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Good Evening, Welcome to the show.
Well, there are two things I want to talk about tonight, the elimination of terror leader Hassan Nasrallah and the utterly despicable reaction to it here in Australia. While most sensible observers welcomed Nasrulla's death on our streets, thousands of morons in Sydney and Melbourne mourned him tonight. The AFP and New Southelles Police have launched investigations into breaches of counter
terror laws by those supporting Hesblah. But it's beyond comprehension how thousands and thousands of people in Sydney and Melbourne chanted allegiance to this bloodthirsty terror group. One Sydney speaker described Nasrullah, the murderous leader, as the hero of heroes.
Have a look, will tell you.
In the name of the person that you have just involved the hero of the hero that died yesterday.
Well, as you saw in that footage and you can see again here and what I'm going to show you, our fellow citizens are holding signs Withzraela's face. They're chanting in support of Hezwela they're also saying all Zionists are terrorists.
Have a look.
The editor of the Adelaide Advertiser, my friend Jemma Jones, took that footage and she said Melbourne law enforcement was stopping trams for these vile protesters. They had police lining the route. Then here's footage with terror flags being waived by masked men and Green Senator Marine Ferruki even spoke at one rally that was packed with Hezbela supporters.
We keep hearing this nonsense.
We keep hearing this nonsense about social cohesion.
From the Labor government. Their meaning of social cohesion is shutting up those raising their voice against genocide.
How does she have the high to speak about social cohesion.
At a rally like that.
This is a move that should see her kicked out of Parliament and potentially be investigated under Australian laws.
Now Bejronette Yahoo.
The Israeli Prime Minister could have had Ferouki in mind when he spoke of the hypocrisy of these moronic Western protesters who march against Israel.
We see at another profound moral confusion when self described progressives march against the democracy of Israel, don't they realize their support the Iranian backed goons in Tehran and in Gaza, the goons who got down protesters, murder women for not covering their hair and hang gays in public squares. Some progressives.
I'm going to come back to his speech in a moment. It was powerful, but even Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi condemned the gross spectacle of the protest over the weekend.
We do not want people to bring radical ideologies and conflict here. Our multiculturalism and social cohesion cannot be taken for granted, and it's important that we continue to stress that that is the case.
How can he say we don't want these conflicts here while bringing in or granting almost three thousand visitor visas to Gazans without proper or in some cases any security checks. Now, the Prime Minister condemned those protests, yet has failed at every point over the past year to encourage law enforcement to arrest those who breach the peace, who support terrorism. Now, let's be completely clear here, Albanizi has failed as Prime minister. This is on his watch, it is his responsibility. It's
a disgrace and he should be held accountable. Now, Australians of all faiths were so shocked by this display of support for terrorism that Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke wanted to sound tough and he said he'd consider counseling the visas of anyone inciting discord in our country.
Yet he has never done this, and it sounds like.
He may even support those who are upset by Israel's efforts to defeat Hesblah in Lebanon, judging by what Sky News commentator Joe Hildebrand said here last night.
I was talking to Tony Burke about this last week actually, but just the difference between people for whom this is a very very political issues, and especially for the obnoxious, annoying upper middle class socialists, for whom you know, the War on Gaza's their generation's Vietnam and they just love giving them something else to protest about, and they'll protest
about something else the next time around. But for the people who and it was the people in his elector in particularly, which is very large and Muslim, A lot of people from Lebannin know this is you know, these are their family members, these are their community, and there's just no point in saying but you know, yes, I know your uncle was killed, but he was on the wrong side of this political argument that just does not.
Fly seriously well.
In the face of this nonsense, Peter Dutton is looking more and more like a leader. He urged police to arrest terror supporters, showing once again his moral superiority over the Albaneze government. Dutton said Parliament should be recalled if our current laws aren't strong enough.
The fact that we've got people out marching on the street at the moment holding up photos of a terrorist leader, I mean imagine the outrage if the photos being held up of somebody like Issama bin Laden or Adolf Hitler. These people are responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of people being killed. Hezbollah is a list of terrorist organized
in our country. And if we've got people here who think that that organization is okay and they're saddened by the death of this terrorist, if they're on a visa, they should be deported because if we knew about that when they made their visa application, they wouldn't get it to come here in the first place. I find it completely unacceptable that the government wouldn't be arresting people already or canceling visas of people who are glorifying Hezblah and Hamas and others.
