From the Skying in Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you Cherry. You never know who's texting it, You never know. The lady is very well plugged in and aren't you done it? And we'll see you again on the telly next week. All right, we've got let's to talk about on tonight show. But let's start with what's unfollowing in Western Australia. Right now, north of Perth, there is a bush fire. Of course, the sun is still up and it's still a relatively warm day. This is
at Wedge Island. Please keep your attention to everything that the DfES is telling you. It's north of Perth right now. Some people are being told it's too late to leave. Keep an eye on things. But strength and love to everyone who's fighting everything in Western Australia tonight. Which brings us to the overall issue of bush fires, because we've
got a prediction today from the emergency services. In fact, imagine the bosses of the Rural Fire Service, Country Fire Association or other such groups around the country, and they've given us a picture about where they expect significant bushfires to be taking place this summer. Now, of course, anything can happen anywhere. But as you can have a look at the map, there significant issues around Victoria, the middle of the country and stretching from a little tip of
South Australia into Western Australia. Now again, bushfires can happen anywhere at any time. This is not me saying there's a guarantry no bushfires anywhere else. But let's have a look here around the country and what their expectations are. Now. The area between Dubbo and Koba in New South Wales is the area that's hit in red. There the area to the west of Griffith. Now again, there are little towns,
little cities in all of these places. I certainly hope that if something starts in so called deep bushland, they don't just let it run for weeks and weeks. Of course, that was part of the problem back in two thousand and nineteen, and again there's some suggestion that some of the conditions may be a bit closer to where we were in that summer rather than the one that we've just been through Victoria. That's the big issue that I want to focus on right now. Several areas, obviously basically
the the western half of the state. Again, the areas around the border and south of Melbourne, that coastline area there. For some reason, they think these are the hot spots that might be coming because of what's happening in Western Victoria. That's why you have the areas of South Australia which are being illuminated right now. And again on the other
side of the Bight. The fire is expected around that southern area in Western Australia and then a little bit further up the coast as for the Northern Territory now in and around Alice Springs, that's the most prominent city that is named. In all of these areas, you can see that huge areas are expected to have bushfires this summer. All of this means if you can protect yourself, protect yourself, do the work on the weekends to try to make sure that your joint is okay if you live in
an area which is bushfire prone. I'm sorry to sound like a nag, but it is important how to think about the types of things that you may need to take and think about packing those things in a nice, easy accessible area that you'd be able to get out should you need to get out for whatever reason. The joy of these warnings is that. I hope that there are one hundred percent incorrect. I hope that none of this stuff happens, but if it does, we at least
have some warning to begin the preparation. Australia is always a tinderbox, has been for as long as it has existed as both island and continent. However, there is some other news that is some better news in and around the summer bush fire picture, and that is this area here about rain. Now as you can see around the capital cities of Sidney, Melbourne, Brisbane, there is an expectation here that there is going to be a little more rain than you would normally get between the period of
December and February. Does that mean bet the house on it, know, but it does mean that those conditions are why we're not talking about areas very specifically close to Sydney and Brisbane, a little bit there again to the south and the southeast of Melbourne. But as always we pay attention to the things that matter most, and that is of course our families, which is always more important than property. But if you get the chance to protect your property, here
is your fore warning. Today was a bad day for democracy. I know you've heard plenty of times about the guillotining of things that took place in the Senate. But the Prime Minister, trying to clear the decks for an election, did a dirty deal with the Greens, and this meant that dozens and dozens of pieces of legislation were not
even debated. They were simply voted upon, vote after vote after vote after vote after vote, and because he did the dirty deal with the Greens, no opposition voice was heard. A lot of this stuff is rats and mice. A lot of this stuff is stuff that they're going to
pump up as being bigger than it actually is. But appropriately, those who are sent to the House of Review, those that have the position on the cross bench, they see this for what it is, which is the government simply pushing debate to one side that is never a good thing, and just ramming through a list of things that they will talk about between now and the.
Election, all to hide poor legislation.
Whistler's many through as you can without any scrutiny.
Talk about putting out the bins, taken out the rubbish.
That's exactly how this whole bill has been treated by the major parties.
I was not voted in this place to give you a great pass to put your forty bills in one day. But of course Sarah Hanson Young was saying that when there was a deal between the Liberal Party and the Labor Party. But she is of course part of the Greens that got the extreme majority of that stuff through.
