March 26, 2023 • 7 mins
Our new NSW Premier Chris Minns joins Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's on Saturday night, we saw the Labor Party winning
its first state election in sixteen years. After this historic win,
the man who emerges in your Premier elect is Chris
Mins joining us now. Good morning, Premier.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Elect, Good morning man, A good morning Jonesy.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Congratulations to you, thank.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You, thank you. Now I'm over the moon. I'm really
happy about it.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I was surprised how quickly it was all over.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I got home from the super bikes and my wife said,
it's late, but they've done it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That was like at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, it was pretty pretty early. And like a lot
of these things, you're thinking to yourself, have they called
this too quickly? It could reverse itself as this like
a bad dream, But no, it was. It was good news.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, and you managed to avoid the shoey. I know,
you made a beautiful acceptance of victory speech and then
someone they do with showey. You managed to casually avoid it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I figured that the goodwill of the election could be
sort of undone in the first couple of minutes if
I did a shoey. It doesn't sort of scream responsibility.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
But I think as well, congratulations for firstly on the victory,
but your your victory speed, which was I was just
watching saying this is the most humble but most normal,
real victory speech I've ever heard it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, thanks James. It was quick and you know someone
told me once that it's never been said. Jeez, that
was a good speech. I just wish it went a
bit longer, so I figure less is more. The Gettysburg
address only went for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, you've made some pretty big promises to nurses, to
teach us to midwives. You've said we will resuscitate our
health system, fix the crisis in our schools and build
things here, so you've got to You've said you're going
to start doing this straight away, and people are going
to wait to see results, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Absolutely, And well, the voters of New South Wales, the taxpayers,
pay on results. Forget about the last election that is done,
and we know we've got immediate responsibilities, particularly about canceled
and merged classes in New South Wales schools and the
performance of emergency departments. I've just heard too many stories
on this election campaign and people going into ed's not
getting the help they need or having to wait hours
(01:59):
and hours. I know it's a massive hill to climb
and there are many challenges in New South Wales, but
for the last twelve years we could only say we
could never do and you can't accomplish too much with
media releases. It's great to get in there and do something.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And I read this in the paper today, some guy
right and said, well, right, New South Wales, we're.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Now going to go woke and we're going to go broke,
And that seems to be something that comes up a lot.
What would you say to someone like that?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean, I think the way we approached the
election campaign it was very practical. We really listened to
the people of this state and I thought we were
closer to ordinary Australians. I'm not trying to make that
as a knock on the government, but after twelve years
you build up a lot of buffers and minders and
ministerial advisors, and the key to us winning this election
(02:44):
was that we don't have any of that. I mean,
you know, Jonesy, we've I've got a small staff. My
MP's have gotten virtually no staff, at least for ministerial work.
So we were speaking directly to the people of New
South Wales and we were hearing about energy prices going
up and how difficult schools and hospitals were. That was
the key to our success on Saturday, and I've got
to keep that so you know, none of us are
(03:05):
going to have our head in the clouds or think
that we're too good for the people of this state.
We've got to be a very humble government because that's
how you get results.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And some of those liberal infrastructure projects, you can't really
stop those because they're going now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's right. Yeah, And look, we've got an ambitious infrastructure program.
The contracts have been signed. We know that we have
to deliver them and the key the challenge here is
to do it in a responsible way. Out Look, the
big issue in this election campaign was rising cost of living.
I know a lot of people listening at home and
saying our energy bill is higher today than it's been ever.
