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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wait, welcome to the Late Debates.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the Late Debate. I'm James
- 0:08Speaker 2: Macpherson with Caleb Bond and Danika de Georgio, who I
- 0:11Speaker 2: have to say is always a very positive person. But
- 0:15Speaker 2: tonight you have been buzzing? Is something going on? Just
- 0:18Speaker 2: excited about the show.
- 0:19Speaker 3: I'm just excited to be in the presence of these
- 0:21Speaker 3: two wonderful men. That's why every night I come on
- 0:24Speaker 3: this show and I think what an honor and a
- 0:26Speaker 3: privilege it is to be with Caleb and James.
- 0:28Speaker 4: And I'm just high on life.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We didn't even practice that before the show. That was spontaneous.
- 0:33Speaker 4: Spontaneous.
- 0:33Speaker 3: I'm just always in a good mood when I'm around
- 0:35Speaker 3: you two like that, you know, and it's lovely to say,
- 0:38Speaker 3: you know, to be with our viewers as well.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Caleb, you're good.
- 0:41Speaker 5: I'm not as good as Janika, clearly, but look, I
- 0:44Speaker 5: mean maybe it'll rab off on me.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Let's see, right, here's what's coming up tonight. Green Senator
- 0:50Speaker 2: Marine Ferruki defends Muslims who abused the PM during his
- 0:53Speaker 2: visit to La Kember Mosque. She says the PM should
- 0:56Speaker 2: have stayed and legitimized their concerns. The National Trust is
- 1:01Speaker 2: worried that people from non English backgrounds don't feel welcome
- 1:05Speaker 2: in the English countryside, and Denika has promised us a
- 1:09Speaker 2: rendition of the Kinks nineteen seventy Lola. The song is
- 1:13Speaker 2: back in the news after being described as transphobic. Maybe
- 1:17Speaker 2: that's why she's in such a good mood. But before
- 1:19Speaker 2: we get.
- 1:20Speaker 1: To that, let's start tonight's program with some good news.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Not that you singing is not good names it remains
- 1:27Speaker 1: to be seen. Here's the good news, though.
- 1:28Speaker 2: The Queensland government has taken drastic steps to prevent James
- 1:32Speaker 2: Cook University from changing their name. With statues of the
- 1:36Speaker 2: British Explorer regularly defaced and damaged around the country, it
- 1:39Speaker 2: was only a matter of time before officials at James
- 1:42Speaker 2: Cook Uni looked at changing the institution's name. But the
- 1:46Speaker 2: change won't be happening because as soon as the LNP
- 1:48Speaker 2: government got winned that a name change was being considered,
- 1:52Speaker 2: they took steps to stack the university's leadership council, ensuring
- 1:56Speaker 2: they could block any vote to ditch the name. New
- 2:00Speaker 2: laws to be passed this week will reduce the sixteen
- 2:02Speaker 2: member university Council to twelve members of whom half will
- 2:06Speaker 2: be appointed by the government. Education Minister John Paul Langruk
- 2:11Speaker 2: deserves praise for this. He described James Cook as a
- 2:14Speaker 2: revered Englishman and explorer and said a name change was
- 2:18Speaker 2: quote historical revisionism that won't be happening under his watch. Caleb,
- 2:22Speaker 2: well done, LMP.
- 2:24Speaker 5: Indeed, And I mean this was a cop out from
- 2:27Speaker 5: the beginning when it came out, was an exclusive report
- 2:30Speaker 5: from scar News that to reveal this, I should note
- 2:33Speaker 5: in the beginning, and they said that what they were
- 2:36Speaker 5: actually doing was just getting some mob to look at
- 2:40Speaker 5: what we might do if, maybe someday down the line,
- 2:44Speaker 5: we thought about changing our name from Captain James Hook.
- 2:47Speaker 6: We're not actually thinking of doing it.
- 2:49Speaker 5: You know, it's just contingency planning. I mean, come on,
- 2:54Speaker 5: you're not just planning for things that might happen unless
- 2:58Speaker 5: you think there is a chance they might happen. I mean,
- 3:00Speaker 5: you know, I'm not sitting around planning for what's going
- 3:03Speaker 5: to happen when Danika de Giorgio leaves the program, because
- 3:06Speaker 5: it's never going to happen.
- 3:07Speaker 6: Is it is she is now locked in?
- 3:10Speaker 1: Well, it depends on she's singing later in the world.
- 3:14Speaker 5: Right, No, perhaps I should have been doing that contingency
- 3:16Speaker 5: paper exactly. You do contingency planning for things that are
- 3:20Speaker 5: a live possibility. So clearly what they were thinking was, well,
- 3:24Speaker 5: you know, maybe at some point we will change our
- 3:27Speaker 5: name from James Cook. And look, I know I say
- 3:30Speaker 5: this every single time Captain Cook comes up, but I'm
- 3:34Speaker 5: going to say it again just for those in the
- 3:35Speaker 5: back who for some reason have not yet picked up
- 3:38Speaker 5: on it. Captain Cook was not on the first fleet.
- 3:41Speaker 5: Captain Cook did not colonize this country. In fact, he
- 3:44Speaker 5: was killed nine years before the first fleet rocked up
- 3:48Speaker 5: in Hawaii.
- 3:49Speaker 6: The first one is in rock up to Hawaii. He
- 3:50Speaker 6: was killed in Hawaii.
- 3:51Speaker 5: I mean, these people are just so historically illiterate that
- 3:55Speaker 5: they think that Captain Cook was actually involved in anything
- 3:59Speaker 5: that happened on this land. He mapped and explored the joint,
- 4:03Speaker 5: he didn't seem a single person to live here. He
- 4:06Speaker 5: didn't set up a colony, He had nothing to do
- 4:08Speaker 5: with it. He was dead to decade before any of
- 4:10Speaker 5: that went on. He is not the evil man you
- 4:13Speaker 5: think he is. But I suppose it's just because he's
- 4:15Speaker 5: got some links to the early days of colonialism before
- 4:19Speaker 5: it had even happened in this country.
- 4:21Speaker 6: It's evil, it must go.
- 4:22Speaker 5: Thank god, there's at least one government in this country
- 4:25Speaker 5: that's willing to stand up and say we must protect it,
- 4:28Speaker 5: protect our history.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking, can you imagine if this was
- 4:31Speaker 3: in Victoria, just sint to Alan would have been all
- 4:33Speaker 3: for the name change. It would have been changed to
- 4:35Speaker 3: something absolutely obscure that not one person could ever pronounce
- 4:38Speaker 3: some ridiculous names. So, thank goodness, finally common sense prevails
- 4:43Speaker 3: over in Queensland.
- 4:44Speaker 4: I am so sick to death of the left.
- 4:47Speaker 3: And woke institutions trying to rewrite Australia's history. It's this
- 4:51Speaker 3: progressive left that are slowly infiltrating and ultimately seeking to
- 4:55Speaker 3: tear down, you know, the values and traditions of the
- 4:59Speaker 3: Australia that once was.
- 5:00Speaker 4: Well, this is why we actually need to start standing
- 5:02Speaker 4: up for.
- 5:03Speaker 3: Our values, standing up for who we are as Australians.
- 5:06Speaker 3: And I actually think that culture wars have a big
- 5:09Speaker 3: part in this, in this brainwashing by the left to think, no,
- 5:13Speaker 3: like anybody that's got to do with our history, they're bad.
- 5:17Speaker 3: White people are so evil, bring down the colony, all
- 5:20Speaker 3: that absolute pilava that they go on about. And these
- 5:23Speaker 3: are why the culture wars matter that we see time
- 5:25Speaker 3: and time again, the same old age old debates, the
- 5:28Speaker 3: brainwashing in the classrooms, the woke universities, and it is
- 5:32Speaker 3: time for us to say no, we are proud of
- 5:35Speaker 3: this country. We're proud of our history. And if you
- 5:37Speaker 3: don't like it, get out and.
- 5:38Speaker 2: You lose every fight that you don't participate in, right,
- 5:42Speaker 2: And that's been the problem is we've had conservative governments
- 5:44Speaker 2: who winge and complain, but never use the power they've
- 5:47Speaker 2: been given at an election to actually win in the
- 5:51Speaker 2: culture wars. So the LNP have used their power, they've
- 5:54Speaker 2: stacked the board to prevent any name change. That's what
- 5:57Speaker 2: we want when we elect conservative governments, will them to
- 6:00Speaker 2: actually use the power to conserve what we love about
- 6:05Speaker 2: our country. Labor use the power when they get it.
- 6:07Speaker 2: It's about time conservatives used it.
