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- 0:03Speaker 1: Welcome to the late base.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Well, good evening.
- 0:08Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Coming up.
- 0:12Speaker 3: A British public servant who left top secret documents at
- 0:15Speaker 3: a bus stop is appointed to help review British defenses.
- 0:19Speaker 2: We'll get to that a little later.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Plus, when we look at the papers, scyrotting skyrocketing compensation
- 0:25Speaker 3: claims for teachers having been assaulted by students, and the
- 0:30Speaker 3: Defense Force saves almost half a billion dollars by getting
- 0:34Speaker 3: rid of consultants.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Can you believe it.
- 0:37Speaker 3: We'll get to that when we look at the papers
- 0:38Speaker 3: a little later. But first, falling fertility rates are a
- 0:42Speaker 3: problem right around the western world, but particularly in Tasmania.
- 0:46Speaker 3: As the old adage goes, demography is destiny. And if
- 0:50Speaker 3: that holds true, well Tasmania doesn't have much of a
- 0:53Speaker 3: future unless couples start having children.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Now.
- 0:56Speaker 3: To maintain a population, they say, you've got to have
- 0:59Speaker 3: a fertility eight of two point one children for every
- 1:02Speaker 3: child bearing woman. But have a look at what's happening
- 1:05Speaker 3: in Tasmania, where the Hobart Mercury reports that there could
- 1:08Speaker 3: be severe consequences because of the low birth rate. The
- 1:13Speaker 3: demographer doctor Lisa Denny is quoted saying that she used
- 1:18Speaker 3: population data from the Australian Bureau Statistics to calculate trends
- 1:22Speaker 3: in the total fertility rate in Tasmania, finding it's plummeted
- 1:25Speaker 3: from one point six to eight children per woman in
- 1:28Speaker 3: twenty eighteen to one point four to nine in twenty
- 1:32Speaker 3: twenty four. It was back in two thousand and six
- 1:35Speaker 3: that the state last had a fertility rate that was
- 1:39Speaker 3: the equivalent to maintaining the population now. She does go
- 1:43Speaker 3: on to say that there are unique circumstances in Tasmania
- 1:46Speaker 3: that are contributing that. She says our fertility rate has
- 1:49Speaker 3: dropped considerably because a much larger proportion of our child
- 1:53Speaker 3: bearing population is made up of temporary migrants compared with
- 1:57Speaker 3: the rest of the country. And the women of rep
- 2:00Speaker 3: deductive age that leave Tasmania aren't temporary migrants, so they're
- 2:03Speaker 3: taking their future.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Children with them.
- 2:06Speaker 3: But the fertility rate in Tasmania, well it's one point four,
- 2:09Speaker 3: is only one point seven nationally, So this is not
- 2:12Speaker 3: just a Tasmania problem. It's Australia wide, and indeed it's
- 2:16Speaker 3: a problem right around the Western world. Lives our politicians
- 2:20Speaker 3: love to talk about sustainability. Ah, but if you're not
- 2:23Speaker 3: having children, well nothing is sustainable.
- 2:27Speaker 4: Absolutely, And this is a massive problem, not just Australia wide,
- 2:31Speaker 4: but literally throughout the Western world. And it's really hard
- 2:36Speaker 4: not to lean into the plagued with problems the great
- 2:40Speaker 4: replacement theory when you notice that every single one of
- 2:45Speaker 4: these Western governments is doing absolutely nothing about it.
- 2:49Speaker 5: They don't care.
- 2:50Speaker 4: We'll just plug the gap with more and more and
- 2:53Speaker 4: more immigration.
- 2:54Speaker 5: I mean, there's so much governments can.
- 2:57Speaker 4: Do to make it more affordable for families to have families,
- 3:03Speaker 4: and they're doing absolutely nothing. There are small countries like
- 3:07Speaker 4: Hungry massive tax breaks for families who choose to have children,
- 3:12Speaker 4: and the more children you have, the more tax breaks
- 3:14Speaker 4: you get, subsidized mortgages like these guys have stacked up
- 3:19Speaker 4: incentives because they care about their culture and they want
- 3:23Speaker 4: to keep Hungry hungry. But then you look at the
- 3:26Speaker 4: societal issues that surround this. Little boys and girls aren't
- 3:31Speaker 4: taught to aspire to having a family one day.
- 3:34Speaker 5: They used to. Generation's gone past.
- 3:36Speaker 4: You ask any little boy or girl that was their
- 3:39Speaker 4: game plan. These days, you ask any little boy or girl,
- 3:41Speaker 4: and our poor kids are just stuck there going, well,
- 3:44Speaker 4: you just told me that just because I have a
- 3:46Speaker 4: penis doesn't even mean I'm a boy. I'm a little
- 3:48Speaker 4: bit concerned with that right now. I've got other things
- 3:51Speaker 4: on my mind. Marriage is no longer held up as
- 3:54Speaker 4: this societal good that all the stats bear out that
- 3:58Speaker 4: it is women aren't meeting men who want to settle
- 4:01Speaker 4: down and have a family, and vice versa.
- 4:04Speaker 5: I'm not paying out on the men here.
- 4:06Speaker 4: The war on the nuclear family is multifaceted.
- 4:10Speaker 5: In today's day and age.
- 4:12Speaker 4: We no longer have governments or even institutions that uphold
- 4:17Speaker 4: the sanctity of the family and how this is something
- 4:20Speaker 4: awesome and to be aspired to.
- 4:22Speaker 5: And then we've got anxiety and depression.
- 4:25Speaker 4: Never been worse, loneliness never been worse in today's society,
- 4:29Speaker 4: and people who aren't doing okay are less likely to
- 4:34Speaker 4: meet each meet each other rather couple up and create
- 4:38Speaker 4: a family of their own. But again, governments seem to
- 4:41Speaker 4: be doing absolutely nothing about it, and that is what
- 4:45Speaker 4: is concerning. I mean, you've got we were talking about
- 4:48Speaker 4: a Japanese at the other day that the government was
- 4:51Speaker 4: getting behind this and being like ladies, gents, you want
- 4:56Speaker 4: a dating app where we vet the people and make
- 4:59Speaker 4: sure that they not lying about their income and how
- 5:02Speaker 4: eligible they are. We're taking up your cause for you
- 5:05Speaker 4: because Japan is incredibly Some would say racist.
- 5:09Speaker 5: I just say based, because that.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Is another country who we want to keep Japan Japanese and.
- 5:15Speaker 5: We're going to do what it takes in.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Today's demographics to make that happen. Western governments, No, I'm
- 5:23Speaker 4: not seeing it happen.
- 5:24Speaker 1: I'm not sure I want a government chosen partner.
- 5:26Speaker 6: Though.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Chinese they're well, I think.
- 5:32Speaker 6: Look, I mean, can you imagine Anthony Albanezi playing Cuba
- 5:35Speaker 6: for you?
- 5:35Speaker 1: Good heavens, I don't know that I'd want to get
- 5:37Speaker 1: in on that. I think.
- 5:38Speaker 6: I think what this probably proves is that Tasmania needs
- 5:41Speaker 6: to invest in groundbreaking.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Surgery, because of course all those two.
- 5:44Speaker 6: Headed Tasmanians now need to be split into two individual
- 5:48Speaker 6: people in order to fix the population crisis. It's a joke,
- 5:52Speaker 6: don't writing. You know, it's as old as time. But
- 5:54Speaker 6: Tasmania is a microcosm here of what the rest of
- 5:59Speaker 6: Australia is experiencing. Because what you've had in Tasmania is
- 6:02Speaker 6: particularly during COVID, when people worked out that they could
- 6:06Speaker 6: work from home. They went, well, geez, I don't have
- 6:08Speaker 6: to live in Melbourne or Sydney or whatever anymore. Hobart
- 6:12Speaker 6: sounds quite nice. So a lot of people who've either
- 6:14Speaker 6: had kids and have some disposable income all moved down
- 6:17Speaker 6: to Hobart. You know, they fly up once a month
- 6:20Speaker 6: or something to go to a meeting, but they now
- 6:22Speaker 6: live down there and work remotely. Consequently, the housing prices
- 6:25Speaker 6: in Tasmania went through the roof because all these yuppies
- 6:27Speaker 6: came in and took over the joints.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Of course, that drives people out.
