Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 23 June
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome Late to Bait.
- 0:06Speaker 2: It's great to have your company on the Late Debate.
- 0:08Speaker 2: James Macpherson with Caleb Bond and Denika did Giorgio.
- 0:12Speaker 3: Good evening to you both.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Hello, good evening to you.
- 0:14Speaker 3: James. How are you? Caleb? What was your day like today?
- 0:18Speaker 4: Not a great deal was achieved atard from work, But
- 0:22Speaker 4: you know there are some days like that.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Do you ever have days where you just.
- 0:25Speaker 4: You're like, oh, maybe I could have been more productive
- 0:28Speaker 4: and you just feel like you've fritted some time away
- 0:31Speaker 4: that you didn't need to.
- 0:32Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes you just waste the day. I'm pretty productive. Actually,
- 0:36Speaker 5: I get up and I'm like, bang, let's do it.
- 0:37Speaker 5: Let's just go straight into it. I don't waste day.
- 0:40Speaker 1: What did you do?
- 0:41Speaker 5: I went to the gym, I went for a walk,
- 0:42Speaker 5: I did my shopping, I did all my cooking. I
- 0:44Speaker 5: went to the city for an appointment. And then I thought, actually,
- 0:47Speaker 5: we've got a show coming up, so I'm going to
- 0:49Speaker 5: start doing.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Some Well when you say you did all your cooking, yeah,
- 0:52Speaker 2: like do you cook days?
- 0:53Speaker 3: And I do, yeah, a meal prep how many days
- 0:56Speaker 3: in events? And then you freeze it all.
- 0:59Speaker 6: Some stuff can stay in the fridge.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Other stuff.
- 1:01Speaker 6: I do like, I do, portion some stuff.
- 1:03Speaker 5: And put in the freezer, but four days h you
- 1:05Speaker 5: never bring any of it into the studio.
- 1:07Speaker 6: No I don't, Sorry, no I don't. Is that a
- 1:09Speaker 6: hint something.
- 1:11Speaker 4: James wants a Danika's catering service?
- 1:13Speaker 6: I would to rely on me for that?
- 1:15Speaker 2: Sounds pretty good. Actually, let's get into the show. Here's
- 1:17Speaker 2: what's coming up tonight. A newly elected Scottish MP crosses
- 1:21Speaker 2: her fingers while giving the oath of allegiance. Lydia thought
- 1:24Speaker 2: did something similar here? So how valuable is the parliamentary
- 1:27Speaker 2: oath if politicians signaled to all and sundry that they
- 1:31Speaker 2: don't really mean it. Taking young children on a plane
- 1:34Speaker 2: is every parent's nightmare. So should other passengers be more
- 1:38Speaker 2: forgiving when kids play up? Or is it okay to
- 1:40Speaker 2: be rate other people's children, especially if they're kicking your seat?
- 1:44Speaker 2: And A South Australian council, having consistently raised rates above inflation,
- 1:49Speaker 2: now wants to spend rate payer money trialing pop.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Up bike lanes.
- 1:53Speaker 2: It's the latest example of local government waste. Will get
- 1:56Speaker 2: into all of that and more shortly, but first, secure stuff. Well,
- 2:00Speaker 2: he was still wiping away the tears after his resignation
- 2:04Speaker 2: when his likely replacement, Andy Burnham, was receiving a rock
- 2:07Speaker 2: star welcome in the House of Commons the former Manchester mayor.
- 2:11Speaker 2: It was one of three new MP's to be sworn
- 2:12Speaker 2: in after winning by elections. But Burnham swearing in well,
- 2:16Speaker 2: have a look at this, it was more like a coronation.
- 2:20Speaker 7: We know, come to wonder Burnham member for maker Fields.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Now it remains to be seen if Burnham is the Messiah,
- 2:56Speaker 2: but he certainly didn't waste any time getting a selfie
- 2:59Speaker 2: with the delirious Labor MPs who have clearly put their
- 3:03Speaker 2: faith in him as their political lord and savior. I
- 3:06Speaker 2: got to say that photograph smacks of presumption. It would
- 3:10Speaker 2: have been far more appropriate not to mention tactful to
- 3:13Speaker 2: take that photograph if and when he becomes Prime Minister,
- 3:17Speaker 2: rather than two minutes after being sworn in as an MP,
- 3:21Speaker 2: and while kiss Starmer's corpse is still warm, don't you think, Caleb?
- 3:25Speaker 4: I don't particularly care. I mean, he's just been elected
- 3:28Speaker 4: as a Labor MP in a by election. He's taken
- 3:31Speaker 4: a photo with his labor colleagues. I mean, yes, and
- 3:35Speaker 4: it seems like he's the only guy who's going to
- 3:37Speaker 4: put his hand up for the job, which means he's
- 3:39Speaker 4: going to become PM anyway. But can't he have a
- 3:42Speaker 4: photo with his colleagues after being elected to parliament? Is
- 3:46Speaker 4: he meant to now pretend that he doesn't exist for
- 3:48Speaker 4: the next six weeks while we wait for.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Sirquire to sort of slowly shuffle his.
- 3:53Speaker 4: Way out of number ten. The guy is going to
- 3:56Speaker 4: become PM. He was elected, he rocked up to take
- 3:58Speaker 4: his oath and become an MP once again.
- 4:01Speaker 1: This is his second state.
- 4:02Speaker 4: He was in for nearly fifteen years last time, by
- 4:04Speaker 4: the way, but he's wropped up for another stint. He
- 4:06Speaker 4: has a photo with his labor colleagues.
- 4:08Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?
- 4:09Speaker 5: Well, well, firstly, he's not Prime Minister just yet and.
- 4:13Speaker 1: You can't have photos unless your p in.
- 4:15Speaker 5: But that to me screams of I'm here, I'm ready
- 4:17Speaker 5: to go, I'm the Prime Minister. I mean all you
- 4:19Speaker 5: needed was a sign saying hi, I'm Andy and I'm here.
- 4:21Speaker 6: Basically ala alaa Kevin.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Rutt I wouldn't go here in UK these.
- 4:30Speaker 6: That's what this photo screams now.
- 4:32Speaker 5: I mean there will be many people in the UK
- 4:34Speaker 5: scratching their heads, going We'll hang on a second. This
- 4:36Speaker 5: guy has gone from being the mayor of Greater Manchester
- 4:39Speaker 5: to now possibly being the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- 4:42Speaker 5: What does he stand for? Who is he and what
- 4:45Speaker 5: are his credentials? Nigel Farag was just on with Paul
- 4:48Speaker 5: Murray and he was equally as confused.
- 4:51Speaker 8: I have no idea what his policies are. I have
- 4:53Speaker 8: no idea what he believes in. This is an historic
- 4:57Speaker 8: flip flopper. It's the old story that a Blairite, a
- 5:02Speaker 8: brown Heite and a Corbynite go into the pub and
- 5:05Speaker 8: order a drink and the barman says, what will you
- 5:08Speaker 8: be having, mister Burnham?
- 5:12Speaker 5: And I think that that sums it up properly, and it
- 5:14Speaker 5: sums up that picture. Can we just bring that photo
- 5:16Speaker 5: up again please? Because the first thing that caught my eye,
- 5:21Speaker 5: look how many women are surrounding him? Now, in my view,
- 5:24Speaker 5: that was deliberate. He put women around him because he went,
- 5:28Speaker 5: look this is a typical of the left and the
- 5:30Speaker 5: labor playbook, isn't it.
- 5:32Speaker 6: I'm surrounded by women. I'm so inclusive.
- 5:34Speaker 5: We've seen it here in Australia with Anthony Alberzi.
- 5:37Speaker 6: This was a deliberate tactic.
- 5:39Speaker 5: So really to me it's like yeh new prime minister,
- 5:43Speaker 5: but probably same old Kia star moresque.
- 5:46Speaker 2: You combine that photograph with the way he sauntered into
- 5:49Speaker 2: the House of Commons to roars of approval, you would
- 5:53Speaker 2: have thought the Labor Party would be a little humble
- 5:57Speaker 2: rather than triumphant right now, considering the country is in
- 6:00Speaker 2: an absolute mess.
- 6:02Speaker 3: They've created most of it.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Now they've got a situation where the country may not
- 6:07Speaker 2: have a prime minister in effect for a month or more,
- 6:12Speaker 2: and they're parading around like it's a great moment for them,
- 6:15Speaker 2: and that I think is the problem. It's all about
- 6:17Speaker 2: them and there's scant regard for the long suffering British public.
- 6:21Speaker 4: Well that might be right, I mean the point you
- 6:24Speaker 4: make about the women, Daneka, when I'm surrounded by women,
- 6:27Speaker 4: it's not because of inclusivity.
- 6:29Speaker 6: It should go all right.
- 6:30Speaker 4: But honestly, I really think this is much ado about nothing.
- 6:35Speaker 4: The guy is going to become the prime minister. I
- 6:38Speaker 4: think we can all see that.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Do you agree he looks cocky?
