From the United States. This is Paul Murray Live GODA, Australia. Welcome to Dallas, the Big D, the Triple D, the two.
One four, one of the great cities of the world, in a spectacular state that is all USA, USA. We are here at the start of what is going to be a history making week because America will decide which path.
It is going to take.
Is it going to choose Donald Trump, the biggest comeback story in Western political history, certainly of this century, or do they go for the current sitting Vice president in Kamala Harricks. Our commitment to you all day, every day is to be in every different pocket around the country to give you the last bit of information and most importantly, to talk to as many Americans as we possibly can,
big personalities with a big decision to make. Now, as always, we're going to focus not just on what's happening here in the United States, but I want you to know that my eye is absolutely trained on what's happening in Australia as well. It's not going to be wall to all American politics with me telling you this specific statistic and this little bit, although I could bore you with that for hours and hours and hours. So right now Sunday night in Australia, it's just gone four am here
in Texas. Who knows, we'll just pull like not an all nighter, an all weaker. We've got all the energy, all the focus, and we're ready to have a magnificent time. And I'm so glad that you're joining us wherever you are around the country. So tonight on the program, I've got to tell you about an incredible experience I had yesterday.
College football.
They don't just play the games in mega stadiums, but they have the parades. I was part of the parade as the Ponies, the Mustangs. No, I have not changed my affiliation in supercars. They are just party. They party so cool, and it was a lot of fun to have a chat with those people. You'll see a bit more. The detail they put into their barbecue unbelievable. I have sampled plenty mac and cheese on the side.
The biggest Coca Cola in the world. This is my kind of place, all right.
We're also going to talk to Ross Greenwood, who is just a couple of hours that way, at least by a plane, but it's a long drive. He's in New York City, where there were some protests yesterday. Let's talk about the potential financial impacts of work decision they make here now, as I say, Australian News in the moment or two. But he's how I'm going to play this every day between now an election day, and then it'll be pretty obvious we'll only be talking about one after this.
I want to tell you the best news or the good news for each of the candidates, because in a fifty to fifty race, I don't want anyone to be surprised when.
A particular result happens.
We're not going to play the SOOOKX game of the Hillary Clinton world. I want you to know what is happening. So let's start with Donald Trump. He has been doing rallies every couple of hours.
He has been moving.
From state to state to state. The energy this guy has is phenomenal to see. And don't forget the stakes for him. He will be president of the United States potentially by the end of the week, or he's on a path to go to prison. He does not look like a guy who is playing that sort of bet at a casino. Instead, he looks like a man who thinks he's playing with the bank's money when it comes to votes, and he thinks he's on his way back to sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, d C.
But the best news.
For him today was the story you probably haven't heard about, and it was a story that comes from Minnesota. Now, as you know, we're keeping particular focus on the blue Wall States.
Now, the blue Wall States are.
Always Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, but just next to that is Minnesota. Both Minnesota and the other states have got significant Islamic populations. And the best news for Trump was that yesterday Islamic leaders came out and said fight, fight, Fight, They're all in on Trump.
Some of the key issues of the community are the global wars and we're for peace. Economic issues, family values, and education are some of the critical issues that.
This community cares.
On top of that, this community cares about the economic issues and the inflation. With all this a number of other issues, the community came together and fully is standing behind President Donald J.
Trump.
The best news for Kamala Harris is just like Donald Trump, she is criss crossing the country rally after rally after rally, celebrity after celebrity after celebrity. Whether that's going to work this time when it didn't in twenty sixteen, we'll all find out together. But the best news for her is
an earthquake in political news circles. This will dominate the news amongst those who talk about politics, and it is a poll from a state that we did not consider to be a swing state or one that's going to be changing. It's the state of Iowa. Now, Iowa is very small, as you know. To become the president, you have to win the nomination first, and that means you have to start the primary process in Iowa.
The lady who does.
This pole for the Des Moines Register, you could almost bet your house on her. She was the polster who put out just before the twenty sixteen election the canary in the coal mine that Trump was going to do well in that part of the US. Well, as you can see, Harris has now flipped and is in the lead right now in Iowa. If that happens, there's a whole bunch of scenarios that I'll explain to you a little bit later, but that is a sign that something is happening inside that poll.
It shows that, of.
Course, more women voting than men, but it also shows that Harris is leading with people over the age of sixty five. Now, this is really interesting because, of course the Trump campaign has been all over the bropod casts and really trying to get to people sort of basically
between sort of twenty five and fifty five. But if sixty five year olds, who generally might be tuning into cable news the past week has been well, nothing but dunking from the media and unsurprisingly as they're trying to get the result that they want, the pole of course shows forty seven forty four in.
