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Original Broadcast Date: March 7th 2018

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00:00Ah, Sean, thanks for coming up.
00:02That's all right, thank you.
00:03Do you know Peggy from HR?
00:04Peggy, lovely to see you again.
00:06Take a seat.
00:07OK, right.
00:10Right, so...
00:12How long have you been with us, Sean, here at the ABC?
00:14What, 13 years?
00:16Well, no, so I started in 98, so then I went away a little while
00:19and came back in 2012.
00:20It was probably about 16 years, all up.
00:2316 years.
00:24Yeah, all up.
00:25Well, now is probably a good time for HR and I
00:28to have a bit of a chat with you.
00:30About the changes and feelings that you may be experiencing
00:35at this stage in your career.
00:39Not sure I'm following you exactly.
00:43OK, OK.
00:44What your producer means is that at 16 years,
00:47you might feel entitled to...
00:50What's the expression?
00:52Sexually harass?
00:53Sexually harass.
00:55Some of the more female members of staff who come into your orbit.
01:00Right.
01:00Yeah, this is perfectly natural, Sean.
01:02I don't want you to feel ashamed or feel that you're weird or sick in any way.
01:07We all have these feelings, especially after 16 years
01:10when we've achieved seniority over people.
01:13Right.
01:13OK, but it is important to remember, Sean, that these are private feelings.
01:20And like the parts of your body that become engorged,
01:24when you start to believe yourself particularly powerful and irresistible,
01:28you must keep them to yourself.
01:31Do not take them out and display them to your staff.
01:37Resist the urge to touch or undress anybody who works for you,
01:41no matter how incredibly attractive you feel you are to them.
01:44OK, that's great.
01:47That's very helpful.
01:48But what about if it's consensual?
01:51Yeah, it's a grey area, Sean.
01:53Is it ever really consensual if you're employing them?
01:56Look, I think it's probably best to err on the side of caution
02:00and not have sex in your office where possible.
02:03Right.
02:03I mean, sometimes it's unavoidable, obviously.
02:05But where you can, just get on with your work.
02:10OK.
02:11And I don't think I'm out of line here.
02:14If you do feel you have to give in to these impulses,
02:17then do as I do and leave at lunchtime
02:19and go home for some afternoon delight with your wife.
02:23Ooh.
02:26I think you are out of line.
02:40Well, well, hey, oh, hey, shush.
03:06So much to talk about this week.
03:07We have to be ruthless, I'm afraid.
03:09There is absolutely no time to talk about the Tasmanian election.
03:13I know.
03:14Although, hats off to the Liberal Party
03:16for its double-secret probation gun policy.
03:19A national firearms agreement rollback announced at the last minute
03:22just to farmers and shooters was an audacious move, but it worked.
03:26And I think announcing policies only to those who benefit from them
03:29could work on a national level.
03:30But we don't have time.
03:31We don't have time to talk about it.
03:33No time either to talk about the Academy Awards.
03:36I know, I know.
03:37Although, I think, personally, I think we were robbed.
03:41I mean, barbecue wasn't even nominated.
03:45No time, no time to even talk about our former Deputy Prime Minister.
03:50Oh, no.
03:51Which is actually just as well,
03:52because we used up all our jokes last week.
03:55What is important and what I do want to talk about this week
03:58is the standard of public discourse in this country,
04:01which has, over the last seven days,
04:02descended to roughly the level of the core of the earth.
04:06Our publicly elected representatives,
04:08men and women that we respect and admire,
04:11carrying on like they're on married at first sight.
04:13I mean, sure, everybody's watching,
04:15but we end up feeling cheap and dirty,
04:18as if part of our soul has been snuffed out.
04:21Why?
04:22Well, it's all because of Big Brother over there.
04:24He's worried about...
04:25What is it now?
04:27..is it the...it's a 28th failed news poll.
04:31And so he's decided to ban sex,
04:34effectively putting all his ministers' personal lives on the table
04:37for us to judge like Manu and Pete.
04:40Now, like MKR itself, it is beneath us.
04:44I don't want to...
