Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 27 January
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Lately the general man, welcome to the late Base.
- 0:07Speaker 2: It's great to have your company. Thanks for joining us.
- 0:09Speaker 2: I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond coming
- 0:12Speaker 2: up tonight. Huge crowds q at Sydney's Botanic Gardens to
- 0:16Speaker 2: get the smell of a new plant, not because of
- 0:18Speaker 2: its fragrancy, but because it's quite putrid. We'll show you
- 0:21Speaker 2: that a little later. Plus, when we look at what's
- 0:23Speaker 2: making news tomorrow, the Courier Mail have an exclusive story
- 0:27Speaker 2: about gender clinics prescribing puberty blockers for children without parental consent.
- 0:32Speaker 2: That's a huge scandal brewing there. Will bring you that.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Plus The Australian has a story about the Prime Minister
- 0:39Speaker 2: of Fiji saying that Australia should not be blamed for
- 0:42Speaker 2: climate change. All of that when we get to tomorrow's news.
- 0:45Speaker 2: But I want to start by posing a question. Should
- 0:49Speaker 2: clubs that exclude members of the opposite sex be allowed
- 0:52Speaker 2: to operate in twenty twenty five or are they a
- 0:55Speaker 2: relic of a bygone past that should be banned. That's
- 0:59Speaker 2: a question being asked in Victoria at the moment after
- 1:02Speaker 2: a woman was denied membership of the Sandringham Club. That's
- 1:06Speaker 2: a club on Melbourne's Bayside. The club was established in
- 1:11Speaker 2: nineteen twelve and it features an array of sporting facilities.
- 1:14Speaker 2: We might be able to show you some of those.
- 1:16Speaker 2: They've got tennis courts, bowling greens, cricket pitchers and golf courses.
- 1:22Speaker 2: And while membership is open only to men, their families
- 1:26Speaker 2: are allowed to join them on site. That, however, was
- 1:29Speaker 2: not good enough for one Melbourne woman, who, after being
- 1:31Speaker 2: denied membership, now insists these clubs should be banned. The problem,
- 1:37Speaker 2: of course, is they're perfectly legal, as was pointed out
- 1:41Speaker 2: by Monash University professor Dominic Allen. Professor Allen said it's
- 1:47Speaker 2: unlawful to discriminate on the basis of sex under Victoria's
- 1:50Speaker 2: anti discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services,
- 1:55Speaker 2: but there's an exception in the legislation which means clubs
- 1:58Speaker 2: can exclude members of the opposite sex from membership if
- 2:02Speaker 2: membership of that club is only available to one sex. Now,
- 2:07Speaker 2: interestingly enough, there are thirty clubs or around that number
- 2:11Speaker 2: in Australia that offer membership only to one sex, and
- 2:15Speaker 2: they include Sydney, Melbourne's Alexandra Club and Sydney's Lyceum Club,
- 2:21Speaker 2: both of which are open only to women. Curiously enough,
- 2:24Speaker 2: no one is asking for those clubs to be shut down.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Victorian's Women's Minister, Natalie Hitchins, she got involved in this
- 2:32Speaker 2: debate and she said that clubs like the Sandringham Club,
- 2:36Speaker 2: which is for men only, have no place in twenty
- 2:39Speaker 2: twenty five. A relic from the past, she said, which
- 2:42Speaker 2: always makes me curious when people think that by quoting
- 2:44Speaker 2: the date they're making an argument, the fact that it's
- 2:47Speaker 2: twenty twenty five has no bearing on whether something is
- 2:50Speaker 2: moral or immoral. In fact, that's based on the rather
- 2:53Speaker 2: modern conceit that somehow, because we're alive today, we are
- 2:57Speaker 2: automatically more morally evolved than say, our grandparents, which isn't
- 3:02Speaker 2: always the case and probably not the case in Natalie
- 3:05Speaker 2: Hutchins instance. Here she is the women's Minister can't even
- 3:09Speaker 2: define what a woman.
- 3:10Speaker 3: Is because the quality is not negotiable here in Victoria's speaker,
- 3:16Speaker 3: and the rights of trans Victorians is not negotiable here
- 3:20Speaker 3: in Victoria. As Minister for Women, I proudly stand up
- 3:24Speaker 3: for all women, that includes trans women.
- 3:28Speaker 2: So a women's Minister Caleb, who proudly stands for all
- 3:31Speaker 2: women that includes men who identify as women, should probably
- 3:35Speaker 2: just sit this debate out as to whether sex exclusive
- 3:38Speaker 2: clubs should or should not exist in twenty twenty five.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Counterpoint though, is that if she believes that men should
- 3:45Speaker 4: be allowed into women's clubs, perhaps she also has a
- 3:48Speaker 4: point saying that women should be allowed in the men's clubs,
- 3:50Speaker 4: by which I mean the men being allowed at the
- 3:51Speaker 4: women's clubs as those claiming they are women. But you
- 3:55Speaker 4: pointed out before the Alexandra Club and the Lyceum Club,
- 3:58Speaker 4: and there's a Lyceum Club in Sydney. There's also a
- 4:00Speaker 4: Lyceum Club in Melbourne which is right next door to
- 4:03Speaker 4: the Melbourne Club, right, so you know a couple can
- 4:06Speaker 4: walk up and the man goes in that door and
- 4:08Speaker 4: the woman goes in that door.
- 4:10Speaker 1: I don't see what the problem is here.
- 4:12Speaker 4: And this woman who tried to sign up to the
- 4:14Speaker 4: Sandringham Club, I mean, how dopey do you have to
- 4:16Speaker 4: be as a woman to try and sign up to
- 4:18Speaker 4: a men's only club and then get outrage that they
- 4:21Speaker 4: didn't accept.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Your membership application.
- 4:23Speaker 4: If you go on the Sandringham Club's website and click
- 4:26Speaker 4: on the about section. The first thing it says Sandringham
- 4:30Speaker 4: Club is a private men's sporting club, so she must
- 4:33Speaker 4: she should have known that when she went to a plan.
- 4:35Speaker 1: Oh. I can't believe they didn't let me in.
- 4:38Speaker 4: I mean, if we can't have men's only spaces, I've
- 4:41Speaker 4: never heard of anyone say that we can't have women's
- 4:44Speaker 4: only spaces. Apart from transgender activists of course, but no
- 4:47Speaker 4: one ever says that we can't have the Alexandra Club,
- 4:50Speaker 4: or we can't have the Lyceum Club. It's always we
- 4:53Speaker 4: can't have the Adelaide Club, we can't have the Melbourne Club,
- 4:56Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera, because it's all when men go
- 4:59Speaker 4: and do things on.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Their own that is bad. We must let women in there. Well,
- 5:04Speaker 1: it's up to the club.
- 5:05Speaker 4: If the membership of the club says they want to
- 5:07Speaker 4: let women in, that is their prerogative. If they don't
- 5:10Speaker 4: want to let women in, that is their prerogative. Why
- 5:13Speaker 4: as a man can I not have a space where
- 5:17Speaker 4: I can go and hang out with other men without
- 5:20Speaker 4: being bothered by women. I don't see what the problem is,
- 5:22Speaker 4: and I don't see why women can't do the same thing.
- 5:24Speaker 5: It's a quality of the story for all men's clubs
- 5:29Speaker 5: is just ban women entirely.
- 5:31Speaker 6: Look what happened. You gave them an inch this lady
- 5:34Speaker 6: once a mile. Just ban them entirely.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Make it an exclusively only men's club, because I swear
- 5:41Speaker 5: for women like this.
- 5:43Speaker 6: Can't believe this makes the news.
- 5:44Speaker 5: One person finds something offensive these days, and oh it's
- 5:47Speaker 5: front page news and let's write a whole article on it. Meanwhile,
- 5:50Speaker 5: it's just nothing from nobody from nowhere, being like, oh
- 5:54Speaker 5: I found this offensive, and I'm just I just want
- 5:57Speaker 5: everyone to know. If we just ignore these people, all
- 6:00Speaker 5: these problems wouldn't exist. But okay, it's happened. So and
- 6:04Speaker 5: so is upset. What do we do about it? I
- 6:06Speaker 5: just reckon ban them entirely, because what a lot of
- 6:09Speaker 5: women like this find far more offensive than a men's
- 6:13Speaker 5: only space is those spaces.
