From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live.
Thank you guys, Happy Sunday. We're going to have another big week here on Paul Murray Live. Lots to get to, including we expect a newspoll to not be good news for the Prime Minister. We'll get to that in a moment or two time. Also, surprise, surprise if you preference one nation. Apparently you sidle up with racists according to Giggles Miles. But what about if you send preferences to the Greens. And our mate Cherry Markson is about to do a week of shows from Israel.
She will join us during this our life from there.
All right, before I get the protests everything else. We know the cost of living major issue, but it is amazing the types of people who end up in a financial situation where they would do the unthinkable. Now it's not just about what you have to buy each and every week when it comes to your groceries or anything else at the shops. But of course, as we know, a dozen different interest rate rises under this particular government.
So I must say I am shocked, disappointed, deflated maybe the best word to use when a recipient of the Victoria Cross. Daniel Kerrigan, no, not of the Castle family fame, but of course a decorator Australian soldier is now going to be selling his medals, including the Victoria Cross. He's not doing it to raise money for charity. He is doing it to help pay his own bills. Sorry, was interesting there to read today that he is planning to
do so. He expects or the auction house, who is the bloke you just saw, expects the medals to go for one point two five million dollars now, the VC recipient said in a statement and via the story that you've just seen about his family, it's a blended family and where a family of five, me and my partner, who has a thirteen year old daughter and a nine
year old boy from a previous relationship. My boy who's aged seven from his ex wife, is a blended family story than many many millions of people around the country. It hasn't been a decision made lightly. My partner and I had a discussion. There's a few family members whose health wasn't amazing. My mum is eighty this year. I was fortunate that he earns a pretty good wage, but things are pretty tough out there now. He's not saying it's the cost of living, but it's just the overall
need for money. He managed to buy her a place. The reason for getting rid of the medals, and that's a disappointing turn of phrase, but they're his, so he says to getting rid of the medals is to look after his own family. It would afford the opportunity for schooling or for a place for us to live as a family as well. Times are tough, things are hard, especially for a family of five, As others out there
could well relate. Now, I can't predict exactly what's going to happen here, but many times when honors of this significance end up going onto an auction block, most likely the person who will purchase them will either be the Australian Woman Memorial or somebody who will donate them to the War Memorial. There is part of me, though, that would suggest that if there is somebody out there who, for whatever reason would be able to lend them back or give them back to the recipient of the metal,
that would be the better response. But can you believe that's where we've got, That's where we are. We're to pay for modern life in Australia, the recipient of the highest military honor of this country and in fact anyone in the Commonwealth can bestow, and that is the Victoria Cross is now selling it to help pay for his future.
Unbelievable.
So let's get the protests now, the process that took place today now, as always on this issue, at any time, as soon as you sort of start to lean one way or the other, then whoever's left over starts screaming at you. Now, the people who protested today, they are clearly doing so on the lead up to October the seventh,
formerly which is going to be tomorrow. Their justification for the protest is to say what has happened since October the seventh and how Israel has tried to go after Hamas and resulted in basically two thirds of Gaza being leveled, seventy percent of the population having to move from where they previously moved. Is the reason why they were protesting today.
Now in a country about free speech. And while I have had very clear issues with this protest taking place, if that is the reason that you turned up at a protest today, well I can't fault you doing so. I may disagree with you on certain areas, certain language, and certainly the definition of the conflict. But the people that we obviously have to talk about are the one who the ones who decided.
To wave the colors today of Hezbollah.
Now as things have moved in recent weeks from what's been happening in and around Gaza, in and around Palestine, we now start to see people in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane waving flags where ironically the colours of green and gold or green and yellow are actually the colors of Hesbela. But if somebody was actually waving a Hesbla flag, well that would get them into a world of trouble because Hesbla is a prescribed terrorist group. So the way around
it was to have something similar but not exactly the same. However, the message is absolutely clear about whom they are marching for, as I say, not the people who are responding to the past twelve months and making references back to their family or their homelands. Again it's complicated, but the people who are deliberately trying to basically deliver a giant fu to all of the authorities as a way of trying to offer support to a prescribed terror organization should frighten
us all. Not because these people are potential terrorists, but because it shows just how far Australia has fallen. Now everyone in this country is from somewhere else. Now it may be you personally being born somewhere else, parents, grandparents, great grandparents, or let's all go back to the first fleet. But the problem in Australia is that we're not having people who are dual citizens, but we are having people who are, for one of a.
Better term, dual nationals.
