King Charles and Queen Camilla are leaving Australia, bound for Samoa after a short but sweet trip down under.
The pair had 27 engagements across Sydney, drawing substantial crowds filled with people of all ages.
However, the trip wasn’t without drama, with Independant Senator Lidia Thorpe interrupting the reception to heckle the King.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking that Thorpe has done the Republican movement the biggest favour in the world, as her outburst would flip people back after the King’s visit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steve Prices with us in Australia. Mate, how are you
very well?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Lydia thought, what an embarrassment of a woman. What are
they going to do about her?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, not much they can do about her. This, of course,
is the woman who decided to storm into the Great
Hall in Canberra and start shouting about how King Charles
succeeded their land and how he should give back their babies,
and he was killing he was involved in genocide. She's
on a six year term. So the way our parliament
(00:29):
system works, she was elected at the last election as
a Green. She had a falling out with the Greens
and so the Greens kicked her out of the party.
She now sits as an independent and she's got three
years to go and there's nothing anyone can do. So
she said, see, she doesn't represent anybody, doesn't represent a party,
and so there you go. So she sits in the
(00:51):
Australian Parliament and it was headlines around the world. We
interviewed on the project on Monday night and got from
ITV that was his lead story. And so the British
we all saw King Charles being smashed by this crazy woman.
I got to tell you I was very impressed about
the king. It was short but sweet trip. But look,
he's in his mid seventies. I think he Miller is
(01:12):
two years older than him. They did twenty seven engagement
ship today across Sydney, including a barbecue in Paramatta which
was very spectacular. Ended the day on the harbor on
a boat. The crowds were substantial and I thought the
age profile of the crowds was extraordinary. Yeah, they busted
in some school kids, but Mike, in general there were
(01:34):
younger astrainers and I'm talking about you know, eighteen to
twenty five year olds standing waiting for hours to just
simply shake the hands of King Charles the third I
was very impressed on.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I love the guy. I think he's brilliant. I
think he's a life of service. There's a poll out
here this morning said fifty five percent of New Zealanders
think he should remain or we should remain as part
of the monarchy, and twenty seven percent would flip it.
What do you what's your guess at what Australian thinking.
I wonder if the number wouldn't have been slightly higher
towards the monarchy as a result of what he's just done.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, absolutely, spot. I think the figures would probably be
pretty similar and the Republican movement Lydia Thilp's done. The
Republican movement the biggest favor in the world because that
would flip more people back the other way. I don't
think there's going to be a referendum on Australia becoming
a republic in my lifetime. And look, I'm seventy next year,
so I might have another what twenty years to go.
(02:27):
I don't think they'll thank you thanks. I don't think
there will be a republic in our lifetime. I think
we'll stay within there in the con How.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Long are you going to stay on the show? If
you're a hundred, would you still do the show?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, I've been doing it since I was about twenty two.
I think you ah, so probably don't. Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't like to talk about it. It's how you feel,
as that spice girl wants it, or who you're feeling
or whatever. It was so Costello, when you say the
Andrews government, we mean the Dan Andrews government.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, yes, the Dan Andrews government. And he spoke Costello
Peter at a Conservative conference in Sydney yesterday. Now this
is a guy, of course, he hadn't had a great year.
He was chairman of Channel nine. He shouldered a journal
in at Canberra Airport. He was forced to quit, but
he's still regarded as the best treasurer we've had in
living memory. Left it after the government that he was
(03:21):
treasurer in was defeated. There was no deck in Australia.
Now this huge deck. So he stands up yesterday and
he talks about arrogance in government. He gave Dan Andrews
a slap on the way through saying that he shouldn't
be involved in treaty negotiations and joining China's Belton road system.
But he saved his best quotes for the COVID reaction. Now,
(03:42):
you and I've spoken regularly about how Victoria was lockdown
longer than anyone else in the world, he said, quoted
in Melbourne during COVID they closed playgrounds, swings and slides
were chained up to stop children using them. And then
he went on to talk about how we of course
had our You know, you couldn't go out after night.
(04:03):
He said, children weren't dying from COVID, they wouldn't die
by using a swing. This moronic government even decided to
institute a curfew. Now you're not going to catch COVID
driving alone in your car up to nine o'clock at
night exactly. And Costello did say he was scared and
concerned that citizens people in Melbourne gave up their freedom
so easily. It was a very powerful speeches today.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Good on them. This weekend I watched for my sins.
There was a debate. There's been several on Sky News,
which is where you work at one of your many jobs.
But this Christophiley guy who's in Queensland, who I'm assuming
is going to win and win, well, he strikes me
as relatively impressive.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I watched the debate same as you did yesterday, so
we both got not much of a life. Yeah. Look,
Stephen Miles was took over as Premier of Queensland his
labor from Anastasia Palichet. They've been in government for ten years.
Miles was always handed at ticking dime by. They were
never going to win. The LMP will win probably reasonably easily,
(05:00):
although some of the polls are going back the other way.
