November 17, 2024 • 8 mins
Anthony Albanese attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, speaking on the importance of free and fair trade to lift living standards of people throughout the region.
Australian correspondent Steve Price tells Mike Hosking Albanese is working closely with Chinese President Xi Jinping to maintain trade.
Plus, the unveiling of department store Christmas windows has gone down without a crowd as anti-war protestors disrupted the tradition.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Australia. We go, Stephen, good morning to you, Good adad,
good morning. I was going to ask you about this,
funnily enough, and you happen to be in Adelaide for
us this morning. I was watching the supercars racing over
the weekend, which was on the streets of Adelaide, which
would be well aware if you're in Adelaide, and they
did one of those aerial shots where you sort of
pull out and look around. It's a beautiful looking area, isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It used to be the Victoria Park race course, and
then of course it was transformed into Australia's first well
the rebirth of Formula one in Australia because it was
the Formula one race for about ten years and then
Melbourne pinched it off Adelaide. But you can sit This
will make you feel happy about life. You can sit
(00:41):
on the upstairs outdoor veranda of a hotel, drinking South
Australian beer, watching the cars go past below you under
your feet. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's incredible. And you're there for your mum's ninetieth What
are you doing for a ninetieth? What does she do?
Little type tipple?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
See your money and money and horses and boats I
had to pay for very expensive. There was fifty five
people over the age of eighty on their walking frames
turned up at the golf club and I fed them
and applied them with booze for four hours.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good on you, Well, aren't you a nice son? So
she's obviously at ninety, in fine fettle and out there.
Did she play eighteen after lunch?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No? No, we didn't play golf. We just drank an eight.
But she just lost their license for the first time.
Only because they do an eye test in South Australia.
I don't know if you do this in New zeal And.
She was deemed it not to be able to continue
to drive, which is a big wrench for someone of
that one.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Hundred percent couldn't agree more so she got a car
to sell or what happens there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll give it to one of the kids.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I think, are you going to ask her or are
you just going.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
To it won't be in the garage when she wakes up.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It back to Melbourne. How did elbow go at Apeck?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, he's still there and you know you and I've
talked about he's in a bit of trouble in the polls,
and he's not seen as a particularly strong leader. I
think most Australians, if you polled them, would say, look,
if we're going to be in conflict, we don't want
this blow, particularly as our boss. He's not a strong
prime ministry, shrunk into the job. I've said that to
you before, but he's piled on top of his problems.
(02:22):
The Chinese leader Jijin King, she has said he's Anthony
Albaneze is a model for all the rest of Western leaders.
They should all look at him and copy the way
he does things and their countries will be better off.
That's not the sort of praise you really want. I
don't think. I mean, G's obviously over there glad handling
everyone before Donald Trump takes over in January in the
(02:44):
United States and Australia is a major trading partner with
the Chinese. We sell him a lot of stuff that
we dig out of the ground. And so Gi and
Alba apparently got a love affair going on.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh interesting, this Maya's Christmas window. How is I mean
this applicable for so many things in life? How has
it come to be this way?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, we don't demand that people who protest get a
permit for a start. In Victoria, they've refused. The very
hard left labor governments refused to do that. The My
Christmas windows are normally viewed by about two million people.
It's the biggest thing that happens in Melbourne. After the
Spring Racing carnival, they unveil these department stool windows. They're
(03:26):
nowhere near as good as the ones in New York
are in London, but they've always been the tradition, so
they always opened them on a Saturday. They had to
cancel the opening because of pro Palestinian protesters who said
you cannot celebrate Christmas while children are being massacred in Gaza.
Now that is just completely ridiculous. So what happened about
(03:49):
ten people, one dressed up as a fake police officer
turned up there, started ranting and raving. There was no violence.
Police protected the windows, but the families just didn't come.
And this is part of the problem. You come to Melbourne,
you know what I'm talking about, when the city can
be dead. The reason it's dead is no one wants
to ruin their weekend by coming in here and being
(04:10):
overrun by a protest.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Exactly. Shame and speaking of Melbourne the twenty billion dollar
rail so Dutton says that's off.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, a suburban rail loop. The federal government's only put
two billion in and hasn't even written the check yet
because they say they haven't seen a business model that
would mean that that money would be well spent. This thing,
I've told you before, it goes from somewhere no one
wants to be to somewhere no one wants to go.
They've started digging holes, they've written contracts, and now Peter
(04:41):
Dutton's going to make it a federal election issue. And
he said, look, if we win, we won't be putting
any money into that thing at all, So go your hardest,
but it's not going to happen. So what we're going
to see, and I write a column in the Herodson
about this at the weekend. You're going to see two
very expensive holes at each end of this project with
money poured into them, and no rail line ever compared
(05:05):
to Sydney's new Metro. And I urge all your listeners
the next time they're in Sydney to ride the Metro
in Sydney, which is a driverless train one hundred k
an hour under the Harbor just fantastic Melbourne. It's just
an ongoing woe when it comes to big projects.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
In flying as I'm assuming you did to Adelaide. I
read a report the other day. I think it came
from the Triple CA or the Triple A or whatever
the hell they call themselves in Australia, since Rex and
bonds a fell over the price of going in one
of the routes I think was from Melbourne to Adelaide.