- 6:15Speaker 6: In which they can access, just like.
- 6:17Speaker 5: The Australian Club, as long as they are accompanied by
- 6:22Speaker 5: a man. A man has to get you in the door,
- 6:26Speaker 5: and for certain women that is very triggering, which speaks
- 6:30Speaker 5: to the fact that you don't have any man to
- 6:32Speaker 5: get you in the door. Do you, because you're the
- 6:34Speaker 5: exact kind of women that has driven men to make
- 6:37Speaker 5: men's only spaces in the first place. So look, I
- 6:41Speaker 5: think that is the moral of the story. These men's
- 6:44Speaker 5: clubs need to go, oh, we've upset you.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Let's double down.
- 6:49Speaker 5: From now on, No women, under any circumstances can cross
- 6:54Speaker 5: this hallowed ground. And I think society as a whole,
- 6:57Speaker 5: whether it's women's spaces or men's only space, need to
- 7:00Speaker 5: double down on this.
- 7:01Speaker 6: I think we should have way more of them.
- 7:03Speaker 5: Because in today's society where they are deriding everything feminine,
- 7:09Speaker 5: everything exclusively female, and likewise for masculine everything, trying to
- 7:15Speaker 5: convince us it's all just a spectrum. We're all, they them,
- 7:18Speaker 5: It's just a hodgepodge of whatever, and you can switch
- 7:21Speaker 5: depending on however you feel like it, and we're all.
- 7:24Speaker 5: Equality isn't sameness, period, Tattoo that on your forehead. Equality
- 7:31Speaker 5: isn't sameness. Men and women will never be equal in
- 7:35Speaker 5: the sense of sameness.
- 7:37Speaker 6: That is what they're trying to achieve.
- 7:39Speaker 5: So anything like single sex spaces, which highlights our differences.
- 7:43Speaker 5: Women love to get together and be women and talk
- 7:46Speaker 5: about all the women and stuff that would make the
- 7:48Speaker 5: men be like, oh dear God, why.
- 7:51Speaker 6: And likewise I love it.
- 7:53Speaker 5: It's a celebration of masculinity to just be like, here's
- 7:57Speaker 5: where we smoke our cigars, we talk about manly things,
- 8:00Speaker 5: we play the sports, we do, all the stuff that
- 8:02Speaker 5: women aren't remotely interested in. I think we need more
- 8:05Speaker 5: of them, because it thumbs. They flips the bird to
- 8:08Speaker 5: this lefty Marxist idea.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Of all, no, we're all the same, and so what
- 8:13Speaker 2: do you say to the counterpoint? There was one university
- 8:15Speaker 2: professor who said the problem with these men's clubs is
- 8:17Speaker 2: that men sit down and they talk business my bed
- 8:21Speaker 2: and they make deals, but the women aren't there. So
- 8:23Speaker 2: women are excluded from you know, corporate Australia. Because these exclude.
- 8:29Speaker 5: Why would these women agree with you us? I think
- 8:32Speaker 5: about why would these women want to do business? Why
- 8:34Speaker 5: would they want to be in the room doing business
- 8:37Speaker 5: with men who would obviously rather do business with other men,
- 8:41Speaker 5: not women.
- 8:42Speaker 6: Like if if you've got a pile of men who
- 8:45Speaker 6: are like, we'd rather do business with.
- 8:46Speaker 5: Men, we choose to hang out at a men's only
- 8:49Speaker 5: club and conduct our business here, what kind of stupid
- 8:53Speaker 5: half wit woman is going to be like, well, I.
- 8:56Speaker 6: Want their business and I want a seat at the table.
- 9:00Speaker 5: It's like, you are exactly the kind of women men
- 9:04Speaker 5: don't want to work with, and you're damaging our cause.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Get out.
- 9:08Speaker 4: And if you're going to have a business meeting at
- 9:09Speaker 4: a men's club like the Melbourne Club or the Adelaide Club,
- 9:12Speaker 4: et cetera, and it pertains to a deal that would
- 9:15Speaker 4: involve a business woman, you can invite her into the
- 9:19Speaker 4: club for the meeting. So there's no reason she can't
- 9:21Speaker 4: go to business meetings. Just like if the CEO of
- 9:24Speaker 4: Quantis these days is a woman. I mean, what if
- 9:27Speaker 4: she goes down to the Lyceum Club in Melbourne and
- 9:29Speaker 4: starts doing business deals in there with other women?
- 9:32Speaker 1: Why can't I get it on that?
- 9:34Speaker 4: Oh, she could just invite a man in if he
- 9:36Speaker 4: had to go to the meeting for heaven say, and
- 9:38Speaker 4: Mac showed you before Natalie Hutchins, the Minister for Women
- 9:43Speaker 4: in Victoria, she doesn't know what a woman is.
- 9:45Speaker 1: I'll tell you who else does know what a woman is.
- 9:47Speaker 4: The police in the UK, in fact, probably the police everywhere,
- 9:50Speaker 4: but the police in the UK have been dumb enough
- 9:52Speaker 4: to actually write it down and put out a Handbook
- 9:54Speaker 4: to all the coppers the plods over there, saying this
- 9:58Speaker 4: is how you must now speak about everything, and they
- 10:00Speaker 4: go into all sorts of nonsense about you know, there's
- 10:03Speaker 4: no such thing as there being only two genders. Gender
- 10:06Speaker 4: is a social construct. There's much more than male and female,
- 10:10Speaker 4: et cetera. But it gets even worse. You can no
- 10:13Speaker 4: longer say if you are a Bobby in the UK.
- 10:16Speaker 4: You can't say black sheep. You can't say blacklisted. You
- 10:21Speaker 4: can't say something's got a black mark on it, because
- 10:24Speaker 4: it suggests that black is bad, and therefore that is racist.
- 10:29Speaker 1: This is directly out of the handbook.
- 10:31Speaker 4: It's is don't say any expression that uses black in
- 10:34Speaker 4: a negative way, for example, black sheep, blacklisted, or black mark. Now,
- 10:39Speaker 4: as far as I'm aware, there's no racial connotation to
- 10:43Speaker 4: the use of.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Black in that circumstance. It refers to death, etc.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Which comes to all of us regardless of race. So
- 10:51Speaker 4: I don't really see what the issue is. There. Can't
- 10:54Speaker 4: call depression the black dog anymore. In fact, black dogs
- 10:57Speaker 4: all have to be killed now because it is racist to.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Even acknowledge that they exist. I mean black cats.
- 11:04Speaker 4: Remember, you can't have a black cat walk under a
- 11:06Speaker 4: ladder because it's bad luck.
- 11:08Speaker 1: We're going to kill all the black cats now work. No,
- 11:12Speaker 1: don't you dare do that, because that's discriminatory against the
- 11:15Speaker 1: short blacks as well. That you could also order one
- 11:17Speaker 1: of those if you go into a cabe.
- 11:19Speaker 4: The handbook goes on, well, many people who are pregnant
- 11:22Speaker 4: or have given birth identify as women. There are some
- 11:25Speaker 4: non binary, trans and intersects. People who do not identify
- 11:29Speaker 4: as women, and who may be.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Pregnant and give birth.
- 11:33Speaker 4: Try to use gender neutral language such as pregnant person
- 11:37Speaker 4: or expectant parent where possible. And then it gives possibly
- 11:42Speaker 4: the most common sense thing in this entire thing.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Never ask someone if they are pregnant.
- 11:47Speaker 4: I'm not quite sure how that relates to the paragraph
- 11:49Speaker 4: before it.
- 11:50Speaker 1: I thought that was just common sense.
- 11:52Speaker 4: If you don't want to get yourself in trouble with
- 11:54Speaker 4: a woman who's put on a few kilos, don't ask
- 11:56Speaker 4: her if.
- 11:56Speaker 1: She is pregnant. The thing goes on.
- 11:58Speaker 4: It says some there's a difference between non racist and
- 12:02Speaker 4: anti racist, and the police, for some reason or another,
- 12:04Speaker 4: need to acquaint themselves with the definition of those two terms.