- 6:09Speaker 5: Good on the LMP and all this business about oh,
- 6:12Speaker 5: you know, the culture wars. They don't win elections and
- 6:14Speaker 5: it's a distraction from the things people actually care about. Yes,
- 6:17Speaker 5: it is true that the number three issues in this
- 6:20Speaker 5: country a cost of living.
- 6:22Speaker 6: Cost of living and cost of living.
- 6:23Speaker 5: But the reality is that unless you have a culture,
- 6:27Speaker 5: you don't have a country at all.
- 6:29Speaker 6: You just have a group of people.
- 6:30Speaker 5: In the case of Australia living on an island. Remember
- 6:33Speaker 5: when sekir Stama talked last year about the UK turning
- 6:37Speaker 5: into an island of strange Yes, this is what happens
- 6:40Speaker 5: when you don't defend your culture. You have to defend
- 6:43Speaker 5: and maintain a culture in order to be a country,
- 6:46Speaker 5: and it is important and people do care about it.
- 6:50Speaker 5: While we're talking about the culture wars, they've taken a bit.
- 6:53Speaker 6: Of an extreme turn over at the Senate.
- 6:56Speaker 5: Now, before I show you that, let's go back in
- 6:59Speaker 5: time a little bit to last week when the Prime
- 7:01Speaker 5: Minister went to visit lakember Mosque in Sydney for Aid,
- 7:06Speaker 5: which is the celebration at the end of Ramadan, and
- 7:09Speaker 5: he was of course confronted by an angry mob. Now
- 7:37Speaker 5: in the close up vision, the Prime Minister looked rather
- 7:39Speaker 5: scared and concerned by what was going on. And to
- 7:41Speaker 5: be honest, I don't blame him when you've got a
- 7:43Speaker 5: bunch of men yelling at you that you're a genocide
- 7:46Speaker 5: supporter and you're somehow responsible for the deaths of billions
- 7:49Speaker 5: of people. How he had anything to do with that,
- 7:52Speaker 5: I'm not entirely sure. And they're angry and seem like
- 7:55Speaker 5: they could get violent. Of course you would be scared,
- 7:58Speaker 5: and you would be escorted out of there. As the
- 8:00Speaker 5: Prime Minister, you should be able to go wherever the
- 8:02Speaker 5: hell you want in this country and be treated with respect. Now,
- 8:06Speaker 5: after that, the Prime Minister sort of downplayed what had happened.
- 8:10Speaker 7: There were thirty thousand people plus at Lakember this morning. Overwhelmingly,
- 8:17Speaker 7: the reception was incredibly positive.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I walked through the.
- 8:20Speaker 7: Crowd to the mosque and not a single person heckled.
- 8:26Speaker 7: There were a couple of hecklers inside. They were dealt with.
- 8:30Speaker 7: Contrary to what's been suggested, no one has rushed out.
- 8:33Speaker 6: We just sat there. It was dealt with. Ah, we
- 8:36Speaker 6: just sat there. It was dealt with.
- 8:38Speaker 5: Now, Look, I think we can all see that that
- 8:41Speaker 5: did not happen. Someone else who saw that that did
- 8:43Speaker 5: not happen was Marine FAROOKI now Marine Ferroki Green Senator.
- 8:48Speaker 5: Of course she has taken this to the extreme. In fact,
- 8:51Speaker 5: she has done the meme. Yes, she has done the meme.
- 8:55Speaker 5: Everyone I don't like is a member of the far right.
- 8:59Speaker 5: I think we have that meme to show you here.
- 9:03Speaker 5: Maybe not, we'll show you after the clip. Here is
- 9:06Speaker 5: Marine Ferruki now here it is. This is she's done
- 9:08Speaker 5: the meme.
- 9:09Speaker 6: Everyone I don't like is the far right.
- 9:11Speaker 5: I want to congratulate the Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi tonight
- 9:17Speaker 5: on now becoming a member of the far right. Yes,
- 9:21Speaker 5: you and me, elbow, buddy, we're in the same group together,
- 9:25Speaker 5: so says Marine Ferruki.
- 9:28Speaker 8: Muslims understandably express their frustration and anger at the Libor
- 9:32Speaker 8: government's complicity and inaction on Israel's genocide in Gaza. Instead
- 9:37Speaker 8: of acknowledging these sentiments, the Prime Minister left the mosque
- 9:41Speaker 8: in a rush, ignored community criticism, and misled the media
- 9:46Speaker 8: about why people were confronting him. The Prime Minister indulged
- 9:50Speaker 8: in far right talking points.
- 9:53Speaker 5: He indulged in far right talking points.
- 9:57Speaker 6: Now, yes, she is right.
- 9:58Speaker 5: That he mislid the media after the event about what
- 10:01Speaker 5: actually happened. Yes, they were quite angry with him, and
- 10:05Speaker 5: yes he was moved out of the place. But hang
- 10:08Speaker 5: on a minute, Marine Ferouki is suggesting that the Prime
- 10:11Speaker 5: Minister should have just sat there and taken it and
- 10:14Speaker 5: that I don't know, he should have let the baying mob.
- 10:17Speaker 6: Just go at him.
- 10:18Speaker 5: And by daring to say that, you know there was
- 10:21Speaker 5: something wrong with all of that, that he was indulging
- 10:24Speaker 5: in far right talking points. Give it a spell.
- 10:28Speaker 3: I mean seriously, his security were literally moving him on
- 10:32Speaker 3: because he was practically being chased out of a mosque.
- 10:35Speaker 3: And then they were yelling at him, you know, you're
- 10:38Speaker 3: a Putra dog, saying a lah wakba. What do they
- 10:40Speaker 3: want him to just continue his virtue signaling sitting on
- 10:42Speaker 3: the floor, cross legged without his shoes on. I mean, seriously,
- 10:46Speaker 3: Marine Ferouki, what exactly.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Is she doing in the Senate? Okay?
- 10:51Speaker 3: Because it's not like she represents Australia. It's not like
- 10:53Speaker 3: she represents our views. In fact, I think she is
- 10:56Speaker 3: the complete opposite. She shouldn't be there in the first place.
- 10:59Speaker 3: But I just love it how the left twist thing
- 11:02Speaker 3: are everything around. So now she's actually a member of
- 11:06Speaker 3: the left, is calling a fellow member of the left
- 11:09Speaker 3: part of the right wing extremism. I mean, can you
- 11:12Speaker 3: actually believe the turn of events? Look again, Marine Ferouki
- 11:18Speaker 3: should hang her head in shame once again. I think
- 11:21Speaker 3: she is a disgrace to Australia. She's an embarrassment to
- 11:24Speaker 3: this country. And I'm not standing up for the Prime
- 11:27Speaker 3: Minister because he shouldn't have been at that mosque in
- 11:29Speaker 3: the first place. But while on Earth would he stay
- 11:31Speaker 3: sitting there when they were literally attacking him? It got
- 11:34Speaker 3: violent that these people had to be physically removed from
- 11:36Speaker 3: the mosque.
- 11:37Speaker 4: Why would he just sit there?
- 11:38Speaker 2: No, I agree with everything you say about Marine Ferruki.
- 11:41Speaker 2: The interesting thing is I think a lot of people
- 11:42Speaker 2: forget she's not just a Green senator. She's the deputy
- 11:46Speaker 2: leader of the Greens, so she's not just one of many.
- 11:50Speaker 2: She's part of the leadership team. She said that the
- 11:54Speaker 2: Muslims in that mosque, not all of them, but a
- 11:57Speaker 2: significant number were understand expressing their frustration.
- 12:02Speaker 1: I'm not sure that.
- 12:04Speaker 2: And we all get frustrated with the Prime Minister, right,
- 12:06Speaker 2: but calling him a putrid dog and the other abuse
- 12:11Speaker 2: that he received is hardly expressing your frustration in an
- 12:15Speaker 2: understandable way, especially to the Prime Minister. She talked about
- 12:19Speaker 2: Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. There's no such thing, and
- 12:24Speaker 2: as you say, I'm not sure you could expect the.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Prime Minister to sit there.
- 12:28Speaker 2: In fact, we'd be sitting here criticizing his security detail
- 12:31Speaker 2: if he sat there and wasn't removed from what could
- 12:34Speaker 2: have become a very ugly scene.
- 12:36Speaker 1: So another great.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Contribution to the dialogue in this country by the Deputy
- 12:42Speaker 2: Leader of the Green.
- 12:42Speaker 3: But had this even been at any sort of an
- 12:45Speaker 3: event where the Prime Minister was being verbaled at in
- 12:48Speaker 3: such a way, in such a very strong way, his
- 12:52Speaker 3: security detail would have whisked him away anyway. If it
- 12:55Speaker 3: happened at a church, he would have been whisked away.
