From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you, sharing again an excellent hour of television. Congratulations to her and the team that's putting it together both over there and here. Welcome to a show where we don't muck around, We don't miss the point. We go straight after it
each and every night. And one of the weirder moments of American politics of the past couple of years was an obvious low point for Donald Trump when he was considered to be mocking a disabled reporter during the twenty sixteen campaign. Written by a NASA reporter. Now, the poor guy.
You got to see this guy.
Oh, I don't know what I said. Ah, I don't remember. He's got like I don't remember. Oh, maybe that's what I said. Here's fourteen years ago. He's still They didn't do a retraction.
Well, a version of it has happened in Australia today and it comes from no less a figure than the Australian Prime Minister. In question time today, things were heated, things were back and forth, and there was an exchange where the Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor was speaking while Albernizi had the microphone interjections and nothing new in the Australian political vernacular, but it was well and truly on show today.
What you see is the Prime Minister mocking disability, the idea that where have you got Tourett's.
Or something.
You know, you know, you see there, babble babble, bab order.
I we draw, Missus Speagher, I we draw, we draw, I we draw and apologize.
Now this bloke is so high on his own supply that he thinks that he can punch down in that fashion, that somehow Turetts is something that he could mock publicly. Now this is the bloke who was, of course from the woke side of the woke political spectrum, yet he decided to do that as a way of littling and potentially dehumanizing his political opponents. Now I want you to watch this time, the same clip but no sound, because have a look at the different reactions that take place
when the Prime Minister makes his statement. Firstly, you can see the Deputy Prime Minister who realizes that this is not a great moment. And then on the other side of things, if we can roll at one more time, you can see Annli who's going to be sitting there on the right hand side. Now, she is a minister who often sits behind the Prime Minister to sort of be this performance puppet behind him, going oh, who's in this hilarious and shocking? Well, she realizes even in that
moment what the Prime Minister didn't remember. The Prime Minister didn't immediately say sorry. Instead, he said sorry because he was about to be confronted. Well, the Prime Minister thought this was a story that would be noticed by no one. If it was, it'd be noticed by people who he thinks he can frankly ignore. Well, it did turn up tonight as a story on the six PM News is close to the lead story in many online news sites tonight as a disgraceful lack of judgment from the Prime Minister.
So he has walked back into the Parliament. But I need you to know he walked back into the Parliament about an hour ago. Now, those statements, of course, were made in and around the two o'clock hour in Canberra. He waited another six hours before issuing an apology, but only after the story had become one that he could not ignore and one that he would have to presumably
answer for when the sun comes up tomorrow. Here is his apology not delivered immediately but many hours later, In fact, two hours after the story was on widespread six PM news tonight.
Today in question time, I made comments that were unkind and hurtful. I knew it was wrong as soon as I made the comment. I apologized and I withdrew as soon as I said it.
But it shouldn't have happened.
So I want to apologize to all Australians who suffer from this disability. I regret saying it was wrong, it was insensitive, and I apologize.
Now I'm going to be a hard mark on the Prime Minister here despite the apology, because this is what happened in real time. Did he look like he immediately regretted what he said or once the opposition rose to make it a point, you tell me.
The idea that where have you got Tourett's or something?
You know, you know you see there, babble babble, bab or.
I we draw, mister Spegher, I we draw, we drawn, I we join and apologize.
