Peter Dutton's liberal party is committing $3 billion to the purchase of extra joint strike fighter jets, if they win the upcoming Australian election.
The party say they will buy 28 fighter jets.
The pledge comes as Chinese warships have circumnavigated Australia.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price talks to Mike Hosking about the commitment, Dutton's 60 Minutes interview, what the polls are saying, and how Trump brushed off Australia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The prices, whether it's in Australian Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Mate, good Ada.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Can we assume that, given he didn't go to Canberra
and the gg's office over the weekend, that this April
five and twelve might not be right or he's still
got time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
To do it. I think you can go Sunday, and
I think it'll be April twelve. Now I could be
horrifically wrong, but everything's pointing to that. And we're talking
a moment about the interview here in his partner Jodi
did on sixty minutes last night. That would be one
indicator for me that that's going to happen. There's a
whole lot of things being lined up, including that mass
(00:33):
citizenship ceremonies that went nationwide with Tony Burke last week.
All of these things point to an election in April.
There's also going to be an economic statement, probably delivered
this week, and that would mean there's no budget. Now,
a budget, if we were to have one, was due
to be handed down in three weeks time. So I
think it'll be in April election this time next week.
(00:56):
I could be proven to be wrong, but I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, So he also announces the weekend a couple hundred
million dollars worth of this excise tax on draft beer.
Do people not see that they are being played?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Probably? But if you go to the pub and the
beer is cheaper then and it's our boat decision to
make that happen, then you know, for a lot of people,
that's reason enough to vote Labor back in. I mean,
you know, you and I analyze politics within an inch
of its life, but most people don't do that. They go, Okay, well,
my schooner this weekend is fifty cents cheaper than it
(01:29):
was last weekend, so good on. He's in real trouble
in Victoria, though. There was a red Bridge pole published
in the Sunday Papers yesterday showing that there's been an
eight point four percent two party preferred swing to the Liberals.
That would, if it turned out that way across Victoria,
would mean eight seats alone in the state of Victoria
would go to Labor. Now, that would put Peter Dutton
(01:52):
a long way down the road to a job in
the lodge, because he's only got to win between sixteen
and eighteen seats and he could actually govern in his
own right. So if he picks up eight and Victoria
that's a huge boost for him. It shows also the
opposition leader, Dutton's popularity is way ahead of Anthony Albernezi.
(02:12):
So these poles are going to come out increasingly over
the next few weeks. The only polem matters is they
all say, is election day. But it's pretty positive.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But the Victoria one does prove that. The by elections
that we talked on the other day, the argument was
it local or was it federal?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's federal.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The labor brand in this state is completely broken, and
it's broken because the ten years of state labor in particular,
and people are suffering through things like land taxes that
they never had to pay before. Now is that canvas foot?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But when you go to the polling booth and there's
a bunch of people standing out the front trying to
hand your labor out of vote cards, you think, well,
you're the same mob that made my life in Victoria. Hell,
I'm not voting for you exactly. That doesn't necessarily mean
those votes go to the liberals. They could go to
any number of independents, and I think there's going to
be a huge surge in support for non aligned independent
candidates right all of Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I did know that, you said. I don't know you
can say that with a straight face either. He said
on sixty Minutes last night, it's going to be a
positive campaign.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is it really? Does anyone?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, it's already negative. That did file was out talking
about Dutton's realistided empire last week. I mean they never
learned these people. I mean he's gone on there with
his partner Jody, and he's been interviewed by Carl Stefanovic,
which prompted me this morning knowing you or speaking to
you to remember before the last election Scott Morrison, the
then Prime Minister, when on sixty Minutes was interviewed by
(03:31):
Carl Stefanovic and sang April's son in Cuba playing the ukulelee.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I mean, and what happened? He was then out of
the job about a week later. So why would you
just say, Carl, stay away. I'm not going to do
anything with you at all. So what's Albo's April son
in Cuba moment last night? Well, he talks about you know.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
He's going to get married this year and Albo's got
a dog called Toto, right, Toto is going to be
the ring bearer at the wedding ceremony. That's what added
to the alban Easy, Prime Minister of the Great Nation
of Australia told everyone on television last night.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Is she a credit to us?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
The dog or the girl friend? No is.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
His betrothed? She is? She is? She nicest you come?
Does she come across?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, it comes to the central coast in your south.
I was knock about fell in love with Anthony Albanizy.
It's some political rally, which is a bit of a worry.
But she was also she sang out go the Rabbitos,
who are a Breaken League team in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The whole Trump thing did Were you worried when Trump? When?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
When the British reporter at the White House last week said,
are you going to talk about August and Trump?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Sid? What's that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Are you slightly worried that Marles gave him eight hundred
million dollars the other day?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
More than slightly worried? It's quite remarkable. After he said
what the hell is orcus, he also turned to Kiirs
Dharma and said, well, you know, we get on really well,
We've got a great relationship with Australia. You seem to
have a great relationship with Australia as well. Does anyone
think Donald Trump actually knows that the British colonized Australia
(05:18):
back in the seventeen hundred, So, I mean, I doubt
that he would know that when he.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Had exactly where are we at?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
By the way, the whole defense Chinese ships, all that
sort of stuff, and you know, increase in defense spending
and their desire at Dunton's desire to spend billions on fighters.
