From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live today, Wednesday, December three. Who knew that this was a day that had so much history connected to it? In fact has this? In fifteen eighty six, some bloke introduced potatoes to England from Columbia on this day. In eighteen fifty four, the soldiers opened fire on the workers of the Eureka Stockade,
killing twenty two miners. On this day. In nineteen sixty eight, the King Elvis Presley delivered the most sensational performance of his career, great doco about It by the Way here on Foxtel or on Binge go searching for It Elvis in the sixty eight Comeback special aired on NBC on this day, but above all, on this day three years ago, to titans of West easton politics, two men who could see so far into the future that they not only knew the path towards eighty three percent renewable energy in
this country, but they had a promise that came with it, a promise of cheaper power bills. These men were the then nopposition leader Anthony Alberizi and his brave and bold energy and climate change spokesperson Chris Bowen. These two men knew that just a couple of years earlier, Bill Shorten had been roundly defeated at an election in twenty nineteen, basically promising the same stuff, but not wrapping the package
with the two hundred and seventy five dollar promise. This was a great moment in Australian politics, forever remembered by the Internet.
Today announced Labour's plan to create jobs, cut power bills, burst renewables and reduce emissions. It will see electricity prices fall from the current level by two hundred and seventy five dollars for households by twenty twenty five at the end of our first term. If we're successful, get out of the way, Elvis.
There's a new rock star in town. And this man was on a path to the Prime ministership, knowing that if he just put the right amount of lipstick on the pig and promise jobs that never turned up or are cut to power bills that was never achievable, it wouldn't matter because the media that cover him so lost in the luster of his star and his celebrity. Knowing that the third of December is a day that changes the world forever from potatoes to black leather or the
Eureka stockade. This is a day that matters and the media, oh why they ate it up?
Also promising Australian households will save two hundred and seventy five dollars a year on their power bills by twenty twenty five.
Promising to cut electricity bills by two hundred and seventy five dollars a year by twenty twenty five and three hundred and seventy eight by twenty thirty. Intent on not repeating the mistakes of the last election campaign. This one full of details. Time to kick some policy goals.
We're now in the fourth quarter.
We wins it our back, hoping to leave Scott Morrison.
Copy Elix, please turn the cut ahead, calling for help.
Oh ah, I mean just get a heartbreak hotel. This was the song that Australia wanted to sing, which was the Somewhere over the Rainbow. Not quite a link to this day, but anyway that somewhere over the rainbow there was cheaper electricis, there was cleaner electricity, there was a new future that meant we could change the weather. Because Australia is one percent of global emissions and if we cut forty three percent of one percent, then suddenly there'll
never be another bushfire. The promise will be as Baraco Bama himself had said that the rising seas would be turned away. That's why I remember this day forever, because this division and the promise was so clear that they were so proud of it, no embarrassment, such confidence it would be achieved. That they said it over and over and over and over.
And over and over, inducing power prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars.
By twenty twenty five, two hundred and seventy five dollars a year.
Two hundred and seventy five dollars a year, will.
Get power prices down by two hundred and seventy five dollars a.
Year, and over and over again. And they connected with us, they.
Met us where we are, as they charted a course to the future. Finally the climate was would be over. Yeah, that was all garbage. You knew it, and I knew it at the time.
The problem with the transition to renewable energy is that it had to be built. None of it's free. Either the government was going to pay for it or the power companies were going to pay for it, and that means you, the customer, was going to pay for it. Literally, the CSIRO back then was suggesting it a cost one trillion dollars. On now it's half a trillion dollars. Green groups say that to not just build all of the
wind farms and the solar farms, whatever, environment birds, koalas whatever. Man, this is rock and roll. But all of this could all be achieved, we'd all be fine. Of course, the result has been prices that have never come down. They never come down naturally, the cost of producing it costing way more the cost of building it, because of course
billions of dollars. And the reality was that before we gave up on the battist winning car, we were being forced to jump into one that only had three wheels. But the promise was that we'd be able to cut the lap record and save money while we're doing it. Of Course, as I say, the reality is that everything has gone up since this government came to power. All
of its promises to make life better were lies. They will say that international events got in the way, but as we all know, this was a mob who wanted to spend even more in COVID didn't they want to buy Virgin airlines? Were these the people who voted to tape off Job Keeper, but then wings that it should be higher and go for longer, Meaning the total amount of money the government would keep shoving into the economy would only affect inflation even higher and for even longer.