04:45..I don't want to sit here like this tonight
04:47and go on about Julie Bishop's personal life.
04:51Let's do it on camera too, where it's a bit more private.
04:54Now, uh...
04:55Now, hi.
04:56And now, this is...
04:57This is not about the jewellery or the shoes or the sports gear.
05:01We'll save that for another time.
05:02This juicy bit of goss involves Julie Bishop and her main squeeze.
05:07Really? What?
05:08No, no, no. Not that.
05:10No, no, not that squeeze.
05:12This one.
05:13David Panton.
05:14Apparently, Julie has claimed $32,000
05:16in taxpayer-funded family travel for him,
05:19despite failing to disclose his financial interests
05:21on the Parliamentary Register,
05:23because she has not classified him
05:25as her spouse or de facto partner.
05:27Now, it may be they're just friends.
05:30His name, after all, is Pant On.
05:34But if he's...
05:36If he's family...
05:37If he's family, when it comes to making an expenses claim,
05:40but not when it comes to declaring his financial interests,
05:43is Ms Bishop having a cake and eating it too?
05:47Before...
05:47Before running it off, obviously.
05:51Or does this arrangement simply reflect the trials and tribulations
05:54of any relationship?
05:55They feel close and as one when expenses are being claimed,
05:58but then distant and cold whenever the Parliamentary Register comes up.
06:02For a financial analysis of this story, though,
06:05here's Tosh Greenslade in character as a finance presenter.
06:07Thanks, Sean.
06:09Looking at our donut of deniability,
06:11it seems that as long as Ms Bishop's boyfriend
06:13doesn't publicly declare his love for her,
06:15she doesn't have to publicly declare anything either.
06:18So, she's very neatly sitting right in the middle
06:20between in it for the long haul
06:22and in it for the long haul flights.
06:24Sean.
06:25Thank you very much, Tosh.
06:26Tosh Greenslade there,
06:27made up to appear like a finance reporter
06:29to make a joke about Julie Bishop's travel expenses.
06:32LAUGHTER
06:32Of course, these sorts of questions come up all the time
06:36across the political divide.
06:37For example, has New Nationals leader Michael McCormack
06:40declared this?
06:41They've given me a great gift.
06:42Yes.
06:44LAUGHTER
06:44And what about Bill Shorten?
06:48I know people are always going on about global warming,
06:50but there's also been a rise of between 1 and 2 degrees
06:53in the temperature of heat on Bill's arse last week
06:55after it was revealed that he accepted
06:58a $17,000 private green-funded tour
07:00of the Great Barrier Reef.
07:03Or, as Bill would pronounce it, reef.
07:04LAUGHTER
07:06Apparently, the day after,
07:08Bill joined black-throated finch experts
07:09on an Australian Conservation Foundation-funded charter flight
07:12over the Adani site.
07:14Now, OK, OK, there wouldn't be an MP in Parliament
07:17who doesn't have a black-throated finch expert on staff.
07:20But where's the balance?
07:22Did he also fly over the Adani mine site
07:24with a white-throated coal expert?
07:26No, he didn't.
07:27Now, all this was revealed by environmentalist Jeff Cousins
07:31on the ABC's 7.30,
07:32which misleadingly continues to be broadcast
07:35until as late as 7.59.
07:38And, funnily enough, Bill declared the trip
07:40on exactly the same day.
07:42Obviously, Mr Cousins' interview jogging Bill's memory,
07:45which I think you'll agree is far more preferable
07:47to the memory of Bill jogging.
07:48LAUGHTER
07:49But I've got to tell you,
07:51Bill and Julia small potatoes
07:53compared with the astonishing scenes
07:54in the Senate estimates hearings last week.
07:56It was like the Charlie McCarthy witch hunts
07:59in Salem back in the 50s,
08:00or when the grand jury tried to get Bill Clinton
08:03to admit he had relations.
08:05Very exciting.
08:07The most explosive witness,
08:08dropping the biggest bombshell of all,
08:10was, of course, Michaelia Cash in a...
08:13LAUGHTER
08:14Now, that's, uh...
