest of it.
That's twenty two and a.
Bit billion dollars which is swirling around and a lot of people are clipping the ticket along the way. My point is this, not every single dollar that the government gets can be spent on the one thing that we would all love it to be spent on.
So yes, it must be spread. But in the same way that.
They can put off budget three hundred b four billion dollars for the submarines, which are important for us to be there when it comes to ucas, perhaps off budget is where they can put the money so they don't.
Have to worry about it affecting the surplus. It's all borrowed money anyway.
To make sure that the people who have made this country what it is, and I mean that the people who have made this country what it is, and you're going to interpret that in any way, shape or form.
The people who were born here, the people who've come here, the people who have worked their backsides off, the people who have been parents, the people who have cared for other people's children, the people who have worked in the emergency services, the people who may well themselves at another point in time.
Been nurses in things like age care facilities.
When they go into an age care facility, the food's got to be up to stand it.
And it's all well and good for the Prime Minister to.
Stand there again and say, well, we've got you know, this famous chef and her foundation and they're going to improve it. Well, guess what he's been around for two years and it's not good enough. What is equally not good enough is this story in a day of big news that this is probably the first time you're hearing about it. Every family in Australia, regardless of your political affiliation, has an interest in this system being fixed, doing better.
Scandal that four out of ten people in aged care are malnourished.
It's a disgrace.
I call on the opposition to make this the political issue that it should be. I call on the government to respond to it as fast as possible, and I call on the people with access to a television camera a microphone or a computer to write an.
Article to talk about it.
But of course today was a day where the Prime Minister wasn't asked about this. Instead he was shuffling deadwood out the door. Linda Burnie, Brendan O'Connor, they're gone. New brooms will of course replace them in the Parliament. We previewed this last night. But what about the stones on the Prime Minister, This bloke who while talking about a day should be about other people's careers. He's got to pat himself on the back for now. Remember this is
a bloke who will not sack a minister. Why because he wanted to be able to say this, even if, like Katie Gallaher they lie, or like Claire O'Neal or Andrew Giles they are deeply incompetent, all of them stay so he can say this.
My government has always been focused on tackling the challenges of the here and now in a way that builds for the long term, helping people with cost of living pressures while investing in making our future here in Australia. As the theme of the last budget, but it's a theme of the last two and a bit years as well. We do this as a united team, a true cabinet government.
What garbage, what absolute garbage.
People are frightened on so many different issues. You know, we haven't had the sacond minister for two and a half years. Even if they're caught lying to the Parliament like Katie Gallaher, even if they deliberately take decisions that threaten community safety, that result in people being amongst the community who end up being accused of horrific crimes like the bashing that happened to Western Australia. Oh you forget it, We're amazing. And of course the media, yes, sir.
Write it all down again.
I'm no psychologists, but I've got to say I can read political body language. I'm not entirely sure Linda Bernie was actually planning on quitting anytime soon. I know there was some suggestion, oh she might and she might become the Governor General, but she didn't quite look like a person today who was sort of ready for the announcement.
Now, of course, all of the.
Reason why this is taking place is because they want the opportunity to push them people out of the way, to change some things when it comes to the ministry and when it comes to her as Indigenous Affairs Minister.
Well, we know what heir record has been.
But those who are the hardcore viewers of this program know that I always said Linda Burney would be a bus way back when I was a reporter. And then he said wils Parlam and I saw her performance. Then I knew what was coming and it exactly came to be. Well, here she is going out the side door. People might think it is a defeat, there are some very good things that came out of the referendum.
I am proud of.
The Prime Minister and his leadership. I'm proud of First Nations people, and I'm proud to have.
Been part of it.
Sixty percent of the country disagreed with you. Oh no, it's not a loss like.
This upside down garbage world that these people live in. And then they turn around and say that you're the peddler of misinformation. You're the one who doesn't tell the truth. You're the one who's just making stuff up. It was
a win, please. They turned sixty forty yes into sixty forty no. They made the decision to send it through to the referendum instead of just putting it in place in their first act as a government and then yes, it wouldn't have been in the constitution, but we'd be able to see for a few years whether it worked or not. Then we could have the debate. I don't know,
but they knew better. Seriously, Now, of course, the people who should be moved on in the upcoming reshuffle, I repeat again clueless Clare O'Neill.
And Andrew Giles. They both should go. But will they go or not? Well we'll all find out together.