Favor of Kamala Harris.
And as I say, if that happens, this is what's going to happen with the electoral map. As you can see, Trump won the state and he won it just four years ago. So the idea that Harris in the closing days may well be flipping a state that Trump is relying upon to get himself to two hundred and seventy votes, well that's why they are going to be talking about it Uphill down Dale and you will hear the echoes
across Australian media in the next twenty four hours. Now, also, each and every day I'm going to try and do the WTF moment where we all just go wow, thank goodness.
That we get to visit here.
We love this place, but thankfully it's their politics not ours. And all around the current president of the United States, yeah, they still have one. Joe Biden, the guy who thought that he would be the one doing the rallies all over the place in the lead up to this election, trying to go for a second term. But we all know why that didn't happen. Now he's made so many mistakes.
We all know what they are.
So much so that the Harris campaign, according to again news websites, which are very much focused on the sort of the inside bubble, of the inside bubble of the inside bubble, they have said that basically Harris doesn't want a campaign with him side by side, and they don't want him to go anywhere new microphones, because of course when he does, he calls half of the country garbage.
Oh the Puerto Rican that I know or Puerto Rican where i've in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage ic float now there is his supporters.
Interesting to know here too, that that remark in particular has been noticed and has been noticed as a real problem. Even Bill Maher, who believes Harris is going to win but can start to see that comments like that could push people Trump's way. He says, it's even worse than Hillary and the Deplorables because I.
Feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down on us. It's like Deplorables times ten.
All right, fascinating to see there. But guess what the WTF moment was? He's done it again again. You probably didn't see this on the six PM news. That's why the joy of Sky News so many people all over the place and us here giving you the chance to have a little peak over this hour while we deal with what's happening in Australia, of course, the truly greatest country in the world.
So he's done it again. This time.
He now says that he wants to smack about MAGA supporters.
Now, I know some of you guys who attempted to think as much your guys, I'll tell you what, man, but I'm serious. These are the kind of guys you're like to smack an ass.
What a creepy guy, right, just a creepy, weird dude.
I don't know what's going on with him. Back to the States in a moment or two time. But first let's turn our attention to the greatest country in the world, that being Australia, where the Prime Minister has apparently started his election campaign for the twenty twenty five election, which shur of course, will be covering at even greater detail than we're covering what's happening here in the US. And apparently did you know that cost of living? It's all completely disappeared.
The worst of it is behind us.
According to upgrade albow, the bloke at the front of the plane or the private plane, or the upgrade on the plane, the guy with the mansion, the guy with the two taxpayer funded mansions, Well this is what he said today in Adelaide. And can you think of anything more tone death than this.
I know that workers, families and small businesses have all.
Done at heart.
But while there are still challenges to meet, still problems to solve, still people under pressure who need our help. When we look at the economy today, we can see new reasons for optimism, a new proof that the worst is behind us.
Seriously, seriously, I'm sorry to use the term gas lighting, which I know a lot of you don't use in your world, But basically it's being BS two. It's when somebody turns around and tells you that up is down, black is white, left is right, the lights are on when the lights are off. The reality is that, yes, there are some indices that are starting to say that things month by month, quarter by quarter are not as bad as they were the previous month of the previous quarter.
But does the Prime Minister honestly believe that anyone.
Who's trying to pay off a house tonight thinks that the worst of it's behind us. Remember under Albow there have been a dozen interest rate rises, and even if there's one or two that come down, you can still see the thousands of dollars that people have had to find since he became the Prime minister.
Are they going to tell anyone that things are behind us?
Of course, there's the people who are filling up each and every week, each and every day.
Sometimes when it comes to petrol.
Petrol right now tonight across Australia Sunday night, two dollars in Sydney, almost two dollars in Melbourne and Brisbane as well.
But what was the number.
That a couple of years ago Anthony Aberanezi showed that Scott Morrison was out of touch when it came to cost of living in petrol prices? Oh, that's right, it was a dollar seventy nine two bucks. But the worst of it is behind us. Just last week the inflation numbers, oh, the best in multiple years.
Have a look at them.
They show that in almost every category prices are still going up. Now remember this quarter is on top of last quarter, on top of last quarter, on top of last quarter. So if it's two percent, you're added to the last two percent, five percent, the last seven percent. And in just September, these are the things that went
up price wise. Alcohol and tobacco the best part of almost thirteen percent, Fruit and veggies at nine percent, rent at six percent, education six percent, tobacco and alcohol six percent.
Insurance, insurance insurance, it keeps going up. Oh, but the worst of times are behind is fed in.