- 6:41Speaker 1: Well why wouldn't you look cocky? You've just won.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Because you'd read the room and be a little humble.
- 6:46Speaker 4: No, I'm sorry, why would you you've managed to knock
- 6:49Speaker 4: off the prime minister, you're going to become the next
- 6:52Speaker 4: guy in the job. Is it really a time to
- 6:56Speaker 4: be all that humble? Of course he's full of himself
- 6:59Speaker 4: as well. He deserves to be. He gets to sit
- 7:02Speaker 4: in the hot seat for a while. I mean, he
- 7:04Speaker 4: may well feel very differently in a few months.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Time after he's had a go at the job.
- 7:08Speaker 4: But if I were him, I don't blame him for
- 7:11Speaker 4: feeling that way. And honestly, I don't see what the
- 7:13Speaker 4: issue is with him having a photo with his colleagues.
- 7:16Speaker 1: The reality is that guys have about to.
- 7:18Speaker 4: Become prime minister. What we all meant to pretend for
- 7:21Speaker 4: the next six weeks that he's not?
- 7:23Speaker 6: Is it? Just hold off?
- 7:24Speaker 5: I think, hold off until you've introduced yourself properly to
- 7:27Speaker 5: the nation that you are about to serve. I just
- 7:29Speaker 5: think it's very self serving what he's done.
- 7:31Speaker 4: Well, it's ridiculous, maybe so, but he's a politician, isn't he.
- 7:33Speaker 4: I mean, what else do we expect?
- 7:35Speaker 2: Is it insensitive to his good friend Kirstarmer, who he's
- 7:39Speaker 2: I don't think.
- 7:39Speaker 6: It gives two Why wout care seriously, book?
- 7:42Speaker 4: I mean, as you know, I've said before that I
- 7:44Speaker 4: believe that sirqu should not be rolled in any way.
- 7:47Speaker 4: I don't think he had to resign yesterday, and he
- 7:50Speaker 4: should have waited until Burnham managed to come up with
- 7:53Speaker 4: the eighty one signatures eighty plus his own that he
- 7:55Speaker 4: needed in order to bring on a spill, which has
- 7:58Speaker 4: never been done in the history of the Labor Party
- 8:00Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty odd years in the United Kingdom.
- 8:03Speaker 4: You know, I think he deserved to stay there. But
- 8:06Speaker 4: you know, Burnham's been successful in this drive and so
- 8:10Speaker 4: he probably has the right to feel a little bit
- 8:13Speaker 4: cocky right now. I understand why the Labor Party is
- 8:16Speaker 4: feeling a little bit cocky as well, because they're like,
- 8:18Speaker 4: thank god, we got rid of that bloke who's not
- 8:20Speaker 4: done terribly well for us. Maybe we've got a chance now.
- 8:23Speaker 4: I mean, as we were talking about last night, the
- 8:25Speaker 4: polling at the moment says that this would put them
- 8:27Speaker 4: on level footing with reform. But there's a lot more
- 8:30Speaker 4: to come afterwards. But you know, look, I couldn't particularly
- 8:34Speaker 4: care whether he's had a photo with his colleagues or not,
- 8:36Speaker 4: because we have much bigger fish to fry, including whether
- 8:40Speaker 4: one of the other MP's who was sworn in yesterday.
- 8:43Speaker 4: They had three by elections last week. One of them
- 8:47Speaker 4: is a woman by the name of Lara Bird who
- 8:50Speaker 4: has been sworn in as the new MP for our
- 8:54Speaker 4: Broth and Broughty Ferry, which is an electorate in Scotland.
- 8:59Speaker 4: She is a member of the Scottish National Party. But
- 9:02Speaker 4: has she been sworn in or not? Because this is
- 9:07Speaker 4: what happened in the Parliament and pay attention to her fingers.
- 9:12Speaker 9: I take this oath only so that I can serve
- 9:14Speaker 9: the people of our birth and Rotty Ferry. My first
- 9:17Speaker 9: allegiance is and always will be the sovereign people of Scotland.
- 9:23Speaker 9: I do swear that I will be faithful and their
- 9:25Speaker 9: true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors,
- 9:29Speaker 9: according to the law.
- 9:30Speaker 3: So help me God.
- 9:33Speaker 4: So before she's even taken the oath, she's basically said,
- 9:35Speaker 4: I couldn't give a toss bag about this oath. I'm
- 9:37Speaker 4: only doing it so I can take the job and
- 9:39Speaker 4: the money, Thank you very much, And then she crosses her.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Fingers as she gives the oath.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Now, I'm sure you know as well, do I that
- 9:48Speaker 4: you know traditionally, crossing your fingers while you make a
- 9:50Speaker 4: promise is saying that you do not actually make that promise.
- 9:54Speaker 4: It's meant to be some sort of get out course.
- 9:57Speaker 4: So I mean, has she actually taken the oath? Has she,
- 10:01Speaker 4: in doing so, negated the fact that she's taken the oath?
- 10:04Speaker 4: I suppose it would have to go off to court
- 10:07Speaker 4: if someone really wanted to challenge it, because you could
- 10:09Speaker 4: probably technically argue that you read out those words and
- 10:12Speaker 4: therefore you have taken the oath and that whatever you
- 10:15Speaker 4: were doing with your hands at the time has no
- 10:17Speaker 4: legal standing. But the intent of it is to say
- 10:22Speaker 4: that I do not agree to the oath that I'm taking,
- 10:25Speaker 4: and I'm only doing it so I consider in this parliament,
- 10:28Speaker 4: I don't actually pledge allegiance to the king and his
- 10:31Speaker 4: heirs and successes. If you can't do it, you shouldn't
- 10:35Speaker 4: take the job in the first place.
- 10:36Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't want to swear allegiance, don't swear allegiance.
- 10:40Speaker 3: Do what shin Fein do?
- 10:41Speaker 2: They don't want to swear allegiance and therefore they don't
- 10:44Speaker 2: sit in the House, and they don't vote on certain things,
- 10:47Speaker 2: and they don't get paid in the way that they
- 10:49Speaker 2: would otherwise. You can't demand trust while signaling insincerity to everybody.
- 10:56Speaker 2: But in terms of the oath itself, Danika could have
- 11:00Speaker 2: harrot take the oath, my point being if you say
- 11:04Speaker 2: the words, have you taken the oath or do you
- 11:06Speaker 2: actually have to mean it? Because she would say, well,
- 11:09Speaker 2: I took the oath, I said what they told me
- 11:11Speaker 2: to say. Yeah, But at the same time she's indicating
- 11:14Speaker 2: I don't mean a word that I'm saying, and Lydia
- 11:16Speaker 2: Thorpe of course did the same here. In fact, we've
- 11:20Speaker 2: got some vision back in twenty twenty two when she
- 11:23Speaker 2: took her oath in the Australian Parliament.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Hairs and Successes.
- 11:29Speaker 4: According to colonizing her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth.
- 11:33Speaker 5: The six Senator thought you are required to recite the
- 11:36Speaker 5: oath as printed on the cards.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Now, people didn't pick it up at the time, but
- 11:41Speaker 2: Lady Lydia Thorpe explained that she swore allegiance to the
- 11:44Speaker 2: King and.
- 11:45Speaker 3: His heirs rather than his heirs, and.
- 11:48Speaker 2: So that was her get out clause, which she thought
- 11:50Speaker 2: was very clever. I think it should automatically disqualify you.
- 11:53Speaker 5: I think absolutely in the end, when you are it
- 11:56Speaker 5: is an honor to be elected to Parliament or to
- 11:59Speaker 5: be elected to your local area.
- 12:01Speaker 6: It is an honor to serve.
- 12:03Speaker 5: And when you go into the Parliament you have to
- 12:06Speaker 5: take that role very seriously because you do have a
- 12:09Speaker 5: very big responsibility on your hands. And then to stand
- 12:11Speaker 5: up there to make that pledge, to pledge that you
- 12:14Speaker 5: know what you are going to serve your people, your
- 12:17Speaker 5: electorate to the best of your capabilities, and then to
- 12:20Speaker 5: make a signal with your hand like that. To me,
- 12:22Speaker 5: that looks like a child throwing its toys out of
- 12:25Speaker 5: the cot. It is so childish. And as for this woman,
- 12:28Speaker 5: I was doing a bit of research into her. She's
- 12:30Speaker 5: a pro Palestine advocate, so much so that she was
- 12:33Speaker 5: an alumna of the Britain Palestine Project Fellowship program. So
- 12:37Speaker 5: I think that she's always had obviously these very.
- 12:41Speaker 6: Left leaning views.
- 12:43Speaker 5: But it doesn't actually strengthen the case really for Scottish independence,
- 12:46Speaker 5: because what it's done is drawn.
- 12:48Speaker 6: Attention to her.