Where if you were asked are you an Australian, the answer would be no, I may insert other country Australian. This in and of itself creates a problem. Now no law can be passed to change it, but it's a sign about how we have dealt with millions of people coming to Australia from lots of different parts of the world. Now, in previous generations, the assumption has been, in fact, the stated position of people who have come to the country
is how good is this? I was able to win the lottery of life and get to the greatest place in the world, meaning that, yes, while technically I've got some historic connections to this, that and the other, the reality is that I'm.
In Australian first.
One of the rules of being an Australian, written or unwritten, is that we don't want the divisions that have existed for hundreds or thousands of years in other parts of the world to poison the future of this country, a country that has unlimited opportunity and an unlimited capacity to work together. The reality of immigration is that we don't care from whence you come. We don't care of what
God you believe or don't believe in. But when you get here, the Australian law supersedes all forms of faith. It's why we have the reactions that we do, and rightly so, and it's why when the law is ever actually applied, things like forced marriages not acceptable in Australia. The valuing of one gender or sex over the other is not acceptable.
In Australia. People are allowed to be in same sex marriages. They are allowed as adults to be able to change their gender if they wish. Again, we can agree or disagree with these things, but the reality is that these are.
The fundamentals of Australia. That we respect people for their life choices, we respect people for what they believe, but when people come forward and yes, currently a minority, and decide to take to the streets of Australia and waiving some smart ass way of supporting a listed terrorist group, then we are failing as a nation. Now, you can't start randomly arresting people because something that they are clearly saying is obvious by what they are waving, but technically what they are waving.
Is not illegal. You can't do that.
We have seen a process where police have previously tried to turn around and in New Souf well say this protests okay on this day. This protest isn't okay on that day. But in this case they decided to agree with each other and find a way for the protest
to take place. Now, I argued that this protest should not take place because of the obvious provocative nature of it, and I'm pleased to say that some organizers did their best, apparently to get rid of people who were overtly prohest Bala or the people who were holding up the signs or the face rather of the former boss of that
terrorist organization. We're also in a bad place because while the premiere of New South Wales represents the extreme like ninety five percent majority of Australians, regardless of where they were born and where their parents were born, which is to say that one of the values of Australia is
that you don't provoke your fellow Australian. You don't rub metaphorically the face of your fellow Australian in the tragedies that their community is facing, be it for what has happened here or what may be happening on the other side of the world. Which is why it is so provocative that things happen in and around October seventh. But where have we got as a community that people who have come to the country or the children that they have had, want to continue the rage of where they
came from. Now, this again cannot be undone. You cannot randomly start to boot people out of the country who were born in the country. The idea that people's response to being told, hey, this would be the wrong thing to do right now is to come up with the creative way of delivering the middle finger, not just to the police who didn't want them to march, but to the government that represents the rest of the citizenry. Put simply, what I believe means I can do whatever I want,
whenever I want. That's a concern, not because I want to limit people's free speech, but I want to make sure that the actions of one group of people does not antagonize another group of people. Now, again, we'll see what happens in the next twenty four hours, when the actual date on our phone is October seventh. The claim is that there will be nothing but peaceful vigils. We'll
find out. But if one person in the next twenty four hours decides to fly flag that is a very clear message about supporting a prescribed terrorist organization, then it is on the organizers of those events to make sure that those people are told you are not welcome here. But as you can see in the footage, they largely were.
They weren't rejected, they weren't told to go away. Instead, there would have been much laughing and goufforing that we got one over the authorities, the authorities who of course are there to represent the peace, tranquility and cohesion that is our country. One person was arrested because they decided to manipulate the Israeli flag and they put a swastik on it. The displaying of a swastika in any shape or form and whatever color is of course a crime
in the place like New South Wales. Maximum fine eleven thousand dollars, maximum time in jail is one year.
I'll make a.
Bet that person will receive either some of the things that were said on the stage again, get ready, this is what was being said today.
Our fight for equality, our fight to be seen as human like.
Every single person.
Yeah, it's being racistly scapegoaded right now. Our continued protests for the last two hundred years against this colonial oppressive regime that is also complicit in the genocide in Palestine.
