Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 22 July
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Well, late de Bait.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Great to have your company on the Late Debate. I'm
- 0:08Speaker 2: James MacPerson with Caleb Bond and Danika Georgio and Caleb.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I'm incredibly excited about tomorrow morning. You know what I'm doing.
- 0:15Speaker 3: What are you doing? James?
- 0:16Speaker 2: I am a guest on Danika the Georgio's Danika Go's
- 0:19Speaker 2: Global Podcast.
- 0:20Speaker 4: Oh I know Caleb has been a guest a couple
- 0:23Speaker 4: of times. For you to be on tomorrow.
- 0:25Speaker 1: A long time for me to be invited.
- 0:27Speaker 5: Oh well, no, we got there eventually. So what should
- 0:32Speaker 5: it be?
- 0:33Speaker 1: Up?
- 0:33Speaker 5: On our YouTube channel tomorrow?
- 0:34Speaker 4: You can see James and I showing the fact together
- 0:36Speaker 4: more than we do on this show.
- 0:37Speaker 1: It'll be good. I'll pick Caleb's brains for some tips
- 0:40Speaker 1: later on.
- 0:40Speaker 6: Look, I'm glad you're not the only one who has
- 0:42Speaker 6: to do the early call this week. It's recorded at
- 0:44Speaker 6: nine in the morning. I did the James Bolt Show
- 0:47Speaker 6: this morning as well, so I had the early call too.
- 0:50Speaker 3: So at least we've both been dragged out a bit
- 0:52Speaker 3: early this week.
- 0:54Speaker 5: We take it as a call.
- 0:55Speaker 3: Oh look, you know we're doing our bit.
- 0:57Speaker 5: For the channel. That's it that people want to hear
- 0:58Speaker 5: from you.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Honored to be on your show, Danika, But we've got
- 1:01Speaker 2: our own show to do right now, so let's get
- 1:03Speaker 2: stuck into it. Here's what's coming up tonight. The Victorian
- 1:06Speaker 2: school goes to extreme lengths to stop students mucking up
- 1:09Speaker 2: in the toilets. A lot of people are saying they've
- 1:12Speaker 2: gone too far. We'll talk about that.
- 1:13Speaker 1: In a moment.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Generous donations flooding to help a mother of quadruplets, only
- 1:19Speaker 2: for her to be denied housing assistance when bureaucrats rule
- 1:22Speaker 2: she's been given too much money, and South Australians have
- 1:25Speaker 2: been told if they want cheap electricity, they should get
- 1:28Speaker 2: used to sitting in the dark. All of that coming
- 1:31Speaker 2: up shortly, But first we've all seen them, those parents
- 1:34Speaker 2: who desperately want to be their child's best friend instead
- 1:37Speaker 2: of being the one person willing to tell them no.
- 1:40Speaker 2: These delinquent parents raising delinquent juveniles typically create havoc in
- 1:44Speaker 2: shopping centers, like this mum who let her kids treat
- 1:48Speaker 2: a cafe food cabinet like a climbing gym. Now, amazingly,
- 1:58Speaker 2: the video, which has been viewed most five million times,
- 2:01Speaker 2: has divided people between those outraged at the mum and
- 2:05Speaker 2: those outraged at the person who filmed it. Personally, I
- 2:08Speaker 2: think we should just bring back smacking the Nika.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Well.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Look, firstly, while say, in regards to this video, when
- 2:14Speaker 4: I was watching it, my blood was boiling watching it.
- 2:17Speaker 4: I just want to grab that kid myself and haul
- 2:19Speaker 4: him off it, eat him off it basically, and then
- 2:23Speaker 4: eat him.
- 2:23Speaker 7: You don't eat him, pick him up and eat.
- 2:25Speaker 5: Him off it.
- 2:26Speaker 4: But then the mother if you actually watch the full clip,
- 2:29Speaker 4: So the full clip goes for about forty seconds or so,
- 2:31Speaker 4: So there's two children, the little irritant that's climbing, and
- 2:35Speaker 4: then there's another child too that eventually go leans over
- 2:38Speaker 4: the counter, and it's just really frustrating. But you can
- 2:41Speaker 4: see at one point, as you could say, actually here,
- 2:43Speaker 4: she's just sort of you know, it's like she's patting him,
- 2:46Speaker 4: being like, honey, just get off, like there's no need
- 2:49Speaker 4: to be doing that.
- 2:51Speaker 5: See if that was my kid.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Now I'm not a parent, so I can't speak for
- 2:55Speaker 4: all parents, but if that was my kid, I'd say
- 2:57Speaker 4: get off there, and if they didn't listen, I say,
- 2:59Speaker 4: we'll deal with this when you get home.
- 3:01Speaker 5: A bloody mean it, son, A bloody mean it okay.
- 3:04Speaker 4: It really irks me to see this soft parenting now
- 3:08Speaker 4: in regards to smacking, I I'm a bit on the
- 3:12Speaker 4: fence with this, to be honest, because I would my
- 3:16Speaker 4: heart would break to see my child get upset and
- 3:20Speaker 4: start crying back that I've hurt them unintentionally. But in
- 3:24Speaker 4: certain circumstances, I think a little pat is okay, but
- 3:28Speaker 4: I wouldn't go for a full smack on the bum.
- 3:30Speaker 2: I think your heart breaks to see your kids cry
- 3:32Speaker 2: when you smack them, but your heart breaks more when
- 3:34Speaker 2: they're in drug rehab.
- 3:36Speaker 5: Well. Look, that's a fair point.
- 3:37Speaker 8: What he's quite the pipeline climbing up on.
- 3:44Speaker 2: Don't discipline your kids when you're young, you have problems
- 3:46Speaker 2: when they're all.
- 3:47Speaker 4: I agree with that, but such ways to do it?
- 3:49Speaker 4: There there are other discipliney ways to do it. I
- 3:52Speaker 4: feel like then, but you've got two sons. How did
- 3:56Speaker 4: you view smacking when they grew up?
- 3:58Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 3:59Speaker 2: We smacked the boys when they needed one. It wasn't
- 4:02Speaker 2: the go to.
- 4:03Speaker 1: There's plenty of other things as a parent you can do.
- 4:05Speaker 2: I think the number one thing is teach your kids
- 4:07Speaker 2: that when you say something, you mean it.
- 4:10Speaker 1: None of this old count to three.
- 4:12Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, count to five.
- 4:14Speaker 1: I mean it this time, I really mean it.
- 4:16Speaker 2: I mean, pretty soon kids realize that you don't mean
- 4:18Speaker 2: it at all.
- 4:20Speaker 1: But you know, I really mean that.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I think too many parents are trying to be their
- 4:24Speaker 2: their kid's friend. And I think you develop friendship with
- 4:27Speaker 2: your children as you get older.
- 4:29Speaker 1: But when they're young, they don't need a buddy. They
- 4:31Speaker 1: need a parent. They've only got one, so you might
- 4:34Speaker 1: as well be it.
- 4:34Speaker 6: But even go back, you know, further, before you even
- 4:37Speaker 6: contemplate the idea of giving them a smack.
- 4:41Speaker 3: I mean, this comes down.
- 4:41Speaker 6: To respect for a public place right and the people
- 4:44Speaker 6: around you in a public place, And that lesson begins
- 4:49Speaker 6: long before you're in a shop with the kid climbing
- 4:52Speaker 6: on the counter.
- 4:53Speaker 3: It begins it. I mean it begins from.
- 4:55Speaker 6: The minute you start taking the kid outside, right when
- 4:58Speaker 6: they're of an age where they can conform that the
- 5:00Speaker 6: fact that they're in the world with other people, and
- 5:03Speaker 6: those two children are not little. You know, they're up
- 5:07Speaker 6: and walking about on their own, They're fully conscious of
- 5:10Speaker 6: where they are and what they're doing. They're old enough
- 5:13Speaker 6: to be able to look over the top of the counter,
- 5:16Speaker 6: so they're not small kids. They should by that time
- 5:19Speaker 6: be fully aware of the fact that you don't do
- 5:22Speaker 6: that stuff in public. So there is very clearly a
- 5:27Speaker 6: problem of parenting. And I thought it was interesting to
- 5:29Speaker 6: note people online saying, you know, how dare whoever this
- 5:32Speaker 6: individual was, take a video of these children doing this?
- 5:36Speaker 3: But you can't of I mean, you can't win.
- 5:38Speaker 6: Because, of course, the golden rule is you can't interfere
- 5:42Speaker 6: with another parent's parenting. You can't tell another parent's kid
- 5:46Speaker 6: off for doing the wrong thing because that causes major issues.
- 5:50Speaker 3: So I can't do that.
- 5:52Speaker 6: But then I can't take a video to note the
- 5:55Speaker 6: fact that children are misbehaving in public and saying, look,
- 5:58Speaker 6: here's an example of what's going wrong.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Something should be done about it. So what do you
- 6:02Speaker 3: mean to do?