And here's one hundred percent right. Peter Dutton has shown courage ever since October seventh, and thank god there's one leader who has. The AFP initially today issued a statement saying they don't believe believe that any laws have been broken. Well they've now backtracked and tonight announced they are investigating six just six reports of potentially breaching counter terror laws and New South As Police is also investigatating instances of
a terror symbol being displayed. But for the past year, police, both state and federal seem to have held the view that Australian laws should be upheld when it comes to all facet of life except for the support of a bloodthirsty regime.
Well this isn't good enough.
As Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson said tonight on Chris Kenny's program, there.
Are extremists and they become emboldened when they think there are no consequences for their behavior. So it's time for the Prime Minister, the Home Affairs Minister, the Attorney General to make very clear the community's expectations to the police. But the law be enforced that people be charged, that there'll be consequences for this abhorrent behavior.
Here in Australia and in many parts of the world, political leaders have shown an apathy for tackling terror supporters, even though it's against the law. As Stephen Lowe said in his address to the University of New South Wales on Thursday, there's been a monumental failure of leadership which has allowed this sort of antisemitism.
Rot to fester.
He said.
It is also a sad fact that there has generally been leeke lukewarm denunciation of antisemitism at best by the leadership of many of our institutions. Half hearted rejection of antisemitism is never enough, as history has shown, or too well now, there was one thing that Stephen Lowe said in his speech that has really resonated with me. He said that had he given his major speech a year ago, it would have been inconceivable for him to even mention
antisemitism or the erosion of Australian values. He said, Yet here we are in Australia in twenty twenty four, and as we approach the anniversary of October seven, I too have spent so much time, as you know on air the past year, just despairing at the world we live in now and how quite frankly, it doesn't always feel safe for my community.
And then to look at.
The thousands and thousands of people marching on Australian streets in support of a terror regime that has brutally murdered innocent people, including just recently twelve Israeli Drew's children. Well, the site is just shocking, inexplicable and devastating.
What has happened to our country.
Only the strongest possible leadership and full enforcement of the law could possibly hope to restore order to.
This wretched mess.
All right, Well, let's be utterly clear, the elimination of Hesbalalida Hassan Nasralla is a major coup for is Israel. It should be celebrated by all who opposed terrorism and value freedom and democracy.
This is one of the many reasons.
Israel also deserves the support of all Australians at its hour of need. Well, on Friday, yet again Israel outwitted its enemies. That strategy behind the execution of Nazrella showed sheer brilliance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminette and Yahoo signed off on the hit from his hotel room, as you can see in this picture. Moments later, he walked into the hostile halls of the United Nations to deliver a speech
for the Ages. It was the most important oration that fraudulent body the Yun has heard since the war began. And as he delivered the speech with his ominous warning for the Iranian backed terror groups that Israel is winning, where Nasralla sat in his basement in Beirut watching on, unbeknownst to the terror leader, Miss Isles shrieked across the sky and blasted the Hesbela Quartas where he was bunkered down,
ending his thirty two year reign of terror. Well, isn't it magnificent that Nazraella's final moments on this earth were spent watching net in Yahoo. The timing and execution of this precision attack was masterful. It was an act of ultimate strength in the face of terror. The moment the IDF confirmed Israela's death on Saturday evening our time, it
sparked celebrations among Jewish communities globally. In Israel, there was music and dancing, and one TV host did a La Kaiyam live on air when the news broke, and this is a moment for celebration on par with the murder of Osama bin Laden.
Only bin Laden has.
Killed more Americans and more French than Hesbelah. Yet The New York Times reported today that American President Joe Biden had.
Called Netta Yahoo and warned him.
That killing Nazralla would set off a regional war. Biden reportedly asked him to hold fire.
It's unbelievable.
America's weakness is on full display, and it stands in contrast to what we're now witnessing on a daily basis. Israel's determination to survive. Netanyahu has shown that he's a leader for the times.
Like former US President Ronald Reagan.
The strategy guiding him is peace through strength, and we're seeing that in spades. The weak international community capitulating to terrorism demanded a ceasefire from Israel the moment it began to respond to the eight thousand Hesbela rockets fired over the past year, but there was no demand for a ceasefire while Hesbelah was attacking Israel. Only when Israel dared
to respond, dared to defend its citizens. Unette Nyahu ignores the feeble international community and its confusion, and instead he took out all of Hesbela's senior leadership with a series of attacks.
Each more genius than the last.
