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Chapter 1: What is the 'Trump effect' in Australia?
Donald Trump is an international disgrace, an international embarrassment, and we're seeing the Trump effect take place today in Australia. It is in effect there where Donald Trump has changed the dynamic of the election in Australia. The MAGA party there, or the MAGA party leader, a guy by the name of Peter Dutton, Timu Trump, they call him in Australia was once leading in the polls.
Chapter 2: Who are the key political figures in the Australian election?
He's from the liberal party in Australia, which is confusingly their conservative party in Australia. He was expected to become the prime minister there months ago, but as Donald Trump has attacked the entire world and has caused devastation to our ally, caused harm to our ally in Australia, uh, The polls change there.
The current prime minister, Anthony Albanese is expected to go on to keep a labor. That's like their liberal party, even though it's going to be the labor parties, their more left party there, the labor party majority in Australia. And no one expected that to happen. If you were looking at the polls, take a look here. This looks very similar to what we saw in Canada yesterday.
You see the blue right there is the liberal block right there. And you see based on the latest polymarket estimation, at least as of this recording, their odds of holding on to or getting a majority now at 4.5%, the Labor Party, 95.5% chance there as voting is underway today, Saturday, May 3rd. record early voter turnout in Australia.
And look, the people of Australia, like the people of Canada, by and large, hate, hate, hate Donald Trump. I mean, just take a look right here. They had big hands-off protests in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks back. Just a reminder, here's what was going on there. All right. Now, here is their MAGA candidate, Peter Dutton, in Australia. You can see him right here.
Chapter 3: How have Trump’s tactics influenced Australian politics?
He refers to the national broadcasters there as hate media, very similar to the way Donald Trump would call the media here, or calls the media fake media, an enemy of the people. Dutton, Timu Trump, as they call him in Australia, the leader of the Liberal Party there, would always talk about woke this, woke that. Here, let's play this clip right here.
Chapter 4: What are the election predictions for Australia?
I have no doubt in my mind that we can win this election. Forget about what you're being told by the ABC and the Guardian and the other hate media. Forget about that.
I'm looking at the YouGov polls right here. YouGov, as of this recording, predicting a 97% chance that Labor will hold on to its majority. On the eve of the elections in Australia, one of the things that was uncovered as well, although the Liberal Party in Australia... that this is taking place. But what can you say? I mean, this is what Chris Lasavita, Donald Trump's campaign manager is on tape.
He's on a zoom saying it apparently that he was helping the liberal party in Australia. So a Trump campaign manager is, said you listen to you for yourself what he said helping the liberal party in australia the duttons so now dutton has to be like no no no we don't want anything to do with that here watch this clip from seven news australia great work seven news play this clip
Anthony Albanese campaigning at a school in Perth as Donald Trump appears to make a last foray into the Australian election campaign. The Centre for Climate Reporting placing on its website undercover video of Chris Lasavita
Donald Trump's co-manager of campaigning last year at his very successful presidential campaign, Chris LaCivita claims in this video that he's been assisting the Liberal Party in campaign strategy with some of its structural issues. The claim made a couple of weeks ago suggests that the advice was coming as the Australian federal election began.
I was in Australia two weeks ago helping the Liberal Party there on some of their structural issues that they were having with Peter Dutton.
Now, the Liberal Party flatly denies its engaged Chris LaCivita and says that he's had no contact with Peter Dutton. Here's what Anthony Albanese says.
The campaign of the Liberal Party has become more and more right wing under Peter Dutton.
What to make of the Liberal Party advice? Who knows? But we can say this. Donald Trump's spectre over the Australian election campaign has not helped. The Liberal Party won bit. It's been associated as being too close to him. In fact, before the election, appeared to want to adopt some of his policies. That's been damaging for them almost certainly.
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Chapter 5: What role does climate change play in the Australian election?
Now, one of the things you'll notice as well in the debate that took place between the MAGA candidate, Timu Trump, Peter Dutton and the current prime minister, Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party. In Albanese's kind of closing remarks of the debate, he was asked a question about, you know, what do you think is some of the biggest threats? What do you worry about the most?
And one of the things he said is that take a look at Dutton. This guy spreads lies about climate change. And then one of the things that Anthony Albanese also says is we have to focus a lot in Australia on our regional partners. And notice what he says here about China, too, that we have a good trading relationship with China, a good trading relationship with other Southeast Asian nations.
And notice that he mentions that a lot. As being a priority. And he's like, you know, Albanese saying what climate change is woke and all of these. We don't need that in Australia. He goes because our trading partners in our region also recognize that climate change is real and it's a threat. Enough of this MAGA stuff here.
