# Paul Murray Live | 25 February

An episode of [Paul Murray Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/376966263), 25 Feb 2026, 49 min.

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Jim Chalmers is careless with our economy, Politicians receive a pay rise, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's salary jumping over $600,000. Plus, half of voters are considering One Nation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you,
[0:07] Speaker 1: serry hallo, mate, Come on and we've got a lot
[0:08] Speaker 1: to get to tonight. Lots of work to be done
[0:10] Speaker 1: here in the man Cave, including some dirty deals, are
[0:13] Speaker 1: going to need to be done. The government has a
[0:15] Speaker 1: plan to increase the number of members of Parliament and
[0:20] Speaker 1: senators talk about rigging the game. I'll explain all in
[0:23] Speaker 1: a moment's time. I hope you're sitting down. Has angers
[0:27] Speaker 1: Stator stopped the bleeding when it comes to the polls,
[0:29] Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so. Just yet. I'll get into some
[0:32] Speaker 1: of the detail you haven't already heard about tonight and
[0:34] Speaker 1: ourif Fred Megan Kelly. She joins us from the United States,
[0:37] Speaker 1: where there's an awful lot to talk about, not just
[0:39] Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the state of the Union, but first
[0:43] Speaker 1: while the government desperately tries to distract us with plans
[0:47] Speaker 1: like a very fast train between Newcastle and Sydney it'll
[0:52] Speaker 1: only cost ninety billion dollars, or of course, changing the
[0:55] Speaker 1: subjects that despite the fact that they facilitated the granting
[0:59] Speaker 1: of passport wods, gave them to a normal citizen who
[1:03] Speaker 1: then has apparently transported them to a Syrian refugee camp. Again.
[1:08] Speaker 1: Governor don't want to talk about all of that, And
[1:10] Speaker 1: of course the Prime Minister has made more public comments
[1:13] Speaker 1: about Ramadan than he has about Lent. But all of
[1:17] Speaker 1: that is the distraction. The main game is how is
[1:20] Speaker 1: the Australian economy going? Not just the numbers that we get,
[1:24] Speaker 1: but how you feel about it. Cost of living has
[1:27] Speaker 1: been the number one issue for how many years in
[1:29] Speaker 1: a row? Now, well, guess what happened today? Inflation went up.
[1:33] Speaker 1: Inflation at the annual level is now up again. It
[1:36] Speaker 1: is now up to three point eight percent. Keep that
[1:39] Speaker 1: up on screen, because remember the band that matters is
[1:42] Speaker 1: between two and three. And while I'm not a mass genius,
[1:46] Speaker 1: I can see that it has been above three in
[1:50] Speaker 1: July of last year, August of last year, September of
[1:54] Speaker 1: last year, October of last year, came down a little
[1:59] Speaker 1: in Novel of last year, then straight back up in
[2:01] Speaker 1: December of last year, and the latest numbers that we
[2:04] Speaker 1: have for January. Now, of course, there's no way that
[2:08] Speaker 1: the government is responsible for this in any way, shape
[2:11] Speaker 1: or form. And if you say that, remember you don't
[2:13] Speaker 1: understand how to carry the one and the one in
[2:16] Speaker 1: this case, apparently is Trump.
[2:20] Speaker 2: A big focus of the budget will be inflation, but
[2:24] Speaker 2: also productivity and against the backdrop of this global economic uncertainty.
[2:32] Speaker 1: Ah, yes, Australia is fantastic if it wasn't being held
[2:36] Speaker 1: back by the Orange Man and the chaos that he
[2:38] Speaker 1: has brought. You know, they've used this excuse before.
[2:42] Speaker 2: Right, The global uncertainty is really one of the defining
[2:46] Speaker 2: influences on our economy at the moment.
[2:48] Speaker 3: We are living in a time of significant global uncertainty,
[2:52] Speaker 3: and that reaches beyond just economic instabilities.
[2:56] Speaker 2: That global environment is going to constrain us. It's going
[2:59] Speaker 2: to shape our choices. It's going to be such an
[3:01] Speaker 2: important influence, and it's an important influence on monetary policies.
[3:05] Speaker 3: And secured the resilience of our economy. In a time
[3:08] Speaker 3: of global uncertainty.
[3:10] Speaker 2: People are still under pressure and the global environment is
[3:14] Speaker 2: so uncertain.
[3:15] Speaker 1: So obviously what's happening in Australia must be what's happening overseas,
[3:19] Speaker 1: because again, the Orange Man, the Cheetos dust is just
[3:24] Speaker 1: all over the globe like a mushroom cloud.
[3:26] Speaker 4: Right.
[3:27] Speaker 1: Well, latest inflation figures in Australia three point eight percent.
[3:32] Speaker 1: It's lower in New Zealand, it's almost a point lower
[3:37] Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom our three point eight versus the
[3:41] Speaker 1: Orange Man's economy at two point four and Canada, the
[3:44] Speaker 1: fifty first state which was being absolutely destroyed by potential tariffs.
[3:48] Speaker 1: THEIRS is two point three compared to Australia's three point eight. Now,
[3:52] Speaker 1: what does Australia have the Canada, the US, the UK
[3:55] Speaker 1: and New Zealand don't have. Well, of course we have
[3:58] Speaker 1: the brightest economic mind, the ones who are a prime
[4:02] Speaker 1: minister who worked in a bank for a year in
[4:05] Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four and a treasurer who calls himself a
[4:08] Speaker 1: doctor because he is a doctor, but he's a doctor
[4:10] Speaker 1: into the spin the Paul Keating used about his economy.
[4:15] Speaker 1: So maybe it's all Toto's fault, or maybe Toto is
[4:18] Speaker 1: the one who's actually holding them back. So should I
[4:21] Speaker 1: be saying thank you Toto that at three point eight
[4:23] Speaker 1: percent while we're in front of New Zealand, the UK,
[4:26] Speaker 1: the US and Canada with higher inflation rates. Maybe to
[4:29] Speaker 1: be higher if he wasn't the one who was pulling
[4:32] Speaker 1: back on the leash. The consequence, of course, of the
[4:38] Speaker 1: changes when it comes to inflation. And remember the lies
[4:40] Speaker 1: that were performed, bought by enough people in Australia to
[4:45] Speaker 1: not just return the government, but to be returned with
[4:47] Speaker 1: a bigger majority. When it came to their fudging of
[4:51] Speaker 1: the books with inflation because of the one off payments
[4:54] Speaker 1: here and there. When it came to energy will, all
[4:57] Speaker 1: of that of course disappeared. So what happened last month
[5:00] Speaker 1: when inflation was high, Well they put up interest rates.
[5:04] Speaker 1: What happens this month now that inflation has remained at
[5:09] Speaker 1: this very high level. Oh yeah, there's a chance of
[5:11] Speaker 1: another rate rise, another rate rise coming nice and soon.
[5:17] Speaker 1: But of course Australians, well they completely have forgiven this
[5:20] Speaker 1: government right because while there were thirteen interesst rate rises
[5:25] Speaker 1: between the start of this happening before the twenty twenty
[5:29] Speaker 1: two election, at a couple of drops in and around
[5:32] Speaker 1: conveniently the federal election of last year. Well they've gone
[5:36] Speaker 1: back up once and they could go back up twice.
[5:40] Speaker 1: But if you are paying off a mortgage today, or
[5:42] Speaker 1: you are paying rent to somebody who's paying off a
[5:44] Speaker 1: mortgage to day, the reason why everything gets more expensive
[5:46] Speaker 1: is because nothing has really changed the financial pressure that
[5:50] Speaker 1: is on a family that has got thirteen times worse
[5:53] Speaker 1: since twenty and twenty two is just as bad today.
[5:58] Speaker 1: Oh but it's all in national pressures. So inflation is
[6:03] Speaker 1: back up to this level now at three point eight percent.
[6:07] Speaker 1: Not about achievement for the people who told us that
[6:10] Speaker 1: cost of living would be lower under a labor government.
