The Chaser Report - (Sh)It's On - Final Election 2025 Predictions

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

As the election campaign comes to a close, Charles and Dom gather their thoughts on the last five weeks from Dutton and Albanese. Charles is as reserved as ever, and provides the calm and partisan analysis that will see him replace Antony Green. Meanwhile Dom makes an extremely bold prediction about the outcome for a certain H. Fong. Tune in on Monday to see how much of this was completely off the mark. Good luck voting! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chaser Report is recorded on Gadigal Land. Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chaser Report. Hello and welcome to The Chaser Report with Dom and Charles. Charles, this is such an exciting moment for the nation. Election junkies are about to have their happiest day in three years. And the vast majority of people who are absolutely bored out of their mind with the election are about to experience the end. Plus the chance to eat a sausage, which apparently is.

the highlight of the whole thing for most of us. Yeah, it's on. It's completely on tomorrow. A lot of commentators have been saying that Dutton didn't win a single day in this election. Yes, Nicky Sava wrote that I saw in The Herald. Yes. And I think what was interesting about Thursday's sort of let's clutch victory from the jaws of defeat was the coalition who pride themselves on being better managers of the economy. They do. They always say that, yes. launched the most half-assed costings I think I've ever seen any political party do I struggle to think

I just don't understand because did you see it Dom did you see what they said Charles did you see the I just before you get into this we're encouraging people to listen to the whole episode of the podcast we've already said it's about the election which is a bit of a tough sell at this point

Yeah, and you're now going, I'm going to look at the budget figures. I think we should, but let's at least just take a moment to acknowledge, well, there's, I want to talk about H. Fong at some point. The person who is making, certainly Peter Dutton's personal popularity figures look rosy of Trump of the Patriots, I want to talk about many things that might happen about, and we're going to try and predict some of the results. Oh, no, we're going to do, it's on. We're calling me an election.

So, yeah, we'll be the first to call and the last to call. Yeah. But we will have to talk. about the costing because that's the big news of the day. But just to reassure everyone, that's not all we're going to talk about after the time. No, no, we're going to only talk about the costings and we won't get to any of the other stuff that we play. After these ads. So Charles, let me just pose you a question, which is that if you're unveiling a set of numbers to try and win an election at the last minute, you've been behind the polls and your Angus Taylor,

your shadow treasurer gets up to dazzle the electorate, My question is, what is the time frame over which your numbers should be looked at? Because that's the issue here, isn't it? It depends which period of time you look at the projections. Yes, but what I'm saying, Dom, is, and we should get to the projections in a sec, but what I'm saying is I think I really understand. I empathise entirely with where Angus Taylor and Peter Dutton are coming from, right? Which is, because I'm one of those people.

I'm one of those people who believe you've got to spend money to make money. right and that that is the liberal party's whole pitch right their whole pitch is our deficit numbers are going to be worse for the next two years than labors but then after that we're we're just going to it's just going to be clean sailing we're going to be best so their whole idea is you've got to spend money to make money and so you drill you go okay well that that sounds interesting because it was all framed in the idea of it's all about repairing labor's mistakes yeah Right. Would they use the term black hole? I'm not sure. Yeah. So what's this repair that costs so much money? Because isn't the repair based in, you know, like if you're repairing a deficit, the way to do it is to stop spending.

Like if you go, oh, shit, you know, like we're, you know, we don't have enough money. What are we going to do? The normal thing is not to go, well, why don't we repair it by going out and buying a really expensive repair? But, Charles, there's an election to win. in the offing. You've got to spend money to win the election so you can bring in

your sound economic management. You can't have the sound economic management, Charles, until you spend a lot of money to buy the election. That's the way it works. But the cost is on, it's the petrol,

a temporary discount on petrol and a temporary tax offset, which is very complicated, costing $1,200 per person or whatever, and they're the big costs that is going to repair Labor's budget.

But that doesn't repair anything. It just spends more money. Like if your whole thing is that Labor is flagrantly spending money, you can't just go and say, well, the way we're going to repair it is to spend different money more than them. Let me just. It's so dumb. Let me just give the numbers. This is the dumbest fucking party.

This is the dumbest election. I am so close to saying Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor are moles for the Labor Party. That's how shit today's announcement was. Let's look at the numbers, Charles. It's very hard. For those who haven't looked at the detail, you've jumped to the conclusion, to the analysis. But what they're saying is that if you elect the coalition tomorrow, you'll end up $14 billion better off. Okay, that's where we're going to get to.

