Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB Green Party delegates decided on Thursday to use the
walker jumping law against Darling Tanner if she refuses to
quit parliament, and it is now up to the Speaker
to decide whether the threshold for triggering the law has
been met. How long will this take? News Talks he'd
be Political editor Jason Walls joins us, Now, good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Can you answer that question for me? How long will
this take?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The only man in the entire country that knows how
long it's going to take is one Jerry Browne, Speaker
of the House, and the matter is now entirely in
his hands. I tried to get in contact with him
earlier this week to just try and answer that very
simple question, and he basically said that he is considering
the process now. And we don't actually have any template
on this one either, because this is the first time
(00:55):
the walker jumping legislation has actually been used. We've had
a number of rogue MPs over the years, think Jamie
Lee Ross, gud Av Sharanama, Elizabeth Ketty Kenny and of
course now we have darleyn Tana. But this is the
first time that the Woker jumping legislation is going to
be used. A not so subtile hint of irony here,
given it was the Green Party who was so vehemently
(01:16):
against this legislation from the start, in fact, they spoke
openly about how anti democratic it was. And now lo
and behold, they're the ones that are the first ones
using it. So we don't actually know what's happening next
apart from the fact that it's in Jerry Brownley's court,
because we're pretty much in uncharted territory right now.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Does it impact the Green's reputation? Do you think, listen?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I think this saga has been dragging out for so
long that a lot of people have basically forgotten the
fact that they were so adamantly against this legislation and
all they know now is that they're just trying to
get rid of Darley in Tana. So that's why it's
so important for people like myselves to keep reminding people
what the situation was not three four years ago when
the Greens were so against it. But we've seen the
(02:01):
polls move up and down over the last seven months
or so. How long this store has been running for,
so I think it's had an impact on the party,
but we're still two years away from an election, so
I think that they can bounce back absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey, Jason Andrew Bailey, he tried to front foot this
week an incident that happened at the beginning of the
month because he knew it was going to become public,
and it felt like he'd been media trained into how
to try and front foot this and it really came
across as very clumsy in a little bit weird, to
be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, the whole situation did have a bit of a
curious feeling. I mean, any news that drops on a
Friday afternoon you automatically become quite skeptical of. I mean
that's because the weekend is the great news cleanser. It
essentially the news radar restarts on a Monday, and things
that drop on a Friday afternoon very rarely actually get
any more coverage. So I think that could be what
(02:54):
the media plan for this one was. And then he
did this interview with Heather Duplicy Allen where he really
wouldn't get into any details about what happened or the
allegations within this letter and he challenged a couple of things,
but for the most part, but he just said that
it was a silly thing to do and he was sorry.
And that is of course a couple of A couple
of weeks ago, he was in a ministerial visit where
he allegedly there was a visiting I think it was
(03:17):
a warehouse and there was one person that was still
working and he went up to him and essentially said, oh,
come have a drink, take some wine and f off
home if you're not going to stay, If you're not
going to come, have a drink, and then did the
L sign on his forehead and repeated the word loser, loser, loser. Now,
Andrew Bailey is pushed back on the fact that he
used the F word, But you know this, he did
(03:38):
front foot, He did come out and apologize and the
Prime Minister said he's very disappointed and said there'll be
no demotions or anything like that. It's a silly move
for a minister of the Crown. I mean, you should
never say these sorts of things. However, I don't think
it was a duneam malice. I don't think that if
you read it in the black and White, It wasn't
him having a real go. It does seem like he
was having a bit of a joke, a bit of
(03:59):
a play around.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean, he could have come out and kind of
explained it a bit more naturally and it kind of
wouldn't have been such a big deal, but it just
sounded he was sort of definitely kind of trying to
stick to message with it.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks a B from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.