[6:14] Speaker 1: What does the CPI measure price increases? And our price
[6:19] Speaker 1: increases are higher than Canada, the US, the UK or
[6:24] Speaker 1: New Zealand. Well done, albow, well done of course. The
[6:31] Speaker 1: Canberra bubble and the bubble within the bubble that is
[6:34] Speaker 1: the media is a constant source of entertainment to us here,
[6:38] Speaker 1: but certainly bewilderment a majority of Australian people for obvious reasons.
[6:42] Speaker 1: Regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum, there's
[6:44] Speaker 1: not a lot of people who think that the country
[6:46] Speaker 1: is being governed particularly well. Well, there is a new plan,
[6:51] Speaker 1: and the new plan is for even more people to
[6:53] Speaker 1: be able to join the bubble, to grow the bubble,
[6:58] Speaker 1: to deepen the Bill of b to extend the trough
[7:02] Speaker 1: of taxpayers money of which these people eat from. And
[7:06] Speaker 1: why wouldn't somebody want to become a federal politician, I
[7:09] Speaker 1: mean just last year there was a pay rise, and
[7:13] Speaker 1: then there was another pay rise before that, and then
[7:17] Speaker 1: there was another pay rise before that, which was the
[7:19] Speaker 1: biggest one they'd got in a decade, and then there
[7:22] Speaker 1: was a pay rise before that. Not bad. One to
[7:24] Speaker 1: three four pay rises since the people who promised to
[7:29] Speaker 1: lower the course of living took over the Australian Parliament.
[7:35] Speaker 1: And the costs by the way, and this has been
[7:37] Speaker 1: done by a far left wing think tank like this
[7:39] Speaker 1: is where the Greens claimed to get their ideas from.
[7:42] Speaker 1: The Australia Institute talks about the cost of all of this.
[7:45] Speaker 1: Each election cycle, parliamentarians receive at least four hundred thousand
[7:49] Speaker 1: dollars in office expenses including communications and constituent outreach, three
[7:54] Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one thousand dollars for travel and transport,
[7:56] Speaker 1: two point four million dollars for staff and salary, of course,
[8:00] Speaker 1: including their own where the wage is two hundred and
[8:02] Speaker 1: thirty four thousand dollars. Now we knew that there was
[8:08] Speaker 1: a little bit of a plan to help rig the
[8:10] Speaker 1: Senate to somehow certainly make it more favorable to the
[8:15] Speaker 1: center left of Australian politics. But well, and truly you
[8:18] Speaker 1: make it more hostile towards the center right of Australian politics. Now,
[8:22] Speaker 1: the way to do this is to increase the number
[8:24] Speaker 1: of senators that represent the relatively small population centers that
[8:29] Speaker 1: are the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory. And
[8:33] Speaker 1: in the case of the Act, it would be almost
[8:36] Speaker 1: guarantee that it had either be another Labor senator, it'd
[8:40] Speaker 1: be another Teal senator. It may even be a Green senator.
[8:43] Speaker 1: The chance of it being a Liberal senator for fifths
[8:46] Speaker 1: of bugger all, one nation. Don't even start me when
[8:49] Speaker 1: it comes to the top end. Yes, the COLP running
[8:54] Speaker 1: pretty well at the moment, but who knows what would happen.
[8:56] Speaker 1: So okay, they might add an extra number, but Labour
[8:59] Speaker 1: of course always gets it's about half of the vote,
[9:00] Speaker 1: which means they too would also get another number. The
[9:03] Speaker 1: Greens were able to get a Lower House seat in
[9:05] Speaker 1: and around Darwin, so if we eventually lower the bar,
[9:08] Speaker 1: maybe a Green can get in there, of course, meaning
[9:11] Speaker 1: that the more than half would end up being center
[9:15] Speaker 1: left between Labor between the Greens, and once you throw
[9:18] Speaker 1: in the left is not by identification but certainly by
[9:22] Speaker 1: voting record, like say Jackie Lamby or a former Jackie
[9:26] Speaker 1: Lamby staffer who now doesn't work for Jackie Lambi or
[9:29] Speaker 1: isn't even part of her team, or of course the
[9:31] Speaker 1: Tiffany teal or doormat Dave Pocock, of course, as he
[9:34] Speaker 1: was referred to by Pauline Hansen. Oh, this is all
[9:38] Speaker 1: about democracy, isn't it. Well, if the Senate grew by
[9:43] Speaker 1: just a couple of people in the territories, that would
[9:48] Speaker 1: have very significant effects on our politics. But imagine if
[9:50] Speaker 1: we increased the total number of senators. You see, if
[9:54] Speaker 1: we increase the number of senators from the current twelve
[9:56] Speaker 1: to maybe fourteen in every single state, well you'd have
[10:02] Speaker 1: an explosion of politicians in the Upper House, but you'd
[10:07] Speaker 1: also have an increase in the number of local MPs.
[10:11] Speaker 1: The plan being put forward by the federal government right now,
[10:14] Speaker 1: and apparently they're going very softly softly, But why wouldn't
[10:17] Speaker 1: the Greens vote for this? Probably the Libs will vote
[10:19] Speaker 1: for it too, if it's some sort of a way
[10:20] Speaker 1: of saving one of their cheeks of their backside. Is
[10:23] Speaker 1: to add fourteen people to the Upper House and twenty
[10:27] Speaker 1: eight people above the current one hundred and fifty one
[10:31] Speaker 1: in the Lower House. Now this is being spun by
[10:36] Speaker 1: some parts of the media as being something that would
[10:38] Speaker 1: be particularly good for the Libs because maybe if we
[10:40] Speaker 1: slice a little here and we slice a little there,
[10:42] Speaker 1: there'll be a spot for Josh Friedenberg, which is kind
[10:45] Speaker 1: of where he used to run, and maybe a spot
[10:47] Speaker 1: for other former Liberal MPs to make their way in.
[10:51] Speaker 1: But let's be very clear. They want to grow the bubble,
[10:56] Speaker 1: the total number of people who are playing party politics
[11:01] Speaker 1: or pretending not to play party politics while still effectively
[11:04] Speaker 1: being the political party. In terms of the Tiffany teals
[11:08] Speaker 1: all the Greens. Oh yes, even one nation would mean again,
[11:11] Speaker 1: smaller electorates means the threshold of the number of votes
[11:13] Speaker 1: that you need to win it falls. What's currently happening
[11:16] Speaker 1: with the Labour Party's primary vote. Oh of course it's falling,
[11:20] Speaker 1: meaning preferences would mean that they'd win even more seats.
[11:24] Speaker 1: Oh but this is about democracy, right. Quote that was
[11:27] Speaker 1: in the article that tipped us off to this today
[11:30] Speaker 1: comes from the Special Minister of State Don Farrell, otherwise
[11:33] Speaker 1: known as the Godfather. Why because he's in charge as
[11:36] Speaker 1: even I think the Saturday Paper, the lefty newspaper said
[11:39] Speaker 1: he's aware of every staffer in every office and every
[11:42] Speaker 1: minister's office. This goes in charge of it all. Since
[11:45] Speaker 1: nine and outy four our population is almost doubled. Which
[11:48] Speaker 1: who made those choices? Oh that's right, the very people
[11:51] Speaker 1: in the very building who you are now are going
[11:52] Speaker 1: to try to add more people to With democracy under
[11:55] Speaker 1: threat across the world, strengthening our institutions has never been
[11:59] Speaker 1: more important. How do we strengthen the institution by just
[12:02] Speaker 1: adding more politicians? Well, the article goes on to make
[12:07] Speaker 1: the point for him. The case for expanding the parliament
[12:10] Speaker 1: is that MPs are struggling to adequately represent their electorates,
[12:14] Speaker 1: lowering House members to represent one hundred and twenty thousand
[12:17] Speaker 1: people on average, up from sixty six thousand the time
[12:20] Speaker 1: of the Hawk changes. So don't you love it? They
[12:25] Speaker 1: add more people to the country. Have they doubled the
[12:28] Speaker 1: number of hospitals? They add more people to the country.
