Paul Murray Live | 9 April

Stephen Conroy and some fun. It doesn't get better than Megan Kelly and she is on the show tonight from the United States.

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Tell you one of my favorite things that we get to do of the campaign. Your chance to be in the room by sending me an email for next Monday with your question for Bobcatter, Pauline Hanson, Matt Canavan. Pubtest it's skynews dot com dot Au. Twenty four days to go in the electoral contest. It is thirteen days now less than two weeks before the first votes will be cast.

As I say, the majority of people will vote early this election, so the election will be in two parts, the one of the people who turn up before election day the people who turned up on election day. Which is why pretty much everything will be settled by the launches of the parties, which happen here on Sunday. Full coverage of course from dawn dell dusk and all in between when it comes to things here on Sky News.

As for what took place today, well, the Prime Minister he spent some time in Sydney before making his way up to the far north of Queensland. He was in Cans today. This is after well, just meeting the people, and by that I mean a pre arranged photo op pretending you went to the markets and mixed it up with people. The reality was of course all pre planned about who you shake your hands, that's the way it works.

And of course once he got to Queensland, there's only one way to win an election, and that's by one right.

million dollar, one hundred and fifty million dollars, one billion dollars, two hundred and forty five million dollars.

the resourcing here. But one of the people who was brought along as a backup for the Prime Minister to say his plan was fantastic is the former Strainer of the Year, Professor Patrick mcgory. Now I love this bloke. He and he and Hickey the professor have done great things with the organization headspace. And he was asked a question that was meant to be a knockout blow on the behalf of the Labor Party. Instead the Professor, well, he hit right back and it ended up being well this.

the table. And good on him for having the courage as he does to stand up in front of the nation's press, in front of the Prime minister and tell the truth, not to propagate the political lies. As for the opposition leader, and I'll get to his emotional twenty four hours in a moment's time, he made a major announcement today and that was how many people will they cut immigration by? The number is.

arrangements they currently have. They like the relationships with the side of politics that they probably vote for, if not most likely the ones that the Greens give their preferences to, that of course, being the Labor Party every single day, no matter the city, in a manga matter the location, the people who should be holding his feet to the fire, who should be calling bs, not because they're lefties or righties,

but because that's the job of interrogating. When somebody stands up with the policy, find the way to pick the hole in it, or when they turn around and say we're definitely going to do this thing that we haven't done for the past three years, point out, why haven't youve done it for the past three years? Oh no, this mob is just rolling along doing the pr for the bloke.

It's not about from what they believe. It is about adding the best part of two million people to every queue that exists in Australia, from a childcare center to ambulance ramping, to rental cues to people putting their hands up to buy a house. That's why you have to pump the brakes now. You can't go all the way to zero. Why because you do have to make sure that you have people who have practical skills to be

able to come to the country. But you have to reduce the number because the infrastructure does not match the record number of people that have been brought in by this government. Peter duddon last night before the nation's eyes, made it very clear that it wasn't some dog whistle about they're the wrong color, they believe in the wrong thing, they speak a different language. No, heylike any sensible reasonable person understands, and in a nation of immigrants, immigrants are

the past, present future of the country. We should all adhere to the idea that the Lord of the land is more important than every faith. But again that's not part of the conversation. The reason immigration needs to be cut back is because of every single person that is added to every single thing that you q for at every point of the day, from how long the traffic jam is to how many people are competing for a rental home. That's why it matters, and that's why Peter

Dutton is in exactly the right place. This idea that to mention it somehow is having a go at people of different cultures is garbage and it is a perfect example about how the media loves to spin the ball, surprisingly always to the left. Now, let's talk about the incredible emotion of the past twenty four hours for Peter Dutton. Andrew Bolt told us just before the debate last night about what the turmoil was that Peter Dutton was dealing with, because,

as you know, his dad had had a heart attack. Now, in that moment, when your dad is of a certain age and you get news like that, you don't know what the next call is going to be after that. For him to be able to go out there and perform the way that he did is an absolute credit to him as a human being, regardless of eating in a vote for him or not vote for him, whether you hate him on TikTok, or whether you love him on Facebook. That was a strong example of the type

of pressure test that a prime minister has to go under. Thankfully, Bruce apparently is okay, but for anyone who's had to go through something like that, well you can imagine how difficult it was. And he spoke about that today.

