July 19, 2026 • 7 mins
The latest polls from Australia are out, and it's tight at the top.
Both Labour and One Nation are polling high, whilst the Liberal coalition has taken a popularity hit. Dropping to 19%.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price says despite Pauline Hanson's holidays and controversial remarks about immigration, it hasn't changed public opinion.
He says that Hanson is 'tied for first' with Labour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look how I found back from holiday. Steve Price, welcome
home only just do you have a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Japan is a wonderful country. You can can't not have
a great time there. It's clean, cheap, people are friendly,
You're never going to get robbed. What wal could you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Ask for this time of year? What's the weather?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hot? Humid in Tokyo through the south to go, got
even more humid up north where I was twenty eight
degrees sunny.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Every day, and you're playing golf golf every day.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I've played eleven games in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And you're paying a lot still to play on a
Japanese golf course.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Not as much as you would play in New Zealand
or Australia. Pass around. The golf I've played up there
cost some sixty dollars, which is very cheap.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You kidding, man. They're all good courses, brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Good on you. Well, I'm glad to.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Gott as brilliant as rhyme fox.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I mean, come on, I hope you get to see
a bit of it because we because I'm up early.
Obviously I was watching it was live. But the way
he held himself together and the way he came back
and got the sixty two over the weekend. To put
him in contention, we are just like fizzing this.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Morning twelve foot Birdie part On off eighteen told to win.
I mean, that's one of the great stories of sport
for the year breaks the sixty three year who do
and of course the Fox name. You can't get a
more famous sporting name in New Zealand probably than that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You couldn't agree more. Pauline's also been on holiday, not
that she would call it a holiday, but I saw
her in the paul with jeena Ryan Hart and that
was quite the sight. Anyway. Apart from that, you won't
have seen the Spotlight program last night, but I hope
I assume you've got the takeaways from it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah. Look, she has been trailed around by Liam Bartlet,
the Spotlight reporter for a month. She's given them through
her chief of staff James as to the extraordinary access
and look, people can criticize her comments about immigration all
they like. That's a position that she has held since
she entered Parliament. And then she started her maiden speech
(01:59):
talking about Australia. If we were not careful, this is
her words, not mine. Would be overrun by Asian migrants.
Now she's not changed that position. So you can wring
your hands all you like about what she talks about
with Tommy Robinson and what she talks about the white
Australian policy and all of the above. It's not affecting
her popularity at all. There's two polls out today, one
(02:20):
in the nine papers, a result poll, and one in
the one that we took about more often, the News
poll in the Australian, and it's got Labour's primary voter
that's lowest level since twenty twenty two. The election down
to thirty one Nation is equal with the Labor Party
on thirty and the dear old Liberal Coalition Liberal National
(02:40):
Coalition they're down at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Sorry, it's up at nineteen from seventeen. But those figures
are a disaster. So all the mainstream media criticism of
Pauline and how she shouldn't have been at the Dulci
and Gabana show in Sicily and in the Pool Regina,
the public don't care, yeh, because the sick and tie
mainstream polity.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, exactly, I saw a poll out. It would have
been while you're away she's right up there in Victoria two,
good old liberal Victoria. She's like, if not leading, she's
tired for first.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Their only problem there is she still doesn't have anybody
to lead the party in Victoria. They've not announced any
of the candidates and we're now not that far away
from the end of November eight November election, so it's
the back room organization that's going to come back to
haunt them a little bit over Treamt exactly, and we
will have to wait and see that. Victoria is going
(03:33):
to be a great test is.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The I'm to be frank, I will be paying scent
regard to the Commonwealth Games because it's not what it was,
not that it was ever anything great in the first place,
but given you've paid for it to be in Scotland,
will you be taking extra interest?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
No, I don't think. I think like you, no one
really cares. Now you might say, well, that's probably a
good reason why Daniel Andrews to form a Premier canceled.
But in canceling it, we have contributed one hundred and
ninety four million dollars and remember Victoria is a broken
state with huge debt to stage the Glasgow Conmwth Games,
because that was the penalty that we needed to pay
(04:13):
after Daniel Andrews pulled the pin after using the Commath
Games in my view as a stunt to win seats
in Regional Victoria. And apparently Glasgow is in all sorts
of trouble that transport's not working and no one there
really cares whether it's old or not. I mean, Australia
is the biggest fan of the Conmorth Guns for one reason.