Australians for all the obvious reasons, wanted to change a government last time. The problem is is that it was a way of endorsing the lies at the heart of their campaign, lies that now are going to bite them on the backside because power bills people are struggling to pay them. In fact, some analysis that is worth having
a look at. Here you'll see three columns. The far left column is the promise of what your power bill would be, the black column is what your power bill was at the time they made the promise, and the red is what you're actually paying now. Surprise, surprise, the down has never come. And what is currently there on the doorstep of twenty twenty five is markedly higher than
what you were playing in twenty twenty two. And I remember sitting here on the show looking down the same camera, same microphone, hopefully the same viewer who is and I said, look, gege your power bill from twenty twenty two when they made this promise, sorry, twenty twenty one when they made this promise, stick it on your fridge. If the bill come the next election is lower than that, then you
know what, vote for them. But it isn't. Scott Newes dot com dot are you great place to have a look at today has pulled together to mark this incredible anniversary December the third historic day from the Eureka Stockade to the bloke who brought the potatoes to England. Two hundred thousand houses in Australia are currently struggling to pay their bills and currently in some sort of an arrangement
with power companies to pay a little bit less. Over a longer period of time, people who run small businesses have seen their bills gone up by thousands of dollars, and as we have this week that despite the fact that Australia has a future made in Australia and manufacturing was going to come back to this country, the reality was that higher power prices adds the cost of everything else, which,
of course at an inflationary time not good. So to the day three years on, this incredible day of history. Does the government stand by what it said over and over again? Do they stand by the promise that they made to you in exchange for your vote in twenty twenty two, Well, of course not, because they were never going to deliver it. Instead, their assumption was and still is, that Australia never kicks out a first term government, So
it doesn't really matter. Okay, we'll lose a couple of seats, but we've got the Greens, probably some of the Victorian Teals, maybe all the Teals. Yeah, you know, you know a few people on the Crossit will be fine. We could lose like ten seats and those guys will prop us up. So will always be power. There will be no consequence to telling people outright lives. This is a kin to when Tony Abit turned around said we're going to stop the boats and three years later not stopping them. In
fact more boats coming in. We would all have a very different reaction about that policy if that was the reality of it, but of course it wasn't. They stopped them. But because these guys think they had super magical powers, and particularly the Treasurer of Australia, who has an entire doctorate, not particularly in economics, but about how poor Heating sold
his economic policies. So again, just like the bloke in Queensland who wasn't a medical doctor, despite the fact that the premier kept calling the health minister who became the premier doctor males, doctor males, doctor males, doctor miles. His
doctorate was about unions. Doctor Jim Chalmers is a bloke who essentially has a bit of a doctorate in pr and spin well on Budget Night just this year, when he was confronted with the reality of OK, look you've got about a year ago, pretty obvious you're not going to get this promise, but he says, don't worry. It's a promise that never really mattered, despite the fact that they said it how many times.
The number you're referring to is 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 budget.
Oh, the modeling was different. So you didn't say it. You didn't say it. You didn't say it. You didn't say it, you didn't say you didn't say, you didn't say, you didn't say it. It's all gone. This is not the power bill reduction you are looking for. Please, that's how dumb they think the Australian electorate is. Well, that's how confident they are that most people who cover them, much of the access media, who knows that if you
cause trouble for this government, they'll just freezy out. And because they hope to be the government for them that remember the Sydney Boarding Herald writing the pieces like in the first three months that they were already planning a second term because of how amazing their polls were. Well, here we are after promising to make everything better and everything got worse, after twelve interest rate rises and an
absolute failure to cut your power bill. Now, yes, they came up with a way of giving every household from mansions to a one bedroom unit in Charters towers twenty five dollars a month off your power bill. The reality is that because it keeps going up, it's all sort of been eaten up. The opinion polls have only gone one way for this government. Now, sure there will be at the occasional one where they might sort of flum
a fifty one to a forty nine. But Mini certainly in the two party preferred have melted away, haven't they to see here? Don't worry where fine, the teals will save us. We're one hundred percent guaranteed to be the government for the next three year because you know, no one wants to no one who had done so unelectable right well, Thankfully, when there are opinion polls and opinion polls that are going in a particular trend, there are mates in the media that will step in to help you.
