Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 30 March
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wait, welcome the late base.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Good evening and thanks for joining us. I'm James Macpherson
- 0:09Speaker 2: with Danika to Georgio and Caleb Bond who's back with us.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Having spent the weekend in Melbourne.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Indeed caught up with some of our great mates it
- 0:17Speaker 3: Sky News here, Peter Credle and Tony Abbott, Peter Jennings
- 0:20Speaker 3: and a few others. And I also had the displeasure
- 0:23Speaker 3: of watching the football on Football on Thursday night because
- 0:26Speaker 3: I normally would be here and don't get the chance to.
- 0:28Speaker 4: And I saw the.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Crows get robbed that free in the last quarter that
- 0:33Speaker 3: robbed us of the opportunity to win the game.
- 0:35Speaker 4: So it doesn't get any better, you know.
- 0:36Speaker 5: So when you say did you go to the game?
- 0:38Speaker 4: I did not go to.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Gm HbA, and I'm bloody glad I didn't because that
- 0:41Speaker 3: would have been really miserable coming back from Geelong.
- 0:44Speaker 5: On Thursday and it was pouring with it.
- 0:46Speaker 4: I did get a chance to watch enough football.
- 0:47Speaker 5: How was your weekend, Anika?
- 0:49Speaker 6: Oh, thank you.
- 0:49Speaker 7: I had a great weekend everybody. I don't need to
- 0:51Speaker 7: go into details, but it was lovely.
- 0:53Speaker 6: Thanks. Thank you James.
- 0:55Speaker 2: We will probe you for details during the commercial breakup.
- 0:57Speaker 2: My weekend was quiet, all right, here's what's coming up tonight.
- 1:01Speaker 2: The son of cop killer Desi Freeman lashes out at
- 1:03Speaker 2: people celebrating his father's death.
- 1:06Speaker 5: Is it okay to be glad? Freeman?
- 1:08Speaker 4: Is no moral?
- 1:08Speaker 2: Is it disrespectful to his family? An English football team
- 1:12Speaker 2: issues a groveling apology to their emotionally scarred fans after
- 1:16Speaker 2: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was allowed to tour their stadium,
- 1:21Speaker 2: and the Pope warns the Trump administration that God will
- 1:25Speaker 2: not answer their prayers. We'll try to get a second
- 1:27Speaker 2: opinion from upstairs later in the show, assuming the lines
- 1:30Speaker 2: not already busy with people seeking guidance to affordable patrol.
- 1:34Speaker 5: All of that coming up shortly, but.
- 1:35Speaker 2: First Victorian Premier Jciner Allen has announced public transport will
- 1:40Speaker 2: be free for the next month in a bid to
- 1:42Speaker 2: help people through the fuel crisis. And she's got an
- 1:45Speaker 2: election in about eight months, so it helps that too.
- 1:49Speaker 8: As Premier, I'm determined to do everything within my control
- 1:53Speaker 8: to help Victorians deal with the cost of living and
- 1:56Speaker 8: these rising fuel prices. That's why I'm making public transport
- 2:00Speaker 8: free for a month.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Free public transport good idea of Danika.
- 2:05Speaker 7: No, actually, I don't think it is a good idea,
- 2:07Speaker 7: and it's all sold very nicely.
- 2:09Speaker 6: Is just into Alan.
- 2:10Speaker 7: She even made a little pitch there because, of course,
- 2:13Speaker 7: as James said, she's got an election. But stop with
- 2:16Speaker 7: the nonsense free public transport. It's not free. It's never free.
- 2:20Speaker 7: You and I are still paying for it as taxpayers.
- 2:23Speaker 7: We're still subsidizing the costs. So please spare me this
- 2:27Speaker 7: free argument. The other thing that really bothers me about
- 2:30Speaker 7: this is it only suits people who live in the city. Right,
- 2:33Speaker 7: if you're in the city, you take public transport, you'd
- 2:35Speaker 7: be going great. What about people out in the regions.
- 2:38Speaker 7: They can't have free public transport. They've still got to
- 2:40Speaker 7: get to a to b using their car. What about
- 2:43Speaker 7: trades people, what about truck drivers, mobile hairdressers, mobile makeup artists?
- 2:48Speaker 6: For goodness sake, I mean.
- 2:49Speaker 7: There's so many groups here that are not benefiting from
- 2:52Speaker 7: this free public transport. And what it is is it's
- 2:54Speaker 7: a stunt. This is nothing more than an election stunt.
- 2:57Speaker 7: It is not a long term solution. And so no,
- 3:01Speaker 7: please spare me. Everything's going to be free. I mean,
- 3:03Speaker 7: what do we is aw around Mam Dami, please.
- 3:04Speaker 4: But hang on number one.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Yes, the taxpayer is subsidizing public transport, but they already are.
- 3:12Speaker 3: The cost of putting on public transport is far more
- 3:15Speaker 3: than we pay in fares to begin with. That's why
- 3:18Speaker 3: in Queensland they've been able to do fifty cent feares
- 3:21Speaker 3: and you know, it's a small impost on the budget,
- 3:23Speaker 3: but we're already paying over the odds anyway, so the
- 3:26Speaker 3: difference it makes is minimal from that perspective.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Two, I understand.
- 3:31Speaker 3: That if you live in the regions, well, in the
- 3:33Speaker 3: regions they do have a level of public transport. But
- 3:34Speaker 3: say you live rurally, you don't get to enjoy the
- 3:37Speaker 3: free public transport. Perhaps, but someone who is not filling
- 3:40Speaker 3: up their car to drive their car in the city
- 3:44Speaker 3: means there should be more fuel available around the country
- 3:48Speaker 3: and that is of benefit to people who do need
- 3:50Speaker 3: to use it, i e.
- 3:51Speaker 4: People in rural areas. Three.
- 3:53Speaker 3: What is coming if we get to a point where
- 3:56Speaker 3: we ration fuel and there are genuine fuel shortages.
- 3:59Speaker 4: Is this business.
- 4:00Speaker 3: About working from home and having free public transport completely
- 4:05Speaker 3: eliminates that as an issue. There is no excuse, there
- 4:09Speaker 3: is no circumstance. Once you have free public transport under
- 4:13Speaker 3: which you can make an excuse to say, oh, I
- 4:15Speaker 3: can't afford to come to the office anymore because I
- 4:18Speaker 3: can't afford to fill up my car. I think from
- 4:21Speaker 3: that perspective alone, it is worth it because it eliminates
- 4:25Speaker 3: that big problem that we may well be staring at.
- 4:27Speaker 7: Yeah, but Caleb, this fuel crisis is going to go
- 4:29Speaker 7: on longer than the free fuel stunt crisis.
- 4:31Speaker 5: This thest We may have.
- 4:33Speaker 7: Band aid solutions to try and fix this, right, and
- 4:36Speaker 7: we've got a myriad of issues with this fuel crisis, right,
- 4:38Speaker 7: but this to me is yet another impost.
- 4:41Speaker 6: And the other thing that the.
- 4:42Speaker 7: Other issue that I have with this as well, is
- 4:45Speaker 7: it's cheaper anyway if you do take public transport then
- 4:48Speaker 7: what it is to fill up your car with petrols,
- 4:51Speaker 7: So regardless, you are ahead, even if you are using
- 4:54Speaker 7: public transport to begin with.
- 4:55Speaker 2: To your point that this fuel crisis may drag on,
- 4:58Speaker 2: that's why in Tasmania they're doing republic transport not for
- 5:01Speaker 2: one month but for three months, just into Ellen could
- 5:04Speaker 2: always extend that.
- 5:05Speaker 5: The other problem I have with your argument.
- 5:06Speaker 2: You seem to be arguing if the government can't help
- 5:09Speaker 2: everybody they shouldn't help anybody.
- 5:11Speaker 7: No, I'm not saying that, but the point is you
- 5:13Speaker 7: can't that they're basing their entire arguments saying, yep, we've
- 5:16Speaker 7: come up with a solution to the fuel crisis.
- 5:18Speaker 6: Here we go, three public transfers. The winner. It's a winner.
- 5:22Speaker 7: It's a winner for people if you live in the city.
- 5:24Speaker 7: It is not a winner if you live out in
- 5:25Speaker 7: the region.
- 5:26Speaker 5: There's a lot of people that live in the city
- 5:27Speaker 5: who So there's a.
- 5:28Speaker 7: Lot of people out in the regions who would love
- 5:30Speaker 7: some sort of relief right now. I mean they can't
- 5:31Speaker 7: get diesel. If you're on the farm, you can't get
- 5:33Speaker 7: diesel in your car.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Get them out of the car in the city and
- 5:35Speaker 3: onto a bus or a training So how would.
- 5:37Speaker 7: You propose it to fix that if you're out in
- 5:39Speaker 7: the regions and you've got to travel to and from
- 5:41Speaker 7: the cities every day.
