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  • 6/6/2025
Original Broadcast Date: April 9th 2014

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00:30Thank you very much. Thank you.
00:35Hey, look, can I just say before we start that I love Australia.
00:39I think Australia is the greatest country in the Southern Hemisphere.
00:42Second to only Antarctica, really.
00:45But sometimes, just sometimes, our Australian-ness really gets on my goat.
00:49Now, case in point is our Prime Minister being overseas this week.
00:52Now, when Barack Obama goes overseas, he runs up the steps of the Air Force One there,
00:57and he gives a very confident wave. He ducks inside and eats some peanuts or something.
01:01I don't know. I'm not privy to that.
01:02But there's a sense of purpose there.
01:04There's a confidence of a man who knows what he has to do, and he wants to get on with it.
01:07Now, with Mr Abbott, though, he's sort of, you know, ambling along to the plane,
01:12like it's a minivan from the casino.
01:13And there's no Solis, the RFF guy, hanging there, carrying his own bags.
01:18And when he turns around, he waves.
01:20He's got the look on his face of somebody who's just forgotten his travel car medication.
01:24And this need Australian politicians have to show they're no better than the rest of us
01:28by riding in the front of the comm car.
01:31You know, no special treatment for him here as he gets inside.
01:34He's treated just like everybody else.
01:36But the thing is, you don't really want your Prime Minister to be like everybody else, do you?
01:43You want him to be prime ministerial.
01:45All this business about him staying in the police college at $110 a night
01:49instead of the $3,000 a week luxury home that was arranged for him
01:52while the Lodge and Kirribilli House was being refurbished,
01:55just so he can be like you and me.
01:57I mean, the Lodge, I think they're putting in a new carport.
02:00And with Kirribilli House, I believe they're doing about $120,000 worth of work,
02:04including a $13,000 rug.
02:07$13,000 rug sounds expensive, but I think Kevin Andrews looks fantastic.
02:12But the thing that really made me mad as hell this week
02:15wasn't our everyman prime minister.
02:16Oh, no, no, no.
02:17Something affecting the whole world.
02:19It was the threat to democracy.
02:22And the threat to democracy was pretty rampant this past week
02:25with the Taliban doing their very best to undermine the election process in Afghanistan
02:29and the AEC attempting much the same thing in Western Australia.
02:32The so-called Australian Electoral Commission apparently won't be counting 75 pre-poll votes
02:38from a retirement home because they were placed in a ballot box that wasn't fully secured.
02:43Seamus Hussey from the Western Australian office of the AEC,
02:46can you describe how a ballot box can become unsecured?
02:50There was a failure in one of the laminations of the bleached
02:53and thermomechanically pulped fibrous material components.
02:57Right.
02:58And were attempts made to re-secure it?
03:00Correct.
03:00With a pressure-sensitive synthetic rubber compound.
03:04Blue in colour?
03:06Correct.
03:07And also, I'm guessing, with the application of some adhesive-coated polymer-based film?
03:12Correct.
03:13But both of these procedures failed?
03:16Correct.
03:16After which the votes, unfortunately, were placed in a second box which was secure
03:23but was, unfortunately, in breach of procedure.
03:27Right.
03:27Because normal AEC procedure, I suppose, would be just to leave them in the unsecured box
03:30so they could fall out and be lost.
03:35Correct.
03:36So what's the status of the votes that were placed in the unsecured box?
03:40They are invalid and those people considered not to have voted.
03:44But these are elderly people in a retirement home.
03:46If they vote on a Monday and then on Wednesday you go back and tell them they haven't voted,
03:49you're messing with their minds.
03:50You could tip them over the edge into full-scale dementia.
03:54Well, they had already all voted for the Palmer United Party.
03:58Well, fair enough then.
03:59But congratulations to Clive Palmer, who may well have picked up a third Senate seat,
04:03making his a voice that's going to demand to be heard in this country.
04:07Look, I'm just talking about...
04:08Sorry, I'm going to interrupt you there.
04:09A proper report by who exactly?
04:11I don't want to be interrupted.
04:12Well, I'm sorry, but every now and then...
04:16Well, I'm sorry, why don't you shut up for a while and let me finish.
04:18Every now and then.
04:19Why don't you just keep quiet and let me finish what I'm saying.
04:22Every now and then.
04:23Come on, we'll have a fight if you want to.