The Turnbull Times would be an example of this. And when they're not begging you for money, we're in a
scenario where they're running stories like that instead. Today they released a pole which magically shows that twenty seven percent of people who last month said we were headed in the right direction has now become thirty eight percent of people Apparently something magically changed by eleven points in the past month for people aged thirty five to fifty four, which means the overall number of people right track, wrong time is now starting to head back towards even rather
than where we all know it is, which is the joint is headed in the wrong direction. But nothing to see here, we know what we're doing. We're better than you. Where the Elvis where the rock stars of Australian politics. We're as brave as the fighters of the Eureka Stockade, and we are as revolutionary as the bloke who brought a potato to England. One other thing that you have heard a little bit about today, but you knew I was going to have a say on this is more
proof about how much money this government spends. This government is spending more than any government at any time because it's getting more tax than any government at any time. As Chris Richardson explained a few minutes before our show started with Charry, basically because of things like the iron ore and coal price, they've been able to enjoy a return that says, oh, we've balin. It's the budget, despite the fact there's a plan for a budget deficit for
the next forty years. But they love spending other people's money. And then they turn around and say that under this government we have created one million jobs. Okay, you've created a lot of jobs in the public sector, but you don't create the jobs in the private sector. It's the people who take the risk to go and employ another human being they pay for it. Of course, all these people who've never been in the public sector, sorry, in
the private sector. Oh no that sorry, Prime Minister was a bank teller for a few months in nineteen eighty one. So you know why no of us, why no of us? Government spending is now one hundred and ninety five b for billion dollars. What have we got the show for it? We have a household recession that is a world of pain. I'll get to that in the moment. But we also have the best part of a trunion dollars in debt. Oh but haven't they saved money? Paul no, Chalmers has
spent sixty billion dollars more than he has saved. He has damaged the budget. Now while the government gets to say, where great because we have a budget surplus and we're great because the economy is growing by zero point one percent or zero point two percent the average Australian the per capita numbers show that Australians have been going backwards,
and not for a couple of months. This has been now happening for six consecutive quarters, literally over and over and over again, for the best part of a year in a bit. We have been in a recession in the real world in Australia. While the government turns around and says he's fine, I mean he's completely great. Don't worry, the teals will prop us up. We brought potatoes, we
know the heartbreak hotel. Well, what is really fascinating here is once you actually start to look into all of this, the reality is that while the government wants to tell you there is no recession, the reality is that they're when it comes to the economy. There are charts in a second that I'll explain all of this to you.
But you see, this government is going to jurs frankly gaslight you a little bit like that person in your life who tells you that when they borrow your car, they use all of the fuel and you know you filled it up before you gave it to them. When they handed back to you with the fuel light on, they go, no, this why I found it. They think you're so stupid that you will just forget that you
put the field in the car the day before. You will completely forget your own circumstances of the past three years. You will not dare devote the amount of government because Australians that don't do that, we'd have to look way back into history and where we're about tomorrow and the Ulebric Road and two seventy ha, which means you get garbage like Chris Bowen again, that historic figure who went into the Parliament last week and actually had the balls to say this.
The inflation figure is released by the ABS this week showed a thirty five percent reduction and energy prices the biggest fall and energy prices ever recorded in Australian history.
Because the government's spending billions of dollars to pay the power companies not to pass the increased charges on, it's completely artificial and because of that artificial attempt to make power prices look like they have gone down, the overall inflation number looks like it has gone down. However, a whole bunch of stuff is way higher than the government ever wants to look at. So they look at the averages,
the headlines. They assume that you're too silly, too busy, too easily distracted by oh, look a puppy, that you don't pay attention to your own life circumstances, that despite the fact that you're struggling or certainly you know people that are struggling and they have for now three Christmases in a row. Minion, people are this close to homelessness. No, no, everything's fine, It's all rosy. Now tomorrow they'll tell us another BS picture about how Australia's economy is growing by
four fifths of bugger all. But the reality is the per capita recession will be continuing. And for the people who live outside of the Canberra bubble who decide to borrow money, mortgage their house to start their own business, many of them are just hitting the wall. Insolvencies, particularly in around things like cafes, restaurants, these sorts of things in Queensland some of the biggest numbers that we have
ever seen. In fact, they are record level. Meantime, in Victoria, the Business Council of Australia says Victoria is the worst place in the nation for a business. Why tax and red tape on. But it's okay. The lady who was found guilty of killing somebody can have IVF while she's in jail, because that's what you truly focused on, right And you've got a preview before we have a prime minister again, because we're leading up to an election, pretending
everything's fine, everything is awesome, look the other way. Well again, I mean debted to the Financial Review, because they show it nice and clear that Australians, when it comes to your real wages right back down. In fact, to hit this level, you've got to go back to about twenty ten, twenty eleven. So a dollar today is worth the spending
power of about what twelve thirteen, fourteen years ago. Nothing to see here, however, the annual income tax that the average Australian has paid, Oh jeez, that's gone up a lot since this government came to power. Oh please, that's not possible. Didn't they give everyone a too little, too late tax cut I'll bracket creep okay. And then the overall share of the average person's income tax and then homeland repayments has also gone how many twelve twelve interest
rate rises? Oh yeah, and another little bit of data that came from that far right wing think tank down the bottom of the garden, just beside the incinerator that you never got rid of, and you'd secretly like to fire up again because you know we're all caveing in at heart. Australia has yet another trade deficit This is when we are importing more than we are exporting. This is now continued according to the Australian Bureau Statistics for
six times in a row. Six in a row. Now that means we bring in more than we send out. And because we bring things into the country and we have to pay for them with an Australian dollar that is weaker than it's been since. Oh, that's right, this government came to power. As you can see there, that's basically the dollar in the top left hand corner, close to seventy five US sense. That's where the government took over and right now sixty four cent. It's good luck.