- 5:42Speaker 3: Because because fewer people using fuel in the city should
- 5:45Speaker 3: mean that there is greater availability of fuel in other place.
- 5:47Speaker 7: What I'm trying to make is if you're trying to
- 5:49Speaker 7: if we're looking at cost cutting, right, we'll look at
- 5:51Speaker 7: cost cutting. Oh well, it's easy to say, well, look,
- 5:53Speaker 7: you get to save money. But what about if you
- 5:55Speaker 7: need your car. If you need your car, you're not
- 5:57Speaker 7: saving money.
- 5:58Speaker 3: Well, if you need yeah, I know, but but okay,
- 6:01Speaker 3: but in supply and demand, the rules of supply and
- 6:04Speaker 3: demand are the higher the demand the price. Demand then
- 6:08Speaker 3: reduce the demand on the fuel to hopefully deliver a
- 6:12Speaker 3: reduction in price, so those who require the product can
- 6:15Speaker 3: bar But.
- 6:16Speaker 7: What I'm saying is, if you do need your car,
- 6:18Speaker 7: you are not going to benefit from this. It may
- 6:21Speaker 7: we come back to point the time, but not in
- 6:23Speaker 7: the short term tailor, because if you're this is a
- 6:25Speaker 7: short term band aids, of course, the short prices is
- 6:28Speaker 7: going to go for a long time.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Okay, So what's the point I'm going to turn around
- 6:31Speaker 3: and fix the fuel crisis.
- 6:33Speaker 6: I'm not saying that.
- 6:34Speaker 7: I'm saying we need to have plans because this, to
- 6:36Speaker 7: me reminds me of COVID, where we are just absolutely
- 6:39Speaker 7: blindly unprepared for any sort of circumstances that are happening
- 6:43Speaker 7: around the world. So what are we going to do
- 6:44Speaker 7: now to make sure that this doesn't happen again? Now,
- 6:46Speaker 7: I'm not I'm sure has your argument about supply and
- 6:49Speaker 7: demand needed that team and this I absolutely get this.
- 6:52Speaker 6: I totally get your point.
- 6:53Speaker 7: But what I'm saying is is that I just think
- 6:56Speaker 7: this argument, oh look, we're going to make everything free.
- 6:58Speaker 6: That's going to solve the problems. It's not going to
- 7:00Speaker 6: the problems. That's the point.
- 7:01Speaker 5: I don't think that's what Jacinta Ellen is arguing. She's
- 7:03Speaker 5: not suggesting this.
- 7:04Speaker 6: It's an election coming up, she should do anything.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Not suggesting free public transport will solve the fuel Cristis.
- 7:10Speaker 2: She's saying this is something that will help a number
- 7:13Speaker 2: of people, not everybody, but numbers of people.
- 7:15Speaker 7: I don't think, oh, look, she's loving her self sick.
- 7:17Speaker 7: She's made a little package deal. She's going look look
- 7:20Speaker 7: at me, vote for me.
- 7:21Speaker 6: Coming up with the next.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Pat I want to ask you, though, Caleb, because you've
- 7:24Speaker 2: made such an argument in favor of this, what do
- 7:26Speaker 2: you think about Chris Mintz who said, no, we're not
- 7:29Speaker 2: going to do this in your South Wellest or in
- 7:30Speaker 2: your beloved state of South Australia.
- 7:32Speaker 5: They're not doing it either.
- 7:33Speaker 3: I don't understand why you would, and I suspect if
- 7:36Speaker 3: push comes to shove and it gets to the point
- 7:39Speaker 3: where it is becoming a thing that people have to
- 7:41Speaker 3: work from home because we have shortages of fuel. They'll
- 7:44Speaker 3: have no choice but to say we're making public transport free.
- 7:47Speaker 3: Because the business sector, and quite rightly so, will jump
- 7:50Speaker 3: up and down and say this is absolute bs that
- 7:54Speaker 3: we are being told by the federal government that in
- 7:57Speaker 3: order to conserve fuel, people have to work from home.
- 8:00Speaker 3: The only obvious answer to that is to make public
- 8:03Speaker 3: transport free so that most people, because most people live
- 8:07Speaker 3: in the capital cities, then have an opportunity to go
- 8:10Speaker 3: to work and there is no excuse anymore.
- 8:12Speaker 7: But you know, I feel like people almost have Stockholm
- 8:14Speaker 7: syndrome when when it comes to working from home. I
- 8:16Speaker 7: was listening now the day to the Green Senator Peter
- 8:19Speaker 7: wish Wilson, and he even proposed that MPs and politicians
- 8:25Speaker 7: do parliament virtually again.
- 8:26Speaker 6: Oh he was going back.
- 8:28Speaker 7: He's like, you know, we did it during COVID, he said,
- 8:30Speaker 7: And I quite we did it during COVID where we
- 8:32Speaker 7: were able to do it from our homes and from
- 8:34Speaker 7: our offices. Maybe we should bring that back with the
- 8:36Speaker 7: Greens are sitting there licking their lips at the prospect
- 8:39Speaker 7: of working.
- 8:39Speaker 5: Always thought the Greens were virtually politicians.
- 8:43Speaker 3: And it does increase the patronage because when they did
- 8:46Speaker 3: start at the fifty cent fees in Queensland, which the
- 8:49Speaker 3: LNP government has continued up there. Fully, government, it's because
- 8:52Speaker 3: it works. It has actually got more people on public transport.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Interestingly, the Queensland government is not going to do free
- 8:59Speaker 2: public trainsansport because it's free, and having introduced that not
- 9:04Speaker 2: so long ago, it doesn't make sense to them change
- 9:06Speaker 2: it all and offer for free. So he's still going
- 9:08Speaker 2: to pay fifty cents in Queensland. I don't know how
- 9:11Speaker 2: Lols of life.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Indeed, while we are talking about the fuel crisis, of course,
- 9:15Speaker 3: a lot of the world's oil, as you will, no
- 9:17Speaker 3: more than twenty percent of it goes through the strait
- 9:20Speaker 3: of WHR mooz. And Trump is now talking about he
- 9:23Speaker 3: thinks he is taking back control of this. He's certainly
- 9:26Speaker 3: attempting to. But an interesting little speech over the weekend
- 9:30Speaker 3: he gave, and I should give you the context. And
- 9:33Speaker 3: you saw what happened last week with Trump saying that
- 9:36Speaker 3: Iran has come back to the table for negotiations, and
- 9:40Speaker 3: so he held off on the threats that he was
- 9:42Speaker 3: going to hit their energy infrastructure over there, and Iran
- 9:46Speaker 3: had threatened that they would do the same to the
- 9:48Speaker 3: US and the Gulf States, et cetera. Now, part of
- 9:51Speaker 3: the negotiations that they're currently going through is that Iran
- 9:56Speaker 3: wants not just control over the Strait of holl Moves,
- 9:58Speaker 3: but it wants sovereign over the Strait of hor Moves
- 10:02Speaker 3: as well. Now, now, under international law, that is unprecedented.
- 10:06Speaker 3: I don't think it's even legal. The suggestion is that
- 10:09Speaker 3: Iran would be able to do whatever the hell it
- 10:11Speaker 3: wants with a strait through which more than twenty percent.
- 10:14Speaker 4: Of the world's oil flows.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Under international law, a strait is basically meant to be
- 10:20Speaker 3: an open body of water that anyone can.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Pass through for trade reasons.
- 10:26Speaker 3: So Trump gives a speech over the weekend in Miami
- 10:30Speaker 3: where he perhaps gee's up Iran a little bit with
- 10:34Speaker 3: these comments'd be.
- 10:36Speaker 6: Great if we could do something, But they have to
- 10:38Speaker 6: open it up.
- 10:39Speaker 4: They have to open up.
- 10:40Speaker 6: The street of Trump, I mean hormones.
- 10:48Speaker 4: Ha ha ha.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Now I kind of understand what he's doing here. He
- 10:53Speaker 3: is joking about that he's made it Joe. He's joking
- 10:55Speaker 3: about the fact that Iran wants complete sovereignty over it,
- 10:58Speaker 3: and so he's saying, well, maybe will have complete sovereignty
- 11:01Speaker 3: over it as well and call it the straight of
- 11:03Speaker 3: Hall moves a bit like, you know, it's not the
- 11:04Speaker 3: Gulf of Mexico anymore to the Gulf of America. Part
- 11:10Speaker 3: of me, though, goes, h, we're talking about a war here,
- 11:14Speaker 3: should we really be making jokes about it? Like, surely
- 11:18Speaker 3: as an issue it deserves you're both laughing at me,
- 11:21Speaker 3: But surely this is a war and it deserves a
- 11:23Speaker 3: bit more reverence than the president making offhanded jokes at
- 11:27Speaker 3: a forum in Miam.