- 12:08Speaker 4: It talks about white frigility, which is apparently when white
- 12:11Speaker 4: people don't want to hear that racism exists. I would
- 12:15Speaker 4: have thought suggesting that that was exclusive to white people
- 12:18Speaker 4: is in and of itself racist. It says don't generalize
- 12:22Speaker 4: about people. For instance, as an example, saying that older
- 12:26Speaker 4: people are boring and grumpy, or that women in their
- 12:29Speaker 4: fifties are men a pausal. I'm not entirely sure what
- 12:32Speaker 4: that has to do with policing. I didn't know the
- 12:34Speaker 4: coppers were walking around sizing up fifty year old She
- 12:38Speaker 4: did that because she's mean a pausal. It also says
- 12:41Speaker 4: not to refer to mature adults, because that would be
- 12:45Speaker 4: to suggest that a younger person couldn't be mature.
- 12:49Speaker 1: But of course you would use maturer adults where you.
- 12:52Speaker 4: Didn't want to call someone old because you thought that
- 12:55Speaker 4: might be offensive. So the long and short of it is,
- 12:57Speaker 4: there's nothing you can say anymore if you're a policeman
- 12:59Speaker 4: in Britain, I mean police person or police stay then.
- 13:03Speaker 2: And also, for the long and short of it, I
- 13:05Speaker 2: found you are very good, very good, But.
- 13:07Speaker 4: I mean this is utterly absurd. I mean, imagine you've
- 13:10Speaker 4: signed up to be a copper and you thought, okay,
- 13:12Speaker 4: I'm going to stop some crimes, and then they lobb
- 13:15Speaker 4: this handbook in front of you, telling you you can't
- 13:17Speaker 4: say that someone's got a black mark on them because
- 13:19Speaker 4: it's racist.
- 13:20Speaker 2: The bad news is there's a lot of knife crime
- 13:22Speaker 2: in the UK. The good news, though it's hurty, words
- 13:24Speaker 2: are not in use anymore. I would have thought police
- 13:28Speaker 2: have a lot more important things to do. But this
- 13:30Speaker 2: advice caleberin Liz, I would have thought is racist in
- 13:33Speaker 2: and of itself because it implies that black people are stupid,
- 13:37Speaker 2: in that black people can't differentiate between a racial slur
- 13:40Speaker 2: and a perfectly innocuous mark such as this person has
- 13:43Speaker 2: been blacklisted. It implies that black people are emotionally fragile,
- 13:48Speaker 2: that they're going to get triggered at the first word
- 13:50Speaker 2: that implies anything about them, and that they're easily offended.
- 13:53Speaker 2: And it's also racist because no one's banning things like
- 13:56Speaker 2: whitewashing or white board those things about we know the
- 14:00Speaker 2: difference between a racial slur and that because we're white,
- 14:03Speaker 2: the inference being we're more intelligent, and of course worse
- 14:06Speaker 2: than being insulting to black people, it's just downright dangerous.
- 14:09Speaker 2: The UK is in the middle right now of trying
- 14:11Speaker 2: to unpick this grooming gang scandal where Muslim men predominantly
- 14:17Speaker 2: from Pakistan, over a period of a decade, raped thousands
- 14:21Speaker 2: and thousands of young girls and it was allowed to
- 14:24Speaker 2: happen primarily because police and government officials were so afraid
- 14:28Speaker 2: of offending people of a different race that they talked
- 14:32Speaker 2: in vagaries about these crimes rather than got specific about
- 14:35Speaker 2: them and the rest of the perpetrators. So this is
- 14:37Speaker 2: the last sort of advice that police in the UK
- 14:41Speaker 2: should be worrying about.
- 14:42Speaker 5: And certainly should make it into the news. Right now,
- 14:44Speaker 5: the UK is a tinder box when it comes to
- 14:49Speaker 5: racial tension. They've had one too many terrorist attacks and yes,
- 14:53Speaker 5: the latest being these Pakistani grooming gangs, where it has
- 14:57Speaker 5: been shown that people that the community is told to trust,
- 15:00Speaker 5: these very policemen, care more about being accused of racism
- 15:04Speaker 5: than protecting vulnerable British natives in their country girls from
- 15:12Speaker 5: these Pakistani grooming gangs. This is, like I say, worse
- 15:16Speaker 5: than tone deaf. If I was in the UK, I
- 15:18Speaker 5: think this might be my dipping point because the fact
- 15:21Speaker 5: that they are still paying attention to this, putting this
- 15:24Speaker 5: out in their guidelines, pouring over their handbooks, does my
- 15:28Speaker 5: head in You guys have far worse problems. Do your
- 15:32Speaker 5: jobs for crying out loud. But as a wider issue,
- 15:35Speaker 5: what really boils my brains about issues like this is.
- 15:39Speaker 6: The same people who laugh.
- 15:41Speaker 5: At measures like this and just be like, this is
- 15:43Speaker 5: so ridiculous, I pose it are the same people who
- 15:47Speaker 5: do advocate for hate speech laws if and when it
- 15:51Speaker 5: suits them. You can't have it both ways. If you
- 15:56Speaker 5: are going to concede worse, legislate that words are hurty,
- 16:02Speaker 5: some of them too hurty to be used, some of
- 16:04Speaker 5: them must be eradicated all together, then you are going
- 16:08Speaker 5: to end up with this because once you have ceeded
- 16:11Speaker 5: that ground, you have ceded that ground to people who
- 16:15Speaker 5: are then in charge of deciding which words are hurty,
- 16:18Speaker 5: which words are classified as hate speech, and therefore can
- 16:23Speaker 5: be wiped off the entire societies lexicon. So just remember
- 16:28Speaker 5: next time you're like, yes.
- 16:29Speaker 6: Well, actually I think it should be illegal to say
- 16:32Speaker 6: this or this.
- 16:33Speaker 5: Because cancel culture is siding with your opinion on one
- 16:37Speaker 5: very rare day. If you're a conservative, then just remember
- 16:41Speaker 5: you're seeding ground to that very same side.
- 16:44Speaker 6: Who are like well, marvelous hate speech laws. This is bad,
- 16:47Speaker 6: this is banned.
- 16:48Speaker 5: But speaking of institutionalized hate speech laws and banning this
- 16:54Speaker 5: and we kind of information all, especially on the socials,
- 16:57Speaker 5: Guess what the EU have done. I know you're not
- 17:00Speaker 5: not expecting anything good to come out of that parliament
- 17:02Speaker 5: anytime soon.
- 17:03Speaker 6: No one's holding their breath.
- 17:05Speaker 5: But goodness me, they have doubled down on laws that
- 17:09Speaker 5: were introduced last year.
- 17:11Speaker 6: It's called the Digital Services Act.
- 17:13Speaker 5: Came into force last year and it's only twenty twenty five,
- 17:17Speaker 5: but they've already decided to make it worse. Here are
- 17:21Speaker 5: there renewed guidelines under this revised code that they've come
- 17:26Speaker 5: up with regarding who can post what on social media
- 17:30Speaker 5: platforms and how they are to be censored under the
- 17:35Speaker 5: revised code. Companies these are the platforms like X like
- 17:39Speaker 5: Meta that are signed up must allow a network of
- 17:44Speaker 5: monitoring reporters that are nonprofit or public entities with expertise
- 17:51Speaker 5: on illegal hate speech.
- 17:53Speaker 6: Is that opposed to legal legal speech.
- 17:56Speaker 5: Even legal guys, to regularly monitor how the signatrees these
- 18:02Speaker 5: platforms are reviewing hate speech notices. They will have to
- 18:07Speaker 5: review at least two thirds of h speech notices. Received
- 18:11Speaker 5: from monitoring reporters within twenty four hours. No, there's no
- 18:16Speaker 5: speaking to the magnitude within twenty four hours. Any platform
- 18:21Speaker 5: could receive one thousand, five thousand, one hundred thousand, and
- 18:26Speaker 5: they're expected to address over two thirds of those within
- 18:31Speaker 5: twenty four hours. And now the EU has ensured that
- 18:34Speaker 5: this process is being monitored. So any platforms that have
- 18:38Speaker 5: signed up to this, and they all have by the way,
- 18:41Speaker 5: they're forced to if they want their platforms to be
- 18:45Speaker 5: operational in Europe. So they all have X meta, you
- 18:49Speaker 5: name it. They've signed up. They want to be operational
- 18:52Speaker 5: across Europe. Now the EUS like, ea, EA, you signed
- 18:57Speaker 5: up on it.