He aims to remove the terror threat not just for Israelis, but for all of us in the West.
Peace through strength. There can be no other way.
In the wake of October seven and the subs sequent Hezblah onslaught and in his powerful United Nations address, Netigna, who spoke about how his objective is peace. It's a path he was on the way to achieving through the Saudi Arabian normalization deal before the Iranian back October seven attacks changed everything. Natiya who outlined how Hamas was now.
A diminished organization.
He said twenty three of its twenty four battalions have been destroyed and ninety percent of its rocket arsenal gone. But he says the job isn't finished, and he vowed that Hamas will not stay in power in Gaza.
And the reason is simple, because if Ramas stays in power, it will regroup, re armed, and attackers will again and again and again as it is vowed to do so, Haramas has got to go. Just imagine for those who say, well, Hamas has to stay, it has to be part of a post war Gaza imagined in a post war situation in World War Two. Imagine allowing the defeated Nazis in nineteen forty five to rebuild Germany. It's inconceivable, it's ridiculous. It didn't happen. Then it's not going to happen now.
Brilliant Natna who said Israel seeks it de radicalized and de militarized Gaza, but not one way.
Israel is in control.
He said he's ready to work with partners to support a local civilian administration in Gaza that's committed to a peaceful coexistence. And as for calls for an immediate ceasefire or Natna who said this, ladies.
And gentlemen, this war can come to an end now. All that has to happen is for Hamasta surrender, lay down its arms and release all the hostages. But if they don't, but if they don't, we will fight until we achieve victory. Total victory. There is no substitute for it.
And the Israeli Prime Minister imploed the world to stop appeasing Iran and stop its nuclear program now I keep pointing out over and over again on this show how the United Nations, set up in the wake of World War II in the Holocaust is now an enabler for terrorism. It protects those who deserve no protection. Well, Nettna who made a similar point very well.
In this battle between good and evil, there must be no equivocation. When you stand with Israel, you stand for your own values and your own interests. Yes, we're defending ourselves, but we're also defending you against a common enemy that, through violence and terror, seeks to destroy our way of life. So there should be no confusion about this, But unfortunately there is a lot of it in many countries, and in this very hall, as I've just heard, good is
portrayed as evil and evil is portrayed as good. We see this moral confusion when Israel is falsely accused of genocide, when we defend ourselves against enemies who tried to commit genocide against us.
And look at those empty seats, by the way, and Penny Wang didn't bother to attend that address. I've got those exclusive details. I'm going to talk about them later in the show. I've got the response from the Foreign Minister's office.
But what he says is right.
And moral confusion is now a hallmark of the disgraced United Nations. And Natiyao who spoke about how they have been at twice as many resolutions passed against Israel at the UN General Assembly in the past decade, then the entire world combined one hundred and seventy all condemnations of Israel compared with seventy three against the rest of the world. These remarks that he made here were utterly brilliant.
The singling out of the one and only Jewish State continues to be a moral stain on the United Nations. It has made this once respected institution contemptible in the eyes of decent people everywhere. But for the Palestinians, this
UN house of darkness is home court. They know that in this swamp of anti Semitic bile, there's an automatic majority willing to demonize the Jewish State and anything in this anti Israel flat earth society, Any false charge, any outlandish allegation, can muster a majority.
Anti Israel flat earth society. He's exactly right, and it's a point I keep discussing over and over again. Now, Nathna who ended his speech with this inspirational message.
But I have a message for you. Israel will win this battle. Will win this battle because we don't have a choice. After generations, after generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorseless, butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense, we now have a state. We now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves. To borrow a great poet's phrase,
Israel will not go gently into that good night. We will never we will never need to rage against the dying of the lights, because the torture of Israel will forever shine. Right.
That is an important mesas that I urge the likes of Marine Feruki and Penny Wog to listen closely to.
And it's also a.
Message that should give all of us courage as we face what often seems like an overwhelming barrache of hatred for Israel and anti Semitism. And it's worse than hatred for Israel. It's an obsession for it not to exist. It's support for the terrorists who seek to destroy it and destroy Jews everywhere. But Israel will survive, it will prosper in spite of the depravity of evil terror regimes and in spite of the best efforts of corrupt international bodies.