But Christophull he've got beaten in the first debate tied
the second one, and this is the third debate they've had,
and I thought he was pretty impressive last night. He
got a bit tangled up on this question of abortion rights.
Why that's a thing in Australian politics. I've got no idea,
absolutely no idea. It's an American thing. There is a
(05:20):
very conservative wing of the LMP under a boat called
Catter in Queensland. They've started talking a bit about abortion laws,
but no one else takes that seriously. Everybody knows that
the rights of a woman or the rights of a
woman and we just get on with it. And that's
what Christop fully in the end had to manage to
spit out and say that's what he thinks.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I was reading yesterday you've gone and purchased seven billion
dollars worth of US missiles and I'm thinking that's a
tremendous amount of money. And Miles is going on about
how this is the greatest arms race since WW two.
Would you ever see yourself firing off a missile in
he is Australia in the business of shooting people down?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I wouldn't have thought so. But it's to terrence, isn't
it New Zealand probably should go. Well, that's not a
bad thing in Australia spending the money. At least we
didn't spend it. Look, weapons procurement in this country is
a mystery to everybody. The Defense Department is the worst
public service in the country. They don't know what they're doing.
They've signed up to this submarine deal. Again. I hate
(06:20):
to talk about my mortality, but I'll be dead before
the first submarine set sale. So look, those missiles can
be used by the Navy. Seven billions a lot of money,
but not really in terms of military requirements. So we've
got them where we have to ever have to fire
them in anger. I wouldn't have thought so, because I
presume if we get into a conflict with China, they'll
(06:42):
simply turn off a switch in every electric car and
the country stopped running and that'll be it.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hey, what are you going to do now that Harald's
was closed? You hear that Heralds went bankrupt yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I can't believe that I used to go once a
year to that sale. I've still got some magnificent suits
from the book from there, Melody.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
See, this is what saddens me. Harold's for people who
don't know. Everyone who's been to Melbourne Sydney knows Harold.
Harold's been around for forty years. They've seen it all.
And if you can't survive in retail now, I mean,
that says something fairly poor about the economy, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well. I suspect anyone with a dollar who could get
out of Victoria has That's probably why.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, all right, go well, we'll catch up next week.
Appreciate it very much. Harold's is I mean Colin Street.
They had an outlet in Sydney in the Westfield, in
the downtown area, but they did really high end stuff.
That's why I raised it with Steve, because that's all
Steve wears. He wears a lot of tom Ford and
Balenciaga and you know, a lot of silk, a lot
of the Sachi stuff like that's a little colorful for
(07:41):
my taste. But nevertheless, that's what Harold's did and for
a forty year veteran of the industry, suddenly yesterday tipped
into liquidation, just like that.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
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Steve Prices with us in Australia. Mate, how are you
very well?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Lydia thought, what an embarrassment of a woman. What are
they going to do about her?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, not much they can do about her. This, of course,
is the woman who decided to storm into the Great
Hall in Canberra and start shouting about how King Charles
succeeded their land and how he should give back their babies,
and he was killing he was involved in genocide. She's
on a six year term. So the way our parliament
(00:29):
system works, she was elected at the last election as
a Green. She had a falling out with the Greens
and so the Greens kicked her out of the party.
She now sits as an independent and she's got three
years to go and there's nothing anyone can do. So
she said, see, she doesn't represent anybody, doesn't represent a party,
and so there you go. So she sits in the
(00:51):
Australian Parliament and it was headlines around the world. We
interviewed on the project on Monday night and got from
ITV that was his lead story. And so the British
we all saw King Charles being smashed by this crazy woman.
I got to tell you I was very impressed about
the king. It was short but sweet trip. But look,
he's in his mid seventies. I think he Miller is
(01:12):
two years older than him. They did twenty seven engagement
ship today across Sydney, including a barbecue in Paramatta which
was very spectacular. Ended the day on the harbor on
a boat. The crowds were substantial and I thought the
age profile of the crowds was extraordinary. Yeah, they busted
in some school kids, but Mike, in general there were
(01:34):
younger astrainers and I'm talking about you know, eighteen to
twenty five year olds standing waiting for hours to just
simply shake the hands of King Charles the third I
was very impressed on.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I love the guy. I think he's brilliant. I
think he's a life of service. There's a poll out
here this morning said fifty five percent of New Zealanders
think he should remain or we should remain as part
of the monarchy, and twenty seven percent would flip it.
What do you what's your guess at what Australian thinking.
I wonder if the number wouldn't have been slightly higher
towards the monarchy as a result of what he's just done.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, absolutely, spot. I think the figures would probably be
pretty similar and the Republican movement Lydia Thilp's done. The
Republican movement the biggest favor in the world because that
would flip more people back the other way. I don't
think there's going to be a referendum on Australia becoming
a republic in my lifetime. And look, I'm seventy next year,
so I might have another what twenty years to go.