We're the strongest sporting nation. I mean, with all due
(04:35):
regard to New Zealand in Conwth guns when you get
into the swimming pool, well we just win every medal
and so Australians go, oh yeah, the Conmath guns are great,
I don't think. And it would be very interesting to
see the TV ratings. Did anybody really care?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
No, it's a very limit. It's a limited watch. I
always be careful with people like you. And were you
Dren Hunch's mate or did you hate them? On? He
hates you?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And the latter he tried well, he did sue me
at once for defamation. He said some dreadful things on
the day of the funeral of a great made of
mine cricketer David Hooks who was hit with a sucker
punch and died in the street in Melbourne, and so
(05:17):
I gave Hint to touch up and he tried. He
sued me, and years later I found out that we're
working at the same company at the time. Found out
that a secret payment had been made to him without
me being told, which I wasn't very keen about. But look,
I just raise it because I think we give away
state funerals, which is happening today at midday in Port
Melbourne and some joint called the timber Yard. Because Hinch
(05:37):
has always said he's not someone who is religious, we
give him away too cheaply. I mean, he was a
key we who spent much of his media career based
in Sydney, New York overseas. Yes, he was very popular
on radio in Melbourne. But I mean you're setting yourself
a low bar in my view. I mean, if every
(05:58):
popular media personality is going to be given a state funeral,
you're going to have a lot of state funerals. I
just am a bit cynical about the fact that this
was announced in the lead up to a state election
at the end of the year, knowing that all people
who love Darren Hinch and they are going to go
the labor government. They're not so bad after all.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I got to say, though he died was a week
ago as Friday, wasn't I remember it distinctly, just a
smage over a week you guys. I was sad because
I mean, it's not the way it used to be.
I mean, I know this makes it sound like a
couple of old farts. But with laws gone, Jones is
going to wind unfortunately very sadly, and Hinch now gone.
And i'd include you in there, but I mean the
(06:40):
greats are going, I'm afraid, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, we've still got the great Mike Costking.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What do you do? You've clearly been on holiday and
come back in a good mood. Anyway, good to see
it was see Wednesday. Appreciate a very much steep price
out of Australia. The other thing, by the way, speaking
of that afore mentioned election, j Cinderellen, I watched her
over the weekend. It was Friday. In fact. Remember the CFMEU,
(07:05):
the union, the corrupt union. It's called the Big Build
and it's in exclusive to Victoria. The Big Build. But
I mean the cf MEU as a corrupt organization the
elect and breadth of Australia anyway, the allegation on Friday
was despite the fact they went in there and sacked anybody, everybody,
it's just still as crooked as it ever would be,
(07:26):
and she didn't want to have anything to do with it.
Any question regarding union figures or people associated with the
union should be put to the federal government's appointed administrator,
who's responsible for the operation of the union. In fact,
all this was taking place in her backyard didn't seem
to bother her, which is why she will be losing
the election come November. For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast,
listen live to news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays,
(07:48):
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Look how I found back from holiday. Steve Price, welcome
home only just do you have a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Japan is a wonderful country. You can can't not have
a great time there. It's clean, cheap, people are friendly,
You're never going to get robbed. What wal could you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Ask for this time of year? What's the weather?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hot? Humid in Tokyo through the south to go, got
even more humid up north where I was twenty eight
degrees sunny.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Every day, and you're playing golf golf every day.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I've played eleven games in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And you're paying a lot still to play on a
Japanese golf course.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Not as much as you would play in New Zealand
or Australia. Pass around. The golf I've played up there
cost some sixty dollars, which is very cheap.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You kidding, man. They're all good courses, brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Good on you. Well, I'm glad to.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Gott as brilliant as rhyme fox.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I mean, come on, I hope you get to see
a bit of it because we because I'm up early.
Obviously I was watching it was live. But the way
he held himself together and the way he came back
and got the sixty two over the weekend. To put
him in contention, we are just like fizzing this.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Morning twelve foot Birdie part On off eighteen told to win.
I mean, that's one of the great stories of sport
for the year breaks the sixty three year who do
and of course the Fox name. You can't get a
more famous sporting name in New Zealand probably than that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You couldn't agree more. Pauline's also been on holiday, not
that she would call it a holiday, but I saw
her in the paul with jeena Ryan Hart and that
was quite the sight. Anyway. Apart from that, you won't
have seen the Spotlight program last night, but I hope
I assume you've got the takeaways from it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah. Look, she has been trailed around by Liam Bartlet,
the Spotlight reporter for a month. She's given them through
her chief of staff James as to the extraordinary access
and look, people can criticize her comments about immigration all
they like. That's a position that she has held since
she entered Parliament. And then she started her maiden speech
(01:59):
talking about Australia. If we were not careful, this is
her words, not mine. Would be overrun by Asian migrants.
