After refusing to call the Melbourne synagogue fire an act of terrorism, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finally did declare the firebombing an act of terror and has come under widespread criticism.
Polls are showing Albanese is trailing significantly behind Peter Dutton. He holds the lowest score since polls began in 2008.
A weeks-long Woolworths strike that began in November over low pay, has come to an end.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price joins the show to discuss this and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steve Price, correspondent out of Australia with US.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now, Hey Steve, Hey have the good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning. See what's the latest with the firebombing.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, they still haven't found the two men, the two
masks men that went into the Dath Israel Synagogue in
Melbourne at about four point thirty in the morning on Friday.
There's CCTV footage of them spreading accelerant around with a broom,
but there's been no leads yet. Now this has obviously
(00:29):
caused major political risks in the country. The Prime Minister
has been in Wa, Western Australia since Friday. He gets
back to the East Coast this morning, I think or overnight.
He's been refusing for two days to call this an
act of terror. He finally did it at a media
briefing yesterday and he's coming for widespread criticism, particularly from
(00:49):
the Jewish community, that a that he stayed in Wa
and didn't come back to Melbourne and b that he
refused to use the word terror. Well he finally did it.
And when we talk shortly about a news pole, you
might work out why the synagogue itself had a new
pictures released this morning. It's basically been gutted. There's not
much left there Gutorian government's already pledged one hundred thousand
(01:10):
dollars to help rebuild the site, and they've had an
online campaign raising funds that's raised aout two hundred and
eighty five thousand dollars. But when you see the excuse me,
before and after pictures, it's quite extraordinary how much damage
has been done. And the outcry right across the Jewish
community has been huge. Former Treasurer Josh Froedenberg, himself a
(01:34):
proud Melbourne Jew, has caught on the Prime Minister to
stump up with some courage and call this out for
what it is, and it is a major blow to
the Jewish community in that area. They think they can
rebuild it. Luckily, they saved some ancient scrolls known as Tora.
They managed to have them in a fire for is
safe and they got them out of the synagogue before
(01:57):
it was destroyed by fire. But it was a hell
of a mess.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hey, Now this poll that you just mentioned, how bad
is it Albanesi worse?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, if you go to the question who's the preferred
Prime minister, Anthony Abernezi now trails badly to Peter Dutton.
So Anthony Abernese has dropped five points, headed down to
forty four preferred PM to Peter Dutton, who's sitting on sixty. Now,
that's the lowest score since news poll began in two
(02:25):
thousand and eight. Measuring that actual question, Peter Dutton's got
the highest score since Tony Abbott ten years ago. And
this is where it's really going to sting for Anthony Albanesi.
And I mean you mentioned there that your election's not
for a couple of years yet their way, the election
in this country is probably going to be held in
what will be held in the first quarter of next
(02:46):
year latest can be May, but where most people are
now thinking somewhere around February March. But Anthony Aberanzi is
considered less likable, less trusted, and less in touch and
weaker and less decisive than Peter Dutton. How would you
like to wake up, Heather and have your character assessed
in that way on a Monday morning?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, I mean, if the shoe fits, and the shoe fits.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Doesn't it well, it does and it hasn't been helped
of course. And this pot was taken by the way
prior to what happened on Friday at that synagogue, so
it'd be even worse for him if they asked that
question today. I think he'd dropped another five points, which
is just you know, a disaster for Labor. And the
thing about it is our system here now and this
(03:31):
happened under Kevin Right. Labour can't change just change leader.
I mean in the old days, what you could do
is you you know, you could get someone in on
your front bench and decide they're very ambitious and they
want to become prime minister. You could call on a
spill of the numbers. But the Labor Party change that
system whereby the leader is now elected by both members
of the wider labor community, so Labor Party members plus
(03:56):
the members of Parliament, and so you can't just dump
a leader out the door. If they could do that,
I reckon they would.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, probably Steve So in New Zealand, we've got the
same rules at the Labor because the Labor Party as
thinks the same across the world. But there is a
little period I think it might be about three months
before the election where you can do with Jacinda and
you can swap them out. You guys don't have that I.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Don't believe, so I stand a bit corrected on that,
but I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So yeah, well regretting that now probably Hey, how much
of these Woolies workers taking to end the strike.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well it's taken weeks for it to happen. Willworth Is
now say they're back up and running. I mean, you know,
if you think about going into your local Woolworths, there
was Woolworths supermarkets around Australia that had empty shells, completely empty.
