Mike Hosking

Nevertheless, they are taking it seriously.

So the invite came yesterday.

So yesterday was a defining moment.

It was a moment in time that if I'm wrong and the polls are right, you are watching the future prime minister of Australia.

One of the reviews this morning summed it up beautifully.

She wasn't slick.

but her formidable press club appearance proved her critics wrong, and I think that's accurate.

Here she is.

She gave a speech.

It was far too long.

She's no orator, and she's got an annoying voice.

And she was told to wrap up the speech.

But here's an SBS reporter.

The SBS reference as part of her platform is she's going to get rid of the SBS because it's race-based, of course.

She's an interesting mix of Winston Peters and David Seymour.

David Seymour in the sense that she's very conservative in the expenditure of public money, in the firing of useless people, in the simplifying of the bureaucracy.

Very Winston Peters in that xenophobic type.

She talked about Islam and monoculturalism and people speaking English.

She's very big on poor people and people who are struggling.

and helping people not to struggle.