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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to the Late de Bait.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Well thanks for joining us on the Late Debate. I'm
- 0:08Speaker 2: James Macpherson with Deneka to Georgio and Caleb Bond.
- 0:11Speaker 1: How was your weekend, Anika?
- 0:12Speaker 3: I had a great weekend. I went to your house
- 0:14Speaker 3: on Saturday night. It was absolutely fantastic one and James
- 0:17Speaker 3: is very good on the BBQ. Actually, you cooked a
- 0:19Speaker 3: good sausage.
- 0:20Speaker 4: I thought I thought it. I thought that was your
- 0:22Speaker 4: son did most of the work.
- 0:24Speaker 5: James.
- 0:25Speaker 4: You're telling me you did all the cooking.
- 0:27Speaker 2: I got to credit my son with most of that.
- 0:28Speaker 2: He did a very good job. And you're especially happy
- 0:31Speaker 2: because your football team won on the week.
- 0:33Speaker 5: The Crows beat Collingwood. Your team North Melbourne beat Port Adelaide.
- 0:37Speaker 5: So it was an exceptionally good weekend for me and
- 0:40Speaker 5: exceptionally good for you because you know, any win for North.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Melbourne's good, right.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Our twenty first win in six years, Caleb. So it's
- 0:48Speaker 2: a nice feeling, all right. Here's what's coming up tonight.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Calls for the UK government to replace the image of
- 0:53Speaker 2: Sir Winston Churchill on banknotes with a picture.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Of a rat. Can you believe it? Has the ban
- 0:59Speaker 1: on smoking gone too?
- 1:00Speaker 2: Far One council wants to declare an entire foreshore a
- 1:03Speaker 2: non smoking zone and the ass oscars go woke will
- 1:07Speaker 2: bring you all the I guess low lights a little
- 1:10Speaker 2: later in the show.
- 1:11Speaker 1: But first, remember school camps.
- 1:14Speaker 2: They were like a rite of passage, especially in primary
- 1:17Speaker 2: school where for many kids it was their first real
- 1:20Speaker 2: time away from home. Well, school camps may be a
- 1:22Speaker 2: thing of the past in Victoria thanks to a Fair
- 1:25Speaker 2: Work Commission ruling that teachers need to be paid in
- 1:28Speaker 2: order to go on them, but the extra staffing costs
- 1:30Speaker 2: are making camps too expensive for schools to run. One
- 1:34Speaker 2: principle told the Herald's son that every camp he scheduled
- 1:38Speaker 2: cost the school thirty five thousand dollars in wages or
- 1:41Speaker 2: time in lou Now, I agree it's a sad thing
- 1:44Speaker 2: that school kids are going to miss out on camps,
- 1:46Speaker 2: but I totally understand why teachers want to be paid.
- 1:49Speaker 2: In fact, I can't believe Caleb that teachers have agreed
- 1:52Speaker 2: to go on these camps for free all these years.
- 1:56Speaker 5: But teachers have always done stuff in their own time
- 1:59Speaker 5: without extra pay, because it's been understood that that's part
- 2:02Speaker 5: of their job. Marking, for instance, teachers have always done
- 2:05Speaker 5: marking in their own time. You know, sometimes they bitch
- 2:09Speaker 5: and moan about it, and perhaps not without reason, but
- 2:12Speaker 5: it's just been accepted that that is.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Part of the job.
- 2:15Speaker 5: And to be honest, I think this is one of
- 2:18Speaker 5: those cases as well. Look, I get it, you know
- 2:21Speaker 5: it is work, and so you would argue, just as
- 2:23Speaker 5: I would argue that if I'm working extra hours, I
- 2:26Speaker 5: ought to be paid more. But when you go into
- 2:29Speaker 5: a job like teaching, you're not just doing it to
- 2:32Speaker 5: earn a salary.
- 2:33Speaker 4: You're generally doing it like being a nurse.
- 2:35Speaker 5: You're generally doing it because you want to give something
- 2:38Speaker 5: back to the world.
- 2:39Speaker 4: You want to help raise the need. You're laughing at games.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Well, you're doing this for the.
- 2:46Speaker 4: But you are.
- 2:46Speaker 1: You are, so they shouldn't get paid.
- 2:49Speaker 4: No, let me finish.
- 2:50Speaker 5: You're bringing the next generation up so they can be
- 2:52Speaker 5: good citizens, right, and school camps have been, as you say,
- 2:56Speaker 5: a right of passage. They are part of school life
- 3:00Speaker 5: balances out of whack here. Maybe you can pay them
- 3:03Speaker 5: a little bit less, I don't know, but if it
- 3:05Speaker 5: is at the point where the pay they are receiving
- 3:08Speaker 5: to go to a camp means you can't have.
- 3:11Speaker 4: A school camp because it's too expensive, then we have
- 3:14Speaker 4: a problem that needs to be addressed.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Now, look, I actually disagree with you on that one, Caleb.
- 3:18Speaker 3: I personally never used to like school camps when I
- 3:20Speaker 3: was in school.
- 3:21Speaker 1: But what I do?
- 3:22Speaker 4: Why you what I got?
- 3:23Speaker 3: No?
- 3:23Speaker 6: But what I do?
- 3:24Speaker 3: What I do remember of school camps, and this was
- 3:27Speaker 3: the fun part, but maybe not so fun for teachers
- 3:29Speaker 3: was one kid's trying to get to sleep at night
- 3:32Speaker 3: when they're amped up and they're all excited on Lolly's
- 3:35Speaker 3: and trying to actually get them to hush nightmare.
- 3:37Speaker 6: Two sneaking into the boys and.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Girls tents, and three disco time.
- 3:42Speaker 6: In the dorm rooms.
- 3:43Speaker 3: That was about the only thing that I enjoyed. So
- 3:45Speaker 3: what teacher would want to do that for free? What
- 3:48Speaker 3: teacher would want to give up four or five days
- 3:51Speaker 3: of their life to basically be a full time parent
- 3:53Speaker 3: to unruly children twenty four hours a day. Why on
- 3:58Speaker 3: earth would you want to do that for free? I
- 3:59Speaker 3: think that teachers play a significant role in school camps.
- 4:02Speaker 3: They've got to keep kids together, they've got to keep
- 4:04Speaker 3: kids occupied. They've also got to do a number of
- 4:07Speaker 3: outdoor activities which.
- 4:08Speaker 6: Quite frankly are not fun.
- 4:09Speaker 3: I mean, I remember we did a massive gorge walk
- 4:13Speaker 3: up in cow Barry in the north of Western Australia.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Absolute nightmare, six hours walking up gorgeous.
- 4:18Speaker 6: Why would teachers want to give.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Up their time to go and do that and carry
- 4:21Speaker 3: a bunch of kids around.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Please, I can't believe you did school camps where you
- 4:24Speaker 2: had to stay intent.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Yeah there were cabin No, there were some tent moments,
- 4:29Speaker 3: so they weren't fun.
- 4:29Speaker 6: They were just never fun.
- 4:31Speaker 3: So I just, you know, I think that you know,
- 4:35Speaker 3: teachers deserve to be compensated for the time that they
- 4:38Speaker 3: are taking away from their own families.
- 4:40Speaker 4: Plus they've got.
- 4:41Speaker 3: To supervise all sorts of activity.
- 4:44Speaker 5: What's next, You'll every hour you spend marking at home,
- 4:49Speaker 5: you're going to start building the school for as well.
- 4:50Speaker 1: But what other profession is there?
- 4:52Speaker 2: Is there the expectation that you'll do this for free,
- 4:54Speaker 2: and this for free and this for free, because well,
- 4:57Speaker 2: you want to be in a profession where you're giving
- 4:59Speaker 2: back to the community.
- 5:00Speaker 1: That's a ridiculous argle.
- 5:01Speaker 4: One I'm currently working in.
- 5:02Speaker 5: I mean I get paid a salary and my hours
- 5:06Speaker 5: at all over the shop I spend days where I
- 5:09Speaker 5: work really long days. I have days where I work
- 5:11Speaker 5: shorter days. I don't necessarily have a structured you know,
- 5:14Speaker 5: my I clock on at this time and I clock
- 5:16Speaker 5: off at that time. I work all over the shop,
- 5:19Speaker 5: and I just accept that. That's part of the deals.
- 5:21Speaker 5: Why I can't you just do?
- 5:22Speaker 6: I understand that. But you're responsible for yourself.
- 5:24Speaker 3: You're not responsible for thirty other unruly children, possibly aged
- 5:28Speaker 3: ten ten. That's the job eleven, twelve, thirteen. Yeah, but
- 5:31Speaker 3: you're not spending twenty four to seven with a child.