I hope the Jackie Lamby remembers that this is how they truly treat her in the parliament when if parliament comes back, but certainly she comes back in whatever the next version of the Parliament is after being elected at the last election, she's there for sixty years. I hope she remembers how she was treated by this government. This government may well have achieved an awful lot today, but what they in the process is not the first time
It's happened. Many major parties, most versions of governments do this. It's a disgrace when they do it. The point of Parliament is on each and every issue to hear all sides. That is a long and laborious process, but that's why this stuff needs to be dealt with rather than just two minutes to midnight. You have to plan, you actually have to win or lose things on their merits. But
this government has no interest in any of that. For his part, Dennis Shanahan, who of course you can see I think Monday Nights with our dear friend Peter Kriblin, he had plenty to say about this as well today about how kind of this arrangement works for the three major parts of Australian politics. Pardon me. Strategically, such an approach means Albaneze can start his re election campaign effectively from next week going into summer. Talking about a new
agenda for Dutton. Senate blockage and a visit of sleepless senators is add into a public view of government that's in disarray and lacking direction. And for Adam Banta used the Green's numbers and the Senate is an opportunity to try and draw out some victory out of compromise with Labor on some small points and not being left to look irrelevant because they can't bring themselves to actually vote
against Labor. All true and one of the reasons why he should always read him in the os and pay attention to him when he pops up here on Sky News. We also got a bit of an indication that if the Parliament does not return and my expectation is when you are clearing the decks like this, when the valedictory speeches have taken place, that at the very least there is a better than a likely chance of Parliament not returning.
I know Philip Coury was talking with Steve Price a bit earlier, and as I've told you before, I bet the House on much of his analysis. He thinks they might come back for a couple of weeks in February, but not a March budget, instead a couple of weeks to maybe set up a wedge in the lead up to an election, which may well end up being more like March rather than April or May, which is the
latest that can possibly be well. Today we saw a Prime Minister trying to look confident, with ministers yawning behind him, and Peter Dutton knowing that the wind is currently at his back. Now, as I've said multiple times, you would prefer to be in the position of Peter Dutton right now according to the poles where they are currently leading. They're leading on the issues that matter, they're leading on
the perception of right track wrong track. But of course the Prime Minister thinks that more albow solves every problem. James Campbell, writing about the opinion poll, I went through some detail last night about where the country does not think that the government has the right priorities and now a very slim but still majority of people think Dutton
is ready to govern. He talks about the red Bridge pole and the red Bridge pole of public opinion also found that almost half of all voters think the country said it in the wrong direction, compared to lesson a
third who think it's headed in the right direction. The worrying picture of voter sentiment after two and a half years of albow time shows the people most alienated from the government are not bosses but Labour's traditional blue collar base, the same types of people who earlier this month fled
from the Democrats to Donald Trump. Now, as always when there are these opinion polls, I also like to try to show you some of the comments which the polsters receive from the people who are telling us which way they may think about voting or are considering voting going into a federal election. The reading is not good for the Prime Minister. Again. A bunch of people, including Stewart, who says shock new poll. I've been expecting this one from the day he took office, John President Clinton said
it's about the economy. Stupid, Well it was his staff at the point. Alboys never understood that and spent too much time and too much of his mayor mandate on pet projects that no one cares about, for example, four hundred and fifty million dollars On the voice, an anonymous person says that or somebody who wanted to remain anonymous, that people have had enough of the costly, woke agenda and that adds no value to society, and seek a
return of governance for the majority. No surprise, Bree says, there's no doubt if Alberinezi and his government we're given another term, things would be far worse than the damage that they have already go created. Romwin, get rid of this rotten work government who is so out of touch with the people. Bring on Dunton as quickly as we can. Well, an election has to play out before then, I've told
you before. Unless we start to see data that the Teals are going to be swept away, we're probably dealing with a minority labor government, as frustrating as that could be, because we'd all love to see the back of this terrible government for all the reasons we have articulated on this show for well before they became the government, and
certainly have been proven right every day since. And we've got to see a little bit of a taste of some of the messaging, some of the attack lines which are going to be rolled out by both of these leaders. First Anthony Abernezi. You get ready for him to say a version of this a thousand times between now and when you vote. We're getting things done.
They're just getting anger out, as we just saw during the last questions. Right, we're acting responsibly, they're acting recklessly. We're cutting the cost of living. They're cutting Manicare, pensions and housing. That's what they want to do. We're fighting for Australians to earn more and keep more of what they earn. They want people to work longer for less. We're fighting inflation. They're fighting amongst themselves.
You know how that is not true, you know, Oh, we're focused on cost of living. Their government their term, fifteen hundred dollars taken off ten million workers. They've turned around and spent billions of dollars off budget so they don't have to account for it in a budget, which is in deficit right now, and the expectations are remember under this government, their forecast into the future is deficits every year between now in the twenty sixties, and of
course when it comes to cost of living. We know that they talk a certain talk, but the walk that Australia has had to go on has been painful. It's been three Christmases in a row now where people have had to tighten their belts. There is nothing left but we said that last year, which means that we have to find something else to pull back on, and people, frankly, they're cutting down to the bone marrow in too many cases. Three million people, three million people, this close to homelessness.
