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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wait, wait, well girl, wait button. Great to have your
- 0:08Speaker 1: company on the Late Debate.
- 0:09Speaker 2: I'm James MacPerson with Caleb Bond and Anika did Georgio Denika.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Should we let viewers see caleb socks?
- 0:16Speaker 3: This is this is a beautiful moment. Please Caleb all right?
- 0:20Speaker 1: Caleb is no sausage rolls. Sausage rolls on Yeah.
- 0:25Speaker 4: I do love a sausage roll And when I saw
- 0:28Speaker 4: a pair of socks with sausage rolls on them, I thought,
- 0:30Speaker 4: I've got to have them.
- 0:31Speaker 5: They look really cute. Yeah, and they are adorable socks.
- 0:34Speaker 6: Yeah, I see on a Friday.
- 0:36Speaker 4: I used to wear wine bottled cuff links every Friday
- 0:40Speaker 4: with the wine socks because you know, it was Friday
- 0:43Speaker 4: and it was sort of party time. But I don't know,
- 0:45Speaker 4: I was feeling in a sausage roll mood today.
- 0:47Speaker 3: In the words of the Kinks, you are a dedicated
- 0:50Speaker 3: follower of fashion.
- 0:51Speaker 6: Indeed I am.
- 0:52Speaker 1: There you go noted on that note.
- 0:54Speaker 6: Let do you know the song, James, I.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Don't know the song.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Always going about songs, I don't know if it ain't Billy,
- 1:01Speaker 2: Joel or else.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Let's get into the program. Here's what's coming up tonight.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Are flat pack homes the answer to Australia's housing crisis.
- 1:08Speaker 2: The Albanezy government has committed thirty nine million dollars to
- 1:11Speaker 2: convince people to get into kit homes. The Victorian state
- 1:15Speaker 2: government minister is in trouble after providing a character reference
- 1:18Speaker 2: to a bloke whose bid for citizenship was rejected because
- 1:22Speaker 2: he'd been convicted of.
- 1:23Speaker 1: In decently assaulting multiple women.
- 1:25Speaker 2: And the groundbreaking study finds forty percent of Christians in
- 1:29Speaker 2: this country self sense of their beliefs for fear of
- 1:32Speaker 2: suffering harassment or discrimination. Will get into all of that shortly,
- 1:35Speaker 2: but first. South Australia's education boss has defended the celebration
- 1:40Speaker 2: of gender fluidity and various sexual preferences within public schools.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Education Department Chief Martin Westwill said LGBTQIA plus celebration days
- 1:50Speaker 2: weren't about telling families what to believe, they are about
- 1:54Speaker 2: promoting respect. He made the statement after parents protested outside
- 1:58Speaker 2: an Adelaide's school when the school promoted International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia,
- 2:04Speaker 2: intersexism and transphobia earlier this month. Parents felt their kids
- 2:08Speaker 2: would be better off learning to read and write rather
- 2:11Speaker 2: than being instructed in the various permutations of human sexuality,
- 2:15Speaker 2: and they objected to their kids being asked to wear
- 2:17Speaker 2: rainbow accessories to support gay pride. But the South Australian
- 2:22Speaker 2: school's boss said in a statement, some question why schools
- 2:26Speaker 2: engage with issues connected to sexuality, gender or identity. The
- 2:30Speaker 2: purpose of days like Ida Hobbit, which is their Gay
- 2:33Speaker 2: Pride Day, is not to tell families what to believe
- 2:36Speaker 2: or to take a political position. At its core, it's
- 2:39Speaker 2: a reminder that no child should be treated badly because
- 2:42Speaker 2: of who they are. If you're a parent, Daneker, you're
- 2:46Speaker 2: satisfied with that explanation.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Now, of course I'm not satisfied with that explanation. I mean,
- 2:49Speaker 3: you don't drop little Johnny off at school to be
- 2:51Speaker 3: taught about Let me just go through what Ida Hobbit
- 2:54Speaker 3: shocking name stands for. It's International Day against homophobia, bi phobia,
- 2:59Speaker 3: into sexism, and transphobia.
- 3:01Speaker 5: So you don't drop little Johnny off to.
- 3:03Speaker 3: School to talk about bisexuality, to talk about transphobia, homophobia.
- 3:08Speaker 3: You drop little Johnny off because you want them to
- 3:10Speaker 3: learn the basics, like he is on ABC's How to Count,
- 3:14Speaker 3: learning how to talk to his friends, real basic, basic
- 3:18Speaker 3: things but apparently we have got schools being hijacked by
- 3:22Speaker 3: this warped ideology. This guy, the Education Department Chief executive,
- 3:26Speaker 3: Martin westwell, he's responded to this backlash and he said
- 3:30Speaker 3: the role of school is not to replace families, but
- 3:33Speaker 3: to educate children for life in a democratic society. Well,
- 3:39Speaker 3: I have a lot of problems with that line. Firstly,
- 3:42Speaker 3: your job is actually to educate children on the basics,
- 3:45Speaker 3: and we're talking about a democratic society. A democratic society
- 3:49Speaker 3: does not mean you get to shove your ideology down
- 3:51Speaker 3: a child's throat. And I think it says more about
- 3:54Speaker 3: schools about activist teachers that it does anything else. And
- 3:57Speaker 3: I applaud these parents and grandparents so getting out there
- 4:00Speaker 3: and saying enough is enough.
- 4:02Speaker 5: This is an indoctrination of.
- 4:03Speaker 3: Children, and I think we should all be very, very
- 4:05Speaker 3: concerned about what's going on in the school system.
- 4:07Speaker 4: I just don't understand if the idea is that children
- 4:11Speaker 4: need to understand that.
- 4:13Speaker 6: Respect is a virtue, and absolutely.
- 4:16Speaker 4: It is a virtue, why does that then have to
- 4:18Speaker 4: be extrapolated out to various different groups. Surely you just
- 4:22Speaker 4: have an overarching value as a school that comes through
- 4:26Speaker 4: in all parts of the curriculum, that you treat people
- 4:29Speaker 4: as you find them, and you treat people with respect,
- 4:31Speaker 4: and you are a kind and sensible person in all
- 4:35Speaker 4: of your dealings with other students and other people. You
- 4:38Speaker 4: don't go out of your way to insult or harm
- 4:41Speaker 4: or hurt anyone for any reason, whatever they may be,
- 4:44Speaker 4: whether they're gay, austrail or trans, or black or brown
- 4:47Speaker 4: or brindle or.
- 4:48Speaker 6: Yellow, like, it doesn't matter. You just respect people.
- 4:52Speaker 4: That sounds like something I'd be quite okay with kids
- 4:55Speaker 4: being taught in schools, except of course, that it's not
- 4:58Speaker 4: just about the respect. It's about you have to specifically
- 5:02Speaker 4: point out certain beliefs and certain things, because you then
- 5:06Speaker 4: try to say, oh, well that's a protected category, a
- 5:09Speaker 4: really special category, and they get extra rights or extra celebration.
- 5:15Speaker 4: I mean, you know, how many other days are you
- 5:18Speaker 4: going to put into schools if you have one day
- 5:20Speaker 4: set aside for ida Hobbit, which which again, you know,
- 5:22Speaker 4: the first time I heard about it, I thought was
- 5:24Speaker 4: something to do with the.
- 5:25Speaker 6: Lord of the Rings.
- 5:25Speaker 4: I thought, one reaching kids have had the Lord of
- 5:27Speaker 4: the Rings the Hobbits. You know, Bilbo Baggins will be
- 5:30Speaker 4: coming in here soon. How many other days can we
- 5:33Speaker 4: possibly have I mean, I know when I was at school. Oh,
- 5:36Speaker 4: I was going to say, not all that long ago,
- 5:38Speaker 4: but with every passing year it does get further and
- 5:40Speaker 4: further away. There was Harmony Day, which was just sort
- 5:45Speaker 4: of an overarching, you know, don't discriminate against people's sort
- 5:50Speaker 4: of day. And I think you were encouraged to, don't know,
- 5:52Speaker 4: wear an orange ribbon or something, right, and we're.
- 5:55Speaker 6: All just sort of a whatever.
- 5:57Speaker 4: But it wasn't pointed out, you know, gay orans and
- 6:00Speaker 4: what I mean, if you're a primary schoo kid, you
- 6:02Speaker 4: don't know what this stuff means. And it's being introduced
- 6:06Speaker 4: into their heads at a time when it doesn't belong there.
- 6:09Speaker 3: And the other thing is kids are very impressionable. They're
- 6:12Speaker 3: like sponges. They absorb absolutely everything, and then they're going
- 6:16Speaker 3: to go home and they're going to say to mom
- 6:17Speaker 3: and dad, oh am I a boy?
- 6:19Speaker 5: Am I a girl?