If you're going overseas, you'll have a good time. It's just very expensive. But that's okay. The Prime Minister's got your back. All right. Let's move away from government because we talk about it enough. So what do banks and most people in Australian politics have in common. I'll get to that in a second. The first example is the
Comonwealth Bank of Australia. Now, you may well have got a dollar mide account when you were a little kid, and that dolomide account turned into a savings account because you've been with them for ten years or twenties or forty years or sixty years, because I had the little ten you know, the little tin money box. And if they with a government back bank, you've never left them. And they make an awful lot of profit. And they
have to like all the other banks. Why because they're listened on the stock exchange and one of their biggest investors of the super anuation funds. And the Labor Party says, we have to give a portion of our wage by law to the superannuation funds who either support the Labor Party or they turn around and invest in things like banks, which means, of course you have to have a bigger profit than the last few, otherwise the whole system falls over.
So how do you do that? Well, the Commonwealth Bank is introducing a brand new fee and put simply it as a fee for you wanting to withdraw money, your money from their branch. Now it's free if you want to do it as a transfer on the internet. It's free if you want to use one of their ATMs. But no, no, The Commonwealth Bank announced on Tuesday that millions of customers faced a forced transition over it's a smart access account, which would be hit with a three
dollar assisted with drawal fee. Every time you want to take out cash at a branch your money your bank, they you with a fee, or if you do it at a post office, or if you do it over the phone. The Commonwealth Bank issued a notice to large numbers of its seventeen million account holders saying this thing was changing. Oh yeah, and that also going to put in a four dollar monthly account fee. While also, of course all of the banks is nothing about the Commonwealth Bank.
Now all of the banks, of course make a record amounts of money off the tap and go thing because cash isn't you know, a country of cash any more? Everyone, I might get the woo flu four years later because you're handing me a red lobster. So, and if you use anything other than your f POS account, so if you're using the debit card, credit card, guess what they do? Fee fee, fee, fee, fee, hundreds, hundreds, hundreds of millions
of dollars. But the fee is not enough. So we also have to have a fee if you go into the bank to ask for your money from your bank. What does this have to do with the point I made about what do banks and most politicians have in common. They bet that you won't anywhere else. They bet that slowly, maturely, like the proverbial frog and the proverbial pot. It's justus getting warm now. Of course, if they started their business yesterday, you turner and got what all this fees? I'm not
doing that. Who else is around, but because you've been with them since the little tin or you the Dolomite account or whatever the other version for all of the other banks. It's not specific to the Commonwealth Bank. They all do it, honestly, and it's the same with the political parties like labor things. You are so stupid you will not cross the street. You won't cross the street because oh beat it done terrible. They just assumed. Now we can just light your face, we can promise it's
going to be better. It all gets worse. But you know what, you're not going anywhere, which is why the two are so closely linked. And don't forget, unlike many other industries, you the Australian taxpayer under right the banks. This of course was in relation to the global financial crisis way back when, and this was a good idea. It meant that we didn't have a run on the
banks so it meant that the banks didn't collapse. Great, fine, fair enough, But you would think that part of the response to that would be that you don't introduce a new tax for people to go to their own bank to their own money. But because they know you ain't going anywhere, you'll just take it. Now, I think we have to have a national conversation about how we really
are treating teenagers at the moment. Now. As you know, last week the bills were pass that if you are under the age of sixteen you're not allowed on social media. Why because social media is awful, all right, and this is in no way talking against the band all the rest of it all. The polling suggests two thirds of
people support the idea at this point in time. The numbers will come and go as we see, and the Prime Minister is very excited because well, first, you know, sure it doesn't actually kick until next year, and they don't know how they're going to do it, but it's
a world first, you know, achievement, achievement, achievement. So let's be clear, if you are sixteen or under, you can't use social media because it's bad, but according to the Family Court, you can access cross sex hormones, despite the fact that one of your parents say no, this shouldn't be happening to a kid. A gender dysphoric fifteen year old has been granted access to cross sex hormones despite a family court judge citing a legal void of the
consequences of people regretting their change of gender. The judge ruled in favor of the child, known to the court as Kelly. It's not a comment necessarily about Kelly, but it's a conversation about our system here, despite Kelly's father in the indicating he did not support the intervention, So it doesn't matter what dad says. The kid's going to do it anyway. So the kid can have the drugs to change from one sex to another at the age of fifteen, God forbid if they got access to Instagram.
