Labor’s spending has ‘made the economy halt’: Bridget McKenzie

existential threats to agriculture let's bring in now Senator Bridget McKenzie Bridget always great to have you here on Outsiders um we're not going to ask you to break dance I bet you're a better break dancer than uh than anyone here or anyone at the Olympics but uh listen there's lots of local news to discuss now so uh let's talk about it the first thing I want to mention to you is a great speech by David Harris who's the CEO of the agric Australian agriculture company and he made the point that the existential threats to farming and to agriculture in general are the greatest he's ever seen and these threats come from climate activism greens Green tape red tape black tape so many threats now upon the Australian farming industry agricultural industry do you agree with him Bridget absolutely Rowan and great to be with you I I liked tortured poets back in the day rather than break dancing but yeah I it's great to uh see get up early and see the 1500 me to run by Jess Hull uh but in terms of Agriculture I don't know what's happened in this country where we see farmers becoming the villains which is essentially what we've got it's not just the far-left as you've outlined but indeed our own labor party uh who's doing preference deals at the last elections with animal activists that have seen the shutdown of the live sheep trade in Western Australia a state that absolutely gave Anthony albanesi the prime ministership and so no matter where you look um we're seeing agriculture under attack the end game I believe is the end of livestock production more generally in this country which would be an absolute tragedy um and I think it's based on a you know a lack of scientific literacy across the borderer community because there's study after study demonizing farmers and farming practices which are really um underpinned by dodgy science you know the you just look at the Olympic Village uh if we're going to continue with the theme we've got concerns that world yeah concerns that World Records aren't being broken because nobody can get enough protein into these athletes to actually power and fuel their absolute performance and instead these these leftwing people are wanting to see lab grown meat I mean the human being didn't become as big and strong and smart as we are by eating plants inflation and interest rates James well so we're going back to Parliament uh where is um and we've seen some really interesting things happen in over the last several weeks here um number one I think is uh this fight between the RBA and the government on inflation on interest rates and this Narrative of government spending what sort of narrative can we expect as the government returns to Parliament this week uh about the way their irresponsible spending is driving up inflation we've just seen another gift to another sector in the child care sector with I think a 10% um wage 15% wage gift with no productivity increase at some point when is the government going to acknowledge that it's making the problem worse I I don't think you're going to see that at all from this government James uh if you believe in double speak AKA 1984 style this government's got it in Spades they ignore the laws of physics which haven't changed just because they got into Parliament and the laws of Economics which have underpinned uh the way the market has worked uh for centuries and and that continues so what I think we're dangerously seeing is the RBA versus the treasury versus Jim Charmers and the RBA won't be I don't believe won't be influenced by the labor party or the treasurers pleading or begging or false economics the reality is Michelle bullet couldn't have been clearer and federal labor governments spending has made the economy hot and that means inflation's going to stay higher than it needs to be for longer and it's Australians who are paying the cost and no matter how often albo and Jim say that's not the case doesn't change the facts uh and I think you're seeing it on the in the suburbs uh right around our country that people are struggling with their mortgages and the RBA will not be bringing those interest rates down until it can have some confidence that the government will get its spending under control now brid you Israel sanctions can look forward to the greens uh urging the albanesi government this week to uh put targeted sanctions against Israel condemn the Netanyahu uh government all sorts of other measures that they want uh the alanes government to meet how is that going to go because we know labor are compromised on this issue uh they have been all over the shop they've shown little moral Clarity how are they going to cope with this new green assault on this issue well I think they're going to have their usual flaccid response I mean these guys don't know up from down they don't know Ally from foe uh and they're actually really challenged particularly in the Senate uh where the greens do have uh significant numbers and can really determine whether legislation passes or not you can see Penny Wong as the leader of the government in the Senate get quite worked up each and every time uh the greens put one of these kind of wedging motions on the table uh and I think they're going to be similarly challenged again at the end of the day leadership is about doing the right thing despite uh the protestations and The Angst around you it is standing firm in the face of challenges and every single time a challenge is put forward um but you know to this government they fall flat and can't seem to recognize that you have to stand for something and I think you're seeing that in the polls the Australian government knows that these guys aren't on the Australian people's side they're simply on the side of winning seats particularly in this case with the Israel issue in Western Sydney and protecting some of those ministers who have significant Islamic populations in their electorates uh Indigenous uranium Bridget I also wanted to ask you we had last week on the show Willie Packer one of the investors in the jabala uranium mine up there uh near kakadu uh at the GMA Festival Anthony Albanese he made a song and dance about how the future for indigenous Australians would be based entirely on Renewables and uh basically uh climate technology at the same time he shut down jabala which was a shorefire investment worth B ions of dollars potentially to Australian investors and taxpayers um what do you make of albanes do you think the future for indigenous Australians is Renewables only as he claims well I think this is a classic case of 21st century colonialism uh you know you can have the glass beads not the mirrors it's just insane absolutely insane we want to see economic empowerment particularly for marginalized indigenous Australians and that means all options on the table to actually grow well-paying jobs uh in the Northern Territory and that's exact the government is now wanting to shut those opportunities down and we know Australia's uranium is going to power progress over this Century particularly as the world is seeking to Triple its Net Zero nuclear um energy production over coming decades so it should be a bright future for jabala and the territory uranium deposits instead once again albow is picking ideology over practical solutions that will actually help people