Now, of course Lydia Thorpe Tuesday is the reason to say exactly what she has said. But let's set our attention to the past twenty four hours and what has been happening in and around Lebanon. Now, Lebanon hits differently in the Australian context because there's half a million Australians who are in Lebanon right now, meaning that when we start to see the bombs that are falling right now an attempt to try to break Hezbalah, well, they may
well end up having an effect on potentially an Australian population. Now, yes, they have been Australians affected by GARSA. Again, you see how this works. Got to be careful, got to make sure as you tread your way through this verbal scenario that you have to deliver a level of nuance. That level of nuance is exploited by people who turn around and wave the flags that they did, but they won't
stop me being nuanced about this situation. Now, amazingly, the French president has made a decision which I find despicable. It is one to suggest that basically it's time to choke Israel of any weapons it is using to either defend itself when places like Iran the major state sponsor and financier of the terrorism in the region of the Middle East, or what is happening to the north or the south of the country as they try to go
after these said terrorist organizations. But as for the Australians, there was one thing that I wanted to finish on here. That is a ray of hope and it is a ray of hope for those that are Australians that have now been rescued from Lebanon. It has been easier to rescue people from Lebanon because of the placing of airports and the ease or relative ease at which people are able to get to an airport as opposed to the situation in Gaza. But again, nu onance doesn't leave anyone
happy here. So I just wanted to before I move on to everything else, show you something that should fill your heart with a smile, which is your fellow Australians who are thankful that because they are Australians, Australia came and got them, that Australia found a way to take
care of them. And while many of them say they will never return to the country of which they were born, their parents were born, or their family is connected to, they look forward to returning to this country because it is safer, because it is more harmonious, because it values people of different beliefs from different countries, who all share the common goal of ensure that the perfection in which millions of people are enjoying a long weekend is exactly
as reliable this year as it will be next year and the year after and twenty five years down the track.
Say tank, you's true that they help with us.
That's a very big thank you for them what they did for.
Us terrible times.
But a nice moment for those people who are returning now to a Queensland.
Just twenty days left until Queenslanders have.
The opportunity to get rid of Giggles Miles and his idiot labor mates.
Fingers crossed. May this be the case now?
I should tell you by the way, we've got a whole bunch of special shows that we're planning in and around this election that we'll be doing from the man Cave and of course from Queensland as well.
Looking forward to talking to as many people as possible.
Between now and then, and yes, I will be part of the election night coverage in a few saturdays time. David Kruse fully playing soccer doing the I'm an active future premier thing for Steven Miles. He too was out and about today, but he was trying to use his microphone to try to raise the specter that because the LNP is going to preference one nation and one nation is going to preference the LNP because they would like to change the government. Oh that apparently it's the embracing
of racists. Now every single election, this is what he said, that every single time there is a preference steel done with one nation and somehow we are taking the country backwards.
Well, I'm sorry.
The Greens are the biggest threat to Australian democracy as we know it, social cohesion as we know it, and they would put Queensland in a much, much worse place.
Than anything else that is on the ballot.
But as we know, Labour can't even get its own members up unless they have the preferences from the Greens. And for some reason, every single election, be it state or federal, the media allows the Labor leader to pretend that their preference steel can okay, but anyone else's preference steel.
Well, it's this.
It has long been our practice to put the right wing racist party One Nation last, and I intend to be highlighting to all of our multicultural communities how David Chris Furley is embracing the right wing racist party one nation. We've been putting one nation last for twenty five odd years. There have been times when there were LMP leaders who were principled enough to do the same thing. The current LMP leader clearly is not want a disgrace.
We'll talk to James Ashby, who of course is the chief of staff to Paul and Hansen, and he's running in this election. You can vote for him in and around the area of Yupoon in the seat of Keppel will talk to him in a couple of minutes time. Meantime, Corey Marle decided to go and talk to a collection of voters in the premiers electorate. Now must expect him
to be able to hold onto the seat. However, this is a bit of an idea about what it's really like in the real world, as opposed to this bloke's.
Preening and pushing around.
A cafe owner who declined to be named, is a little more blunt about the situation. This is a local cafe owner in the Premier's electorate. When I opened two and a half years ago, our twenty staff.
Now I have eight.
Look, he said, pointing at the docket on his cash register, I have served just three customers today. It's tough to do business right now in Queensland, in part because of a government that is not hard enough on crime, that in part finds new ways to introduce taxes, and then of course when they get that money, they spend it on gimmicks to get themselves re elected. While the health
system goes backwards, while the police system goes backwards. Remember, under Labor when you call Triple O, the ambulance may or may not turn up. If the ambulance does turn up, it is virtually assured that you will be sitting in that ambulance because there's no room in the hospital. If you're in regional Queensland, the person who drives the ambulance may be the only person who was actually qualified to take care of the person in the back of the ambulance.
And as I've told you stories from the front line in regional Queensland, under the Labor Party, a member of the public drives the ambulance while the ambo takes care of the person in the back before they eventually turn up at a hospital that may not have the equipment to keep them safe. Extraordinary. Now, the camerabubble, as we know, is many things to many people, but to me, it's a protection racket for people who always want things to go a certain way, and that is always of the left.