Disgraceful stuff. We'll talk about that and a whole lot more in the panel a little bit later tonight. Meantime, another poll has pointed out that the Prime Minister is on the wrong side of history when it comes to actually dealing with the economic crisis that many Australians are feeling and failing each and every day. This got lost
in much of the October seven coverage. We mentioned it briefly last night, but it shows that fifty two percent of Australians believe that the person and people and organization who has most responsibility for dealing with inflation is not the Reserve Bank. There's just twenty nine percent of people. These are the hardcore lefties. Instead, the majority of the country fifty two percent says that it is the federal
government and specifically the Treasurer. Now because the Prime Minister and the Treasurer have actually failed to deal with how much money they keep pumping into the economy via increased spending, including yes, increased welfare spending. The Reserve Bank has made the decision twelve times since Jim Chalmers became the Treasurer of Australia, and now it easy became the Prime Minister
to raise interest rates. Well, today we started to see some of the working documents behind their decision not to increase but more importantly not to cut interest rates. At
their meeting a couple of weeks ago. The Board minutes they make it very clear that the Reserves Bank's message that is not ruling in or out a hike or a cut, is set against the diagnosis of a decidedly weak economy, according to the minutes of the discussion that took place, so there is still a potential here of a rate rise rather than a further rate pause or rate cut. Further, financial conditions might need to be even
tighter or looser at the present to achieve the Board's objectives. Remember, the Board's objectives is to get inflation consistently back between two and three percent. It is currently below three percent, but that is because of millions of dollars being spent by the government to artificially drop the prices of power and therefore to frankly buy an inflation result. The Reserve Bank is waiting to see what happens about the real
inflation result time. Economists are suggesting that there will be a rate cut and a most likely will happen before the next federal election. Now, again, as we've said, the orthodox thinking in Canberra is that if it goes up before the election, the government's going to be in a world of trouble. But I've got some breaking news for some of these people. Twelve intrastraight rises has created a
huge amount of pain for millions of Australians. A third of Australians that are paying off a house, and presumably most of the third that are renting are in a house that is being paid off by somebody else. Even if there is a quarter or half percent increase, we will still be dealing with generation high interest rates. So don't fall for what is about to be the media spin, which is well, inflation is going down. No, its prices are still going up. The speed with which they are
going up may will be slightly changing. And secondly, if there is a reduction in interest rates, that's good obviously for everyone who's paying things off. But because there's been twelve of them, that's the damage that needs to be put right. It needs to go down half a dozen times before people are going to start to notice any sort of relief. And as I've shown you before, again let's deal with the data and then we can put
the opinion on top of it. There is a huge explosion in the amount of money that people are having to spend to pay off their mortgages right now. In fact, the average homeowners overall are now paying five billion dollars more than they were a couple of years ago to actually pay off their mortgages. This means there's been a sixty one percent increase in the total amount of money that people have had too fine to pay back interest rates since this Prime Minister and this Treasurer took over.
So yes, any cut will be great, but it's because it's a signal that it's not going to get worse. Any rate cut, while accepted and celebrated, will not get the government off the hook because the effective financial pain has been twelve rate rises in the making. Bring it down by one and bring it down by two, Okay, that's better, But if the damage is twelve, then one is hardly going to touch the sides in terms of
people actually feeling any better. Meantime, interesting polling coming from the Turmbal Times otherwise known as The Guardian, that shows us here about the government's role and what Australians believe the government's role is when it comes to the variety of issues. When it comes to cost of living. Now again, this government will try to tell you that everything's fine,
everything's all right. Well, they say here, how much impact do you think the government has in reducing the following, Well, the best part, pardon me, of seventy almost eighty percent of people think that health the government could cut there again, about eighty percent. When it comes to energy, they believe the government plays a role in that. The same number
when it comes to education. When it comes to housing, mortgages, interest rates, again, seventy eight percent of Australians believing the federal government plays a key role in all of that. Hence, why if it comes down by one it is not going to make the difference that the political people will tell you that it's the case seventy seven percent when it comes to transport and overall when it comes to groceries. It is interesting here that people who believe a large
or moderate impact. Well again there you're dealing with more than sixty five percent of people who believe the government has a position to play in those particular areas. So what are Australians looking for? To what extent do you believe? Do you support or oppose the following economic measures to introduce price caps? And this is frightening that Australians are so frustrated by the cost of living crisis, which has been exacerbated by a government that, among other things, took
money off people. Remember a couple of budgets ago when it came to the local middle income tax offset. Well, again you can see the best part there. Of seventy percent of people believe that the government could introduce price caps on groceries, rent energy bills. Pretty much the same when it comes to increasing taxes on big corporations, reducing personal income tax again about sixty five percent, fun more
social services as some way of dealing with the economy. Again, more than half of people run a budget surflus to reduce inflation. Well it doesn't, but you can see there again, more than half of people think that's the right thing to do. Raise the level of income support for people who are unemployed again more than fifty percent, and reduce tracks tax breaks like negative gearing. Now interestingly, here again you're looking at a number of more than fifty percent.
So these are in many ways very left wing proposals as to how to deal with situations, which is why the Prime Minister thinks is in the right place when it comes to shrinkflation. It's also why the Greens think they're in an even better place because they will actually suggest some of these things. But a bit of an indication that when pressure has been the way that it has been for as long as it has been, people are willing for any solution, no matter how counter productive
it is to the concept of an open and free market. Now, you remember last year the Prime Minister told us that he was going to cut immigration. This was because, of course, it's wildly out of controllers. We've shown you before the best part of almost a million people have come to the country at a time when there's not a mini new houses being built. In fact, I remember the headlines at the time that labor is determined to have the
record post pandemic migration. In fact, the Prime Minister even said this on three aw.