- 12:49Speaker 5: The other thing I would make is now I think
- 12:52Speaker 5: that she's obviously a very attractive woman. This is nothing
- 12:55Speaker 5: against the way she looks, but what she was wearing.
- 12:57Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw as she entered Parliament,
- 13:00Speaker 5: that was my first thought how inappropriate she was. I
- 13:03Speaker 5: don't know if we've got the full vision, but she
- 13:05Speaker 5: had on a mini skirt.
- 13:07Speaker 6: And knee high boots.
- 13:08Speaker 5: Now I don't think that that is appropriate clothing for
- 13:14Speaker 5: Parliament for your first day either. I think that something
- 13:18Speaker 5: more modest would have been much more sufficient. That's not
- 13:21Speaker 5: attacking this woman, because I think she's obviously a very
- 13:23Speaker 5: attractive woman. Speak for you, but I don't believe that
- 13:26Speaker 5: what she was wearing was it was entirely inappropriate.
- 13:30Speaker 6: She's not taking it seriously enough.
- 13:32Speaker 1: And this is not the first time this has happened either.
- 13:35Speaker 4: Another bloke from the SNP, Stephen Bonner, did this in
- 13:40Speaker 4: twenty nineteen as well.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Take a look.
- 13:44Speaker 2: I think that's all the unsure that I can represent
- 13:46Speaker 2: the people I called friends, police and Perlson Scott.
- 13:51Speaker 4: So I mean there's a present here that the SNP
- 13:53Speaker 4: has set where they do this, and I suppose this
- 13:56Speaker 4: would be the argument as well.
- 13:57Speaker 1: You know, he got away with it, so why can't
- 13:59Speaker 1: someone else get away that?
- 14:00Speaker 4: If there do ever agree a challenge, but I'd actually
- 14:03Speaker 4: I'd like to see someone run a case just to
- 14:05Speaker 4: prove a point. You know, there'd be some lawyer in
- 14:08Speaker 4: the UK somewhere who surely you'd be willing to do
- 14:10Speaker 4: it pro bono, just to try and test the boundaries
- 14:14Speaker 4: and see where it would go. Because if, as you say, James,
- 14:17Speaker 4: if you say the oath without the intent of believing it,
- 14:21Speaker 4: then have you actually given an oath at all? Because
- 14:25Speaker 4: an oath is fundamentally about truth, and what you were
- 14:29Speaker 4: doing is being untruthful in reading out those words.
- 14:33Speaker 2: And surely the Speaker of the House should grow a
- 14:35Speaker 2: set and say no, no, say the oath properly, uncross
- 14:39Speaker 2: your fingers. If you can't say it without signaling that
- 14:41Speaker 2: you don't mean it, well then maybe get out.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Of the house.
- 14:46Speaker 2: The Speaker should take some responsibility for this as well.
- 14:48Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm completely agree.
- 14:49Speaker 5: Now, look, if you're not interested at all in British politics,
- 14:53Speaker 5: I know something that may pique your interest.
- 14:57Speaker 6: I'm going to show you a chap.
- 15:00Speaker 5: Who's gone viral at the moment, only known as Podium
- 15:03Speaker 5: Man going viral because apparently he's the hottest thing in
- 15:07Speaker 5: Britain right now. This is forty two year old Tobias Goff.
- 15:12Speaker 5: He is the sound engineer at Downing Street and well,
- 15:17Speaker 5: look he's doing the rounds because of his physique. I
- 15:20Speaker 5: must say, I think the physique's fantastic. I think he's
- 15:23Speaker 5: a very handsome man myself. Somebody said the sound engineer
- 15:26Speaker 5: has quickly become the only thing Britain's can rely on
- 15:29Speaker 5: in these trying times. Now, Tobias has actually outlived the
- 15:34Speaker 5: last five prime ministers.
- 15:36Speaker 6: He's outlast at all five.
- 15:37Speaker 5: And he first gained popularity in twenty nineteen when he's
- 15:40Speaker 5: set up for Theresa May's resignation address. And ever since
- 15:45Speaker 5: then there's been one resignation or one outing after another,
- 15:48Speaker 5: and Tobias has been rolled out and the internet is
- 15:51Speaker 5: going absolutely crazy. He's so hot, one has written, other
- 15:55Speaker 5: has gone that was me obviously. Others have joke have
- 15:59Speaker 5: jokingly said he should be given the top job.
- 16:01Speaker 3: Also, Denica, that was also me.
- 16:03Speaker 6: Just make him the prime minister. At this point, he
- 16:05Speaker 6: is reliable and consistent.
- 16:09Speaker 3: Job.
- 16:09Speaker 6: He is, mister mister reliable. There you go, podium man.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Now.
- 16:14Speaker 5: I don't know what you two gentlemen think of it.
- 16:16Speaker 5: I think it's quite a welcome de light out of
- 16:18Speaker 5: Downing streets.
- 16:18Speaker 2: It's almost like you're praying for prime ministers to fall
- 16:21Speaker 2: so you can see Tobias again.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Well why not?
- 16:23Speaker 5: I mean again, if you're not interested in British British politics,
- 16:26Speaker 5: then then Tobias might turn your head.
- 16:28Speaker 4: I didn't know that this program had turned into a
- 16:31Speaker 4: vehicle for you to just froth shame is married, so
- 16:34Speaker 4: that you could announce on television in the hopes that
- 16:36Speaker 4: they might then hit you up in the on Instagram.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Don't encouraging and ask you what on a date? But
- 16:42Speaker 1: seriously though, so so here we are.
- 16:45Speaker 4: There are you know, stories being written in major news
- 16:48Speaker 4: outlets in the UK. We're here having a discussion on
- 16:51Speaker 4: telling you about Oh how funny is it they said
- 16:54Speaker 4: this all the women frothen over this bloke?
- 16:56Speaker 1: How hot he is? Do you reckon this had happened
- 16:59Speaker 1: for a woman?
- 17:00Speaker 4: I mean, if we were to sit here tonight and
- 17:03Speaker 4: have a discussion and you know, James and or I
- 17:08Speaker 4: were saying, oh, you know there was this really hot
- 17:11Speaker 4: female soundtickie there last night, jeezh she was a bit
- 17:16Speaker 4: of all right, I reckon I'd give her the top
- 17:18Speaker 4: job now.
- 17:19Speaker 10: Sa that exactly would that flying women's exactly. She's only
- 17:24Speaker 10: doing a job. How dare you talk about her look?
- 17:26Speaker 10: She should be talking about how is good? She isn't
- 17:28Speaker 10: doing her job? Why are you talking about the looks?
- 17:31Speaker 10: That sexist?
- 17:32Speaker 4: Ra rahrah, that's the discussion we would be having now.
- 17:36Speaker 4: I am not offended as a bloke about you saying
- 17:39Speaker 4: you got the hots for him, or anyone else saying
- 17:41Speaker 4: they've got the hots for him. But there is a
- 17:44Speaker 4: double standard at play here because if that were a woman,
- 17:48Speaker 4: those stories would never be written. We wouldn't be able
- 17:50Speaker 4: to have this discussion on television. I mean, we could
- 17:53Speaker 4: do it, but we'd be written up tomorrow in all
- 17:55Speaker 4: the lefty rags about how we'd had this sexist discussion
- 17:58Speaker 4: about a woman's looks and we hadn't talked about it
- 18:00Speaker 4: job instead. There is absolutely a double standard at play here.
- 18:04Speaker 5: But you know what, Okay, if you said a woman,
- 18:07Speaker 5: if you know it was a female, fine, and you
- 18:09Speaker 5: said she's beautiful, she is gorgeous, Yeah, I feel like
- 18:14Speaker 5: that would be passable.
- 18:15Speaker 6: But if you said, oh, she's.
- 18:17Speaker 5: Hot, he's hot as hell, I don't know, all right,
- 18:19Speaker 5: I think that that people would be I do a great.
- 18:22Speaker 6: I don't agree with it because I don't agree right.
- 18:24Speaker 4: So let me read you the story, just a couple
- 18:26Speaker 4: of parts from the story that we're talking about here.
- 18:28Speaker 4: It begins, as it turns out, there's an unlikely, yet
- 18:32Speaker 4: full proof method to get people to care about politics.
- 18:35Speaker 4: I'm now going to substitute the man for the woman here.
- 18:37Speaker 4: You just have to place a ridiculously good looking woman
- 18:40Speaker 4: in front of the Prime minister's podium. And that's exactly
- 18:43Speaker 4: what's happening in the UK right now? Do you reckon
- 18:46Speaker 4: those words would be written in a newspaper.
- 18:48Speaker 6: No, no, exactly, not precisely.
- 18:51Speaker 1: When it's a man, you get away with it.
- 18:52Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I do. I do a great. I'm not
- 18:54Speaker 6: saying that.
- 18:54Speaker 5: I think it's ridiculous because I think that you know,
- 18:58Speaker 5: if a woman is attractive, you say, yes, she is.
- 19:01Speaker 6: But I also think it's the tone of it.