08:15Obviously, Christopher Pyne...
08:16Michaelia doesn't look anything like Christopher Pyne.
08:18Can we change that?
08:21LAUGHTER
08:22In a war of words with Labor Senator Doug Cameron.
08:26Now, we've all seen the footage, haven't we?
08:28I don't need to show it again,
08:28unless you want to see the footage again.
08:31Would you...?
08:32Yes?
08:33Well, the crowd wants it.
08:37All right, well, personally,
08:38I can't get enough of it either.
08:39Let's have a look.
08:40If you want to start discussing staff matters,
08:42be very, very careful,
08:44because I'm happy to sit here
08:45and name every young woman in Mr Shorten's office,
08:48over which rumours in this place abound.
08:50If you want to go down that path today,
08:52I will do it.
08:54That's some nonsense.
08:55And you...
08:56Well, do you want to start naming them?
08:57Do you want to start naming them
08:59for Mr Shorten to come out
09:00and deny any of the rumours...
09:03The rumours that have been circulating this building now
09:05for many, many years.
09:06You should just settle down and focus on my questions
09:08instead of being so silly about this.
09:11Dangerous path to go down.
09:12Just settle down and answer the questions.
09:15That's what you should do.
09:17Take what the young people call a chill pill.
09:22Wow!
09:24Where the hell did that come from?
09:26Doug's understanding of young people, I mean.
09:28Who under the age of 40
09:31uses the expression chill pill?
09:33And then there was whatever Senator Cash
09:34was talking about as well.
09:36Labor Senator Penny Wong
09:37gave her a stern telling off, though,
09:39which, it must be said,
09:40Senator Cash listened to with good grace.
09:42You should withdraw that.
09:44And if you don't,
09:45we will have to do it on the floor of the Senate.
09:48Now, she's hiding it well,
09:49but you can see Michaelia is getting a bit cross there,
09:51can't you?
09:52It's very subtle, but if you look...
09:54Can we just see it one more time, please?
09:55You should withdraw that.
09:57And if you don't,
09:59we will have to do it on the floor of the Senate.
10:02Yes.
10:03Yes.
10:05I agree.
10:07Totally amazeballs.
10:09Then, the next day,
10:11when Senator Cash went back into the hearings,
10:13instead of the press being treated
10:14to her usual method of arrival...
10:16LAUGHTER
10:17..they got this instead.
10:23Minister, why do you need so much protection?
10:25Why are you hiding out, Minister?
10:27Can't you come and talk?
10:29Why do you need so much protection, Minister?
10:31Do you need a screen, Minister?
10:33Now, the last time they had to bring in screens
10:35for a politician
10:36was when Sir Earl Page broke his leg back in 1939
10:39and they had to shoot him.
10:41It made for a boring television, though, didn't it,
10:43just seeing a whiteboard there.
10:44At the very least,
10:45they could have written something on it.
10:47Was there anything on the reverse side of the whiteboard?
10:50Do we have, like, another angle,
10:52the reverse shot of the whiteboard?
10:53Can we...can we cut to that?
10:55LAUGHTER
10:55Anyway, it's been a bit of a minefield,
11:01these Senate hearings,
11:02and who better to lead us through it
11:03without getting blown up
11:04than our resident expert in all matters
11:06relating to the Senate,
11:07former Chief of Staff to Jackie Lambie,
11:09Dolly Norman.
11:09LAUGHTER
11:10Now, Dolly, Senator Cash was once the Federal Minister for Women.
11:22Should she be, by innuendo,
11:24impugning, albeit under parliamentary privilege,
11:26the female staffers working for Bill Shorten?
11:28Um...
11:30Sean, all I know is that, as a woman, myself,
11:36that if someone tried to prune me through my window,
11:39even just a little bit,
11:41I would be onto them quicker than...
11:44on to anything with a...
11:46LAUGHTER
11:46Yeah, Dolly...
11:49Dolly, you...you can't say that on television.
11:52Well, Michaelia basically all but said that
11:55a...
11:56was everyone in the office.
