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- 0:02Speaker 1: Well wait de bait.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Well, good evening and thanks for joining us on the
- 0:08Speaker 2: Late Debate. I'm James MacPerson with Caleb Bond and Danika
- 0:11Speaker 2: to Georgio, and.
- 0:12Speaker 1: It's nice to be back with you guys.
- 0:14Speaker 2: After spending a few days in LUSA, where I think
- 0:16Speaker 2: I met pretty much every Late Debate viewer. Every second
- 0:19Speaker 2: person I talked to on Hastings Street was a late
- 0:22Speaker 2: Debate fan.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Be so famous, James, You're just you are the famous
- 0:27Speaker 3: man on the set.
- 0:28Speaker 2: I wish it were true, Danika, but you and I
- 0:30Speaker 2: both know that they were all talking about Caleb Bond.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Oh, I see really that young Oh he's so smart.
- 0:38Speaker 3: I've been telling Caleb is smart for a long time.
- 0:40Speaker 3: I've been saying that to your face. You don't need,
- 0:42Speaker 3: you know, our wonderful viewers to tell you.
- 0:43Speaker 4: No, No, I'm just worried all this smoke you keep
- 0:46Speaker 4: blowing up my rear. End Denika day I return, Well
- 0:51Speaker 4: go a little bit of gentle bullying, I think, is
- 0:54Speaker 4: you know we're just well deserved in a good friendship.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Is it not fun?
- 0:58Speaker 6: I thought you push the friendship?
- 1:00Speaker 4: Ah, here we go. Well we can discuss this in
- 1:03Speaker 4: the room with a.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Chat yea, I think we should start the show before
- 1:06Speaker 2: we get ourselves into trouble.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Here's what's coming up tonight.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Forget throwing a shrimp on the barbie, Paul Hogan has
- 1:11Speaker 2: thrown one nation into the fire, describing Pauline Hanson as
- 1:15Speaker 2: a Pelican and a racist.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Victorian.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Premier just Into Allen is about to learn that ideology
- 1:21Speaker 2: has consequences. Employers are threatening to hire interstate contractors in
- 1:26Speaker 2: order to circumvent the state government's controversial work from home laws,
- 1:30Speaker 2: and almost twenty thousand foreign criminals are living free in
- 1:33Speaker 2: the United Kingdom, having twisted human rights law to prevent deportation.
- 1:38Speaker 2: And wait until you hear some of the insane reasons
- 1:40Speaker 2: these convicted criminals have been allowed to remain in the UK.
- 1:44Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that shortly, but first, here's
- 1:46Speaker 2: a question for you. Is being a smart ass at
- 1:49Speaker 2: work a sackable offense? The Fair Work Commission says no,
- 1:53Speaker 2: it's not. They're found in favor of a Sydney worker
- 1:56Speaker 2: who'd been sacked for what it described as smart our
- 2:00Speaker 2: comments to his boss. Amazon employee Colin Petrie had taken
- 2:04Speaker 2: exception to a lengthy message posted by his boss on
- 2:07Speaker 2: a STA forum. In a message exchange, he snapped at
- 2:11Speaker 2: his boss to put your pen down during exchange about
- 2:15Speaker 2: work orders at the Amazon Center. Relax, it seems like
- 2:18Speaker 2: you just got your pen license, he said to his boss.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Not at all, just trying to be completely transparent and
- 2:24Speaker 2: avoid any misunderstanding. Mate, The boss replied, communication is the key,
- 2:30Speaker 2: and in response to that, mister Petrie said, okay, now,
- 2:33Speaker 2: pen down.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Mister Petrie was later sacked.
- 2:36Speaker 2: The Fair Work Commission agreed that mister Petrie was unprofessional
- 2:39Speaker 2: and quote unquote a smart ass, but said sacking him
- 2:43Speaker 2: was an overreaction. So, Caleb Bond, not that you know
- 2:47Speaker 2: much about smart arsery, but is this a good decision
- 2:51Speaker 2: by the Fair Work Commission or is smart arsery a
- 2:54Speaker 2: sackable offense?
- 2:55Speaker 4: No, I think that was a fair enough decision to
- 2:57Speaker 4: be perfectly honest.
- 2:58Speaker 5: Imagine being so.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Precious as a boss that you decided someone needed to
- 3:03Speaker 4: go because they cracked a joke about your long emails.
- 3:08Speaker 4: Of all the things you have to worry about as
- 3:10Speaker 4: a boss, I think that's pretty low on the rung.
- 3:13Speaker 4: One of the things you have to accept when you
- 3:16Speaker 4: are in a management position is that some of the
- 3:19Speaker 4: people working for you won't particularly like you, and some
- 3:22Speaker 4: of them will be more vocal about that than others.
- 3:25Speaker 5: But that's just part of the territory.
- 3:27Speaker 4: And I think it's rather precious to then turn around,
- 3:30Speaker 4: as this particular boss apparently did, or so Amazon was
- 3:34Speaker 4: saying anyway and saying that, you know, he felt harassed
- 3:37Speaker 4: and bullied. But I mean, come on, if that's going
- 3:40Speaker 4: to be the threshold for harassment and bullying, then we
- 3:44Speaker 4: have a problem. And the FAIRWEK Commission indeed noted that
- 3:48Speaker 4: if you looked at the chat logs in the group
- 3:51Speaker 4: chat where this stuff was going on, you know, they
- 3:53Speaker 4: were swearing all the time. They were making leud comments
- 3:57Speaker 4: about to food delivery drivers, you know, making jokes about
- 4:01Speaker 4: machinery breaking down, and like it was generally a place
- 4:06Speaker 4: where they had a bit of fun. So the guy
- 4:08Speaker 4: has a bit of fun and they sack him for it.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Suck it up, boss, is what I'd say.
- 4:13Speaker 6: Yeah, but where's the respect, Caleb.
- 4:16Speaker 3: I don't think it is appropriate to tell your boss
- 4:18Speaker 3: to relax and put your pen down. Why do you
- 4:22Speaker 3: need to say that to your boss? Then this bloke
- 4:25Speaker 3: was apparently complaining about his workload, Well if you've got
- 4:29Speaker 3: a problem with your workload, you've got a problem with the.
- 4:31Speaker 6: Way things are done.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Firstly, don't put it in a company wide system like
- 4:36Speaker 3: Slack or Microsoft Teams or any of those systems to
- 4:39Speaker 3: the effect. Go directly to your boss, to your employer,
- 4:43Speaker 3: sit down and have that conversation. Don't go gossiping on
- 4:46Speaker 3: a workplace like that. I think it is entirely I
- 4:49Speaker 3: don't think it's a sackable offense, but I do think
- 4:52Speaker 3: that it was completely rude to tell his own boss
- 4:54Speaker 3: to relax. I just think that that crosses so many,
- 4:58Speaker 3: so many lines.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Both with you, but I think, according to this report,
- 5:02Speaker 2: the company created a culture where that was entirely likely
- 5:06Speaker 2: to happen. As the judge noted, you said, Caleb that
- 5:08Speaker 2: on this internal communication platform there were lude jokes, there
- 5:13Speaker 2: were constant swearing, offhanded messages, and so the work commission found,
- 5:17Speaker 2: mister Petrice comment can't be divorced from the realities of
- 5:20Speaker 2: this particular workplace if you're going to permit, and clearly
- 5:24Speaker 2: they had ludes, swearing offhanded remarks on this conversation platform.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Can you then go on sack a guy for just
- 5:32Speaker 2: continuing in the vein that you have permitted well staff
- 5:35Speaker 2: to speak.
- 5:36Speaker 3: It just makes me wonder were there more issues behind
- 5:39Speaker 3: the scenes, because I do agree in that I don't
- 5:41Speaker 3: think it's a sackable offense. But in my view, this
- 5:44Speaker 3: individual seems like a complete pain in the backside. To
- 5:47Speaker 3: be honest, if you're going again, if you're telling, if
- 5:50Speaker 3: you're being disrespectful to your employer, you are a nightmare
- 5:53Speaker 3: of a staff member in my view. So I just
- 5:55Speaker 3: wonder had there been other things that were building up
- 5:57Speaker 3: behind the scenes, you know, for them to say We've
- 6:01Speaker 3: got to get rid of this bloke. This was the
- 6:03Speaker 3: final straw. This was the straw that broke the camel's back.
- 6:06Speaker 3: And the other issue is I also have a problem
- 6:08Speaker 3: with the Fair Work Commission intervening in a lot of
- 6:10Speaker 3: these cases. And I understand that this is what the
- 6:12Speaker 3: Fair Work Commission is for, but for goodness sake, it
- 6:14Speaker 3: does make some bloody off decisions, the work from home
- 6:17Speaker 3: decisions that it's made.