Perfect sense, right, We also understandably have a whole series of other examples about what you can and can't do when you're ten and twelve and fourteen and sixteen, that then the society will completely let you do. Like again, if a fifteen year old wanted to get a tattoo, they can't get a tattoo. If a fifteen year old wants to take the drugs that changes their body forever. A couple of other quick ones before we're done tonight.
Paul Keating. Now, I remember at some point in time the Labor Party absolutely did not want to sell Telstra Telecoms. It was well, Paul Keating got in on the Boost mobile franchise and he got in nice and early year two thousand. It's now going to be bought by Telstra and he's apparently going to be worth an extra forty million dollars. There is an expectation that an intense rain bomb is going to hit us in the next little while, and yes that is not a mistake on your screens.
Some part of the country are going to go well beyond forty degrees. Here's the Weather Channel explaining what might be coming.
A rainfall will continue across the coast of Queensland and New South Wales as well as in Northern Territory and it could produce periods of heavy rainfall throughout Thursday and Friday. So we are continuing to see that heavy rainfall, that scene pattern we've been dealing with over at the last week continuing throughout the end of this week.
And Hunter Biden and his old man Joe or the big guydeare I say now, as you know, he has been pardoned because he was found guilty of for tax issues and lying on a form before he could get a gun. A gun that, by the way, he just threw in the bin nearest school. But gun control very
important issue for the Democrats. You've heard this story already, but you may will not have heard this detail when you actually go into the text of the pardon, which was released with the statement, which of course most of the media was distracted by because he's a dad and
he loves his kid. The pardon goes from any and every crime known and unknown from January one, twenty fourteen, through to December one, twenty twenty four So hang on, he's been committing crimes all the time that Joe's been the president, or what would have been happening back in twenty fourteen. That's right when that laptop came out. But that was Russian disinformation, wasn't it. Now, spare thought for the Democrats who just go out and talk the talking points, right,
you know, Donald Trump threat to democracy. Donald Trump will weaponize the just as sistant. Donald Trump will treat his family like a Royal family. No one is above the law. Nice little moment on CNN when somebody is confronted with their own words while arguing exactly the opposite of themselves.
I mean, you went out on a limb, backing up Biden when he said that there would not be a pardon in July of twenty twenty three, just after that plea deal fell through. This is what you said, I want to watch.
Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake?
Yes, And I don't think there's any chance that President Biden is going to do that.
What does that feel like watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son.
Yeah, and I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon.
But you know, you took him at his word. So what does that feel like knowing that he's gone back on it.
Well, as I said, I'm disappointed.
Get me off the air, Get me off the air. Surprise, surprise. We all know those people live. We all know that the Bidens have got the Piper trial and the laptop and all the rist of it. Yet because of course they're able to get themselves off the hook. They will, and there's plenty of time where he want to do exactly this same thing for his brother or even himself. But it was Donald Trump who was the threat to democracy.
Joe Biden was the sharpest he'd ever been in the same media of the now, the ones turning around and saying, I can't believe Joe Biden told a lie December three, a great day in history. Quick breakback with more plenty to talk about Niger Ferras joints and there's an idea out of the US at the UK, by the way, probably helps the Labor Party get him out of Parliament, but maybe sending him to Washington as the ambassador for
the UK. After all, he is very close to Trump. Niger, Farrash and a mum or two here on Paul Murray Life. Thanks for watching. We're having fun, lots to talk about with just the viral sensation. That is great leak and we'll get to this. A viral sensation, of course, you know from plenty of places, but certainly here at sky means his research as well. Got that right again on let's just want another check and wonderful Joe Hildebrand, who used to be viral.