- 19:02Speaker 5: There's a difference between saying she's beautiful, she's gorgeous, versus
- 19:06Speaker 5: are that bad?
- 19:06Speaker 2: I tell you, right, this is a question, right, So
- 19:09Speaker 2: why is the tone he's hot acceptable but she's hot
- 19:14Speaker 2: is not acceptable?
- 19:15Speaker 3: Why?
- 19:16Speaker 5: I think I think it's Look, I think think firstly,
- 19:19Speaker 5: I think me too, has just completely killed any sort
- 19:23Speaker 5: of compliments that men ever give women, because I think
- 19:27Speaker 5: there are women, and especially on the lefts of the left,
- 19:30Speaker 5: that are so hyper sensitive now to compliments because they go, oh,
- 19:33Speaker 5: that's sexual harassment, and that is true. I mean, I
- 19:36Speaker 5: know there are some of my friends that I know
- 19:38Speaker 5: they don't like male compliments because I take it as harassment.
- 19:41Speaker 5: It's true, and I think it's very, very sad. So
- 19:43Speaker 5: I do think that there is that factor. But it's
- 19:46Speaker 5: also that women traditionally have never been taken seriously. Not
- 19:50Speaker 5: that I necessarily agree with that, but I just think
- 19:52Speaker 5: that there is perception in society that it's, you know,
- 19:54Speaker 5: it's a man's world, or it's a man's job. In
- 19:55Speaker 5: a politicism is a man's world. Women try and you know,
- 19:58Speaker 5: women want to be taken for I.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Reckon you might have a point there, because like it
- 20:03Speaker 2: or not, there's a long history of women being reduced
- 20:05Speaker 2: to just their looks, right, that's undeniable.
- 20:09Speaker 3: There's a long history of that.
- 20:10Speaker 2: So is it okay, then, Caleb, for society to be
- 20:13Speaker 2: a little bit sensitive about that.
- 20:15Speaker 4: Well, I think if you want a quality, you get
- 20:17Speaker 4: a quality, and that means everyone's treated in the same manner,
- 20:20Speaker 4: doesn't it. I mean, you know, as a woman, you
- 20:23Speaker 4: can have a high flying job in pretty much any
- 20:26Speaker 4: part not.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Any part of the world.
- 20:27Speaker 4: There are some plazas where we're banned as a woman
- 20:29Speaker 4: from having a job, but not here in the West,
- 20:31Speaker 4: and thank God for that. We've moved beyond those times,
- 20:34Speaker 4: and rightly so. But having moved beyond those times, surely
- 20:38Speaker 4: we now apply the same standard to everyone, whether that
- 20:41Speaker 4: is your ability to get and hold down a job,
- 20:44Speaker 4: but also the fact that you know, if we want
- 20:46Speaker 4: to say you're good looking in the newspaper and on
- 20:48Speaker 4: the television, it should apply equally to men or women.
- 20:51Speaker 1: What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
- 20:53Speaker 5: Well, here's what I'll say. I think that Tobias would
- 20:55Speaker 5: be a fine engineer.
- 20:58Speaker 3: And apparently.
- 21:02Speaker 2: What does it say about British politics though that the
- 21:05Speaker 2: guy who does the sound outside number ten has a
- 21:09Speaker 2: higher popularity rating than the primate or the opposition lead
- 21:13Speaker 2: running Brits are.
- 21:14Speaker 5: Just he could work on the letter. He could definitely
- 21:17Speaker 5: were at work on the latter lady a.
- 21:19Speaker 4: Reason reason it was at least yeah.
- 21:24Speaker 2: All right, A couple of weeks ago, I had my
- 21:26Speaker 2: first ever game of pickleball, And.
- 21:29Speaker 3: Have you played? How'd you go? Did you?
- 21:31Speaker 1: Have you played?
- 21:32Speaker 2: No?
- 21:32Speaker 1: I have.
- 21:32Speaker 3: We don't knock something you've never tried.
- 21:34Speaker 1: But you never told us that you played pickleball.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Because I made this great revelation on the late Debate
- 21:40Speaker 2: when neither of you were here. But yeah, I played
- 21:44Speaker 2: pickleball and quite enjoyed it. The advantage of pickaballa.
- 21:48Speaker 5: Well, can you explain, Maybe you should explain what pickleball is.
- 21:51Speaker 3: It's tennis for people who don't want to run.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of the ball.
- 21:55Speaker 2: It's it's a ball, but it's like plastic and it's
- 21:58Speaker 2: got holes in it.
- 21:59Speaker 3: So like, are you a tennis player?
- 22:02Speaker 6: Oh?
- 22:02Speaker 3: No, okay, So if we played.
- 22:04Speaker 2: Tennis, it'd be kind of pointless because the ball would
- 22:07Speaker 2: bounce so much and you'd never get to it, et cetera.
- 22:10Speaker 2: Whereas the plastic ball with holes in it, it sort
- 22:12Speaker 2: of moves more slowly through the air, so it gives someone.
- 22:16Speaker 5: Is it like squash or is it like a bad
- 22:18Speaker 5: like squash badminton?
- 22:20Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit like that.
- 22:21Speaker 2: It's a slower sort of a game and on a
- 22:24Speaker 2: smaller court anyway, it's growing in popularity. Back in twenty fifteen,
- 22:27Speaker 2: no one had heard of pickleball. Ten years later, there's
- 22:29Speaker 2: at least two hundred thousand Australians who were playing it
- 22:32Speaker 2: on a regular basis, and there's courts popping up all
- 22:35Speaker 2: over the country. Brisbane City Council has got a couple
- 22:38Speaker 2: of courts at Holland Park and they decided to add
- 22:42Speaker 2: three more at a cost of two hundred and forty
- 22:44Speaker 2: thousand dollars. However, locals have campaigned against it. Not because
- 22:50Speaker 2: and here's the point of the story, not because they
- 22:53Speaker 2: have an objection to pickleball or even to an expansion
- 22:57Speaker 2: of the courts. No, No, their problem is that the
- 23:00Speaker 2: Brisbane City Council didn't go through the right process and
- 23:04Speaker 2: consult with them regarding the expansion of the courts. A
- 23:10Speaker 2: gentleman who's been involved in previous labor campaigns and lives
- 23:13Speaker 2: across the road from the park told the newspaper that
- 23:18Speaker 2: he didn't oppose the plan for new courts. In fact,
- 23:21Speaker 2: he plays pickleball himself, but he didn't like the fact
- 23:25Speaker 2: that residents had not been consulted. Is this politicizing public
- 23:31Speaker 2: infrastructure and is it confusing democracy? Which they claim has
- 23:35Speaker 2: not been upheld here with a right to veto every
- 23:39Speaker 2: decision that you must have a say on whatever the
- 23:42Speaker 2: council does. You voted at an election. Let the council
- 23:46Speaker 2: get on with doing what they're doing. They don't need
- 23:48Speaker 2: to check in with every single thing with local residents.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Granted there are development laws etc. But in this case,
- 23:55Speaker 2: their problem is not that development laws have been contravened.
- 23:57Speaker 2: It's just that they didn't get a say and so
- 24:00Speaker 2: they've protested and now the Brisbane City Council has backed down.
- 24:04Speaker 4: It's not like they were proposing putting a Stonking Great
- 24:06Speaker 4: apartment building in the exactly park, right, I mean, what
- 24:10Speaker 4: is public space for if not for public use, and
- 24:13Speaker 4: they were going to put something in there that was
- 24:15Speaker 4: fundamentally for the purpose of public user. I'm not sure
- 24:18Speaker 4: how you then argue that, well, actually I have no
- 24:21Speaker 4: problem with the pickleball court, but I'm really upset with
- 24:24Speaker 4: the fact I wasn't told there would be a pickleball court,
- 24:27Speaker 4: and so on that basis, I'm going to protest there
- 24:29Speaker 4: being a pickleball court, and now I'm happy that the
- 24:32Speaker 4: council got rid of it. I mean, did you want
- 24:34Speaker 4: the pickleball court and not in.
- 24:36Speaker 1: The first place.
- 24:38Speaker 4: I think the council is pretty weak for giving into this.
- 24:40Speaker 4: To be perfectly honest, yes they probably could have handled
- 24:43Speaker 4: a consultation better, but it's just.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Nimbiism, isn't it all.
- 24:49Speaker 4: There's this classic case in North Adelaide, and Adelaide viewers
- 24:53Speaker 4: will probably know what I'm talking about, where there was
- 24:56Speaker 4: a tennis court public tennis court been continually pad locked
- 25:02Speaker 4: up by residents to stop people from coming and using
- 25:06Speaker 4: the tennis courts because it was opposite houses and they
- 25:09Speaker 4: thought it created too much noise and whatever, and they
- 25:11Speaker 4: were basically keeping the public dinners court. It's their private
- 25:16Speaker 4: tennis court for.
