Budget Special | Q+A Highlights

Barnaby Joyce, Jim Chalmers, Jacqui Lambie, Zali Steggall, and Paul Kelly discuss who wins - and who misses out in the 2022-23 Federal Budget.
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Panellists: Barnaby Joyce, Deputy Prime Minister; Jim Chalmers, Shadow Treasurer; Jacqui Lambie, Independent Senator for Tasmania; Zali Steggall, Independent MP for Warringah; and Paul Kelly, Editor-at-large, The Australian.
This episode was broadcast on Thursday March 31, 2022.
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[@redlightmax]

25:37 Barnaby Joyce: "I disagree with that - first house I bought cost me $67 000." Conservatives, as usual, living in the past. I'm glad that he got mocked for it.

[@protectusplease9833]

Good on you Jacqui, great to have a pollie that says what they thinks, we need more of you.

[@jackgal6035]

Sometimes, when Jacqui talks, it makes me smile. Agree. Say no to the LIB/NAT Coalition

[@Jane-oz7pp]

I don't always agree with Jacqui, but every now and then she hits the nail so hard on the head it's impossible not to grin

[@pkd6369]

Vote the two big parties with no 1 on the ticket to the exact opposite to albo& sco leaving them on last two numbers like 10&11

[@prunedance1]

With regard to politician behaviour and conduct, the independent MP makes a great point. When I turned 18 and didn't know much about politics I remember the first thing I thought when watching a video of parliament house was DAMN they are rude like they talk over each other and sometimes yell, how can anyone get anything productive done when they are talking and yelling over one another?! We pay their wages and they waste our time telling at each other, and it's ok t.v.!!! It blew my mind how at work I'm expected to speak politely to colleagues yet in parliament that doesn't seem necessary!! It did not impress me at all, I don't know how they win anyone over without showing basic decency,respect and professionalism in their workplace. There really should be stricter rules and procedures regarding their behaviour, conduct and focus while speaking in parliament, its a disgrace to watch most of the time!

[@tlb2970]

What we need is honest adults who will work for the people who voted for them, at the moment we have kindergarten kids fighting over a toy behaving like idiots.

[@keatonluck3250]

Put LNP last this federal election.

[@scorp2011hd]

Yeah true either Liberal or Labor last as they’re just as useless as each other🙄

[@yeoldbandicoot548]

and labour second last

[@Random_Guy_JK]

@@yeoldbandicoot548 let me guess you're an UAP voter? Shame.

[@BronteBe]

@@yeoldbandicoot548 we have a open democracy and you’re going to waste your vote for a party that has liberal as their preferences and have cost Aussie tax payers millions of wasted dollars? You have no clue which is a shame.

[@jj19900508]

On matters of housing affordability, you have to prevent prices from increasing as fast as they're now so that wage growth have a chance to catch up and close the gap a little bit . . . and you do so by disincentivising hoarders from hoarding via negative gearing or capital gains discount etc. Lowering the deposit requirement only pushes us down the sub-prime mortgage path, as banks will factor in the higher borrowing risk and increase interest margins for everyone. Jim Chalmers sounds terribly hollow and is about as articulate as a fish. He squandered his chance to sell Albo's social housing policy. He could have said something along the lines of how it inevitably adds to the supply of dwelling in urban places in the secondary market, so there will be more home on sell in places where people live and work so kids like you won't have to move to Barnaby's electorate.

[@tomcross3000]

Barnaby = some of the worst word saladry i’ve seen. Ramble about spending money to get money, mention two foreign leaders shaking hands, we need to be tough in response, question answered, job done. Eughhh

[@shaunaldo14]

This really bugs me and it is wide and rampant with almost every politician I see in the media - eugghhhhh x 1000000

[@justjess8704]

Ugh Paul Kelly "don't trust your feelings, if you feel like you're struggling, if you feel like aged care and child care is important, you should still vote liberal" ignoring the economic benefits of a pay rise to the lowest paid workers and increased child care hours improving participation 🙄

[@yeoldbandicoot548]

Paul Kelly should not be in this Q and A

[@justjess8704]

@@yeoldbandicoot548 absolutely, and David spears shouldn't be asking him questions as if he's an economist

[@kiriakoz]

@@yeoldbandicoot548 there are two other Paul Kelly's that I'd rather listen to than this one. He's not even in the top 2 Paul Kelly's