But what we are projecting is that the non the net overseas migration is projected to come down to two hundred and fifty thousand in the coming financial year in twenty twenty four to twenty five.
Now, of course, one of the problems with too many people coming in and not enough infrastructure being built, specifically housing, is the rental cues They are as long as they currently are. Where places like in Ipswich, even a two bedroom joint that is available more than one hundred people try to apply for it. In places like Western Australia Tasmania in particular, there's less than one percent of all of the available housing that is available for rent right now.
You add a Midian people to that, guess what, the queue gets longer. The issue gets tougher when it comes to the infrastructure that states have to produce. We know that ambulance ramping is the worst it has been in every single state Queensland. You have an opportunity, in just a couple of weeks time to send a message that this is not okay that when you call Triple O,
an ambulance may or may not turn up. If you are on the back of the ambulance, you may or may not, But most likely we'll end up sitting in the back of the ambulance because there's no room in the hospital. Why because in part a million more people have been added to the country. And by the way, just in case you think it's me making this up as a talking point, I want to point you to a study from Maccuarra University that says ambulance ramping is
getting worse in Australia. Now they suggest what can be done about it, But there is a whole collection of data points there that prove what I have said, that this thing is out of control, that it is a problem in almost every single state where we are at record numbers because there are numbers of people trying to call an ambulance if it is ever needed at any one time. So you see migration matters because more people,
well they do sometimes create more problems. Now, this is not a hit on people to come from different parts of the world. It's not a soft race comment. You know how many times and almost every night have to say the same thing because we know somebody's going to run off to the umpire and try to dob me in for saying something that I am clearly not. But guess what the government is about to miss its own targets, the one that was apparently going to dramatically drop things
by a hundred thousand people. Yes, an entire MCG is how wrong they have got it. Australia as net migration target for the last financial year risks being overshot by as much as one hundred thousand labor likely to eclipse its targets on the current annual intake as ongoing strength in domestic jobs market keeps workers in Australia and attracts overseas arrivals. As Maxwell Smart would say, missed it by
that much. If only it was funny. Now back to the protests and the ongoing carry on that we need to be dealing with because people want to bring the problems on the other side of the world to this country.
We know how ridiculous things were yesterday when even on October the seventh, people were deciding to listen to a collection of speakers, one including somebody who's visiting from the United States saying, in my belief, completely inappropriate and disgraceful things to be said on the day where the Jewish community in Australia deserves its right to mourn it's dead.
Today is not fully a day of mourning in many respects, today is also a day that marks considerable celebration, considerable progress, and in some respects, considerable privilege.
Now this bloke is a visitor in our country. I don't know why he is still in the country after what was said. Now, this bloke works for the Arizona State Universe. I have blacked out the contact information. I don't suggest anyone goes looking for it. I'm not suggesting anyone gets in contact with him other than the authorities
who should cancel his visa. Now again, I believe that it's completely legitimate for the people to be in standing of the Palestinian cause talking about the tens of thousands of people who have died since October the seventh. But the people who were saying what they were saying on October the seventh were not really talking about the Palestinian people in my view. They were using the plight of the Palestinian people to overtly antagonize the Australian Jewish community.
The fact that that event was happening on the steps of a mosque was again an attempt from the people who were making those comments to make sure that no one would shut it down because it was a religious ceremony. But again, this bloke has got plenty of form. You can find what he's had to say online. He's got his Instagram feed, his Twitter feed. Can you believe this bloke's followed by two point three million people on Instagram.
I want to read his words. But we were looking at his social media feed today, including in the past few days, the celebration seemingly of at least fourteen Israeli soldiers who were dying. Why because they were attempting to invade Lebanon. As for the overall protest situation, there's an interesting word that is starting to come out now from the new soobals premiere. Now, the new Soba's premier we know wants to crack down on the worst elements of
this stuff again, the new ones. In the conversation, I've already stated tonight that I understand that for fifty two weeks people have been recognizing what's been happening in Gaza. I understand that the people with the Hesbala flags, the people saying what's been said in the past twenty four
to forty eight hours, that's a completely different story. But the Prime Minister, as sorry, the premier, i should say in New South Wales, says that it's costing at least five maybe eleven million dollars to police what has been going on of recent times. This is what he said. I think on the radio today it's.