Do you need fighters or is this just part of
this new Fris song we have going on with defense.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, these things were originally ordered and then cancered by
the Ovenue government. I'm talking about twenty eight thirty five
light construct fighters, their best fighter aircraft in the world.
If Dutton wins is going to spend three billion on
rounding out that order, and if he can and get
back into the production line and get hold of them,
they are a good weapon for Australia to have. Then
(05:58):
he comes at a time when that's tiller. It's now
off Perth. So these three ships have circumnavigated Australia. I mean,
if you can't see that, that's a provocative act by
the Chinese, then you're blind. Then the Prime Minister has
been weak on this all week. He's tried to say
nothing to see here, they're in international waters, don't worry
about it. But it's actually the Chinese making very clear
(06:22):
that they can come and do whatever they want, whenever
they want.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Exactly the Alfred coming into Brisbane? Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Or that seems to have been sitting off the coast
for days on end and we're waiting for it to
finally arrive.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, and look it's a very long time since a
cyclone activity has been that far south. They're talking about
it making land between Byron Bay and Brisbane. Now, as
you would well know, the population in that corridor between
Brisbane down to the Gold Coast, down to cool and
Gatta and then further on down to the Lord of
New southwill it's huge numbers of people. Millions of people
(06:56):
live in that region. So it would be catastrophic if
it did what they say it was going to do.
But look, it's already been downgraded from A four to
three and some suggestion it'll cross land Tuesday and it
might be down to all one. I just get Look,
let's hope if we're right, and that this thing's not
as strong as it seems. But are you not of
(07:16):
my similar view that the media around that world.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Love They don't know exactly the moment they put out
a press release six weeks in advance of something that
may happen, they just go insane and it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Never knew click on it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, exactly, all right, we'll see what happens Wednesday. We'll
talk then appreciate them as a Steve Price out of Australia.
Just by the way, Jerry Harvey Harvey Norman says, a
minority government after the election under myne Australia's economy put
businesses tackling higher energy costs than labor shortages under more pressure.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It would be quote terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
We'll have a political system that's destined for having fight
after fight after fight and slowing down the economy at.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
A rate of knots. I think you'd expect many Australians.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Listen live to news talks.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
The prices, whether it's in Australian Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Mate, good Ada.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Can we assume that, given he didn't go to Canberra
and the gg's office over the weekend, that this April
five and twelve might not be right or he's still
got time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
To do it. I think you can go Sunday, and
I think it'll be April twelve. Now I could be
horrifically wrong, but everything's pointing to that. And we're talking
a moment about the interview here in his partner Jodi
did on sixty minutes last night. That would be one
indicator for me that that's going to happen. There's a
whole lot of things being lined up, including that mass
(00:33):
citizenship ceremonies that went nationwide with Tony Burke last week.
All of these things point to an election in April.
There's also going to be an economic statement, probably delivered
this week, and that would mean there's no budget. Now,
a budget, if we were to have one, was due
to be handed down in three weeks time. So I
think it'll be in April election this time next week.
(00:56):
I could be proven to be wrong, but I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, So he also announces the weekend a couple hundred
million dollars worth of this excise tax on draft beer.
Do people not see that they are being played?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Probably? But if you go to the pub and the
beer is cheaper then and it's our boat decision to
make that happen, then you know, for a lot of people,
that's reason enough to vote Labor back in. I mean,
you know, you and I analyze politics within an inch
of its life, but most people don't do that. They go, Okay, well,
my schooner this weekend is fifty cents cheaper than it
(01:29):
was last weekend, so good on. He's in real trouble
in Victoria, though. There was a red Bridge pole published
in the Sunday Papers yesterday showing that there's been an
eight point four percent two party preferred swing to the Liberals.
That would, if it turned out that way across Victoria,
would mean eight seats alone in the state of Victoria
would go to Labor. Now, that would put Peter Dutton
(01:52):
a long way down the road to a job in
the lodge, because he's only got to win between sixteen
and eighteen seats and he could actually govern in his
own right. So if he picks up eight and Victoria
that's a huge boost for him. It shows also the
opposition leader, Dutton's popularity is way ahead of Anthony Albernezi.