- 6:31Speaker 6: People who are seeking more work opportunities are clearly leaving Tasmania,
- 6:35Speaker 6: and that's what the researcher is talking about. The women
- 6:38Speaker 6: of childbearing age are leaving Tasmania and going elsewhere. Presumably
- 6:42Speaker 6: they're going to the mainland.
- 6:44Speaker 1: So they have to plug these holes.
- 6:45Speaker 6: Some probably to find it maybe, but largely the way
- 6:49Speaker 6: they're plugging the holes is with temporary migrants because of
- 6:52Speaker 6: because if you are a potential permanent margrant again, you
- 6:56Speaker 6: come to Australia and you want to go to Melbourne
- 6:58Speaker 6: or Sydney because that's where to the jobs are so
- 7:01Speaker 6: they're just pumping in people, filling holes, plugging holes for
- 7:05Speaker 6: now until they leave, and then they bring more in
- 7:08Speaker 6: to plug the holes. And you think, well, that's bad
- 7:10Speaker 6: for Tazzy right now because they're a small little state,
- 7:13Speaker 6: But it's not long before that becomes the rest of
- 7:16Speaker 6: Australia and it becomes the rest of the Western world.
- 7:19Speaker 6: You can only bring in so many permanent migrants before
- 7:22Speaker 6: there are all the other holes that you then have
- 7:24Speaker 6: to fill in with temporary ones, and on and on
- 7:25Speaker 6: it goes forever.
- 7:26Speaker 2: What amazes me about this issue is that the.
- 7:29Speaker 3: Left aren't more passionate about doing something to get the
- 7:32Speaker 3: fertility rate up, because if you're importing your population, you're
- 7:36Speaker 3: importing them from countries where they have a high fertility rate,
- 7:40Speaker 3: and they are typically Islamic countries. So the more Muslim
- 7:43Speaker 3: a country becomes, the less like it used to be.
- 7:46Speaker 3: So if you care about abortion, you care about gay rights,
- 7:49Speaker 3: you care about feminism, then you want to make sure
- 7:53Speaker 3: that your country is producing its own people rather than
- 7:56Speaker 3: importing people with diat.
- 7:58Speaker 5: Watch the West exactly care they like.
- 8:04Speaker 1: And give him way too much credit.
- 8:06Speaker 2: You're trying to give them a hint.
- 8:07Speaker 1: And if There's one.
- 8:08Speaker 6: Thing we know is that they have no regard for
- 8:10Speaker 6: human life whatsoever. In fact, they prefer there were fewer
- 8:12Speaker 6: humans on the face of the earth because of course
- 8:14Speaker 6: climate change.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Us humans, we're destroying the joint.
- 8:17Speaker 6: That's why they want a lower population. That's why they're
- 8:19Speaker 6: not worried about the fertility rate. And it's also why
- 8:22Speaker 6: they want you to be eaten by a shark. No,
- 8:24Speaker 6: I'm not joking. It is a discussion that comes up
- 8:28Speaker 6: every single year.
- 8:29Speaker 1: But it's weird.
- 8:30Speaker 6: It's ugly head again, this hoary old chestnut. Thanks to
- 8:32Speaker 6: the Guardian stoking the coals of this fire. Though there
- 8:36Speaker 6: wouldn't be much far underwater. It has to be said
- 8:38Speaker 6: that we should get rid of shark nets in New
- 8:41Speaker 6: South Wales. They write up today that in an eight
- 8:46Speaker 6: month period covering twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,
- 8:50Speaker 6: there we'll wait for it, one hundred and thirty four
- 8:53Speaker 6: animals killed by shark nets.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Don't worry about all the people who.
- 8:59Speaker 6: Might have been so by sharks that otherwise would have
- 9:02Speaker 6: come on to beaches. No, we have to treat marine
- 9:05Speaker 6: life as though it is more important than human life.
- 9:09Speaker 6: We know that they think everyone else's life is more
- 9:12Speaker 6: important than ours. Shark scientist who is part of the
- 9:16Speaker 6: Australian Marine Conservation Society was quoted by the Guardian today
- 9:20Speaker 6: saying the government literally has solutions in their hands.
- 9:24Speaker 1: They're called shaknits.
- 9:25Speaker 6: Technologies such as drone surveillance, personal shark deterance, and they're
- 9:29Speaker 6: leading sharks Smart education program improving safety without harming marine life,
- 9:35Speaker 6: as though that means we shouldn't take every precautionary measure possible,
- 9:40Speaker 6: including sharknecks, even if it means we lose a few
- 9:43Speaker 6: marine animals along the way. New South Wales Animal Justice
- 9:46Speaker 6: Party MP Emma Hurst, of course she doesn't like it.
- 9:49Speaker 6: She says, we know they don't work, we know that
- 9:52Speaker 6: sharks can swim under them or around them, but when
- 9:56Speaker 6: did you last hear of someone being attacked on a
- 9:58Speaker 6: New South Wales beach that is protected by sharknts.
- 10:02Speaker 1: I mean, for goodness sake.
- 10:05Speaker 6: What it comes down to, basically is that they believe
- 10:08Speaker 6: that the water is the shark's domain and if you
- 10:11Speaker 6: go into the water, you are going into their home
- 10:14Speaker 6: and you deserve to be eaten if you get attacked.
- 10:17Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We rose to the top of the tree.
- 10:22Speaker 6: We are the apex predator, and if we want to
- 10:25Speaker 6: go in the water, we should have every bloody right
- 10:27Speaker 6: to do so. And I don't care how many marine
- 10:29Speaker 6: animals you kill along the way so I can go
- 10:32Speaker 6: for a swimp.
- 10:32Speaker 3: But it's not that many marine animals that are being killed.
- 10:34Speaker 3: 're in thirty four yeah, and ten percent of those
- 10:37Speaker 3: that were caught were sharks. So what's that ten percent
- 10:41Speaker 3: of one hundred and thirty four cents thirteen fourteen sharks
- 10:44Speaker 3: are caught for one hundred and thirty four turtles, dolphins.
- 10:47Speaker 2: Whatever, dougons, it's not that many.
- 10:50Speaker 3: As for the claim that you know, we've already got
- 10:53Speaker 3: technology in place, well, I'd be using absolutely everything at
- 10:56Speaker 3: our disposal. And I'm gonna ask what is sharks smart?
- 11:00Speaker 3: Is that a program for sharks.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Where they kick them?
- 11:03Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 11:03Speaker 2: People are people, not food.
- 11:05Speaker 3: And what about this claim that, well, you know, sharks
- 11:08Speaker 3: can swim around shark nets or under them, Well so
- 11:10Speaker 3: con turtles, so good dolphins.
- 11:12Speaker 6: But that's like saying that, Okay, I have a fence
- 11:15Speaker 6: on the front of my property to deter people from
- 11:18Speaker 6: breaking into my property. People can scale fences, Therefore they
- 11:22Speaker 6: should be no fences anywhere, ever, because people can get
- 11:25Speaker 6: over the top of them.
- 11:27Speaker 1: You don't say that. You said, well, I'm going to.
- 11:28Speaker 6: Put the fence in. If someone manages to scale it,
- 11:31Speaker 6: we'll deal with that problem when we come to it.
- 11:33Speaker 6: It's a deterrent.
- 11:34Speaker 4: So she's saying, why don't we just use drone surveillance,
- 11:37Speaker 4: personal shark deterrence and this education program that you mentioned, Mac,
- 11:41Speaker 4: How much does that cost if we're going to do
- 11:44Speaker 4: a cost benefit analysis here? I bet the nets stay
- 11:49Speaker 4: the amount of crack pots because I encountered some of
- 11:52Speaker 4: these when I was doing my master's degree in human rights. Right,
- 11:54Speaker 4: and these people who are all about animal rights, even
- 11:58Speaker 4: plant rights. Yes, those people actually exist. They they genuinely
- 12:05Speaker 4: considered them just as important and considered you a speciest
- 12:10Speaker 4: if you dared to say something as simple as human
- 12:13Speaker 4: life is more valuable than any kind of animal life
- 12:17Speaker 4: in this case marine life. USA and Australia are the
- 12:21Speaker 4: most shark infested countries in the world on the known planet,
- 12:28Speaker 4: And here we are quibbling about saving some I'm happy
- 12:32Speaker 4: to call chuck it in some batter, sell it for cheap,
- 12:36Speaker 4: like if that's what they're worried.