11:58LAUGHTER
11:58Yeah, but, um...
12:00But Michaelia is protected by parliamentary privilege.
12:07Um...
12:08Is that the brand of hairspray that she uses?
12:11LAUGHTER
12:12LAUGHTER
12:13But, yeah, I mean, I've got to say, by Sean,
12:20I have been very impressed with Bill Shorten
12:22through all of this,
12:24as he reckons we should be focusing
12:26on the things that matter to Australians.
12:29Mm-hm.
12:29Not hurling insults.
12:31Though, according to what Kim Carr reckons,
12:36insults was not the only thing that they were hurling.
12:40You just threw a bucket of shit at me.
12:43LAUGHTER
12:44Well, thank you, Dolly.
12:46But what about the person at the centre of this maelstrom,
12:49Michaelia Cash?
12:50What does she think a week later,
12:52looking back on what happened in the cold light of day
12:54and with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight?
12:56Spokesperson for Senator Cash, Mary Brett Punished.
13:00Sean, we are not going to be moralised to
13:04by those who have a history of problems
13:09in their private lives.
13:10If you want to go there...
13:12LAUGHTER
13:13..I am quite happy to go there
13:16because I will go there with bells on
13:19and be there waiting for you.
13:22Do you want to go there?
13:23Do you want to go there?
13:27Because I am quite happy to book the tickets
13:30and arrange for transfers.
13:33It's a very dangerous path to go down,
13:37but there is an excellent view at sunset.
13:41You have been warned.
13:43And if anyone has taken offence by my comments,
13:47I will withdraw them unreservedly.
13:49I will do it.
13:52LAUGHTER
13:53Thank you, Mary Brett.
13:55APPLAUSE
13:56Labour spokesperson from Bill Shorten's office,
14:02Brackish Fern,
14:03your party was clearly upset by this attack
14:06on your staff and leader.
14:08Absolutely, Sean.
14:09I mean, we can put up with most things,
14:10but don't you attack our staffers?
14:13And Bill Shorten?
14:15Hmm.
14:16LAUGHTER
14:17Rumours like this could destroy his political career.
14:20Well, he is the only thing standing between us
14:22and winning at the next election, so...
14:24LAUGHTER
14:24So you're happy to throw him under a bus?
14:28No-one's throwing Bill under a bus.
14:30But if Michaelia happens to drive the bus
14:32onto the footpath where Bill's walking,
14:34then what are you going to do?
14:36Yeah, but surely, Brackish...
14:37Look, you can't dump an unpopular leader
14:40without being labelled unstable,
14:42so I reckon they should go for their life on Bill.
14:44Just lay off our staffers,
14:46because of what Tanya said about sexism and that.
14:50Right, Mary Brett,
14:51if Bill is toppled by a scandal
14:52and replaced with almost anybody,
14:54that would make things difficult for you, wouldn't it?
14:57Absolutely, Sean.
14:58Bill Shorten is a great guy.
15:00I like him.
15:01He's got some great policies.
15:02What was the one about negative gearing?
15:05Fantastic.
15:06Whatever it was, I wish he was our leader.
15:09Well, you take him, then.
15:11You take him and we'll stick someone in
15:13who won't fuck up the dream run we're having.
15:16Dolly, Dolly, any final words of wisdom
15:18that may pour oil on the troubled waters
15:20between these two warring parties?
15:22Um, yeah, I've got a few.
15:25No matter what's happened in the past
15:28or what might become public in the future,
15:30from either side of politics,
15:33just remember this.
15:34It will never be as bad
15:36as when...
15:38stuck his...
15:40in...
15:41while she was having a...
15:43with...
15:44and...
15:45well, dressed as a...
15:47Thank you, Dolly.
15:52Of course, I don't want to suggest
15:53that it was only Liberal senators
15:55who rebelled in slur last week.
15:57The ones in the House of Reps
15:58were doing it as well.
15:59Well, here's Peter Dutton
16:00presenting the gossip segment
16:01on 2GB's morning program.