- 5:33Speaker 3: You spend if you were in if you were in
- 5:35Speaker 3: the classroom, you're spending nine am to three point thirty
- 5:38Speaker 3: pm with a child. But when you're on school camp,
- 5:41Speaker 3: you are with them twenty four to seven. If that
- 5:43Speaker 3: kid is sick overnight and is vomiting and not well,
- 5:47Speaker 3: you become the primary care You become the mum, or
- 5:50Speaker 3: you become the dad. Why wouldn't you want to be
- 5:52Speaker 3: paid overtime to wipe up the vomit off a kid.
- 5:55Speaker 5: No, I can understand why you would want to be
- 5:57Speaker 5: the only problem is that if it means we're not
- 5:58Speaker 5: having school camps, there's a problem.
- 6:00Speaker 4: Someone's got to do something about it.
- 6:02Speaker 2: So isn't this a matter for the Victorian state government
- 6:04Speaker 2: who are broke?
- 6:05Speaker 4: So I suppose that's money.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Nothing is going to happen.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Why they're asking teachers could you volunteer your time please,
- 6:11Speaker 2: because the Victorian state government have wasted so much money.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Well they've given so much money, but to the CFMEU.
- 6:16Speaker 2: If school camps are so important, I think I read
- 6:19Speaker 2: somewhere it's going to cost about one hundred and thirty
- 6:21Speaker 2: million dollars a year to fund school camps in order
- 6:25Speaker 2: to pay for teachers. Surely the government could find that
- 6:28Speaker 2: kind of money, get rid of a few other programs,
- 6:30Speaker 2: get rid of the treaty for instance.
- 6:33Speaker 6: I've never get rid of it.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Last can have a school camp.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Their school camps are probably based off you know, indigenous heritage.
- 6:39Speaker 3: They probably incorporate that as part of the curriculum.
- 6:41Speaker 5: Well, you know, in South Australia, the Malanaskis government, it's
- 6:45Speaker 5: separate to the teacher issue, but one of their election
- 6:48Speaker 5: promises is that they will give subsidized funding to year
- 6:52Speaker 5: seven school camps because they see that there is value
- 6:56Speaker 5: in kids going off to these school camps. And while
- 6:58Speaker 5: we're talking about Southastrate and the state election, which is
- 7:01Speaker 5: of course on Saturday. You can catch all the action
- 7:04Speaker 5: here on Sky News six o'clock in South Australia six
- 7:07Speaker 5: point thirty on the Eastern Sea Board. And of course
- 7:11Speaker 5: this will be the first test for one nation. But
- 7:13Speaker 5: over the weekend you had the Premier Peter Malanowskis out
- 7:16Speaker 5: on the hustings. You had the Opposition leader Ashton turned
- 7:19Speaker 5: out on the hustings, both of whom went to pubs
- 7:23Speaker 5: and bars. And while they were in these pubs and bars,
- 7:26Speaker 5: the owners said, well why don't you come behind the
- 7:29Speaker 5: bar and.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Pull a drink?
- 7:31Speaker 5: And you know this is the sort of photo opportunity
- 7:34Speaker 5: you often see on the campaign trail. Well, the journos
- 7:38Speaker 5: in Adelaide this morning they weren't having a bar of it. Yes,
- 7:42Speaker 5: there are times when I think what on earth am
- 7:44Speaker 5: I doing working in this industry when this is the
- 7:47Speaker 5: best they can come up with. I mean, you know,
- 7:50Speaker 5: of all the gotches I've ever seen, this is perhaps
- 7:53Speaker 5: the worst one I have ever seen, which is they've
- 7:57Speaker 5: gone after the Premier Peter Malanaskis and the Opposition leader
- 8:00Speaker 5: Ashton Hearn for pulling beers without having a responsible service
- 8:05Speaker 5: of alcohol certificate?
- 8:08Speaker 1: Do you have a responsible service of an alcohol certificate?
- 8:12Speaker 7: I poured the beers, just as countless others politicians have
- 8:18Speaker 7: before me. I enjoyed the opportunity to be out in
- 8:22Speaker 7: the community, just as the leader of the opposition was
- 8:25Speaker 7: at a hotel in murray Bridge on Friday night pouring beers.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Do you hold a RSA?
- 8:32Speaker 3: No?
- 8:32Speaker 1: I don't.
- 8:33Speaker 8: Is it appropriate that.
- 8:34Speaker 2: You're serving beers behind bars if you don't hold an r.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Oh, I take advice from the barman. It's not as
- 8:43Speaker 4: though I'm doing a shift behind the bar as well.
- 8:46Speaker 4: I mean, for goodness sake.
- 8:48Speaker 5: Now, the first reporter in there is long term political
- 8:52Speaker 5: reporter at Channel seven in Adelaide, Mike Smithson. I know
- 8:55Speaker 5: smith though, he's a good guy, but come on, you
- 8:59Speaker 5: can do better than that. You've got a state election
- 9:02Speaker 5: less than a week away. You've got issues like ramping,
- 9:06Speaker 5: which the Melanausis government said they would fix and in
- 9:08Speaker 5: fact is worse than when they came to government. You've
- 9:11Speaker 5: got the algill bloom, which the ABC has had an
- 9:15Speaker 5: explosive report.
- 9:16Speaker 4: On tonight on four corners.
- 9:18Speaker 5: Lots of things that are really important they could be
- 9:20Speaker 5: talking about and they've gone after the premier and opposition
- 9:23Speaker 5: leader for not having a responsible service of alcohol.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Without following that election too closely. I figured this must
- 9:29Speaker 2: be the most boring state election the history of the
- 9:31Speaker 2: country if that's the level of questions for the contenders.
- 9:37Speaker 2: In response to the question do you have a certificate
- 9:40Speaker 2: to poor beers, the politicians should have replied, do you
- 9:43Speaker 2: have a certificate to ask stupid questions? Because that is,
- 9:46Speaker 2: as you said, Caleb, one of the worst gotchas I've
- 9:49Speaker 2: ever heard. However, there is a political point that should
- 9:52Speaker 2: come from this, and I thought that Ashton Hearn answered.
- 9:57Speaker 1: It very well. Do you have a certificate? Actually no,
- 10:00Speaker 1: I don't.
- 10:00Speaker 2: She just answered the question plainly, Whereas the Premier of
- 10:03Speaker 2: South Australia Yes, ducked and weaved as if he was
- 10:06Speaker 2: trying to avoid a terrible gotcha. Ashton Hern just answered
- 10:10Speaker 2: the question and moved on.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I liked her.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Response and it was refreshing to see a politician just
- 10:16Speaker 2: play a straight back to something rather than the premiers
- 10:18Speaker 2: ducking and weaving.
- 10:19Speaker 3: I agree she wasn't wishy washy in her commentary on it.
- 10:22Speaker 3: She gave a straight and firm answer. Peter malanowskas. It's
- 10:24Speaker 3: like panic, so that the panic said in his brain's gone,
- 10:28Speaker 3: I don't.
- 10:28Speaker 6: Have the certificate.
- 10:30Speaker 3: I've got to come up with something intelligent to say
- 10:33Speaker 3: because it could end up in the front page of
- 10:34Speaker 3: the paper and it might be wrong. Look, I agree
- 10:36Speaker 3: with you, James. Does this not just explain to you
- 10:39Speaker 3: just how utterly boring this South Australian election campaign actually is?
- 10:44Speaker 3: Right now when you've got journo's asking really dumb and
- 10:47Speaker 3: pathetic questions. I mean, I note the other day Prince
- 10:50Speaker 3: William and Prince Princess Kate they were out serving beers at.
- 10:53Speaker 6: A pub out in London.
- 10:55Speaker 3: But did anybody ask them, yeah, you know, on the
- 10:58Speaker 3: on the thing, you know, port poor it. Did anybody
- 11:00Speaker 3: ask them if they've got their certificate?
- 11:02Speaker 4: No?
- 11:02Speaker 3: Because nobody cares, because it's all fun and games.
- 11:05Speaker 5: Is this where we've come to as a country, Like, okay,
- 11:08Speaker 5: once upon a time, imagine like Bob Hawk pulling a beer, you.
- 11:11Speaker 4: Know, celebrations. What a fella, Aussie bloke?
- 11:14Speaker 1: Exactly have you got a certificate for that? I know?
- 11:16Speaker 4: Have we reached the.
- 11:16Speaker 5: Point of a country where we are so nitpicky, We're
- 11:19Speaker 5: such a bunch of wowsers that if a politician pulls
- 11:24Speaker 5: a beer for the cameras, we're stablished out wagging our fingers.
- 11:27Speaker 5: Oh have you done your training in order to be
- 11:29Speaker 5: able to do that?
- 11:30Speaker 3: Like?
- 11:30Speaker 2: Is this Australia anymore? I know that's a rhetorical question,
- 11:33Speaker 2: but the answer is yes. I think that's the kind
- 11:36Speaker 2: of country we've becoming like that before. Maybe we're world
- 11:39Speaker 2: won before COVID, but COVID exposed it. I'm sure a
- 11:43Speaker 2: side of Australia I didn't realize existence.
