Latest / The Bolt Report / The Bolt Report | 10 March

Transcript

The Bolt Report | 10 March · The Bolt Report

0:10
Speaker 1: He's the reform it.
0:14
Speaker 2: Tonight, the woman who helped convince five players from the
0:17
Speaker 2: Rainy women's soccer team to ask Australia for protection and
0:21
Speaker 2: more coalition Turmolos David Little Proud quits as the leader
0:24
Speaker 2: of the Nationals.
0:26
Speaker 1: I'm bargad enough.
0:30
Speaker 2: I'll talk to the man. I think who can now
0:32
Speaker 2: save that party? Also tonight, panic buying of petrol but
0:36
Speaker 2: wise fuel diverted from farmers to the cities. And how
0:40
Speaker 2: our top arts bodies are stacking their acts with Palestinians,
0:44
Speaker 2: Muslims and haters of Israel. Incredible statistics coming up. But
0:49
Speaker 2: first Donald Trump has blinked or maybe not, who can tell.
0:54
Speaker 2: With Trump, the US President's declared the war with Iran
0:57
Speaker 2: is almost over, kind.
0:59
Speaker 1: Of because it's just about one already.
1:02
Speaker 3: We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective, and
1:09
Speaker 3: some people could say they're pretty well complete. We've wiped
1:12
Speaker 3: every single force in Iran out very completely. Most of
1:18
Speaker 3: our n's naval power has been sunk. It's on the
1:22
Speaker 3: bottom of the sea. It's almost fifty ships. It's just
1:27
Speaker 3: notified as fifty one ships. But it's all resulting in
1:30
Speaker 3: a ninety percent decline and various things, but in particular
1:37
Speaker 3: Iranian missile launchers and eighty three percent drop in drone launchers.
1:42
Speaker 3: As you know, the drone launches are pretty well shot,
1:47
Speaker 3: but we're at over ninety percent decline in the Iranian
1:50
Speaker 3: missile launchers. That we've taken out the leadership twice and
1:56
Speaker 3: maybe three times. And we, as you know, we want
2:00
Speaker 3: to be involved. We don't want another president that maybe
2:04
Speaker 3: wouldn't be willing to do what I'm willing to do
2:06
Speaker 3: for the good of the world, for the good of
2:07
Speaker 3: our nation, to be stuck with a situation in five
2:10
Speaker 3: years or ten years from now. So we think they
2:13
Speaker 3: should put a president in or the head of the
2:16
Speaker 3: country and that's going to be able to do something
2:19
Speaker 3: peacefully for a change, and it's going to be ended soon,
2:23
Speaker 3: and if it starts up again, they'll be they'll be
2:26
Speaker 3: hit even harder.
2:30
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, that was this big scene set of today
2:32
Speaker 2: and it was enough for oil prices to fall and
2:34
Speaker 2: share prices to rise in here as well. I mean,
2:38
Speaker 2: happy days, right, And it is true that Rana severely
2:41
Speaker 2: weakened now, although the regime remains what's left of it.
2:46
Speaker 2: But there's a catch, as you also just heard Trump
2:49
Speaker 2: actually lift his options wide open. He could end the
2:53
Speaker 2: war in days, which is the main message you're supposed
2:56
Speaker 2: to hear, or he could actually keep going.
3:00
Speaker 1: And here's what will make the difference. Oil. Can Trump
3:05
Speaker 1: keep the oil flowing?
3:06
Speaker 2: That is now his next battle, because we're addicted to
3:10
Speaker 2: that stuff. Trump's military war going brilliantly. The economic war
3:16
Speaker 2: not so much, because you just look at the panic
3:18
Speaker 2: here as well about a possible shortage of oil because
3:22
Speaker 2: of this war panic buying a country fuel stations out
3:26
Speaker 2: of petrol and diesel. Inflation tipped to skyrocket, and Iran
3:31
Speaker 2: meant that to happen all over the West. It knew
3:34
Speaker 2: it could not beat the US, so it decided instead
3:38
Speaker 2: to cause such devastations to the economies of the West
3:41
Speaker 2: that they would force Donald Trump to stop. Iran decided
3:45
Speaker 2: to shut shipping through the narrow Strait of Hormuz through
3:48
Speaker 2: which twenty percent of the world's oil exports flow. It
3:51
Speaker 2: attacked oil tankers especially, and have so far killed seven
3:55
Speaker 2: foreign sailors. Most traffic has now stopped dead Apart from
3:58
Speaker 2: Iranian tanker, Iran has also bombed oil and gas assets
4:03
Speaker 2: of its neighbors and it's counting on America's allies, saying
4:08
Speaker 2: enough exode, I get exisode John.
4:18
Speaker 1: But jan.
4:23
Speaker 3: Now.
4:23
Speaker 2: In response, Trump has raged on Fox News that these
4:27
Speaker 2: tanker ships, they should show some guts, keep sailing, nothing
4:31
Speaker 2: to worry about. But they don't trust Trump's assurances because
4:34
Speaker 2: the US still hasn't given them enough protection from Iranian
4:37
Speaker 2: drones and missiles, including drone boats loaded with explosive Trump
4:42
Speaker 2: today promised that would change.
4:45
Speaker 3: They were also focused on keeping energy and oil flowing
4:49
Speaker 3: to the world. The long run, oil supplies will be
4:52
Speaker 3: dramatically more secure without the threat of Iranian chips, drones, missiles,
4:57
Speaker 3: nuclear menace or anything. So the Street of Hormuz, who's
5:04
Speaker 3: going to remain safe?
5:07
Speaker 1: Now?
5:08
Speaker 2: If Trump can guarantee safety in the Strait of mus
5:12
Speaker 2: can get the oil flowing again, he will buy the
5:15
Speaker 2: US and is route more time to keep destroying the
5:18
Speaker 2: Iranian regime. Otherwise he might have to stop in a week.
5:22
Speaker 1: Now.
5:22
Speaker 2: Sure there are some workarounds. At the moment, there's Saudi Arabia.
5:25
Speaker 2: It's now pumping more oil to the port at Yanbo
5:28
Speaker 2: instead that supporting the Red Sea to the west, where
5:31
Speaker 2: that oil can then be shipped either south or north
5:33
Speaker 2: through the Sewis Canal. The ships are already gathering there,
5:36
Speaker 2: but that is not enough. And now one big hope
5:41
Speaker 2: apart from the US, and I bet you won't guess
5:44
Speaker 2: it is, believe it or not, the French Navy. I mean,
5:48
Speaker 2: forget Britain. It's now so weak that it cannot get
5:50
Speaker 2: even a single frigate to defend it space in Cyprus
5:53
Speaker 2: for a few more days. But France, in contrast, France's
5:58
Speaker 2: President Emmanuel Macron, to be Napoleon, is sending eight frigates,
6:03
Speaker 2: two helicopter carriers and the aircraft carrier Charles the Gall
6:08
Speaker 2: to stop he runs missiles and drone attacks on its
6:10
Speaker 2: neighbors and on the ships in the Persian Gulf. Now
6:14
Speaker 2: Macron yesterday landed on the Charles the Gall and saying
6:19
Speaker 2: in the French way his national anthem, to pump up
6:21
Speaker 2: the crew. Macron then promised to use French warships to
6:32
Speaker 2: stop missile attacks on the tankers and get that oil
6:36
Speaker 2: flowing again.