[12:31] Speaker 1: Have they doubled the number of houses? They add more
[12:35] Speaker 1: people to the country. Have they doubled the amount of
[12:39] Speaker 1: public transport or road space? Oh of course not. You see,
[12:44] Speaker 1: you just increase the population because you want to increase
[12:46] Speaker 1: the tax base. Yes, because Theoretically, the people who used
[12:50] Speaker 1: to pay tax are now too old, they're not working anymore,
[12:53] Speaker 1: so you need to replace them dollar for dollar. But
[12:55] Speaker 1: you see, the more you promise to spend and the
[12:58] Speaker 1: more you get the elector addicted to Mummy or Daddy
[13:02] Speaker 1: government will the number of people has to grow and
[13:04] Speaker 1: grow and grow, so that tax base becomes so offensively
[13:09] Speaker 1: large that you end up in a scenario where about
[13:12] Speaker 1: three hundred billion dollars comes from the worker, about one
[13:16] Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion dollars comes from the companies, including
[13:19] Speaker 1: companies that will be making multi billion dollar profits. And then,
[13:24] Speaker 1: of course the GST which was supposed to fund the states,
[13:26] Speaker 1: which of course are the ones who pay for the
[13:29] Speaker 1: education system or the health system, will their total amount
[13:32] Speaker 1: of money that comes back despite the fact of the
[13:34] Speaker 1: doubling a population is less than one hundred billion dollars,
[13:41] Speaker 1: more politicians, more staffers, more shit, social media videos, more
[13:47] Speaker 1: people telling you that if you have any issues what
[13:51] Speaker 1: soever with mass migration, then you're a racist. But because
[13:55] Speaker 1: of in part mass migration, they're going to make the
[13:58] Speaker 1: Canberra bubble bigger. We're going to pay for it, and
[14:02] Speaker 1: if you don't, then somehow you're not strengthening democracy, as
[14:08] Speaker 1: I like to say, pull the other one. It plays
[14:10] Speaker 1: jingle bells. As for opinion polls, I've got to say
[14:16] Speaker 1: I slightly giggled that two very different news organizations had
[14:20] Speaker 1: the same take out of two different polls. But it
[14:25] Speaker 1: tells us the story about one nation. Sky News headline
[14:30] Speaker 1: today the one that I trust half of Australians seriously
[14:33] Speaker 1: considering voting for one nation despite Paul and Hansen's no
[14:35] Speaker 1: good Muslims comment. And then there's the Turmbul Times that
[14:38] Speaker 1: I trust the data but never really the articles Guardian
[14:42] Speaker 1: Essential Pole more than half of Australian's open voting for
[14:44] Speaker 1: one nation despite her Muslim comments. But the real thing
[14:49] Speaker 1: here was to see the first bit of data that
[14:52] Speaker 1: again shows us has the Liberal Party stopped the bleeding?
[14:55] Speaker 1: Now that's really the only way that you can look
[14:57] Speaker 1: at the first couple of weeks of Angust Taylor as
[15:00] Speaker 1: the leader, and there is a case to say that yes,
[15:04] Speaker 1: he has stemmed the bleeding. Before I show you the
[15:07] Speaker 1: primary vote, but compare it to other polls which have
[15:10] Speaker 1: happened since the leadership change. You need to have a
[15:13] Speaker 1: look here that twenty three percent of Labor voters are
[15:16] Speaker 1: apparently more likely to vote for the coalition because Angus
[15:19] Speaker 1: Taylor is now the leader. Forty six percent of already
[15:22] Speaker 1: coalition voters are more likely to vote for the co
[15:25] Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense. Twenty six percent a quarter of
[15:27] Speaker 1: the One Nation support is thinking about it, sixteen percent
[15:32] Speaker 1: of Greens in terms of the overall positivity including a
[15:38] Speaker 1: somewhat less likely and much less likely the negativity factor,
[15:43] Speaker 1: twenty eight percent of Labor voters say no. Six percent
[15:46] Speaker 1: of Liberal voters have said no, no, no, probably not
[15:48] Speaker 1: going to vote for the limbs because they now have
[15:50] Speaker 1: this new leader. Fourteen percent of One Nation don't like
[15:54] Speaker 1: the leader that's been put in place, unsurprisingly about the
[15:57] Speaker 1: Greens and what's left over, So has Taylor's stem the
[16:00] Speaker 1: bleeding answer, Yes, Now the question is whether it is
[16:05] Speaker 1: a torn quay, whether it is a band aid, whether
[16:07] Speaker 1: it is stitches, whether it is the beginning of a recovery,
[16:12] Speaker 1: or it is just the bottoming out and the effect
[16:15] Speaker 1: of the reset button. Three poles have come out since
[16:19] Speaker 1: the leadership change. One is the Morgan pole, one is
[16:22] Speaker 1: the essential pole, and one, of course is the one
[16:24] Speaker 1: you should rely upon, that being the sky News Pulse.
[16:27] Speaker 1: The Sky News Pulse has shown that the Libs are
[16:28] Speaker 1: backed by three points since the change of leader Essential,
[16:32] Speaker 1: which lasted a number in January, compared to this week
[16:36] Speaker 1: in February, So last week of jan last week a
[16:38] Speaker 1: fair basically no change. The Morgan pole, which does bounce
[16:41] Speaker 1: around a lot, says the biggest change has happened at
[16:44] Speaker 1: four percent. Now, yes, four percent every two weeks will
[16:47] Speaker 1: eventually get you to a place where seventy billion percent
[16:50] Speaker 1: of people will end up voting for you. But at
[16:52] Speaker 1: some point four will become six two one. So yes,
[16:59] Speaker 1: the case for deeming the bleeding, I think is well
[17:01] Speaker 1: and truly worth talking about here. In terms of one nation,
[17:05] Speaker 1: where does these numbers that have gone back to the
[17:08] Speaker 1: Liberal Party come from? Well again, pretty much have a
[17:11] Speaker 1: look in the sky News pulse. One nation is down
[17:13] Speaker 1: four points from twenty eight to twenty four. The essential
[17:16] Speaker 1: is basically the same. The Morgan pole suggests that the
[17:20] Speaker 1: big jump here up by four, but one nation's vote
[17:23] Speaker 1: is down by four and a halfs A half a
[17:25] Speaker 1: percent goes somewhere else, four percent goes back to the Lips.
[17:31] Speaker 1: Now about the question of one nation, and even after
[17:34] Speaker 1: the change of leadership to Angus Taylor, are people still
[17:36] Speaker 1: open to it? Well, again to very different organizations relying
[17:39] Speaker 1: on the data of which they trust. And again both
[17:41] Speaker 1: the poles are pretty good. Certainly, I take sky News
[17:45] Speaker 1: Pulse over the essential pole. Apparently fifty four percent of
[17:51] Speaker 1: Coalition voters are open to the idea of still voting
[17:54] Speaker 1: for one nation. Twenty percent of Labor voters. Now that
[17:58] Speaker 1: we've seen this a couple of times before, that one
[18:01] Speaker 1: in five may well end up be being open to it.
[18:04] Speaker 1: That's where the what nation people think that whatever bleeding
[18:09] Speaker 1: goes back to the lips, they might be able to
[18:10] Speaker 1: replace with labor. But we'll always watch and see together.