- 11:45Speaker 3: Maybe, but I just think it just goes to show
- 11:47Speaker 3: how woke we are in society. What a nanny what
- 11:50Speaker 3: a nanny state we've all you know that we are
- 11:52Speaker 3: run by the nanny police, where in every single state
- 11:56Speaker 3: your police, you're clamped down.
- 11:58Speaker 6: You can't do this, you can't say that.
- 12:00Speaker 3: It is just it's symbolic of the ideology. I feel
- 12:04Speaker 3: like that has taken over the Western world right now,
- 12:06Speaker 3: and it's really the left.
- 12:09Speaker 5: You're right, the problem with the world is it's full
- 12:11Speaker 5: of carts. You can't do this, yes, and you can't
- 12:14Speaker 5: do that. Yeah, just stop it all and let's go
- 12:16Speaker 5: back to being the proper American country we used to
- 12:19Speaker 5: be well.
- 12:19Speaker 3: Look, unfortunately, I can't say Hollywood is any better because
- 12:22Speaker 3: they're full of the woke elites. In fact, roll up,
- 12:25Speaker 3: roll out, Roll up, the clown Show arrived in Hollywood today. Sorry,
- 12:30Speaker 3: who are you Julian Hill?
- 12:32Speaker 1: Remember when he did that?
- 12:34Speaker 4: Did the clown Show? Think about parlat Look it up
- 12:36Speaker 4: when you get home. It's well worth it.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Here I am trying to do my clown show skit
- 12:40Speaker 3: and Caleb's absolutely wrecked.
- 12:42Speaker 6: It, so I'm not giving it again.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Roll up, roll up, the clown Show arrived in Hollywood today. Yes,
- 12:48Speaker 3: when a bunch of woke, rich Hollywood elites attended the
- 12:52Speaker 3: Oscar Awards.
- 12:53Speaker 6: Now you must be.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Thinking they were there to celebrate Hollywood's night of night,
- 12:57Speaker 3: celebrate the culture, celebrate the movies. No, no, you would
- 13:01Speaker 3: be wrong. It was actually a day to make a
- 13:04Speaker 3: political statement on the red carpet. Think Ice trumped arrangement Syndrome, Palestine,
- 13:10Speaker 3: Gaza and Iran. Wow, they were lining up in their
- 13:13Speaker 3: thousands today to show how out of touch they are
- 13:15Speaker 3: really with the real world. But I've got to show
- 13:18Speaker 3: you this one from actor Javier Bardem, who actually trotted
- 13:24Speaker 3: out a special pin for the occasion.
- 13:29Speaker 8: When I'm wearing a pin that I use in two
- 13:30Speaker 8: thousand and three with the Iraq War, which it was
- 13:34Speaker 8: an illegal war, and we are here twenty three years
- 13:36Speaker 8: after with another illegal war created by Trump Banatanie who
- 13:42Speaker 8: never with another lie, which is like to defeat the regime,
- 13:47Speaker 8: but they are radical eiting the regime by their horrific actions.
- 13:52Speaker 6: Incredible, isn't it.
- 13:53Speaker 3: He's dusted off his two thousand and three pin, pulled
- 13:56Speaker 3: it out of the cobwebs to proudly trotted out on
- 13:59Speaker 3: the red carpet. And what I find the most bizarre
- 14:02Speaker 3: about Hoavier on the red carpet is it was like
- 14:05Speaker 3: he was an apologist for the Ahiah Tola. No mention
- 14:08Speaker 3: of what the regime actually does to people, shoot to
- 14:11Speaker 3: kill policy, beating up women for showing their hair and
- 14:14Speaker 3: faces in public, hanging gay men from cranes. No, no,
- 14:18Speaker 3: it's an illegal war, he said. Oh, but the fanfare
- 14:22Speaker 3: didn't end there.
- 14:24Speaker 6: Can you tell us about choosing to wear these pins?
- 14:26Speaker 9: Today's it's artists for a ceasefire and were demanding a
- 14:29Speaker 9: prominent ceasefire because there is no ceasefire right now. There
- 14:32Speaker 9: are bombings happening to this city destruction, displicements all.
- 14:37Speaker 6: Over the world.
- 14:38Speaker 3: What's happening with ice, Minneapolis, les everywhere, It's all connected.
- 14:43Speaker 10: And I think that I am so blessed to have
- 14:45Speaker 10: a platform.
- 14:46Speaker 11: And this is the least I can do to use it.
- 14:49Speaker 10: And like sometimes the news cycle is so fast and
- 14:53Speaker 10: people move on, but the people in Gaza in the
- 14:55Speaker 10: West Bank are still suffering.
- 14:57Speaker 3: That way as still suffering, Like she so important, I mean,
- 15:01Speaker 3: spare me here we go pro Palestine, nothing ever changes.
- 15:05Speaker 6: And I just think that.
- 15:06Speaker 3: This is really a reflection of the Academy itself, is
- 15:09Speaker 3: a reflection of what it has done.
- 15:11Speaker 6: Because I was having a look at some of the requirements.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Right for the movies to even qualify for Best Picture
- 15:16Speaker 3: at the Oscars, films must hit at least two of
- 15:19Speaker 3: the four inclusion criteria. This is Representation and Inclusion our
- 15:23Speaker 3: Standards DEI rules ruling the roosts that must be proof
- 15:27Speaker 3: of unrepresented groups, racial, ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ plus and
- 15:32Speaker 3: disabled individuals. I mean, I would ask the question, would
- 15:35Speaker 3: the Godfather even get a look in these days? Would
- 15:38Speaker 3: it be even be culturally appropriate to say take the
- 15:42Speaker 3: take the gun, leave the canoli.
- 15:44Speaker 6: Or would that be offensive to the academy. I don't know.
- 15:46Speaker 3: They'd probably be upset by that sort of term. It
- 15:49Speaker 3: mine upset Italians. I don't know. It's no longer based
- 15:52Speaker 3: on talent. It's ticking diversity boxes. And as I said,
- 15:56Speaker 3: the clown show on full display.
- 15:58Speaker 5: Well, I have one thing to say to all of
- 16:00Speaker 5: these people, Gene Simmons, take it away.
- 16:02Speaker 6: Basically, shut the fuck up, do your art and shut up.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Nobody's interested in your opinions. That includes me, who I've
- 16:10Speaker 1: vote for, who I like, who the fuck you think
- 16:13Speaker 1: you are.
- 16:14Speaker 3: People in America work hard for their living and they
- 16:16Speaker 3: don't want to be lectured to by people who live
- 16:19Speaker 3: in mansions and drive rolls royces.
- 16:22Speaker 5: I respect and to be honest, and until I think
- 16:26Speaker 5: I might have heard something on the radio this morning,
- 16:29Speaker 5: but until I'm letting you inside how we do our
- 16:32Speaker 5: operations here. We run a little document online and we've
- 16:35Speaker 5: put stories into it all day. You know what, we
- 16:37Speaker 5: could discuss each night until you, Danika put the Oscars
- 16:42Speaker 5: on the document. It hadn't even really registered to me
- 16:45Speaker 5: that the Oscars were on today, which sees something I
- 16:48Speaker 5: think about where it has sunk to in the cultural
- 16:51Speaker 5: Zeitgeist because people are so sick of this garbage that
- 16:55Speaker 5: it's just not registering anymore.
- 16:57Speaker 1: And yet it wasn't all bad.
- 16:58Speaker 2: There were green shirts of Conservatism at the Oscars. Here's
- 17:02Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman talking about how she warms up for the
- 17:05Speaker 2: Oscar presentation. Quite an unexpected answer.
- 17:09Speaker 3: How do you prepare it for something it's crazy about.
- 17:15Speaker 1: I'll go to church crazy.
- 17:20Speaker 6: We'll be going squeezing it in before sent me when
- 17:25Speaker 6: I do on a Sunday.
- 17:27Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 17:28Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman goes to church before the Oscars. And then
- 17:31Speaker 2: there was the Best Actress Award winner, Jesse Buckley, who
- 17:35Speaker 2: used her speech not to.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Protest Palestine or ice.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Instead, she talked about how much she loves marriage and motherhood.
- 17:45Speaker 11: Fred I love you, ma'am. I love you. You're the
- 17:48Speaker 11: most incredible dad. You're my best friend. And I want
- 17:51Speaker 11: to have twenty thousand more babies with you.
- 17:53Speaker 1: I do.
- 17:54Speaker 3: I do.
- 17:56Speaker 11: And Aila, my little girl who is eight months, who
- 17:59Speaker 11: is absolutely no idea what's going on, and it's probably
- 18:01Speaker 11: dreaming of milk. But this is kind of a big deal.