(02:27):
I don't think they'll thank you thanks. I don't think
there will be a republic in our lifetime. I think
we'll stay within there in the con How.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Long are you going to stay on the show? If
you're a hundred, would you still do the show?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, I've been doing it since I was about twenty two.
I think you ah, so probably don't. Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't like to talk about it. It's how you feel,
as that spice girl wants it, or who you're feeling
or whatever. It was so Costello, when you say the
Andrews government, we mean the Dan Andrews government.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, yes, the Dan Andrews government. And he spoke Costello
Peter at a Conservative conference in Sydney yesterday. Now this
is a guy, of course, he hadn't had a great year.
He was chairman of Channel nine. He shouldered a journal
in at Canberra Airport. He was forced to quit, but
he's still regarded as the best treasurer we've had in
living memory. Left it after the government that he was
(03:21):
treasurer in was defeated. There was no deck in Australia.
Now this huge deck. So he stands up yesterday and
he talks about arrogance in government. He gave Dan Andrews
a slap on the way through saying that he shouldn't
be involved in treaty negotiations and joining China's Belton road system.
But he saved his best quotes for the COVID reaction. Now,
(03:42):
you and I've spoken regularly about how Victoria was lockdown
longer than anyone else in the world, he said, quoted
in Melbourne during COVID they closed playgrounds, swings and slides
were chained up to stop children using them. And then
he went on to talk about how we of course
had our You know, you couldn't go out after night.
(04:03):
He said, children weren't dying from COVID, they wouldn't die
by using a swing. This moronic government even decided to
institute a curfew. Now you're not going to catch COVID
driving alone in your car up to nine o'clock at
night exactly. And Costello did say he was scared and
concerned that citizens people in Melbourne gave up their freedom
so easily. It was a very powerful speeches today.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Good on them. This weekend I watched for my sins.
There was a debate. There's been several on Sky News,
which is where you work at one of your many jobs.
But this Christophiley guy who's in Queensland, who I'm assuming
is going to win and win, well, he strikes me
as relatively impressive.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I watched the debate same as you did yesterday, so
we both got not much of a life. Yeah. Look,
Stephen Miles was took over as Premier of Queensland his
labor from Anastasia Palichet. They've been in government for ten years.
Miles was always handed at ticking dime by. They were
never going to win. The LMP will win probably reasonably easily,
(05:00):
although some of the polls are going back the other way.
But Christophull he've got beaten in the first debate tied
the second one, and this is the third debate they've had,
and I thought he was pretty impressive last night. He
got a bit tangled up on this question of abortion rights.
Why that's a thing in Australian politics. I've got no idea,
absolutely no idea. It's an American thing. There is a
(05:20):
very conservative wing of the LMP under a boat called
Catter in Queensland. They've started talking a bit about abortion laws,
but no one else takes that seriously. Everybody knows that
the rights of a woman or the rights of a
woman and we just get on with it. And that's
what Christop fully in the end had to manage to
spit out and say that's what he thinks.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I was reading yesterday you've gone and purchased seven billion
dollars worth of US missiles and I'm thinking that's a
tremendous amount of money. And Miles is going on about
how this is the greatest arms race since WW two.
Would you ever see yourself firing off a missile in
he is Australia in the business of shooting people down?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I wouldn't have thought so. But it's to terrence, isn't
it New Zealand probably should go. Well, that's not a
bad thing in Australia spending the money. At least we
didn't spend it. Look, weapons procurement in this country is
a mystery to everybody. The Defense Department is the worst
public service in the country. They don't know what they're doing.
They've signed up to this submarine deal. Again. I hate
(06:20):
to talk about my mortality, but I'll be dead before
the first submarine set sale. So look, those missiles can
be used by the Navy. Seven billions a lot of money,
but not really in terms of military requirements. So we've
got them where we have to ever have to fire
them in anger. I wouldn't have thought so, because I
presume if we get into a conflict with China, they'll
(06:42):
simply turn off a switch in every electric car and
the country stopped running and that'll be it.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hey, what are you going to do now that Harald's
was closed? You hear that Heralds went bankrupt yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I can't believe that I used to go once a
year to that sale. I've still got some magnificent suits
from the book from there, Melody.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
See, this is what saddens me. Harold's for people who
don't know. Everyone who's been to Melbourne Sydney knows Harold.
Harold's been around for forty years. They've seen it all.
And if you can't survive in retail now, I mean,
that says something fairly poor about the economy, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well. I suspect anyone with a dollar who could get
out of Victoria has That's probably why.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, all right, go well, we'll catch up next week.
Appreciate it very much. Harold's is I mean Colin Street.
They had an outlet in Sydney in the Westfield, in
the downtown area, but they did really high end stuff.
That's why I raised it with Steve, because that's all
Steve wears. He wears a lot of tom Ford and
Balenciaga and you know, a lot of silk, a lot
of the Sachi stuff like that's a little colorful for
(07:41):
my taste. But nevertheless, that's what Harold's did and for
a forty year veteran of the industry, suddenly yesterday tipped
into liquidation, just like that.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks that'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio,
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