to being able to hold on to government. But I've got to say I thought about Peter and his father today because my little girl had the Easter hat parade at her school and I'm pleased to say that my dad Ken was with me. And I am very, very lucky to be somebody who is able to spend time with their dad, who's always had a great relationship with their and I know there's lots of people who don't, but it is yet again a reminder to us that if you've got dad around, reach out, make the time

because dads are awesome. Dads have sacrificed. I know when it came to my father and when I was born and they wanted to get a new Telly. He didn't just work one job. He didn't work two job, he worked three. I know how hard he worked to make sure that we had a roof over our head and meal on the table. And I know the traditional Australian values that he has instilled in me that I show

you on this program Easion every night. So Kenny Dog, I love you, and the Kenny Dogs all over Australia, we love you, and we promise plenty more time, not just text and phone calls. Let's hang out more often. I love you Dad. It was so good for you to be there, and Zadi just absolutely loved it as as she did as well. But then let's get to a pretty low moment from the media today. This was a question that was asked by a Channel seven reporter. And I'm not even going to try to do the

benefit of the doubt. Now, the question had been asked, the answer he been given. But this reporter from Channel seven decided to ask this question this way to a bloke whose father had just had a heart attack and worst case scenario may well have not made it through last night.

was framed? Now, keep told that particular reporter is one of the better ones. Fine, fair enough, but that was a low blow that was unnecessary, and I can't imagine them reacting well if that question was asked to themselves that day after their own parent had an event that may well have killed them. It's just it's low. It's low, and believe it or not, there's another version of low

that I've got to talk about here. The People's Forum has been happening at sky News now for fifteen years, and for more than fifteen years, Sky News has been at the absolute heart of Australian politics. We are the channel that is on in the MP's offices, it's on in the CEO suites, and it's on at your place in suburban and regional Australia. Why because we care about the detail. Yes, here at night we push very hard when it comes to what we believe. But you know,

it is what we believe. So of those who don't work for this organization, they do everything they can to try to turn us into a caricature, something to be ignored, and they find a one hundred different ways to tell you why any and everything that appears here is something that you should ignore. Principally, it's because they hate the idea that we at times can be an absolute form of resistance to the march of the far left through

the cultural institutions and the political conversation. We are people who want to honor our fathers and grandfathers, mothers, grandmothers, and want to set up the best possible future for

our kids and grandkids. We want to make sure that whatever generation you are in, we're in a country that reflects the one that we always thought it would be, not one that people want to redesign, not because they think it's better, but because they think that it will create an endless dependence on the center left of Australian politics.

I hate that every time one of these people turn around and has a crack at us, because we defend the idea that Anzac Day ceremonies should be compulsory and there shouldn't be an opt out option like exists in some public schools going into this year. Oh, you're fighting a culture war. No, no, no, I'm sorry. We're pushing back. There are lines in the sand that cannot and should not be crossed when it comes to culture, or economics

or the way of society works. Yet it's just too easy to put us in the naughty corner and roll their eyes collectively. You saw how they laughed, and they may well laugh at me. That's fine. I've got the broad shoulders and I lead with my chin. But I get pissed off because they're really laughing at you. They're laughing at you for watching, They're laughing at you for subscribing,

They're laughing at you for sharing our content. These are the people who did not raise a finger in the fight to censor the Internet because they thought it would be a way of censoring you from having information that challenges their version of events. And that's it. The truth

is the truth. But let's be very clear, as I show you every night, you get to see how the media makes it their version of the truth, how they lie by omission, how they decide to further political narratives for the people that they like, and the types of resistance they put in place to anyone who challenges it. Now, way back when when I was just at a radio reporter, and again I thought I had my dream job then

because I was able to work in the medium. I grew up listening to the radio on desperately wanting to be on it, and I was able to achieve that dream. Let alone the one that I get to live every single night in your house, and I will forever be thankful, and I plan to go nowhere. Ever, I will take the man Cave with me wherever, and it will always be in connection to Sky News, no question. I appreciate that I've been here for fifteen years, but one of the people who I've got to say I thought I

got along pretty well with was Lee Sales. Now. Lee Sales, of course, was the state political reporter for the ABC TV for a while that eventually made a way to the then standalone host of the seven thirty Report, And now she's sort of one of the stars of the ABC, and the ABC works in a star system just like Channel nine, but without the ads. Remember they care about the logies. When thirty years ago Andrew Denton used to

joke about the logis on the ABC. Now, I think this is just snobbish what she said last night while she was delivering a analysis for one of the many taxpayer funded social media services that is run by the ABC.