These secretly are people who would vote Green, but certainly the only prime minister that they would accept of a major party is the Labor Party.
No breaking news to you there. You're watching this show and you've.
Lived a long enough life to know how this works, and I want to show you an example of how the media always finds some way to bail Albow out, regardless of how bad he actually is. Now, of course, last week the Prime Minister desperately tried to change the conversation that the entire problem with inflation has nothing to do with it government and all of the different issues
that go into the basket of goods of inflation. As I've explained in great detail, that these things are often more than just what is sold at your local supermarket. But he thinks that because the average Australian says yeh and so distracted by things like football, that.
He can pretend that it's the supermarket itself.
At every dollar that you spent in a supermarket is for the profit of the supermarket, not, as I explained before, paying the wages that may well be going up, paying the power bill that may be going and it has been going way up, or the cost of the goods that they need to buy it from the suppliers, which again have all of those things caught up in it.
But the reality of last week was that there was.
A national conversation about social cohesion. There was a national conversation about just how far we had fallen when people who may well have been born and most likely born in this country were waving around the flags of the terrorist organization has blah. Now, the Prime Minister may well have wanted to talk about shrink flation, but the events of the week, well they were completely nowhere near what
he wanted to talk about. So surprise, surprise, what about this at the Sydney Morning Herald today from one of their canber reporters who in this case was moonlighting as an opinion person. Labor had hippocket agenda about chipscenarios, Dutton and war cut in. You see, if the Prime Minister was allowed just to do what he wants to do, we would all fall in love with him trying to fix all.
Of our problems.
But it says evil buggers in the Middle East and that evil bugger from Brisbane that deny him that opportunity. As the world moves towards the first anniversary of October, the seventh mass attacks and the Middle East spiral towards greater conflict this week, Federal Labor tried desperately to keep the focus on domestic issues. It knows that voters cared deeply about the high cost of living, and I had the perfect symbols was proof allegedly overpriced oreos and a
half empty chip packets. Now again, as I told you here, I'm not pretending sure inflation doesn't exist where you pay the same for less, but that's not a decision made by the supermarket. It's a decision made by the people who make the thing in the packet, who keeps selling it to the supermarket for the same amount of money as they used to when there was more stuff in the packet. I don't defend the supermarkets for no particular reason.
They're not.
Doing backhanders, or sponsoring the shi or anything else that would pay for a bit of cash for comment here not the case. Certainly, I wouldn't be available to be brought anyway. But you get my point. I am not
carrying anyone else's water. But for any mysterious reason. It's just things are complicated, and as soon as you start to talk about nu once, as soon as you start to argue the gray, or you start to have a look at the gradients of the gray, well then you're not as good as a prime minister who just wants to say packet of oreos is the reason why everything
costs what it costs keeps going. But the year long conflict in Gaza expanding out to Lebanon and Labour's hope of a ceasefire taking the heat out of the issue that Australia withered. Pun Me opposition leader put it up at the instead manage to force the Prime Minister to take what he framed as a morals values test.
Yeah, what a crazy idea.
That Last week the conversation, While the Prime Minister wanted to blame supermarkets and the stuff that's sold in the supermarkets, the reality of the test for the Prime Minister was what is acceptable? Is it okay for people on a straight in streets to support not people who are the innocent victims of this, that and the other, but instead the perpetrators of violence like Hezbollah.
One more little thing here from this bloke.
If Labor hardheads thought they could win the week by sticking to voter's top concerns of cost of living and speaking as little as possible about the conflict, they were wrong. Labor has a case to mart to make on when a question starts Kerosene, which aligns with the ASO pleadings to turn down the talk, but is support for Israela's sincere and don't a signaled. He believes any risks are outweighed by the benefits of tarnishing a first term MP.
You see, their calculation is the people say things because there's an electoral consequence to what they say.
No, that would be albow.
Remember when things were at their worst in the cost of living crisis last year, he was spending half a billion dollars four hundred and fifty million dollars to be exact on a voice referendum, which, of course we were no. Started at sixty forty and ended up sixty forty.
The other way. That's the point.
Oh no, But it's Peter Dutton who's finally trying to fiddle with your mind as opposed to you being a person who may able to have been born here or has come here or multiple generations from every single spot on the globe, and what it means to be here, to be born here and to take care of our fellow citizens here.
I don't know that was just a political distraction.
