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July 21, 2025 5 mins

Over in Australia, the opposition isn't faring too well in the months after their election loss.

The first post-election opinion poll has revealed Sussan Ley's coalition is sitting on 29 percent - the lowest figures since 2023.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says Ley is still trying to appeal to prospective voters as the coalition assesses the damage. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
International Correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand business Olli Peterson's sixty PR Perth Live
presenters with us.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Ali.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello are you there? Ali?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am? Can you hear me? Heather?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Can you do have a diy A your here?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
No? I don't, no way no. I go to Brendan
and he looks after me at blink blonde. He's outstanding.
How much do you pay Brendan sixty eight dollars?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
And how often do you go?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Every five weeks?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Five weeks?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And what do you Yeah, I know it's pretty expensive,
isn't it? But like he's really good and I enjoy
a little massage in my hair. We have a chat
to Brendan's He's a good bloke. If you're ever in Perth, Heather,
go and see him.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Okay, yeah, cool? What do you ask for bowl cut?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Or I just he just does the usual number two
around the sides, then styles the hair on top of
me in an out about half an hour.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'll ask him for a short back and sides as well.
All right, So has it been a good day for elbow?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, I'll tell you on he's cockahoop. He wakes up
to news poll this morning which shows that the Coalition
is in the worst shape it has ever been, historic
lows for Susan Lee, and I know she was fired
up there in the world wah has but good luck
the optics of when they sit in the Parliament. There's
just five women on the Liberals and Coalition side of
the benches which have been absolutely decimated. So as you

(01:15):
and I talk right now, Header, he is welcoming all
the labor courses. They're all signing and smiling for the
cameras and it's a bit of a party really at
Parliament House in Canberra, the Prime Minister saying that this
week he's going to slash university hex step by twenty percent.
That's his first time of a business and he wants
to really focus on childcare reform in the wake of
what we heard out of Victoria in the last couple

(01:36):
of weeks. So they're his first major priorities. He doesn't
want to take for granted, obviously the opportunities that Australians
have given the Albanese government. But already today out there
they're floating this idea of capital gains tax reform. So
I think he'll be he'll be right on top of
it for for the first few weeks, and we're going
to really discover what the coalition is these days for

(01:57):
Susan Lee. They're not going to be the no elition
that Peter Dutton led. But what approach that the coalition
takes is anybody's guests, because they are really in the wilderness.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, what reform can he actually do with childcare? Because
I mean, it seems to me that the problem here
was simply that a creep managed to work in a
child care place and either you have to just vet
better or unfortunately except that there will be some who
will get through the vetting.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And I think you've nailed it by just saying you
need to vet people better, and that's really down to
state responsibilities unless you're going to have Commonwealth laws. He's
also talking about the cost of childcare and the fact
that he wants to bring that down for working families.
But you're right, there's not much more that can be done.
And I know it's become a bit of a gendered
issue in Australia in regards to men who are childcare workers.

(02:46):
But look, I'll say this is a blokeheader I wouldn't
want a three year old being looked after a bloke
in a childcare center. I actually think it's to be odd.
But that's just me. So, you know, I think that
we'll see the vetting process about I don't know. I look,
I just don't get it head. I just don't get
why a man would actually want to go into a

(03:07):
childcare center in terms of that that's a job that
they want to do and can.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Of nine, ok, nineteen twenty three.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
And that's fine, But that's me. I said that, I'll
copy it, but I just I do I think it's
a bit odd. I really do think it's a bit odd.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, interesting, that's a discussion for another day that.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
We have instantly, we have a good debate.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, no, absolutely, listen, talk to me about the Tasmania
election because it is am I right in that it
is something of a surprise that the Liberal Party is
actually getting the first shot at.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
This well, that's right, and the fact that after eleven
years the Liberal Party still holds on it. Basically nothing's
changed over the weekend. They've got fourteen seats, the same
number they had when a vote of no confidence was
called on the Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockcliffe. The Labor Party
only has ten. The magic number was eighteen. What is though,
giving the Labor Party reason to say no, no, no, you

(03:56):
should look to us is the fact they're about nine
cross benches from the left side of politics. So you know,
they go with the Labor Party giving them nineteen, but
the Liberal Party would then have fifteen and maybe convince
a few others. It's a mess. It's a shambles. Tasmanic.
We already knew that. Like you know, Tasmania, that's a
little squeez little place between mainland Australia and New Zealand.

(04:17):
Do you want it? You can have it?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well why not? Now, how are the teens being recruited
by the gangs?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well this is rather interesting, but they're trying to get
around the idea that you know, basically you can't prosecute well,
you can still prosecute children. But what they're doing is
they're getting some of the deadly work being done by teenagers.
So sort of the weapons that they've been found with, handguns,
bayonets found in parts of Western Sydney teenagers' homes and
they're saying this is alarming, and they're doing this because

(04:45):
they're giving to the kids, as I said, because they're
not going to be as as harshly dealt with by
the police force. You know. Usually it's a bit of
a slap on the wrist to these teams who are
being recruited by the gangs. So again, I don't think
that's probably anything new that probably gangs from run around
the world have been doing for years. They say that
they're really infiltrating a lot of Western Sydney communities and
the payoff the needs for their families. They're giving them

(05:05):
money to say, let you can get your son to
try and smuggle this into a certain part of Sydney.
So that's something they're very worried about.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
All right, Hey onlie look after yourself when we're chat
again about blokes working in childcare at on stage. Oliver
he is a six PR Perth Live presenter. For more
from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news talks.
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