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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome to the Late Debate.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Late Debates with Caleb Bond,
- 0:10Speaker 2: Joe Hildebrand and Freyer Leech now coming up tonight. The
- 0:14Speaker 2: council that spent years investigating whether a church was making
- 0:17Speaker 2: too much noise because two residents complained, only to decide
- 0:20Speaker 2: that it wasn't making too much noise.
- 0:22Speaker 3: More on that.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Later in the papers.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Parents refusing to let men work with their kids in
- 0:27Speaker 2: childcare centers after that awful case in Melbourne. Honestly, I
- 0:31Speaker 2: don't know why you'd want to work in childcare as
- 0:33Speaker 2: a man these days. And a state politician and former
- 0:37Speaker 2: copper slides back into her old career and joined the
- 0:40Speaker 2: police chase after she sees some young thugs running past
- 0:44Speaker 2: her office.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Will tell you a bit more about that later.
- 0:47Speaker 2: But an interesting little dispute going on in the Greens
- 0:50Speaker 2: at the moment. I mean, who would have thought that
- 0:52Speaker 2: the Greens would be anti free speech and that they
- 0:55Speaker 2: would try to get rid of people who set up
- 0:57Speaker 2: the party who could think know how the party is
- 1:00Speaker 2: meant to operate because they start to question how the
- 1:03Speaker 2: party is operating. Well, that's exactly what they've done to
- 1:06Speaker 2: Drew Hatton. He was one of the original founders of
- 1:10Speaker 2: the Greens party with Bob Brown. He comes from Queensland.
- 1:14Speaker 2: He set up and led the Queensland division of the
- 1:17Speaker 2: Greens for many years. You could see him there on screen.
- 1:20Speaker 2: He is a life member of the Greens, but they
- 1:23Speaker 2: have now expelled him from the party after having him
- 1:27Speaker 2: permanently suspended for a long time, which they apparently worked
- 1:30Speaker 2: out they couldn't do, so they just dumped him entirely
- 1:33Speaker 2: because he dared to defend the former Victorian convener of
- 1:37Speaker 2: the Greens who had questioned whether there were issues with
- 1:42Speaker 2: their gender policy. Yes, he posted on Facebook. This is
- 1:45Speaker 2: the offending post that got inbooted from the Greens. He said,
- 1:49Speaker 2: I believe in full human rights for trans people at
- 1:51Speaker 2: the same time and supporting the right of women to
- 1:55Speaker 2: be free from patriarchy's oppression. I'm also prepared to say
- 1:59Speaker 2: these things public. Unfortunately in the Greens at present that
- 2:03Speaker 2: would seem to make me a transphobe. And then people
- 2:06Speaker 2: jumped on and disagreed with him about this point, and
- 2:10Speaker 2: then the Green said, well, you can't allow people to
- 2:13Speaker 2: say these sorts of things in the comments under your
- 2:15Speaker 2: post on Facebook.
- 2:17Speaker 1: If you don't do.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Something about it, we're going to get rid of you.
- 2:20Speaker 2: And he said, well, we believe in free speech, don't we.
- 2:23Speaker 2: We believe in an open debate. They said, no, offer
- 2:26Speaker 2: you go. He's written a column about it in the
- 2:29Speaker 2: Courier Mail in which he said, I'm being expelled because
- 2:31Speaker 2: I refuse to delete comments made by others on two
- 2:33Speaker 2: of my Facebook posts. The main issue is whether the
- 2:37Speaker 2: Greens are a progressive party which engages in robust democratic
- 2:40Speaker 2: debate around issues, or whether it is an authoritarian, top down,
- 2:45Speaker 2: dogmatic party that expels people who express a different opinion
- 2:49Speaker 2: to the leadership. Keep in mud, this is one of
- 2:51Speaker 2: the founders of the party saying this. He went on
- 2:54Speaker 2: to write, It's not the only principle of democracy. Democracy
- 2:57Speaker 2: not the only principle. Sorry that he is in peril.
- 2:59Speaker 2: There is also growing acceptance of violence in the culture
- 3:02Speaker 2: of the Greens. Prominent Greens should not be singing rap songs,
- 3:05Speaker 2: advocating burning down buildings, failing to criticize the politics of hamas,
- 3:10Speaker 2: or engaging in potentially violent disruptions of public meetings of
- 3:13Speaker 2: women rights campaigners. Nonviolence is a core principle of Green
- 3:17Speaker 2: politics and should be respected, especially by key spokespersons. He
- 3:21Speaker 2: says directly in this column, this is not the party
- 3:25Speaker 2: that Bob Brown and I started.
- 3:27Speaker 1: It's amazing to.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Me that it took Drew that long to wake up
- 3:30Speaker 2: to the fact that the Greens had turned into something
- 3:32Speaker 2: very different. But he is experiencing firsthand they are doing
- 3:36Speaker 2: to one of their fathers, founding fathers. You're not welcome
- 3:40Speaker 2: anymore because you dare to say that maybe we should
- 3:43Speaker 2: be a Green party instead of a socialist social issues path.
- 3:46Speaker 4: And Bob Brown himself is being quietly but methodically sidelined
- 3:50Speaker 4: as well, and they just can't do it in such
- 3:52Speaker 4: a high profile way because he is so emblematic of them.
- 3:56Speaker 4: But firstly, I mean, the first thing to note is
- 3:59Speaker 4: that this is what happened with all extreme left parties
- 4:02Speaker 4: organizational movements. They ended up eating themselves because they all
- 4:06Speaker 4: end up having a debate about what the most kind
- 4:08Speaker 4: of ideologically pure position they can possibly hold on any
- 4:13Speaker 4: given issue, and then anyone who doesn't immediately conform to
- 4:16Speaker 4: that position is purged. And this happens in you know,
- 4:19Speaker 4: Soviet Russia, and it happens in the Greens. So that
- 4:23Speaker 4: is what happens. So there's this new you know, Okay,
- 4:25Speaker 4: what's today's you know causes you all right, it's quicks
- 4:27Speaker 4: for Palestine, it's you know, if you don't say that
- 4:30Speaker 4: every single trans you know, a man who goes into
- 4:33Speaker 4: a bathroom and scares women, but his trans If you
- 4:35Speaker 4: didn't immediately say that he or she is a woman,
- 4:38Speaker 4: suddenly you're transphobic. Therefore you are purged, you are out.
- 4:41Speaker 4: And the Left does this all the time, and that's
- 4:43Speaker 4: great because it makes them weak and stupid and further
- 4:47Speaker 4: removes them from mainstream thinking and hopefully further puts people
- 4:51Speaker 4: off voting for them. What also happened with the Greens,
- 4:54Speaker 4: very very specifically, is that it did start out as
- 4:57Speaker 4: a kind of peace, love and mung bean sort of movement.
- 5:00Speaker 4: It was, of course Bob Brown trying to protect protect
- 5:03Speaker 4: the Franklin River in Tasmania, and indeed he was trying
- 5:08Speaker 4: to engage the government on this and the former Hawk
- 5:10Speaker 4: government with Gareth Evans's Attorney General before he became Foreign Minister,
- 5:15Speaker 4: was doing spy flights over the Franklin to make sure
- 5:18Speaker 4: that it wasn't being logged. To get a sort of
- 5:20Speaker 4: live and sort of got into trouble because I said,
- 5:23Speaker 4: hang Onny, you meant to be doing this and he
- 5:25Speaker 4: got the nickname Biggles as a result of this. Anyway,
- 5:28Speaker 4: in the years since, the Greens have been systematically infiltrated
- 5:33Speaker 4: by card carry and communists, by stalinists, by unrepentant sort
- 5:38Speaker 4: of socialists who basically went from the Communist Party of
- 5:41Speaker 4: Australia and said right, well, that thing's gone, could put
- 5:43Speaker 4: where can we go next? And these are the people
- 5:45Speaker 4: who infiltrated and the people who are pretty much running
- 5:47Speaker 4: it now, and they are purging people out of at left,
- 5:51Speaker 4: right and center because that's what communis love to do,
- 5:53Speaker 4: they love to purge. A good matter, mind is another
- 5:56Speaker 4: person who was built out, Jeremy Buckingham who was in
- 5:59Speaker 4: New South Wales Greens MP, who they basically turned on.
- 6:03Speaker 4: They fitted up some allegations against him and and then
- 6:06Speaker 4: booted him out of the party because again he was
- 6:08Speaker 4: just laid back. You know, why why are we siding
- 6:11Speaker 4: with terrorists? Like why are we doing this? And there
- 6:15Speaker 4: are a few good people still in the Greens, like
- 6:16Speaker 4: Kate Fairman is a good Green, but she's fight fighting.
