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Original Broadcast Date: June 15th 2016
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00:00One, two, three, four
00:30Well folks I have to admit to you I am thoroughly confused. I thought there was supposed to be a third debate this week between Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull and that that was going to take place online. Now like you I was very excited about this and I stayed up all night watching my MySpace page.
00:51And nothing happened. It was actually really totes boring. And then I thought to myself well maybe it was on another social media site. Perhaps I shouldn't have ignored all those LinkedIn emails I've been getting. And then I thought of course I should have. It's LinkedIn.
01:08Then I thought maybe the debate was being hosted on Snapchat. And that would be great. That would be perfect because every time they announced a policy it would instantly disappear and there wouldn't have to be any arguing about it. Labor would absolutely love it. In the end I just watched a bunch of cute animal videos.
01:24Of course it's important to embrace new media if the parties want to get their message out there. Sadly the old hands on approach just doesn't work anymore.
01:39As recently disendorsed Liberal candidate for Caldwell and qualified masseuse John Sue discovered when his party discovered that he owned the Victoria Angels brothel escort agency in Frankston.
01:49Name was probably a bit of a giveaway. I mean that sort of in your face one on one or two on one interaction isn't necessary anymore with new media. For example the Northern Territory sports minister Nathan Barrett is a big fan of new media. Having recently sent to a constituent via Facebook videos of himself masturbating with his left hand.
02:10You see it's that sort of personal touch that's missing from politics today. Now obviously you can't do that with every member of your electorate. Although the Herald Sun did point out that they were short videos.
02:25Speaking for myself I prefer the old fashioned way. Politicians getting out there on the hustings and just talking to the voters. That's why I miss not hearing more from Michaelia Cash during this election.
02:34The Liberal Minister for employment and women and the only senator capable of being lip read from over a kilometre away has a way with words which never fails to hold a crowd spellbound. As when she spoke at this group of truckies not so long ago about her own hopes and dreams.
02:49I don't want to be an employee driver. I want to run my own business. I want to take out a mortgage on my house. I want to purchase one of these beautiful wigs that we see here today. And I want to be my own boss.
03:07So look out Mr Turnbull. For a number of reasons. And she's a great communicator though. See she even over enunciates her body language.
03:19Now the Libs Chris German has also turned his back on social media. He put his involvement with the failed web based shutterbug millionaire competition on hold after it went to voluntary administration to run for the seat of McEwen.
03:30So nothing wrong at all with old media even if it's just standing in a still photograph of yourself next to still photographs of yourself.
03:37And why not? An eight week campaign is physically draining. Candidates need to preserve their energy. Look after their voice and be economical with their language.
03:46For example, just for fun, see if you can pick the two words Bill Shorten could have left out of this sentence.
03:51We will not be a big spending government. See and because he did use the words big spending, he let himself open there for a massive slap down from Matthias Cormann.
04:03You can see the pics fly.
04:06It loses something in the translation, doesn't it? But you do have to admire Bill's energy. Last week he did double duty at Skye's People's Forum and debated himself furiously.
04:21When Mr Turnbull didn't turn up, Mr Turnbull preferred to do a sales conference instead.
04:27Still, Malcolm wasn't above a little double duty himself. Usually if a politician doesn't want to answer an interviewer's question, he or she just avoids it.
04:35What they don't do is invite the interviewer to ask the question they intend to avoid.
04:39What those polls tell you is that there's something that you're doing which they don't like.
04:43Why don't you ask me a question about it?
04:46Well, I am asking you a question about it. What do you think has happened that you have lost that ginormous chunk of approval?
04:55Lee, I'm not going to be drawn into that kind of introspection.
05:00Obviously, Malcolm went in with a list of questions he was going to avoid and he was going to make damn sure he avoided them.
05:08Even if he wasn't asked any. Good on him.
05:11But how did Bill go debating himself furiously?
05:14Well, while he was generally considered the winner of the first town hall debate, this time people were much less certain of the outcome.
05:21He does tend to do much better when there's someone to compare him with.
05:24It's like if you just drank canotto all the time, you'd think it was terrible.
05:29Whereas if you occasionally have a sip of sump oil from the drip tray under your car, you'd appreciate it a bit more.
05:36Mmm, into the bin!
05:43Now, the other thing to remember is that with the People's Forum the questions were easier, but the number of people watching was quite small.