- 6:19Speaker 6: I just I don't agree with a lot.
- 6:21Speaker 3: Of the Fair Work Commission, this bureaucracy that dictates what
- 6:24Speaker 3: you should be doing and what you shouldn't be doing.
- 6:26Speaker 4: But if there had been other issues Amazon had the
- 6:28Speaker 4: opportunity to bring that up in the case, and well
- 6:31Speaker 4: they lost the case. So I think we've got the
- 6:32Speaker 4: answer to that one. I just don't understand why you
- 6:36Speaker 4: would be so precious as to take greater fence to
- 6:40Speaker 4: a joke about the fact that you seen a really
- 6:43Speaker 4: long message. I mean, you know, part of what we
- 6:46Speaker 4: do in Australia, in particular, we used to anyway in
- 6:50Speaker 4: our Alarican nature was to be able to take the
- 6:52Speaker 4: mickey out of each other. And if you've created a
- 6:55Speaker 4: workplace where as the Fair Work Commission notes, you have everyone,
- 6:59Speaker 4: including bosses clearly because they were doing all of this
- 7:03Speaker 4: inner space where the bosses could read it and they
- 7:06Speaker 4: weren't being punished on a wide scale, you created a
- 7:09Speaker 4: culture that says, this is a place where we can
- 7:11Speaker 4: have a bit of fun and we can take the
- 7:13Speaker 4: mickey out of each other. But then all of a
- 7:15Speaker 4: sudden you say, oh no, but but not the boss,
- 7:17Speaker 4: not the boss, not the boss.
- 7:19Speaker 3: That's fair enough. Sure, but that's fair enough. You can
- 7:21Speaker 3: have a fun culture in your workplace. I don't have
- 7:23Speaker 3: a problem with that, but I do have a problem
- 7:25Speaker 3: that when you take it too far and then you say,
- 7:28Speaker 3: and I do agree.
- 7:29Speaker 6: No, not your boss. That's fine.
- 7:31Speaker 3: I'm happy to have you off a little fun laugh
- 7:34Speaker 3: with an employer that doesn't bother me. But I do
- 7:36Speaker 3: think it takes it too far when it crosses that
- 7:39Speaker 3: line where you become rude.
- 7:40Speaker 2: I agree with you, but I think the problem, as
- 7:42Speaker 2: I said, is the company created a situation where it
- 7:45Speaker 2: wasn't clear where the line was, and then this guy
- 7:48Speaker 2: seems surprised that all of a sudden the line has
- 7:50Speaker 2: been drawn.
- 7:51Speaker 1: I agree with you.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I wouldn't want a staff remember talking to me like that. Okay,
- 7:54Speaker 2: if I'm paying the wages, then you'll treat me with respect,
- 7:57Speaker 2: and if you don't, I reserve the right to go
- 7:59Speaker 2: and find someone who doesn't slag off at me in
- 8:01Speaker 2: front of everybody else at work. However, like I said,
- 8:05Speaker 2: they created the culture, and.
- 8:07Speaker 4: Then you get it right, and then they get it.
- 8:09Speaker 4: You set the ground rules from the start. Clearly that
- 8:12Speaker 4: didn't happen, so I don't blame the bloke for having
- 8:14Speaker 4: a bit of fun. To be perfectly honest, I'll tell
- 8:17Speaker 4: you who else has been having a go with someone
- 8:19Speaker 4: that's Paul Hogan. Now you might recall after Paul en
- 8:23Speaker 4: Hanson's speech at the National Press Club where she talked
- 8:26Speaker 4: about monoculture that she was roundly attacked for this, and
- 8:30Speaker 4: you know there was all sorts of stuff like the
- 8:32Speaker 4: soccer US. They wouldn't exist and wouldn't be winning matches
- 8:35Speaker 4: at the World Cup if it were for this monoculture
- 8:38Speaker 4: that Pauline Hansen wanted. So she gave a speech in
- 8:41Speaker 4: the Senate basically saying, pipe down, people, that's not what
- 8:45Speaker 4: I'm talking about.
- 8:46Speaker 5: What I'm talking about is shared values.
- 8:49Speaker 4: I want to get back to the Australia of Norman
- 8:51Speaker 4: Gunston and Paul Hogan.
- 8:54Speaker 7: Accepting a strands means accepting our culture and the valuous
- 8:57Speaker 7: customs and traditions which define us, a fair go tolerance,
- 9:01Speaker 7: secular democracy, freedom of speech and religion, and the rule
- 9:04Speaker 7: of law. It means accepting our irreverance and Alarcanism. Bring
- 9:09Speaker 7: back Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston.
- 9:12Speaker 4: Well, Paul Hogan doesn't want to be brought back, it
- 9:15Speaker 4: would seem which I suppose makes sense because he's been
- 9:17Speaker 4: living in the US for decades now, but he's decided
- 9:21Speaker 4: to have a go to Ms Hanson because the AFR
- 9:24Speaker 4: has wrung him up and said mister Hogan, what do
- 9:27Speaker 4: you make of these comments from miss Hanson? And he said,
- 9:30Speaker 4: I've always had a very simple rule, what makes a
- 9:33Speaker 4: good Australian is wanting to be one.
- 9:36Speaker 5: She's a Pelican. Yeah, outrageous, so racist.
- 9:39Speaker 4: It sounds very much like this stupid bullfeaed over here Trump.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Hogan. I'll take you up on the
- 9:47Speaker 4: first point, which is that what makes a good Australian
- 9:50Speaker 4: is wanting to be one, as though the only thing
- 9:54Speaker 4: that qualifies you or can make you Australian is just saying, ah, well,
- 9:58Speaker 4: you know, I wouldn't mind becoming as citizen of the joint.
- 10:01Speaker 4: We do expect a little more of you to actually
- 10:04Speaker 4: be an Australian. There are people who may well want
- 10:08Speaker 4: to be Australian because it affords them access to all
- 10:11Speaker 4: sorts of rights and welfare and various other opportunities that
- 10:16Speaker 4: they wouldn't get wherever they come from elsewhere in the world.
- 10:20Speaker 4: But it doesn't mean that they particularly particularly subscribe to
- 10:23Speaker 4: the values of Australia, or that they believe in the
- 10:27Speaker 4: value of the country. More broadly, they just want to
- 10:30Speaker 4: have access to what we have over here. I'd say
- 10:32Speaker 4: those people are not Australian and they should never be
- 10:35Speaker 4: considered Australian. Simply putting your hand up and saying I'd
- 10:39Speaker 4: like to be Australian doesn't make you an Australian.
- 10:43Speaker 5: I mean, if you get to that.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Point, it literally means anyone could be an Australian. I
- 10:48Speaker 4: don't think you can really have the basis of a
- 10:49Speaker 4: country where anyone can be Australian. And I suppose the
- 10:54Speaker 4: second point is Paul Enhanson I think to a degree
- 10:58Speaker 4: invited this. She made comments about Paul Hogan. Paul Hogan
- 11:03Speaker 4: has the right to hit back, but I don't think
- 11:06Speaker 4: Pauline Hanson's going to be sweating too much about it.
- 11:09Speaker 6: Shell.
- 11:10Speaker 4: As I said earlier tonight on Sharry, you know she'll
- 11:13Speaker 4: turn this around and use it for a bit as
- 11:14Speaker 4: social media content and say, you know, the cultural elites
- 11:17Speaker 4: don't like me, which is why they're.
- 11:19Speaker 5: After you as well. YadA, YadA, YadA.
- 11:21Speaker 4: You know, on your Paul, if you really were so
- 11:24Speaker 4: concerned about being an Australian, you'd probably still live here.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Well, Paul Hogan's no Dave Hughes is he He's not
- 11:31Speaker 2: prepared to put his lot in with those who want
- 11:35Speaker 2: Australia back from the multicultural mishmash it's become. As Caleb said,
- 11:40Speaker 2: it was entirely predictable that a journalist hearing Pauline Hanson's
- 11:43Speaker 2: comments would find Paul Hogan's.
- 11:45Speaker 1: Number and ring him and say what do you think?
- 11:47Speaker 2: And we really surprised that someone who's made their living
- 11:50Speaker 2: in Hollywood is not that keen to be associated with
- 11:53Speaker 2: Pauline Hansen. The surprise would be the news headline would
- 11:56Speaker 2: be if Paul Hogan agreed with Pauline Hansen, that he
- 11:59Speaker 2: disagree and calls who are racist? Is really hardly news.
- 12:03Speaker 2: My thing with this is Paul Hogan's been living in
- 12:05Speaker 2: the US in a mansion for the past thirty years,
- 12:09Speaker 2: so I even wonder if his memory of Australia and
- 12:12Speaker 2: what it's like now would be accurate.