6:40
Speaker 4: We are currently setting up a purely defensive, purely support
6:43
Speaker 4: mission whose purpose is to allow, as soon as possible,
6:48
Speaker 4: after the most intense phase of the conflict, the escort
6:53
Speaker 4: of container ships and tankers to gradually reopen the Strait
6:57
Speaker 4: of Homers.
7:00
Speaker 2: It makes Australia's belated effort now sending a single early
7:04
Speaker 2: warning aircraft to defend the UAE from Iranian attacks makes
7:08
Speaker 2: that look a little bit thin. Thecron said. Of course
7:12
Speaker 2: France was not attacking Iran. It would be defending its
7:14
Speaker 2: friends in the Gulf States, which.
7:17
Speaker 1: Iran has been bombing.
7:18
Speaker 2: But if he is successful in protecting shipping, he bus
7:23
Speaker 2: Donald Trump in Israel more time, more freedom. He bus
7:28
Speaker 2: them time to keep degrading the Iranian regimes military and
7:32
Speaker 2: terrorist assets, and to assassinate its new leaders. And for once,
7:37
Speaker 2: the Greens have got this right when they today demanded
7:41
Speaker 2: Australia not even send that one early warning aircraft, the
7:44
Speaker 2: wedge Tail, as I predicted that they would last night.
7:48
Speaker 2: Send that wedgetail to help the United Arab Emirates defend
7:50
Speaker 2: itself from Iran. Don't send it if that means helping
7:54
Speaker 2: the US.
7:56
Speaker 3: Every asset that Australia puts into the theater freeze up
8:00
Speaker 3: another US military asset to continue its illegal war on Iran.
8:06
Speaker 2: I mean, the Greens foreign policy really let our friends
8:10
Speaker 2: die as long as we don't help Donald Trump. I mean,
8:13
Speaker 2: these are moral monsters. But like I say, France and
8:17
Speaker 2: Australia now involved in this war. They are helping the
8:21
Speaker 2: US in Israel. Whoever they however they dress it up
8:25
Speaker 2: and good. I mean, stop Iran's missiles and drones. Get
8:29
Speaker 2: the oil flowing, and let this war keep going until
8:32
Speaker 2: the power of Iran's crazy Islam's regime is smashed for
8:36
Speaker 2: a generation. No more funding of terrorists, no more nuclear
8:40
Speaker 2: weapons program, no more vast stocks of missiles to threaten
8:44
Speaker 2: the whole Middle East and even Europe. So this is
8:48
Speaker 2: now the new front in the wall. Keep the oil flowing.
8:51
Speaker 2: And Trump today made wild threats like a man who
8:54
Speaker 2: knows the rest of his war does depend on ending
8:58
Speaker 2: Iran's attacks on the tankers.
9:00
Speaker 3: If they do that, if they play that game, We're
9:03
Speaker 3: going to hit them at a level that they have
9:05
Speaker 3: not seen before.
9:08
Speaker 2: Yes, the war could end in just days, with Iran's
9:12
Speaker 2: regime crippled but not defeated.
9:15
Speaker 1: And if the oil.
9:16
Speaker 2: Keeps flowing, though, the bombs will keep dropping. More on
9:25
Speaker 2: the war later and the rescue of the Iranian soccer players,
9:29
Speaker 2: plus dramatic scenes of one being dragged into the bus,
9:33
Speaker 2: but to the latest coalition disarray. The First Liberals loss
9:37
Speaker 2: of their leader Susan Lee. Now the Nationals have lost Theirs.
9:41
Speaker 2: David Little Proud made a shock decision this afternoon to
9:44
Speaker 2: quit his leader, where the Nationals now threatened with destruction
9:49
Speaker 2: by One Nation.
9:50
Speaker 5: But I'm buggered. I'm buggered. I'll have enough to lead
9:54
Speaker 5: described party. Would be the wrong thing for me to do.
9:57
Speaker 5: I love the National Party.
9:58
Speaker 1: I grew up in it.
9:59
Speaker 5: I'll believe to the day I die Green and Gold.
10:02
Speaker 5: I love it, and it'd be wrong for me to
10:05
Speaker 5: say that I'm the right person to continue to lead.
10:07
Speaker 5: That's tough for me to say. I think someone batter
10:10
Speaker 5: can do it because I don't have the energy. I'm
10:13
Speaker 5: out on my feet and I'm done.
10:16
Speaker 1: Well.
10:16
Speaker 2: He leaves the Nationals in huge strife, and that's in
10:19
Speaker 2: part because of David Little Proud. He busted up the
10:22
Speaker 2: coalition twice since the election, making it a joke, and
10:25
Speaker 2: he effectively drove Barnaby Joyce out of the Nationals. Joyce
10:30
Speaker 2: then joined One Nation, where has helped that party to
10:33
Speaker 2: now lead the coalition in the polls. But Little Proud
10:36
Speaker 2: said he was actually quitting with the coalition in good
10:39
Speaker 2: shape now that Angus Taylor is Coalition leader, and he
10:42
Speaker 2: was proud of what he had done, like forcing the
10:44
Speaker 2: Coalition into opposing Labour's racist voice. I give big ticks
10:48
Speaker 2: for that and for pushing the Liberals into saying no
10:51
Speaker 2: to the net zero craziness. He said, all this work
10:56
Speaker 2: and the rise of Angus Taylor freedom to now step
11:00
Speaker 2: down as National's leader for someone else who he didn't
11:03
Speaker 2: and wouldn't say.
11:05
Speaker 5: It's time for me to feel normal again. It's been
11:08
Speaker 5: a pretty rough road since the election. But I get
11:15
Speaker 5: to go home to her, my wife Amelia, and our family,
11:19
Speaker 5: and I want to spend more time with them.
11:22
Speaker 2: But there was undoubted bitterness in his leaving at a
11:25
Speaker 2: cracker bun of you. Joyce said he wouldn't read what
11:27
Speaker 2: journalists wrote about him.
11:29
Speaker 5: I've been a human punching bag for the last couple
11:32
Speaker 5: of months. I don't really give our rats, but you know,
11:35
Speaker 5: at some point you look after yourself well.
11:38
Speaker 2: Joining me is National Senator Matt Canavan, the former Resources
11:41
Speaker 2: minister who late this afternoon declared that he would stand
11:44
Speaker 2: in the ballot for the new Nationals leader. Matt Canavan,
11:48
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us as you do
11:51
Speaker 2: every Tuesday, and thank you for honoring the appointment. What
11:54
Speaker 2: shape has David Little Proud left the Nationals in?
12:00
Speaker 6: As you said just before, Andrew, he played an integral
12:03
Speaker 6: role in killing our support for the crazy idea of
12:06
Speaker 6: net zero missions, so I'll always credit him with that.