- 11:28Speaker 5: Sorry, are you using Trump and reverence in the same sense?
- 11:31Speaker 3: Okay, okay, sorry, sorry, Sorry, silly me.
- 11:35Speaker 4: I should have known.
- 11:36Speaker 2: I think Trump uses reetric to wage war the same
- 11:41Speaker 2: as you use missiles. That he uses intimidation. He uses
- 11:45Speaker 2: humor and ridicule to great effect. This is just Trump
- 11:47Speaker 2: being Trump, and you know, I actually like it.
- 11:51Speaker 6: So do I.
- 11:52Speaker 7: I mean, the guys fighting wars and running amateur comedy
- 11:56Speaker 7: sessions at the same time. I think he's hilarious. I'm
- 11:59Speaker 7: gonna be honest, I think he is funny. And you
- 12:01Speaker 7: know what, I don't care that this is about Iran.
- 12:03Speaker 7: I don't care what topic it's about he is lighthearted.
- 12:06Speaker 7: He is ripping out the dad jokes, he's ripping out
- 12:09Speaker 7: the grandpa jokes, and I think good on him. He
- 12:11Speaker 7: can make light of a situation. But even remember when
- 12:13Speaker 7: he was going to take over Greenland, he was making
- 12:16Speaker 7: all these memes with him, like certifying his authority in Greenland.
- 12:20Speaker 7: He's funny, and the White House puts out all these memes.
- 12:23Speaker 7: I just I'm not offended by.
- 12:24Speaker 2: CALLI I think, sorry to interrupt you, but you kind
- 12:27Speaker 2: of in your introduction made the argument for why Trump. Sure,
- 12:31Speaker 2: he was pointing out the stupid of Iran trying to
- 12:34Speaker 2: claim authority over that body of water by saying, well,
- 12:39Speaker 2: we'll call it the Strait of Trump, which is ridiculous.
- 12:41Speaker 5: So to his the Iranian claim.
- 12:43Speaker 4: I understand that.
- 12:44Speaker 3: I suppose that the other thing is that the one
- 12:47Speaker 3: thing that Iran has actually managed to do successfully through
- 12:51Speaker 3: this war is control the strait of horror moves, and
- 12:55Speaker 3: that has been a bad thing for the world. And
- 12:59Speaker 3: so it just it seems to me a bit flippant
- 13:03Speaker 3: to make jokes about, oh, the Strait of Trump, when
- 13:05Speaker 3: very clearly at the moment it ain't the straight of Trump.
- 13:09Speaker 3: They might have succeeded in getting ten Pakistani boats through
- 13:13Speaker 3: there last week, but that's about all they've succeeded in. Meanwhile,
- 13:17Speaker 3: Iran is moving more boats through the Strait of Hall
- 13:20Speaker 3: Moves with its own gear towards China than it was
- 13:23Speaker 3: before this war started. So yes, I understand the needling
- 13:27Speaker 3: of Iran, but I'm not sure that it comes across
- 13:31Speaker 3: well at a time when it's very much not the
- 13:34Speaker 3: Strait of Trump and the efforts to try and get
- 13:36Speaker 3: that straight back open again have not been working. It's
- 13:39Speaker 3: the one thing that Iran has succeeded.
- 13:40Speaker 6: Yeh. But I guess if you don't laugh, you'll cry, right,
- 13:43Speaker 6: and sometimes.
- 13:44Speaker 4: Sometimes cry is worth it.
- 13:46Speaker 6: Yeah, But I just.
- 13:47Speaker 7: Feel like in this situation, you know what I mean,
- 13:49Speaker 7: the Iranian he's making jokes about the Iranians in general.
- 13:52Speaker 6: Let's be honest about the Gayaya toler.
- 13:54Speaker 7: And I mean, come on, it is a bit of
- 13:57Speaker 7: a comedy session, you know, when it is a serious issue.
- 14:00Speaker 2: I don't understand now why US allies don't get involved
- 14:03Speaker 2: in helping Trump reclaim the straight for world oil transportation,
- 14:10Speaker 2: because you can argue that, well, this is America's war
- 14:13Speaker 2: with Iran, but now Iran have made it their war
- 14:16Speaker 2: with the world, and I think allies the UK, Japan, Germany,
- 14:21Speaker 2: Australia should be involved in clearing that straight because we're
- 14:23Speaker 2: all in dire straits if it doesn't get done, so
- 14:27Speaker 2: it may well be Trump's war, but now it's ours
- 14:29Speaker 2: because we're relying on the field.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:31Speaker 6: Look absolutely well. Look, Donald Trump's not only.
- 14:33Speaker 7: Upset the left and possibly Caleb, but by the sounds
- 14:36Speaker 7: of it tonight.
- 14:37Speaker 6: Is also up she that up sheet. He's also upset
- 14:43Speaker 6: the Pope.
- 14:44Speaker 7: Would you believe, Yes, the Pope is now targeting warmongerers,
- 14:48Speaker 7: claiming that they have blood on their hands, and he's
- 14:51Speaker 7: upset religious and non religious folk around the world. So
- 14:54Speaker 7: as you can imagine, guess who is talking to the
- 14:56Speaker 7: Trump administration, but particularly the Secretary.
- 14:58Speaker 6: Of War Pete Hegsett.
- 15:00Speaker 7: Now the Pope didn't name names, but he's gone and
- 15:03Speaker 7: given a palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican, and I'll
- 15:07Speaker 7: bring up what he said. He said this quote, This
- 15:10Speaker 7: is our God, Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war,
- 15:13Speaker 7: whom no one can use to justify war. He does
- 15:16Speaker 7: not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.
- 15:19Speaker 7: But rejects them. Went on to say, even though you
- 15:22Speaker 7: make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are
- 15:26Speaker 7: full of blood. Now those comments come a couple of
- 15:29Speaker 7: days after Pete Hegseeth prayed for violence against enemies, saying
- 15:33Speaker 7: that they deserved no mercy.
- 15:35Speaker 6: This is what he said.
- 15:37Speaker 1: So I'll close with scripture, drawing strength from Psalm one four.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Blessed be the Lord, my Rock, who trains my hands
- 15:47Speaker 1: for war and my fingers for battle. He is my
- 15:49Speaker 1: loving God, and my fortress, my stronghold, and my deliverer,
- 15:55Speaker 1: my shield in whom I take refuge.
- 16:00Speaker 7: A few points I'll make on this. Firstly, I am
- 16:02Speaker 7: not a person of faith. However, I think that Pope
- 16:04Speaker 7: Leo's comments were quite offensive because in my view, and
- 16:07Speaker 7: I'm sure that James can possibly expand on this a
- 16:09Speaker 7: lot better than I can from a Christian perspective, when
- 16:13Speaker 7: he says God doesn't listen but rejects them, well, I
- 16:17Speaker 7: believe that God listens to all prayers, so I don't
- 16:19Speaker 7: I completely reject that notion that he's not, because doesn't
- 16:23Speaker 7: that just go against what the Bible says? And using
- 16:25Speaker 7: Christianity to justify a point like that, I think is wrong. Secondly,
- 16:29Speaker 7: the Iotola, the now fallen of the now dead Ayatola
- 16:32Speaker 7: was actually praying for one death to Americans and two
- 16:35Speaker 7: death to Jews. And thirdly, where was the Pope on
- 16:38Speaker 7: the actual atrocities being carried out on Iran. I mean,
- 16:41Speaker 7: he's yet to make any comment that I've seen on
- 16:44Speaker 7: the thirty thousand citizens that were killed in that shoot
- 16:46Speaker 7: to kill policy, when they were protesting for their freedom
- 16:49Speaker 7: and they were murdered ruthlessly by this regime. I'm yet
- 16:53Speaker 7: to hear the Pope be other than really a sympathizer
- 16:57Speaker 7: for this Islamic regime. And you'll both remember the previous pope,
- 17:01Speaker 7: Pope Francis. He was obsessed with being woke, he was
- 17:03Speaker 7: obsessed with adding his two cents. He loved climate change,
- 17:06Speaker 7: the climate armageddon. I just wonder, is this another Pope
- 17:10Speaker 7: France's two point zero?
- 17:12Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the Pope is cherry picking a little bit
- 17:14Speaker 2: from the Bible. The passage he quotes is God talking
- 17:17Speaker 2: to Israel, where God tells Israel, even though you make
- 17:20Speaker 2: many prayers, I won't listen. You've got blood in your hands.
- 17:23Speaker 2: He's talking to them about the fact they're doing a
- 17:25Speaker 2: whole lot of things that they ought not be doing.
- 17:27Speaker 2: But in other parts of the Bible, God instructs Israel
- 17:29Speaker 2: on how to make war and where to go to war.
- 17:32Speaker 5: So Babylon be made the points.