My view that police should be able to be in a position to deny a request for a march due to stretched police resourcing. And I'm not talking about a
union rally against the government over a wage deal. But when you've got someone putting in an application every seven days for fifty one weeks to march through Sydney streets, this is costing millions of dollars and I think taxpayers should be in a position to be able to say we would prefer that money is spent on road side breath testing, domestic violence investigations, knife crimes, rather than the huge resources that's going into the city and the community.
Now, there's two other little things that I want to put a little pin in because I think it's going to be interesting to see exactly what are the consequences for people who continuously are on the wrong side of what the police or the government are trying to say is reasonable or excessive protest. Now a story today that there is a person who has been fired from their
job because of activism and repeated activism. What will be interesting here is to work out when presumably this matter goes before a work tribune, or whether that is going to be why a company or an organization can sever its links from someone watch this space meantime, in Victoria, the first person to actually be successfully charged and found guilty of holding up offensive symbols, well, he again was found guilty today, but we will find out again. Put
a pin in it here. Now, Remember the maximum for things like Nazi salutes or Hezbollah flags or swastikas in Victoria is tens of thousands of dollars and maybe a year in jail. Now, whatever the judge decides to be
the punishment will then end up being the standard. Now remember what I've just said there about how much money and how long in prison, Well, all of that is, of course just the absolute maximum that can be handed Nine times out of ten, we know that judges for all different reasons decide to not hand out that maximum. So we'll truly find out what the actual standing penalty
is rather than the one that politicians just announce. Also worth noting here too, we'll talk tonight about what happened in the Parliament, about the motion that was first put forward by the Opposition leader, then changed by the Prime Minister, and all that happened in and around this today. But I want to show you that pole that I showed you last night Now it says here that what the best part of less than twenty percent of people believe
that we should be having the marches in Australia. Now again, only eight percent of people think that that's okay when it's in the name of Hamas, only seven percent. When it comes to Israel. In terms of voicing principal support one way or the other, again, it's only thirty five percent of people that have a strong position on that in favor of one or the other. And in terms
of refugees again it's twenty four percent. Now, I understand how passionate this issue is for a certain series of people, with the vast majority of people in every version of that pole echo my position from last night, which is, we understand, but Australia is different than the other parts of the world and if generationally, parents, grandparents, or even you yourself fled those places, then you leave the grievances there. Can have strong political opinions, fine and fair enough, but
we live in this country under a new harmony. And a new harmony is that literally two people who diametrically oppose each other can live next door to each other, can work in the same workplace, can occupy the same public square. I just thought that was worth reminding everyone who seems to think that this is the only thing
people want to talk about. It isn't. Meantime, eighteen days left for Queensland to finally pass its judgment on that idiot to Stephen Miles, old giggles Miles, and of course he is a merry band of fools who currently parade themselves as the Labor Party government in Queensland. Now. Amazingly, Stephen Miles, trying to win the seat of Bunderberg, which had been decided ultimately by just nine votes at the last election, was out and about at the side of
a hospital that was promised four years ago. You may well notice no hospital has been built. I doubt the people of Bunderberg are going to fall for it twice. But when asked today the Health minister, that's the health minister who is responsible for, remember, among other things, hospital ramping, among other things, taking out patients from hospitals to accommodation
at sea world. A person who is very sorry when somebody lost their life because they gave up waiting for an ambulance, Well, this is what she says about a patch of dirt four years after they promised it would be a hospital.
Sarah, did you.
Not see all of those trucks right?
So they have to absolutely make sure that all of the earthworks has done first and over the next month the contractors were just telling us things were really going to ramp up.
Pathetic, pathetic. Bundy won't fall for it, Queen's Land won't fall for it. They are just spinning their tires, sucking up days before inevitably they are wiped from political history. Do not assume that everyone else will do it. If you are in Queensland, you can do it. You can do it. In my view, you must do it by voting for anything but certainly not the Greens, but anything but at this upcoming election. Meantime, shout out to the
state political reporter for Channel nine. Great story that they've had in the past twenty four hours about a labor candidate.
The nine News can exclusively reveal the labor candidate in the marginal seat of Burleigh, Claire Carlin, who joined the campaign trail as recently as Saturday, has made repeated social media posts across a number of years abusing police. These posts, which have now been deleted, include in two thousand and nine saying we don't like the police because they kick and punch, another a year later saying on the count of three, sayf the police, and another in twenty eleven, again F the police.