- 6:02Speaker 6: You meant to just go about your merry way and say, oh, well,
- 6:05Speaker 6: that's fine, the kids can climb all over anything they
- 6:07Speaker 6: what because I have no form of recourse.
- 6:11Speaker 3: I mean, there has to be a.
- 6:12Speaker 6: Circuit breaker in cases like this, And I think we
- 6:15Speaker 6: over took the videos quite right to point out that
- 6:17Speaker 6: this kind of thing is going on because it is
- 6:19Speaker 6: utterly disrombined. You're running a business and you've got kids
- 6:22Speaker 6: with their greasy mits climbing all over your display cabinet.
- 6:26Speaker 8: I mean I'd be coming out and saying, excuse me,
- 6:28Speaker 8: you're not purchasing anything in my shop.
- 6:30Speaker 4: Pr know what, Actually, if I was working behind the counter,
- 6:34Speaker 4: in all honesty, I actually would have said something in
- 6:37Speaker 4: a very polite way. I would have just said, sorry,
- 6:39Speaker 4: do you mind this is a hygienic area.
- 6:42Speaker 5: We're dealing with food.
- 6:43Speaker 8: If you say to the peerf you'm telling you a
- 6:45Speaker 8: child to.
- 6:46Speaker 4: Well, I would have said something if I was behind
- 6:48Speaker 4: the counter. But just in regards to the person that
- 6:50Speaker 4: was filming, The problem obviously is is you can't film children.
- 6:55Speaker 4: That was I don't have a problem with the fact
- 6:57Speaker 4: that they filmed them, but in the sure original video
- 7:01Speaker 4: you can see the kid's faces pretty clearly.
- 7:03Speaker 5: You've got to be careful.
- 7:05Speaker 4: We can't show children under the age of eighteen, We
- 7:07Speaker 4: can't name children under the age of eighteen.
- 7:09Speaker 5: You just have to be very, very careful.
- 7:10Speaker 2: It does help authorities though to put them on the
- 7:12Speaker 2: watch list straight away, though there is.
- 7:14Speaker 5: Well well for the drug abuse. Is that what I'm saying.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I think most people are pretty generous, like people, especially
- 7:20Speaker 2: people who have been parents understand it's not always easy,
- 7:23Speaker 2: especially on aeroplanes. I mean, taking little kids on aeroplanes
- 7:27Speaker 2: can be a nightmare.
- 7:28Speaker 1: And I think most people.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Are pretty gracious and allow a fair bit of latitude.
- 7:32Speaker 2: But when it's clear that a kid is misbehaving and
- 7:35Speaker 2: mum and dad, like the mother in that video, are
- 7:38Speaker 2: not taking any action to address it, but are sort
- 7:40Speaker 2: of molly coddling it, that's when people get really annoyed.
- 7:44Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 7:44Speaker 4: Child a clinical child clinical psychologist who was quoted in
- 7:47Speaker 4: this article, Emily Hansen. She says young children are wired
- 7:51Speaker 4: to climb, touch, and explore.
- 7:53Speaker 5: They're still learning.
- 7:54Speaker 4: That's not a character flawa in the child or the parent,
- 7:56Speaker 4: it's development. What children need in those moments is a
- 7:59Speaker 4: calm out of to redirect them. I'm not so sure
- 8:03Speaker 4: you can be calm if you're telling your kid get
- 8:07Speaker 4: down a thousand times, I don't think you could be
- 8:09Speaker 4: calm and redirect them in that moment.
- 8:11Speaker 5: I mean, she's obviously an expert in her field.
- 8:13Speaker 4: I'm not disputing her qualifications, but I think there is
- 8:17Speaker 4: an element where you've got to get a little bit.
- 8:19Speaker 6: Well and you can climb at the playground, you don't
- 8:21Speaker 6: climb up to someone else's shop count.
- 8:23Speaker 2: But the other side to that is just climbing and
- 8:25Speaker 2: exploring comes naturally, But being naughty and disobedient comes naturally
- 8:29Speaker 2: as well. You don't teach your kids to be naughty
- 8:31Speaker 2: and disobedient, that comes naturally. You have to teach them
- 8:34Speaker 2: to behave and to respect authority, and parents who failed
- 8:37Speaker 2: to do that set their kids up for failure long term.
- 8:40Speaker 6: Well, you know, climbing, When was the last time you
- 8:43Speaker 6: saw a kid with a broken arm with their arm
- 8:45Speaker 6: in a cast.
- 8:46Speaker 3: I mean, there's a kid at school.
- 8:47Speaker 6: Everyone you know at some point that have had their
- 8:50Speaker 6: arm in a car. I couldn't tell you the last
- 8:52Speaker 6: time I saw a kid with their arm in a cast,
- 8:54Speaker 6: Which means they're not climbing up things enough.
- 8:57Speaker 3: You know, forget about shop counters.
- 8:58Speaker 6: They should be climbing up trees, key bars and all
- 9:00Speaker 6: sort of things and falling off and breaking bones.
- 9:02Speaker 3: It's how we used to do it. Anyway, while we're.
- 9:04Speaker 6: Talking about children, these are of the older variety high
- 9:08Speaker 6: school children. Over at Lara Secondary College down near Geelong
- 9:12Speaker 6: in Victoria, they've installed these new wizbang four hundred thousand
- 9:17Speaker 6: dollars toilets. They want to be pretty good toilets for
- 9:20Speaker 6: four hunder grand I have to say. They have a
- 9:23Speaker 6: tracking system on them, so if the kiddies want to
- 9:26Speaker 6: go to the loo, they have to go to the
- 9:28Speaker 6: office and retrieve a key card that they then scan
- 9:33Speaker 6: to into the toilet that collects all their details, so
- 9:36Speaker 6: the school can then see that, you know, a little
- 9:39Speaker 6: miss Muffett went into the toilet at precisely two twenty
- 9:43Speaker 6: seven PM and she then spent nine minutes in qubicle seven.
- 9:48Speaker 6: It's a great little of detail for them to keep,
- 9:51Speaker 6: and indeed, this is the level of detail they can keep.
- 9:53Speaker 3: They can keep exactly how long you've been in there.
- 9:55Speaker 3: They've got your name, they've got which cubicle you used,
- 9:58Speaker 3: et cetera.
- 9:59Speaker 6: Now it is thought that this has been done in
- 10:03Speaker 6: the name of safety because a couple of years ago
- 10:06Speaker 6: at this school, Lara Secondary College, there was a big
- 10:09Speaker 6: fight that broke out in the girls' toilets. This is
- 10:13Speaker 6: video that was taken at the time of this brawl
- 10:16Speaker 6: that was then subsequently posted to social media. Now, of course,
- 10:29Speaker 6: you know you don't want people having girls clearly having
- 10:33Speaker 6: brawls in the toilet, and that ought to be stopped.
- 10:36Speaker 6: But I gotta be frank, I'm not sure putting monitoring
- 10:40Speaker 6: devices on the school toilets is quite the way to
- 10:44Speaker 6: go about it. One student at the school was quoted
- 10:48Speaker 6: in the Herald son saying it works by walking to
- 10:50Speaker 6: an office grabbing a key cart. As I said, before
- 10:52Speaker 6: giving them your name. They tracked the exact time.
- 10:54Speaker 3: You enter and leave. It even includes what stool you
- 10:56Speaker 3: were in. It is a gross invasion of privacy.
- 11:00Speaker 6: There was another student who was quoted as saying she
- 11:03Speaker 6: felt uncomfortable now about, you know, whether or not she
- 11:06Speaker 6: could go to the toilet to deal with her period,
- 11:09Speaker 6: because of course, now that they're tracking how long you're
- 11:11Speaker 6: in the toilet opens up the possibility that, you know,
- 11:14Speaker 6: the school will start saying, well, you know, you spent
- 11:16Speaker 6: too long in there, miss, what was all that about,
- 11:18Speaker 6: et cetera. Then you've got to explain to some teacher
- 11:20Speaker 6: or staff member, well, I'm sorry, sir, I was bleeding
- 11:23Speaker 6: this morning. I mean, surely this is a step too far.
- 11:29Speaker 6: Monitoring via technological means how much time students are spending
- 11:35Speaker 6: in the toilet. I mean, when I was at school,
- 11:38Speaker 6: if I'd spent too long in the toilet. I'm sure
- 11:40Speaker 6: I would have come back and the teacher would have said, Caleb,
- 11:44Speaker 6: why were you.
- 11:44Speaker 3: In the toilet for fifteen minutes?
- 11:47Speaker 6: And then I would have had to say, well, because
- 11:48Speaker 6: I found the classroom boring, sir or miss or whatever
- 11:51Speaker 6: it was, Right, Like, surely the teachers can monitor this
- 11:55Speaker 6: stuff without having to use a key card to monitor
- 11:58Speaker 6: what store you're in and how long you're in touch
- 12:00Speaker 6: it to your name on some files somewhere, the toilet
- 12:03Speaker 6: file being kept by I think it's really weird.