- 18:57Speaker 6: We don't trust you. Now we've got these extra layer.
- 19:00Speaker 5: To ensure that not only are you doing it, but
- 19:03Speaker 5: you're doing it in a timely fashion. And to us,
- 19:06Speaker 5: timely fashion is addressing two thirds of any number of
- 19:09Speaker 5: complaints within the last twenty four hours. It is utterly
- 19:13Speaker 5: ludicrous and it's just bald place censuship. I mean, this
- 19:18Speaker 5: is not just hate speech. This is anything that they
- 19:21Speaker 5: deem disinformation.
- 19:23Speaker 6: Don't we love that word. It just keeps popping up.
- 19:26Speaker 2: So one of these not for profits that will be
- 19:27Speaker 2: monitoring our tweets for disinformation is Amnesty International. So they
- 19:32Speaker 2: have been nominated by the EU to go through our
- 19:35Speaker 2: Twitter feeds and make sure it's all you know, true
- 19:37Speaker 2: and correct. This is an organization that tweeted in twenty
- 19:40Speaker 2: twenty two that abortion is a human right. Amnesty International
- 19:43Speaker 2: can tweet that, so you get no idea of maybe
- 19:46Speaker 2: their bias. When reading your.
- 19:48Speaker 6: I can tell you a lot more about a speech.
- 19:51Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, they tweeted non binary rights human rights.
- 19:55Speaker 2: I would have thought non binary people have human rights.
- 19:57Speaker 2: It's a bit of a nonsense. And in last year,
- 20:00Speaker 2: in April ten, Amnesty International made a big deal about
- 20:04Speaker 2: a terrorist leader responsible for the death of an Israeli
- 20:08Speaker 2: nineteen year old who was abducted, held for ransom, then
- 20:12Speaker 2: when he wasn't ransomed by the Israeli government, he was tortured,
- 20:16Speaker 2: sexually assaulted, he was castrated, his eyes were gouged out.
- 20:19Speaker 2: Then he was shot dead and the terrorist leader who
- 20:23Speaker 2: was responsible for that died in an Israeli prison. An
- 20:26Speaker 2: Amnesty International called that an example of Israeli cruelty that
- 20:30Speaker 2: they allowed this man to die in prison. And this
- 20:31Speaker 2: is the organization at the EU. They're so concerned about
- 20:35Speaker 2: this information, they've put Amnesty International as one of the
- 20:37Speaker 2: key umpires of people's social media posts. Who will Amnesty
- 20:42Speaker 2: International answer to and how will they define aid speak
- 20:45Speaker 2: subs information according to their worldview, which, as you can see,
- 20:49Speaker 2: is i'd say pretty different to ours and most of
- 20:52Speaker 2: the people watching tonight.
- 20:53Speaker 4: Well, well, if it's up to Amnesty International, I mean,
- 20:55Speaker 4: if you said Jewish women should should not be raped
- 20:58Speaker 4: and taken hostage on over the seventh twenty twenty three,
- 21:01Speaker 4: they'd say that was hate speech, given the way they
- 21:03Speaker 4: carry on, And it's much like they are being forced
- 21:07Speaker 4: into a position that social media companies for a while
- 21:10Speaker 4: put themselves in them. And you think of here in Australia,
- 21:13Speaker 4: Facebook was signed up with the RMT fact check right,
- 21:17Speaker 4: and we know, particularly during the Voice debate, what was
- 21:20Speaker 4: going on there where they were claiming that whatever the
- 21:24Speaker 4: nose side of the campaign said about the campaign was
- 21:28Speaker 4: somehow disinformation, and so Facebook was censoring that because it
- 21:32Speaker 4: was either wrong or it was hate speech.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Et cetera.
- 21:34Speaker 4: But anything that was of the Yes campaign just got
- 21:36Speaker 4: a green flag. There was no problem there whatsoever. So
- 21:39Speaker 4: the social media companies had actually tried this out before
- 21:42Speaker 4: and it didn't work. They got rid of it. Facebook
- 21:45Speaker 4: got rid of r MIT fact Check. The ABC used
- 21:49Speaker 4: to have an association with rimat fact Check. They've also
- 21:52Speaker 4: stopped that because they've worked out that this stuff doesn't work,
- 21:56Speaker 4: because these people just have a bent that they keep
- 21:59Speaker 4: trying to put forward. And so the EU has gone fantastic.
- 22:04Speaker 4: They tried it for themselves and it didn't work, So
- 22:07Speaker 4: now we're going to make it law.
- 22:09Speaker 1: How much better could it get?
- 22:11Speaker 4: And see, it's no different from what was suggested here
- 22:14Speaker 4: in Australia, which was a misinformation Disinformation Czar or whatever
- 22:19Speaker 4: it was going to be down at AKMA, the Communications
- 22:22Speaker 4: and Media Authority, which would have done exactly the same thing,
- 22:25Speaker 4: but just at a governmental level. The EU now gets
- 22:27Speaker 4: to say, well, this is not happening as a tool
- 22:30Speaker 4: of the governor. We've got nonprofits coming in to do
- 22:33Speaker 4: it for us. Who do you think they choose the
- 22:36Speaker 4: people who agree with them, and the idea that they
- 22:39Speaker 4: have to assess all of the complaints within a twenty
- 22:41Speaker 4: four hour time frame. If I decide now that I've
- 22:45Speaker 4: got a particular bent against X, an X would be
- 22:48Speaker 4: the most likely one to face this kind of thing
- 22:50Speaker 4: given at c Elon Musk running the show. We just
- 22:53Speaker 4: get a campaign of people together to just report every
- 22:56Speaker 4: post as a piece of hate speech. I mean by law,
- 22:59Speaker 4: they are forced to assist them within twenty four hours.
- 23:02Speaker 5: Tell me how then the EU would say, oh, this
- 23:04Speaker 5: isn't happening, We'll have to take over this function.
- 23:07Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen. We gave them a chance. It's not working.
- 23:10Speaker 5: I also don't think it's coincidental that these kind of
- 23:13Speaker 5: measures we just finished talking about the UK police they
- 23:16Speaker 5: can't even mention blackmail, black this, black anything that these
- 23:20Speaker 5: kinds of institutionalizing thou shalt not say fill in the
- 23:25Speaker 5: blank is rife in the UK and in Europe. Why
- 23:30Speaker 5: because these are countries that are being absolutely pummeled with immigration,
- 23:36Speaker 5: whether illegal or illegal, and that is going to result
- 23:41Speaker 5: in people noticing and writing things, inventing online as they
- 23:45Speaker 5: can and should be able to on their socials. But no, no,
- 23:48Speaker 5: we're going to call that hate speech. We're going to
- 23:50Speaker 5: take you're just noticing something. You don't even have to
- 23:53Speaker 5: be derogatory about it. You're just noticing something, and we're
- 23:56Speaker 5: going to make sure you don't dare mention it because
- 23:59Speaker 5: we are doing this, We are orchestrating the takeover in
- 24:03Speaker 5: your own countries, this invasion by design. But hey, we
- 24:06Speaker 5: don't want you guys talking about it and actually finding
- 24:09Speaker 5: each other getting together and going, hey, what can be
- 24:11Speaker 5: done to keep my country my country?
- 24:14Speaker 2: And the clue is when officials start banning things like hate,
- 24:17Speaker 2: which is an emotion. One of the EU officials said
- 24:20Speaker 2: there's no place for hate online or offline in Europe. Well,
- 24:25Speaker 2: the definition of what hate is, of course, is in
- 24:28Speaker 2: the eye of the beholder, and typically that means government
- 24:32Speaker 2: will decide what they want to be said and everything
- 24:34Speaker 2: else is banned. But it just gets better and better
- 24:37Speaker 2: in Europe, of course, where they keep cracking down on
- 24:40Speaker 2: free speech. Open borders continue to be propagated. But there's
- 24:44Speaker 2: a new sheriff in town, and that's Donald Trump. Three
- 24:47Speaker 2: days into his presidency, he addressed the meeting and your
- 24:51Speaker 2: meeting in Davos of the World Economic Forum. I just
- 24:55Speaker 2: imagine all the World Economic Forum people. They're gritting their
- 24:58Speaker 2: teeth as Trump is beamed in on the big screen.