on radio National. Oh, of course not, despite the fact that it is an absolute fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what people actually listen to on the radio. Now, I get it, two minion people do not watch the show each and every night. But I love each and every person who doesn't just watch this show, but commits to this show. I make that show for them, not

for everyone else in the media. It means that your career prospects they just disappear and nobody will touching because you're too hot and you're two content, don't care, don't want to work anywhere else, don't need to work anywhere else. This joint will stand for a very very long time, and I look forward to being a part of its

magnificent future. And when you insult this channel, you may well think that you are insulting presenters you don't like me, but you're also insulting all of the people who work for this joint. Young, passionate, creative people, who I hope get to go on and live the dream in their careers like I have been able to. You are better than that, Lee, but you weren't last night. As for the Treasurer's debate that took place this evening, I got to say one thing, and one thing very clearly, Thank

goodness for Ross Greenwood. Thank goodness he gave them both a tough time. He gave them both a chance to deliver an uplifting statement of the country, neither of which did. But I've got to say I was just screaming at the TV at the relentless line when it came to Jim Charmers. Now Angus Taylor, smart bloke, but he just doesn't deliver a punch. In Australian politics rewards how you deliver a punch probably better than some of the decisions that you make, or in Charmers sense, the ones where

he doesn't even have to defend himself. But I want to give you a little bit of an insight into what I think the personality of Jim Chalmers is, and Jim Chalmers is on a trajectory that if they get re elected, nasty nicky Sava over there in the Channel nine papers, say albou get another way, charmers next, this is the bloke most likely to end up being the next Prime Minister of Australia. But look at how he plays the game and how frankly passive aggressive his version

of politics is. This is what he said at the start of the debate.

a man who knows how to work the media. You can see him working every side. You can see him getting his profile pieces up. You can see that he's most likely somebody who is a very well placed informatist to what is happening inside the government. You can see that when he submitted things about his own past, that those things had been protected by the media. This bloke is slick. This bloke most likely will end up as a leader. This bloke will end up in a place

in Australian history whereas people like me understandably forgotten. And they will build, no doubt, some monument to this bloke at some point in time, because that's the way the Left goes. They name arenas after people like John Kin who destroyed Victoria. They make a statue for people like Daniel Andrews. They give him an OAM for services to public health when every indisty suggests that it has never been worse as a result of the decisions that he

made during COVID. So we know how they're going to treat him. Charmers. But I frankly think the blokes are bully and I think that when Ross Green would challenge him about whether he had a glass draw or not, it was an excellent question and a wonderful example about the true state of the bloke who wants to tell you everything is up when it's really down. He wants to pretend that in the last election everything with cost of living was personal about Josh Fridenberg and Scott Morrison.

Yet everything about cost of living nothing to do with him. It's cyclical. It's Trump. He's already setting up that for the next four years everything's going to be Trump. And as I showed you last night, he's intergenerational report that told us the Australian federal budget will be in deficit for the rest of the twenty twenties. All of the twenty thirties, all of the twenty forties, all of the twenty fifties, and as far into the twenty sixties as

they can predict. That report came out not when Donald Trump was in charge, but when Donald Trump was being charged with crimes that if Georgia got its way, would have seen him go to jar for the rest of his life. On over, it's Donald Trump is going to ruin everything. That's the prediction that we are that bad, that that bloke has designed a system so bad, are budgets so weak that it's in deficit for forty years

on her But it's all Trump's fault. And you watch the media who just love love being able to pretend that this election is all about Trump when you and I both know it is all about the people who have made this joint worse in the past three years, and given the chance to do it again, there is no indication that they would do anything but the same. Remember the real cost of labor, the numbers they can't spin, the things they can't get away from. Fifty four thousand

people lost their job last month. One point six million homes are in mortgage stress tonight. Two out of three can't afford their rent, three million people on the verge of homelessness, three point seven million households will run out of food this week, twenty nine, five hundred and twenty one small businesses go bust, the highest supermarket prices ever, the highest taxes on alcohol smokers, petrol, budget deficits for the next forty years, and one point two trillion dollars

of debt. And by the way, if you think I'm making it up, I've got the sources. And they're not far right wing think tanks. They're food bank, they're the Bureau of Statistics. That's the true cost of this idiot. This idiot who thinks that he can lie and bully and bs is. Oh well, let's have a respectful conversation. I can't stand the blog, but if Australia decides to rehire them for three years, don't come to me and complain.