All right, we've still got a big show tonight, will cross live to Israel to see what's happening on the ground. My political Inside Is panel, including Cameron Milner, who's been making a lot of news today. He's going to join me a bit later to break down the bad polling for the High Minister. But first let's bring in Sky News host Steve Price and senior fellow at the Menzies Research Center Nick Cater to discuss these despicable protests. Steve Price,
you're in Melbourne. People were trying to enjoy the Grand Final and they had to deal with this disgrace on the streets.
I barely recognized the Australia that I grew up in over the last weekend. I mean, it was just unbelievable. And we've got the AFP tonight releasing a statement saying that they're waiting for some complaints from the Victoria Police before they'll investigate. You've got to ask the question, what's the point of having these federal hate laws which are in the hands then of the AFP to implement if they're not going to use them. I mean, this is the state of Victoria and these protests were just as
bad in Sydney. This is the state of Victoria that set the Victorian police on a group of people protesting about being locked up for COVID and fired rubber bullets at them and dragon people along the street, arrested them, charged them, find them. But they can't make one arrest. After what happened at the weekend with people holding photographs of Nazrula. I mean, seriously, what are the AFP doing?
I mean, and look, an excellent opening to your show tonight, Cherry, and I could point out that while you were speaking to the Daily Telegraph has reported that at the Kingsgrove Mosque in Sydney, more than a thousand people have crowded into the mosque. The streets out the front are overflowing with people. For what purpose? They're at a memorial service at one of three mosques in Sydney tonight for the death of that dreadful terrorist who's murdered thousands of people. How can that be?
Well said?
Now, Nick Kita, you know, we welcome the fact that the AFP and the New South igs police have tonight said that they're going to investigate, but we saw an investigation after the Upper House protest. We saw the police stand up and gaslight Jewish community by claiming there was nothing offensive. Actually said Nikita, do you have any faith the authorities will actually do their jobs and charge anyone.
I've got no faith whatsoever. I'm afraid, and I'm really sorry to have to say this, Shari, no faith at all in the New South Wales police and their ability to prosecute these people fairly. I think we saw on those days after October seventh last year that they are. There is a two tier policing system. You know, you're allowed to throw flares at police if you're protesting in
favor of a terrorist state. But you know, I mean if you want to get out there as we some people did two years ago or three years ago against COVID, you know, they'll send the police horses in against you. The police force, I'm afraid, has been captured by this woke ideology. They are too scared to take on certain sections of the community because they're you know, they're Middle Eastern or you know, the ethnic groups of some kind or another, and they're not prepared to take them on.
They must, the law must be enforced, and we must really focus on ensuring that people who come to this country from now on are going to absorb our values and recognize our way of life and not be at war with our way of life, which I'm afraid is what we're seeing quite frighteningly on our streets right now.
Yeah, well that's not going to happen under the Albanzi government under Tony Burke. And the point that both of you make about how we have seen that police can be tough, unnecessarily so during the COVID pandemic, but we've seen what they can do, they haven't done it in
the past year. And I'm going to come back to what's happening on the ground in Israel a bit later in the show, but now let's turn to Australian Politics News poll out today and it showed that voters in New South Wales and Victoria are turning their backs on the.
Alben Ezi government.
The latest figures revealing that Labour's primary vote has fallen to thirty percent and thirty one percent respect actively. Middle aged and ethnic voters are said to be those leaving Labor Steve Price, what are these figures tell you about and maybe about you know, how many seats it could cost Labor in the next election.
Well, what it tells you is.
The leadership of Anthony Albanezi is in enormous trouble. I mean, he's not a leader. And what you've just been talking about at the start of this show just adds to the opinion of the Australian people that have got a weak prime minister. So what the poll is showing that is in particular in Queensland, New South Wales and in Western Australia, less so in the great socialist state of Victoria, but a little bit that people aged between fifty and
sixty four in particular are turning against this government. I mean, Jim Chalmers can stand up there every day of the week if he wants and talks about how he's delivered two surpluses in a row. People are hurting. Cost of living is still the biggest issue and they see a government that is saying, oh, we've pat ourselves on the back over a surplus, but what they're not doing is helping people with cost of living problems. And you know, if you go through the seats and I know we've
done this on the program before. It's not hard to find that this election could be a very interesting result when you look at news poland News Pole is only going to get worse while Anthony Albanese is in charge.
Yeah, look, there's potentially another six months or so, maybe seven or eight months until the election, Nick Cata, do you think at the moment it's looking like there could be enough seats for Dartin to scrape through with a minority government or do you think it's still looking like it's an Albanisi's favorite at the moment, which is what the Poles are pointing to.