It was like revisiting COVID. Remember when everyone ran in
and panicked and started grabbing toilet rolls. That's what it
was like. There was stuff that simply wasn't there. They
(04:46):
now they say one hundred and eighty thousand cartons of
product to be delivered across Victoria in the next week
or so. And we were just two weeks out from
Christmas when people were absolutely panicking. So these fifteen hundred
star feather went on strike on a twenty perst of
November over low pay and the introduction of this system.
I wonder if this happens in New Zealand where the
(05:09):
system would automatically penalize slow employees. How does that work?
You ask well, when you clock on to work in
one of these warehouses, you put on a headset and
that headset tells you which area to go to to
start loading stuff up on a trolley to get distributed,
and it times you so if you're slow at the
end of your shift, it goes into a computer and
(05:31):
presumably the boss of that distribution center can say, well,
Heather's not been great today. Heather's had a big weekend,
she's been on the turfs over a Sunday and she's
very slow today. We're going to have a bit of
word to Heather, or otherwise she would be out the door. Well,
not surprising. The union weren't very happy about that, and
so they have argued for a pay rise and for
(05:54):
that practice to stop. The Federal court ruled the strike
action was illegal and that's why the centers have reopened
the negotiations to when that practice is still underway.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, I think that kind of stuff does happen here.
Steve Good, got on you, thanks mate, have a nice day.
That Steve Price, our Australia correspondents. Hey, by the way,
sticking with Australia, there was supposed to be a Raygun
musical last night it was a stage show was supposed
to PREMI you know who I'm talking about, the breakdancer,
you know, the one who went to the Olympics and
done it. Not breakdancer, the one who's not actually a breakdancer,
who hopped around like a kangaroo and then slithered like
(06:26):
a snake on the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It was awful.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Anyway, to continue the theme with things being awful awful,
there was supposed to be a musical in Sydney last night,
but it was shut down at the last minute, like
hours before the show actually kicked off the premiere by
Raygun's lawyers, and they've put out a statement like they're
not even ashamed of that. Yep, absolutely shut it down.
The management has put out a statement saying we were
committed to protecting her IP intellectual property and ensuring that
(06:50):
her brand remains strong and respected. Now I'm bringing this
to your attention because I feel like this an idea
has taken hold here that Raygun is somehow a victim
of online trolling after she did the hopping and the
slithering and stuff. Just be aware, she's not right. She's
not a victim here. She is milking it for all.
It's worth, and she is protecting her IP and making
(07:12):
sure her brand remains strong and respected. And I would
have liked to actually have seen this musical because there
was a song entitled I would have won, but I
pulled a muscle, just how that works. I would have
been keen to see it. For more from the mic
Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
Steve Price, correspondent out of Australia with US.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now, Hey Steve, Hey have the good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning. See what's the latest with the firebombing.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, they still haven't found the two men, the two
masks men that went into the Dath Israel Synagogue in
Melbourne at about four point thirty in the morning on Friday.
There's CCTV footage of them spreading accelerant around with a broom,
but there's been no leads yet. Now this has obviously
(00:29):
caused major political risks in the country. The Prime Minister
has been in Wa, Western Australia since Friday. He gets
back to the East Coast this morning, I think or overnight.
He's been refusing for two days to call this an
act of terror. He finally did it at a media
briefing yesterday and he's coming for widespread criticism, particularly from
(00:49):
the Jewish community, that a that he stayed in Wa
and didn't come back to Melbourne and b that he
refused to use the word terror. Well he finally did it.
And when we talk shortly about a news pole, you
might work out why the synagogue itself had a new
pictures released this morning. It's basically been gutted. There's not
much left there Gutorian government's already pledged one hundred thousand
(01:10):
dollars to help rebuild the site, and they've had an
online campaign raising funds that's raised aout two hundred and
eighty five thousand dollars. But when you see the excuse me,
before and after pictures, it's quite extraordinary how much damage
has been done. And the outcry right across the Jewish
community has been huge. Former Treasurer Josh Froedenberg, himself a
(01:34):
proud Melbourne Jew, has caught on the Prime Minister to
stump up with some courage and call this out for
what it is, and it is a major blow to
the Jewish community in that area. They think they can
rebuild it. Luckily, they saved some ancient scrolls known as Tora.
They managed to have them in a fire for is
safe and they got them out of the synagogue before
(01:57):
it was destroyed by fire. But it was a hell
of a mess.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hey, Now this poll that you just mentioned, how bad
is it Albanesi worse?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, if you go to the question who's the preferred
Prime minister, Anthony Abernezi now trails badly to Peter Dutton.
So Anthony Abernese has dropped five points, headed down to
forty four preferred PM to Peter Dutton, who's sitting on sixty. Now,
that's the lowest score since news poll began in two
(02:25):
thousand and eight. Measuring that actual question, Peter Dutton's got
the highest score since Tony Abbott ten years ago. And
this is where it's really going to sting for Anthony Albanesi.