- 25:03Speaker 2: And Donald Trump did not hold back. He got stuck
- 25:06Speaker 2: into the Biden administration, calling them a totally inept group
- 25:10Speaker 2: of people, which is just beautiful because people like John Kerry,
- 25:14Speaker 2: the Democrat, would have been sitting there in Davos listening
- 25:17Speaker 2: to all of this, trying to maintain a smile. Donald
- 25:21Speaker 2: Trump said that America is open for business, and then
- 25:24Speaker 2: he had this to say about the Green scheme, so
- 25:27Speaker 2: loved by all of those pushing for globalization, especially those
- 25:31Speaker 2: in the World Economic Forum have listened.
- 25:33Speaker 7: I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal,
- 25:39Speaker 7: like all it the Green New scam, withdrew from the
- 25:42Speaker 7: one sided Paris Climate Accord, and ended the insane and
- 25:46Speaker 7: costly electric vehicle mendad.
- 25:50Speaker 2: I mean kind of this disrupts everything. Right. Everybody at
- 25:53Speaker 2: the World Economic Forum is all about globalization, what they
- 25:57Speaker 2: call it, the rules based international order. And in comes
- 26:01Speaker 2: Donald Trump, who says America first, if you want to
- 26:04Speaker 2: do business with us, great, If you don't, you're prerogative.
- 26:06Speaker 2: But we're not going to play nice guy and be
- 26:09Speaker 2: rolled over anymore. We're going to stand up for what's
- 26:11Speaker 2: best for us. And they've got four years of this.
- 26:14Speaker 4: I mean, you love the balls on the guy, don't you.
- 26:16Speaker 4: He just rocks up and says Look, this is how
- 26:18Speaker 4: it's going to be. I don't care if you're not
- 26:19Speaker 4: on board.
- 26:19Speaker 1: Get stuffed, which is exactly what Harvey and Malay did
- 26:22Speaker 1: last year.
- 26:23Speaker 4: He was elected over in Argentina, and you look at
- 26:27Speaker 4: Malay's track records since he went over there and basically said,
- 26:31Speaker 4: everything is stuffed. I'm just going to completely rejig Argentina
- 26:35Speaker 4: and we'll see what happens.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Well, it's worked. He's backed it up.
- 26:38Speaker 4: And that's what Donald Trump now has to do and
- 26:41Speaker 4: he will do. He goes and tells these people this
- 26:44Speaker 4: is how things are going to run. And then in
- 26:46Speaker 4: four years time when he walks away, everyone at the
- 26:48Speaker 4: World Economic Forum will have to look even if they
- 26:51Speaker 4: can't outwardly say it because we can't admit that we
- 26:54Speaker 4: were wrong, but they will have to look at what
- 26:56Speaker 4: Donald Trump has done during his term and but grudgingly
- 27:00Speaker 4: admit that, yes, he was right. They'll never say it,
- 27:03Speaker 4: but they'll have to think it.
- 27:04Speaker 1: And that's the.
- 27:05Speaker 4: Best part of it is that he can go in
- 27:07Speaker 4: there and say, look, I know you're wrong.
- 27:09Speaker 1: I'm going to show you that you're wrong, but you
- 27:11Speaker 1: won't be man enough.
- 27:12Speaker 4: I'm mad enough to come and talk to you and
- 27:14Speaker 4: tell you how I see the world and that I
- 27:16Speaker 4: think you're wrong. But you'll never be man enough to
- 27:19Speaker 4: tell me that I'm wrong. You know why, because he
- 27:22Speaker 4: won't be.
- 27:23Speaker 1: He won't be.
- 27:24Speaker 4: He's taking them on. He's taking them on at the WEF.
- 27:27Speaker 4: He's taking them on in America, and much like the
- 27:30Speaker 4: leadership you've seen from Donald Trump before he became president,
- 27:34Speaker 4: since November, the way he's changed the culture in the US.
- 27:37Speaker 4: We just have to hope that this flows on elsewhere
- 27:40Speaker 4: and changes in countries like Australia and the UK, etc.
- 27:45Speaker 4: That's how you bring down a big thing like the
- 27:47Speaker 4: world economics. We can't bring him down, but you know,
- 27:49Speaker 4: try to counter the world economics.
- 27:50Speaker 5: Oh, they will just buy their time. They know what
- 27:53Speaker 5: to expect because it happened the first time, and they
- 27:55Speaker 5: have been dreading this for the previous four years under Biden.
- 27:58Speaker 5: They've been talking about the possibility, especially once he announced. Obviously,
- 28:02Speaker 5: they were quaking in their boots. In this time round
- 28:06Speaker 5: twenty twenty five in DeVos, they've at least admitted, well, yeah, sure,
- 28:11Speaker 5: we hate him, but Trump's one.
- 28:13Speaker 6: And that means we at the WEF we've lost.
- 28:18Speaker 8: Trump has done something no person in the world has
- 28:21Speaker 8: ever done before. A dead band, a dead politician has
- 28:27Speaker 8: risen somebody who the year were four years ago at
- 28:32Speaker 8: the US he's buried dead politically known to me, he's
- 28:36Speaker 8: now returned. This is the greatest comeback in political history
- 28:41Speaker 8: of a politician. And then therefore he thinks he can
- 28:44Speaker 8: do anything.
- 28:45Speaker 9: We need to also factor in not only who's one,
- 28:47Speaker 9: which is Trump, but whose loss.
- 28:49Speaker 2: Which is to say US, And I guess.
- 28:52Speaker 9: I would add throw into that that the epitome of
- 28:54Speaker 9: the US who is losing here is Europe?
- 28:59Speaker 6: Really did he become Europe's president? I miss that?
- 29:03Speaker 5: But there they are, these world leaders, these elites that
- 29:06Speaker 5: get together and shoulder rub every year to make our
- 29:09Speaker 5: lives miserable worldwide. I'm just like, oh, big dog Energy's
- 29:14Speaker 5: back in the White House. How are we going to
- 29:15Speaker 5: pull this off anymore? But check out this guy. His
- 29:18Speaker 5: name's Larry Fink. He's the CEO of Black Rock because
- 29:22Speaker 5: they couldn't just name the thing evil af And he's
- 29:26Speaker 5: got this fascinating take on AI that I'd never entertained before.
- 29:31Speaker 5: Here he is speaking to Davos saying, essentially, these countries
- 29:35Speaker 5: who are very tight immigration policies. They're very nationalistic. They
- 29:40Speaker 5: don't let in huge wads of people from all over
- 29:42Speaker 5: the world preaching to their people, say, oh, we've got
- 29:45Speaker 5: to do it for GDP, we've got to do it
- 29:46Speaker 5: for growth, we've got to do it for all these
- 29:48Speaker 5: hair brained reasons. No, they are passionate about keeping their
- 29:51Speaker 5: country exactly as it is. They're very nationalistic, they're very prideful.
- 29:56Speaker 5: He's saying AI is going to work a treat for
- 29:59Speaker 5: these people because governments who have implemented those policies once
- 30:03Speaker 5: they have AI, which can do one hundred people's jobs.
- 30:08Speaker 5: Just one computer doing one hundred people's jobs around the
- 30:11Speaker 5: clock doesn't need to sleep or eat well that whole
- 30:14Speaker 5: but we need it for manpower.
- 30:16Speaker 6: Argument is going to go out the window.
- 30:20Speaker 9: In my conversations with the leadership of these large developed
- 30:26Speaker 9: countries that have xenophobic immigration policies. It'll allow anybody to
- 30:32Speaker 9: come in, shrinking unemployment, excuse me, tricky demographics. These countries
- 30:42Speaker 9: will rapidly develop robotics in AI and technology. And if
- 30:48Speaker 9: the promise I didn't say it's going to happen, but
- 30:50Speaker 9: as a promise of all that transforms productivity, which most
- 30:55Speaker 9: of us think it will. We'll be able to elevate
- 30:58Speaker 9: the standard of living countries and the standard of living
- 31:01Speaker 9: of individuals even with shrinking populations. And so the paradigm
- 31:06Speaker 9: of negative population growth is going to be changing, and
- 31:12Speaker 9: the social problems that one will have in substituting humans
- 31:17Speaker 9: for machines is going to be far easier in those
- 31:21Speaker 9: countries that have declining populations.
