No Australian Premiers are planning to attend the welcome event for King Charles III in Canberra.
King Charles III is visiting Australia and Samoa from this Friday to October 26.
He's visiting both Canberra and Sydney, but is not coming to New Zealand.
Australian correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking the premiers have decided they're too busy to attend the reception for the King next Monday.
“Jacinta Allan’s said ‘I got Cabinet on that day, I don’t think I’ll be able to get up to Canberra’ - Canberra is 40 minutes by air from here.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Across the Tasman Steve Price, Happy new week to you,
you two, Michael, and how many Mondays do you reckon?
Alban Easy has to get up and things aren't going
too well before he gets a bit sick of it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I think he's sick of it already. I mean you
can tell it in his body language. I reckon, you
talk it. Excuse me? You took it. At the latest
newsport and in the Australian newspaper this morning, it's got
the Coalition in front for the first time since the
twenty twenty two election. They're now leading Labor fifty one
to forty nine. That would not be a good headline
(00:34):
to wake up to for the PM, as you remark,
the reason this has happened, it seems, is that, as
you know, we have this crazy electoral system where preferences
flow to the major parties. It looks like some of
the minor parties, like One Nation, they're now changing their
preferences and putting them up there. For Peter Dutton, Labor
(00:56):
Party is not getting as many preferences from the Green
that they would normally get, so the primary votes are
about the same. Labors at thirty one now when they
went to the last election, that primary vote was thirty
two and a half, so they've gone backwards, while the
coalition's primary vote hasn't changed. It's at thirty eight percent,
two points higher than the last election. So it's very
(01:18):
very interesting. We now, of course, are going to probably
see an election in May next year. The two point
shift in two party preferred, as I said, it shows
Pauline Hansen's One Nation going to seven and the Greens
now their supports at twelve percent. How it is at
twelve I've got no idea, but this is a very
(01:40):
bad poll for Anthony ALBANIZI and the.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Fares from the side of the tasment it looks like
he deserves it. He looks a mess. Is that a
fair observation?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Body language? As I said, it's not good, is it?
I mean he doesn't look strong and Australians like to
elect someone they believe is going to be a strong leader.
Anthony Albanize last week was in in Laos, as he
should be. Peter Dutton was back here campaigning as he
has been for the last few months. Now. Yesterday where
(02:11):
do you think Peter Dutton turned up to do his campaign?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He was at Bathurst.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
On the grid at Bathurst, he spent the whole day
watching the race, which is sort of Bogan Heaven for
Australian's bathist It's a great event and fifty thousand people there.
He was seen on the grid before the race started.
National anthem has sung. He was singing it. Anthony Alberneazy meanwhile,
was at a major football stadium in Sydney celebrating Greek
(02:39):
Easter or Greek Orthodox with a Greek Orthodox preacher. You
could not get a bigger contrast between the two exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So when we're having an election next year as late
as possible.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes, because they've now put out the sitting dates for
next year and there is a date in the Federal
Parliament for a budget in March, which would mean you
wouldn't go to it. You wouldn't think you'd go to
an election before that budget's handed down because you've got
the opportunity in government to hand out money, so you're
going to be able to what they're hoping for labor
(03:13):
is an interest rate cut sometime in February probably next year.
Then you have a budget which you'll dole out door
to people, and then you go to an election in May,
and that's as long as they can go. He can't
go any later than May next year.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Okay, when you went to Greece recently, and this is
as regards Charles, who's d you at your place any
day now? When you went to Greece, did you take
your own doctors in your own blood or did you
just take some luggage just a doctor.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I didn't take any blood, but because he could have
sort of that out of it was a problem. Now
are you still annoyed that Charles King? Charles?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I am having to see you, Yes, I am, because
I love Charles and I was at the coronation and
I thought that was a thing that we'd bonded over.
And he just can't even be bothered turning up here.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, forty one years ago, I spent a month on
the road with him and Lady Diana, so I know
I got to know him quite well as well. Now
I think he should immediately rethink what he's doing here.
He should come to New Zealand and cut out Sydney
from his Australian visit. Because it was revealed in the
Sunday Papers yesterday that he arrives King Charles arrives Friday
(04:22):
night and he has a night of a day of
rest Saturday. Then he's in Sydney on Sunday, Canberra on Monday.
