July 28, 2024 • 7 mins
Australia correspondent Steve Price tells Mike Hosking of Australia’s Olympic medal chances – with high hopes for the country’s swimmers.
Meanwhile, three Ministers in Australia’s cabinet have had their portfolios removed. Two were involved in home affairs and immigration - which Price describes as being in a disastrous state as more and more migrants are attempting to arrive on boats and being turned away.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We'll go in Australia. At the moment, how are you, mate?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I guess you'll have to start supporting the Aussie swimmers.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Really, I knew this was coming. I knew this was coming.
I was reading over the weekend. Suddenly yet not only
winning goals, but you were the top of the middle
table in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Correct, we were, and we won another one overnight with
Jess Fox in the kayaking of courts. We all become experts.
I know nothing about kayaking, but it's a wonderful sport.
Every four years I pay a lot of attention to it.
And of course we have area and Tipmas is just unbelievable. Yeah,
so we are on top of the world here and
the Matilda's managed to survive in the women's soccer winning
(00:40):
six goals to four.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So now it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Good on you as you should. What's your success Because
we were talking about swiol we haven't won a middle
and the pul since nineteen ninety six and swimming for
US is one of those sports where every now and
again someone unusual comes along, so they're not represented above
the sport. They just happen to be a freak Catholic,
whereas you seem to churn them out like a factory.
So you must put shedloads of dough into swimming.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, Gina Reinhardt, the Australians riches woman, puts shed loads
of money into swimming. She personally sponsors all of the
female swimmers in the Australian Dolphins swimming team, and she
spends millions of dollars. She actually pays these people not
to work so they can go and train and be
gold medal swimmers. I mean, that's the bottom line of it.
(01:27):
I mean, yes, the government does put in some money,
but Queensland turns these people out. They've got great coaches,
they've got great conditions. It's all as warm and I
guess most of your swimmers, I don't know, maybe they're
over here. I don't know why. It seems very odd,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's interesting talk to me about the reshuffle yesterday. So
a couple of the people who needed to be moved
aside to just for the record, they didn't get booted
out of cabinet. They lost their portfolios.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Is that right? One got booted out of cabinet. But
these are people you have never heard of so I
won't concentrate on their names, but two of them were
involved in Home Affairs and immigration. Now that's been a
complete disaster. We've got so many migrants coming into the country.
The illegal boat people operation is again flowing out of
Indonesia towards Australia. We're turning boats around, we're actually buying
(02:16):
brand new boats to put people who are trying to
get into the country back to Indonesia so they get
back there and don't try and come back here again,
so they're gone. That's Claire O'Neill and Andrew Giles. I
guess the promotion is Tony Burke, the leader of the
Government in the House, has now taken over on the
whole Home Affairs portfolio. Some suggesting in the media this
(02:39):
morning that this might be again another hint at an
early election, because Anthony alben Easy when the Anausis yesterday
said this is the team I'll take to the election. Well,
if the election is going to be eight or nine
months away, then that's a pretty bold statement because anything
could happen. So I've given up on predicting when the
election is going to be. But the new faces are there.
(03:00):
Anthony Albernezi is probably now ready to fight an election,
although there's some poles around them.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, I was going, I was just going to ask
how does he go to an election? With the poll
that I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Redbridge was in the weekend papers yesterday Coalition leading fifty
one and a half to forty eight and a half Labor.
It's a huge change. Labour's gone from fifty two percent
ahead to forty eight and it's completely flipped since April
of Coalition's primary vote's gone from thirty seven to forty one.
And some interpretation of this is that the Coalition's policies
(03:33):
are starting to work with working class and outer suburban
voters now without getting too deep in the weeds. That's
where they need to win it. They've given up on
inner city seats that they lost to the teel movement
last time, and they're now saying it's all cost of living.
Your electricity builders, bloke can't give you a cheaper cost
of living, and so you've got a vote for us.
And it's starting to work, particularly in outer metropolitan Melbourne
(03:56):
and Sydney where people who have probably been at some
stage union members, blue collar workers. They're starting to listen
to what Dutmon's having to say. And there's a big
day to Wednesday when the latest inflation figure MC comes out.
