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Peter Malinauskas

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“Would be on a stair for someone in a position such as the one I've got to be thinking about the next job more than the one that I've got now. I'm alive to the fact that these jobs are temporary by nature. You know, in politics, you can be here one day and they're the next and down the next. So you've got to make every post a winner where you got the chance of running a million miles an hour, which is what I just, I'm really enjoying doing at the moment. And, you know, we've been able to do a few things that the rest of the country is paying interest in. I don't know any other position that would give me the ability to do that.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My state, we're a comparatively smaller jurisdiction to some other states in the country. But that brings with it a degree of agility to give us the flexibility to do a few things that creates an impact and maybe even an impact that gets taken up across the rest of the country. So being a premier of a state has got an enormous amount of possibility and authority attached to it that means you've got you can do a lot of good unencumbered from other considerations. I did have an opportunity to go into federal politics, but I ended up choosing this option in a way that I didn't anticipate it would myself. So I feel as though I've made a decision to dedicate myself to making as big a difference from this privileged position I've got. And it's just not on my, more than not being on my radar, I don't have any intention to do that. And I feel quite comfortable saying, you know, I'm ruling it out or what have you. And think about how disingenuous.”
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“And I think when we think about those in a more human fashion and how we can help each other, I think that still captivates the attention of Australians who are interested in public policy.”
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“An acknowledgement that we're better at cricket and at the Summer Olympics will get you a long way. I think, you know, I think many of the challenge that we see in domestically in the UK are comparable to some of them that we see here in Australia. I look at the NHS and our public health system and the aspirations are the same, but the challenges are just as acute. And I think any example where we contemplate how the welfare state can modernize or how public service delivery can improve in a modern economy where governments capacity to throw large S at these services is diminishing. I think anything that speaks to that challenge and a sense of shared hope but shared knowledge to unlock a pathway forward, I think would be powerful and meaningful. There's still far more commonality in terms of public policy ideals and challenges between Australia and the UK and almost any other country.”
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“I think that it would be not discussed. Created a sense that there was an opportunity to have a more direct relationship with the UK than what was the case previously. I'm not saying that that's a considered view. I'm just saying that there's certainly been a sense of that and the pursuit of a free trade agreement with the UK speaks to that.”
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“I think in my state, I'm real awareness of the UK's role in the Orcus relationship, because we're going to be building submarines with the UK more than the US. We're taking I've been to Barrow in the UK where you build the submarines and there's a lot of attention about what happens in Barrow and Derby with Rolls-Royce and what that will mean for our state. I think that the reason why there's been more noise around the US element of Aucus is because there are questions, there have been questions in the public realm and in the media and the commentariate around whether or not a change of administration in the US to a Trump presidency would compromise orcus. Now, I'm actually quite confident it won't and hopeful that it won't.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And while the Australian US alliance is in a stronger position as ever been in many respects, it's not something you can always assume will be true because policies can change. Now, I don't say that to diminish in any way, shape or form the strength of the relationship at the moment, but it would be reckless on behalf of Australia to assume the status quo will be here forevermore. So there's a legitimacy in wanting to pursue a sovereign capability. I think more Australians are on board with that now than they may have been if you were trying to prosecute that argument 10 years ago.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, I think for Australians who think about it and have that in their consciousness, it elevates in their minds the fact that we simply cannot take the liberal democracy that has largely served our country exceedingly well for granted, plain and simple. I suspect my view about this has been informed by my heritage and the circumstances at which my family found themselves in Australia. But I do think there's a rising consciousness in the broader Australian public about the fact that geopolitically we are in a more precarious time in the fastest changing region on the planet. I also think there's a rising awareness that isolationism in America Is sort of gathering steam”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the Orcas arrangement, I think, gives us the most accelerated pathway to move up the value chain in terms of the solder products that we afford our men and women in uniform. I think my view, and this differs from other people's in my party at the membership level, but I think this accords with the best traditions of the Australian Labor Party and how we understand our capacity as a small middle power to be able to have a positive influence in the region.