The Chaser Report - Sky News' Resistance Party | Election Aftermath

Episode Date: May 25, 2022

Andrew, Charles, Chas, Chris, Craig, and Dom continue their Election Aftermath party, by going back over to the Sky News channel one final time. Listen and learn how Australia's worst news channel is dealing with the election result, and why it's okay to laugh at them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an election that will determine the fate of the entire universe, there's only one podcast holding politicians accountable. Scott Morrison, Anthony Albanese, who will boom? Find out on the Chaser Report, election edition. Welcome to The Chaser Report. Aftermath, the wash-up of the election. Continuing on to Wednesday, the 25th of May, we've got Charles, Chris, Chaz. Andrew, who else? Me, Chris, everyone's here.

Very sad night for coalition supporters. Some of them, you know, just did not cope terribly well. For instance, this gentleman. If anyone thinks that that means that you're not allowed to criticise the new regime, well, I've got some news for you because my fellow Australians, welcome to the first meeting of the new resistance. It's here each and every night at 8 o'clock. It gets stronger by the day, by the hour, and you are part of that.

Yeah, how it was resistance. That was Paul Murray on Sky News. Yeah. What I love about that is that who exactly was suggesting you can't criticise the new government? I mean, you've been criticising them as opposition for the last six years. I also love his optimism that him speaking on Sky News, like him every night, is somehow going to win the next election, having failed to win the last one. He's not doing anything different.

He just gave me to the same thing. New Resistance. Did he think he was in Star Wars or something? I've always thought there's an element of circus with Paul Murray. Oh, yeah. Like, his language is knowingly theatrical. He's not actually... Well, isn't it?

It's Alex Jones, isn't it? Yeah, he's a direct copy of Alex Jones. Because he also, I think, later in the night, cried slightly. Yeah, but there's a screen cap going around. No, that's fake. Oh, is it? That's a TikTok. Right.

filter that you can put on. He did say he was proud of his mate, though. So there you go. Scott Morrison does have a mate. There is a genuine problem though on Sky. I've been watching a little bit of Sky News during the election. And there is a genuine problem between the different shows to decide who is the official resistance against either party.

Because about six different shows have declared themselves the home of the resistance. And theoretically, they all are. But they're really fighting hard. Just also, just to take what you're saying there, Chris, about the theatricality of Paul Murray. It's quite funny because, I mean, there's no doubt Paul, Paul sees himself as a circus master. There is no doubt about that. But last night, in the aftermath, he had his first home of the resistance show on Sunday night, a few hours special. So did the living room on Channel 10 incident.

And they had a whole bunch of liberals, one after another. And it's so obvious that the actual hardcore liberals have no time for this shit at all. And like, and they were just, they were just moaning amongst themselves. And Paul would come and go, okay, this is what we got to do, us lives. And they're like, shut up, Paul. Now, what we're going to do? They were just showing him no respect whatsoever. I felt sorry because, you know, Paul's worked hard to earn their trust, I feel, over the last three years.

But he hasn't got it yet. It's so weird. It's not just Murray, like all the sort of News Corp star columnists like Bolt, Chris Kenny, Rita, Panahee. They're all going. Okay, the lesson we need to learn from this result on Saturday night is to lurch further to the right. Yes, when I go, what election will you watching?

Surely the message Australia overwhelmingly patently sense was that they need the Liberal Party to move more to the censure. If you want to regain those till seats, you need to have policies that speak directly to climate, to accountability and to women issues. And so at what world do you listen to that results that happened on Saturday? I know the solution. We need to go further away from where all our old voters are.

That was the problem, according to many Skyhosts, was that those moderates weren't advocating the right values. If they had gone hard and leaned into, let's say, the Deves wing of the party, they would have succeeded. Oh, but then the Tills wouldn't have won if they'd all been... If they'd all got... In all seriousness, honestly, like, I know Dom you're being a bit tongue-and-chieftain. In all seriousness, on the outside is I'm kind of spoiling my material here

for my segment coming up one of these days this week. But on the outsiders, they seriously said that the Liberals would have won if only they had heard more from Catherine Z. Chaz, I'm not being tongue in cheek. I'm actually throwing to clips. I've gazumped you. I've gazumped you. But also, if I'm, I hope I'm not cosumping you again.

But, like, the far right parties didn't poll very well. Like, if you look at the One Nation vote and the UAP, but, like, it's not like they were doing well because they took a very far right position. So why does Dutton and co think, oh, we need to go. further that way. That's where all the votes are, and clearly they're in the other direction. Well, I think if you listen to these... Steve's herself got 38%.