[18:13] Speaker 1: Who is this fifteen percent of Greens that keep turning
[18:15] Speaker 1: up in polls saying they are apparently willing to vote
[18:17] Speaker 1: one nation, thirty one percent of the Independence and fifty
[18:20] Speaker 1: seven percent of other Remember previously things like the Palmer Party,
[18:24] Speaker 1: the United Australian Party, the Trumpet of Patriots, whatever, the
[18:27] Speaker 1: Yellow one is well fifty seven percent of those willing
[18:30] Speaker 1: to go back towards one nation. Interestingly, though about party identification,
[18:35] Speaker 1: as I showed you before, this is the same set
[18:38] Speaker 1: of numbers, but coming from the Essential poll the Guardian
[18:41] Speaker 1: end of things, well, twelve percent open for labour, seventeen
[18:44] Speaker 1: percent are open. When it comes to the coalition, this
[18:48] Speaker 1: is the definitely going to cross the path. So if
[18:51] Speaker 1: twenty percent or maybe but twelve percent are definite off labor,
[18:54] Speaker 1: that's interesting worth noting, just worth noting. And voting for
[18:58] Speaker 1: one nation at all? Thirty three, fifty one, twenty five,
[19:00] Speaker 1: twenty eight and twenty three. Who are the twenty eight
[19:02] Speaker 1: percent of Greens that are saying they're open to voting
[19:04] Speaker 1: for one nation? Wait? Watch NC So yes, the bleeding
[19:10] Speaker 1: has stopped, how permanent, how real, and whether the wound reopens,
[19:14] Speaker 1: we'll all wait, watch and see together the hope of
[19:17] Speaker 1: a reset. Well, hold your horses about whether that is
[19:21] Speaker 1: happening as we speak. But of course we'll keep an
[19:23] Speaker 1: eye the numbers so you don't have to join us
[19:25] Speaker 1: every night, and I'll tell you what you need to
[19:26] Speaker 1: know about what's going on in terms of those polls,
[19:29] Speaker 1: because we keep an eye on all of them so
[19:31] Speaker 1: I can make sure that we get an honest picture
[19:33] Speaker 1: about what's really going on, not just what we want
[19:35] Speaker 1: or don't want to happen. Now, the BONDI Royal Commission
[19:40] Speaker 1: is underway, and I had plenty to say about last night,
[19:42] Speaker 1: the absurdities that are in and around this Royal Commission. Now,
[19:46] Speaker 1: remember this is the Royal Commission that the Prime Minister
[19:48] Speaker 1: did not want to take place before. Of course he
[19:51] Speaker 1: announced it because he had to.
[19:54] Speaker 3: The Government is committed to making sure that we can't
[19:58] Speaker 3: wait years for answers when need to get on with
[20:01] Speaker 3: any changes that are required.
[20:04] Speaker 1: Not mentioned by the Prime Minister when he announced it,
[20:06] Speaker 1: or when he was publicizing it, or in the terms
[20:09] Speaker 1: of reference was the apparent decision which has now been
[20:13] Speaker 1: made by the Royal Commissioner, which is there will be
[20:15] Speaker 1: no eyewitness accounts that are allowed to be had in
[20:18] Speaker 1: the Royal Commission. Instead, the focus, of course is antisemitism
[20:22] Speaker 1: and social cohesion. And social cohesion, i think, is what's
[20:26] Speaker 1: going to be a lot more of this report than
[20:28] Speaker 1: anything to do with anti Semitism and the obvious consequences
[20:32] Speaker 1: that link itself to the deaths of fifteen people. Apparently
[20:36] Speaker 1: this is because, of course there is an alleged gunment.
[20:39] Speaker 1: The alleged gunman will be going through the legal process.
[20:41] Speaker 1: But the alleged gunment was already charged when the Prime
[20:45] Speaker 1: Minister announced the Royal Commission, so he could have told
[20:50] Speaker 1: us that he'd found a way for this not to
[20:54] Speaker 1: be discussed, or they wouldn't be allowed to discuss it
[20:56] Speaker 1: because it was before the course. But no, no, they
[20:58] Speaker 1: didn't say that when they announced it because it was
[21:00] Speaker 1: a political solution to a political problem, rather than a
[21:04] Speaker 1: fedique examination into the failures of his own government. As
[21:08] Speaker 1: I told you last night, the intelligence agencies, well, there
[21:11] Speaker 1: might be some legal reasons about why they won't be
[21:12] Speaker 1: able to give public evidence, meaning it'll be a bunch
[21:16] Speaker 1: of redacted documents. And again the Royal Commissioner said, none
[21:20] Speaker 1: of the people basically that you've seen in the doco,
[21:22] Speaker 1: siron Sky News or anywhere else, will be giving any
[21:24] Speaker 1: evidence to the Royal Commission.
[21:27] Speaker 5: An individual has been charged with a terrorism offense, the
[21:32] Speaker 5: trial of that individual will be the occasion to lead
[21:37] Speaker 5: evidence of the attack. This Commission must do its work
[21:42] Speaker 5: without risking any prejudice to that criminal proceeding. Leading the
[21:48] Speaker 5: evidence of this Commission from people who may be witnesses
[21:53] Speaker 5: in the criminal proceeding won't create that risk, and for
[21:58] Speaker 5: that reason it will not occur.
[22:02] Speaker 1: They didn't tell us when they announced it, or when
[22:04] Speaker 1: they were promoting it, or when they were preparing for it.
[22:07] Speaker 1: They told us, hoping you were distracted by anything else.
[22:12] Speaker 1: I also double checked the official transcript from the official
[22:15] Speaker 1: website of the Royal Commission, because I thought I had
[22:17] Speaker 1: misheard something yesterday. No, I didn't. The Royal Commissioner said
[22:23] Speaker 1: that the interim report of this Royal Commission will be
[22:26] Speaker 1: handed no later than the thirtieth of April twenty twenty six.
[22:33] Speaker 1: The Interim Report of the Royal Commission will be available
[22:38] Speaker 1: in sixty five days time. Now, I know this is
[22:44] Speaker 1: a fast inquiry compared to others, but let me show
[22:49] Speaker 1: you just how fast this is. There was not an
[22:55] Speaker 1: interim report in the Veterans Suicide Royal Commission until two
[22:58] Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine after it began. There was not
[23:05] Speaker 1: an interim report from the Disability Royal Commission until fourteen
[23:09] Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five days. This one will be just
[23:13] Speaker 1: sixty five days. The Robodead Inquiry, that remember, was an
[23:18] Speaker 1: inquiring into a scheme that had already been shut down.
[23:21] Speaker 1: Now they didn't deliver an interim report. Instead, they had
[23:24] Speaker 1: the final report on the desk of everyone, so they
[23:27] Speaker 1: could point fingers at the former government in two hundred
[23:29] Speaker 1: and eighty four days. This one will deliver an interim
[23:33] Speaker 1: report in sixty five days, and the Ahecare Royal Commission
[23:38] Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty seven days. So is it fair
[23:43] Speaker 1: for me to speculate that the government that didn't want
[23:46] Speaker 1: a royal commission came up with a royal commission they
[23:49] Speaker 1: automatically had one hand tied behind its back about the
[23:51] Speaker 1: very reason why we had a Royal commission called, and
[23:56] Speaker 1: the timeline is so short that the whole point was
[24:00] Speaker 1: calling it, not about what it will discover or who
[24:03] Speaker 1: actually gets to give evidence to it, or what we
[24:05] Speaker 1: see publicly, because it was in some ways a political
[24:10] Speaker 1: fix to a political problem, one that the Prime Minister
[24:13] Speaker 1: has been able to skip through and there is no
[24:15] Speaker 1: long term consequences for him in the polls. Why because
[24:17] Speaker 1: we always move on in terms of how our country
[24:21] Speaker 1: has been changed and changed forever. Major announcement out of
[24:24] Speaker 1: New South Wales that is really disappointing. I understand the
[24:29] Speaker 1: security aspects around all of it, but there is going
[24:31] Speaker 1: to be a permanent twenty four to seven squad to
[24:36] Speaker 1: fight hate crimes based off political or religious motivation. Twenty
[24:42] Speaker 1: four to seven squad, hundreds of officers, plenty of brand
[24:46] Speaker 1: new kits, sort of swat style stuff, and it will
[24:49] Speaker 1: become a permanent part of how life works across New
[24:54] Speaker 1: South Wales, but of course is mainly in Sydney. One
[24:57] Speaker 1: thing that is also going to become every day ind
[25:00] Speaker 1: now is the site of police walking around with long guns.
[25:08] Speaker 4: A police will be armed and ready to respond in
[25:12] Speaker 4: the event of an attack, and b that the community
[25:15] Speaker 4: can feel safe that there's a large police presence permanently deployed.
[25:20] Speaker 1: Now we have seen threats that have been made towards
[25:24] Speaker 1: mosques not acceptable and it's good to see that there
[25:28] Speaker 1: is some sort of roving group that would be able
[25:30] Speaker 1: to go and deal with it. We know what the
[25:32] Speaker 1: Jewish community has gone through, but the limit here about well,
[25:38] Speaker 1: does one go this way, one that way, or does
[25:39] Speaker 1: it spread across both? But then what about the wider community?