But of course the Prime Minister, even when he's losing, still is a little bit like that night in the Holy Grail where he's turning around and sorry, meeting a life I think it was, wasn't it. Yeah, anyway one of the monty pythons. Doesn't matter how many of his limbs get cut off, he is still doing amazing.
It was the Holy Grail. Good thank you.
Here's what the opposition thinks about this absurd situation that we're going to get right now, where people who are bad at their job, like say an age care minister where forty percent of the people that are in age care are suffering from malnutrition, will probably.
Keep their job.
Losers like those two they might get moved to the side. But they'll be winners anyway.
But I still can't believe that a Prime Minister of this country can walk up to a microphone and say it's not up to them who goes into the ministry. It will be decided by factions and union bosses. It's just incredible. The Prime Minister of Australia can't decide who's going to be in his own ministry. And in terms of who should be part of it, well, I've had an option.
I'd put them all.
I kept it into the lot, I'd put into the College government.
Well but I'll tell you what if Andrew jil survives, that is that is a.
Miracle because these people, remember they're in the bubble, inside the bubble, inside the bubble, inside the bubble police, by the media bubble.
That you get how it works. It's all just a giant club.
And the Prime Minister, of course, along with every other MP, got to pay rise their third since the Labor Party came to power. You notice that even the opposition didn't really fight this one. They don't say it because they get the extra money too. Right, PM now on six hundred thousand dollars. Oh but he really cares about cost of living. He's the one changing everybody's life. But pick it in to see every to see here that everything costs more. We talk about it all the time, and
cost of living. There's a couple of wild, wild stories in the past couple of days. The Australians are having fewer children, that of course ends up having greater consequences for the way that everything gets funded because you want more people to pay for the Ponzi scheme. That is at times the way the Australian government works, which means if we don't have enough kids, you bring in more immigration.
Great, they're over eighteen and the hopefully vote for you.
You don't have to even pay for kids to go to school. But apparently one of the reasons they're not
doing it is because of cost of living. And then, forgive me to all of the animal lovers watching right now, but it's a point that I'll just quickly make and then move on, which is that we hear a story today that people are now so concerned about cost of living that when it comes to vet bills, they are not making the choices to keep some of the animals alive because it's so damn expensive, and I get it, talking about animals is sort of no go zone for people.
But that is an extraordinary thing that we're reading about right now. And then there's another piece of information which is going to make everything worse. But again you probably didn't hear about it today because you know, not as important as the other stuff that we focus on in the media most of the time. The Australian dollar is
not doing well at the moment. Now, yes, that's a punish for people that are planning to go overseas or anyone who's currently rolling around Paris, you know, wanting to buy things before they come home. But there's something a little more consequential here about the Australian dollar starting to go down. It'll make everything that we import into the country, that we sell in a shop more expensive because it still costs ten dollars to buy that thing that's made
in China. But the Australian dollar is not worth one US dollar really ever is. But whenever it goes lower and lower and lower, it means the more Australian dollars you need to match the ten dollars item that needs to be purchased from overseas.
In fact, have a look at the Australian dollar.
Nothing to see here. This government's amazing when it comes to economic management. In March twenty two it was seventy four US cents. It's our sixty five US cents. Oh, it's only ten cents.
Who cares for?
Think about what ten percent difference in the extra amount of money that people need to pay on the global market to end up buying the things that they bring into the country to sell in the country, which means if it costs some more to bring things into the country, it costs you more money to buy them.
If it costs you more.
Money to buy them, guess what happens inflation, Because there's all of the little things in the basket of goods that will eventually end up getting caught up in the stuff that we not just make here, but the stuff that we import from overseas, and that of course means a greater chance.
Of interest rate rises.
As we've told you, when it comes to interest rate rises, that affects two thirds of the country, a third that's trying to pay off its house and the people who are renting where presumably somebody is trying to pay off that house as well.
I get it. It's good for people who.
Got termed deposits, and I understand the yin and yang of it, but the reality is that I've shown you this week eight hundred thousand further homes will be put into mortgage stress, meaning there is more money that is going to paying for your house than you can actually afford. This is on top of the minions that are already
in that situation. Ob at the government, we haven't sacked any ministers, please now again, I wanted to get all that out of the way before I talked about the other stuff that is the big global news today, which was that Joe Biden gave a speech from the Oval Office where he didn't really explain why he's not going to be going on as the president of the United States after January.