- 6:21Speaker 3: And start questioning themselves because they've been had this ideology
- 6:25Speaker 3: pushed upon them at such a young age.
- 6:27Speaker 1: That's why I.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Don't buy his explanation that we're not telling children what
- 6:30Speaker 2: to believe. I mean, if you were to go to
- 6:32Speaker 2: Idahobic Day and say men can't become women, et cetera,
- 6:38Speaker 2: et cetera, and disagree with the premise of all of
- 6:40Speaker 2: these ideologies they're pushing. How quick do you reckon you'd
- 6:43Speaker 2: be in the principal's office being told you can't say
- 6:45Speaker 2: that when and by inference, you're not allowed to believe
- 6:49Speaker 2: that these things are either untrue or immoral or wrong.
- 6:52Speaker 2: And people have various views on that, which is fine,
- 6:56Speaker 2: but that's really the point. If you want to treat respect,
- 6:59Speaker 2: then respect to go two ways, and you've got to
- 7:01Speaker 2: respect the families who put their kids in that school,
- 7:05Speaker 2: who would take umbrance with many of those things that
- 7:08Speaker 2: are being taught. When you're encouraged to dress in support
- 7:12Speaker 2: of these ideologies, of course you'll be encouraged to believe
- 7:15Speaker 2: them and to accept them as normal and as valid
- 7:19Speaker 2: options for your life, which, as I said, for some
- 7:21Speaker 2: people they want that, that's fine, but for many families
- 7:24Speaker 2: they would take umbrance to that, particularly when it comes
- 7:26Speaker 2: to their children, who, as you said, the Nika, are
- 7:29Speaker 2: highly impressionable and will believe whatever teachers and schools tell them.
- 7:34Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, and you're right, and just to your point earlier,
- 7:37Speaker 3: we should be teaching children to respect everybody, as you said,
- 7:41Speaker 3: no matter who they are, where they've come from, what
- 7:43Speaker 3: their backgrounds are.
- 7:44Speaker 5: But when you start singling.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Out, you know, certain groups of society from a young age,
- 7:50Speaker 3: I worry about what that does with the next generation,
- 7:53Speaker 3: and are we going to get another generation where they're
- 7:55Speaker 3: going to be this radical left, you know, promoting the
- 7:59Speaker 3: transiity ology, on the climate crusade, apologizing to the stolen generation.
- 8:04Speaker 5: I really worry for the next generation about.
- 8:07Speaker 3: What they're being taught, and I think it is such
- 8:09Speaker 3: an indictment on the education system that we've got, you know,
- 8:13Speaker 3: teachers that are activists.
- 8:15Speaker 5: They're activists.
- 8:16Speaker 4: That's the point though, And to your point, James, you know,
- 8:19Speaker 4: could you say those things? They probably say you can't.
- 8:22Speaker 4: But of course the point of respect is that you
- 8:24Speaker 4: can say, well, there are biological falsehoods in the idea
- 8:28Speaker 4: of transgenderism, but also be completely respectful in your day
- 8:32Speaker 4: to day dealings with people who say they are transgenders
- 8:36Speaker 4: like any other person.
- 8:37Speaker 2: So it begs the question is it really about respect
- 8:40Speaker 2: and I'm sure for many involved that's what it's about,
- 8:43Speaker 2: or is it about teaching the next generation not to question?
- 8:46Speaker 2: It's certain ideologies because to question it is rude and
- 8:51Speaker 2: that's not really about respect. It's about teaching children to
- 8:55Speaker 2: accept certain things that otherwise they might not accept and
- 8:58Speaker 2: certainly that their parents probably don't accept.
- 9:00Speaker 4: It's the warping of the language, as we were talking
- 9:02Speaker 4: about last night, where respect goes from. You just treat
- 9:05Speaker 4: people in a respectful and decent manner when you deal
- 9:08Speaker 4: with them. To well, if you dare question anything about
- 9:11Speaker 4: them that you are then how somehow disrespectful? Well no,
- 9:14Speaker 4: surely we should be able to talk about fact. So
- 9:16Speaker 4: while we are talking about facts, it is a fact
- 9:20Speaker 4: that the Albanezi government is not anywhere near their housing targets.
- 9:25Speaker 4: But boy, do we have an answer for you, or
- 9:27Speaker 4: do they have an answer for you?
- 9:29Speaker 6: They reckon?
- 9:30Speaker 4: Thirty nine million dollars of investment in flat pack homes
- 9:34Speaker 4: will fix all of this. Up Here is the Housing Minister,
- 9:37Speaker 4: clar O'Neill.
- 9:38Speaker 7: While we're backing prefab and modular housing through a national
- 9:42Speaker 7: certification scheme and support through the National Productivity Fund and
- 9:46Speaker 7: a new forty million dollar investment we're announcing today for
- 9:50Speaker 7: a national kit of parts approach. This means building smarter
- 9:54Speaker 7: and faster using standardized components like bathroom pods, wall panels
- 10:00Speaker 7: and facades.
- 10:02Speaker 4: Forty million dollars sorry I should say million, as miss
- 10:05Speaker 4: O'Neill says, forty million dollars thirty nine to be precise
- 10:10Speaker 4: for this this kit home system. Now, kit homes do
- 10:13Speaker 4: already exist, they're not used so much here as they
- 10:17Speaker 4: are in other parts of the world. Seemingly, what they're
- 10:20Speaker 4: suggesting is that this would be some sort of government.
- 10:24Speaker 6: Inventory of parts of houses.
- 10:28Speaker 4: That someone else can just sort of take off a
- 10:30Speaker 4: shelf so that, you know, they don't have to design
- 10:33Speaker 4: them themselves. The designs are just sort of publicly available,
- 10:36Speaker 4: and this will magically allow loads and loads of houses
- 10:40Speaker 4: to be built in astrat I mean, come on, pull
- 10:43Speaker 4: the other one. I've got no issue with kit homes
- 10:46Speaker 4: or prefab homes. You know, if it's a decent quality,
- 10:50Speaker 4: it should be no different to any other home. And yes,
- 10:53Speaker 4: theoretically it should allow homes to be built faster.
- 10:56Speaker 6: But why does.
- 10:57Speaker 4: The government then have to get involved and splash forty
- 11:01Speaker 4: million dollars and say, oh, look we've fixed it, but
- 11:04Speaker 4: you've failed to fix it at any point thus far.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Why would we think this would do anything.
- 11:10Speaker 2: That The two things that this government excels at are
- 11:12Speaker 2: announcements and splashing money at things and then walking away
- 11:15Speaker 2: saying our job is done. What they're terrible at is
- 11:19Speaker 2: measuring consequences, measuring achievement. They never get around to that.
- 11:25Speaker 2: I wouldn't trust clar O'Neil to build a flat pack duney,
- 11:28Speaker 2: would you.
- 11:29Speaker 1: I think she's failed at every ministry she's had.
- 11:31Speaker 4: You can come over and try to do some flat
- 11:33Speaker 4: pack furniture for me.
- 11:34Speaker 6: That had saved me a few hours.
- 11:35Speaker 2: One of the things she said at the press club
- 11:36Speaker 2: she said, we still build houses the same way that
- 11:40Speaker 2: we did thirty years ago. What she failed to mention
- 11:43Speaker 2: is maybe that's true, but we take forty to fifty
- 11:46Speaker 2: percent longer to build the same houses that we were
- 11:48Speaker 2: building thirty years ago. She might want to address that,
- 11:52Speaker 2: which government could, because that goes to things like red tape,
- 11:55Speaker 2: green tape, regulations, taxes, et cetera, et cetera. But instead
- 12:00Speaker 2: of doing the hard work of addressing those sorts of things,
- 12:03Speaker 2: it's just easier to announce his another thirty nine million
- 12:05Speaker 2: dollars flat packs.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Ikea. That's the answer.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Well, this is the labor government all out of ideas,
- 12:11Speaker 3: isn't it. So their big answer is basically, ikea flat
- 12:13Speaker 3: pack furniture, because that's exactly what these sorts of homes are.
- 12:17Speaker 3: The problem is is Labor is failing on its housing targets,
- 12:20Speaker 3: so it's going, how on earth are we going to
- 12:22Speaker 3: achieve these goals? Because of course, in its own homer
- 12:26Speaker 3: coord this was Labour's big sprooking deal one point two
- 12:29Speaker 3: million homes by the end of the decade. We all
- 12:31Speaker 3: know that that's not going to be achieved. It's pushed
- 12:33Speaker 3: back into the twenty thirties. Building approvals are at sixteen
- 12:37Speaker 3: thousand per month. It actually needs to be at twenty
- 12:39Speaker 3: thousand to achieve those housing targets, so way behind the
- 12:43Speaker 3: national levels. And in the federal budget announced by Jim Charmers,
- 12:47Speaker 3: supply of homes is thirty five thousand less per year
- 12:50Speaker 3: than what it needs to actually be, so already labor
- 12:53Speaker 3: is behind.