But guess what all of our great premiers, including I
might say a Liberal premier, have decided they're too busy
to attend a reception in Canberra Monday Night hosted by
King Charles, featuring a lot of famous Australian sportspeople, charity workers,
(04:45):
people who do great things for the nation. Justinder Allen said, oh,
I've got cabinet on that day. I don't think I'll
be able to get up to Canberra. Canberra is forty
minutes by air from here, and she's decided it's more
important to talk to her cabinet about how she sent
Victoria broke and going in see.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
She'll be a Republican, won't she?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, one hundred percent, so's Anthony Albanizer. I mean, you know,
bending Anita King Charles boy albow is probably going to
make him feel as sick as reading this morning's news.
Polk quite frankly, Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And then he's got to go to Sarmara. Of course.
By the way, let me give you these numbers. I
read over the weekend about Victoria and rental stock in
Victoria and whether you would agree with this or would
have answered the question. The number back to rentals and
Victoria has fallen by twenty two thousand properties this year.
Everyone's selling up. It's a result of higher rental standards,
increased land taxes, so it's a tight market for rentals.
(05:38):
Sharpest fall in rental stock since record keeping began in
nineteen ninety nine. Only ever recorded two quarters of rental
bond falls and both occurred in twenty twenty four. So
they buggered the rental market. Is that your assessment of
what's going on in your hometown?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, completely blown it up. I mean, you go for
a walk in any of the inner Melbourne suburbs and
you'll see for sale signs on every apartment. What are
they in common? Most of them are one betters And
the reason the people are selling them is because they
have slapped land taks on all of these places. No
one wants to play the land tax so landlords are
going or bug of that. I'll sell up in Melbourne
(06:12):
and I'll buy a two bedroom unit cheaper in Queensland
rented out up there, and I don't have all these
taxes on the properties that I own. They have completely
stuffed the real estate market in the state they run.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And so the government don't recognize this as being a problem.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I need the money. They can't rethinks it's a problem
because they need the money. Without the money, we'd be
even more broke than we already are.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I don't know that if you know the answer. But
I have followed with a great deal of fascination this
business of extracting Australians out of Lebanon and none of
them turn up for the flight. Why are people insistent
on staying in Lebanon?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Do you know the pull of Lebanon is too strong
for a lot of them? A lot of these people.
We had massive immigration, as you know, from Lebanon under
Paul Keeping in the eighties when the Civil War was
at its peak. We've got a massive Lebanese community, particularly
in sid southwest. The people get to retirement age and
they go, Okay, I'm going to get a pension from
(07:05):
Australia and go back and live in my village in Lebanon.
That's why they're not rutting on a plane, because they
don't want to come back.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
For you, unreal all right mate, go well, see you Wednesday.
Step Price out of Australia. For more from the Mic
Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd be from
six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
Across the Tasman Steve Price, Happy new week to you,
you two, Michael, and how many Mondays do you reckon?
Alban Easy has to get up and things aren't going
too well before he gets a bit sick of it.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I think he's sick of it already. I mean you
can tell it in his body language. I reckon, you
talk it. Excuse me? You took it. At the latest
newsport and in the Australian newspaper this morning, it's got
the Coalition in front for the first time since the
twenty twenty two election. They're now leading Labor fifty one
to forty nine. That would not be a good headline
(00:34):
to wake up to for the PM, as you remark,
the reason this has happened, it seems, is that, as
you know, we have this crazy electoral system where preferences
flow to the major parties. It looks like some of
the minor parties, like One Nation, they're now changing their
preferences and putting them up there. For Peter Dutton, Labor
(00:56):
Party is not getting as many preferences from the Green
that they would normally get, so the primary votes are
about the same. Labors at thirty one now when they
went to the last election, that primary vote was thirty
two and a half, so they've gone backwards, while the
coalition's primary vote hasn't changed. It's at thirty eight percent,
two points higher than the last election. So it's very
(01:18):
very interesting. We now, of course, are going to probably
see an election in May next year. The two point
shift in two party preferred, as I said, it shows
Pauline Hansen's One Nation going to seven and the Greens
now their supports at twelve percent. How it is at
twelve I've got no idea, but this is a very
(01:40):
bad poll for Anthony ALBANIZI and the.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Fares from the side of the tasment it looks like
he deserves it. He looks a mess. Is that a
fair observation?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Body language? As I said, it's not good, is it?
I mean he doesn't look strong and Australians like to
elect someone they believe is going to be a strong leader.
Anthony Albanize last week was in in Laos, as he
should be. Peter Dutton was back here campaigning as he
has been for the last few months. Now. Yesterday where
(02:11):
do you think Peter Dutton turned up to do his campaign?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He was at Bathurst.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
On the grid at Bathurst, he spent the whole day
watching the race, which is sort of Bogan Heaven for
Australian's bathist It's a great event and fifty thousand people there.