12:09
Speaker 6: That's been pretty much my mission in life because that
12:13
Speaker 6: policy is holding our nation back. You can see the
12:15
Speaker 6: costs of it this week at the petrol browser because
12:18
Speaker 6: we can't develop by our ail and gas resources if
12:21
Speaker 6: we're committed the need zero by twenty fifty. So I
12:24
Speaker 6: do thank David for his service to the party. Andrew,
12:28
Speaker 6: it's your job to comment, to criticize, to critique, But
12:32
Speaker 6: as someone on the football field will with David, I
12:35
Speaker 6: know how difficult it can be sometimes.
12:37
Speaker 7: I know the bruises you can take.
12:40
Speaker 6: Taking the ball up, and David took the ball up
12:42
Speaker 6: admirably for the Nationals Party.
12:44
Speaker 7: Like him, I love this party.
12:46
Speaker 6: I do believe our pragmatic, our on the ground approach
12:51
Speaker 6: to politics is exactly what this country needs because we've
12:55
Speaker 6: had far too much grand thinking, grand planning, which has
12:59
Speaker 6: cost strains a fortune. We have to revive our country.
13:02
Speaker 7: Now.
13:03
Speaker 6: I've got great hope for Australia, the hope for our countries,
13:06
Speaker 6: that everything we need to take back our nation to
13:09
Speaker 6: revive our fortunes is here in Australia. We've got it all.
13:12
Speaker 6: We've got the resources, we've got the great people. We
13:14
Speaker 6: don't need to import things from overseas, we don't need
13:17
Speaker 6: to increase our migration, we don't need massive amounts of
13:21
Speaker 6: help from others. We can do it ourselves as long
13:23
Speaker 6: as we back our country. And that's what I'd love
13:25
Speaker 6: to do. If I'm given the honor of leading the
13:28
Speaker 6: Nationals Party tomorrow.
13:32
Speaker 2: Well, I think we've heard but mainly your pitch for
13:37
Speaker 2: leadership there. But I did ask you what shape David
13:40
Speaker 2: Little Proud left the Nationals in. I'm guessing that. Well,
13:45
Speaker 2: let me ask it a different way. What would you
13:47
Speaker 2: do that's different?
13:51
Speaker 6: Well, look, as I said Andrew, I ran for leader
13:54
Speaker 6: last year to dump our net zero policy and that's
13:57
Speaker 6: what we've done now. So I don't have major policy
14:00
Speaker 6: disagreements with David. Of course, we face a political threat
14:05
Speaker 6: right now from the emergence of other parties on the right,
14:10
Speaker 6: and where I think I can help our party is
14:13
Speaker 6: that I have been consistently against things like net zero.
14:16
Speaker 6: I've been consistently against the excessive government overreach during COVID,
14:20
Speaker 6: which has unleashed the highest inflation rate in the developed world.
14:25
Speaker 6: So with that background, I think I can be an
14:27
Speaker 6: effective leader, an effective voice to combat the excesses of
14:32
Speaker 6: government over each to pull back on the net zero state,
14:35
Speaker 6: which is a handbrake on development. So I do believe
14:38
Speaker 6: I can play that role. I thought I could last
14:41
Speaker 6: year when I ran for leader. Obviously I respected the
14:44
Speaker 6: decision of the party room then and I'll respect it tomorrow.
14:48
Speaker 6: But I'll firmly put forward the reasons why I think
14:51
Speaker 6: I'm in the best position to lead our political party,
14:53
Speaker 6: but most importantly to deliver results for the istral people.
14:57
Speaker 6: People really suffering right now. It's not just the petrol
15:02
Speaker 6: shortages we see this week, it's small businesses every week
15:05
Speaker 6: going under record numbers of that happening. So many more
15:08
Speaker 6: are under pressure because the cost of everything just keeps
15:11
Speaker 6: going up under this government that fails to take the
15:14
Speaker 6: tough decisions we need to have a functioning and prosperous country.
15:21
Speaker 2: I think you've touched on what I would have thought
15:23
Speaker 2: is that one of the main differences it is that
15:27
Speaker 2: as anyone knows who's been watching you on this show
15:30
Speaker 2: or wherever for years, will it know that you have
15:34
Speaker 2: been very firm in your opposition to some of the
15:36
Speaker 2: things that where the issues are now coming your way
15:38
Speaker 2: net zero of course, in particular, whereas it seems to
15:42
Speaker 2: me a lot of the Coalition leaders in the past
15:44
Speaker 2: and in part you know David Little proud to it
15:46
Speaker 2: looks more like a policy distinction.
15:49
Speaker 1: They might be one.
15:50
Speaker 2: Way one year, they might be the other way the next,
15:52
Speaker 2: depending which way the polls blow. You're a man of
15:55
Speaker 2: conviction and authenticity at a time when it seems to
15:59
Speaker 2: me the public is so desperate for it, they go,
16:02
Speaker 2: for instance, Sepauline Hanson, they don't see them the coalition
16:06
Speaker 2: is that where you think you would have an edge,
16:08
Speaker 2: that you would seem to a lot of voters very
16:11
Speaker 2: genuine in the policies that you were now pushing.
16:16
Speaker 6: Well, look, thank you for that, Andrew, and I'll let
16:18
Speaker 6: others maybe give me that level of bouquets. But I've
16:21
Speaker 6: tried to be consistent. I've tried to act according to
16:24
Speaker 6: my convictions. I do think and have been openly said,
16:26
Speaker 6: we lost our way in the last few years. I've
16:29
Speaker 6: seen the predominance, the tyranny, if you like, of focus
16:31
Speaker 6: groups descend on this place, and it's led this country
16:35
Speaker 6: into a complete mess. So I think it's about time
16:37
Speaker 6: we change the approach and just back what we think
16:40
Speaker 6: is best for our nation.
16:41
Speaker 7: Fight for that. We might just be surprised how lucky
16:43
Speaker 7: we are.
16:44
Speaker 6: Keep in mind, Andrew, that some of those governments that
16:47
Speaker 6: did lose their way happened when Barnaby Joyce was our leader.
16:50
Speaker 6: I mean, in effect he was mister need zero with
16:53
Speaker 6: Scott Morrison who brought this terrible policy in while he
16:56
Speaker 6: was the leader of the Nationals Party. I opposed it
16:59
Speaker 6: from the get go. I posed it then, I pose
17:01
Speaker 6: it now, and I'll oppose the expansion of a green
17:04
Speaker 6: climate state trying to tell everybody what to do in
17:06
Speaker 6: the future. I will always be consistent on that front.
17:12
Speaker 2: Well, you've already given your first salvo to show the
17:16
Speaker 2: new style. It's against Barnaby Joyce. Talk about that. I mean,
17:21
Speaker 2: the one nation threat is very very real for the Nationals.
17:25
Speaker 2: I mean you're facing an armageddon in the country. So
17:28
Speaker 2: I particularly no house seats with that one nation up
17:31
Speaker 2: and running. What would your approach be to neutralizing that threat.