- 12:54Speaker 5: And then you've got Clara O'Neil going, ah ha, we're
- 12:57Speaker 5: going to come up with a light bulb solution.
- 12:59Speaker 3: Here we go is thirty nine million dollars of your
- 13:02Speaker 3: money on top of the record government spending just to
- 13:04Speaker 3: add to that trillion dollars of debt and we're going
- 13:07Speaker 3: to sell you an ikea flat pack, and there you go.
- 13:09Speaker 5: That's going to fix the problem. It's not.
- 13:11Speaker 3: The Master Builders already came out today saying, okay, fine,
- 13:14Speaker 3: we welcome this, but the problem is is red tape.
- 13:17Speaker 3: As you said, there's a lot of red tape efficiency
- 13:20Speaker 3: and the workforce. So we only just spoke this week
- 13:23Speaker 3: about the construction industry is having to lay off workers
- 13:28Speaker 3: because costs are too high, so the workforce is not there,
- 13:32Speaker 3: in addition to the fact that the construction needs and
- 13:34Speaker 3: not being met across the.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Stre Their tactic is before you can judge the last announcement,
- 13:39Speaker 2: they make another announcement, so then you're dazzled by the
- 13:42Speaker 2: new announcement and they'll wait until that, you know, a
- 13:45Speaker 2: little bit of time. But before that one comes due,
- 13:48Speaker 2: then there'll be another announcement. So they're never judged on anything.
- 13:52Speaker 2: It's just one announcement after another, and they always point to, well,
- 13:55Speaker 2: we just last week, we announced this, last month, we
- 13:58Speaker 2: announced that, and that enables them to avoid ever being
- 14:01Speaker 2: held to account for any of the promises they made.
- 14:04Speaker 2: They just point to announcements as if that is evidence
- 14:07Speaker 2: that they're fixing things.
- 14:08Speaker 4: So the issue at the moment is largely one of
- 14:10Speaker 4: government intervention. It's government intervention in bringing lots of maargrants
- 14:14Speaker 4: that then creates lots of demand. Its government intervention in
- 14:17Speaker 4: terms of rules and regulations and the red tape and
- 14:20Speaker 4: the green tape and whatever that makes.
- 14:21Speaker 6: It harder to build a home.
- 14:22Speaker 4: It's government intervention in the economy, and then that drives
- 14:27Speaker 4: up inflation, and then that drives up interest rates, which
- 14:30Speaker 4: makes it harder for people to pay to build a home,
- 14:32Speaker 4: and on and on it goes. So the government then
- 14:35Speaker 4: says the answer to that is more government intervention, which
- 14:38Speaker 4: is to go and create this you know what do.
- 14:40Speaker 6: They call it?
- 14:40Speaker 4: A kit of tools or something for the building industry
- 14:44Speaker 4: to use. So government intervention, having caused this problem, is
- 14:48Speaker 4: now apparently going to fix it, okay.
- 14:49Speaker 6: My ass.
- 14:51Speaker 4: And if the prefab system was viable at the moment
- 14:57Speaker 4: in this country, builders would be doing a one hundred
- 15:00Speaker 4: miles an hour because they want to build, they want
- 15:04Speaker 4: to employ people, they want to make money, and if
- 15:06Speaker 4: they could find ways to cut costs, they'd already be
- 15:10Speaker 4: doing it. The problem is not that, you know, they
- 15:13Speaker 4: can't club together and come up with a system that
- 15:16Speaker 4: they can all share to build prefab homes. The problem
- 15:20Speaker 4: is all the regulation and this doesn't fix that.
- 15:23Speaker 3: No, it definitely doesn't fix that. But they spend a
- 15:26Speaker 3: lot of money, don't they. Goodness me, let's go to
- 15:29Speaker 3: the UK. Now, this is an interesting proposal. GPS are
- 15:33Speaker 3: going to hold a vote on whether or not they
- 15:35Speaker 3: would look to introduce a Netflix style subscription service that
- 15:40Speaker 3: charges patients. So, to give you an example, you would
- 15:43Speaker 3: opt into this service whether or not you pays it
- 15:46Speaker 3: a weekly maybe or a monthly fee, and you would
- 15:48Speaker 3: be able to go and see a gp X amount
- 15:51Speaker 3: of time to try and reduce the demand on the
- 15:54Speaker 3: National Health Service. So the British Medical Association's GP Committee
- 15:58Speaker 3: said it would ballot family doctors in England on trying
- 16:01Speaker 3: to introduce this model. It's means tested and it's subscription
- 16:04Speaker 3: based as part of an alternative model. If it introduced,
- 16:09Speaker 3: a system could resemble arrangements that's already been currently offered
- 16:12Speaker 3: by dentists on the NHS, who charge fees of around
- 16:15Speaker 3: three hundred and nineteen pounds for some treatments. As I said,
- 16:19Speaker 3: it's trying to limit that demand off the NHS doctor Brammel,
- 16:23Speaker 3: whose union's GPS committee chairman.
- 16:25Speaker 5: He says this.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Exploration of an alternative model is a consequence of long
- 16:31Speaker 3: term political and systemic failure to protect NHS general practice
- 16:35Speaker 3: and has left the profession deeply frustrated with no other
- 16:39Speaker 3: choice but to explore alternatives. Now pressure on the public
- 16:43Speaker 3: service that's not just pertaining to the UK. Obviously, we've
- 16:46Speaker 3: got issues here with our health services and our emergency
- 16:50Speaker 3: departments are absolutely being swamped by people who you know
- 16:53Speaker 3: will go there when they've got a cold or a
- 16:54Speaker 3: headache or you've got a hypochondriact and suddenly the entire
- 16:59Speaker 3: waiting room is absolute flooded. So in a way I
- 17:01Speaker 3: do agree that something does have to be done. My
- 17:04Speaker 3: main concern with this is firstly, we don't know how
- 17:08Speaker 3: this is going to work. We don't know if this
- 17:09Speaker 3: is a monthly service, so we don't know how many
- 17:12Speaker 3: times you would be able to go and see your
- 17:15Speaker 3: GP within that timeframe. Is it four times a month,
- 17:18Speaker 3: is it once a month?
- 17:19Speaker 5: You know who knows?
- 17:21Speaker 3: But does it also create sort of a tier two
- 17:23Speaker 3: tier service where okay, I can afford to use this
- 17:27Speaker 3: subscription and those who can't afford still have to go
- 17:30Speaker 3: through the public Health service, and it still puts that
- 17:33Speaker 3: additional pressure onto the NHS. I'm not sure if an
- 17:38Speaker 3: opt in service is the solution to the problem.
- 17:40Speaker 2: I think it absolutely creates a two tiered system. You
- 17:43Speaker 2: have people who are able to see the doctor not
- 17:45Speaker 2: because they need to, but because they can afford to,
- 17:47Speaker 2: while others are only able to see a doctor when
- 17:51Speaker 2: they get their turn. The other problem you'd have here
- 17:53Speaker 2: is that why would doctors because this doesn't create any
- 17:56Speaker 2: extra doctors.
- 17:57Speaker 1: No, So, if you're a doctor and you've got.
- 17:59Speaker 2: The public service, or you've got your paying subscribers, why
- 18:04Speaker 2: would you not allocate.
- 18:05Speaker 1: More of your time to those who are paying higher.
- 18:07Speaker 2: Fees and subscription services to see it, which only makes
- 18:10Speaker 2: the public system even worse. And the other problem I
- 18:14Speaker 2: see is it's going to undermine trust in the NHS
- 18:16Speaker 2: because if you can't afford the Netflix style subscription, then
- 18:20Speaker 2: would you not think that somehow you're getting the leftovers
- 18:25Speaker 2: in the NHS while your neighbors who have got more money,
- 18:28Speaker 2: they're getting the premium care, they're getting the best doctors,
- 18:30Speaker 2: they're getting longer appointments, they're getting more frequent access to
- 18:34Speaker 2: doctors while you're left with the scraps. I don't know
- 18:36Speaker 2: that that's a great way to run a society.
- 18:40Speaker 4: But is that any different to Australia and people jumping
- 18:43Speaker 4: up and down about the quality of their bug build.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Well, we're not comparing it with Australia. We're comparing it
- 18:46Speaker 2: to what the UK currently has.
- 18:48Speaker 4: And that's what's wrong with the way we do now.
- 18:51Speaker 6: We don't have a subscription service.
- 18:52Speaker 4: No, someone might like to take it up if they
- 18:54Speaker 4: can find the market for it. But you have the
- 18:57Speaker 4: option of going to a bulk bill doctor, which one covered.
- 19:00Speaker 3: But yeah, do you really there are I feel like
- 19:04Speaker 3: there are none in Sydney or there's the odd one.
- 19:06Speaker 5: There are no bulk billing.