Now, presumably the social media history that was available to Channel nine was available to the Labour Party, but the Labor Party didn't think that anyone would go back and look. Well they did, and the reporter confronted the person who would like to be a member of Parliament. I think after this performance, I can guarantee she won't.
What are your views on the Queensland Police. I'm actually just about to go somewhere and I'm not able to talk at the moment.
I'm sorry.
Okay, Well, you've seen some of your tweets where you've repeatedly tweeted F the police. Can you comme in on that? If elected, would you support the Queensland Police?
Of course I support the Queen's and police.
Can you explain those tweets?
I'm not aware of what you're talking about at the moment.
I'm just about to go and see my mum.
If I can show you here, I don't know.
I can't actually read that while i'm there.
You completely stop and have a look.
It's that clarsy is that you?
What a disgrace? Court red handed and then pretends I don't have time. I'm going to visit my mom. Giggle, giggle, runoff. Don't vote for that lady. Now, A couple of other things to mention before I get to American politics, which has got a really nice segment for you tonight. One of the greats of Australian radio has decided to retire again, but this time forever. John Laws is of course radio legend, member of the Hall of Fame, a man who has
made his impact multiple times before. In fact, can we roll that tape again because that was when he retired from TUI. Pay attention to the far left hand corner of that footage because you're going to see me. I'm holding up a triple M microphone because that's where I worked at the time. There he is, Oh, well, see I was a reporter at one point period of time, so I was there the first time that he retired. He of course went back and worked two sm and
Bill Carlos for many years. Bill's now passed on. Since then, John's lost his wife and now it's time to pull upin at the end of the year on his radio career.
It's time for a rest, is what I think. But I still feel young, I still feel healthy, and when I call it a day.
It'll be a day.
I'm not going to go away and then come back again and say, oh, it was all a mistake. It may well be a mistake, but there'll be no return.
We'll try and have a chat to Lawsey before he is done. In the meantime, of course, we wish him nothing but the best and one of my favorite Australians of all time. Like it's kind of Peter Brock and John Farnham. I don't have any other faces that I need on my Mount Rushmore. I'll just stick with those two. Well, John Farnham is finally sitting down and he's written in an autobiography. We know how crook he's been of recent times. Well,
we started to hear his voice for the first time. Obviously, I would doubt he's ever going to sing again when you hear his voice, But Jesus, it's good to hear him up and kicking, isn't it.
I don't enjoy talking about myself, I really don't.
I'll get me wrong.
I'm an ego maniak, but judging up the fast and figuring through what has and hasn't been it's just not something I've ever really enjoyed.
I've never met him. It was always my dream to interview him. Clearly, that won't happen now. But I love that man. Now I don't quite love Kamala Harris. I think I've made that clear from now. And we thought that the worst thing that was going to happen to her this week was when her teleprompter failed and she couldn't add lib.
And did youse Magic Johnson.
Remember his 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.
Well, it got worse. She was interviewed on sixty minutes in the United States, and it's the toughest interview that she's got. And I've got to say well done to the reporter who did it. Not perfect, but hey, this is the best we're going to get. He followed up the astro top question. He followed up and he called Bayes on her. For example, all of the ideas that she has, how are you going to pay for it?
My plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America's economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America's economy.
The pardoning that Advice President, the question was how are you going to pay for it?
He one of the things, I'm going to make sure that the richest among us who can afford it, pay their fair share and tax. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations. And I plan on making that face what you're.
Dealing with the real world here, But the real world includes how are you going to get this to Congress?
You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about, because their constituents know exactly what I'm.
Talking about about. But blah blah blah. The garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage. And again, the reporter was great because again in all the interviews that she's done, there's sort of a question about, look, you've changed your mind a lot from the time you ran for president, for when you were vice president, and now all of those positions we know you definitely lose on. So you've put out all these statements that you've changed
your mind on this issue and that issue. But this is the best version of that question that he's thrown at her.
Let me tell you what your critics and the colum this say.
Okay, they say, the reason so many voters don't know you is that you have changed your position on so many things. You were against fracking, now you're for it. You supported looser immigration policies, now you're tightening them up. You were for medicare for all, now you're not.
So many that.
People don't truly, I can't believe or what you stand for.
Middle Stone. You've hurled that.
In the last four years. I have been vice president of the United States, and I have been traveling our country, and I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus. Do you We are diverse people geographically regionally in terms of where we are in our backgrounds.
And by the way, see the American.
People do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus where we can figure out and understanding.