Play this clip. The uncertain world that we inherit. In uncertain times, it's the last time where you'd wanna take a risk. Peter spoke about his long experience, and that's true, but that's the problem. Every Pacific leader remembers him joking about water lapping at their doors. For the Pacific Island Novas, it's not a joke, climate change.
Chapter 6: How is the Australian Liberal Party responding to Trump’s influence?
It's something that is the entry fee to credibility in our region. With our ASEAN Novas, I brought every ASEAN leader down to Australia last March, every leader. came here and we've developed constructive relationships.
We've managed to build our relationship with Japan and Korea, including our defence relationships, at the same time as we've restored more normal relations with China, bringing back $20 billion of trade That was stopped with the impediments that were put in place.
There were not even a phone call between any Australian government minister and our major trading partner during the last term of parliament. That's it. Thank you kindly.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of Chris LaCivita's involvement?
Now, again, it reminds me as well, you know, you had Mark Carney since he's become prime minister. No one expected in Canada. the Liberal Party in Canada to go on to even hold a Liberal minority government there. No one thought that was, everyone thought Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party was going to go on and win.
But the Trump effect in Canada, the Trump effect in Australia, and you see how people are standing up to Trump. This is Prime Minister Carney from yesterday saying, talking about visiting the White House, but on his own terms, and that never will he ever be agreeable to the 51st state or anything like that. He's like, that's not happening, period, full stop.
Here, watch this clip of Prime Minister Carney.
In your second call with the president, did Mr. Trump outright say or insinuate at any point that Canada should become the 51st state?
He did not. No.
All right. We've heard Mr. Trump on April 23rd and his surrogates throughout the final days of the campaign reiterate the idea that they believe Canada should become the 51st state on the campaign trail. You said on multiple occasions that respect for Canada would be one of the key things in terms of having a meeting with him.
Do you think over the past few days we have seen respect for Canada from the Trump administration?
Look, it's always important to distinguish want from reality. What someone wants and what is reality and what the Canadian people clearly have stated, virtually without exception, is this will never, ever happen.
Now, one of the things I think is notable, too, to think about is There should be an easy trade deal to have with Australia. The United States does not have a trade deficit with Australia. There's an existing trade deal in place. The fact that Trump can't even do a trade deal in Australia, as of this point, tells you what a bad dealmaker Donald Trump is.
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Chapter 8: What are the challenges facing Peter Dutton in this election?
And it could be that they're just waiting for the elections because they know that Donald Trump is... is a major factor in the elections in a bad way. But here's Justin Wolfer's economics professor at University of Michigan. And he's like, this was recorded on April 22nd, where he thought, come on, Donald's going to be able to at least announce some deal with Australia, right?
Because there's no trade deficit with Australia. There's already an existing deal. You should be able to announce this, but Donald Trump has not been able to do so. Here, play this clip.
I do want to point one thing out. At some point in the next couple of weeks, they're going to front the press and say, hey, we got a new trade deal with blank. It'll be some country. Pretty good chance it'll be Australia, actually. And they're going to say, look at this amazing trade deal we got with Australia. No tariffs with Australia.
The thing I want your viewers to understand is we already had no tariffs with Australia. We had a free trade agreement. We had very close to no tariffs with Europe, with every other major trading partner, with very few exceptions. So he's going to trot out and declare victory for giving us back the economy that we had in the days before April 2.
Oh, also, going back to Canada for a second, the leader of the Conservative Party Their Timu Trump, their Maple Maga, Pierre Poliev, lost his seat, lost his riding, as they call it, in Canada. And he bullied a member. This happened yesterday. He bullied someone who has a riding in Alberta where there was an 80% conservative vote.
for this other guy to forfeit his writing so Pierre Poliev could stay in Parliament, could stay in the House of Commons. So Pierre Poliev took somebody's seat, which you can do in Canada. I mean, which is fairly embarrassing right there. Let me show you this one other clip of Peter Dutton saying woke this, woke that so you can see it. Let's play this clip. How are you defining woke?
Well, I answered that question yesterday. I think the point that I see that's of interest as well is what we would do in relation to education funding and health funding. We are absolutely committed to health and education funding as the numbers appear in the budget papers.
So before the Prime Minister goes off trying to scare people again, and that's what he's doing at the moment because he's trying to pick fights, he's trying to scare people, but he's, you know, maybe good at that. I'll tell you what he's very bad at, that is helping families.
Australian families... If indoctrination was your word, what topics are indoctrination that's in the curriculum?
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