- 12:58Speaker 3: So this is not just pertaining to a mosque. It
- 13:01Speaker 3: would have happened anywhere, because the Prime Minister travels with
- 13:04Speaker 3: huge security. I mean, I've been to many of the
- 13:06Speaker 3: Prime Minister's press conferences. People don't realize just how many
- 13:10Speaker 3: security officers are around him at all times.
- 13:13Speaker 5: On what basis can you say that the Prime Minister
- 13:15Speaker 5: has been indulging in far right talking point? If the
- 13:19Speaker 5: Prime Minister has been indulging in far right talking points,
- 13:22Speaker 5: what sort of a talking point is that the Prime
- 13:24Speaker 5: Minister is responsible for the deaths of millions of Muslims.
- 13:29Speaker 5: What category do we think that one fits into like
- 13:32Speaker 5: whatever marine Faruki is on. I want some of it
- 13:35Speaker 5: because that's like next level delusion.
- 13:37Speaker 2: She appears to be saying right that these Muslim men
- 13:40Speaker 2: wanted elbow out of the mosque and he's a racist
- 13:43Speaker 2: for leaving.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Ah, that doesn't make any sense.
- 13:46Speaker 4: How yeah, you leave Seriously.
- 13:48Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm so done with the Greens. The Greens have
- 13:51Speaker 3: proven themselves to be an absolute disgrace, particularly since October seven,
- 13:55Speaker 3: and we've seen the rise of anti Israel propaganda. It's
- 13:58Speaker 3: just been appalling, which brings me to my next topic. Now,
- 14:02Speaker 3: the arts sector has really been a breeding ground itself
- 14:06Speaker 3: for anti Semitism, for anti Israel artwork. And it's not
- 14:10Speaker 3: just in the art sector, it's other areas as well.
- 14:14Speaker 4: But I want to show you this.
- 14:15Speaker 3: This is an art exhibition in Kent Over in the
- 14:18Speaker 3: UK has allegedly exhibited art and I say that in
- 14:21Speaker 3: inverted commas showing Jewish people eating babies with blood dripping
- 14:26Speaker 3: from their sharpened teeth as you can see there.
- 14:28Speaker 4: I mean it is quite disturbing.
- 14:30Speaker 3: It was at the Drawings Against Genocide exhibition, which is
- 14:34Speaker 3: an independent gallery featuring featuring pictures critics claimed were containing
- 14:39Speaker 3: anti Semitic tropes. Now, if that wasn't appalling enough, that
- 14:43Speaker 3: image wasn't appalling enough. Kent Police actually investigated this and
- 14:48Speaker 3: they were trying to figure out whether or not this
- 14:50Speaker 3: veers into abuse and anti Semitism, and they have concluded no.
- 14:55Speaker 3: They said that this simply doesn't meet the threshold to
- 14:58Speaker 3: become a hate or abuse or or anti Semitism in general,
- 15:03Speaker 3: which is absolutely baffling to me. But here is a
- 15:06Speaker 3: statement released by Kent Police. They say the artwork is
- 15:09Speaker 3: critical of the Israeli state and its actions, but does
- 15:13Speaker 3: not include content that is directly abusive or insulting toward
- 15:17Speaker 3: Jewish people as a group. There is also no indication
- 15:21Speaker 3: of an intent by the artist to stir up racial
- 15:24Speaker 3: or religious hatred, which is a specific requirement within the legislation.
- 15:29Speaker 3: I mean, really, when you actually go to this exhibition,
- 15:34Speaker 3: there was a sign saying quote anti Semitic art exhibition
- 15:38Speaker 3: this way, So that sets up the theme for this
- 15:41Speaker 3: whole facade in general. I mean, I personally find it
- 15:46Speaker 3: very offensive to see and I'm not Jewish, but I
- 15:48Speaker 3: find it offensive to see an image of Jews eating babies.
- 15:52Speaker 3: I think it is violent. I think it is absolutely horrific.
- 15:56Speaker 3: And the other problem is over in the UK and
- 15:58Speaker 3: this has happened in ken they've just recently changed the
- 16:02Speaker 3: definition of Islamophobia to anti Muslim hate.
- 16:05Speaker 4: I mean, imagine if the shoe was on the other foot.
- 16:07Speaker 3: Okay, imagine if this was a picture of a Muslim
- 16:11Speaker 3: eating a child. Can you imagine that the police would
- 16:14Speaker 3: have investigated this absolutely immediately. And you guys will remember
- 16:17Speaker 3: we actually covered a story last week where hate crimes
- 16:20Speaker 3: against Muslims are twice as likely to be prosecuted as
- 16:24Speaker 3: compared to Jews. So if this happened to a Muslim,
- 16:28Speaker 3: I have no doubt that it would have been investigated.
- 16:30Speaker 3: But once again, Jews are targeted because they're Jews.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Well, I don't understand how this is not incitement, And
- 16:38Speaker 2: if it doesn't meet the threshold of incitement, then politicians
- 16:42Speaker 2: should rewrite the laws so that stuff like this is prosecutable.
- 16:46Speaker 2: Because when you've got Jewish schools, synagogues, other Jewish facilities
- 16:53Speaker 2: under armed guard right throughout Europe, we all know what
- 16:56Speaker 2: the problem is. And then you allow tropes like this
- 16:59Speaker 2: to be put on public display, what do you think
- 17:01Speaker 2: is going to happen? We don't need to think about it,
- 17:04Speaker 2: because just four days after that gallery exhibited those images.
- 17:09Speaker 2: And I'm not saying those images deliberately led to was
- 17:11Speaker 2: it for Jewish ambulances being set on fire. I'm not
- 17:16Speaker 2: saying there's a direct connection between that. I'm just saying
- 17:18Speaker 2: we all know Jews are under threat right throughout Europe.
- 17:22Speaker 2: So when you have images of Jews eating babies and
- 17:25Speaker 2: so forth and so on, how is that not incitement
- 17:28Speaker 2: in the current environment for police to say nothing to
- 17:31Speaker 2: see here beggars belief.
- 17:33Speaker 6: I don't think it is incitement.
- 17:35Speaker 5: And I'll preface this by saying that those images are repugnant.
- 17:41Speaker 6: It's not art, quote unquote art.
- 17:43Speaker 5: They're pretty bloody, ordinary drawings by some wackos who have
- 17:47Speaker 5: some very strange beliefs. Clearly hatred for Jews or Jewish
- 17:53Speaker 5: people or the Israel state. The State of Israel clearly
- 17:56Speaker 5: exists within their minds and what they are producing.
- 17:58Speaker 6: But it doesn't necessarily mean.
- 18:00Speaker 5: That it's the job of the law to prevent people
- 18:04Speaker 5: from feeling that way or expressing those beliefs. And yes,
- 18:08Speaker 5: there is a problem with antisemitism in the UK, as
- 18:11Speaker 5: there's a problem with antisemitism in Australia and many other
- 18:14Speaker 5: parts of the world at the moment. But I don't
- 18:16Speaker 5: think you can legislate that away. You can't just say well,
- 18:19Speaker 5: the law now says you can't do that, Therefore anti
- 18:21Speaker 5: semitism is fixed. In fact, I think it makes the
- 18:24Speaker 5: problem worse. I would much rather people like this were
- 18:27Speaker 5: shown to the public so we know who they are,
- 18:30Speaker 5: we know what they think, because simply telling them that
- 18:32Speaker 5: you can't draw that ut and you can't display it,
- 18:35Speaker 5: and you can't be an antisemit ain't going to change
- 18:38Speaker 5: a thing.
- 18:38Speaker 6: I don't think it's the job.
- 18:39Speaker 4: Of it, Caleb.
- 18:40Speaker 3: In this current environment right where Jews are already on edge.
- 18:43Speaker 3: Jews are threatened.
- 18:44Speaker 4: Day day out. They are scared for their lives.
- 18:47Speaker 3: We've seen what happens when people chant globalize the INTERFATA,
- 18:50Speaker 3: for example. It spurs people on into thinking that antisemitism
- 18:54Speaker 3: is normalized. I mean, we've seen it in Australia and
- 18:57Speaker 3: that is a sad reality that anti Semitism has become
- 18:59Speaker 3: the norm. And so by people putting out this sort
- 19:02Speaker 3: of artwork, people go, oh, well it's normal, then anti
- 19:05Speaker 3: you know, anti Semitic tropes are normal. We can criticize
- 19:09Speaker 3: Jews in that way. I mean, this is the most
- 19:11Speaker 3: horrific way to criticize Jews. That is my concern that
- 19:14Speaker 3: it spurs people onto contemning.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Can I just said to that criticism of Jews typically
- 19:19Speaker 2: leads to violence against Jews, and we can talk about
- 19:22Speaker 2: why that is or is not so with other groups.
- 19:25Speaker 1: But when it comes to the.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Jewish community, criticism and demonization of them typically leads to violence.