- 12:37Speaker 5: About like we're killing them and they're going to waste. Fine,
- 12:40Speaker 5: we'll eat them.
- 12:41Speaker 4: We'll eat them all, chuck them in a freezer and
- 12:43Speaker 4: we'll get round to it. Like the fact that they
- 12:46Speaker 4: genuinely consider these lives, these barocious lives above and beyond
- 12:52Speaker 4: families going to the beach and having the peace of
- 12:54Speaker 4: mind to let their kids play.
- 12:56Speaker 5: In the surf. Is no reasoner will rashable person is
- 13:01Speaker 5: going to go with that kind of idiocy.
- 13:05Speaker 3: It sometime between you now, I just wondered how you
- 13:08Speaker 3: were to finish that sentence. I think you were wondering
- 13:10Speaker 3: how you're gonna finish that. At some point between now
- 13:13Speaker 3: and some of there will be in s l M
- 13:16Speaker 3: march through the streets of Melbourne shark lives. Remember, but
- 13:19Speaker 3: one of the arguments that this animal rights activists put
- 13:22Speaker 3: up was she said the problem with shark nets is
- 13:24Speaker 3: they create a false sense of security for beach goers.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Could use that about no sense about thrones provide a
- 13:31Speaker 3: false sense of security, or shark education provides a false
- 13:35Speaker 3: sense of Yah, it's.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Just the lifeguard scurity.
- 13:39Speaker 6: People seriously think that if the sharks worked out how
- 13:43Speaker 6: to get out of the water and walk on land
- 13:45Speaker 6: as the fish did many years ago. Imagine if the
- 13:48Speaker 6: sharks could walk out onto the beaches, do you reckon?
- 13:51Speaker 6: They would spare a single human being in their way
- 13:55Speaker 6: if they decided they wanted to colonize the land. No,
- 13:59Speaker 6: you'd be dead in a second's flight. The shark does
- 14:02Speaker 6: not care about your life, So why should I care
- 14:06Speaker 6: about the shark's life. I want to go for a
- 14:08Speaker 6: swim in the water. I'm a human being. I'm at
- 14:11Speaker 6: the top of the tree. The shark's got to pay
- 14:13Speaker 6: the price for that.
- 14:14Speaker 4: As far as actually, don't even imagine you at the beach.
- 14:16Speaker 6: Well, I do prefer to sort of sit by the
- 14:19Speaker 6: beach with a beer. I'm not a particular fan of
- 14:22Speaker 6: hot sand, but I'll take a walk along the beach
- 14:25Speaker 6: of a nice barmi evening.
- 14:27Speaker 4: But you know I was going to say, I can't
- 14:29Speaker 4: petue you frolicking in the sand.
- 14:31Speaker 6: Well look, look, I may have many years ago been
- 14:34Speaker 6: seen on a boogie board paddling along at the beach, but.
- 14:38Speaker 5: It didn't happen Kalb photos or it didn't.
- 14:41Speaker 4: Happen to Germany now, where two podcasts podcasters rather have
- 14:46Speaker 4: been ordered to delete their podcast for calling a biological man,
- 14:51Speaker 4: a biological man, a transgender woman. They have referred to
- 14:55Speaker 4: as he him and said that he is ind.
- 15:00Speaker 5: A biological man.
- 15:01Speaker 4: And for this crime they have not only been told
- 15:04Speaker 4: to delete the podcast, and they have indeed begged all
- 15:08Speaker 4: their followers to delete any comments that they made relating
- 15:11Speaker 4: to it, or any shares that they made relating to it.
- 15:14Speaker 4: These guys are now facing potentially prison time or a
- 15:18Speaker 4: finer up to two hundred and fifty thousand euros.
- 15:23Speaker 5: That's a lot of money.
- 15:24Speaker 4: We're talking over four hundred thousand dollars in Australian dollars,
- 15:29Speaker 4: so a lot of money. If they do it again,
- 15:32Speaker 4: they could be looking at two years in jail, and
- 15:35Speaker 4: if they failed to pay that fine, prison for six months.
- 15:40Speaker 5: The court dropped everything it.
- 15:42Speaker 4: Was doing to exercise a great deal of emergency about
- 15:46Speaker 4: them doing so. It's as if referring to a biological
- 15:50Speaker 4: man these days is indeed a crime if that man
- 15:53Speaker 4: insists that he is no longer a man. This particular fellow,
- 15:57Speaker 4: who's now known as Laura Holstein, was known as Nicholas,
- 16:02Speaker 4: has made headlines over the past few months demanding access
- 16:05Speaker 4: to female spaces. First, it was the women's football league,
- 16:09Speaker 4: which he did gain access to. He was given a
- 16:12Speaker 4: special showering roster because the women did not want to
- 16:15Speaker 4: share changing rooms with him.
- 16:17Speaker 5: He has been.
- 16:17Speaker 4: Accused of not abiding by that roster, and now he's
- 16:23Speaker 4: turned his attention to a woman's gym, demanding.
- 16:27Speaker 5: Access to it.
- 16:28Speaker 4: Also, this is what the podcast has covered, and this
- 16:31Speaker 4: is what they got into trouble for.
- 16:33Speaker 5: One of the.
- 16:33Speaker 4: Podcasters says, our podcast Hotsenhoff was censored.
- 16:38Speaker 5: Welcome to Germany. Our podcast episode about.
- 16:41Speaker 4: The legal drama of a person who was born biologically
- 16:44Speaker 4: male but wanted to go to a women's gym with
- 16:47Speaker 4: the support of the independent Federal Commissioner for Anti Discrimination
- 16:51Speaker 4: is now offline. He writes, the questions that arise are
- 16:55Speaker 4: as explosive as they are uncomfortable. How should a society
- 17:00Speaker 4: function in which biological realities and legal fictions come into
- 17:05Speaker 4: such a blatant contradiction. What if someone who appears to
- 17:09Speaker 4: be clearly male, like Laura, is considered a woman by
- 17:13Speaker 4: legal decree and thus gains access to spaces that were
- 17:17Speaker 4: traditionally reserved for women.
- 17:21Speaker 5: So there you have it.
- 17:23Speaker 4: He already successfully sued the gym.
- 17:27Speaker 5: The lady who prohibited him from.
- 17:30Speaker 4: Coming to the women's only. Jim had to cough up
- 17:32Speaker 4: one thousand euros. Then she heard from Laura's lawyers demanding
- 17:37Speaker 4: a further two and a half thousand euros, which begs
- 17:41Speaker 4: the question, can any trans woman now just make this
- 17:44Speaker 4: into a money making scheme.
- 17:46Speaker 3: Yeah, So to be specific, these podcasters were threatened with
- 17:50Speaker 3: a four hundred thousand Australian dollar fine. And this is
- 17:53Speaker 3: specifically what they said. They referred to this person as quote,
- 17:58Speaker 3: a man who feels he's in the wrong bloe. I'm
- 18:00Speaker 3: allowed to say that, and they pointed out the quote
- 18:03Speaker 3: unquote he still has a dick. And so for those comments,
- 18:07Speaker 3: they've been threatened with imprisonment. And the judgment said that
- 18:11Speaker 3: the person concerns personal rights were violated by referring to
- 18:17Speaker 3: him as a man, because legally and socially he's recognized
- 18:21Speaker 3: as a woman. Now we're going to have these problems
- 18:22Speaker 3: in Australia very soon.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Well we do.
- 18:26Speaker 3: We just had a case, didn't we be in Queensland.
- 18:28Speaker 3: Now you can change your birth certificate in Western Australia.
- 18:32Speaker 3: You're about to be able to in Victoria you can.
- 18:34Speaker 3: There's a bill currently before the New South Wales Parliament.
- 18:37Speaker 3: So you've got a situation where legally a person is
- 18:39Speaker 3: a woman. So then according to the law, if you
- 18:42Speaker 3: call them anything but a woman, you are in breach
- 18:45Speaker 3: of speech laws. But the law itself now violates your
- 18:49Speaker 3: conscience because it forces you to say things that not
- 18:53Speaker 3: only that you don't believe them, it forces you to
- 18:55Speaker 3: say things that you know.