The opposite of what you use your.
Values to find common sense solutions.
And that has been my approach. And then finally on the issue of immigration, where the reality is millions of people have been able to as a result of the policies of Joe Biden Kamala Harris. Borders are, whether she wants to admit it or not, the evengel the country illegally now again, migration fantastic, illegal migration not great, this reporter, the best question hits a roight between the oys.
There was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadruple correct from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake good to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did.
It's a long standing problem and were at hand and from day one, literally you.
Saw undoing all of the Trump stuff.
What I was asking was was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place.
I think the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem.
Okay, but the numbers did quadruple, and the.
Number today because of what we have done. We have cut the flow of illegal immigration half. Should we have to cut the flow of fentanyl by half? But we need Congress to be able. Congress actually fixed the problem.
You have accused Donald Trump of using racist troops when it comes to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
Yeah, well, surprise, surprise, well done, reporter spectacular, her performance terrible. You can see the frightened behind her eyes, which is why the interview she's doing in the next twenty four hours. Howard Stern, who has said that he hates Trump's supporters, not just Trump, and Stephen Colbert, who of course had people dress up like the vaccine. So we get the cuddles that she's going to get, but at least a serious interview and surprise, surprise, the mental ginger that she's playing.
The tower fell down. But I need to discuss and debate in the next little while. Make sure you join us Nigel Farage in a couple of minutes time as well. You can join us anytime via email to Polotskuynews dot com dot a you and a reminder we are coming to Tasmania a couple of Sunday's time outdown at sky News dot com. If you want to join us in long Ceys then on October the twentieth. All right, two quick things. Apologies for the voice. I don't know what's
going on. It just so it maybe feels worse than it actually sounds, but my apologies. And secondly, Asher made this for me today. Love your darlin, so that's why it's on Telly all right here loving their kids as well as Senator Holly Hughes and future Senator Joe Hildebrand because he's going to be pushing it uphill tonight. All right, So we saw what the Prime Minister had to say when it came to mocking Tourette's. He then took a
grand total of six hours before issuing the apology. Now remember this is the bloke who in real time wanted Barnaby Joyce to say sorry for calling him a sook. So I don't buy Alvo's version of the apology, which is while I immediately withdrew it, he didn't immediately withdraw it. He doubled down, kept going and then eventually when he realized it was a problem, and then hoping that it wouldn't turn up on the six pm news. He waited until eight o'clock at night when everyone in the press
gallery had gone home. Well, thankfully we were rolling on it, so you got this apology.
Today in question time, I made comments that were unkind and hurtful. I knew it was wrong as soon as I made the comment. I apologized and I withdrew as soon as I said it.
But it shouldn't have happened.
And I also want to apologize to all Australians who suffer from this disability. I regret saying it was wrong, it was insensitive, and I apologize.
Holly metaphorical freak from the Senate end.
Look, it is just beyond belief that he came out with this today and then the way he's handled it. Richard Miles's face was I think the personification of exactly what it should have been. You could see on Miles's face, just the look of abject horror the second Albanese said it.
You know, as the parent of a child with a disability, you know, I go crazy when I hear people say, oh, we're all autistic, or we're all a bit on the spectrum because it denigrates the experience of those people like my son who suffer considerable disability because of their autism. But then to use turetts as an insult is just offensive. And it's not only offensive, as I said, I was
offended as the mother of an autistic child. It's offensive to anyone in the disability community that anyone's disability would be used to mock someone, to denigrate someone. And I think his apology was embarrassing. I think it was inadequate. Obviously someone in his office has said, quick, get yourself out there and do it now.
Just six hours later.
With that.
Look, I mean you could you could even hear it in the speaker's voice, you know, Milton Dick, that you could hear when he spoke over the top, that everyone was appalled at what he said. And you know, this is the Prime Minister who promised he'd do politics differently, at Gendler politics and a kind Agendler. And I can tell you it's been nothing but worse than it's ever been under this mob. And this is just another example.
Joe, what are we missing?
I will defend him.
I think this is I can understand the frustration that the left gets incredibly outraged when anyone on the right does it. I don't think that makes it right for the right to get ridiculously outraged. I mean, the same people who say everything's political correctness gone man say this, he was not. He was not insulting people with tourets. He was using a very very common vernacular term that Australians use all the time.
I have I have plenty of I have plenty of people extremely.
