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  • 6/9/2025
Original Broadcast Date: March 4th 2015

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00:00Hang on mate, hang on!
00:09What is it, Blue?
00:10They stopped shooting.
00:12Give us your specs for Rafa Moe.
00:22He's waving a white flag.
00:24I wouldn't trust him, Blue.
00:26Watch out there, you square-head-un bastard, eh?
00:32Is there anyone over there who speaks English?
00:35We're the Third Australian Division, mate.
00:37Oh, that explains it.
00:39Well, we were all here just wondering whether you fellows wanted to perhaps suspend hostilities temporarily
00:45and maybe play a little game of football.
00:53Who gets the rights?
00:55What?
00:56Naming rights.
00:57Sponsorship.
00:58Merch.
01:01Merch?
01:02What is das Merch?
01:04Tell him, we go 50-50 on the broadcasting rights once we sell them to the newsreel companies.
01:08But any venue revenue generated from advertising or food sales in no man's land goes to whoever
01:14wins the territory once we start fighting again.
01:16I better write this down.
01:18All signed.
01:19Did you initial the amendments we made to the clause on sub-licensing of highlights packages?
01:28Yes.
01:29And we get 75% of all exploitation of IP?
01:32Yes.
01:33Yes.
01:34We have agreed to all your demands.
01:35We are on complete accord on all aspects.
01:37Every single detail pertaining to the match and all matches to be played in the future
01:41and broadcast on all and future devices under the contract has been confirmed and reconfirmed
01:45down to the last detail.
01:47Now, may we please play football?
01:52What are we waiting for?
01:53Ich bin so verrochte wie in der Höhle!
02:031, 2, 3, 4!
02:232, 3, 4!
02:243, 4!
02:251, 2, 3!
02:262, 4!
02:273, 4!
02:283, 5!
02:293, 4!
02:304!
02:311, 2, 3!
02:323!
02:334!
02:345!
02:354!
02:365!
02:371, 2, 3!
02:38Thank you very much!
02:39Thank you!
02:40Now, I know this whole leadership spill thing is very annoying.
02:45Every day there it is again.
02:46Like an unanswered LinkedIn request.
02:49But there's a very sound principle in business, though, that applies just as much as
02:53politics in my view and that is if you're worried about your job security the best thing to do is
02:57go on a holiday. The PM took some time off to visit New Zealand and catch up with some old
03:03friends and the deputy leader went along as well to catch up on some sleep. Actually it's very
03:08fortunate she did it during Mr Abbott's speech because if she tried it the day before when the
03:12New Zealand Prime Minister was speaking, get some guts and join the right side. I think she would
03:19have found it very difficult. Anyway I think the trip was a very canny move by our PM in the
03:25circumstances. Goes over there, sorts out a joint task force to the Middle East and comes back to
03:29announce a real crowd pleaser. Hey everyone we're putting the old band back together. Plus we're
03:35going to drop the $5 copayment. So popularity as preferred PM surges to 39% leadership crisis
03:42averted. Now if the media though would just stop hyperventilating all this Canberra insider nonsense
03:48and these Canberra insiders stop ventilating all this hype to the media, we could get on with
03:52the job of being governed in a good way. But no, no, no, no. It seems that every half-baked
03:58journalist in this country has a Liberal Party contact feeding them gossip.
04:02Excuse me.
04:04Hello? No, no, no, not now Corey, I'm doing the show.
04:09Really? Oh.
04:12Alright, thank you very much indeed. Alright, bye-bye.
04:14No, no, no, you hang up first.
04:18Okay, bye.
04:20But one thing that got me mad as hell this week was something that looks like being the
04:24last straw in the leadership spilled milkshake.
04:29Yes, the Human Rights Commission's report into children in detention was released and
04:33it's fair to say that the reviews have been mixed. Political stitch up, partisan and I'm
04:39finna spaz on anybody now. Why God keep doing this to me? He know what I want.
04:44Alright, just some of the comments quoted on the back cover.
04:48But the allegations of bias coming from the government centre on the timing of the report.
04:53Why now? Why not when Labor could have been shat on for it?
04:55The government believes it's essentially a historical document.
05:00To a large extent, the report is redundant.
05:03It's a good point. It all happened in the past. Like the home insulation scheme. Certainly
05:07not worth conducting an inquiry into.
05:10The government sees the President, Professor Triggs, and the Commission itself as hopelessly
05:14tainted. And as Attorney General George Brandis said...