- 17:34Speaker 2: I think Babylon b must be run by Christians, or
- 17:37Speaker 2: certainly people who are very familiar with the Christian faith,
- 17:39Speaker 2: because they made the point if God doesn't listen to
- 17:42Speaker 2: people making war, how come we listen.
- 17:44Speaker 5: To David, to Moses, to Gideon, and on and on.
- 17:47Speaker 2: It listed all of the people in the Bible who
- 17:49Speaker 2: God had helped to win wars. Solomon, the King of Israel, said,
- 17:54Speaker 2: there's a time for peace and there's a time for war.
- 17:57Speaker 2: The pope forgot that part, And I'll give you one
- 17:58Speaker 2: more Bible verse just so we help you out. Danika
- 18:01Speaker 2: the apostle Paul said that God gives the sword to
- 18:05Speaker 2: governments so that they can administer justice, they can restrain evil,
- 18:10Speaker 2: and they can punish wrongdoers. So for the Pope to
- 18:13Speaker 2: say that there's no Christian argument for war at any
- 18:17Speaker 2: time or under any circumstances is only possible if you're
- 18:21Speaker 2: going to cherry pick certain verses and leave the others out.
- 18:23Speaker 2: So I agree with you, the Pope is speaking from
- 18:26Speaker 2: his woke perspective, not from his role as head of
- 18:30Speaker 2: the church, whose job is to expound scripture.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Well, when Francis was the Pope, I used to you know,
- 18:37Speaker 3: I've always been fond of saying someone says something with
- 18:40Speaker 3: an obvious answer, you know, is the popa Catholic? And
- 18:43Speaker 3: I had to start changing that to just the pope
- 18:45Speaker 3: we're a funny little hat because it became quite evident
- 18:48Speaker 3: that perhaps the Pope was not Catholic. And I thought,
- 18:50Speaker 3: after this fella came along, I could go back to
- 18:52Speaker 3: saying is the popa Catholic?
- 18:54Speaker 4: I may have to give up and.
- 18:55Speaker 3: Go back to saying the funny little hat line again
- 18:58Speaker 3: because and again I I don't deign to suggest that
- 19:02Speaker 3: I understand the Bible backwards and forwards.
- 19:05Speaker 4: But I would say that, surely is the pope?
- 19:08Speaker 3: You can say, I fundamentally believe that there should be
- 19:12Speaker 3: peaceful world, and we're all on board with that. We
- 19:15Speaker 3: don't want to go around killing people unnecessarily and waging
- 19:18Speaker 3: war unnecessarily. But when there is a war or a
- 19:22Speaker 3: fight going on against a totalitarian Islamist country that would
- 19:28Speaker 3: seek and its stated aim is to have a world caliphate, ie,
- 19:33Speaker 3: to impose.
- 19:34Speaker 4: Islam on the rest of the world.
- 19:36Speaker 3: One would have thought that a Christian God, and then
- 19:39Speaker 3: by extension, his men on earth who are meant to
- 19:42Speaker 3: be telling us his word, would understand that it would
- 19:45Speaker 3: be rather deleterious to their religion if you were to
- 19:50Speaker 3: allow that to happen, and therefore it is a good
- 19:53Speaker 3: thing for the world to try to do something about
- 19:56Speaker 3: such a regime. I don't know, maybe I've got it wrong,
- 19:59Speaker 3: but I would thought that was a pretty straightforward point
- 20:01Speaker 3: of view.
- 20:02Speaker 2: You make a really great point because one of the
- 20:04Speaker 2: other things that Pete meig Seth got criticized for was
- 20:07Speaker 2: he talked about the fact that they are fighting Iran,
- 20:11Speaker 2: who themselves are fighting a religious war where they are
- 20:14Speaker 2: seeking a religious armageddon because part of their religion is that,
- 20:18Speaker 2: as I understand it, the twelfth Imam will not return
- 20:20Speaker 2: until Israel is wiped from the map. That's not a
- 20:23Speaker 2: political point of view for the Iranian regime. That's their
- 20:27Speaker 2: religious conviction, which is why when Anthony Albanezi says we
- 20:30Speaker 2: need to sit down and negotiate, you can't negotiate with
- 20:33Speaker 2: religious fanatics, because if you could negotiate with them. Frankly,
- 20:37Speaker 2: their religion wouldn't be worth much. It's their whole world view.
- 20:41Speaker 5: You can't talk them out of it.
- 20:42Speaker 2: And yet Pete HeiG Seth got criticized for pointing out
- 20:46Speaker 2: their Islamist worldview, but no one said a word about
- 20:52Speaker 2: the eye tollers in Iran. The pope hasn't really criticized that.
- 20:55Speaker 2: But the moment a Christian nation starts invoking God with
- 20:59Speaker 2: a pope is beside him.
- 21:01Speaker 7: And when you think realistically, these wars are all started
- 21:03Speaker 7: on religion. When you think it's all about their own
- 21:06Speaker 7: religious ideology or what they believe or a sect of
- 21:09Speaker 7: their ideology which leads them onto a radical.
- 21:11Speaker 6: Path, they're all started by religion. And that is a problem.
- 21:15Speaker 6: And actually that's something that we.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Well atheist, let's be clear, atheist Russia has not started
- 21:20Speaker 2: wars based on religion.
- 21:21Speaker 7: Well no, no, but I'm talking I'm talking about in
- 21:25Speaker 7: the Middle East. I'm talking about you know, if we
- 21:27Speaker 7: look at a Raq, you know, we're looking at a Rahm,
- 21:29Speaker 7: We're looking at Hamas. It's all the religious conflict, correct, exactly, Yeah,
- 21:34Speaker 7: all right.
- 21:34Speaker 2: The big news of course in Australia today was police
- 21:37Speaker 2: caught and killed cop killer Desi Freeman, and a lot
- 21:41Speaker 2: of people are very happy about that.
- 21:43Speaker 5: And why wouldn't you be?
- 21:44Speaker 2: The guy was a maniac who took innocent lives. But
- 21:48Speaker 2: I want to draw your attention to a comment on
- 21:51Speaker 2: Facebook by Desi Freeman's son. He posted on Facebook, I'm
- 21:56Speaker 2: not here to defend my father's actions because I know.
- 21:59Speaker 5: What he did was wrong.
- 22:01Speaker 2: Just bear in mind that to use my father was
- 22:04Speaker 2: a cop killer, but to me, that's still my father
- 22:07Speaker 2: who raised me to be the man I am today.
- 22:10Speaker 2: This is news that I'll be grieving about while some
- 22:13Speaker 2: of you disgusting humans celebrate online for me to watch.
- 22:18Speaker 2: So I guess the question must be asked, are you
- 22:20Speaker 2: a disgusting human being if you celebrate the death of
- 22:25Speaker 2: Desi Freeman. My simple comment to this, Caleb would be,
- 22:29Speaker 2: Desi Freeman's son is angry at the wrong people. Rather
- 22:32Speaker 2: than being angry at the Australian public for being glad
- 22:35Speaker 2: that his dad is dead, he should rightly point his
- 22:38Speaker 2: anger and he's right to be angry at his dad
- 22:41Speaker 2: for the things that his dad did. And if the
- 22:43Speaker 2: family are embarrassed, the family are embarrassed, not because of
- 22:47Speaker 2: the joy. Australians feel that Desi Freeman is no longer
- 22:51Speaker 2: around to kill people. The family's been embarrassed by the dad.
- 22:55Speaker 2: That's where his anger should be directed.
- 22:58Speaker 3: Correct, I mean your father was not is anymore a
- 23:03Speaker 3: stain on humanity, a piece of garbage, and a man
- 23:08Speaker 3: who rather than facing up to the law as all
- 23:13Speaker 3: of us should. If we ever come to that day
- 23:16Speaker 3: and the police had gone there to deal with a
- 23:20Speaker 3: complaint that they had allegedly in relation to historic sex offenses, right,
- 23:27Speaker 3: any of us in that circumstance would deal with the
- 23:29Speaker 3: problem in front of us and use what is available
- 23:33Speaker 3: to us under the justice system, which is that you
- 23:36Speaker 3: are innocent until proven guilty, that you are entitled.
- 23:39Speaker 4: To a trial by jury. You can go through all
- 23:42Speaker 4: of that process.
- 23:42Speaker 3: It may well be that there's not enough evidence and
- 23:44Speaker 3: charges get dropped. It's the same for everybody in this country.
- 23:48Speaker 3: You don't because of whatever warped belief you have about
- 23:51Speaker 3: the sovereignty of this nation and the applicability of the
- 23:56Speaker 3: laws to you, and all this crap that these solve
- 23:59Speaker 3: sit peace.
- 24:00Speaker 4: People go on a sovereign citizens go on about that.
- 24:03Speaker 3: That does not then give you the right to turn
- 24:05Speaker 3: around and murder someone, and it does not give the
- 24:09Speaker 3: son of that man.