As for Seapak and the Conservative Political Action Committee, the Australian version of which has been playing out over the past couple of days here. The most high profile speaker liz was Liz trust the former UK Prime minister. Yes, that prime minister who actually has got a really interesting message but sort of gets a little bit well undermined by the fact she, of course was a prime minister
for what but thirty days. Anyway, she says the countries like Australia should turn things like our ABC their BBC into a subscription service because they don't deserve government funding anymore because they have moved so far to the left that they do everything to undermine the said government or more importantly country of the day.
It is not possible to deliver US Conservatives, so we need to be prepared to dismantle the left wing bureaucracy.
We need to be.
Prepared to defund state media.
Now I don't know rich is worth a BBC or ABC, but I've been on both of them in that base pretty bad thankfully.
Though.
Back here in Australia, the Absolute Unity ticket which was being delivered by National Senators Bridget McKenzie and by Matt Cannabian, so they were pushing hard against the censorship bill that is being pushed by the government here is Senator McKenzie talking about Labour's planned to censor the Internet.
We're voting down this very appalling bad bill and we're proud to do so. We hope it doesn't get up with the support of the Greens, but it will be something we'll be getting rid of in a coalition government underal Repowment Well, I would be yes, absolutely, we have to do everything we can. But that's why you need to vote coalition in the Senate too.
And there are lots of problems with the government's proposed misinformation laws, but its greatest sin is that it is simply un Australian. Is UnAustralian to self appoint a bureaucratic class of tall poppies who get to decide for the rest of us what is right or wrong, what is true or false, is acceptable or unacceptable bloody oth.
We have been on this fight for more than a year. We will continue to be right up until the day that this bill is gone. Now to the United States, it is one month to go until the presidential election. Donald Trump went back to the place where somebody wanted to kill him, where he was hit by a bullet in Butler in Pennsylvania. There was a mega crowd there, perhaps the biggest crowd that we have seen, certainly of this election, and I would argue maybe of the last
election as well. Definitely tens of thousands of people. The claim was that it was up to one hundred thousand. Unbelievable. Remember this was the place where he was shot and as of course he may well have been bleeding out and dying. He decided not to hide but say, fight, fight, fight. It's one of the reasons I admire the man. I hope he wins in a month from now. This is how he started the speech. As I was saying, the
star attraction though was not the president. He was well slightly upstaged by the man who makes the cars the lefties used to love, the man who, through starlink means many people are watching us right now in regional Australia on Internet.
That's the best it's ever been.
The man who is vital to the recovery effort of what's happening when it comes to the storms, none other than Elon Musk, free speech warrior and boss of Twitter.
Now X, there's no true test to encourage under fire. We had one president who couldn't claimb a flight of stairs and another who was fist pumping after getting shot. The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech. They want to take away your right to bear arms. That it's we're They want to take away your right to vote effectively.
Now, as for Kamala Harris, well, she's great when the teleprompter doesn't work.
And did Josey Magic Johnson.
Remember number thirty two? Today? We got thirty two days.
It's all the election, So thirty two days, thirty two days, Okay, we got some business to do. We got some business to do, all right, thirty two days.
Seriously, that's how bad she goes.
She firstly hasn't memorized the speech well enough to be able to basically push through. But as soon as the script stops, she just immediately turns into the cluelessness of Biden. Now, come over here, because I want to show you something. So the question is about who is leading right now?
Now? The absolute answer is, of.
Course, no one knows, all right, just like a football commentator can't say before the game what's going to happen the final score at the end of the game. If that was the case, they wouldn't be football comented they'd be professional better, and they'd be worth millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars. Okay, but the best we can do is try to take the pulse and have a little look around about some of the information.
Here I say the data.
Now, seven states matter. You know, these are the seven states that often flip from team Red to team blue. There are people who voted Obama twice and then voted Trump and then went back to Biden. And the expectation is many or some of these people may well go back to Trump. So here are the seven states that matter and what happened at the last election. So Biden won the states of Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in terms of the Trump.
Won North Carolina.
Now, to give you an idea though in some detail, Biden won Arizona by ten thousand votes or zero point four percent. He won Georgia by zero point three percent, Wisconsin by zero point six percent. See how tight these things are when you actually have a look at the seven states.
The margin that Biden beat Trump last.
Time like not even a football stadium full of people, right, really small numbers, which is why when you see a one point lead this way or a one point lead that way, that is the tipping point potentially when it comes to these states. So I also wanted to double check something about where the polls are today. Now the polls today so that Trump would win Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Harris would win Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan, and of course Pennsylvania would be a tie.
But I want to tell.
