Oct 11, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
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Would I be correct in the fact that Labor having dragged Jacinda out for a promo video, they still haven't read the room of the past and the shambles it ended? And not a bad question.
I knew a few of you would start texting on that.
Before we get to that, um, suggestion this morning, I asked the Prime Minister early on about whether he mishandled the billionaire question.
Well, as I d- I thought I said I, we don't support everyone being the same, which is what the communist approach is, which is an equality of outcome at the end of your life.
So on the telly again here.
I don't believe at the end of our lives all of us should be the same, but what I do fundamentally believe in is an equality of opportunity.
And another go.
Yeah, no, I f- uh, with the... 'Cause he got cut off, that's why we've cut the thing off.
The, the...
I s- yeah, no, I still think, I was wondering if I over, over-rigged it.
I, I don't think so.
He, he sounded to me like a bloke who was trying to make excuses, and the answer really was, "Why would it be immoral?" Or words to that effect.
I was just interested in his answer today.
He said, "Did I mess it up?" I think he did, but there you go.
Uh, as for Jacinda Ardern, the alternative that, yeah, maybe they read the room, maybe they don't.
They'll be reading the room in the sense that, um, she's a rock star, we all love her, and we can't wait to hear from her.
The fact that she's a multimillionaire, God forbid she's successful financially, and has bought a flash house in a flash part of Sydney, and doesn't wanna be back in the country and just dips her toe back in periodically might, might sort of trigger you.
But I would argue it's potentially desperate, and you only deliberately and overtly bring out somebody like that when you're second-guessing how things are going on the campaign, would be my read.
And I note this morning, I can't...
Was it Andrew Campbell, guy from Hell? It is.
Andrew Campbell, who you won't have heard of, but he's, he's a guy who worked in Jacinda Ardern's office.
Would I be correct in the fact that Labor having dragged Jacinda out for a promo video, they still haven't read the room of the past and the shambles it ended? And not a bad question.
I knew a few of you would start texting on that.
Before we get to that, um, suggestion this morning, I asked the Prime Minister early on about whether he mishandled the billionaire question.
Well, as I d- I thought I said I, we don't support everyone being the same, which is what the communist approach is, which is an equality of outcome at the end of your life.
So on the telly again here.
I don't believe at the end of our lives all of us should be the same, but what I do fundamentally believe in is an equality of opportunity.
And another go.
Yeah, no, I f- uh, with the... 'Cause he got cut off, that's why we've cut the thing off.
The, the...
I s- yeah, no, I still think, I was wondering if I over, over-rigged it.
I, I don't think so.
He, he sounded to me like a bloke who was trying to make excuses, and the answer really was, "Why would it be immoral?" Or words to that effect.
I was just interested in his answer today.
He said, "Did I mess it up?" I think he did, but there you go.
Uh, as for Jacinda Ardern, the alternative that, yeah, maybe they read the room, maybe they don't.
They'll be reading the room in the sense that, um, she's a rock star, we all love her, and we can't wait to hear from her.
The fact that she's a multimillionaire, God forbid she's successful financially, and has bought a flash house in a flash part of Sydney, and doesn't wanna be back in the country and just dips her toe back in periodically might, might sort of trigger you.
But I would argue it's potentially desperate, and you only deliberately and overtly bring out somebody like that when you're second-guessing how things are going on the campaign, would be my read.
And I note this morning, I can't...
Was it Andrew Campbell, guy from Hell? It is.
Andrew Campbell, who you won't have heard of, but he's, he's a guy who worked in Jacinda Ardern's office.
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