He doesn't of course, have to pay private health insurance because he's on the role Goald of the Prime Minister's health plan. What about people trying to buy a brand new house they want to live in oh, you know those crazy people who need to eat or have something to drink. All of that higher than the numbers the Prime Minister is trying to shove down your throat.
And before the Prime Minister wants to.
Say, hey, we've turned a corner and everything is awesome, and everything's great, we've see news out of New South Wales tonight that you're gonna have to pay more for drinking water.
You're gonna have to pay more for the water that you use in the.
Sink, in the shower, pardon me, wherever you happen to be, you're going to pay how's that fifty percent more? And that, by the way, comes from a friendly news source to the New South Wales government. The prime ministers also tried to tell us that billions of dollars have been spent by the Australian taxpayer to make childcare cheaper. We've heard that over and over and over again.
We can see new reasons for optimism, a new proof that the worst is behind us.
But guess what.
All of those apparent changes to childcare have been eaten up by the people who provide childcare because the cost of providing it, including extra wages, means the fees go up. So just like the scenarios where say a baby bonus or a first home buyers grant, all of those things just get eaten up because the private companies go, how good is this.
It's gone down.
By five percent, so we can put our fees back up by five percent and everyone's happy. But of course, why with this prime minister have any idea what's actually happening. He's going to start a multi month tour of lies about the Australian economy. You see, he's got four million bucks to drop on a holiday house or a retirement house that he doesn't plan to move into anytime soon.
But I'll give you the tip.
If he keeps this up, he might be doing it a lot sooner than anyone thinks.
After the next election.
Remember, both he, his ministers and every person in the House of Representatives or the Senate has got not one, not two, but three pay.
Rises since the last election.
The Prime Minister, who says, oh, the worst of it's behind us, earns six hundred thousand dollars a year while we're talking about extra money for bloody nice houses.
What about Penny Wong.
Now, Penny Wong, of course, is the lefty love for the one who they dream of that should be the true leader of Australia, the.
True face that we should have.
Well, she's just as out of touch as the Prime Minister is. We learn this weekend that she was able to have more than three million dollars to buy a brand house.
Now again, good luck to her. But where does that money come from?
Well, it comes for you and me, because she has essentially only ever worked.
For the government.
She's either worked as a politician since two thousand and one or as you can see on her own bio on the Parliament House website. Okay, but she's worked for staffers. You have to go way back into the nineties to find a time when she actually was working for a company like you and me, trying to be a pay as you go person.
Oh and while this week we're still going to.
Talk about upgrade elbow, there'll be a newspot in the next couple of days that I'm sure will show the effects of the upgrade elbow and just how out of touch they are right now. Well, Penny Wong story from a couple of years ago. She has flown so often on taxpayer funded flights that she has now received Platinum lifetime status at Quantus. Yeah, you pay for the flights, but she gets the three upgrades for the rest of
her life. Has this Wong's new designation with lifelong access to international first class business lounges and a guarantee that your name is at the top of the pile for international upgrades. It also comes with a handy luggage bonus, which means your bag is the first off the plane and you're the first to arrive on a baggage carousel. They tell you your life gets better when it has
been getting worse. They tell us the economy has turned a corner, when the only corner that is being turned is these people into a new driveway of a house worth millions of dollars. Well, I'm not going to fall for it, and I don't think the people of Australia will either now. As you know, Australians when they go to university are able to do so regardless of how
much their families earned. This is a good system, right, But as we've often or argued about in the past, you really should be smart enough to turn up, not just able to turn up in order for the taxpayer to end up.
Paying for you.
In fact, eighty one eighty one billion dollars is how much money university students still owe their fellow taxpayers for paying for their higher education.
In fact, some data which came out from the.
Tax Office shows that fifty six thousand, seven hundred people currently have more than one hundred thousand.
Dollars in Heck's or help debt. This is up from just forty.
Seven thousand people who are in the category last year, and back in twenty eighteen nineteen it was twenty two thousand people. Well, today again, Labor trying to turn the corner, has announced that they are going to use billions of dollars of your money to buy votes off the Greens. They are going to wipe lots of money off lots of students debt.
The PMS pitch to young voters vowing to slash university and tafe debts.
Labour sixteen billion dollar promise to wipe student debt kickstarting the federal election campaign early.
Direct pitch at younger voters who start their working lives on low wages, paying high rent and saddled with large hex debts.
The whole thing sixteen billion dollars, not sixteen billion dollars to fix hospital ramping. Not sixteen billion dollars to help people when it comes to the cost of living. Not sixteen billion dollars for the fifteen hundred dollars that they.
Took off ten million taxpayers.
No sixteen billion dollars to buy votes off the Greens, who of course would already preference labor.
It's just man, this it truly is.