- 31:24Speaker 5: Well well, well, I love how we call nationalist countries,
- 31:28Speaker 5: which is an awesome thing. In my opinion, I think
- 31:30Speaker 5: every country should be nationalists. I think every country should
- 31:33Speaker 5: be filling the blank First, when did it become a
- 31:37Speaker 5: sin to stand up for your own interests? For crying
- 31:39Speaker 5: out loud? Love that he calls them xenophobic countries?
- 31:43Speaker 1: Like how dare they?
- 31:45Speaker 5: But I'd never thought of this take on AI before, right,
- 31:49Speaker 5: because this is what the Australian government certainly preaches to us,
- 31:52Speaker 5: and we're just having big Australia foisted on us. None
- 31:55Speaker 5: of us voted for this, but we wake up in
- 31:57Speaker 5: a country every day now we're only a third of
- 31:59Speaker 5: us born here, Like, how do we end up here?
- 32:02Speaker 6: How did this happen?
- 32:03Speaker 5: But to our government has always preached to us, Oh,
- 32:09Speaker 5: we've got to do this.
- 32:10Speaker 6: It's for growth, it's all about GD But most.
- 32:13Speaker 5: Australians don't even know what gross domestic product is, but
- 32:16Speaker 5: that this is what they water board the public with
- 32:18Speaker 5: and say, look, we have no other choice. We've got
- 32:20Speaker 5: to do this. Once AI gets kicking, that's simply going
- 32:25Speaker 5: to go out the window, unless you're talking about tradees,
- 32:28Speaker 5: because I think it's.
- 32:29Speaker 6: Going to take her while before AI can build your house.
- 32:31Speaker 2: So he's saying countries like Japan that are wealthy countries,
- 32:35Speaker 2: highly developed countries, they've got a declining population, but they're
- 32:39Speaker 2: going to be okay because AI will mean they don't
- 32:42Speaker 2: need to import labor force, computers will do it. On
- 32:45Speaker 2: the other hand, those countries that have been listening to
- 32:47Speaker 2: people like him in the World Forum and have gone
- 32:50Speaker 2: for diversity and important huge numbers of people, they're going
- 32:54Speaker 2: to not only have problems with social cohesion, but when
- 32:58Speaker 2: AI comes in, they're going to have millions of migrants
- 33:01Speaker 2: have imported who no longer have jobs to do. So
- 33:04Speaker 2: they've got social cohesion problems and they're going to have
- 33:08Speaker 2: massive economic problems and what to do with all these
- 33:11Speaker 2: people who no longer have jobs?
- 33:12Speaker 4: Correctamen and I do wonder the argument makes sense, but
- 33:16Speaker 4: there is a point at which AI can go too far.
- 33:20Speaker 4: And I get the idea that AI can replace potentially
- 33:23Speaker 4: a lot of office jobs and menial types of work,
- 33:27Speaker 4: but there is a point where it puts too many
- 33:30Speaker 4: people out of work. Even in those countries where they
- 33:33Speaker 4: have type immigration policies, potentially you could have so many
- 33:36Speaker 4: people out of work that you just can't cope with it.
- 33:39Speaker 4: I mean, you can't possibly have everyone in the country
- 33:41Speaker 4: building houses, because if your popularity, your popularity, your population
- 33:45Speaker 4: is declining, then you've got no one to build the
- 33:47Speaker 4: houses for, right That's the only work that will be
- 33:49Speaker 4: left over, potentially is physical labor of some description. So
- 33:55Speaker 4: I buy the argument, and I get the argument, and
- 33:57Speaker 4: I think that's fine as long as as we know
- 34:00Speaker 4: at which point to stop AI from taking everyone's job away.
- 34:06Speaker 4: If it own, if it means that you don't need
- 34:08Speaker 4: to bring in extra people to service the population, great
- 34:11Speaker 4: that makes sense. But if it goes too far and
- 34:14Speaker 4: you end up replacing the jobs of the people who
- 34:16Speaker 4: are already there, then yes, you're going to end up
- 34:19Speaker 4: in a lot of trouble. And of course we talked
- 34:21Speaker 4: about Donald Trump before and his power being able to
- 34:23Speaker 4: go to the WEF and tell him exactly what he thinks.
- 34:25Speaker 4: How's this for Donald Trump exerting a bit of power.
- 34:29Speaker 4: Of course, he said, first day back in the job,
- 34:31Speaker 4: as present, we will have mass deportation, and he is
- 34:34Speaker 4: delivering on that promise. They sent two planeloads of illegal
- 34:38Speaker 4: margrants back to Colombia. Now, when the plane's got to Columbia,
- 34:42Speaker 4: the president said, no, we're not taking them.
- 34:45Speaker 1: You can't do this.
- 34:46Speaker 4: So Donald Trump got on social media and said, well,
- 34:48Speaker 4: I know what I'm going to do about that. I'm
- 34:50Speaker 4: going to whack on you a twenty five percent tariff,
- 34:52Speaker 4: which within a week will be fifty percent. Anything that
- 34:56Speaker 4: Columbia imports into the United States. I'm assuming HIPT cocaine
- 35:00Speaker 4: because that comes in away from taxation, et cetera.
- 35:05Speaker 1: We'll have a fifty percent teriff on it.
- 35:06Speaker 4: And so within two hours, the president of Columbia changed
- 35:10Speaker 4: his tune and said, actually, yes, you can deport the
- 35:14Speaker 4: illegals back to Colombia. I'll even send my own presidential
- 35:18Speaker 4: plane to collect them for you. I mean, you talk
- 35:20Speaker 4: about the big dog energy of Donald Trump, this is
- 35:23Speaker 4: it or it large he's gone not having it.
- 35:26Speaker 1: He may just have to fall off.
- 35:27Speaker 5: It has got to be the shortest trade war in
- 35:31Speaker 5: three of the universe. He never actually got to take place.
- 35:34Speaker 5: So first Donald Trump said, I'll start out with a
- 35:37Speaker 5: twenty five percent tariff all the goods that you sent us.
- 35:40Speaker 5: But within a week it's going to go to fifty percent.
- 35:43Speaker 5: And not only did the President fold and be like, okay, okay, okay,
- 35:47Speaker 5: we'll take them, he then shared on here his own
- 35:50Speaker 5: social media that he was you he was offering his
- 35:54Speaker 5: own presidential plane to help ferry these criminals out of
- 36:00Speaker 5: USA and back into Columbia.
- 36:03Speaker 6: What a win.
- 36:04Speaker 5: Trump's been very firm on this and saying, hey, look.
- 36:07Speaker 6: We want to be friends with all our neighbors.
- 36:08Speaker 5: We're a very friendly country here, but friends don't leave
- 36:12Speaker 5: each other's rubbish in.
- 36:13Speaker 6: Each other's backyards, and you only take your criminals back.
- 36:17Speaker 5: Don't you wish that we had something similar here in Australia.
- 36:21Speaker 5: How many times have we talked about these detainees, etc.
- 36:24Speaker 5: And so on, those who have re offended, those who
- 36:27Speaker 5: should have never been here in the first place. But
- 36:29Speaker 5: Australia's just like, oh, well, what can we do We've got.
- 36:33Speaker 6: To keep him.
- 36:33Speaker 5: He's just like mate, by the jet load. We are
- 36:36Speaker 5: sending your back and.
- 36:38Speaker 2: You only had to do this once. He's made an
- 36:39Speaker 2: example of Columbia. Every other South American country will have
- 36:42Speaker 2: taken note, and I suggest he probably won't have any
- 36:45Speaker 2: more problems. Good to see a present actually take action too.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Joe Biden would have had to go on a trip
- 36:50Speaker 2: to the beach, take a nap, consulted committee before he
- 36:53Speaker 2: would have done anything about this. We're going to go
- 36:54Speaker 2: to a break. When we come back, look at what's
- 36:56Speaker 2: making news tomorrow, including an exclusive in the Career Mail
- 37:00Speaker 2: about Queensland children being prescribed puberty blockers without parental consent.