Close to me who have had profound and have profound disabilities, including my brother and my best mate. I was not in the remotest offended by it any more than I would be if someone said that a policy was schizophrenic because it went all over the place. Does that mean it's that you're insulting schizophrenic people?
But you're missing the second part of it. I didn't just say Toretz it was it was it was the.
Something.
This is someone who can't can't stop talking and he's using he's using what every Australian I reckon in the pub at some point or another would have said.
So you think the pub test on this is.
Well, if you say to someone, mate, are you are you psycho? Is that insulting. I mean, is as mental as anything? Are they insulting? Where was the outrageous.
Team?
I think I think it's different when it's the other side. And this is the thing as someone who.
You think in the same way. One side is too sensitive.
That's right, And I see it all the time and it does my head in because I get caned by both sides were actually saying no, we've got to actually draw back here.
There are plenty of people in the chamber laughing, I.
Think on both sides. But I look, I think that's when you're the Prime minister. You're supposed to be above that stuff. And look, all human beings, especially ones that are speaking extemporaneously, ad libbing or adversarial conversation. You might go too far. You should have the sensitivity around yourself to know you've gone too far and not just go oh, because there's going to be a point of ward. There's a way to say sorry six hours later.
But he did it. He did it straight away.
He did it, was already he already said said two or three times that he withdrew it, and he said that he apologized straight afterwards.
It is there in the audio.
You cannot so why did he go back in six hours later.
To make it even clearer, Because we live in a culture of ridiculous outrage that has just hold the proportion they were in the chamber debate, but one holdating the war in Gaza and.
This is what people get upd about.
You've got a million displaced lebantes. You've got it as part of the overall question time, and and there was that there was Peter Dunn saying, we're so pro is we're going to refuse to back a motion that's and now we're going to get to get upset that you said that last word quickly.
It wasn't about Gaza at all, Joe, And it was about that. It was a question around the family home and capital gains tax, so it actually had nothing to do with the Gaza.
The number one question.
Question time and you ask a mother of a child with dread and if it's something that's so colloquial and so acceptable in the pub test, why did he come back in six hours later and apologize? So I think, Joe, because that I love you are trying to pull it very long, but I.
Love you too.
And but but the idea he knows that there that these things can be whipped up, that they can be mischaracterized, that people will point you.
Would he have done if it was Scott Morrison? You know exactly what.
I said that were blessed during the debate.
That's right, thank you, and I did. I did not get outraged. Sure not get out by that.
And I'm not holding you responsible for what he says.
You're consisted in your life and that's outrage.
Machine needs to take a good, long, hard look at itself and ask why it's not outraged about this, because you know what, you've got to look at the context, you've got to look at the intent behind things, and you've got to have a sense of proportion about what you get outraged about, because when you know.
The world's on the brink of World War three.
Don't disagree, but it's just the standard is only going to apply now when it's you know, metaphorically you're got.
All everyone else, then we wouldn't have to have these.
In And okay, we've got Nigel up in a couple of seconds, so let's quickly talk about the motion commotion that took place today. So Saturday, I think was when Peter dun'ts look, we should talk about October seven. When Parliament goes back, it won't be on October seven, but it'll be on October eight. Back and forth about what the words would be because it started to broaden out from what Dunton wanted it to be. Dunn't says he
wasn't going to sign up to it. In fact, he ended up saying this because the motion wasn't what he was planning it to be.
There are other sections here which go well beyond the intent of what should be a motion to mark the loss of life of twelve hundred people on the first anniversary. That's what this motion was to be about. But of course the Prime Minister is trying to speak out of both sides of his mouth and that is not something that we will support in relation to this debate.
All right, Holly, you've had it good, so now it's time for you to feel slightly wobbly here. Right. The polling out of Resolve, No never, The polling out of Resolve showed right that basically thirty percent of people when questions about what should our standing, what should our response be, what should refugees, they have a very diffinite view about Israel versus garsa okay, thirty percent of people okay now
and another twenty percent. You can get to fifty percent and they're saying, well, both sides right, And then there's the other half that says, okay, we get it, but we don't want it to dominate our conversation all day every day. Your response to that polling and the endless priority of it in the Parliament from everyone from your side to the Greens.
Look, the Australian people are doing it incredibly tough with cost of living pressures at the moment. We know that that is their top first, second, third, fourth and fifth issue is cost of living. We know that the situation in Israel and Gaza and Lebanon is not their top of mind. But the reality is what we're talking about was a commemoration of October seventh, the biggest murder per grom of Israeli and Jewish citizens since the Second World War.