They can say whatever they want. Their political operation will try to pretend that up is down, that left is right, that these are not the drawers you're looking for, all of that Jedimintrix stuff. What they'll be up against is Peter Dutton and Peter Dutton who can remain relentless on a message that I think is closer to reality. We'll see how it plays out at the election.
The Australian people cannot believe how incompetent and weak your government has been over the last two and a half years, your government wasted four hundred and fifty million dollars on the voice and divided our country, and on economic and energy policies, you've done nothing but drive up the prices of everything.
Prime Minister, why not call.
An election now to put Australians out of their misery and allow competent coalition government to get our country back on track.
Just look at the body language. Who looks like they're winning versus who's the one who has to tell themselves that they're winning. Your choice comes sooner rather than later. And just like everyone, I want to talk about power crisis because feeding him Remember the promise, This was the problems before the last election. It was garbage then and it's bs now.
Two hundred and seventy five dollars, two hundred and seventy five dollars, two hundred and seventy five dollars, two hundred and seventy five dollars, two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and seventy five dollars.
And Remember that that promise was apparently one that didn't apply anymore because according to the Treasurer, that was based off old modeling, and there was a war in Ukraine, despite the fact that it had actually started before this government came to power.
The number you're referring to was a forecast in twenty one about an outcome in twenty five. We're providing energy bill relief in the here and now. We did in the last budget, we are again in the next budget, but there'll be more relief for more people in this well.
As always, I'm in the front road to see my dear friend Laura Jays each and every morning nine o'clock astrated Eastern daylight time, and she absolutely ran rings around Chris Bowen. Now this bloke thinks he's going to be the Prime minister one day. He thinks, oh, I can pull the New South Wales right behind him. Remember this is the blog who wanted to run for the Labor leadership standing in front of the weatherboard house. Thirty six hours later he had withdrawn because he didn't have a chance.
But he thinks his chance is coming and he thinks the way to get there is by just lying to you about the energy transition that this country is currently in. It is hundreds of billions of dollars that need to be spent on infrastructure that fingers crossed will have enough technology firming it be it gas or coal or batteries to mean that we don't have scenarios like we've seen this week where people are being told, oh, don't use your washing machine at night, please don't, don't don't turn
up your re conditioner because the grid won't cop it well. Today, he was asked a pretty direct question by Laura about do you stand by the promise of two hundred and seventy five dollars?
Will you commit here and now to bringing down power prices?
When will they come down and how well?
As I said, we're not walking away from our commitments and plans to bring in more innewable energy, which is the cheapest form of energy.
So who do you believe the Snake charmer in, Jim Charmers or Blackout Bower because one of them is lying to you. It's either still the policy or the modeling has completely changed, which means the policy doesn't count anymore. He was asked about it in question time When.
Will the minister finally be straight with the Australian and people and EMIT labors.
Two hundred and seventy five dollars bill cup promise has been broken.
And of course he didn't answer the question, but he told the biggest lie I have seen in question time in a very long time. This is what he said.
That the inflation figure is released by the ABS this week thirty five percent reduction and energy prices the biggest fall and energy prices ever recorded in Australian history.
But as you know, it's complete garbage. It's not true. The cost of electricity has not fallen. The government is spending billions of dollars to pay the power companies to reduce the bill by twenty five dollars a month. The collective result of that across the country is that they are able to go and have inflation numbers that say
power prices are remarkably fallen, but they haven't. And remember, unlike the two hundred and seventy five dollar promise, which by the way, was not a one off, it was a change to the system that would mean a permanent reduction in the bill you had in twenty twenty one. The BILLI you had in twenty twenty two minus two hundred and seventy five dollars by next year and that'd be the new base. But as you know, that has
not been achieved. In fact, your power prices are up by almost double or quadruple depending on where you are. And remember the second they stop bribing the power companies, the bill goes back up, meaning not only does the cost of electricity start to actually be passed on in its full amount to the customer, the impacts on inflation will be extraordinary. But because it's all about just squeaking over the line trying to tell people in an election that this is not the power bill that you receive
the Jedi mind trick. But you and I are onto it. The Australian people are onto it. They made the promise how many times, how loudly, they will not have not and cannot deliver it. Instead, the reality is the exact opposite. Yet these people think that the collective voter is so stupid that they can be lied to by these people. For his part, Chris Ulman appeared also in our daytime coverage today at his spectacular documentary which is the Real
Cost of Zero, currently now available on YouTube. It's at the top of the sky News YouTube page. Well, he had plenty to say today about the reality that you should always double check that it's raining. If Chris Bowen says it's raining, what.