17:39
Speaker 7: Look, the main thing, Andrew, is to focus on the people.
17:42
Speaker 6: The more you focus on the politics and other parties
17:45
Speaker 6: down here, the more you're losing your way. I mean,
17:48
Speaker 6: our focus has got to be what we can do
17:50
Speaker 6: to improve people's lives. I mean, we've spoken about some
17:54
Speaker 6: large ideological issues here, but my whole career has been
17:57
Speaker 6: replete with seeking to do things to improve people's lives.
18:01
Speaker 7: And I'll give you one example.
18:02
Speaker 6: Early in my political career, the problem was we didn't
18:04
Speaker 6: have a hospital car park at Rockhampton. We had a
18:07
Speaker 6: hospital with no car park. It was terrible for sick
18:09
Speaker 6: patients and relatives to visit the facilities.
18:13
Speaker 7: And Michelle andre and I worked very hard.
18:14
Speaker 6: We got that, We delivered that, and that's measurably, immeasurably
18:18
Speaker 6: improved people's lives, I would say, Andrew. I would say,
18:21
Speaker 6: Pauline Hanson has been in politics for thirty years, more
18:25
Speaker 6: than double the time I've been in politics. But I
18:27
Speaker 6: struggle to point to one hospital improvement, one damn one
18:31
Speaker 6: road that Pauline Hansen has improved in my time in politics.
18:34
Speaker 6: We've helped build a Rocky Ring Road, we built the
18:36
Speaker 6: rookwod Weir the first dam for farming in Queensland for
18:39
Speaker 6: a generation. We've got behind real things that make a
18:43
Speaker 6: real difference to people's lives and that has got to
18:45
Speaker 6: be our focus, so to win back people, which would ultimately,
18:48
Speaker 6: of course, if we do that lead to political success.
18:54
Speaker 2: And what about the coalition. I mean, you were very
18:57
Speaker 2: much in favor, you were quite happy split from the
19:00
Speaker 2: Coalition if they wouldn't go the National's way on a
19:04
Speaker 2: couple of issues. Is the Liberal Party now a bit
19:09
Speaker 2: of a handbreak on you? Are you tainted by them?
19:14
Speaker 2: Do you think the future for the Nationals would lie
19:18
Speaker 2: between now and the next selection in running their own
19:21
Speaker 2: race not being in coalition.
19:23
Speaker 6: Well, the short answer is no, Andrew, And the longer
19:27
Speaker 6: answer is I don't accept that. I would have been
19:29
Speaker 6: happy to see the coalition split A number of times
19:32
Speaker 6: said I wanted to see the Coalition stay together. I
19:34
Speaker 6: didn't see why we'd have to split a few months
19:37
Speaker 6: ago over the issue that arose. We do have differences
19:39
Speaker 6: of opinion sometimes, I've seen that time and time again.
19:41
Speaker 6: But I've got a long history of managing those differences.
19:45
Speaker 6: I was in a cabinet government under both Malcolm Turnbull
19:48
Speaker 6: and Scott Morrison, and worked very cooperatively with my colleagues,
19:51
Speaker 6: including Angus.
19:52
Speaker 7: Taylor worked very closely with Angus.
19:55
Speaker 6: We fought together in twenty nineteen to expose the costs
19:59
Speaker 6: of then absurd climate change policy of cutting emissions by
20:02
Speaker 6: forty three percent, which was still not even close to
20:04
Speaker 6: getting to but we fought against that. We did some modeling,
20:08
Speaker 6: we ran around the countryside, sometimes without the approval of
20:11
Speaker 6: the leader's office, but we did it and both of
20:15
Speaker 6: us helped, I think, deliver a victory in that election.
20:18
Speaker 6: So I've got a lot of time with Angus as
20:20
Speaker 6: long history working with him, and whatever happens tomorrow, I
20:25
Speaker 6: think Angus has done a remarkable job in just the
20:27
Speaker 6: short time he has been leader, and I think he's
20:29
Speaker 6: going to be very successful leader of the Liberal Party
20:31
Speaker 6: long term.
20:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:35
Speaker 2: Well, look, I've got nothing against Kevin Hoden and Michael McCormick,
20:38
Speaker 2: who the other two people that I expect will be
20:41
Speaker 2: putting up their hand, but everyone will know that I've
20:43
Speaker 2: always thought that you were the future for the National
20:46
Speaker 2: Party for that sense of authenticity that I think voters
20:50
Speaker 2: are screaming for.
20:51
Speaker 1: Pluffs.
20:51
Speaker 2: Of course, your position on that zero, which I thought
20:54
Speaker 2: was most important. So all the best to you. Thank
20:58
Speaker 2: you very much for your time. Met Canavan after the break,
21:02
Speaker 2: the woman who helped five players from the Iranian women's
21:04
Speaker 2: soccer team to defect. Now, five players from Iran's women's
21:13
Speaker 2: soccer team were last night given asylum in Australia, but
21:16
Speaker 2: the danger remains for the rest. In fact, there were
21:19
Speaker 2: disturbing scenes this afternoon as an Iranian officials seem to
21:22
Speaker 2: force one of the remaining girls onto the bust of
21:25
Speaker 2: the airport. Is another player dragged by a hand. This
21:29
Speaker 2: vision courtesy of the City Morning Herald. These girls have
21:32
Speaker 2: been threatened with death by the Iranian regime for refusing
21:35
Speaker 2: to sing their national anthem in protests in their game
21:38
Speaker 2: in Brisbane a week ago. Two women in the team
21:41
Speaker 2: are reportedly still in their hotel, but we told all
21:44
Speaker 2: the players and the officials will be given forms on
21:47
Speaker 2: their plane telling them they can apply for asylum and stay.
21:53
Speaker 2: So this drama has still not played out in full.
21:56
Speaker 2: There may be more to come. So given all that,
22:00
Speaker 2: there was one very good piece of news today, one
22:02
Speaker 2: very good deed by the Albaneze government late last night,
22:06
Speaker 2: Homofesmas the Tony Burke gave protection visas to five players
22:11
Speaker 2: of the team now defiantly without the hugeos mandatory under
22:15
Speaker 2: this regime of in Iran Federal police smuggled them out
22:19
Speaker 2: of the hotel to meet Burke and sign their applications
22:22
Speaker 2: for asylum.
22:24
Speaker 8: They will move to a safe location by the Australian
22:27
Speaker 8: Federal Police.
22:28
Speaker 9: And last night I met with them once everything had
22:31
Speaker 9: been signed off. Last night there were lots of photos,
22:33
Speaker 9: lots of.
22:33
Speaker 10: Celebrating and then are spontaneous out track of Bozzi Joziosi,
22:37
Speaker 10: Boy Boy Boy.
22:40
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister today said any other players won in
22:42
Speaker 2: asylum would.
22:43
Speaker 1: Also be helped.
22:45
Speaker 10: Australians stand in solidarity with these brave women. They are
22:49
Speaker 10: safe in Australia and they should feel at home here.
22:52
Speaker 10: We have made it clear that if there are other
22:54
Speaker 10: members of the team who make a decision to ask
22:57
Speaker 10: for support, they will receive it from Australia.