He used to be that's right now. Anytime I get a viral sensation, I have to go and get a cream from the clean That's as close as I get to very viral.
Yeah, I remember that. That that wonderful first couple of years of a career where it's like the youngest, this the youngest that I just go.
That's so much to look forward to right here.
Actually very fascist Joe Hildebrand.
Today's yeah, wait till you get described as and friend in a newspaper. All right. Now, you of course had a bit of attention today from the good people of the Daily Mail because you've been ripping into the Prime Minister not just on Telly, but on the interwebs as well. Tell us what was the particular moment that meant no time to grab the phone and yell at it?
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Well, to be honest, it was kind of just being out at the pub with a bunch of friends when I realized I was paying thirty two dollars for a chicken palmi and fifteen dollars for a schooner of beer, and I just went, this is actually ridiculous. It would take us after tax about two hours or more for the average person to be able to afford a night out, not a crazy night, a parmi and a beer at a pub. So I just thought this is getting ridiculous.
Yeah, I mean it is a symptom of the things that we've all talked about for a long time. But it cost of living, power, prices, all the rest of it, right, And the reality, Joe is no politician can make people think other than what they're living. That's absolutely right, and that's the hell hole the governments in terms of a political one, whether you like them or not, and we
all know which way I feel. But you wrote that Anthony Arbernezi has renewed courage, he's taking a standard deliver on policy, and you even invoked that he was Katie Peries or on rotation.
Yeah.
Well, I think.
It seems to me that government's basically sort of had two acts and is embarking on its third act, and how that resolves itself will determine whether or not it gets re elected. The first year it was in it had an incredible amount of good luck, and of course, like all politicians do, it took credit for the good luck, even though a lot of it was beyond its control.
So you know, the budget surplus, the unpopularity of the Morrison government and them being able to go around TI being things up and everyone just like.
The other mob was terrible and that's right.
And then then you have that incredible almost a year leading up to the as In by election where the first time in a century there's almost a double digit swing towards the government the voice, and then the voice happens, but the voice happens at the exact same time as mortgage as interest rates keep going up and up and up and up and up, and the exact same time as inflation. Despite coming down from how rapidly it's increasing, it's still going up.
But also it's really starting to affect people.
So in the first year COVID's just sort of you know, in the rear view mirror, people are still going out. It's that spending that is fueling the inflation. In this part of the cycle, people have gone to crap.
This is really starting tour.
They've stopped going out and they're still getting smashed and the palmi and the beer is the rest of that story. And then running through that, of course, instead of the government doing everything, it can to focus on it. It's got this voice that it's trying to get it up, which looks increasingly ideological. It looks increasingly like a pet project to the left because you've got people accusing anyone who doesn't support it being racist.
How does this cost Y's no question costs all of those things, and so you have that.
So that was kind of like haunting the whole thing. And now with that last week in the Parliament, he's basically had a chance to say, right, these are the things we are going to do. We're going to do on our own terms. We're going to kick the Greens in the nuts and we're not going to compromise on anything, which I think is a good He definitely thinks anything ideological that has tacked right, we're magically going in this direction.
Just because you're going in this direction doesn't mean people are going to turn around and follow, which brings me to a breaking story out of The Australian. It'll be on the newspapers tomorrow, but I can talk about it now because at at the Australian dot com dot are you as just dropped? Voters marked down PM as a third for go essentials for rent and mortgages.
This is a poll that they have done. If we can bring those numbers up, guys in a second, you'll be surprised to learn that climate change is now issue maybe for some cost of living, of course, the roaring number one issue in lots of areas. And as you'll see with these stats that are going to start to roll through here that there is yeah cost of living number one issue there thirty something percent compared to housing,
which obviously feeds back in as well. Let's move through to the next one here, guys, if we can the concerns you can see pretty obviously there all the different bars are all the different types of voters, they're all universally in one place. And again, good luck trying to tell people when your parming costs what it does, or
your power cost what it does, everything's fine. And then forty percent of people say they're struggling to pay their mortgage or rent right now, and about thirty five thirty six have had to go without. So this is the broader picture. It's something that we have relentlessly talked about for three years, and in part Freyer I have talked about it for three years because they promised it would
be different. Now, Remember they decided quite fairly and fine, and they got their win and they ran down a batter, you know, to government, but they set an expectation that it would be better. They now turn and say, three years on from two to seventy five, Oh, the modeling didn't really count. Oh there was a war and the war had happened before the election. Do you think there
is a way for them to turn it around? And also do you think that there is something to their internal view which is there's no way we're getting the backside after one term.