Well, I think you've been talking about a minority labor government on the present Poles. So I don't see the coalition being able to win on those numbers Shari. Although they'll win a fair few seats couple in Western Australia, probably a couple in New South Wales, will probably win lions in Tasmania and so on, but there won't be enough to get them over the line. But it is, as you say, it's a snapshot, and we have to ask, well, what can Albanezy do to turn this around? By may
or whenever he's going to call the election. It's very hard to see. The economy is not going his way. He's not coming up with anything which is really inspiring the Australian people and the real leader in this country right at this moment, as it has been really since, the voice is Peter Dutton. And the measure of that is the extent to which whenever labor is out there, it spends most of its time responding to Peter Dutton. Arguing to think about Peter Dutton and the number one
rule of advertising. That's right, the number one rule of advertising when you and I are working on the Sunday Telegraph is you never mentioned your opposition. So you know that they are clearly in trouble and they don't have a response to Peter Dutton, and it's going to cause some more sorts of grief.
Indeed, what's probably the only hope of winning is trying to attack the man, and as they did with Scott Morrison. Very quickly, before we go, Steve Price, I want to get your view about these plans to honor Daniel Andrews with a bronze statue in the CBD in Melbourne. Look, this is given to Edy Premier who lasts three thousand days in office, but it's expected to cost tax payers more than one hundred thousand dollars. Do you think he
deserves it, Steve? And what's the reaction from people you've spoken to?
It's a slap in the face to every Victorian. I was overseas when this story broke and I just could not believe it. I mean, I got angry enough when Dan Andrews wanted to join my golf club and I threatened to quit and he never got let in. I think I'm going to have to threaten to leave Victoria if they build this bronze statue. I mean I might have to return to Adelaide or come and live in Sydney. I don't know, but I mean the people of Victoria
have every right to be absolutely bloody angry. If this Jacinda Allen government spends one cent and palls one drop of bronze to make a statue of the bloke that locked the state up for the longest time of any where in the world, it would be an absolute disgrace. We laugh about it, but it's just appalling that that
bloke would be poured in bronze anywhere. And I'll tell you what, they're just asking him for trouble book, because if a statue of him was erected, aside from the pigeons, there'll be plenty of other people throwing stuff at it.
Oh, good point, good point, all right, Nick Kata, Steve Price.
Great to see you both.
Now, the negative gearing debacle is testing the Prime Minister. But is it giving Jim Chalmers a chance to show off he's leadership credentials? Will Cameron Milner, who's been making news with this leadership speculation, He's going to join me on the show that's coming up after the break, and I'm also going to cross live to Israel, where an expert in Lebanese Israeli politics will join me live. We'll look at how Israel is crippling Hesbala.
That's next.
All right, let's return to the Middle East, where the situation has escalated further.
Tonight.
Hamas claimed that their leader in Lebanon, for tasha If Abu Alamine, was killed in an airstrike in his South Lebanon home. And this comes, of course, after Israel took out Hassan Nasrala, as we've been speaking about over the weekend, and Israel is reportedly now preparing for a ground invasion in Lebanon. Well, for more detail, I'm joined by Jonathan L. Kuri, an expert on Lebanon and public Deploymacy. Jonathan, thank you for your time. You're joining us from Tel Aviv. Look,
let's start with the big question now is Iran. Do you expect that Iran will respond to Israel's execution of Nasrallah or do you think it's not. You know that Hesbala was its main fighting body and it's now to a certain extent, been emasculated.
Yeah. Well, first of all, thank you for having me Shry. I have to start by seeing that as a Lebanese and Adam Israeli, this is a huge churning point of events of what we are seeing in the Middleast and in the region. I do believe that the assasination of Hassan Asala by Israel could be a huge churning point for Lebanon itself in order to reclaim back Lebanon to the Lebanese people. This is something that is super crucial because up to now Lebanon has been held by the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Hassan Asalah and Chrismola are one hundred percent a plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they started as a bran of the Ayatola. So this is something that we're expecting to see some sort of a reaction from the Islamic Republic of Iran on that. But I do believe that they will be really concerned in actually responding themselves with missiles that we saw in last April, because at the end of the day, they
know that Israel will not hesitate to respond back. And we heard Benjamina Taniel, the Prime Minister of Israel, on the UN stage, saying to this republic, if you're gonna hit us, we're gonna hit you back. And this is something that I believe they will take into really depth considerations. But it's also important to understand that, in my opinion, this something could lead. This assassination of Hassan Asalah could lead for hopefully a better future for both Israel, Lebanon
and the whole region. Because we've seen enormous celebrations all across the Syria, the Arab world, and also in Iran itself of regular Iranians that said, why is our leaders sending money to fund a terrorist organization across the world and not taking care of our needs and desires. And this is something that goes without further saying even and I.