- 19:31Speaker 1: That's the problem, and that's why I think.
- 19:33Speaker 5: This is especially that you say is to outlaw offensive
- 19:38Speaker 5: language and artwork.
- 19:41Speaker 1: As pertaining to the Jewish community.
- 19:42Speaker 6: And specifically Elish community.
- 19:44Speaker 2: I mean they had a sign saying anti Semitic artwork
- 19:47Speaker 2: this way. You should not be allowed to do that.
- 19:50Speaker 2: That is clearing like men as a hatred of Jews
- 19:53Speaker 2: that typically leads to.
- 19:54Speaker 5: As the former Attorney General of this country, George Brandis
- 19:57Speaker 5: once said, when dealing with the racial discrimination in Australia,
- 20:01Speaker 5: people have the right to be biggots, and I don't
- 20:03Speaker 5: think we can start legislating that away and think that
- 20:06Speaker 5: it works. It's I understand that there is a big
- 20:09Speaker 5: problem with anti Semitism and we want to do something
- 20:12Speaker 5: about that, but we start with one thing and then
- 20:14Speaker 5: one day we end up with another. No.
- 20:16Speaker 3: But the thing is is what is the threshold? And
- 20:19Speaker 3: if the threshold starts going over into incitement, then I
- 20:22Speaker 3: think that then it becomes hate, and then it becomes
- 20:25Speaker 3: a problem. And I think that this breaches that. I
- 20:28Speaker 3: think this goes over into insight.
- 20:30Speaker 1: I agree with you.
- 20:31Speaker 2: And we've got a group of people who are ready
- 20:35Speaker 2: willing and able to be incited.
- 20:36Speaker 1: And that's the thing with anti Semitism.
- 20:39Speaker 2: There is a ready crowd willing to lap this stuff
- 20:44Speaker 2: up and be inspired to do something violent.
- 20:47Speaker 6: But then, but then, what isn't incitement?
- 20:49Speaker 5: So if a crew drawing that could have been done
- 20:54Speaker 5: by a ten year old, by the looks of it,
- 20:57Speaker 5: of a particular Jewish man, he's one of the owner
- 20:59Speaker 5: of so bees eating a baby is considered incitement to violence.
- 21:06Speaker 6: There's nothing written in that art.
- 21:08Speaker 5: Work that says go and kill a Jew, right, No,
- 21:10Speaker 5: But what you are insinuating is that it puts Jews,
- 21:14Speaker 5: or puts a certain Jew in such a bad light
- 21:16Speaker 5: that it might encourage people to go and do something. Yes,
- 21:19Speaker 5: So how do we then decide what actually is incitement?
- 21:22Speaker 5: Who is to decide at what level. Drawing or something
- 21:27Speaker 5: else becomes incitement if there is nothing specifically in.
- 21:30Speaker 6: It that encourages you to be filled.
- 21:32Speaker 5: Because what we're now supposing is that someone might see
- 21:35Speaker 5: that and think, ooh, that makes me not like Jews
- 21:37Speaker 5: enough to go and kill them.
- 21:39Speaker 6: How do we actually define that in law?
- 21:41Speaker 2: Well, I mean the government don't have any difficulty defining
- 21:44Speaker 2: it as incitement when it comes to anything to do
- 21:47Speaker 2: with the Islamic faith and Muhammed.
- 21:50Speaker 6: I mean we talk hang on, No one's been convicted
- 21:52Speaker 6: of drawing.
- 21:52Speaker 1: No, there haven't been.
- 21:54Speaker 2: But the government we talked about it was that the
- 21:56Speaker 2: other week has given instruction to schools throughout northern England
- 22:00Speaker 2: to change your curriculum.
- 22:01Speaker 6: Yes, we don't want the trouble. I wholeheartedly agree on
- 22:04Speaker 6: the nothing.
- 22:05Speaker 1: To see here with this anti smit.
- 22:07Speaker 5: I wholeheartedly agree on the double standard. There should be
- 22:09Speaker 5: no double standard. I mean, I suppose my view in
- 22:11Speaker 5: terms of free speeches is a bit more liberal in
- 22:14Speaker 5: that I think it should.
- 22:15Speaker 6: Apply to everyone.
- 22:17Speaker 5: But I think it's really hard to legislate that those
- 22:19Speaker 5: sorts of things are incitement.
- 22:21Speaker 6: I worry about the roads that they could lead.
- 22:24Speaker 5: Us down as repugnant as I find the content of
- 22:27Speaker 5: what we have had.
- 22:28Speaker 3: I just think in the current environment, when Jews are
- 22:31Speaker 3: already under threat. I mean, look what happened here in Australia,
- 22:35Speaker 3: the murders of allegedly of fifteen people at Bondi right,
- 22:39Speaker 3: and all it took was festering, festering, festering. Where the
- 22:43Speaker 3: art sector in particular has been a big part of this.
- 22:45Speaker 3: They've been an absolute disgrace over the last two and
- 22:48Speaker 3: a half years and then suddenly it becomes the norm
- 22:51Speaker 3: and then look what happens that. That is my only
- 22:53Speaker 3: concern with these sorts of images, that it just pushes
- 22:57Speaker 3: someone who already hates Jews to their core and go,
- 23:00Speaker 3: that's it.
- 23:01Speaker 4: That's it. That's my concern.
- 23:03Speaker 2: I want to talk from about SBS News last night,
- 23:06Speaker 2: in particular the it was last night, the twenty third.
- 23:08Speaker 1: Of March twenty second.
- 23:11Speaker 2: What it's ten years since a shocking terror attack in
- 23:16Speaker 2: Brussels that resulted in thirty two dead and three hundred injured.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Isis set off bombs in an airport and in a
- 23:23Speaker 2: train station and it was one of the most shocking
- 23:26Speaker 2: attacks that Europe has seen by Islamic jihadi's. Here's a
- 23:31Speaker 2: portion of the SBS report, and as you watch, just
- 23:34Speaker 2: notice there's a particular reference completely absent. See if you
- 23:37Speaker 2: can guess what it is.
- 23:40Speaker 9: Belgium has commemorated the tenth anniversary of terrorist attacks that
- 23:44Speaker 9: killed thirty two people and wounded hundreds. Ceremonies were held
- 23:48Speaker 9: in the Brussels airport and Metro sites at the site
- 23:51Speaker 9: of the coordinated bombings. The Belgian Prime Minister was joined
- 23:55Speaker 9: by the country's king and Queen and EU representatives in
- 23:59Speaker 9: honoring the victims. Six men were sentenced for the bombings
- 24:03Speaker 9: in twenty twenty three.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Now throughout the entire report, there's not one mention of Islam,
- 24:11Speaker 2: Islamic extremism, or even Islamic state who claimed responsibility for
- 24:15Speaker 2: the bombings. In fact, if you didn't know, you would
- 24:19Speaker 2: have to go to Google to look up what actually happened.
- 24:22Speaker 2: It's called a terror event, but those responsible are never named.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Is that a strange oversight? Is it an oversight or
- 24:31Speaker 2: is it deliberate?
- 24:32Speaker 5: Six men were convicted, Jax's men, No other pertinent dyscotians, no.
- 24:37Speaker 1: Other purpose climate activists.
- 24:39Speaker 5: I mean, for goodness, I refuse to believe that there's
- 24:43Speaker 5: any reason that that was done other than deliberate omission,
- 24:47Speaker 5: because it is just such an important detail that you
- 24:51Speaker 5: could not ignore the fact that that was what drove
- 24:55Speaker 5: the attack in Brussels unless you just deliberately did not
- 24:58Speaker 5: want to put it in there. The SBS, of course,
- 25:01Speaker 5: is a public broadcaster and its edict is to produce
- 25:05Speaker 5: content for diverse, multicultural communities in this country. But that
- 25:11Speaker 5: doesn't mean that they ought to be lied to. I mean,
- 25:13Speaker 5: it's just a basic fact. If you were writing a
- 25:17Speaker 5: news report.
- 25:18Speaker 6: We've all worked as journalists in our careers. You're writing a.
- 25:22Speaker 5: News report, you include the pertinent facts, and the fact
- 25:25Speaker 5: that it was an ISLAMUS terror attack is a rather
- 25:28Speaker 5: pertinent fact. I fail to believe that that was not
- 25:32Speaker 5: left out deliberately.
- 25:33Speaker 3: I mean, the gas lighting is just breathtaking. Do they
- 25:36Speaker 3: really think we're all that stupid? For goodness sake? Because
- 25:39Speaker 3: I feel like they're treating us all as mugs.
- 25:41Speaker 4: But can we be surprised?