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Advocacy principle is orientated to the first one. But there's no denying it's in our state's interests industrially that demand it creates for labour and improving our economic complexity. But for the country, this is strategically critical. Look, Australia's defence posture needs to reflect the time that we're living in and the part of the world that we see changing around us. Australia is in far close approximity to the UK, to the biggest military buildup that we've seen since World War II. And you've basically got two options. You can either say, look, that's not a problem, nothing we should worry about, let things run their course, which is a legitimate option, or say no that creates an environment that warrants a response. And I'm certainly in the latter category. I think that it is mission critical now more than ever, particularly as we see the politics of isolationism in some parts of the world on the rise, that Australia think about our sovereign capability to have a defence sector and to produce the equipment that we would require to defend ourselves.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“almost always are particularly strided in their views. There's not a normal thing to sit around and tap out responses to politicians on social media. But politicians gravitate towards that because they are yearning for a sense of how their performance is going and how good a job they're doing for their constituency. So on one level it's rational that they read comments and social media responses. And then before you know it, you're heading into the rabbit hole of a pretty dark place. And I think that infects your view. And after a while, I could take a toll on the best person. So I do think it's having an impact. I don't know what the answer to that because, of course, social media and politics can be a platform for good dialogue and exchange of ideas.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think politicians often are a demonstration of the best of humankind and the worst. But ultimately, we are human. We have all the fragilities and the failings of human beings. But politicians are always looking for feedback. They want to know what their constituents think of the work that they're doing and what they're advocating for and are they doing a good job. That's, you know, again, that's human. But how do you get that feedback outside of elections? I mean, there's published polls, but they tend not to occur at the candidate level. Social media becomes a proxy for feedback, but of course it's a terrible one because the people who are motivated to contribute on social media”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Continues or exacerbates, it's that permanent sense of being under siege for a young person has a particularly deleterious impact on their upbringing. And you think about how I'm a politician. You know, I'm a professional politician. You know, you would think that I am trained to read comments on social media and dismiss them and think whatever. And largely I can. But even I every now and then read a comment on social media aimed at me and I still feel the pinch. Imagine if you're a 13-year-old kid. It worries me greatly”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we've seen, well, I mean, it's defining a number of respects. Firstly, it's demonstrated in the evidence of the rise of diagnoses of mental health conditions, depression, anxiety. And in its most extreme, of course, tragically in the form of self-harm, all these numbers are going up globally. And there's a bit of research out there that points at the correlation between that and the development of social media platforms on phones with front facing cameras. That seems to be the moment where things started to change. But, you know, anecdotally, not just anecdotally, but also we know that bullying has always existed in schools. I think it's naive to suggest otherwise. What changed with social media is once upon a time, if Kid got billed at school, they went home and found a place of refuge. There is no refuge in a world of social media. And kids go on home and they're looking at their phone and their screens and the ball.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To disengage with their friends. And that's not an option to a young person. We've already banned mobile phones in public schools in South Australia. We're the first state to have a total ban. We've had it in place now for just on 12 months. And all the reports are being resoundingly positive, not just from teachers and principals talking about how loud school yards are, but actually from kids saying they actually prefer it.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Clearly very intelligent. He's issued a nationwide U.S. Surgeon General warning asking parents to get their kids off social media. That is how strongly he believes the evidence is that this is now decidedly doing them harm. And he cited to me an exercise they did in the US, which I thought was really interesting. They asked a bunch of 13-year-olds, are you on social media? And they all said yes. Then they asked them, would you like to give up social media? And they all said no. Hardly surprising. But then they asked them, if you knew that all your friends were giving up social media, would you do it too? And they all said yes. And a significant proportion of those said, well, we would actually prefer that, which is a demonstration of the fact that kids aren't necessarily on social media because they love it, but because they've got no choice but not to. If they choose not to be on social media, they're actively choosing.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Electoral donation reform when he was in the coalition government. So anyway, look, we are doing this. I met with a gentleman by the name of Vivik Murthy, who is the US Surgeon General in the Biden administration and had that position in the Obama administration. It was a real privilege to meet him, an extraordinary human being, exceptionally accomplished”
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“Yeah, me too. We're hopeful that changes. When we announced that we're doing this publicly, I made it clear that we'd much further work with them than without them. Doesn't mean that we necessarily going to agree clearly, but... They're a legitimate stakeholder in this, and it'd be easier if they were on board and engaged. I don't know if they think they'd rather put their head in the sand or just be dismissive of it or to fight it once they see the legislation. It worries me because I'd like to know what they're thinking if I'm honest about it. I know Nick Clegg was also a supporter of...”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, I'd love it to be the latter. They've noticed, but they're not engaging with us. And despite our invitations to do so. And that includes with the former Chief Justice of the High Court.”