- 6:20Speaker 4: I think she's increasingly on the losing side as it
- 6:23Speaker 4: becomes more and more. I mean, Marine Farouki is probably
- 6:26Speaker 4: the ultimate example of that sort of hard left of
- 6:29Speaker 4: the hard left. And then you've got that's right, but
- 6:32Speaker 4: even the Greens realized that this could be too much,
- 6:35Speaker 4: so that's when they went with the oh so beij
- 6:37Speaker 4: Larissa Waters. And then you've got sort of the other.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Moderated Sarah Hanson Young who actually believes in the Greens
- 6:45Speaker 2: being the Greens party, and you had the Young Greens
- 6:48Speaker 2: coming out. So we abstually cannot have Shara hands and
- 6:50Speaker 2: Young as leader because she'd lead us back to the
- 6:52Speaker 2: environs she's and that's the problem.
- 6:56Speaker 5: The Greens is no longer a party of sustainability. They're
- 6:58Speaker 5: a party of cultural marks and that's actually what they
- 7:01Speaker 5: want to see. It's all about the revolution. It's all
- 7:04Speaker 5: about overthrowing the oppressors. It's all about overthrowing the so
- 7:08Speaker 5: called state of Australia and our evil colonialist region. We
- 7:13Speaker 5: even look at their election platform, how often did they
- 7:17Speaker 5: really talk about the environment.
- 7:19Speaker 6: Very little.
- 7:19Speaker 5: It was all about taxing billionaires, social housing, like lefty issues,
- 7:25Speaker 5: indigenous stuff. They rarely talked about the environment or even
- 7:29Speaker 5: climate change.
- 7:30Speaker 6: It's all about.
- 7:31Speaker 5: Socialist policies and I think the Greens they will have
- 7:35Speaker 5: a moment like the Democratic Party where if you end
- 7:39Speaker 5: up this dogmatic, this authoritarian, as the founder of the
- 7:43Speaker 5: Greens said, they are, eventually voters will just look at
- 7:47Speaker 5: you and go, I don't want any part of that
- 7:51Speaker 5: because the perversion. Now they're standing on the side of terrorists,
- 7:56Speaker 5: they're standing against women and denying biology. They've got policies
- 8:02Speaker 5: that are going to bankrupt Australia through their radical climate action.
- 8:06Speaker 5: They're not on the side of ordinary people.
- 8:09Speaker 2: Thank god Albanzi was re elected with an increased majority,
- 8:14Speaker 2: because you imagine if.
- 8:15Speaker 4: This well ended up in Yeah, they are terrible, terrible,
- 8:18Speaker 4: terrible people, and the more people say them for what
- 8:20Speaker 4: they really are, the better as far as.
- 8:22Speaker 1: I'm concerned, wholeheartedly agree.
- 8:23Speaker 2: While we're talking about issues of identity politics, the census,
- 8:28Speaker 2: the next census. They're sending out these test papers now,
- 8:31Speaker 2: they're sent about to sixty thousand homes just to sort
- 8:34Speaker 2: of check that everything is running right. And this is
- 8:36Speaker 2: going to be the first census that asks questions about
- 8:40Speaker 2: sexuality and gender identity. And the ABS first floated this
- 8:45Speaker 2: idea last year and the Albanesi government wasn't going to
- 8:47Speaker 2: do it.
- 8:48Speaker 1: They said they.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Didn't want it there, but then there was pushback and
- 8:51Speaker 2: they walked back on that. So the question we have
- 8:53Speaker 2: found out today is absolutely going to be in the
- 8:57Speaker 2: new census, and they're sending it out in these test papers.
- 9:00Speaker 2: And to be honest, I don't know why there was
- 9:01Speaker 2: a hall of a little about it in the first place, because,
- 9:03Speaker 2: I mean, the census is meant to be an accurate record,
- 9:07Speaker 2: or as accurate as possible, a record of the demography
- 9:10Speaker 2: of the country on that particular night, and surely, particularly
- 9:14Speaker 2: when we're talking about how many people may or may
- 9:17Speaker 2: not be transgender, and issues of sexuality and whatever dominating
- 9:21Speaker 2: the politics that we talk about so much, why would
- 9:24Speaker 2: we not be asking people these questions.
- 9:26Speaker 5: I think it's not the fact that they're asking the questions,
- 9:29Speaker 5: because I agree it would be interesting to have accurate
- 9:32Speaker 5: data around how many trans people there really are in Australia.
- 9:36Speaker 5: But I think what the issue is is that it
- 9:38Speaker 5: seems to be part of a broader, wokefication of the census.
- 9:43Speaker 5: For example, they are also removing gendered language when it
- 9:48Speaker 5: comes to the family section, so they make it more inclusive.
- 9:51Speaker 5: Instead of referring to mums and dads, we'll just have parents.
- 9:55Speaker 4: They're alloo yeah.
- 9:57Speaker 5: And they're also removing the question around how many many
- 10:00Speaker 5: children have you had over the course of your lives.
- 10:02Speaker 6: I mean, we are.
- 10:03Speaker 5: Facing a global fertility crisis. If there's one thing you
- 10:06Speaker 5: want to be asking about, it is how many kids
- 10:09Speaker 5: are you having? Because that matters so much for the
- 10:12Speaker 5: direction of our country. So I agree, I think obsessing
- 10:15Speaker 5: about this one facet kind of misses the broader picture,
- 10:18Speaker 5: which is that if it was just about accurate data collection, fine,
- 10:22Speaker 5: but it's clearly about more than that. It's about making
- 10:26Speaker 5: the census progressive and palatable to the left, and I
- 10:30Speaker 5: think that's wrong, and that's.
- 10:31Speaker 4: Why Anthony Alberinezi initially did not want to do it.
- 10:34Speaker 4: And I have to say, as I always do, we
- 10:36Speaker 4: to discuss these things. My wife works for Quality Australia,
- 10:38Speaker 4: so that was one of the organizations pushing through this,
- 10:41Speaker 4: and their position was exactly the same as yours, cayle Bo.
- 10:43Speaker 4: So why wouldn't you just the census is there to
- 10:45Speaker 4: find out information. Why wouldn't you find out in front?
- 10:47Speaker 4: I don't think it's certain about this area, and I
- 10:48Speaker 4: think it is pertinent. I think we'll actually find that
- 10:51Speaker 4: there's a tiny number of people who trans issues actually effects,
- 10:55Speaker 4: and there's just a huge amount of noise about it
- 10:57Speaker 4: on both and the activists have themselves to blame for this,
- 11:00Speaker 4: also on the right as well, who are thinking, oh
- 11:01Speaker 4: my god, these people are going to come and take
- 11:02Speaker 4: over all our bathrooms. In fact, it's going to it's
- 11:04Speaker 4: just a tiny minority. But but this is why, again,
- 11:07Speaker 4: this is why I keep saying, Anthony Albanezi is not woe.
- 11:10Speaker 4: He's so not woke that he's that he's pissing off
- 11:14Speaker 4: all the woke people who are trying to make him
- 11:16Speaker 4: do woke stuff. So it's not even touching stuff that
- 11:19Speaker 4: the eminent Caleb Bond thinks would be a perfectly good idea,
- 11:23Speaker 4: just in case people think it's worth No.
- 11:25Speaker 5: He only want a guy, and the only reason he
- 11:27Speaker 5: backflipped on this was because he didn't want the culture war.
- 11:30Speaker 5: But deep down, Anthony Albanezi would love to see this
- 11:34Speaker 5: back in the senses.
- 11:35Speaker 6: That's why it's back in. He doesn't have some.
- 11:37Speaker 5: Ideological opposition to transitioning people to the left, like he's
- 11:42Speaker 5: at home in the progressive left. Let's be real, let's
- 11:46Speaker 5: rewrite history here.
- 11:47Speaker 4: He's at home in lots of different places. He's a
- 11:49Speaker 4: very pragmatic, including the cliff You guys, they're criticizing him
- 11:55Speaker 4: so flexible.
- 11:56Speaker 1: He's at home in the cliff tops of Copa Cabana.
- 11:58Speaker 6: It's not yet, not exactly well over in the US.
- 12:02Speaker 5: Now, Trump marked the one year anniversary of the assassination
- 12:06Speaker 5: attempt against him, and he marked it at the FIFA
- 12:10Speaker 5: World Cup Championship with this absolutely iconic moment.