Of next year.
And forgive me for being cruel, but I know they sort of threw the bronzer on him, and it reminded me of when Jack Nicholson played The Joker, and when the Joker was wearing the Biden levels of makeup to that he wasn't the Joker. Once you see the comparison, you will not unsee it. Every time you see Biden from now on you will think of Jack Nicholson as the joker. But forgive me for then cruel.
But I've got to say.
The media's response to this speech ludicrous and this did you want to hear?
Ald?
They said, Biden gives the speech he never wanted to and does it with passion and grace. And then everyone who's of course been pushing him out the door is now turning around and feeling bad about it. So they're pretending everything he does is amazing, just taking.
A step back.
This was a speech for the history books, just as when LBJ announced he wasn't going to run.
But this was selfless. This was selfless on a level. I think that's important in a way.
That we talk about George Washington being selfless.
He asked the question, this character still matter? Well, it destinate, destinate. The kid with a starter did good. He did good. That's a good man. He fell on his sword.
Two weeks ago. The bloke was at NATO telling everyone he's not going to go.
Two weeks ago he was saying that the Lord Almighty was the only one that could get him out of the way. The reality was the Democrats, We're definitely going to lose with you. So knives out, bang bang, push him out of the way. Oh but now that he gets to sort of frame the way he was pushed out of the way, he's historic because he's standing. Come on, now, we know this because we watch the news every single day and we know there's a huge number of people
who don't really pay that much attention. Okay, fine, they can be spun, but we're not going to be bs two. This guy has deteriorated between it before our eyes. They tried to hide it. They lied about it. As I showed you earlier in the week when he fell up the stairs. That was in the fifty ninth day of his presidency. It wasn't even three months into it, barely two. So it was obvious from that point in time there was a problem. And we've watched the problem get worse
all the way through. Oh no, but that's cheap fakes and those are lies, and that's it's not true, and that's right wing propaganda. And then of course they all noticed because the deboat, the debate exposed it. So then they turned around and rather than saying, oh, well, we're kind of you know, got a we made our bed, got a line and I don't know. We'll just see here's your options. You can go and be called a hero, or we'll use the twenty fifth Amendment. And that's the
way you go anyway. Just like at the start of the debate, when you knew something's wrong, this was the start of his speech. Now, like anything on TV, and when you're on this side of the camera, it's five four, three to one, go.
My follow Americans.
Oh, that's a problem.
If I started the show each and every night like that, you'd go, hang up, well, what's going on? Paul. Now, if they wanted to, they could have taped this, but they didn't. Instead, you know, the satellite delay. That's in his brain and he's still the president for the next six months. But of course, the way he was able to pretend that this was all his choice, all his decision was in this bit of the speech.
I believe I reckon as president, my leadership in the world. I visioned for America's future. All merried it a second term, but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition. So I've decided the best way forward is the past, the torch for a new generation.
I'm also might deserve a second term. But please that again is the guy who doesn't want to go. You can see that the fingernail marks on the resolute desk.
But he's of course going to be called one for the ages. And I love that man. And what an incredible speech and poise and delivery and history. And then he just started telling lies.
Border crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office.
That's not the point, mister president. The point is that since you became the president, ten million people have crossed into the country illegally. Those are the facts that Congress are putting before. It's not made up by me. Ten million people have illegally entered and are in the United States because of the way that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have managed the border. And by the way, on all of that, there is a lot of garbage that
apparently Kamala Harris wasn't really in charge of the border stuff. Okay, one last time, twenty twenty, here's the footage of the exact moment when the President says Kamala Harris is going to be the one who's going to be in charge of working out what's going on when it comes to the border. This was the reporting from the left wing Associated Press at the time. Their headline Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges. You read the
text of that story. She was placed in charge of the border. But now suddenly because Kamala Harris is the new Oprah, she's president Beyonce, we now have to all pretend that theres nothing to see here. Jedo mindtrick meant
in black very quick, mind wipe, mind wipe. And the media is now pretending on no, no, that was never actually her job, despite the fact we've have the footage and the announcements and the media reporting at the time that that was her job, and her failure has resulted in ten million people crossing the border into the United States, and she won't be able to escape that, regardless of how few questions she will actually get about it.
But back to Joe, Sadly, he's still there for the next six months. Now.