- 25:16Speaker 1: All the houses in the street. So maybe that's what
- 25:19Speaker 1: they wanted.
- 25:20Speaker 4: They wanted a little private pickleball called in the park
- 25:23Speaker 4: over the road that.
- 25:23Speaker 1: No one else could use.
- 25:25Speaker 4: But seriously, like it's a public park, shouldn't it have
- 25:28Speaker 4: things in it for the public to use.
- 25:30Speaker 5: Honestly, these sorts of people, you just wonder how they
- 25:32Speaker 5: survived day by day because all they do is complain.
- 25:34Speaker 5: And once again it's like Nimby's on the loose. They've
- 25:37Speaker 5: always got something to complain about.
- 25:39Speaker 6: In an era where.
- 25:40Speaker 5: People are on their phones, on social media, on laptops,
- 25:44Speaker 5: on computers. Why wouldn't you encourage people to get out more,
- 25:49Speaker 5: Go and have fun in your local area. Go and
- 25:51Speaker 5: play a couple of rounds of pickleball, catch up with mates,
- 25:55Speaker 5: have a good time. This actually encourages activity in my view.
- 26:00Speaker 5: Some of the residents, they made a few complaints. One
- 26:02Speaker 5: they were worried about the noise that the pickleball makes.
- 26:05Speaker 5: I mean, maybe you can shed some light on the.
- 26:07Speaker 6: Noise of the pickle ball. I hit it pretty hard,
- 26:10Speaker 6: sorry in the Olympics.
- 26:13Speaker 5: And the other complaint that they made as well, that
- 26:15Speaker 5: that particular park doesn't have a toilet block, and then
- 26:18Speaker 5: they also said that there would not be enough.
- 26:20Speaker 6: Room for these courts.
- 26:22Speaker 5: Well, how about you just leave the council to deal
- 26:24Speaker 5: with those sorts of matters instead of trying to take
- 26:26Speaker 5: matters into your own hands and deciding what can fit
- 26:29Speaker 5: into the park and what can't fit into that park.
- 26:32Speaker 5: But I just think that a small upgrade. This really
- 26:35Speaker 5: isn't that big of an upgrade when you think about it.
- 26:37Speaker 5: As you said, it's not an apartment tower. A small
- 26:39Speaker 5: upgrade to try and make a piece of utility fun
- 26:43Speaker 5: for everybody. I think is absolutely fantastic in an era
- 26:46Speaker 5: where we're all sitting down inside and on our phones.
- 26:49Speaker 1: I just want to know why is it called pickleball?
- 26:51Speaker 6: Yeah? Why is it called pickleball?
- 26:53Speaker 1: It's a terrible name. Yeah, the sport last.
- 26:57Speaker 6: The Olympian in the middle here, he might shed some
- 26:59Speaker 6: light on that one.
- 26:59Speaker 2: To thee it goes back hundreds of years to the
- 27:02Speaker 2: Roman Empire. Kleber, Oh God, I don't know, because don't
- 27:06Speaker 2: you smile when you say pickleball. I mean when you
- 27:08Speaker 2: said pickleball like five times in sixty seconds. Danik and
- 27:11Speaker 2: I are both sitting here smiling, wondering how many times
- 27:13Speaker 2: is he going to say it?
- 27:14Speaker 4: Well, how you meant to take a sport seriously? If
- 27:17Speaker 4: the name elicits, you know, hilarity, like, it's not going
- 27:20Speaker 4: to be put on the same level of tennis or
- 27:21Speaker 4: cricket or you know, football or anything. If everyone goes, oh,
- 27:25Speaker 4: what the hell's pickleball? Like it's just a stupid name.
- 27:28Speaker 4: It actually seems like an appealing sport. But I'm inclined not.
- 27:31Speaker 1: To give it a go because it's called pickleball.
- 27:33Speaker 2: That is protesting the court Nimby just you.
- 27:38Speaker 4: Know, I'm sorry. I just like imagine telling people what
- 27:41Speaker 4: are you doing tonight? I'm going to play pickleball? I
- 27:43Speaker 4: don't know, makes you sound.
- 27:45Speaker 6: Like people have they done kleb?
- 27:47Speaker 2: Okay, what about producers just said to ask you, do
- 27:49Speaker 2: you play squash?
- 27:50Speaker 3: Well? Is that not a silly name?
- 27:52Speaker 4: I haven't played squash? And what is the origin of
- 27:55Speaker 4: squash now that you mention it?
- 27:57Speaker 1: You know, I don't know.
- 27:58Speaker 4: Maybe the bloke who came up with pickleball was eating
- 28:00Speaker 4: a pickle and the bloke who came up with squash
- 28:02Speaker 4: was drinking a lemon squash or something at the time.
- 28:05Speaker 4: I have no idea a woman for that matter, because
- 28:07Speaker 4: of course we're not sexist here on the late debate,
- 28:10Speaker 4: as were established much earlier. Now, I'm sure we've all
- 28:13Speaker 4: been in the position where you're on a plane and
- 28:16Speaker 4: there is a screaming child and you just wish they
- 28:19Speaker 4: would shut up, or even worse, you have a kid
- 28:24Speaker 4: in the seat behind you kicking the seat. It's an annoyance.
- 28:28Speaker 4: It is absolutely an annoyance, and I can understand that
- 28:31Speaker 4: some parents might find it exceedingly difficult to rain their
- 28:35Speaker 4: child in this circumstance, particularly if it's the first time
- 28:39Speaker 4: on a plane. But you know, if you've had a
- 28:40Speaker 4: long day and you're flying somewhere, or you're trying to
- 28:43Speaker 4: get some work done, or you're going for meetings and
- 28:45Speaker 4: you've got a lot of work to get done on
- 28:46Speaker 4: the day, and you're just sitting there and some kid
- 28:49Speaker 4: is just continually.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Third, third, third in.
- 28:52Speaker 4: The back, it gets old hat pretty quickly. Well, a
- 28:57Speaker 4: chap in the United States decided to take this.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Up for himself. Didn't go so well. They stop kicking
- 29:07Speaker 1: the sins.
- 29:11Speaker 6: Oh, come on, man, stop kicking it and done.
- 29:15Speaker 1: Now, look the way he handled it.
- 29:18Speaker 4: You know, he's probably a bit of an anchor if
- 29:20Speaker 4: anchor had a w in front of it. But I
- 29:22Speaker 4: do understand what he is annoyed by. And the response
- 29:27Speaker 4: of the mother again, I look, he was probably a
- 29:29Speaker 4: bit adversarial and in the way he approached it.
- 29:32Speaker 1: But the response of the mother like, well are you
- 29:34Speaker 1: telling him to stop?
- 29:35Speaker 4: Like she could have said, oh, look, I'm really sorry mate,
- 29:38Speaker 4: I'll I'll just try and do something about it, like
- 29:41Speaker 4: aren't you meant to control your kid?
- 29:43Speaker 1: In those circumstances.
- 29:44Speaker 4: Again, he probably didn't go about it the right way,
- 29:47Speaker 4: But I understand where his anger is coming from.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's got every right to be upset.
- 29:52Speaker 2: The problem with the woman is, you know, you can't
- 29:54Speaker 2: decide I might begin disciplining my children on a flight
- 29:58Speaker 2: at thirty thousand feet if you haven't been disciplining them
- 30:01Speaker 2: for a long period before you get on the plane,
- 30:03Speaker 2: Good luck trying to control them in a tin cylinder
- 30:06Speaker 2: where they've got nothing to do for hours. So I
- 30:09Speaker 2: think a lot of kids play up on planes because
- 30:11Speaker 2: they're used to playing up, and mum and dad can't
- 30:13Speaker 2: control them, and so then everybody else had to suffer.
- 30:17Speaker 3: My question about that was who filmed that?
- 30:19Speaker 1: He think it was?
- 30:20Speaker 6: I think he filmed it.
- 30:21Speaker 2: See that makes me less because when you try and
- 30:25Speaker 2: deal with something in good faith, you're not holding your phone.
- 30:28Speaker 3: They're videoing the reactions.
- 30:30Speaker 4: So yeah, i'd be fair. We don't know what happened
- 30:32Speaker 4: before he too. I mean, he could have tried to
- 30:34Speaker 4: ask politely who knows, and then you've got the ritz
- 30:37Speaker 4: and decided that's what he was going to do.
- 30:39Speaker 1: But I mean, he didn't help his case.
- 30:40Speaker 5: But yeah, I think that the filming was wrong, and
- 30:43Speaker 5: I think he's sort of in that video he appeared
- 30:45Speaker 5: to sort of laugh at her.
- 30:47Speaker 6: He didn't take it right.
- 30:49Speaker 5: But secondly, you know, you've got to take some control
- 30:53Speaker 5: over your kids, and I worry about this era of
- 30:57Speaker 5: soft parenting where it's love.
- 30:59Speaker 6: Don't do that.
- 31:00Speaker 5: Listen, the kid's going to outsmart you every single time.