16:03There's a history of, uh,
16:04you know, problems
16:05in Bill Shorten's personal life,
16:07Tony Burke's personal life,
16:09and to be lectured by the Labor Party,
16:11it really, you know,
16:12sticks in the craw.
16:13Yeah, fair enough, too.
16:14I mean...
16:15I mean, what's the point of being
16:17a head of national security
16:18in this country
16:19with all that access
16:20to personal information
16:21if you can't tell a few secrets
16:22on radio now and then?
16:24And Labor, too, though,
16:25blotted its copybook
16:26in the Senate last week.
16:27Kim Carr
16:27forced to apologise
16:29for saying this
16:30about Liberal Senator
16:31James Patterson.
16:32Those in the Hitler youth
16:33would understand that
16:34only too well.
16:34Oh, that's...
16:35That was seriously,
16:37seriously offensive.
16:39Why don't you...
16:40Really?
16:40I mean, does James Patterson
16:41even look like somebody
16:42who'd be in the Hitler youth?
16:44LAUGHTER
16:45And so...
16:47And so what if he was?
16:48It just...
16:49It just sounds bad
16:50because you put the word
16:50Hitler in front of it.
16:51I mean, you can do that
16:52with anything.
16:53Oh, I went to the Hitler Museum
16:55on the weekend with the family
16:56and we saw some great
16:58Hitler exhibits
16:58and afterwards we had
17:00some great Hitler smoothies
17:01and drank them so quickly
17:03we all ended up
17:04with these little
17:04Hitler milk moustaches.
17:06And you call it
17:07by its official name,
17:09Jugendbund,
17:10and it doesn't sound
17:10anywhere near as sinister.
17:12But I must say,
17:13there was one senator
17:13who did stand out
17:14from the pack
17:15and exhibited a bit
17:16of dignity and restraint
17:17during all of this,
17:18novice Liberal Senator
17:19Lucy Gachui.
17:20She was in charge
17:21of those hearings
17:21and showed a maturity
17:23beyond her short time
17:24in the job
17:24when asked about
17:25Senator Cash's comments.
17:28Well.
17:30Well.
17:35Next question.
17:37See ya.
17:41Yes.
17:44It's still the man
17:47who started all this
17:48through his support
17:49behind Minister Cash,
17:50even as the bodies
17:52kept piling up
17:53on the back bench.
17:55The smiling assassin himself
17:57refused to abandon her.
18:00And we shouldn't be surprised,
18:01he's clearly a fan of Michaelia
18:02and loves being photographed
18:03with her.
18:04As you'll see here,
18:05it's not hard to imagine
18:06what he's thinking.
18:07This is great.
18:09This is fantastic.
18:11Jesus.
18:12Oh dear God.
18:14This is bullshit.
18:16So is this.
18:18Is that the exit?
18:19God almighty.
18:21I love life.
18:23Look at that ant over there.
18:26Taser me now.
18:27Here she comes again
18:28for Christ's sakes,
18:29Julie.
18:29Save me.
18:30I mean,
18:32even the,
18:32even the XPM.
18:37Tony Abbott
18:38offered Senator Cash
18:39the same sort of support
18:40he's offered
18:40the rest of his colleagues lately.
18:42I can only assume
18:43that it was a brain snap
18:44on the part of the minister,
18:45frankly.
18:47But perhaps the most sensible
18:48comment on all of this
18:49though comes from
18:50Pauline Hanson.
18:54Eleven words
18:55never before heard
18:56in that order.
18:57This is what she said.
19:00You know what?
19:01I'm so fed up with it.
19:03People are fed up with it.
19:04There's tick for tack.
19:08Tick for tack.
19:09Pauline is so sick
19:10of the filth
19:11in Parliament these days
19:11she won't add to it
19:12by saying tit for tat.
19:14I assume it's the first part
19:15of the expression
19:16that bothers her.
19:17Although depending
19:18on where it is
19:18I don't think tats
19:19have any place
19:20in Australian politics either.
19:22There are exceptions
19:22obviously.
19:24George here.
19:25and of course
19:27Kevin Rudd.