This is a blog who is the limest of lime ducks, Like even lime ducks think that this blog is a lime duck. I was going to say something else, but I want to keep him a job. This is what he said about his plan for the next six months.
Over the next six months, I'll be focused on doing my job as president. That means I'll continue to lower costs for hard working families, grow our economy. I'll keep defending our personal freedoms, on our civil rights, from the right to vote to the right to choose. I'll keep calling out hating extremism. Make it clear there is no place, no place in America or political violence or any violence ever period. I'm going to keep keep speaking out to
protect our kids from gun violence. Our planning from climate crisis is the existential threat, and i will keep fighting my from our cancer moonshot so we can end cancer as we know it. Because we can do it. I'm going to call for Supreme Court reform because this is critical to our democracy. Supreme Court reform.
So I'm a lame duck.
I don't have control of Parliament because the Republicans are the ones in charge downstairs and the Democrats are the ones in charge upstairs. But apparently in the next six months he will cure cancer, fix.
The Middle East.
He will also deal with America's gun problems. He's also going to rig the Supreme Court.
All of that. Apparently he can.
Do so this guy isn't just out to see. He's delusional and out to see. It's pathetic the performance. But because now we're all just being told by everyone that the history books will say Joe wasn't pushed, Joe walked away himself. We're watching the history being rewritten before our very eyes, and it's ridiculous. It was a terrible performance today. Now, as a human being to another human being, you don't want to see people being embarrassed. You don't want to
see people fall apart. But on the behalf of the Western world, of which he is allegedly the most bat well, he is the most powerful person of we need him to be stronger. We need the American president to be stronger, staring down Russia, China, you name it, that blokes steering into space. Oh yeah, And one other little bit of detail here about all of those people who used.
To say, of course, josephs Fit is a fiddle and sharpest attack.
Remember when the special counsel that was investigating Biden keeping top secret documents bragging about them to the ghostwriter.
Of his book.
Well back then, of course, he was referred to as a sympathetic and well meaning elderly man and lefties all went absolutely crazy, how offensive, not acceptable? Well, people have wanted to see the full transcript as to exactly what happened in the interview that led to the conclusion by the special prosecutor or the Special Council.
Well, guess what happened today? They found the documents. They fat magically after he's no longer going to be.
A political problem for the Democrats, the Department of Justice magically found the transcripts of the interview that where the bloke ended up concluding.
That he's out the lunch.
The Justice Department has told a federal judge last Monday that it has located the transcripts of previously deny it previously denied having a president Joe Biden's talks with the biographer that planned that sorry played a role in the recent league can play a sorry completed criminal investigation. Hard to regard somebody else about cognitive climb when you can't read, but I don't know my glasses anyway, you get my point,
As it's written by a national review. However, the Justice Department finds transcripts of biden interviews with a ghostwriter that it.
Insisted it did not exist. Oh, stuffness here.
It's not like what they had all that Ammo just in case to push you out.
So forgive me.
We are living the history and we will get to tell the people that will read about it in the history books from tomorrow on.
Joe Biden didn't give up. He was pushed. Now.
Latest polling when it comes to the Harris Trump race right now today, of course, Donald Trump gave a two hour rally. I think he's got to tighten them a little because Kamala Harris on he spoke for about twenty minutes. Meaning, of course, as long as she just pops up in waves, she will not be able to be exposed for whom and what she is. Latest polling nationally CNN Trump forty nine, Harris forty six, Morning Console Poll. This is a very
left leaning poll. Trump forty seven, Harris forty five. The Router's Pole Harris forty four, Trump forty two. As you know, it's not just a two horse race, it's a fiveway race. So what happens when you start looking at a fiveway race, is leading by three, it's a tie, or Trump is leading by two.
But then again that doesn't matter.
Let's have a look at the Swing States the Swing states right now. In Pennsylvania, Trump is still winning. In Georgia, Trump is still winning another Poland Georgia, Trump is winning by even more. In Arizona, Trump is still winning by a massive margin. In Michigan, Trump is still winning. In Pennsylvania, Trump is still winning, and in Wisconsin it's pretty tight. But after another week of talking about all of this and all of the detail, let's show something fun. Remember
the old show that dukes are hazard Well. The way the internet works now is that people can do anything, including making it. Like all the figures of American politics star in that show.
Just a good over never meaning not harm means old. You've all man in trouble with the law. Such a day they.