05:17The Human Rights Commission has to be like Caesar's wife.
05:25Dead and buried.
05:28Senior stylist and feng shui facilitator in the Attorney General's Department, Dramella Burt.
05:32What is the Human Rights Commission report actually about?
05:35Look, I know journalists are fascinated by things like what reports actually say.
05:39But the real issue here is whether the Coalition's being stitched up by the nutty Professor, and
05:45we are.
05:46But surely the report will be more damning of Labor, given it covers more of their term
05:50of office.
05:50Look, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be distracted by side issues like the actual content of the
05:55report. People aren't interested in this Canva insider stuff. They're interested in whether
05:58we're being made to look bad.
06:00Have you read the report?
06:01No. And I don't intend to, because it's so biased.
06:04Well, how do you know?
06:05Because the Chairman of the Senate hearing into the report, Ian McDonnell, told me.
06:08This Ian McDonnell?
06:11I haven't bothered to read the report, because I think it's partisan.
06:16That's him.
06:19So given that neither you nor the person who told you the report is biased have read the
06:23report, what's your best guess as to why it's biased?
06:25Well, it's biased, because the Professor waited until we'd won government before launching the
06:30inquiry.
06:31Right, so if the inquiry had been conducted when Labor was in government and there were nearly
06:342,000 children in detention, it wouldn't have been biased.
06:36That's right.
06:38But if she'd done the inquiry then, then there'd be no mention of how your government, to its
06:42credit, had dramatically reduced the numbers subsequently.
06:45Which would be just typical of her.
06:47There remains then, though, the question for the front bench.
07:00There remains, though, then, the question for the front bench.
07:03And the AFP are looking into this.
07:05And it's whether an inducement was offered to Professor Triggs to resign from the Human Rights
07:09Commission.
07:09Now, the Prime Minister has been pretty clear on this.
07:12She has not been asked to resign.
07:15No inducement has been offered.
07:18All right, so no inducement.
07:20But was she offered a job?
07:22There was no job offer made to the President of the Human Rights Commission.
07:27There was no request for her to resign.
07:30And there was no inducement offered.
07:32A role was raised.
07:36All right.
07:36All right, so it's clear.
07:39So there was no inducement and no job offer.
07:42Hang on, what's this about a role?
07:44A senior role, given her legal skills and respect for her legal skills.
07:47Did you understand that the role would only be available if resignation took place?
07:53Well, my understanding was that you can't have two roles.
07:58Any comments, Jobella Burt?
08:00I'm not a commentator, Sean.
08:03But whatever the government had in mind for Professor Triggs, I'm sure it made good use
08:07of the political bias, partisanship and catastrophic errors of judgment they're accusing her of.
08:12Because that's one hell of a job reference.
08:14And they'd be forced to ignore it.
08:17But despite all this, there is no suggestion Mr Abbott will walk.
08:23Hopefully not like that, anyway.
08:26Incidentally, I should point out that footage was taken just after Mr Abbott had very generously
08:30donated his racing bike to the Museum of Australian Democracy.
08:34Plus one of his famous blue tyres.
08:36And they're both to go on display at the popular Hall of Prime Ministers,
08:40alongside that shoe Julia Gillard lost on Australia Day 2012,
08:44Malcolm Fraser's trousers,
08:46Paul Keating's monster truck com car,
08:49the vanquished enemies of Kevin Rudd exhibit,
08:52and the almost to scale giant Peter Credlin statue.
08:57Incidentally, another thing this week,
08:59that while it didn't make me mad as hell,
09:01certainly got my goat and up my nose.
09:04Interesting trajectory.
09:05was a story about a chef who was underpaid.
09:08He is one of around 16,000 workers who were underpaid more than $23 million last financial year.
09:15Now, if a chef is being underpaid $23 million a year,
09:18then I think it's high time that we looked at our penalty rates.
09:23Yes, penalty rates form the central moat in the eye of the government's likely IR reform.
09:28But how to remove it without people noticing it's a bit like work choices.
09:31As Bill Shorten observed, I think, quite pithily.
09:35Tony Abbott says that work choices is dead, buried and cremated.
09:39He really means it's just sedated.
09:41Yes, it's a vexed issue, isn't it?
09:49Throtina Mandalay from the Productivity Commission.
09:51It is, Sean.
09:52On the one hand, you've got workers who love their families
09:55and want to spend time with wives and children, what have you,
09:57on weekends and after hours.