- 25:42Speaker 3: You might remember after BONDI, it took the Prime Minister
- 25:45Speaker 3: about twenty one days to even mutter the very words
- 25:49Speaker 3: radical Islam. Why is it that the left don't want
- 25:52Speaker 3: to touch it? Why is it so difficult for them
- 25:54Speaker 3: to even talk about it.
- 25:55Speaker 4: That's the question.
- 25:56Speaker 1: There's a couple of possibilities.
- 25:57Speaker 2: One, they're scared of a backlash. Charlie Hebdo good point,
- 26:02Speaker 2: class example.
- 26:03Speaker 4: Yes.
- 26:04Speaker 2: Second possibility is they don't want to stigmatize all Muslims,
- 26:09Speaker 2: so therefore we don't mention any Muslims. Of course, that
- 26:13Speaker 2: concern about stigmatization never applies to say, Catholics. The third
- 26:18Speaker 2: possibility is that SBS have a partnership with El Jazeera.
- 26:22Speaker 3: Well, you know what, that's a good point, but you
- 26:24Speaker 3: know what, unless we actually start having these conversations, nothing
- 26:27Speaker 3: is ever going to change. And we need to have
- 26:29Speaker 3: this conversation because a threat in this country is actually
- 26:32Speaker 3: very real as well. It's not just an overseas threat.
- 26:34Speaker 3: We've seen what happened a couple of months ago in Bondi.
- 26:36Speaker 3: We need to start having these conversations about radical Islam
- 26:40Speaker 3: because it's happening right now and the face of the
- 26:43Speaker 3: West is changing pretty rapidly.
- 26:45Speaker 4: So SBS pull your head in.
- 26:47Speaker 2: And that's one of the problems, right They give the
- 26:49Speaker 2: impression that, you know, bombs going off and people being
- 26:52Speaker 2: killed and hundreds wounded is just one of those things
- 26:55Speaker 2: that happens in the West from time to time.
- 26:58Speaker 1: What can you do?
- 27:00Speaker 2: That's the problem, because we should take action, because we're
- 27:03Speaker 2: talking about people safety, and.
- 27:04Speaker 6: We should admit what the problem is.
- 27:06Speaker 5: Because if you can't admit an identify a problem, you
- 27:10Speaker 5: can't fix it correct. It is just such a fundamental issue.
- 27:14Speaker 5: I can't believe we even have to talk about it.
- 27:16Speaker 6: Let's go over to the.
- 27:17Speaker 5: United Kingdom where they are grappling with the big issues
- 27:21Speaker 5: at the moment, including it would seem that minorities do
- 27:25Speaker 5: not feel comfortable in the countryside.
- 27:28Speaker 6: Yes, apparently it's an awful, awful part of the world. I
- 27:31Speaker 6: mean they don't know what to do.
- 27:32Speaker 5: They don't even know what sort of clothes they would
- 27:35Speaker 5: have to wear ethnic minorities if they were adventure were
- 27:39Speaker 5: adventure into the country side.
- 27:40Speaker 6: I mean you might be thinking, I mean, these people stupid,
- 27:45Speaker 6: They got Google.
- 27:47Speaker 5: Right, I mean, what do what do I wear in
- 27:51Speaker 5: the countryside?
- 27:52Speaker 6: Look, the answer is probably whatever the hell you want
- 27:55Speaker 6: to wear.
- 27:56Speaker 5: I don't think there's any rule that you must put
- 27:58Speaker 5: on your tweed and your hunting shooting jagger and whatever
- 28:01Speaker 5: it is if you want to go into the English countryside.
- 28:03Speaker 5: But maybe maybe this is the problem.
- 28:05Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 28:06Speaker 5: Listen to the head of the National Trust in the
- 28:09Speaker 5: UK who says they've done a survey ethnic minorities. They
- 28:12Speaker 5: don't like the countryside, they don't feel comfortable there, they
- 28:14Speaker 5: don't know what the dressing here it is.
- 28:18Speaker 10: So there's been lots and lots of research with people
- 28:21Speaker 10: from ethnic backgrounds asking them how do they feel about
- 28:23Speaker 10: the countryside? Do they feel it's a place for them?
- 28:26Speaker 10: And the research comes back really clearly to say they don't.
- 28:29Speaker 10: Why do we think that is? There's a whole raft
- 28:31Speaker 10: of reasons, everything from it's not culturally something that they
- 28:34Speaker 10: necessarily feel as if it's part of what they do,
- 28:37Speaker 10: or when they go there, they don't necessarily know what
- 28:39Speaker 10: am I meant to wear?
- 28:40Speaker 11: You know?
- 28:40Speaker 10: What high do I behave? What's the countryside called? I've
- 28:42Speaker 10: never heard of it. So there's loads of different reasons
- 28:45Speaker 10: why they don't feel all the time confident.
- 28:50Speaker 6: Frankly, I couldn't give a Ratz toss bag. Just just
- 28:55Speaker 6: work it out.
- 28:55Speaker 4: It ain't hard.
- 28:57Speaker 5: Now this is part of a broader push at the moment.
- 29:00Speaker 5: Apparently the English countryside is too white and so they
- 29:04Speaker 5: have to do more to get ethnic minorities to not
- 29:06Speaker 5: only go and visit, but to go and live there
- 29:10Speaker 5: as well. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- 29:14Speaker 5: just last month put out a report saying that the
- 29:17Speaker 5: countryside was too white, and they had a number of
- 29:19Speaker 5: suggestions for what they might do to fix that, including
- 29:22Speaker 5: that they need to encourage Muslims to move out to
- 29:26Speaker 5: the countryside, they need to include other languages in all
- 29:29Speaker 5: of their communications, and also force people to put their
- 29:33Speaker 5: dogs on leashes because Muslims don't particularly like dogs. They said,
- 29:37Speaker 5: I mean, for goodness sake, what is going on over
- 29:41Speaker 5: in that country?
- 29:42Speaker 6: So all the big issues we've got to worry about.
- 29:47Speaker 6: They don't like the country.
- 29:48Speaker 2: So the National Trust, who many people donate toise there
- 29:52Speaker 2: are states to the help fund. They're doing surveys asking
- 29:56Speaker 2: and Caleb, they're not ethnic minorities. They're called the Global Yes,
- 30:01Speaker 2: they didn't want to create an ethnic minority because even
- 30:03Speaker 2: that is discriminatory, and they're asking them do you feel
- 30:06Speaker 2: comfortable in the English countryside? Let me ask you a question, Caleb,
- 30:09Speaker 2: because I'm curious. Do you feel the African Savannah is
- 30:12Speaker 2: too black?
- 30:14Speaker 6: Funnally enough? I don't.
- 30:16Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I've got more. Do you feel that the
- 30:18Speaker 1: Arabian desert is too olive?
- 30:20Speaker 4: Oh?
- 30:21Speaker 6: You should be more white people in there.
- 30:23Speaker 2: I mean, it's that's stupid, right, it's just beggars belief
- 30:27Speaker 2: that they ask such ridiculous questions and that they get
- 30:30Speaker 2: so much funding to do this.
- 30:31Speaker 3: I mean they sound like a bunch of wet blankets,
- 30:33Speaker 3: don't they. I love that that that woman said that
- 30:36Speaker 3: they don't know what the country side code is?
- 30:38Speaker 4: What is the country side code? Have we missed something? Well?
- 30:41Speaker 4: Is there a code for the country.
- 30:43Speaker 11: Caleb said Tweed, I don't know, but you wouldn't you
- 30:48Speaker 11: if it's like if you were traveling, if you're on
- 30:50Speaker 11: a holiday overseas, right, you do some planning before you
- 30:55Speaker 11: go to work out what the customs are and what.
- 30:57Speaker 6: Are people wear and what's appropriate. It's not hard to do.
- 31:02Speaker 5: I mean, are you telling me that you know Muslims
- 31:04Speaker 5: who live in London or any other ethnic minority for
- 31:06Speaker 5: that matter, because of course Muslims is not an ethnic minority,
- 31:09Speaker 5: the religious one. But but what they don't know how
- 31:13Speaker 5: to get onto Google and just see how.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Like, yeah, but you don't go and check it out.
- 31:18Speaker 3: You don't need to be dressed for something. Just just
- 31:20Speaker 3: go into the country. Don't have a good time for
- 31:22Speaker 3: windness sake, It's not that scary. It's not a big
- 31:24Speaker 3: scary place. In fact, the country side is actually quite lovely.
- 31:27Speaker 3: Got the poor British folk in the country. They must
- 31:29Speaker 3: be tearing their hair out right.
- 31:30Speaker 5: Now so that they're going to get a Bookina fesso
- 31:32Speaker 5: or something.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Seriously, I want to go to snow, but what do.