- 24:10Speaker 4: And as you say, I understand his anger.
- 24:13Speaker 3: But it's not everyone else's fault that your father was
- 24:17Speaker 3: a piece of crap. And I'm sorry that you no
- 24:21Speaker 3: longer have a father, but I'm not sorry that he's dead,
- 24:26Speaker 3: and I'm not sorry that he's dead in light.
- 24:28Speaker 4: Of what he did.
- 24:29Speaker 3: It's sad that there is someone who doesn't have a dad,
- 24:33Speaker 3: but he doesn't mean that I can't feel happy that
- 24:36Speaker 3: his dad is dead.
- 24:37Speaker 7: I think you're absolutely spot on. I don't care if
- 24:39Speaker 7: you think your father was a good bloke. I don't
- 24:41Speaker 7: think he's a good bloke, and I would say the
- 24:42Speaker 7: majority of Australians of same mind would think the exact
- 24:47Speaker 7: same thing. I mean, this is a man who murdered
- 24:49Speaker 7: two police officers in cold blood. Secondly, he's been on
- 24:52Speaker 7: the run for seven months now and terrorizing the local area.
- 24:56Speaker 7: They feared for their lives because he was armed and dangerous.
- 25:00Speaker 7: And third, as you mentioned, Caleb, he was wanted on
- 25:02Speaker 7: historical child sexual abuse claims. I mean he was wanted
- 25:05Speaker 7: by the child abuse squad. That is why they went
- 25:07Speaker 7: to his house in the first place. So We're not
- 25:10Speaker 7: talking about a great bloke here, We're not talking about
- 25:12Speaker 7: the soul of the earth, a genuine good guy.
- 25:15Speaker 6: So goodbye and good riddance.
- 25:16Speaker 7: And the other point I would make is he thought
- 25:18Speaker 7: he was a sovereign citizen. He thought he was above everybody,
- 25:21Speaker 7: above the law, above any police activity in this country.
- 25:25Speaker 6: No you're not.
- 25:26Speaker 7: He is the scum of the earth. And sorry, again,
- 25:30Speaker 7: I don't have any sympathy for this bloke. So I
- 25:32Speaker 7: don't care if you think your dad was a great
- 25:34Speaker 7: bloke and we're all celebrating, I couldn't care less.
- 25:37Speaker 5: We couldn't give a.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Rats quick question, do you begrudge the family for grieving
- 25:41Speaker 2: the death of Desi Freeman? The son does say of
- 25:43Speaker 2: what my dad did was wrong? Do you begrudge them
- 25:46Speaker 2: for grieving?
- 25:46Speaker 4: There?
- 25:46Speaker 6: Of course they're allowed to grieve their loved ones.
- 25:48Speaker 7: Just at the same time I'm also allowed to say
- 25:50Speaker 7: he was a scum of the earth. And that's just
- 25:51Speaker 7: my opinion on it, and goodbye and good riddance. That
- 25:54Speaker 7: is not what we do as Australians.
- 25:56Speaker 3: And you know, those who are grieving or to be
- 25:58Speaker 3: able to stand the nuance for themselves and the fact
- 26:02Speaker 3: that that nuance does not exist for the rest of us.
- 26:05Speaker 3: I'm sure he might have been your dad, but he
- 26:07Speaker 3: was now dad, and he went and killed innocent people
- 26:11Speaker 3: for that.
- 26:11Speaker 4: Well, you get what you deserve.
- 26:13Speaker 3: While we're talking about violence, Would you believe? Actually, I
- 26:17Speaker 3: shouldn't say would you believe, because you probably will given
- 26:21Speaker 3: the state of the world at the moment.
- 26:22Speaker 4: According to a.
- 26:23Speaker 3: New report, violence against teachers and principles in particular in
- 26:28Speaker 3: Australian schools Catholic and independent schools and government schools since
- 26:34Speaker 3: twenty eleven has gone up by one hundred and fifty percent.
- 26:39Speaker 3: This is by a new report that has been put
- 26:42Speaker 3: together and was in the news Court papers today. They've
- 26:46Speaker 3: looked at the numbers across all the states. They've looked
- 26:48Speaker 3: at what is happening to principles in particular. They are
- 26:53Speaker 3: frightened not only to do their jobs, they're frightened to
- 26:58Speaker 3: leave their officers during pick up and drop off times
- 27:02Speaker 3: because of the danger of some parents. Now there's even
- 27:06Speaker 3: the suggestion that they are frightened for their lives. To
- 27:09Speaker 3: quote the story from the newscot papers today. So the
- 27:13Speaker 3: principles are being punched, kicked, pinned against walls, followed home,
- 27:19Speaker 3: stalked by cars with headlights off, pelted with rocks, having chairs, tables,
- 27:24Speaker 3: and bookshelves thrown at them. They've been threatened with death
- 27:27Speaker 3: and rape and forced to hide in locked rooms. These
- 27:32Speaker 3: are people trying to run schools to educate children, and
- 27:37Speaker 3: this is how they are being treated by some of
- 27:40Speaker 3: the children and by some of the parents.
- 27:43Speaker 4: So I'll run you through some of the numbers.
- 27:45Speaker 3: Eighty two eighty seven, sorry, zero point two percent of
- 27:49Speaker 3: Principles have been exposed to offensive behavior.
- 27:52Speaker 4: Almost all of them. Threats and violence.
- 27:57Speaker 3: Seventy six percent of cases of violence involved a student,
- 28:03Speaker 3: And when it comes to actual violence being perpetrated those cases,
- 28:09Speaker 3: ninety six percent of them involves students. But then, get this,
- 28:14Speaker 3: when the parents come into it, threats to principles, sixty
- 28:18Speaker 3: six percent of threats to principles involve a parent. So
- 28:22Speaker 3: a lot of these are involving, obviously kids and parents.
- 28:25Speaker 3: And physical violence ninety percent of cases of physical violence
- 28:30Speaker 3: against Principles, nearly one in five involves a parent. Now,
- 28:36Speaker 3: it's one thing for students to be going off there
- 28:39Speaker 3: nut at school, what the hell are the parents doing
- 28:43Speaker 3: getting involved in this as well? Sixty six percent of
- 28:47Speaker 3: threats to a principle involve a parent. What sort of
- 28:51Speaker 3: example are you setting for your children? And the man
- 28:55Speaker 3: who wrote this report, Professor Phil Riley, said that the
- 28:59Speaker 3: numbers would suggest that eventually someone is going to die.
- 29:04Speaker 3: The incidents of violence are creeping up, but also the
- 29:08Speaker 3: intensity is as well.
- 29:10Speaker 4: What the hell I mean?
- 29:11Speaker 3: I was reading this, I thought this is just extraordinary.
- 29:14Speaker 3: You expect to hear cases of students being unruly with
- 29:19Speaker 3: their teachers and their principles, and maybe some of them
- 29:22Speaker 3: threaten violence and even commit violence.
- 29:24Speaker 4: But when you're talking.
- 29:25Speaker 3: About the majority of threats to principles involve a parent
- 29:29Speaker 3: and one in five cases of physical violence against a
- 29:32Speaker 3: principle involves a parent, we have serious problems.
- 29:37Speaker 6: We have massive, massive issues.
- 29:40Speaker 7: And I also think a lot of these kids clearly
- 29:42Speaker 7: have serious issues. I mean, if and the other thing
- 29:45Speaker 7: is is parents behind sixty six percent of them, I mean,
- 29:48Speaker 7: you'd have to be absolute nutjobs. And in that instance,
- 29:51Speaker 7: I do feel sorry for the kids because they're growing
- 29:54Speaker 7: up with these people as role models and they're going
- 29:56Speaker 7: to just repeat the exact same cycle. Now, my question
- 29:59Speaker 7: would be if ninety six percent of students were behind
- 30:03Speaker 7: this physical behavior last year.
- 30:05Speaker 6: Where are the consequences?
- 30:06Speaker 7: Was this a case of they've gone to school, but
- 30:08Speaker 7: we're not going to expel them because we're another PC college,
- 30:11Speaker 7: a PC school where No, we'll just give a bit
- 30:13Speaker 7: of rehabilitation. It's about making sure that they can learn.
- 30:17Speaker 7: They have the right to an education. Please, If these
- 30:21Speaker 7: kids are committing physical acts, I mean we're talking kicked,
- 30:24Speaker 7: pinned against the wall, followed home, stalked by cars, then
- 30:27Speaker 7: they should be expelled from the school. Now if they
- 30:30Speaker 7: are actually threatening, if they're making threats and they're actually
- 30:34Speaker 7: conducting this physical violence, then they.
- 30:36Speaker 6: Should be charged.
- 30:37Speaker 7: That they should be charged and face the full force
- 30:40Speaker 7: of the law because they need to learn their lessons.