Sorry, what? 38%. How that again? Who? Thieves. Steve's herself got 38%. Yeah, but that's in a very liberal scene. And that is quite surprising. It's a bit higher than I thought.

It was still down on Abbott's vote when he was turfed out. So while it sounds like a lot, it's, that's just right. That's like people like my parents who have lost their marbles and don't know how to vote in any other box, but liberal. Well, I think we're doing a... I think we need to hear the argument, put by the most professional commentators in the land, the team from outsiders. Here's how they introduced Catherine Deves for her victory lap on Sunday morning. I'm delighted to have in the studio with us the best candidate the Liberals put forward at this election, Catherine Deves.

Catherine, great to see you. How are you? I'm good. Thank you, Rowan. Thank you for having me on the show. Well, you didn't win. What a joke. What a joke. I think. I think. I've spotted the floor in their plan, which is that they think that the best candidate who ran was

a candidate who lost. They don't realize what... And then blame the voters. It was a joke that the voters got it wrong, not that the candidate might have been slightly bigoted. To be fair, Rowan Dean for many years has been saying that he's actually a

humorist and a satirist. And that was pretty funny. This is the first time I've really seen that. Well, can we flip the table. Sorry, Don't, like, why don't, instead of running, you know, the liberal candidates, why don't the sky after dark people all run as a party? They should. Why don't, Dean, Murray, Credlin, why, the Sky Party.

Again, a very good literal name. The resistance. The resistance. Except they don't like the French, yeah. What, the unreasoned party is that? And they could, like, have a debate where there's just one of their own people. It's one of them against someone else. and it's like, you know, they give themselves blanket coverage on their own network.

Yes. And then who would they blame when they don't get any votes? Well, immigrants, I presume. But don't forget, though, that a Sky News presenter did put their hat in the ring on the weekend. You've got absolutely trans-Christendor Kenilea. I hope they'll have a back on the network very soon. But look, it's a question of perspective, quite so. The two of you've suggested that Catherine Deves lost.

And if you listen to what Catherine Deves had to say about her performance, it wasn't the case at all. I think with me getting out there, and pointing out that there are issues with this so-called modern feminism where they can't even identify what a woman is. I think the ordinary Australian people resonated with that and that is why I had so much support around the country. There you go. She had heaps of support around the country. It was a victory.

It was a victory except in the election that she contested. Other than that, it was a massive win. The whole interview was a massive twilight zone because they basically were sitting there nodding their head at Catherine Deeb's saying that win. needed to return back the traditional liberal values. And you think yourself, hang on, you weren't even a liberal until six months ago

and you're telling us about traditional liberal values. It's very strange. My, to be slightly serious for a brief second, my worry with Deaves is I'm seeing all the same mistakes the media are making with her that they made with Hansen. And I always felt that Hansen was a creation of media, sort of clickbait and freak show attraction, which amplified her voice and therefore,

and started appealing to. The more the media fixated on Deaves, the more I thought they're creating something. I wouldn't be surprised at all if, you know, jokes aside Deves is given a platform on Sky News. Lockland, edit this out. But she was, this is one of the things we've been tracking during the... The whole conversation, we shouldn't have given her any platform. Chris is right. The thing is, we've been saying she's actually a creature of Sky.

Sky found her somewhere. She's a creature of Scott Morrison, like trying to dog whistle to the regional. The Sky campaigned for her to be the candidate in Warringa. They basically tried to get momentum behind her, and then Morrison installed her. So it was, she's kind of the Sky candidate. To be fair, though, like, they just made a slight problem of which of her old tweets they focused on, because they focused on the ones where she was, you know, transphobic and that kind of thing. But some of her old tweets were also attacking Scott Morrison saying how shitty was.

If they just focused on those, she probably would have got more votes. Hi, Andrew Hansen here, the hot one from the Chaucer's TV shows. Yes, even pricks, turn into top blokes after death. You can see me, Andrew Hanson, live on stage in Melbourne this Saturday, the 28th of May. Search comedy in Olinda for the details. Yes, I'll be playing O'Linda House in the Dandenongs, along with some other comedians who are good with heights. Plus, live in Bendigo on Thursday the 2nd of June at Piano Bar. That's me, Andrew Hanson, live in Melbourne and Bendigo.

Hot. The Chaser Report, election edition. But look, it is a very pro-coilition show, admittedly, outsiders, but there was some very, very good news for Anthony Albanese, actually, on the show. Now, will you run again? Will you stay and fight? I would like to say to my detractors, that when they thought I could not withstand the storm,

that I am the storm. And I am not going anywhere. There you go. She's a storm. We love, Catherine. She's our candidate. Who in an era of climate anxiety is going to vote for a storm? Who would run in a Sydney seat, which has been deluged in the last four months?

