Premier

I know the prime minister's going to be in Alberta.

You had Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith, um, with her final message, her final pitch for a remain vote and for a yes on those other nine questions, and urging Albertans to get out and vote.

And clearly a lot already have.

Overwhelming demand for, for the advance ballot, the mail-in ballot.

But I think they're gonna kick around and, uh, be miserable and try and get in the way and make a lot more noise than substance.

Right.

Uh, there, there are, of course, other questions on the ballot, and I think, you know, the Premier has tried to take this idea of, well, you want to send Ottawa a message, here's nine other ways in which you can do so, and these questions around immigration and constitutional reform.

Uh, this has been overshadowed clearly by the, the separation question.

And frankly, I don't even ask questions anymore.

Let's just get to the meat and potatoes of what Premier Doug Ford had to say.

First off, I'm going to play a little bit of his speech.

Next month

Two upgrades in a row, right? Thanks to Peter's leadership.

Wow, that was a long answer.

I haven't been able to fact check all of the things that the Premier said there, but I'll take him at his word that things are going great.

Doug Ford painting a rosy picture of how strong Canada is, how great we're doing.

Hi, I'm the Australian Financial Review's Editor-in-Chief, Cosima Marriner.

In this episode of AFR Interviews, we speak with Victorian Premier, Ben Carroll.

He's only held the top job since July, but he's already been quick to distance himself from his predecessors, Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allen.

However, he's inherited a government plagued with integrity issues, rising crime rates and growing public debt.

Great to be here, Samaya.

Thank you.

In your first press conference after becoming Premier, you said you weren't Daniel Andrews or Justin Trellin.

Why was it important for you to say that first?

We have a very special guest in the studio.

He's the Premier of Victoria.

Ben Carroll, good morning to you.

Good morning, Tom.

So I think building Airport Rail Link and making sure it has additional market segments does give you that opportunity.

Whereas Liberal policy, having a just an express line, will take out that opportunity and the opportunity for people living in the Melbourne's northwest that work at the airport to get the train line to the airport.

Now, the Premier will take calls in a few minutes, one double three six nine three if you'd like to ask Ben Carroll a question yourself.

Um, bail laws.

He's living in this beautiful multi, multimillion-dollar home, and there's a lot of secrecy surrounding this.

And the reason why it is sort of so interesting is that the people who own this home are pretty big Labor donors and had a fair bit of involvement in the property construction sector in the time where Mr. Andrews was the Premier of Victoria.

The house's owners are Labor donors, but some of those gifts were made as something called split donations, where various entities are used to hand over money.

It's not illegal, but the practice does create a lack of transparency, according to the state's anti-corruption watchdog, IBAC.

I mean, the other thing to say is, you know, in defense of Andrews, he probably doesn't care what people think about him.

He doesn't seem to be interested in legacy building in the way that pretty much all former leaders are.

You know, he's currently having his legacy dismantled by the current Premier, Ben Carroll, whether it's scaling back the suburban railway, whether it's canceling a statue of Andrews, whether it's Carroll really being scathing of, of Andrew's conduct when he was doing a pay deal with the United Firefighters Union, which was subject of quite a critical IBAC report at the anti-corruption body a few months ago.

So, you know, he, he doesn't seem to, you know, at least publicly, he, he's not entering the, the debate in any way like you see former leaders normally do if their legacy is being tarnished or dismantled.

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Pressure is mounting on the New South Wales Premier.

Chris Minns is being urged to shut down two pro-Palestine vigils planned for October 7.

But after months of myself and all of you making sure that Katie's name and story is not forgotten, while urging New South Wales Police to take this seriously, we are now finally getting somewhere.

The police have finally responded to me, and earlier this week, I spoke to Chris Minns, the Premier of New South Wales here in Sydney, about Katie, and he has publicly agreed to look into this.

But before I get to that, and how it happened and what I said to the premier, I need to take you on the journey of how I even got to have that communication and my recent communication with the police.

And yeah, warning that this story I'm gonna take you on now, this journey, will once again infuriate you all like it has me, and it proves what I feel I've known all along, and that is that New South Wales Police care more about their own PR than they do about actually protecting and helping people.

And yeah, then when I point out all the errors in that statement, oh, nope, back to silence.

The day after I received that email from the police, I then quickly recorded what were the next two episodes of this podcast focusing on Katie's American ex-husband and the human trafficking angle, and I did them very quickly because I was then leaving Australia on a trip for just over a week.

And then as soon as I was back, literally my very first stop as I got back to Sydney was Kyle's show, Kyle Sandilands Live, to finally bring all of his listeners across this story, which is what then led to my chat with New South Wales Premier Chris Minns.

But first, before that, Kyle.