05:57Whereas with 7.30 the questions were harder, but the audience was actually bigger.
06:00So, in a sense, Bill Shorten chose Family Feud, while Malcolm Turnbull chose Millionaire Hot Seat.
06:07Which seems only appropriate.
06:09But we're getting to the pointy end of this election run up, so watch out or you could lose an eye.
06:16In fact, Bill Shorten is hosting the official Labour Party campaign launch this Sunday.
06:21Now, that's a tough call for Labour supporters.
06:23Do they attend the launch?
06:24Or do they stay at home and watch repeats of Death Comes to Pemberley and Sean McAuliffe's Man as Hell on ABC1?
06:29Or repeats of Spics and Specs, Seconds from Disaster, The Datas, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow,
06:35Louis Theroux, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, Diary of a Teenage Virgin and Never Mind the Buzzcocks on ABC2.
06:41Or the repeats of Operation Ouch, Degrassi, The Next Generation, Girls in Love and House of Anubis on ABC3.
06:48Or the repeats of Australia-wide Insiders, One Plus One and Planet America on ABC News 24.
06:53Anyway, it's about time he did it.
06:55In my view, according to our own mad-as-hell election date blackboard, there are only how many days to go before the big day?
07:0117 days, 17 days, hurry up, hurry up.
07:07Yes, yes, quite right, Blackboard. I can't wait either.
07:10But Ian Orbspider, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Advanced Quantum Mechanics at Box Hill Tafe,
07:15with a little over a fortnight before the election, is it possible to launch something that's already three-quarters of the way through its journey?
07:22Yes, it is, Sean, but only if you posit, as Godel does, that space-time is curved.
07:27Oh, almighty Thor, take him now!
07:31After all, Short, the Coalition government have proved that time travel is possible in their election ad,
07:37by showing us Bill Shorten in 2012 endorsing their 2016 corporate tax cuts.
07:43And they do frequently, do they not, refer to the Gillard sandwich government between two slices of Kevin Rudd.
07:50Two slices of Kevin Rudd?
07:53Well, he was bred in Queensland.
08:02So, on June 19th, at the launch, what happens, apart from all the former Labour Prime Ministers giving Bill Shorten a standing ovation
08:08while actually wanting to hide under their seats?
08:11Well, Professor Sean, in order to successfully launch their campaign, the ALP will have to transport us back to before the start of it,
08:17which will mean, theoretically, that we'll have to go through those four weeks all over again.
08:22Oh, God. And how could that possibly help Labour?
08:25Well, it would enable them to get David Feeney out of the country.
08:28Why don't they travel forward in time to after the election, beyond the forward estimates, to, say, a decade in the future,
08:33so we could see how their ten-year economic plan went?
08:35I suspect that might not be in Labour's best interest, Sean.
08:38Thank you very much, Ian.
08:40Now, the budget deficit, government debt, spending, company tax cuts, super, are all complicated issues that we don't understand.
08:45And when I say we, I'm including many of our politicians.
08:49Yet it's the same improperly grasped policies that will very likely most influence you when you step into that cardboard urinal on July 2.
08:57And who better to help us misunderstand these things less than mad as hell's own Financy Boy?
09:02Unfortunately, Financy Boy cannot be with us here tonight because we get complaints.
09:14So I'll explain the confusion as best I can.
09:17First up, government debt.
09:18Now, Labour apparently has a ten-year plan to deal with it, while the government has a ten-year plan to deal with it.
09:24Labour says that the deficit needs to get bigger before we get back to surplus, much in the way that when you were a kid,
09:30your father made you smoke an entire packet of cigarettes to make sure you never tried it again.
09:34Whereas the Libs say we have to reduce the deficit and decrease spending to make the economy stronger,
09:38much in the way that bloodletting, a patient in medieval times by a barber, would sometimes cure them of the plague.
09:45Ultimately, they're heading for the same destination from different directions.
09:49In fact, they're really on the same road, in fact, in the same lane, heading for each other, at least as far as the Libs are concerned.
09:55Malcolm Turnbull has said that Bill Shorten was absolutely right when he said company tax cuts would deliver greater productivity and investment,
10:01more jobs and higher wages back in 2011.
10:05The labs say, though, that the fiscal situation has changed since 2011 and that the Coalition actually voted against the company tax cuts at the time.
10:12Advisor to the PM, Belanda Crumpet, have the PM's words come back to bite you on the hand that feeds him.