We'll see over the course of the next few years on the pathway that we're on, and they're determined to stay on this pathway, and it's not just the federal government's the state governments as well, is that the grid will become increasingly unreliable and electricity will becoming criticiingly more expensive because wind and solar generators cannot deliver power on demand. They cannot be an electricity system without relying on something.
Now that's something at the moment is coal. In the future, that something will have to be gas, not just a little bit of gas, but fifteen gigawatts of gas. Now, I don't know if we have the graphic available, but if you look at what's happening in New South Wales right now, what you will see that sixty percent of the generation is coming from coal fired power. There's quite a bit of solar in the system, but look at what's happened with wind one percent.
Why is it that wind.
Is never responsible for the problems that we have in the system because of course it always gets a free pass, and as coal retires, more expensive sources will be called in in order to fill that gap.
Facts matter, spin and vibes and all the other garbage. People don't fall for it. The reality is that power has gone through the roof as a result of this government choosing one technology over the other. That is just the reality. Please watch that documentary again. It's the top of our YouTube page. And speaking of documentaries, go to sky News dot com dot Au and check out that incredible one about cyclone Tracy. They're hitting it out of the park our Doto's team at the moment and I
look forward to many more of them next year. Now, for a long time I've was a competition between the Queensland government and the Victorian government about which one was the worst in the country. Thankfully, the bad Labor government is flushed in Queensland, so now one is left standing and it is the Victorian government. The Victorian government first of Daniel andrews now of his protege just into Alan, is in a world of trouble, making decisions that make
everything worse every day. The priorities are all over the shop of we make cool TikTok videos. Well, hopefully Victoria is at some point in time going to wake up to this mob. But let's give them a little end of year report card. The debt in Victoria is so big that with the help of this little graphic, I can show you that every Victorian man, woman or baby collectively owes twenty five thousand dollars in government debt. That is more than the federal government, where each and every
Australian man, woman and baby twenty four thousand dollars. South Australia seventeen, New so Whals fifteen, Tasmania twelve, Queensland Tea nine repeat worst in the country twenty five thousand dollars for every one of its citizens. That's the story of the Allen government. Amen, there's the TRIPLEO system about police, fire or ambulance, the Triplo system, which remember thirty three people died before the last state election as a result of the failures in the Tripleo system. Oh, they said
it's been fixed. Will last week the Tripleo system had dispatches using pen and paper. That's the Allen Labor government. At the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the age tells us today that they are slashing the number of junior doctors hours in the hospital because they can't pay for them. And then there's this little doozy, which I'm sure you have not heard anywhere else. It is the number of kids that need to be restrained because of what they are
doing at school. The numbers are particularly frightening because the vast majority of this stuff is happening in primary schools. According to the age record high numbers of students being restrained or secluded at Victoria State Schools is now two seven hundred kids in the twoy twenty three figure. It represents a forty six percent increase on the previous year, when eighteen hundred and forty four students were restrained or
put into some sort of seclusion. This according to data that has been publicly released by the Education Department since twenty nineteen. Let's not use words, Let's use the pretty
pictures and the graphs to tell the story. Have a look at this on the left hand side, twenty nineteen, the dip of twenty twenty when kids were at home not physically in school, and now in twenty and twenty three, primary school kids fourteen hundred and sixty six were restrained in the Victorian public education system four hundred and six in high school. What's going on with primary school kids
because of aggression to other people? You can see it went down in the pandemic, it came straight back when school came back. It fell down last year and now it's up to fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred kids who needed to be restrained because of aggression towards other people at school? What about self harm? One hundred and twenty seven. One hundred and twenty seven kids had to be restrained because
of what they may be doing to themselves. I hope they're so proud of what they've done to our kids. I hate everyone who made the decisions to keep our kids out of school for a couple of years Victoria the worst and two hundred and thirteen because they were going to damage property with a risk of hurting themselves or somebody else. But what does the Victorian premiere focus on? What is this more ondoing instead defending the rights of
a murderer to have IVF in jail. Oh, of course this will be referred to as a very minor incident that nobody should do. How does this person have the right to that certain offenses must result in not having access to this system. We're not talking about a person who's in jail for three months or six or even a year. It's a person who's supposed to be in jail for longer than fifteen years because of a murder. Unbelievable. The family of those who have been impacted forever because
of her actions think that this is an outrage. Yet today, rather than saying, look, this shouldn't happen, I promise it will never happen again. This was the crap that the Victorian premier was serving up today. Remember this whenever the hell is a chance to vote out.
There has been a program that has run since the nineteen eighties. Are Living with Mum's program that operates across Victoria's correctional system. It has been run obviously over that period times under liberal and labor governments, and it is a program that is supported within the operational budget of Corrections Victoria. So that is a program that's existing, a long standing program that is run throughout the correction system Victoria.
