The Australian is next month and the polls are showing Albanese's Labor out in front.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton is scrapping his scheme that meant Canberra civil servants couldn't work from home if he was elected, after it was criticised by Labor.
Anthony Albanese has said anyone with solar power will get $4000 towards the cost of a battery. But what's the catch?
Australian Correspondent Steve Price talks to Mike Hosking about everything that's happened in the lead up to the election.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let us cross the Tasman ste prices with us. Morning mate.
Hey there this or these two poles there seems to
be and I think this must add to the other
poles that there seems to be a theme elbow called
the vote. People sobered up, went right? Who am I
actually supporting? The move was on to Labor And he's
traveling nicely? Is that fair?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well? Yes? Or is Peter Dutton traveling poorly? Would be
the other way to look at it. I mean people
are still not yet fully engaged. I mean we kid ourselves.
People read the Australian and News poll like you and
I do, or red Bridge in the other news the
tablet papers, but they're not really that engaged. And this
is a particularly interesting election. Just quickly to the Newspoll result.
(00:42):
It now has Labor ahead fifty two forty eight two
party preferred. The coalition's primary vote is back where it
was when it lost the last election in twenty twenty two,
giving Labor a one seat majority. So it means nothing's
really changed. So if you had that the elections weekend,
Labor would probably get back in, maybe even with a majority.
(01:03):
But the interesting thing about this election is there's four
weeks to go, but there's only two clear weeks. You've
got Easter followed by Anzac Day. Now our Anzac Day
obviously is on the twenty fifth of April, so you've
got Good Friday, and then you head into the week
that had Easter Monday, with Anzac Day at the bottom
end of that. School holidays are on, most people are
(01:26):
taking and you'll leave to turn that into a week off.
So no one's talking about politics for two of the
last four weeks. So Peter Dunton really has one real
chance this week and the last week of the campaign
to turn people's views around.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm just not convinced that him flip flopping on working
from home give scenes a level of reassurance he knows
what he's doing though, does it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
No, it doesn't that it gives a sense of weakness.
I mean, this is the scheme that the coalition announced
a few weeks back where and it was supposed to
be aimed purely and squarely at Cambra public servants. Now
Albertezi governments employed an extra thirty six thousand public servants
since they've been in the office. And what Peter Dutton
was saying, if you're a camera public servant. If I
(02:09):
win the election, you will need to go back to
the office and not work from home. And he said
further than that that he was going to cut the
size of the public service. What the Labor Party have
cleverly been doing is saying, oh, Peter Dutton's coming for
any working wife who a housewife who works from home,
and women were the ones that were seen to be
the targets that you know, they've got a couple of
(02:31):
young children, they've got a job that's able to be
done from home and they're very happy doing that post COVID. Well,
Peter Dutton never intended it to be that target. So
what he did yesterday and he'll reiterate that today, is
he's going to scrap the scheme. He's going to say, oh, well,
you know, we got that wrong move on. Nothing to
see here, see you later. It just shows a bit
(02:51):
of backfooting and a bit of weakness. Weakness, I believe,
and I think the policy in its original form just
Mike wasn't properly explained and he should have stuck with it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yep, did right that. I was watching the footage over
the weekend, So he's kicking a ball around. God, it
must be boring being a politician. So I'm watching the park.
He's just going back and forward with his kid, back
and forth, back and forth. Anyway, kicks it and hits
the cameraman on the head and suddenly there's blood galore.
And was that widely publicized? And who won that? Did
we feel sorry for the cameraman? Was that just life?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well? Everywhere? It was publicized everywhere. I mean the problem
for Peter Dutt is he's a Queenslander and he's trying
to play a stratum's football. He had no clue how
to kick it or what to do with it. I mean,
if you were a media advisor these people, you'd say,
don't hold babies, don't hold footballs, don't kick things, don't
try and be a netballer. Just do your buddy job
(03:42):
and leave that to everyone else.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, exactly. Of course, Morrison famously tackled the kid. By
the way, this thing that elbows on about batteries and
solar power. So solar power, you got a whole different
scenario in Australia than we do in New Zealand because
you've got sunshine, more sunshine than I get. All of that.
But a battery is a bloody expen thing to contemplate.