- 30:43Speaker 5: That was my query about this.
- 30:44Speaker 2: How many of those parents who have acted violently towards
- 30:47Speaker 2: a principle have been up on assault charges. And if
- 30:50Speaker 2: you make a threat against a school staff member, whether
- 30:54Speaker 2: you're a child or a parent, that child should automatically
- 30:57Speaker 2: be expelled from the school. Zero tolerance. That's the only
- 30:59Speaker 2: way you solve this problem. But anyone who's got kids,
- 31:03Speaker 2: whether involved in school or particularly sport, would know this
- 31:06Speaker 2: is a problem everywhere. When Joe and Ben were selected
- 31:10Speaker 2: to play for Townsville in basketball.
- 31:13Speaker 5: All the parents were sat.
- 31:14Speaker 2: Down and read the Riot Act, and I, naively we
- 31:16Speaker 2: was sitting there thinking, who do they think we are? Like,
- 31:19Speaker 2: they were really laying down the law that we had
- 31:22Speaker 2: to behave. But it wasn't that long into the season
- 31:26Speaker 2: that I realized why they needed to do that, because
- 31:28Speaker 2: some parents got pretty upset when their kid didn't get
- 31:31Speaker 2: enough court time.
- 31:32Speaker 5: That's sport. I can't imagine what school is like.
- 31:34Speaker 6: Yeah, extraordinary, isn't it.
- 31:35Speaker 7: Well let's move on now because Moi redeeming has been
- 31:38Speaker 7: vindicated for a second time and let down by the
- 31:41Speaker 7: Liberal Party yet again for a second time.
- 31:44Speaker 6: So now is it time to defect? Now?
- 31:46Speaker 7: You'll know by now that the Liberal Party over the
- 31:48Speaker 7: weekend she lost a pre selection there and the party
- 31:52Speaker 7: chose to go with a man by the name of
- 31:54Speaker 7: Denesh Guruti. Seti good to SETI now. He has since
- 31:59Speaker 7: withdrawn after it emerged that he previously provided character references
- 32:03Speaker 7: to a man facing child sex offense charges.
- 32:06Speaker 6: You can't make this stuff up. Seriously, let me just
- 32:08Speaker 6: read this to you.
- 32:09Speaker 7: He provided the character reference for a friend Kai shap Patel,
- 32:12Speaker 7: who pleaded guilty to child grooming, transmitting in decent communication
- 32:16Speaker 7: to a person under sixteen years one charge of sexual
- 32:18Speaker 7: assault of a child whom he met online. He encouraged
- 32:21Speaker 7: a fifteen year old victim to become a sex worker,
- 32:24Speaker 7: offered to buy her cigarettes and said he would he
- 32:26Speaker 7: wanted to perform vile sexual acts in front of her.
- 32:29Speaker 7: And this lives back to bloke who backed this bloke.
- 32:34Speaker 7: I mean, seriously, this is where we're at. So why
- 32:37Speaker 7: wasn't Moiradeeming chosen? Why wasn't Moira Redeeming selected here? Why
- 32:43Speaker 7: is it because she is a strong conservative woman? Is
- 32:46Speaker 7: it because she knows the difference between a man and
- 32:48Speaker 7: a woman. They've done this to her before with the
- 32:50Speaker 7: John pursuito saga. Fast forward a couple of years, they're
- 32:53Speaker 7: doing this to her again. So where does it leave
- 32:55Speaker 7: Moi Redeeming? Well, it clears the way for her to
- 32:57Speaker 7: retain that number one spot on the ticket that she
- 33:00Speaker 7: could run again as a Liberal at the next Victorian
- 33:02Speaker 7: election later this year, unless she chooses to run for
- 33:05Speaker 7: another party or as an independent.
- 33:08Speaker 6: Now, I think, why would you bother hanging around with
- 33:10Speaker 6: a Liberal party?
- 33:10Speaker 7: The Liberal Party have treated her so poorly and this
- 33:13Speaker 7: woman is such a good politician, such a sharp mind.
- 33:17Speaker 7: Why the heck would she want to stay there? One
- 33:19Speaker 7: nation in the past have already offered her a leaf.
- 33:23Speaker 7: I reckon that she should go.
- 33:24Speaker 5: For it, She'll point out. Denes.
- 33:25Speaker 2: Gurossetti says he didn't realize the extent of the criminal
- 33:29Speaker 2: charges his friend was facing when he wrote that reference.
- 33:32Speaker 2: But I agree with you, Denika. Why would MOI redeeming
- 33:35Speaker 2: hang around that? The question I want to know is
- 33:38Speaker 2: did the Liberal Party officials know that Denesh had provided
- 33:44Speaker 2: this reference. If they didn't know, then their vetting process
- 33:48Speaker 2: is terrible. In fact, they make one nation look quite
- 33:50Speaker 2: good if they did know. But they allowed him to
- 33:53Speaker 2: proceed anyway, only to then pull this card out after
- 33:56Speaker 2: he had won, hoping that that would maybe this more redeeming.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Often she would depart the Liberal Party anyways. That what
- 34:04Speaker 2: this is all about. There's a number of questions as
- 34:06Speaker 2: to how the Liberal Party have found themselves in this predicament,
- 34:09Speaker 2: whether by chance or whether this is some elaborate plot
- 34:13Speaker 2: to try and get rid of more redeeming once and
- 34:15Speaker 2: for all.
- 34:16Speaker 3: I think there is something that counts against that theory.
- 34:19Speaker 3: You know, they say, if it's between conspiracy and cock up.
- 34:23Speaker 3: Nine times out of ten, it's going to be cocked.
- 34:25Speaker 3: Now you've got the Victorian Liberal Party, which I should
- 34:30Speaker 3: not It wasn't the party itself, but of course it
- 34:32Speaker 3: was the stupidity of its former leader that led to
- 34:35Speaker 3: the going after more redeeming, which then meant that the leader,
- 34:40Speaker 3: John Pursudo was done for defamation. There was a problem
- 34:43Speaker 3: that didn't need to exist in the first place. They've
- 34:45Speaker 3: then gone to try to run a coup against Deeming.
- 34:48Speaker 3: It's lasted one day and it's come undone. That is
- 34:52Speaker 3: not the work of great masterminds. That's the work of
- 34:56Speaker 3: absolute imbeciles.
- 34:57Speaker 4: In the Victorian Liberal Party.
- 34:59Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, I'm actually glad she lost
- 35:01Speaker 3: that preselection because I think it'll help blow the Liberal
- 35:04Speaker 3: Party in Victoria up and they needed to have that reckoning.
- 35:08Speaker 3: If that didn't happen, it would have papered over problems
- 35:10Speaker 3: that still exist.
- 35:11Speaker 4: And this was about the closest they could get to.
- 35:13Speaker 3: Actually confronting the problems that the Victorian Liberal Party has.
- 35:18Speaker 5: Then all right, we're going to go to a break.
- 35:20Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll look at what's making headlines tomorrow,
- 35:22Speaker 2: including Andrew hasty in trouble with his leader after he
- 35:26Speaker 2: went freelancing on the ABC regarding tax policy. That's next,
- 35:38Speaker 2: all right, let's take a look at what's making headlines tomorrow. Caleb,
- 35:41Speaker 2: you've got the Herald's son.
- 35:43Speaker 3: There indeed, and of course it is talking about Dezzy Freeman.
- 35:48Speaker 3: It says evil dead Andrew rule ruler rights that Bates
- 35:51Speaker 3: and Lewis police used to hunt down Dezzy no surrender
- 35:55Speaker 3: shock act in fatal shootout.
- 35:57Speaker 4: Fugitive Secret Bush.
- 35:58Speaker 3: Hideout revealed the inside story of how cowardly cop killer
- 36:01Speaker 3: lived and died like a rat on the run got
- 36:05Speaker 3: him is the headline which leads into the front of
- 36:08Speaker 3: The Australian tomorrow, where it talks about those final days.
- 36:11Speaker 3: It's his fugitives final days in a filthy hard out
- 36:15Speaker 3: deep in the bush. He lived in a ramshackle old
- 36:18Speaker 3: bus turned into a home and died holed up in
- 36:20Speaker 3: a converted shipping container in the bush. Dessy Freeman's final
- 36:24Speaker 3: days played out in near identical squalor to filthy makeshift
- 36:28Speaker 3: hard out one hundred and eighty kilometers apart the Tholongong
- 36:31Speaker 3: property where the cop killing self styled sovereign citizen was
- 36:36Speaker 3: shot dead was a chaotic mess, much like the laugh
- 36:39Speaker 3: he had been living during seven months on the run
- 36:41Speaker 3: from the law. Three shipping containers sit at the center
- 36:44Speaker 3: of the isolated block beneath the rolling hills, partially shielded
- 36:47Speaker 3: by loose, sagging awnings, and the thinking until very recently,
- 36:53Speaker 3: certainly publicly anyway, was that he was dead. Now that
- 36:57Speaker 3: the cops very clearly did not give up on this case,
- 37:00Speaker 3: and it is now obvious that they were right to
- 37:03Speaker 3: do so, even though a lot of people thought there's
- 37:05Speaker 3: no way after seven months that he would either be
- 37:08Speaker 3: in the country or alive.