[25:44] Speaker 1: I mean literally when we talk about political violence, what
[25:46] Speaker 1: about what was playing out in and around the lodge
[25:49] Speaker 1: last night? But get ready for what is now? That
[25:56] Speaker 1: feeling that you get if ever you have gone to
[25:58] Speaker 1: Heathrow Airport in London, where you look around you see
[26:00] Speaker 1: people with big guns and you are automatically reminded of
[26:05] Speaker 1: the potential risk. This is now what is going to
[26:07] Speaker 1: be like to live in and around Sydney. Now, yes,
[26:11] Speaker 1: well this make people feel safe, but does this also
[26:14] Speaker 1: mean that we have changed forever? You bad? And while
[26:18] Speaker 1: I'm talking about the premiere and a couple of new laws,
[26:21] Speaker 1: can I give every support possible to a new idea
[26:25] Speaker 1: which is to have particular new penalties, new focus and
[26:30] Speaker 1: potentially even new laws to go after people. And previously
[26:35] Speaker 1: it has been isis that is doing so to go
[26:38] Speaker 1: after gay, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual teenagers. Now, obviously certain words
[26:46] Speaker 1: being used in violence would be what points to that
[26:50] Speaker 1: being the motivation for the violence. It is madness that
[26:54] Speaker 1: this still happens. It is insane that this is still required.
[27:00] Speaker 1: Good on the premiere of New South Wales for putting
[27:02] Speaker 1: this in place, because the idea that anyone is physically
[27:05] Speaker 1: attacked because of who and what they are is not acceptable.
[27:10] Speaker 4: I've spoken to the Cabinet Office and the Attorney General's
[27:13] Speaker 4: Department today about looking at changes to the law to
[27:17] Speaker 4: put in massive new penalties specifically to target this apporrent behavior.
[27:23] Speaker 4: We will not allow a situation in New South Wales
[27:26] Speaker 4: where people are being targeted because of their sexuality by
[27:29] Speaker 4: somebody else. I want to make sure that we're in
[27:32] Speaker 4: a situation where police have got the resources, the DPP
[27:35] Speaker 4: has the resources so that if someone is convicted of
[27:38] Speaker 4: a crime like that, they can throw the book at
[27:40] Speaker 4: them and they are subject to a significant jail penalty.
[27:45] Speaker 1: Yeah good. This is not about pandering and the lead
[27:47] Speaker 1: up to the Mardi grad. This is about making sure
[27:49] Speaker 1: that laws are in place. The idea that people because
[27:52] Speaker 1: of their barsadized version of whatever the thing is, they
[27:54] Speaker 1: believe in seed justification and going after people because of
[27:57] Speaker 1: their sexuality not acceptable, Not okay, And I hope that
[28:00] Speaker 1: those laws pass very quickly through the state Parliament and
[28:04] Speaker 1: get replicated around the country. Now did you hear that
[28:07] Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Trump Organization are building a very
[28:10] Speaker 1: large tower, a very large gold beautiful, the greatest tower
[28:13] Speaker 1: you've ever seen. They'll be doing it on the Gold Coast,
[28:15] Speaker 1: ninety one stories high. Apparently there will be two hundred
[28:20] Speaker 1: and eighty five rooms in the hotel. Yes, I'll be there.
[28:24] Speaker 1: Of course, it'll be built after he's the president, So
[28:26] Speaker 1: hopefully he comes to the GC cuts the ribbon and
[28:29] Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy two luxury units. I won't be
[28:32] Speaker 1: able to afford them, but I'll do them the best
[28:33] Speaker 1: to Airbnb if they're there. And there'll be an exclusive
[28:36] Speaker 1: beach club as well. There's a smokers section. Oh yeah.
[28:38] Speaker 1: But in terms of Trump, he also gave the State
[28:40] Speaker 1: of the Union today. Now, he gave the State of
[28:45] Speaker 1: the Union at a time when and I bet you
[28:47] Speaker 1: didn't see this anywhere else. His opinion polls are not
[28:49] Speaker 1: fantastic at the moment, not dire, but not great.
[28:54] Speaker 4: Now.
[28:54] Speaker 1: He started off pretty well those first few months when
[28:57] Speaker 1: he was executive orders and getting rid of all the
[28:59] Speaker 1: Biden's steam out of the White House. That was all
[29:01] Speaker 1: pretty good. But then it starts to go down Liberation
[29:03] Speaker 1: Day and some of the issues that have happened when
[29:06] Speaker 1: it comes to immigration. Now for the President of the
[29:10] Speaker 1: United States, in terms of his actual issues, he's currently
[29:13] Speaker 1: negative sixteen points on the economy, negative twelve on immigration,
[29:18] Speaker 1: negative sixteen or sorry nineteen on trade, and in inflation
[29:23] Speaker 1: he's down twenty six percent. So the economy, which is
[29:27] Speaker 1: always the issue in the United States, is one of
[29:29] Speaker 1: the issues that is holding him back. But the smartest
[29:32] Speaker 1: thing he did today was to reset the immigration conversation.
[29:35] Speaker 1: So it's not about Ice, it's not about what's been
[29:38] Speaker 1: happening in Minnesota. It's to remind everyone that if you're
[29:41] Speaker 1: a citizen of the United States, the government is there
[29:43] Speaker 1: for you. If you are an illegal in the country,
[29:46] Speaker 1: guess what it's not for you, And guess which one
[29:49] Speaker 1: the Democrats stood for or more importantly didn't.
[29:55] Speaker 6: I'm invading every legislature to join with my administration and
[29:59] Speaker 6: reaffirm a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement,
[30:04] Speaker 6: then stand up and show your support. The first duty
[30:08] Speaker 6: of the American government is to protect American citizens, not
[30:13] Speaker 6: illegal areas.
[30:27] Speaker 1: In that shame, you should be ashamed of yourself.
[30:31] Speaker 6: Not standing out, you should be ashamed of yourself.
[30:35] Speaker 1: They didn't just put their foot in the bear trap,
[30:37] Speaker 1: they put their head in it. More than a sec
[30:40] Speaker 1: We've got loss of debate to this evening. I'm looking
[30:42] Speaker 1: forward to metan killing in a couple of minutes time
[30:44] Speaker 1: as well. We'll talk about Angus Taylor and whether this
[30:46] Speaker 1: is the turnaround, the stopping the bleeding dead can't bounce.
[30:49] Speaker 1: All of that and a whole lot more. Thanks for
[30:51] Speaker 1: watching Wednesday Night. Here on Pulmurray Live. You in thehighlights.
[30:54] Speaker 1: It's gone yous dot com dot you think this has
[31:00] Speaker 1: been too long, but it's lovely to see everyone, which
[31:03] Speaker 1: is the delightful Lucy's zellous. The reason we're in HD.
[31:05] Speaker 7: Of course I'm getting old now, well soften the.
[31:10] Speaker 1: Wrinkles for you. Because he's the director of the company
[31:13] Speaker 1: of which you know we have our very loyal connections
[31:16] Speaker 1: to the great Stephen Conroy is the reason we stay
[31:18] Speaker 1: in HD. And he had one hell of an incredible
[31:20] Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. Mate, What a lot of snow
[31:22] Speaker 1: fun that you had? All right, now, let's get to
[31:25] Speaker 1: it was. It was fabulous. Yeah, so what can I
[31:28] Speaker 1: tell everyone?
[31:29] Speaker 8: Right?
[31:29] Speaker 1: He was at the Winter Olympics. He was at the
[31:32] Speaker 1: hockey for the gold medal of the blokes in the
[31:35] Speaker 1: USA team.
[31:36] Speaker 9: You have a two thousand dollars dinner and leave a
[31:38] Speaker 9: car running idle for seven hours while you've dined.
[31:42] Speaker 10: I'm just curious now, No, no, no, no, not at all.
[31:46] Speaker 10: But look, congrats to all of those Australian Olympians. They
[31:50] Speaker 10: did the country proud. They were magnificently.
[31:52] Speaker 1: One day you're going to have to take me out
[31:54] Speaker 1: to lunch and explain to me how the Olympics became
[31:55] Speaker 1: a labor thing. But Jesus a lot of people in
[31:57] Speaker 1: it there that have got quite a connection. All right,
[32:01] Speaker 1: let's get to this year. So Stephen, obviously we have
[32:04] Speaker 1: not had your presence here for the past couple of weeks.
