Murray Olds: Australia Correspondent chats latest polls and alleged antisemitic car attack

New polls are showing older Australians firmly standing behind One Nation as support for Labour and National wanes. 

Whereas, Australia Correspondent Murray Olds told Andrew Dickens, "young people are running running 100 miles an hour away from the conservative side of politics."

And, questions of rising antisemitism continue as a car with Hanukkah decorations, belonging to Rabbi Effy Block, was firebombed on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Went off to Australia. We go, Murray Olds, Welcome to
the program.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good, very good morning to you, and I hope you
have lovely Christmas.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Lovely Christmas. Very impressed at you getting out real early
on Boxing Day. You kind of gone hard on Christmas Day.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, very modest, very modest amounts. I actually had a
lot of good fun that baiting a couple of the
English people that are out here to the cricket.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes, today is a cricket. We'll get into that a
little bit later on. But we've got a new poll
out and what's happened to Labor is fair to say that,
particularly in the lead up to Christmas, it hasn't been
a good run for them.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
It hasn't been a good run for Labor. But that
has not shown up in this analysis of the last
three months of two months. I beg your partner of
polls in the Australian newspaper, the Murdock Press, this survey
and it doesn't focus specifically on the travel scandal and

(01:08):
then on anti Semitism. So what we find the Liberals
and Nationals are completely on the nose older voters, those
without the university degree, So the poorly educated older people
are swinging behind paul Enhansen in One Nation, you know,
and young people are running absolute running one hundred miles

(01:29):
an hour away from from the conservative side of politics.
And what you've got in Queensland because there has a
been a completely strong, absolute, rock solid state that is
support so that you know, the coalition, the Liberal Party
in the National Party, it's been absolutely rock solid there.
This is where all that all the people are abandoning

(01:51):
the coalition Labor, by contrast, it's from him to thirty
three percent support right one Nation's eighteen coalitions down to
just over twenty six to twenty seven percent. So what
this tells us It looks like that I'll be more
interested in the pole perhaps in the new year that
will reflect the latest, you know, the dreadful run that

(02:14):
Labor had in the run up for Christmas, Bondai Beach
of course, and the travel scandal. But right now you
just have to think happens above. There's no opposition here.
The real opposition is going to be Pauline Hansen and
her racist policies. That have been around for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
But the anti Semitism is still still raging. We have
a fire bombing of a car and some killed her
with Hanneka decorations on it, So the anti city is
still there.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
They look, you're going to get idiots everywhere. It doesn't
matter what governments do and what police forces managed to do.
If there's a lone idiot out there who wants to
put the thing's a great idea to At ten to
three on Christmas morning, there's a sign that the car
is owned by a rabbi and his family down in Melbourne,
sitting out there on the road and said killed. He

(03:02):
had a great, big Haneker billboard on top of the vehicle,
just a little run about. Well let's set this on fire,
okay more? And that's a great idea, wasn't idiot? So
the police were there quickly. The family had to be
moved out briefly because because of the fire you've had
political leaders condemning it, of course very angry, and then

(03:24):
alban Easy and then the Premier of Victoria. There's no
room for this idiocy over here. I mean, the whole
climate right now is pretty bloody sensitive. It's extremely sensitive.
On the other hand, you've got the news that Ahmed Ahmed,
the guy who tackled one of the Bondai government, could

(03:44):
be out of hospital by Monday. He's had multiple surgeries, mate,
and he can move his arm and his tinkers again. Apparently,
who's got family coming here from Syria to see him,
and he's got on the go fund.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
He's got millions of two and a half mill he
has got two and a half mill And I'll carry
on Murray saying that the Morrison Sofia German who lost
their lives tackling the the things that did this sort
of stuff, their family are receiving nothing and they not
got enough attention. I'm getting quite a lot of feedback
about people going yeah, how about that. But there we go, Murray.

(04:18):
I thank you so much for getting up early on
Boxing Day. Enjoy the Boxing Day tests and of course
the Sydney Hobart is today as well.

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