- 19:08Speaker 1: After the show? Can you pass this one?
- 19:09Speaker 6: In? Likehart?
- 19:10Speaker 3: You can go and see Yeah, but I'm sure you
- 19:11Speaker 3: have to stand there in a line for hours just
- 19:14Speaker 3: to go and see them.
- 19:15Speaker 6: Yeah, but haven't they got all these bulk bill clinics.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Or whatever supposedly where are they go.
- 19:19Speaker 6: And find one?
- 19:20Speaker 5: Then? What wasn't it the Liberal parties war on medicare?
- 19:23Speaker 5: Wasn't that There.
- 19:24Speaker 6: Was a lot of crap.
- 19:25Speaker 4: But anyway, but so you can go and see a
- 19:27Speaker 4: bulk bill doctor if you want to go and see
- 19:28Speaker 4: a bulk bill doctor, or you can go and pay
- 19:31Speaker 4: a private fee to see a doctor elsewhere. I don't
- 19:36Speaker 4: see what the issue is with that. It's always been us.
- 19:39Speaker 4: If you have the money to afford faster or better service,
- 19:43Speaker 4: why should you not be able to pay to get
- 19:45Speaker 4: faster or better service.
- 19:46Speaker 6: I mean, essentially, what you're saying is that everyone should
- 19:49Speaker 6: be dragged down to the same level.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Do I feel sorry for people who have to rely
- 19:53Speaker 4: on the public system because they can't afford to get
- 19:56Speaker 4: better service, Absolutely I do. But I don't think that
- 19:59Speaker 4: that should mean that tho who can afford bitter service,
- 20:02Speaker 4: like those who have saved up their whole lives, like
- 20:05Speaker 4: my little old Nan who has private health insurance, and
- 20:09Speaker 4: you know, she's always made that a priority.
- 20:11Speaker 6: She's a pinsionner.
- 20:12Speaker 4: That's always been a priority because if she goes to
- 20:14Speaker 4: the hospital, she wants to have better service and she's
- 20:16Speaker 4: willing to pay for it.
- 20:17Speaker 6: What's wrong with that?
- 20:18Speaker 2: I think some of the anks, particularly reading around this
- 20:20Speaker 2: issue in the UK, is people are looking at what's
- 20:23Speaker 2: being proposed, and then they're looking at all the money
- 20:26Speaker 2: that's being spent on hotels for migrants, Yes, on welfare
- 20:30Speaker 2: benefits for migrants, and they're saying here, I am a
- 20:33Speaker 2: British citizen, a British taxpayer, and I'm getting a reduced
- 20:38Speaker 2: health service whilst people who are not citizens of this
- 20:42Speaker 2: country are getting all sorts of trinkets and things. And
- 20:45Speaker 2: you can argue about that, but I can understand the
- 20:47Speaker 2: dissatisfaction for many people looking at health services being cut
- 20:51Speaker 2: back for ordinary Brits while it seems there's plenty of
- 20:54Speaker 2: money to go towards European projects and migrants and all
- 21:00Speaker 2: of those others.
- 21:00Speaker 3: Well, don't forget as well that asylum seekers are also
- 21:03Speaker 3: reportedly getting priority access to the NHS over everyday British
- 21:08Speaker 3: tax payers. So you can see why people would be
- 21:11Speaker 3: getting really annoyed. And you're right, because migrants would be
- 21:14Speaker 3: flooding the system regardless because they need the welfare benefits,
- 21:17Speaker 3: which would rack up into the tens of thousands, if
- 21:19Speaker 3: not hundreds of thousands of pounds. So I can see
- 21:22Speaker 3: why people are frustrated. But what about also trying to
- 21:24Speaker 3: get more doctors into the scheme. I mean, how can
- 21:27Speaker 3: you make it more attractive for people to go into
- 21:30Speaker 3: general practice as well. And that's an issue we've got
- 21:32Speaker 3: in Australia. What can we do to make people want
- 21:36Speaker 3: to become a GP as well?
- 21:37Speaker 6: You can make a lot more money being a specialist.
- 21:39Speaker 3: Well you could make more. But I do agree. But
- 21:41Speaker 3: we need gps. We need them in the regions. I
- 21:44Speaker 3: know that we're desperately in need of GEP.
- 21:45Speaker 4: Some way, somehow. We've got to find a way to
- 21:47Speaker 4: pay them more. So does that money come from the
- 21:49Speaker 4: government which they take from you anyway, or does it
- 21:52Speaker 4: come directly from you.
- 21:53Speaker 6: That's the discussion that needs.
- 21:54Speaker 2: To be at all, right, I want to get both
- 21:57Speaker 2: of you to chime in on a problem that a
- 22:00Speaker 2: Victorian state government minister is having after issuing a reference
- 22:04Speaker 2: to a taxi driver who wanted to become an Australian
- 22:07Speaker 2: citizen but had his citizenship application rejected because of a
- 22:12Speaker 2: couple of convictions of indecently assaulting women who were passengers
- 22:17Speaker 2: in his taxi. Luber Grigorovitch is the government minister who
- 22:23Speaker 2: provided the reference for Mohammed Isa or Isa back in
- 22:27Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. I was convicted of two incidents, jailed for
- 22:32Speaker 2: three months for one and received a twenty four month
- 22:35Speaker 2: community corrections order for the other. Both involved sexually touching
- 22:39Speaker 2: women who were traveling in his taxi. Now he lives
- 22:44Speaker 2: in Gorgorovich's electorate, and so she said she'd known him
- 22:49Speaker 2: for several years and provided a character reference, saying that
- 22:52Speaker 2: she'd known him to always show a deep respect for
- 22:54Speaker 2: Australian laws, culture and traditions. Of course, now it's come out.
- 22:58Speaker 2: Hang on a second, he's got a couple of convictions
- 23:01Speaker 2: for sexually assaulting his passengers in the taxi. How on
- 23:05Speaker 2: earth could you have provided the reference? She claims Caleb
- 23:09Speaker 2: that she was unaware of these convictions. He did not
- 23:11Speaker 2: make them known to her when she asked for when
- 23:14Speaker 2: he asked for a reference. I'm not quite sure why
- 23:17Speaker 2: this is a scandal. How can she be responsible for
- 23:22Speaker 2: not knowing about things that happened twelve years ago with
- 23:25Speaker 2: this man?
- 23:26Speaker 4: Because if someone comes to you and says, I would
- 23:29Speaker 4: like you to write me a reference so I can go.
- 23:33Speaker 6: Off to the administrative Administrative.
- 23:36Speaker 4: Appeals Tribune or what do they call it, another review tribunal.
- 23:39Speaker 4: Used to be the AAT, now it's the AT. So
- 23:41Speaker 4: I'm going to go to the Administrative Review Tribunal to
- 23:45Speaker 4: appeal a denial of my citizenship request.
- 23:49Speaker 6: Now, wouldn't alarm bells be going hmm?
- 23:52Speaker 4: I wonder why the federal government would have decided you're
- 23:55Speaker 4: not a fit person to be an Australian citizen, and
- 23:58Speaker 4: then you would inquire a little bit for that, and
- 24:00Speaker 4: then on that basis, decide whether or not you would
- 24:03Speaker 4: issue someone the statement to take off to the art.
- 24:08Speaker 6: Of course, it's her fault.
- 24:09Speaker 4: I mean, if the bloke's been denied citizenship, surely you'd
- 24:13Speaker 4: be somewhat curious as to.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Why that might Who would she inquire to?
- 24:16Speaker 6: Well, she could inquire to him, but that's the point
- 24:19Speaker 6: she would inquire to him.
- 24:20Speaker 1: She disclose it. She helps she to know.
- 24:22Speaker 4: Okay, well what I don't know what he might have
- 24:25Speaker 4: said to her? What they denied it because they thought
- 24:26Speaker 4: I looked the wrong way at some bloke when he
- 24:28Speaker 4: was buying some chips at the local chip shop, Like,
- 24:30Speaker 4: what was his excuse for why they would have denied it?
- 24:33Speaker 4: She could have contacted the federal government and asked them
- 24:36Speaker 4: why they denied his application.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Would they not say that's not something that they can
- 24:40Speaker 2: disclose publicly.
- 24:41Speaker 4: They may well do, but I don't know whether she
- 24:43Speaker 4: went to the lengths to do that. She could call
- 24:45Speaker 4: up the something I used to do frequently as a journalist,
- 24:48Speaker 4: call up the courts and cross reference things, saying, you know,
- 24:52Speaker 4: as such and such as come in on this matter.