But that's in four years. In two years, we'll be $8 billion worse off than Labor. The one problem with that, Charles, is that parliamentary terms are three years. So if you elect a Dutton government, you've got two years of being worse than Labor. than you would have been under Labor, then you get better if you re-elect them as a reward for having been worse than Labor would have been. And you mentioned paying off the deficit.

They're not going to do that. They're just saying, oh, we'll definitely pay off the deficit and return to surplus faster than Labor, hypothetically would. That's what they've said. So maybe if you look at it over 100 years, Charles, we'd be dramatically better off, is what they're saying, but we don't know how much. But it's so, like, is there a single voter who goes,

Oh wow, I'm really glad. But I feel like what they were doing was going, well, we lost every day of the election pretty stunningly. How do we really lose it the second last day of the election? Like, it was almost like they were just trying to achieve a PB on going badly on election day. But you've also, you've got a note as well. This was the one day. The Costings day. Because the Costings Day is just that's a liberal frame.

It's just like the liberal, yeah, the liberals are bastards. They're just, you know, like they take money from the poor. But the other thing to note, Charles, is that what they do, the reason, so they have their big cash splash. But as we've discussed before, theirs is a temporary sugar hit. And then they cancel Labor's tax cuts. So they're saying, what they're saying to people is, we would be better off, but only over four years, not two years. And part of that will be. canceling your tax cuts.

So you'll be paying more tax to be worse off. Like, it's quite a strange thing. But you see what I mean? Like, I kind of feel like there's something else going on. Like, there's something we're not seeing. Like, you're going, because otherwise, otherwise, the other explanation is that they are literally like you or me, Dom. Like, we've all been to university where you're hand in an essay. Try to black it.

My approach to university is you try and blag it at the last minute. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you're blagg it at the last minute. You just sort of, and you just go, it's all right. Like, the plan sucks, but I'll just be able to spin it. Like, I'll just tell. I saw you do that in that class we took together. Yeah, yeah.

You probably saw me do the same thing. I'll just do it through charm. But the thing is, like, like, it's such contempt for Australian. Did they, what did that, what's going through their mind? Like, I just don't understand how it can be so. bed. Well, there's a couple of new things, Charles. There's one detail that we didn't know about until today, which might actually have been popular. They're taxing the crap out of vaping. $3.6 billion they want to raise from a vaping tax.

The other element is that we now know how we've been talking the whole time about public servants now changes all the time. They've now clarified that yeah, they're going to sack 41,000 public servants, but only the ones based in Canberra, not frontline and security workers. And there's only 60,000 or odd. public servants in Canberra. So the actual thing, I'm assuming they're going to announce tomorrow is that what they're actually going to do there, their last minute pitch to the Australian people, is the end of Canberra.

Like, what is Canberra? And that swings the election. That's what potentially swing. You haven't noticed the devil in the detail. It's the end of Canberra. So what you're saying is that they haven't gone shit enough. If they've gone full 360 shit and gone, we'll just blow. Well, we'll nuclear.

bomb Canberra with all the nuclear With that they won't nuclear bomb They'll just Elon Canberra They'll doge Canberra They'll doge Camber It's a slow doge over a few years But by the time No no no no no

The whole point about populism is Nothing can be so This is the other thing They don't get populism Nobody wants oh we're better off In four years time Like even Peter Dutton's whole campaign This week has been

Are you better off Than you were three years ago It's got to be like I'll be better off tomorrow Like what did Trump run on He didn't run on I'm going to solve Ukraine in a hundred days He wrote

He said day one Day one When he was president elect He said he told It doesn't matter what Like if you're not going to deliver Like Because it's all rubbish

Like all the budget predictions are rubbish Everything's rubbish Like and their cynicism just shines through They know it's rubbish They don't even care about it I think this is my favourite one Charles I don't know

you've seen this detail in the plan public service sackings. Jane Humes, they've gotten together with the Parliamentary Budget Office to work the whole thing out. And what they're doing is they're getting rid of... Presumably whom they're going to also cut. Well, I think that's the one group you keep, right? Because you can't tell them you're going to cut them.