- 18:56Speaker 2: To be untrue. So my question is, and.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Again I'm going to be naive here, Caleb, where's Amnesty International?
- 19:03Speaker 3: I see them collecting money at every shopping center I
- 19:06Speaker 3: go to, and I just wonder, where are you, guys?
- 19:08Speaker 3: When people's consciences are being violated by government laws such
- 19:12Speaker 3: as this, Amnesty International and all of those groups that
- 19:15Speaker 3: are really worried about rights never seem to show up
- 19:18Speaker 3: for the rights of ordinary citizens having their consciences violated
- 19:22Speaker 3: by government.
- 19:23Speaker 6: Because they've decided they're more interested in transgender rights. And
- 19:26Speaker 6: as you pointed out, this was basically the premise of
- 19:29Speaker 6: the judgment that was made in the Giggle versus Tickle
- 19:31Speaker 6: case Giggle being a female only social media at Tickle
- 19:37Speaker 6: being a biological male who is now legally decreed to
- 19:41Speaker 6: be a woman who wanted access to the app was
- 19:43Speaker 6: denied access and then the court rule that that was discrimination.
- 19:47Speaker 6: It is proof of how far gone we are that
- 19:50Speaker 6: you can no longer in certain parts of the world,
- 19:53Speaker 6: and I mean this is Germany. But don't think that
- 19:55Speaker 6: this won't come to us, particularly once Labor gets its
- 19:58Speaker 6: misinformation Disinformation bill up, which will go after like this.
- 20:02Speaker 6: You know, the consequences may be different in terms of
- 20:06Speaker 6: what can be put upon you, probably not jail time,
- 20:09Speaker 6: but potentially finds and being hounded by AKMA for posting
- 20:13Speaker 6: something online as a user on social media saying that
- 20:17Speaker 6: someone is a biological male when they are a biological
- 20:19Speaker 6: male but now according to their birth certificate they are
- 20:22Speaker 6: a woman. The fact that in certain parts of the
- 20:24Speaker 6: world you cannot skate facts anymore without being prosecuted for
- 20:30Speaker 6: doing so because it is a form of discrimination supposedly
- 20:34Speaker 6: is outrageous, and it starts with transgender people and then
- 20:39Speaker 6: it becomes everything else. This is the vanguard that allows
- 20:44Speaker 6: the left to completely control the narrative and decide what
- 20:47Speaker 6: is and isn't true, regardless of how true it is
- 20:51Speaker 6: or is not. And the whole point of this case,
- 20:54Speaker 6: it's not about the podcasters.
- 20:56Speaker 1: The idea is to go after two people who.
- 20:59Speaker 6: Have a popular pod cast to send a message to
- 21:01Speaker 6: the rest of the population, yes, that if you dare
- 21:04Speaker 6: to even say things like this at the dinner table,
- 21:07Speaker 6: or in your workplace, or to your friends on the weekend,
- 21:11Speaker 6: that we will come for you too. These are simply
- 21:15Speaker 6: the ones taking the fall. It's ultimately about telling people no,
- 21:19Speaker 6: you can't even think that anymore, and that is chilling.
- 21:22Speaker 3: We famously had a antidiscrimination commissioner in this country a
- 21:27Speaker 3: few years ago. I forget the lady's name. If it
- 21:30Speaker 3: comes to me, old Gillian Triggs.
- 21:31Speaker 2: I think I can't be sure. I don't want to
- 21:34Speaker 2: miss quotes.
- 21:34Speaker 1: It was running the Human Rights Commission.
- 21:36Speaker 3: But was it her or someone else who famously said,
- 21:39Speaker 3: as a joke, but it's a pity that people are
- 21:41Speaker 3: still allowed to say what they want around the kitchen table.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I believe it was Julius.
- 21:45Speaker 3: The Jillian Trigs, and it was said in jest, but
- 21:48Speaker 3: often a word in jest, Liz is to.
- 21:51Speaker 5: Every joke there is an element of truth.
- 21:54Speaker 3: And for people in positions of power to be lamenting
- 21:57Speaker 3: the fact that you know what, we're just about controlled
- 22:00Speaker 3: all speech, it's just a pity we can't get our
- 22:02Speaker 3: hands on the kitchen table.
- 22:04Speaker 2: It's quite chilling, and well, this.
- 22:06Speaker 5: Is compelled speech.
- 22:07Speaker 4: So the kitchen table is pretty much the only sacred
- 22:10Speaker 4: place left people speaking in hush tones.
- 22:14Speaker 5: Truthfully, nowadays, when you.
- 22:16Speaker 4: Even meet someone who is brave enough to talk in
- 22:20Speaker 4: black and white terms about not just this, but many
- 22:22Speaker 4: other issues, it is so refreshing, which is why we
- 22:26Speaker 4: have to keep it up, because that is what they
- 22:29Speaker 4: do not want to have happen. Because if you're saying it,
- 22:32Speaker 4: and I'm saying it, everyone within earshot feels emboldened to
- 22:37Speaker 4: say trans women aren't women or insert issue.
- 22:42Speaker 5: This is compelled speech.
- 22:44Speaker 4: And I don't care what laws they make in this country,
- 22:46Speaker 4: I will not be abiding by them because you cannot
- 22:50Speaker 4: do that. And with every single one of these, particularly
- 22:53Speaker 4: LGBTQ laws that are made, they disproportionately affect religious people,
- 23:01Speaker 4: whether you're Christian, whether you're Catholic, whether you're Muslim. There's
- 23:04Speaker 4: millions of us in this country and billions of us
- 23:08Speaker 4: across the West.
- 23:09Speaker 5: We're not going away.
- 23:11Speaker 4: We're not gone down without a fight, and you will
- 23:13Speaker 4: never brainwash us enough or fine us enough for us
- 23:18Speaker 4: to turn our backs on pure biological reality, like God
- 23:24Speaker 4: made man and woman. That was It wasn't a long list,
- 23:28Speaker 4: was really short, is still very short.
- 23:31Speaker 3: End of remember mate from America having coffee about ten
- 23:34Speaker 3: years ago, we're seeing a cafe and we're just talking
- 23:36Speaker 3: about the state of the world, and he says, with
- 23:38Speaker 3: it in a country with free speech, where you can
- 23:40Speaker 3: say what you want, right, And I said yeah, And
- 23:42Speaker 3: he said, but if you noticed, for the last ten
- 23:43Speaker 3: minutes since we've been discussing AB and C, both of
- 23:46Speaker 3: us have been leaning forward and we've lowered our tone.
- 23:48Speaker 2: So no one around us here is I thought, oh,
- 23:51Speaker 2: you're right.
- 23:52Speaker 3: Of course, Elon Musk is warning that this is only
- 23:54Speaker 3: going to get worse, and a lot worse if Kamala
- 23:57Speaker 3: Harris wins the next election. In fact, he tweeted today
- 24:01Speaker 3: freedom of speech is under massive attack around the world,
- 24:05Speaker 3: and he's absolutely right. We've had the boss of Telegram
- 24:08Speaker 3: arrested in France, being accused of not doing enough to
- 24:12Speaker 3: go after people using his social media platform for nefarious purposes.
- 24:17Speaker 2: We've got the CEO of.
- 24:18Speaker 3: Rumble who's fled Europe fearing he will be arrest for
- 24:21Speaker 3: his video platform. Mark Zuckerberg has just admitted that he
- 24:25Speaker 3: was pressured by the Biden Harris administration and the FBI
- 24:29Speaker 3: to censor people over COVID comments and to suppress information
- 24:34Speaker 3: about Hunter Biden's laptop. And now Brazil have banned Twitter
- 24:39Speaker 3: or X from being accessed there, threatening people with eight
- 24:42Speaker 3: thousand dollars fines per day if they use a VPN
- 24:46Speaker 3: to access the platform. And here's Kamala Harris just to
- 24:50Speaker 3: make the point, lamenting the fact that Elon Musk is
- 24:53Speaker 3: still allowed to operate X.
- 24:57Speaker 7: He has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.