You something about how wrong the polls were eight years ago.
You know that, but they're actually worse four years ago.
In many and most states, they really oversold how well Biden was doing.
So even though he won.
And he won by a little bit, what the information was going into the election was nowhere near the reality. In fact, in Arizona the vote has now moved where Trump is now one point eight percent better than he was at the last election. In Georgia again one point eight percent better than it was at the last election, Harris is now polling zero point two percent better than Biden did. In Wisconsin, Trump is polling one point three percent better than he did at the last election. In Nevada,
Harris is polling almost a point better than Trump. Sorry, than Biden did at the last election, and that would flip that state Michigan, where Harris is up zero point seven according to polls, Trump is now doing two point one percent better than he did at the last election, and Pennsylvania is a tie. So let me show it to you in picture form, where again, basically, if you see Harris winning just somewhere, it's more likely that, based off the last cycle and the cycle four, that the
polls are yes undercounting Trump. So in my view, if she is anything but a point up in some of these places, then you've basically got to start to move them towards Trump. Here in fact, those seven swing states Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada. All right, if you said that the polls are one hundred percent right today, Bang Trump would be the president and he still wouldn't need Pennsylvania.
Now again, there are in some states places where you don't take the whole state, you just take the electorates, and there's like three electorates in a state. Again, very boring, but still right right now, if the poles are correct and it all happened, Trump would.
Win two forty seven with Pennsylvania left over.
So let's imagine that's the case where it's all down in Pennsylvania. So the five most recent polls in Pennsylvania, they say that it's a tie, that it's Trump by a mile, it's a tie, it's Trump by a mile, or it's a tie. Now, all of those poles, bar one, were very pro bided polls. In fact, they got the state wrong by two point eight percent last time, three point two percent, three point eight percent, four point eight percent,
and one point eight percent. So if you are asking me who is winning tonight, I'll say Trump because he's close enough in the places where he is behind for the problems with the polls to be the same four years later, meaning that slightly behind is actually slightly in front. If all the polls are right right now, you've seen that he can win it without Pennsylvania.
And if it's.
Tie or pro Trump in the five most recent polls and all of those poles were wrong by a significant margin last time, then it is Trump in front. So again right now tonight, one month out, I think Trump is in front. It's why he doesn't want a debate. To get to the debate, have another debate. He's happy for it.
Just a trend like this until the end.
Undecided voters not undecided voters there, just people who are wanting to vote for the winner. So if the Poles keept going this way, he will look like more of a winner and then potentially be one. But of course I can thin get completely wrong, and we'll all find out together. Now I should tell you as well, well, yes, I am planning to go to the United States and we're going to do a week of shows from there.
We're going to do normal shows from there.
It's not going to be one hour every day of American stuff, right, still going to rip into elbow at the start of the show. The editorial is going to look the same. We'll have a couple of American guests towards the end of each hour. But basically we're going to be doing this show as it is right now, just from somewhere else.
Okay, that's the plan. So when you hear them heading off.
To Washington, don't think, oh, it's just going to talk polls for an hour every day. No, I'll keep an eye on the greatest country of all this one quick break back with more here on pul Murray life.
All right, let's get into it right now.
James Ashby currently in Queensland in the man cave right now, none other than the love Linda Scott. I apologize, I've got a little bit of a whatever's going on right now, but we'll power on, okay. So this is what Giggles Miles had to say about any preference deal with one nation roll of tape.
It has long been our practice to put the right wing racist party One Nation last, and I intend to be highlighting to all of our multicultural communities how David Chris Furley is embracing the right wing racist party one Nation. We've been putting one nation last for twenty five odd years. There have been times when there were LMP leaders who were principled enough to do the same thing. The current LMP leader clearly.
Is not James your response, not just as a candidate, but somebody who's been around one Nation for a very long time.
Now, Paul, do you remember thirty odd years ago when you'd go to the butcher and you'd say, give me a couple of lambshanks, and the butcher look at you as though you were taking them home to feed the dog. But Meanwhile, you're throwing them in the crop pot. No one needed to know that's what you ate. Fast forward thirty years and Lambshanks are a prime cut and One Nation has become a very very palatable party to vote for, just like those Lambshanks. We are the best choice, best
choice for so many people in Queensland. And look we've been a good choice for people right across the country. We've now got elected members in every state across mainland Australia, so we must be doing something right. I think it was a cheap shot from Steven Miles. He is desperate and One Nation are winning over a lot of those voters from Labor who just can't stomach the idea of voting for the LMP. Let's face it, the LMP and Labor have been on a unity ticket for at least
the last twelve months. In legislation. They voted for treaty here in Queensland, they voted for higher coal royalties, the pair of them. They've passed so many bad choices, including Labour's budget, you know David Chris fully voted for.