09:59And on the other hand, you've got how much the worker will take
10:02to abandon those principles and go to work instead.
10:05What price will he sell out his family for?
10:07Or she, let's not forget, there are plenty of working mothers out there,
10:10equally prepared to compromise their home life if the money's right.
10:13I suppose it depends on how nice the marital partner and the children are.
10:17Yes, the monetary value of spending time with these so-called loved ones
10:21does depend very much on the merits of each individual case.
10:24That's why we're recommending the penalty rates be moans-tested.
10:30What are you talking about, Willis?
10:32The government...
10:34The government will access people's metadata and read their emails and texts
10:39to determine how much in love they are with each other
10:41or how much we think they'd prefer to go to work instead.
10:46Obviously, if there's a lot of moaning going on,
10:48the penalty rate needn't be so high or even applied at all.
10:51All right.
10:52And I suppose, on the other hand, if they're billing and cooing
10:54and sending each other selfies of their engorged genitals,
10:57then presumably penalty rates might be raised.
11:00Well, we need to get a complete picture, obviously,
11:03hacking into their photos on iCloud
11:04to see whether they're the sort of people it'd be reasonable
11:07to want to spend time with.
11:09For example, the breadwinner in this family...
11:12Yes.
11:12..would probably receive nothing if he was working on weekends.
11:16In fact, he or she may even need to pay us a fee.
11:20Whereas these two look like they're made for each other
11:23and probably shouldn't even go into work at all.
11:26Thanks, Trotina.
11:28Meanwhile, Emeritus Treasurer Joe Hockey
11:30has launched a new campaign
11:31to help companies recruit and train older workers.
11:34Mr Hockey chose Bunnings Warehouse as the venue for the launch,
11:37a company known for hiring older workers.
11:39If you want to work in Australia,
11:41you should be able to work in Australia.
11:43Unemployment rate, 6.4%.
11:45Coalition's primary vote, 47%.
11:49The age pension is not going to do all the heavy lifting.
11:52We've got to work out!
11:53Presenting the budget to the Senate is just the beginning.
11:58From the greatest empire in the world
12:01to an upholstered stool to put your feet upon,
12:06The Ottoman is a brave new event drama
12:09Australia can't afford to make
12:11without support from the Film Finance Corporation.
12:14Jeez, Billy, that was expensive.
12:16But unmistakably made for television,
12:19particularly in the interior scenes.
12:22Why do you refuse to crumble under our interrogation, Anzac?
12:26Have you no fear of the Ottoman Turk?
12:32Us Aussies ain't scared of nothing.
12:35Not least of all, no Dago-wop-toweled bastard.
12:40A World War I story
12:41told from a perspective unseen in a hundred years.
12:45Your double negatives don't fool me
12:48any more than your best self-racial abuse.
12:51You Aussies are beaten, and you know it.
12:56We Aussies don't know the meaning of the word defeat.
12:59You remember Gully Pulley?
13:02It's that.
13:03A story not just of the men who fought,
13:06but the women they were fighting for.
13:09Back to the front?
13:10Uh, no.
13:11I think I'm supposed to wear it this way.
13:13A tale of old mates and the ties that bind them.
13:17Jezza!
13:19I can't feel my arms!
13:21You've got nothing to feel them with, mate.
13:23Your hands got blown off too.
13:26You know, my friend,
13:27the day will come when this war will be over.
13:31And I hope then
13:32that you and I can put aside our differences,
13:36be they geopolitical or religious,
13:38and live together in peace,
13:40harmony and brotherhood.
13:46Dream on, Abdul.
13:47The day you poofeders are welcome down Unders today,
13:49I pack up me bags
13:51and piss off back to Pommyland.
13:52But above all,
13:54a tale of a war fought as much at home
13:57as on the fields of battle.
14:01Jezza!
14:02Come on, hide in the shed.
14:04G'day, lads.
14:09I've rung his back a souvenir from the front.
14:13Oh, human head, oh, you shouldn't have.
14:16Serving it meself.
14:17Come inside and put your feet up
14:19while I explain away the children I've had in your absence.
14:22The Ottoman.
14:24Coming soon to etc, etc.
14:27Well, as the major and even the minor political parties
14:30move ever closer to the middle,
14:32one thing becomes clear.
14:33The no-party-preferred system does not work
14:36whichever interchangeable proponent of populism gets in.
14:39That's why Cuomo Dero Rover
14:41is recommending plain packaging for political parties.