- 12:19Speaker 7: God was protecting me, maybe because God wanted to see
- 12:23Speaker 7: our count think it's better.
- 12:29Speaker 5: So he went to the FIFA World Cup and celebrated
- 12:32Speaker 5: with a bunch of the Trump administration, and he presented
- 12:37Speaker 5: the cup to Chelsea, who won the Fever World Championship.
- 12:41Speaker 6: And I love this.
- 12:42Speaker 5: Some guy came up to usherom off stage and he's like, nah,
- 12:45Speaker 5: I'm just gonna stay here and enjoin the celebrations.
- 12:49Speaker 6: And that is just Trump, absolutely iconic.
- 12:53Speaker 5: But in case you forgot what happened a year ago,
- 12:56Speaker 5: it was truly I think we witnessed.
- 12:58Speaker 6: History unfolding before for our eyes. And a recent House.
- 13:02Speaker 5: Committee report on the incident came out and said there
- 13:04Speaker 5: were cascading failures that led up to the assassination attempt,
- 13:10Speaker 5: but just to jug your memory on what happened on
- 13:12Speaker 5: that day, check this out the world.
- 13:23Speaker 1: It happened, and look what happened.
- 13:27Speaker 7: To our country, probably twenty million people.
- 13:31Speaker 1: And you know that's a little bit old that.
- 13:33Speaker 2: You are.
- 14:12Speaker 6: Absolutely terrifying.
- 14:13Speaker 5: And when you look at the direction the bullet was
- 14:16Speaker 5: traveling in, Trump just turned his head at that final moment,
- 14:21Speaker 5: which meant the bullet just grazed his ear instead of
- 14:23Speaker 5: going into his head. I think, I mean, you look
- 14:26Speaker 5: at that, and I don't know how you can think
- 14:28Speaker 5: about that in any other way than a true miracle
- 14:31Speaker 5: or just sheer good luck.
- 14:33Speaker 6: But here was Trump crediting it all to God.
- 14:41Speaker 7: God was protecting me, maybe because God wanted to see
- 14:45Speaker 7: our country is better or do really well make America
- 14:48Speaker 7: great again. It's a little bit of a dangerous profession
- 14:51Speaker 7: being president ly, but I really don't like to think
- 14:53Speaker 7: about it too much.
- 14:55Speaker 5: It is a miracle, thote how someone managed to evade
- 14:58Speaker 5: the Secret Service on the rooftop for forty five minutes
- 15:02Speaker 5: and then get a clear shot on the future president
- 15:05Speaker 5: of the United States.
- 15:07Speaker 1: You still can't convince me that there wasn't something dodgy.
- 15:10Speaker 2: Going on there. It is. There is so many things
- 15:14Speaker 2: went wrong on that day, and I know that nine
- 15:17Speaker 2: times out of ten it's the cockup, not the conspiracy.
- 15:20Speaker 2: But my god, like it was the cockup of all cocker.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Yeah, look it was. I mean JFK was a pretty
- 15:25Speaker 4: big cock up as well. But but yeah, it is
- 15:28Speaker 4: a cock up. I don't think there was any conspiracy
- 15:30Speaker 4: because if it was a conspiracy, quite frankly, they would
- 15:32Speaker 4: have done it better. It was such theres there's no
- 15:34Speaker 4: way there. You've got to do something to at least
- 15:37Speaker 4: there's no way this guy should have been able to
- 15:40Speaker 4: should have been able to get it. And even even
- 15:41Speaker 4: like the people at the rally, standing like completely without
- 15:45Speaker 4: any cover, without any protection at all, in an open field,
- 15:48Speaker 4: on the open ground and clear line of sight from
- 15:50Speaker 4: the shooting gup there he is there is right there
- 15:53Speaker 4: on that roof. I can see it after I can
- 15:55Speaker 4: see it on that roof and they're just standing there
- 15:57Speaker 4: where and the guy could just spin around and take
- 15:59Speaker 4: them out in a second, and then standing there and
- 16:02Speaker 4: trying to draw people's attention to it. It is just
- 16:04Speaker 4: nut stuff. But I think the most extraordinary thing about
- 16:06Speaker 4: it is that Donald Trump, even after that first shot
- 16:10Speaker 4: hits his ear, he remained standing. And then a year
- 16:14Speaker 4: later he's surrounded by people who hit the turf even
- 16:18Speaker 4: without any assassination attempt, just for the freeze.
- 16:23Speaker 2: And I remember you and I were on here that night, Joe,
- 16:26Speaker 2: after that assassination attempt, and I remember saying that evening
- 16:31Speaker 2: that I felt like it wasn't just Donald Trump that
- 16:35Speaker 2: was saved on that day, It was the entirety of America.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Because can you imagine if he had been shot and assassinated,
- 16:43Speaker 2: it would.
- 16:43Speaker 4: Have been it would have been on the streets of him.
- 16:47Speaker 4: It would have been January six times, blacks matter.
- 16:49Speaker 1: It would have it just would have been. You would
- 16:53Speaker 1: never have seen a new story like it in your lifetime.
- 16:55Speaker 2: But how amazing to think that was such a pivotal
- 16:58Speaker 2: moment really in the the future course of not only
- 17:02Speaker 2: the United States, but the rest of the world. And
- 17:05Speaker 2: here we are a year later with Trump still standing,
- 17:08Speaker 2: his president again.
- 17:09Speaker 1: E all ended in trade tariffs, but.
- 17:11Speaker 5: You know, yeah, and everything that Trump's achieved in the
- 17:14Speaker 5: you know, cracking down on illegal immigration, posting a budget surplus,
- 17:17Speaker 5: thanks to the tariffs, rebuilding the American economy, ending the
- 17:21Speaker 5: Twelve Day War with Iran. I mean, so much has
- 17:24Speaker 5: been achieved in the last year and to think that
- 17:28Speaker 5: it all hinged on that one fateful moment.
- 17:31Speaker 6: But interestingly, we still don't.
- 17:33Speaker 5: Know the motives of the would be assassins, so it
- 17:36Speaker 5: does leave this question mark over what was it all for?
- 17:40Speaker 1: And we probably even know.
- 17:42Speaker 4: But the thing is, I mean, just to go back
- 17:44Speaker 4: to the conspiracy and cock up thing, like with all
- 17:46Speaker 4: these assassins like John Wilke's birth Lee, Harvey Oswald, the
- 17:50Speaker 4: guy who went after Trump, they're all just losers. Like
- 17:53Speaker 4: they think, they think they're these great revolutions. They have
- 17:56Speaker 4: these delusions of grandeur that they've got this great place
- 17:59Speaker 4: in history. Invariably, at least in all those cases, they're
- 18:03Speaker 4: wash ups. They're drunks. They can't hold down a job,
- 18:06Speaker 4: they can't hold down a relationship. They're just kind of
- 18:08Speaker 4: pathetic people who can't actually do anything worthwhile in the
- 18:13Speaker 4: world and can't actually they don't have any skills or
- 18:16Speaker 4: talents to be remembered for, and so they just think, oh, well,
- 18:19Speaker 4: I'll just try to kill the president. And so that's
- 18:21Speaker 4: what it is, so there is no grand overarching conspiracy
- 18:24Speaker 4: apart from, of course the Deep State and CIA, And.
- 18:28Speaker 2: Of course we've been wondering when it comes to Trump.
- 18:30Speaker 2: You know, when is the Prime Minister Anthony Albert He's
- 18:32Speaker 2: he going to get a meeting with him, and he
- 18:33Speaker 2: started to think, Jesus, it must be so difficult to
- 18:36Speaker 2: get meetings with Donald Trump because it's just not happening.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Apparently you just have to pick up the blower. Because
- 18:42Speaker 2: King Charles has said to mister Trump, but would you
- 18:45Speaker 2: like to come over to the UK for a state visit?
- 18:47Speaker 2: And these things are not common occurrencies, and Trump said absolutely,
- 18:52Speaker 2: I'd love to come to the UK for a state visit.
- 18:55Speaker 2: He'll be going there for three days in September. So
- 18:58Speaker 2: all the King has to do is say, mister Trump,
- 19:01Speaker 2: I want to come over and have a look rend
- 19:03Speaker 2: no problem. I mean, why doesn't at the Albanesi just
- 19:05Speaker 2: get on the face come to Australia. He is the king.
- 19:09Speaker 4: It's not anyone picking up the phone of England ahead of.
- 19:13Speaker 2: He's also the King of Australia.
- 19:14Speaker 4: But it's a creme big deal.