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“Couple of weeks to do that. The federal government and federal opposition are keen to deploy it. So I think this is going to happen. But the only other element is giving for children between 14 and 16, they would require parental consent. Like I said, the model has been applied in Florida. It seems to be working. We don't see any reason why we can't achieve it here in South Australia and Australia.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we, we've appointed the former Chief Justice of the Australian High Court to provide advice on the best legal mechanism to do this. We're going to release that report hopefully in September. But put simply, we want to put in place a piece of legislation that creates a burden or an onus or an obligation on social media platforms. They know the age. They have the capacity to know the age of people who have an account. Rory Stewart can't just get a social media account. You have to go through a process. You have to fill out a form and the like. There should be age verification. The obligation should be on the social media platform. And if you're under the age of 14, you should not be allowed to get one. Now, that sounds simple, but of course, you know, in practice, it's complex, but that's the detail that we're working through. And since we've made our announcement that we're doing this and intend to complete the work this year, most other states and territories have indicated that they're getting on board. We've got a major summit in Australia.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For misinformation and the way that you hope an adult would. That's an even adult struggle. So we think the best thing to do is just get social media out of the hands of children. This idea, well, the model that we are pursuing and set to deliver is based on the model that Rhonda Santis has deployed in Florida. And there's not too many things. I probably find myself agreeing with Rhonda Santis on, but. Actually, thought what he's doing is a good thing, and I don't have any shame in saying that we would like to repeat it.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's enough peer reviewed research out there now, Alistair, that makes it clear social media access for children is actually doing the harm, particularly around mental health. I don't think this is a disputed anymore. We've seen journal after journal publish reports along these lines. The second element is the more fundamental sort of societal question. I think democracy is in difficult shape at the moment. It's probably going through the most challenging period certainly since World War II. And I think there's a number of things that governments can do to help insulate democracy. We've already spoken about compulsory voting, banning money from politics. But I think social media and disinformation is really dangerous, particularly in the minds of young people who don't yet have the critical faculty to be able to account.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So you have to get enough signatures within your constituency to be a to nominate in the first instance. But the second thing you qualify to nominate, you will then get an upfront payment, a modest one, but an upfront payment from the state to initially fund your campaign. The second thing that we're doing is that we will continue to allow new entrants that is non-incumbent candidates who aren't in a political party, so an independent new entrant, we're going to preserve their ability to fundraise up to a maximum of $2,700 per donation. But if Rory Stewart's running as an independent in the state seat of Croydon, if you're elected, at that point you're in the system and you can no longer fundraise.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Expenditure. We're putting a hard ceiling on the amount that could be spent by political parties and individual candidates in seats. So a hard cap on the amount that could be expended. Something that we've actually already got in South Australia, we're just going to lower that cap a little bit. But then the second thing that we're doing is that we're going to publicly fund up to that cap. So it's a dual measure and then publicly fund up to the cap. Now there are complexities with this because it is diabolically complex for a range of reasons, including the High Court has been rather restrictive in this. But we've developed a few models that we think can navigate through that path, including importantly the preservation of the interests of independence and also a new entrance to the political system. They've got to have an ability to participate as well.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, so look, we'll wait and see about the opposition, where the opposition is coming from. I took this policy to the election. And there was not much love for it, even on my own side of politics, I've got to say, internally, for a range of reasons. But I announced it before the election, honestly, because I knew that if we were successful at the election, day one, there becomes a disincentive to do this because fundraising is a lot easier for incumbents than it is for oppositions. That's the truth of it. Unless the government of the day is in its dying days and the writing's on the wall. And the simple reason for that is if you're buying a ticket to a fundraiser, if you're a business, you're more interested to hear what the premier or the prime minister is going to do versus what the opposition might like to do one day if they get the chance. Those things have different weight. The way we're doing it is, firstly, is that we're capping it.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In both the US and the UK, there is an imposition from government on people every single day in most elements of their lives. And so I think the best example is if the government has the power to compel you to pay tax, why shouldn't they have the ability to compel you to have a say on how those taxes are spent? And that, I had a ding dong argument with an American in a pub one day. And he had an answer to every argument I had, except that one. So I want to stick with him.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You are being generous to your opposition. It creates an environment of giving more weight to when you are being critical, particularly given, depending on how you characterize your criticism as well. So I do wonder, though, whether or not compulsory voting changes the equation there, because part of the challenge in a non-compulsory voting environment, particularly where turnout's declining, as we see in the US and the UK. You know, you've got to motivate your base. You've got to make them angry. You've got to fire them up and get them out to vote. No Australian politician has to worry about that. Everyone's going to vote. So the task is to persuade people who have voted conservative at the last election to choose to vote Labor at this election and vice versa for the Liberal Party.