As for the People's Forum, and another little thing I wanted to mention last night, one hundred people in that room. They are the undecided. Interestingly, we got to hear from what some of those people had to say after they walked out and awarded the win to Anthony ABERNEESI. Remember forty four. I think it was thirty five for Dutton and twenty something left over as undecided. This is what they said about what they thought of the night and who they might end up actually voting for.

on the ballot paper for that particular lane. But about that group of undecided people who don't watch shows like this, which doesn't mean they're dmbe or disinterested, got something else. They're more interested in something else than the hardcore politics that we present to discuss and debate each and every night.

You know, they're offered the foot of the park wherever it happens to be good luck to them great And as we've seen when it comes to the undecided voters, Paul say, about thirteen percent of people have absolutely no idea who they're going to vote for. Another thirty five percent of people could apparently change their mind, meaning that what forty eight percent of people may will be movable

in the next little while. So I was interested when the ABC did their own focus group with undecided voters. They use the same people that we use here each and every Sunday night would start of the race. It's the Red Bridge organization. This is what some people said about the Prime Minister or the alternative, Anthony Abernezi. He's a good politician, I'll give him man. He's got a cool name. That's about it. To be honest, I don't

have much information to form an opinion. I have heard him speak just randomly, but I haven't found him charismatic or believable. I guess I just found him appearing dodgy like most politicians. In my opinion, those were undecided voters in a Melbourne seat talking to a group that was put together by Redbridge and paid for by the OBC. What do they say about Peter Dutton. There's a common

sentiment expressed by Linda. I think, whether you're like him or you don't like him, a leader is about standing for what you're going to do and following through with that. Even when people don't seem to care for all of Dutton's policies, they seem to respect him more for his conviction. Says the article, he didn't want to stand and do a press conference because they had an indigenous flag, so he's conservative in that way. I don't necessarily agree with that,

but at least he's got a stance. He's willing to put it out there and say what it is that he stands for. In short, this group sees him as more authentic than the Prime minister. That's the conclusion of a group of people put together by Redbridge, paid for by the ABC. Undercided voters in Victoria In short, this group sees him, as I said, as a more authentic person the Prime Minister. He knows what he wants, he knows what he represents. I think that's very real and

different personality from our current leader. As I would often say, nothing to see here, this election's over the books or one hundred percent right? Maybe not. We'll all wait and see, we'll all learn together, and we will all ride every minute of every hour here on Sky News between now and then, Stephen Conroy, Broman, Bishop bel duke it out next Meegan Kelly before we're done Wednesday night. I love it.

I love it here on Sky News. Thanks for watching now, marking around enough from me, Bromin, Bishop carry out a champ on a Wednesday and he gets s but he comes back to Troitch and every week we love you. Stephen Conroy here to help all right. I want to ask you both the question that is the same question that we've all been asked privately in the past little while, depending on a pole, a bookie, a sense, a reaction

in your gut. Is this election over? Stephen Conroy? Do you think that the bottoming out, the build back, the momentum so now it's a conversation between minority and majority, not a conversation about first terming.

a tough few weeks. I think the poles will tighten, but I don't at this stage have a Labor majority. I think Labor have been favored for the last few months to form a minority government. The question is is it a big minority, meaning they need a load of independencent Tails and Greens and all together to govern? Or do they just need and they can pick and choose. But no, Petter Dutton was solid on Tuesday night and

I think he won the debate. But he was solid and he's got a chance now to go forward.

I thought the tenor of the voices and the what was said counted. From the treasurer the snake charmer, we got the usual snake oil.

is a legitimate criticism. How does it actually get the gas from Queensland when he's reserved it into the well Victorian markets so he can help lower prices as he claims. I think he's got a.