And you know, inflation in an economy means that you
(03:39):
work harder and harder and harder, but you feel like
you're getting further and further behind. That's the immediate responsibility
of us. Make sure that we're putting downward pressure on
family bills.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I liked.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
On Sunday morning, your family went to a cafe for
some coffees and some hot chocolates, and your eldest son
us for a flat light. You said, maybe the premier,
but no, you're not having not having a coffee.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, that was one of our sons who's a stir
One of them peeled off and did an interview by himself,
which was unscripted.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That this is the Don Perrotet T shirt.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Whereas yeah, yeah, he decided that without telling us that
he was going to clear the record, and so he
gave his own impromptu media conference off on the side.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Could you see him following in your footsteps.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, based on his performance so far. No, No, they're
kind of interested in politics, but they're just normal kids
and we're all sort of caught up in the whirlwind
at the moment. But it's Anna and my responsibility to
keep home life as normal as possible as well.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Sure it must have been hell on the night when
you're just sitting there. I would have gone crazy. I
would have gone absolutely crazy waiting for that result to
come in because you put everything, yeah, all your eggs
in that basket, and all of a sudden it just
comes down to that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It does, yeah, and you're just kind of bouncing off
the walls a little bit. But I was able to
clean my head and go for a long walk and
no one knew I was out of the house and
I didn't know, but I was listening to music and
the odd text was coming through. But yeah, you're right,
Jonesy's it's a bit nerve wracking and nerve wracking for
dom as well. There's a lot of people, you know,
(05:13):
particularly on election day, it struck me that there's literally
tens of thousands of people that hand out for Labor
or the Liberal Party or the National Party or the Greens,
and they do it because they care about their country
or their state, and it's a good thing. It's our
democracy is strong, and we need to make sure we
don't get down that American road. Everybody just takes each
other's head.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well, then you know, I found out it was my
local poling place and the Liberal guy and the Labor
guy was sitting in little lawn chairs next to each other,
and I would just like chatting away as if they
were at a backyard barbecue.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Was like that democracy song.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
But it's good. Like in America where you have the
nutbag left in the nutbag.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We don't necessarily have that here, which is yes, and
I think largely because of you and Dom Perrote, so
thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
As a vot You've.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Got to work at it though, right, because it's very quick,
very quickly, it can just tumble in to personal attacks
and you question each other's motives. And one thing that
I didn't do and don didn't do in this campaign
is question why he was pursuing. I thought we should
go down a different road. He put out his platform,
so did I. But there was no low blows and
that's really important. There's a funny thing on polling day.
(06:17):
The number of people that walk up to the polling
booth often husband and wives, and they've just got this
ritual of canceling each other's vote out and then they
turn around, they go walk back home again. It's just
as old as Australia. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Can we leave the last word to Anthony Albanezi who
said there's going to be no filming of the consumption
of the sausage. No one ever looked good eating the sausage.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You know what, you ate the sausage really well. There
was a picture of you and you've done the hand
over the top. I think that's a real skill.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think one of the journeys asked me, how are
you going to eat the sausage? And I said, like
a novel person, how do you do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It was playing it like a mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
He was so determined not to take it from the end.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Look costing the election. Costing the election. That needs running style.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But other than that, that was yes.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Congratulations to you, Chris.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
We look forward to catching up on the show and
working with you throughout the however long you're.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
In fat I'll come on as much as you'll have me.
I love the opportunity. It was great during the campaign.
It's great to see both of you. Thanks Jasie, Thanks Amena.
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's on Saturday night, we saw the Labor Party winning
its first state election in sixteen years. After this historic win,
the man who emerges in your Premier elect is Chris
Mins joining us now. Good morning, Premier.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Elect, Good morning man, A good morning Jonesy.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Congratulations to you, thank.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You, thank you. Now I'm over the moon. I'm really
happy about it.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I was surprised how quickly it was all over.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I got home from the super bikes and my wife said,
it's late, but they've done it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That was like at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, it was pretty pretty early. And like a lot
of these things, you're thinking to yourself, have they called
this too quickly? It could reverse itself as this like
a bad dream, But no, it was. It was good news.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, and you managed to avoid the shoey. I know,
you made a beautiful acceptance of victory speech and then
someone they do with showey. You managed to casually avoid it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I figured that the goodwill of the election could be
sort of undone in the first couple of minutes if
I did a shoey. It doesn't sort of scream responsibility.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
But I think as well, congratulations for firstly on the victory,
but your your victory speed, which was I was just
watching saying this is the most humble but most normal,
real victory speech I've ever heard it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, thanks James. It was quick and you know someone
told me once that it's never been said. Jeez, that
was a good speech. I just wish it went a
bit longer, so I figure less is more. The Gettysburg
address only went for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, you've made some pretty big promises to nurses, to
teach us to midwives. You've said we will resuscitate our
health system, fix the crisis in our schools and build
things here, so you've got to You've said you're going
to start doing this straight away, and people are going
to wait to see results, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Absolutely, And well, the voters of New South Wales, the taxpayers,
pay on results. Forget about the last election that is done,
and we know we've got immediate responsibilities, particularly about canceled
and merged classes in New South Wales schools and the
performance of emergency departments. I've just heard too many stories
on this election campaign and people going into ed's not
getting the help they need or having to wait hours
(01:59):
and hours. I know it's a massive hill to climb
and there are many challenges in New South Wales, but
for the last twelve years we could only say we
could never do and you can't accomplish too much with
media releases. It's great to get in there and do something.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And I read this in the paper today, some guy
right and said, well, right, New South Wales, we're.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Now going to go woke and we're going to go broke,
And that seems to be something that comes up a lot.