14:45Yeah, that's right, Sean.
14:46As you can see,
14:47the suggested campaign posters
14:48are appropriately generic.
14:50With no heritage trademark or logo
14:53and with a mandated warning of any policy common to all parties
14:58irregardless of brand.
15:00So offshore processing,
15:01anti-terror, reduction of civil liberties
15:03and, of course,
15:04inability to reduce the budget deficit.
15:07And you think that plain packaging
15:09will discourage campaigning,
15:10ultimately put an end to the corporate sponsorship
15:12of these groups?
15:13Well, Sean, there's a lot of people out there,
15:15some as young as 18,
15:16who think it's cool to vote.
15:18And if we can just alert them to the fact
15:21that these products are not the answer,
15:23maybe they'll make some better decisions
15:24come the next election.
15:25Yes, product warnings are important, aren't they?
15:28Particularly the labelling of foodstuff
15:30so that we know who to blame
15:32when we become ill after eating it.
15:33But I'm not sure we're going about it the right way.
15:36More transparent food labels
15:38may be on the way on the back of berries.
15:41Now, surely more transparent food labels
15:43would make them very difficult to see.
15:46Isn't the point of these things
15:47to make sure we know where these things come from
15:49so that we're aware we don't know where they've been?
15:52Poise Quilt of the Joint Agriculture Industry Labelling Task Force.
15:56We need to be able to racially profile this food
15:58based on our assumptions and prejudices, Sean.
16:00It's certainly a lot cheaper
16:02than actually having our Australian-owned importers
16:04actually go over to these countries
16:05and check on the food handling procedures
16:07of the slave labour filling their orders.
16:09Plus, it protects our own food industry
16:11by equating product of China
16:13with a skull and crossbones poison warning.
16:16The difficulty, though, is when the product is mixed, isn't it?
16:18Apparently, the idea is to indicate on the label
16:21the amount of Australian content
16:22and the amount of imported content
16:24so that we can tell what proportion is Australian.
16:26Exactly, because there may be traces
16:28of Australian content in these products.
16:31You don't think this sort of labelling
16:32plays into our ingrained sense of jingoistic xenophobia?
16:35Not at all.
16:36In fact, it strikes me that this sort of labelling
16:38would be of enormous assistance
16:39if it were applied to people living in this country.
16:42Perhaps a little pie chart on your passport
16:45indicating how much of you is actually Australian.
16:48Obviously, it applies a bit more to your mixed-race people.
16:51Then, like the frozen food we're eating,
16:54we'd know how trustworthy they were.
16:56Very interesting.
16:58Well, sports up next,
16:59and the cocaine scandal continues to engulf the Gold Coast Titans.
17:03Maggie Bathysphere,
17:04could this be the end of the Gold Coast franchise?
17:07I'm not a commentator, Sean.
17:09Thanks, Maggie.
17:10Obviously, I don't know the extent of any cocaine abuse up there,
17:14but one thing I would point out,
17:16if you have a close look at the club logo,
17:18the mascot does seem to have suffered some nasal damage,
17:20which looks pretty incriminating.
17:23Well, last year, they were on their knees,
17:25dressed in rags and holding out the begging bowl.
17:27This year, they're kicking back in a premium-class skybed,
17:30eating Neil Perry and wearing Peter Morrissey's pyjamas.
17:33What on earth went right?
17:34Qantas today reported an underlying profit before tax
17:39of $367 million.
17:43Wow.
17:44Alan Joyce there,
17:45clearly as dumbfounded as the rest of us.
17:47But it's presumably good news for Australian airline passengers,
17:50although the tumbling oil dollar
17:52didn't exactly translate it to cheaper tickets, did it?
17:55Qantas spokesman or Laurie Cherubidis?
17:57Yeah, well, they can try flapping their arms
18:00to get to London if they like,
18:01but I think most of them will suck it up.
18:03We'll see what the ACCC says,
18:06because when they get their gums into something,
18:07you can rest assured it'll get pretty covered in saliva.
18:16So maybe the government's tough no-handouts-to-national-carriers policy
18:21works and can be applied to disadvantaged human beings as well.
18:26Social Services Minister Scott Morrison
18:27has flagged a major shake-up of the welfare payment system.
18:31Under the changes proposed in the McClure report,
18:3420 payments would be reduced to five,
18:36which does sound kind of mean, doesn't it?