If that is still stubbornly high, you could then see
an August interest rate rise and that would be a
(04:17):
disaster for exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So the poll is interesting to the extent people earning
less than a thousand bucks a week the support for
coalitions up six percent. For those earning one thousand to
two thousand dollars up by four percent. So that is
a policy thing as opposed to I'm just sick of
the government.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Huge turnaround. It is a huge turnaround. Those people would
normally be voting labor, labor, labor, but they don't see
that the policies of the current government have been there
for two years, are actually putting any more food on
their table.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Wow. Speaking of the Olympics, is the strike by the
Sidney Morning Herald and the Age and stuff all tied
in the channel line given that are all the same owners.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yes, nine owns the free Towere TV network, the Freeware
Radio and it also owns the left leaning newspapers Cidemony Herald,
the Age, Financial Review. They've got one hundred and fifty
staff in France to cover the Olympics for print that
is not television and prints, so the TV is separate,
(05:15):
and they're all on strike. I mean they've sent these
hundred and fifty people over there, paid for their hotel accommodation, airfares,
and they've done months and months and months of work
to get the papers ready for great coverage and nothing.
They're on strike for five days. I mean the other
thing about this, when was the last time you had
a major strike in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
We don't well a little bit in the last government,
but we don't tend We're not like you and that
unit heavily unionized. I mean we had some nurses and
teachers last time, but that was about a year ago
over pay. But it's not the same. You guys do
seem to go on strike a lot more than we do.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, we do well used to. I mean I can't
recall the last big strike. I mean there's been a
couple of ghost sloughs from as you mentioned, people like
ambulance drivers nurses. Has not been a big, all out,
let's walk off the job strike as this one is,
and so the papers have been produced by management presumably
all of the hard work that they put in there
(06:11):
to cover the Olympic Games is out in the window.
Nine's in turmoil. The chairman was the CEO folk called Sneezeby,
who's over in Paris running with the Olympic torch while
Harpy's staff going out on strike and getting sack was
not a good book. And they haven't had a chairman
of the board since Peter Costello, the ex treasurer, ran
over that reporter in the Cambra airport.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Can I just ask you, because I was reading over
the weekend. You've got a COVID report out, and you've
got an investigation like everybody else in the whole world's
got an investigation is COVID and it's sort of you know,
having a look at it and how you handled it
and whether you're going to learn your lessons? Is that
a thing for people or we've just all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Moved on, removed on. I think COVID is still around.
But look, if you live in Victoria, you will forever
remember what Daniel Andrews did to Victor and was locked
him upward than anyone else in the world. But who
cares now it's gone to past now one wants to
think about it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
All right, mate, we'll catch up Wednesday. I appreciate it
very much. Deeprice out of Australia. Ladys veragically and was
the other thing by the way, forming New South Wales premier.
She lost her court bit on Friday to overturn the
i CAC thing, that corruption thing she had. The boyfriend
gave some money. It all got taken to court and
had the investigation. She lost, She appealed, she lost again.
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
(07:30):
news Talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
We'll go in Australia. At the moment, how are you, mate?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I guess you'll have to start supporting the Aussie swimmers.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Really, I knew this was coming. I knew this was coming.
I was reading over the weekend. Suddenly yet not only
winning goals, but you were the top of the middle
table in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Correct, we were, and we won another one overnight with
Jess Fox in the kayaking of courts. We all become experts.
I know nothing about kayaking, but it's a wonderful sport.
Every four years I pay a lot of attention to it.
And of course we have area and Tipmas is just unbelievable. Yeah,
so we are on top of the world here and
the Matilda's managed to survive in the women's soccer winning
(00:40):
six goals to four.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So now it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Good on you as you should. What's your success Because
we were talking about swiol we haven't won a middle
and the pul since nineteen ninety six and swimming for
US is one of those sports where every now and
again someone unusual comes along, so they're not represented above
the sport. They just happen to be a freak Catholic,
whereas you seem to churn them out like a factory.
So you must put shedloads of dough into swimming.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, Gina Reinhardt, the Australians riches woman, puts shed loads
of money into swimming. She personally sponsors all of the
female swimmers in the Australian Dolphins swimming team, and she
spends millions of dollars. She actually pays these people not
to work so they can go and train and be
gold medal swimmers. I mean, that's the bottom line of it.
(01:27):
I mean, yes, the government does put in some money,
but Queensland turns these people out. They've got great coaches,
they've got great conditions. It's all as warm and I
guess most of your swimmers, I don't know, maybe they're
over here. I don't know why. It seems very odd,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's interesting talk to me about the reshuffle yesterday. So
a couple of the people who needed to be moved
aside to just for the record, they didn't get booted
out of cabinet. They lost their portfolios.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Is that right? One got booted out of cabinet. But
these are people you have never heard of so I
won't concentrate on their names, but two of them were
involved in Home Affairs and immigration. Now that's been a
complete disaster. We've got so many migrants coming into the country.