- 18:05Speaker 11: And I love you and I love being your mom
- 18:07Speaker 11: and I can't wait to discover life beside you.
- 18:10Speaker 1: So there you go. It wasn't all bad at the oscars,
- 18:13Speaker 1: all right.
- 18:14Speaker 6: Now.
- 18:14Speaker 2: One of the most confusing things to me is the
- 18:16Speaker 2: UK's response to events in the Middle East. I mean,
- 18:21Speaker 2: they refused to give the United States permission to use
- 18:24Speaker 2: an airstrip for their attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then,
- 18:29Speaker 2: after the US attacked Iran, Kiirs Starmer gave a speech
- 18:32Speaker 2: to Muslim leaders in the UK making sure that they
- 18:35Speaker 2: knew the UK had nothing to do with anything going
- 18:39Speaker 2: on in the Middle East. When Trump asked the UK
- 18:42Speaker 2: to send a ship to the Strait to help escort
- 18:45Speaker 2: oil tankers Kiirs, Tarma refused to do that. And today
- 18:49Speaker 2: we find out that weeks after it was revealed that
- 18:53Speaker 2: Iran had murdered thousands of their own citizens, and just
- 18:56Speaker 2: weeks before the US launched their attack of the UK's
- 19:01Speaker 2: Home Office were at the Iranian embassy in London celebrating
- 19:05Speaker 2: the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Have a look and so officials from.
- 19:22Speaker 2: The UK stood there while the Iranian anthem was played,
- 19:25Speaker 2: and as the Iranian ambassador to cried sanctions against the
- 19:29Speaker 2: Iranian regime as unjust.
- 19:31Speaker 1: So this has come.
- 19:33Speaker 2: As quite a shock to many people in the UK,
- 19:35Speaker 2: but even more shocking was the excuse that government officials gave.
- 19:39Speaker 1: They said that this was a.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Normal part of diplomacy, which is a surprise to me
- 19:44Speaker 2: that Western nations would say, well, it's normal for us
- 19:46Speaker 2: to celebrate the anniversaries of totalitarian regimes. But even more bizarre,
- 19:52Speaker 2: they claimed that by being part of these anniversary celebrations
- 19:56Speaker 2: they were protecting UK citizens, both in the UK and
- 20:01Speaker 2: in Iran. I'm not sure how projecting weakness no protects
- 20:05Speaker 2: your own citizens. Indeed, the Iranian regime used the attendance
- 20:09Speaker 2: of UK officials at these celebrations as propaganda to show
- 20:14Speaker 2: that they weren't isolated from the rest of the world.
- 20:18Speaker 2: This is absolutely astonishing to me and maybe explains why
- 20:21Speaker 2: the UK have taken the Switzerland where neutral wh're not
- 20:25Speaker 2: part of this stance in regards to this conflict.
- 20:28Speaker 5: You can't really argue that you're neutral when you're rocking
- 20:30Speaker 5: up to these events and then you're refusing to participate
- 20:35Speaker 5: in in not even active warfare, but just you know,
- 20:38Speaker 5: minor action to help out the US and the rest
- 20:41Speaker 5: of the world in what is going on in Iran
- 20:43Speaker 5: and particularly the Strait of Hormuz.
- 20:45Speaker 4: I mean, how could they not see this.
- 20:47Speaker 5: Coming that if they rocked up to an event like
- 20:50Speaker 5: and they say diplomacy, I'm sorry. They should have known
- 20:52Speaker 5: if they rocked up to an event like that, that
- 20:54Speaker 5: it would be used as a form of propaganda by
- 20:56Speaker 5: Iran as indeed it has been Canage and someone from
- 21:02Speaker 5: the Foreign Office in the UK or Australia or any
- 21:06Speaker 5: other Western nation for that matter, rocking up to an
- 21:09Speaker 5: event at a Russian embassy to celebrate the election of
- 21:13Speaker 5: Vladimir Putin, for instance, I think at the moment we'd say, yep,
- 21:17Speaker 5: that's very much off the cards. We're not going there.
- 21:20Speaker 5: We're happy to deal with you on other matters where
- 21:23Speaker 5: we need to deal with each other, but we're not
- 21:25Speaker 5: going to turn up and celebrate that. So why would
- 21:27Speaker 5: you turn up to an event that celebrating the revolution
- 21:30Speaker 5: and the a tola?
- 21:31Speaker 7: No?
- 21:31Speaker 3: I mean this is truly moronic. I mean, this is
- 21:34Speaker 3: real more on behavior. How have none of them actually
- 21:37Speaker 3: been sacked over this? They still went to this event
- 21:40Speaker 3: knowing the fact that in the past the week's prior,
- 21:43Speaker 3: the Iranian regime had shot about thirty thousand of its
- 21:47Speaker 3: own citizens that they were protesting against the regime as
- 21:50Speaker 3: part of its shoot to kill policy. And you've got
- 21:52Speaker 3: these overpaid bureaucrats who are probably paid ridiculous six figure sums,
- 21:57Speaker 3: whining and dining, drinking and paign, eating caviat and having
- 22:02Speaker 3: a ball at the Uranian embassy, and not one of
- 22:04Speaker 3: them thought to themselves, G, maybe this isn't actually.
- 22:08Speaker 6: Such a good look. Not one of them decided. And
- 22:10Speaker 6: I just think it's.
- 22:10Speaker 3: More a symbolic of the culture within the public service.
- 22:15Speaker 3: This is left woke ideology, this entrenched bias within the
- 22:20Speaker 3: public service. And is this not another reason why I
- 22:23Speaker 3: think the public service around the world needs a Doge
- 22:26Speaker 3: style policy. This is why you need to get rind
- 22:28Speaker 3: of a number of bureaucrats because of this is how
- 22:31Speaker 3: they're spending time, This is how they're wasting tax payers money.
- 22:34Speaker 6: Then, g we've got a big problem.
- 22:35Speaker 2: The other thing I don't get about this is I
- 22:37Speaker 2: five said that in twenty twenty five they investigated no
- 22:41Speaker 2: less than twenty plots of terrorism to be carried out
- 22:45Speaker 2: on UK soil that was being orchestrated by Iran. So
- 22:48Speaker 2: knowing that, how do people from your home office then
- 22:52Speaker 2: rock up to the Uranian embassy and celebrate an Islamic
- 22:55Speaker 2: republic that has such diabolical intentions for your country.
- 23:02Speaker 1: It makes no sense whatsoever.
- 23:04Speaker 4: It is truly bizarre.
- 23:04Speaker 5: But I suppose when you're a government lacking that sort
- 23:07Speaker 5: of moral clarity to see through these things, then you
- 23:10Speaker 5: end up in positions like this now. While we are
- 23:13Speaker 5: in the UK, last week in England at Cheltenham, they
- 23:17Speaker 5: had the Cheltenham Racing Festival. It is one of the
- 23:20Speaker 5: greatest displays of jumps racing in the world and I'm
- 23:23Speaker 5: sure if you are a regular viewer you will know
- 23:26Speaker 5: of my love of jumps racing. I was up till
- 23:28Speaker 5: four in the morning every day last week watching proceedings
- 23:31Speaker 5: at Cheltenham. So if you thought my performance last week
- 23:33Speaker 5: was a little off kilter, that is the explanation I
- 23:36Speaker 5: am going to give to you a little bit of
- 23:38Speaker 5: sleep deprivation. You know, you've got to keep up with
- 23:40Speaker 5: what is one of the crown jewels of Britain's sporting events.
- 23:47Speaker 5: But one journalist, a sports reporter at The Observer, Jesse
- 23:51Speaker 5: Parker Humphreys, seemingly went to the races for the very
- 23:54Speaker 5: first time last week. Two check out Cheltenham and sovey
- 23:58Speaker 5: what's going on at this so, you know, jumps racing business,
- 24:02Speaker 5: you see, because there's nothing left his love more than
- 24:06Speaker 5: talking down to people who are having fun. They love
- 24:09Speaker 5: nothing more than trying to prevent you from having fun,
- 24:12Speaker 5: and they particularly love nothing more than preventing you from
- 24:15Speaker 5: having fun when it comes to going to the races.
- 24:19Speaker 4: So Jesse Parker Humphreys walks through the.
- 24:22Speaker 5: Gates of Cheltenham and cannot believe what she has discovered,
- 24:26Speaker 5: amongst other things. Quote generally, Cheltenham feels like a desperate
- 24:32Speaker 5: cry for some past version of England, a pre COVID,
- 24:35Speaker 5: even pre recession England that may not have ever existed,
- 24:39Speaker 5: but is conjured up by the Union Jackson Saint George's
- 24:42Speaker 5: crosses tied to the lampposts the entrance to the race course.
- 24:46Speaker 4: Yes, it's a problem, ladies.
- 24:48Speaker 5: And gentlemen, that they have the national flag on display.