(02:12):
So these poles are going to come out increasingly over
the next few weeks. The only polem matters is they
all say, is election day. But it's pretty positive.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But the Victoria one does prove that. The by elections
that we talked on the other day, the argument was
it local or was it federal?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's federal.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The labor brand in this state is completely broken, and
it's broken because the ten years of state labor in particular,
and people are suffering through things like land taxes that
they never had to pay before. Now is that canvas foot?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But when you go to the polling booth and there's
a bunch of people standing out the front trying to
hand your labor out of vote cards, you think, well,
you're the same mob that made my life in Victoria. Hell,
I'm not voting for you exactly. That doesn't necessarily mean
those votes go to the liberals. They could go to
any number of independents, and I think there's going to
be a huge surge in support for non aligned independent
candidates right all of Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I did know that, you said. I don't know you
can say that with a straight face either. He said
on sixty Minutes last night, it's going to be a
positive campaign.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Is it really? Does anyone?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, it's already negative. That did file was out talking
about Dutton's realistided empire last week. I mean they never
learned these people. I mean he's gone on there with
his partner Jody, and he's been interviewed by Carl Stefanovic,
which prompted me this morning knowing you or speaking to
you to remember before the last election Scott Morrison, the
then Prime Minister, when on sixty Minutes was interviewed by
(03:31):
Carl Stefanovic and sang April's son in Cuba playing the ukulelee.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I mean, and what happened? He was then out of
the job about a week later. So why would you
just say, Carl, stay away. I'm not going to do
anything with you at all. So what's Albo's April son
in Cuba moment last night? Well, he talks about you know.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
He's going to get married this year and Albo's got
a dog called Toto, right, Toto is going to be
the ring bearer at the wedding ceremony. That's what added
to the alban Easy, Prime Minister of the Great Nation
of Australia told everyone on television last night.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Is she a credit to us?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
The dog or the girl friend? No is.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
His betrothed? She is? She is? She nicest you come?
Does she come across?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, it comes to the central coast in your south.
I was knock about fell in love with Anthony Albanizy.
It's some political rally, which is a bit of a worry.
But she was also she sang out go the Rabbitos,
who are a Breaken League team in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The whole Trump thing did Were you worried when Trump? When?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
When the British reporter at the White House last week said,
are you going to talk about August and Trump?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Sid? What's that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Are you slightly worried that Marles gave him eight hundred
million dollars the other day?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
More than slightly worried? It's quite remarkable. After he said
what the hell is orcus, he also turned to Kiirs
Dharma and said, well, you know, we get on really well,
We've got a great relationship with Australia. You seem to
have a great relationship with Australia as well. Does anyone
think Donald Trump actually knows that the British colonized Australia
(05:18):
back in the seventeen hundred, So, I mean, I doubt
that he would know that when he.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Had exactly where are we at?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
By the way, the whole defense Chinese ships, all that
sort of stuff, and you know, increase in defense spending
and their desire at Dunton's desire to spend billions on fighters.
Do you need fighters or is this just part of
this new Fris song we have going on with defense.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, these things were originally ordered and then cancered by
the Ovenue government. I'm talking about twenty eight thirty five
light construct fighters, their best fighter aircraft in the world.
If Dutton wins is going to spend three billion on
rounding out that order, and if he can and get
back into the production line and get hold of them,
they are a good weapon for Australia to have. Then
(05:58):
he comes at a time when that's tiller. It's now
off Perth. So these three ships have circumnavigated Australia. I mean,
if you can't see that, that's a provocative act by
the Chinese, then you're blind. Then the Prime Minister has
been weak on this all week. He's tried to say
nothing to see here, they're in international waters, don't worry
about it. But it's actually the Chinese making very clear
(06:22):
that they can come and do whatever they want, whenever
they want.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Exactly the Alfred coming into Brisbane? Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Or that seems to have been sitting off the coast
for days on end and we're waiting for it to
finally arrive.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, and look it's a very long time since a
cyclone activity has been that far south. They're talking about
it making land between Byron Bay and Brisbane. Now, as
you would well know, the population in that corridor between
Brisbane down to the Gold Coast, down to cool and
Gatta and then further on down to the Lord of
New southwill it's huge numbers of people. Millions of people
(06:56):
live in that region. So it would be catastrophic if
it did what they say it was going to do.
But look, it's already been downgraded from A four to
three and some suggestion it'll cross land Tuesday and it
might be down to all one. I just get Look,
let's hope if we're right, and that this thing's not
as strong as it seems. But are you not of
(07:16):
my similar view that the media around that world.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Love They don't know exactly the moment they put out
a press release six weeks in advance of something that
may happen, they just go insane and it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Never knew click on it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, exactly, all right, we'll see what happens Wednesday. We'll
talk then appreciate them as a Steve Price out of Australia.
Just by the way, Jerry Harvey Harvey Norman says, a
minority government after the election under myne Australia's economy put
businesses tackling higher energy costs than labor shortages under more pressure.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It would be quote terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
We'll have a political system that's destined for having fight
after fight after fight and slowing down the economy at.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
A rate of knots. I think you'd expect many Australians.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Listen live to news talks.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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