Now she's not changed that position. So you can wring
your hands all you like about what she talks about
with Tommy Robinson and what she talks about the white
Australian policy and all of the above. It's not affecting
her popularity at all. There's two polls out today, one
(02:20):
in the nine papers, a result poll, and one in
the one that we took about more often, the News
poll in the Australian, and it's got Labour's primary voter
that's lowest level since twenty twenty two. The election down
to thirty one Nation is equal with the Labor Party
on thirty and the dear old Liberal Coalition Liberal National
(02:40):
Coalition they're down at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Sorry, it's up at nineteen from seventeen. But those figures
are a disaster. So all the mainstream media criticism of
Pauline and how she shouldn't have been at the Dulci
and Gabana show in Sicily and in the Pool Regina,
the public don't care, yeh, because the sick and tie
mainstream polity.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, exactly, I saw a poll out. It would have
been while you're away she's right up there in Victoria two,
good old liberal Victoria. She's like, if not leading, she's
tired for first.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Their only problem there is she still doesn't have anybody
to lead the party in Victoria. They've not announced any
of the candidates and we're now not that far away
from the end of November eight November election, so it's
the back room organization that's going to come back to
haunt them a little bit over Treamt exactly, and we
will have to wait and see that. Victoria is going
(03:33):
to be a great test is.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The I'm to be frank, I will be paying scent
regard to the Commonwealth Games because it's not what it was,
not that it was ever anything great in the first place,
but given you've paid for it to be in Scotland,
will you be taking extra interest?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
No, I don't think. I think like you, no one
really cares. Now you might say, well, that's probably a
good reason why Daniel Andrews to form a Premier canceled.
But in canceling it, we have contributed one hundred and
ninety four million dollars and remember Victoria is a broken
state with huge debt to stage the Glasgow Conmwth Games,
because that was the penalty that we needed to pay
(04:13):
after Daniel Andrews pulled the pin after using the Commath
Games in my view as a stunt to win seats
in Regional Victoria. And apparently Glasgow is in all sorts
of trouble that transport's not working and no one there
really cares whether it's old or not. I mean, Australia
is the biggest fan of the Conmorth Guns for one reason.
We're the strongest sporting nation. I mean, with all due
(04:35):
regard to New Zealand in Conwth guns when you get
into the swimming pool, well we just win every medal
and so Australians go, oh yeah, the Conmath guns are great,
I don't think. And it would be very interesting to
see the TV ratings. Did anybody really care?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
No, it's a very limit. It's a limited watch. I
always be careful with people like you. And were you
Dren Hunch's mate or did you hate them? On? He
hates you?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And the latter he tried well, he did sue me
at once for defamation. He said some dreadful things on
the day of the funeral of a great made of
mine cricketer David Hooks who was hit with a sucker
punch and died in the street in Melbourne, and so
(05:17):
I gave Hint to touch up and he tried. He
sued me, and years later I found out that we're
working at the same company at the time. Found out
that a secret payment had been made to him without
me being told, which I wasn't very keen about. But look,
I just raise it because I think we give away
state funerals, which is happening today at midday in Port
Melbourne and some joint called the timber Yard. Because Hinch
(05:37):
has always said he's not someone who is religious, we
give him away too cheaply. I mean, he was a
key we who spent much of his media career based
in Sydney, New York overseas. Yes, he was very popular
on radio in Melbourne. But I mean you're setting yourself
a low bar in my view. I mean, if every
(05:58):
popular media personality is going to be given a state funeral,
you're going to have a lot of state funerals. I
just am a bit cynical about the fact that this
was announced in the lead up to a state election
at the end of the year, knowing that all people
who love Darren Hinch and they are going to go
the labor government. They're not so bad after all.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I got to say, though he died was a week
ago as Friday, wasn't I remember it distinctly, just a
smage over a week you guys. I was sad because
I mean, it's not the way it used to be.
I mean, I know this makes it sound like a
couple of old farts. But with laws gone, Jones is
going to wind unfortunately very sadly, and Hinch now gone.
And i'd include you in there, but I mean the
(06:40):
greats are going, I'm afraid, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, we've still got the great Mike Costking.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What do you do? You've clearly been on holiday and
come back in a good mood. Anyway, good to see
it was see Wednesday. Appreciate a very much steep price
out of Australia. The other thing, by the way, speaking
of that afore mentioned election, j Cinderellen, I watched her
over the weekend. It was Friday. In fact. Remember the CFMEU,
(07:05):
the union, the corrupt union. It's called the Big Build
and it's in exclusive to Victoria. The Big Build. But
I mean the cf MEU as a corrupt organization the
elect and breadth of Australia anyway, the allegation on Friday
was despite the fact they went in there and sacked anybody, everybody,
it's just still as crooked as it ever would be,
(07:26):
and she didn't want to have anything to do with it.
Any question regarding union figures or people associated with the
union should be put to the federal government's appointed administrator,
who's responsible for the operation of the union. In fact,
all this was taking place in her backyard didn't seem
to bother her, which is why she will be losing
the election come November. For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast,
listen live to news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays,
(07:48):
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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