- 12:14Speaker 6: That was what I was going to say too.
- 12:15Speaker 3: I Paul Hogan is so out of the Australian political loop.
- 12:19Speaker 6: If clearly, if he's.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Been out of the country now for thirty years, he
- 12:23Speaker 3: doesn't understand nor grasp why Paul Enhance It is actually
- 12:27Speaker 3: doing well in Australia because the face of Australia has
- 12:31Speaker 3: changed so much in the last three decades, and I
- 12:34Speaker 3: would argue, especially since Bondi even more so so Paul
- 12:38Speaker 3: Hogan has no idea, no understanding about why voters are abandoning,
- 12:43Speaker 3: say the Conservative Party like the Liberal Party to go
- 12:46Speaker 3: to one nation, because there are a number of voters
- 12:48Speaker 3: who are so disenfranchised by the major parties. So I
- 12:51Speaker 3: think that he should, maybe, you know, get with the
- 12:53Speaker 3: program if he's going to try and com mention Australian politics.
- 12:56Speaker 3: But if I was Paul Hogan, I would actually take
- 12:58Speaker 3: it as a compliment that he was mentioned in an
- 13:01Speaker 3: Australian Parliament by Pauline Hanson, because that, to me suggests
- 13:04Speaker 3: that the character of Mick Dundee still resonates all these
- 13:07Speaker 3: days later, and Mick Dundee was that dinky die ossie bloke,
- 13:11Speaker 3: the guy that you can relate to, just that fair
- 13:14Speaker 3: dinkum type of character.
- 13:16Speaker 6: Take it as a compliment, Paul Hogan.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Here's the irony, right, There are a number of scenes
- 13:21Speaker 2: from those movies that we could not show tonight exactly
- 13:25Speaker 2: because we'd get all sorts of complaints. That's it, And
- 13:28Speaker 2: I'm sure we would not be allowed to show them
- 13:30Speaker 2: because we've upset too many people. Australia has changed, and
- 13:34Speaker 2: he should know that by virtue of the fact much
- 13:36Speaker 2: of his movie catalog and certainly the Paul Hogan Show. Yeah,
- 13:40Speaker 2: Delvin Delaney, I mean, you're smiling in love because I
- 13:44Speaker 2: was by today's standds so appropriate.
- 13:48Speaker 5: I want to know what Strop has to say about it.
- 13:50Speaker 6: We're stopping all this.
- 13:51Speaker 3: But the thing is is that a lot of stuff
- 13:53Speaker 3: that Paul Hogan, who he's made a career and profited off,
- 13:57Speaker 3: would be offensive and maybe in some instance is considered racist.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Imagine what say about Paul Hogan watching all of.
- 14:05Speaker 6: That stuff, absolutely exactly.
- 14:08Speaker 3: So you know, look, Paul, if you're in the US,
- 14:11Speaker 3: just just stick to being in the US. So he
- 14:13Speaker 3: does call Trump a buffhead I noticed.
- 14:15Speaker 2: In that in that particular article, Yeah, which is kind
- 14:18Speaker 2: of kind of telling right as to where his political
- 14:20Speaker 2: He doesn't comment too much on politics or or the
- 14:23Speaker 2: culture wars, but that comment that you know, Trump's a
- 14:26Speaker 2: buff ed just another book Faed does sort.
- 14:29Speaker 3: Of stand up for Australia, stand up for ye, stand
- 14:32Speaker 3: up for Australia.
- 14:34Speaker 4: Australia says, shrimp anyway, do we put another shrimp on the.
- 14:37Speaker 5: Barbie, we do what sorry, do you say shrimp?
- 14:42Speaker 6: I think it's like a funny term, shrimp on the barbie.
- 14:45Speaker 5: Only because of the line from the advertisement.
- 14:48Speaker 6: It's like a funny word. Yeah, yeah, but sometimes I'll
- 14:52Speaker 6: trot it out.
- 14:52Speaker 5: That's a big deal ironically or not?
- 14:55Speaker 4: Would you go down to the supermarket or the you know,
- 14:58Speaker 4: the fish markets, but like from.
- 14:59Speaker 6: Having to Barbie trot it out?
- 15:01Speaker 5: Can I buy five shrimp? Please?
- 15:04Speaker 6: No, I wouldn't say that. I was talking at home Caleb, like, you.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Know, put a shrimp ironically because of shrimp on the barbie.
- 15:10Speaker 6: But I don't think it's a big deal.
- 15:12Speaker 5: No, I'm just saying the word shrimp is not an
- 15:14Speaker 5: Australian term, is it.
- 15:16Speaker 6: Well, you know it doesn't matter, doesn't This is funny, I.
- 15:18Speaker 1: Tell you what. This conversation went well.
- 15:23Speaker 5: Through anything.
- 15:24Speaker 4: I don't know when Cale Hogan's put a shrimp on,
- 15:26Speaker 4: put another shrimp on the barbie.
- 15:27Speaker 3: Ok, it's offended Caleb, the term shrimps. Caleb's offended tonight,
- 15:32Speaker 3: just like Paul Hogan.
- 15:33Speaker 6: I know Caleb is offended by the term. I know.
- 15:35Speaker 5: It was just an incredible.
- 15:36Speaker 6: Turn of events this evening.
- 15:38Speaker 3: Ladies and George is an incredible turn of events. Let's
- 15:41Speaker 3: turn now to something else and.
- 15:43Speaker 6: Get this conversation back on track.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Victorian businesses, look, they've been obviously under enormous pressure since
- 15:51Speaker 3: the COVID days and many are still going broken, have
- 15:54Speaker 3: not recovered since. But just said to Alan just seems
- 15:56Speaker 3: to be just so hell bent on making their lives
- 15:58Speaker 3: even tough. And you may have heard the news that
- 16:01Speaker 3: she's trying to enforce work from home mandates, meaning that
- 16:04Speaker 3: our employees can work from home two days a week.
- 16:08Speaker 3: Should that be passed, that would come into effect from September.
- 16:10Speaker 6: First this year.
- 16:13Speaker 3: But now the situation is so dire that employers are
- 16:16Speaker 3: being forced to take matters into their own hands. Almost
- 16:19Speaker 3: half of local businesses are now preparing to send workers
- 16:23Speaker 3: offshore or even swap permanent staff for contractors because of
- 16:27Speaker 3: this decision. The Herald Son says about two in five
- 16:31Speaker 3: of Victorian businesses will increase offshore hiring if the flexibility
- 16:36Speaker 3: mandate is enforced. New research by global payroll firm Remote
- 16:40Speaker 3: reveals it also found another thirty six percent say they
- 16:43Speaker 3: will shift future hiring to other Australian states one nearly half,
- 16:47Speaker 3: so forty seven percent plan to dump permanent jobs in
- 16:51Speaker 3: favor of contractors to reduce their regulatory complexity. So businesses
- 16:56Speaker 3: are now being forced to outsource.
- 16:59Speaker 6: Do you blame them? No, I don't. But that in
- 17:02Speaker 6: turn impacts the Victorian.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Economy of course, and again I'm not blaming businesses for this.
- 17:06Speaker 3: This is all on just sin to allen, But that
- 17:08Speaker 3: does have a flow on effect.
- 17:11Speaker 6: Businesses should choose. They have the right to decide whether.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Or not that they impose work from home mandates, and
- 17:17Speaker 3: it should be a decision made from the boss and
- 17:20Speaker 3: their staffer. No wonder, there are a record number of
- 17:23Speaker 3: insolvencies across this country. And honestly, why on earth would
- 17:26Speaker 3: you want to do business in this country right now?
- 17:28Speaker 3: When you've got states going freelancing, these work from home mandates,
- 17:31Speaker 3: you've got ir laws, you've got.
- 17:33Speaker 6: Energy bills through the roof. It is very, very.
- 17:36Speaker 3: Difficult to run a business right now, and this just
- 17:39Speaker 3: makes it worse.
- 17:40Speaker 1: No one saw this coming.
- 17:42Speaker 6: No no one, sorry, no one could.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Possibly have predicted this outcome. What I'm curious about is,
- 17:47Speaker 2: so let's say this happens right, So would you say
- 17:49Speaker 2: almost half.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Of businesses, almost part forty seven percent.
- 17:52Speaker 2: Say they're going to outsource these jobs. So let's say
- 17:55Speaker 2: that happens and then there's a change of government, whether
- 17:58Speaker 2: it's in November or whether it's a term after that,
- 18:02Speaker 2: do these jobs ever come back or having outsourced these jobs,
- 18:05Speaker 2: whether interstate or to overseas and found cheaper labor, do
- 18:09Speaker 2: businesses just get into a new way of doing things.
