Mrs Duffy was right - 12 May, 2026

Ajouté : 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Good morning. The Prime Minister softening us up for the uh promises he's going to break in the budget tonight. Again, yesterday, he was out there saying that when governments see better options or necessity forces them to, then they need to change course. Well, of course they do, but nothing's changed between the last election and now.

[00:00:19]Nothing except the political interests of the current government. There's nothing wrong in governments, of course, wanting to change their mind or policy.

[00:00:27]But, you take it to the people.

[00:00:28]Otherwise, what's the use of having elections, Prime Minister?

[00:00:31]You went to the people not long ago promising one set of policies, and now in several very important areas you're going to change it. And you're saying it's for the betterment of the country.

[00:00:43]Well, if you really think that's true, you should have taken it to the last election.

[00:00:47]That's what courageous Prime Ministers do. Bob Hawke did it in 1984.

[00:00:52]John Howard did it in 1998, the GST election.

[00:00:57]But, if we know anything about our current Prime Minister, he is no Bob Hawke, and he is no John Howard.

[00:01:03]So, tonight, he'll break the promise at a time when as voters have have shown all around the place, people have a a lack of trust in democracy or diminishing trust in democracy.

[00:01:15]They undermine it more by breaking their promises to the people they lead. It's terrible.

[00:01:22]I get a lot of correspondence from people wondering about Australian values and how they've changed, and I often reply in terms of population and demographics.

[00:01:33]Always they tell a story.

[00:01:35]Since the year 2000, we've grown our population by something like 42%.

[00:01:41]We were 20 million, we're now 27 million.

[00:01:46]There are 33% of Australians now who come from another country. Nothing wrong with that.

[00:01:54]But, it changes things, doesn't it?

[00:01:56]There are more than 50% of Australians who either come from another country or have parents who come from another country.

[00:02:02]Nothing wrong with that, but it changes a country.

[00:02:06]If you don't know anything about a nation's history, how can you then inherit the culture of that country?

[00:02:14]Whether it's something like the fair go or tolerance for others.

[00:02:18]A lot of the immigration's good.

[00:02:21]Some of it is not very good at all.

[00:02:24]But our politicians refuse to see that.

[00:02:27]They locked locked into with this blanket vision of more people the merrier.

[00:02:34]Well, as we're seeing around the place, it's not always for the merrier. I don't know if you're following the Royal Commission set up after the set up belatedly by the Prime Minister following the tragic events, the horrendous events at Bondi Beach last December.

[00:02:48]But I listened yesterday to Deborah Conway, one of our finest singers, talking about how she's been pilloried for the for the policies of the Israeli government. What's that got to do with Jews living in Australia?

[00:03:02]Even a lot of Jews in Israel don't like the policies of the Israeli government.

[00:03:06]Some do. Many don't.

[00:03:09]But why on earth this anti-Semitism in Australia? Where's that come from?

[00:03:13]So, when the government tells us everything's fine, everything is not fine.

[00:03:17]It hasn't been fine for a long time. If this Royal Commission finds out nothing else, it must find out where has that come from?

[00:03:25]What has led to what happened at Bondi Beach?

[00:03:28]Why is it that some of our finest entertainers can't get work because they're Jewish?

[00:03:33]And the Prime Minister wants to tell us he's bringing the country together. That everything's fine.

[00:03:38]Everything isn't fine.

[00:03:41]I was thinking about that last night when I was sitting I was listening to Keir Starmer, the soon-to-be outgoing Prime Minister of Britain.

[00:03:51]He really is appalling.

[00:03:54]And he said, talking about George Orwell the other day, he said I don't want to leave right now and leave the country in chaos.

[00:04:06]Putting to one side for just a moment that the reason he's about to leave is because of the chaos he's created.

[00:04:14]These people are unbelievable.

[00:04:16]I recall to a lady called Gillian Duffy most people will never have heard of.

[00:04:23]Gillian Duffy was a lady I think in the north of England who in their election campaign of 2010 when Gordon Brown, formerly Tony Blair's Chancellor, became Prime Minister was seeking re-election.

[00:04:36]And he was in the north and um Mrs. Duffy went up to him and said Prime Minister, we've got too many migrants.

[00:04:45]And Brown deflected it and tried to argue back.

[00:04:49]And then he got back in his car and said Who put me with that bigoted woman?

[00:04:53]Words to that effect.

[00:04:55]She's a bigot because she thought in 2010 that they had too many migrants.

[00:05:04]I don't know what ever happened to Mrs. Duffy, but I know what's happened to every government since.

[00:05:10]Mrs. Duffy was right.

[00:05:12]Have a great day.