- 31:36Speaker 3: You What is one way to the snow? For goodness, sag,
- 31:39Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 31:40Speaker 4: James and a T shirt. All right, look, let's move
- 31:43Speaker 4: on now.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Girls will be boys and boys will be girls.
- 31:47Speaker 4: It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world. Except
- 31:49Speaker 4: for Lola, l Ola, Lola.
- 31:51Speaker 3: Yes, that is one of the famous lines from The
- 31:54Speaker 3: Kings nineteen seventies hit Lola. As you might know, but
- 31:59Speaker 3: you know you might The background to this song don't
- 32:01Speaker 3: know if you do. It's about and an experienced man
- 32:04Speaker 3: who meets a woman at a bar in Soho out
- 32:07Speaker 3: in London. She gives him his first kiss. One thing
- 32:11Speaker 3: leads to another. She says, I'm going to make you
- 32:13Speaker 3: a man.
- 32:14Speaker 6: Oh boy.
- 32:15Speaker 3: That's when they encounter a little bit of trouble when
- 32:17Speaker 3: he realizes that there's a bit of a downstairs mix up.
- 32:20Speaker 3: Lola is not a woman, Lola is actually a man.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Oh dear, take it away, Ray Davies, Well, I'm dumb, but.
- 32:30Speaker 6: I can't understand why she was a world with tough.
- 32:33Speaker 4: Blad for man. Well, you know, surprise to.
- 32:41Speaker 3: Nobody, the left are now offended by the song Lola
- 32:46Speaker 3: pertaining actually to a guy called Moby. He's a singer
- 32:49Speaker 3: you probably never heard of. Moby had a couple of hits,
- 32:51Speaker 3: apparently in early two thousands. But he's taken offense to this.
- 32:54Speaker 3: Haven't listened to what he told the Guardian. He said,
- 32:57Speaker 3: and I quote, he said, Lola by the Kinks came
- 33:00Speaker 3: up on a Spotify playlist and I thought the lyrics
- 33:03Speaker 3: were gross and transphobic. I like their early music, but
- 33:06Speaker 3: I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are.
- 33:09Speaker 4: I mean, get a grip mate.
- 33:11Speaker 3: King's guitarist Dave Davies hit back saying, and I quote,
- 33:15Speaker 3: who the f is Moby? He went on to say,
- 33:18Speaker 3: I am highly insulted that Moby would accuse my brother
- 33:21Speaker 3: of being unevolved or transphobic in any way. I don't
- 33:24Speaker 3: want to show the guy up, but Moby should be
- 33:26Speaker 3: careful what he says now. Of course, Ray Davies was
- 33:30Speaker 3: the singer songwriter of The Kings, but I mean, please,
- 33:33Speaker 3: are we now going after iconic hits? Lola was actually
- 33:36Speaker 3: based on a true story. I remember a story that
- 33:39Speaker 3: one of the brothers said that they wrote it about
- 33:41Speaker 3: their manager who spent a night with a trans person
- 33:44Speaker 3: in Paris, because I didn't know at.
- 33:45Speaker 4: The time that they were a trans person.
- 33:48Speaker 3: But when you think back to the culture of the seventies,
- 33:50Speaker 3: for goodness sake, Studio fifty four, it was all about
- 33:53Speaker 3: the gay culture.
- 33:54Speaker 4: Nobody cared.
- 33:55Speaker 3: So Moby shut up and get a grip please Seriously.
- 34:00Speaker 5: Mothed, what the hell's Moby Dick doing compati about this?
- 34:03Speaker 5: And I thought, well, maybe that's pertinent to give it
- 34:05Speaker 5: the dick bit, but I mean, come on, get over it.
- 34:10Speaker 5: The song was recorded in nineteen seven, correct, and here's
- 34:14Speaker 5: some bloke in twenty twenty six saying oh jeerz oh.
- 34:18Speaker 6: The lyrics were really unevolved. Please, It's like they put
- 34:24Speaker 6: the warning now on like the.
- 34:27Speaker 5: Germans episode of Faulty Towers, because you know, Basil Faulty
- 34:31Speaker 5: does the funny war yes, and says you know, I
- 34:34Speaker 5: mentioned the wall once and I got it like, for
- 34:36Speaker 5: goodness sake, this stuff was done fifty sixty years ago,
- 34:39Speaker 5: and here we are talking about it now as though
- 34:41Speaker 5: it's the same as today.
- 34:43Speaker 6: Get over it.
- 34:43Speaker 2: So the question needs to be asked, could you have
- 34:46Speaker 2: actually been transphobic fifty years ago? Because people didn't talk
- 34:50Speaker 2: about transgenderism. They talked about transvestites, they talked about cross dresses,
- 34:55Speaker 2: but they didn't talk about transgender So how can you
- 34:58Speaker 2: be transphobic when transgender wasn't a thing?
- 35:01Speaker 5: No?
- 35:01Speaker 3: Well, as it says, well, I'm not the world's most
- 35:03Speaker 3: masculine man, but I know what I am, and I'm
- 35:05Speaker 3: glad I'm a man.
- 35:06Speaker 4: And with Lakla, there we go.
- 35:11Speaker 1: I did a little chin.
- 35:12Speaker 2: Oh, come on, I gave people a really big wind
- 35:14Speaker 2: up at stop of the show.
- 35:15Speaker 1: You need more than that.
- 35:15Speaker 3: Well, I left home just a week before, but I
- 35:18Speaker 3: never ever kissed a woman before.
- 35:20Speaker 4: There we go. How's that not bad?
- 35:22Speaker 1: Great stuff to get, very very good.
- 35:24Speaker 2: All right, We're going to go to a break while
- 35:26Speaker 2: Denika practices her singing, and we come back. We'll look
- 35:29Speaker 2: at what's making headlines tomorrow, including some of the options
- 35:32Speaker 2: the government is considering for ways to save fuel.
- 35:36Speaker 1: That's coming up in just a second.
- 35:44Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back to the program before we get to
- 35:46Speaker 2: tomorrow's headlines. Breaking news this evening, Married at First Sight
- 35:50Speaker 2: dating coach Mel Shilling has died age fifty four after
- 35:54Speaker 2: a battle with cancer. She suffered from a brain tumor,
- 35:57Speaker 2: and her family announced her death on social media. At
- 36:00Speaker 2: this evening, her husband Gareth said she passed away peacefully today,
- 36:04Speaker 2: surrounded by love. She's been on Married at First Site
- 36:07Speaker 2: I think since twenty sixteen and was a very popular
- 36:10Speaker 2: figure on that program.
- 36:11Speaker 6: Indeed, one that you've been known to watch. James, the person.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Watched the first series can they wanted to apply?
- 36:17Speaker 5: I think at one point you didn't watch the first
- 36:20Speaker 5: you were watching it when we started this program three
- 36:23Speaker 5: and a half odd years.
- 36:24Speaker 1: It was my first series, calib but.
- 36:26Speaker 6: I must admit I have watched it at times as well.
- 36:29Speaker 5: It's the most popular program in the country and it's
- 36:33Speaker 5: hard to believe that she was as sick as she
- 36:36Speaker 5: was if you've seen any of the program this year,
- 36:38Speaker 5: because she actually looked alright on air. I know they
- 36:40Speaker 5: filmed it well in advance, but she'd only seed a
- 36:44Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago that the cancer had spread into
- 36:46Speaker 5: her brain, started in a colon, then they found it
- 36:48Speaker 5: in her lungs, and now it moved on to her brain,
- 36:51Speaker 5: and basically a week on she has now died. But
- 36:56Speaker 5: apparently in her final moments had beckoned to her husband
- 36:59Speaker 5: over and he thought that she had lost the ability
- 37:02Speaker 5: to speak by this point because of the cancer infecting
- 37:06Speaker 5: her brain, and she managed to get some final words
- 37:09Speaker 5: out to him and their daughter. So it's always sad
- 37:13Speaker 5: in these.
- 37:14Speaker 3: You know, I always wondered how she had such incredible
- 37:16Speaker 3: patients on that show, because I mean, the contestants aren't
- 37:19Speaker 3: exactly great, are they, And I just always thought she
- 37:23Speaker 3: just handled herself with such grace.
- 37:24Speaker 4: So it is very sad news.
- 37:27Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to tomorrow's headlines. We'll start
- 37:30Speaker 2: with the Daily Telegraph, and of course the big news
- 37:33Speaker 2: in this country continues to be the petrol crisis. Forty
- 37:36Speaker 2: dollars petrol cap reads the headline in tomorrow's Telly. Petrol
- 37:40Speaker 2: pumps could automatically cut out when motorists by as little
- 37:44Speaker 2: as forty dollars. That's about sixteen liters worth of fuel
- 37:47Speaker 2: under regulated rationing measures in the National Fuel Emergency Response Manual.