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's been a change of government and that always presents, you know, that is the greatest moment in time, I imagine, for an EU leader. Even now, I think back to that window of six months post being elected and knowing what I know now, I ask myself, would I do things differently? So, you know, the new prime minister is enjoying that. Obviously, he's got some challenges on his hands.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the end of COVID, people are going to want to know what's the legacy of COVID going to be. And so, you know, that was the same thing that Atlee did and of course led to the creation of the NHS. And we had similar policies about how we were going to reinvest in the health system and try and build it back up again.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, of course, during the war period, Attlee was very keen to work collaboratively with Churchill in the war cabinet. And no one really gave Atlee much of a chance of winning that election at the conclusion of World War II. But of course, what Atlee did was apply thought beyond the bipartisan approach to the war effort. He was thinking about reconstruction. And here in Australia, in the middle of COVID, There was no appetite in our domestic politics quite rightly for partisanship. I was the only opposition leader at a state level that survived COVID because other opposition leaders were chipping away their government's responses to COVID. We took an approach that said, look, we're going to provide essentially total bipartisans for the conservative government in South Australia on their approach to COVID because they hand it on the basis of science and did a pretty good job. Having done that, then we definitely are effort to thinking about...”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And not for reading that book. I don't know if I suspect there would have been things that we would have done differently in a policy sense.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that does, I mean, at the very least, if you've got confidence in your leadership, that does render oppositions in particular time to think and curate policy. I hate it every moment of opposition, except for one thing. I found myself being able to read again. When you're in government, and we're back in the thick of it now, when you're reading, it's a brief or it's a note on everything that you should know about running off the government. You're dealing with files. But in opposition, all of a sudden that disappears. But that affords you the ability to read things and think. And I found that really profoundly useful, particularly the depths of COVID when I was opposition leader. I read a book about the Atley government and that really changed my thinking about the agenda we were going to pursue post COVID in South Australia if we were lucky enough to form government.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They tend to get found out. I mean, from my perspective, in an Australian context, we see at a state level four-year terms. We have four-year terms, but at the federal level, it's three-year terms. Of course, in the House of Reps in the US, it's two-year terms. So it's hardly surprising that once you cover off on the politics and the fundraising, policies sometimes can come third. I think in the UK or certainly in the where do you see four-year terms or five-year terms?”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's wrong. But history tells us that people who aspire to high office and achieve it without much of a plan of what to do with it once they get it tend to get found out.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the amount of time this is now taking of candidates and political leaders? And the genesis of my view that we've just got to get rid of this altogether actually happened in the 2014 US midterms. I was in the US on a... And we got to meet with candidates and campaign managers of both persuasions. And the rule of thumb there in the US now for the highest quality campaign managers is they will not work full candidates unless that candidate signs up to spending no less than 80% of their time fundraising. 80%. That is a standard for the best campaign managers. So that means that's not time speaking to constituents, developing policy, having town hall meetings, making stakeholders. None of those things. It's just being a telemarketer fundraising. That seems to me to be in the extreme that a fundamentally compromises the electoral process.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's an excellent question. I think I've never seen any. I've been to a lot of party fundraisers. I've had to engage in a lot of fundraising myself. In fact, we're still doing it and we will continue to do it until such a time we've banned it and we've got a plan to do that because I just can't, you know, as part of, you know, the functioning of a political party. I've never seen evidence of politicians of either side being transactional about changing a position on the back of a donation. I've never seen that occur. But what you do have seen, of course, is political donors more inclined to support candidates and parties that support what they want. And again, on one level, that's quite rational. My frustration is more though, not so much on the influence that donors have, but on the perception of that influence, which I think undermines people's confidence in the democratic process. But then second to that, but probably just as important.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Policy-wide in US politics, raising money is a sign of success. Now look, on a practical level, it's rational. But on another level, it seems almost perverse that the determinant of success is almost exclusively money to the extent that donors are now seen as being a principal decision maker of who the candidate for the presidency of the United States is. It struck me as quite contrary to the best traditions of what we understand liberal democracy looks like.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't sit with me very well at all. And I've got to say I've been a bit appalled by the whole spectre of the thing. I mean, during the course of Biden's, the last days of his presidential campaign, we saw a chorus of donors coming out saying that the president has to give up his candidacy. And it was almost seen as a litmus test or a measuring stick of his legitimacy of being a candidate. And it struck me, I thought, when is it at what point in politics did donors start becoming a chief architect of who leads a political party or not? And then, of course, when Harris became the presumptive nominee and there was an explosion in fundraising, that was then waved around as a demonstration of the success of her candidacy. So it was almost as though that money has superseded any analysis of”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a Democrat who speaks to, I guess, my politics in many respects. And I think he is a great contrast to Kamala Harris and the governor of Minnesota and her role in California. That clearly got very different backgrounds. And I'm really excited by his choice. I mean, he's a very plain speaking style, that knockabout dad clearly culturally feels like he sits pretty comfortably in middle class America. And that just resonates. And I think it just prates a perfect compliment for the Harris campaign. And look, I've got to say I probably today's probably the most energized I've been about the Harris campaign, about the Democratic presidential campaign in four years.