Now back to the States here, We're gett to Ross Greenwood, who is in New York in a moment or two's time. Then back to our panel where we will discuss Australian issues of the day, including are they going to fall for what Albo is trying to sell to the Australian people. I don't think so. We'll get to them in a moment or two's time. Something you need to know about this election and about why people lose their nut in
America when their side loses. Put simply, this weekend, both sides are being told by their silos on the Internet that they are definitely winning the election.
First, the Dems.
I have sources inside the Kamala Harris operation and I can tell you this as of this morning, Kamala Harris and her people are one hundred percent confident. They're not in the least bit worried. They are one hundred percent confident, and they're saying, do not worry about it, don't worry about the polls. Don't listen to the polls that we have this in the bag.
When you see left wingers, not us, not be a bo a left winger already going this guy did it, that guy did it, This guy did.
It, that guy did it.
You know, behind the scenes, there is an absolute panicfest breaking out. They got xenix everywhere, they're taking them like tic TACs at this point.
Now someone's lying here, all right, clearly both sides are not going to win, and this other thing is either going to be a squeaker or it's going to be a blowout.
And we all know all the different reasons why.
In fact, on the prediction sides, the batting markets, all of that, it's really tightened.
Now.
Whether that's because they taking the each way bed and they don't want to be wrong depending on which one's going to win. But have a look at this the five point thirty eight website, which again takes poles and a whole bunch of other data to try to work out what's going on fifty one to forty nine when they run on their computers, what's going to happen on Tuesday here Wednesday. Of course in Australia the bloker used to work for that business but is now out out
on his own again. The best part of fifty one to forty eight right now because of that poll in Iowa. Big change in the betting markets. It was about sixty forty We're now down to about fifty three to forty seven right now.
In fact, if you have a look at all of.
The betting over time, you can see when the red line was Trump versus Biden. Then there's the candidate switch, and then it blows out for Trump again, and then a big change in the past twenty four hours. So we keep talking about the seven states that matter, the swing states.
Again.
Let's go clockwise here where we are talking about Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. We then move our way down to North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
All of those still in play. So what are the polls telling us?
The New York Times poll of polls, will it shows things raise a tight if Harris is in front anywhere it's by less than a point. If Trump is in front, it is.
By a point or more. But of course margin.
Evera blah blah blah. If the Poles do exactly what they did in twenty twenty and twenty sixteen, then Trump's going to really rip away with this thing. But if there is a big change in things like people over sixty five and women that are going to surge, that's what gets Harris there.
As for real clear politics, there has been a.
Change where she's just in front, I mean zero point one percent in Wisconsin, Michigan at zero point six. Other than that, Trump, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.
All of those things good. So if the polls were correct today.
Bang, this is what you are going to see two seventy to win. Trump up by seventeen electoral College votes. That is even after I have swapped Iowa out when it comes to some of those polls, and again that polling that I have talked about today, In fact, if you turn around and you make that change, it goes down to two seventy five, So you'll still win even
if Iowa starts to move. That's also if he loses Nevada, although early voting would suggest that the Republicans are absolutely smashing it there.
So we'll see what happens. So the blue Wall, let's turn from seven states to worry about to three.
States to focus on again in the top right hand corner.
I've used all of our graphics budget on.
This one, which is Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and in Michigan. Put simply, Harris needs to win all of them. Trump needs just one of them. And insiders are telling political media who are very plugged in here, including a block called Mark Halpern. A guy who does not pick a candidate, does not root for one side or the other, as they say here in the United States, I always won that.
Funny, don't you, we say?
Cheer well, he says, Wisconsin is probably going to be a problem, Harris.
If that's the case, Trump's on is wide, it will win.
And what I'm here to tell you tonight, based on my reporting with Democrats and Republicans nationally and in both those states, that it could be that Kamala Harris wins Pennsylvania but loses the White House because she loses Wisconsin. Michigan remains a bit of a puzzle. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are doing dueling rallies near each other in Wisconsin tonight, bidding as far as I'm concerned for my reporting, because, as I said, my reporting is that
she's in trouble in Wisconsin. This is based on three sources, two Republicans, one Democrat, all of whom know the state quite well, and all of whom told me today the same version of they would be somewhere between soprase and shocked if Kamala Harris won Wisconsin.
Now can it all change? Will it all change? We'll all find out together. I'm deep in the data for you.
I'm following it all so you don't have to, and we are right across all of this.
We're going to be in Dallas.
We've got a DAC, We've got reporters all around the country. Ross Green wouldn't the say from U York. But I got to tell you about college football, there's nothing like this in Australia. Of course, we buy a ticket, we turn up about five minutes before the game.
We barely go to reserves.
Well, at college football, they do a thing called tailgating. This is where people party in a park or they party in a.