23:05
Speaker 2: Brilliant and I have nothing but praise for the government's
23:09
Speaker 2: handling of this, apart from those stupid comments by Matt
23:11
Speaker 2: thistleweit yesterday, but for the Prime Minister.
23:14
Speaker 1: Big tick.
23:16
Speaker 2: Now the Coalition, which had campaigned for tougher checks on
23:19
Speaker 2: Muslim immigration was right behind this as well. There are
23:25
Speaker 2: some Muslim immigrants we very much do welcome, and so
23:29
Speaker 2: was Donald Trump. The US President, accused the government last
23:32
Speaker 2: night of making a terrible humanitarian mistake by not giving asylum,
23:37
Speaker 2: when in fact the government had already done just that,
23:40
Speaker 2: and Trump even raining Albany's at two am for forty minutes,
23:44
Speaker 2: probably to discuss the war as well, where he was
23:48
Speaker 2: given the good news, and he then praised the government
23:51
Speaker 2: wildly on social media. Now, some remaining team members were
23:57
Speaker 2: scared their parency to around would be initiate. They also
24:01
Speaker 2: stayed here, and Iranian freedom protests today tried to stop
24:05
Speaker 2: their bus. Joining me is migration agent named Denai, herself
24:28
Speaker 2: Iranian who helped convince the players to trust our government
24:31
Speaker 2: to protect them. You've done a magnificent job. Why were
24:35
Speaker 2: these girls scared to go back home?
24:40
Speaker 11: Hi, thank you for having me. Actually, the girls were
24:45
Speaker 11: in fear of unknown future here. They didn't know what's
24:50
Speaker 11: going to happen for them if they stay here, if
24:53
Speaker 11: they're going to be offered government support, if they're going
24:58
Speaker 11: to be given their visa, or they're going to be
25:01
Speaker 11: transferred to camps refugee camps. So I as a part
25:06
Speaker 11: of a team who were trying to contact them to
25:09
Speaker 11: explain everything for them. God into contact with them. Yesterday.
25:16
Speaker 11: I went to the hotel and explained everything to these
25:20
Speaker 11: five girls before they exp before they said the final
25:25
Speaker 11: yes to the department to come and start their processing
25:30
Speaker 11: their visas.
25:34
Speaker 1: So they were scared of the unknown here.
25:35
Speaker 2: What were they scared about about going back to Iran?
25:41
Speaker 11: Well, as you know, they've been threatened for their consequences
25:46
Speaker 11: of not singing the national anthem. So as we know,
25:50
Speaker 11: the government of Iran is very brutal. What's happening in
25:55
Speaker 11: the prisons now is just like a horror movie, like
26:02
Speaker 11: any other thing that which is not imaginable. So of
26:07
Speaker 11: course they would be in fear of their safety when
26:12
Speaker 11: they go back home. What's going to happen to them,
26:15
Speaker 11: What's going to happen to their future? Are they going
26:20
Speaker 11: to be sentenced or just kept in the prisons being tortured?
26:27
Speaker 2: And of course one of their teammates was shot dead
26:29
Speaker 2: in the protests in January.
26:32
Speaker 1: Now there are.
26:33
Speaker 2: Reports that there are two other players that did not
26:37
Speaker 2: leave their hotel, another player that were still being dragged
26:43
Speaker 2: into the bus reportedly rang her parents back home, who
26:46
Speaker 2: pleaded with her to get on the plane. I don't
26:50
Speaker 2: know about that. I'll just hear that reported. Do you
26:53
Speaker 2: know anything about all that?
26:56
Speaker 11: No, I wasn't there today. Well, but I'm guessing what
27:02
Speaker 11: can be happening. Actually, they are not free to make
27:06
Speaker 11: the decisions for themselves. They are forced to leave. They
27:11
Speaker 11: are actually under really strict restrictions with the government officials
27:20
Speaker 11: of Iran who are minding them all the time. So
27:24
Speaker 11: as soon as they didn't sing their national anthem, they
27:30
Speaker 11: started putting a lot of pressure on them, preventing them
27:33
Speaker 11: from talking to anyone. Even the community members who went
27:38
Speaker 11: to gate to give them chocolates or flowers, they couldn't
27:42
Speaker 11: even talk to them. So it was very hard to
27:46
Speaker 11: communicate with them. And I'm guessing again one of them
27:51
Speaker 11: is trying to stay, but the other one is trying
27:56
Speaker 11: to warn them what's happening, because they have been, you know,
27:59
Speaker 11: the women officials have been trying to to warn them,
28:05
Speaker 11: if you stay, there would be very bad consequences for you.
28:10
Speaker 11: So they've been under a lot of pressure. But I've
28:15
Speaker 11: heard that two of them could one at least could
28:19
Speaker 11: manage to stay.
28:21
Speaker 2: Behind Now, the five women that you talked to last night,
28:30
Speaker 2: what sort of state were they in?
28:32
Speaker 1: Were they were they worried.
28:33
Speaker 2: About repercussions to their families back in Iran.
28:38
Speaker 11: Well, it's it's really hard to describe what sort of
28:43
Speaker 11: feelings they had. First of all, they had to make
28:49
Speaker 11: a decision for their lives. You know, they came here
28:52
Speaker 11: just to play, and what happened was something that you know,
28:59
Speaker 11: it was altered in these things happening after that of
29:04
Speaker 11: them refusing to sing the national anthem, So after that,
29:08
Speaker 11: they felt a lot fearful. At the same time, they
29:12
Speaker 11: couldn't talk to anyone and as you know, there is
29:15
Speaker 11: internet blackout in Iran. It's not easy to contact their
29:19
Speaker 11: families in Iran. They couldn't even contact any of the
29:24
Speaker 11: community members here. They don't know much English and the
29:29
Speaker 11: only point of contact who knows English was the team
29:34
Speaker 11: who brought them here to Australia. So they were kind
29:36
Speaker 11: of isolated and also feared of what to do is
29:42
Speaker 11: what is best for us to do? On this start,
29:46
Speaker 11: we were trying a team, We had a team trying
29:49
Speaker 11: to talk to them, and finally yesterday it happened we
29:55
Speaker 11: could go to the hotel. With the help of AFB officers,
29:59
Speaker 11: we could talk to the is five girls to tell them,
30:03
Speaker 11: we know that you are very concerned about your family
30:07
Speaker 11: members back home, but if you go back home, there
30:11
Speaker 11: would be more consequences for you to face. So they
30:16
Speaker 11: had some questions about their visas, what sort of entitlements
30:19
Speaker 11: they have, Do they have work rights, do they have
30:21
Speaker 11: travel rights? How long does it take for them to
30:24
Speaker 11: get their visa? So I was trying to give them
30:29
Speaker 11: reassurance and at some point of us trying to translate
30:33
Speaker 11: what their Department of Homa Fairs officials officers were explaining
30:39
Speaker 11: to them and reassuring them that this program is really good.
30:44
Speaker 11: The Department of Home Affairs is very supportive of you.