10:18Oh, Sean, anything can sound unfair if you put it back into context.
10:23But if tax cuts for companies are such a good idea, why did you oppose them five years ago?
10:27Well, to use Labor's own words, things were different fiscally back then.
10:32But why does context matter now, but not back then?
10:35Well, it just depends...
10:36On what?
10:37On who?
10:39If it's us, context doesn't matter now, but it did back then.
10:42If it's Labor, it never mattered at all.
10:44As far as you're concerned?
10:46Of course, as far as we're concerned.
10:48You think we care about what was happening when we weren't in power?
10:51We seem perfectly happy to bag on ad nauseum about Labor's economic mismanagement when they were in power,
10:55except for this one thing which you say is absolutely right, despite the fact that you stopped them from doing it.
11:00Aren't you obliged to be consistent on these things?
11:03Not all the time.
11:06But is the Libs criticism of what the labs are saying now about their 10-year plan fair and reasonable?
11:11Let's analyse this tweet they put out.
11:14First of all, they say, it's not a plan, it's a pamphlet.
11:16That's the sort of line you'd expect from some half-assed comedy show.
11:20But is what Mr Abbott is clutching really a plan for the future of this country, or is it a pamphlet?
11:31Yes, he's very good, isn't he?
11:33Secondly, they say that Labor's plan contains less words and more photos than Taylor Swift's new album.
11:37Is that right, Taylor Swift impersonator Chichi Mozilla?
11:42I don't think so, Sean. Shouldn't it be, contains fewer words?
11:46Oh, it's social media.
11:49Sean, if they're comparing it to Tay-Tay's deluxe album, then the liner notes are pretty extensive.
11:53But if you compare Labor's 10-year plan with what was in the original CD, Labor has the bigger word count for shiz.
11:59America musicians are notoriously sensitive to their music being used in political campaigns without their permission.
12:05How do you think Taylor would feel about her liner notes being used in this way?
12:09I think she'd be, like, totally cray about it, Sean.
12:12T-Swizzle loves getting an award, and for a government in another country to recognise her liner notes as an effective way to solve their economic problems would be, like, a total honour for her.
12:20I only hope Kanye doesn't open his big fat stupid mouth and shit on her parade again, you know?
12:25Yeah, yeah, I hear you, sister.
12:26Hey, do you want me to do my parody version of We're Never Ever Getting Back Together about Labor and the Greens now?
12:30No, no, no, no, I'm good, I'm good.
12:34Now, as this picture suggests, and this one, and this one, the Treasurer Scott Morrison is a man who enjoys sitting on furniture other than chairs.
12:43And he's not at all uncomfortable attacking Labor via a series of graphics on easels, the latest of which refers to Labor's war on growth,
12:50which apparently involves no high taxes on small business, no high taxes on investment, on income, on housing or on electricity,
12:57before admitting down the bottom that he doesn't know what their tax plans are.
13:00Nevertheless, he firmly believes that Bill Shorten has declared war on business, and as a result he's declared war on growth.
13:10A war on both business and growth is a big call, and fighting on two fronts is always difficult. Just ask Napoleon.
13:16Was it?
13:18Yeah.
13:26Yes, a great emperor.
13:28Mike Svengali, you're an undecided voter from Western Sydney that both parties are bending over backwards to look comfortable with.
13:35Can I ask you first, how old is your rat?
13:37Six.
13:38Secondly, your views on negative gearing?
13:40Well, I used to be a labor man all my life, I'm proud of it. Aspirational middle class, that I was.
13:45Pulled up, pulled myself up by my parents' bootstraps and got them to go guarantor on my first home loan.
13:50Didn't know much about negative gearing back then, did I? No, I didn't.
13:53But the lady, the lady who consolidates my debts told me it was the only way I could avoid paying too much to the ex-wife and kids
14:00and still self-manage what's left of my super fund.
14:02Finally, a question for the audience. Does anyone understand how the super changes will affect transitional retirees?
14:09Yes!
14:11And if you'd like to talk to Casper about your superannuation or indeed anything, I'd be very surprised.
14:18Still to come later in the week.
14:21I'm going to the never-never, and when I get back they'll be sorry I ever did.
14:26She can't leave. The containment unit needs you.
14:33Can't or won't?
14:35Once this is all over, you'll go back to your people and so will I.
14:39But until then, we need to stick together. Always.