- 24:51Speaker 5: Goes on an England devoid of multiculturalism. Almost everyone yesterday
- 24:56Speaker 5: was white except the good kind. Like the South Indian
- 25:00Speaker 5: restaurant in town doing and all you can eat breakfast
- 25:02Speaker 5: buffet for fifteen pounds.
- 25:05Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, we get it.
- 25:08Speaker 5: I know you think you're better than everyone else. How
- 25:11Speaker 5: dare these people be going to the races and enjoying themselves?
- 25:14Speaker 5: It goes on a man is playing a cover of
- 25:18Speaker 5: Chapel Rohan's Pink Pony Club, an offensively egregious repurposing of
- 25:23Speaker 5: a song that is not about horses but about finding
- 25:26Speaker 5: community at a gay bar in West Olive.
- 25:30Speaker 4: I mean, for goodness sake.
- 25:31Speaker 5: And if that's not good enough for you, it doesn't
- 25:34Speaker 5: like the color of the suits either. If you wanted
- 25:36Speaker 5: to show an alien what aspiration in Britain looks like,
- 25:39Speaker 5: you could do worse than bring it to a day
- 25:41Speaker 5: at Cheltenham. They might wonder why it involves everyone wearing
- 25:44Speaker 5: a specific kind of bei suit, But that is simply
- 25:47Speaker 5: the uniform of those who look longingly at the field
- 25:50Speaker 5: where helicopters ferry the fortunate to the race. I mean, please,
- 25:57Speaker 5: how do you get an assignment to go to the
- 25:59Speaker 5: races and come back and write this piece about how
- 26:02Speaker 5: awful it is because there are too many white people
- 26:05Speaker 5: and the Union jack was on display and they're wearing
- 26:07Speaker 5: beige suits.
- 26:08Speaker 4: I mean, it's awful.
- 26:09Speaker 5: It must be gotten rid of, because of course it
- 26:12Speaker 5: is a symbol of Britain. It's a symbol of something
- 26:16Speaker 5: that is really English, which is people dressing up in
- 26:19Speaker 5: tweed and going to watch jumps races.
- 26:21Speaker 4: No wonder she wants to expand.
- 26:23Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean I've seen you in a beige
- 26:24Speaker 3: suit before as well. I'm shocked that she hasn't written
- 26:26Speaker 3: an article.
- 26:29Speaker 4: When we go to Warnabull.
- 26:31Speaker 5: When she comes to Warnabull first and I'm wearing my
- 26:35Speaker 5: brown suit, I'll get written up.
- 26:36Speaker 6: You'll be written up.
- 26:37Speaker 1: You know.
- 26:38Speaker 6: It's funny because she's written there.
- 26:40Speaker 3: Cheltenham feels like a desperate cry for some past version
- 26:43Speaker 3: of England. When I first read that, I thought, how
- 26:45Speaker 3: many Brits out there would actually long for a past
- 26:49Speaker 3: version of Britain where you know, people weren't separated by tribes,
- 26:53Speaker 3: when hate hadn't been imported into the country, where people
- 26:57Speaker 3: actually came into the country and assimilated and loved Britain.
- 27:01Speaker 3: I'm sure there's so many out there that would long
- 27:03Speaker 3: that for that sort of a Britain. But again, this
- 27:06Speaker 3: is the left's war on whites.
- 27:09Speaker 6: Isn't it.
- 27:09Speaker 3: And they wouldn't They wouldn't attack any other culture, they
- 27:12Speaker 3: wouldn't attack anybody else, but the progressive left just want
- 27:15Speaker 3: to tear down everything, everything that whites have brought to
- 27:18Speaker 3: the country, or the British colonization, because they just hate it.
- 27:22Speaker 1: You know.
- 27:22Speaker 6: I was doing a bit of research as well on this.
- 27:24Speaker 3: Journalists penned some absolute cracking articles. I might think something
- 27:29Speaker 3: that you can read later. This is my favorite of hers.
- 27:32Speaker 3: Could the Winter Olympics melt away?
- 27:34Speaker 1: She asked?
- 27:35Speaker 6: Was her you know, her climate crisis on athletes?
- 27:37Speaker 3: And another one, why did Israel target and kill an
- 27:41Speaker 3: Ol Jazeera journalist?
- 27:43Speaker 6: So really that just goes to say who we're dealing
- 27:46Speaker 6: with here.
- 27:46Speaker 2: So I did a little bit of research myself on
- 27:48Speaker 2: this journalist, Danika Jesse Parker Humphreys, and in her bio
- 27:52Speaker 2: it says Jesse is a sports reporter. They were previously,
- 27:56Speaker 2: and then I stopped they were, and then I was, Okay,
- 28:00Speaker 2: if you can't even understand biological reality, you're probably not
- 28:04Speaker 2: going to understand the races either. I mean, if you're
- 28:07Speaker 2: going to report on the flag and the fact that
- 28:09Speaker 2: most people were white, I mean, there were much better
- 28:12Speaker 2: things to report on at this race event than those
- 28:15Speaker 2: sorts of things. I mean, there were the fights and
- 28:16Speaker 2: the toilets, that's horse racing at Cheltenham.
- 28:34Speaker 3: That white people fighting. I'm surprised that wasn't her head.
- 28:38Speaker 5: Well, she did complain in the article about you know,
- 28:41Speaker 5: as the day wore on, the guinness was being sloshed her.
- 28:45Speaker 5: I mean again, it's got to be your first time
- 28:47Speaker 5: at the races.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 28:48Speaker 5: Some people had some drinks and some women had a
- 28:50Speaker 5: few too many drinks and they had a fight in
- 28:52Speaker 5: the toilets. She ever been to a nightclub on a
- 28:54Speaker 5: Saturday night.
- 28:55Speaker 3: Well, clearly she hasn't been to a nightclub when she's
- 28:58Speaker 3: upset about the Chapel Roone song Ponycott.
- 29:01Speaker 4: She's never dad about day bars, not horses.
- 29:04Speaker 3: You know, she's never been on the dad's floor her
- 29:07Speaker 3: entire life. Now, look, let's stick in the UK. You
- 29:10Speaker 3: might recall last week we brought you the story about
- 29:12Speaker 3: how they want to erase Britain's history by removing Winston
- 29:17Speaker 3: Churchill off the banknote and replacing it with wildlife such
- 29:20Speaker 3: as beavers, squirrels, badgers, deers and otters.
- 29:25Speaker 6: I mean, the list goes on.
- 29:26Speaker 3: But I regret to inform you that the RSPCA have
- 29:30Speaker 3: come up with their very own idea and as soon
- 29:32Speaker 3: as I said RSPCA, I'm sure you knew that where
- 29:35Speaker 3: this was going. Yes, they want to put are you ready?
- 29:39Speaker 4: Rats?
- 29:41Speaker 6: Rats as in those hideous rodents.
- 29:43Speaker 3: They want to put rats on the British banknote for
- 29:47Speaker 3: goodness sake. Jeff Edmund is the RSPCA spokesperson on rats, apparently,
- 29:53Speaker 3: and this is what he said.
- 29:56Speaker 2: Having that in your LinkedIn bios, I'm the RSPCA spokesman
- 30:00Speaker 2: on rats.
- 30:00Speaker 6: On rats for goodness sake.
- 30:03Speaker 3: So he says, while some animals are obvious favorites, there
- 30:07Speaker 3: are many amazing animals that we will see every day
- 30:09Speaker 3: that are often overlooked or misunderstood. What about the pigeons
- 30:12Speaker 3: who have been our friends for thousands of years, or
- 30:15Speaker 3: rats with their amazing memories, or even goals with their
- 30:19Speaker 3: amazing levels of intelligence. He goes on to say, they're
- 30:22Speaker 3: all fascinating wild animals in their own right and deserve
- 30:25Speaker 3: recognition too. Rats have been trained to detect disease and
- 30:28Speaker 3: locate land mines, while pigeons played key roles in both
- 30:32Speaker 3: World Wars carrying messages, and we think that's worth celebrating.
- 30:36Speaker 6: Well, really, I don't know about.
- 30:38Speaker 3: You, but I'm not sure that a rat exactly gives
- 30:40Speaker 3: me a sense of national pride when they are these
- 30:42Speaker 3: hideous rodents, absolute nightmares of pests that.
- 30:45Speaker 6: Destroy gardens, come into your roof.
- 30:47Speaker 3: You're trying to sleep at night, and suddenly a rat's
- 30:50Speaker 3: up there, have an absolute disco up there, like so
- 30:52Speaker 3: that probably dancing to pig pony clumps, but not at.
- 30:56Speaker 6: Not at Chelten, of course.
- 30:58Speaker 1: But I know why we've trained rats who detect landmines.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Why because we don't care if rats get blown up.