04:24But why don't you just shut up while I can say what I want to say.
04:27Yeah, shut up, Jones.
04:30Clive's got important things to say, particularly about climate change.
04:33In New Zealand, they've got a fart tax because sheep give out the most meth that they're saying.
04:40So if we get rid of the carbon tax and start taxing farts instead, not sure what that'd be per head,
04:47but I imagine it'd be pretty substantial.
04:49Then a $123 billion black hole would be paid off in no time.
04:52Administratively, it'd be a little awkward having to put that information in our BAS statements every month,
04:57but I think as long as we kept the receipts and didn't have people trying to take advantage of the fart havens in the Cayman Islands,
05:04it should all work out well in the end.
05:08And congratulations to the Greens, too, who did well in the two-micro-party-preferred system over there in WA.
05:13In fact, the swing away from the Libs and the Labs was about the same,
05:17showing that both Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten have been equally effective in winning over opposition for each other.
05:22Personally, I'm proud to be living in a democracy where a man or woman, regardless of how many votes you get,
05:27can, through preference deals, hatched behind closed doors and motivated by spite,
05:32ascend to the highest office in the land.
05:34Well, the Senate, anyway.
05:36And there, look out for the interests of the tiny number of people that actually voted for you
05:40by forming a power block with other marginals or selling out and siding with the major parties
05:45who people decided not to vote for in the first bloodstream.
05:47Hello? What?
06:00Yes, yes, right.
06:01Yes, no, I didn't stand during the national anthem.
06:03I'm a Republican.
06:04Yeah, well, obviously, unless I get offered an I-hood.
06:08All right, then. Goodbye. Bye-bye.
06:12But why do we need new senators in Canberra when we've got a perfectly good old one going to waste at the ICAC hearings?
06:18Yes, Arthur Sinodinos has been giving evidence into the alleged corruption at Australia Water Holdings.
06:327.30 in late line double-team the story.
06:36Australian Water Holdings paid Arthur Sinodinos $200,000 a year to sit on its board and attend about nine annual meetings.
06:44The ICAC heard Arthur Sinodinos earned $200,000 a year as director for only 25 to 45 hours a year work.
06:55Now, on the grinning face of it, that appears to be a very generous salary, about $6,000 an hour, almost as much as his QC would be getting.
07:02But as Mr Sinodinos pointed out, those 45 hours don't include travel time to and from the city.
07:08Which, let's face it, if he'd used Military Road, would have probably added another 200 or 300 hours a year.
07:14But the senator knows the value of time and certainly didn't waste any of the courts by answering a lot of impertinent questions with fact-filled responses.
07:21For example, he said he didn't know anything about a $74,000 donation from Australian Water Holdings,
07:27of which he was Deputy Chairman, to the New South Wales Liberal Party, of which he was Treasurer.
07:32Well, perhaps that's why he's keen his travel time gets taken into account.
07:35Maybe he was travelling between the AWH and Liberal Party headquarters and missed the donation both being made and received.
07:40Then, there's his, let's call it, evidence, that when he was the President of the State Liberal Party,
07:47it never occurred to him to tell State Liberal Premier, while negotiating on behalf of AWH,
07:53that he'd get $20 million if he secured a partnership deal between AWH and the State Government.
07:58But credit to his account where credit's due.
08:00Emeritus Senator Sinadiros does hope that ICAC will find the truth, even if he can't remember it.
08:07As a public official in my own right, I know how important it is that we get the bottom of the truth.
08:12Mmm.
08:14Not just get to the truth, but get to the bottom of the truth.
08:17You know, because truth's not absolute.
08:19There are levels of truth.
08:21It's best to go way down to the bottom, where it's full of sediment and very hard to see exactly what's going on.
08:25You know, and I can only imagine how Joe Hockey feels about trying to put together the May budget
08:29without Assistant Treasurer Sinadinos' level of financial rigour.
08:35Delighted, presumably.
08:36But the big issue of this week is not how little someone remembered about how much money
08:41or how few people voted for which micro-parties,
08:44but how many people are going to be affected by the austerity measures
08:47to be announced by the Federal Government in just a few short weeks.
08:50Incidentally, the ABS figures are out this month, and I think that's pretty sloppy of them.
08:57You'd think that, given it's their job, they'd be accurate.
09:02Anyway, apparently the prediction is that within 40 years,
09:05Melbourne will overtake Sydney as Australia's largest city.