- 37:52Speaker 2: The playbook deals how the federal government could respond to
- 37:55Speaker 2: the global oil shock, including by allowing high prices to
- 38:00Speaker 2: curb consumption, warning businesses to harve usage, and by telling
- 38:05Speaker 2: motorists to turn off their cars air con.
- 38:15Speaker 5: Well, they wouldn't have a lot of cars that they
- 38:16Speaker 5: wouldn't have econ anyway. They'd be driving around in land
- 38:19Speaker 5: cruisers with the window down like we used to do it, right,
- 38:22Speaker 5: I mean, for goodness sake, sixteen liters at a time.
- 38:26Speaker 5: And that just means you've got to go to the
- 38:27Speaker 5: petrol station more often. It doesn't actually stop you buying
- 38:30Speaker 5: or fuel. Just means you've got to actually go and
- 38:32Speaker 5: buy it in shorter intervals, which I don't quite understand.
- 38:36Speaker 5: There's another story in the Telly Tomorrow as well, Gina
- 38:39Speaker 5: ryan Hart saying that the government should cut the excise
- 38:44Speaker 5: because petrol, diesel, etc. Is an essential service. We need it.
- 38:49Speaker 5: It's too expensive. You've got to do something about it.
- 38:52Speaker 5: I mean, really, is this the best they can do?
- 38:54Speaker 3: I know it's ridiculous, isn't it? But I love it
- 38:56Speaker 3: how we've just had weeks of no, there's no problems.
- 38:58Speaker 3: Bowen's been saying to everything is okay. Now, don't panic,
- 39:01Speaker 3: please don't panic. Next minute there could be a forty
- 39:04Speaker 3: dollars petrol cap for goodness sake, but it's your fault,
- 39:07Speaker 3: so therefore you need to turn down your air conditioner.
- 39:09Speaker 4: Don't use it. I mean, give me a break. Is
- 39:11Speaker 4: this seriously where we've gone? And again poor planning from governments,
- 39:15Speaker 4: absolutely shocking planning.
- 39:17Speaker 2: I'm just shocked that they would use the high price
- 39:19Speaker 2: as a way of conserving fuel. So we won't cut
- 39:22Speaker 2: the fuel excise. We'll let fuel go over three dollars
- 39:25Speaker 2: a liter, and who knows how much higher will allow that,
- 39:29Speaker 2: so that people won't be able to afford fuel, and
- 39:31Speaker 2: that way we won't have a shortlage.
- 39:33Speaker 5: It's economically, it does make sense, but it's just pretty
- 39:37Speaker 5: bloody awfully, it sure is. And this business about the
- 39:40Speaker 5: air con don't believe that they wouldn't come out and
- 39:43Speaker 5: tell you that. In fact, if you've got one of
- 39:45Speaker 5: the new cars, there's probably some way it can be
- 39:47Speaker 5: remotely controlled, because of course that's what Queensland's been doing
- 39:50Speaker 5: with people's air conditioners up there.
- 39:52Speaker 6: If you can be hard to the smart that's right.
- 39:55Speaker 5: They will at times where they have a mismatch in
- 39:58Speaker 5: the demand for energy what they've got to supply, they
- 40:01Speaker 5: will change the thermostat on people's eck.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Wait, so imagine if China invades Taiwan, right, and so
- 40:07Speaker 2: we are short of fuel, China will turn all the
- 40:10Speaker 2: ev er cons on.
- 40:14Speaker 1: I mean it works the other way, all right.
- 40:16Speaker 3: You know what, There'll be one person that'll be excited
- 40:17Speaker 3: by that, Chris Bowen.
- 40:19Speaker 5: Indeed, indeed day you know, if only they could put
- 40:21Speaker 5: a big bubble over the country and we could dere
- 40:23Speaker 5: condition that.
- 40:24Speaker 6: Yeah, never worry about climate James. That's it anyway. On
- 40:27Speaker 6: the front of the Canberra Times tomorrow, also on.
- 40:29Speaker 5: This theme of petrol requests to get a free ride,
- 40:33Speaker 5: Chief Minister Andrew Barr is putting his hand out for
- 40:36Speaker 5: federal cash to help make Canberra's buses and trams free
- 40:39Speaker 5: as the Iran war.
- 40:40Speaker 6: Sends petrol cost soaring.
- 40:42Speaker 5: Mister Bible right to Prime Minister Anthony Alban easy to
- 40:45Speaker 5: seek funding to enable the provision of free public transport
- 40:49Speaker 5: for the duration of the fuel supply I should say crisis.
- 40:53Speaker 5: After pressure from the Canberra Liberals and the Act Greens.
- 40:56Speaker 5: The letter will also request federal support for fifty cent
- 40:59Speaker 5: feares after the crisis has resolved, along with quote an
- 41:02Speaker 5: uplift in investment in public and active transport infrastructure, and
- 41:06Speaker 5: will strongly urge mister alban Easy to slash the fuel
- 41:08Speaker 5: exercises a temporary cost of living measure. I don't mind
- 41:11Speaker 5: that last bit particularly, but isn't it a bit rich
- 41:15Speaker 5: to be writing off to the fugital government. Please give
- 41:17Speaker 5: us some money to make the Trump public transport free.
- 41:20Speaker 6: Mister Prime, you.
- 41:21Speaker 4: Know he's sounding like zoram, mam damie.
- 41:24Speaker 3: Everything's going to be free, romp, you get a free
- 41:26Speaker 3: ride everywhere. I mean, is this really really where we've
- 41:30Speaker 3: gotten to now? You know, between the working from home
- 41:33Speaker 3: provisions between now you know, let's make this free.
- 41:37Speaker 4: What's going to be next? Again?
- 41:39Speaker 3: This a fuel crisis and it's been created by excessive
- 41:43Speaker 3: governments who have not planned for the future, and now
- 41:46Speaker 3: here we are this is just ridiculous.
- 41:48Speaker 2: I'm all for helping out the consumer, and if the
- 41:50Speaker 2: ACT government wasn't running a one point one billion dollar
- 41:53Speaker 2: deficit in their budget, they would have some money to
- 41:56Speaker 2: help out the people that they represent. But instead, they're
- 41:59Speaker 2: going cap in hand into the federal government because they've
- 42:01Speaker 2: not managed their own finances.
- 42:02Speaker 4: No exactly.
- 42:03Speaker 3: Let's have a look at the Australian. Their headline is
- 42:06Speaker 3: confidence killer. Jim Chalmers has warned that the economic impacts
- 42:10Speaker 3: of the Iran war could be as damaging as the
- 42:13Speaker 3: COVID pandemic or the global financial crisis, telling business leaders
- 42:17Speaker 3: his doomsday predictions of the local impact from the Middle
- 42:20Speaker 3: East conflict, release less than a week ago, maybe too conservative,
- 42:24Speaker 3: the Treasurer is warning in a closed door meeting with
- 42:26Speaker 3: about one hundred business leaders, comes as consumer confidence hits
- 42:30Speaker 3: its lowest point since records began in nineteen seventy three. Look,
- 42:34Speaker 3: we've been discussing this for the last couple of weeks.
- 42:37Speaker 3: This is an absolute pot of gold for Jim Charmers,
- 42:39Speaker 3: because you know, he's been blaming the COVID pandemic, he
- 42:42Speaker 3: then went on to blame the Ukraine War, and now
- 42:45Speaker 3: suddenly he's going to be blaming Iran for everything. So
- 42:48Speaker 3: this is just absolutely perfect timing for him, isn't it.
- 42:51Speaker 2: And he's also told business leaders that his forecast because
- 42:54Speaker 2: of the war in Iran, inflation could go to five
- 42:57Speaker 2: percent he's now saying, I might have got that wrong.
- 42:59Speaker 1: It may go a bit higher than five percent.
- 43:02Speaker 2: So he's laying the ground, oh, to blame our economic
- 43:05Speaker 2: woes on the Middle East. And as you said, it's
- 43:08Speaker 2: good news for Charmers, bad news for the rest of us.
- 43:10Speaker 5: How convenient, except, of course, that the RBA said last
- 43:13Speaker 5: week that most of this inflation is home grown, and
- 43:16Speaker 5: that is what they are responding to when they're putting
- 43:19Speaker 5: up interest rates. Iran, of course, will have some effect,
- 43:22Speaker 5: but the fact that consumer confidence in the toilet probably
- 43:25Speaker 5: has something to do with the fact that we're heading
- 43:27Speaker 5: towards an actual recession, which the RBA refused to rule
- 43:31Speaker 5: out last week.
- 43:32Speaker 6: And that ain't because of Iran.
- 43:33Speaker 3: No, That's what happens when you spend yourself silly, Jim
- 43:35Speaker 3: Charmers yep, and you and the state governments as well.