So there's a lot of people that.
Are saying, well, we can't stomach either of them. So we're going to vote for one day. So he's scared, he's worried, and a lot of people will continue to come One Nation's way over the next three weeks. Early voting starts in a.
Week now, Linda, you'd be more than happy with the Labour's position over a long period of time. I would suggest that you know, One Nation has well and truly moderated from whatever the apparent problem was, however long ago.
But what do you think, Well, look, I mean really one nation's positions are a matter for James. But Stephen Males is right to highlight that twenty five years ago John Howard took the principal position of not preferencing one nation and that by and large has been a bipartisan position of both the major political parties in Australia for that two and a half decade period. I think really the question for James is what did he get for the electorate of kepul for this preference deal that has
allegedly been done with the Liberals. Are there any local benefits that you secured for your electorate, James? Do you support the policy on abortion?
James?
Like on the low blow was very clear that that's that's none of that changing, nor euth in Asia as well.
But but again, I mean, you know, my pushback.
Here is the Greens have got so much worse than four years ago, right, they are in a much wilder place, yet never a controversy about Labour's relationship with them.
Not when Labor does not exchange preferences with the Greens. We have these policy discussions, and so I don't think it's unreasonable to ask James what he thinks about Chris Follies abortion policies.
Which is should not change.
That's not right actually that he wants to get abortion in Queensland. For Queensland, I need to answer this question.
Look, I think it's gutless of David christ Fully to stand by Labour's laws where they're allowed in Queensland. Here late term abortion right up to the very day before a child is born. I think that's a and the simple fact that a child can be still born alive after a father abortion and medical staff are forced to just leave it there and die on its own no assistance. Your cruel, Linda, and so are all your Labor colleagues, and so too is David Chris and Fully for standing by that legislation.
All right, come a great we've got to change.
You're heartless, most heartless I've ever heard.
Okay, we've got a couple of other things to get to before we get to Sharry, who is in Israel right now. So I won't go in and around those issues. But there was an interesting piece, a piece of such a wanky word thing column in the ABC where they're talking about how the middle class is really hurting right now. Welcome,
I'm glad they've started watching this program. But they also make sort of a couple of interesting points about people like Kamala Harris who want to say, well, I'm middle class, or Kate Blanchett who claims to be in middle class as well. I just want to step back and to the side here where Linda, all of us are from
somewhere right. We will have that in our DNA about the types of houses or the types of families which used to be, but isn't the reality what we are today is in the case of Kamala Harris, the vice president, Okay, Blain, she's a millionaire, or my case, I'm hosting a television show. So do you think that the average voter falls for the idea that well they I know you're a millionaire now, but you used to be middle class.
Well it's such a great question, isn't it. Because I love Kate Blanchet, but I think it's pretty hard for her to argue that she's middle class. I think we can all agree on that tonight. But I also think that you can be middle class in Australia or indeed around the world at the moment, and because of the global infationary pressures, it's still difficult to afford things.
Why in selling is mental, you know, It's.
Why we've got to have these really important discussions about cost of living. It's why again, James, you've got to tell us what you're secure for steel, for your local electorate in Keple in Queensland. We need to understand what elected leaders are going to do about cost of living relief for people, because it's a really important topic.
All right, Well, I won't get into that, and let's just get to your bold prediction for the wak ahead, James.
What stands out for you, mate? What's definitely happening this week?
A little more desperate play from Stephn Miles I noticed on in social media. Is today's holding up at barrew Munday while talking about fishing in Morton Bay. The field doesn't even know that Barra Mundy don't live.
That far south.
And look, if you're desperate to try and chase the fishermen, you've got Buckley's mate. You've shut down all the commercial fishing in Queensland and you try to take away the rights of recreational anglers. There's only one party that'll stand up for fishermen in Queensland.
That's one nation.
That is an odd message man, and I love it, Linda, give me the ten second.
I go for the rabbit as but we've got to see the Panthers win tonight. Go go the Panther.
I'm not aware of any football boom play. Thank you very much, appreciate it. See who next week, guys.
Appreciate a quick break back with more with Cherry Markston, who is in Israel.
That's where her show will be coming from this week. A little preview in a moment.
