Matt Abraham's spin on the newly elected Sussan Ley of the Liberal Party

Published May 15, 2025, 12:20 AM

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David Pemberthy and Will Goodings six to nine, five double a breakfast, Let stalkspin.

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I tell you what any advices says anyone not turning up the day of the dumb Matts.

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Good morning to.

You, Good morning, Will, Good morning David.

It's been a target rich environment this past fortnight for US political nerds.

Hasn't it met it had?

The election is not over, by the way.

The Zoe Daniels, who's the teal in Goldstein, has been criticized for not conceding because Tim Wilson, a Liberal, has come back. He lost a seat to her, and he won it. He says he's won't it, but there's still there's only four hundred votes in it, and there's still about eight percent of the count to go, and she's been closing closing the gap.

She might throw another party if she wins it again, or be really, really really sad if or fifty votes. Did he say he was going to run for the leadership, Yes.

But he's thought he better wait a while, wait till he's wonders maybe.

And when you can get more than one vote.

Exactly, and thank you for the meme saying that Susan Lee will they who insert inserted a second s.

She's now called the opposite leader.

She's rebranded it and put two s's in opposition.

Now.

One of our listeners con he's reminded us Matt and he wants to get your thoughts on this. Should someone get a lettice? Remember Liz Trust? What's going to last longer a lettice or Liz Trust? Does Season Lee deserve the letters treatment?

Well, surely they're going to give her. Will leave the cat together for a few weeks.

Was a four point four vote margin.

That's a nightmare. I reckon you'r d o a if you win a leadership contest by margin that slim.

It's it's not a lot, is it? Four votes? They're not all swearing loyalty behind her.

It's a shocking result.

Well, a lot of them, A lot of conservative people out there openly publicly bagging, like Rita Panahi, who's a very conservative contributor to Sky writes a column for the Herald, so she called him Malcolm Turbule in address.

I think Susan Lee. I think Susan Lee is it is it la.

I know why, you know, I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Lee.

It's pronounced lee.

I spelled l e y Lee.

Okay, Susan Lee. Well, let's make that official pronunciation. For a whole lot of reasons. But Susan Lee, I think she's one of those people who you wouldn't you would find very hard to categorize. I suppose she's a moderate in the party, but she doesn't sound very moderate to me, not terribly moderate. She's got an enormous job in the federal you know, to pull the federal opposition into shape, and I would think it'd beyond at the moment, it'd be beyond any leader. I mean that this is a party that really, you know, Phil Curry said, you know that they need to be soul searching. Well, it's a bit hard if you don't.

Have a soul.

And you know, you see people like Alex Antik, Senator Alexantik walking out of the leadership yesterday past the media who were just standing. As you know, most of your time as a journal I spent waiting ninety nine percent waiting one percent action. So they're waiting for the leader to come out and the antiqu walks past them and points goes, you know, fake news, fake news, fake news to them, and I'm thinking, what do you want about?

Like, why are you doing?

Did he do that? Yeah?

As he's walking out fake news, fake news, fake news, points finger at the journal's I think.

What wasn't the leadership still happening? Was made up?

Yeah?

Yeah?

Yeah?

Should they be doing something else?

Yeah? That's right?

Should they not be there?

You know?

And can't you come up with an original line like you've just got hammered. Your party's just been smashed because of the Trump partly in parts it No, but you know, not enough of that? Why Senator Alexantik, You know, like he's a political genius all right in his own mind.

And maybe he is. That's fine.

And he represents a legitimate part of the liberal spectrum, the conservative spectrum, that's fine as well. Was he in a marginal seat?

Was he like? Was he like a Tim.

Wilson sort of battling it out and winning by three hundred votes and then still waiting and absolutely panicking and apparently texting everyone, you know, calling in scrutinies, now absolutely puping himself. Is is he fighting in a seat. Was he was he in Sturt Alexandik was he fighting in Boothby?

No?

What he did?

He rolled Anne Rustin for the number one spot on the South Australian Senate ticket a week before the Dunstan by election. Rolled a prominent woman for no reason other than he wanted to make sure he got number one on the Senate ticket, because he wanted to.

Make sure he got elected.

So that's fine, come out with all your trump isms, but don't from a moment think that that's going to win your government.

It'll win you. You know, you'll be.

A Senator for life because you shore up your little coterie of people. But he's not going to win your government because you've just had an election where that's been proven that Trump became poisoned in the course of about two weeks and he went from being the magic.

Elixa for the Liberals. That's right to poison.