- 37:11Speaker 4: You know, he was either dead and eaten by.
- 37:14Speaker 3: Dogs and stuff that was being suggested, or had somehow
- 37:17Speaker 3: managed to flee the country. He was alive and hiding
- 37:21Speaker 3: this whole time. Now, you'd have to say, on the
- 37:24Speaker 3: face of it, that's a bloody extraordinary effort to manage
- 37:27Speaker 3: to hide yourself away for seven months and not be
- 37:30Speaker 3: detected by the cops after you've shot them.
- 37:33Speaker 4: Because that's a sure way to have the coppers on
- 37:36Speaker 4: your bum.
- 37:37Speaker 3: He managed to hide away for seven months, but he
- 37:40Speaker 3: couldn't keep them away forever.
- 37:41Speaker 2: And you say that an extraordinary effort to have been
- 37:44Speaker 2: able to hide for that long, which means this case
- 37:47Speaker 2: is not quite over yet. As the headline on the
- 37:50Speaker 2: front page of Tomorrow's Australian suggests, police will now turn
- 37:54Speaker 2: their attention to who assisted him to evade capture for
- 37:58Speaker 2: this long.
- 37:58Speaker 6: Yes, so whether that was a possible ability.
- 38:00Speaker 7: But I was also reading earlier the son that we
- 38:02Speaker 7: spoke about before. He gave a quote where he said
- 38:05Speaker 7: that his father was like Rambo and that his father
- 38:08Speaker 7: knew how to go ages without even eating.
- 38:11Speaker 6: I don't know if that's some sort of survival.
- 38:13Speaker 7: Skill that he has learned, but apparently he could just
- 38:16Speaker 7: live off minimal food and.
- 38:18Speaker 3: Knew that land like the back of his hand. Well,
- 38:22Speaker 3: you know, well, whether he was preparing for this moment.
- 38:25Speaker 3: I think he was probably preparing for, you know, I
- 38:28Speaker 3: don't know, some sort of global armageddon or something, but
- 38:31Speaker 3: if anyone.
- 38:32Speaker 4: Was going to know how to do it, it was him.
- 38:33Speaker 4: But his time did come now.
- 38:36Speaker 3: The story on the front of the Oars Tomorrow Taylor
- 38:38Speaker 3: to counsel Hasty. Angus Taylor will formally counsel front bencher
- 38:42Speaker 3: Andrew Hasty after he called for the Liberal Party to
- 38:45Speaker 3: be open minded on new taxes, including clamping down negative
- 38:48Speaker 3: gearing and the capital gains text discount. The Australian understands
- 38:52Speaker 3: mister Hasty will receive a quote gentle remind how.
- 38:56Speaker 5: Gentle is it if it's on the front page.
- 38:58Speaker 3: I know, I know, a quote reminder of the shadow
- 39:02Speaker 3: cabinet process. After he freelanced on policy during a television
- 39:05Speaker 3: interview with the ABC in which he said he was
- 39:08Speaker 3: open to a windfall profits tax on gas, I should
- 39:11Speaker 3: say experts he also would not rule out supporting changes
- 39:15Speaker 3: to negative gearing and the CGT that's capital gains text
- 39:18Speaker 3: discount in a new era where the world order had collapsed.
- 39:23Speaker 3: Mister Hasty on Monday City had not been counseled nor
- 39:26Speaker 3: heard from the opposition leader's office. And you know you
- 39:31Speaker 3: would have seen John O'donnham talking to Shower earlier this
- 39:36Speaker 3: evening about this.
- 39:37Speaker 4: You know the ins and outs of what counseling means,
- 39:41Speaker 4: whether it's.
- 39:42Speaker 3: A friendly tap on the shoulder or you get called
- 39:45Speaker 3: in and read the Ride Act.
- 39:46Speaker 4: Who knows.
- 39:49Speaker 3: There probably is a point though, in when you're on
- 39:52Speaker 3: the front bench and you're part of the cabinet process,
- 39:56Speaker 3: you do kind of have to all be singing from
- 39:57Speaker 3: the same hymn sheet. And perhaps this will become a
- 40:00Speaker 3: problem for Hasty because clearly at some point he would
- 40:05Speaker 3: like to make a play for leadership. Right now is
- 40:08Speaker 3: obviously not that time, but in order to build himself
- 40:13Speaker 3: up and create a different brand, perhaps a bit like
- 40:17Speaker 3: when Barnaby Joyce went off to the back benches after
- 40:20Speaker 3: his leadership ended, and Matt Canavan of course spent a
- 40:23Speaker 3: long time on the back bench building himself up to
- 40:26Speaker 3: the possibility of becoming leader of the Nationals. You have
- 40:29Speaker 3: more freedom on the back bench and maybe he wants
- 40:32Speaker 3: that freedom.
- 40:32Speaker 7: Well, it's not the first time he's gone off and
- 40:34Speaker 7: freelanced and made his own segue and made his own comments.
- 40:37Speaker 7: But I think on this situation, probably not the best
- 40:40Speaker 7: idea to be talking about taxes.
- 40:42Speaker 6: Is it.
- 40:42Speaker 2: It's a little prematureist, and I mean, Angus Taylor only
- 40:45Speaker 2: got the top job a few months ago. Greg agreed
- 40:49Speaker 2: that Hasty is a future leadership contender, but maybe keep
- 40:52Speaker 2: your powder drive for a little while from it.
- 40:54Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree.
- 40:55Speaker 7: Let's take a look at tomorrow's Northern Territory News. The
- 40:58Speaker 7: headline there is excise in fuel tility FEDS cut fuel tax,
- 41:02Speaker 7: but will retailers pass it on The Automobile Association of
- 41:06Speaker 7: the Northern Territory says it will monitor whether the petrol
- 41:09Speaker 7: stations pass on savings to territory customers after the federal
- 41:13Speaker 7: government unveiled plans to slash the fuel excise on petrol
- 41:16Speaker 7: and diesel by twenty six point three cents per later. Well, first,
- 41:20Speaker 7: I mean, thank god the Labor Party finally acted after
- 41:23Speaker 7: weeks of dithering on this.
- 41:25Speaker 6: But that's a good point, though.
- 41:27Speaker 7: Will retailers actually pass on the cuts? I think morally
- 41:31Speaker 7: they should have to. They absolutely should have to. It's
- 41:34Speaker 7: almost like a directive has come. And if they aren't
- 41:37Speaker 7: going to pass on the fuel cuts, well you would
- 41:39Speaker 7: just bypass their service station.
- 41:40Speaker 6: And go down the road and pick the next one,
- 41:42Speaker 6: wouldn't you.
- 41:43Speaker 2: We haven't needed to fill our car up with fuel
- 41:45Speaker 2: for a while. I filled it up the other day.
- 41:47Speaker 4: I could not.
- 41:48Speaker 5: Believe how fast it all assign. It was ticking over.
- 41:50Speaker 5: It was unbelievable.
- 41:51Speaker 4: Don't know.
- 41:52Speaker 3: But of course they should pass it on them. And
- 41:53Speaker 3: that's the point of the text cut, right. If it
- 41:55Speaker 3: doesn't flow thro flow through at the bowser, they should
- 41:58Speaker 3: be off to the agrip.
- 41:59Speaker 4: We'll see you.
- 42:00Speaker 3: Media's doing something about it, because that is that is
- 42:02Speaker 3: not on. That is just pure profiteering if it doesn't
- 42:05Speaker 3: get pasted all right.
- 42:06Speaker 2: The front page of Tomorrow's Tasmania mercury fuel charge to
- 42:10Speaker 2: hit Spirit passengers New Spirit of Tasmania passenger bookings from today,
- 42:15Speaker 2: that is Tuesday will be slogged with a fifteen percent
- 42:19Speaker 2: surcharge to cover the price of increasing fuel costs, despite
- 42:23Speaker 2: the federal government announcing they would slash the fuel excise
- 42:26Speaker 2: in half to see pressure eased at the bowser. This
- 42:28Speaker 2: does not include marine diesel. The surcharge means a couple
- 42:33Speaker 2: in a porthole cabin with one car and caravan totaling
- 42:37Speaker 2: three meters would see their thirteen three meter caravan.
- 42:43Speaker 4: That's a pretty small carriage.
- 42:45Speaker 2: Sorry, I continue thirteen meter care and would see their
- 42:48Speaker 2: fair jump and added two hundred and twenty eight dollars.