Think that has been under reported in the Western media. You know, the sense is that the Lebanese are very upset by this will not actually Lebanese Christians and other Lebanese you know height has been and what they've done to their beloved country. So I think that is an important point that you make. What are we seeing tonight with Israel? What do you expect with this potential ground invasion?
Christie, I don't think that the Western media or Western people understand the role of Habela and Lebanon when they started to operate since nineteen eighty two. Hesabel was responsible for political assassinations in Lebanon that were responsible for assassinations of regular men and women. They were responsible for butchering thousands of people in Syria, of kids, women and children that had nothing to do with the war, just because they wanted to make sure that Asad would maintain his regime.
This is something that I don't believe a lot of people in the West really understands of how horrible the terms organization that is considered to be one of the biggest ters organizations in the world. Today's Israel's action, I believe should be towards making sure that Lebanon will take the lead in order to Libanese military to take over what's going on in south of Lebanon. But also it's really important to understand that Hisbella currently has tens of
thousands of soldiers. They are really equipped soldiers that are holding points in Lebanese territory, occupying Lebanese territory that doesn't have any Lebanese sovereignty anymore. This is in south of Lebanon, in east of Lebanon, of the Lebanese Valley, and also in Beirut in the Dahya territory. A lot of people say, when Israel is hitting Hezbela places, they are breaking Lebanese sovereignty. Well, heal's the deal. There's no Lebanese sovereignty on Hebella occupied places.
This is something that really need to be understood by a lot of people. I do believe what we just heard an hour ago, sorry, just heard an hour ago Lebanese Prime Minister in Najibnikati saying that after the war, the Lebanese military will be deployed throughout the border and
will retain and try to retain back the control. I do believe that this is something that the international community should join Israel and Lebanon in order to make sure that Lebanon claims back its autonomy, that Lebanon brings back its sovereignty and bringing Lebanon back to the Lebanese. On a personal note, I had to flee Lebanon because of Himla, because of Hassan a Salalah, because they have turned national Lebanese people who wanted Lebanon to be independent without any
control of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They turned them into traitors and they persecuted them. That's why I had to flee Lebanon in two thousand and one, just because of that reason.
Well, Jonathan L.
Coori, thank you for your courage ever since then, for your courage speaking out while you were still in Lebanon, and we appreciate your time tonight. Now, is there a split between the Treasurer and the Prime Minister? Well, Cameron Milna thinks so, and he'll join me next. Plus, Donald Trump resorts to personal attacks after Kamala Harris tries to talk tough on the border. We're going to speak about all of this on the show that's coming up.
Welcome back.
Let's bring in tonight's political Insiders panel, joining me as always the gf XO Strategies Director, former Chief of Staff for Bill Shotton, Cameron Milner, and DPG Advisory Solutions from advisor for John Howard, David Gazzard.
Welcome to you both.
Well, Cameron, you've made the news this week big time, and I want to start with your piece in the news papers today about the Prime Minister's inability to lead. I mean you say under pressure, I'd say to lead
full stop. But you actually compare his frazzled response about the negative gearing saga to how Jim Chalmers responded, and you write that ALBINIZI is infamously never across the detail while his treasurer is never caught out on the detail, and you say the only time Charmers looks the least bit ruffled is when he's having to take the hits
for his hapless leader. Cameron, can you explain your thesis further to us tonight and whether you do think that there's negative gearing, you know, debacle was a well timed political hit.
Well, I think it was, and I wrote about in today's paper because the timing was perfect. His human shields were overseas, being Richard Miles and Penny Wong and Albert had to take all the questions and all the heat for forty eight hours, and it was terrible, Like he melted, melted in front of our eyes. It was disaster on Peter Stefanovic. The guy lied and slid and slided, and then he had to go at the journalists for asking
hard questions. No, he was terrible last week, whereas, by contrast, Jim Charmers was in China doing a deal to save our economy. He was in China raising serious issues about the Chinese military engaging with our raft jets, putting an ICBM missile across the specific. He was doing what leaders
do shari and showing up the Prime Minister. Absolute contrast, So, while Chalmers delivered Alberze, did it look if it was a drop David Gazzard, look, it would seem pretty stupid political strategy because it came out on the same day that the Treasurer was proudly announcing that CPI that inflation had fallen to two point seven percent.