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely fascinated and enthralled by it. And I don't mind saying I was really excited at the news, you know, and seeing some of the contributions the governor has made on the national stage just in the last 24 hours, I have loved every second of it.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Australia is really via design. Blend of the two systems. In terms of the role of states and its interaction with the Commonwealth government or the federal government, we are model. The federal government is modelled on the US system, a Senate and a House of Representatives, the Senate being the representative of states and the House of Representatives reflecting the House of Commons in the UK, albeit with a Westminster system. So we are directly a blend of the two. Premier's roles equates with governors in the United States. It's just that we as a smaller country have a lot fewer of them. There is undoubtedly greater similarity and affinity to the Westminster system in the UK, but it has just got some nuances that make us far similar to the US.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If the Prime Minister and I get on exceedingly well, and I'm going to hopefully see him on the weekend. And so Noah is the short answer to your question, but I think the political architecture, know my worldview about these matters and the importance of investing in education. And international students bring a lot of revenue to our education system for better or worse. I don't think anyone would be surprised by my remarks today.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The federal government's looking at cutting back the number of international students coming into Australia because. Immigration. And you'd be well familiar with the policies of immigration. You know, I'm very worried about what that policy means for our country. I think there's a higher road.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The ops side speaks for itself. I mean, there's a congeniality when you start at a decision making forum with people having a similar worldview. I guess the rubber hits the road when you've got a responsibility to advocate your own constituencies' interests against what might be the political interests of the federal government. And we've certainly seen examples of that. I sort of certainly see that as a test for me personally because I've got a sense of loyalty to the Labor Party and the Labour movement clearly, but that's not what my principal obligation is to. I've got a duty to my state more broadly that supersedes any part of loyalties. That test is always challenging, but I can recall at least a couple examples recently where I've had to speak out against federal government policy, including today.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, because I think there's a small business constituency that social democratic parties haven't been thinking enough about.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would say that one of the most typical is we see people coming out of professional services. You know, think of a lawyer who's, you know, not too dissimilar to what Keir Stummer's a path to a significant role in the British Labour Party. The professional services are a lawyer typically. Well, Andrew to public life because a sense of devotion, a sense of civic duty and they see parliament, I mean public life as a path. I would say the other one you do see representations of people from social services, teachers aren't uncommon in our parliaments in Australia. I would say trade unionists, teachers and lawyers arguably are overrepresented. On the conservative side of politics, we still do see some pretty good examples of people coming from a traditional small business advocacy. And there are examples of people with those backgrounds back here a pretty big contribution on the conservative side of politics and I'm trying to make sure we attract those types of people to the Labour Party in South Australia.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a saying that familiarity breeds contempt. I think don't misinterpret that. Once you establish that you can make a contribution and get a degree of confidence that you do have the capacity to lead, one thing can lead to another pretty quickly. But I took over as leader of the party just after we lost an election after a period of 16 years in government and no one really gave much of a chance to returning to government. But thankfully, we were able to achieve that. And I thought having our two years experience as a minister before becoming leader of the opposition, I desperately wanted to get that opportunity again. And I relished the chance to be able to make even a bigger difference than I was able to in that two years. And I'm now blessed with that opportunity and just don't waste a moment.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Moment in time, but I would say is that there is something utterly satisfying and exhilarating about getting something done in a political landscape that's contested.”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Going from the trade union movement into the political arm of the Labour Party in Australia is a pretty well-trodden path. The truth is that we were able to engage on a range of issues. We were the largest unit in the country at the time. And I got a taste for the power of parliaments and governs to be able to make a more substantial change in the lives of working people, but have a positive impact on society more broadly. One of the things we did in South Australia during that time was I campaigned and led a charge to make Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, part day public holiday, which sounds like a small thing, but let me tell you, it's not to a worker who might have a chance of being with their family on Christmas Eve that otherwise didn't have that opportunity. And I just found that whole experience exhilarate to see a piece of legislation pass the parliament. And once you get a taste for it, it's an absolute thrill in terms of having such what I believe is a positive impact. But I can't point Alistair to a single...”
2024-08-18 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 90. Why we should ban all money from politics and kids from social media (Peter Malinauskas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source