The illegal boat people operation is again flowing out of
Indonesia towards Australia. We're turning boats around, we're actually buying
(02:16):
brand new boats to put people who are trying to
get into the country back to Indonesia so they get
back there and don't try and come back here again,
so they're gone. That's Claire O'Neill and Andrew Giles. I
guess the promotion is Tony Burke, the leader of the
Government in the House, has now taken over on the
whole Home Affairs portfolio. Some suggesting in the media this
(02:39):
morning that this might be again another hint at an
early election, because Anthony alben Easy when the Anausis yesterday
said this is the team I'll take to the election. Well,
if the election is going to be eight or nine
months away, then that's a pretty bold statement because anything
could happen. So I've given up on predicting when the
election is going to be. But the new faces are there.
(03:00):
Anthony Albernezi is probably now ready to fight an election,
although there's some poles around them.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, I was going, I was just going to ask
how does he go to an election? With the poll
that I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Redbridge was in the weekend papers yesterday Coalition leading fifty
one and a half to forty eight and a half Labor.
It's a huge change. Labour's gone from fifty two percent
ahead to forty eight and it's completely flipped since April
of Coalition's primary vote's gone from thirty seven to forty one.
And some interpretation of this is that the Coalition's policies
(03:33):
are starting to work with working class and outer suburban
voters now without getting too deep in the weeds. That's
where they need to win it. They've given up on
inner city seats that they lost to the teel movement
last time, and they're now saying it's all cost of living.
Your electricity builders, bloke can't give you a cheaper cost
of living, and so you've got a vote for us.
And it's starting to work, particularly in outer metropolitan Melbourne
(03:56):
and Sydney where people who have probably been at some
stage union members, blue collar workers. They're starting to listen
to what Dutmon's having to say. And there's a big
day to Wednesday when the latest inflation figure MC comes out.
If that is still stubbornly high, you could then see
an August interest rate rise and that would be a
(04:17):
disaster for exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So the poll is interesting to the extent people earning
less than a thousand bucks a week the support for
coalitions up six percent. For those earning one thousand to
two thousand dollars up by four percent. So that is
a policy thing as opposed to I'm just sick of
the government.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Huge turnaround. It is a huge turnaround. Those people would
normally be voting labor, labor, labor, but they don't see
that the policies of the current government have been there
for two years, are actually putting any more food on
their table.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Wow. Speaking of the Olympics, is the strike by the
Sidney Morning Herald and the Age and stuff all tied
in the channel line given that are all the same owners.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yes, nine owns the free Towere TV network, the Freeware
Radio and it also owns the left leaning newspapers Cidemony Herald,
the Age, Financial Review. They've got one hundred and fifty
staff in France to cover the Olympics for print that
is not television and prints, so the TV is separate,
(05:15):
and they're all on strike. I mean they've sent these
hundred and fifty people over there, paid for their hotel accommodation, airfares,
and they've done months and months and months of work
to get the papers ready for great coverage and nothing.
They're on strike for five days. I mean the other
thing about this, when was the last time you had
a major strike in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
We don't well a little bit in the last government,
but we don't tend We're not like you and that
unit heavily unionized. I mean we had some nurses and
teachers last time, but that was about a year ago
over pay. But it's not the same. You guys do
seem to go on strike a lot more than we do.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, we do well used to. I mean I can't
recall the last big strike. I mean there's been a
couple of ghost sloughs from as you mentioned, people like
ambulance drivers nurses. Has not been a big, all out,
let's walk off the job strike as this one is,
and so the papers have been produced by management presumably
all of the hard work that they put in there
(06:11):
to cover the Olympic Games is out in the window.
Nine's in turmoil. The chairman was the CEO folk called Sneezeby,
who's over in Paris running with the Olympic torch while
Harpy's staff going out on strike and getting sack was
not a good book. And they haven't had a chairman
of the board since Peter Costello, the ex treasurer, ran
over that reporter in the Cambra airport.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Can I just ask you, because I was reading over
the weekend. You've got a COVID report out, and you've
got an investigation like everybody else in the whole world's
got an investigation is COVID and it's sort of you know,
having a look at it and how you handled it
and whether you're going to learn your lessons? Is that
a thing for people or we've just all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Moved on, removed on. I think COVID is still around.
But look, if you live in Victoria, you will forever
remember what Daniel Andrews did to Victor and was locked
him upward than anyone else in the world. But who
cares now it's gone to past now one wants to
think about it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
All right, mate, we'll catch up Wednesday. I appreciate it
very much. Deeprice out of Australia. Ladys veragically and was
the other thing by the way, forming New South Wales premier.
She lost her court bit on Friday to overturn the
i CAC thing, that corruption thing she had. The boyfriend
gave some money. It all got taken to court and
had the investigation. She lost, She appealed, she lost again.
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
(07:30):
news Talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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