- 37:05Speaker 2: All of that in just a moment. Welcome back. Let's
- 37:10Speaker 2: take a look at what's making news in tomorrow's papers.
- 37:13Speaker 2: The Career Mail has a front page exclusive. I should
- 37:16Speaker 2: point out there's a cyclone bearing down on North Queensland,
- 37:19Speaker 2: but there's about to be a cyclone hit promoters of
- 37:22Speaker 2: gender ideology in Queensland. With this exclusive, clinic gave kids
- 37:26Speaker 2: puberty blockers without parents consent. Children's gender scandal, reads the headline.
- 37:31Speaker 2: The article says Queensland kids as young as twelve have
- 37:34Speaker 2: been prescribed puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones without proper
- 37:38Speaker 2: medical support and parental consent. The Chrisofoley government has been
- 37:43Speaker 2: rocked by explosive claims that rogue gender services have been
- 37:46Speaker 2: operating in Cans, with Queensland Health now launching an independent inquiry.
- 37:52Speaker 2: The article goes on to suggest that the can Sexual
- 37:55Speaker 2: Health Service has apparently delivered unauthorized gender care gender care,
- 38:01Speaker 2: gender service to about forty two children, as I said,
- 38:06Speaker 2: without proper medical supervision or parental consent. Now, of course,
- 38:10Speaker 2: here in Australia, our politicians have resisted calls for an
- 38:14Speaker 2: inquiry into the way kids with.
- 38:17Speaker 6: Five times five times.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Pauline Hanson five times, as Liz says, has called for
- 38:24Speaker 2: such an inquiry, and our politicians have been completely incurious
- 38:27Speaker 2: about what we're doing with kids. Just maybe this is
- 38:31Speaker 2: the tipping point that might arouse the curiosity of some
- 38:34Speaker 2: of our politicians who think maybe we should take an
- 38:37Speaker 2: interest in how our kids are being.
- 38:39Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to arouse anything for years now.
- 38:42Speaker 5: Remember it was twenty twenty three when doctor Gillian Spencer a.
- 38:46Speaker 6: Child syke in Queensland.
- 38:49Speaker 5: There's been a concentration of Queensland doctors, pediatricians and child sikes,
- 38:55Speaker 5: like doctor Gillian Spencer, who tried to speak out about
- 38:59Speaker 5: this specific in Queensland, saying, these guys are just running
- 39:02Speaker 5: a mark up here. We cannot back this gender affirming
- 39:06Speaker 5: care that's going on and they knew, so.
- 39:10Speaker 6: That's my point. This isn't going through. Oh yeah, maybe
- 39:12Speaker 6: we'll finally get action. They've known for years.
- 39:16Speaker 5: Doctor Gillian Spencer was stilled down in twenty twenty three.
- 39:20Speaker 5: I've lost counter the amount of articles where Queensland has
- 39:22Speaker 5: specifically will like cut this out and they were either
- 39:26Speaker 5: stood down or penalized in other ways. That is how
- 39:32Speaker 5: absolutely militant certain people are about driving this agenda. And
- 39:37Speaker 5: like I say, five times, not once, not twice, not
- 39:41Speaker 5: a third time, Senator Pauline Hanson has just tried to
- 39:44Speaker 5: get up an inquiry.
- 39:45Speaker 6: It's not like.
- 39:46Speaker 5: I'm trying to pass a bill to ban gender affirm No,
- 39:49Speaker 5: She's simply said I want an inquiry into this, especially
- 39:52Speaker 5: since the CAST report in the UK where they.
- 39:55Speaker 6: Banned this treatment.
- 39:57Speaker 5: Nobody's getting puberty blockers anymore because had massive issues, rendering
- 40:01Speaker 5: some kids infertile for the rest of their lives had
- 40:04Speaker 5: bone density issues, you name it, it's got it. They
- 40:07Speaker 5: banned it nationwide. Can I just get an inquiry into this?
- 40:11Speaker 5: And the powers that be, those evil, evil individuals said
- 40:16Speaker 5: no five times five times, So no, I don't think we're.
- 40:20Speaker 6: Going to get any action on this.
- 40:21Speaker 5: It wouldn't matter what the headline was, they will do nothing.
- 40:25Speaker 4: But this is the thing, bugg of the inquiry. The
- 40:27Speaker 4: inquiries have already been done.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Overseas exactly know what's going on.
- 40:31Speaker 4: Just skip to the part where we scrap it Like
- 40:34Speaker 4: this shouldn't even be a discussion that we are having tonight.
- 40:37Speaker 4: We shouldn't then be waking up tomorrow to hear politicians saying, oh,
- 40:41Speaker 4: we're going to look into this and something has to
- 40:42Speaker 4: be done. Just do it, Just do it like they
- 40:45Speaker 4: could have done it years ago. The Cash report, as
- 40:48Speaker 4: you said, the NHS scrapped it, the Tavistock clinic shut down.
- 40:52Speaker 4: The UK has been through all of this, and Australia
- 40:56Speaker 4: is so far behind the rest of the world. The US,
- 40:59Speaker 4: I mean in New York Times, for heaven's sake, is
- 41:02Speaker 4: publishing stories now about people who regret having transition when
- 41:05Speaker 4: they were children that would not have happened.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Five years ago.
- 41:08Speaker 4: The culture, the talking points have changed so much overseas,
- 41:13Speaker 4: and yet here in Australia we're in exactly the same
- 41:15Speaker 4: place we have been for years. Just do something about
- 41:19Speaker 4: it and stop it.
- 41:20Speaker 1: Now.
- 41:21Speaker 5: It's like we're back in pandemic days. The science changes
- 41:25Speaker 5: depending on which state you're in, sometimes which city you're in.
- 41:28Speaker 5: Certainly which country you're in, the science is totally different.
- 41:31Speaker 5: So in the UK it's banned, it's evil and they
- 41:34Speaker 5: know it. But apparently here in Australia we don't even
- 41:37Speaker 5: want to know their science, and we certainly don't know ours.
- 41:39Speaker 5: We're just determined to push an ideology on innocent children.
- 41:44Speaker 5: To the front page of the Townsville Bulletin, Now electricity
- 41:48Speaker 5: meters ripoff Queenslanders.
- 41:50Speaker 6: Oh, Queensland heavy.
- 41:52Speaker 5: New electricity meters being rapidly rolled out. In the bush's slash,
- 41:56Speaker 5: carbon emissions are quote enabling a ripoff end quote according
- 42:00Speaker 5: to an economics professor that Federal Labor appointed to the
- 42:04Speaker 5: Climate Change Authority, University of Queensland's John's Quiggin told the
- 42:09Speaker 5: bullet In, many households with smart meters had been moved
- 42:12Speaker 5: to demand tariff power plans that were just crazy.
- 42:18Speaker 6: Wait a minute, so we've actually.
- 42:20Speaker 5: Got these being rolled out which are ripping off Queenslanders
- 42:25Speaker 5: like you wouldn't believe it. It's being done at the
- 42:27Speaker 5: state's behest, of course, as everything is being done, and
- 42:33Speaker 5: Queenslanders already have the most expensive power prices in the nation.
- 42:37Speaker 5: It's been that way for I think well over a
- 42:39Speaker 5: year at this point, and now they're finding out that
- 42:41Speaker 5: the state is just like, look, while we're ripping.
- 42:43Speaker 6: You off, let's just make it worse.
- 42:46Speaker 2: And it's not small. It's, according to the towns Or
- 42:48Speaker 2: bullet In, an extra eight hundred dollars a year on
- 42:50Speaker 2: top of people's energy prices because of what the government
- 42:53Speaker 2: is doing, supposedly to help them. What's that old thing government?
- 42:58Speaker 2: Everything they touched, they make it worse? Was it wrong?
- 43:00Speaker 1: Yes?
- 43:00Speaker 2: Who says are the worst words you can hear in
- 43:02Speaker 2: your life after from the.
- 43:03Speaker 4: Government here to help, which which Kevin rad Than reappropriated to.
- 43:08Speaker 1: You know, I'm Kevin from Queensland and I'm.
- 43:10Speaker 4: Here to help them when we're on about having a
- 43:12Speaker 4: nice Bova with your cup of tea that night when
- 43:13Speaker 4: he became PM two. But it's it is ridiculous that
- 43:17Speaker 4: they create this system. Well, we know why they've created
- 43:20Speaker 4: the system, because you know, it allows them to interfere with.