- 31:04Speaker 1: That's the reason, you know.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Back in nineteen seventy, William Shakespeare became the first person
- 31:09Speaker 2: other than a royal to be featured on an English banknote,
- 31:12Speaker 2: and since then it's been a variety of famous Brits.
- 31:15Speaker 2: So their decision now to get rid of people and
- 31:17Speaker 2: replace them with wildlife makes me wonder are there no
- 31:21Speaker 2: Brits worth celebrating anymore?
- 31:24Speaker 1: Certainly none of the Home Office.
- 31:26Speaker 2: They've stipulated that the animals, though, and I found this interesting,
- 31:29Speaker 2: Caleb must be non divisive, and I'm trying to think why.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Maybe we've answered it.
- 31:34Speaker 2: Maybe the rat is divisive, But what do you mean
- 31:37Speaker 2: We've got to choose an animal that's not divisive? Is
- 31:40Speaker 2: this a you know, a thing to cats versus.
- 31:43Speaker 1: Dogs or something like that.
- 31:44Speaker 2: And then I wonder if maybe they're going to wildlife
- 31:48Speaker 2: rather than people, because the argument over who you would
- 31:51Speaker 2: put on the note to replace whoever they're getting rid
- 31:55Speaker 2: of would be so fraught that they don't want any
- 31:58Speaker 2: of that hassle anymore.
- 31:59Speaker 1: So let's just do.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Rats or pigeons or whatever, because it's a hell of
- 32:03Speaker 2: a lot easier arguing whether we should have a gay
- 32:06Speaker 2: person or an Asian person, or a black bread or
- 32:09Speaker 2: a female or that argument never ends. Let's just have
- 32:12Speaker 2: animals and be done with it. I think that's what
- 32:14Speaker 2: they're doing.
- 32:15Speaker 5: And answer the question of, you know, whether the animals
- 32:17Speaker 5: are divisive or not. They'll have to make these animals
- 32:20Speaker 5: fell out a survey as to whether they've made any
- 32:22Speaker 5: racist jokes in the past, and do you have any
- 32:24Speaker 5: sexist use and is there anything we should know about
- 32:28Speaker 5: if you slept with someone who wasn't your wife, and
- 32:30Speaker 5: all of these.
- 32:30Speaker 6: And their pronouns don't yes correct, you.
- 32:32Speaker 5: Know, we've got to be one hundred percent clear on
- 32:34Speaker 5: these things. But I mean, for heaven's sake, I mean
- 32:36Speaker 5: the rats, it's one thing. Pigeons you know, maybe there
- 32:40Speaker 5: are some good pigeons out there, as they say they
- 32:41Speaker 5: did some sense of messages during the war. But you know,
- 32:44Speaker 5: with apologies to Bill Lurie, most of them just crap
- 32:48Speaker 5: everywhere and ought to be shot. Foxes with foxes on there,
- 32:52Speaker 5: I mean, how many people have lost their chickens to foxes.
- 32:55Speaker 4: They should all be shot.
- 32:57Speaker 5: Seagulls everyone that every seagull that's ever stolen a chip
- 33:02Speaker 5: when I've been eating my fish and chips down.
- 33:04Speaker 4: At the beach should be shot.
- 33:06Speaker 5: All the rats should be shot as well for goodness sake.
- 33:09Speaker 5: That the RSPCA surely has just done this to like
- 33:12Speaker 5: rile people up. I mean here we are talking about it,
- 33:15Speaker 5: but surely this is a piss take.
- 33:16Speaker 4: But can't be real.
- 33:17Speaker 1: I reckon a PR person has advised them he's a way.
- 33:20Speaker 2: To get public, can generate more donation.
- 33:23Speaker 3: He's got it in his bio. As we said, he
- 33:25Speaker 3: is Jefferson for rats.
- 33:27Speaker 5: Jeff Edmund is now a member of the rat Pack.
- 33:33Speaker 2: He couldn't get any media interviews though, because his voice
- 33:35Speaker 2: was too Mouseyleber, I want to ask you about the
- 33:38Speaker 2: South Australian Councils because that's your home state. I'm very
- 33:42Speaker 2: proud of South Australia, but seriously, people there are just bonkers.
- 33:46Speaker 2: A council in Port Adelaide, the Enfield Council, want to
- 33:50Speaker 2: ban smoking right along an entire section of the foreshore
- 33:56Speaker 2: because I guess smoking is unhealthy. One of the councilors,
- 33:59Speaker 2: Aged and Wotton, told the council, being a frequent user
- 34:02Speaker 2: of Semaphore Road at least once a week, maybe twice
- 34:05Speaker 2: a week, there are spots where there are continual smoking,
- 34:08Speaker 2: particularly outside the pubs. It's a special place. It's got
- 34:12Speaker 2: that beautiful medium strip. People have picnics and get their
- 34:15Speaker 2: fish and chips and sit in the middle. That's his
- 34:17Speaker 2: argument for banning free people from having a cigarette just
- 34:22Speaker 2: out in the open spaces.
- 34:24Speaker 1: I know smoking is bad.
- 34:26Speaker 2: I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, wouldn't want to,
- 34:29Speaker 2: but I wouldn't want to stop people who maybe that's
- 34:32Speaker 2: their one pleasure in life, having a cigarette in the
- 34:35Speaker 2: open air, on a footpath somewhere or out looking at
- 34:38Speaker 2: the ocean.
- 34:38Speaker 1: What's wrong with these people?
- 34:39Speaker 4: Get over it.
- 34:40Speaker 5: I mean they're already treated like lepers that've been taxed
- 34:44Speaker 5: into oblivion, and we're just going to persecute them a
- 34:46Speaker 5: little bit further to say you can't have a cigarette
- 34:49Speaker 5: by the beach. I mean, it's less than ten percent
- 34:51Speaker 5: of the population smokes anyway, so it's not like the
- 34:54Speaker 5: places you know, thick with smoke. And if we're going
- 34:57Speaker 5: to start banning things because we don't like the odor
- 34:59Speaker 5: or of them, where's the law to like, banned people
- 35:02Speaker 5: with bo from going on buses and trains, because that's
- 35:05Speaker 5: where I'd be going.
- 35:06Speaker 2: I hopink they should go further band smoking, but also
- 35:08Speaker 2: ban labor voters for being on the phone.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and adelaide grow supporters as well.
- 35:14Speaker 3: Well, you know what nanny state alert, isn't it nanny
- 35:17Speaker 3: state alert?
- 35:18Speaker 6: You know, I love it that.
- 35:19Speaker 3: You know, they want us to be a big tourism economy.
- 35:22Speaker 3: They want they want to attract tourists. Well, but you
- 35:23Speaker 3: can't do this. You can't do that. I mean, if
- 35:25Speaker 3: we're trying to bring in the travelers from say Europe
- 35:29Speaker 3: or whatever, they're going to smoke, right, the majority of
- 35:31Speaker 3: Europeans do actually smoke.
- 35:33Speaker 6: But I mean, come on, we're going to burden.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Police with another policing matter, take them away from the
- 35:39Speaker 3: beat to actually what deal with people on a footpath smoking.
- 35:42Speaker 5: Come on, I know he very quickly before we get
- 35:44Speaker 5: to a break. I love this story. In Queensland and
- 35:47Speaker 5: they opened the last year and extension of the Queensland
- 35:51Speaker 5: Performing Arts Center, new theater that they added onto it,
- 35:55Speaker 5: and so they put it out to public consultation, what
- 35:58Speaker 5: do you want to name this thing? So they were
- 36:00Speaker 5: even the options in Queensland of the Glasshouse, the lantern,
- 36:03Speaker 5: the water shed and Russell Street because that is of
- 36:07Speaker 5: course the location. And then the state government came out
- 36:10Speaker 5: and said, you know, we've had five thousand votes and
- 36:13Speaker 5: more than half of them on.
- 36:14Speaker 4: To call at the Glasshouse Theater.
- 36:16Speaker 5: So that is indeed what they called it, except that
- 36:19Speaker 5: FOI documents in the Courier Mail today have now shown
- 36:23Speaker 5: that the state government had decided to call at the
- 36:26Speaker 5: Glasshouse Theater two months before they went to public consultation.
- 36:30Speaker 5: So next time you think they're going to public consultation
- 36:33Speaker 5: to find out what you think of something, chances are
- 36:36Speaker 5: they've already worked it out there.
- 36:39Speaker 1: You go, all right, we're going to go to a break.
- 36:40Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll look at what's making headlines tomorrow,
- 36:43Speaker 2: including threats of violence against feel retailers as petrol prices skyrocket.
- 36:48Speaker 1: That's next. All right, welcome back to the program.
- 36:56Speaker 2: Let's take a look at what's happening in tomorrow's papers,
- 36:59Speaker 2: so you get all the news here first. And Nika,
- 37:02Speaker 2: there's some interesting stories on the front page of tomorrow's Telegram.