[32:06] Speaker 1: We were in and around the change of leadership with
[32:08] Speaker 1: Angus Taylor. Have they stopped the bleeding? When you've got,
[32:12] Speaker 1: let's be most generous four points here is that the
[32:15] Speaker 1: sign of an actual beginning of healing is a dead
[32:19] Speaker 1: cat bounce. Be as generous as you can about what
[32:23] Speaker 1: you think about four points because that's basically the average
[32:25] Speaker 1: across three poles.
[32:26] Speaker 10: Now, yeah, look it's a solid start. You can't get
[32:31] Speaker 10: too excited. You know, poles shift you sometimes that can
[32:35] Speaker 10: shift big, and then they trend backwards. So what's important
[32:40] Speaker 10: is that the Liberals unite behind Angus Taylor. And I
[32:44] Speaker 10: think you've always said, with Susan Leaey decided to leave parliament,
[32:48] Speaker 10: we're not lose that by election. What's important does the
[32:51] Speaker 10: party stay united to give him a chance, give him
[32:55] Speaker 10: clear air, give him a chance to put some policies forward,
[33:00] Speaker 10: and then if the trend continues in the direction, you'll
[33:04] Speaker 10: begin to see an evening out of that drop from
[33:10] Speaker 10: one nation leading little Prie to back to the more
[33:13] Speaker 10: normalized liberals leading one nation.
[33:16] Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what's interesting here is where one nation
[33:19] Speaker 1: I've got a number on my head. But I'm not
[33:21] Speaker 1: going to be saying in the silly prediction game about
[33:23] Speaker 1: where I think one nation ends up at an election.
[33:27] Speaker 1: I think they are in a high spot right now.
[33:29] Speaker 1: But I do believe there's an awful lot of people
[33:31] Speaker 1: who once they're gone, don't come back. It's interesting that
[33:33] Speaker 1: again we.
[33:34] Speaker 9: Spoke about that. Remember I was saying, I wonder what
[33:36] Speaker 9: the research or data looks like when people leave certain
[33:41] Speaker 9: political parties and what rate at which do they come back.
[33:44] Speaker 9: It's a black hole of knowledge.
[33:45] Speaker 1: Right again, whether people use opinion polls as a battering
[33:48] Speaker 1: ram a way to send a message for some people,
[33:50] Speaker 1: that is going to be the case. But what about
[33:52] Speaker 1: basically both essential and the pulse finding the idea that
[33:56] Speaker 1: almost fifty percent of people are open to the idea
[33:58] Speaker 1: of voting for one nation and at some point work
[34:00] Speaker 1: out where the fifteen percent of Greens are in this world.
[34:03] Speaker 1: But still, what do you think, Lucy that was fascinating,
[34:06] Speaker 1: that bit.
[34:07] Speaker 9: I mean we talked, we get caught up in the numbers, right,
[34:09] Speaker 9: and again everyone knows who watches this program and who's
[34:12] Speaker 9: seen me have a very staunch and clear position about poles.
[34:14] Speaker 9: We get very carried away with poles, right, And I
[34:17] Speaker 9: think we probably invest too much time into them, because
[34:21] Speaker 9: you've got to look at the demographics. Who what was
[34:23] Speaker 9: the age group, what part of the country was part
[34:25] Speaker 9: I mean that there's so many things I.
[34:26] Speaker 1: Could goltically is a wind sock.
[34:28] Speaker 7: Yes, that's what we have to do.
[34:29] Speaker 9: But the figure that I found to be interesting as
[34:31] Speaker 9: well was the twenty nine percent. They don't know ree
[34:34] Speaker 9: Angus Taylor. So has he stemmed the bleeding short answer, yes,
[34:38] Speaker 9: but we need to see this more long term. We
[34:40] Speaker 9: need to see now after a few months in the
[34:42] Speaker 9: job and with as rightly Stephen had said, with some
[34:44] Speaker 9: clear air and support behind him, you know, are we
[34:47] Speaker 9: going to see some more tractions swing back in their favor.
[34:50] Speaker 9: But the other point to note as well, and I
[34:52] Speaker 9: saw this about three weeks ago, and it was on
[34:54] Speaker 9: Sky News on the Morning's program with Laura Jays, where
[34:57] Speaker 9: you had a member of the redg Love You member
[35:00] Speaker 9: of the red Bridge Group, talking more broadly about now
[35:04] Speaker 9: the feeling amongst voters who are very anti established all
[35:09] Speaker 9: it is it's bugger them all and this moving trend
[35:13] Speaker 9: away from both the left and the right. And it's
[35:15] Speaker 9: why I think for a period of time, particularly previous
[35:17] Speaker 9: to the you know, to the last election, we saw
[35:20] Speaker 9: people moving towards the Teals right and this, oh my god,
[35:22] Speaker 9: the threat of the Teals, the rise of the Teals.
[35:25] Speaker 7: But then we all just discover that there are a
[35:26] Speaker 7: bunch of.
[35:27] Speaker 9: Lefties in some teal colored clothing. So people learn with
[35:30] Speaker 9: time what they're dealing with. But what they are clearly
[35:33] Speaker 9: craving is a point of difference, which is why you
[35:36] Speaker 9: can see them leaning towards One Nation. And she's had
[35:39] Speaker 9: very strong and clear stances on immigration and things that
[35:43] Speaker 9: matter to Australians. Whether the left like that or not,
[35:46] Speaker 9: but that matter to Australians at the moment.
[35:47] Speaker 1: Well also again i'll pin in it for a later time,
[35:50] Speaker 1: but just don't want to make the point about you know,
[35:52] Speaker 1: the one nation surgeon in the state polls as well.
[35:55] Speaker 1: Reality don't think, don't forget this right, who are the
[35:58] Speaker 1: ones running the schools who are the ones that are
[36:00] Speaker 1: in charge of how you police when it comes to crime,
[36:03] Speaker 1: or the laws that pass state level. Right, So again
[36:05] Speaker 1: one nation's capacity to be able to turn around and
[36:07] Speaker 1: have a national view on things, but to say, hey,
[36:09] Speaker 1: you want to fix the education system, we can do
[36:11] Speaker 1: that at the state level. This is part of what
[36:13] Speaker 1: Corey is going to play out in South Australia. Again,
[36:15] Speaker 1: my prediction there is who knows in the downstairs, maybe
[36:18] Speaker 1: one or two. It's an upper house play and one
[36:21] Speaker 1: that will clearly get himself easily elected and maybe another
[36:24] Speaker 1: maybe even a third with him if the numbers a
[36:26] Speaker 1: running as high as they are. All of the coverage
[36:28] Speaker 1: in the next few weeks about South Australia, let's get
[36:30] Speaker 1: to the isis brides here where because the camp is closing,
[36:33] Speaker 1: We're now starting to hear ultimatums coming from the people
[36:37] Speaker 1: who decided to leave the country to join the caliphate
[36:41] Speaker 1: that please take the kids back. Now, Let's be obvious.
[36:44] Speaker 1: If the kids come back, well, guess what, the immigration
[36:46] Speaker 1: system will also allow their parents to come with them
[36:49] Speaker 1: because they're under the age of eighteen. That's what this
[36:52] Speaker 1: is about, Lucy. We have also seen Uphill and Dan
[36:55] Speaker 1: Dale many a question, many a question that goes unanswered.
[36:57] Speaker 1: Yet the Prime Minister's pretending, look, I've got no for
[37:00] Speaker 1: these people, we're not doing anything to help. Well, mate,
[37:02] Speaker 1: somebody was able to leave the country with more than
[37:04] Speaker 1: thirty passports.
[37:05] Speaker 9: Thirty four passports. Doctor Jamal Riffi was able to go
[37:09] Speaker 9: to the passport office and collect them, which, if you'd
[37:11] Speaker 9: listened to Dave Shalma earlier on Shari's program, said that
[37:15] Speaker 9: actually this is a it's a problem, This is a problem,
[37:17] Speaker 9: but also there's a criminal element too.
[37:20] Speaker 1: I can't collect your male let alone your past room.