They won't put that one through. 5,000 or so of the jobs. This is rather brilliant, Charles. I don't think this has been done before. 5,000 of the 41,000 are people who haven't been hired yet. So you're cutting jobs that don't exist. you're wrong actually that has been done it was a plot line on yes minister 35 years ago all right so

you're underwhelmed by the coalition's costings have you seen labor's costing you normally the government has more time and they've got treasury to do their costings have we seen i mean is it just that labors costings came out and everyone was so underwhelmed that it didn't really make headlines i don't know they said that they had released i don't know so they have no idea so well we're not talking about them at all which goes to show that they've made absolutely no different to show Well, don't you think that it's a masterstroke? Like, if somebody, the rule of politics is if your opponent is stuffing up, just leave them alone. Like, I think that's been the brilliant thing about the Labour Party's campaign is it's just been highlighting Peter Dutton.

Like, every time an ad comes on for the Liberal Party and it's got Peter Dutton in it, you go, is that an attack ad? And then it turns out to be a Liberal Party ad. And you go, why would you put Peter Dutton if you're wanting Beatton? able to vote liberal. What are we forecasting then, Charles? If you seem to be thinking Dutton's in a bit of a doom spiral here, the polls, certainly, if you believe the polls, and increasingly I'd never do, but if you believe all the polls, all the polls say Labor's in, do you think they get a majority in their own right?

Or do you think it's a hundred parliament? No. No. So there has been no government in Australia since 1901 that has increased its vote after a first term in government. There is a solid gold fact. That's a good fact, right? So that will not happen.

Ugov says it will. Like Albo is not the leader. And if he is the leader to do that, fuck you, Australia. Fuck you. You turn in that and you vote for that in an increased majority. If Anthony Albinesee comes back

and wins an increased majority, if the UGov poll is right and he gets in the 80s in the House of Reps. Won't that be just the most wholehearted endorsement for a minimalist campaign? I mean, that will basically show a generation of politicians that you just need to go, well, here's a few. The biggest, the cost of living election, the housing crisis, a couple of bill, and we're good. That's all, that's as ambitious as you need to be. Yeah, look, no, if Alba gets an increased majority, I'm going to put it on record.

I'm moving. I'm moving to where? To Merrickville? No, I can't afford it. Can't afford. The only thing is, I don't know where to move. I'm going to move to America. No fucking way.

You wouldn't get into America, I don't think, at this point. If they look at your social media. So, the point is, so that's not going to happen. I just don't think, I think the whole thing is everyone gets very, and this is a point that James Schleffel, who I'm on tour with at the moment, was making today, which is everyone in the last week always gets very excited and makes these bold predictions. But actually, you've got to follow Cook's law of Australian elections, which is it's always the most boring result.

What was everyone predicting at the beginning of the year? That, you know, essentially, and at the beginning of the campaign, it was essentially that Labor would sort of probably end up in minority government, maybe liberal minority government. I think that you're going to end the election going, yeah, yeah, it's just that Labor's sort of slightly better off than they were at the beginning of the election campaign. So I think you've got to say And the other thing to say is

That does not mean that I'm predicting That the libs are going to pick up seed But I think what we're going to see Is we're going to see a little bit of a reorientation I think I'm going with minus four for labour Really? I'm going with plus say two for the teals

I think the teals Actually automatically lose one seat You think they'll North Sydney Yeah they have already Yeah Kylie tink's gone Just by through the registration You think, where will they pick up the teals?

I thought a few of them were in trouble. So there's, so there's a few interesting seats. Well, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a fucking Anthony Green, but there's a Climate 200 candidate over in Western Australia that... Alex Dyson from Triple J could be interesting in Wannan. And the other one is, the other one is Bradfield. Bradfield could be interesting.

That's the north shore of Sydney. But also, don't you think that they're sort of underreported because everyone's going, oh, this is last year's, last season's news. But actually, the teals have been chipping away. Nicolette Bowler's the one who might get up in Bradford. I think they're a surprise on the upside. Hang on, I'm giving serious predictions. This is the chase run.

I'm supposed to you're making jokes. No, no. And then, no, no, because I've been thinking about it. Because I take my job seriously, don't. of Australia's most unjustifiably confident analysts, yeah. Greens down by, I'd say, at least one in Queensland. See, forget the Greens for a second. Possibly too.

The thing that's up for grabs in this election, Charles, it's not the Greens, it's the green. It's dignity. It's Anthony Green. We need a new Anthony Green, Charles. No, Casey's put Casey Briggs forward. I think you could sneak in. You could be the most reliable analyst to say. This is what I'm doing at the moment.

This is why I'm putting it all on record. Can you just have a touch screen malfunction? And he always has one of those early in the on election night. Just get one of those, reboot your computer, take some ads, and then you can unleash your calls. I can be a good-looking Antony Green. That's where I'm going to be. That is so unfair to Anthony Green, and to yourself, frankly.