- 25:00Speaker 8: And the bottom line is that you can't say that
- 25:02Speaker 8: you have one rule for Facebook and you have a
- 25:04Speaker 8: different rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply,
- 25:06Speaker 8: which is that there has to be a responsibility that
- 25:10Speaker 8: is placed on these social media sites to understand their power.
- 25:14Speaker 8: They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people
- 25:18Speaker 8: without any level of oversight or regulation.
- 25:24Speaker 3: Help unpack this to me, Liz, Elon Musk has lost
- 25:27Speaker 3: his privileges, and his privilege is to give Liz James
- 25:32Speaker 3: Caleb in every Tom Dick and Harry out there the
- 25:35Speaker 3: ability to just say what they think.
- 25:38Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love it when government give me rights
- 25:41Speaker 4: that I was born with. Thanks for that, you're so magnanimous.
- 25:45Speaker 4: What you really meant to say, there was censorship.
- 25:48Speaker 5: They're just allowed to say whatever they.
- 25:50Speaker 4: Want, like free people freely exchanging information for free.
- 25:54Speaker 5: We can't have that.
- 25:55Speaker 4: It's so dangerous, of course, because if you can't control
- 25:59Speaker 4: the narrative, can't control the people, and anyone encouraging critical thinking,
- 26:04Speaker 4: well they're extremely dangerous because there's a lot to criticize
- 26:08Speaker 4: when it comes to government. So what she meant to say,
- 26:10Speaker 4: there was censorship. They're just able to say whatever they
- 26:13Speaker 4: want without any supervisory role over them, Like adults can't
- 26:19Speaker 4: just decide for themselves what's bs and what we choose
- 26:23Speaker 4: to believe in. No, no, we've got a sensor at all.
- 26:27Speaker 4: There's no one censoring it. This is out of control.
- 26:30Speaker 4: And the trouble is a lot of people in the
- 26:32Speaker 4: free world are actually gobbling this up because they've done
- 26:36Speaker 4: such a good job.
- 26:37Speaker 5: Of saying this is about safety.
- 26:41Speaker 4: Look what happened with COVID and people like Trump telling
- 26:44Speaker 4: people to drink bleach. He never said that, by the way,
- 26:48Speaker 4: but didn't they run with it. We can't have people
- 26:52Speaker 4: proliferating these dangerous kind of concepts. They always do it
- 26:56Speaker 4: in the name of safety, and they're doing it again
- 26:58Speaker 4: with Elon. Meanwhile, well, every single tweet that guy drops
- 27:02Speaker 4: is absolutely based and that's why they're worried about him,
- 27:05Speaker 4: because he's taking them on country after country.
- 27:08Speaker 5: X has just been banned in Brazil because it refused
- 27:13Speaker 5: to shut.
- 27:14Speaker 4: Down all the accounts of the opposing the opposition in
- 27:19Speaker 4: governments and the dodgy things that are happening in this space.
- 27:23Speaker 4: You mentioned the Rumble guy, that's where everyone who's been
- 27:26Speaker 4: booted off YouTube goes. You mentioned Telegram also, that guy's
- 27:31Speaker 4: still just rotting away in a French prison. Nobody really
- 27:34Speaker 4: knows what is going on. It's been over a week now,
- 27:38Speaker 4: and their only crime is defending free speech and refusing
- 27:43Speaker 4: to censor people on their platforms. These are the three
- 27:47Speaker 4: remaining platforms in the world where you can actually express yourself.
- 27:51Speaker 6: And Kamala Harris is up to old tricks here and
- 27:54Speaker 6: this is the real concern, right because of course she's
- 27:56Speaker 6: not said at any point that you know, I'm actually
- 27:59Speaker 6: going to go online and then banned Donald Trump from
- 28:02Speaker 6: being on Twitter, but she has previously previously suggested sorry
- 28:06Speaker 6: that Twitter now X should remove Donald Trump from its platform.
- 28:11Speaker 1: That did eventually happen.
- 28:12Speaker 6: Of course, he was reinstated after Elon Muster took over
- 28:16Speaker 6: and has recently started using the platform again. But here
- 28:19Speaker 6: is a reminder of Kamala Harris saying Trump should be
- 28:23Speaker 6: banished when he was president.
- 28:25Speaker 9: Mind you, I know you wrote to Twitter and the CEO,
- 28:30Speaker 9: Jack Dorsey and asked him to take away the president's
- 28:34Speaker 9: Twitter handle his account. How is that not a violation
- 28:39Speaker 9: of free speech? I mean, the president has the same
- 28:43Speaker 9: rights that you have that I have, And how would
- 28:46Speaker 9: that not just be a slippery slope?
- 28:48Speaker 7: K I've heard that argument. But here's the thing, Jake.
- 28:51Speaker 7: First of all, a corporation, which is what Twitter is,
- 28:55Speaker 7: it does not have the has obligations. And in this case,
- 29:00Speaker 7: Twitter has terms of use policy, and there are terms
- 29:04Speaker 7: of use dictate who receives the privilege of speaking on
- 29:08Speaker 7: that platform and who does not. And Donald Trump has
- 29:11Speaker 7: clearly violated the terms of use and there should be
- 29:14Speaker 7: a consequence for that.
- 29:17Speaker 6: And it's all good and well when it's the platform's
- 29:19Speaker 6: terms of use, but what about when it becomes the
- 29:21Speaker 6: government's terms of use? And Western governments, particularly left leaning
- 29:26Speaker 6: Western governments, now, as we just talked about in Germany,
- 29:30Speaker 6: all over the shop, trying to control people's speech and
- 29:33Speaker 6: decide what is and isn't real. And as I said before,
- 29:36Speaker 6: misinformation disinformation laws here in Australia. So why would you
- 29:40Speaker 6: not believe if that is Camala's attitude towards Donald Trump
- 29:44Speaker 6: back then when he was president, that should she win
- 29:47Speaker 6: in November, she would then not take the opportunity as
- 29:50Speaker 6: president to have to extend those sort of restrictions in.
- 29:54Speaker 1: A legal way.
- 29:55Speaker 3: And that's why the lack of curiosity about Mark Zuckerberg's
- 29:58Speaker 3: letter the other week, where you've got the Biden Harris
- 30:02Speaker 3: administration and now Harris is running for president of the
- 30:04Speaker 3: US pressured Facebook to suppress people's posts, to suppress news
- 30:12Speaker 3: about Hunter Biden, And so good on Mark Zuckerberg for saying, look,
- 30:17Speaker 3: in retrospect, we shouldn't have done it.
- 30:18Speaker 5: No way, you were just getting out ahead of a
- 30:20Speaker 5: with baby. Let me no credit, let me finish the
- 30:22Speaker 5: thirddit for that man.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Shouldn't we get specifics like shouldn't the public be demanding, well,
- 30:28Speaker 3: who pressured whom? When, which posts did they suppress? What
- 30:32Speaker 3: threats did they make? In a couple of months time.
- 30:35Speaker 3: This lady could be the leader of the free world
- 30:38Speaker 3: if she's involved in things like this or her administration.
- 30:41Speaker 2: We should know all the details, not just.
- 30:43Speaker 3: Have an a four letter from Mark Zuckerberg saying it happened,
- 30:46Speaker 3: it won't happen again.
- 30:47Speaker 4: Move on, Yeah, and why should we believe you while
- 30:49Speaker 4: you're admitting in the.
- 30:50Speaker 5: Same breath you did it.
- 30:52Speaker 4: You censor people in order to manipulate them. Who knows
- 30:56Speaker 4: how the last election would have gone in the States
- 30:59Speaker 4: were it not for a certain administration giving marching orders
- 31:04Speaker 4: to the biggest social media platform in the world, and
- 31:08Speaker 4: that social media platforming saying yes, actually we will censor it.
- 31:12Speaker 5: Nobody's really going to hear the true story of.
- 31:15Speaker 4: Hunter Biden and that came from the government.
- 31:18Speaker 5: You quite right. Here in Australia, we had over.
- 31:21Speaker 4: Four thousand posts censored by our government during the pandemic.