Car park.
They do so for hours. They were there hours before the game, and there were thousands of people that were there at Southern Methodist University. This is right in the heart of Dallas. It's a place where the footy field is named after former President Gerald Ford.
It's where George W.
Bush has his presidential library, and that's where I had an awesome time.
Everything's bigger in Texas.
The parties are bigger, the football's bigger, The Mustangs are bigger.
This is football Dallas style. Woo nineteen seventy two. Would you fix it up yourself? Absolutely? It's gorgeous, all right? Trump or Harris? Who's gonna win?
Oh?
The Ponies? The ponies?
That's all the matter is a big election Tuesday, Trumpel Harris?
Which way you going?
Trump?
All the way?
Bro?
I agree? Trump for sure.
What do you have to do to become Miss Park City?
That's a Miss America local preliminary So interview evening gown all the fun thing.
You're more excited for a pony's win or Trump or Harris? The ponies win? Who do you think he's gonna win? Trumple, Harris? Ponies. They've all said the same who do you want on the grill? You want Trumpel Harris? Oh, Trump all the way, all the way, none of the above. I'm hoping Harris. Okay, what does it mean? I don't have money? Yeah, Donald Kemela. I don't know. Is do you want to win Trumpel Harris on Tuesday?
I don't see how anybody in the world in the right mind can vote the Harris.
So what is it about Trump that you like?
He's not insane.
He actually understands that we should be safe and our economy should go.
How did you do all that without a teleprompter?
I'm a Democrat, Harris Trump, Hey, America, We'll save your Harris.
Will be there. No, no, no, no, no, I'm evicted Fellows on this. I'm like ul Trump all the way. Yeah.
I had a great time. It is fantastic. Anyway, The ponies absolutely slate him. Yesterday, Well donder the Mustangs and what a great time that we had. Ross Greenwood is covering everything for us in the financial heart, the media heart of all of this New York City, where, of course it is a Sunday morning there Sunday night at home. Ross, give us an idea about some of the financial indicators
that we should be looking at. Everyone's looking at polls, But is there anything the markets are telling you or the insiders are telling you about where they think this thing's going.
How look at the betting apps.
That's generally the best guide for election outcomes in America, always has been, and it says Trump is the favorite right now. So that's one of the keys. That's really kind of interesting to see about this. But you're quite right about one other thing, and that is what gets me. Strikes me just chatting to people like you have been chatting to people, is just how much there are parallels with Australia.
It's all about the cost of living.
The fact of the matter is normally governments get chucked out when the unemployment rate rises rather rapidly here in America, like it is in Australia. People have got jobs, but they're not happy. They're not happy about interest rates having gone so high. They're not happy about migration. Here in New York, massive numbers of migrants coming through, and so as a result, the people are disgruntled about the price
of housing. They're disgrundled about the fact that even though the inflation rate might have come down prices certainly haven't.
They're still having.
To pay more.
So, you know, the interesting thing that you've discovered even chatting to people, that I've discovered is just how engaged Americans are in this election. Remember that voting is voluntary, you don't have to vote. But the fact is that people are engaged. And more than two thirds of this nation, the adults who are eligible to vote, are going to get out and vote, one hundred and sixty million of them, and record numbers already have full.
So it is incredible on.
The streets, just how engaged people are, isn't it.
Look, this is the thing.
The great thing about Americans is that all of them are born performers. All of them want to have a chat to you. All of them speak in the perfect soundbites. It is very easy to have a chat to them. But I've got to say as well, Ross, like you're the best in the business when it comes to business to finance, and your entire career has had a consumer
focus on it as well. I think this is a parallel to the conversation that is happening in Australia, as you say, which is the numbers coming out of Washington, coming out of Canberra. They might say one thing about things getting better, but the reality is that even if the inflation is a smaller number than it was before, well, when you're added on top to every inflation number that's
happened since the pandemic, prices are way up. And I was talking to people in Texas where they're tooking literally about the food they're eating at restaurants is up by thirty percent. The rent that they're paying, the amount that they have to pay off on a home.
That's what makes it.
Very difficult for people trying to tell us, well, well but this number says this and numbers no.
No.
If your lived experience is the Orange Man, it was thirty percent cheaper. That's his whole call to wide.
To vote for him, right, Yeah, that's right.
And the other thing, I'll give you a small example this is I've said this with Pete steven Avik the other day. Is just round the corner from where we're staying here in the Lower East Side in New York is Cat's Famous Deli, famous for Seinfeld so many other movies, when Harry met Sally, that famous scene in there. Well, the fact there is their famous sandwich is the Rubenberger right, stacked high with meat. All the Rubenberger now is thirty bucks were which is about forty five Ozzie dollars. So
get that a sandwich thirty bucks. So that gives you just a little sense of the cost of living crisis.