- 19:16Speaker 1: King's not doing any actual business.
- 19:18Speaker 2: When it comes to the running of anything. Why doesn't
- 19:22Speaker 2: on the phone and say come and have a state
- 19:24Speaker 2: visit to Australia.
- 19:25Speaker 6: Well, this narrative that maybe it's just an Albanese he
- 19:28Speaker 6: can't get a meeting with Trump. I think that was
- 19:29Speaker 6: shattered when.
- 19:30Speaker 5: The Liberian president got a meeting with Trump in the
- 19:33Speaker 5: White House the other day and Trump complimented him on
- 19:36Speaker 5: his English.
- 19:37Speaker 6: I mean, everyone is getting a meeting with Trump.
- 19:39Speaker 5: I think it's pretty clear at this point that either
- 19:42Speaker 5: the administration is refusing to accept a meeting from Australia
- 19:46Speaker 5: or we are too scared to attend a meeting with Trump.
- 19:50Speaker 5: It's one or the other. It's not that they can't
- 19:52Speaker 5: secure a meeting, but also in the UK Will Trump
- 19:55Speaker 5: might be heading there in a couple of months. There's
- 19:58Speaker 5: a gym that has come under fire for banning women
- 20:03Speaker 5: over the age of twenty four from working out during
- 20:08Speaker 5: peak hour.
- 20:09Speaker 4: On a victory for common Sense.
- 20:11Speaker 6: One outraged customer.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Took to you, Joe, when you go to the gym?
- 20:16Speaker 5: I took them an online forum and said, am I
- 20:18Speaker 5: being reasonable?
- 20:19Speaker 6: Here? Is this absurd? Is it just me? Why are women.
- 20:22Speaker 5: Over the age of twenty four being banned from a gym?
- 20:26Speaker 6: During peak hour.
- 20:26Speaker 5: Now, some people said, maybe it's because they want to
- 20:28Speaker 5: create this influencer culture. They just want everyone to be
- 20:31Speaker 5: young and good looking and attractive. But to me it
- 20:35Speaker 5: seems a little ages.
- 20:37Speaker 2: You think, how so, maybe it is, But so what
- 20:41Speaker 2: if you don't like.
- 20:43Speaker 1: It, go to another gym.
- 20:44Speaker 2: Surely it's the gym owner's right to he or she
- 20:48Speaker 2: to say that he wants certain people or not in
- 20:50Speaker 2: their establishment.
- 20:52Speaker 4: I don't think it is. I think certainly under Australian
- 20:55Speaker 4: law you wouldn't be able to do that.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Well, I think that's rabbi.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I think you should be able to say I don't
- 20:59Speaker 2: like the look of your.
- 21:00Speaker 1: You can't come in here.
- 21:01Speaker 2: Why why can't you, as a as an owner of
- 21:04Speaker 2: a venue decide the client till that you cater to.
- 21:07Speaker 2: And you go to pubs and clubs, and that says
- 21:09Speaker 2: on the door no visible tattoos.
- 21:11Speaker 1: That's just the rules of entry.
- 21:12Speaker 4: Yeah, but it doesn't say as long as you fulfill
- 21:15Speaker 4: all the other requirements. So you can't say no blacks,
- 21:19Speaker 4: you can't say no women, You can't say so as
- 21:22Speaker 4: long as someone you can say no shoes, no service,
- 21:25Speaker 4: but as long as someone's complying if.
- 21:28Speaker 2: You if you tried on no blacks in my gym,
- 21:31Speaker 2: you'd be run out of town.
- 21:32Speaker 1: You would not have a business.
- 21:34Speaker 4: And so.
- 21:36Speaker 2: People are still going to this gym. I don't see
- 21:38Speaker 2: what the issue is. Go to another gym.
- 21:40Speaker 5: But I mean it's like, could you say, no fat
- 21:42Speaker 5: people at the gym, And I'm only.
- 21:44Speaker 4: They're the ones who need the gym the bus. So
- 21:48Speaker 4: the twenty four year olds, they're fine. Those are partying.
- 21:51Speaker 6: This just seems so bizarre.
- 21:53Speaker 2: But anyway, look, if that's your business model, I think
- 21:57Speaker 2: it's stupid.
- 21:57Speaker 1: But the good luck to you.
- 21:58Speaker 4: As far as I'm contenting, might I'm leaving the shore
- 22:01Speaker 4: to go and start a gym.
- 22:04Speaker 6: Twenty four year old the women only hot chicks.
- 22:07Speaker 1: That's it, only hot chicks.
- 22:09Speaker 4: When Joe's in the gym, desperate hot chicks.
- 22:13Speaker 2: I might have the same rule for myself, except I've
- 22:15Speaker 2: never been in the gym. I know you're terribly surprised
- 22:17Speaker 2: about that. My exercises are are exercises with a glass
- 22:20Speaker 2: of wine in hand. While we're talking about business models
- 22:23Speaker 2: and the UK, you would have thought, after the experience
- 22:27Speaker 2: that we had in Australia with illegal boat arrivals and
- 22:30Speaker 2: we worked out that the way to fix that was
- 22:32Speaker 2: to turn the boats back, and Tony Abbott did that
- 22:35Speaker 2: very effectively, and of course it then became the.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Policy of the Labor Party because it works that they'd
- 22:39Speaker 1: be able to do that kind of thing. Over in
- 22:41Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, it doesn't seem that they're able to.
- 22:44Speaker 2: They've had record numbers of illegal migrants coming over from
- 22:48Speaker 2: the European mainland this year. I mean that twenty two,
- 22:52Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty so far this year, last month alone,
- 22:56Speaker 2: this month, sorry, just so far this month, and three
- 23:00Speaker 2: hundred and seventy eight asylum seekers have arrived in the UK.
- 23:03Speaker 2: And this fundamentally is happening extra ones at the moment
- 23:07Speaker 2: because it's summer and so it's warm and so the
- 23:09Speaker 2: conditions are better, so they're all making a mad.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Scramble over there.
- 23:13Speaker 2: But the people smugglers are doing summer deals to get
- 23:17Speaker 2: more of them across the channel, as though it was
- 23:20Speaker 2: some sort of package holiday to Benador or something.
- 23:22Speaker 1: I mean, how good.
- 23:24Speaker 6: It's absurd.
- 23:24Speaker 5: And they're also targeting different ethnic groups with this summer
- 23:28Speaker 5: sale for crossing the English Channel. But when you look
- 23:31Speaker 5: at these images, it's largely young men racing across the channel.
- 23:35Speaker 5: It really is very disturbing. Nigel Farage was actually at
- 23:39Speaker 5: the English Channel the other day and he exposed the
- 23:44Speaker 5: fraud that is going on.
- 23:47Speaker 8: Dinghy has left the French beaches, have been escorted over
- 23:50Speaker 8: with the French Navy, and if we turn around we
- 23:52Speaker 8: can see the Border Force vessel and he's now waiting
- 23:55Speaker 8: on the twelve mile line for and.
- 23:58Speaker 3: Bear in mind we've given the eight hundred million quid
- 24:02Speaker 3: since twenty fourteen. It's interesting we were literally watching one
- 24:05Speaker 3: government politely handing over to another government.
- 24:09Speaker 8: Seventy eight people on that.
- 24:11Speaker 3: Rib, one woman, three kids, and seventy four young adult
- 24:17Speaker 3: males whose identity we do not know. If this is
- 24:21Speaker 3: not a national security emergency, I don't know what is.
- 24:25Speaker 5: So they get escorted across the channel by the French
- 24:30Speaker 5: Navy and then they get dropped off to English border
- 24:34Speaker 5: patrol who takes them the rest of the way. This
- 24:37Speaker 5: is hardly even illegal crossing. This is basically government escort,
- 24:42Speaker 5: government guided passage.
- 24:44Speaker 4: It's truly truber on the high seite.
- 24:46Speaker 5: Yeah, and so illegal migrant crossings of the channel are
- 24:49Speaker 5: up fifty seven percent even just on last year. Now,
- 24:54Speaker 5: Starmer said he would do something about the boats. But
- 24:57Speaker 5: the problem is only getting worse.
- 24:58Speaker 2: I mean, you essentially facilla tating the invasion of your
- 25:01Speaker 2: country and you're allowing it to happen. Looking at the
- 25:06Speaker 2: United States and what a massive issue border control was
- 25:10Speaker 2: in the presidential election, like it is, it was the
- 25:13Speaker 2: top thing will beyond cost of living, which was number one,
- 25:16Speaker 2: as it's been number one everywhere. Number two even for
- 25:19Speaker 2: Democrats was the border. How Hastarma not looked at that
- 25:23Speaker 2: and gone, we need to stop this now?