- 31:03Speaker 5: I don't know if you ever had any issues on
- 31:05Speaker 5: flights with your two boys when they were younger, but
- 31:09Speaker 5: this is a prime example of soft parenting in my view,
- 31:13Speaker 5: and the parents need to be taking responsibility here. I
- 31:16Speaker 5: do have a degree of sympathy for parents on flights
- 31:19Speaker 5: because there is always a risk that you don't know
- 31:21Speaker 5: what your child's going to do.
- 31:23Speaker 6: Just like anywhere you go.
- 31:24Speaker 5: If you take your child to the supermarket, are they
- 31:26Speaker 5: going to start screaming because they're absolutely.
- 31:28Speaker 6: Exhausted in the middle of Aisle four? You just don't
- 31:31Speaker 6: know what the kid is going to do.
- 31:33Speaker 5: But in that case, the kid was clearly kicking and
- 31:37Speaker 5: kicking and kicking.
- 31:38Speaker 6: She should have controlled a child.
- 31:40Speaker 3: Joe and Ben.
- 31:41Speaker 2: We flew a lot with Joe and Ben when they
- 31:42Speaker 2: were young, and they were always really good flyers, not
- 31:46Speaker 2: because they were particularly good kids, they just knew we
- 31:49Speaker 2: will tell you once and then you'll be smacked. And
- 31:53Speaker 2: they did not doubt that that would happen. And it's
- 31:55Speaker 2: amazing how that prompted good behavior.
- 31:58Speaker 6: There you go.
- 31:58Speaker 5: See, you controlled the kids.
- 32:00Speaker 6: That is not soft parenting.
- 32:02Speaker 5: That's exactly what I'm talking about.
- 32:04Speaker 6: Okay.
- 32:05Speaker 5: The next story comes with a bit of a trigger
- 32:06Speaker 5: warning cyclists and bike lanes.
- 32:09Speaker 6: Now, I know some of you out there will already
- 32:11Speaker 6: be going ooh no at the thought of it.
- 32:13Speaker 5: Okay, but in Adelaide, the city Council there are now
- 32:17Speaker 5: proposing lower speed limits and pop up bike lanes along
- 32:21Speaker 5: the CBD's busiest roads. As this council considers ways to
- 32:25Speaker 5: make the city safer and more attractive for cyclists, it
- 32:29Speaker 5: is investigating options for a one hundred and fifty thousand
- 32:33Speaker 5: dollars pop up cycling trial, intending to erect at least
- 32:37Speaker 5: one pop up bikeway along a city street running north,
- 32:40Speaker 5: south and east west in the coming months. Councilor Eleanor Freeman,
- 32:45Speaker 5: she put forward this motion back in April to investigate
- 32:48Speaker 5: whether this would be successful, and just read what she said.
- 32:51Speaker 5: She goes, we now have a pretty significant increase in
- 32:53Speaker 5: cycling happening across the city. We're getting denser, not everyone
- 32:57Speaker 5: that lives in the city drives around, So it's starting
- 32:59Speaker 5: to get to a point for we just can't keep
- 33:01Speaker 5: deferring these hard decisions. We need to think about them
- 33:04Speaker 5: now or we're never going to achieve that future cycling
- 33:07Speaker 5: network that's in our integrated transport strategy. Why don't these
- 33:12Speaker 5: councils just bugger off and just quit it, you know,
- 33:15Speaker 5: if they're not erecting cycling lanes or encouraging more cyclists
- 33:20Speaker 5: because they're obsessed by the green dream. I mean, look
- 33:22Speaker 5: what's happening in the Sydney City Council, for example. Now
- 33:25Speaker 5: they just want to penalize motorists once again by spending
- 33:29Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for goodness sake investigating
- 33:32Speaker 5: where the pop up bike bicycle lanes and lowering speed
- 33:35Speaker 5: limits are a good idea. I mean, all that is
- 33:38Speaker 5: going to do is actually slow down traffic. And there
- 33:41Speaker 5: are people who do need to drive into the city,
- 33:43Speaker 5: who need to use their cars. They can't just cycle
- 33:45Speaker 5: in or just trot in whenever they feel like it.
- 33:48Speaker 5: But once again, it's these councils not really doing the
- 33:51Speaker 5: usual the things that they're that they're elected to do,
- 33:54Speaker 5: wanting to pursue other interests like.
- 33:56Speaker 4: This, Well, they could have pop up bike lanes, just
- 33:58Speaker 4: pop them up into the sky by helpful, wouldn't it.
- 34:01Speaker 4: And what really annoys me about this is that it
- 34:03Speaker 4: would also be in conjunction potentially. I mean, this is
- 34:06Speaker 4: ideas they're looking at. It's not hasn't we decided on yet?
- 34:09Speaker 4: But also taking away parking spots right, And the population
- 34:14Speaker 4: of Adelaide, like every other city, is only increasing, and
- 34:19Speaker 4: that will necessarily mean that there are more cars.
- 34:21Speaker 1: On the road. But you know these councils, they.
- 34:23Speaker 3: Don't like that.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, we're going to try.
- 34:26Speaker 4: And force people into riding their bikes instead. But more
- 34:29Speaker 4: people means more cars, means more people who might want
- 34:31Speaker 4: to come into the city. So what are we going
- 34:33Speaker 4: to do for city businesses? We're going to make it
- 34:36Speaker 4: harder for people to bring their cars into the city
- 34:38Speaker 4: and get a park.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Like, explain the logic to me here.
- 34:42Speaker 4: If you are a business, a rate paying business in
- 34:45Speaker 4: the city, and the councilor is turning around saying, actually,
- 34:48Speaker 4: we're going to make it harder for people to get
- 34:50Speaker 4: into the CBD you've got the right to be pretty
- 34:53Speaker 4: angry with this stuff.
- 34:54Speaker 3: I reckon yep, absolutely.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Just before we go to a break, I want to
- 34:56Speaker 2: get your opinion on an interesting story today, which is
- 35:01Speaker 2: not teaching the Holocaust in history classes because they're worried.
- 35:06Speaker 3: About the reaction of Muslim students.
- 35:08Speaker 2: This is a study that's been done of Australian teachers,
- 35:11Speaker 2: one of whom told the authors of the study, many
- 35:14Speaker 2: of our students are of Middle Eastern background, and I've
- 35:17Speaker 2: decided not to teach the Diary of Anne Frank for instance,
- 35:20Speaker 2: this term to my year nine history elective class because
- 35:22Speaker 2: of their views on Jewish people in the Israeli Palestine conflict.
- 35:28Speaker 2: They've got the Union to ask for guidance as to
- 35:31Speaker 2: how they should teach, or if they should teach the
- 35:34Speaker 2: Holocaust at all. My initial response would be, of course
- 35:38Speaker 2: he should teach, it's part of the curriculum.
- 35:40Speaker 3: Do your job. But what if these aren't woke teachers.
- 35:44Speaker 2: What if these are just teachers who are genuinely concerned
- 35:47Speaker 2: about what teaching Jewish history might do or incite in
- 35:51Speaker 2: the classroom. Johannes Leak captured that feeling well with a
- 35:55Speaker 2: cartoon in the Australian Today.
- 35:57Speaker 3: Here it is.
- 35:58Speaker 2: He's got a teacher who's head has been removed from
- 36:01Speaker 2: his shoulders, saying, okay, we won't be reading Anne Frank's
- 36:04Speaker 2: diary this term. You've talked me out of it very quickly.
- 36:08Speaker 2: We haven't got much time before the ad break, but
- 36:10Speaker 2: Deanika already has.
- 36:11Speaker 5: Thought, well, well, I tend to think it is actually
- 36:13Speaker 5: activist teachers putting their bias into the classrooms, as we've
- 36:15Speaker 5: seen a million times, and we do know from research
- 36:18Speaker 5: that the way to reduce anti Semitism is to actually
- 36:21Speaker 5: tell people the stories, educate people, make them understand, so
- 36:24Speaker 5: that we don't have a generation growing up thinking that yeah,
- 36:28Speaker 5: it's okay to have an anti Israel perspective or an anti.
- 36:31Speaker 6: Semitic perspective on things.
- 36:32Speaker 5: This is just a complete buckling by teacher.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Just quickly. I'm going to disagree that it's woke teachers.
- 36:37Speaker 2: There was a teacher in France in twenty twenty who
- 36:40Speaker 2: was beheaded after it was alleged he showed a photograph
- 36:43Speaker 2: of Mohammed in a civil studies class. Then in twenty
- 36:49Speaker 2: twenty one there was an English teacher who's still in
- 36:51Speaker 2: hiding to this day after he showed the Charlie Hebdo
- 36:55Speaker 2: magazine cover. That was the end of his life effectively.
- 37:00Speaker 2: And now in the UK you're not allowed to show
- 37:02Speaker 2: any of that stuff in class without getting permission from
- 37:04Speaker 2: higher up because it's so fraught with danger.