He was seen on the grid before the race started.
National anthem has sung. He was singing it. Anthony Alberneazy meanwhile,
was at a major football stadium in Sydney celebrating Greek
(02:39):
Easter or Greek Orthodox with a Greek Orthodox preacher. You
could not get a bigger contrast between the two exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So when we're having an election next year as late
as possible.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes, because they've now put out the sitting dates for
next year and there is a date in the Federal
Parliament for a budget in March, which would mean you
wouldn't go to it. You wouldn't think you'd go to
an election before that budget's handed down because you've got
the opportunity in government to hand out money, so you're
going to be able to what they're hoping for labor
(03:13):
is an interest rate cut sometime in February probably next year.
Then you have a budget which you'll dole out door
to people, and then you go to an election in May,
and that's as long as they can go. He can't
go any later than May next year.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Okay, when you went to Greece recently, and this is
as regards Charles, who's d you at your place any
day now? When you went to Greece, did you take
your own doctors in your own blood or did you
just take some luggage just a doctor.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I didn't take any blood, but because he could have
sort of that out of it was a problem. Now
are you still annoyed that Charles King? Charles?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I am having to see you, Yes, I am, because
I love Charles and I was at the coronation and
I thought that was a thing that we'd bonded over.
And he just can't even be bothered turning up here.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, forty one years ago, I spent a month on
the road with him and Lady Diana, so I know
I got to know him quite well as well. Now
I think he should immediately rethink what he's doing here.
He should come to New Zealand and cut out Sydney
from his Australian visit. Because it was revealed in the
Sunday Papers yesterday that he arrives King Charles arrives Friday
(04:22):
night and he has a night of a day of
rest Saturday. Then he's in Sydney on Sunday, Canberra on Monday.
But guess what all of our great premiers, including I
might say a Liberal premier, have decided they're too busy
to attend a reception in Canberra Monday Night hosted by
King Charles, featuring a lot of famous Australian sportspeople, charity workers,
(04:45):
people who do great things for the nation. Justinder Allen said, oh,
I've got cabinet on that day. I don't think I'll
be able to get up to Canberra. Canberra is forty
minutes by air from here, and she's decided it's more
important to talk to her cabinet about how she sent
Victoria broke and going in see.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
She'll be a Republican, won't she?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, one hundred percent, so's Anthony Albanizer. I mean, you know,
bending Anita King Charles boy albow is probably going to
make him feel as sick as reading this morning's news.
Polk quite frankly, Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And then he's got to go to Sarmara. Of course.
By the way, let me give you these numbers. I
read over the weekend about Victoria and rental stock in
Victoria and whether you would agree with this or would
have answered the question. The number back to rentals and
Victoria has fallen by twenty two thousand properties this year.
Everyone's selling up. It's a result of higher rental standards,
increased land taxes, so it's a tight market for rentals.
(05:38):
Sharpest fall in rental stock since record keeping began in
nineteen ninety nine. Only ever recorded two quarters of rental
bond falls and both occurred in twenty twenty four. So
they buggered the rental market. Is that your assessment of
what's going on in your hometown?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, completely blown it up. I mean, you go for
a walk in any of the inner Melbourne suburbs and
you'll see for sale signs on every apartment. What are
they in common? Most of them are one betters And
the reason the people are selling them is because they
have slapped land taks on all of these places. No
one wants to play the land tax so landlords are
going or bug of that. I'll sell up in Melbourne
(06:12):
and I'll buy a two bedroom unit cheaper in Queensland
rented out up there, and I don't have all these
taxes on the properties that I own. They have completely
stuffed the real estate market in the state they run.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
And so the government don't recognize this as being a problem.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I need the money. They can't rethinks it's a problem
because they need the money. Without the money, we'd be
even more broke than we already are.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I don't know that if you know the answer. But
I have followed with a great deal of fascination this
business of extracting Australians out of Lebanon and none of
them turn up for the flight. Why are people insistent
on staying in Lebanon?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Do you know the pull of Lebanon is too strong
for a lot of them? A lot of these people.
We had massive immigration, as you know, from Lebanon under
Paul Keeping in the eighties when the Civil War was
at its peak. We've got a massive Lebanese community, particularly
in sid southwest. The people get to retirement age and
they go, Okay, I'm going to get a pension from
(07:05):
Australia and go back and live in my village in Lebanon.
That's why they're not rutting on a plane, because they
don't want to come back.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
For you, unreal all right mate, go well, see you Wednesday.
Step Price out of Australia. For more from the Mic
Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd be from
six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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