All right. The Chaser Report, less news more often. So what do you call? I want to call one thing from the off, that I think no one's seen the master plan except me. I know you, Charles. I don't have your confidence, but... Nat's down by one, by the way.

Warren H. is retiring. Okay. Sorry. I think one thing definitely going to happen is that I think H. Fong gets elected to the Senate. Name recognition. I mean, yes, okay. A lot of people who aren't happy. But I think what you'll see tomorrow, Charles,

is the final text from H. Fong, coming out to everyone's phone, saying, if you never want to see... But text like this ever again, vote H. Fong in the Senate. And I think everyone's just going to, no matter what party support, everyone's going to vote for that. So a Fong avalanche. Yeah. A Fong a latch.

Fong a latch, yeah. It's not even a pun. I'm not like, I think we were discussing this yesterday on the podcast, which is, I think there's every chance that they'll do a lot better than anyone thinks because they've got a much better name, Trumpet of Patriots. That's the thing. I'm interested in them winning because if they win, I'm hoping they'll actually explain what a trumpet of patriots is. It's actually not clear what they mean. Like, it's not Donald Trump.

Is it a trumpet for patron? No, but it's very strange. No, it's to appeal to people. It's to dog whistle about Trump, but without saying Trump. Do you think it's that or do you think it's that, Clive Palmer's worried he's got to pay a license fee if he calls it, you know, the Australian Trump party or something?

Yeah, yeah. It's copyright. sort of a dog, yeah. Trump brands, very valuable. Donald Trump. I'm just looking for Trump on the ballot paper because I believe in tariffs. I think one result that's worth watching, Charles,

do you think Peter Dutton loses Dixon? Because there's a lot of talk about this. It's the most marginal scene in Queensland. I just wonder, Charles, if he were to lose Dixon, do you think he will actually want anyone to acknowledge him as the previous custodian of the electorate of Dixon? Or do you think that will actually, well, do that be a bit much to ask?

Would it be excessive? do you think? Oh, yeah, that's a dilemma for him, isn't it? I wonder whether, you know, like, will he want anyone to apologise for him losing the seed? Will he apologise? Will he go on the hate media? Yeah, so what's next for Peter Dunden? What's his career path from here? Because he's young. Look, I think the answer couldn't be more obvious. I think just does exactly what he does and just keep being brilliant a property investment. Why would he do anything else? It's incredible that. He'll end up owning everyone. That's why he's trying to take the election.

That explains the budget results today. Charles, surely politics is a bit of a distraction. He wants to get out of the game. From the brilliant property investor that he is. I want tips from Peter. Up rates are going down thanks to Labor and he's gone, I've got to get into the market. I've got to stop this stupid job that I've got going around the country

having to drink coffee with Amelia Hamer and stuff. You know, all these campaign stops. I want to lose my job. I'm going to take, I'm going to just tank the election, and that gives me free time. Forget Trump University. I want to go to Dutton University for property investments. Yes. I don't know how to establish a family trust.

I want to invest. Well, I don't even think it's one family trust, Dom, I think. There might be several, because I think that's where he slipped up, because he didn't declare an interest in one of the family trust for over a year. All right. So that's one. You're calling Dixon? Are you think Dutton?

Seriously, I think you'll lose Dixon? Yeah. Look, I know everyone says, oh, they always say it's going to be lost, but, you know, it's never he is. Dixon is frequently lost. Like, it's, if you look back at the history of it, there's a lot of, until Dutton, there were a lot of one-term MPs, and Cheryl Kono can tell you all about that. But I just think, I think he's, in Queensland swings, and Queensland didn't swing as much last time.

Except for the Greens. The state Labor Party was on the nose. The strangest thing in last election was the Greens getting three lower house seats in Brisbane. I mean, it was as though it was some weird sort of subtropical Melbourne in Brisbane. So I'd be, I love Max Chandler, mate. He should have bought the seat, shouldn't have rented it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you'd easily towed out.

Because I think he might, I think he might be on the nose. I reckon Labor, because what you have to do is realise that the Labor Party, and especially Anthony Orbanesee, the party that they hate most is not the Liberal Party, it's the Greens. Right. And so they will have poured, like Albo would have made it a priority. Like, I don't care what happens with the Libs. What I want to do is I want to fuck the Greens in Brisbane. And they would have poured all the resources.