19:30Well coming later on
19:30passenger drones
19:31are they a good idea?
19:35And also
19:36Labor
19:36on the Adani coal mine.
19:38I grill
19:38Labor communication
19:40chief
19:40Spick Risotto.
19:42But just
19:42give me a definitive answer.
19:44Does Adani
19:44go ahead
19:45under a Labor government?
19:46Can I have your postcode
19:47please?
19:48Yeah, sorry
19:483070.
19:50Okay
19:50in a Melbourne
19:51no it won't.
19:53Still to come
19:56later in the week.
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20:43Well should we taser
20:44the mentally ill?
20:51We here on Mad As Believe
20:52we're not only
20:53shouldn't we
20:54but neither should you
20:55to ram that message
20:56home tonight
20:57and hopefully tomorrow
20:57on social media
20:58the mad as hell
21:00clockwork movement ensemble.
21:01Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
21:05tears of the mentally ill
21:07Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
21:10Fire at them at will
21:12It's cruel!
21:15Yes the clockwork movement ensemble there
21:17providing a much needed lull
21:19in the national conversation.
21:21Well I was listening on the way in tonight
21:24to a talking book version
21:25of the draft report
21:26of the Productivity Commission
21:27enquiry
21:27into the banking sector
21:29voiced by Christopher Pyne
21:31he is a beautiful speaking voice
21:35and I learned
21:36that the enquiry found
21:37few consumers
21:38read or understand
21:39the terms and conditions
21:40of the products they purchase.
21:42Simpa Viral
21:43from the Australian Bankers Association
21:45thanks for agreeing
21:46to speak with us tonight.
21:47Happy to answer
21:47any questions
21:48you may have
21:49Sean
21:50the bank may cancel
21:51this interview at any time
21:52for any reason
21:52it didn't support the bank.
21:54Sorry?
21:55Nothing.
21:55A fee will be charged
21:56for this answer.
21:58So do banks
21:58put the terms and conditions
22:00of their agreement
22:00in such fine print
22:01to discourage consumers
22:02from actually reading them?
22:03No.
22:04No where it appears
22:05as an answer to a question
22:06means yes.
22:09Would you commit
22:10to presenting
22:11the terms and conditions
22:11in a more user-friendly way?
22:13Absolutely.
22:14If that's what people want
22:15we reserve the right
22:16to say something
22:16completely different later
22:17you agree to whatever
22:18we decide.
22:20Well we look forward
22:21to seeing some positive changes
22:22in that regard
22:23in the near future.
22:24Thank you for your time.
22:25Always good to talk to you.
22:27Views expressed
22:27by representatives
22:28of the bank
22:28in the interviews
22:29are the opposite
22:30of the views of the bank.
22:32Sorry?
22:33Nothing.
22:33Fuck you.
22:38But
22:39news from countries
22:46that aren't Australia.
22:47Brought to you
22:48by Australian Armaments.
22:49We aim to kill.
22:51Well to the Commonwealth
22:52Games first
22:53and Prince Charles
22:54will be standing in
22:55for the Queen
22:56at this year's Games
22:56on the Gold Coast.
22:57and fair enough too
22:59he's far more likely
23:00to win a medal
23:00than she is.
23:02Apparently Charles' wife
23:04Camilla
23:04will also be attending.
23:05I don't know
23:06what she's competing in.
23:07Have they introduced
23:08forced smiling
23:09as an event?
23:11This will apparently
23:12be Prince Charles'
23:1316th visit to Australia
23:14putting him ahead
23:15of Pink,
23:16Michael Bublé
23:16and Robbie Williams
23:17but just behind
23:18Elton John.
23:19Also in Royal News
23:22Prince Harry
23:22has taken
23:23fiancée
23:24Meghan Markle
23:24to Scotland
23:25for the first time
23:26where a pony
23:27tried to bite his finger
23:28and
23:28No one laughed
23:29harder than his fiancée.
23:34Yeah.
23:34It was later put down.