But isn't the problem that they've got as a party They met that for everything you just said. And I know heaps of Liberals who agree with you. Some of them are on the record. I mean Trish Worth, the former Federal Member for Adelaide Parliamentary Secretary in the very successful how a Government era. She came on our show and said that, you know, the day after the election. Conversely, though, there's other people in the Liberal Party and they're not all like Alexantik. Other more moderate conservatives say, you know what the problem with this party is. You look at Stephen Marshall. They call him labor Light and they say Marshall was only in for one term because no one could really tell the difference between him and Labor. He didn't do a strong enough job representing the traditional business community. He allowed politically correct flights of policy fancy along the Vicky Chapman lines around abortion euthanasia. So you've got this hardcore of other people on the other side who say we've gone to left.

So you've got this, we've gone to the left, We've gone to.

I find that hilarious because even Am May term spun off into his own orbit now where he just he's sort of Malcolm Turnbull TM and he just says all sorts of things.

And he's more left wing than Sarah Hanson and young these You know what he has in common with Stephen Marshall. They actually won elections. Well, yeah, they won elections. I always liked when Seeuth the strain of Liberals RiPP into Stephen Marshall. He was the only one who won in twenty something years. Yeah, okay, so let's.

Let's be careful trying to categorize, you know, what failure is, because everyone else has fallen short of that.

Yeah, and it speaking of winning, surrounding yourself with winners. I did find it strange because I'd forgotten that John Olsen was federal president of the Liberal Party, so and.

He was hoping you had Yeah.

Well, he's been focusing on the crowser Mike smith The Crows are on fire, Mike Smithson.

And in Daily he's done a column sort of pointing the finger saying, well, you know, like, what were you doing, John Olson? Somebody who came back to politics, the state politics roll Dean Brown and then led a triumphant return to a minority government and never won government in his own right in the majority. And then the other person who was apparently Peter Dutton's right hand person inside HQ, was Jamie Briggs, somebody who lost the seat to Mayo. And they'll never be well, they won't get it back till Rebecca Sharky sort of buys a new boat and decides to take up fishing full time. So you know this, I think it would be a good idea to try and surround yourself with winners. You know, I've been thinking about Stephen Marshall a bit lately, thinking why doesn't he come back as leader? Would they be any worse off or would they be better.

Off if you had the return. He wouldn't be the first leader to do this, By the way, I can't think of any others.

But we'll leave one of the greatest cities in the world, New York, to come back to Adelaide to run a party that most people think is going to win four seats next year.

I know it's not atracted. I know it's not when you put it.

Like that, one or the other benefits. That's not the pitch I'd make.

When you put it like that, I can see the other side of the picture. I'm not saying it's an attractive.

Tavern on the green in Central Park eating steak tarta.

But would you like to come back to Adelaide.

It's winter and you're going to lead a party that doesn't extly have any policies.

Yes, I know that or many or any that we can remind.

They almost need they need an antidote to Peter Malnouskus, because you remove Peter Malnowskus from leadership here in South Australia, you look at the things that people just wipe off the board, you know, like here we are, we've got huge problems of the whaler still works, all that sort of stuff, and Peter mask Melonouskus have got time to help Tasmania get it's stadium built.

I was look at that story thinking he's consulting.

Now, what are you do?

Everything's fixed here?

Is it?

Cost of living? No props?

He's run out of sporting events to organize him on board?

What's next? Oh they need a stadium? I better go over an album.

No, they came here and spent and now are getting briefed by him and John Olsen far out.

No.

But also I think maybe the South Australian liberals need they need a punch through leader. I believe I can't see any of the current crop. Maybe Ashton Herne, but you know, and she won't do this, she'd be nuts to do this, and she's not nuts. But someone like a Natasha stop this boy. They need somebody who you know, covers a lot of territory, and he has got a profile and as seen as you know, a winner. How would I'm just blue skying this as I.

Like to say, how would spitballing.

Run this up the flag plan and see if anyone saloots? How would Peter Melanauskus go against a Natasha stop this boy?

As a liberal leader, I'd be good to have a natash in alexanderk in the same party, wouldn't It'd be excellent. I'd buy tickets to those party meetings.

Need to shoot me down here this morning.

No, I think your logic is sound.

I think having a female candidate against Mali would go to what is one of his potential vulnerabilities, which is that he's got a bit of a jock quality. He's got a bit of a boyo, you know, being high five walking around the watering hole that live and a female opponent could help shift the focus back onto there's more life than sport, pete and get into the service delivery side of things a lot better. The problem when someone like Tarsia does it, he sounds like a bit of a spoilersport and a.

Lot of guys go.

Yeah, totally, what Tasi should do he should. He should because clearly Malan owns because a lot of people love him in South Australia because of things like gather around and live because he's a bit of a shaman. So TARSI should try to out shame in him by saying, if you vote for me, you'll get two gather rounds and Katy Perry will play three courts. She has a residency like Vegas. She'd run every Friday night and we're able to see it the highway every Friday.