- 12:06Speaker 4: Well, I don't think we want to know what you
- 12:08Speaker 4: were doing in the toilet for fifteen minutes.
- 12:10Speaker 5: So I'm going to move right on from that one.
- 12:14Speaker 5: But look, I.
- 12:17Speaker 7: Actually I completely agree. I agree. I think it's a compused.
- 12:25Speaker 7: I think it is a complete invasion of privacy.
- 12:28Speaker 4: And I worry for young girls who are indeed going
- 12:31Speaker 4: through puberty.
- 12:32Speaker 5: They are going through a lot.
- 12:33Speaker 4: Of changes in their body, and a lot of young
- 12:35Speaker 4: girls don't know how to handle them and what you know, say,
- 12:37Speaker 4: for instance, I don't have a mother or somebody that
- 12:39Speaker 4: they can go through these bodily changes with, So they've
- 12:41Speaker 4: gone to the toilet to try and seek some solstice
- 12:45Speaker 4: to try and figure things out, and they're in there
- 12:47Speaker 4: for Sorry. Solace, Solace, Solace, thank you, thank you.
- 12:54Speaker 6: Caleb Funny, the solstice is the toilet.
- 12:56Speaker 5: It's a stra This is going really, really well.
- 12:59Speaker 4: This I derailed this entire segment, but you know, I
- 13:03Speaker 4: do feel for young girls that are going through this
- 13:05Speaker 4: and then they're stuck in the toilet for a long
- 13:07Speaker 4: time and they come out and the teacher goes, well,
- 13:08Speaker 4: why were you so while we're in there for so long,
- 13:11Speaker 4: and they get embarrassed. It's actually really hard as a
- 13:14Speaker 4: young girl going through bodily changes, and I think this
- 13:17Speaker 4: is a complete invasion of privacy, but also an overreaction.
- 13:20Speaker 5: There was one fight, one fight, and I.
- 13:23Speaker 4: Would like to think that they dealt with those students accordingly.
- 13:27Speaker 5: I just think it's a you know.
- 13:29Speaker 4: You don't need to bring big brother in to deal
- 13:31Speaker 4: with one incident.
- 13:33Speaker 1: I'm going to disagree with both of you.
- 13:34Speaker 2: I think the scandal is not that the school is
- 13:36Speaker 2: monitoring toilet use. I think the scandal is that they
- 13:39Speaker 2: need to that's been more than one incident. In twenty seventeen,
- 13:42Speaker 2: this school featured on a Current Affair because violence in
- 13:45Speaker 2: the school was so bad. The same year that they
- 13:48Speaker 2: had that brawl in the girl's toilets, they had another
- 13:51Speaker 2: brawl on the school oval that was so bad police
- 13:53Speaker 2: had to be called, not because of the students fighting,
- 13:56Speaker 2: but because of parent turned up after the fight and
- 13:59Speaker 2: started abusing people in the school. So this is a
- 14:02Speaker 2: school with a track record of violent instances that have
- 14:05Speaker 2: required police attendance and that have featured on national television.
- 14:10Speaker 2: The other toilets that have not been upgraded are so
- 14:12Speaker 2: vandalized that they're beyond use. So there's a clear problem
- 14:16Speaker 2: in this school that goes beyond one time.
- 14:19Speaker 1: A couple of years ago they had a fight. That's
- 14:20Speaker 1: my first point.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Second point is this, the monitoring of time in the
- 14:24Speaker 2: toilets is not during recess or lunchtime. You can go
- 14:27Speaker 2: to the toilet, no one cares how long you're in there.
- 14:30Speaker 2: But if you go to the toilet during class, that's when, okay,
- 14:34Speaker 2: you can go to the toilet. You get a key
- 14:35Speaker 2: card so the school can monitor who was in the
- 14:38Speaker 2: toilets during class time and how long they are at
- 14:42Speaker 2: the toilet. I don't think that's a problem. I think
- 14:45Speaker 2: schools have a duty of care to know where kids
- 14:47Speaker 2: are what they're doing. And clearly this is a school
- 14:49Speaker 2: where kids have abused the privileges they've been given. So
- 14:53Speaker 2: now the school is saying, well, parents expect us to
- 14:55Speaker 2: know what's going on.
- 14:57Speaker 1: We'll make sure that we know.
- 14:58Speaker 2: With regard and I don't think that they're checking how
- 15:01Speaker 2: long did Caleb spend the toilet?
- 15:02Speaker 1: Two minutes, so that's healthy.
- 15:04Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes, that sounds a bit dodgy, Danika, what was
- 15:06Speaker 2: going on there? I think the school only check the
- 15:09Speaker 2: records if something happens, Okay, we know who was where,
- 15:13Speaker 2: and we've got evidence as to how long they were
- 15:15Speaker 2: gone for. And finally, with regards to female students, I
- 15:20Speaker 2: don't understand all of that. So but my thought would be,
- 15:24Speaker 2: surely if a young girl had an issue, she would
- 15:27Speaker 2: be spoken to, not by a male teacher. There'd be
- 15:30Speaker 2: a female teacher who would talk to her.
- 15:31Speaker 4: We don't know that if she's in a male if
- 15:33Speaker 4: she's got a male teacher, she's going to have to
- 15:35Speaker 4: explain to the teacher.
- 15:35Speaker 5: A male teacher.
- 15:37Speaker 1: These days that schools are so conscious of.
- 15:40Speaker 4: But if you're monitoring times, and if you're monitoring times,
- 15:44Speaker 4: you get what you're given right in the classroom.
- 15:46Speaker 2: If the girl had an issue, I'm sure that a
- 15:48Speaker 2: female teacher would be boored.
- 15:49Speaker 4: So then she's going to not only have to explain
- 15:51Speaker 4: herself to a male teacher, who then has to decide
- 15:53Speaker 4: whether or not to then pass that on to a
- 15:55Speaker 4: female teacher.
- 15:56Speaker 5: It's actually really embarrassing. If it's great, can I.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Say that worsus massive brawls in the school toilets with.
- 16:04Speaker 3: So you put put a timing system on the school.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Toilets, maybe a timing system where the door just flies
- 16:10Speaker 2: open after like you lose.
- 16:12Speaker 6: Yeah, you use the ex loose and if you spend
- 16:14Speaker 6: too long in because they do it to stop people
- 16:16Speaker 6: shooting up and whatever.
- 16:17Speaker 1: Really a thing.
- 16:18Speaker 3: Yeah, you have used an ex loose No I'm not.
- 16:20Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
- 16:21Speaker 6: So they have them in parts of the city and
- 16:25Speaker 6: often like bus interchanges and things like that. And yes,
- 16:29Speaker 6: the idea is they're like self cleaning toilets, fully stainless steel,
- 16:33Speaker 6: and there is a time limit on the door because
- 16:35Speaker 6: the idea is they don't want to aid people going
- 16:36Speaker 6: to sleep in them or going in there and using
- 16:40Speaker 6: drugs and you know, all sorts of nefarious stuff. So
- 16:42Speaker 6: the door will swing over lot. I think it's like
- 16:45Speaker 6: ten minutes or something. But so you wouldn't want to
- 16:47Speaker 6: have too much you will you would be and be
- 16:50Speaker 6: sitting on the john and the door and open up
- 16:52Speaker 6: and the whole world to get to see. But going
- 16:54Speaker 6: back to serious point, so you put this timing thing
- 16:58Speaker 6: on the toilets or the monitor whatever, it doesn't change
- 17:01Speaker 6: the underlying problem, which is clearly the school has major
- 17:05Speaker 6: cultural issues if they've got students punching on in the lose,
- 17:09Speaker 6: and they got parents punching on on a school oval
- 17:12Speaker 6: and all this sort of stuff. I mean, putting a
- 17:14Speaker 6: monitoring system on the toilet is a band aid measure
- 17:17Speaker 6: that the school clearly has much bigger problems than that.
- 17:21Speaker 6: And if you're spending four hundred grand, I suspect you
- 17:25Speaker 6: could spend four hundred grand a lot more effectively to
- 17:28Speaker 6: fix bigger problems in the school than putting a key
- 17:31Speaker 6: card system on the toilets.
- 17:32Speaker 5: But this is this is this is.
- 17:34Speaker 6: Bureaucracy one oh one, where they go, here's how can
- 17:38Speaker 6: we spend the most money to achieve the least results.
- 17:42Speaker 3: And this would seem to me exactly the way to
- 17:44Speaker 3: do it.
- 17:45Speaker 2: That said school principles are so running such tight budgets
- 17:50Speaker 2: for a principle to say, okay, we'll spend four hundred
- 17:52Speaker 2: grand on this tells you the extent of the problem, because,
- 17:55Speaker 2: as you said, you'd much rather spend money on other things,
- 17:59Speaker 2: and no one more so than the principle of the
- 18:01Speaker 2: school who's approved this spending. So to me, that just
- 18:04Speaker 2: goes to show how big an issue it must be.