The numbers are that the ALP primary voters apparently at nineteen, which is not true, the Independence is at forty one, which is not true, and the Liberal Parties is at twenty, which is not true. But this is not one of those Muslim Muslim votes candidates. This is somebody who's a little closer to the Diele model. And we know that the Labor Party machine got beat we're closer to Bromwe yeah,

well this is it. But what's your thoughts here about whether again, well, we're all talking Nash one hundred and fifty one races and the odd little surprise in a place like Western Sydney where a different type of candidate might be the one who they want to go with rather than the union boy from Well.

out on the road. We spoke to her on Sunday night because she is such a weapon and she is so effective, remember turning sixty forty yes to sixty forty No. She's been very strong. She'd be exactly the type of person I honestly believe the majority Australians want in a cabinet, sitting around helping form the policy of the nation. But wherever she goes, protesters follow, which means bullies follow, and those bullies get quite serious. And now whenever she goes

somewhere there has to be extra police, extra security. Bromman, what does it say about our country that somebody who is strong gets that sort of reception when she is not a figure of hate, She's not a figure out there sort of dog whistling on anything nasty. She just is an absolute disruption to a very comfortable system that's run for a very long time.

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steady itself and will be fine, that's what's happened. Every time they're acting like the people who are living off of their retirement accounts, like go cash in one hundred dollars of it on Monday so that they can live on Tuesday. That's not generally how one's retirement account works. Generally, one can wait a week before they have to make a decision on it. And I just like this is more about wanting to panic or wanting to hate Trump.

You know, there are some people who love drama. You know, my daughter when she was younger, like you know, eleven, would be like, I love drama and all her you know, little whatever they were at third grade friends at the time, whatever you are when you're they're eleven, would say, oh, we love drama, you know, fifth grade, sixth ring. Then you grow out of that, unless you're a leftist, in which case you stay addicted to drama forever and you

come up with imaginary ailments that you have. And this is kind of one of those, because a lot of these people aren't hurting at all. They just love drama and anything that makes Trump look bad so much the better. And QE. The renewed talk of the coalition is breaking it's finally happening. He's finally going to go down. Okay, I have news for you. The coalition was always broken. The establishment Republicans never loved Trump. They were brought into

the Trump fold kicking and screaming, where they remain. I mean, you read some of these right wing publications that don't like Trump, and you'd think you were reading the Huffington Post these days, even before the whole Terrift story. So they're loving it. It's like, we told you he was bad, he's wrong, he was the wrong choice. You didn't listen,

and now we're stuck with this guy. It's like, okay, So those of us who supported Trump and understood Trump and who aren't really all that ideological, like, well, I am a free trader and therefore I cannot support a tariff. Some of us are like, I don't know, I don't know what's what's the arform gonna do? Okay, can we give it? So we're not outraged. And I think Trump's base, which is that bottom half, those of the I could take out a gun and shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue

and they wouldn't leave me. Voters of Trump's that this is who this whole thing is for. So no, they're not going to leave Trump. And while the elites are irritated as they watch their you know, thirty million dollar fortunes slip down to twenty seven, the bottom half of the country sees a real shot at improving their lives,

which is why he was re elected. So I'm having a lot of difficulty getting all worked up about the market, which if you've been in news long enough, you know it does this thing called go up, go down, and then go back up again.

professional protesters who they call up. They're like, okay, this weekend, it's DC. Okay, what's the cause? Hands off? How many times we have to see this movie?

on what you've read in the Washington Post. Go buy what's in your gut, because your gut will tell you the truth, which is this is bullshit meant to manipulate you good and plenty in time for the mid terms or the special elections.

stop the retrospectives. They've all hit print and they're really ugly for President Biden and the press corps and his inner circle, and now his inner circle's running like rats off the ship to whatever media huckster will take them to say, oh I knew I knew. I was really concerned behind the scenes, like, okay, how does that help you? I mean, I have more respect for the woman who was on c and then the other night who was on Team Biden in the White House saying or in

the campaign saying I didn't know. I wish i'd known. I kind of believed them when they said he was fine. I didn't spend that much time with him. Okay, that's probably closer to like what's real. So no one's going to be able to save themselves. Like they lost the presidency because of this nonsense. They actually might have had a shot had they had an early primary and elected a strong Democrat. But look, I'm not surprised that the

ladies of the View don't care. You know, they're very busy over there looking for an extra IQ point so they can get into the triple digits. They don't have time to read books.