18:39SBS correspondent Catherine McGrath
18:41likened the proposal system to meal time at an aged care facility.
18:44The scheme involves carrots and sticks.
18:49While Mr Morrison emphasised the importance of welfare reform.
18:53Unless there is major structural change,
18:55our social services expenditure will swallow the budget.
18:59Well, at least I finally found somebody that'll swallow it.
19:05But is the budget, or dudget, as I like to call it,
19:08too far gone to save the PM's tenure?
19:11Or as I like to call it, one-year.
19:14And will it make too much difference who the leader is?
19:17As opposition leader Bill Shorten recently tweeted,
19:19Just like hashtag the dress,
19:21the Liberal leadership contenders may look different,
19:23but we know they're the same hashtag libsbill.
19:30No, it sounds funnier than it is.
19:32You've got to imagine Bill's delivery.
19:35Incidentally, those of you totally into social media
19:38probably read an online news story last week
19:40that Q&A are getting a truth-o-meter
19:42and how Twitter is changing Australian TV.
19:45And when I say read an online news story,
19:47I, of course, mean half-read and then got distracted
19:49by the sponsored link of Madonna falling down some stairs.
19:53Check it out.
19:54Oh, dear.
20:03Oh, classic.
20:06Who needs TV?
20:07Anyway, the idea for Q&A,
20:09according to Twitter's head of creative media partnerships,
20:12is that there'll be somebody on the panel
20:13who's watching the tweets come in
20:15and they can say,
20:15Excuse me, but Twitter thinks you're full of it.
20:18Now, obviously, it's very handy to be told you're full of it
20:20when the show was hosted by Tony Jones.
20:22But I wonder, would it work
20:24with a more sophisticated program like this one?
20:28Or Gogglebox?
20:30They want me to tweet to Gogglebox.
20:32Hey, change the show you're watching.
20:34Your reactions to it are too boring.
20:36Generally speaking, though,
20:37I don't think what you tell us
20:39should affect what we broadcast.
20:42Corey?
20:44Corey, I am trying to entertain the nation here.
20:47What's that?
20:48Really?
20:48Really?
20:49Ooh.
20:49Yes, I know.
20:56But we are interested in your thoughts
20:59on how this show could be more interactive,
21:01particularly in this exciting and ever-changing
21:03digital age of computer-mediated entertainment.
21:06Write to us, care of the ABC,
21:08in your capital city,
21:09bearing in mind that pretty soon regular postage
21:11will probably get your letter here
21:13in maybe about three days after you mailed it,
21:14and that we pre-recorded this show yesterday anyway.
21:17And you could be in the running to win
21:19a Geraldine Duke synthesizer.
21:2214 different variable pitch phrases
21:24that will have you sounding like a professional.
21:27Yes, an excellent product
21:28and proud sponsor of tonight's...
21:31News from countries are
21:32that aren't Australia or something.
21:34Well, to the UK first,
21:37where fried poultry giant KFC
21:39has launched the world's first edible coffee cup.
21:42The chocolate crockery is infused with ambient aromas,
21:45including freshly cut grass
21:46and coconut sun cream.
21:49Mmm-mm.
21:51Nothing like a hot cup of lawn.
21:54Or a nice steaming mug of tanning lotion.
21:57Still, I'll be the first to admit
21:59that if KFC goes on to sell drinkable coffee,
22:02these cups could prove very popular.
22:03Well, happy birthday to Robert McGarvey,
22:08who has just turned 91.
22:10Cartwheels, you say?
22:11No, no, no.
22:13He's turned 91 years old.
22:15Here's a reporter who knows how to play for the home team.
22:18The 90-year-old was in such great shape
22:20that he even quipped
22:21that he feels as youthful as a nine-year-old.
22:24Mmm.
22:25And like most nine-year-olds,
22:27Robert enjoyed seven birthday cakes,
22:29each the size of a mattress,
22:30feasted on elephant, crocodile, lion, sable and impala,
22:35gave a hate-filled speech
22:37in which he threatened to take land from white farmers
22:39and then ate an effigy of himself
22:42made from what I hope was chocolate.
22:46Still to come!
22:49They're well-fed for the moment,
22:51but when winter comes,
22:52these cats will fly 8,000 kilometres in search of food.
22:55Sean McAuliffe's The Flying Cats of Cawthorn,
23:00Sunday, 7.40 on ABC.
23:04Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:05What was he wearing?
23:06Wasn't that striped polo shirt, was it?