We were talking.
About one day commemoration, one year anniversary of when that terrible crime occurred, when that terrorist attack occurred. We're not you know, this isn't about talking about it every day. What occurred in the Parliament today was a break with a very long standing of decades and decades of bipartisanship when it came to standing with Israel, which you know, as Bob Hawk said, if the bell tolls for Israel, it tolds for all of us.
So, Joe, do you think that the motion, I mean, you're going to disagree that the motion strayed from that central point. But again, look, I'm going to annoy a lot of people. People are going to send me emails us. Again, I understand what's going on in the world, and I'm not saying don't talk about it. I'm just saying, for everyone who thinks that they can make the ultimate endless points about this, I don't think that's where the majority of people are.
No, and I think that I actually agree with you. I think this is something that people are scared to even engage with. It's something that people quite frankly don't want to touch with a barge pole, and they don't want it.
Over here overwhelmingly.
That's another thing that resolving that the idea that you would turn what's happening over there into a conflict on of all days, the anniversary of October seventh.
Hence why I was as clear as the jewishy Elert.
Absolutely get him out of here, get him on the first had disgrace. I think this was a motion that tried to say something simple and mournful and positive, and I think Peter Dutton and the Coalition rejected it at their peril.
All right, this was fun. Thank you guys, do appreciate it. Love you see well again next week. Everyone loves everyone. Nobody's wabbling. We're all great, all right, quick break back with more. Nigel Farage standing by in London. Lots to talk about about what's happening in the UK, and we'll probably.
Talk about.
Our mate. Nigel Farage is joining us from the UK right now and he's making quite the point about the new Labor government. In fact, the Reform Party's put out a bit of a piss take video about the new Labor government rollo tape.
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So the broadcasting rules in the UK are very clear. We get a party political broadcast once every year or so which goes out on the big channels BBC, ITV, etc. But you're not allowed to use images of political opponents. So what our bright young things in the office decided is let's use AI representations of Kir Starmer, of Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor. And we said it to the broadcasters last week and they told us we would love to refuse this, but we can't because you're within the rules. Now I
expect the rules will get rewritten. But it's had quite an impact. And you know what, it's a hard hitting political message, but it's also quite funny.
Well, and I think if you can make them laugh then you're halfway there to being able to convince somebody to whatever your position is. Now, tell me about a fight involving particular islands. What's happening?
This is awful. So the cha Gas Islands, Okay, I know you've never heard of them. They're bang in the middle of the Indian Ocean. They're a chain of islands and the British have controlled. The British have sovereignty of those islands. No one lives there for a variety of reasons. But on the biggest island, Diego Garcia, there is a massive US base. It's a US British base, but for America it is one of their two most important assets
in the East. And what the Labor government have decided to do, basically because of colonial guilt about our past, using the spurious United Nations Maritime Court that's going to rule against us, They've decided to give the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which is oney three hundred miles away from Chagos. And by the way, Mauritius have never had control of them in the past either. What's
the problem with that? Well, the problem is that Mauritius, run by a hard left labor government, and I went there on holiday a couple of years ago, has a massive China town. The Chinese are investing huge amounts of money in Mauritius. And what will happen here is whatever the lease agreement says. We saw a lease agreement with Hong Kong that was totally ignored. What will happen is on one of the other islands, the Chinese will build
their own naval and air force base. This is a strategic disaster, apparently supported by President by but then he's got every single foreign policy decision wrong. And so I raised the question yesterday in the House of Commons to our Foreign secretary, well, what after November the fifth, when Donald Trump wins, what's he going to think about this? And what does this do to our relationship, our key
as with Australia, our key relationship with America. They must be laughing their socks off in Beijing.
What's perfect metaphor for how the Western world? You know? But they have for one of a bit of term a shop being fired. They're handing the keys back, and it's something that we all find as hard againstation every day you do in the Parliament, we do it here. I'm hardly happening about thirty seconds. So give me, give me the rah rah. The latest poles are pretty good for Trump. A feeling yeah, looking good.
Kamala Harris appeared on sixty Minutes The Big American Program last night. She's avoided media up until now. She was totally exposed. She couldn't answer the question about the number of illegals crossing the border since she had been. The borders are and the bedding markets and bananas last night, and Trump is now a clear favorite.
Go get them Donald, fight, fight, fight, vote, vote vote, as they say, thank you, mate, appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon. Nigel Faras will see him again next week. That's our show for tonight, making Kelly tomorrow and he's the late debate