14:44My mother always said that magic realism on Wednesday doesn't pay the bills on Thursday.
14:48She sounds like a bitch.
14:51We need to have siphoned some of that funding into our own projects.
14:55Another period drama.
14:58Or something featuring Marta Dusseldorf.
15:01Can't you use your psychic powers to bring you back to life?
15:06I told you before, Tia, it only works when I'm pregnant.
15:10Refugees are rising up against their forcible removal.
15:13I have to get to the zone.
15:14Put down your weapon. They are useless against the sub-android mind control.
15:25Ancient mythology, Billy. Can't make that shit up.
15:29Susie, did the medical report on that giant creature they found floating off the coast come in?
15:34The one with the twelve arms?
15:35Sunday, check the DNA, Lieutenant.
15:38It's not human.
15:40Too clever man, point five.
15:42Not really made for an Australian audience.
15:46Well, hello, welcome back.
15:48Back in April, Bill Shorten had a lot to say about the Fair Work Commission's...
15:51Then forthcoming ruling on Sunday penalty rates. He said that if elected, he'd accept the recommendations, but now he says this.
16:07The Fair Work Commission, though, says we should cut penalty rates. Will you accept that?
16:10They're not going to.
16:11Well, what if it does?
16:12Well, sorry.
16:13You know, what if alien life makes contact with the...
16:16Yes.
16:17Now, it's an important qualification.
16:19Labor will accept the Fair Work Commission's decision on Sunday penalty rates if they remain unchanged, which they will unless aliens make contact with the earth.
16:28How likely is that UFO enthusiast, Crane Girdle?
16:30It all depends on the alien species making contact with us, Shorten.
16:35I mean, Bill's assuming that they would be prepared to work Sundays for lower rates than us humans.
16:41Now, now, now.
16:42Where your alien is benign in nature, like your Klaatu's, or your Starman's, or your ETs, or perhaps those childlike creatures at the climax of CE3K.
16:52Place encounters of a third kind.
16:54Well, then I think we should all really start to worry.
16:56Yes.
16:57But your more war-like visitors, like your Predator, or your Blobs, or your stomach-bursting aliens, or your Triffids, or your Deadly Spawns, or your General Zods, or your Mothras, or your brains from the planet Aros, would probably kick up an almighty stink.
17:11Well, hang on, hang on.
17:12Mothra's not from outer space.
17:14Well, no, but she is of divine origin, Sean.
17:17And her two tiny, tiny humanoid companions are known as Shobby-Gin.
17:22Certainly not of this realm.
17:24Yeah, but Mothra's hardly going to be making coffees on Ligon Street Sunday afternoon.
17:29Not for less than $15 an hour, he won't.
17:33Isn't Mothra a girl?
17:35No, she's a moth.
17:37A giant one.
17:40Would you like me to do a song for you, Sean?
17:42Nah, I'm good.
17:43Something that's very apparent, though, from page two of Labor's ten-year economic plan, is that Bill Shorten has a lovely smile.
17:51He looks like a man who enjoys a joke.
17:53Not one of his zingers, obviously.
17:55But then who does?
17:56But he does seem like the sort of guy who'd engage in the sort of jokey blokiness that passes for actually being amusing in this country.
18:03Like when you go into the butchers and he says, oh, here's trouble.
18:06Or when the lady at the pasty shop, you ask how she is and she says, oh, no use complaining.
18:10No one will listen.
18:12To give you a more concrete example, when you climb aboard the Labor campaign bus and Bill says, welcome everybody to the Bill bus.
18:21You see what I mean?
18:22That sort of meaningless repartee that wastes your time and mental energy processing it, but isn't quite annoying enough to justify reaching out and trying to strangle him.
18:32Anyway, because I'm interested in comedy, I don't know if you remember, but I used to be Nobby Doldrums on Full Frontal.
18:37I thought I'd try and analyse why he thought welcome to the Bill bus was worth saying in the first place.
18:44I mean, yes, it's two consecutive words starting with the same letter.
18:47So clearly he's targeting that big pro-alliteration demographic in Western Sydney.
18:51And then I thought maybe he was going to say welcome to the Shorten bus, which sounds a bit more dignified.
18:56But as he started to say the sentence, he suddenly realised that Shorten bus would sound too much like the film Short Bus,
19:01which as a film about orgies featuring actual explicit penetrative sex, he thought might not play well in middle Australia.