It could have been Sydney to Adelaide. The price of
airfares has gone through the roof. Is that your experience?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I drove, but you're right, and particularly because the
vights were on here this weekend, airfares are just through
the roof. Domestic travel in this country, it always happens.
Everyone tries to set up a third airline. We've had
all sorts of different operators and they all go broke.
Because Quantus and Virgin which is now going to be
largely owned by the Katari Airline, they just jacked the
(05:58):
fares up to make it impossible for a third competitor
to survive. But domestic affairs, I don't know about New Zealand.
I don't think it's much better there, I know domestic
affairs through the roof. By the way, I'm in New
Zealand from Boxing day. I tried to rent book a
rental car out of Auckland Airport on twenty six. Well,
if I'm prepared to pay half a million dollars to
(06:21):
get a car for ten days, I'm fine. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Where are you going.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
New Plymouth first and then golfing around somewhere? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, so you you so that you're telling me the
cost of the car you can get a car at
the cost of the car is too high.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh, somebelieved it's like two hundred dollars or two hundred
and fifty dollars a day to rend a car.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is that like a Mercedes? Where is there a Toyo?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No? It was for us. No, it's just a normal car,
a Yarus. And I didn't even know what a yarras is.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh, you don't want to know what a yarras is.
If they're honestly quoting you tw hundred and fifty dollars
a day for a yearis there's something seriously has gone wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'll do some more investigating.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Keep us in touch. Appreciate it very much. If it's
a Years Cross, if it's a Yarra's Cross, that's a
completely different experience. That's a completely different experience.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
More I'm more and more leaning towards the Yarras Cross.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, but that's what you see three months ago. And
when I asked you the other day, have you brought
you in the UK well known fact that purchasing a
car takes a long time? Is it? How many months
in counting?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's not like you where missus Husking Hawksby is afraid
to let you leave the house because you're just come.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Back with it with the car. Actually, I ordered a
part the other day for a car, which I haven't
done for In fact, I don't think i'd ever. No,
I've only ever once in my car owning life, ordered
a part for a car and it was a nineteen
sixty nine Mark one Daimler and they didn't have the
brakes in the country and so they had to go
and order it from Britain. So that was exciting. That
(07:55):
was about forty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But you didn't order it. They ordered it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Of course they ordered it. I didn't order it, but
I was involved in the ordering that they said, shall
we order one, and I said yes, and so then
but then the other day I had to actually, for
the first time in my entire life, chase down a
part and find a source for the part and order
the part all by myself. And it'll be only successful
when it arrives. It's coming from the other side of
(08:19):
the world, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
For more from the Mi Casking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
To Australia. We go, Stephen, good morning to you, Good adad,
good morning. I was going to ask you about this,
funnily enough, and you happen to be in Adelaide for
us this morning. I was watching the supercars racing over
the weekend, which was on the streets of Adelaide, which
would be well aware if you're in Adelaide, and they
did one of those aerial shots where you sort of
pull out and look around. It's a beautiful looking area, isn't.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It used to be the Victoria Park race course, and
then of course it was transformed into Australia's first well
the rebirth of Formula one in Australia because it was
the Formula one race for about ten years and then
Melbourne pinched it off Adelaide. But you can sit This
will make you feel happy about life. You can sit
(00:41):
on the upstairs outdoor veranda of a hotel, drinking South
Australian beer, watching the cars go past below you under
your feet. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's incredible. And you're there for your mum's ninetieth What
are you doing for a ninetieth? What does she do?
Little type tipple?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
See your money and money and horses and boats I
had to pay for very expensive. There was fifty five
people over the age of eighty on their walking frames
turned up at the golf club and I fed them
and applied them with booze for four hours.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good on you, Well, aren't you a nice son? So
she's obviously at ninety, in fine fettle and out there.
Did she play eighteen after lunch?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No? No, we didn't play golf. We just drank an eight.
But she just lost their license for the first time.
Only because they do an eye test in South Australia.
I don't know if you do this in New zeal And.
She was deemed it not to be able to continue
to drive, which is a big wrench for someone of
that one.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Hundred percent couldn't agree more so she got a car
to sell or what happens there.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'll give it to one of the kids.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I think, are you going to ask her or are
you just going.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
To it won't be in the garage when she wakes up.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It back to Melbourne. How did elbow go at Apeck?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, he's still there and you know you and I've
talked about he's in a bit of trouble in the polls,
and he's not seen as a particularly strong leader. I
think most Australians, if you polled them, would say, look,
if we're going to be in conflict, we don't want
this blow, particularly as our boss. He's not a strong
prime ministry, shrunk into the job. I've said that to
you before, but he's piled on top of his problems.
(02:22):
The Chinese leader Jijin King, she has said he's Anthony
Albaneze is a model for all the rest of Western leaders.
They should all look at him and copy the way
he does things and their countries will be better off.