Please please the education system, the prison system, youth crime housing debt. You've got to get rid of them. You absolutely have to get I get it about the Libs, and I know all the rest of it, but for please please get rid of them. Sadly, it'll be a little while before that happens. Now, there is one word that has been used an awful lot over the past couple of years. You've heard me say it, and here's a whole bunch of others saying.
It, blaming walk politics and walkism and cancel culture.
There's a military as walker. Everything walk turns to well. Kill Richards is of course the word man who you can see here quite regularly here on sky News. He wrote a great piece today about the word woke and what it actually means. It means snob and it's a very simple way of putting things, but it is absolutely the key to understanding most of the people who practice this stuff. Put this at the absolute heart and set
of everything. The snobs. They are snobs. They look down on any and everyone who does not view the world exactly as they do. Well done, good articles skyews, dot com dot Au. Meantime, the social media band which will make its way through Parliament as part of the dirty deal with the Greens. The Coalition however, will also back it in but because there'll be no debate. You won't be hearing from anyone who's going to be crossing the
floor now. Andrew Wilkie, the Independent, at some point in time supported this, but has magically turned around and said no, he's not going to support it. The reason he took to his teenage members of his family. So why did he come out and support it at all in the first place. And one more little thing about the great Man Donald Trump that is worth noticing. As you know, he has named virtually all but two. I think of the positions that he can name to form his cabinet,
do the little dance. I love the dance. We love the dance. You can see all of those that range from controversy to slam dunk picks. We went to the New York Times because thankfully they had the little pictures to help. Those are the ones the Senate needs to vote on. The next are the ones that can just be appointed without a vote in the Senate. But there is an interesting little thing that I have to tell you about here. Donald Trump won the popular vote the
Electric College. They got the majority in the Senate, and they won the majority in the House. However, the majority in the House looks like it is not going to be that big. In fact, it is going to be awf of thin. To quote the Big Boy from The Meaning of Life right YouTube video, Go and double check
it out enough to do the mint. Now, many of the people that Donald Trump has appointed to his cabinet are currently sitting members of the House of Representatives, which means that there has to be special elections in many of the cases. Not in every case, but in many
of the cases, there has to basically be a by election. Now, if you have a full fifted buggeral majority and you end up not replacing those people with Republicans, there is a statistical chance that at the end of all of those by elections, control of the House will go from Republican to Democrat.
Goodness gracious, yes, the Republicans are going to control the House of Representatives. But if all the current results hauled up, we're looking at a record small majority after the Novembers in the last ninety years. You have to go all the way back since the Herbert Hoover administration to find and even smaller majority. After November elections. We're talking about
the Republicans with two hundred and twenty seats. Democrats were two hundred fifteen at the current House results hold and keep in mind that this will drop lawer if the phonic Waltz or others like mac Gates leave the Congress.
And that's the point. Numbers always matter. If the Democrats, of course end up in control, it would mean that clearly you don't get everything that you want. In fact, you have to negotiate everything, just like in Australia. The legislation starts in the House, it moves to the Senate and then it is signed off on or vetoed by the President. Clearly, if it's all of the one color, then basically you start out with an idea, you find
a path, and you get it done. If one part of the Parliament isn't going to help you do anything, then it is a giant handbrake, one that may well be pulled potentially before even the twentieth of January. Will keep an eye on it for you because it is an insight into how effective the second Trump presidency is going to be. Quick break back with more loss to talk about tonight, including who do you think is the
winner and loser of the week? Jump on the Facebook page in a second all right, let's get right into it now, Michael Kroger. Just a couple of days out from summer. Apparently it's quite cold this evening in Melbourne, judging by the puffer jacket and the reason we're in HD. Look at a million bucks. But she's got plenty more to say, is none of them? The wonderful Chritiy McSweeney from the pr Council in Candria, which is always just there to help Hi.
So just here watching the Senate.
Oh okay, look, I was going to do a Lydia Thorpe free zone when it comes to this. But what did you think about today where there was another way she injected herself into the storylines of the day.
Christie, I was actually in the public gallery. I wanted to throw to meet a guest, a new visitor to Parliament House who hadn't been there before, who was confronted with the dulphin times of Lydia Thorpe yelling into the gallery.
And I can tell you there were about one hundred school children and their teachers there who couldn't quite believe that they had taken these young people to the heart and soul of Australian democracy and we're confronted with that, and we're told that is one of our senators.
