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... which means that it's more than a 50% chance that there'll be a, a terrorist attack, is, is not reflective of our current circumstances.

Now, uh, we all know what happened in Bondi nearly 12 months ago.

But since Bondi, most Australians don't understand that, that our intelligence agencies and law enforcement have, uh, have thwarted four-

Yeah

...

since Bondi.

So that's 20 terror threats or terrorist attacks on Australian soil that our agencies have thwarted, and yet our, our terror threat level is still set at probable.

The digital duty of care, the last thing any of us want, and by all means, listeners ring up and disagree with me, is to have a government minister be our censor.

Well, look, When I first...

I actually called a number of years ago for a form of digital duty of care because we know that the big tech companies are destroying young people's lives through what they see on...

It's basically a forced form of communication.

They tell us what they want us to see rather than what we want to see on our social media feeds.

So there are some good principles in this.

There's...

That made very disturbing reading, didn't

It's a big call.

Well, it is a big call.

It's a bold call, but it's all part of our plan to fix our economy and protect our way of life.

What we have seen over the last few years is attack on attack on attack by organised crime of legitimate businesses and some not so legitimate, but these organised crime gangs have taken hold of the illicit tobacco market.

We reckon they've captured about 80% of the tobacco market.

They're making somewhere between $4 and $7 billion a year out of it every year.

So we need to smash that organised crime gang because we know that it's impacting on the lives of Australians.

at

grocery store.

I know, I know.

Everybody shops.

Everybody's got to eat.

It's a very grounding experience.

And the last 14 of 17 quarters under this government, inflation has been outside the...

Reserve Bank's target range.

billion worth of

yeah

and uh the government is sitting at about 12 months to get this thing in place so i don't think that's going to work i don't think that the the laws uh or proposed laws has passed the house could go to the senate today but i don't think the laws around sports gambling go far enough because At the moment, the gambling ads have to stop five minutes before live sport.

I wanted an hour before, during, and an hour after live support and also with played support.

What we've got now is a ban of 15 minutes.

Now, you know as well as I do, Tim, you watch the footy, there's at least half an hour of build-up before a game starts.

They are going to bombard us with gambling advertising when the kids are sitting there waiting for the game to start.

These

gambling companies are predatory.

Why did you make that decision? How did you reach that decision?

Well, I've been a very strong opponent to gambling and the damage that it causes in our country.

$36 billion lost each and every year.

$95 million a day are lost by Australians to gambling, and most of that money goes to international gambling companies.

I want to see an end to that nexus between sport and gambling.

I'm sick to death of seeing those gambling ads, uh, particularly around sports.

I get constant emails and messages from constituents asking me to do something to break that nexus.

Why is that not enough?

And I think the point to make to my listeners is if you're going to re-elect them again, that's what you're going to get because they're not moving away from it.

I sent my wife a message last night when I got out of the supermarket here in Canberra.

Yeah.

Three bags of shopping.

Three bags of shopping cost me $196.

Whoa.

Whoa.

I really don't.

Can you tell us about your proposal?

Well, AB, thanks, and Mark, thanks for having me on, and I'm really sorry to hear that about your family situation, but you're one of tens of thousands of Australians that have been personally impacted by gambling.

We are the worst gamblers in the world in every respect.

We lose about $36 billion.

That's not gamble, that's lose $36 billion, $36,000 million a year to gambling.

That would build us as a nation, that would build us six Sunshine Coast University hospitals every single year.

And we just seem to be constantly skirting around this issue.

So would you like to go ahead then and see some sort of ban a la the cigarette advertising we did way back when? Would it go the same way where we see these gambling ads disappear off billboards, off the net, everywhere? Is that a possibility, Andrew Wallace?

Well, it's rock and a hard place stuff, isn't it?

It is.

And, you know, this bunkum that the government tried to sell us on intergenerational equity is total BS.

Because what's the number one reason or impediment for young people being able to get in and buy their own home? It's saving a deposit.

Now, because of the changes to negative gearing, a lot of landlords are either putting up their rent or they're trying to sell their house.

That means that we're seeing price rises, significant price rises in rents.

It's harder to save for a deposit when you're paying more money in rent.

Rubbish.

Your thoughts on the way the government's handling all of this, Andrew?

Well, Tim, they've been true to form, and that is absolutely hopeless.

We saw the return of 12 so-called ISIS brides in the last few months.

And now it looks like there's going to be 13 actual fighters that took up the fight against Western democracies, our allies.

Now, you know, once upon a time, Tim, these people would have been charged with treason, a charge of treason against the state, against Australia.

And now Tony Burke looks like he's going to roll out the welcome mat like he always has.

Of course, he'll say, oh, we won't do a thing.

And just finally, any thoughts on the love in Adelaide with the Labor Party talking to itself?

This

is the greatest redistribution of wealth this country has ever seen from the most socialist government this country has ever seen.

So, let's prove him wrong.

Let's absolutely prove him very, very wrong and Australians and business people, we need to keep talking about just how bad this budget is and how it's effectively on top of the $80 billion worth of additional taxes that it brings about.

The government has rejected the indexing of tax brackets, which Angus Taylor is proposing.

And that's effectively $200 billion worth of taxes that Australians are going to be paying over the next 10 years.

I

actually read the transcript of that, because I've got nothing else to do with my time.