[@djinghiskhan9199]

Glad to not see NATO-Stan - made the show watchable

[@grahammewburn]

Jacqui Lambie for PM

[@codycigar4409]

Barnaby is such a joke

[@seanodowd2583]

TL;DR. Vote LNP if you're interested in living in a hut 3 hours away from a hospital. Moving to rural Australia is not a solution. The infrastructure isn't there and won't be for a long time: building materials are scarce. Jobs aren't there: we don't manufacture, we don't process materials, we just simply are not in a gold rush. The rest of the developed world has already solved this with denser urban living. The U.K, France, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Hong Kong, Japan, so many countries have denser living than us! We're fortunate that we can do it better with hindsight on our side.

[@bariropitini6406]

Where was the question on the three mean girls from the labour party U guttless abc

[@YaMumsSpecialFriend]

Did Barney take a few tranquillisers before coming on? May as well have, going by that enervating performance😴

[@ChimericWings]

Vote Labor. It's time.

[@scorp2011hd]

Unfortunately they won’t be much different to Liberal… they’re too stupid to use any common sense🙄

[@yeoldbandicoot548]

Neither labour or liberal. Put them last and second last at every electorate.

[@ChimericWings]

@@yeoldbandicoot548 sorry Billy, but I'm not ensuring that Liberals get another term.

[@forallofme4441]

Yeah. Time to destroy Australia with sops and rubbish. Let's get daddy govt to give us bread and circuses.

[@BronteBe]

@@yeoldbandicoot548 wasting your vote on a liberal preference party is redundant. Clive Palmers mine is called China First. Maybe do your due diligence before kissing liberals asses.

[@GianzSSD]

Lambert and the whole panel are clowns!

[@PAL3Tigerrr]

None of our fuel come from Russia . Or any where in Europe.

[@Kajpaje]

So Barnabys advice is for a million or so young, cost of living stressed, young people, to move to tiny towns and compete for the few jobs going there. Brilliant. Just leave, start anew.

[@GlasgowCelticBhoy]

My personal leanings as they stand today. Parties I'm entertaining for Number 1 spot: Labor, The New Liberals, Fusion Party, Reason Party (Australia), and Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance. Parties that are mid list: LNP, Greens, Animal Justice, Socialist Alliance, Citizens Party, and Indigenous Aboriginal Party. Parties vying for bottom spot: One Nation, Great Australia Party, LDP, United Australia (Palmer), and Medical Options Party.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

I'd say put Greens a little close to top than the other mid list ones if you want to see workable action on climate change. Labor in top spot with Greens holding the balance is what we need thanks to the compromise Bandt is proposing on climate action. He just wants a pause on new coal and oil plants so we don't worsen things. Which is economically viable and maybe also environmentally viable.

[@Snugggg]

make sure to check the preferences or you could just be sending votes to LNP via proxy.

[@neo-vj4zq]

Ex Fox News host, current Fox News pundit, liberal deputy prime minister, 1 liberal ‘independent’, 1 independent and 1 labor shadow treasurer. Liberal party balance.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

I mean, Jacqui at least has empathy for the poor, unlike the rest of her mates.

[@adcrane]

Liberal Premier of Tazmania does one press conference with Scott Morrison, then another to resign. ShowMo sure has the touch.

[@51m0n77]

Why is Paul Kelly speaking? was Alan Jones not available? Straight up liberal propagandist .......

[@Jane-oz7pp]

BARNABY JOYCE EVERYEBODY, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER. This is right up there with "well poor people don't drive cars" and "millennials can't afford houses because they eat avocado on toast"

[@pkd6369]

He is too busy cleaning and collecting free hats& boots leave him out he is a cow dung coated politician pretending to be a farmer.

[@BronteBe]

Aussies need to wake up and be apart of politics. Too long Aussies have left government without accountability and look where it has left us! Our country is shrinking on every level apart from debt and corruption. Aussies must demand better rather then whining about what someone looks like. Morrison has proven he is a fantastic failure and a detriment to this country and Australians. Our kids deserve better. Not just talk and hidden agendas.

[@tlb2970]

Jim chalmers and Albo should go and work in aged care to entertain the residents, that’s about all they can do.

[@bariropitini6406]

Where's the commontary on labours bad girls your a joke abc

[@gjamieson1956]

Stop funding the ABC