Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Barnaby Joyce facing backlash over 'bullet' comment at protest

There's growing calls to sack Barnaby Joyce following some colourful comments he made at a recent protest. 

Joyce told protesters attending an anti-wind farm rally to 'get ready to load that magazine' and vote out Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says it's unlikely Joyce will be fired over these comments.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So after Australia we go Murray Old's welcome to the program.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
How they was Andrew has things buddy.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Very good, very good. Immigration is a big topic. Tony Berg,
the replacement Immigration Minister, is getting slammed by the opposition.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well he is, yeah, but look it's water off Burke's pack.
He's been there a long time. He's the most capable
and almost one of the most experienced in Albanese's cabinet.
Over here, Andrew Giles was the immigration minister, great friend
of Anthony Albernezi, but he had to go. He's like
a rabbit in the headlights and it's such a sensitive portfolio.
Burke is from the New South Wales right wing. It's

(00:34):
the hardest branch of the Labor Party by far over
here in Australia, and he's a head kicker par excellence.
I mean, Giles was under intense pressure.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
The High Court did him no favors when it said
it ruled against indefinite detention. But he simply failed to
defend the government's position. Burke nowhere as soft, if we
can put it that way. He was a previous immigration
minister under Kevin Rudd and he's on the front foot
right away. The Opposition Shadow minister said, oh, Tony Burk's

(01:04):
going to be soft when conducting security checks for migrants
because there's lots of Muslims in his electorate in Western Sydney.
And Burke's replied, what an idiotic comment from someone who's
never ever been a minister.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Just this fleaing in the Senate. So it's on for
one and all.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
And I don't think you're going to see Tony Burke
taking it backward step.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
No, no. But here's the thing is there is quite
a bit of algibadgie because Andrew Giles let in one
hundred and fifty detainees and they have been causing trouble.
There's like twenty six reports of crimes by those detaineesh yeah,
for sure in just three months. Muzz I mean, their
productivity is enormous and they are trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
But the governments have been arguing its hands are tired.
It can't defive the High Court and lock these people
up again unless they do something else. And that's the problem.
That's what that's the that's the big problem the government's had.
The High Court said you can't lock people up indefinitely.
And you know, and these were bad people and sort
it out and seed it out if you like. And

(02:03):
identified as potential problems, well the high courts let them
out into the community. And they've proved to be problems
big time. And yes, you say, some pretty serious crime.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
All right to Barnaby Joyce and his apology after his
colorful I mean, what do you call it, his language,
his metaphors, his analogies.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Look, look he's a serial buffet. It opens his mouth
to change feet, all that sort of stuff. His electorate
loves the guy. He's up there in northern New South
Wales and the country. Barnaby Joyce can walk on water
up there. What he did at there was a big
protest rally against a wind farm, you know, the right
wing of he hates anything to do with renewable energy.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And Joyce said, listen, and you hop into the ballot
box necktime.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Next time, make those ballot papers bullets, load the magazine
and these little pieces of paper are bullets, and get
ready to load your magazine. Goodbye Bowen, which is the
Energy minister, and goodbye Elbow of course the Prime Minister
for his part, Albanese says Peter Dutton should sat barnaby.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh, get ahead. And I was just thinking about all
your you've said already in this thing A head kick,
a part excellence. And he what he what it is
is his mouth to change feet has to clear his
mouth to change feet. I mean, if we ever get
stuck on some colorful language, it wiill be a poorer
place particular.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Indeed, that's right, particularly with.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You, Murray. And finally, a woman sent to jail after
she forced her daughter to marry an older man who
later killed her, yes.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Six weeks into the marriage. Dreadful. It's a horrible story.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's a member of the Hazara community from Iraq forced
to flee the Taliban, came to Australia and settle in Regeal, Victoria. Well,
the mother's been jailed for three years, at least twelve
months behind bars after the murder of her twenty one
year old daughter. The little girl believes the young woman
wanted to adopt a new life in Australia and study

(04:02):
and get married in her late twenties, maybe even thirty.
She wanted to have a career. First, we mother forced
her to marry this fellow from w Way, and the
daughter basically was obliged to marry. She went to live
with his fellow in w Way and as I say,
he cut a throat.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Six weeks later he's been jailed for life.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And the court basically said, listen, you can't bring your
customs from Iraq and apply them in Australia.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
It doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
From twenty thirteen, there's been a law on the books
over here that forbid's forced marriage. The judge told us
she had abused to powers as a mother to pressure
a daughter to get married, or she said, if you
don't get married, we're going to kick you out of
the house.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, it's just ended in a disaster all round.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
She was sobbing in court as you might expect, led
away minimum twelve months in jail, but sentenced to three years.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, Murray Olds from Australia. I thank you so
much for your time. More from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
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