19:10So he switched to Bill at the last minute, something he thinks you'll do on July 2nd.
19:14Just a theory, what do you think? Send your entries to Sean, you're completely overthinking it, care of the ABC, etc.
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19:39This week on Four Corners, a farmer's life, a look at what it takes to run an Australian farm, rain, hail or shine, through the eyes of those who do it every day.
19:51That's Four Corners, Monday, 8.30.
19:56Well, coming up a little later on in sport, sport.
20:03Well, may as well do it now, I suppose.
20:04The International Tennis Federation has placed a two-year ban on former world number one Maria Sharapova after testing positive to the drug meldonium.
20:13Now, putting to one side the shock of a Russian athlete using performance-enhancing substances,
20:18the two-year ban will result in Sharapova's ranking plummeting hundreds of places to levels still above most Australian women's tennis players.
20:25But what do we know about the drug meldonium?
20:28No, that's a melodica.
20:30That's a harmonium.
20:35I want a meldonium.
20:41Am I going to have to come up there?
20:46Chunketta Tung, you've taken meldonium for many years and clearly you're not an athlete.
20:50What do you take the drug for, an idiot?
20:56Sorry, what do you take the drug for?
20:58Yes, Sean, I just work in abattoir admin, but I take meldonium for ischemia, which is a condition where there is insufficient blood flow to organs like the heart.
21:07And what does the drug do exactly?
21:12Well, it expands the arteries, which increases the flow of blood and oxygen around the body.
21:16Are there any side effects?
21:26Not that I've encountered, Sean.
21:30And if you or anyone you know needs help with meldonium abuse issues, you can call the meldonium helpline on 1800...
21:40Well, the Liberal member for the WA seat of Canning, former SAS member Andrew Hastie, looks like delivering on his campaign promise of not being another politician.
21:51He's already not another soldier, having successfully been sacked from the Army Reserve for refusing to remove images of himself in army camouflage from campaign materials.
22:01Labor candidate from Brisbane, Pat O'Neill, faced similar censure from the ADF over his billboard, having to take it down because ADF members are banned from taking part in political activities while dressed in camouflage.
22:13Particularly in such highly visible advertising.
22:15Surely, though, there's no problem with the soldier being seen wearing camouflage because, being camouflaged, you wouldn't be able to see him in the first place.
22:23And if the camouflage is highly visible, I would definitely be taking it back to the quartermaster.
22:28Right, Joint Chief of Staff, Vice Rear, Cabin Boyce and Bobo Gaggle, conspicuous in battle ribbon with clasp and bar?
22:34Well, Sean, if you're asking me whether the Army has acted in a hasty fashion, or hasty has acted in an Army fashion, then I would say now is not the time for clever epigrams.
22:44Well, it's just as well.
22:45For is it better to die on one's feet than live on one's O'Neills?
22:50Sean, I'm just an apolitical Navy man, or woman, let's not be sexist about this.
22:55Like our PM, I'm a feminist. I make no distinction between men or women. Guys, girls, they're all the same to me.
23:05But why the fuss about a few billboards?
23:07Appearing in uniform on a poster might give the impression that the ADF was taking sides, and we have to remain impartial.
23:14On the fence?
23:15Well, not on defence, obviously. We have to take sides when we're fighting.
23:19I mean, good God, could you imagine helping the Syrian government forces with air support and dropping weapons to the PKK while we're up there?
23:28Actually, I think that is what we're doing.
23:31I mean, obviously, we've been engaged in toppling dictators in other countries, but our regime change services are strictly for international markets.
23:40Like Foster's and Bindi Irwin.
23:41What about Andrew Hastie's point that the former Defence Chief David Morrison politicised the ADF when he demanded women be treated equally?
23:49Well, Sean, gender politics is not a political issue. I'm not about to make it one.
23:53Like our PM, I want to smash that glass ceiling as much as the next man, or at least put a crack in it.
24:00And if you can't contain the crack in it?
24:02Well, then...
24:03I'll release the crack in it!
24:15Sean!
24:24Actually, speaking of zombies, and that's not a line you often hear on a news programme.
24:28Actually, speaking of zombies...
24:31My mistake. There's been a lot of talk about zombies lately, be they zombie measures, zombie U-turns or zombie cuts, which actually can be quite nasty.
24:40The Greens leader Richard Di Natale has taken things too far. Are you listening to this?