But I'll tell you what.
It's not easy to actually spark a bit of an upset in this town either. So yesterday we're outside Trump Tows and what happens is we spot this slight model, it's dummy of Donald Trump being wheeled across with his underpans half down. I'm wondering what the hell's going on here anyway, So what happens is it turns out there's
a British artist called Allison Jackson. It's really famous, right, super duper famous, and she did a sculpture back in twenty sixteen which is rearranged here outside Trump Tows is of Donald in flagrante delecto with Miss Mexico, right, It would be fair to say, so, I don't know whether we're going to show the actual pictures of what it looks like, but you can imagine what it's like anyway. So we Allison Jackson's there, right.
Get this Alison Jackson's there, we start interviewing her. We almost call them riot the whole thing anyway, So just have a listen to the interview with Elison Jackson and the riot almost turns out afterwards.
Tell me about your inspiration.
What was your thoughts in doing this?
Well, I just thought the elections are coming up, and I just thought, well, that's what Donald Trump says best.
And you know, you see it as it is. So who are you trying to send the message too? Is it the local community here?
Who are you trying to do it too? Well, I'm an artist, so you know it sits in the middle.
So basically you can see what he's doing.
And you know he admits to all that it is.
So tell me about tell me about the fact, but.
A way I think it's disgusting.
Yeah, Paul, we had to pull out of the interview after that because we were going to cause the rite. But I'll tell you New York Marathon today will be out on the streets having a chat to people about all of that. But the one thing you can tell right now, even with Kamala Harris going on Saturday Night Live, the fact running all over the countryside right now, is This is tight, and I've got a sense that neither party really knows whether they're across the line just yet.
This is it exactly where.
Look, there are certain voters that just want to go with the winners, so both want to pretend that they are the winner.
Right now, Thank you, Ross.
You'll see him at four point thirty eastern daylight time in his show of course with Business Now, and you'll see him right across the channel as we are everywhere. I'm telling you we are from the border to Broadway here covering the American election, and right now we are in Dallas, all right. In a moment or two time back to Australian news. Does our panel believe that ol Bow can convince.
Anyone We've turned the corner? Methinks not.
A ding dong from Dallas next very early Sunday morning, about half four here in Dallas. Thanks for watching a Sunday night in Australia. Let's get to our chat about today's news, which of course will be with none of them than James Ashby gave a big shot in the seat of Keppel at the Queensland election. Congratulations on your showing, mate, and Linda Scott of course is say it, free to say whatever she likes, but of course his labor to the absolute core. All right, So the Prime Minister today
will turn the corner. Everything is awesome, forget how expensive everything is. He's pushing optimism, and most of the six PM news is surprise, surprise. They don't want to talk about cost of living anymore. They're bored to that and they know that it'll hurt the Prime Minister of the election, so they were more than happy to cover us in the BS dust of the PM today, roll the tape from Adelaide, the PM's.
Pitch to young voters, vowing to slash university and tafe.
Debts, labour sixteen billion dollar promise to wipe student debt, kickstarting the federal election campaign early.
Direct pitch at younger voters who start their working lives on low wages, paying high rent and saddled with large hex debts.
I know that workers, families and small businesses have all done at heart. But while there are still challenges to meet, still problems to solve, still people under pressure who need our help. When we look at the economy today, we can see new reasons for optimism, a new proof that the worst is behind.
Us, James. I get why he's saying it. I don't think people believe it.
No, no, not at all. Seventeen and a half million voters here in Australia and he is deliberately buying votes of three million Australians who still have a HEX debt. That's how many we're talking about here. And yet he's willing to throw sixteen billion dollars of your money, my money and everybody who contributes taxes in this country to
try and buy those votes. It's a disgraceful attempt here. Look, the reality is we know that when we sign up to any university debt, we know what the conditions are. No different with the houselaning I've taken out on this place. You know what the conditions are. And what he's deliberately gone here and done is just throwing five and a half thousand dollars at every single one of those people with a debt.
Look.
I do agree that the hex's debt system needs some overhaul. We've got to be able to repair that. But just this blatant cash giveaway and buying of votes, I hope the young people see.
Right through this.
Here is the Prime Minister talking about the changes to the hex system, and then we'll get Linda's thoughts off that.
Today I announced that if we win the next election, we will deliver more help for all three million Australians with a student debt. A re elected Labor government will take twenty percent off student debt for everyone who has won.
Now, Linda, a few people that I've seen commenting on this are saying, Okay, this is all well and good for the students that it's going to affect, but what about the people who already paid off their debts, And again, this is just buying votes off the Greens who would preference you anyway.