- 25:26Speaker 4: Yeah, you do have to stop. And the problem is
- 25:28Speaker 4: that once you let it start, it is incredibly difficult
- 25:31Speaker 4: to stop. And this is something that people on the
- 25:35Speaker 4: left have labored under. It's a misapprehension that I years
- 25:38Speaker 4: ago labored under this idea that you're somehow doing something
- 25:41Speaker 4: progressive or humanitarian by having open borders. It does the
- 25:46Speaker 4: exact opposite. What it does is it prioritizes people who
- 25:50Speaker 4: are rich enough and fit enough, yes, to be able
- 25:54Speaker 4: to make the dangerous journey and survive and claim that there.
- 25:58Speaker 4: And that is overwhelmingly, as our friend not Frage said,
- 26:04Speaker 4: overwhelmingly young men, which leaves women and children back in
- 26:08Speaker 4: the home country or refugee camp still facing persecution if
- 26:12Speaker 4: we are to believe that they are legitimate asilence seekers
- 26:16Speaker 4: but without a breadwinner, without anyone to provide for them.
- 26:20Speaker 4: You know, most evil dictators ships that these people are
- 26:24Speaker 4: fleeing do not have hugely generous welfare programs for single mums.
- 26:28Speaker 4: It might surprise people to learn, so you're actually doing
- 26:31Speaker 4: the worst possible thing. And then if these people are
- 26:34Speaker 4: taking an official quota, are set quota as they do
- 26:37Speaker 4: in Australia of your humanitarian intake as a proportion of
- 26:40Speaker 4: your overall migrant margrant intake, then that means that every
- 26:44Speaker 4: single visa they get is one you are not getting
- 26:48Speaker 4: through the official UN program for you know, women and
- 26:52Speaker 4: children who would normally be prioritized because they're more vulnerable,
- 26:55Speaker 4: who are languishing in you know, refugee camps in Lebanon
- 26:59Speaker 4: or Jordan or wherever. With the last Syrian refugee crisis
- 27:02Speaker 4: is said, you have other people who aren't even coming
- 27:04Speaker 4: from those kind of war zones. It might be coming
- 27:05Speaker 4: from somewhere like Sri Lanka, which was a really big
- 27:07Speaker 4: intake number, but that's not what people have in their
- 27:10Speaker 4: heads exactly.
- 27:11Speaker 5: So one of the largest countries that people are coming
- 27:13Speaker 5: from is Vietnam. I'm sorry, like, you're not fleeing conflicts
- 27:17Speaker 5: in Vietnam.
- 27:17Speaker 4: Popular tourist go.
- 27:18Speaker 5: To Vietnam on holidays every year, and so I think,
- 27:22Speaker 5: I mean, there are a few legal challenges. Of course,
- 27:24Speaker 5: they're still in the European Commission on Human Rights, which
- 27:27Speaker 5: is limiting.
- 27:27Speaker 6: What they can do.
- 27:28Speaker 5: But I think if they really wanted to tackle this,
- 27:31Speaker 5: they should just cut all subsidies and funding to new
- 27:35Speaker 5: migrant arrivals. That would definitely disincentivize people from trying to
- 27:39Speaker 5: cross the channel.
- 27:40Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 27:40Speaker 2: Well, once you've got control lost control of your borders,
- 27:43Speaker 2: you've lost control of your country.
- 27:45Speaker 1: It's as simple as that.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Now, I don't know what was going on here last
- 27:47Speaker 2: week when I was way, I was down in Tazzy
- 27:49Speaker 2: having a wonderful time. But I'm back this week, which
- 27:52Speaker 2: means we've got to do some council runs, you know
- 27:54Speaker 2: how much I love them. Great one out of Adelaide
- 27:57Speaker 2: in the advertiser today about it church called Lifehouse Church.
- 28:01Speaker 1: Which is in the in a.
- 28:03Speaker 2: Northern suburbs of Adelaide in lights you it's been there
- 28:06Speaker 2: since two thousand and two, which was long before most
- 28:08Speaker 2: of the development in that area started, So this church
- 28:11Speaker 2: was there before most of the houses around it were built,
- 28:14Speaker 2: which I think is always pertinent in these stories. But
- 28:18Speaker 2: two residents had complained about the terrible noise the din
- 28:22Speaker 2: coming out of this church, particularly on Friday nights when the.
- 28:26Speaker 1: Youth group got together on a youth graprade music and stuff.
- 28:29Speaker 2: One of the residents anonymously told the paper that they
- 28:32Speaker 2: were going wild in there. I mean, you can imagine
- 28:35Speaker 2: the wild things going on in this happy clap of
- 28:37Speaker 2: church on a Friday night. But the council went, Okay,
- 28:40Speaker 2: we better go and investigate these claims. They were investigating
- 28:44Speaker 2: between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, and then
- 28:47Speaker 2: worked out that under the law available to them they
- 28:50Speaker 2: couldn't actually do anything about noise being amplified out of churches.
- 28:55Speaker 2: So they went and asked for the law to be changed,
- 28:58Speaker 2: and it was. There was a change of the Low
- 29:00Speaker 2: Nuisance and Little Control Act so that the council could
- 29:03Speaker 2: properly investigate and make decisions about the noise coming out
- 29:07Speaker 2: of the church. So they reopened the investigation in October
- 29:10Speaker 2: last year, continued it all the.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Way through to May twenty five.
- 29:14Speaker 2: This year had ten separate inspections by seven different council officers.
- 29:20Speaker 2: A total of thirteen hours they spent at this church
- 29:24Speaker 2: trying to work out whether there was too much noise
- 29:26Speaker 2: coming out of it. Plus the Council said many other
- 29:29Speaker 2: hours of work, including evidence gathering and reviewing information, and
- 29:34Speaker 2: after all of that they found there wasn't too much
- 29:36Speaker 2: noise coming out.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Well what are we paying these people?
- 29:41Speaker 4: I love this story? So I just want to know, like,
- 29:43Speaker 4: what did the investigation look like like? Were these guys
- 29:46Speaker 4: working undercover? Were they like pretending to be you know,
- 29:50Speaker 4: born again Baptist Hillsong acolytes who were like you know
- 29:54Speaker 4: that they have the robes and the big watches, and
- 29:55Speaker 4: they'd go along and you know, the nice press shirts
- 29:58Speaker 4: and you know, and going pretend to be oh yeah, yeah,
- 30:01Speaker 4: I just want to get saved. I imagine this as
- 30:03Speaker 4: kind of like twenty one Jump Street Fair Hillsop for
- 30:09Speaker 4: the Pentecostals. It's just I just love it so much.
- 30:12Speaker 4: I imagine Hansen and you know all the gain there, dear, but.
- 30:17Speaker 5: The fact that this was all driven by two complainants, and.
- 30:21Speaker 6: You think about the thousands.
- 30:24Speaker 5: Of dollars This would have cost the council in labor,
- 30:27Speaker 5: in time in legal counsel changing the state laws, or
- 30:31Speaker 5: to investigate this church that existed long before any of
- 30:35Speaker 5: the surrounding houses. If you move into an area, you
- 30:39Speaker 5: have Google Maps, you can see if there are any
- 30:42Speaker 5: churches already there. You do not have the right to
- 30:45Speaker 5: then tell them to shut up. But one thing I
- 30:48Speaker 5: will say is if you've heard any church youth fans,
- 30:51Speaker 5: that is the only thing I sympathize.
- 30:53Speaker 6: With the players about some of them, you do want
- 30:58Speaker 6: to turn them of.
- 31:00Speaker 5: Generally, I'm all for churches playing their music happy clappy
- 31:03Speaker 5: as one.
- 31:04Speaker 6: As they watch.
- 31:04Speaker 9: Surely, if you're going to live next door to any
- 31:07Speaker 9: gang of us, yes, the least worst would be a
- 31:11Speaker 9: gang of born again Christians singing in the church band.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Would you like that? Would you like the methods? You know,
- 31:21Speaker 4: at least the money is still in the ashtray of
- 31:23Speaker 4: your car.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Being around the Northland shopping scenes over in Melbourne. And
- 31:29Speaker 2: the other council story that popped up today that I
- 31:32Speaker 2: saw was a council in Melbourne, wile we're talking about
- 31:34Speaker 2: Melbourne Hume Council that wants the ability to be able
- 31:37Speaker 2: to basically break into people's houses if they think there's
- 31:40Speaker 2: a dangerous dog in there and take the dog away
- 31:42Speaker 2: by force, because at the moment that they had two
- 31:45Speaker 2: cases of quite serious attacks in the Human Council and
- 31:49Speaker 2: of course jurisdiction over animals is in the hands of councils.