09:09It's a bit hard to comprehend, isn't it?
09:10Thankfully, Channel 7 News is on hand to clarify matters.
09:14Nick, what exactly does the new data tell us?
09:16Well, the ABS data tells us that Melbourne's population grew by 95,500 last year.
09:24OK, well, sir, that's about 100,000 people.
09:26Thank you very much indeed, Channel 7.
09:29What's that? There's more.
09:32Now, to put that number in perspective,
09:34if you tried to cram those people into the Eureka Tower,
09:37each apartment would have 173 people in it.
09:40Or at two to an apartment, that's 86 Eureka Towers.
09:44Why, I mean, it's a pity he didn't go on to say how many Olympic swimming pools
09:5086 Eureka Towers have fit in into the NCG,
09:52but I'm being finicky.
09:53Thank you very much indeed, Channel 7.
09:56Anyway, in the last week, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens
10:01and his board decided again not to do anything
10:03and leave interest rates where they are.
10:05And this is for the seventh time in a row.
10:07I mean, what are we paying them for?
10:09The economy seems to be looking after itself.
10:11So, fine, surely we can save ourselves a bit of green
10:13and send these guys home.
10:15Am I right, finance intern Jennifer Stolls?
10:18It's not quite as simple as all that, Sean.
10:22House prices are up,
10:23but employment growth is down,
10:25as are department store sales,
10:27as is consumer spending generally.
10:30And when you add this to soft employment growth
10:33and the fact that wages are rising less than the inflation rate,
10:37well, that spells trouble with a T...
10:38..with a capital raising T.
10:41Right, well, you're right, Jennifer.
10:50It's a lot more complicated than I thought.
10:56That's my mum.
10:57My sister's having a wedding rehearsal.
10:59Yeah, sure, sure, if you need to go.
11:03So, essentially, the RBA, Treasury and the Federal Government
11:14are playing an elaborate game of chicken with the economy.
11:17They hurtle towards each other,
11:18and the first one to blink loses.
11:20Don't blink and everything will be fine.
11:22At least that's how I interpret this commentator
11:24from the Housing Industry Association.
11:26We need to average around about 180,000 new dwellings a year.
11:33Oh, really? Tell me more.
11:35So we really need to get those policy settings right,
11:38those taxation settings, those obstacles to land supply.
11:43Oh, yes, and what's your next move?
11:46The next move will be up rather than down,
11:49but, in our view, not until 2015.
11:54Oh, God!
11:55Man.
11:56Man, he's good, this guy.
11:59But Joe Hockey has made it pretty clear
12:01that whether you're blue-collar or white-collar,
12:03you're still going to cop into the net come May.
12:05This is a call to arms for the nation.
12:07This is a call for all Australians to do the heavy lifting.
12:11Call to arms makes sense.
12:13You need arms, you can do some heavy lifting.
12:15But what are we lifting?
12:16Why is it so heavy?
12:17And where does he want us to put it?
12:18And why doesn't he use professional removalists?
12:21Everyone in Australia has to help
12:22to do the heavy lifting on the budget.
12:24Because if the burden falls on a few,
12:27the weight of that burden will crush them.
12:31Right, if we keep crushing people,
12:33the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
12:35is going to skyrocket.
12:36I mean, it's already in trouble, according to the Treasurer.
12:40The current structure of the NDIS is such
12:43that it's the equivalent of a plane
12:46being taken into the air half-built
12:49and still being built in the air.
12:53Right, I mean, how much worse
12:54can it get for our manufacturing industry?
12:56Now, even in analogies,
12:58we can't build something properly anymore.
13:02But the Coalition have helpfully given supporters
13:05a taste of things to come under the new budget
13:07by relieving them of $5,000 a head
13:09at a fundraising dinner in Perth.
13:11And it's not an elitist event
13:13where the big end of town gets the year of government.
13:15It's just as open to the ordinary man in the street,
13:17assuming that the ordinary man in the street
13:19robs one of the people going into the dinner
13:21of $5,000.
13:22But it's not all bad news.
13:24Social Services Minister Kevin...
13:26Kevin Andrews has announced
13:34that $115 million is being made available
13:37to manage homelessness.
13:39Now, that's obviously great,
13:41but I'm a little concerned about
13:42how some of that money's going to be spent.
13:45And later on in the programme,
13:47I speak to the Salvation Army
13:48about exactly what they mean by adult services.