[37:22] Speaker 7: No you can't.
[37:22] Speaker 9: And this man has been able to secure thirty four
[37:25] Speaker 9: of them with government approval. So you can sit back,
[37:28] Speaker 9: Prime Minister, with all due respect and say, well, we're
[37:30] Speaker 9: not repatriating them. And I've heard a nauseum this statement
[37:33] Speaker 9: about you make your bed you line it. I'm a
[37:35] Speaker 9: bit sick of that, to be honest. It's like it's
[37:37] Speaker 9: just on repeat.
[37:38] Speaker 7: But we've heard all of this.
[37:39] Speaker 9: But what I want to know is what's the distinction
[37:41] Speaker 9: between no, we're not physically helping them and repatriating them
[37:44] Speaker 9: versus yeah, we actually just approve their passports and We've
[37:47] Speaker 9: let a guy grab them go over there, and he's
[37:50] Speaker 9: going to bring them all back here. I mean, that's
[37:52] Speaker 9: still a form of help to me. The thing that
[37:54] Speaker 9: I resent the most is the children are being weaponized
[37:57] Speaker 9: in this discussion. And I felt very frashtrated when I
[38:00] Speaker 9: heard the sister of one of the is brides come
[38:02] Speaker 9: out and say, and I quote, because she's calling for
[38:05] Speaker 9: people to be more sympathetic and I quote especially for
[38:08] Speaker 9: the children. I think the government should have a long,
[38:10] Speaker 9: hard look at themselves and think what are they doing?
[38:13] Speaker 1: Question Mark, what are you doing? What were you doing.
[38:16] Speaker 9: When you decided to put these children into this situation
[38:20] Speaker 9: and raise them in this caliphate and this awful scenario
[38:24] Speaker 9: for young kids that they should never ever have been
[38:27] Speaker 9: exposed to. Do not try and gaslight us into thinking
[38:30] Speaker 9: that this is our problem when you chose to bring
[38:34] Speaker 9: these kids up in this war torn and horrible terrorist environment.
[38:38] Speaker 1: Come on, one hundred percent. Look, Stephen, just because I've got
[38:42] Speaker 1: a couple of minutes before we get to Megan Kelly,
[38:44] Speaker 1: your thoughts on Trump and the speech today, I explained
[38:47] Speaker 1: part of the task here for him, trying to stem
[38:49] Speaker 1: some bleeding. Now again, I know these things are ruschak tests.
[38:52] Speaker 1: But when the Democrats don't stand for the simple principle
[38:56] Speaker 1: of the government is there for the people who are
[38:57] Speaker 1: the citizens of the country, I think he a win today.
[39:03] Speaker 10: Trump is the master of you know, stumps. You know,
[39:09] Speaker 10: and this was up there in the in the top
[39:11] Speaker 10: ten category. As you said, he played it beautifully, the Democrat.
[39:16] Speaker 10: Democrats responded, as you know they did. He gets to
[39:20] Speaker 10: continue to hug the flag and pretend he's the only patriot.
[39:24] Speaker 10: Ignores all of American history, which has welcomed migration, welcome
[39:28] Speaker 10: people coming in and helping them turn their lives around.
[39:31] Speaker 10: So he gets to play the patriot. I'm the only one.
[39:33] Speaker 1: Who trulyad of America. The Democrats don't.
[39:35] Speaker 9: It was brilliant, Stephen, For goodness sake, what excuse do
[39:39] Speaker 9: you have for not standing. It's not a hard question. Look,
[39:41] Speaker 9: I'm standing.
[39:45] Speaker 7: I'm standing up.
[39:46] Speaker 1: It's not a hard question. Mat and I would expect
[39:49] Speaker 1: if that.
[39:49] Speaker 9: Question was posed to you on the floor of Parliament,
[39:52] Speaker 9: regardless of who the leader is, that you too would
[39:54] Speaker 9: stand up.
[39:55] Speaker 10: Got a heart out, he well said, Well said, I
[39:58] Speaker 10: I don't know whether or not the families of the
[40:00] Speaker 10: two murdered Americans would stand up.
[40:03] Speaker 9: Yeah, but what about all of those that were killed
[40:05] Speaker 9: and raped by illegal immigrants?
[40:07] Speaker 1: Boomberg? All right, time over, So you should have told
[40:09] Speaker 1: me in the stand Have I got to fill down
[40:10] Speaker 1: the form in triplicate?
[40:11] Speaker 3: Not?
[40:11] Speaker 1: I'm standing again? All right? Good, there she is making
[40:15] Speaker 1: her point. Thank you, Lucy. We'll see freaking next week.
[40:18] Speaker 1: Make it Kelly next and you'll see all of her
[40:22] Speaker 1: all the time. All right, Megan, Kelly joins us each
[40:29] Speaker 1: and every week. Now, I will not tell a lie occasionally.
[40:32] Speaker 1: This is a pre recorded segment, which means I should
[40:36] Speaker 1: be wearing the same clothes that I had during the interview,
[40:39] Speaker 1: but I made a change. We started by talking about
[40:42] Speaker 1: the US hockey gold medal men's team and that freak
[40:47] Speaker 1: out that some people on the left have had.
[40:49] Speaker 8: He made a joke saying, you know, if I butt
[40:52] Speaker 8: you now, I'm going to have to invade the women's
[40:54] Speaker 8: team too, or I'll be impeached. So it was it
[40:57] Speaker 8: was a cute joke. It was like going to side.
[40:59] Speaker 8: It was a total like pointless. He was just trying
[41:02] Speaker 8: to get a laugh. And what did the guys say?
[41:05] Speaker 8: They started cheering.
[41:06] Speaker 6: The union speech On Tuesday night, I could send.
[41:10] Speaker 8: The military plan or something if you would like to.
[41:14] Speaker 6: It's the coolest night, it's the biggest.
[41:17] Speaker 1: Yes, have to bring the women's if you do.
[41:24] Speaker 8: As soon as he said the women's team and said yeah,
[41:26] Speaker 8: two for two, two for two, meaning yeah, we both
[41:30] Speaker 8: won like they the guys did absolutely nothing, and then
[41:33] Speaker 8: they politely chuckled at at the president's joke about I'd
[41:36] Speaker 8: be impeached. Literally, it was exactly how they should have responded.
[41:40] Speaker 8: I don't know what feminazi thinks that some young man
[41:43] Speaker 8: on the team should have been like, you're inappropriate, mister president,
[41:47] Speaker 8: do not make a joke about our fellow women's team.
[41:50] Speaker 8: I had no idea that the US men's hockey team
[41:54] Speaker 8: warmed up by licking boots.
[41:56] Speaker 11: That when the men's US hockey team issues their official apology,
[42:00] Speaker 11: I hope that nobody forgives them. They no longer had
[42:04] Speaker 11: to treat the women as equals. They were allowed to
[42:08] Speaker 11: let their true emotions out legitimately to the US men's
[42:13] Speaker 11: hockey team. The women won gold before you day.
[42:17] Speaker 9: To watch that, knowing everything that's going on was sick nauseating.
[42:24] Speaker 9: US men's hockey team who decided to giggle with the
[42:26] Speaker 9: United States President.
[42:28] Speaker 7: Just so you know, that's a very weird way to
[42:29] Speaker 7: say that you all have small pps.
[42:31] Speaker 8: I mean, this is like Pie and the Sky type
[42:34] Speaker 8: leftist shit. So the guys handled it totally appropriately. It
[42:39] Speaker 8: was a moment of levity and fun and exuberance. Cash Battel,
[42:43] Speaker 8: the FBI director, was in the locker room and clearly
[42:46] Speaker 8: just got the President on the phone so that mister
[42:48] Speaker 8: Trump could have fun with the boys and the boys
[42:51] Speaker 8: could have a great moment to tell their families about, like, Wow, we.
[42:54] Speaker 7: Spoke to the President.
[42:55] Speaker 1: It's so cool.
[42:56] Speaker 7: It's always been cool to get a call from the President.
[42:58] Speaker 8: And they just they.
[43:01] Speaker 7: Had to ruin it. The leftists have to ruin it.