- 31:53Speaker 2: But if they want to go and seize a dangerous dog,
- 31:57Speaker 2: they have to get the police involved unless the owners
- 32:00Speaker 2: willing to hand it over. If they want to go
- 32:02Speaker 2: and take the dog forcibly from the house, they have
- 32:04Speaker 2: to get the police involved in So the council is saying, well,
- 32:06Speaker 2: sometimes this takes far too long. If we've just had
- 32:09Speaker 2: an attack happened and we think this dog needs to
- 32:12Speaker 2: be detained now, we can't wait for the coppers to
- 32:15Speaker 2: come around tomorrow.
- 32:16Speaker 1: We want to go and get it now.
- 32:17Speaker 2: And I think fair enough. If you've got a dangerous
- 32:20Speaker 2: dog on the loose or doing dangerous things and the
- 32:23Speaker 2: owner won't cooperate, the council ought to have the power
- 32:26Speaker 2: to go and seize it.
- 32:27Speaker 5: Well, yes they should have the power, but do we
- 32:31Speaker 5: really think the council is going to be more competent.
- 32:39Speaker 4: And the owner is refusing to hand it over after
- 32:42Speaker 4: it's just eating a child. I would probably wait for
- 32:45Speaker 4: the police. I would probably just exactly.
- 32:48Speaker 5: And I mean, do we really think the local council Workers'
- 32:52Speaker 5: union is going to let their council rangers go in
- 32:55Speaker 5: completely unprotected to wrangle dangerous dogs.
- 32:59Speaker 6: I think totally.
- 33:00Speaker 5: They should have the power to and if any council
- 33:03Speaker 5: officers want to, I think that'd be a great use
- 33:05Speaker 5: of ratepayers money. Betting so you spend they often do.
- 33:09Speaker 5: But I really don't see how this would work out.
- 33:11Speaker 5: But one thing that is quite sad about this is
- 33:14Speaker 5: in the last year there have been apparently two thousand
- 33:17Speaker 5: dog attacks on Australian post workers. And here's an image
- 33:22Speaker 5: I should warn you before we put this up on
- 33:24Speaker 5: the screening. This is an image of a postman's foot
- 33:29Speaker 5: that was molded by a dangerous dog.
- 33:32Speaker 6: So this is dangerous.
- 33:34Speaker 5: It does lead to serious injuries and hospitalizations. But I
- 33:39Speaker 5: really can't see council officers being the ads.
- 33:42Speaker 4: You know what they should do. They should get the
- 33:43Speaker 4: council officers that infiltrated the Lifehouse, Baptist.
- 33:47Speaker 1: Church and Adelaide.
- 33:48Speaker 4: They are the ones boys. We've got a new assignment
- 33:50Speaker 4: for you to some pin hole I actually love this line.
- 33:54Speaker 2: When I was a court reporter rein Adelaide, I covered
- 33:56Speaker 2: this story once. It just happened upon it happened to
- 33:58Speaker 2: be sitting in the courtroom one day.
- 33:59Speaker 1: When it happened.
- 33:59Speaker 2: It was a civil trial over a dog that the
- 34:04Speaker 2: local council wanted to be seized, and they said the
- 34:07Speaker 2: owners couldn't have it, et cetera, because it had bit
- 34:10Speaker 2: a postman, bitten a postman. And then the owners came
- 34:13Speaker 2: into court and this postman gets up on the stand
- 34:17Speaker 2: and the owners are accusing him of having it been
- 34:19Speaker 2: getter against all dogs and that he fabricated this story
- 34:23Speaker 2: about the dog bite in me because he wanted their
- 34:25Speaker 2: dog dead. I mean, I know people get, you know,
- 34:28Speaker 2: really ansty about their dogs and they think their dogs
- 34:31Speaker 2: are children and all this sort of garbage. But you know,
- 34:34Speaker 2: if you're a dog owner who's not willing to look
- 34:36Speaker 2: after your dog, it should be taken.
- 34:38Speaker 6: And that's the key point.
- 34:39Speaker 5: If your dog is that aggressive that they're causing harm
- 34:41Speaker 5: to other people, you're probably not looking after them very well.
- 34:44Speaker 5: So then don't cry when you're disciplined for it. But
- 34:48Speaker 5: in another interesting local council although this is actually transport.
- 34:52Speaker 5: For New South Wales, they've gone a bit loopy on
- 34:54Speaker 5: bike lanes as well. They're trying to make a section
- 34:57Speaker 5: of the temporary bike lane in the Inner West permanent,
- 35:02Speaker 5: much to the outrage of locals, even the local Greens.
- 35:06Speaker 6: MP Kobe Shaddy.
- 35:08Speaker 5: Now the outrage is because the temporary bike lanes are great.
- 35:13Speaker 6: And all, but you have to merge back into the.
- 35:15Speaker 5: Traffic at four separate points along the route. And now
- 35:20Speaker 5: all this does is what is the point of having
- 35:22Speaker 5: a bike lane If you still have to get onto
- 35:25Speaker 5: the road. It kind of defeats the point of a
- 35:27Speaker 5: bike lane. And this is the problem. I am happy
- 35:30Speaker 5: to have bike lanes as long as you commit to
- 35:33Speaker 5: having actual bike lanes. If it's only a bike lane
- 35:36Speaker 5: for a couple meters, then you're back on the road.
- 35:38Speaker 5: Then you're back on the bike lane. At that point,
- 35:41Speaker 5: just ditch the bike lane and add an extra lane
- 35:43Speaker 5: of traffic.
- 35:44Speaker 2: And if it's the answer, don't have the bike lane,
- 35:46Speaker 2: Just give the lane back to the traffic.
- 35:48Speaker 4: So we feel about bikelines the same way we feel
- 35:50Speaker 4: about trans people just make a decision and stick to it.
- 35:54Speaker 1: So I don't know.
- 35:55Speaker 2: In Adelaide they have on all the main roads bike lanes,
- 35:58Speaker 2: but they're not separated bike lane.
- 36:00Speaker 1: There is a line.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Of paint painted on the side of every main road,
- 36:04Speaker 2: basically in Adelaide.
- 36:06Speaker 1: That says on this side that the bikes can ride.
- 36:08Speaker 2: I don't know why we just can't do that everywhere
- 36:10Speaker 2: if we have to build all these bollards and things
- 36:12Speaker 2: around the place. I don't hear of any more people
- 36:14Speaker 2: getting a run over in Adelaide on bikes than they
- 36:17Speaker 2: do anywhere else.
- 36:18Speaker 1: It seems a pretty simple answer to me. After the break,
- 36:20Speaker 1: we'll get into the papers.
- 36:21Speaker 2: People refusing, parents refusing to let their kids work with
- 36:26Speaker 2: men in childcare sins now and of course that horrific
- 36:29Speaker 2: case down in Melbourne will tell you about it more.
- 36:31Speaker 1: Plenty of other papers up of its a little bit
- 36:40Speaker 1: of breaking news.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Donald Trump, of course, the President of the United States,
- 36:44Speaker 2: maybe giving a press conference shortly about sending.
- 36:46Speaker 1: Missiles to Ukraine.
- 36:48Speaker 2: If we have any further on that, we will dip
- 36:50Speaker 2: into that and show you. In the meantime, let's get
- 36:53Speaker 2: into tomorrow's papers. On the front of the Daily Telegraph,
- 36:56Speaker 2: it says parents ban men, families refuse male childcare workers
- 37:01Speaker 2: for their kids, exclusive from Suzanne Giuliani, excellent journo at
- 37:05Speaker 2: the Daily Telegraph. She says Sydney parents are refusing to
- 37:09Speaker 2: let male childcare workers look after their children following explosive
- 37:12Speaker 2: reports about lack of safety and security checks in the
- 37:16Speaker 2: early childhood sector.
- 37:17Speaker 1: The Daily Telegraph is aware of at.
- 37:19Speaker 2: Least three centers where managers have received up to half
- 37:22Speaker 2: a dozen emails from parents demanding their children be cared
- 37:25Speaker 2: for only by female workers, which includes nappy changes, toileting
- 37:30Speaker 2: and dressing. It comes after several recent sexual abuse charges
- 37:34Speaker 2: against male childcare workers in Sydney and Melbourne. And I
- 37:38Speaker 2: suppose I half understand the knee jerk reaction from parents here.