As you know, about ten to ten in some parts of Australia, ten to eight in other parts, plus or minus an hour and a half, then three hours, but right now it's about ten minutes before two o'clock in Israel, and that's where my dear friends Harry Markson is ahead of October the seventh and its anniversary tomorrow. We all know how deeply she has felt this issue, how excellent her reporting has been, and she is in Israel right now where she is getting ready for a week of
what are going to be impactful shows. And make sure that you watch it each and every night. Cherry, nice to see you. I've been following your socials to see things with your own eyes.
What's it like, Paul Look, thank you for having me on your show. As you know, I've given my heart and soul to reporting on what happened the terror attacks to Israel over the past here, but being here in person, and I spent the day yesterday at the kibbutzim and at the site of the Nova Music Festival, and actually speaking to people face to face, holding friends, giving them a hug, holding them in your arms, who watched their best mates be shot and die right next to them,
young women at the Nova Music Festival. This brings the reality of the war and why Israel is in a war, why it's fighting to bring home one hundred and one hostages who are still in Gaza. It brings it all home, and Paul, already, the people I've spoken to, the stories they've told me are so powerful. There was one Australian murdered on October seven. Her name is Gullet Carbone. She's
a grandmother. She was a grandmother. Her brother took us through her home her keyboots yesterday, where she had harrowing final hours as she bravely as a sixty six year old grandmother tried to fight off her mus terrorists. There was no lock on her safe room. She battled to keep the door shut. She never made it. Paul, his interview was powerful. Here's just a snippet of what we'll play on my program tomorrow night.
It on around six thirty. I was already on my bike, on my way out for my morning bike ride, and then there were the rockets. The rockets came down really heavily, are way more stronger than the usual ones that we so to speak used to and I stopped. And then afterwards I realized that a friend of mine saw from his house all the Hamas guys on their bikes and their pickup trucks.
And Paul, the reality is we just keep hearing these demands from the international community and including from our own government for a ceasefire. When you walk through the streets of the kibbutz, you see the burnt out, destroyed houses, You see a pink little girl's bicycle laying on the ground. You hear the stories of the ten month old twins who were shot dead, little girl Orphant three years old.
It is just so devastating that Israel cannot continue to exist with the threat of these terrorists so close on their border on the south, with Gaza on the north, with Hesbellah in Lebanon. And you know, it's all very well for Pennywog and alban Easy thousands of kilometers away, to demand that Israel doesn't defend its citizens, that it lays down arms. But that is not what is going to protect the people here.
And I tell you what.
Gullet Carbone's brother, Danny Masner, he told me he's never been involved in politics his whole life. He knew who the Prime Minister of Australia was, that was it. But now he feels passionate. He is furious at Pennywong for the fact that she came here to Israel and she didn't bother to go bear witness to visit the kibbutz or the site of the Nova music festival. He thinks that is unforgivable. And I tell you what, that's how most Israelis feel towards the Albanesi government.
Now, what we can see behind you is what seems like obviously normal every day Sunday, But obviously the size of Israel, to drive from the north of it to the south of it is about six hours. That wouldn't even get you halfway across a place like New South Wales. We know what's happening to the south, we know what's happening to the north.
What since have you been.
Able to pick up about just how close to absolute instability in carnage while at the same time where you're standing is in a level of peace, but at a moment's notice that could be disrupted and everyone's going downstairs to a bomb shield.
Yeah, I mean, this is the incredible contradiction of life in Israel. Israelis get on with life, they pick up, they carry on, they go to restaurants, they go to cafes. You know, very resilient people, Jewish people, very resilient Israelis have had to live under the constant threat of potential attack for decades. Yet at the same time what happened a year ago has shaken Israel in an unprecedented and unimaginable way. People are broken. You barely meet anyone who
hasn't been affected by those terror attacks. It has been quite extraordinary. And yes, so at the same time people get on with life. But everybody has on their phone and I've now got it as well an app. So whenever there's a rocket siren, you get a notification and I tell you, Paul, it pings all day long, and if you're in that area, you've got to get straight
down to a bomb shelter if you can. And the communities in the north, you know, the media doesn't care to report that eighty thousand Israelis have been displaced from their homes because of the threat of HESBLA near the Lebanon border. So this is, you know, a community that's very affected, very aware of the situation. But life goes on.
So good to talk to you, mate.
I'm out of time, but I can't wait to see what you've got to say tomorrow about mccron basically saying it's time to starve Israel of weapons to defend itself.
Come wait to see that.
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Tomorrow night, Love you, Dunna. All right, we'll talk to her again tomorrow, all right.
Quick break back with more and in fact it'll be the Royal Report after us, because I'm done, hopefully will hold up, have enough glasses of water with
Honey, and I see you tomorrow night