What they want is more rain. That's a very good point. Everyone we went to the fucking polls yesterday. We got dread. Can we just address the elephant in the room, though, about the outsiders? Which is, why is it called the outsiders? You hear the outsides, and you don't expect to see a show which is just hosted by three drunks, angry drunks. What you expect is Simon Birmingham and his two friends in the Liberal Party.

They are the real outsiders these guys. But the biggest dummy spit, though, and my favourite one that I've got a clip up, there are two. First one I wanted to talk about is Roman Bishop. We've been also tracking Andrew Bolt becoming more progressive during the course of the campaign. He hasn't changed, basically. He's just being the same person who was as a regular liberal.

Roman Bishop's response to the election result was to suggest that we abandon preferential voting. She actually said, if you just, you know, we would always win if we had the same system as the UK. Andrew Bolt got stuck in and said, you can't change the system just because you had a shitty plan and you lost.

Why do we have compulsory preferential voting anymore? Why do we have people being elected when they get less votes than somebody who is defeated? I have to be honest. Well, we do, and it works both ways, and you're not going to change it, Bronwyn. Well, I'm sorry. You're not going to change it. Just face, look. It was a miracle three years ago.

You've got to win by these rules. I'm sorry. No, that's not right, Anne. Perhaps it's going to sound. You go, you think, don't knock it on the head and say we can't do it. I'll just tell you that people are going to say you're trying to rig the rules to stay in power. I'm not saying do it tomorrow, Andrew. I'm not saying tomorrow.

I'm not telling you what I think. So Andrew Bolt is the resistance. He's actually the resistance. He's the resistance. He's the lubricant. The loopiest dummies bit, perhaps unsurprisingly, came from Clive Palmer. It was very disappointing. Some of the AC officials took home the votes with them when they went home to their house and we're playing around with them. We've got it all on video and our candidate followed them home. So it's a bit of a worry when you think the AEC is tampering with votes. How many million votes would they have had to tap? Here we go.

Do you know, I was almost wondering, it was a sort of thought exercise on Saturday night, whether Morrison had tried to pull a Trump, you know, say election stolen, rigged election. And, you know, to his credit, he didn't, obviously, because I don't think Australia would buy that sort of shoe. But I'm pleased to see someone try to play the Trump hand and just create the suggestion that the whole election wasn't legit.

Yeah, yeah. Did he say, I thought the opposite happened. I thought that Morrison's final speech was so kind of happy and, like, he wasn't a sad. He wasn't sad at all. It was like he was thrilled. He'd lost the election. I thought it was a really bad speech. It was a terrible speech.

And I thought he couldn't get out of there quickly enough. I've never heard him speak at double speed. It was almost like he was just doing a stunt speech. He was just rattling through the talking points to get out of there. He was, he knew he was crushed, don't you reckon? Yeah, yeah, but he just didn't, at the time. The emotional engagement, came when he spoke at his church.

But on the night, he was just like, there was no emotion about what it actually happened. It was almost robotic. Yeah, yeah. But it does, it is insane that we have to say that he did a good job by actually surrendering the election and saying, you know,

that our boy is going to be at XPM. And he's going to be the one that goes to take you. I'm not going to try and spin this thing. I was actually surprised by that. But there is no other job in the world where you get comprehensively, you get sacked, basically, by millions of people.

And then you've got to stand up. and give a speech about it. And thank your opponents for getting rid of you. It's almost like the last chance for legacy building, though. Like it was all about, oh, we leave office with unemployment, the lowest it's ever been since World War II. But I actually think he's the first leader, certainly in my lifetime,

who didn't point out his achievements doing things to indigenous people. Like usually, usually what, and Howard did it as well. They all, as soon as they realize they're going out the door, they suddenly start talking about the legacy of all the great things they've done to Aboriginal people. Because it's never true. Well, what would Morrison's list of being? It's one time at Eggman McDonnellis.

I don't know. He gave an acknowledgement to country. What more do you want? He went to Darwin. I don't know what. I was bizarre because he's like his top three things. He was like, we gave more money to the military. That was one of your top three.

Achievements? I know. Well, because Kevin Rudd, you remember he did that sort of 20 minute long. I'm proud of the fact, I'm proud of the fact, I'm proud of the fact, I'm proud. And he only did one or two things,

God, he'd basically, you know, the GFC and the apology. And he somehow found 50 other very minor achievements just drink out forever. Well, he's found they got more and more awkward. Morrison didn't even get to three. Yeah. I was amazed he got to three.

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