Was ball straightening, the curds.
Landing, the hull Sunday, the blunt but the law. Ever, wos on this more?
Just a good old boss.
They wouldn't change in their coons, fatting the system, lack of two modern day robin hood?
How good is Hillary?
Is Boss Hogg?
Quick break back?
More or loss to talk about Annalys Nielsen from the States to wrap up another massive week there.
But let's talk about Australia, the greatest country in the world. Next here on Paul Murray Life, where we're going to go No Sooks, No Lefties this Thursday night. Thanks for watching No Sooks, No Lefties.
And I'm sure that Michael Craiger was happy to sit back and have a look at The Dukes a Hazard. I tried to when I was showing people that today, They're like, what's this show? But you know, people of a certain age, and that's whom we are. We remember the show, and I remember Daisy Duke in every way, shape or form. Freyer Leitch, do you remember the Well, you wouldn't remember. Have you been taught The Dukes of Hazard the TV show? That's my point. A lot of
people like you around the office today. Anyway, it was a great show. Anyway, the video is still funny. So of course Freyer is with the Mensis Research Organization. Let's get to what is my consistent question this week that I think people are frightened about a rate rise, about the next one that's coming, when good people like Warren Hogan talk about three of them coming. When I was on holidays, this was the conversation, right, apart from Trump getting shot and.
All the rest of it.
Right, do you agree that if there's an interest rate rise, Freyer, it's going to cause massive problems for the Prime Minister. Now it's not going to be one terming all the rest of it, but it is going to be right up there with losing the voice as a huge problem people are going.
To have from a political perspective. I mean, he got into government on two key promises. One reduced household electricity prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars exactly, and the second one was reduced people's mortgages. Now, the average household with an average mortgage of seven hundred and fifty K is currently thirty five thousand dollars worse off under this government. If we have another rate rise, that will only push up that mortgage stress even further. And it
also has a lot of flow on effects. It can actually well and we were talking about this before we went on air. I'm a first home buyer at the moment, I'm getting married in December and it is so difficult. So your borrowing capacity as interest rates increase is radically reduced. So it also forces more people into the rental market. Now rental vacancy rates are running at one point two percent half of what they were pre COVID under the
last ten years of liberal government. If we have even further interest rate rises, that is only going to put more pressure on the rental market and make it even more difficult to rent. So it's just this compounding problem. And while that's all happening, we're being hit with bracket creeping twenty percent more income to exist. Real wages are declining nine percent.
It's just like, what's going on?
Is there any hope?
He came armed with the numbers that I like, Michael, I remember our conversations in the dying days of the previous government that if nothing else, one of the things they should have said while going out the door is watch these guys on interest rates. Now, look, that may well have happened somewhere, but this is a this is going to be a massive political issue if they go up, what do you reckon?
So made, of course, you've got to remember that Alba has a plan to fix the cost of living crisis. He has a plan. There's a cost of living crisis. He said a thousand times during the camp. He has a plan to fix it. It's just that we're still in our patients has been tested may because we're still waiting. Look at it this way, Warren Hogan said, and he's been the most accurate of the commentators. He said, rates
will increase three times this year. Will they waant? I mean, you can't have point seven three times point twenty five if that's what he's talking about. You can't have that between now and December. The Albanezy government they'll lose every seas. But there could be one, possibly two, and it all depends what the Gunian inflation number is, which I think comes out in next week. But look at this way.
In two thousand and seven, inflation was three percent. Just before the election, they increased integrates to six point seventy five. Inflations are now four percent. On the same basis interest rates. If the Reserve Bank were following the same logic, they'd have interest rates somewhere between eight and nine percent. They're
at four point three five. So the Reserve Bank know that bullet knows that when you've got a gap between inflation and the cash rate of point three five, which is what is it at the minute, what it is at the minute, that was five point seven five percent as a gap in two thousand and seven, That's why rates. You know, if you want to if you want to affect inflation on the downward side, you have to increase rates unless that Gurne number comes off dramatically from the
four percent. And what does it mean for Albow. It'll mean that he was seen to be by the electorate as an absolute and utter fraud. His plan was just his photo on the front of an empty brasure made. This guy had no plan and was utterly fraudulent in what he told the electric Well.