- 24:55Speaker 4: I just want to check up things. You could contact
- 24:57Speaker 4: the police and they might be able to tell I
- 25:00Speaker 4: mean they I as a journalist used to contact police
- 25:03Speaker 4: all the time about matters, and they would not use
- 25:05Speaker 4: someone's name in the confirmation, but they would more or
- 25:08Speaker 4: less confirm that something did or did not happen. So
- 25:12Speaker 4: I can see plenty of avenues she could have taken
- 25:14Speaker 4: to try and find out why this man might have
- 25:17Speaker 4: had his request denied, and she's not done so and said, yes,
- 25:21Speaker 4: you know, he has integrity and character, and he contributes
- 25:24Speaker 4: to the community by touching up women.
- 25:26Speaker 6: Apparently.
- 25:27Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:27Speaker 3: Well, I mean we know that labor loves migration, so
- 25:30Speaker 3: when I first read this story, I thought, ah, this
- 25:33Speaker 3: labor loves a good citizen. Labor loves a migration story,
- 25:36Speaker 3: because this is the migrant vote, isn't it. You're right,
- 25:39Speaker 3: I mean, but in general, when you do provide a
- 25:41Speaker 3: reference for somebody, you've got to know them pretty well
- 25:44Speaker 3: to want to provide him several years.
- 25:46Speaker 1: These offenses took place twelve years ago.
- 25:48Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
- 25:49Speaker 3: You'd want to be one under you will you don't
- 25:55Speaker 3: know them that well personally, right, she obviously met him
- 25:58Speaker 3: that then she knew of him with in the community.
- 26:00Speaker 3: By the sounds of it, I don't think that they
- 26:02Speaker 3: were mates bye bye. No, No, they weren't besties. They
- 26:04Speaker 3: weren't hanging out the pub.
- 26:05Speaker 5: At the week.
- 26:06Speaker 1: He gives in her electric right, he lives.
- 26:07Speaker 5: In the electro.
- 26:08Speaker 3: So okay, let's make an assumption, perhaps that they saw
- 26:10Speaker 3: each other every now and then.
- 26:11Speaker 5: You know, Hi, how are you? So the question is
- 26:14Speaker 5: how well did she she know him?
- 26:16Speaker 1: Really? The point of a reference the point of a reference.
- 26:18Speaker 3: But the point is if you're going to provide a
- 26:19Speaker 3: reference for somebody you don't know that well, it's a
- 26:22Speaker 3: little bit strange if I wouldn't provide a reference for
- 26:25Speaker 3: someone I didn't know, if I know on your person casually,
- 26:27Speaker 3: I'll just go I wouldn't provide you with a brains.
- 26:28Speaker 1: If I wrote you a reference, I'd say you and
- 26:30Speaker 1: I know each other.
- 26:31Speaker 2: No, but I would say I've known Danika for the
- 26:33Speaker 2: past four years in my capacity as x y Z.
- 26:36Speaker 2: I'm not giving a reference for your entire life. I'm
- 26:38Speaker 2: giving you a reference. I know you to be x
- 26:41Speaker 2: y Z.
- 26:41Speaker 3: But James, you and I know each other on a
- 26:43Speaker 3: personal level because I've seen you outside of this office.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 26:46Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is, whenever someone provides a reference,
- 26:49Speaker 2: it's not a reference for their entire life.
- 26:51Speaker 1: It's a reference as to how you know that person
- 26:54Speaker 1: to be.
- 26:54Speaker 2: If there's other information that others know well that will
- 26:58Speaker 2: come to life, James.
- 26:58Speaker 3: There's a difference between fiding a reference for somebody that
- 27:01Speaker 3: you see casually in the street every now. Nice to
- 27:03Speaker 3: see you, Hi, how you're going in the community. Can
- 27:05Speaker 3: I help you out with anything in this electorate, anything
- 27:07Speaker 3: that I can do to further your life? Versus some
- 27:09Speaker 3: people who actually know each other on a personal level
- 27:11Speaker 3: and a professional level because they've been in association for many,
- 27:14Speaker 3: many years in close proximity. I mean, you and I
- 27:17Speaker 3: one meter away from each other, so you would know
- 27:19Speaker 3: a lot about my capabilities based on the fact of this.
- 27:22Speaker 5: It's a very very different situation.
- 27:24Speaker 6: She missed. There is a get out clause on that one.
- 27:26Speaker 4: God, if the problem is she said, I can confidently
- 27:30Speaker 4: attest to his character, integrity and contribution to the Australian community.
- 27:33Speaker 4: She could have said, in my experience he has been
- 27:38Speaker 4: da da da da da.
- 27:39Speaker 6: I have never seen anything that.
- 27:40Speaker 4: Would lead me to believe that he would deserve to
- 27:43Speaker 4: have his citizenship denied. I mean, she could quite rightly
- 27:46Speaker 4: turn around and say, I wasn't aware. I said that
- 27:50Speaker 4: in my experience of dealing with him, he'd been a
- 27:52Speaker 4: decent person. I was not aware of that. Now that
- 27:54Speaker 4: I'm aware of that, I withdraw my submission. Bang yeah,
- 27:58Speaker 4: fixed confidently attest that he's a great member of the community.
- 28:03Speaker 6: Another question I've got about this.
- 28:05Speaker 4: If a bloke who's not a citizen of this country
- 28:08Speaker 4: has been convicted twice of touching up women in his cab,
- 28:14Speaker 4: why is he still in this country at all? The
- 28:16Speaker 4: migrant he should have been put on a plane or
- 28:19Speaker 4: a boat or some other vessel and sent back.
- 28:22Speaker 6: Whence he came.
- 28:23Speaker 5: Why in Victoria? In Victoria, Victoria.
- 28:27Speaker 6: Well, it's a feedful matter. It's not a Victorian matter.
- 28:29Speaker 5: Whether they love a migrant boat.
- 28:32Speaker 6: He should be gone. It's just insane.
- 28:35Speaker 4: Anyway, Let's move on to something else, which you may
- 28:38Speaker 4: consider positive, or you may.
- 28:39Speaker 6: Not depending on your perspective.
- 28:41Speaker 4: And interesting story popped up in the OS today that
- 28:45Speaker 4: will be in the paper on the weekend that has
- 28:49Speaker 4: two interesting little tidbits in it. One is that seemingly
- 28:53Speaker 4: there is an interest in young men becoming Christian. Right
- 28:57Speaker 4: they say in this article forty percent of Australian men
- 29:00Speaker 4: under twenty eight identify as Christian. But if you're a woman,
- 29:05Speaker 4: it's a slightly different story. Thirty percent of Australian women,
- 29:09Speaker 4: according to this story and the study that it is quoting,
- 29:14Speaker 4: identify as Christians. So the rate of young men who
- 29:17Speaker 4: are saying they are Christian is obviously much higher than
- 29:21Speaker 4: young women. Now, before you jump up and down and say,
- 29:23Speaker 4: oh well, it chose that young men are terribly interested
- 29:25Speaker 4: in Christianity, it is still lower than the national number.
- 29:30Speaker 4: At the last census, it was forty three point nine
- 29:32Speaker 4: percent of all Australians said they were Christian. And there
- 29:35Speaker 4: are there were at that census one point four million
- 29:39Speaker 4: fewer Christians in this country than there were in nineteen
- 29:42Speaker 4: ninety six, despite the fact that the population has obviously
- 29:46Speaker 4: increased significantly since then. But it does buy into an
- 29:51Speaker 4: argument that has been run for some time that young
- 29:54Speaker 4: men now are looking for something to believe in. They've
- 29:58Speaker 4: been raised in a world where their masculinity has been questioned,
- 30:02Speaker 4: are sometimes even demonized. They don't have social structures that
- 30:07Speaker 4: used to exist. They are lonelier than they have ever been,
- 30:10Speaker 4: and so they are looking for something to believe in.
- 30:13Speaker 4: They're looking for a community, and many young men are
- 30:16Speaker 4: finding that community in church. The interesting thing is that
- 30:20Speaker 4: women are not doing the same thing, and it fits
- 30:23Speaker 4: into all the stuff we've seen in terms of political beliefs.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Younger men are skewing further to the right, Younger women
- 30:30Speaker 4: are skewing further to the left. Young women are more
- 30:33Speaker 4: likely to get a university education.
- 30:35Speaker 6: Than men are.
- 30:36Speaker 4: Young women are more likely to do better at school
- 30:39Speaker 4: than young men are. On and on it goes where
- 30:42Speaker 4: young men are basically being disenfranchised, so it would not
- 30:46Speaker 4: come as a surprise that they're going well. I got
- 30:49Speaker 4: to find a community or something to believe in because
- 30:52Speaker 4: the world is leaving me behind.
- 30:54Speaker 5: I also think as well. I do agree.
- 30:57Speaker 3: I think when it comes to men, I think men
- 30:59Speaker 3: are provid, and I think that we are living in
- 31:01Speaker 3: very very difficult times.
- 31:03Speaker 5: The cost of living crisis, the fuel crisis.
- 31:05Speaker 3: I mean, it's happening all around the world, and when
- 31:07Speaker 3: men can't provide for their family, I think it has devastating.