13:53That's fascinating.
13:55I'm not saying the Salvation Army
13:57is changing its business model.
14:02But we will be providing customers
14:04with more than just a bed for the night.
14:06But of course, the big revenue raiser for the government
14:16is the imminent sale of Medibank private.
14:18But how do you raise public awareness
14:20about the fact you're getting rid of something
14:21while at the same time
14:22not losing faith with your customers?
14:24Well, that all depends
14:25on the willing manipulation of our minds
14:27by the people who make advertising
14:28and shows like Gruen.
14:32This year, I'm going to have more fun.
14:38I'm going to get outside more.
14:39And I'm going to smile more often.
14:41And it's easy to smile
14:44because only Medibank Extras cover
14:46gives everyone in our family
14:47two free dental check-ups a year.
14:49Hmm.
14:50Floor Noi Quimby, advertising guru
14:51at Beg, Borrow and Plagiarise.
14:53Why are men in so-called funny ads
14:56generally weird-looking and stupid
14:58and women attractive and smart?
15:00It's a holdover from the 1950s, Sean,
15:02when advertising pandered
15:04to the non-bread-winning
15:05stay-at-home, TV-watching woman,
15:07flattering her into thinking
15:08she wasn't eroding her self-esteem
15:10in a submissive orgy of forward pills,
15:12home duties and jejun sex with her husband.
15:15Yeah, but why are they spelling Medibank
15:17without an I?
15:18Are they sending it off one letter at a time?
15:19No, no, Sean.
15:20You see, the missing I is meant to be you.
15:27The missing I is all of us.
15:29The people on the beach
15:30stand in between the words Med and Bank
15:32and then it all comes together.
15:34It's actually a very clever ad.
15:37Yeah, for the person to be an I,
15:39wouldn't the head need to be detached
15:40to become the dot?
15:42You're being too literal, Sean.
15:44Its message is evocative to the end user
15:46because beach occupies a special place
15:48in Australia's cultural identity.
15:50It's the whole notion of the bronze...
15:52Is it meant to be some kind of safety message?
15:55Swim between the D and the B
15:56and avoid being ripped off?
15:58Uh, yeah.
16:00Yeah, that's it.
16:00Exactly.
16:02It's exactly the same logic that I used
16:04when I did the Bouget, Bouget ads.
16:07They were yours, were they?
16:10Yes, they were.
16:12Right.
16:12Must be better now.
16:23But what does all this mean
16:24for other government-run businesses
16:25like, say, Australia Post?
16:27Madiselle business reporter, Ferdie Buttle.
16:29That's right, Sean.
16:30And it was to answer just that very question
16:32that I went out earlier this week
16:34and taped this report.
16:35Great, and are we going to be seeing that report?
16:45Sure, if you like.
16:47Have you got one of those playing machines?
16:51I have to do everything myself.
16:53Excuse me.
17:13Wait!
17:14Who dares enter the forbidden control room of death?
17:18There is everybody.
17:19They'd be on a tea break.
17:20It's the middle of the show.
17:22I've got to play this piece.
17:23Wait, you know where the director is?
17:25I be the director.
17:27But you're blo-
17:27Follow!
17:29But isn't this the control-
17:30Shh!
17:31Follow!
17:36Follow!
17:37Yes, yes.
17:40This be a comedy sketch, yes?
17:42Yes, yeah, yeah, it is.
17:43Set-up's a bit long, isn't it?
17:45Well, hurry up!
17:47Isn't that a dishwasher?
17:48Shh!
17:50The regional suburb of Sponge is a sleepy, typical Aussie backwater,
18:03where its one post office is run by Inek Sleestack and his wife-slash-cousin, Beryl.
18:07It's a tough job, but as Inek says, someone's got to do it,
18:12so it may as well be him, as he's being paid for it.
18:14Chloris Webler represents Sponge's large elderly community,
18:19and she and her friends have mounted a letter-writing campaign to Malcolm Turnbull,
18:24urging him not to sell off their post office.
18:26Here we go.
18:29Providing non-postal services is also a service that eats into Inek's day,
18:33and he often brings work home.
18:35Sometimes I get tired when I'm sore.
18:36He hopes to one day get around to doing it.
18:38I'll get around to that on a minute.
18:40Yes, hello, Mrs Webler.