Just quickly, Women's and Children's Hospital. We've got these minutes of the high level meeting that show that it's running, is going to run the projections. Art's going to run five years behind schedule and it's going to blow out to about three hundred and twenty million dollars. What's the state government get away with saying it was a typo?

A typo I know, and pick that up.

Yeah, come on, Matt, you know it's the only thing in Australia the price of which is not going to increase out all over a decade.

Sorry. By the way, all this advice we give the Liberal parties free a.

Lot of our listeners, Matt are taking up your suggestion of the wild solutions for the things that ail the South Astralia the Liberal Party in terms of leadership. J s Esk can you tione if Steven Marshall came back to the Liberal Party, they say he's winning. Slogan posters could say.

May you promise to fix ramp?

I'm back?

Well was better then? Oh I love it?

Now this is onto some spin. Yes, one of the funny things that's happened. Charlotte Walker.

She's twenty one.

She turned twenty one on election night and she's going to be a Senator from South Australia. From what I can work out, she's not the youngest MP. I've come to that in a moment, So just hold that thought before that bought.

Susan Lee. Now this is David sent.

Me Texas there saying have you seen this?

It's just taken us about four hours to find it.

Sorry because the second part of this quote about the Australian flag was used in print but not audio.

But we have found it.

Have you listened to Susan Lee at a first press conference answering questions about the Australian flag.

We should unite under the one Australian flag.

That is my firm view.

Of course, I'm happy to stand in front of the indigenous.

Flag, and I frequently do. And I frequently have the Russian flag or the Scandinavian flag, any one of them.

I don't care.

A basque separatist flag hobby, whatever you want.

What flag of Bolivia?

Two out of ten for her first prest matts.

Now, just to go back to that though, she says she's always happy to stand in she only wants to stand in front of one flag. You're knights, but she's happy to stand in front of the original flag. That mean she's going to get rid of the Australian flag then.

Who knows? Anyway?

Back to Charlotte Walker twenty one, Okay, she's going to be a senator, so he's got six years.

What a great gig.

Still lives at home with her parents in Normanville. How did she become a senator? How did she get number three spot? Well, that number three spot on the say ticket, I'm told was meant to go to the right the party. They couldn't find anyone to stand because they didn't.

Think they're going to win.

They didn't think they had to worry about who was going to be down at number three, so they couldn't get anyone to stand. So the left took it and they tapped Charlotte Walker's president of Young Labor, and of course unexpectedly there was a big Surgeon Labor vote and she is now a senator, and the writer saying, okay, we could have had a senator up and if I had known that, I'm not a member of Labor Party, but I would have said, you know, I'd fit into the Catholic.

Right, you can put me.

Yeah, six years in camp, mister trick there, I think.

But anyway, so she may be. I think she's a younger senator. Certainly at twenty one. Wyatt Roy holds the record as the youngest MP in Federal Parliament. At twenty he looked like he was thirteen.

He still does.

But the youngest South Strand before Charlotte Walker was a guy called Andrew Jones, who won the seat of Adelaide in nineteen sixty six and started off by saying half of federal politicians are drunks, They're drunk, and described our whole as the demon's urine.

Wow.

He had to apologized for the first bit about saying half of them are drunk. He probably should have said most and then succumbed to the devil's urine sadly, and you know, game a drunk he's dead, so fine. But he put out he was an arch conservative at twenty two, and he put out a song or you know, a CD, the Shadow Valley and the Iron Triangles.

And this is a little bit.

Yes, listen, people today have money and good times. Things seem to be going pretty well. But is our greatest asset happened?

There's our religion, complacency and our motto let someone else do it, as always the fool for someone to do the work, the sucker to do the sweating and the dying. So what if the war goes on another five years? There's always America, good old Uncle Sam. But how long will Australia be free when the red cancer of communism is Intuasia?

Will we still sing with our hearts when we look at.

Our flag with pride?

You know what, there's a few liberals sitting there going damn straight, Andrew.

That is crazy.

That's on from something outside of music compilation.

And the voice, by the way, the voice was a guy.

He was an executive Rex Heading who that's Rex Heading who commissioned happy.

To be like, Wow, So I'm looking for Charlotte Walker as a twenty one year old to come out with something or maybe Alex Antik and the Ants, but anyway, that's Alex.

In the end, we need more politicians to release songs. Ten out of.

Ten for the posthumously, it's a first. Andrew Jones, did.

You tell you?

Matt?

Thank you.

We'll catch you next week.

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