30:47
Speaker 11: The government is very supportive. They they are going to
30:52
Speaker 11: finalize your visa, maybe sometime tonight, and then after that
30:59
Speaker 11: the very quickly, maybe in a matter of weeks or months,
31:03
Speaker 11: you might be able to get your permanent residency as well.
31:09
Speaker 1: Nog Be to know you've done a great job.
31:12
Speaker 2: We're very pleased to have these girls stay given the
31:15
Speaker 2: danger they face. Thank you so much, indeed for your time.
31:19
Speaker 2: After the break, Donald Trump claims it's just about won
31:22
Speaker 2: this war against the Iran. Has he really or has
31:26
Speaker 2: Iran out played him? Back to Donald Trump's very revealing
31:34
Speaker 2: press conference today and where this war is going or
31:37
Speaker 2: maybe not. I think he gave a real insight, really
31:41
Speaker 2: that the President didn't just suggest the war with the
31:43
Speaker 2: Iran could be over very soon. It was virtually one already.
31:48
Speaker 2: He also dismissed the regime change for Iran. He dismissed democracy.
31:52
Speaker 2: Despite hinting at the start of this war that this
31:56
Speaker 2: was the moment for the Iranians to topple the reign
31:59
Speaker 2: of the clerics, He said he runs new leaders should
32:02
Speaker 2: come from inside the regime.
32:05
Speaker 1: I believe he meant.
32:07
Speaker 3: But I like the idea of internal because it works well.
32:12
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we've proven that so far in Venezuela,
32:15
Speaker 3: and we have a woman, Delsey, who has been president
32:20
Speaker 3: of the country, very respected, very She's doing a great
32:23
Speaker 3: job and it's you know, no disruption we had as
32:27
Speaker 3: you remember Iraq, where everybody got fired, the military got fired,
32:32
Speaker 3: the police got fired, the politicians got fired. There was
32:36
Speaker 3: nobody and you know what they turned into isis and
32:41
Speaker 3: we don't want that.
32:42
Speaker 11: We don't want that.
32:42
Speaker 3: So I would like to see people that are inside.
32:49
Speaker 1: I don't know.
32:49
Speaker 2: I might have a point. I was joined a short
32:51
Speaker 2: while ago by Peter Jennings, a former Deputy Secretary for
32:54
Speaker 2: Strategy in the Defense Department, now at junk fellow for
32:57
Speaker 2: the Institute for Public Affairs. Jennings, thanks for your time.
33:01
Speaker 2: Is Donald Trump right? Has he essentially won this war already?
33:06
Speaker 3: No?
33:06
Speaker 9: I don't think he can make that claim yet, Andrew.
33:09
Speaker 8: They've obviously done a significant amount of damage in terms
33:12
Speaker 8: of nuclear facilities, missiles, aircraft, the Iranian navy, but the
33:18
Speaker 8: Iranian regime still seems to be pretty stubbornly in place.
33:22
Speaker 8: And I think if Trump's aspirations to have Iran which
33:27
Speaker 8: is no longer a threat nuclear or otherwise to the
33:31
Speaker 8: United States and to Israel, if that's the aspiration, they're
33:34
Speaker 8: going to have to keep fighting on in order to
33:37
Speaker 8: see that the Revolutionary Guard is no longer in power.
33:41
Speaker 9: And we're not there yet.
33:42
Speaker 8: They could be a week or two, perhaps a bit longer,
33:45
Speaker 8: but I think it's too early to be claiming victory.
33:49
Speaker 9: At this point.
33:52
Speaker 2: I'd say so as long as you've got a regime
33:55
Speaker 2: that believes in worldwide jiha, the West is Satanic and
33:59
Speaker 2: must be over her own. I don't think you can
34:02
Speaker 2: guarantee that they'll stop working on the means to actually
34:05
Speaker 2: achieve that and destroy American power. What else do you
34:08
Speaker 2: think needs to be done, apart from toppling the regime
34:12
Speaker 2: or at least forcing a radical change. It's thinking, well,
34:18
Speaker 2: the thing that I keep looking for is the signs
34:21
Speaker 2: of a significant movement of the Iranian people out into
34:25
Speaker 2: the street, and we're not seeing that yet. But the
34:31
Speaker 2: pattern of American and Israeli attacks in those five thousand
34:37
Speaker 2: targets which they fit has been a significant number of
34:41
Speaker 2: regime internal security outfits, the people that would be there
34:47
Speaker 2: to quell a popular revolt. And so I think at
34:53
Speaker 2: some stage, if we are going to see regien chains,
34:56
Speaker 2: that's what needs to happiness, will start to see people
34:59
Speaker 2: out in the streets no longer fearful of the passage
35:03
Speaker 2: the internal security thugs.
35:06
Speaker 8: That doesn't appear to be happening yet. Then there's a
35:10
Speaker 8: related and certainly probably even more important issue from the
35:15
Speaker 8: perspective of the West, and that's the passage of oil
35:18
Speaker 8: through the straits of Hormus. I think now, more on
35:22
Speaker 8: the basis of risk than reality, a lot of that oilflow.
35:26
Speaker 9: In containers has stopped.
35:29
Speaker 8: The Americans are going to have to come up with
35:30
Speaker 8: a persuasive way to get those tankers moving again. And
35:35
Speaker 8: I think that could lead to military presence escorting oil
35:41
Speaker 8: tankers for a very long time, beyond any wider military campaign.
35:46
Speaker 8: And that could well be the sort of thing that
35:48
Speaker 8: Australia would be asked to participate in, along with the
35:52
Speaker 8: Brits and the Canadians. All these countries talking about middle
35:55
Speaker 8: powers doing things together.
35:57
Speaker 9: Well, now here's an opportunity.
35:58
Speaker 8: Let's get our navies together to talk about keeping the
36:02
Speaker 8: straits of Hullmers open. That's something that's important to many
36:06
Speaker 8: countries around the world.
36:10
Speaker 2: Now it seems that Donald Trump isn't that keen on
36:12
Speaker 2: regime change. After all, he's saying he'd like a leader
36:16
Speaker 2: from internal, whatever that means. It was unclear that he
36:20
Speaker 2: meant internal from the regime, existing regime, or internal simply
36:25
Speaker 2: that they live in Iran, unlike the Crown Prince, the
36:29
Speaker 2: former the son of the form of Shah. Is it
36:32
Speaker 2: right to be skeptical about trying to impose as sort
36:36
Speaker 2: of leader from outside the ruling classes?
36:38
Speaker 8: It were so, I don't think in any one twenty
36:43
Speaker 8: four hour period. One can get too wound up with
36:46
Speaker 8: whatever the president says, because it can change pretty dramatically.