- 43:22Speaker 1: Your air conditioners.
- 43:24Speaker 4: They can turn it down when they're worried that the
- 43:27Speaker 4: electricity is going to be turned off because there's not
- 43:29Speaker 4: enough power to go around, et cetera. But they have
- 43:31Speaker 4: a system that they say, well, this will be good
- 43:34Speaker 4: because we know exactly at what times you're using power,
- 43:37Speaker 4: et cetera. So you know, we can offer you a
- 43:40Speaker 4: discounted rate during the day when people are less.
- 43:43Speaker 1: Likely to be using power.
- 43:45Speaker 4: So you should run your dishwasher and your washing machine,
- 43:47Speaker 4: et cetera. Then, but of course it also means that
- 43:49Speaker 4: they know when you're using power at night. So you
- 43:52Speaker 4: go on this deal which they have sold to you
- 43:54Speaker 4: is great, great, great, You'll get cheap power during the
- 43:56Speaker 4: day and then at night they're just jacking it up
- 43:59Speaker 4: to high heaven and pretending it was a good deal.
- 44:01Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
- 44:02Speaker 4: Let's go to the Australian where it says AI and
- 44:05Speaker 4: g hotpot falls quiet on China.
- 44:09Speaker 1: I wonder why China's answer to chat.
- 44:12Speaker 4: GPT has plenty to say about Australia, labeling it's human
- 44:15Speaker 4: rights record a mixed picture and the national holiday deeply divisive,
- 44:20Speaker 4: but it draws blanks when asked about the ti Anaman
- 44:23Speaker 4: Square massacre in nineteen eighty nine, Jijingping, the Cultural Revolution,
- 44:28Speaker 4: or China's own record.
- 44:29Speaker 1: On human rights. Gee, I wonder why that might be
- 44:33Speaker 1: a So.
- 44:34Speaker 2: If you ask, what's this thing called deep seek? If
- 44:37Speaker 2: you ask it about Donald Trump, or about Anthey Albanesi
- 44:41Speaker 2: or Peter Dutton, it will give you an opinion. If
- 44:43Speaker 2: you ask it about Xijingping, it says, can we change
- 44:47Speaker 2: the subject or talk about something else. So it just
- 44:50Speaker 2: goes to show everyone in China is scared of the
- 44:52Speaker 2: authoritarian leader. Even Ai is too scared to talk about him.
- 44:55Speaker 5: So you say divisive device division yep, yep, okay.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Well have you kel not on this one? I think
- 45:03Speaker 1: both are okay, but I'll take this goes.
- 45:06Speaker 2: To show why Trump's pursuit of pre eminence in Ai
- 45:10Speaker 2: is so important, correct, because if China dominate, then it
- 45:13Speaker 2: allows them to set the narrative for the whole world,
- 45:16Speaker 2: which cannot be allowed.
- 45:17Speaker 5: That's why the race, that's what TikTok's for, they've already done.
- 45:21Speaker 5: It's maked into the next gener race.
- 45:24Speaker 4: Have Ai and it'll all be over, including those jobs.
- 45:26Speaker 4: Apparently another story very quickly before we go to the break.
- 45:29Speaker 4: Pacific dose of green clarity for gen. Prime Minister Civitenni
- 45:33Speaker 4: Rabuka has rejected claims by fellow Pacific leaders that their
- 45:38Speaker 4: countries are being endangered by Australia's hypocritical expansion of gas
- 45:41Speaker 4: and coal production, declaring we should not blame Australia for
- 45:45Speaker 4: climate change, and he said that the transition to green
- 45:48Speaker 4: energy must walk apace with development and affordability.
- 45:52Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
- 45:54Speaker 4: Someone actually making sense and saying, no, the little country
- 45:59Speaker 4: with twenty seven million people is not the reason that
- 46:02Speaker 4: you're supposedly going to end up underwater.
- 46:04Speaker 1: I can't believe he's actually covering a.
- 46:06Speaker 5: Sort After Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords, all
- 46:09Speaker 5: these islander nations would be like, well, that's it, We're sunk.
- 46:14Speaker 6: Where done, It's over. Like why at.
- 46:16Speaker 5: This point would you ever berate Australia ever again.
- 46:19Speaker 2: That the problem is the Albanizer government will jump on
- 46:21Speaker 2: this and say, see, we're not responsible. But the Albaniza
- 46:24Speaker 2: government are excited because they want to host COP thirty one.
- 46:28Speaker 2: And one of the contentions is that Australia is not
- 46:31Speaker 2: a good citizen. This will be proof that we are.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Therefore we can host COP thirty one, which will just
- 46:35Speaker 2: cost us a whole lot more money in climate change
- 46:37Speaker 2: mitigation costs. Anyway, we're going to go to a break
- 46:39Speaker 2: when we come back. Lots of people lining up at
- 46:42Speaker 2: Sydney's Botanic gardens to smell a flower. Not because the
- 46:44Speaker 2: fragrance is nice. It's futrid and people want to whiff
- 46:48Speaker 2: that's coming up at.
- 46:48Speaker 4: This a moment.
- 46:53Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back. Well, huge crowds queuing out the botanic
- 46:56Speaker 2: gardens to smell the flowers. But Caleb, this is slightly
- 46:59Speaker 2: different kind of smell.
- 47:01Speaker 4: Indeed, there is a big stink in Sydney, and I
- 47:04Speaker 4: can report it is not James McPherson. That's just localized
- 47:08Speaker 4: to mcquarie Park and this studio here at the Lake Debate,
- 47:11Speaker 4: but the titan Arum, otherwise known as the corpse flower.
- 47:16Speaker 4: I had to make sure I got the real name
- 47:17Speaker 4: in there because my father is a horticulturalist. This thing
- 47:20Speaker 4: takes ten years to first bloom, and then after that
- 47:23Speaker 4: it blooms every three to five years. But when it does,
- 47:27Speaker 4: the stink is absolutely putrid, so much so that people
- 47:32Speaker 4: actually take time out of their day to go and
- 47:35Speaker 4: smell something that apparently smells like rotten eggs. According to
- 47:38Speaker 4: one boy who went to visit, it is a bizarre
- 47:41Speaker 4: idea that you would be like, Okay, here is something
- 47:44Speaker 4: that smells like something I don't want to go near
- 47:46Speaker 4: at all, but I'm deliberately going to go near it
- 47:49Speaker 4: because it is so unusual that this thing smells like
- 47:51Speaker 4: it does. I can't make sense of it.
- 47:54Speaker 5: So only when you can watch the good part online
- 47:56Speaker 5: like this was live streams, you can sit in the
- 47:58Speaker 5: comfort of your home smelling it. No one savory smells
- 48:01Speaker 5: and watch the thing bloom.
- 48:03Speaker 6: But no, they wanted to smell it.
- 48:05Speaker 5: Funnily enough, the brother of the kid who said it
- 48:08Speaker 5: smelt like rotten eggs, his little brother piped up and said,
- 48:12Speaker 5: and poop, it smelled ape.
- 48:14Speaker 2: Always the little brother. The ABC interviewed a woman who
- 48:17Speaker 2: traveled an hour to smell it. I think that's the thing, right.
- 48:20Speaker 2: You can watch it online and you can see it,
- 48:22Speaker 2: but the experience is really sure to be smelt. This
- 48:25Speaker 2: woman traveled an hour to smell it. She told the
- 48:27Speaker 2: ABC it smelt like wet towels, and then advised after
- 48:31Speaker 2: she got home she'd get friends and she'd come back
- 48:33Speaker 2: to smell it all over again.
- 48:35Speaker 4: Look, it must be such an enriching experience. I think
- 48:38Speaker 4: we all have to go down and perhaps check it
- 48:40Speaker 4: out for ourselves and love it and see and see
- 48:42Speaker 4: how we go, and see whether or not it does,
- 48:45Speaker 4: in fact smell worse than James McPherson.
- 48:47Speaker 1: That might be a feat.
- 48:49Speaker 2: I'm going to take Cale about back. We're going to
- 48:50Speaker 2: have words, but you stick around. Coming up is the
- 48:53Speaker 2: reader Penny Show. Couldn't I