Chief among them would be the richness of Canada against the U.S., and that's most apparent in the front end which is where you trade yep so which is why i wanted to bring you on so this works out well um now you know why i brought you yep do you think we should be here or is this egregious is canada set to get destroyed or i mean is this are we in the right place um is that like i guess what are the flows you're seeing and and how do you view things

Yeah.

So a lot to get into in this, obviously.

I guess the first thing you see is when you kind of look at the take cross market twos, for example, around minus 142 area, there's kind of that bit of sticker shock look, just looking at the number and thinking, wow, like that seems stretched.

And certainly, you know, the move from, you know, minus 100-ish late, mid to late May to that level is pretty extreme.

You know, you'll hit on some of the data and how that has been kind of the primary driver of it for sure.

Canadian data suggestive of a bank that is – probably going to be very reluctant to hike rates, especially under the dynamic of energy prices coming off recently versus the US where the data has hung in extremely well, obviously.

Good start

I mean, it's more complicated than Chinese arithmetic, what they're doing.

Well, it looks like the Greens and the government are going to do a grubby little deal to try and get the government's toxic taxes through the parliament this week.

You know, everybody seems to agree, apart from the Greens, that there needs to be NDIS reforms.

We want to ensure that the NDIS is there for the future.

But the reality is we are spending more money on the NDIS today, on 760,000 people, than we spend... on 28 million people for Medicare and the PBS, the pharmaceutical

Yeah.

Now the way that this is, this is organized team is that the AFP work very, very closely with, uh, with say the speaker and the, and the president.

Um, And risk assessments are done on individuals.

That'll be interesting for you.

Yeah.

Look, um, it doesn't matter where I go in the electorate or the country for that matter, small businesses are really doing it tough.

I was talking to...

I was out door knocking the other day, and I was talking to an electrician.

And he was saying to me, "I get up in the mornings, and I wonder why I'm going to work because I'm just getting-"

Really? Yeah.

"... copping it in the neck along with every other small business, uh, from both sides." And with these changes or proposed changes in the budget to capital gains tax trusts, negative gearing, uh, I tell you what, I was also speaking with a-

Yeah.

So we, we need to keep this in perspective.

Um, you know, people...

There's also another issue around continuity of care that we're, we're not seeing with urgent care clinics.

Around about two-thirds of, uh, visits to urgent care clinics, um, or I should say about a third of those visits aren't being, uh... those records of that visit aren't going back to the person's regular GP, so there's continuity-

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... and, and he and, and Matt are working very, very well together, I have to say.

And you, you can't turn these things around overnight.

Capital gains tax, negative gearing, and everyone's telling him, even young people, they hate it.

Well, that's absolutely right, Tim.

I don't think I've ever seen such a visceral response to a budget, certainly in my lifetime, or that I can remember anyway.

This is a budget of broken promises.

There's no other way to describe it other than that.

They promised they wouldn't introduce changes to CGT, trust, negative gearing.

And they've gone broke.

So they're ticked off generally.

Go after the people who don't vote for you, but say you still care about cost of living.

Yeah, Paul, look, it's just absolutely, utterly remarkable that the federal government would be doing this to people, uh, 65 and over.

These are the same people that for the best part of 40 years have been paying, uh, for private health insurance because the government said, "You pay for your private health insurance, take the pressure off the public system, uh, and when you meet...

when you need it most as you get older, it'll be there for you." And now, in the last week or so, the government's come out and said, "Well, guess what? If you're 65 and over, uh, we're gonna remove the private health insurance concession." That means for a couple on the, the gold level of private health insurance, it's gonna cost them over $1,600 extra.

And you know what? Where, where I come from on the Sunny Coast, Paul, a lot of people are pensioners, and yet they still value their private health insurance like it's gold.

Um, what opportunities do you get? Obviously, uh, you've got the pressure of the parliament in the next few days, but how would you use that pressure of the parliament, uh, to at least draw people's attention to it? Because I've got an awful feeling that the Labor government's very good at, "Look over here, look over here," and most people do, but you get this one shot to be able to pull it back.

Well, it's one of the reasons why I'm talking to you, Paul, is to mobilize your very long list of, uh, of people that watch you and that are very passionate about, uh, about these sorts of things.

Um, it really makes me angry.

Your charity would not exist unless there were problems in these types of businesses, would it?

Correct.

Um, and let's hope we're gonna have a more sort of nuanced conversation.

And, uh, and I think the problem I've got with sort of grandstanding statements on either side of, of, of the argument is this is nuanced, this is complex.

Yes, there's organized criminality, but there's also modern slavery.

We know in the UK, at any one time, there are about 130,000 victims.

The socioeconomic cost of that to the UK is about sixty billion pounds a year, so that's two percent of the GDP.

Is it reasonable of people to be suspicious?

How do you respond to that rhetoric? We

must be doing something right, Rita.

We must be doing something right for Jim to be that exercised.

We should be, because I tell you what, 27 million Australians have had a gutful of this government's demands to ensuring that we meet their net zero emissions targets.

Australians are paying through the nose for their energy bills, whether it's mums and dads with their household bills or businesses like Tomago and everybody in between.

Australians are paying far too much money for their electricity.

This is a government that said that we would be paying $275 less for our energy bills, and just for mums and dads, we're paying $1,000 more for our energy bills.

You say the government is out of touch?