- 37:08Speaker 3: I don't know that this is.
- 37:09Speaker 2: A woke story rather than a case of teachers being afraid.
- 37:13Speaker 1: I think two things could be true at once.
- 37:14Speaker 4: It's probably true that there is an element of woke
- 37:17Speaker 4: teachers who don't want to wade into that stuff themselves
- 37:20Speaker 4: because they have an agenda to push. But I also
- 37:22Speaker 4: have a lot of sympathy for the argument you're making
- 37:24Speaker 4: that teachers actually do feel afraid in some classrooms to
- 37:27Speaker 4: talk about the Holocaust and other elements of Jewish history
- 37:30Speaker 4: because they're worried about the retribution that they will.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Face for doing so.
- 37:35Speaker 4: You know, it sounds like the animals are running the zoom.
- 37:37Speaker 3: All right, We're going to go to a break.
- 37:39Speaker 2: When we come back, Well, look at what's making headlines
- 37:41Speaker 2: in tomorrow's papers. You'd think Anthony Albanezi would stop telling lies.
- 37:45Speaker 2: But there's another one that's on the front page of
- 37:48Speaker 2: the papers tomorrow.
- 37:49Speaker 3: We'll show you after this Welcome back to the program.
- 37:58Speaker 2: Before we get to the papers, breaking news out of Washington,
- 38:01Speaker 2: Donald Trump has sought to clarify increasing unrest within his
- 38:05Speaker 2: Republican base around his sudden cease fire deal with Iran.
- 38:09Speaker 2: The President has posted on truth Social in the last
- 38:11Speaker 2: hour this message. He says, despite their protestations and false
- 38:15Speaker 2: statements to the contrary, coupled with the drumbeat of fake news,
- 38:19Speaker 2: which is doing everything possible to make the US victory
- 38:22Speaker 2: as small and insignificant as possible, Iran has fully and
- 38:26Speaker 2: completely agreed to highest level nuclear inspections long into the
- 38:30Speaker 2: future infinity. This will ensure nuclear honesty. If they do
- 38:35Speaker 2: not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations.
- 38:38Speaker 2: Based on this and other major concessions being made by Iran.
- 38:41Speaker 2: I've agreed to allow the Jumuz Straight to remain open
- 38:45Speaker 2: with no further naval blockade. However, all ships are remaining
- 38:48Speaker 2: in place should it be necessary to reinstitute the blockade,
- 38:51Speaker 2: which seems at this point highly unlikely. The money and
- 38:55Speaker 2: or sanctions that the US Treasury is releasing goes into
- 38:58Speaker 2: a scrow control by the USA and will be used
- 39:02Speaker 2: by the purchase of food and medical supplies exclusively from
- 39:05Speaker 2: the United States, including corn, wheat, and soybeans from our
- 39:09Speaker 2: great American farmers. These are things that are desperately needed
- 39:12Speaker 2: by Iran. This is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel
- 39:16Speaker 2: it's necessary to help now.
- 39:18Speaker 3: Before it's too late.
- 39:20Speaker 2: Talks are going well, Thank you for your attention to
- 39:22Speaker 2: this matter, President Donald J.
- 39:25Speaker 3: Trump.
- 39:25Speaker 2: Irana going to allow highest level nuclear inspections. We've been there,
- 39:31Speaker 2: done that, haven't we.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Well. I mean, at least they're going to get us soybeans.
- 39:36Speaker 2: And corn and corn, and the US will get money
- 39:39Speaker 2: for their soybeans.
- 39:41Speaker 4: I'm not sure that that will allay some people's fears,
- 39:43Speaker 4: but anyway, we shall see.
- 39:45Speaker 3: How that goes.
- 39:46Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, I've.
- 39:47Speaker 4: Received some messages during the ad break, and one from
- 39:51Speaker 4: a woman on Twitter who says that Caleb and James
- 39:53Speaker 4: are hot and sexy in relation to the story we
- 39:56Speaker 4: were doing earlier about the chap in the UK was
- 39:59Speaker 4: abdictive hat in newspapers, and a Sky News host who
- 40:02Speaker 4: shall remain unnamed has texted me to say that I'm hot.
- 40:06Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 40:07Speaker 4: It's all happening here on the late debate tonight. We'll
- 40:10Speaker 4: be talking to hr tomorrow on the message during the break,
- 40:17Speaker 4: Danika is exonerted.
- 40:19Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it was a joke. It was a joke,
- 40:21Speaker 1: I'll tell you all right.
- 40:22Speaker 4: On one of the Daily Telegraph tomorrow it says under
- 40:25Speaker 4: the Green thumb labor strikes Rubby deal with Greens on
- 40:28Speaker 4: tax grab. Anthony Albanezi has again been accused of lying
- 40:33Speaker 4: after doing a dangerous deal with the Greens for the
- 40:36Speaker 4: swift passage of the capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms.
- 40:39Speaker 4: The package will now pass, including an exemption to prevent
- 40:43Speaker 4: self managed super funds borrowing money to purchase residential investment properties.
- 40:49Speaker 4: Why shouldn't self managed super fund be able to borrow
- 40:53Speaker 4: money to buy a residential investment property. I'm not sure
- 40:56Speaker 4: whether the Greens realize, but the purpose of a super
- 41:00Speaker 4: fun self managed or otherwise is so that you don't
- 41:03Speaker 4: then have to rely on the government teat in retirement,
- 41:07Speaker 4: which is good for the government, right, But now they're
- 41:10Speaker 4: saying no, no, actually will make it harder for you
- 41:13Speaker 4: to be self sufficient when you get to retirement. Maybe
- 41:16Speaker 4: this is all part of the government plan, or the
- 41:18Speaker 4: Greens plan anyway, But what a joke.
- 41:21Speaker 2: Unrelated to this story, but why is there no talk
- 41:24Speaker 2: about the leadership of Larissa Waters, considering there's all this
- 41:28Speaker 2: political upheaval and the Greens vote is just.
- 41:32Speaker 5: Well, it's funny you mentioned that. I don't know about you,
- 41:35Speaker 5: but just speaking of that, I never see Larissa Waters
- 41:38Speaker 5: ever do a press conference. I see Sarah Hanson Young
- 41:40Speaker 5: out there all day every day.
- 41:42Speaker 6: Where is Larissa Waters?
- 41:43Speaker 3: Shoebridge is out there, and shoe Bridge.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Is out there.
- 41:48Speaker 6: Yeah, not bad, That was all right, That was all right.
- 41:51Speaker 3: But you're not just hot, you're smart.
- 41:54Speaker 6: Well, god, jeez, I'll tell you what.
- 41:57Speaker 5: Let's take a look at the Australian Now video of
- 42:00Speaker 5: nurses cut from anti semitism trial twist in case that
- 42:04Speaker 5: shocked nation, as we've been covering all day and night
- 42:07Speaker 5: on Sky News, a viral video of two Sydney nurses
- 42:10Speaker 5: allegedly making vile anti Semitic threats to kill Israeli patients
- 42:14Speaker 5: has been excluded from court proceedings after a judge found
- 42:18Speaker 5: it was unlawful to record and share the private conversation.
- 42:21Speaker 5: As the defense raises the specter of the case being dropped.
- 42:24Speaker 5: In an extraordinary ruling, New South Wales District Court Judge
- 42:27Speaker 5: Michael mceuton Thursday.
- 42:30Speaker 6: Michael mceuton on Tuesday.
- 42:32Speaker 5: Rather declared the video, which has been viewed millions of
- 42:34Speaker 5: times and has been shared globally, was inadmissible and could
- 42:38Speaker 5: not form part of the evidence against the pair. I mean, look,
- 42:43Speaker 5: I just find this absolutely extraordinary, to be honest, and
- 42:48Speaker 5: I'm still I have been trying all night to try
- 42:51Speaker 5: and understand this decision by this judge, and I don't
- 42:57Speaker 5: understand the logic behind it. I thought, is there what
- 43:02Speaker 5: legal parameters would prevent this.
- 43:05Speaker 6: From being used?
- 43:06Speaker 5: Given the case was centered around the comments allegedly made
- 43:11Speaker 5: in this video.
- 43:12Speaker 6: I do not understand it.
- 43:13Speaker 3: It's the legality of the recording, isn't it correct?
- 43:17Speaker 4: And it's not been fully explained though exactly I understand
- 43:21Speaker 4: it was I legally recorded.
- 43:22Speaker 5: Fine, you can't record somebody without the permission, but I
- 43:25Speaker 5: don't get it.
- 43:25Speaker 4: But then it was recorded in Israel, it wasn't recorded here,
- 43:28Speaker 4: and so there's there are many layers to this. But
- 43:31Speaker 4: as Chris Merritt notes in The Odds tomorrow, and he
- 43:33Speaker 4: noted with Caroline Marcus earlier this evening, we've not really
- 43:37Speaker 4: actually been told what has happened here soon.