Like, basically 90% of the resources would have gone into just getting rid of the Greens. Well, Max Chandler, mate, and they haven't helped him. All the property owners in his seat, was he in Griffith? Is he in Rudd's old seat? But anyway, he's sick. Yeah, I think so, yeah. Any property owners are going to vote against him this time. All the negative gear is.

Well, unless they're property owners with a heart, Dom, who understand that you shouldn't just, you know, like fucking see housing as a commodity. Yeah, he's in, Rudd's old seat of Griffith. Yeah, so I think, look, I say it with a heavy heart, but I think he might be in trouble. I think Brisbane's definitely gone for the grains. Easy for Max Chandler made that move to a different seat.

It's not going to be a grain slide. We'll move to Melbourne. Adam Bant will be safe. Yeah. What about some of these interesting seats in Western Sydney? Do you think? I mean, he's just going to keep all this. All the dramas, is they'll be just going to keep everything.

So I think, so the interesting thing is the one that's most affected by the voices for what's it called, Muslim voices is Tony Burke's seat of Watson. And the interesting thing about that is that there's a split in the Muslim community. and all the men are preferencing the lib, right? So the whole, this is the funny thing is the Muslim voices people have said, preference the libs over Gaza. And it's a protest vote against Labor's in action on Gaza. So they're going to instead vote for the libs as a sort of protest time.

To do a better job, to be more pro- Gaza and less. But it's just sort of unseat the Labor people there. It's the Muslim votes, and Muslim votes matter are the two. And the candidates... What's happened is it's split, and the men are going in favour of, yeah, let's just try and get rid of labor. And the women, apparently, like this is talking general demographics, saying, no, no, no, Tony Burke's actually a great candidate. And he has been a vocal advocate on Gaza for them. So, probably the most consistent...

So I don't think he's in trouble. The most consistent policy Peter Dutton's had for the past. for years has been staunch support for Israel. Yeah, I know. Yeah, no. It makes no sense the preference strategy. Unless, well, you're just wanting to blow everything up. It's a sort of Trumpian-style thing.

Like, let's not support Joe Biden because he's so shit on Gaza. Maybe Trump will be better. All right. So you think not much happening. Well, I suppose this is what we're saying. But I'm worried about Andrew Charlton. I think Andrew Charlton's gone. In Parramatta.

Yeah, I think. How so? Well, he doesn't live in the electorate, does he? so it's sort of and I think that my understanding is that there's a bit of a three-way contest there there's a strong what's it called voices for Muslim what's it called the Muslim vote there's too there's the Muslim vote and Muslim votes matter now look Charlton if he were here would say he has lived in Parramatta in an apartment for the past three years yes exactly he would say that and I can't possibly comment but but anyway but the point is the point is the

point is that is what has been alleged and I mean blow in from Bellevue Hill the telly wrote this week look yes it sticks doesn't it especially because didn't he sell his 16 million dollar house in order to when he won in order to buy a 12 million dollar house which was also out of the election wasn't that the thing is the game the thing is though he's worked incredibly hard on advocating to the Indian community he wrote an entire book about Australia's relationship with India. And if you drive around in India, there's a lot of Charlton and Cor Flutes.

So I guess we'll see. People do read books now, don't they? So maybe that'll swing the election for him based on the number of books that people read. It's a better strategy to say, look, I've written this book. It's about India. No one needs to actually read it. But I wrote a book and you go, well, okay, well, that's impressive.

Well, we'll see that. Look, that is a very marginal seat anyway because it's been redistributed with, some liberal areas of Benel. We're getting pretty micro on this. But yeah, so Paramount is going to be interesting to watch. He might be safe, we'll see, but... No, I think, I think in terms of all the Labor sort of Western Sydney seeds,

I think he's the most vulnerable. I mean, people were saying Jason Clare was vulnerable, but I just can't see it because it needed a strong liberal campaign to unseat some other things. But you'd need, as we were saying this week, You'd need a pretty specific kind of wave of discontent of the sort we had when Abbott got left. Okay. I think also South Coast is interesting as well. Gilmore.

There's a strong, yeah, Gilmore. There's a strong independent candidate down there. And I think it's currently held with Libs, but I think that maybe that's a labour gain based on preference flows from. No, Andrew Constance, I think, just missed out last time and is running again. And I think that's... Oh, right. So it's a labour. Yeah, it's a Labor.