- 31:10Speaker 5: Impacts on them.
- 31:11Speaker 3: And sometimes when you're out of hope, you turn to
- 31:14Speaker 3: something that to give you hope.
- 31:16Speaker 5: You pray and you hope for the best in your life.
- 31:18Speaker 3: And I think that's another reason why men are looking
- 31:21Speaker 3: for something, looking for something to believe in when they
- 31:23Speaker 3: are down in the dumps. When it comes to women,
- 31:26Speaker 3: I do I absolutely agree with you. I think it's
- 31:28Speaker 3: it is definitely women's views are very different. But I
- 31:31Speaker 3: also think a big aspect is that women are more
- 31:34Speaker 3: spiritual than what men are, and women are more likely
- 31:37Speaker 3: to take on this. They call it new age spirit spiritualism. Well,
- 31:43Speaker 3: I mean you might think it's rubbish, but I think
- 31:45Speaker 3: there's a lot of women out there who do believe
- 31:47Speaker 3: in spirituality.
- 31:48Speaker 5: And that's fine. Lowed you're looking like, what the hell,
- 31:54Speaker 5: but I do it.
- 31:54Speaker 3: I think that that's the reason why women are not
- 31:56Speaker 3: turning to Christianity, because they have their own fundamental beliefs
- 31:59Speaker 3: and that's to do with spirituality.
- 32:03Speaker 1: I think for young I thought you're going to make
- 32:06Speaker 1: another profound point.
- 32:07Speaker 5: No, that was it.
- 32:08Speaker 2: I think for young guys, if you've been told because
- 32:12Speaker 2: secularism and materialism tells us you came from nothing. When
- 32:16Speaker 2: you die, you end up as nothing, Now find purpose
- 32:19Speaker 2: and meaning. Well, if you came from nothing and you
- 32:21Speaker 2: end up as nothing, what does life mean? They do
- 32:24Speaker 2: the math and think, well, you know, eat, drink, and
- 32:26Speaker 2: be happy because tomorrow we die.
- 32:27Speaker 1: So it's all for nought.
- 32:29Speaker 2: And I don't think anyone can seriously abide such a
- 32:32Speaker 2: nilist philosophy. And so it's natural that whether you're looking
- 32:36Speaker 2: for spirituality and sort of new age philosophies, or whether
- 32:39Speaker 2: you're looking to the Christian faith, people look for meaning
- 32:42Speaker 2: and purpose because we're designed for meaning and purpose. So
- 32:45Speaker 2: I think this is quite predictable that once you've got
- 32:49Speaker 2: the car, the boat, the house, the relationship, and you're
- 32:51Speaker 2: still not satisfied, of course you're going to say there's
- 32:53Speaker 2: got to be something more.
- 32:54Speaker 1: I think it's a positive for churches.
- 32:57Speaker 2: That young men are going to church because I think
- 33:00Speaker 2: think typically you might push back on this one, but
- 33:02Speaker 2: I think young men are more likely to influence their
- 33:06Speaker 2: partner to come to church than a woman is to
- 33:09Speaker 2: influence her male partner to come to church. So I
- 33:12Speaker 2: think most churches would see this is a very good
- 33:14Speaker 2: thing that young men are going to church. This could
- 33:16Speaker 2: very well lead to a resurgence in church attendance. You
- 33:19Speaker 2: start with men, you'll probably get the women as well.
- 33:21Speaker 1: Well.
- 33:21Speaker 4: I probably couldn't a young woman, probably couldn't encourage me
- 33:24Speaker 4: to get into a hokey pokey spiritual stuff.
- 33:28Speaker 6: So you might be right on.
- 33:29Speaker 1: That the pokey spiritual is that the technical term?
- 33:33Speaker 4: I know.
- 33:33Speaker 3: Look, I don't think I think a lot of men
- 33:35Speaker 3: are not into the spiritual stuff, and that's fine, don't
- 33:37Speaker 3: I don't think that's the.
- 33:38Speaker 6: Prob the hoost who leaves Jeneka.
- 33:40Speaker 5: Do I want to read your tea Labe love that ability?
- 33:44Speaker 4: That would be really far other side of the world,
- 33:47Speaker 4: you know, the other, not the other side of the
- 33:48Speaker 4: world that's China or somewhere the other, the other dimeinsion, confortence.
- 33:51Speaker 2: Something to you is the difference between in your view,
- 33:55Speaker 2: men and women. Women are more feeling orientated.
- 33:58Speaker 1: Definitely, so spiritual reality. Yes, I'm not being condescending, No, no, no,
- 34:03Speaker 1: why it's the.
- 34:04Speaker 5: Women are more feeling.
- 34:05Speaker 3: Women have the Yeah, women go off more feelings based
- 34:09Speaker 3: than what a man would I think men just make split,
- 34:12Speaker 3: split decisions and they and I mean, this is this
- 34:15Speaker 3: is this is, this is gonna. I don't know how
- 34:18Speaker 3: to describe this without saying it, and this, this means
- 34:21Speaker 3: no offense. Men just think a lot more simply than
- 34:23Speaker 3: women stupid, and just that I would feel like men
- 34:29Speaker 3: are a lot more like women over analyzed. Women will
- 34:34Speaker 3: think about it and overanalyze and go into details, and
- 34:37Speaker 3: then suddenly it's all these loops and loops where men
- 34:39Speaker 3: are just like, ah, leave me forward, you know what
- 34:42Speaker 3: I mean. It's actually a compliment to men, is what
- 34:44Speaker 3: I'm saying.
- 34:45Speaker 2: Men attracted to Christianity because Christianity is a historically based
- 34:50Speaker 2: It's either true or.
- 34:51Speaker 1: It's not exactly Jesus.
- 34:53Speaker 5: And that's my point.
- 34:54Speaker 1: What he said he did is not not simple, but
- 34:57Speaker 1: it's either it's.
- 34:58Speaker 3: A simple, but I think it's more a simple philosophy,
- 35:01Speaker 3: whereas women would over maybe overthink it and try and
- 35:03Speaker 3: go into deep and meaningfuls about it.
- 35:05Speaker 4: There's a good line to your point, Janika, in as
- 35:09Speaker 4: good as it gets. Jack Nicholson right, and he's this
- 35:12Speaker 4: romance novelist and he goes into to see his publisher
- 35:16Speaker 4: and the reception girl gets.
- 35:18Speaker 6: Up and goes, how do you write women so well?
- 35:22Speaker 4: And he says, I think of a man and I
- 35:24Speaker 4: take away reason and accountability.
- 35:27Speaker 5: So that's you know, that's what I mean. See, I
- 35:29Speaker 5: don't it doesn't It wasn't it.
- 35:30Speaker 3: It's not a bad thing, because I do think that
- 35:33Speaker 3: women do overthink things compared to men.
- 35:36Speaker 5: Men are like, why why are you overthinking that? There's
- 35:38Speaker 5: nothing to it? Do you know what I mean? That's
- 35:40Speaker 5: what I mean. So that's why. Yeah, to your point,
- 35:43Speaker 5: I think.
- 35:43Speaker 2: So quickly before we go from this topic, what do
- 35:45Speaker 2: you make of the Australian Christian Lobby promoting a study
- 35:48Speaker 2: today that found they interviewed ten thousand Christians in this country,
- 35:53Speaker 2: ninety two percent of whom said it's riskier to be
- 35:57Speaker 2: public about your faith in Australia today than it was
- 35:59Speaker 2: five years ago. Forty percent of whom said they regularly
- 36:03Speaker 2: self censor in order to avoid harassment or discrimination in
- 36:07Speaker 2: the workplace or when they're out and about. Are you
- 36:09Speaker 2: surprised by those numbers or do you think that's part
- 36:13Speaker 2: of the course these days.
- 36:14Speaker 6: No, I'm not surprised.
- 36:15Speaker 4: If you go back in the seventies, more than eighty
- 36:19Speaker 4: percent of people in this country were Christian. Now it's
- 36:21Speaker 4: somewhere in the forty odd percent range. We've got a
- 36:24Speaker 4: census this year, so we'll get a more accurate picture
- 36:26Speaker 4: of what it looks like now. But one of the
- 36:28Speaker 4: examples out of this survey was we heard one story
- 36:31Speaker 4: of a lady who wears a crucifix to work. She
- 36:33Speaker 4: was told by the leadership in her workplace that it
- 36:35Speaker 4: was disrespectful for her to wear the crucifix when there
- 36:38Speaker 4: were Muslims in the workplace. But the Muslims were allowed
- 36:41Speaker 4: to wear the hijab, but she was confronted about wearing
- 36:44Speaker 4: the cross. And I suspected to the double standard in
- 36:47Speaker 4: particular in some cases that really irks people and makes
- 36:51Speaker 4: them feel uncomfortable and as though their religion is not welcome,
- 36:54Speaker 4: when perhaps at other times we bend over backwards to
- 36:57Speaker 4: accommodate other people's religions.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Well, I think as well, the Left have just destroyed
- 37:01Speaker 3: this whole narrative because the left claim that they're the
- 37:03Speaker 3: most tolerant of them all, but as soon as they
- 37:06Speaker 3: you know, obviously, with Christianity, you have strong beliefs about euthanasia,
- 37:09Speaker 3: about abortion, for example, and the left will come at
- 37:13Speaker 3: you and tell you you're wrong for having those beliefs.