That's not the sort of praise you really want. I
don't think. I mean, G's obviously over there glad handling
everyone before Donald Trump takes over in January in the
(02:44):
United States and Australia is a major trading partner with
the Chinese. We sell him a lot of stuff that
we dig out of the ground. And so Gi and
Alba apparently got a love affair going on.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh interesting, this Maya's Christmas window. How is I mean
this applicable for so many things in life? How has
it come to be this way?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, we don't demand that people who protest get a
permit for a start. In Victoria, they've refused. The very
hard left labor governments refused to do that. The My
Christmas windows are normally viewed by about two million people.
It's the biggest thing that happens in Melbourne. After the
Spring Racing carnival, they unveil these department stool windows. They're
(03:26):
nowhere near as good as the ones in New York
are in London, but they've always been the tradition, so
they always opened them on a Saturday. They had to
cancel the opening because of pro Palestinian protesters who said
you cannot celebrate Christmas while children are being massacred in Gaza.
Now that is just completely ridiculous. So what happened about
(03:49):
ten people, one dressed up as a fake police officer
turned up there, started ranting and raving. There was no violence.
Police protected the windows, but the families just didn't come.
And this is part of the problem. You come to Melbourne,
you know what I'm talking about, when the city can
be dead. The reason it's dead is no one wants
to ruin their weekend by coming in here and being
(04:10):
overrun by a protest.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Exactly. Shame and speaking of Melbourne the twenty billion dollar
rail so Dutton says that's off.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, a suburban rail loop. The federal government's only put
two billion in and hasn't even written the check yet
because they say they haven't seen a business model that
would mean that that money would be well spent. This thing,
I've told you before, it goes from somewhere no one
wants to be to somewhere no one wants to go.
They've started digging holes, they've written contracts, and now Peter
(04:41):
Dutton's going to make it a federal election issue. And
he said, look, if we win, we won't be putting
any money into that thing at all, So go your hardest,
but it's not going to happen. So what we're going
to see, and I write a column in the Herodson
about this at the weekend. You're going to see two
very expensive holes at each end of this project with
money poured into them, and no rail line ever compared
(05:05):
to Sydney's new Metro. And I urge all your listeners
the next time they're in Sydney to ride the Metro
in Sydney, which is a driverless train one hundred k
an hour under the Harbor just fantastic Melbourne. It's just
an ongoing woe when it comes to big projects.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
In flying as I'm assuming you did to Adelaide. I
read a report the other day. I think it came
from the Triple CA or the Triple A or whatever
the hell they call themselves in Australia, since Rex and
bonds a fell over the price of going in one
of the routes I think was from Melbourne to Adelaide.
It could have been Sydney to Adelaide. The price of
airfares has gone through the roof. Is that your experience?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I drove, but you're right, and particularly because the
vights were on here this weekend, airfares are just through
the roof. Domestic travel in this country, it always happens.
Everyone tries to set up a third airline. We've had
all sorts of different operators and they all go broke.
Because Quantus and Virgin which is now going to be
largely owned by the Katari Airline, they just jacked the
(05:58):
fares up to make it impossible for a third competitor
to survive. But domestic affairs, I don't know about New Zealand.
I don't think it's much better there, I know domestic
affairs through the roof. By the way, I'm in New
Zealand from Boxing day. I tried to rent book a
rental car out of Auckland Airport on twenty six. Well,
if I'm prepared to pay half a million dollars to
(06:21):
get a car for ten days, I'm fine. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Where are you going.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
New Plymouth first and then golfing around somewhere? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, so you you so that you're telling me the
cost of the car you can get a car at
the cost of the car is too high.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh, somebelieved it's like two hundred dollars or two hundred
and fifty dollars a day to rend a car.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is that like a Mercedes? Where is there a Toyo?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No? It was for us. No, it's just a normal car,
a Yarus. And I didn't even know what a yarras is.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh, you don't want to know what a yarras is.
If they're honestly quoting you tw hundred and fifty dollars
a day for a yearis there's something seriously has gone wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'll do some more investigating.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Keep us in touch. Appreciate it very much. If it's
a Years Cross, if it's a Yarra's Cross, that's a
completely different experience. That's a completely different experience.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
More I'm more and more leaning towards the Yarras Cross.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, but that's what you see three months ago. And
when I asked you the other day, have you brought
you in the UK well known fact that purchasing a
car takes a long time? Is it? How many months
in counting?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's not like you where missus Husking Hawksby is afraid
to let you leave the house because you're just come.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Back with it with the car. Actually, I ordered a
part the other day for a car, which I haven't
done for In fact, I don't think i'd ever. No,
I've only ever once in my car owning life, ordered
a part for a car and it was a nineteen
sixty nine Mark one Daimler and they didn't have the
brakes in the country and so they had to go
and order it from Britain. So that was exciting. That
(07:55):
was about forty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But you didn't order it. They ordered it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Of course they ordered it. I didn't order it, but
I was involved in the ordering that they said, shall
we order one, and I said yes, and so then
but then the other day I had to actually, for
the first time in my entire life, chase down a
part and find a source for the part and order
the part all by myself. And it'll be only successful
when it arrives. It's coming from the other side of
(08:19):
the world, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
For more from the Mi Casking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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