What would you say to someone like that?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean, I think the way we approached the
election campaign it was very practical. We really listened to
the people of this state and I thought we were
closer to ordinary Australians. I'm not trying to make that
as a knock on the government, but after twelve years
you build up a lot of buffers and minders and
ministerial advisors, and the key to us winning this election
(02:44):
was that we don't have any of that. I mean,
you know, Jonesy, we've I've got a small staff. My
MP's have gotten virtually no staff, at least for ministerial work.
So we were speaking directly to the people of New
South Wales and we were hearing about energy prices going
up and how difficult schools and hospitals were. That was
the key to our success on Saturday, and I've got
to keep that so you know, none of us are
(03:05):
going to have our head in the clouds or think
that we're too good for the people of this state.
We've got to be a very humble government because that's
how you get results.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And some of those liberal infrastructure projects, you can't really
stop those because they're going now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's right. Yeah, And look, we've got an ambitious infrastructure program.
The contracts have been signed. We know that we have
to deliver them and the key the challenge here is
to do it in a responsible way. Out Look, the
big issue in this election campaign was rising cost of living.
I know a lot of people listening at home and
saying our energy bill is higher today than it's been ever.
And you know, inflation in an economy means that you
(03:39):
work harder and harder and harder, but you feel like
you're getting further and further behind. That's the immediate responsibility
of us. Make sure that we're putting downward pressure on
family bills.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I liked.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
On Sunday morning, your family went to a cafe for
some coffees and some hot chocolates, and your eldest son
us for a flat light. You said, maybe the premier,
but no, you're not having not having a coffee.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, that was one of our sons who's a stir
One of them peeled off and did an interview by himself,
which was unscripted.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That this is the Don Perrotet T shirt.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Whereas yeah, yeah, he decided that without telling us that
he was going to clear the record, and so he
gave his own impromptu media conference off on the side.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Could you see him following in your footsteps.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, based on his performance so far. No, No, they're
kind of interested in politics, but they're just normal kids
and we're all sort of caught up in the whirlwind
at the moment. But it's Anna and my responsibility to
keep home life as normal as possible as well.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Sure it must have been hell on the night when
you're just sitting there. I would have gone crazy. I
would have gone absolutely crazy waiting for that result to
come in because you put everything, yeah, all your eggs
in that basket, and all of a sudden it just
comes down to that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It does, yeah, and you're just kind of bouncing off
the walls a little bit. But I was able to
clean my head and go for a long walk and
no one knew I was out of the house and
I didn't know, but I was listening to music and
the odd text was coming through. But yeah, you're right,
Jonesy's it's a bit nerve wracking and nerve wracking for
dom as well. There's a lot of people, you know,
(05:13):
particularly on election day, it struck me that there's literally
tens of thousands of people that hand out for Labor
or the Liberal Party or the National Party or the Greens,
and they do it because they care about their country
or their state, and it's a good thing. It's our
democracy is strong, and we need to make sure we
don't get down that American road. Everybody just takes each
other's head.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well, then you know, I found out it was my
local poling place and the Liberal guy and the Labor
guy was sitting in little lawn chairs next to each other,
and I would just like chatting away as if they
were at a backyard barbecue.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Was like that democracy song.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
But it's good. Like in America where you have the
nutbag left in the nutbag.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We don't necessarily have that here, which is yes, and
I think largely because of you and Dom Perrote, so
thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
As a vot You've.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Got to work at it though, right, because it's very quick,
very quickly, it can just tumble in to personal attacks
and you question each other's motives. And one thing that
I didn't do and don didn't do in this campaign
is question why he was pursuing. I thought we should
go down a different road. He put out his platform,
so did I. But there was no low blows and
that's really important. There's a funny thing on polling day.
(06:17):
The number of people that walk up to the polling
booth often husband and wives, and they've just got this
ritual of canceling each other's vote out and then they
turn around, they go walk back home again. It's just
as old as Australia. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Can we leave the last word to Anthony Albanezi who
said there's going to be no filming of the consumption
of the sausage. No one ever looked good eating the sausage.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You know what, you ate the sausage really well. There
was a picture of you and you've done the hand
over the top. I think that's a real skill.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think one of the journeys asked me, how are
you going to eat the sausage? And I said, like
a novel person, how do you do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It was playing it like a mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
He was so determined not to take it from the end.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Look costing the election. Costing the election. That needs running style.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But other than that, that was yes.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Congratulations to you, Chris.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
We look forward to catching up on the show and
working with you throughout the however long you're.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
In fat I'll come on as much as you'll have me.
I love the opportunity. It was great during the campaign.
It's great to see both of you. Thanks Jasie, Thanks Amena.
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