Look, Paul, I think this is a great announcement one hundred thousand fee free tafe places that helps all Australians,
as does the wiping of university debt. Parents and grandparents who have young people in their family in universities at the moment are worried that young people won't be able to afford to buy houses, and this is the kind of practical announcement that makes a difference in those young people's lives, as well as the lives of their parents and grandparents who may well be worried about having to lean in to support the young person in their family to be able to buy a house and go on
and do all the things that older generations of Australians have been able to do. There is generational inequality here and this great set of three announcements about wiping debt, raising the threshold for paying back that university debt and one hundred thousand fee free takee places allows the intergenerational burden to lessen. It's a good fair labor policy that would help all Australians, and all Australians are also benefiting from having young people trained.
We need more.
Construction workers, we need more nurses, we need more teachers. It's in everybody's interests that young people go on and get a great education, be it at tafe or at university, and this policy is designed to support that. There's no way you can argue this is not a good, strong vision for Australia's future, our economy and our young people.
Well, I'll certainly argue the cost of it right.
Eighty billion dollars is how much students are owe the Australian, their fellow taxpayer. The number of people with more than one hundred thousand dollars to pay back. Well, that is
absolutely blooming as to where it is. But this was all sort of wrapped today by the media the start of the election campaign and an actual fact there was even sort of reference to a slogan building Australia's future all the rest of it here James Australians hated an eight week election campaign when the ghost had one in twenty sixteen. Are people really ready for an election campaign between now and March?
Well we saw this in the Queensland election. Of course, you know it was just one giveaway after another, and of course taxpayers picked the tab up on it. Lender's right to say that we do need more nurses, we need more doctors, we need those people with those skill sets. And of course there are incentive schemes which I completely agree with if you go and spend some time in regional parts of our country that we will pay your hex step back if you commit to regional parts in
health or or even teaching. So those plans are in place, but it's these arts degrees that actually really don't provide too much in the way of when you go to university and get it asked. I don't know why we should be paying for those sorts of things. So look, I hate the idea that the next six months it's all going to be about buying our votes and were using your money to do it.
Fascinating stuff in the Sunday Mail today in Queensland, which was a story about a surf life Saving club. They wanted to do Welcome to Country to try to keep up with the times, but they were hit with a bill of five hundred dollars for the person to well perform the ceremony. Linda, five hundred bucks seems like an awful lot of money for somebody to not do very much. There's thousands of dollars being spent on this. Do we either have to standardize it or why do people have to pay for it at all?
How reasonable a proposition that if someone is coming to work, they're going to get paid for their time. I mean, this is serious, sleep What the argument is here? People should when they welcome people to come through what they're saying, they're welcoming people to country, they're often doing many activities
outside that to prepare for that time. It's a reasonable proposition that people get paid for their work, be they indigenous or non indigenous, and it's really important that when Indigenous people are asked to do a Welcome to Country, they're not asked to do it for free. They're not asked to do it in a way that is donating
their time. I think that's a completely reasonable proposition. The whole idea of Welcome to Country is to educate people a little more about the land that they're on in a thoughtful, decent, fair humane way.
All Right, I got a new friend that we met in Dallas. I want to get on in the Telly in a couple of minutes. So we'll end up on this one before we get to evold prediction for the weak ahead James.
Again, if a member of.
The RSL goes to a school to read the ode or to give a speech, they don't get paid. Why five hundred dollars for a cultural ceremony that you would think people would be wanting to do for free, because it's about keeping culture alive.
And people are up in arms about this, because we had a vote on this in October last year. It was called the Voice and everyone said no, big fat majority of Australians said no. And I'm over these welcome to countries. I'm over it whether it's on an aircraft. I just wonder every time it's set on a plane whether they're getting a kickback as well. Now, but you know for these charity events to expect to have to pay five hundred dollars for a surf club to go
and do a welcome to country on a beach. Get over it. We've had a gupful of it. Most Australians want this to end and it's actually driving a greater wedge between Australians, whether they be Indigenous, white, Indian, whatever, Stop with it.
I can't wait for you to meet a new friend of mine. We've got to know here in Dallas at a moment or two time the big d Now let's, however, get a bold prediction for the week ahead, Linda Scott.
Look, you'd be bold to predict the winner of the US election Paul Murray. But I do want to say there's going to be massive media consumption of US election results in Australia this Wednesday. I look forward to, like you know the famous Bob Hope Bob Hawk quote. You know, let people do what they do, do your work, but you know people are going to take a bit of time out they're going to consume media. They're going to watch the results that are going to be really close
this Wednesday. Good luck and go krmala Harris though.
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James Bold prediction.