- 18:12Speaker 1: And this is more than just a one off hit
- 18:16Speaker 1: to Victoria.
- 18:17Speaker 2: This becomes an ongoing problem that really cripples the state.
- 18:20Speaker 4: Well, it's a couple of points. The forty seven percent
- 18:24Speaker 4: is businesses that say they would go to contractors instead
- 18:28Speaker 4: of hiring permanent full time because then they can be
- 18:31Speaker 4: a bit more rubbery about whether or not they have to,
- 18:34Speaker 4: you know, do the work from home stuff, right, But
- 18:36Speaker 4: it's two and five say they would look at hiring overseas.
- 18:40Speaker 5: Now, on that point, I.
- 18:41Speaker 4: Would say, if they're working overseas, they're not going to
- 18:46Speaker 4: be coming to an office in Melbourne. So I'm not
- 18:48Speaker 4: sure that particularly helps with the matter of work from home.
- 18:51Speaker 2: But it helps with things like compliance, workplace health and safety,
- 18:55Speaker 2: all those things you've got to still do when you've
- 18:58Speaker 2: got a staff member working at home. You employ someone
- 19:00Speaker 2: of the Philippines or India or wherever you're don worry
- 19:03Speaker 2: about India.
- 19:03Speaker 4: That sure the cost you're already doing that with any
- 19:06Speaker 4: employee you have in Australia anyway, So you know that
- 19:10Speaker 4: the work from home thing is not going to make
- 19:12Speaker 4: a difference to that situation, because if you've got them
- 19:16Speaker 4: hard in India, sure you mightn't have to do all
- 19:18Speaker 4: the things you otherwise have to do here, but they
- 19:20Speaker 4: won't be working from the office, right, so I'll discount
- 19:24Speaker 4: that really as an issue, but the contractor one. So
- 19:27Speaker 4: of course this is all done. It's a bit like
- 19:30Speaker 4: the illicit tobacco thing. Right. We will put up the
- 19:33Speaker 4: tax so that people will find that it's too expensive
- 19:36Speaker 4: to buy cigarettes and then they'll stop smoking. You know,
- 19:38Speaker 4: we're doing something to help people, right. So here we
- 19:41Speaker 4: have the Victorian government saying, well, we're going to do
- 19:44Speaker 4: something to help the workers, which is we're going to
- 19:46Speaker 4: give them the enshrined right to work from home. But
- 19:50Speaker 4: of course we know that the tax situation hasn't worked.
- 19:53Speaker 4: In fact, it's just made things so much worse. There
- 19:55Speaker 4: are more people smoking now. And what you will have
- 19:57Speaker 4: here is a situation where in the name of increasing workers' rights,
- 20:03Speaker 4: you'll end up with fewer workers' rights because all the
- 20:05Speaker 4: employers will go, well, bugger that, I'll find a way
- 20:08Speaker 4: to employ them, ie as a contractor or I don't
- 20:11Speaker 4: have to.
- 20:11Speaker 5: Deal with all this crap.
- 20:13Speaker 4: So you'll actually have an overall regression in the stability
- 20:18Speaker 4: of employment and the rights of workers because the government
- 20:22Speaker 4: pushed the envelope too far. It's all good and well
- 20:26Speaker 4: to say, you know, workers should have rights and whatever,
- 20:29Speaker 4: and of course there are certain levels of rights that
- 20:31Speaker 4: workers should have. But when you make it so hard
- 20:35Speaker 4: to do business that people don't want to do business anymore,
- 20:38Speaker 4: there won't be any workers and they won't get paid.
- 20:42Speaker 4: So you start to shoot yourself in the foot. And
- 20:44Speaker 4: I think that's where Victoria is going.
- 20:47Speaker 6: Yep, I completely agree.
- 20:48Speaker 1: All right, let me give you a council story.
- 20:50Speaker 2: Now, this story starts a little dry, but stick with
- 20:53Speaker 2: me because it gets spicy. Okay, this is a council
- 20:56Speaker 2: in South Australia. Burnside counts. Now they've got an issue
- 21:01Speaker 2: with their CEO. In South Australia, at least an independent
- 21:05Speaker 2: tribunal sets the salaries of council CEOs, and the salary
- 21:10Speaker 2: is based in part on the income of that council,
- 21:13Speaker 2: which makes sense.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Now, the Burnside Council has an.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Income of fifty four point eight million dollars, which is
- 21:19Speaker 2: one point two million dollars less than the threshold for
- 21:23Speaker 2: the next pay level for a CEO.
- 21:25Speaker 1: So the CEO's pay level would.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Have been three hundred and fifty one thousand dollars a year,
- 21:30Speaker 2: but it's been put down to three hundred and twenty
- 21:33Speaker 2: one thousand dollars because, as I said, they're one point
- 21:36Speaker 2: two million dollars short on the required income. Now, this
- 21:40Speaker 2: is upset the council members and they are all lobbying
- 21:44Speaker 2: for the Tribunal to set aside that decision and allow
- 21:47Speaker 2: the council to pay their CEO the three hundred and
- 21:50Speaker 2: fifty one thousand dollars that they would prefer. Now, this
- 21:55Speaker 2: is the reason that they've given to the tribunal.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Read it for you.
- 21:59Speaker 2: The mayor and Monsau argued revenue had been abnormally low
- 22:03Speaker 2: because of a rates freeze during the COVID pandemic. If
- 22:06Speaker 2: they had raised rates, the income would have been fifty
- 22:08Speaker 2: six point four million dollars and qualified for.
- 22:10Speaker 1: A higher salary for the CEO.
- 22:12Speaker 2: The letter also listed unique complexities adding to the CEO's workload,
- 22:17Speaker 2: expanding on arguments previously rejected by the tribunal, including that
- 22:21Speaker 2: the council operates in an environment of heightened external scrutiny,
- 22:25Speaker 2: including regular media attention.
- 22:28Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a minute.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Arguing for a higher salary limit to be reinstated, the
- 22:33Speaker 2: letter said the socioeconomic advantage of the area's residents translated
- 22:38Speaker 2: to a higher level of civic literacy and frequent use
- 22:42Speaker 2: of formal, statutory and legal processes. In other words, it's
- 22:45Speaker 2: a well educated electorate and they're more likely to make
- 22:49Speaker 2: formal complaints and go through legal processes. Therefore, the CEO
- 22:54Speaker 2: needs to be on it. But there's something they didn't include,
- 22:57Speaker 2: at least in that little quote, and that is that
- 23:00Speaker 2: the counsellors themselves are arguing the CEO needs to be
- 23:04Speaker 2: paid a lot of money because the counselor in fighting
- 23:08Speaker 2: makes the job of CEO so difficult. In fact, the Council,
- 23:13Speaker 2: by its own admission, has a well documented history of
- 23:17Speaker 2: council member dynamics that are incredibly challenging. There was a
- 23:21Speaker 2: report about this council last year that found it was
- 23:24Speaker 2: dysfunctional and psychologically unsafe and in urgent need of intervention.
- 23:30Speaker 2: It's said that there was widespread division, incivility, dysfunction, and
- 23:35Speaker 2: verbal abuse. And the report last year recommended that the CEO,
- 23:40Speaker 2: Julia Grant, managed the behavior of counselors, except that quote
- 23:45Speaker 2: some of the councillors might not be receptive to such
- 23:48Speaker 2: behavioral management. That the councilors are so at odds with
- 23:53Speaker 2: each other that they've been banned from having dinner together
- 23:57Speaker 2: before council meetings.
- 23:59Speaker 1: They have told where possible do.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Online meetings rather than in person, and they've also been
- 24:05Speaker 2: instructed when council meetings finish, you're not to loiter around
- 24:09Speaker 2: using the facilities. You are to go. And the amazing
- 24:13Speaker 2: thing to me is that the counselors are all saying, yes,
- 24:16Speaker 2: this is true. And that's one of the reasons we
- 24:18Speaker 2: need to pay the CEO more because it's a tough
- 24:20Speaker 2: job managing all of us, so like a a toxic
- 24:24Speaker 2: marriage circus.
- 24:25Speaker 3: This is this is a joke, right, This is an
- 24:28Speaker 3: absolute joke. This is what rate payers are paying for,
- 24:31Speaker 3: this sort of absolute circus. Firstly, how tone deaf can
- 24:35Speaker 3: this council possibly be? In the middle of a cost
- 24:38Speaker 3: of living crisis. Their number one issue. Their number one
- 24:42Speaker 3: argument is, oh, well, our CEO needs a bigger pay
- 24:45Speaker 3: considering that she's on what three hundred and twenty one
- 24:48Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year.
- 24:49Speaker 5: Well, that's that's the most states, that's the most.
- 24:51Speaker 6: But she's doing pretty good.