- 18:05Speaker 4: But also then it makes me want to I would
- 18:08Speaker 4: want to now know what discipline reactions do they take
- 18:11Speaker 4: in that school for them to go to such extreme measures?
- 18:14Speaker 5: Do you know what I mean?
- 18:15Speaker 4: Like, is it they have a problem with discipline? Do
- 18:17Speaker 4: they have a problem with suspension? Expulsion? Are they not
- 18:19Speaker 4: handling these situations correctly that they've gone?
- 18:22Speaker 5: Okay, you know what.
- 18:22Speaker 4: The only solution that we've got into monitor the toilet time.
- 18:25Speaker 1: You know where it all starts, kids climbing food.
- 18:29Speaker 5: That's right.
- 18:29Speaker 8: It goes from kids climbing on counters, misbehaving in the toilets,
- 18:34Speaker 8: to drugs, drugs.
- 18:35Speaker 5: Drug That's where James was going.
- 18:37Speaker 4: That's where the mind was going down from. Now, look,
- 18:41Speaker 4: have a listen to this. A Brisbane mother has given
- 18:43Speaker 4: birth to rare identical quadruplets would you believe four babies
- 18:49Speaker 4: at once, But she has been denied state housing assistance
- 18:53Speaker 4: because a GoFundMe page that was set up to help
- 18:56Speaker 4: her out has actually been denied. Now Jeneta Naman, she's
- 19:01Speaker 4: now a mother of eight. So she had four children
- 19:04Speaker 4: and now she's just given birth to four at once,
- 19:07Speaker 4: and so a go fund Me page was set up
- 19:09Speaker 4: to try and help her give her that she is
- 19:10Speaker 4: raising eight children with her partner in a cost of
- 19:14Speaker 4: living crisis. So this go Fundi page started off at
- 19:18Speaker 4: about sixty thousand, and at last look as we just
- 19:20Speaker 4: saw there from it, it was just over eighty thousand
- 19:23Speaker 4: dollars now, So she had applied for state housing assistance
- 19:27Speaker 4: in June. It was approved there and bear in mind
- 19:30Speaker 4: that the average wait time for it to even be
- 19:33Speaker 4: looked at for a case study to be looked at
- 19:35Speaker 4: is about two years. So she had it approved in June,
- 19:38Speaker 4: and then she received an email on Tuesday morning saying
- 19:41Speaker 4: that no, we can't give you any more assistance because
- 19:43Speaker 4: she was deemed to have too much cash because of
- 19:46Speaker 4: this go fund Me page, which is absolutely extraordinary. Now,
- 19:50Speaker 4: this money that she would have received from the government
- 19:53Speaker 4: would have helped them get into a rental, including covering
- 19:56Speaker 4: bond or some weeks of rent which has now been withdrawn. Say, okay,
- 20:00Speaker 4: that fundraiser had about eighty thousand dollars in it, and
- 20:03Speaker 4: I was having a look at the average costs of
- 20:05Speaker 4: children in this country. So raising a newborn is seventeen thousand.
- 20:10Speaker 5: Dollars on average.
- 20:11Speaker 4: She has four newborns at once, so that's seventeen thousand
- 20:16Speaker 4: per child, and then about thirteen thousand dollars per subsequent
- 20:21Speaker 4: chrild or she's got another per year per subsequent child,
- 20:25Speaker 4: so she's got four that there goes that eighty grand
- 20:28Speaker 4: within the twelve months, that money down the drain. I
- 20:32Speaker 4: actually think it's really really disappointing decision by the state,
- 20:35Speaker 4: by the state government.
- 20:36Speaker 5: I think it's appalling.
- 20:37Speaker 4: And also, don't forget these go fundme pages. You don't
- 20:39Speaker 4: just get the money straight away. There's a lot of
- 20:41Speaker 4: admitted that it goes through. She won't see any of
- 20:43Speaker 4: that eighty thousand dollars for months, if not years if that.
- 20:47Speaker 8: At this point, it's just the typical go back to
- 20:53Speaker 8: the bureaucracy business, right. The stupidity of the bureaucracy and
- 20:57Speaker 8: the immovability of our willthy system. Now I did five
- 21:02Speaker 8: or six years ago. I filmed a doco with SBS
- 21:06Speaker 8: Could You Survive on the Breadline? And I spent two
- 21:09Speaker 8: weeks living on forty.
- 21:10Speaker 6: Dollars a day, which was then the rate of new Start,
- 21:13Speaker 6: which is now called what job Seeker.
- 21:16Speaker 3: And I went around. I met people who were.
- 21:17Speaker 6: On the disability support pension, and people who were receiving
- 21:21Speaker 6: parenting payments and all sorts of different stuff, right, and
- 21:25Speaker 6: the challenge was does the rate need to be raised?
- 21:29Speaker 3: And fundamentally, the view I came.
- 21:30Speaker 6: Away was with that the end of that two weeks
- 21:34Speaker 6: was that we have a system that's fundamentally based on
- 21:38Speaker 6: trying to fit square pegs into round holes and then
- 21:41Speaker 6: wondering why it doesn't work.
- 21:43Speaker 3: There are some people.
- 21:45Speaker 6: Who I think you could quite legitimately argue deserve to
- 21:48Speaker 6: receive more money or assistance, and there are others who
- 21:51Speaker 6: could legitimately argue are getting way too much and are
- 21:53Speaker 6: abusing the system. There's no moveability whatsoever. So what you
- 21:57Speaker 6: have here is clearly a case of parents who were
- 22:01Speaker 6: in no way expecting to have.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Four more children.
- 22:04Speaker 6: They thought they were going to have one more kid, right,
- 22:07Speaker 6: All of a sudden, they find themselves having four more children.
- 22:09Speaker 6: They live in a three bedroom home. Okay, we need
- 22:12Speaker 6: a much bigger house. They don't have much choice in
- 22:14Speaker 6: that matter now unless they're going to give the kids away,
- 22:17Speaker 6: and of course they wouldn't want to do that, so
- 22:19Speaker 6: they apply for help to find a bigger place with
- 22:23Speaker 6: a bit of assistance, which is entirely within the rules.
- 22:26Speaker 6: But then mister government turns around and says, well, now
- 22:29Speaker 6: you'll flush with cash, so you no longer deserve it.
- 22:32Speaker 6: Tell me how in any way that is a humane system.
- 22:36Speaker 6: Surely so much should be able to run their eye
- 22:39Speaker 6: over that and say, look, eighty grand isn't going to
- 22:42Speaker 6: get you that far. Someone's raised it for you to
- 22:44Speaker 6: support you in a circumstance that you never foresaw. It's
- 22:48Speaker 6: not like you can now go and buy yourself a
- 22:50Speaker 6: Lamborghini in a mansion.
- 22:51Speaker 3: Right.
- 22:52Speaker 2: You fit the nail on the head with this. The
- 22:54Speaker 2: bureaucrat sitting in an office somewhere, first off, sent an
- 22:57Speaker 2: email to say you're not getting a sistance for housing.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Is that really something you send via email to somebody
- 23:04Speaker 2: who's now got eight children, having just gotten home from
- 23:07Speaker 2: giving birth to corddruplets. Then to do that knowing as
- 23:14Speaker 2: you said, I mean eighty thousand dollars forget living costs.
- 23:17Speaker 2: I mean that's just to buy the minibus right that
- 23:20Speaker 2: you're now going to require to go anywhere. The lack
- 23:23Speaker 2: of wisdom, the lack of discretion, lack of somebody sitting
- 23:27Speaker 2: before they hit send on that heartless, impersonal email thinking
- 23:32Speaker 2: I know the rules say this, but maybe I should
- 23:36Speaker 2: get out of my cubicle and walk over to the
- 23:38Speaker 2: office and ask my supervisor is this like should we
- 23:41Speaker 2: do this or should we because the Health Minister in
- 23:44Speaker 2: Queensland has said this is an exceptional circumstance that should
- 23:48Speaker 2: have an exceptional response, and so I think they're going
- 23:50Speaker 2: to reverse the edict, as they should. But it shouldn't
- 23:55Speaker 2: take media coverage to reverse the stupid decision like that.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Someone in an office somewhere should have thought, you know what,
- 24:03Speaker 2: I know what the rules say, but maybe there's some
- 24:06Speaker 2: opportunity for discretion and leeway here. All right, everything that
- 24:11Speaker 2: Pauline Hansen does now creates a massive headline. And today,
- 24:15Speaker 2: of course she made some comments about domestic violence, and well,
- 24:19Speaker 2: the whole thing has blown up. In case you missed it.
- 24:22Speaker 2: Here's what she said.