He's already underwater in his popularity numbers. They will become dramatically worse. We don't wish for the economy to get worse because of political outcomes, but the reality is if it does, that is what is going to happen. Or reshuffle time here, dead wood goes out of the way. I've got to say, hyfray, I don't care. Like I've watched this long enough and that this is this sort of campra thing where they think that a government somehow is rejuvenated because this person moves over.
No none, no, like this is one of that nothing will.
Change regardless of whether they get rid of the bad ones or they move around the good ones.
What do you reckon.
I think you're spot on, and I think it's going to take a bit more than a cheeky reshuffle to make people forget the last two years of chaotic and clueless labor government. So I mean, it would be a miracle if this did anything to turn things around for Albert well.
And also, you know, unless there's a true accountability like what I was mentioning before Michael about the age care stuff. Right, if four out of ten people are nownourished, then that minister goes, oh, but it's slightly better than it was two years. No, not good enough, Not okay, but because but because you've got a prime minister who won't sack people who he should be sacking, let alone holding people accountable. So we can send up at press conferences today and say we're great because.
We haven't got rid of people. Then everything only either stays the same or gets worse and it really annoys people.
Well, my guest mate is he just can't sack Giles, right, Giles is a personal friend and a factional ally. Giles will be saying to Alban easy mate, forevermore. I'll be the trivial pursuit question who was the only minister sacked during the first term of the Alban Eazy government. Me your best friend. So if he's going to if he's going to sack people, he's going to sack two or three? Is he going to sack two or three? Well, is he a sack Bowen? No, he should, but he's not gay.
Is he going to sack Claire and Neil?
Know?
So I suspect you don't know. But I suspect he'll just shift Giles rather than sack him, because he can't just sack one one minister mate, that would be Albanez. He would never never live that down, and Giles would never let him live it down.
Yeah, I reckon immigration goes into home affairs, Home affairs will change and he'll stay as the migration minister or a multicultural minister. Right now, let's talk about what happened in the DC today. And I'm not talking about the speech of Benjamin then, but some of the wild protesting right to actually see at the train station that people go to get.
To Washington, d C.
Hamas is coming is a frightening thing to see. That's not about the people in Palestine, that's not about the innocence. That's about hamas is coming, all right, think of that as isis, think of that as our all the rest of it.
Right.
Yet, of course, obviously the President is making the little speech that he did today, but you'd think there'd be some sort of statement turning around saying no it isn't, No they're not. But nothing will really be said about this and it'll just be peaceful protests.
Why not, Michael, mate, it's been discussing what happened in America today, But look at the Democratic Party, right, they have a hard left component right, a Jewish hating, hard left extremist fringe to the Democratic Party in America who are very antie Israel. The fact that seventy of them didn't turn up to hear the Prime Minister Israel speech today is disgusting. He's a leader of an American ally put it in the context of the vice presidential pick
and with that left wing right. And Harris of course is in part of the mad left. As we know, she was voted in nineteen as the most extreme left wing senator in the US Senate to the left of Bernie Sanders, which will come out in due course. But look at it's mate, Harris has got all this pressure from the left to be more to be tough on in Israel. Kamala Harris's husband is Jewish. The lead candidate for the vice presidency, Mark Kelly, the Senator of Arizona.
His wife is Jewish. She's a famous American Gary Gabby biggis in her own right because she survived assassination, as you know, yep. And the other one is the governor. The one who should be the candidate is Josh Shapiro,
who's the governor of Pennsylvania, also Jewish. So Harris will bounder extreme pressure from the hard left not to appoint anyone with Jewish connections family connections to be her vice presidential running mate, or you'll have all those Palestinian voters in Michigan who the Democrats are scared of not turn out to vote for it, and they can't afford to lose Michigan. This will be a really fascinating decision to see her she picks as her vice presidential candidate mate.
Not that I can give anyone advice about betting that Mark Kelly, marke Kelly. Marke Kelly would seem to be the way that she's going to go because potentially win Arizona, as Shapiro would for a Pennsylvani But we'll get to that all right.
Winner and loser of the week. Who stands out for you?
Winner I think is probably the CFMU, which we didn't touch on today, But there, despite their incredible links with the underworld and biky gangs and terrible practices, are still allowed to donate to the Labor Party in a lot of states.
Why those allegations, they've got a code of conduct, code of conduct fine.
CFM is a definite winner and a loser. As we've talked about average Australians.
As always, Michael yours.