18:42The good news for Sponge is that Chloris Webler's letter-writing campaign has reaped dividends.
18:47Her stamp purchases alone have more than doubled Inek's turnover.
18:51Cindy!
18:52Plus, the form letter responses from the Minister's office has meant more mail for Inek to deliver.
18:57The increased workload means that the Sponge post office is more profitable
19:02and less likely to close in the lead-up to privatisation.
19:05But of course, for this rise in letter traffic to continue, the threat of closure needs to remain.
19:10But this will only happen if the post office is unprofitable.
19:14It puts Inek and his inbred wife-cousin in a difficult position.
19:18But would it be, I wonder, as difficult as this?
19:21Back to you, Sean.
19:23Yes, Tosh Greenslade there, pretending to be a reporter.
19:27Don't do that.
19:28Don't do that.
19:31Still to come!
19:32Success of Lego Movie inspires Network 10 to announce new Cuisenaire Rod miniseries.
19:40Art experts recommend former President Bush's paintings go under the hammer.
19:45And also maybe a steamroller and some landfill.
19:49And police rule out Warren Truss as person of interest.
19:53She's a super-smart 30-something single with a heart as big as her two left feet.
20:05Message to self.
20:06Get it together, girlfriend.
20:08But can she find love in a world of men who adore her?
20:12Excuse me.
20:13I believe you dropped this legal document.
20:16Oh, my bad.
20:18My God, you're gorgeous.
20:20I mean, I wonder what he's like in the sack.
20:24Oops!
20:25Tokes too much information.
20:27Step away from the hot neurosurgeon.
20:29But romance always finds a way of proving elusive for this emotionally unstable genius role model.
20:38Oh, this is crazy, Steve.
20:41I'm a judge.
20:42I'm supposed to be in court hearing that murder case.
20:45You leave me, Caitlin, and I'll kill you.
20:48Is he serious?
20:51Forced slapstick with a smile and an opposite sister who'll make you shake your head with laughter.
20:56Oh, Jesus, sis.
20:58What type of housemate are you?
21:00You're making more noise than a bag of nails in a washing machine exploding in the sky.
21:05And situations and dialogue that you're just not going to believe.
21:08Sorry, sis.
21:09I just wanted to totally borrow your Manolo Blahniks.
21:13Adolescent Problems, Middle-Aged World.
21:16Alleluia.
21:16From the people who watched Ally McBeal and Sea Change and the writers of As the Bell Rings.
21:22Confused Princess.
21:23Coming soon to ABC1.
21:26We're turning to our Prime Minister's trade mission now, where Mr Abbott has taken to the
21:33world stage in a walk-on role that saw him on Monday in Japan selling our beef as a sort
21:37of whale substitute.
21:39And he's now in China ignoring human rights violations.
21:43And I'm talking about ours.
21:45And it's his very overseasness which I think makes this one news from countries that aren't
21:50Australian.
21:51Well, the latest big trade agreement Mr Abbott signed was in South Korea, which will now
21:59make it easier for South Korea to sell us all the products that were previously made in
22:02Australia.
22:03Philip Morris, for example, has decided to abandon its Australian tobacco plant.
22:08Amazing.
22:08They only use one.
22:09Isn't that fascinating?
22:09Shifting their manufacturing operations to the lucky East Asian Republic.
22:16An actual news reporter tells us why.
22:19Being forced to use slower burning paper affected sales overseas.
22:23Hmm.
22:24Yeah, it's one of the drawbacks of the industry, I guess.
22:25But like fellow atmosphere polluter BP, whose Bulwur Island refinery is also closing down
22:35so production can move offshore, employees will be looked after.
22:39We are very committed to supporting our employees throughout this transition, treating them fairly
22:44and with respect.
22:46So, too, Philip Morris employees will not be left out on their own.
22:49They will each receive a smoker's companion to keep them company.
22:52It's nice that two ailing manufacturing giants are looking after their employees, isn't
22:58it, Biff?
22:59Don't you think?
23:00That's right, Sean.
23:01And it's not often that smoking and fuel refineries go together.
23:05For God's sakes, Biff, put that cigarette out.
23:07You're right in front of a picture of a refinery.
23:09Are you insane?
23:15Mmm, smooth.
23:18Remember, kids, it's your choice.
23:20But it's good you're looking after the workers, big tobacco spin doctor Farahuma de Botolos.