- 24:25Speaker 1: What's your message, Pauline Hanson to blugs who lose their bottle,
- 24:29Speaker 1: who get angry and bash and hurt their intimate partners.
- 24:34Speaker 9: Well, it is wrong, but it's also two way street.
- 24:39Speaker 9: But I'm not saying that just men and women can
- 24:43Speaker 9: lose their cruel as well. Domestic violence is a scourge,
- 24:47Speaker 9: but sometimes Look I'm not going to go in detail,
- 24:53Speaker 9: but I've been through it myself in my life now.
- 24:56Speaker 2: Those comments then created a massive storm, with everyone from
- 24:59Speaker 2: Tenure Plibus to Britney Higgins jumping in to condemn Pauline
- 25:04Speaker 2: Hansen for making dangerous, irresponsible comments implying that women are
- 25:10Speaker 2: just as fault as men. Here's what Britney Higgins had
- 25:13Speaker 2: to say on social media. She wrote, mutual abuse two
- 25:17Speaker 2: way street. Just leave normalizing this victim Blaming retric in
- 25:22Speaker 2: relation to domestic violence when thirty eight Australian women have
- 25:25Speaker 2: already been lost to femicide is atrocious. Having experience of
- 25:29Speaker 2: domestic and family violence herself, Senator Hanson's comments are deeply disappointing.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Senator Hanson may never apologize for her senseless comments, but
- 25:38Speaker 2: they cannot be allowed to send a message to victim
- 25:41Speaker 2: survivors and those trapped in abusive situations. Instead, they must
- 25:45Speaker 2: know that they are not at fault, that leaving is
- 25:48Speaker 2: harder than anyone could imagine, and that there is a
- 25:50Speaker 2: network of support there for them. My problem with this
- 25:56Speaker 2: is that, yeah, we could argue about did Pauline Hanson
- 26:00Speaker 2: use a clumsy phrase? Could she have expressed things better?
- 26:05Speaker 2: That there's probably really an occasion where any of us
- 26:07Speaker 2: couldn't have expressed things more clearly. The issue for me
- 26:12Speaker 2: is the deliberate and wilful misinterpretation, misunderstanding and misattribution of
- 26:20Speaker 2: things that Pauline Hanson says. Britney Higgins would know very well,
- 26:23Speaker 2: because Brittney Higgins, no matter what you think of her,
- 26:26Speaker 2: she's not silly. She would know full well what Pauline
- 26:29Speaker 2: Hanson was trying to say. And Pauline Hanson has been
- 26:32Speaker 2: a big advocate for men in the family court being
- 26:37Speaker 2: given a fair go. Pauline Hanson was not suggesting that
- 26:40Speaker 2: domestic violence incidents are the same between men and women
- 26:44Speaker 2: and the number is the same. Nor was she suggesting
- 26:47Speaker 2: that it's easy to get out of a situation that
- 26:49Speaker 2: you might find yourself in she was simply making the point.
- 26:53Speaker 2: You know, let's not forget some men are victims as well,
- 26:57Speaker 2: and I think people should be a little less quick
- 27:01Speaker 2: to be outraged, and that we all know what she meant,
- 27:04Speaker 2: so don't deliberately misunderstand it and then painter as a villain.
- 27:09Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 27:09Speaker 4: I think that sometimes Pauline Hansen doesn't articulate what she's
- 27:12Speaker 4: trying to describe. We know, I understand that, and I
- 27:17Speaker 4: think the point that she was trying to make is
- 27:20Speaker 4: is that there are I think there are a lot. Obviously,
- 27:24Speaker 4: women are genuinely the victims overwhelmingly. The statistics show that
- 27:31Speaker 4: it is the women who are victim survivors, right, but
- 27:35Speaker 4: we can't forget that there are also a very small
- 27:38Speaker 4: portion of men in that position. And now it may
- 27:41Speaker 4: not be physical violence, but it's also manipulation. It's psychological
- 27:46Speaker 4: abuse as well, at the hands of women, and we
- 27:50Speaker 4: can't forget that as well.
- 27:51Speaker 5: And I think that we are conditioned.
- 27:53Speaker 4: In society to always believe the woman, and again, in
- 27:58Speaker 4: the majority of cases, it absolutely is the woman. But
- 28:02Speaker 4: there have also been sometimes where men have been accused
- 28:05Speaker 4: of wrongdoing when they haven't actually been at fault, or
- 28:10Speaker 4: when men feel that they can't say anything and that
- 28:13Speaker 4: they are the victims because again, we are conditioned in
- 28:17Speaker 4: society to always believe the woman, so it's easy just
- 28:20Speaker 4: to not say anything because you feel like you've got
- 28:23Speaker 4: no hope. Where I think that Pauline went wrong in
- 28:25Speaker 4: this case is when she said women shouldn't put up
- 28:28Speaker 4: with it. You know, there are complex circumstances to why
- 28:33Speaker 4: women do put up with it, why they are stuck
- 28:35Speaker 4: in abusive relationships. Pauline Hansom herself said that she has
- 28:40Speaker 4: experienced domestic issues, so she should know that well enough.
- 28:46Speaker 4: I just think it was sloppy and poorly worded, but
- 28:49Speaker 4: I do understand what she was trying to say, but
- 28:52Speaker 4: it wasn't right.
- 28:53Speaker 3: Bettered woman syndrome is a real thing.
- 28:55Speaker 6: I think it's on average, an abused woman goes back
- 28:58Speaker 6: about seven times before she had breaks up with it
- 29:02Speaker 6: with an abusive partner. So yeah, I mean it's it's
- 29:04Speaker 6: supremely difficult, right. I have to give credit though, to
- 29:08Speaker 6: Jonathan Dunham from the Liberals who was talking to Sharry
- 29:11Speaker 6: Marxon earlier this evening, who you know, Sharry gave him
- 29:16Speaker 6: the opportunity to have her go if he wanted to,
- 29:18Speaker 6: and he just told the truth.
- 29:22Speaker 9: I honestly think it was just a poorly constructed sentence.
- 29:25Speaker 6: Frankly, good on him for not buying into the outrage
- 29:30Speaker 6: machine that has unfolded today.
- 29:33Speaker 3: And I suppose the thing is though, and he's right.
- 29:36Speaker 6: Look, you know what she was trying to say because
- 29:39Speaker 6: the question she was asked by Gary Hardgrave and four
- 29:41Speaker 6: PC pertained specifically to men, and it comes in light
- 29:45Speaker 6: of a number of stories in recent weeks where women
- 29:49Speaker 6: have been murdered by men, are allegedly murdered by men,
- 29:52Speaker 6: and there was a very recent case just a couple
- 29:53Speaker 6: of days ago of a son who's allegedly murdered his mother.
- 29:57Speaker 3: Right, So that's the context of this.
- 29:59Speaker 6: Garret Hardgrave is talking specifically about violence committed by men.
- 30:03Speaker 6: The point that Miss Hansen was trying to make is, yes,
- 30:06Speaker 6: domestic violence is bad, and we need to talk about
- 30:08Speaker 6: the domestic violence is bad, but in the broader discussion
- 30:10Speaker 6: we should also note that there are other forms of
- 30:13Speaker 6: domestic violence as well. It was sloppy and she perhaps
- 30:18Speaker 6: should have known that it would be blown up into this.
- 30:22Speaker 6: You know, whether or not it is true, it was
- 30:25Speaker 6: always kind of going to go this way unfortunately, and
- 30:30Speaker 6: so perhaps it wasn't the smartest pr move. But the
- 30:33Speaker 6: reality is the dog will bark and the caravan will
- 30:36Speaker 6: move on. It'll be a story today, Tomorrow there'll be
- 30:39Speaker 6: another story.
- 30:40Speaker 2: The problem with this outrage is that eventually you get
- 30:42Speaker 2: to a point where most people will be too afraid
- 30:44Speaker 2: to say anything about anything because unless they are word perfect,
- 30:49Speaker 2: then they'll be completely taken out of context. Or we'll
- 30:52Speaker 2: get a situation where those communicating will do so in
- 30:55Speaker 2: the most extreme ways because they'll have to clarify that
- 30:59Speaker 2: I don't I don't mean this, I'm not saying that,
- 31:02Speaker 2: and by the time they get to their actual point,
- 31:04Speaker 2: everyone will.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Have fallen asleep.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Why don't we just loosen up a little bit and
- 31:08Speaker 2: just believe the best of what people say and not
- 31:11Speaker 2: assume the worst, and you know, not read into things
- 31:15Speaker 2: that clearly they're not intending.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Well, I also just think everyone's very quick to pounce
- 31:19Speaker 4: on Pauline Hanson at the moment. She is a lady
- 31:22Speaker 4: of the moment, and in particular the left, they are
- 31:25Speaker 4: going to take every little thing that she says out
- 31:28Speaker 4: of context between now and the next election because they
- 31:32Speaker 4: don't like it and that doesn't bother Pauline Hanson, but
- 31:35Speaker 4: they're going to jump on everything.
