Teal MP push for permanent beer tax freeze

Sunrise is joined by podcast host Luke Bona and The Australian Associate Editor Jenna Clarke to discuss the permanent beer tax freeze push and Prince Andrew having his royal titles removed.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
To hot topics now and till MP Mednique.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ryan is pushing the government to make their current beer
tax freeze permanent.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
With Ossie beers among the most expensive in the world.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A Deutsche Bank report revealed a schooner in Sydney is
sixty percent more expensive than New York. And now doctor
Ryan wants draft beer taxes to be frozen indefinitely instead
of just the two years promised by the government. For
their take, let's bring in Luke Boner from the bona
Fide podcast and Jenna Clark, Associate editor for The Australian newspaper,

(00:32):
Good morning to you, lay. Seeing as you spend a
bit of time in your beerk, what do you reckon
about the beer tax being frozen forever?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, I thought, well, Anthony Albanezi froze that tax on
draft beer was a good idea because it would have
helped those in the hospitality business for people who go
out and drink beer elsewhere. Didn't help much for people
like me who bring it home and have it in
their man cave. But maybe, just maybe, the seven point
five billion dollars that's earned through Australia is alcohol tax.

(01:01):
It's not just beer but that's all of alcohol should
be maybe better spend. I mean, our few exercise is
supposed to go towards the roads. Maybe the alcohol tax
should go towards alcohol education services, etc. But just remember this,
Australia's number one beer is Great Northern and then VB.
They're both owned by Japanese companies, say, and so too

(01:22):
is Great so u be I mean, maybe they should
put a real freeze on the exercise of Australian owned
beer and under one that comes to mind is Cooper's.
There are a few others, but maybe that should be
looked at as well. So I understand the freeze and
I think it's a good idea, but maybe we should
learn a bit more about where the seven point five
billion dollars in the overall alcohol tax is spent.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, look, I think we might assign you to do
a deep dive on.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Our probative, because that's research and report back. And I
just want to make this very clear. I don't have
a commercial agreement with Coopers. Did I say this?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't mind one. Okay, Jenna, where
do you stand?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Where do we get to the stage where a schooner
is sixty percent more expensive in Sydney than in New York.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Look waves in Perth, I think schooner's here and pints
and midis are probably even more expensive thanks to the
good old mining boom that continues to run rampant over here.
But look, I think it really just goes back to
the fact that these teal politicians probably need something better
to do, because I think no one is really winging
about the price of a schooner unless, I mean, unless

(02:25):
you're a small proportion of people that are still drinking
out in pubs every now and then. Can we also
focus on the excise on things like chocolate bars where
chocolate is now like eight dollars, Like, let's focus on that.
Let's look at those issues, careal, cost of living crisis people.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
That is a very good point. Some of us eat
more chocolate than drink beer. She's got a point there, Luke. Sorry, Okay,
moving on. The King has moved to strip Prince Andrew
of his remaining titles and force him to move out
of his home, the Rawal Lodge.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Jenna, you have just written about this.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, it's pretty wild. I mean, this is such a
move by the palace and the King. But I think
if you look into what has actually been playing out
behind the scenes for the past couple of days. Now,
this is really the power of Prince William and Princess Catherine,
because apparently they had a bit of a meeting, an
emergency crisis meeting with Andrew's daughters Eugenie and Beatrice, and said, look,

(03:18):
if you don't pull your father into line and we
boot him out of Royal Lodge, we will also strip
you of your titles. So I mean, I don't think
there'll be many people feeling a lot of sympathy for
Andrew today, but I think this is a massive, massive
step by Buckingham Palace, especially with this statement saying that
they stand in full support of all victims of any
type of violence. So I think that this is a

(03:40):
massive day for the monarchy.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was the last paragraph of that statement that's really
got us. This has obviously been going on for a
long time, Luke, but it feels like the new generation
of royals may have had some employ I.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Think without a doubt, and people are saying, why hasn't
this happened sooner? You know, Andrew and his ex wife
are broke and they'll sell almost an I reckon the
Royal family. Jenny, you might know more about this, but
I think they were worrying sick that they would run
off to a country and sell the story. Huge money
from Netflix would come through for Andrew's story, and they're
probably worried about what skeletons about the Royal family Andrew

(04:15):
could reveal. But I think it's a good move. I mean,
when he referred to a convicted pedophile Epstein as his
behavior was being unbecoming, that to me just did it,
Absolutely did it. So it's finally happened. Hopefully he'll just
drift off to the ether and pay his own rent.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I don't know whether they are broke, because no
one really knows, do they, Jenna, how much that Andrew
got from the coeen and he hasn't been paid, as
we found out this week, he hasn't been paying rent
on that place for years.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
No, And well, look, I think you just have to
look into the not too distant paths to see some
of the questionable and quite dodgy deals that they've done
with some business figures around the world. So it's going
to be very interesting times for older really sweating now exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, hopefully thank you very much. Next Way,