- 24:53Speaker 3: But that's that's a bloody good wage in this day
- 24:56Speaker 3: and age three, you'd think so, I think that's that
- 24:58Speaker 3: you'd be stoked if you were on that. And just
- 25:01Speaker 3: to actually summarize all of this, basically their argument for
- 25:07Speaker 3: this is, oh, we're dealing with affluent people. That's the argument.
- 25:11Speaker 3: We're dealing with affluent people, so we need more money.
- 25:15Speaker 3: Get a grip, Get a grip and just do your job.
- 25:18Speaker 3: Get back to rhades rates and rubbish.
- 25:19Speaker 4: This is ridiculous because I think the previous paid deal
- 25:23Speaker 4: was about three hundred and twenty k. And they're basically saying, well,
- 25:25Speaker 4: because the CAP's being brought down, we cannot now offer
- 25:28Speaker 4: a legitimate pay rise. And the last deal was done
- 25:31Speaker 4: on the basis that there may be a pay rise
- 25:32Speaker 4: as vida. It's interesting, but I'd say, who cares. I mean,
- 25:36Speaker 4: the rate payers just want the job done. They want
- 25:38Speaker 4: the bins emptied and the pools maintained and the parks, etc.
- 25:43Speaker 4: I think at an upper limit of three hundred and
- 25:44Speaker 4: twenty one k you can probably make that happen. Now,
- 25:48Speaker 4: I will say because Burnside Council was one of the
- 25:50Speaker 4: councils I covered when I worked as a local government
- 25:53Speaker 4: reporter in Adelaide, and it is indeed beset with problems
- 25:57Speaker 4: and has been for decades. In fact, there was a
- 26:00Speaker 4: report to many years ago, the McPherson report. It was
- 26:04Speaker 4: written about problems at Burnside Council. Now I can't tell
- 26:08Speaker 4: you what's in it because it was suppressed and it
- 26:10Speaker 4: will never see the light of day. I'll show you
- 26:12Speaker 4: the report there was Ken mcpher's not Ja, but if
- 26:16Speaker 4: he's a relative of yours, see if you can get
- 26:18Speaker 4: hold of a copy of it, because there are a
- 26:20Speaker 4: few that have fallen off the backs of tracks, and
- 26:22Speaker 4: there's a pretty grizzly stuff written in it. Having said that, yes,
- 26:25Speaker 4: indeed it is a council with lots of problems.
- 26:27Speaker 5: Knock your heads together and sort it out.
- 26:30Speaker 8: I mean, it's not a legitimate argument to go off
- 26:34Speaker 8: to the tribunal. The remuneration tribunal and say, well, it's
- 26:37Speaker 8: actually really difficult to run this council because we have
- 26:40Speaker 8: busybody residents and busybody counselors who can't work with each other.
- 26:46Speaker 5: I mean, what do you think the job is?
- 26:49Speaker 4: For Heaven's sake, make life a little easier for your
- 26:53Speaker 4: chief executive.
- 26:54Speaker 5: And maybe this won't be a problem.
- 26:56Speaker 4: Having said that, I don't envy the chief executive of
- 26:59Speaker 4: Burne Side Council at times, having seen the stuff that
- 27:02Speaker 4: those chief executives.
- 27:04Speaker 3: And if it's been going on since you were a
- 27:06Speaker 3: reporter there, what issues were you encountering when you were reporting.
- 27:10Speaker 4: Oh, look, it's just one of those counsels that just
- 27:13Speaker 4: constantly seems to have personality clashes. I mean, look, there
- 27:17Speaker 4: is stuff I could tell you about off air that
- 27:19Speaker 4: I can't talk about on air because it's contained in
- 27:22Speaker 4: the McPherson report and he's suppressed.
- 27:25Speaker 6: I have seen the McPherson.
- 27:27Speaker 4: All I'm saying is it's suppressed and I can't tell
- 27:29Speaker 4: you what's in it.
- 27:30Speaker 5: But you know, it's a.
- 27:32Speaker 4: Council that's had a lot of problems over a lot
- 27:34Speaker 4: of years. And so yes, it is a hard job
- 27:38Speaker 4: being the CEO over there, even though some of the
- 27:40Speaker 4: chief executives of Burnside themselves have been caught up in
- 27:44Speaker 4: a bit of trouble. If you want to google it,
- 27:46Speaker 4: you can find that pretty easily.
- 27:48Speaker 5: But it's none of it is an.
- 27:49Speaker 4: Excuse for why the CEO ought to be paid above
- 27:52Speaker 4: the bands that are set by the remuneration Tribunal.
- 27:55Speaker 5: If you start doing that, everyone will do it.
- 27:57Speaker 1: It sounds to be like they don't need a CEO,
- 27:59Speaker 1: they need headmaster.
- 28:02Speaker 3: This whole council needs to be just and redone clearly
- 28:07Speaker 3: because if it's having entrenched problems, knock it over and
- 28:11Speaker 3: start again.
- 28:11Speaker 4: Did my younger brother has just moved into the area.
- 28:15Speaker 4: I might have to send him around to go to
- 28:17Speaker 4: some of the council meetings, get him to snoop for
- 28:20Speaker 4: the late check out what's going on. Too long time
- 28:23Speaker 4: since I've been to a Burnside council meeting. But you know,
- 28:25Speaker 4: some of them used to be pretty entertaining. And I'll
- 28:28Speaker 4: tell you what else is entertaining, at least from a
- 28:31Speaker 4: funny viewpoint, but the reality of it is not that entertaining.
- 28:35Speaker 5: Over in the UK.
- 28:36Speaker 4: Now, we've told you some of these stories before about
- 28:38Speaker 4: people you know who use all sorts of weird and
- 28:41Speaker 4: wacky excuses to say that they can't be deported from
- 28:45Speaker 4: Britain back whence they came. These are criminals, by the way,
- 28:49Speaker 4: because you know, I don't know, I've got some problem
- 28:52Speaker 4: that I couldn't possibly go back where I come from,
- 28:54Speaker 4: or go through a few of those in a minute,
- 28:56Speaker 4: of course. One of the most famous ones is an
- 28:58Speaker 4: Albanian bloke who was allowed to stay in the UK
- 29:01Speaker 4: because he said his child didn't like the taste of
- 29:03Speaker 4: the chicken nuggets in Albania. But the Telegraph in London
- 29:08Speaker 4: has done an analysis of the people who have been
- 29:12Speaker 4: released from jail who are foreign criminals, and it turns
- 29:16Speaker 4: out there are twenty thousand people walking around the UK
- 29:21Speaker 4: right now who are foreign criminals who have no right
- 29:24Speaker 4: to be in the UK, who are potentially facing deportation
- 29:28Speaker 4: but they haven't got around to doing it yet, and
- 29:31Speaker 4: forty percent of those people running cases to fight their deportations,
- 29:39Speaker 4: arguing that under Article eight of the European Convention on
- 29:43Speaker 4: Human Rights they cannot be taken back to the country
- 29:46Speaker 4: they came from because it would either be unsafe or
- 29:48Speaker 4: there's some other kind of mitigating factors. So let me
- 29:51Speaker 4: avail you of some of the cases that the Telegraph
- 29:55Speaker 4: has uncovered. Among these twenty thousand people who have no
- 29:58Speaker 4: right to be in the U United Kingdom. A sixty
- 30:01Speaker 4: year old Spanish drug dealer who was jailed for seven years,
- 30:04Speaker 4: who was allowed to stay in Britain because of his
- 30:07Speaker 4: ex partner's depression. A tribunal rule deportation would be quote
- 30:11Speaker 4: unquote disproportionate and would breach his articulate ECCHR rights because
- 30:16Speaker 4: of its impact on his ex partner.
- 30:18Speaker 1: And near three children.
- 30:20Speaker 5: Very sorry, your honor. The wife's a bit sad.
- 30:23Speaker 4: I imagine she would be giving you a banged up
- 30:25Speaker 4: for seven years for being a drug dealer. I'm not
- 30:27Speaker 4: sure that gives you the right to stay in the country.
- 30:30Speaker 4: What about this one, a Polish domestic abuser, exactly the
- 30:33Speaker 4: kind of bloke you want to stay around, who was
- 30:35Speaker 4: jailed for more than three years and deemed you have
- 30:38Speaker 4: a high risk of harm to children, but who's been
- 30:40Speaker 4: allowed to stay in Britain.
- 30:42Speaker 5: So he compared his daughter.
