National Cabinet

This is Tamsin Green with your News 24 update.

Victoria opposition leader Jess Wilson is pledging to confront the prime minister at national cabinet if she is elected as premier.

She's accusing Ben Carroll of failing to defend the state's interests at the federal level.

The Victorian Liberal Party leader is vowing to work with premiers across the party line.

Her election to the office could mean the three biggest states forming a united front against Canberra at national cabinet.

One Nation MP David Farley is ruling out a potential defection to Labour.

The speculation arose after Anthony Albanese offered Mr Farley an additional staffer despite an ongoing dispute with One Nation over the issue.

That hasn't happened here.

Now, of course, it's not to say it won't, but it is to say that, you know, just going back to the point I was making before, when Australia has a Chinese-Australian prime minister, we've had a half-Chinese-Australian foreign minister, but when that becomes not an exception but something that's sort of normal, when we really look, when an Australian cabinet National Cabinet looks to the world like a truly multiracial, multicultural thing, then I think it's going to be easier for us to make our way in the Asia that we're heading into.

But of course, in the process, we're going to become a different country.

The thought that what Australia requires is that immigrants come here and then accept Australia as it is and whatever it is we call Australian values.

Also, Alexander Downer on Trump and Putin will check in on Paris and on Prince Harry.

Plus, the National Cabinet returns with Tim and Mark.

And, yes, Mark's been in the news again.

Let's get into it.

On the other side, we'll be catching up with Tim and Mark.

Mark has been in the news again.

Let's get into the National Cabinet.

We're joined by The Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair and One Nation Victoria candidate Mark Nicholson.

Plus, Alexander Downer on the need for economic rationalism.

And the national cabinet returns with Mark and Tim on sending Daniel Andrews to jail.

Let's get cracking.

[whoosh] You have to wonder about the self-awareness of the Albanese Labor government, don't you? They either have no idea about their own inconsistencies and hypocrisy, or they just don't care.

I won't bother asking him about, uh, what's happening in the shadow cabinet, but, uh, Jonathan Duniam, the current Home Affairs shadow minister, is retiring at the next election.

Let's hope, uh, Angus Taylor puts Andrew Hastie back into that portfolio.

After this break, I'll be back with Mark and Tim for the National Cabinet.

[upbeat music] Okay.