- 42:51Speaker 2: As someone wrote in the comment section, can't afford to
- 42:53Speaker 2: live in Tasmania, can't afford to leave?
- 42:55Speaker 6: No, But but should a public transport be free?
- 42:57Speaker 7: Remember in Tasmania, weren't we just discussing that little bit
- 43:00Speaker 7: earlier on.
- 43:01Speaker 3: This is a private company, it's not public transport.
- 43:04Speaker 7: Together out of I'm still I'm being facetious, but again
- 43:09Speaker 7: it shows what all of this means.
- 43:12Speaker 3: And this is just an example of you'll be made
- 43:14Speaker 3: to pay more for your fear if you want to
- 43:17Speaker 3: get on the ferry.
- 43:18Speaker 4: But I'm wondering how long.
- 43:19Speaker 3: It'll take before Uber starts factoring this into the affairs.
- 43:23Speaker 3: We've seen taxi councils calling for a change in their
- 43:27Speaker 3: fair structures because of course their overheads.
- 43:30Speaker 4: Are going up.
- 43:31Speaker 3: You know, putting a truck on the road now costs
- 43:34Speaker 3: a hell of a lot more, and that's transporting all
- 43:36Speaker 3: the goods that you buy in the supermarket as in Aside.
- 43:39Speaker 4: I said, I was in Melbourne over the weekend.
- 43:43Speaker 3: Someone told me I was at an event. Someone told
- 43:46Speaker 3: me that someone else who was there had driven from
- 43:49Speaker 3: Adelaide to Melbourne. It was going to cost him a
- 43:51Speaker 3: thousand dollars in diesel to get home.
- 43:54Speaker 4: Wow, a thousand dollars. That is insane. I mean it
- 43:58Speaker 4: would be cheap at a fly. It's just ridiculous.
- 44:02Speaker 3: So you can't tell me that those costs are not
- 44:04Speaker 3: going to be passed on to us the consumer somewhere
- 44:07Speaker 3: at some point.
- 44:07Speaker 2: What's interesting is whether the take the ferry example, whether
- 44:11Speaker 2: those charges will come back down again when the fuel
- 44:13Speaker 2: crisis it's over, or whether somehow it will just all
- 44:17Speaker 2: be forgotten and there it'll be. Eric Abetts is on
- 44:20Speaker 2: the front page of tomorrow's Mercury as well taxpayers foot
- 44:22Speaker 2: bill for Treasurer's office referb Eric's three hundred and fifty
- 44:26Speaker 2: thousand dollars spruce. He is referbing his office documents laying
- 44:32Speaker 2: bare an explosion in refurbishment and fit out costs for
- 44:36Speaker 2: the MP's facility since the House of Assembly was expanded
- 44:39Speaker 2: two years ago. What's funny is I found an article
- 44:43Speaker 2: from November last year where Eric Abetts was putting together
- 44:47Speaker 2: Tasmania's budget and it said that he was looking to
- 44:52Speaker 2: slash the cost of government office upgrades.
- 44:55Speaker 5: Well that was November last year, so.
- 45:00Speaker 6: That's a lot of money. What sort of a refurbishment
- 45:02Speaker 6: is this. It must be on a grand scale.
- 45:05Speaker 2: Nothing more the Greens meeting room in the Federal We're
- 45:09Speaker 2: going to go to a break when we come back.
- 45:11Speaker 2: A New South Wales man caught stealing petrol from a truck.
- 45:15Speaker 2: Wait until you hear what police did when they caught him.
- 45:18Speaker 5: That's next. Well, welcome back to the program, Danikan.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Nigel Farage loves football, but does football love Nigel faras well?
- 45:28Speaker 6: It's a wonderful question. Yes.
- 45:29Speaker 7: The wet rag of a chairman of UK football club
- 45:32Speaker 7: Ipswich Town.
- 45:33Speaker 6: Has issued a groveling apology.
- 45:35Speaker 7: To fans after would you believe Nigel Farage visited the
- 45:39Speaker 7: stadium the local championship area there he went on a
- 45:42Speaker 7: tour of the stadium because he's actually a fan, and
- 45:45Speaker 7: he also went into the dressing rooms where he tried
- 45:47Speaker 7: on a T shirt saying Farage number ten held it up. Oh,
- 45:50Speaker 7: but for goodness sake, fans of the football club, they're
- 45:53Speaker 7: up in arms, they say, how could you possibly have
- 45:55Speaker 7: hosted Nigel Farage there?
- 45:58Speaker 6: Why? Because of course he's a racist?
- 46:00Speaker 7: If you ask the left, their favorite their favorite saying
- 46:04Speaker 7: and here was the chairman have to listen to this.
- 46:07Speaker 9: But this has been a very difficult week for all
- 46:10Speaker 9: of us. The staff are hurting, elements of the fan
- 46:14Speaker 9: base are hurting, and so are elements of our local community.
- 46:19Speaker 9: And that upsets me immensely and for that, unreservedly I
- 46:23Speaker 9: want to apologize and say I'm sorry.
- 46:26Speaker 6: God, who the heck bent you over for that one.
- 46:28Speaker 7: I mean, seriously, what an absolute wet rag of a chairman.
- 46:32Speaker 7: I mean, Nigel Farage was there for the local elections.
- 46:36Speaker 7: He was touring the facilities as you do when you're
- 46:39Speaker 7: a politician. You go to these local areas, you take photos,
- 46:42Speaker 7: you end up in the paper.
- 46:43Speaker 6: That's what you do for publicity.
- 46:45Speaker 7: And apparently some left wing fans got upsets so the
- 46:48Speaker 7: chairman thought, oh, better grovel.
- 46:50Speaker 5: It's all of that because he put on the jersey and.
- 46:53Speaker 6: We're on a stadium.
- 46:54Speaker 3: To us, you'd say he's the chairman. I think there's
- 46:57Speaker 3: a specific kind of chair that he's.
- 47:00Speaker 4: He's chair, is what he.
- 47:02Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, what are they going to do when
- 47:05Speaker 3: he becomes prime minister?
- 47:06Speaker 4: I know they're Joint's going to melt down, isn't it?
- 47:09Speaker 3: And g won't it be delicious to watch? Now we've
- 47:11Speaker 3: been talking about the fuel crisis. Of course tonight we
- 47:14Speaker 3: talked was it last week there was the story about
- 47:17Speaker 3: all these people for the first time were stealing fuel,
- 47:19Speaker 3: to the point where the police in South Australia are
- 47:22Speaker 3: now saying they just can't deal with all the complaints
- 47:25Speaker 3: and you've got to do something about it.
- 47:26Speaker 4: Yourself to the servos.
- 47:27Speaker 3: Well, how about this chap who thirty could knock off
- 47:31Speaker 3: fifteen hundred bucks worth of fuel by siphoning it out
- 47:34Speaker 3: of a park track, except he came a cropper.
- 47:38Speaker 10: We have spoken to the owner of this truck here
- 47:41Speaker 10: tonight who says it was around fifteen hundred dollars worth
- 47:45Speaker 10: of fuel that was allegedly stolen, but the Catches police
- 47:49Speaker 10: made him siphon it back in before he drove off.
- 47:55Speaker 4: How good is that on the act.
- 47:57Speaker 3: I've got all this free, phil and I sorry mate
- 48:00Speaker 3: to put it all back.
- 48:02Speaker 2: That would have left a bad taste in his mouth. I imagine,
- 48:05Speaker 2: all right, mayhem in a US court after a civil
- 48:08Speaker 2: rights lawyer was arrested in court for contempt. Now the lawyer,
- 48:13Speaker 2: I must point out, Rob Hopkins, is a woman who
- 48:16Speaker 2: identifies as a man.
- 48:17Speaker 5: Have a look, you.
- 48:19Speaker 6: Interrupt me one more time?
- 48:20Speaker 11: You are being held in indirect contempt of court.
- 48:24Speaker 6: Answer like that smirk.
- 48:25Speaker 11: I don't have a s oh yes, maybe because I'm
- 48:29Speaker 11: trenched into attorney practicing all over this state. I don't
- 48:31Speaker 11: know what you do, ma'am. It's not that you do.
- 48:42Speaker 6: All right, we're gonna pick you up. I don't.
- 48:51Speaker 2: So he was a man until he was handcuffed, and
- 48:53Speaker 2: then he wanted a female.
- 48:55Speaker 6: I made seriously the left. The left.
- 48:58Speaker 2: I like the fact he screamed fifty times can't breathe,
- 49:00Speaker 2: I can't breathe, which would rather be proof that you
- 49:02Speaker 2: can breathe.
- 49:03Speaker 3: You can breathe, and also maybe you've got other problems.
- 49:05Speaker 3: It's not that you're transgender.
- 49:06Speaker 2: Indeed, that's it from us. Stick around, coming up to
- 49:09Speaker 2: read a Penehy show good Night,