23:09Oh, I can't talk because they're here.
23:10All right, bye.
23:12Time now, though, for us all to get a little bit mad as hell.
23:15Bad days of loving you
23:19Socialised medicine.
23:22No better represented than in the symbol of a snake
23:24crawling up a walking stick.
23:26Yes, we need the stick to support us,
23:28but can it survive the woodworm
23:29out of an abandoned Medicare co-payment?
23:32Annapurna Hieroglyph takes a leaf out of Sabra Lane's songbook
23:34and pads out the first 15 seconds of a report with some music.
23:38I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
23:41And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
23:45He said that, oh, hey, ha, ha
23:47Casper Jonquil is a qualified osteopath.
23:50He operates out of his bedroom here in his mother's house
23:53in the semi-industrial suburb of Wintz.
23:56Excuse I, dear.
23:57I thought you and your friend might like some snacks.
24:00Get out of here, Mum.
24:01Can't you say I'm with a patient?
24:03Oh, sorry, dear.
24:05There's such a thing as a sacred trust, you know.
24:07Oh, yes.
24:08Casper always thought a $5 co-payment was outrageous.
24:12I think a $5 co-payment is outrageous.
24:14I didn't go online and fill out some forms
24:16and then print out a certificate
24:17from the Idaho website of wellness and healing
24:18so that the government could tell me what to do.
24:20If I was answerable to any kind of official organisation,
24:23I'd write to them and complain,
24:24but they'd say, oh, it's got nothing to do with us.
24:26Casper believes the GP co-payment should be $7
24:29as the government originally announced
24:31and should still apply to elderly pensioners like his mother.
24:35Oh, yeah.
24:36But what really makes Casper angry
24:39is the proposed withdrawal of certain items
24:41from the government's list of medical rebates.
24:44Meals on Wheels doesn't send Mrs Dunwoody over twice a week
24:48so you can screw light bulbs into her back.
24:51We'll have to practise on someone.
24:53Items no longer included include aromatherapy,
24:58naturopathy, yoga, pilates, Ayurveda,
25:01Bowen therapy, Buteyko, Feldenkrais, herbalism, homeopathy,
25:07iridology, kinesiology, massage, reflexology, rolfing and Tai Chi.
25:14In contrast to the government's own bloodletting
25:16of subsidised therapies,
25:18is it supportive training in virtually the same areas
25:22with grants per student as high as $6,000,
25:26more than those studying law, economics, language or the humanities?
25:32This is my skeleton.
25:33In fact, to support his floundering alternative medicinal clinic,
25:37Casper is forced to teach iridology and flower essence therapy
25:40here at the local TAFE college of homeopathy and dog obedience.
25:44And this, of course, is the backbone,
25:46something this government of ours sorely lacks, if you ask me.
25:49Plus, it's very interesting that vaccinations are needless,
25:52but that if you add an extra S, they become needless,
25:54which brings me back to my initial point
25:55that vaccinations aren't necessary.
25:58Back to you, Sean.
26:00Mmm, no punchline.
26:02Well...
26:03..not coming up because Judith Lucy wants to start on time.
26:08Prince Harry fast-tracked into the ADF,
26:11having previously completed recruit-hazing rituals by himself.
26:15And forget that dress.
26:17What the hell colour is Malcolm Turnbull's shirt?
26:22Well, finally, armchair critics
26:24who claim the government isn't doing anything to help working families
26:27because they're distracted by infighting
26:29were made to look pretty stupid last week
26:30when Health Minister Susan Lay announced
26:32she had just approved an increase
26:33in private health premiums of more than 6%,
26:36which makes it even more important, I believe,
26:38that we do everything we can
26:39to keep people out of hospital,
26:41like doing first-aid training.
26:43One company that provides this service,
26:44and which I mention not as an endorsement,
26:46but so I can share with you
26:47their informative radio advertisement,
26:50is Premium Health.
26:51If somebody collapses on the floor,
26:54would you help or run out the door?
26:57Is it asthma?
26:59Is it their back?
27:00Or is it a stroke or perhaps a heart attack?
27:03LAUGHTER
27:04LAUGHTER
27:04Yeah, not only a wonderful health service provider,
27:10but also a good chance to represent Australia
27:12at Eurovision 2015.
27:14LAUGHTER
27:15Yeah, that's a mixed business for you.
27:17Good night.
27:17APPLAUSE
27:18Josh, baby.
27:25LAUGHTER