Mate, when the polling results come out lad of this week, I think and Albo's fortunes will take a further sharp dive.
Agree completely, all right, thank you very much, guys. Enjoy the greatest country in the world. I make the most of the second best as we are here this week. In a second, a.
Really interesting guy, lifelong Republican with a insight into what might be happening in African American communities as well.
Can't wait for you to meet him on the other side here on Pomo.
It might be very early in the morning, but here in Texas they are incredibly polite and they will get up to talk to you at home. In Australia, Edward Okpa is a great guy. We've got the chance to meet in the past couple of days. He ran for mayor of Dallas and he's styling and profiling prominent Republican.
How are you, Yes, yes, I'm good. Thank you for having me.
Very cool.
Now, you came to Texas in eighty seven from Nigeria. How did you pick whether you were going to be a Republican or a Democrat?
Well, I follows alieve in the Conservative I pushed to life. I was raised in that kind of way, and so and then in the village I grew up, or in the Traveler, I grew up. An elephant is a symbol of power, the symbol of strength. So you know, back in my village, you know if if somebody say, I'm going to use the word and that means you an elephant. So I wouldn't come to America and become a donkey, no way. And of course is the symbol of the Democratic Party. I have nothing against them, but I like
to I like the elephant. You know, when you go to the zoo, what are you going to be excited looking at the elephant? Kids, I'm just I just love the elephant. And then they said Republican symbol and that's what I So.
Let's talk about things. Obviously, Texas, the expectation is that it will.
And truly it'll go red. No giant surprises there.
But what's your feeling about that election coming up? Do you think that uh, Trump's lead's going to hold on and things getting tireder?
What's your sense?
I think Trump is going to be triumphant. Wow, that's you know again, you know, you never know what's going to happen. The Democrats always have something of sleeves, but this time around, then are going to catch us off.
God so, because this is the thing, the Republicans saying that they have got better lawyers.
They're filing early as soon as things are happening.
Like in Pennsylvania the other day, an early voting line was shut down early. They're right on it. Like you guys are in the fight. You're not going to wait to see a result. You're going to get a result that's the true result, right.
Well, I mean, you know, you know the regular saying it was beaten twice shot, So we don't want to be you know the second time. You know, the other time we thrust said them and they did what they did. That's fine, but it's always good because if Trump had won the second term consecutively, then it would have been a lambduck president. Yes, this second time, but now he's coming back full of energies. He's been on vacation for
four years and now he's coming back. He's going to get America where we want America.
So match is said about the African American vote, but I also want to talk about the slivers of things like the Nigerian vote. We saw literally the Somali vote in Minnesota. They came out strongly for Trump as well. What is it about what people would consider to be non traditional Republican voters that is going Is it specific to Trump? Is it a rejection of the Democrats? Why do you think some of those subgroups are changing?
Well, you know, look the Democratic Party, you know, is there plantation political party? You know is the party of the ship and the shepherd. They want you to be sheppish, you know, they want you to follow. That's why you see Obama and Clinton I'm bad and telling you if you're black, I don't vote here. You are somewhere. You know, that's an insulting statement. Yes, you should allow people to exercise in their liable.
Right to vote.
But now they think that they have the black folks, you know, like the flock of ship follow us, and you know, people are rejecting that, and.
It feels like a lot of social media you're seeing people saying that, saying, you know what, I'm not going to follow what the media says, I'm not going to instead of do what again? You know, Uncle Barry tells me to do you know, or Michelle's all all the rest of that. I'm joking about Barry Internet relax.
Do you think that's a big part of it as well?
That people are able to sit and you know, listen to Trump for three hours with Rogan and they can make a decision as opposed to being told, oh he's hitler.
I mean, you know it.
Look, the American political campaigning, it will always been what it is, but this time is just too bad because you have people calling each other name on both sides and saying stuff. But Trump has been the only person who've gone from an executive office off his business to the executive office of the president. No American has ever done that. And you could see resentment and sentiments from
people who have traditionally done through the political route. You a council member, DEMOCRA in Congress and Senate and stuff. You know what has Obama built?
What?
What?
What did Clinton build? What did you buy them build? These are people who have benefited from the tax base. So when they see a guy who committed to America spend he doesn't have to do this, but he's doing it. And that is what I peel into a lot of Americans because this guy is that person who is you know, we talk about courage. How else can you demonstrate it?
Trump?
You know, when I saw him one time, I said, mister President, you behave like a freshly poured concrete. He gets trunk guy every second, and he does.
We'll see what happens in a couple of days. Time edwould want an absolute pleasure to hang all right, The man knows Dallas. He's going to take us to breakfast. The Royal Report is about to start on the Sky.
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