Look, Joe may think elbows out here with a raw. I think it's more like a whimper. I think this new albert era is definitely a whimper or a mew. It's definitely not at raw level at all. Because I mean, when you think about it, well, what could they actually do to turn this around at this point? Their current approach has just been subsidized energy prices, put more money into rent assistance. Let's just inject cash into the economy in areas where people are forced to spend and artificially
lower the inflation number through energy subsidies. But the problem is just adding more government spending three hundred and fifteen billion dollars worth since the election, funnily enough, just fuels more inflation.
Here's the thing. I remember having a conversation after, you know, when we used to do elections here at Sky, a bunch of us would come on here on the Sunday morning after an election, right, And I don't remember whether it was twenty ten or twenty twelve, but I remember how conversation I had with Laura Jays on the air. We're talking about, oh, but what about debt and what
about this? And she said in terms of voters like, they'll say that debt matters, but they also want government to spend as much as they possibly can, right, in the same way you must fight climate change, but I'm not willing to pay for it. Government, of course, is about making a series of those choices in and around all of this. And that's part of the problem, isn't it, Joe.
Where I was listening to again, I know Chris Richardson, you know, sort of spends half his life at home and half of it on a television or radio show somewhere.
And I was listening to him with John Stanley on two GB last night after the show on the way home, shout out to mister mcgil on the way home, and he was talking about how it's never been easier for oppositions to become governments, but it is never been hard for governments to fight off opposition because the reality of some of their expectations or the things you say on the way to the job. Guess what, that's why you've got to show some restraint. And I go back to
the election of Peter Malinowskis in South Australia. He was asked about cost of living in a Sky News people's forum and he said, look, we're going to be really clear with you. We don't set the price of bread. I'm going to be really clear with you don't. And he was clear about the delineation between everything and what government can control. That's right.
So there's a couple of things in terms of the you know, you can take your second term for granted. The last two governments have shown that that is perilously perilous. With christ even again now you could say, even when a government did the horrible, unprecedented thing and decapitated a first term sitting prime minister, replaced them with someone that
no one had voted for to be prime minister. They still creep over the line in minority in twenty ten, and again the same thing happens in twenty sixteen where it looks like they're going to go into minority, but Turnbull gets up by one. So yes, the Australian electric is incredibly forgiving. But g whiz is that tolerance being tested? And never before have you had a lower respect and
trust in institutions and political institutions. So there is that, And again just relying on historical precedent for what happens in the future is a fool's Errand the second thing I would just say is that if the government thought it was going to a chance of getting an interest rate cut before the next election, I think you might find that it is more fiscally discipline. But given that that appears to be a shrinking likelihood, I think they
will do exactly as you say. And people just say they pretend they care about the economics or want the economics, but basically people just want what's in it for them. How much better off will I be the government's not going to get a rate cut and not going to get a budget surplus, It will go you.
Know, and my argument is even if they get WAE right, if it's gone up by twelve, that goes down to eleven. Great, right, someone paying off a house? Great? But is it the change? Is it the reset? Perhaps? I wouldn't think so, but we'll say. I want to show you Climbate two hundred trying to go the folaggerbogoger on Peter Dutt and Hedio
and saying he's Donald Trump. And of course they're trying to get donations off the back of all of this to this certain section of the left that just I'm not you know, they're not quite at Dutton arrangement syndrome. But glose Gez their close frayer. Are they barking up the wrong tree? Or is there plenty of money in this sort of stuff?
Well?
The thing is this sort of add you know, it'll keep Warringa out of the Liberals' hands, but it will probably help us win a seat like Werrowa. The mortgage bells even Yeah, and I think that is what the left. I mean, you're seeing them in the US trying to understand how how on earth could the majority of people possibly vote for Trump. The Australian left are grappling with the exact same thing. They just do not understand it.
But I think if they import this fight here, and if they do try to link Dutton to Trump, it will probably help them in some of the till seeds. But I think it will only help the Liberals in the mortgage belt battler areas.
But I remember sort of, you know, I think for a while trying to get nicknames to stick. Sometimes I was doing Aussie Joe Biden about elbow, and then eventually you sort of it does do it on you. People aren't into that stuff right where they are, who they are, and they'll be judged by this. The idea of sort of saying, well, we won't tell you what's wrong with this guy, we'll just put him next to somebody we know you don't love.
This is exactly what is wrong with a left that has become completely overrun, a cultural left there's been completely overrun by upper middle class socialists and their kids. It is not only just nauseating obnoxious to observe, but they would act. What they actually want is someone to demonize what they want as a sinister enemy, to turn into a monster so they can then look like the heroic heroic.