23:36To South East Asia
23:42now
23:42and the
23:43Police have arrested
23:44three men
23:45and seized
23:45313 kilograms
23:46of the drug
23:47ice
23:48which they believe
23:48was destined
23:49for Adelaide.
23:51Oh yeah
23:51great.
23:53What are people
23:53in Adelaide
23:54supposed to do
23:55now?
23:55Just
23:55live there?
24:00That's bad enough
24:01they're seizing
24:02the Murray
24:02darling water
24:03destined for Adelaide
24:04now they're seizing
24:05the ice too.
24:06These people
24:06have to put up
24:07with Nick Xenophon's
24:08campaign ad
24:09for four more weeks.
24:11You've got to
24:11give them something.
24:15And finally
24:16to a museum
24:16in Philadelphia
24:17where America's
24:18souring relationship
24:19with China
24:19was again
24:20on display this week.
24:21Someone with
24:22an American accent
24:23explains.
24:24A terracotta statue
24:25on loan from China
24:26was vandalised
24:27when Delaware
24:28resident Michael
24:29Rohana
24:29apparently stole
24:30the warrior's thumb.
24:32Really?
24:32If the world's
24:33two superpowers
24:34are ever going
24:35to get along
24:35and trust each other
24:36both sides
24:36really must put
24:38a stop
24:38to all forms
24:39of digital hacking.
24:43But first
24:44global tax competition
24:45is it a zero-sum game?
24:47How low
24:48will the corporate
24:49tax rate
24:50need to go
24:50to ensure
24:51an unfettered market
24:51where the winners
24:52are not the
24:53non-taxpaying companies
24:54or their shareholders
24:55but those who
24:55have to work for them
24:56and buy their stuff?
24:58Dramella Burt
24:58from the Treasurer's
24:59Waiting Room
25:00surely unless the
25:01tax cuts are conditional
25:02on there being an
25:03increase in wages
25:04it won't happen.
25:05Well Sean
25:05unless these tax cuts
25:06get through
25:07there won't be
25:07companies to work
25:08for in this country.
25:09Yeah well that
25:10doesn't mean
25:10they can't be conditional.
25:11What it does mean though
25:12is that if the tax cuts
25:14won't happen
25:14there won't be
25:15economic growth.
25:16Yeah but you can't
25:17guarantee that the tax cuts
25:18will translate
25:19into wages growth.
25:20What I can guarantee
25:21is that without
25:21corporate tax cuts
25:22this country won't be
25:24competitive in the
25:24global market.
25:25Yeah I can't help
25:26noticing that you're
25:27simply taking a word
25:27I've used in my
25:28question and using
25:29it as a pivot in your
25:30response to avoid
25:31answering it.
25:32Well I think what
25:33Australians can't help
25:34noticing is that
25:35wages growth is down
25:36and corporate tax cuts
25:37are the only solution.
25:38See you did it again
25:39there.
25:40What I see again and
25:41again is Australia
25:42being left behind as a
25:43global investment
25:44opportunity unless the
25:45Senate passes these
25:46corporate tax cuts.
25:47You took the word see
25:48and the word again as
25:49your pivot into your
25:50mantra about corporate
25:51tax cuts.
25:52And the word I'm
25:53hearing from
25:53international investors
25:54is that without
25:55corporate tax cuts
25:56they'll go elsewhere.
25:58Godzilla rides a
25:59pogo stick through
26:00the banana patch.
26:03So you can't do
26:04anything with that
26:04can you?
26:05We can't do anything
26:06unless we have
26:07foreign investment as
26:08a result of cutting
26:09the corporate tax
26:10rates.
26:10Oh shut up.
26:10Exactly what will
26:11happen to businesses.
26:12And that goes for
26:13you too.
26:16Well here's a very
26:17important community
26:18announcement.
26:19Hi I'm Ros
26:21Hammond from
26:21Mad as Hell.
26:23Now I know there
26:23are a lot of calls
26:24on your finances
26:25these days.
26:26and we all have
26:27our favourite causes
26:28that we'd like to
26:28support.
26:29Jackie Lambie for
26:30example has pledged
26:31that from here on
26:32all money raised from
26:33donations will be put
26:34towards her next
26:35federal election run.