- 31:36Speaker 6: Indeed, speaking of things you may not like, can you
- 31:39Speaker 6: like the idea of losing your power in order to
- 31:42Speaker 6: have cheaper bills? I know sounds extraordinary, doesn't it, But
- 31:46Speaker 6: this is apparently the reality we may will be facing.
- 31:49Speaker 6: The ABC had an interesting article about what's going on
- 31:53Speaker 6: down in South Australia where they've instituted this scheme.
- 31:56Speaker 3: It started on.
- 31:57Speaker 6: The first of July, where they have put basically surcharge
- 32:02Speaker 6: on people's power bills in order to build up a
- 32:05Speaker 6: system that can make up for a loss of power
- 32:10Speaker 6: or lack of power during times of high use.
- 32:13Speaker 3: Now, of course that's.
- 32:15Speaker 6: Often during summer and you know, lots of people turn
- 32:18Speaker 6: their air cons on and they want power. At the
- 32:20Speaker 6: same time, power bills go through the roof, or the
- 32:23Speaker 6: wholesale price goes through the roof, because there is a
- 32:25Speaker 6: lot of energy being used and not enough of it
- 32:28Speaker 6: being produced. So the South Australian government has said we
- 32:30Speaker 6: will come up with a system that sort of regulates
- 32:33Speaker 6: all of this so that we don't have these major
- 32:37Speaker 6: spikes in prices. But the ABC has quoted a chap
- 32:40Speaker 6: by the name of Daniel Rossetto, who is an expert
- 32:43Speaker 6: in global environmental and energy commodity markets at Adelaide University,
- 32:48Speaker 6: and he's raised the possibility that if you want cheaper power,
- 32:52Speaker 6: maybe you just have to put up with not having
- 32:53Speaker 6: enough of it. He says, one of the most important
- 32:55Speaker 6: reasons why electricity bills continue to go up and people
- 32:58Speaker 6: just can't seem to find a way to get them
- 33:00Speaker 6: to go down is essentially because we demand the highest
- 33:04Speaker 6: standards of reliability. We end up prioritizing reliability by default,
- 33:09Speaker 6: and sometimes also sustainability with renewables and things like that,
- 33:13Speaker 6: without necessarily thinking about affordability. But are we prepared to
- 33:17Speaker 6: tolerate a slightly slower pace of decarbonization on electricity in
- 33:22Speaker 6: the name of less expensive energy, or are we prepared
- 33:25Speaker 6: to take a little more outage time in exchange for
- 33:29Speaker 6: lower prices. I can tell you which one I'd take.
- 33:32Speaker 6: It's the slower to carbonization in order to have the
- 33:36Speaker 6: cheaper energy. I mean, who seriously going to say yes?
- 33:41Speaker 3: I would prefer that the power wasn't on sometimes, so
- 33:46Speaker 3: I got to have cheaper power bills.
- 33:48Speaker 2: So first we were offered cheaper power. Then we're offered
- 33:51Speaker 2: cleaner energy, and now we're offered the chance to sit
- 33:53Speaker 2: for long periods in the dark. Imagine if you applied
- 33:56Speaker 2: this principle to other areas of society, Like you know,
- 33:58Speaker 2: ambulances are really defensive, So in order to be able
- 34:02Speaker 2: to afford healthcare, would you be prepared to you know,
- 34:06Speaker 2: every third heart attack doesn't receive any medical assistance. You know,
- 34:11Speaker 2: roads are really expensive, it's costing a bomb. So what
- 34:14Speaker 2: if we just make every third bridge aspirational? I mean,
- 34:17Speaker 2: you would never agree to that, and you we're being
- 34:19Speaker 2: asked to agree to that with the electricity grid. And
- 34:22Speaker 2: I love the fact. And this is common in modern
- 34:24Speaker 2: politics now right. If there's a policy problem, the issue
- 34:28Speaker 2: is not the idiot politicians with their dumb policies.
- 34:31Speaker 1: The problem is the public who expects.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Twenty four to seven electricity at a reasonable price. We'll
- 34:37Speaker 2: see you're asking too much, and asking too much these days,
- 34:40Speaker 2: is expecting what our parents had.
- 34:42Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's exactly right.
- 34:44Speaker 4: Yeah, they want you to make concessions for the renewables
- 34:47Speaker 4: only experiment. It's on your shoulders. If it's a hot day,
- 34:50Speaker 4: don't turn on your air conditioner. Just you know, wind
- 34:53Speaker 4: the window down.
- 34:54Speaker 5: Give that a crack.
- 34:55Speaker 4: Or if it's really really cold as it is now
- 34:58Speaker 4: in the middle of winter, please do not put on
- 35:00Speaker 4: your heater. God forbid. Whatever you do, just grin and
- 35:03Speaker 4: bear and if you get a cold, you get sick.
- 35:05Speaker 5: You're doing your bit.
- 35:06Speaker 4: Thank you so much for the energy supplier. But it
- 35:08Speaker 4: reminds me it happened here in New South Wales a
- 35:10Speaker 4: couple of years ago.
- 35:11Speaker 5: Remember that we.
- 35:12Speaker 4: Had a very horrific heat wave here and we were
- 35:15Speaker 4: told to turn off our washing machines and our.
- 35:17Speaker 5: Dishwashers because the grid couldn't cope. We were told to
- 35:20Speaker 5: do our bit.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Now all you have to do is look to Spain
- 35:23Speaker 4: to see exactly what is going on with the renewables
- 35:25Speaker 4: only outfit where they have rolling blackouts. Remember a mass
- 35:28Speaker 4: mass blackout as soon as they entered. I think it
- 35:30Speaker 4: was close to one hundred percent renewables energy. That is
- 35:33Speaker 4: where we are going if we do not hop off
- 35:36Speaker 4: this magical mystery ride tour into the never Never.
- 35:39Speaker 5: So no, our bills are not going down as it is.
- 35:42Speaker 4: Why the heck should we be making any level of
- 35:45Speaker 4: concessions for dumb policies that have been thrust upon us,
- 35:49Speaker 4: which nobody.
- 35:50Speaker 5: Ever voted for.
- 35:51Speaker 2: And I want to take this opportunity just to speak
- 35:52Speaker 2: to people in my house because I got our electricity
- 35:54Speaker 2: bills this afternoon.
- 35:56Speaker 1: There will be long periods.
- 35:57Speaker 2: Of darkness in our home moving forward. Just giving you
- 36:01Speaker 2: the heads up to go to a.
- 36:02Speaker 1: Break when we come back.
- 36:04Speaker 2: Look at what's making headlines tomorrow, including Labour's national conference.
- 36:08Speaker 2: It begins tomorrow and they'll be told that one nation is.
- 36:11Speaker 1: Their greatest threat. That's next.
- 36:19Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program. Let's take a look at
- 36:21Speaker 2: what's making headlines tomorrow, Caleb. You've got the Australian. Some
- 36:24Speaker 2: good stories.
- 36:25Speaker 6: There, indeed a great headline on the front of yours
- 36:27Speaker 6: tomorrow at two ETU premiere. Back on the chopping block
- 36:31Speaker 6: as loyalists switch exclusive from Anthony Galloway, Victorian Labor MPs
- 36:35Speaker 6: have begun plotting another leadership challenge against your Cinterra Allen,
- 36:39Speaker 6: with more members of her own faction with drawing support
- 36:42Speaker 6: in recent days. With State Parliament returning next week, MPs
- 36:46Speaker 6: are of the view it will be their last chance
- 36:48Speaker 6: to force a leadership change. Four months out from the
- 36:51Speaker 6: November election, there is growing talk of a cross factional
- 36:54Speaker 6: delegation going to the premier to convince her to stand down,
- 36:58Speaker 6: or to Deputy Premier Ben Carrol to urge him to challenge. Well,
- 37:03Speaker 6: it's all kicking off in Victoria, isn't I mean, they
- 37:06Speaker 6: really should have made this move some time ago if
- 37:08Speaker 6: they want it to work. It's hard graft at this
- 37:12Speaker 6: point because what we're at the end of July, they're
- 37:14Speaker 6: going to have an election in mid November. You're not
- 37:18Speaker 6: giving a new leader much of a run up.
- 37:21Speaker 3: To get going. But there you go.
- 37:23Speaker 6: But clearly they can see the riting on the wall
- 37:25Speaker 6: that if they stick with you, Cinda Allen, they are
- 37:27Speaker 6: in a lot of trouble.
- 37:28Speaker 5: Yeah, but the rumblings have been there for ages.
- 37:30Speaker 4: They've been talking about possibly rolling her now for months
- 37:32Speaker 4: and months, and nobody's had the.
- 37:35Speaker 5: Gusto to want to do it. So it's a little
- 37:37Speaker 5: bit too late.
