Steve Price: Australian Correspondent on the spend-a-thon by Dutton and Albanese, latest news poll, Piastri winning in Bahrain

The Australian election campaigns were officially launched yesterday. 

Many financial promises in the billions were made - the Greens leader promised free University fees, which would cost the country $45 billion a year. 

Opposition leader promised a one off cost of living tax break that would cost the country $10 billion. 

Australian Correspondent talks to Mike Hosking about the details of yesterday's launch. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Australia, Steve Price, they all that good mate.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Unbelievable, that is, I mean, they are such a bunch
of pain in the net hypocrites, the deals and the
reason Manique grind didn't give the actual honest answer there
is she's probably thinking how quickly can I get someone
to scrub clean my social media accounts because I've been
seeing exactly the same thing as a lequspender.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Unreal. Hey, the launch, funnily enough, has been going on
for ages and yet they only need launched yesterday. I
once again ask you the question when they are literally
handing out money they don't have buy the billion, does
anybody anywhere ask them any questions about it?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Or not? Well, I should be. I mean, we the
taxpayers spent billions and billions and billions of dollars yesterday
a courtesy of tax relief schemes building more houses. And
then you had Adam Banter Green leader Bob up in
the reason and he's relevant at all, Mike, of course
we talked about last week is that he could hold

(01:04):
the balance of power if there's a as the Poles
are suggesting a home Parliament. He came out yesterday and
said right, everyone who goes to university and taithe should
go for free from now on. And his justification for this,
which is going to cost forty five billion with a
B dollars a year, is that. Oh well, Anthony Albanezy

(01:26):
when he went to university courtesy of GoF Whitlam says,
back in the nineteen seventies they went free. Why shouldn't
all our kids be able to go free? I mean,
these people have got no idea. I mean the Greens
in particular, that they're sending the country broke. I mean
you talk about Peter Dutton, he's not much better. He's
come out yesterday. This is going to cost ten billion dollars.
This is a one off cost of living tax break now,

(01:51):
I mean seriously, so anyone earning between forty thousand, one
hundred and four thousand, they're going to be eligible for
up to twelve hundred dollars tax relief once one off
of their tax for next year, and it goes all
the way up to one hundred and forty four thousand
dollars in a sliding scale. Prime Minustra alb and Easy
came out and said okay, I'll spend another ten billion
and we'll build one hundred thousand houses. Problem with that,

(02:14):
of course, is we've got no tradees to build them,
and he will let low income earners buy those houses
that are reduced rate. So that's his ten billion dollar
housing steam. And I mean this is just the start
of it. We know that in the lead up to yesterday,
they've already spent billions and billions and billions of dollars.
If they don't have.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Unreal the poll out this morning, it's only a minor movement.
But you can say if the Poles have not been
kind of the coalition at all yet, have they?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, the primary boat continues to slip. It's now down
to lower than what it was when they lost the
last election on a two party preferred basis. There's still
fifty two forty eight in front, but their primary vote
is really in the toilet. And you know, you can
look at news pilots usually pretty accurate predictor, but I
always then go and look at the bookies, and the

(03:03):
bookies have got the labor government. Labor in minority government
is the red hot favorite with the bookies, and the
coalition winning the election continues to drip away, so there's
no money for the Coalition to win in their own right. Look,
there's still a couple of weeks to go. I thought
Peter Dutton last week had a pretty good week. I
thought he certainly beat Anthony Albneasy on the campaign trail

(03:24):
last week. And we're now going to have this interruption
as you are. We've got Easter coming up the end
of next week and then Australia at particular quirk, we've
got Antack Day on the Friday following Easter Monday, so
you're really going to have almost ten days of no
campaignings and that's not going to suit.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Peter Dunn't no exactly. Hey, by the way, I got
a text from somebody who just before said they've taken
the day off to watch the golf. You're a golf freak.
Would you take the day off to watch the golf.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I am going to a golf course as we speak,
sit and watch the Masters golf one hundred percent. You've
got Rory McElroy in front, three in front of the
dishes into Shampao. I got about eight nine holes to go.
Jason Day the Australian golf is seven under. He's in
about tied for third place and I'm listening. I mean

(04:11):
I always listened to you, of course, but I'm listening
to Master's Golf Radio in the car.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
No way, how do you get that on on that
on a nap?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Serious? Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
As I'm s out of the states. Do they have
good commentators?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
They are fantastic. You mentioned how I mean, you're a
world class broadcast. That's how hard it would be to call.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Golf exactly on the radio.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
It in the hole, it's four feet past.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know you ever played Augusta? No, how much would
you pay to pay Augusta.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
On two thousand dollars around? Maybe?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Because it looks beautiful and I think they.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Asked it's beautiful, absolutely spectacular.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Speaking of which I reckon. I'm a big Beef one fan.
I've been watching PS three with the deal of interest.
I think he's now a better driver than Lando Norris.
He's coming about.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
You're on board with him? Yeah? I think so too.
I mean, he won the Rain Grand Prix overnight. Norris
was third. As we know, he's a world champion and
an I think kick and if he doesn't make a
dreadful mistake and either injure himself or completely total a car,
he can win the World Championship this year without any doubt.
He's now quicker than the staffman, and he's quicker than

(05:25):
Hamilton obviously in the Ferrari. So I think he's a
real chance. And look Liam Lawson, he's you know, he'll
get better like Pastre Will I mean Daniel Ricardo, don't forget,
was driving and finishing sixteenth seventeenth Land did overnight, So
I'd give the kid a break. He'll get better.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Good stuff, all right, We enjoyed the golf course. That's
day price out of Australia for us this morning.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
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