Louser of the week is an eighty one year old American whose name we all know. And the winners of the winners of the winners of the week mate are the parents. The parents of the young Australian men and women who were selected in the Olympic team to go to Paris. Whether they win a medal or not, their parents should be incredibly proud of them to be picked on the Australian Olympic team.
What or not?
What an achievement and world under all the parents whose kids are over there in Paris representing a great country.
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We'll go to the States next with Analyst Nielsen to wrap up one heck of a week and that awful spruit want to see. I say it every time. I love Analyst Nielsen on and off the air. She's fantastic and she's done such a great job with it for us in the United States. She joins us now before the sun comes up in Washington, d C.
Lovely to see a rock star.
All right, we started the day together, we end the day together on the Telly and I'm just going to give it all over to you here.
Biden's speech was terrible, right, Okay, So this is the interesting thing.
I'm just waking up, which is why I promise I'm not crying. I'm yawning. But the interesting thing that's reminded me and all this is that America is a country that lives in parallel universes, and election times are when they come together. Because I was scanning all the news as I woke up, and some of the pieces, I'm like, did we watch the same speech? What are you talking about? Because half of the coverage has been about the gravitas he met the moment. What a leader he's done, just
such a service for democracy. Thank god we have him, and thank god we've got Kamala on the way. And then the other half of the media is saying he's had to pull out. He's not acknowledging why he's had to pull out. That speech didn't do anything to make us feel better about what we saw. And this is how this election is going to run. And we've already seen the Trump campaign lean into this saying, look, he's had to drop out. We know it's because of his age.
And you've got Kamala Harris coming in. She spent the last three years pretending nothing's wrong with his age, and now we're supposed to believe that this was all done at the last minute, just because this is such a spur of the moment revelation for everyone, and this is going to hit home with people. I think more than anyone in DC's acknowledging because boss aren't stupid. They're watching all this play out, and if they're not paying attention normally, there certainly are now.
But also, look, obviously we all know that there's a whole bunch of people who sort of cleaved off from the news in and around COVID, right. I think there's a whole bunch of people that are going to cleave off as well after seeing the political coverage of everything's okay, everything's fine.
Wow, we're really surprised it's not.
And then they've just gone straight back to pretending that we all didn't see the same thing. Again, nobody wants another human being to be embarrassed, let alone the president of the United States.
But it was embarrassing.
He couldn't finish what was going on, and he just should have filmed, He should have pre recorded something in the Rose Garden.
Who would have cared?
And just the fact it took so long for him to front a camera, just it was days of well, what's really happening? Is he really okay? Are they lying to us about this? Why is this done by Twitter? And she found us across the board, even like diehard Trump supporters when you talk to them just one on one. No one's enjoyed watching Joe Biden decline in public. Everyone seems to have a story of a relative that's been
through something similar. They feel like it's been a really undignified way to treat him, and the people around him should have been doing more to protect him during all this. And I think if he just stepped back earlier and let there be a proper primary process where they could have a competitive race, where they could really let the voters decide instead of just continually saying, well, I've had fourteen million people vote for me, I'm the candidate. You
didn't give them another option. So it's really if anything. I mean, at the beginning, Karmala Harris could have come out of the primaries. Maybe she was meeting the moment in history. Maybe people do want a female president and this could have been her time and she could have killed it, but we'll never know. She wasn't given that chance. No one else was given the chance. And now we're
going to have to watch these debates. This is going to be I think, just a really defining moment, these debates. If Karmala Harris can't hold their own against Trump. She looks weak. The other story we're not talking about is the fact that there were bombers planes from Russia and China intercepted off the coast of Alaska. Oh my gosh. Lisa mccowski, the Senator from Alaska, just put out a statement about how this is unprecedented and this is really serious.
The fact that these trips happen with the Russian planes or the Chinese ones, but together on that night, that is really alarming, and that goes right to what the Republicans are worried about at the moment, that we look weak on the world stage, that advers areas are going to be using this moment to take advantage one hundred percent.
By the way, a new poll from The Hill, which is a sort of inside baseball thing when it comes to politics, Trump is still leading in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. So one percent when there was a shot fired, one percent when there was a debate meltdown in one percent when there is a change of candidate.
Welcome to the race. You're covering and you're the best in the business at it. Thank you.
Analyse and Aalise Nielsen there in the United States. We'll see you again next wake. Have a wonderful weekend wherever you happen to be.
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