It was a good news day, rare for this government.
Yeah, although I wouldn't see inflation as a particularly good story for this government. The LBA has contradicted the government on that and interest rates are staying high. If you wanted to set off some hairs and fly some kites, it was the perfect time to do it, as Cameron had suggested. I think it does highlight the fact that, you know, I think if you caught him over a beer, Anthony Albanezi would be the first one to say that
economic policy really doesn't interest him. It never has. He doesn't take an active role in erc I had the privilege and pleasure of working for both Peter Costello and John Howard. They would never have been caught out on an issue like that because they both understood hasing policy. They both understood economic policy and could have taken the questions. And I don't think either of them would have been crazy enough to take on a policy that affects thirty
percent of all homeowners in the first place. But Anthony Albanezi did look very uncomfortable dealing with it. It's the end, coming to the end of the first term, and there's already outbreaks where there's a frustrated a prime minister referring questions onto the Treasurer who's in the air so demanding that people ask Jim Chalmers that the tough questions which he obviously struggled with.
Cameron.
You know you clearly, and you've spoken about it on this show. You don't think the Prime minister's up to the job own either, But do you think there is a growing sense within Labor that perhaps someone else could do a better job and that they might need to consider someone else ahead of the next election.
Well, I think Albanize has given his very best. He's just not good enough. That's all his very best. He's actually not good enough for Labor Party or to leaders to a majority again. This bloke is going to struggle to govern with the Greens and the Teals. That's his plan to remain PM. So Labour's got a desperate situation here. The best that Alby can do is minority government and
a disaster as well. The best he can do is fumble his way through lines and lie to voters in the middle of a non campaign week, let alone what the campaign would be like. So Labor is desperately frustrated and worried that this guy's just not up to the job. And you've got people like Jim Chalmers who are on the job all the time, who are capable, and so
it's not like Labor hasn't got options. And Charmers, I think is the most obvious choice for Labor, and Shari only requires caucus to vote fifty plus one, set aside the RD rules and vote a new system into choosing the next Prime Minister Australia. So it's a very simple thing for Labour Caucus to do.
Yeah, we'll keep reporting on this and following it. Now, I want to go to an exclusive I've got tonight. I play you parts of Benjamin nette Yaw who's powerful speech of the United Nations earlier. Well, I can reveal that Foreign Minister Pennywong didn't bother to sit in for that address. Now her office tells me that instead she was attending the Pacific Islands for a meeting with the
United Nations Secretary General. During Netanyahu's statement, they say that Australia is a founding member of the Pacific Islands Forum, and can you believe this? They say Australia was represented in the General Assembly by Senator David Force It, Well, what a surprise, not a labor figure. David Gazard, what do you think of this snub by Penny Wong. She met the Palestinian leadership while she was over there, that Palestinian Prime minister. She posted about it on social media.
Can't even set to listen to what nad and Yahoo had to say when she's constantly criticizing Israel.
Well, it's deeply concerning and it probably is just a solid display of the moral leadership that we've had that has led to protests over the weekend where people are openly mourning a terrorist leader and sympathize a butcher of people across the Middle East. I mean, this is a
this is a terrible development for our country. I would have thought that the conflagration, if you can call it that in the Middle East, it's more serious than that, would would so overwhelm anything that was happening in the in the Pacific Islands, that that our foreign minister would would feel duty bound to be there. I mean, this is this is this is a dispute that's occupying the Quad,
it's occupying the G seven. It's of serious import and we we it's in stark contrast to Australia's position in the past, where the United States was attacked by terrorists and we responded by going to war against Iraq. So I just can't I can't believe the position we've got ourselves in, and it's now openly displaying itself on the streets of Sydney over the weekend with people mourning a terrorist leader.
I mean, it's shocking, horrifying.
Very quickly, before you go, Cameron, what do you think of Penniwong's snub?
Well, it was a snub, let's call it for that. And she hasn't wanted to hear the truth ever since October seven. She hasn't want to hear the truth. But Pen's beat to Israel and went and caught a Palestine in France. She proselytized on Palestine two days before and
the UN so she should have stayed and listened. She should have actually learned why Israel needs self defense, why Israel is actually fighting terrorism, while back in Australia, we're giving souccer succer to terrorists in Australia with a you quite rightly say, absolutely disgusting displays of support for Hesbla and hamas previously in Australia. And that's happening on Penny One's watch. So what an awful snub and what a disgrace.