Which slays the dragons.
Warriors revolting against them. And of course what actually happens here is that it doesn't work for anyone else accept them. What they actually want is to be a party of protests, because that's what gets their rocks off, that's what makes them feel good about themselves and courageous and brave. And so they, whether consciously or subconsciously, they actually want Peter
Dutton to be the Prime ministent. They will help get him elected, whether they know it or not, and they will hurt Anthony Albanezi, and they will hurt the Labor Party. They do it every single time. And they are traders to the left. And given that they are up in middle class trots, we should do what all good comies do to their comrades when they become outlived their usefulness.
We take them out in the back and we let them. Let them they can go to the Grandpa's far Yeah, there you go, there you go. All right, Thank you, appreciate. I don't want the meeting tomorrow. Thank you very much, jo thank you for doing viral sensations. Speaking of the great Nigel Faras joins us. Next, so someone in the Labor Party has come up with an idea of sending him to Washington to be the UK ambassador. I'm pretty sure we'll say no, but we'll find out next Nigel
for Arch joins us now from the UK. Nigel, So, some little devil in the Labor Party is suggesting, you know what a great job for Nigel for Arch would be. He gets along, so well, will Donald Trump go and be the UK ambassador? Of course that would also mean you get out of the UK Parliament of the Reform Party may just slightly move on. So are you planning a move to Washington anytime soon?
So in twenty seventeen, Donald Trump tweeted that he wanted me to be the UK ambassador and I thought about it. Then I thought, Wow, if they appoint me, wouldn't it be great? I mean, it would be the party house of Washington, DC. You'd never have seen a wine cellar like it. I promise you a new way of doing diplomacy. Let's go for it. Look, there is absolutely there is no chance. I mean, I understand they want me out of the way. I understand they're very scared of me.
You know, I understand that we're now neck and neck with the Labor Party in Wales, where they've been the dominant party for one hundred years. So I get the idea, let's boot him over there and get rid of him. But it isn't going to happen. They're not going to appoint me fun though it would be important though it is, it isn't going to happen.
Still with the US, the hunter Biden thing, the pardon, we all knew it was coming. He of course said it wasn't all the rest of him, right, But the detail is kind of important here. It's from twenty fourteen through to the start of this month, so he was committing crimes during his time as Joe's president. Or of course fourteen is Barisma and Ukraine. The devil's in the detail here. But I thought there was nothing to see here, nothing nothing to see Russian disinformation.
Absolutely, the laptop all false, and the references to the big guy. Don't worry about the ten percent for the big guy when we know who the big guy was, don't we look? I think frankly Biden has done this to save his own skin, because if you just look at the wealth accumulation of his brother, James Biden, of Joe Biden himself and of Hunter. Look and we're talking, we're talking ten twenty, maybe more, millions of dollars that family has been enriched by. And I think this has
been done to save his own skin. If that sounds cynical, I'm sorry, but I really do believe that.
No. I think what you know, this happens just before Thanksgiving, just before Christmas. It'll be the brother wait, watch and see, and then look again if he chooses to pardon himself. But does it not put the cherry on the top of the Democrats and the lyft Generally, it's all about projiction. What they accuse you of is what they are doing.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, jack Ouse. It's classic, isn't it. You know, you accuse the other bloke in the office of having an affair with a girl in the corner when it's you that's doing it all the time. It's classic of the way they operate. They have used lawfare against Donald Trump in the most astonishing the New York case against the Trump Corporation. I mean, nothing like it ever been seen before in American commercial history. And yet out of sheer hypocrisy here they are breaking all their
pledges partnering Hunter. The whole thing is a disgrace, and that's why I think the Democrats as a party are going to be in the wilderness now for a very long time and they thoroughly deserve it.
Well, that's it. They do deserve it, as long as well as their media mates who still do not understand why people just rejected a whole type of politics, not just the names in it. It's not about the message, so about the brand is about a lot more things that are deeper and more complicated. Mate, loving to talk to you. Let's have another chat next week, looking forward to King Mate. The man who will not be the ambassador, but his party house is somewhere in London, is none
of them? The great Nigel Farage where I'm sure his wine cellar is bloody fantastic. All right, that's our show for to night, Megan Kelly. On the show tomorrow, we'll be talking about the partner, a whole lot more of the late debate just moments from now. I'll see you later. I'm Paul Murray, and that this has been a little bit of Telly