And I mean you mentioned there that your election's not
for a couple of years yet their way, the election
in this country is probably going to be held in
what will be held in the first quarter of next
(02:46):
year latest can be May, but where most people are
now thinking somewhere around February March. But Anthony Aberanzi is
considered less likable, less trusted, and less in touch and
weaker and less decisive than Peter Dutton. How would you
like to wake up, Heather and have your character assessed
in that way on a Monday morning?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, I mean, if the shoe fits, and the shoe fits.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Doesn't it well, it does and it hasn't been helped
of course. And this pot was taken by the way
prior to what happened on Friday at that synagogue, so
it'd be even worse for him if they asked that
question today. I think he'd dropped another five points, which
is just you know, a disaster for Labor. And the
thing about it is our system here now and this
(03:31):
happened under Kevin Right. Labour can't change just change leader.
I mean in the old days, what you could do
is you you know, you could get someone in on
your front bench and decide they're very ambitious and they
want to become prime minister. You could call on a
spill of the numbers. But the Labor Party change that
system whereby the leader is now elected by both members
of the wider labor community, so Labor Party members plus
(03:56):
the members of Parliament, and so you can't just dump
a leader out the door. If they could do that,
I reckon they would.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, probably Steve So in New Zealand, we've got the
same rules at the Labor because the Labor Party as
thinks the same across the world. But there is a
little period I think it might be about three months
before the election where you can do with Jacinda and
you can swap them out. You guys don't have that I.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Don't believe, so I stand a bit corrected on that,
but I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So yeah, well regretting that now probably Hey, how much
of these Woolies workers taking to end the strike.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well it's taken weeks for it to happen. Willworth Is
now say they're back up and running. I mean, you know,
if you think about going into your local Woolworths, there
was Woolworths supermarkets around Australia that had empty shells, completely empty.
It was like revisiting COVID. Remember when everyone ran in
and panicked and started grabbing toilet rolls. That's what it
was like. There was stuff that simply wasn't there. They
(04:46):
now they say one hundred and eighty thousand cartons of
product to be delivered across Victoria in the next week
or so. And we were just two weeks out from
Christmas when people were absolutely panicking. So these fifteen hundred
star feather went on strike on a twenty perst of
November over low pay and the introduction of this system.
I wonder if this happens in New Zealand where the
(05:09):
system would automatically penalize slow employees. How does that work?
You ask well, when you clock on to work in
one of these warehouses, you put on a headset and
that headset tells you which area to go to to
start loading stuff up on a trolley to get distributed,
and it times you so if you're slow at the
end of your shift, it goes into a computer and
(05:31):
presumably the boss of that distribution center can say, well,
Heather's not been great today. Heather's had a big weekend,
she's been on the turfs over a Sunday and she's
very slow today. We're going to have a bit of
word to Heather, or otherwise she would be out the door. Well,
not surprising. The union weren't very happy about that, and
so they have argued for a pay rise and for
(05:54):
that practice to stop. The Federal court ruled the strike
action was illegal and that's why the centers have reopened
the negotiations to when that practice is still underway.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, I think that kind of stuff does happen here.
Steve Good, got on you, thanks mate, have a nice day.
That Steve Price, our Australia correspondents. Hey, by the way,
sticking with Australia, there was supposed to be a Raygun
musical last night it was a stage show was supposed
to PREMI you know who I'm talking about, the breakdancer,
you know, the one who went to the Olympics and
done it. Not breakdancer, the one who's not actually a breakdancer,
who hopped around like a kangaroo and then slithered like
(06:26):
a snake on the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It was awful.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Anyway, to continue the theme with things being awful awful,
there was supposed to be a musical in Sydney last night,
but it was shut down at the last minute, like
hours before the show actually kicked off the premiere by
Raygun's lawyers, and they've put out a statement like they're
not even ashamed of that. Yep, absolutely shut it down.
The management has put out a statement saying we were
committed to protecting her IP intellectual property and ensuring that
(06:50):
her brand remains strong and respected. Now I'm bringing this
to your attention because I feel like this an idea
has taken hold here that Raygun is somehow a victim
of online trolling after she did the hopping and the
slithering and stuff. Just be aware, she's not right. She's
not a victim here. She is milking it for all.
It's worth, and she is protecting her IP and making
(07:12):
sure her brand remains strong and respected. And I would
have liked to actually have seen this musical because there
was a song entitled I would have won, but I
pulled a muscle, just how that works. I would have
been keen to see it. For more from the mic
Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
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