Yeah, indeed, and that the only member of the Australian delegation according to her the statement from her office was a liberal backbencher, a chust appauling. All right, Cameron Milner, David Gazard, love having you on the show.
Thank you very much.
Now, after the break, it's the battle over the border as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both try to prove they'd manage the crisis better. Koshagada will join me next. Let's turn to news out of the United States now, and let's bring in Sky News contributor Kosher Gada. Kosher Kamala Harris visited the southern border for the first time in three years. Look, this has been called a photo up, and of course it is one because Kamala is being accused of not caring about the border until she actually
needed to. For her campaign. She tweeted that as president, I will secure our border and will work to fix our broken system of immigration. But Kosha data, she's been in office, this has been in her remit, So surely voters aren't buying this.
It wouldn't appear to when we look at the pools and the movements and everything that's happening, and the tightening that's happening there. You know, this is part of her strategy. We've seen it where it's generally light on policy. There's a couple of things that she points to, and on the border, she points to this bill that was supposedly somewhat bipartisan that was trying to be passed recently and got scuttled, and she blames Trump for that. You know,
the Trump isn't anywhere in the government. So that's kind of what she's trying to say, like, hey, we had this great thing, it failed. When I come in, I'm going to change it. But to your point, people aren't blind. It's very well understood what the illegal immigration problem is in the US right now. There was a damning report that came out from ICE the other day of criminal criminal, criminally charge and convicted people that have been let into
the country. There are anecdotal situations that we see in Springfield, Ohio, and Nantuckett and elsewhere. So I don't quite think it's going to work. But it sounds like that's the tune and she's going to continue to sing in the thirty two days we have left.
Yeah.
Well, those figures that you've mentioned, I mean, they're just extraordinary. Thirteen thousand convicted murderers. In total, four hundred and twenty five thousand convicted criminals have crossed the board. I mean, thirteen thousand convicted murderers. It's kind of unthinkable. It's no wonder that Donald Trump is trying to resenter his campaign on immigration because he knows that's the one thing that'll work for him.
Yes, you know, that is by and large an issue that really catapulted him into office in twenty sixteen, and people used to laugh at him and still laugh at him when he says things like, you know, they're emptying the mental asylums and the prisons from countries like Venezuela and elsewhere into the US. He is prone to hyperbole, but he's always right. There's always the crux of what he says is directionally correct. And then these reports come
out and sort of validate that. Where in general there's economic issues with the quantum of immigration, illegal and legal. Frankly, that's coming in into many countries. It's the issue of our time. And then when you layer onto that within the illegals, people with criminal convictions, and then you see anecdotes and some horrible assaults and murders and rapes that are taking place committed by illegals, it really sends, I think,
a very scary picture to people. And just with thirty two days left to go, these types of reports are fresh in people's minds, and that's why Trump is indeed refocusing the campaigns and.
Amazing, it's only thirty two days left to go. It's going to be an exciting time. Now we're going to see on Wednesday morning, our time, the vice presidential debate, So Senator jd Vance up against Tim Walls. What do you expect will be the main issues that will be discussed here?
I think immigration, like we just discussed, is front and center, and JD Vunce was a little bit in the firestorm around that with the Haiti Haitian immigrants at Springfield, So I think that will be something both candidates will try to frame the other side on and j Devounce is very strong on that. I think the other you know, the childless cat lady thing that the media tried to drum up and make into a bit of a story.
I'm sure Waltz is going to try and hit JD Vunce on that, and surely he'll have a defense for you know what he meant in the context of that. And then I also think the stolen valor issue that has died down recently, but it was a big story when Waltz was appointed as the vice presidential candidate, where he inflated his rank and his position and his experience in the military. I'm sure Jadvance is going to try and remind the voters of that one, especially since he
actually did serve in a combat zone. I would expect to see that front center as well.
Yeah, look, it's.
Going to be interesting too much, not quite as exciting as the main presidential debate. And at this point it doesn't look like there will be another presidential debate, but you never know. All right, Koshagada, thank you very much for your time tonight, and that's it for me. I'll see you tomorrow at eight o'clock. We're going to have another big show, so don't miss it. And right now, poor Murray is back in town, and here he is