36:50
Speaker 8: He clearly doesn't want to see the existing Revolutionary Guard
36:56
Speaker 8: security structure remain in place. I think that means Kamani's
37:01
Speaker 8: son has got very limited tenure indeed, and I would
37:04
Speaker 8: see him as a bad outcome if he was the
37:07
Speaker 8: remaining ruler. You know, the experience from Iraq of twenty
37:12
Speaker 8: years ago was that the diaspora community really didn't have
37:16
Speaker 8: a strong handle on an alternative government that could be
37:20
Speaker 8: slotted into place in Baghdad. So I don't know that
37:24
Speaker 8: the son of the Shah necessarily is that person. I
37:29
Speaker 8: could see potentially an army person arising who's not part
37:33
Speaker 8: of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. That's the really hardcore folk
37:37
Speaker 8: that have been prosecuting the war against Israel. So there
37:41
Speaker 8: may be some folk like that that come forward. But
37:44
Speaker 8: you know, when you've run a society as brutally as
37:46
Speaker 8: the Iranians have their own for the last forty seven years,
37:51
Speaker 8: there is no obvious alternate, internal or external, and how
37:57
Speaker 8: we get to that process is clearly going to be
38:00
Speaker 8: quite quite ugly.
38:02
Speaker 9: If we do see a regime change.
38:03
Speaker 8: I think there'll be a lot of pretty rough justice
38:05
Speaker 8: on the streets, Andrew, and no one will be around
38:09
Speaker 8: to stop that from happening. So I don't think this
38:12
Speaker 8: is going to resolve itself, you know, this week or
38:16
Speaker 8: in the next ten days. I think we're now embarked
38:19
Speaker 8: on a process which is going to take a bit
38:22
Speaker 8: longer than the President may want. And that just reflects
38:26
Speaker 8: the size and complexity of Iran and the challenges of
38:31
Speaker 8: unpicking this really nasty authoritarian regime.
38:36
Speaker 1: Peter Jenney, thank you so much for your time.
38:39
Speaker 9: Thanks Andrew.
38:40
Speaker 2: After they break an amazing scandal, how our top taxpayer
38:45
Speaker 2: funded arts events have been hijacked by Muslim and Arab
38:48
Speaker 2: artists and a lot of Israel haters. You have probably wondered,
38:57
Speaker 2: how come hating Israel is so fashionable in the arts.
39:01
Speaker 2: How come you've got all these artists who pride themselves
39:04
Speaker 2: in being rugged individualists three thinkers are in fact buying
39:08
Speaker 2: like sheep about zionists.
39:11
Speaker 1: Zionists.
39:12
Speaker 2: Well, one answer is that governments and arts industries actually
39:16
Speaker 2: fund the anti Zionists, especially under federal artsmanster Tony Burke.
39:22
Speaker 2: He is the latest Three extraordinary examples Australia's official entrant
39:27
Speaker 2: into the prestigious Venice Bionali is Lebanese born Karlid Subsiety,
39:32
Speaker 2: an anti Zionist activist and artist who's going to present
39:38
Speaker 2: there a work based on a twelfth century Islamic text.
39:42
Speaker 2: And remember this is supposed to be representing Australia. Subsiety
39:46
Speaker 2: is actually better known for a work seeming to honor
39:49
Speaker 2: the now assassinated head of the hesbela Islamist terrorist group.
39:54
Speaker 2: Second example, the winner last month of the Victorian Premier's
39:58
Speaker 2: Literary Award was Evelyn Aralun, who ident devised as an
40:03
Speaker 2: Aboriginal poet. And it's another anti Zionist who has said
40:08
Speaker 2: I needed to write so I could remind myself of
40:10
Speaker 2: my own humanity in a colony determined to deny and
40:14
Speaker 2: violate the humanity of my people, in a colony economically
40:19
Speaker 2: and politically complicit in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
40:23
Speaker 2: and the West Bank.
40:24
Speaker 1: So Australia's just the colony.
40:26
Speaker 2: Her people aren't the white people who presumably contributed to
40:29
Speaker 2: a DNA and we're helping a fictional genocide by Israeli Jews.
40:33
Speaker 1: Go figure.
40:35
Speaker 2: But the third example is the craziest. It's the Sydney
40:40
Speaker 2: Biinali which opens this month, a huge taxpayer funded arts festival.
40:45
Speaker 1: Very ritzy.
40:46
Speaker 2: This is artistic director is controversially who are Al Kazimi,
40:51
Speaker 2: daughter of the rule of shah Jah in the Middle East,
40:54
Speaker 2: and another anti Zionist and anti israel urger that what
41:00
Speaker 2: she's done to Sydney's festival with our money, She's stacked
41:04
Speaker 2: it with more than forty artists and exhibitions who are
41:08
Speaker 2: not just Palestinians but Arabs and Muslims.
41:12
Speaker 1: More than forty of them.
41:13
Speaker 2: Incredible, including a breakdowncer who likened a long time Jewish
41:18
Speaker 2: sponsor and former being an early board member to a
41:21
Speaker 2: Nazi joining me, Amir Schlith, research fellow with the Institute
41:24
Speaker 2: of Public Affairs, and Michael Danby, former liberal federal labor politician,
41:29
Speaker 2: apologies and chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs,
41:32
Speaker 2: Defense to Trade. Michael, I'm so sorry for that and
41:35
Speaker 2: for insulting you like that. I'll give you the first
41:38
Speaker 2: go at an answer. How do you get this incredible
41:42
Speaker 2: stack which doesn't even include all the non Muslims and
41:46
Speaker 2: non Arab artists who've been attacking Israel. What does this
41:49
Speaker 2: festival tell you?
41:51
Speaker 12: It tells you that the woke mindvirus includes a compulsory
41:58
Speaker 12: hatred of Israel, and that this is mandatory in virtually
42:04
Speaker 12: all of the arts, including Evelyn, the Aboriginal writer in
42:09
Speaker 12: Victorian who doesn't understand that there's a book called the Bible.
42:16
Speaker 12: The Jews are the indigenous people. Evelyn cited in that
42:21
Speaker 12: book that many people in Australia around the world know
42:25
Speaker 12: from that part of the land in the Middle East,
42:29
Speaker 12: the colony that you're complaining about.
42:33
Speaker 9: Is giving you an award.
42:35
Speaker 12: Why do you accept the award? And there's no genocide,
42:39
Speaker 12: poor Evelyn.
42:40
Speaker 7: It's a war.
42:41
Speaker 12: Nine hundred plus elite Israeli soldiers have been killed fighting
42:46
Speaker 12: Hamas terrorists, and Hamas admits now that over fifty thousand
42:51
Speaker 12: of the casualties were males between eighteen and sixty four.
42:57
Speaker 12: So really, these people live in a cloud cuckoo land.
43:00
Speaker 12: You're right Andrew to point to the Sydney bienali as
43:03
Speaker 12: the worst. I mean, slagging off philanthropists who donated money
43:08
Speaker 12: to the arts over the years just is a real
43:12
Speaker 12: low point for them. And even Paul Lefty Marris Schwartz
43:17
Speaker 12: has been attacked constantly by them as a genocide.
43:23
Speaker 10: Yeah.
43:24
Speaker 2: I didn't really want to defend Morris Schwartz, but principles
43:27
Speaker 2: above the personal, so I will but meer Schlift.
43:32
Speaker 1: You know, this is one of.