23:25Sean, Philip Morris is a tobacco giant, despite all the talk over the years that smoking stunts
23:30your growth.
23:31Now, we've offered our people a plainly wrapped redundancy package, despite there being no
23:37link between sacked Philip Morris workers and unemployment.
23:41I mean, there was a time when we were hiring 30 a day and there was never a problem.
23:44To suggest there's a correlation between us giving them jobs and them not having jobs
23:50when we closed the factory is not supported by the evidence.
23:53Thank you very much Farahuma.
23:55Bad news, though, for Boeing, too, with one quarter of the workers at its Port Melbourne
23:59factory to lose their jobs by the end of the year.
24:01Now, I'm worried about this factory closing because it makes wings for Boeing aircraft.
24:06And I'm no aero physicist, but I'm pretty sure that a plane without wings is just a very
24:11fast bus.
24:11But it's not just because times are tough and companies are losing money that businesses
24:17are moving offshore.
24:18Wife of Labour former PM Therese Reign has sold her job seeker company Ingeus to a US
24:24firm for $150 million.
24:26So it's not just Australian jobs going overseas.
24:28Now it's companies whose job it is to find jobs that are going overseas.
24:31Mind you, that's where they are.
24:33So fair enough, I guess.
24:35And finally, in actual overseas news, Vladimir Putin has officially divorced his wife,
24:40Ludmilla, after more than 30 years of marriage.
24:43The breakup of the former Soviet Union was confirmed after a brief but necessary invasion
24:49of privacy by press, immediately following the Russian president's annexation of a much
24:53younger former Olympic gymnast, who sadly was unavailable for comedy.
25:02But from rhythmic gymnastics to sport now, and live from the still incomplete Macarena
25:07stadium in Rio, where even now, nothing is happening for another two months.
25:11And Maggie, the AFL has introduced new rules for underage football, including not keeping
25:16scores in order to focus more on participation rather than winning.
25:19That's nice, isn't it?
25:20It's a farce, Sean.
25:21A total farce.
25:22They've gone too far.
25:23If they want their kids to participate in football without the experience of winning,
25:27all they have to do is follow the demons.
25:28So, um, so no premiership points, no finals, no ladders, no scores or match results, no
25:35names of players published at all?
25:37I know.
25:37Since when did the AFL become part of Operation Sovereign Borders?
25:41I mean, your kid comes home on Saturday morning, how'd footy go, Timmy?
25:44Did you play well?
25:45Kick a goal?
25:46Can't tell you, Mum.
25:47It's an AFL operational matter.
25:50No best and fairest awards either, Max.
25:52Is that something that could be extended to the AFL?
25:54Well, it'd mean we wouldn't have to sit through the brown low.
25:56I mean, what a waste of broadcasting bandwidth that is.
26:01They might as well take their cameras down to an RSL and shoot the bingo.
26:05No red carpet ceremony at an RSL?
26:08No players' wives in their beautiful gowns showing everybody their spray-tanned backs?
26:14Yeah.
26:15And I guess it's important for kids to learn how important it is that we have winners
26:19and losers.
26:20They're not just kids, Sean.
26:21The whole family.
26:22It's a very popular show.
26:24Why Democrat?
26:28And not coming up because we've run out of the burning building.
26:32Wales, safe and sound thanks to Australia.
26:36I'm delighted by this result.
26:38It's great for these extraordinary creatures of the deep.
26:42And Clive Palmer celebrates as only he can after WA half-senate election.
26:48Well, finally, can I ask for a bit more respect for the pontiff?
26:54He's the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, for heaven's sake.
26:57Last week, in an exchange of gifts with Barack Obama, the Pope gave the President a copy of the Papal Mission Statement on Poverty.
27:04What did Mr. Obama give him in return?
27:06These, I think, are parents.
27:07Then, a few days ago, Pope Francis received Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
27:14He gave them a lapis lazuli orb with a cross, a copy of a 17th century papal decree recognising the sainthood of Edward the Confessor,
27:21and three papal medals in gold, silver and bronze.
27:24And in return, they gave him chutney, a dozen eggs and a bottle of cloth.
27:30The Pope Christ's representative on this earth gives these people exquisite, historical, valuable mementos,
27:37and the President of the United States and the head of the British Royal Family both pull over at the IGA on the way to the Vatican
27:43and get him some groceries.
27:45Disgusting.
27:45Goodbye.
27:46Jar, baby.