- 37:38Speaker 4: And I just wonder if the person who'll be put
- 37:39Speaker 4: into that position, whether or not it is Ben Carroll,
- 37:42Speaker 4: if this does actually happen, if they're just going to
- 37:44Speaker 4: be there as a placeholder between now and November, should
- 37:48Speaker 4: the Liberal Party be successful.
- 37:49Speaker 2: Well, the problem is that Ben Carroll seems to be
- 37:51Speaker 2: the person to do it if it be done, and
- 37:54Speaker 2: the article says the push to unseek Miss Allen has
- 37:56Speaker 2: been complicated by mister Carroll last month ruling out the
- 38:00Speaker 2: challenging the premire so.
- 38:02Speaker 6: Well, he remember he famously looked her in the eye
- 38:04Speaker 6: at the Greast conference, so you.
- 38:06Speaker 1: Can't go back on that.
- 38:07Speaker 2: So the article is suggesting that the only way this
- 38:09Speaker 2: could happen really so that Ben Carroll could have any
- 38:13Speaker 2: sense of credibility after the event is if to sit
- 38:16Speaker 2: to Ellen agreed to hand over peacefully. Can you imagine
- 38:19Speaker 2: that happening. I don't think it's within her DNA.
- 38:21Speaker 6: And she's already said she wouldn't step down even if
- 38:24Speaker 6: it would give them a better electoral chance at the election.
- 38:28Speaker 1: Very team orientate it off, I know, I know.
- 38:31Speaker 3: She did well. No I in team anyway.
- 38:34Speaker 6: Yes, she did say that around about the same time
- 38:37Speaker 6: that Ben Carroll looked her in the eye. But no,
- 38:39Speaker 6: she was asked that question after some recent round of
- 38:42Speaker 6: polling and she said no, no, under no circumstances will
- 38:45Speaker 6: I be stepping down.
- 38:46Speaker 2: Even if the polling improved without me, I would not.
- 38:49Speaker 6: If she was asked the question if it was better
- 38:51Speaker 6: for the party would just and she said, I'm not
- 38:53Speaker 6: going anywhere.
- 38:54Speaker 1: Yep.
- 38:54Speaker 3: Well, I know that's.
- 38:58Speaker 1: All you need to know.
- 38:58Speaker 3: I know.
- 38:59Speaker 6: Speaking of Labor, of course, they're having their national conference
- 39:03Speaker 6: kicking off tomorrow in Adelaide.
- 39:05Speaker 3: Great part of the world. It says.
- 39:07Speaker 6: Labor declares a new enemy number one exclusive from Gregor
- 39:12Speaker 6: Brown Outgoing ALP president Wayne Swan will declare one nation
- 39:16Speaker 6: has usurped the coalition as Labour's biggest electoral threat and
- 39:20Speaker 6: worn against predicting Pauline Hanson will fade out ahead of
- 39:23Speaker 6: the next election as Anthony Alpineasy expands taxpayer funded wages
- 39:27Speaker 6: for students undertaking practical courses. The former treasurer will make
- 39:31Speaker 6: his national conference speech at a dinner on Friday night
- 39:34Speaker 6: while accepting the party's life membership, alongside former Indigenous Australians
- 39:38Speaker 6: Minister Linda Bernie, who declared she had no regrets about
- 39:41Speaker 6: pushing forward with the doomed Voice referendum and hope the
- 39:44Speaker 6: issue of constitutional recognition would be revisited in the near future.
- 39:48Speaker 6: She said, I think Voice Referendum was a devastating outcome,
- 39:52Speaker 6: but it gives us a base to work from and
- 39:54Speaker 6: it goes on with plenty more.
- 39:56Speaker 3: But mister Swan is correct.
- 40:00Speaker 6: I think that one nation is now the biggest threat
- 40:03Speaker 6: to Labor.
- 40:03Speaker 3: The question is what does Labor then.
- 40:05Speaker 6: Do about it, because if they're going to go on
- 40:09Speaker 6: the major attack, it's the same as the coalition going
- 40:12Speaker 6: on there. I don't think it's going to work. People
- 40:15Speaker 6: are switching from Labor or Liberal to one nation because
- 40:18Speaker 6: they're really peeved with what the major parties have done,
- 40:22Speaker 6: and the whole will you're an idiot for going to
- 40:25Speaker 6: another party thing is not.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Going to work.
- 40:27Speaker 2: I think he's sadly mistaken. One nation not Labour's biggest
- 40:30Speaker 2: problem or biggest threat. Labour's biggest threat is selved incredibly
- 40:35Speaker 2: high power prices, a porous border. People who supported isis
- 40:39Speaker 2: being brought back to the country with nearly any objection.
- 40:43Speaker 1: And we could go on and on. If Labor did
- 40:45Speaker 1: some things.
- 40:46Speaker 2: About that sort of stuff, they would have to worry
- 40:48Speaker 2: about other people. So them just fussing over one nation
- 40:51Speaker 2: and saying on one nation of the enemy, like you said, Caleb,
- 40:54Speaker 2: no one is going to care two hoots that they've
- 40:57Speaker 2: identified one nation as we identify the problems in the country.
- 41:00Speaker 4: He forgot one thing and in your list, it's the
- 41:02Speaker 4: Prime Minister himself.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Well, you can't sleep, can't lie straight, can't tell the truth.
- 41:08Speaker 4: Well in the car he was in Melbourne, he was
- 41:10Speaker 4: on a plane.
- 41:12Speaker 3: I did.
- 41:12Speaker 6: I saw yesterday the Prime Minister being driven up the
- 41:17Speaker 6: city Whistlink here in Sydney, and he was sitting in
- 41:20Speaker 6: the back of the car as far as I could
- 41:21Speaker 6: tell on his own, did you he was on the outside?
- 41:25Speaker 6: But I wondered what he was up to in the
- 41:27Speaker 6: back of the car, because as we know, he doesn't
- 41:29Speaker 6: take phone calls or read things on his phone when
- 41:32Speaker 6: he's in the back of the car. So I just
- 41:34Speaker 6: quietly thought to myself, I wonder what the Prime Minister's
- 41:36Speaker 6: doing in the back of c one there.
- 41:38Speaker 2: I'm still laughing at did you honk if if you
- 41:41Speaker 2: saw the Prime Minister's.
- 41:43Speaker 5: We like Prime Minister it's Caleb Bond.
- 41:46Speaker 6: I don't think from five lanes away it would have
- 41:49Speaker 6: done much good.
- 41:50Speaker 2: All right, let's take a look at the front page
- 41:52Speaker 2: of Tomorrow's Daily Telegraph. Robo fine Blitz reads the headline
- 41:57Speaker 2: Ao souper Ai supercharges the gouging of Sydney drivers.
- 42:01Speaker 1: Mobile phone and seat belt cameras.
- 42:03Speaker 2: Have delivered a four hundred million dollar fine bonanza, and
- 42:06Speaker 2: bureaucrats are now exploring how artificial intelligence could help decide
- 42:10Speaker 2: who gets fined under a drastic robofine proposal. Daily Telegraph
- 42:15Speaker 2: can reveal Transport for New South Wales is searching for
- 42:17Speaker 2: an automated enforcement system to police the state's roads, including
- 42:21Speaker 2: using AI assisted decisioning.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Decisioning Is that a word.
- 42:26Speaker 3: It's not what I would have used, but anyway.
- 42:28Speaker 2: I've never heard the word decision bureaucratics speak of this
- 42:31Speaker 2: one AI assisted decisioning to catch drivers touching their mobile
- 42:36Speaker 2: phones or not wearing a seat belt.
- 42:40Speaker 1: This will be interesting because Western.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Australia started introducing AI assisted fines and a reasonable percentage
- 42:50Speaker 2: about five percent were contested by people wanting a review,
- 42:55Speaker 2: mainly over seat belts because they were photographed because of
- 43:00Speaker 2: AI with people in the back seat who had taken
- 43:02Speaker 2: off a seat belt, usually a kid or maybe a
- 43:05Speaker 2: pass but the driver had not realized.
- 43:07Speaker 1: And then the drivers being fined for it.
- 43:09Speaker 4: Well, it was on the front page, wasn't of the
- 43:11Speaker 4: Canberra Times as well?
- 43:12Speaker 5: We read it out on the show yesterday.
- 43:14Speaker 4: Yesterday about that lady that was accused of having her
- 43:19Speaker 4: phone in her hand and she's desperately trying to contest its.
- 43:22Speaker 2: The photo on the front page show to clearly with
- 43:24Speaker 2: both hands on them on the wheel.
- 43:25Speaker 5: So that's it. You can't trust AI when it comes
- 43:27Speaker 5: to this.
- 43:28Speaker 3: New AI overlords. You know they're coming for it.
- 43:31Speaker 2: It's more profit though, right, More AI means less human events, intervention,
- 43:35Speaker 2: less wages.