- 30:44Speaker 4: The tribunal ruled it would breach his articulate family rats
- 30:49Speaker 4: if he was deported again high risk of harm to children,
- 30:53Speaker 4: but no, you can stay because it's against your rats
- 30:56Speaker 4: not to see your daughter. Or this one a Pakistani
- 30:59Speaker 4: drug dealer who was allowed to stay in Britain after
- 31:01Speaker 4: an immigration court heard it would enable him to teach
- 31:04Speaker 4: his son how to shave and quote talk to him
- 31:08Speaker 4: about things a mother could not. He won an appeal
- 31:11Speaker 4: that it would breach his articulate rights to a family
- 31:14Speaker 4: life if he was deported.
- 31:16Speaker 5: Now, I'm glad that the courts.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Are now acknowledging in the UK that there are indeed
- 31:20Speaker 4: differences between mothers and fathers, and there are only some
- 31:24Speaker 4: things that fathers can do that mothers cannot. That's a
- 31:27Speaker 4: welcome development, but I mean, for goodness sake, twenty thousand
- 31:30Speaker 4: people who have no right to be in the country
- 31:32Speaker 4: are facing deportation. Who knows whether they will ever be deported,
- 31:36Speaker 4: And the ones who they are trying to deport say well,
- 31:39Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I want to be able to teach my
- 31:40Speaker 4: son to shave, and they say yep, oh good buddy,
- 31:44Speaker 4: you stay here.
- 31:45Speaker 3: What about the Albanian you forgot? The at the top
- 31:50Speaker 3: mentioned that the chicken nuggets a son didn't.
- 31:52Speaker 6: Like the chicken mugs.
- 31:52Speaker 3: I mean, is this seriously, where once great nations have
- 31:57Speaker 3: gone to like literally down the when their whole argument
- 32:01Speaker 3: is based off Albanian chicken nuggets and Pakistani shavers. I mean,
- 32:07Speaker 3: that is not the basis for these people to be
- 32:09Speaker 3: staying in this country. And I worry for everyday Britz.
- 32:13Speaker 3: I worry for women and children who have to be
- 32:15Speaker 3: around these criminals.
- 32:16Speaker 1: Men.
- 32:17Speaker 3: We're talking twenty thousand people at varying degrees of criminality,
- 32:23Speaker 3: and I worry genuinely for the safety of the public
- 32:25Speaker 3: which is already at risk, given this is a country
- 32:27Speaker 3: which is being basically overrun now by illegal immigrants, and
- 32:32Speaker 3: many of them have committed a number of crimes in
- 32:35Speaker 3: the countries that they have come for. But it brought
- 32:38Speaker 3: me back to what we had here in Australia. I
- 32:41Speaker 3: mean we didn't have it to the extent of twenty thousand,
- 32:43Speaker 3: but remember the High Court decision that caught the Labor
- 32:47Speaker 3: Party off a whim. They certainly weren't prepared for the
- 32:50Speaker 3: fact that there were indeed foreign born criminals that were
- 32:54Speaker 3: released back into the public.
- 32:55Speaker 6: We had murderers, rapists.
- 32:58Speaker 3: You know, and others that were released and you had
- 33:00Speaker 3: the Labour Party quickly and frantically trying to deal with
- 33:03Speaker 3: NARU to ship them off, and then those people who
- 33:06Speaker 3: have gone to NARU are now trying to get compensation
- 33:10Speaker 3: out of labor, so again it's on the taxpayer.
- 33:13Speaker 6: No matter which way you look at.
- 33:14Speaker 2: It, it would seem that human rights law is being
- 33:17Speaker 2: stretched way beyond its intended purpose, and not just in
- 33:20Speaker 2: these instances. You had the case of Geelong Grammar and
- 33:24Speaker 2: the timber Top part of that school where some kids
- 33:27Speaker 2: were disciplined for nicking off in the middle of the night,
- 33:30Speaker 2: and part.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Of the discipline was they had to sleep in.
- 33:31Speaker 2: The tent on their own and parents are claiming the
- 33:34Speaker 2: human rights are being abused. Surely the first responsibility of
- 33:37Speaker 2: ever any government is to keep your own citizens safe,
- 33:40Speaker 2: and if you've got a foreign national who commits a crime,
- 33:44Speaker 2: then deportation should be the default position, not something that's
- 33:48Speaker 2: argued in the courts endlessly, and especially not according to
- 33:52Speaker 2: human rights laws that have been concocted in Brussels.
- 33:55Speaker 1: The other problem with.
- 33:56Speaker 2: This is that if they don't enforce the law, and
- 34:00Speaker 2: severely in the case of criminal foreigners, all it does
- 34:04Speaker 2: is undermine everybody's confidence in the immigration system per se.
- 34:09Speaker 2: And do we really believe that's what the UK needs
- 34:11Speaker 2: right now, That's the last thing they need. So ironically
- 34:15Speaker 2: this hurts migrants because those who are in the UK
- 34:18Speaker 2: legally and are all doing the right thing, they all
- 34:21Speaker 2: get shade cast on them because of the stupidity of
- 34:25Speaker 2: a few and the ridiculousness of the UK courts.
- 34:30Speaker 4: I think we need to try the Albanian chicken nuggets
- 34:33Speaker 4: and see, indeed whether that case.
- 34:35Speaker 5: Was justified or not.
- 34:36Speaker 4: Maybe there's something really awful about Albanian chicken nuggets. I
- 34:39Speaker 4: don't know.
- 34:40Speaker 6: Yeah, look who knows.
- 34:41Speaker 3: Before we go to a break, I want to ask
- 34:43Speaker 3: you a question. What do nuns and pronouns have in common?
- 34:47Speaker 3: Absolutely nothing, and that is exactly the way that it
- 34:49Speaker 3: should be. But apparently not. There's Catholic nuns over in
- 34:52Speaker 3: New York who are caring for terminally ill cancer patients.
- 34:55Speaker 3: They're facing legal harassment for not using preferred pronouns. Would
- 34:59Speaker 3: you believe because there's a law in New York actually
- 35:02Speaker 3: that protects this and apparently these women are under violation
- 35:05Speaker 3: under the fourteenth Books Amendment.
- 35:08Speaker 6: So they're part of this home.
- 35:09Speaker 3: It's a forty two bed home, and they are in
- 35:13Speaker 3: breach of the Bill of Rights for LGBTIQ New Yorkers,
- 35:17Speaker 3: and this is what that text stipulates that long term
- 35:19Speaker 3: care facilities must use patients preferred pronouns even when they're
- 35:23Speaker 3: not present, defer to the choice of bathroom, and refuse
- 35:26Speaker 3: to assign rooms based on biological sex. Staff must undergo
- 35:29Speaker 3: cultural competency training as well. Now, all of this violates
- 35:33Speaker 3: the sisters consciousnessness, but failure to do so could actually
- 35:37Speaker 3: cost some thousands of dollars in fines.
- 35:39Speaker 6: Now, I've got a lot of problems with this.
- 35:42Speaker 3: We are in a society right now when Catholic nuns
- 35:45Speaker 3: are caring for the terminally ill, the sick, and the poor,
- 35:48Speaker 3: and then they have to go against their own consciousness
- 35:51Speaker 3: because of woke nonsense and woke ideology ahead of proper
- 35:55Speaker 3: medical care. And that is a concern because we have
- 35:59Speaker 3: to put proper medical care first, because if people don't
- 36:02Speaker 3: get proper medical care, then.
- 36:03Speaker 6: That should be a breach of a law in itself.
- 36:06Speaker 3: Yet, because of the wrong pronouns being used, these poor
- 36:09Speaker 3: nuns are being taken to this tribunal and they're fighting.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Back that their Christian faith is not the problem here.
- 36:14Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 36:15Speaker 2: The Christian faith is the reason they're providing palliative care
- 36:18Speaker 2: for cancer patients who are uninsured and or unable to
- 36:21Speaker 2: financially provide for their own medical care. So these nuns
- 36:27Speaker 2: should be assisted at every point rather than have obstacles
- 36:31Speaker 2: placed in the way. And this is a clear case
- 36:32Speaker 2: of the government preferring to focus on ideology even above
- 36:37Speaker 2: the care of cancer patients, because the government would rather
- 36:41Speaker 2: this Catholic facility be deregistered and unable to care for
- 36:47Speaker 2: anybody than that the Catholics might maintain a Christian view
- 36:52Speaker 2: of gender and sexuality.
- 36:53Speaker 4: And it's just the typical case of the bureaucracy letting
- 36:56Speaker 4: the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everything has
- 36:59Speaker 4: to be followed to the letter by the rules because
- 37:02Speaker 4: we've decided that's what the rules are.
- 37:03Speaker 5: And you break those rules, you're in trouble. You know.