[43:04] Speaker 8: And I really believe they ruined it intentionally because they
[43:08] Speaker 8: hated these boys from the start. They hated these boys
[43:11] Speaker 8: the second they skated off the ice and took off
[43:13] Speaker 8: their helmets and they saw that they were all white men.
[43:15] Speaker 7: I mean, that's all it takes. They were pissed.
[43:18] Speaker 8: There weren't enough black faces, there weren't enough brown faces.
[43:22] Speaker 8: There were no non binaries. It was all quintessential Heart
[43:26] Speaker 8: of America, white dudes who were full of testosterone, athletic aggression, masculinity,
[43:36] Speaker 8: and patriotism exactly what the left hates, and they just
[43:41] Speaker 8: assume they're all maga warriors. They look like that, they
[43:44] Speaker 8: sound like that, they love America, they must be maga. Meanwhile,
[43:47] Speaker 8: they're not our newest national hero.
[43:49] Speaker 7: Jack Hughes.
[43:50] Speaker 8: I don't know what his politics are exactly, but I
[43:52] Speaker 8: saw him on a zoom interview talking all about how
[43:56] Speaker 8: he totally supported the DEI initiative in the NHL and
[44:01] Speaker 8: like skating with the pride colors of the Transflager the
[44:04] Speaker 8: DEI it was one of the chosen woke issues and
[44:06] Speaker 8: he was like.
[44:07] Speaker 7: That's great.
[44:07] Speaker 8: I think it's great we did that. This is not
[44:09] Speaker 8: maga red meat at all. I have no idea what
[44:12] Speaker 8: the guy's politics are at, nor do I care, which
[44:15] Speaker 8: is how you know.
[44:16] Speaker 7: I am of the right, not of the left.
[44:19] Speaker 8: Only the left makes people's politics the stakes for whether
[44:21] Speaker 8: you root for them at the Olympics. The only righties
[44:23] Speaker 8: who complained about the leftist Olympics were the ones who
[44:28] Speaker 8: saw the leftist Olympians shoving their politics down our throat
[44:32] Speaker 8: and saying they weren't there to ski or skate.
[44:34] Speaker 7: Or what have you for all of America.
[44:36] Speaker 8: It was just for their leftist friends and family, or
[44:39] Speaker 8: the few causes they happened to support.
[44:41] Speaker 1: Okay, last one. Gavin Newsoon, the governor of California who
[44:45] Speaker 1: would like to be president one day. While he's getting
[44:47] Speaker 1: a little Joe Botany a foot in mouth, he trying
[44:51] Speaker 1: to patrons African Americans, said that he couldn't read, just
[44:55] Speaker 1: like them. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech.
[45:00] Speaker 1: Because I cannot read a speech, maybe the wrong business
[45:05] Speaker 1: to be. I'm not you know, I'm not trying to
[45:10] Speaker 1: impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm
[45:14] Speaker 1: like you. How patronizing are these people?
[45:20] Speaker 7: Oh my god? Okay, And here's the thing. Here's the
[45:22] Speaker 7: worst part.
[45:23] Speaker 8: They're like He said this many times about his terrible
[45:25] Speaker 8: SAT score he got a nine sixty and how he
[45:28] Speaker 8: can't read.
[45:29] Speaker 7: Yes, he has. Here's the problem.
[45:31] Speaker 8: He was sitting in front of a mostly black audience
[45:33] Speaker 8: across from a black interviewer, and he said, I'm like
[45:37] Speaker 8: you dumb. Like it is one thing if you just
[45:41] Speaker 8: say like I'm dumb, I don't score well on tests,
[45:45] Speaker 8: or I have dyslexia and I can't read. That is
[45:49] Speaker 8: very different from looking at a majority minority audience and saying,
[45:53] Speaker 8: I'm like you dumb and can't read. See, I'm looking
[45:59] Speaker 8: to bond with you. You think of the hard time
[46:01] Speaker 8: they gave President Trump when after he got arrested and
[46:05] Speaker 8: had his mugshot. He was like, you know who's been
[46:08] Speaker 8: very supportive the black community. A lot of the black community,
[46:11] Speaker 8: they're used to being disrespected, and they see that I
[46:14] Speaker 8: was disrespected and they've come over and said nice things
[46:16] Speaker 8: to me. And that's how he put it. He didn't
[46:18] Speaker 8: say black people are criminals. They know they're always getting arrested,
[46:22] Speaker 8: they're felons. He said they're used to being disrespected, which
[46:27] Speaker 8: was but the left took that comment and tried to
[46:31] Speaker 8: make it into what Gavin Newsom actually did, look.
[46:35] Speaker 7: At the black people and say, where are the same dumb?
[46:39] Speaker 8: It's so devastating, and he was totally spiraling all day yesterday.
[46:44] Speaker 8: He was like trying to diminish it. And then Sean
[46:46] Speaker 8: Hannity sent out a tweet. Everybody sent out a tweet,
[46:49] Speaker 8: but he's been on Sean's show, So he wrote back
[46:52] Speaker 8: with a bunch of F bombs, like how dare you?
[46:54] Speaker 8: You don't know what the F and you didn't say
[46:55] Speaker 8: anything about the racist video Trump sent out, and yet
[46:59] Speaker 8: you want to try to get on me, and it
[47:01] Speaker 8: kept going and going to where Susan Crabtree, a respected
[47:05] Speaker 8: solid reporter who works for Real Clear Politics, which is
[47:08] Speaker 8: not a left or right organization. They mostly compile polls
[47:12] Speaker 8: and do straight down the middle of political reporting, sent
[47:15] Speaker 8: a note to the Gavin Newsome team saying is there
[47:17] Speaker 8: proof of his dyslexia? By the way, like, is there
[47:19] Speaker 8: any sort of record of it? Because now he's like,
[47:22] Speaker 8: it's it was my dyslexia. My dyslexia causes me not
[47:25] Speaker 8: to read. It's not that I'm stupid like black people. Okay,
[47:28] Speaker 8: So anyway, she said, do you have proof of it?
[47:30] Speaker 8: And his director of comms wrote back off, So he
[47:35] Speaker 8: is spiraling like they are very defensive.
[47:44] Speaker 1: Now. You know, I love Macau's, you know I love Holden,
[47:46] Speaker 1: you know I love Commodore's. Well the Veil, which was
[47:48] Speaker 1: a ran from I think eighty six to ID eight,
[47:51] Speaker 1: there is a great project that a typhe on the
[47:55] Speaker 1: north coast of New South Wales has been fixing up
[47:57] Speaker 1: and fixing up the ease. Some seven hundred different brendices
[48:00] Speaker 1: have been putting it back together and now they're going
[48:03] Speaker 1: to auction it and every dollar from the auction goes
[48:07] Speaker 1: to help pay for an emergency helicopter for the region
[48:11] Speaker 1: to be able to transport people to and from hospitals.
[48:15] Speaker 1: What a great idea, what a great piece of Australia.
[48:19] Speaker 1: And if you want to, I'll give you some of
[48:20] Speaker 1: the details as we get a bit closer to when
[48:23] Speaker 1: you can bid for this bad boy.
[48:25] Speaker 12: Here we've got a nineteen eighty six bl Commodore with
[48:28] Speaker 12: a three liter RB thirty engine in it. So it's
[48:31] Speaker 12: been restored honest to the bones, true original and factory
[48:36] Speaker 12: spec by apprentices over the last fifteen years at Wallingbar Taye.
[48:48] Speaker 1: Oh maney heah. They had a card like that. What
[48:51] Speaker 1: a thumper. What a great way of firstly teaching kids
[48:55] Speaker 1: about the basics, bringing back an Australian classic of manufacturing,
[48:59] Speaker 1: and thirdly that this is a great way of raising
[49:02] Speaker 1: money for charity. Now I do not know if if
[49:05] Speaker 1: you pay fifty thousand dollars for the car this becomes
[49:08] Speaker 1: tax deductible because it's technically a charitable donation, or whether
[49:12] Speaker 1: you're just going to have to part for it yourself.
[49:13] Speaker 1: But if you've got some coin, and you'd like to
[49:15] Speaker 1: get a great car for a good cause. That might
[49:18] Speaker 1: be it's tomorrow

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