- 37:44Speaker 2: But if the message that is now being sent is
- 37:47Speaker 2: that men basically aren't welcome in childcare, you're suggesting that
- 37:52Speaker 2: every man is a pedphiler, a potential peterphile.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Why would you want to be a man in this situation.
- 37:58Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really high, and you know you have to
- 38:01Speaker 5: sympathize for these parents. Though there's one new investigation into
- 38:05Speaker 5: serious abuse being started every single day in New South
- 38:10Speaker 5: Wales and another one being started in Victoria. Like it
- 38:13Speaker 5: is rampant. That's huge. So yeah, I get the reaction.
- 38:18Speaker 5: But even when I was training to be a kid's
- 38:20Speaker 5: church worker my church, the rule was always two pairs
- 38:25Speaker 5: of eyes on a child at any one time. I
- 38:27Speaker 5: even as like a fifteen year old girl wasn't allowed
- 38:30Speaker 5: to walk a six year old to the bathroom by myself.
- 38:34Speaker 5: I always had to be accompanied by someone else. I
- 38:37Speaker 5: don't understand how there could be such systemic failure to
- 38:42Speaker 5: just implement basic child protection protocols.
- 38:45Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, and clearly there's been a massive
- 38:48Speaker 4: process failure, but it is incredibly simplistic and wrong and
- 38:53Speaker 4: actually exacerbates the problem to say that the answer is
- 38:56Speaker 4: to ban or bend from childcare, or to command that
- 39:00Speaker 4: your child doesn't get seen by any men who happen
- 39:04Speaker 4: to work there. I can't even imagine all the childcare
- 39:06Speaker 4: centers I've seen how you get any privacy at all.
- 39:10Speaker 4: Possibly they are completely overrun. But you've got to make
- 39:13Speaker 4: sure you're doing the right thing. Forcing men out of
- 39:16Speaker 4: the system will only exacerbate what is already a massive
- 39:20Speaker 4: shortage of childcare workers, and that is one of the
- 39:23Speaker 4: drivers why. And there been reports of this, not necessarily
- 39:26Speaker 4: with the just the sex ab you stuff, but with
- 39:30Speaker 4: failing to be able to maintain staff to student ratios,
- 39:34Speaker 4: which obviously means that you don't always have those two
- 39:36Speaker 4: pairs of eyes, failing to make sure all these checks
- 39:39Speaker 4: and balances are ticked, make sure that proper background checks
- 39:42Speaker 4: are done. If you have fewer and fewer people, you
- 39:44Speaker 4: make people more and more desperate for other workers. That
- 39:46Speaker 4: means you're more prepared to take people you won't you'll
- 39:49Speaker 4: think you'll fall through.
- 39:50Speaker 2: And also it deprives children of interactions with men, which
- 39:54Speaker 2: is so important for them. And it's also to suggest
- 39:58Speaker 2: that it's always mean and know that men are statistically
- 40:01Speaker 2: more likely to commit sexual abuse than women are. But
- 40:04Speaker 2: it's not just sexual abuse of children that goes on
- 40:06Speaker 2: in childcare centers. It's physical abuse, verbal abuse, all all
- 40:10Speaker 2: of these sorts of things that.
- 40:11Speaker 1: Women also can. So just say, oh, we'll just get
- 40:14Speaker 1: rid of the men.
- 40:15Speaker 4: It does just ban all childcare work workers because all
- 40:18Speaker 4: of them could corne.
- 40:19Speaker 5: Well, we used to live behind a childcare center and
- 40:22Speaker 5: you would hear childcare workers screaming at these poor children
- 40:26Speaker 5: all day.
- 40:27Speaker 6: It was actually horrible.
- 40:28Speaker 5: We submitted complaints about it because you felt bad for
- 40:31Speaker 5: the children.
- 40:31Speaker 6: So yeah, it's not just managed.
- 40:32Speaker 4: At least they weren't singing in the church.
- 40:34Speaker 5: Yeah, at least they weren't singing exactly well.
- 40:36Speaker 6: Moving on to the advertiser.
- 40:37Speaker 5: Now, the headline is docs want stab vest. Doctors confronting
- 40:41Speaker 5: soaring violence and emergency departments, including in one case, fears
- 40:45Speaker 5: of mass shooting, are demanding stab vest. There were twenty
- 40:49Speaker 5: three reports of assault against staff at Flinder's Medical Center
- 40:53Speaker 5: and a Ruler hospital in the last long no longer
- 40:58Speaker 5: local knowledge last twelve weeks. Now, that's shocking that it's
- 41:03Speaker 5: bad enough that they actually want stab best. I know,
- 41:06Speaker 5: working in an emergency department sounds absolutely chaotic from the
- 41:10Speaker 5: friends I have that are nurses and doctors. I mean,
- 41:13Speaker 5: you never know who's coming in or what their condition is.
- 41:16Speaker 5: But seriously, I think we're letting our doctors down if
- 41:18Speaker 5: they feel the need to wear stab best, and you.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Can't really blame them.
- 41:22Speaker 2: One of these doctors is suggesting saying that an elderly
- 41:27Speaker 2: patient lunged for a police security officer's gun. I mean,
- 41:33Speaker 2: you would feel terribly vulnerable in those situations. Has a
- 41:38Speaker 2: doctor working in emergency departments or whatever.
- 41:41Speaker 1: You work to the.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Bone and then you're worried about your own safety given
- 41:45Speaker 2: the best.
- 41:45Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a huge and you have like emergency
- 41:48Speaker 4: departments are out there. There was a massive epidemic in
- 41:50Speaker 4: Sydney of violence in ed Wards and again they're overrun
- 41:55Speaker 4: over the weekend. They're overrun with mental health patients all
- 41:59Speaker 4: the time, and then at the weekend you've got people
- 42:01Speaker 4: who are pissed or on drugs or done something stupid.
- 42:04Speaker 4: If you don't have enough resources, you've got all these
- 42:07Speaker 4: people crammed into a small space for hours and hours
- 42:10Speaker 4: and hours on end. So again I can understand why
- 42:13Speaker 4: they'd want stab vest, but that won't fix the problem.
- 42:15Speaker 4: What you actually have to do is make sure you've
- 42:17Speaker 4: got the proper processes so you're not creating this tinder
- 42:20Speaker 4: box anyway. Speaking of tinder boxes, the Herald stan has
- 42:23Speaker 4: got a fantastic not in a good way front page
- 42:27Speaker 4: inflaming hate as we wait, It says fuel on fire
- 42:31Speaker 4: and you would have seen this earlier in the night.
- 42:33Speaker 4: Sinister video threat as Minister behind hate laws still can't
- 42:36Speaker 4: tell us if anti Jewish death chant is a crime,
- 42:41Speaker 4: it says. The sickening video has emerged of an anti
- 42:43Speaker 4: Israel activist inciting fire bollowings. As senior labor minister and
- 42:47Speaker 4: architect of Victoria hate speech laws, Jacqueline Simes says she
- 42:51Speaker 4: is still unsure whether death to the idea, God help us,
- 42:56Speaker 4: death to the idef chance would constitute a criminal offense
- 42:59Speaker 4: under the LEDGIS. It comes as the OL government's faces
- 43:02Speaker 4: legal action over its failure to stem the dangerous rise
- 43:05Speaker 4: of anti Semitism in Victoria after multiple attacks on Jewish
- 43:09Speaker 4: buildings and businesses. So if anyone hasn't seen it, this
- 43:12Speaker 4: is this moronic self appointed you know, radical revolution guaranteed.
- 43:16Speaker 4: This is one of the guys who reckons he's going
- 43:18Speaker 4: to spark the revolution for a new socialist utopia. It's
- 43:23Speaker 4: almost I mean, it's terrifying because it comes after he
- 43:25Speaker 4: fired ONMS some cars, but he's bragging about, Oh, I
- 43:27Speaker 4: don't think this was just an accidental fire bombing of
- 43:30Speaker 4: the cars. We're really serious, do you know this is
- 43:33Speaker 4: the revolution? You know this is a revolution. These were
- 43:34Speaker 4: targeted attacks because we're so tough, and he's got the
- 43:37Speaker 4: little torrest straight eye on an Aboriginal flag with him,
- 43:40Speaker 4: just because he's really right. I kin'd of say on
- 43:41Speaker 4: behalf of first nations Australians, Mate, love your ambassadorship, love
- 43:45Speaker 4: your work. Really way to represent the first people of
- 43:48Speaker 4: this country. You're a really smart guy. And of course
- 43:53Speaker 4: and then he just starts reciting all these hashtags like free,
- 43:55Speaker 4: free power, and then then he says, you know, always was,
- 43:58Speaker 4: always will be. It's like this person is you know,
- 44:02Speaker 4: we spoke a lot about, you know, the mentally ill,
- 44:05Speaker 4: you know who can often court troubling. This person should
- 44:08Speaker 4: be in a hospital ward for the mentally ear. He's
- 44:11Speaker 4: just a douche.