26:38So can I just ask you
26:40if you can spare a few
26:41dollars anything at all
26:43to send it to the
26:44Jackie Lambie network.
26:46As a professional
26:47satirist I've seen
26:48first hand the
26:50difference having a
26:51person like this in
26:51politics can make to
26:52my life and the
26:54lives of many other
26:55comedians and
26:56cartoonists.
26:57Your donation of
26:58$25 can provide a
27:00poorly written press
27:01release.
27:03$50 can provide a
27:04hand wash for the
27:05Jackie Lambie network
27:06van and a gift of
27:08just $75 can buy a
27:10sex toy for a staff
27:11member at Christmas.
27:13So please give
27:15generously.
27:16Sean.
27:17Thanks Roz.
27:18Well a random knife
27:19attack at a suburban
27:20shopping centre has
27:21terrified dozens of
27:22innocent shoppers and
27:23two corrupt ones.
27:33The assailant fled the
27:34scene after attacking
27:35seven customers though
27:36thankfully no one was
27:37seriously injured.
27:38Mad as is Bavina
27:39Jigswax is at the
27:41scene with centre
27:42manager and shopkeeper
27:43Keith Sodden.
27:44Bavina.
27:45That's exactly right
27:46Sean.
27:46Mr Sodden a shocking
27:48brazen unprovoked
27:50attack.
27:51Yeah that's right
27:51Bavina.
27:52It seems like everyone's
27:53going to be alright
27:54though so that's
27:55terrific news.
27:56But the most important
27:57thing is that we don't
27:59let one event change
28:00the way we live our
28:01lives and that people
28:02continue to come here
28:04and support the local
28:05businesses.
28:05So your message to
28:07our viewers is even
28:08though this violent
28:09maniac might return and
28:10stab you to death
28:11come and shop here so
28:12these businesses don't
28:13suffer.
28:14Well don't not come
28:16and shop here is what
28:17I'm saying.
28:18Is don't not come and
28:19shop here different to
28:20come and shop here?
28:21Well people shouldn't be
28:22scared.
28:23Of dying while shopping
28:25here.
28:25Why shouldn't they shop
28:26somewhere else where
28:27there's a lower risk of
28:28being stabbed to death?
28:29No one was stabbed to
28:30death right?
28:31Well I was in Northgate
28:32Plaza yesterday and no
28:33one was stabbed there at
28:34all.
28:35Pity.
28:35Our businesses rely on
28:37customers continuing to
28:38shop here.
28:38Well they can't continue to
28:39shop here if they've been
28:40stabbed to death can they?
28:42Listen if everyone's
28:43going to stay at home
28:43because of one random
28:44incident then me and the
28:45rest of the other
28:45shopkeepers may as well
28:46all stab ourselves to
28:47death.
28:48Sounds like we could be
28:49in for more stabbings
28:50down here Sean.
28:52Bovina.
28:53Well not coming up
28:54because squintus is on
28:55in a minute.
28:58Poor result sees greens
28:59turn to brown.
29:02Worst Mardi Gras ever.
29:04And 80 kilograms of man
29:07smuggled into country
29:08hidden in cocaine.
29:12Well a final word on
29:13someone we haven't
29:14mentioned on the show
29:15much tonight.
29:16The beleaguered
29:16bloody minded
29:17backbench banished
29:18Barnaby began his new
29:19life as a humble MP
29:20last week by putting his
29:22hand up to do some of
29:23the jobs no one else
29:24wants to do.
29:25I'll be Barnaby.
29:29However I think the
29:30fact that he's no longer
29:31Deputy Prime Minister is
29:32sticking in his throat.
29:33Literally he can't seem
29:35to bring himself to say
29:35anything with the word
29:36Deputy in it.
29:38Thank you very much
29:39Mr Deputy
29:40what do you go down
29:42here Deputy
29:42Deputy
29:43Steve.
29:47Goodbye.
29:48Or as Lucy Gachui
29:49might say
29:50See ya.
29:53Sorry baby.