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Jerome Laxale

Jerome Laxale

Member of the Australian House of RepresentativesWikipedia

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Oct 16, 2026

James WillisHOST
46:02
But come on, this is beyond the pale.
James WillisHOST
46:06
I thought it was disgraceful and you can guarantee if it was a Islamic leader that was in the parliament today, would the MPs like Monique Ryan, Jerome Laxale have been asking the same questions or would they have left the religious beliefs alone? One three one eight seven three.
James WillisHOST
46:28
On the text line zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three, uh, Sandra says, "James, you were spot on with those questions.
James WillisHOST
46:35
They were outrageous and so anti-Christian that it wasn't funny." Rob says, "If anyone from another faith was asked the same questions, there would be an uproar and front page headlines in the papers.
James WillisHOST
10:25
I thought it was disgraceful.
James WillisHOST
10:27
And you can guarantee if it was a Islamic leader that was in the parliament today, would the MPs like Monique Ryan, Jerome Laxale have been asking the same questions? Or would they have left the religious beliefs alone?
Clare ArmstrongPANELIST
24:00
Even something as simple as the surcharges issue that engulfed the last week and a half.
Clare ArmstrongPANELIST
24:05
Um, I noted Jerome Laxale, Labor MP, put up quite a lengthy video late yesterday and became, for the first- ... time in this entire saga, the only person to have adequately explained why they wanted to change the surcharge issue in the first place, and he really stepped through the ways in which that system has become really broken, where i- I didn't even know this.
Clare ArmstrongPANELIST
24:28
Situations like the people that provide the, the like payment service-
Patricia KarvelasHOST
24:32
Mm-hmm
Claire HarveyHOST
0:43
The church has strongly denied any wrongdoing and says any actions by individual members of the church had nothing to do with the organisation as a whole.
Claire HarveyHOST
0:52
The committee, chaired by Labor MP Jerome Laxale, has already called senior church figures and threatened to issue subpoenas if global leader Bruce Hales and his son Gareth did not appear to answer questions.
Claire HarveyHOST
1:05
Now Bruce Hales says he will appear, despite having already submitted extensive answers to the committee's questions in writing.
Claire HarveyHOST
1:13
He says he did not participate in any campaign or ask anyone else to do so.
Clancy OverellHOST
29:12
So in Bennelong, for example, Labor runs a – Technically a migrant, we'll call him that.
Clancy OverellHOST
29:17
Jerome Laxale, he's from Mauritius and he's a white boy.
Clancy OverellHOST
29:22
But they run him, Labor's running him, and the Liberals decide, all right, well, let's take this Chinese thing seriously, and they run a Chinese guy who gets smoked because he's wearing the wrong colour.
Clancy OverellHOST
29:30
It's like it's got nothing to really do with whatever they thought they were doing, which was symbolism or, I mean, that was just the Liberals trying to do a bit of DEI, and it doesn't work like
Jaimee RogersHOST
3:51
A 1% or 2% cost might look insignificant from Canberra, but across thousands of transactions, week after week, it adds up.
Jaimee RogersHOST
4:01
And then look at what Labor MP Jerome Laxale posted on his Facebook.
Jaimee RogersHOST
4:06
He has called your struggles noise.
Jaimee RogersHOST
4:10
And you've just heard from the people running these businesses.
James WillisHOST
67:47
So it appears like already it is being passed on in other ways on overall prices.
James WillisHOST
67:53
Jerome Laxale is Labor's federal MP for Bennelong.
James WillisHOST
67:57
He's on the line for us this morning.
James WillisHOST
67:59
Jerome, good morning.
Mark LevyHOST
104:06
all because the government didn't take this fight directly to the banks.
Mark LevyHOST
104:10
And you may have heard Jerome Laxale speaking to James Willis this morning on the breakfast program, the Labor MP.
Mark LevyHOST
104:18
He was forced to defend the fact that some Aussies are paying more now than they were yesterday for everyday purchases.
Mark LevyHOST
104:24
This is a little of what Jerome Laxale had to say about it this morning.
Jerome LaxaleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
104:29
So 84% to 90% of businesses who do not surcharge will save money.
Jerome LaxaleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
104:34
And that adds up to $910 million a year for businesses because of lower interchange rates, right? So the businesses that do surcharge, some will incorporate that surcharge into their price.
Credlin

Credlin

Credlin | 1 October

Oct 1 · 1 Mention

Jamie RogersHOST
3:35
Well, if the cost doesn't disappear and businesses can't afford to absorb it, where exactly is the saving going to be for consumers? Whether it's called a surcharge or simply buried in the price, you're still paying.
Jamie RogersHOST
3:48
And this morning on 2GB, James Willis put that very point to Labor MP Jerome Laxale.
James WillisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:54
Let's be clear.
James WillisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:55
Why didn't you pick a fight with the banks properly instead of doing the real job, which would have been to say to the banks, "Stop charging this fee altogether." Small businesses have to wear this fee today.
James WillisHOST
0:40
So it appears like already it is being passed on in other ways on overall prices.
James WillisHOST
0:46
Jerome Laxale is Labor's federal MP for Bennelong.
James WillisHOST
0:51
He's on the line for us this morning.
James WillisHOST
0:52
Jerome, good morning.

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