- 37:06Speaker 4: I get the ideological reasons that they want to do that,
- 37:09Speaker 4: but wouldn't you also just scratch your chin for a
- 37:11Speaker 4: moment and ago, Actually no, I think people who are
- 37:13Speaker 4: dying and don't have a lot of money or to
- 37:16Speaker 4: receive some care, even if shock, horror and none doesn't
- 37:19Speaker 4: use preferred pronouns, which would you rather we seem to
- 37:23Speaker 4: have the answer.
- 37:24Speaker 1: Unfortunately. Indeed, we're going to go to a break.
- 37:26Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll what it's making headlines tomorrow,
- 37:29Speaker 2: including Matt Kean accused of using his position on the
- 37:31Speaker 2: Climate Authority incorrectly and the more ademing scandal.
- 37:35Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
- 37:36Speaker 2: If you think it's calming down, you are wrong. Wait
- 37:38Speaker 2: till you see tomorrow's papers. That's next.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to the program. Let's take a look
- 37:48Speaker 1: at what's making headlines tomorrow.
- 37:50Speaker 2: We'll start with the Daily Telegraph, where the headline reads
- 37:54Speaker 2: cop a load of this. The chairman of the Albanzy
- 37:57Speaker 2: government's Climate Change Authority, Matt Key, has been accused of
- 38:01Speaker 2: using taxpayer funded travel to the COP thirty summit in
- 38:04Speaker 2: Brazil to advance the interests of the wealthy private firm
- 38:09Speaker 2: he works for.
- 38:10Speaker 1: Now.
- 38:10Speaker 2: Matt Kean, a former New South Wales Treasurer, was appointed
- 38:13Speaker 2: to lead the Climate Change Authority by the Albanezy government
- 38:16Speaker 2: in June twenty twenty four.
- 38:18Speaker 1: A couple of months.
- 38:19Speaker 2: Later, he started working for a climate investment firm as
- 38:23Speaker 2: their director of Strategic Relationships.
- 38:26Speaker 1: Now.
- 38:26Speaker 2: To be fair to Matt Kean, he did check with
- 38:29Speaker 2: Chris Bowen and Chris Bowen said.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Yeah, not a problem, just make sure you do the
- 38:33Speaker 1: right thing.
- 38:33Speaker 2: In February of this year, there was a review of
- 38:37Speaker 2: the carbon credit scheme that Matt Kean had to excuse
- 38:41Speaker 2: himself from because of a potential conflict of interest. Now,
- 38:45Speaker 2: the accusation is that while he's at the International Climate Conference,
- 38:51Speaker 2: he's been using that to establish some business contacts and
- 38:55Speaker 2: sprook his other enterprise.
- 38:58Speaker 4: And that would be a problem if indeed that's what
- 39:00Speaker 4: you were doing. And this would apply to any public
- 39:03Speaker 4: servant or whatever who is using public money to go
- 39:06Speaker 4: on a trip to advance the interests of the country.
- 39:09Speaker 4: I advance the speaking, you know what I mean. If
- 39:13Speaker 4: you're then using the resources that have been provided to
- 39:18Speaker 4: you by the taxpayer, as is outlined in these allegations,
- 39:22Speaker 4: to advance personal and business interests, you've got a problem now.
- 39:27Speaker 1: You know.
- 39:27Speaker 4: It might be in these sorts of cases that you
- 39:30Speaker 4: half fund it yourself for the business half funds it,
- 39:33Speaker 4: and then the government funds the other half, because you
- 39:35Speaker 4: are indeed going to do work for the government. But
- 39:37Speaker 4: I don't think it's tenable to have the government basically
- 39:40Speaker 4: paying for a situation where you then also do private
- 39:43Speaker 4: work on the side.
- 39:44Speaker 3: No, I completely agree with you, because that does make
- 39:46Speaker 3: it a conflict. But can I also say, gosh, I'm
- 39:48Speaker 3: so sick to death of the taxpayer having to fund
- 39:50Speaker 3: these ridiculous trips to these climate summits around the world
- 39:54Speaker 3: on the jet field engine. Of course, you know, isn't
- 39:56Speaker 3: that what they all discuss about, how they can stop
- 39:58Speaker 3: the jet field.
- 39:59Speaker 6: Engines from creating all the carbon emissions.
- 40:01Speaker 3: So seriously, stop wasting taxpayers money. Let's take a look
- 40:05Speaker 3: at the Herald Son tomorrow. James mentioned before the break
- 40:08Speaker 3: this more redeeming story. It's not going anywhere front page,
- 40:12Speaker 3: no apology now, deeming turns on Wilson. Liberal MP moy
- 40:16Speaker 3: redeeming has sensationally turned on leader Jess Wilson and party officials,
- 40:21Speaker 3: accusing them of public pack bullying over the handling of
- 40:25Speaker 3: her dismissed assault claims against against Matthew Guy. She's also
- 40:29Speaker 3: refused to apologize to mister Guy.
- 40:33Speaker 6: This just gets.
- 40:34Speaker 3: Worse at a time when the Liberal Party are in
- 40:36Speaker 3: the box seat to win the next election, finally ridding
- 40:40Speaker 3: Victoria of that dreadful labor government. We've got the Liberal
- 40:43Speaker 3: Party talking about themselves once again. I personally think that
- 40:48Speaker 3: it's at the stage where unless Moy Redeeming does come out,
- 40:51Speaker 3: either one explain herself or to apologize, this is not
- 40:54Speaker 3: going anywhere anywhere.
- 40:56Speaker 2: The only interesting part of this story is that apparently
- 40:59Speaker 2: One Nation have washed their hands of More Redeeming as well,
- 41:02Speaker 2: not just because of this, but also she had given
- 41:06Speaker 2: an undertaking that she would join One Nation when she
- 41:09Speaker 2: was deregistered from the Liberal Party or disendorsed rather, and
- 41:13Speaker 2: then when the Liberal Party changed their mind, More Redeeming
- 41:16Speaker 2: changed her mind and remained in the Liberal Party rather
- 41:19Speaker 2: than defecting.
- 41:20Speaker 1: So One Nation have said that.
- 41:21Speaker 2: Plus this equals not interesting things.
- 41:25Speaker 4: There's nothing good for the Liberal Party here at all,
- 41:28Speaker 4: is there? Like it is just bad news. And she's
- 41:32Speaker 4: now suggesting that, you know, people within the party, officials
- 41:36Speaker 4: within the party had told her to go and make
- 41:38Speaker 4: this complaint. Who exactly that is, we don't know. She's
- 41:42Speaker 4: also saying that she misunderstood the definition of a headlock.
- 41:48Speaker 5: Who doesn't know what a headlock is.
- 41:50Speaker 4: This is just getting worse and worse, And every day
- 41:53Speaker 4: that this stays on the front page is a day
- 41:56Speaker 4: that they're giving a free kick to labor and they
- 41:58Speaker 4: do not deserve that.
- 42:00Speaker 6: It's not good at all.
- 42:01Speaker 3: Also on the front page, baby target of hate Victorian
- 42:05Speaker 3: MP's reveal horrific anti Semitic and sexualized abuse aimed at
- 42:09Speaker 3: them and their newborn child. Victorian MP Georgie Purcell has
- 42:13Speaker 3: unveiled a shocking file of sexualized abuse aimed at her family,
- 42:16Speaker 3: including her six month old baby. Her explosive twenty two
- 42:20Speaker 3: page submission to the Royal Commission on Anti Semitism and
- 42:23Speaker 3: Social Cohesion includes dozens of examples of the online attacks
- 42:26Speaker 3: against her and her Jewish partner, whose Federal Labor MP
- 42:29Speaker 3: Josh Burns, and their daughter, including comments about starving her baby.
- 42:34Speaker 3: I mean, this is just absolutely horrific. And another example.
- 42:38Speaker 3: I mean, I know that Georgie is not Jewish, but
- 42:40Speaker 3: obviously Josh Burns is one of the most senior figures
- 42:44Speaker 3: in Labor who is a very proud Jewish Man, and
- 42:47Speaker 3: another example of the types of threats that are still
- 42:51Speaker 3: being thrown around to Jews in this country.
- 42:54Speaker 2: The irony is that Georgie Purcell has been quite an
- 42:57Speaker 2: outspoken supporter of Palin yes and reasonably critical of Israel.
- 43:03Speaker 1: So that's the irony.
- 43:04Speaker 6: Here that she's now made a submission.
- 43:07Speaker 2: And her crime seems to be of marrying a Jewish
- 43:09Speaker 2: woman and having a baby British man, a bar Mary
- 43:12Speaker 2: Jewish man.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Rather it is Victoria and.
- 43:15Speaker 5: User of James.