It's disgraceful. Michael. I know in the past, every time I've tried to talk, you've said I don't want to talk about it because it adds fuel to the fire. I will simply say this, why can't the Coalition make her behavior something that's so unacceptable that the government doesn't accept her vote? Because one of the reasons why we got the scenario that we did, well, look, you know, one minute to midnight, we'll give you a little bit of a penalty. It's because they had a mathematical way
around her. Otherwise they need her vote. But the whole point is, as it was with Peter Slipper, as it was with Craig Thompson in the twenty ten to thirteen Parliament, why doesn't the Coalition say, all right, if you want better standards, Prime Minister right now, promise to never talk to her again, not negotiate with her, and don't seek her vote. That good mate.
But of course that would elongate the story, wouldn't it. It'd make her the story for another week, another two weeks. Every time this and it were sitting the concentration would be on whether the government's accepting her vote or not, and we'd have to talk about it. In Albanie whould have to talk about it and would make Lydia Thorpe the story. I think she's been a disgrace to herself, to the Greens that she was formerly a member of for picking her in the first place. She's making it up,
a fool of herself. And you know, people are sick of this tied ole three card trick that everyone's racist, everything's racist, everything's about our people. Colonials and the king people are tired of this. They think it's rubbish. They don't like her and they can't wait to get rid.
Of her exactly. We'll see what happens. Elections have consequences, as we know, and we'll see what happens when it comes to that center. In the next of the while, let's talk about Chris Bowen today. I mean Christy, this bloke, I mean, you know, the protective guard that is the sort of Canberra media who's voted yes for the Voice and the rest of the country didn't all think that he's the worr for fighting climate change all the rest
of it. For those of us outside of it. I know there's plenty of people in the real world and the Act forgive me for lobbing you in with everyone else. However, power bills have gone up, all right, we all know they've gone up. If they've ever so slightly come down, it's because of this artificial way. Yet he's standing in the Parliament pretending, oh, power prices have fallen by thirty five percent? Does he actually think people are that stupid?
Because he can't be that stupid. He has to make a bet that the collective Australian is and I think that's a wrong bet.
Christy Well, he began as a sensible economic policy member of Labour's right faction, which has some very sensible people in it. But of course he sank Bill Shorten with the Franklin credits in the Finance portfolio, and he may well sing Galbo in concert with the Prime Minister himself on digging in on this renewable energy. What has turned out to be fast power prices and the significant increases that Australians are facing have been blamed on the war
in Ukraine. They've been blamed on COVID. I'm sure they're going to be blamed on Trump and his tariff regime anytime now. Their two hundred and seventy five dollars is based on economic modeling pre the twenty twenty two election.
It hasn't been updated. There hasn't been any economic basis for how we're going to get power prices down in the cost of living crisis, which energy and utilities is a major contributor to people's household bills that are in a cost of living crisis and facing those issues well.
But also, I mean again, Michael, it's not hard or it is not hard for people to be able to go. You made the promise of two seventy five. He gets confronted with it today again, seems to double down, seems to recommit himself again. What he said to Laura, Mate, sorry, I thought we're Chris Bowen is the you go, oh, Chris Bowe.
Chris Bone is the gift that keeps on giving. And you mentioned Chris Human's thing before. If people haven't seen Chris Human's documentary, this is compulsory viewing. You've got to sit down for two hours, watch it twice. It's to watch it twice. There's so much packed in there. Get a notepad and make some notes which I'm about to read out some of Chris Newman's absolute pieces of gold Bowen Christy, don't forget in thirteen he helped sink He
helped sink the rud government. He helped sink Shortens, he said in nineteen, and he might sink Albanisi. He would be the first politician in Australian history to sink his party on three occasions, which takes which takes some going. But I think the point is this mate, the wonderful working middle class in this country, as in America, it takes them a while to work things out, but sooner or later they work it out. Like the voice sounded
great until they worked out what it meant. They seen, renewables are great until they've started to work out that, hey, if it's the cheapest form of energy, why my bills going up at twenty five hundred, one thousand dollars a year. So if you watch Chrus Hilman's thing, here's a couple of his great stats, right, memorable stats from this documentary. He said twenty in the last twenty five years, oil gas coal has gone from eighty five percent of the
world usage to eighty one in twenty five years. It's gone down four percent in the next twenty five. It's going down from eighty one to zero. Huh, really, eighty five to eighty one in the last twenty five, eighty one to zero in the next twenty five. Secondly, they had the end of this Environmentals from Queensland who said the public have got no idea what's coming. There's more than twenty thousand wind turbines coming to the east coast of Australia at Tasmania, South Australia in the next ten
or so years, twenty thousand of them. The good news, Paul is there's not a single wind tower coming to a seatthild by the Greens or the Teals, which is great because I now live in adam Bansea because of redistribution, so they aren't going to many wind towers in South Era. That's the good news. But all you people in the country, rural Australia, there's twenty thousand of these monstrosities coming. Yulman also pointed out that reminded us that album even made
that promise by the next election. The two seventy five deduction is coming by May next year, so that's good news for everybody whose bills have gone up five hundred one thousand. We've spent twenty five billion dollars on subsidizing renewables in the last ten years, twenty five billion. And finally he pointed out that battery are the most expensive
form of energy. So when Bowen says, oh, you know, renewable is the cheapest, the working middle class, the silent majority have worked out this is all bulldast This is complete bull dust. It is the most expensive form when you have to use batteries, and people's lived experiences that their price have gone up if it's the cheapest, Chris, why haven't they gone down mate?