- 37:04Speaker 3: Yeah, let's start with this story five hours in how
- 37:07Speaker 3: brave bully teen and viral clip tells of her horror
- 37:10Speaker 3: horror ordeal. And we'll show you the clip in a moment,
- 37:12Speaker 3: but just for some background on the front page here,
- 37:15Speaker 3: the Sydney thirteen year old whose attack at school was
- 37:17Speaker 3: captured in a viral bullying video which has shocked the
- 37:20Speaker 3: state and prompted a political debate, has spoken out about
- 37:23Speaker 3: her ordeals, saying it lasted for hours and thought she
- 37:25Speaker 3: was going to die, Dragged by the hair hitt and
- 37:27Speaker 3: degraded by her classmates. The girl explained the heartbreaking process
- 37:31Speaker 3: when she went through to get a message to her
- 37:36Speaker 3: mother while the old deal was playing out. And just
- 37:40Speaker 3: for background, three girls age thirteen, fourteen and fifteen have
- 37:42Speaker 3: been charged over this incident. They're due to face court
- 37:45Speaker 3: in the coming weeks, though no please have been entered
- 37:48Speaker 3: and before we show you this. Just a disclaimer, this
- 37:51Speaker 3: may distress some viewers.
- 37:53Speaker 6: Have a look, no now.
- 37:55Speaker 8: Go on and start walking sty this start blocking.
- 37:58Speaker 9: So this.
- 38:01Speaker 5: Second again video conscious for you.
- 38:20Speaker 3: I mean it just you know, it's just it's it's unfathomable.
- 38:25Speaker 3: It's absolutely disgusting. It's horrific, and it deserves the condemnation
- 38:29Speaker 3: that it's getting.
- 38:30Speaker 5: And the fact that people film this stuff now too,
- 38:33Speaker 5: like it's it's one thing to bully, that's bad enough,
- 38:36Speaker 5: but then they're they're so proud of it. Seemingly that
- 38:39Speaker 5: will create a permanent record of what we have done,
- 38:43Speaker 5: which is just a incredibly stupid but but just makes
- 38:47Speaker 5: you wonder about the mindset of people that you would
- 38:50Speaker 5: even think to do something like that. Is it Is
- 38:53Speaker 5: it a thrill?
- 38:53Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 38:54Speaker 5: But but when you see this stuff going on, kids
- 38:56Speaker 5: having to put up with that, and they're being filmed
- 38:59Speaker 5: in humili for it, it is just disgusting.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Fortunately the video will be used, I'm sure as evidence
- 39:05Speaker 2: against those who have been chart so yeah.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 39:09Speaker 3: Also on the front page, bracing for a rate big
- 39:12Speaker 3: here to Australians caught in a tsunami of high inflation,
- 39:15Speaker 3: fuel price hikes and incoming supply chain shocks have been
- 39:18Speaker 3: worn to brace for a near certain rate hike. Today
- 39:21Speaker 3: is in tomorrow being Tuesday, with the Reserve Bank expected
- 39:24Speaker 3: to push the cash rate to four point one percent.
- 39:26Speaker 3: This is despite cash strapped households already pushed the limit,
- 39:30Speaker 3: with one new South Wales grain farmer questioning how long
- 39:33Speaker 3: can we stay afloat? It's a great question, but also
- 39:37Speaker 3: there I just want to point out it's d day
- 39:39Speaker 3: for Kyle. Now, this will be an interesting one tomorrow.
- 39:41Speaker 3: Will he get sacked or will he buy the joint?
- 39:44Speaker 4: Well?
- 39:45Speaker 3: That's a plot twist, isn't it. Kyle may actually go
- 39:47Speaker 3: in and purchase ar Ran of course, after all this
- 39:51Speaker 3: hullabaloo that's going and going on with Kyle Jackie O.
- 39:55Speaker 3: Sorry god, I'm talking abou himself yet. But fascinating, isn't it.
- 39:59Speaker 4: Well my understanding is that a large part of the
- 40:01Speaker 4: sign on.
- 40:02Speaker 5: Deal came in stock options, so that would mean that
- 40:08Speaker 5: they own part of the network already, And since all
- 40:12Speaker 5: of this has broken out, the Shairs have tanked right
- 40:16Speaker 5: now their contract is worth one hundred million each, so
- 40:20Speaker 5: two hundred million in total. The market cap at the
- 40:23Speaker 5: moment I think is about one hundred million, So you
- 40:26Speaker 5: know they're good for the money. You know, you shouldn't
- 40:29Speaker 5: be too hard to get some private equity to lend
- 40:31Speaker 5: them some money and say will you go and become
- 40:34Speaker 5: the majority shareholder. Therefore they can reinstate their own contracts,
- 40:39Speaker 5: which means that they will be paid from the company
- 40:41Speaker 5: the money that they would need to repay the loan,
- 40:44Speaker 5: and away you go. How it's not smart, it's not
- 40:47Speaker 5: the stupidest idea.
- 40:49Speaker 2: Well, the other part of this, the reason it's d
- 40:50Speaker 2: Day tomorrow is because he was given two weeks to
- 40:53Speaker 2: sort things out with his co host and according to
- 40:56Speaker 2: this report, they're now on speaking terms and they're getting
- 40:59Speaker 2: on quite well. So the radio station have got an
- 41:01Speaker 2: interesting decision to make in the sense that do they
- 41:04Speaker 2: sack these guys and believe they can defend it in court,
- 41:07Speaker 2: which is invariably where it will end up if they
- 41:10Speaker 2: follow through with their threats.
- 41:11Speaker 1: So it be an interesting day tomorrow, all right.
- 41:14Speaker 2: The front page of Tasmania's Mercury newspaper, Explosive Threat reads
- 41:19Speaker 2: the headline blow up message to Taz Family Fuel Business.
- 41:23Speaker 2: A Tasmanian fuel retailer claims an individual threatened to blow
- 41:27Speaker 2: up one of its offices amid public angst oversawing petrol prices. Well,
- 41:32Speaker 2: I think we can all relate to that we having
- 41:35Speaker 2: filled up our cars recently. Tas Petroleum, a family owned
- 41:39Speaker 2: business operating forty three petrol stations across the state, has
- 41:42Speaker 2: decried the daily abuse its staff have received since the
- 41:45Speaker 2: beginning of the conflict in the least as well as
- 41:47Speaker 2: vandalism as at some of its sites. Now Tasmania is
- 41:51Speaker 2: probably no different to the rest of the country. Prices
- 41:54Speaker 2: have increased twenty six percent according to the article since
- 41:58Speaker 2: the Iran war began, and six percent since last Tuesday,
- 42:02Speaker 2: So almost every other day you go to fill up
- 42:05Speaker 2: your car and the prices higher than it was last
- 42:09Speaker 2: time you did. No doubt people are angry, but to
- 42:12Speaker 2: be threatening to blow up officers and graffiting petrol stations
- 42:17Speaker 2: is a little.
- 42:17Speaker 1: Extreme, ol.
- 42:18Speaker 6: I mean, I think that is extreme to train for
- 42:20Speaker 6: that up. So there's even been reports.
- 42:22Speaker 3: Of arguments that have started at queues at petrol stations
- 42:26Speaker 3: at the moment.
- 42:27Speaker 6: I mean, people are literally having meltdowns right now.
- 42:29Speaker 2: We did have women fighting in aisles, pulling hair over
- 42:32Speaker 2: toilet powers that.
- 42:33Speaker 1: Long ago, so we've got form.
- 42:35Speaker 5: Abusing the staff like this has got nothing to do
- 42:39Speaker 5: with some puschmack working in a petrol station. They don't
- 42:42Speaker 5: choose the prices, they don't choose whether the US and
- 42:46Speaker 5: Israel decided to go.
- 42:47Speaker 4: On bomb Iran. It's got nothing to do with them.
- 42:51Speaker 5: And if you're the sort of person who abuses retail
- 42:54Speaker 5: staff for simply doing their jobs over which they have
- 42:57Speaker 5: no control for prices or anything, that you're a dickhead.
- 43:01Speaker 5: You're just a dickhead, and you should sort yourself out.
- 43:04Speaker 5: Take a good look in the mirror.
- 43:05Speaker 2: My son was working at a retail store and we're
- 43:07Speaker 2: talking about the fact that you have to you know,
- 43:08Speaker 2: you have to pay for a bag to put your
- 43:10Speaker 2: merchandise in.
- 43:11Speaker 1: And he said, Dad, the number of times.
- 43:13Speaker 2: People would abuse me because we have to charge them
- 43:16Speaker 2: fifty cents for the bag. And I said, how do
- 43:18Speaker 2: you handle it? And he said, I just look at them.
- 43:20Speaker 2: I say, do you know how old I am. I'm seventeen.
- 43:22Speaker 2: You're going to abuse a seventeen year old kid. I
- 43:24Speaker 2: don't set the bag prig And he said in the
- 43:26Speaker 2: middle shuts them up.