- 31:27Speaker 4: And again, like U Saimak, such a lack of curiosity.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Where is the outcry, especially after it was shown. Chris
- 31:35Speaker 4: Kenny wrote an amazing article on this, especially after it
- 31:38Speaker 4: was showed the vast majority of those posts were factual. Now,
- 31:43Speaker 4: in hindsight, they were perfectly reasonable factual statements.
- 31:46Speaker 3: There was more interest in Raygun's Olympic performance, yes, than
- 31:50Speaker 3: in Australians being.
- 31:51Speaker 5: Censored on the state of US.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Now, I'll tell.
- 31:54Speaker 6: You what though, if this does happen in the US
- 31:57Speaker 6: and Kamala decides she's going to censor everything, maybe she
- 31:59Speaker 6: should put Nancy Pelosi in charge of running that operation,
- 32:03Speaker 6: because we know how on the ball she is, so
- 32:05Speaker 6: on the ball that she actually lets slip. Talking to
- 32:08Speaker 6: talk show host Bill Maher, that the whole idea of
- 32:11Speaker 6: all these illegal immigrants coming into the country, undocumented migrants
- 32:16Speaker 6: in the US, is that they should eventually become documented margrants.
- 32:20Speaker 6: And of course, once they become documented margarants, there's a
- 32:24Speaker 6: road forward to citizenship and then ultimately a road forward
- 32:27Speaker 6: to voting.
- 32:28Speaker 1: And who are you going to vote for except the.
- 32:30Speaker 6: Party that allowed you to illegally pour over the border
- 32:33Speaker 6: and then eventually become a citizen. She was talking to
- 32:36Speaker 6: Bill Maher or Bill Maher was questioning her about a
- 32:38Speaker 6: scheme in California, her home state, called the California Dream
- 32:43Speaker 6: for All program.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Now, this has existed for a little while.
- 32:46Speaker 6: By the way, it has no money left in it
- 32:48Speaker 6: because it's all been spent. But the idea is that
- 32:51Speaker 6: California gives you twenty percent of the value of a
- 32:55Speaker 6: house to go off and get a loan. It's the
- 32:57Speaker 6: down payment for the loan that is a huge leg
- 33:01Speaker 6: up for first home buyers. And it was so popular
- 33:03Speaker 6: that all of the money, the millions and millions that
- 33:05Speaker 6: were put into it, is now gone. But that hasn't
- 33:08Speaker 6: stopped the legislature in California passing a bill that now
- 33:12Speaker 6: means that money, even when it ever becomes available again,
- 33:16Speaker 6: will be available to undocumented migrants. So someone who shouldn't
- 33:20Speaker 6: be in the country, should not be in the US,
- 33:23Speaker 6: an illegal migrant will be able to go to the
- 33:25Speaker 6: government in California and get the down payment for a
- 33:28Speaker 6: home to buy a house that someone else, who is
- 33:31Speaker 6: a citizen who belongs in the United States has been
- 33:34Speaker 6: slugging their guts out to buy.
- 33:37Speaker 1: Doesn't that make a lot of sense.
- 33:38Speaker 6: Well, Ma asked Pelosi about this, and this is how
- 33:41Speaker 6: she responded.
- 33:43Speaker 10: Immigration had always been a bipartisan issue. I refer you
- 33:47Speaker 10: to that no free houses. Well, there's not free housing.
- 33:51Speaker 10: It's the American dream being available to more people. I'm
- 33:55Speaker 10: not familiar with exactly what it is, but making the
- 33:59Speaker 10: American dream of home ownership available to all people is
- 34:03Speaker 10: something we have to do for people for a year now, this.
- 34:07Speaker 2: Is undocumented. This is for the undocumented.
- 34:11Speaker 10: Well, what I would like to do is move them
- 34:13Speaker 10: to document.
- 34:14Speaker 5: It is that we can.
- 34:16Speaker 10: Move one to document. One of the best things that
- 34:21Speaker 10: we can do for our economy is to pass comprehensive
- 34:26Speaker 10: immigration reform.
- 34:29Speaker 4: Ah.
- 34:29Speaker 6: Yes, she wants to make them documented. I wonder why
- 34:32Speaker 6: that would be.
- 34:33Speaker 1: And she wants them to be.
- 34:34Speaker 6: Able to buy houses in California so they won't leave.
- 34:38Speaker 6: I wonder why that might be a bit different to
- 34:41Speaker 6: what she said in two thousand and eight.
- 34:44Speaker 10: We need to address the issue of immigration and the
- 34:47Speaker 10: challenge we have of undocumented people in our country. We
- 34:51Speaker 10: certainly don't want any more coming in.
- 34:54Speaker 6: We certainly don't want any more coming in until we
- 34:57Speaker 6: work out that they might eventually be able to vote
- 34:59Speaker 6: for I mean, how can you just sit there and go, yeah, yeah,
- 35:03Speaker 6: no problem at I want people who are in my
- 35:06Speaker 6: country illegally to get access to government money to buy
- 35:09Speaker 6: houses that other people, genuine US citizens could otherwise.
- 35:13Speaker 3: But we well that's exactly what's happening. But I like the
- 35:15Speaker 3: way she reframes it. It's not about giving away free
- 35:18Speaker 3: houses with taxpayer money.
- 35:19Speaker 2: It's about the.
- 35:20Speaker 5: American dream, American dream.
- 35:22Speaker 4: It's all about how it's all about Americans.
- 35:25Speaker 3: And of course, she says, right now it's out.
- 35:27Speaker 5: Of reach of Americans. And now, on top of that.
- 35:31Speaker 4: Their taxpayer dollar is fitting the bill for the illegals
- 35:35Speaker 4: to live the American dream that they themselves cannot afford.
- 35:40Speaker 4: What I love about this is Belosi finally said the
- 35:42Speaker 4: quiet part out loud. Which is the reason why our
- 35:46Speaker 4: administration has not only allowed, but facilitated over ten million
- 35:51Speaker 4: illegals pouring over the Mexican border is because we fully
- 35:56Speaker 4: intend the fully intend to make them legal and are
- 35:59Speaker 4: allow them to vote, and they will, of course vote
- 36:02Speaker 4: for us, because we are the administration who.
- 36:05Speaker 5: Let them in.
- 36:07Speaker 4: Now, Trump is the one who has promised mass deportation.
- 36:10Speaker 5: Look biggest deportation program in history if he makes it
- 36:14Speaker 5: to the White House.
- 36:15Speaker 4: The Dems have already told you what they're going to do,
- 36:18Speaker 4: and that is make these guys legal and they won't
- 36:21Speaker 4: be going anywhere. Meanwhile, every major country is growning under
- 36:25Speaker 4: the weight of trying to support these people.
- 36:28Speaker 3: The way they talk about it always makes me laugh.
- 36:30Speaker 3: This is one of the Californian congressmen. He says, undocumented
- 36:33Speaker 3: individuals have historically been removed from housing initiatives because of
- 36:37Speaker 3: federal restrictions. No, it's because they're not citizens and so
- 36:40Speaker 3: they don't have the right to house and going to
- 36:41Speaker 3: go back to where they came from and come the
- 36:43Speaker 3: legal way. It's all about the framing. We're going to
- 36:46Speaker 3: go to a break. When we come back, we'll look
- 36:48Speaker 3: at the papers, including skyrocketing compensation claims for school teachers
- 36:53Speaker 3: as solved it by students.
- 36:54Speaker 2: That's in tomorrow's papers. We'll talk about it in a moment.
- 37:00Speaker 2: Welcome back.
- 37:00Speaker 3: Let's take a look at the papers tomorrow.
- 37:02Speaker 2: Liz, you've got the Herald Sun.
- 37:03Speaker 4: Yes, I do. Check out this splash teacher trauma. More
- 37:08Speaker 4: than fifty million dollars has been paid out to Victorian
- 37:11Speaker 4: teachers and tertiary staff who were injured on the job
- 37:14Speaker 4: in the past two years, with experts blaming the explosion
- 37:18Speaker 4: of compensation claims on aggressive students and staff bullies. The
- 37:22Speaker 4: article goes on to say teachers from state and private schools,
- 37:26Speaker 4: as well as tertiary and TAFE educators, made one hundred
- 37:31Speaker 4: and ninety nine claims in twenty twenty two and almost
- 37:35Speaker 4: fifteen hundred claims last year, including for psychological stress, concussions, fractures,
- 37:43Speaker 4: and even deafness. You've got to really consider how helpless
- 37:49Speaker 4: these teachers must feel in today's day and age, where
- 37:52Speaker 4: you cannot even touch a student, even if it's in
- 37:56Speaker 4: self defense. Arguably, I think the solution is bring about
- 38:00Speaker 4: corporal punishment. Back in my day, we still had the
- 38:02Speaker 4: paddle and it worked really well in certain types.