How do you sell that to a wider public?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Interesting you say that because when you look at this
policy with more details. So Antony Albinezi comes out of
the weekend says, everybody who's got solar system on their roof,
if we win the election come July, I'll give you
four thousand dollars toward the cost of a battery to
strap to the side of your house. Everyone goes, wow,
that's a good idea. Thank fabulous. I might be up
(04:24):
for that. When you look at the detail, as columnists
have started to do today, the average cost of a
solar battery in Australia on a property, your private property
is about nine and a half thousand dollars. So you've
got four you've got to then come up with another five.
And someone's calculated today that if you put solar panels
(04:45):
and a battery on from the start today, you're probably
going to take you something like nine years to pay
that off to get in the wholesale benefit out of
what you've done anyway, And look, I just think this
will flow through to some people. But as my great
friend Andrew Bolt said in the column this morning. He said,
(05:06):
it's basically thet giving the rich the ability to have
batteries and solar on the house and the working poor
have no possibility of ever doing it exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And the other thing is that you'll be similar but
in New Zealand, the average length of a home ownership
for seven years. So you put your battery and your
solar on and then you sell your house and you've
gained literally nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, he's not packing it up and putting it in
the removal truck, are't you no?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Exactly? That land bridge thing, by the way, just quickly
in Port of Darwin is thatt the is it a
Chinese thing that they've stripped them of their lease? Is
that an anti China move that we've seen.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, it's one hundred year lease that should never have
been written. It was written by the state government at
the time. It was a labor Northern Territory commissioned government
and Dunton came out on Friday and said that he
would tear it up if he were elected. Anthony Albani's
in said he did the same thing. It matters to Australians,
we don't and it matters to our American allies. By
(06:06):
the way, no one's ever been comfortable with the fact
that China has control over the port nearest to China
on the north coast of Australia.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The markets when they open this morning, how braced are you?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They'll collapse? I like, what Wall Street did you know?
Everyone with superannuations just holding their breath and saying to
their financial advisors, don't bring me for the next eight years.
I want to know, because it'll be a bloodbath.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That woud amain exactly all right? Might go well? Catch
up on Wednesday, appreciate very much. The The A six
was down just one hundred and seventy seven, about two
and a half two and a half percent on Friday.
They did worse than we did. But they're going to
be whacked the same way. We're going to be whacked
this morning as well.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
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Let us cross the Tasman ste prices with us. Morning mate.
Hey there this or these two poles there seems to
be and I think this must add to the other
poles that there seems to be a theme elbow called
the vote. People sobered up, went right? Who am I
actually supporting? The move was on to Labor And he's
traveling nicely? Is that fair?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well? Yes? Or is Peter Dutton traveling poorly? Would be
the other way to look at it. I mean people
are still not yet fully engaged. I mean we kid ourselves.
People read the Australian and News poll like you and
I do, or red Bridge in the other news the
tablet papers, but they're not really that engaged. And this
is a particularly interesting election. Just quickly to the Newspoll result.
(00:42):
It now has Labor ahead fifty two forty eight two
party preferred. The coalition's primary vote is back where it
was when it lost the last election in twenty twenty two,
giving Labor a one seat majority. So it means nothing's
really changed. So if you had that the elections weekend,
Labor would probably get back in, maybe even with a majority.
(01:03):
But the interesting thing about this election is there's four
weeks to go, but there's only two clear weeks. You've
got Easter followed by Anzac Day. Now our Anzac Day
obviously is on the twenty fifth of April, so you've
got Good Friday, and then you head into the week
that had Easter Monday, with Anzac Day at the bottom
end of that. School holidays are on, most people are
(01:26):
taking and you'll leave to turn that into a week off.
So no one's talking about politics for two of the
last four weeks. So Peter Dunton really has one real
chance this week and the last week of the campaign
to turn people's views around.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm just not convinced that him flip flopping on working
from home give scenes a level of reassurance he knows
what he's doing though, does it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
No, it doesn't that it gives a sense of weakness.