- 43:38Speaker 3: Also on the front page Leeder Hanson's one hundred thousand
- 43:41Speaker 3: dollars salary increase. Pauline Hanson has received a one hundred
- 43:44Speaker 3: k pay increase after Barnaby Joyce's defection officially made One
- 43:48Speaker 3: Nation a minor party with a populous leader demanding additional
- 43:51Speaker 3: staff to meet the surging workload that has come from
- 43:54Speaker 3: the party's boom as one Nation stands to win as
- 43:56Speaker 3: many as four Lower House seats in South Australia. In
- 43:58Speaker 3: that election, Senate Hanson met with Anthony Alberizi and Don
- 44:01Speaker 3: Farrell over the resourcing of her party at a federal
- 44:04Speaker 3: level and asked for a doubling of staff. Well that's
- 44:07Speaker 3: when you know you're doing pretty well, don't you.
- 44:09Speaker 2: And for people who think, oh, one hundred thousand dollars
- 44:12Speaker 2: pay increase, well she's now earning the same as Larissa
- 44:15Speaker 2: Water is the leader of the Greens.
- 44:16Speaker 1: So good for her, I say, And.
- 44:19Speaker 5: Why don't they deserve an increase in staff. I mean
- 44:22Speaker 5: she's saying that they should have the same sort of
- 44:23Speaker 5: arrangement that the Greens have had under labor governments.
- 44:26Speaker 6: Why should one nation have been touched?
- 44:30Speaker 1: All right, it's my turn the Gold Coast bulletin.
- 44:34Speaker 2: I was waiting for one of to jump in, but
- 44:35Speaker 2: I've got the Gold Coast Bulletin and this is a
- 44:37Speaker 2: great story. Councils parking ticket bounty on a four hundred
- 44:41Speaker 2: and fifty meter street checks mark. The spot reads the
- 44:45Speaker 2: headline gold Coast. Any council has plundered millions in parking
- 44:48Speaker 2: fines from beach goers on a single Burly street. Data
- 44:52Speaker 2: provided to the Bulletin shows tickets worth three million dollars
- 44:55Speaker 2: were dished out at Goodwin Terrace in just two years.
- 44:58Speaker 2: That's more than any other Gold Coast street, despite this
- 45:00Speaker 2: one being just four hundred and fifty meters long. Part
- 45:04Speaker 2: of the reason they were able to do this was
- 45:07Speaker 2: because the parking signs originally were paid parking from nine
- 45:10Speaker 2: am to seven pm. But they changed the signs from
- 45:14Speaker 2: seven am to seven pm. Wow, And it was worth
- 45:18Speaker 2: about two million dollars to them.
- 45:20Speaker 1: That little change speed.
- 45:21Speaker 4: That's convenient, isn't it. That's just such, that's just that's
- 45:25Speaker 4: a rawt that's an absolute raw money grab.
- 45:27Speaker 1: Indeed, all right, we're going to go to a break.
- 45:29Speaker 1: We'll be back in a moment.
- 45:34Speaker 2: Well, Donald Trump might be prosecuting a war in Iran,
- 45:37Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean he's too busy to visit Graceland
- 45:39Speaker 2: to pay his respects to Elvis Presley, And in typical
- 45:41Speaker 2: Donald Trump's style, he imagined that Elvis would quite like
- 45:45Speaker 2: his policies and joke that Joe Biden would not be
- 45:48Speaker 2: able to do what he can do at Graceland.
- 45:52Speaker 4: And within two or three months we'll have it down
- 45:53Speaker 4: to over ninety percent, So you have to be happy.
- 45:56Speaker 12: Elvis would be very happy about that.
- 45:58Speaker 11: Right.
- 45:58Speaker 7: Everyone loves Elvis.
- 46:01Speaker 13: Texas and it shows you Elvis's natural hair color of blond,
- 46:06Speaker 13: blond hair, blue eyes. He dyed his hair black because
- 46:09Speaker 13: he thought it brought his facial features better out on films.
- 46:16Speaker 12: Now Baden couldn't do that.
- 46:20Speaker 4: I love him.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Very unique is the Donald Trump.
- 46:23Speaker 4: I love him.
- 46:23Speaker 3: You know, the guys out there fighting wars, fighting crime,
- 46:26Speaker 3: but he's still got time to go to Graceland and
- 46:28Speaker 3: pay homage to Elvis Presley.
- 46:30Speaker 2: Only the second ever sitting president to visit Graceland.
- 46:33Speaker 3: Which really I'm surprised. I thought more would have would
- 46:36Speaker 3: have taken.
- 46:36Speaker 5: The venture for an American icon like Elvis asolutely. They
- 46:39Speaker 5: sort of make a pilgrimage to Graceland. Give us your
- 46:43Speaker 5: best Elvis Janika as a warm.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Full of morning.
- 46:49Speaker 4: This is utter humiliation.
- 46:52Speaker 5: They do. I can't deal promised the viewers singing tonight,
- 46:57Speaker 5: and that's exactly.
- 46:58Speaker 6: What you get.
- 46:59Speaker 5: We expect you what you were promised, and I'm here
- 47:02Speaker 5: I reinforce those rules. Now you'd be aware that Ursula Vonderline,
- 47:06Speaker 5: the top boss at the EU, has been in town
- 47:10Speaker 5: this week and today they signed off on a free
- 47:12Speaker 5: trade agreement that is between Australia and Europe. But there
- 47:15Speaker 5: are a few people who weren't too enthused about this,
- 47:18Speaker 5: and they included Senators Ralph Babttan Alex Antik.
- 47:22Speaker 12: Are you never Ursula is here from the EU? Ursula?
- 47:26Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 47:26Speaker 12: I think she's an EU president or something.
- 47:28Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 47:29Speaker 12: She's always talking about globalism and collectivism and climate change
- 47:33Speaker 12: and open borders and things like that. You know she's
- 47:35Speaker 12: here now?
- 47:36Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 47:36Speaker 12: Do you want to go check it out?
- 47:38Speaker 6: No?
- 47:38Speaker 12: Not really? What else do we have to do today?
- 47:42Speaker 12: From disease through a couple of things? So how fast reckon?
- 47:47Speaker 12: That grass is growing? There?
- 47:51Speaker 6: You know what there is?
- 47:52Speaker 5: There's some pretty awful stuff put out by Australian politicians
- 47:56Speaker 5: on social media, just cringe worthy garbage.
- 48:00Speaker 6: But that was quite funny. Actually, yeah, more of that please.
- 48:03Speaker 1: It's Antic is quite a good actor.
- 48:05Speaker 4: Yeah, he is a good actual potential, it is. But
- 48:08Speaker 4: I mean, Ursula can't be that exciting.
- 48:10Speaker 3: Let's be realistic. She's come from the EU, the E
- 48:12Speaker 3: or an absolute mess. Why would we want to have
- 48:15Speaker 3: her over here. Now, look, I've got to show you
- 48:17Speaker 3: this beautiful, beautiful story.
- 48:18Speaker 4: This is actually really really sweet.
- 48:20Speaker 3: Seven dogs who were stolen in China have managed to
- 48:24Speaker 3: escape from their captors who were working at a meat
- 48:27Speaker 3: for a dog meat shop.
- 48:28Speaker 4: Actually, which is awful.
- 48:30Speaker 3: They've managed to escape and look at them. They found
- 48:32Speaker 3: their own way home. They made the twenty kilometer.
- 48:35Speaker 4: Journey on foot. Look at them go.
- 48:38Speaker 3: There was a mixture of Corgy's Golden Retrievers, Labradors, Pecan
- 48:42Speaker 3: Geese dogs, German shepherd and they just knew how to
- 48:46Speaker 3: get home. I mean, so we are not worthy of dogs.
- 48:49Speaker 3: We are not worthy. They're so smart, they're smarter than
- 48:52Speaker 3: all of us.
- 48:52Speaker 4: I just think it's really sweet.
- 48:53Speaker 1: I think it's going a bit fa to say they're
- 48:55Speaker 1: smarter than all of us.
- 48:56Speaker 4: I think they're smart out. I'd prefer to hang out
- 48:59Speaker 4: with dogs than they to at the moment.
- 49:01Speaker 6: There is the tone you had at the top of
- 49:03Speaker 6: the show.
- 49:05Speaker 4: The cloud show.
- 49:06Speaker 3: This made the clown that the dunce of the school today,
- 49:10Speaker 3: and I'd rather hang out with this capture die.
- 49:13Speaker 5: I once had a cat that came home after being
- 49:15Speaker 5: missing for seventy three days.
- 49:16Speaker 6: So it's amazing what animals can do.
- 49:18Speaker 2: Alright, On that note, that's it from us stick Around.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Coming up is The Reader Penney Show.
- 49:22Speaker 1: Good Night,