Well?
And also can I make a point there as well, Chris Mins in New South Wales, Labor knows that New South Wales is going to run out of power on his what and he asked Origin to extend the life of the aroar and coal powered station for another two years.
Now.
Origin didn't want to. So there are people in the Labor party who know, well the jig is up, and it's the premiers who don't want to be blame for mass blackouts.
Well, and also I'm just having a look here too. At the national energy market, and they're film mix right where they talk about where everything comes from new sid Wells alone nine percent in wind farm, fifteen percent in solar. And I think Chris's point earlier tonight that I reemphasized that wind farms, which of course there's many, many and many many more to come. And remember the graphic that he showed about all of those ones that are coming
down the coast. Again, the doco's up on our YouTube page right now, it's top you can watch it there for free. That it gets let off the hook so frequently, but also to the broader political issues here too, Christy, where you know Albo thinks more albow is going to solve the problem. I think that there's plenty of indices that say once they tune out of a prime minister,
the last person they want to hear from is that person. Certainly, in the relentless lead up to and in an election, just thirty two percent of the country says that we are headed in the right track, that the right direction. Forty seven percent of people under the age of thirty four they were headed in the wrong direction. Fifty one percent of thirty nine to forty nine's forty five percent of fifty to sixty four's sixty five plus forty nine percent.
Also worth noting two, does this sound like the realignment that was playing out in the United States? That may well play out here. When people under the age sorry, the highest qualification was high school or you left before the HC, fifty seven percent headed in the wrong direction, forty seven percent if it was year twelve, fifty two percent if it was a tafe or trade university degree. They're the ones who are a little undecided. They think
it's forty percent versus thirty seven. The extreme majority of the Australian people do not like the direction the joint is heading. This bloke's going to go to an election saying please trust us, We're going to continue going down the yellow brick road. Well, we all remember who was actually behind the curtain once they got there.
So it's interesting you said only thirty two percent of Australian Australia is in the heading and the right track, that's roughly the primary vote of Labor and the Liberal Party is only slightly higher. You did mention a number of other demographics that are unusual people under thirty four, But from all those demographics, they have to cobble together at least a forty percent. It depends what their relationship with the Greens turns out in a preference scenario at
the election. It's turning out pretty well for them today in the Senate, I can tell you, but reality would say you need to cobble together somewhere between thirty five and forty percent to win a majority government or even to win a minority government with the grants. So very interesting. It matches up with the coalitions out of suburban strategy. There is a school of thought that we'll try and win back as many tail seats as we can, but largely forsake them to try and win marginal seats on
the outskirts of the city. They need to hold the three out of metropolitan marginals in Victoria, two on the central coast, two in the Northern Territory. There's a pathway for the coalition, but there's a lot of marginal seats and most of them aren't in the inner city.
Yeah. Well, interesting, pay attention to the Northern territory right. Firstly, Alea from Kiaro is doing a great job as the territory chief minister. But Solomon, which has moved before lingiari a little bit harder, but what happens there? But Michael, what about some of these suggestions I was reading in some one to day suggesting the Libs are trying to hammer to win four Victorian seats. How does your maps go towards the end of the year about either Labor minority or a Dutton minority.
Well, I've been saying for weeks I think Peter Dutton's favorite to win the election. That I can count fifteen seats he's going to win, which puts him on seventy two, presuming he wins back the two seats that are held by Independence formerly our seats. So I think he's close to a majority at this point in time. You have to say, Peter Dutton's majority in his own right depends
on Victoria, which is Chisholm, McEwen, Kuyong and Goldstein. Because I think he's going to win back Aston great candidate there, Mannychacello. But he's got those four seats, right, He's got those four seats which are fifty to fifty. If he wins them all, he wins in his own right. If he doesn't, he doesn't win in his own right. Now the Liberal Party brand in Victoria is not as strong as it used to be when we had A Costello, A Peacock,
A Malcolm Fraser, Robert Menzies, Henry Bolty. Jeff Kennet said the brand is not as strong and so a lot depends on the performance of the state parliamentary Liberal Party quite frankly, because in nineteen ninety when Andrew Peacock I was president, then Peacock won nine seats in one night. We started with fifteen ended up with twenty four one night seats from lab almost won the election on the
back of Victoria. That was on the back of a very strong performance by Kennett, Alan Brown, Alan Stockdale, the state Parlamentry Party boring it into the Cain Kernel government. That level of hatred of a labor government isn't as strong as it is as it was then. So even though people don't like Jasindra Allen and she's been hopeless, there isn't that people haven't got the baseball that's they had in nineteen ninety. So it depends very much in our state colleagues here, I love.