- 44:13Speaker 1: He's got the drab back.
- 44:14Speaker 2: I would have thought if you're saying death to someone,
- 44:16Speaker 2: that's probably incitement to valas. Let's go to the front
- 44:18Speaker 2: of the Hobart Mercury tomorrow where it's his Bruce's restraining
- 44:22Speaker 2: order bid.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Bruce Lehreman is back in the headlines.
- 44:24Speaker 2: Former Liberal political staf of Bruce Leraman, who last month
- 44:27Speaker 2: pleaded not guilty in Hobart court to one count of
- 44:30Speaker 2: motor vehicle stealing, has launched a restraining order bid against
- 44:34Speaker 2: a Mainland journalist covering his time in Tasmania. Mirkri understands
- 44:38Speaker 2: that mister Lehreman, thirty, recently filed the application with the
- 44:41Speaker 2: Hobart Magistrate's Court, which has listed the matter to be
- 44:44Speaker 2: heard on Tuesday. It's understood the restraining order submission relates
- 44:47Speaker 2: to coverage mister Lehreman has been receiving in the Daily
- 44:49Speaker 2: Mail Australia.
- 44:51Speaker 1: I mean, how good is that. I don't like what
- 44:52Speaker 1: the journal is writing about me. I'm going to take
- 44:55Speaker 1: out the restraining order.
- 44:56Speaker 4: These people be rapped for a mention in the Daily Mail.
- 45:00Speaker 5: I wouldn't know, but I don't know how he can
- 45:02Speaker 5: do that unless the report is actually stalking him and
- 45:05Speaker 5: harassing him, which I highly doubt. So tough enough, but
- 45:09Speaker 5: just quickly before we go in the Camera Times falling
- 45:12Speaker 5: short on recruits. The Australian Defense Force fell short of
- 45:16Speaker 5: staffing targets for uniform personnel by over three thy seven
- 45:20Speaker 5: hundred last year, with forecasts showing a shortfall of thousands
- 45:23Speaker 5: of troops before a crucial recruitment target is set for
- 45:27Speaker 5: the early twenty thirties. I mean, tell us something we
- 45:29Speaker 5: don't already know, but it's still depressing to remember it.
- 45:32Speaker 4: Yeah. Indeed, although finally the Camera Times got a good story,
- 45:35Speaker 4: So there's that.
- 45:41Speaker 1: Anyway.
- 45:42Speaker 2: We love you over there in Camera as long as
- 45:44Speaker 2: you're not a public servant giving my money back.
- 45:46Speaker 1: Please after the break, Stephen.
- 45:48Speaker 2: Miles reports, The former premier points, and how many people
- 45:51Speaker 2: do you reckon would pay on hundred and fifty dollars
- 45:53Speaker 2: of pop.
- 45:54Speaker 1: To hear him give a speech?
- 45:55Speaker 2: If you see at less than twenty, you're right, I'll
- 45:58Speaker 2: tell you exactly how many out of this.
- 46:03Speaker 4: Now.
- 46:04Speaker 2: The former Queensland Premier Stephen Miles, he can be a
- 46:07Speaker 2: bit dreary at times.
- 46:09Speaker 4: That's very unkind Joe. You obviously haven't seen any of
- 46:13Speaker 4: his hilarious and yet edgy social media videos in which
- 46:16Speaker 4: he care ups, cares up agreements with the Comwealth government
- 46:19Speaker 4: in the middle of COVID and does other stuff. I'm
- 46:21Speaker 4: not sure, but anyway, one thing that does seem to
- 46:24Speaker 4: be hitting a bit of a wall. Dare I say? It?
- 46:27Speaker 4: Is ticket sales to his Hayden oration in Ipswich next month.
- 46:32Speaker 4: Ticket sales apparently haven't been particularly strong for Stephen Miles's address.
- 46:39Speaker 4: There are one hundred and forty tickets in the room,
- 46:42Speaker 4: one hundred and forty seats in the room, and I
- 46:44Speaker 4: would say, snap him up, guys. They're not going to last.
- 46:46Speaker 4: But inexplicably, just thirteen had been sold as of Friday.
- 46:52Speaker 4: And this is strange because often these big labor fundraisers,
- 46:56Speaker 4: you know, they might go for a thousand bucks a plate,
- 46:58Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars a table, something like that. Apparently these
- 47:02Speaker 4: are just one hundred and fifty per seat or one
- 47:06Speaker 4: thousand dollars for a table of ten. That is a bargain.
- 47:09Speaker 4: They should be flying off the shelves. But for reasons
- 47:13Speaker 4: I can only guess. I guess these people aren't on
- 47:15Speaker 4: social media. Maybe they're not on TikTok, but you just
- 47:18Speaker 4: can't move the units. Obviously. This the Fraser, the Phraser ration,
- 47:23Speaker 4: the Hayden narration is in honor of the former Opposition
- 47:26Speaker 4: leader Bill Hayden, former Queensland cop became Governor General and also,
- 47:32Speaker 4: fun fact, former communist, which you know, well that's right,
- 47:36Speaker 4: which you would think would be a natural fit for
- 47:38Speaker 4: a narration being given by a current communist. But maybe
- 47:43Speaker 4: some reason.
- 47:43Speaker 2: It just maybe they don't want to rock up to
- 47:46Speaker 2: see the man laugh about youth crime.
- 47:49Speaker 4: Yeah, the absence of any reference to youth crime in
- 47:53Speaker 4: your speech to the Coinsland.
- 47:54Speaker 2: Media would have been by more than a few, including
- 47:59Speaker 2: the people those communities premier. I'm sure you can.
- 48:01Speaker 4: See quality content. Why are they missing out?
- 48:05Speaker 5: He has one of the most annoying faces in Australian politics,
- 48:11Speaker 5: Like every time I see him, I just cringe.
- 48:13Speaker 6: But someone who does know.
- 48:15Speaker 5: How to make some money and give it away, apparently
- 48:18Speaker 5: is a man in Chicago who, as his final parting
- 48:22Speaker 5: gift to his community after his funeral, dropped five thousand
- 48:27Speaker 5: dollars worth of cash from a helicopter. It's everyone ground
- 48:33Speaker 5: to a halt on this busy motorway in sheer disbelief
- 48:37Speaker 5: at the actual money raining down from above them. I mean,
- 48:41Speaker 5: if you want to go out with a bang, that's
- 48:43Speaker 5: a pretty good way to do it.
- 48:45Speaker 2: Look, I don't disagree. I would have liked to have
- 48:47Speaker 2: been on the line.
- 48:48Speaker 4: I'm going to say it. If you're going to afford
- 48:49Speaker 4: to go up in a helicopter and throw money out
- 48:51Speaker 4: of it, five grand is a piss weak amount. She's
- 48:54Speaker 4: a fellow.
- 48:56Speaker 2: How about this woman in queens and she is a
- 48:58Speaker 2: state in Peak, not Stephen Miles, Janille Pool. She's the
- 49:02Speaker 2: Assistant Minister for Community Safety, Defense, Industry, Veterans and North Queensland,
- 49:06Speaker 2: and she's also a former copper, and she was talking
- 49:09Speaker 2: to some of her staff in her office recently when
- 49:12Speaker 2: she saw some other coppers running past the office pursuing
- 49:16Speaker 2: some juvenile offenders. So, without even thinking, she runs out
- 49:19Speaker 2: of her office and takes off after these young people.
- 49:22Speaker 2: She manages to catch two girls while the coppers went
- 49:26Speaker 2: after another boy. I mean, she's an assistant minister, she's
- 49:30Speaker 2: made it into state politics and she's still rounding up
- 49:33Speaker 2: youth offenders.
- 49:34Speaker 1: How good does it?
- 49:35Speaker 5: Absolute girl boss? God on, that's the feminism we like
- 49:38Speaker 5: to see
- 49:39Speaker 2: In both Ruth Crime and Stopping You start coming up
- 49:43Speaker 2: next to the Riddy Can Show.