This is the quality analysis that we have from us here. It is marginal, they've got a 0.2% margin, so it's a good one to watch. Fiona Phillips has actually had it since 2019, but no. Oh, okay, okay. Charles, what are we doing with this analytical approach to the election? What's wrong with our podcast? No, because you've got it. It's just tradition.

You sort of hated and then you love it. I do love it. It's true. Yeah. Okay, so the green... Have you voted yet? Yeah, of course. that's the new pre-polling is the new polling

I definitely gonna go and get a sausage I'm waiting for an email from the chair of the ABC to find out who I should vote for because I'm assuming that that's part of what he does So on election day Charles Do you think there'll be a lot of people out in Radiation suits? Oh great stance

Do you think there'll be all that And all that sort of stuff? Yeah let's call out what were the moments of the campaign I think yeah The radiation suit stunt was probably the best stunt. It did strike me as the most obvious chaser thing we would have done in our long tradition of doing the most obvious chaining it for us, even though we didn't do it. We didn't do it.

We haven't done that sort of thing for very long time. I would have done that. But yes, I think that's one. There were a few witty things around the place, but that fairly obvious one. We might have had a cracker. No, we shouldn't claim stunts we didn't do. I wonder how confident you are in this, Charles, because look, the polls all say, Labor will win.

But there's a lot of boredom out there in the election. Do you think there's any chance that it's all been missed again as we've shortened and Skoma? Yeah, it's 2019 all over again. Do you think that's what, I mean, we've had a bit of a joke about Ray Hadley, but there is a chance, isn't there, that in fact, people are so annoyed by the entire thing. They're just, they're silent, silent Dutton voters, do you think?

No, no. I'm just trying to add a little bit of drama. I'm just trying to add a little bit of drama and interest and, like, suspense. No, because if you think about it, the bill shorten of this campaign is Peter Dutton. Like, he's just, he's so shit. Like, it's the opposition leader. It's not like you can go, oh, well, hang on, there's these, these three things. Like, I'm in Darwin today and walking past the pre-polling place. And you're going, and there's one poster that says, your petrol will be 25 cents a leader, you're less. And, and you go, I can see. I can see.

where they were coming from like yeah maybe you know six months ago that seemed like yeah we'll win the election based on but it's student politics level thinking because essentially dutton's sort of saying labor is a disaster labor has crashed the economy labor you are worse off in the last three years you know this is a terrible catastrophe right and then what's your solution oh petrol will be slightly cheaper like it's popular but it's not a story. There's nothing there. It's just, it's just, it's like 20 cent donuts.

Like, when we're at university, every student politician would run on 20 cent donuts and they would get elected, right? Because it was fucking student politics. But that's not what, like, it's not taking the Australian population seriously to say, oh, here, have a 20 cent donut. That'll solve the debt and disaster and deficit of the last three years of catastrophe if you'd labor. As against that.

People can see through that. They're not fucking morons. Like, the problem with Dutton's campaign is he phoned it in because he actually had complete contempt for the Australian people. As against that, Charles, I'm thinking I might actually run next time on a 20 cent donut platform. I think that. I think we're ready. Yeah, that would have worked.

And that would be a lot cheaper than the petrol. And then, you know what you do? You sell donut holes for 10 cents. Oh, yes. That's an Angus Taylor level thinking. The one thing we know about the Australian people at this stage in our late capitalism, middle class complacency. A snack excites us.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Especially one that causes diabetes. Australian elections have basically slowly subsumed into where consumption of fat is the highlight of the day. That's the level of decadence we have. So go out and enjoy your fat Australia. Yeah, yeah. Enjoy the sausage.

100% fat. And we will edit this podcast so that all the bits that we said that when it didn't happen, we'll be struck from the record. We'll magically disappear on Sunday morning. And we'll be back next week with the wrap-up. Are we going to do a wrap-up? I thought this wasn't. We've got to do another podcast about the election.

No, no, the wrap-ups about 30 seconds. Oh, okay. But no, we were pretty quickly onto some of the things that had happened in the past three years. I think if you go back and listen to the first episode we recorded after the change of government, There was a degree of being underwhelmed that set the tone. So, yes. Thank you for persisting to this point in the podcast, Charles. Thank you for making so many bold calls.

I'm not here. This is an AI version of me. I did like... I pissed off about 20 minutes ago. I have recalled the episode about a year ago where you were first to call for Dutton. So, don't forget that one. Let's not think of it. We are part of the Iconiclass Network.

Happy voting. Catch you next week.