24:45It's very interesting, Sean.
24:48The Senator has accused Labor of resurrecting the zombie of Tony Abbott.
24:52Now, you can't resurrect a zombie, can you?
24:55A zombie is already by its very nature resurrected.
24:58You kill a zombie by destroying its brain. That's it. It can't come back to life after coming back to life once its brain has been destroyed.
25:04What about Kevin Rudd?
25:06That's a very good point.
25:08Shut up and stop eating with your mouth full.
25:12Still to come later in the week.
25:13We believe that an informed...
25:16One of our greatest Prime Ministers as seen through the eyes of another.
25:20Oh, oh yes, I had the great pleasure of meeting Sir Robert Menzies on several occasions.
25:25We first met at a young Liberals ball and I was a-dancing with Jeanette and he cut in.
25:31And anyway, as we waltzed together he told me of his plan to force conscription on the young men of Australia
25:36and plunge our country and into an unwinnable war with Vietnam.
25:41Now, privately, I felt this was the act of an unhinged lunatic
25:45obsessed with making up for his own cowardice back in 1939.
25:49But I-I kept my own counsel and we-we had a very wonderful evening.
25:53Now, he and Dane Paddy invited us back to their place for what in the 60s was called a freak-out.
25:59And a milo laced with LSD.
26:02I-I don't remember much of it, to be honest.
26:05Although I-I did have a vague memory of snorting cocaine off Wendy Whiteley's naked back.
26:11By the morning I-I was a fully signed-up member of the Liberal Party.
26:16So it ended well.
26:19Welcome back.
26:22Radical cleric Cardinal George Pell turned 75 last week
26:26and according to ancient tradition of honouring and obeying everything else in the Catholic Church just because it's old,
26:31George must tender his resignation, although the Pope doesn't have to accept it.
26:35In fact, the resignation is just for show, isn't it, Bishop Straitman?
26:38There's no way George will leave the Vatican, as his response to the summons to appear at the Royal Commission proved.
26:42Sean, his most holy and invisible-at-the-hearing Pell treats his role as Vatican, my budget consultant, very seriously,
26:50as indeed he does all aspects of his posting here.
26:54No, no, you've put the chances back on the horse!
26:57Oh, hello. Here, George wants to cut his cake now, he says the girl's suffocating in there.
27:03Have you seen me sterling silver sword?
27:05I'm doing an interview. Get out.
27:07Oh, I know. Oh!
27:08So, so the Cardinal is celebrating his birthday, is he?
27:12Oh, his magnificence does not bother himself with such mortal trifles, Sean.
27:17He is, even as we speak, in his vestibule composing his humble letter of resignation to the...
27:22No, no, he's already done it. See, here it is.
27:25Pretend letter of resignation, not to be taken seriously.
27:28I told you to get this out.
27:30Oh, matron, please!
27:32Well, surely he must be doing something for his birthday.
27:34Well, we all chipped in and bought a divinity, a remaindered Pope Benedict Snowglobe.
27:41A modest gift for a modest man.
27:44Yes, I know. I wanted to get him a jeweled carriage pulled by nude golden robots that haven't been invented yet,
27:50so we can go to the toilet in style. But she says, no, it's too ostentatious.
27:54Oh! Look at the size of that thing!
27:59Oh, mother of God!
28:02Oh, yes, I know!
28:05Well, not coming up because Chase's election desk is on next.
28:10Brainwashed citizens indulge dictators' insane fancies
28:15and much-loved queens celebrated by her people.
28:21Now, before we go, just another couple of observations about Labor's 10-year plan,
28:25because I think the story of Labor's economic plan is told more in the imagery they've used than the words.
28:30For example, the front cover.
28:32Notice that someone else has the plans and not Bill.
28:35And by the looks of him, he's probably from the CFMEU.
28:37So the 10-year plan could well take 15 years and cost twice as much as they originally quoted.
28:44The other thing I noticed was how similar it is to the Coalition's Real Solutions Plan of 2013.
28:49There's the Real Solutions cover, and this is from the back page of the Labor plan.
28:54I mean, apart from the fact that Labor look a lot happier to be working together
28:58and don't have enough chairs, they look identical.
29:01Right? Right down to the Venetian blinds.
29:03If only we could get them in the same room like that, think how much work would be accomplished.
29:07Good night.
29:09Charge, baby!
29:14Oh, Matron, please!
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