- 43:40Speaker 1: No, it's a very curious case.
- 43:42Speaker 2: Speaking of curious cases, the front page of tomorrow's Adelaide
- 43:45Speaker 2: Advertiser has a really interesting court case engaged in murder.
- 43:51Speaker 2: Woman's abuse drove fiance to suicide court hears.
- 43:56Speaker 3: The article reads a woman.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Allegedly caught on CCTV assaulting her partner, stabbing a knife
- 44:02Speaker 2: into a wall by his head, and telling him to
- 44:05Speaker 2: kill himself before he did, is now charged with his murder.
- 44:09Speaker 2: The original charge had been manslaughter, but it's been upgraded
- 44:15Speaker 2: to murder, I assume because the prosecution will argue that
- 44:19Speaker 2: she drove.
- 44:20Speaker 3: Him to kill himself. So it will be very interesting
- 44:24Speaker 3: to hear how that plays out. I don't think I've
- 44:26Speaker 3: ever heard of a case like that.
- 44:28Speaker 6: No I have.
- 44:28Speaker 5: There was one, I think it was in the United
- 44:31Speaker 5: States and evolved I think teenagers from memory and she
- 44:35Speaker 5: ended up being charged because she was constantly telling her.
- 44:38Speaker 3: With murder or manslaughter, murder because.
- 44:41Speaker 5: She constantly told him to take his own life and
- 44:45Speaker 5: it was and eventually he did.
- 44:47Speaker 3: Well.
- 44:48Speaker 4: It'll set to be an interesting legal case to follow.
- 44:50Speaker 4: And of course, if any of this talk has raised
- 44:53Speaker 4: any issues for you, you can call lifeline. On thirteen
- 44:56Speaker 4: eleven fourteen on the front of the Courier mail tomorrow
- 45:00Speaker 4: talking about the state budget up in Queensland, it says,
- 45:02Speaker 4: kicking it down the road, the state government has plotted
- 45:05Speaker 4: a course to a wafer thin surplus by the end
- 45:07Speaker 4: of the decade in a no frill state budget built
- 45:10Speaker 4: on sneaky changes to timings for infrastructure spending, a half
- 45:14Speaker 4: billion dollars savings target for the state's public sector in
- 45:17Speaker 4: the heart of Treasurer David Janiski's second budget, which also
- 45:21Speaker 4: banks on increased revenue for more traffic cameras, of course,
- 45:25Speaker 4: funds from U Eastcootle laws, of course, a hike in
- 45:29Speaker 4: the waist levee, of course.
- 45:31Speaker 1: And letting debt collectors off the leash.
- 45:33Speaker 4: The major cost of living announcement is a fifty dollars
- 45:36Speaker 4: increase to the back to school boost to one hundred
- 45:38Speaker 4: and fifty dollars for every.
- 45:39Speaker 1: School age child.
- 45:41Speaker 4: But isn't this a tricky little thing where you basically
- 45:44Speaker 4: say we'll move the spending further down the line so
- 45:49Speaker 4: that in the short term the budget looks better.
- 45:52Speaker 1: If only we could all do that with our.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Household exactly all right, Australian singing, Great Darryl braithwait has
- 45:59Speaker 2: announced his retirement from public performance. After the break, we'll
- 46:02Speaker 2: argue where the Horses was really that good of a song? Well,
- 46:10Speaker 2: as I said before the break, Daryl Braithwaite has announced
- 46:13Speaker 2: he won't be doing any more public performances. He says
- 46:16Speaker 2: physically it's become too difficult to sing and it's taken
- 46:20Speaker 2: all the joy out of it. He is, after all,
- 46:22Speaker 2: seventy seven years old. It's a great shame because he's
- 46:25Speaker 2: got so many hits. This is his best one cannot
- 46:36Speaker 2: beat as the days go by. I don't care what
- 46:38Speaker 2: songs you guys have prepared.
- 46:40Speaker 3: That is his greatest hit.
- 46:42Speaker 4: Actually, I do agree with you because obviously Horses is
- 46:45Speaker 4: normally nominated by people, Oh you know the I actually
- 46:48Speaker 4: don't think it was that great of a song myself.
- 46:50Speaker 5: I think it's just become popular now because it's played
- 46:52Speaker 5: all the time. I think One Summer was a good one.
- 46:55Speaker 3: Yeah, on Horses.
- 46:56Speaker 2: He was asked why was it such a great hit,
- 46:58Speaker 2: and he says, I've talked of the guys that wrote it,
- 47:01Speaker 2: and none of us can figure out why it was
- 47:02Speaker 2: so good.
- 47:03Speaker 4: Really.
- 47:04Speaker 2: The other thing I'm going to mention as the days
- 47:06Speaker 2: go by. You know who did backing vocals for that song,
- 47:08Speaker 2: John Farnham.
- 47:09Speaker 1: There you go?
- 47:10Speaker 3: Well wow, I mean there, well dropped the mic.
- 47:13Speaker 5: Like I tell you what, I'm surprised you knew that
- 47:15Speaker 5: normally you don't know anything about music, David jamesbro Well, okay,
- 47:19Speaker 5: So I'm going to go through our favorite Dazzerbee songs,
- 47:22Speaker 5: and I actually personally preferred his time in Sherbert. I
- 47:26Speaker 5: remember those days, and this is my favorite Sherbert song, Silver.
- 47:36Speaker 6: Make how's that suiting that haircut?
- 47:41Speaker 1: They got?
- 47:42Speaker 6: Silvery Moon? I love Silvery Moon. I think it's a
- 47:44Speaker 6: great song.
- 47:45Speaker 4: I once caused a bit of a rackus because I
- 47:47Speaker 4: wrote in the pages of the Herald Son that Darryl
- 47:50Speaker 4: Braithwaite was an aging rocker who peaked in Sherbert, which.
- 47:55Speaker 1: Was probably a little bit harsh.
- 47:56Speaker 4: But I do think he did some of his best
- 47:58Speaker 4: work in sub because I was so as by the Horses,
- 48:01Speaker 4: Like the horses just really annoys me, despite the rest
- 48:04Speaker 4: of his body of work. And one I've picked is
- 48:08Speaker 4: one of the songs, one of the two songs that
- 48:10Speaker 4: went to number one for him.
- 48:11Speaker 1: The other one is the.
- 48:12Speaker 4: Bloody Horses, but his version of Your My World that
- 48:16Speaker 4: he released in nineteen seventy four, and he performed that
- 48:26Speaker 4: on Countdown, which you know, back in the day meant
- 48:29Speaker 4: you were guaranteed a number one, and so it did,
- 48:31Speaker 4: spent three weeks at number one in nineteen seventy five,
- 48:35Speaker 4: certified gold, and he won Best Male Vocalist at the
- 48:38Speaker 4: Australian Music Awards that year for his version of Your
- 48:42Speaker 4: My World.
- 48:42Speaker 1: So there you go to one of two number ones.
- 48:44Speaker 5: He's stick to the cella black Come on, I'm mean, seriously,
- 48:50Speaker 5: Rock are.
- 48:50Speaker 1: You going a bit derby downer on the bloke tonight?
- 48:52Speaker 5: Well, you know, look, speaking of singers, Elvis his final
- 48:57Speaker 5: concert back in nineteen seventy seven.
- 49:00Speaker 6: It's come back in the news.
- 49:01Speaker 5: Because if you'd like a conspiracy theory, be interested in
- 49:05Speaker 5: this because people say that there was a time traveler
- 49:07Speaker 5: in the crowd. Now have a look at this photo
- 49:09Speaker 5: we're going to show you on the screen. Now, some
- 49:11Speaker 5: eagle eyed viewer thought that this woman or I don't
- 49:14Speaker 5: know if he is a woman holding up what appears
- 49:16Speaker 5: to be a smartphone back in nineteen seventy seven. Now,
- 49:20Speaker 5: I mean, like that photo there looks like a smartphone,
- 49:23Speaker 5: but it could just be a camera, could be a
- 49:25Speaker 5: recording device. But people say, you know, to time travelers exist.
- 49:29Speaker 3: This would be the dumbest time travel in history.
- 49:31Speaker 2: Why would you travel back to the seventies with a
- 49:33Speaker 2: mobile phone when there were no mobile phone towers?
- 49:36Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know it wouldn't work.
- 49:37Speaker 4: It is. Come on, who the hell's coming up with
- 49:40Speaker 4: this crap about it? It looks like it's either a
- 49:42Speaker 4: dictor phone or I don't know, maybe it was some
- 49:44Speaker 4: widow who had to transistor radio.
- 49:46Speaker 6: Yeah, probably they good to hear him.
- 49:48Speaker 1: I don't know. But phone time traveler react.
- 49:51Speaker 2: We're all time travels. We're just going in one directions
- 49:54Speaker 2: that you must stick around. Coming up is the Reader
- 49:56Speaker 2: Penney Show.
- 49:57Speaker 1: Good Night,