- 38:05Speaker 5: I mean the fact.
- 38:06Speaker 4: That these teachers just have to copy it and then
- 38:09Speaker 4: file for some sort of compo it's probably quite hard.
- 38:12Speaker 5: To get as well.
- 38:14Speaker 4: And the number of them that's over fifty million dollars
- 38:18Speaker 4: paid out just over two years, that's incredible.
- 38:22Speaker 3: Yeah, we know a lot of teachers are leaving the profession.
- 38:24Speaker 3: And when you're being abused, and it's not just students,
- 38:26Speaker 3: but you discipline a student, the next minute you've got
- 38:29Speaker 3: the parents in claiming all sorts of things. It's a
- 38:32Speaker 3: pretty thankless task.
- 38:33Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean in some of these cases, one hundred
- 38:35Speaker 6: and forty one one thousand dollars for psychological harm, one
- 38:39Speaker 6: hundred and twenty grand for head injuries, one hundred and
- 38:42Speaker 6: three grand for risk injuries.
- 38:44Speaker 1: I mean, these are.
- 38:44Speaker 6: Pretty big gifts that these teachers are clearly getting caught up.
- 38:48Speaker 6: And you know, it's a bit like being a copper.
- 38:50Speaker 6: I suppose you know, you go to work every day
- 38:52Speaker 6: expecting you that you're going to come home from the job.
- 38:54Speaker 6: You know that there's a level of risk, But as
- 38:56Speaker 6: a teacher, you expect that you're going to be able
- 38:59Speaker 6: to go to work and do your job, which is
- 39:01Speaker 6: to educate children, or I suppose, in the case of TAFE,
- 39:05Speaker 6: educate young adults. You don't expect that you're going to
- 39:08Speaker 6: have to get into a fight or that someone's going
- 39:10Speaker 6: to try to assault you.
- 39:11Speaker 3: No, you're worried about getting sun burnt on playground.
- 39:14Speaker 11: Judy, you're not worried about remember no play I mean,
- 39:18Speaker 11: you know they're going to have to come up with Well,
- 39:21Speaker 11: it's just indicative of where we are at as a
- 39:23Speaker 11: society with the discipline of children that they would even
- 39:28Speaker 11: feel in boldened.
- 39:29Speaker 1: Enough to do that.
- 39:30Speaker 6: There are a fact like, you know, if I tried
- 39:33Speaker 6: that on with a teacher, even though I knew that
- 39:35Speaker 6: the teacher legally wasn't going to be able to respond
- 39:38Speaker 6: to do anything. I knew what was going to happen
- 39:40Speaker 6: when I got home, So you just simply wouldn't do that.
- 39:43Speaker 6: But I suspect a lot of these kids who do
- 39:45Speaker 6: this sort of thing are so entitled and their parents
- 39:48Speaker 6: are so entitled that there's nothing when they get home.
- 39:50Speaker 6: In fact, they probably go, little Johnny, you should have
- 39:53Speaker 6: done that to your teacher.
- 39:54Speaker 1: Absolutely disgusting.
- 39:55Speaker 6: Let's go to the front of the old tomorrow, where
- 39:57Speaker 6: it says casualty of culture war arts should be neutral here.
- 40:02Speaker 6: The former managing director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has
- 40:06Speaker 6: hit out at her sacking over the sidelining of a
- 40:08Speaker 6: pianist to attack Israel's conduct in Gaza, declaring that music
- 40:12Speaker 6: concerts should be safe havens for all Australians and free
- 40:17Speaker 6: from political protests. Sophie Galais is her name, and she
- 40:21Speaker 6: was sacked essentially because all this pressure was put on
- 40:24Speaker 6: the MSO because there was a pianist who started carrying
- 40:28Speaker 6: on about Gaza and she said, well, no, people have
- 40:31Speaker 6: come here to listen to nice music. They haven't come
- 40:35Speaker 6: here for politics. They've come here to escape from politics.
- 40:39Speaker 6: And the artsy Fatsi community has responded to that by saying, well,
- 40:43Speaker 6: it's time.
- 40:44Speaker 1: For you to go.
- 40:45Speaker 6: Good on her for taking a stand and standing up
- 40:49Speaker 6: for what she believes in, and I don't mean politics,
- 40:52Speaker 6: standing up for what she believes in the arts, which
- 40:55Speaker 6: should be available to everyone without discrimination or prejudice, regardless
- 41:00Speaker 6: of your race, your religion, your sex, your sexuality, anything right,
- 41:05Speaker 6: you should be able to enjoy the arts all the time.
- 41:07Speaker 6: And that's what she's tried to do and she's paid
- 41:09Speaker 6: the price with her job.
- 41:10Speaker 3: Well, not only was it the correct decision morally, it
- 41:13Speaker 3: was the correct decision commercially and that was probably her
- 41:16Speaker 3: guiding principle and foremost in her mind. Because they had
- 41:20Speaker 3: an audience of only about one hundred and fifty people
- 41:23Speaker 3: and the number of complaints they received about that particular
- 41:26Speaker 3: performance and what was said prior to it to the audience,
- 41:30Speaker 3: someone grandstanding, Well, she's just looking after the commercial interests
- 41:34Speaker 3: of the business by making.
- 41:35Speaker 2: Sure that people don't stay away.
- 41:37Speaker 3: But the problem that the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have got here, Liz,
- 41:41Speaker 3: is they have been known for their political stances in
- 41:44Speaker 3: the past. They took stances on gay marriage, they took
- 41:47Speaker 3: stances on the voice. Then they chose not to take
- 41:50Speaker 3: a stance on the Palestinian issue. So in a way,
- 41:54Speaker 3: they've got themselves to blame that they've got into this pickle,
- 41:58Speaker 3: because you can't pick and choose when you're going to
- 42:00Speaker 3: be political when you're not. If you're going to have
- 42:02Speaker 3: a stance where about music and that's it, then you've
- 42:05Speaker 3: got to stick to it. You can't duck and weave,
- 42:07Speaker 3: pick and choose, chop and change.
- 42:09Speaker 5: But this one was different. This guy didn't Donner Kathie.
- 42:13Speaker 4: He wasn't standing up in the middle of his performance
- 42:17Speaker 4: preaching to the audience, yelling about casualties in Gaza or
- 42:21Speaker 4: anything like this. He simply chose a piece of music
- 42:23Speaker 4: which I dare say most people wouldn't have even known
- 42:26Speaker 4: had much significance. But he he dedicated it to the
- 42:31Speaker 4: journalists and the work that they're doing on the ground
- 42:35Speaker 4: in Gaza. So I don't see this as one of
- 42:39Speaker 4: those like we've talked in.
- 42:41Speaker 2: The part, you're missing one point.
- 42:43Speaker 3: He accused Israel of assassinating journalists targeted assassinations of journalists
- 42:49Speaker 3: during the performance. Yes, when he introduced chee okay, accord
- 42:53Speaker 3: to the article, that's what he did.
- 42:54Speaker 4: That was the I've only read that he played this piece,
- 42:58Speaker 4: and he dedicated to the work that they're doing.
- 43:01Speaker 3: In introducing the piece, he made that point that was
- 43:03Speaker 3: the offensive point that he accused Israel of targeted assassinations
- 43:08Speaker 3: against journalists.
- 43:09Speaker 2: This piece is in honor of journalists who have been killed.
- 43:12Speaker 4: Okay, well, you're quite right in that they've taken stances
- 43:16Speaker 4: in the past and then chose to turf her over
- 43:18Speaker 4: this particular one and nobody knows why, including her.