- 37:15Speaker 3: So it's just easier to go, Okay, I'm just going
- 37:17Speaker 3: to hide the fact that I'm a Christian.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, all right, we're going to go to a break.
- 37:21Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll look at what's making headlines tomorrow,
- 37:23Speaker 2: including you don't believe how much rents are set to
- 37:26Speaker 2: increase under Jim Chalmer's budget, that and more. In just
- 37:30Speaker 2: a moment, okay, let's take a look at what's making
- 37:40Speaker 2: headlines tomorrow. We'll start with the Daily Telegraph, who, of
- 37:43Speaker 2: course have got a photograph there of their winning rugby
- 37:48Speaker 2: league players celebrating their domination over Queensland last night.
- 37:51Speaker 1: We won't talk about that because what's his name?
- 37:53Speaker 2: Well, he's a new South Welshman, so I wouldn't know.
- 37:56Speaker 2: I support the Maroons.
- 37:57Speaker 4: Oh come on, he's the man that did you boys
- 38:00Speaker 4: ins Tedesco.
- 38:02Speaker 1: That was a Cleary.
- 38:03Speaker 3: Oh, there you go, dating Cleary because he's dating I
- 38:07Speaker 3: only know because he's dating what's a Miry foul?
- 38:11Speaker 5: Mary foul?
- 38:11Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. We're all very big rugby league
- 38:13Speaker 1: fans on this program.
- 38:14Speaker 2: Let's go to the splash Jim's House of Cards, reads
- 38:18Speaker 2: the headline, Labour's negative gearing and capital gains tax changes
- 38:22Speaker 2: will push rents up by as much as four hundred
- 38:25Speaker 2: and seventy seven dollars a year by the end of
- 38:27Speaker 2: the decade, according to new modeling, which also predicts the
- 38:30Speaker 2: contentious reforms will exacerbate the nation's housing crisis. It comes
- 38:35Speaker 2: as political leaders clashed over the legislation introduced into Parliament yesterday,
- 38:40Speaker 2: with Opposition leader Angus Taylor calling Anthony Albanesi a quote
- 38:44Speaker 2: arrogant prick, which is rather colorful language in the House
- 38:49Speaker 2: of Parliament. You know, I think Renters will probably be
- 38:53Speaker 2: saying something similar.
- 38:54Speaker 5: Do you know. I don't know what the big deal
- 38:56Speaker 5: is about.
- 38:56Speaker 3: What you know, Angus Taylor apparently called Anthony ABENEZI who cares.
- 39:00Speaker 3: I'm sure many people at home will be saying.
- 39:02Speaker 1: A lot worse. Well, I mean to call him a liar.
- 39:05Speaker 5: You know, I mean an argant greg who cares?
- 39:08Speaker 6: God, it shouldn't be.
- 39:09Speaker 3: The problem is is that your rents are going to
- 39:11Speaker 3: go up, so as we had predicted, look out, Renters,
- 39:14Speaker 3: He's coming for your money.
- 39:15Speaker 4: Who would have thank it? This is wonderful for young
- 39:19Speaker 4: people isn't it?
- 39:19Speaker 5: Isn't it?
- 39:20Speaker 4: I mean intergenerational generational equity of its stunning. It's just
- 39:24Speaker 4: that you just must You'll be so much better off
- 39:27Speaker 4: when you're paying an extra four hundred and seventy seven
- 39:29Speaker 4: dollars on your rent in twenty thirty.
- 39:32Speaker 5: Fantast My word is my bond?
- 39:34Speaker 6: Well yeah, not this bond, the real bond.
- 39:39Speaker 3: Every time you say that on your show, It's a
- 39:41Speaker 3: great show, five pm every Friday.
- 39:42Speaker 5: Gave you a little bit.
- 39:44Speaker 3: Every time you say that on your show, I'm like, oh, oh,
- 39:46Speaker 3: I could think of his elbow. Now it's been that.
- 39:48Speaker 3: The word, the line is cursed. Now I'm worry but
- 39:51Speaker 3: it's cursed.
- 39:52Speaker 6: I'm trying to reclaim it. You know, I get it.
- 39:55Speaker 6: No you can't. I'm reclaiming it from albow.
- 39:58Speaker 5: I don't think it can. When I say it, I
- 40:00Speaker 5: mean your word is your bond? It is?
- 40:03Speaker 6: I know.
- 40:04Speaker 3: Okay, let's take a look at the Australian charging into
- 40:08Speaker 3: the red. Bowen's battery scheme caught short. Climate Change and
- 40:12Speaker 3: Energy Minister Chris Bowen's multi billion dollar cheaper home batteries
- 40:16Speaker 3: program was so over budget that the Department warned its
- 40:19Speaker 3: funding would run dry, and the government quietly passed a
- 40:22Speaker 3: regulation to take money from a different agency to pay
- 40:25Speaker 3: for the scheme. The government in February signed off on
- 40:28Speaker 3: rules that told the Clean Energy Regulator to disperse money
- 40:31Speaker 3: and essentially fund the green energy subsidy well. Internal documents
- 40:36Speaker 3: show that after the Climate Change and Energy Department had
- 40:39Speaker 3: spent one point seven billion in twenty twenty five and
- 40:41Speaker 3: the first two months of twenty six if budgeted forty
- 40:44Speaker 3: four hundred and eighteen million dollars more to top up
- 40:47Speaker 3: the funding.
- 40:48Speaker 5: I just hang on word.
- 40:51Speaker 3: Wasn't everything meant to be cheaper under the renewables only fantasy?
- 40:54Speaker 3: Weren't the bills meant to be going down? There wasn't
- 40:57Speaker 3: the spending meant to be coming down? And we've got
- 40:59Speaker 3: a part time energy minister who's swanting about the globe
- 41:03Speaker 3: and he's spending more and more money on his battery scheme.
- 41:06Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, and we're supposed to believe that everything
- 41:09Speaker 3: is going swimmingly.
- 41:11Speaker 2: The amazing thing about this is Chris Bowen has never
- 41:13Speaker 2: been particularly effective in any portfolio he's held in and
- 41:17Speaker 2: Albinezi has given him arguably the biggest job in the
- 41:21Speaker 2: country in terms of the energy transition, you probably couldn't have.
- 41:24Speaker 2: I was going to say you couldn't have a worse person,
- 41:26Speaker 2: but then I started going through all the different people
- 41:27Speaker 2: in the labor caucus and we're sport for choices when
- 41:31Speaker 2: it comes to worse people Andrew Giles to choose.
- 41:34Speaker 3: Now, that was a failed experiment of Andrew Giles. The
- 41:37Speaker 3: guy who represented asylum seekers on the Tampa ended up
- 41:40Speaker 3: being the Immigration Minister.
- 41:42Speaker 1: No surprise at the incompetency here at all.
- 41:44Speaker 4: And it's effectively a subsidy for the top end of
- 41:46Speaker 4: town because the government only covers about thirty odd percent
- 41:49Speaker 4: of the cost of the battery, so you've got to
- 41:51Speaker 4: be able to pay for the rest of it. And
- 41:52Speaker 4: who's able to pay for the rest of it, Well,
- 41:54Speaker 4: people who can afford.
- 41:56Speaker 6: To do that kind of thing.
- 41:57Speaker 4: So it's the government subsidizing people in and the inner
- 42:00Speaker 4: city as opposed to people in the suburbs who like
- 42:04Speaker 4: to be able to have their power bills loud.
- 42:06Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 42:06Speaker 3: Also on the front page, Gender clinics silent on risks.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Australia's most powerful transgender lobby group ACON runs a gender
- 42:14Speaker 3: clinic in Sydney that systemically hides potentially life threatening medical
- 42:18Speaker 3: risks from patients in its advertising. Complaints filed with the
- 42:22Speaker 3: National Health and Corporate Regulators alleged the Calido Health Center,
- 42:25Speaker 3: which provides gender affirming hormone therapy and surgical referrals to
- 42:29Speaker 3: transgender patients, including children, operates as a trading name of
- 42:32Speaker 3: Acon and has the same chief executive and chair president
- 42:36Speaker 3: as a trans advocacy group. This is not the first
- 42:39Speaker 3: time we've heard of a gender clinic in the same
- 42:42Speaker 3: vein with the same allegations in parts of the country
- 42:45Speaker 3: as well, So yeah, it's a real worry, isn't it.