I mean, this is the scheme that the coalition announced
a few weeks back where and it was supposed to
be aimed purely and squarely at Cambra public servants. Now
Albertezi governments employed an extra thirty six thousand public servants
since they've been in the office. And what Peter Dutton
was saying, if you're a camera public servant. If I
(02:09):
win the election, you will need to go back to
the office and not work from home. And he said
further than that that he was going to cut the
size of the public service. What the Labor Party have
cleverly been doing is saying, oh, Peter Dutton's coming for
any working wife who a housewife who works from home,
and women were the ones that were seen to be
the targets that you know, they've got a couple of
(02:31):
young children, they've got a job that's able to be
done from home and they're very happy doing that post COVID. Well,
Peter Dutton never intended it to be that target. So
what he did yesterday and he'll reiterate that today, is
he's going to scrap the scheme. He's going to say, oh, well,
you know, we got that wrong move on. Nothing to
see here, see you later. It just shows a bit
(02:51):
of backfooting and a bit of weakness. Weakness, I believe,
and I think the policy in its original form just
Mike wasn't properly explained and he should have stuck with it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yep, did right that. I was watching the footage over
the weekend, So he's kicking a ball around. God, it
must be boring being a politician. So I'm watching the park.
He's just going back and forward with his kid, back
and forth, back and forth. Anyway, kicks it and hits
the cameraman on the head and suddenly there's blood galore.
And was that widely publicized? And who won that? Did
we feel sorry for the cameraman? Was that just life?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well? Everywhere? It was publicized everywhere. I mean the problem
for Peter Dutt is he's a Queenslander and he's trying
to play a stratum's football. He had no clue how
to kick it or what to do with it. I mean,
if you were a media advisor these people, you'd say,
don't hold babies, don't hold footballs, don't kick things, don't
try and be a netballer. Just do your buddy job
(03:42):
and leave that to everyone else.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, exactly. Of course, Morrison famously tackled the kid. By
the way, this thing that elbows on about batteries and
solar power. So solar power, you got a whole different
scenario in Australia than we do in New Zealand because
you've got sunshine, more sunshine than I get. All of that.
But a battery is a bloody expen thing to contemplate.
How do you sell that to a wider public?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Interesting you say that because when you look at this
policy with more details. So Antony Albinezi comes out of
the weekend says, everybody who's got solar system on their roof,
if we win the election come July, I'll give you
four thousand dollars toward the cost of a battery to
strap to the side of your house. Everyone goes, wow,
that's a good idea. Thank fabulous. I might be up
(04:24):
for that. When you look at the detail, as columnists
have started to do today, the average cost of a
solar battery in Australia on a property, your private property
is about nine and a half thousand dollars. So you've
got four you've got to then come up with another five.
And someone's calculated today that if you put solar panels
(04:45):
and a battery on from the start today, you're probably
going to take you something like nine years to pay
that off to get in the wholesale benefit out of
what you've done anyway, And look, I just think this
will flow through to some people. But as my great
friend Andrew Bolt said in the column this morning. He said,
(05:06):
it's basically thet giving the rich the ability to have
batteries and solar on the house and the working poor
have no possibility of ever doing it exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And the other thing is that you'll be similar but
in New Zealand, the average length of a home ownership
for seven years. So you put your battery and your
solar on and then you sell your house and you've
gained literally nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, he's not packing it up and putting it in
the removal truck, are't you no?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Exactly? That land bridge thing, by the way, just quickly
in Port of Darwin is thatt the is it a
Chinese thing that they've stripped them of their lease? Is
that an anti China move that we've seen.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, it's one hundred year lease that should never have
been written. It was written by the state government at
the time. It was a labor Northern Territory commissioned government
and Dunton came out on Friday and said that he
would tear it up if he were elected. Anthony Albani's
in said he did the same thing. It matters to Australians,
we don't and it matters to our American allies. By
(06:06):
the way, no one's ever been comfortable with the fact
that China has control over the port nearest to China
on the north coast of Australia.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The markets when they open this morning, how braced are you?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They'll collapse? I like, what Wall Street did you know?
Everyone with superannuations just holding their breath and saying to
their financial advisors, don't bring me for the next eight years.
I want to know, because it'll be a bloodbath.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That woud amain exactly all right? Might go well? Catch
up on Wednesday, appreciate very much. The The A six
was down just one hundred and seventy seven, about two
and a half two and a half percent on Friday.
They did worse than we did. But they're going to
be whacked the same way. We're going to be whacked
this morning as well.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news Talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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