43:34
Speaker 2: The things you get when governments fund bureaucrats the fun
43:38
Speaker 2: particular artists they like, instead of what I think should
43:41
Speaker 2: be the model, and that is, if you want to
43:43
Speaker 2: support the arts, subsidize the purchases of arts tickets and
43:48
Speaker 2: paintings and books and let them choose who they want
43:52
Speaker 2: to patronize. But how do we end up with an
43:55
Speaker 2: arts scene that is so dominated suddenly by people who
44:00
Speaker 2: were Arab, Muslim, Palestinian or whatever.
44:05
Speaker 13: Well, I think it just shows Andrew Unfortunately, the arts,
44:08
Speaker 13: particularly here in Australia, is no longer about freedom of expression. Instead,
44:13
Speaker 13: it's all about political activism and individuals peddling ideological vendettas.
44:18
Speaker 13: That's what it's become. And I think it's no surprise
44:20
Speaker 13: that support for the arts in Australia, particularly monetary support,
44:23
Speaker 13: is just drying up left, right and center because many
44:26
Speaker 13: of these donors don't want to see their money going
44:29
Speaker 13: towards activist causes. In particular causes that pedal anti Semitism. Now,
44:35
Speaker 13: what I think is pretty ironic is once all this
44:37
Speaker 13: private all these private donations dry up, basically, the only
44:40
Speaker 13: way that these arts groups will be able to stay
44:42
Speaker 13: a flow just through taxpayer funded grants or through government subsidies.
44:46
Speaker 13: But wasn't it the Albanesi government, who I think it
44:50
Speaker 13: was about a year ago now, who got up there
44:51
Speaker 13: and said it, in an effort to combat anti Semitism,
44:54
Speaker 13: his government would actively look at withdrawing funding from arts
44:59
Speaker 13: and universe groups that don't take an active stance against
45:02
Speaker 13: combating anti Semitism. And looking at this line up now, Andrew,
45:06
Speaker 13: I'm still waiting for alban Easy to deliver on that promise.
45:09
Speaker 13: I think I'll be waiting a long time.
45:14
Speaker 1: It's just the extraordinary.
45:15
Speaker 2: To me, it looks like the Sydney Binalia's come for
45:19
Speaker 2: every possible palace in an artists they could find. Funnily enough,
45:23
Speaker 2: they didn't put anything like that effort into finding Jews, Michael,
45:28
Speaker 2: unless they miss maybe they invited you to come along
45:32
Speaker 2: just for a debate, but you know, the thought that
45:34
Speaker 2: they don't want a debate, that's what really sickens me.
45:37
Speaker 2: What weak people they are that it's going to be
45:39
Speaker 2: a group loving.
45:42
Speaker 12: I mean, and this is the important point that you
45:44
Speaker 12: and me are raising, is that this is creating a zeitgeist,
45:50
Speaker 12: an atmosphere, a mentality in Australia that led to Bondai. Now,
45:56
Speaker 12: if we don't take this stuff seriously, if we don't
45:58
Speaker 12: take the preacher in the extremist mosques, if we don't
46:03
Speaker 12: take the importation of people who have fanatical views that
46:07
Speaker 12: don't share Australian values, all of this is what the
46:11
Speaker 12: Royal Commissioner should be looking into because it led to Bondai.
46:15
Speaker 12: Those of us who've been talking about it for two
46:18
Speaker 12: and a half years, including you and Chris Kenny and
46:21
Speaker 12: Sharry Markson and Peter all have been pointing to the
46:24
Speaker 12: fact these people are making the extremist minority in Western
46:29
Speaker 12: Sydney hysterical. And you know when they see this ticked
46:33
Speaker 12: off by all of these woke art bureaucrats, they think
46:39
Speaker 12: that it's okay to go and do what they've done
46:42
Speaker 12: or other things.
46:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.
46:44
Speaker 2: Look, look, I'm not saying that they're going to be
46:47
Speaker 2: preaching hate from the stage, but it's the essentially colonizing
46:51
Speaker 2: that word, colonizing the arts industry that once had such
46:55
Speaker 2: strong Jewish representation and freezing out Jews instead. I mean,
46:59
Speaker 2: I think that it's just astonishing unforgivable. Meanwhile, mea the
47:04
Speaker 2: warning Iran. It's course panic buying at petrol stations and
47:08
Speaker 2: that's cause some independent outlets in rural areas especially run dry,
47:13
Speaker 2: which has hurt farmers especially of course, and you Misticicristpond
47:16
Speaker 2: today said this was a shortage course by panic buyers,
47:20
Speaker 2: not by a cut in supply.
47:21
Speaker 1: Here is.
47:23
Speaker 14: There are real pressures in rural and region Australia particular.
47:26
Speaker 14: For example, the Minister of Agriculture Transport, a Minister for industry,
47:30
Speaker 14: and I just convened very important meeting with key stakeholders.
47:33
Speaker 14: The head of the Service Stations Agency informed us that
47:37
Speaker 14: they have seen demand increase in Mildura, for example, by
47:42
Speaker 14: one hundred percent at their service stations and in the
47:44
Speaker 14: Adelaide Hills and Brosse by two hundred and eighty percent.
47:49
Speaker 2: Mia is he right? Is this couse just by panic buying?
47:52
Speaker 2: And even if it is, should we be letting fuels
47:55
Speaker 2: be diverted away from farmers from rural areas and towards.
47:59
Speaker 1: Most in the city. When I think the opposite should
48:02
Speaker 1: be the case.
48:05
Speaker 13: Well, I don't think it's just panic buying alone. And
48:07
Speaker 13: I'll make the point that I don't think Australians would
48:09
Speaker 13: feel the need to panic buy if they had any
48:11
Speaker 13: faith that this federal government had taken the fuel supply seriously. Now, look,
48:16
Speaker 13: we're meant to have ninety days of fuel supply. Nobody
48:19
Speaker 13: actually knows how much we have. Some people are saying
48:21
Speaker 13: we've got thirty five days, but when saying no, we
48:23
Speaker 13: have more of that, but it's being held offshore. Well
48:25
Speaker 13: that's not much help to us now, is it. But
48:27
Speaker 13: certainly I'm really concerned that our regional communities aren't going
48:31
Speaker 13: to have the fuel they need to deliver the food
48:34
Speaker 13: and the fiber and the resources that the rest of
48:36
Speaker 13: the country relies upon. Are to put dinner on the
48:38
Speaker 13: table each night to keep the lights on in the cities.
48:41
Speaker 13: Certainly this will hurt regional communities first, but the aftershocks
48:46
Speaker 13: will be felt by those in the city very very shortly.
48:50
Speaker 13: And I'll make the point that the federal government here
48:52
Speaker 13: will find any excuse to not take the blame on this,
48:55
Speaker 13: so blame the conflict in Iran. They'll find any reason
48:58
Speaker 13: there will always be a global COMFT flicks.
49:00
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Nope, gotta go. It's so true to me and
49:05
Speaker 2: me and Schlift and Michael Demby. Thank you both. Up next,
49:08
Speaker 2: Sherry Matson, good night,