- 43:16Speaker 4: So I don't think they're married either. I think I
- 43:19Speaker 4: think they've been a child together. But while we're on
- 43:22Speaker 4: this theme, on the front of the Australian to borrow it,
- 43:24Speaker 4: says the Lowey Manifesto to crush anti Semitism, Prominent business
- 43:29Speaker 4: leader Stephen Lowe has called for dedicated police to protect
- 43:32Speaker 4: Jewish Australians and national service for young people to counter
- 43:36Speaker 4: an unrelenting torrent of anti Semitism. In searing testimony to
- 43:40Speaker 4: the Bondai Massaca Royal Commission. The far reaching recommendations covering security,
- 43:45Speaker 4: education and social media came as the former Westfield co
- 43:48Speaker 4: Chief executive and Jewish community figure revealed his family faced
- 43:52Speaker 4: fifteen hundred anti Semitic threats a month. Mister Lowie told
- 43:56Speaker 4: the Royal Commission into Anti Semitism and Social Cohesion the
- 43:59Speaker 4: Jewishustralians had long been marginalized, but that the targeted hatred
- 44:04Speaker 4: towards them had become more dangerous and wide spread and
- 44:10Speaker 4: now I suppose the idea of police protection for Jewish
- 44:14Speaker 4: people who are being threatened, not too many people would
- 44:17Speaker 4: have a problem with that. The idea of national service, though,
- 44:21Speaker 4: I think, will cause a few more tongues to wag,
- 44:25Speaker 4: because you know, I understand where he comes from and saying,
- 44:27Speaker 4: obviously we need to sort of encourage people to have
- 44:30Speaker 4: some connection to their country and support their country, et cetera.
- 44:34Speaker 4: But I suspect there be a lot of people unhappy
- 44:36Speaker 4: with that idea.
- 44:37Speaker 1: Why do you think they'll be unhappy just because.
- 44:39Speaker 4: Well, the idea of national service is just controversial because
- 44:42Speaker 4: it's basically sayingle stuff that you know, you're forced to
- 44:45Speaker 4: do something. Essentially, you know, we gave up on those
- 44:48Speaker 4: ideas a long time ago. But if it opens up
- 44:50Speaker 4: the conversation, let's have it.
- 44:51Speaker 2: What I thought was interesting about that article is the
- 44:53Speaker 2: revelation that Jewish groups spend one hundred million dollars a
- 44:56Speaker 2: year in this country just protecting themselves. Which other group
- 45:00Speaker 2: would be expected to put up with that. The Career
- 45:02Speaker 2: Mail headline reads, cyber Cop crackdown. Australia's cyber safety watchdog
- 45:08Speaker 2: will be given police like powers to seize documents from
- 45:11Speaker 2: tech giants as the country's social media age limit ramps up.
- 45:14Speaker 2: New laws introduced to Parliament yesterday, that is today, we'll
- 45:18Speaker 2: give the e Safety Commissioner world leading powers to compel
- 45:22Speaker 2: social media companies to comply with the under sixteen ban
- 45:25Speaker 2: or face fines of ninety nine million dollars.
- 45:28Speaker 1: So the ban is not really working.
- 45:31Speaker 2: A new South Newcastle University report recently found eighty five
- 45:35Speaker 2: percent of kids under sixteen, so they're still using social media,
- 45:39Speaker 2: so they're done.
- 45:40Speaker 6: We'll tell you that kids aren't done.
- 45:42Speaker 1: No, but the government are doubling down the let's any
- 45:45Speaker 1: more power?
- 45:46Speaker 6: Right, that's right, all right?
- 45:47Speaker 2: Coming up after the break, we've got Dope of the Day.
- 45:51Speaker 2: We've got Superwoman, and we've got a rocker.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Who really should retire. All of that next, all right.
- 46:01Speaker 2: The new Actually, I'm not going to talk about Supergirl.
- 46:03Speaker 2: I've got to talk about Dope of the Day first.
- 46:05Speaker 2: I'm so sorry Caylein.
- 46:06Speaker 5: Got Supergirl on the brain over to you.
- 46:08Speaker 1: I was so cool.
- 46:12Speaker 4: The day. Over the day I think would be James mcphirst,
- 46:17Speaker 4: the big guy, Frank Sorry, he's got bloody Supergirl on
- 46:20Speaker 4: the brain.
- 46:21Speaker 5: He has some weird obsessions.
- 46:22Speaker 1: This chap.
- 46:23Speaker 4: I don't know how he wrote the McPherson report even
- 46:26Speaker 4: all those things to worry about. But over in Adelaide,
- 46:28Speaker 4: well we're doing at the mcperson report. And there is
- 46:31Speaker 4: a bar in Adelaide called Haynes and Coke.
- 46:33Speaker 5: Great bar.
- 46:34Speaker 4: Used to go there quite a bit when I was
- 46:35Speaker 4: in Adelaide. To still go there when I pop into
- 46:38Speaker 4: the joint, great place. You want to have a cigar.
- 46:40Speaker 4: By the way, you'll find Paul Murray there if he
- 46:43Speaker 4: is in Adelaide. But they have in the bar this
- 46:46Speaker 4: old diver's helmet. One hundred years old diver's helmet.
- 46:50Speaker 5: It's been stolen. You've ever see the footage here.
- 46:53Speaker 4: Of someone going in because they've someone have been playing
- 46:56Speaker 4: with the helmet, so they removed it from the bar.
- 46:59Speaker 4: Someone then goes into presumably the kitchen or whatever, wraps
- 47:02Speaker 4: it up in a shirt and walks out with this thing.
- 47:04Speaker 1: What's it?
- 47:05Speaker 4: Thinks they'd be able to go, I'm just going to
- 47:08Speaker 4: take a hundred year old helmet. No One's going to
- 47:11Speaker 4: notice that I've done that, So the bar put it up.
- 47:13Speaker 4: Hanes and Coprad on social media someone has now returned, thankfully.
- 47:18Speaker 5: Is the good news?
- 47:18Speaker 4: But I thought it would be a good excuse anyway
- 47:20Speaker 4: to show you this image, because I have indeed warned.
- 47:23Speaker 6: That helly, you got the women, and there you are.
- 47:28Speaker 4: That photo was taken in the morning, by the way,
- 47:30Speaker 4: I think.
- 47:31Speaker 6: Caleb on a date.
- 47:32Speaker 4: There was some sort of sour cocktail and at about
- 47:36Speaker 4: ten thirty in the morning, with an old helmet on
- 47:39Speaker 4: the head.
- 47:39Speaker 6: So Haleb on a day, that's how he pulls them.
- 47:44Speaker 5: To show you my helmet.
- 47:49Speaker 1: How long ago was that calor it.
- 47:51Speaker 5: Was twenty eighteen, That photo was six years ago.
- 47:54Speaker 2: The entire reason we did that story is so you
- 47:57Speaker 2: could show you. All right, I've been dying to talk
- 48:00Speaker 2: about Supergirl. The movie is coming to cinemas very soon.
- 48:04Speaker 1: Now.
- 48:04Speaker 2: If you're the star actress in Supergirl having finished filming,
- 48:08Speaker 2: you've only got one job. Promote the movie and try
- 48:11Speaker 2: not to be woke.
- 48:13Speaker 9: I have many queer friends, so honestly, I'm kind of honest.
- 48:17Speaker 9: I think because she doesn't live inside the binary of
- 48:20Speaker 9: what we think a woman should be, that that is
- 48:23Speaker 9: what makes her so special and so exciting.
- 48:25Speaker 6: And so new.
- 48:27Speaker 2: And now you know why a movie that needs four
- 48:29Speaker 2: hundred million dollars to break even got just thirty eight
- 48:32Speaker 2: million dollars at opening.
- 48:34Speaker 1: It's going to.
- 48:34Speaker 3: Disaster, absolute disaster. I wonder why if that's not a
- 48:37Speaker 3: warning to Hollywood. Well, nothing is now. Barry Manilow eighty
- 48:40Speaker 3: three year old Kroner. He's still rocking away, touring the
- 48:42Speaker 3: US with his hits like Mandy and the Coba Cabana.
- 48:46Speaker 6: But maybe it's time to give it up good grief.
- 49:03Speaker 3: Aside from the fact he was clearly lip syncing, he
- 49:05Speaker 3: looks like he's been attacked by bees on his way
- 49:08Speaker 3: to his twentieth facelift.
- 49:09Speaker 5: Leave the man, he does, Come on, give it up.
- 49:12Speaker 5: I love Barry Menlock.
- 49:13Speaker 4: I'm got a mate who's been to fifty three Barry
- 49:15Speaker 4: Manlo concerts.
- 49:16Speaker 5: Why there's a step because he loves Barry Manlin. There's
- 49:19Speaker 5: a step for you, and you're not gay.
- 49:21Speaker 2: That's what we've got time for stick around is the
- 49:23Speaker 2: Reader Pendery Show.
- 49:24Speaker 1: That's next.