When we get down to the detail, though dirty little details of politics. I love it in every way, shape or formant. Remember, when it comes to preferences, what you do with number two matters as much as what you do with number one. In nineteen when there was the preference discipline, the surprise election result, when everyone runs away, well we got our boat or a quick breakpack with more including who is the winner and loser of the week. I've got my saying, and I look forward to our
panels in a moment. Let's go to some old classics before we get the winners and losers of the week. Christin McSweeney is here with Michael Kroger. Michael, the chairman of the ABC says they deserve more money. Okay, great, they're the only media organization who thinks they are pardon me, guaranteed a larger amount of money. Apologies for the cough everyone, But also he decided to really sort of say that Joe Rogan was a bit beneath people to listen to what's he on about?
Mate?
If you want to look when Kim Williams came in, right, he made some really good statements about the ABC, and people thought, maybe he's going to shake this place up. Maybe he's actually going to do what previous chairs had not been able to do in previous board members, including myself, and not been able to do. But then he gives this bizarre performance, totally bizarre performance where you know, if you're talking about sneering snobs, the sort of the Sydney
arts upper class. He's horrified by this, Joe Rogan, who people listen to and is horrified by his power. It's appalling, he said. He you know, not that he ever listened to him, but need heard this. Millions and millions of people are listening to this Joe Rogan, and billions of people have watched his watched his podcasts back on YouTube, and fifty million people had watched Donald Trump's interview with him.
He was horrified by this. This is the problem with the inner city Sydney ABC arts elites, right, they are completely out of touch with normal, ordinary working class people. And Kim, I'm afraid that was an absolute shocker at the Press Club. If you want to know why the incoming dut and government are not going to give you a cent more, your performance of the Press Club is evidence of why you're not going to get another crack of my friend.
Yeah, but again, Christy, this idea we need more money to do what we do. Look, if you've got to guarantee billion dollars, that's certainly a guarantee of revenue that no other media organization has in the country. It's one of two public broadcasters. There are ways that you can reorientate what they do, but instead they want to do everything they've always done and more with the same If not more money.
Well, maybe put programming on that people want to tune into and watch. From time to time, when my Malcolm Turnbull NBN fails, I have to watch from read Word television, and I have been caught catching snippets of shows like Spicks and SPACs and ABC Morning Radio and I can't even remember the weekly and various shows where a raft of IBC comedians appear or contractors contracted to the IBC so they can get away with saying they're not ABC employees.
Consistently engaging in humor that is very much towards people who vote in a conservative way. So if the ABC doesn't like Joe Rogan, you don't like it, but you have to agree there's a market for that. And also Joe Rogan has done some pretty good things. Joe Rogan is the reason why young men have taken their fitness
and their mental health seriously. Look, I don't agree with everything he says, but anybody who can harness young men and to get them to look at their mental health and their fitness and how those two things interact, and to get them to critically, critically think about issues. It's not all bad.
And that's the thing, a fundamental misunderstanding of what that offering is. Look, you know, I get it. I'm a fan of it, right, but it ain't church and it ain't something that every single word you agree with. But yeah, wondering out loud, Goodness, goodness, gracious, all right, winners and losers of the week, let's go for it, let's go bumper stickers? Though this time? Who is it? Michael?
It was going to be you after the magnificent Our Town in ben Nigo and which I thought was just made. That was a stunning program. And look you driving that tram. I think that's a if people didn't watch it, that's a career for Paul coming up there when he leaves here. Finally, but then I saw Laura James this morning with Blackout Bowen, and I transferred from you to law But no, no, unfortunately, unfortunately, my friend, my friend, Simon Birmingham announced today that he's
leaving the Senate after eight years. Simon has been a great servant of South Australia and the Liberal Party and I wish him all the best. He's had a great career as the loyal servant of this country and I wish him well. A loser the week, Penny Wong and burn the immigration minister Burke, I mean three and Giles pre so three thousand to Gaza and can't give a visit to a former Israeli minister.
Excellent point. Christy. You'll have to text me your thoughts because while Michael was very kind, he took all of your time. Thank you guys, Love you guys. So you have a wonderful weekend we ever happened to be You have a great one too. We'll see on Sunday. Go Yankee s.