- 43:28Speaker 1: So there you go exactly.
- 43:29Speaker 5: I wish they'd realize that a little more often. On
- 43:31Speaker 5: the front of the Australian Tomorrow, it says Iran's Lost generation.
- 43:35Speaker 5: Their voices were silenced with bullets, the innocent faces invisible
- 43:39Speaker 5: to human rights activists for forty seven innocent Iranians. Forty
- 43:43Speaker 5: seven years, i should say, innocent Iranians have been killed
- 43:46Speaker 5: again and again by the Islamic regime, each time under
- 43:49Speaker 5: a different label enemy of Islam, riot, a spy, or
- 43:52Speaker 5: a threat to national security. This time, when millions of
- 43:55Speaker 5: people took to the streets in January and a courageous,
- 43:58Speaker 5: peaceful attempt.
- 43:59Speaker 4: To end the tur Ranical rule of the Islamic Republic.
- 44:02Speaker 5: The false charge was that they were traitors in wartime
- 44:06Speaker 5: or agents of Israel and America. In all, between thirty
- 44:09Speaker 5: five thousand and eighty thousand men, women and children were
- 44:13Speaker 5: murdered in cold blood. After the massacre, it was as
- 44:16Speaker 5: if the country held its breath. Public attention day and
- 44:20Speaker 5: night was fixed on a single expectation, the collapse of
- 44:22Speaker 5: the regime, the fall and death of its agents, and
- 44:25Speaker 5: the day when people would be able to celebrate in
- 44:27Speaker 5: free streets. It was in this atmosphere that military support
- 44:30Speaker 5: from the US and Israel for the people of Iran
- 44:33Speaker 5: began eighteen days ago. And obviously what the Australian is
- 44:36Speaker 5: trying to demonstrate is the reality of what has gone
- 44:39Speaker 5: on Iran.
- 44:41Speaker 4: You know, it's all good and well to jump up and.
- 44:42Speaker 5: Down about illegal wars and all this sort of stuff,
- 44:45Speaker 5: but this is what Iran has done. This is what
- 44:48Speaker 5: the Iya Toller oversaw. If you're one of these people
- 44:52Speaker 5: who mourned the Aya Toller, if you're someone who thinks
- 44:55Speaker 5: Iran is all right, this is what you stand for.
- 44:58Speaker 5: And if this is what you stand for, well, frankly,
- 45:00Speaker 5: you don't belong in this country.
- 45:01Speaker 3: Maybe give a copy to the OS to some of
- 45:03Speaker 3: the Hollywood celebrities on the red carpet and have a
- 45:07Speaker 3: read of this article. Anyway, let's move on to the
- 45:10Speaker 3: Canberra Times. That's me aps to manage with less. A
- 45:13Speaker 3: federal department is offering voluntary redundancies as at least two
- 45:16Speaker 3: others quietly shuffle staff around in response to changing priorities
- 45:20Speaker 3: in the lead up to a budget widely expected to
- 45:23Speaker 3: be tough on the public service. The Department of Social
- 45:26Speaker 3: Services open voluntary redundancies across all branches in December and
- 45:30Speaker 3: basically the Albanesi government's fifth budget, to be handed down
- 45:33Speaker 3: in May, is broadly expected to be tough on departments. Well,
- 45:36Speaker 3: I'll believe it when I see it, because we know
- 45:38Speaker 3: that there are a record number of public servants under
- 45:41Speaker 3: Anthony Albanesi.
- 45:42Speaker 1: There are indeed all right after the break.
- 45:44Speaker 2: A South Australian father fulfills every dad's sporting dream and
- 45:48Speaker 2: Delika has our dope of the.
- 45:50Speaker 1: Day that's next.
- 45:54Speaker 2: As a dad, I think watching your kids play sport
- 45:57Speaker 2: is the most amazing experiences. Only one thing that beats it,
- 46:01Speaker 2: and that would be playing competitive sport with your kids
- 46:04Speaker 2: in the same team. Well, Darren Cheeks from South Australia
- 46:09Speaker 2: played a cricket match with his son Sam. They opened
- 46:13Speaker 2: the batting for the Coromandel Cricket Club in South Australia.
- 46:17Speaker 2: It was a forty over match and they batted right
- 46:20Speaker 2: through the forty overs, putting on a partnership of five
- 46:24Speaker 2: hundred and ninety runs.
- 46:26Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Sam?
- 46:27Speaker 2: The kid blasted four hundred and two or one hundred
- 46:30Speaker 2: and thirty two balls, his dad one hundred and seventy
- 46:33Speaker 2: five from one hundred and eight deliveries. What an amazing
- 46:37Speaker 2: experience with your son. I tell you what though, I
- 46:40Speaker 2: felt for the bowlers. One of the bowlers I won't
- 46:42Speaker 2: tell you his name. I looked it up on the scorecard,
- 46:44Speaker 2: but I won't embarrass him. Caleb or four overs he
- 46:47Speaker 2: went for one hundred and ten. Wow, father son combination.
- 46:51Speaker 4: I don't want to see what his economy, right, goodness.
- 46:54Speaker 1: Twenty seven runs and over he went, ooh.
- 46:56Speaker 4: That's terrible, isn't it.
- 46:57Speaker 5: And Dad's sixty three as well, But you know, I mean,
- 47:00Speaker 5: that's pretty good effort by the sun. Four hundred and
- 47:02Speaker 5: two from one hundred and thirty two, but one hundred
- 47:04Speaker 5: and seventy five from one hundred and eight for a
- 47:06Speaker 5: bloke in his sixties is also a ripper effort.
- 47:09Speaker 4: I love it so much.
- 47:11Speaker 2: That the sun hit thirty four's and forty two six.
- 47:15Speaker 1: Denika is looking at a blakely, what's it for? What's
- 47:18Speaker 1: a sick?
- 47:20Speaker 6: Yeah? I've got no idea.
- 47:21Speaker 5: Back when we get the late debate, cricket team going
- 47:23Speaker 5: to be James and I.
- 47:24Speaker 6: Oh yeah, veactate. I'll cheer you both on. I'll be
- 47:27Speaker 6: holding the signs Now, it's time for.
- 47:33Speaker 1: Don't the day?
- 47:35Speaker 3: Yes, today, Today's dope of the day goes to a
- 47:38Speaker 3: forty five year old man who has been charged after
- 47:41Speaker 3: he put a nine year old on his lap and
- 47:44Speaker 3: got him to take the wheel while they were going
- 47:47Speaker 3: for a ride down Great Western Highway in New South Wales.
- 47:50Speaker 3: And what was his excuse He was tired. He was tired,
- 47:54Speaker 3: That's why he did it. So he's now been charged
- 47:56Speaker 3: with driving recklessly, negligent driving, driving without proper control the vehicle,
- 48:00Speaker 3: and driving with one passenger seat belt not properly fastened.
- 48:04Speaker 6: I mean, seriously, the.
- 48:05Speaker 1: Good news is they've given the nine year old his license.
- 48:08Speaker 3: It was that impressive apparently, But I mean, come on,
- 48:11Speaker 3: if you're tired, don't get behind the wheel.
- 48:14Speaker 5: Indeed, well you've had the dope of the day. Now
- 48:16Speaker 5: for your dose of beam me up, Scottie. I've had
- 48:18Speaker 5: enough of living on this planet, because is this still
- 48:21Speaker 5: Earth that I am living on? Take a look at this.
- 48:23Speaker 5: This is in China. A woman having an argument with
- 48:29Speaker 5: a robot. Now, the robot, as you can.
- 48:31Speaker 4: See there, is seemingly remonstrating with her. It then gets
- 48:35Speaker 4: led off by the police.
- 48:37Speaker 5: This woman, in Cantonese apparently says to the robot, you're
- 48:40Speaker 5: making my heart race. You can do plenty, but you
- 48:42Speaker 5: want to cause this mess.
- 48:44Speaker 1: You're crazy.
- 48:45Speaker 5: And then the police come along and basically arrest the robot.
- 48:49Speaker 4: What is going on here? Say?
- 48:52Speaker 6: Did the robot look when it was being walked away.
- 48:54Speaker 4: By the police.
- 48:57Speaker 1: Sorry for the robot.
- 48:58Speaker 6: I'm so sorry for the rod.
- 48:59Speaker 5: Look, We've got robots in China going around harassing old grannite.
- 49:05Speaker 4: What is what is wrong with the world? Like when
- 49:08Speaker 4: this starts happening in Australia, that's it. Sign me up
- 49:11Speaker 4: for the euthanasia.
- 49:12Speaker 2: I'm all right on that note, We're out of here
- 49:15Speaker 2: stick around. Coming up in a moment is the Reader
- 49:17Speaker 2: Penalty Show.
- 49:17Speaker 1: Good Night,