- 43:21Speaker 6: Yeah, look, you know, just lead that stuff out and
- 43:24Speaker 6: quite right to rebuke the performer. I don't care whether
- 43:27Speaker 6: they're getting up and saying they're pro Israel, anti Israel,
- 43:30Speaker 6: pro pro that. I don't go along to the theater
- 43:33Speaker 6: or to the opera or whatever to be lectured about politics.
- 43:36Speaker 1: I'm going along for entertainment, to.
- 43:38Speaker 6: Enjoy the beauty of the music or the performance that's
- 43:41Speaker 6: in front of me. If I'm going to an overtly
- 43:43Speaker 6: political performance, well of course that's what I expect. But
- 43:46Speaker 6: I don't go along to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra expecting
- 43:48Speaker 6: someone to talk to me about politics.
- 43:50Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't go to the football.
- 43:51Speaker 4: For it, eiram down your throats all the time. So
- 43:54Speaker 4: I do sympathize with frustrated artists no matter which side
- 43:58Speaker 4: of the debate that they're on, because it's like, well,
- 44:01Speaker 4: I'm trying to use my platform like certain it's plaform orchestras.
- 44:06Speaker 2: It doesn't belong to you.
- 44:07Speaker 4: Say the same about all the different movie stars, the
- 44:10Speaker 4: sporting heroes, everyone who applies their weight behind any political cause.
- 44:15Speaker 5: And everyone says, shut up, shut up, shut up. We
- 44:18Speaker 5: just want to watch sport.
- 44:20Speaker 2: You can use social media. You can't do that, can you.
- 44:23Speaker 6: Probably you'll get social media be taken down, So you
- 44:25Speaker 6: can do it in your own time, but just don't
- 44:27Speaker 6: do it my performance backer off. Another story on the
- 44:29Speaker 6: front of the Ears Tomorrow, Too Far ALP front.
- 44:31Speaker 1: Bench is warning to Reserve Bank.
- 44:34Speaker 6: A government minister has warned the Reserve Bank against going
- 44:36Speaker 6: too far in its fart against inflation, despite Jim Charmers
- 44:40Speaker 6: denying he was attempting to influence the decisions of the
- 44:43Speaker 6: Independent Central Bank after declaring its rate hikes were smashing
- 44:47Speaker 6: the economy. Well, I'll let you in on a little secret,
- 44:50Speaker 6: Jim Charmers. The reason that their rate hikes are smashing
- 44:54Speaker 6: the economy is in part because you keep spending money
- 44:59Speaker 6: The RBA only has one lever to pull, and that
- 45:03Speaker 6: is to increase interest rates, and we know that that only.
- 45:06Speaker 1: Affects a certain portion of the population.
- 45:08Speaker 6: But you ain't pulling your weight, buddy, So what do
- 45:12Speaker 6: you expect the RBA to do? And then you have
- 45:14Speaker 6: other members of the government running interference, saying, oh, it's
- 45:18Speaker 6: going too far, it's going too far. But we're not criticizing,
- 45:21Speaker 6: we're not rebuking the RBA whatsoever.
- 45:24Speaker 1: Please.
- 45:24Speaker 3: Angus Taylor's got a good line in this article. He's
- 45:26Speaker 3: not really known for his zingers, but he said charmers
- 45:28Speaker 3: is fighting everything except inflation, which is a pretty good point.
- 45:32Speaker 2: Very quickly, let's go to the Canberra Times.
- 45:33Speaker 3: This is an interesting story aps Australian public service to
- 45:37Speaker 3: slash outsourcing. Sounds a little boring, but listen to the
- 45:40Speaker 3: detailed Defense will cut spending on consultants and labor higher. Okay,
- 45:44Speaker 3: fair enough, by nearly half a billion dollars this financial year.
- 45:50Speaker 3: Now that is incredible. Commonwealth departments and agencies had been
- 45:53Speaker 3: told to cut consultants who were doing core work that
- 45:57Speaker 3: should be done by public servant. So the Defense Department
- 46:01Speaker 3: sharpened their pencil and found four hundred and seventy one
- 46:05Speaker 3: million dollars worth of work that employees should be doing
- 46:09Speaker 3: that was being outsourced. Absolutely incredible fat that was allowed
- 46:14Speaker 3: to exist in that department. We're going to go to
- 46:15Speaker 3: a break when we come back. A UK public servant
- 46:18Speaker 3: who left top secret documents at a bus stop is
- 46:21Speaker 3: appointed to review defense. It's coming up in a month,
- 46:28Speaker 3: all right, So here's a story for all those people
- 46:30Speaker 3: have stuffed up at work and to spared. My life
- 46:32Speaker 3: is over, Liz, you can make a comeback.
- 46:34Speaker 5: This is going to make you feel way better.
- 46:37Speaker 4: An exit servant in the UK best known for leaving
- 46:41Speaker 4: top secret documents at a bus stop last June. These
- 46:45Speaker 4: documents included details regarding the UK forces in Cabul, made
- 46:52Speaker 4: it really easy if anyone wanted to find them. He's
- 46:55Speaker 4: now been asked to join a review of.
- 46:58Speaker 5: The UK's forces.
- 47:00Speaker 4: The article says such sensitive intelligence is not allowed to
- 47:03Speaker 4: be taken from government buildings unless properly logged out and
- 47:07Speaker 4: securely stored.
- 47:08Speaker 5: However, according to a source who spoke with The.
- 47:11Speaker 4: Times lapsely that's his name, No pun Intended picked up
- 47:16Speaker 4: the pages from the entray on his desk and took
- 47:19Speaker 4: them home with him. It was the following morning when
- 47:22Speaker 4: they fell out of his bag as he was rushing
- 47:24Speaker 4: to work, before they were found wet and piled up
- 47:26Speaker 4: at the bus stop before being dried out and handed over.
- 47:30Speaker 4: Can you imagine if someone with nefarious ideas had discovered
- 47:34Speaker 4: these first operations into able come to a grinding stop
- 47:39Speaker 4: thanks to a blow called lap Speed.
- 47:41Speaker 3: He's now been appointed to this committee to review the
- 47:44Speaker 3: British defense. I guess his first point of review will
- 47:47Speaker 3: be don't let people like me anywhere near defense?
- 47:50Speaker 6: Like is he the one you want defending you? Like
- 47:54Speaker 6: I would say if you really wanted to bugger up
- 47:57Speaker 6: a war, he'd be the guy to get on side.
- 48:00Speaker 6: Refeign Nation in the world should now be trying to
- 48:03Speaker 6: get in Lapsley's pocket so that he can go in
- 48:05Speaker 6: there and stuff up the UK Defense Force as much
- 48:08Speaker 6: as possible.
- 48:08Speaker 1: Because it sounds like the sort of thing he might do.
- 48:11Speaker 6: They should take a leaf out of the book at
- 48:14Speaker 6: the federal government here in Canberra, which is actually now
- 48:17Speaker 6: getting rid of consultants. As we said before, and before
- 48:20Speaker 6: we leave you tonight, I have to tell you about
- 48:23Speaker 6: a crime against humanity. And this is a real crime
- 48:26Speaker 6: against humanity. Tin spaghetti is one thing, but Heines has
- 48:30Speaker 6: now introduced in the UK tinned spaghetti carbonara. No, I
- 48:37Speaker 6: am not joking. This is a dish that can never
- 48:40Speaker 6: ever be put in a can. It is a dish that,
- 48:43Speaker 6: by the way, can never ever have cream in the source.
- 48:48Speaker 6: And you can just imagine how the Italians have responded
- 48:52Speaker 6: to this lunacy. The Italian Tourism minister, he said, Italian
- 48:56Speaker 6: cuisine is a serious thing.
- 48:57Speaker 1: As Alberto Sawt, he would say.
- 48:59Speaker 6: In an American in Rome, I give this canned carbonara
- 49:03Speaker 6: to the mouse. I wouldn't even give it to a mouse,
- 49:06Speaker 6: the poor bloody mouse having to eat that poor excuse
- 49:10Speaker 6: for carbonara. If you are eating that, you really need
- 49:13Speaker 6: to reassess your life choices.
- 49:15Speaker 1: That is discussed.
- 49:16Speaker 3: I haven't had dinner. I'm going to try and find
- 49:18Speaker 3: a can on the way home. That's it from us.
- 49:19Speaker 3: Stick around coming up is for readA Penney show.