- 43:36Speaker 6: Than You're not telling me that the traffic farns about
- 43:40Speaker 6: revenue raising, are.
- 43:41Speaker 3: You, James?
- 43:42Speaker 1: I would not suggest any such.
- 43:43Speaker 3: Surely not possible.
- 43:44Speaker 4: No, let's take a look now at the Herald Sun exclusive.
- 43:48Speaker 5: Socialite breaks her.
- 43:49Speaker 4: Silence after Mount Buller drinks spike scandal charges dropped.
- 43:52Speaker 5: I'm not an evil person.
- 43:54Speaker 4: Amy Tucson, who was accused of spiking a friend's vodka
- 43:57Speaker 4: with MDMA during a night at Mount ball has broken
- 44:00Speaker 4: her silence after her criminal case was dropped. I've been
- 44:04Speaker 4: quite gripped by this case. I don't know if you
- 44:05Speaker 4: two have heard about it. This is a socialite, Amy
- 44:08Speaker 4: Tucson in Melbourne. She was previously married to a very
- 44:12Speaker 4: well known dentist in Melbourne, and she was recently charged
- 44:17Speaker 4: with spiking a friend's drink during a weekend away. The
- 44:21Speaker 4: charges have since been dropped. I did wonder why. I
- 44:22Speaker 4: saw on a social media she was out trotting about
- 44:24Speaker 4: Europe and in recent weeks I thought, for someone facing charges,
- 44:28Speaker 4: she's living an awfully glamorous life. But there you go,
- 44:31Speaker 4: the charges have been dropped. I'm not sure why.
- 44:33Speaker 5: I'd love to know how to curiosity.
- 44:35Speaker 6: I've remained blissfully unaware. I have to say, oh really,
- 44:38Speaker 6: I'm said.
- 44:39Speaker 5: That you're not up at the social circles.
- 44:40Speaker 4: Then shame, shame. Interesting story. Also their bombshell legal twist
- 44:46Speaker 4: in Cat's Tale. Stephanie Catalano, wife of disgrace media mogul Anthony,
- 44:50Speaker 4: is agitating for police to drop the criminal charges he
- 44:52Speaker 4: faces for allegedly assaulting her amid reports the couple are
- 44:55Speaker 4: reconciling their marriage.
- 44:57Speaker 6: So there you go, on the front of the INNT news.
- 45:00Speaker 6: A vad to pass into NT law decades in the making.
- 45:04Speaker 6: The Northern Territory once led the world on voluntary assisted
- 45:07Speaker 6: DANG and the COP government has now confirmed the votes
- 45:10Speaker 6: to bring those ranks back after three decades, which I
- 45:13Speaker 6: think they're the odd one out at the moment. I
- 45:15Speaker 6: think every other state in territory now has it and
- 45:17Speaker 6: so the NT will be the last one to join
- 45:20Speaker 6: the crew.
- 45:20Speaker 2: What's interesting about that is the government review said that
- 45:24Speaker 2: there should be no time frame put on your ability
- 45:26Speaker 2: to seek VAD. The Government of change and said you've
- 45:29Speaker 2: got to have twelve months or less to live. Yeah,
- 45:31Speaker 2: And the government report also said that doctors should be
- 45:34Speaker 2: allowed to initiate the conversation and the Conservative government have
- 45:37Speaker 2: proposed no, that will not be admitted.
- 45:40Speaker 1: So that's how they got it across the line. We're
- 45:42Speaker 1: going to go to a break.
- 45:43Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to show you some
- 45:44Speaker 2: incredible footage of a shopkeeper attacked. He survived, but barely
- 45:49Speaker 2: attacked by a leopard. That's coming up after the break. Well,
- 45:55Speaker 2: if you think Australian politics is bad Anika, all you've
- 45:58Speaker 2: got to do is look over to the UK. It's
- 46:00Speaker 2: a lot worse.
- 46:01Speaker 5: There, it really is.
- 46:01Speaker 4: And there's one rule of thumb when you've got a
- 46:03Speaker 4: microphone around you or in general, just never say anything
- 46:07Speaker 4: that you don't want anyone to hear, because you never
- 46:08Speaker 4: know when it might get leaked. Of course, Andy Burn
- 46:12Speaker 4: telling me that I'm telling you now, I mean some
- 46:15Speaker 4: of the things you've said, good career. Now, look Andy Burnham,
- 46:18Speaker 4: of course, has just become the new UK Prime minister.
- 46:20Speaker 5: He's elected his new cabinet.
- 46:22Speaker 4: Where's streeting who was just put into the cabinet. He
- 46:26Speaker 4: was caught on a bit of a hot mic moment
- 46:28Speaker 4: talking about what is going to happen to prisoners whoops,
- 46:40Speaker 4: So basically there he was suggesting that his fellow cabinet
- 46:43Speaker 4: ministers will want to let them all out, as in,
- 46:45Speaker 4: let all the prisoners out.
- 46:46Speaker 5: Gee. That's not a good look, is it.
- 46:48Speaker 2: It's not a good look at all, though, what would
- 46:50Speaker 2: be unusual. They've been doing that for some time in
- 46:52Speaker 2: the UK, letting people out early.
- 46:54Speaker 4: Very true, exactly, don't say anything you don't want anyone
- 46:57Speaker 4: to hear if a MIC's around.
- 46:58Speaker 2: Indeed, when you're going to work of a morning, you're
- 47:00Speaker 2: probably hoping that the customers will be pleasant. You might
- 47:04Speaker 2: be hoping for an early mark so you can get
- 47:06Speaker 2: back to your family. You're probably not hoping that you'll
- 47:08Speaker 2: avoid an attack from a leopard. But a couple of
- 47:12Speaker 2: guys who went to work in a bottle shop in
- 47:14Speaker 2: India got exactly that.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Have a look at this incredible footage.
- 47:18Speaker 2: They're going about their business when a leopard runs into
- 47:22Speaker 2: the shop, jumps the counter and starts attacking one of
- 47:26Speaker 2: the workers.
- 47:27Speaker 1: You can see there. He fights the leopard off.
- 47:29Speaker 2: Manages to climb over the counter, leaving the leopard stuck
- 47:33Speaker 2: in the shop area sulking around.
- 47:37Speaker 1: Caleb.
- 47:38Speaker 2: Probably not his greatest day at work, but definitely his
- 47:40Speaker 2: most memorable.
- 47:41Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I think the leopard had just been asked
- 47:44Speaker 6: for ID and he couldn't provide it and didn't lack
- 47:47Speaker 6: the fact the bloke wouldn't give him bottle of Vodkas,
- 47:49Speaker 6: so he decided to punch on.
- 47:51Speaker 3: I've woke up. This is one of the first things
- 47:53Speaker 3: I see when I work up this mother way.
- 47:55Speaker 5: Hang on a minute.
- 47:56Speaker 6: Oh that's terrifying, stealing in some lipid starts coming at you.
- 48:02Speaker 5: Oh I just the thought of that.
- 48:04Speaker 4: Actually, Like, good on him for holding his nerves. Really,
- 48:07Speaker 4: like anyone would have just crumbled in that moment. It
- 48:09Speaker 4: looked like a snake. It was just traveling.
- 48:11Speaker 3: He should be a bouncer.
- 48:13Speaker 1: If he'd lost his footing, had fallen over.
- 48:14Speaker 3: Oh he would have been done for now.
- 48:16Speaker 6: I reckon that that guy has a career in security
- 48:19Speaker 6: killing racket right, app or copper or something, Because it
- 48:22Speaker 6: was some proper bravery. Speaking of brave, remember the the
- 48:27Speaker 6: communist mayor of New.
- 48:29Speaker 3: York's or in Mum Dunny.
- 48:30Speaker 8: He promised that he would lock up bb Nit, Nyaho
- 48:33Speaker 8: if he went anywhere near New York.
- 48:35Speaker 3: Well, he's worked out he can't do it.
- 48:40Speaker 10: My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law
- 48:45Speaker 10: to determine whether New York City could execute the International
- 48:48Speaker 10: Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netta, who came here.
- 48:51Speaker 10: It is clear that we do not have the independent
- 48:53Speaker 10: legal authority to enforce this warrant.
- 48:56Speaker 3: Oh yez, you were big and brave, talking a big game.
- 49:00Speaker 3: You're going to lock him up for war crimes?
- 49:02Speaker 6: And then I'm very sorry, Actually I don't have the
- 49:05Speaker 6: ability to do that. Sorry about that one.
- 49:07Speaker 5: Embarrassing. It was like a national address.
- 49:10Speaker 6: Oh well, man, he's a national address to tell you
- 49:13Speaker 6: what I can't do.
- 49:13Speaker 3: It's pretty good in it.
- 49:15Speaker 2: Indeed, that's all we've got time for stick around.
- 49:17Speaker 1: Coming up next is to read a penalty show. We'll
- 49:18Speaker 1: see it tomorrow