- 42:48Speaker 2: What's interesting about this is that they do treat people
- 42:52Speaker 2: under the age of eighteen, but you've got to hunt
- 42:54Speaker 2: around on the website to find that information.
- 42:56Speaker 1: It's not obviously accessible.
- 42:59Speaker 2: Which raises a quest' why would you make it difficult
- 43:02Speaker 2: for that kind of information to be public.
- 43:04Speaker 1: I think we all know why.
- 43:06Speaker 4: And it's also we're largely funded by the New South
- 43:08Speaker 4: Wales government.
- 43:10Speaker 6: They should be having a look as well.
- 43:12Speaker 4: On the front of the Herald Sun tomorrow, somewhat of
- 43:15Speaker 4: a bitter.
- 43:16Speaker 6: Sweet story and exclusive.
- 43:17Speaker 4: It says music megastars to perform in Melbourne tribute to Farnsie.
- 43:22Speaker 4: Voice to the World, Selene Dionn, Hugh Jackman and Keith
- 43:25Speaker 4: Urban will headline a star studded fundraising concert in honor
- 43:29Speaker 4: of Australian singing legend John Farnham, who retired from public
- 43:33Speaker 4: life after being treated for mouth cancer in twenty twenty four.
- 43:37Speaker 4: And it says below that in this exclusive interview with
- 43:41Speaker 4: John Farnham, why I'll never sing again? Which is a
- 43:45Speaker 4: shame because I was really.
- 43:46Speaker 6: Hoping he'd be able to build this out one more time.
- 43:54Speaker 6: Delame style shady.
- 44:03Speaker 4: They're cleaning Lady because it's for it all started now.
- 44:06Speaker 3: Now the question is does James know Sadie the Cleaning Lady?
- 44:10Speaker 2: Not personally, No, but I know I know the song Monika.
- 44:13Speaker 1: I'm familiar with this goodness.
- 44:15Speaker 5: He knows that one Wow.
- 44:18Speaker 1: Age of reason, great Australian album. Have you got the album?
- 44:22Speaker 5: No, I don't, I have it? You have? Well, this
- 44:25Speaker 5: is a revelation musical tune that I don't.
- 44:28Speaker 1: I'm on Spotify. I've got it all right. Here's the
- 44:30Speaker 1: I don't think that.
- 44:32Speaker 6: Can got it? I downloaded it on the interne.
- 44:37Speaker 2: J V joy Ride, reads the headline on the Can's
- 44:40Speaker 2: Post three allegedly stolen cars, multiple suburbs terrorized.
- 44:44Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty calls to triple zero.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Police are calling for calm after a forty eight hour
- 44:51Speaker 2: crime spree that took sixty officers, a chopper and a
- 44:55Speaker 2: dog squad to bring to a halt. That's a credible one.
- 45:01Speaker 5: Hundred wow sixty wows.
- 45:06Speaker 1: Wow.
- 45:07Speaker 6: They've got problems in Collins.
- 45:08Speaker 5: Yeah, they certainly director before.
- 45:10Speaker 6: We get to the Oh so you're doing that? Sorry?
- 45:13Speaker 5: Oh no, but by all means, do you want to
- 45:15Speaker 5: take my you want to take that.
- 45:16Speaker 6: I'll take some.
- 45:17Speaker 4: I'm a simple thinking person and I forgot it was you.
- 45:21Speaker 6: On the front of the Newcastle Herald.
- 45:23Speaker 4: The government has launched legal action against chemical Giant billion
- 45:27Speaker 4: dollar p fast bombshell. The Australian government is suing you
- 45:30Speaker 4: with chemical gant three three AM. I was going to
- 45:33Speaker 4: say three million dollars. They are suing three M for
- 45:35Speaker 4: two billion dollars for damages caused by a so called
- 45:38Speaker 4: forever chemicals used in firefighting, Ferment, Williamtown, Raft Bass and
- 45:43Speaker 4: other bases around Australia.
- 45:45Speaker 6: I don't think that'll be the last we'll hear of
- 45:46Speaker 6: that one.
- 45:47Speaker 1: Could I just say, I think you would have done
- 45:48Speaker 1: a much better job on that story.
- 45:49Speaker 5: Thank you so much, thank you. I appreciate it.
- 45:52Speaker 6: Because she thinks in a more complishment.
- 45:55Speaker 5: I'm done with you too. Tonight.
- 45:57Speaker 1: We got it done. We got to go to a break.
- 45:58Speaker 2: When we come back, a buffalo saved from slaughter because
- 46:03Speaker 2: it looks like Donald Trump.
- 46:04Speaker 1: I'm not joking. We'll show you after the break.
- 46:11Speaker 2: Okay, Caleb, You've got a very unusual traffic stop in
- 46:15Speaker 2: the United States.
- 46:16Speaker 4: Indeed, a woman was pulled over because the copper thought
- 46:19Speaker 4: he saw her with her telephone in her right hand.
- 46:23Speaker 6: There's only one problem with that, asked me, the.
- 46:28Speaker 1: Phone which your right hand?
- 46:29Speaker 6: When you believe in that phone, I.
- 46:31Speaker 2: Mean I you did hand to guard?
- 46:37Speaker 6: You have.
- 46:39Speaker 1: The other hand to guard? You don't have one?
- 46:42Speaker 6: She only, chilly copper.
- 46:47Speaker 4: Your phone was in your and I love that hand
- 46:50Speaker 4: to God, and she.
- 46:51Speaker 5: She sticks it up. That's gold.
- 46:55Speaker 4: I should say that the case is being dropped because
- 46:58Speaker 4: of course he couldn't have had a phone in her
- 47:01Speaker 4: right hand. But what was the copper thinking trying to
- 47:04Speaker 4: persist with it after she showed that she doesn't have
- 47:08Speaker 4: a right hand.
- 47:09Speaker 6: He wouldn't let it go.
- 47:10Speaker 4: He should have gone, sorry, madam, I got that one wrong,
- 47:13Speaker 4: didn't I.
- 47:14Speaker 1: The first rule of holes, when you're in one, stop digging.
- 47:18Speaker 6: You sure, hand to God.
- 47:22Speaker 2: About you'd be familiar with real estate agents these days.
- 47:25Speaker 2: They do promotional videos to try and display properties and
- 47:30Speaker 2: help sell them. A real estate agent in Cleveland was
- 47:33Speaker 2: producing a promotional video for a property he's trying to
- 47:36Speaker 2: sell when this happened.
- 47:38Speaker 6: This property is a triplex, meaning three apartments are a
- 47:41Speaker 6: one roof, which I honestly prefer.
- 47:55Speaker 2: I'm not sure gunshots going off in the background is
- 47:57Speaker 2: going to help you sell a property, though it has
- 48:00Speaker 2: helped the video get two point four million views, not
- 48:03Speaker 2: from potential buyers.
- 48:05Speaker 3: No, that's not going to do anything to sell that.
- 48:07Speaker 3: It's not going to upsell it. Put it that way,
- 48:09Speaker 3: definitely will not upsell it.
- 48:11Speaker 6: Well.
- 48:11Speaker 3: A rare albino buffalo cute, little rare albino buffalo in
- 48:16Speaker 3: Bangladesh has been spared from sacrifice, nicknamed Donald Trump because
- 48:21Speaker 3: of his well it looks it does actually look like
- 48:24Speaker 3: a two pay to be honest, it's his blonde tuft.
- 48:26Speaker 3: He's been spared from sacrifice following a last minute government intervention,
- 48:30Speaker 3: and this is simply because the buffalo went viral on
- 48:33Speaker 3: social media. People cause you know, said no, no, we
- 48:36Speaker 3: can't have him, have him sacrificed as part of the
- 48:40Speaker 3: id al Ada celebrations. And so he's been spared and
- 48:45Speaker 3: the buyer has been refunded. There you go, it pace
- 48:48Speaker 3: to look like Donald Trump.
- 48:49Speaker 1: Well, the government actually going to put the ball in
- 48:51Speaker 1: a zoo.
- 48:52Speaker 3: In a zoo now has been spared, but the buyer
- 48:54Speaker 3: got a refund out of it.
- 48:56Speaker 6: I mean, who would have thought that, you know, you'd
- 48:58Speaker 6: have a what this? It looks like Donald Trump.
- 49:04Speaker 4: That goes when I saw this story last week about
- 49:06Speaker 4: the count how they're going to sacrifice him, and the
- 49:08Speaker 4: owner said, you know, it's going to be a real
- 49:10Speaker 4: shame because they've come to love Donald Trump. Well, you know,
- 49:13Speaker 4: and they've tried to kill Donald Trump many times, and
- 49:16Speaker 4: once again he's avoided assassination.
- 49:19Speaker 1: That's all from us stick around. Coming up in just
- 49:20Speaker 1: a moment is the reader Panny Show, good Night