Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 18 March
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome the late base.
- 0:07Speaker 2: It's great to have your company.
- 0:08Speaker 3: I'm James macpherson with Denika to Georgio and Caleb Bond.
- 0:11Speaker 2: How are you both brilliant?
- 0:13Speaker 1: Matte? I mean on a Wednesday night, where would I.
- 0:16Speaker 4: Rather be than with James McPherson and particularly Deneka To.
- 0:20Speaker 5: George, Oh, thank you?
- 0:22Speaker 6: In shoes down my brain new I've been trying to
- 0:27Speaker 6: tell these two I've got new pink shoes. Neither of
- 0:28Speaker 6: themart of the show.
- 0:31Speaker 2: There you go, very impree.
- 0:32Speaker 5: I appreciate.
- 0:32Speaker 7: How are you?
- 0:33Speaker 3: I was doing great till like Caleb said, and particularly George.
- 0:37Speaker 2: So we'll deal with that.
- 0:38Speaker 1: If you're not wearing pink shoes, Jay.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Here you go, I'll fix that tomorrow night. All right,
- 0:42Speaker 3: here's what's coming up this evening. And you study finds
- 0:45Speaker 3: Muslims in the UK a five times more likely to
- 0:48Speaker 3: have a positive view of the Iranian regime than the
- 0:51Speaker 3: general public. Maybe that explains Keir Starmer's lukewarm support for Trump.
- 0:55Speaker 3: The BBC invites a man who identifies as a woman
- 0:59Speaker 3: to discuss his experience of misogyny on a program called
- 1:03Speaker 3: Women's Hour, and the man formerly known as Prince Andrew,
- 1:06Speaker 3: has started moving into his new house. But where to
- 1:09Speaker 3: put all those teddy bears? Full of that coming up shortly,
- 1:13Speaker 3: but first is the cost of living crisis made worse
- 1:16Speaker 3: by skyrocketing fuel prices, creating a new class of criminal.
- 1:21Speaker 3: South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stephens says the number of
- 1:24Speaker 3: people driving off from petrol stations without paying is increasing dramatically.
- 1:30Speaker 7: But what we have been able to track is a
- 1:32Speaker 7: marked increase in the number of petrol drive offs in
- 1:35Speaker 7: the last week compared to the week before. It's something
- 1:38Speaker 7: like a thirty six thirty seven percent increase in the
- 1:41Speaker 7: number of petrol drive offs. So it's a significant, identifiable trend.
- 1:47Speaker 2: And here's the really interesting part of that.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Deneka and Caleb Police say more than forty percent of
- 1:53Speaker 3: those stealing fuel were first time offenders. So this is
- 1:56Speaker 3: a relatively new phenomena, well at least for a lot
- 1:59Speaker 3: of people.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Well, and you can almost understand it in some way
- 2:04Speaker 4: because things have become so bad, the cost of living
- 2:07Speaker 4: is so bad and fuel has gone through the roof
- 2:10Speaker 4: that you have people who are at their wits end
- 2:15Speaker 4: making decisions that they've never made in their lives before.
- 2:19Speaker 4: And of course it's illegal. You shouldn't do it. Don't steal.
- 2:22Speaker 4: But I kind of understand what's going on here that
- 2:25Speaker 4: these are people who probably have never stolen anything in
- 2:28Speaker 4: their lives, would barely have contemplated stealing something, but are
- 2:32Speaker 4: now so desperate that they need to go work or
- 2:36Speaker 4: whatever it is, and they're stealing fuel. Look, you're going
- 2:40Speaker 4: to get in more trouble eventually anyway if you steal fuel.
- 2:42Speaker 4: They've got your number plate. So you should just cop
- 2:46Speaker 4: the excessive cost of the fuel, because what you'll have
- 2:48Speaker 4: to go through in fines and court and whatever down
- 2:51Speaker 4: the line is going to cost you a lot more
- 2:53Speaker 4: than the fuel would have. But I understand why it's
- 2:56Speaker 4: happening because it's not like a lot of other things essentials, right,
- 2:59Speaker 4: you know, if you can't afford food, you've got O
- 3:03Speaker 4: is it oz harvest all these other mobs right that
- 3:05Speaker 4: give out food to people who are needing, And increasingly
- 3:08Speaker 4: the people who are going to take this food people
- 3:11Speaker 4: who are working full time and they have a roof
- 3:13Speaker 4: over their heads, you've got a mortgage, you've got a family,
- 3:15Speaker 4: et cetera. It's not just homeless people. These are the
- 3:18Speaker 4: same people, I suppose who are in the position now
- 3:20Speaker 4: with that they feel so desperate that they're stealing fuel
- 3:24Speaker 4: and I kind of feel sorry for them.
- 3:26Speaker 5: I actually do too. I kind of feel sorry for
- 3:28Speaker 5: them too.
- 3:28Speaker 6: The South Australian Police Commissioner said that last week there
- 3:31Speaker 6: were ninety seven first time offenders when it came to
- 3:34Speaker 6: fuel theft. And we haven't seen this sort of thing
- 3:37Speaker 6: since the when Russia invaded Ukraine. This is the first
- 3:40Speaker 6: time we've seen people going absolutely berserk at the bowsers,
- 3:44Speaker 6: people stealing fuel for the first time. Look, I don't
- 3:47Speaker 6: condone this behavior, obviously, I don't condone theft in any way,
- 3:51Speaker 6: but I'm with Caleb on this.
- 3:52Speaker 5: I can see why people are doing it.
- 3:53Speaker 6: People are trying to make ends meet, they are trying
- 3:57Speaker 6: to feed their family.
- 3:58Speaker 5: There's hungry mouths to feed.
- 4:00Speaker 6: And on top of all this, on top of rising
- 4:02Speaker 6: energy costs, there's a housing crisis, the cost of living crisis,
- 4:05Speaker 6: groceries are going up. They've also now got issues with fuel.
- 4:08Speaker 6: I mean even here in Sydney last week that there
- 4:10Speaker 6: were some petrol stations that were selling it for about
- 4:12Speaker 6: three dollars a liter in some parts.
- 4:15Speaker 5: Of the city. I mean, it's you know, it is.
- 4:17Speaker 5: It's absolutely out.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Of an asking question of both of you.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Would you feel as sympathetic if you were, say, oh,
- 4:23Speaker 3: I don't know the owner of.
- 4:24Speaker 2: The petrol station.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Would you still be just understand why people do this?
- 4:28Speaker 3: They can't afford to drive, and it's driven these people.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Would you be as compassionate and sympathetic if you were
- 4:33Speaker 3: the one having to fut the bill for this?
- 4:36Speaker 1: Of course you wouldn't.
- 4:37Speaker 4: But but I think you could also admit the point that
- 4:39Speaker 4: because of the cost of the product, you understand what
- 4:42Speaker 4: he's driving the behavior.
- 4:43Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you agree with it.
- 4:45Speaker 4: It's simply to say that there is an obvious reason
- 4:48Speaker 4: that you've had a significant uptick in people stealing petrol,
- 4:51Speaker 4: and that a significant number of them are people who
- 4:54Speaker 4: are doing it for the first time in their lives.
- 4:56Speaker 1: If you all excuse the behavior, it's to expain it.
- 4:58Speaker 3: If you were so badly off you can't afford fuel,
- 5:02Speaker 3: would you resort to theft or would you have some
- 5:04Speaker 3: people you'd say, Hey, I need some help.
- 5:06Speaker 6: People might feel embarrassed to ask for help, Jack, so
- 5:09Speaker 6: they rather stealing. But James, some people might genuinely feel
- 5:12Speaker 6: and again, I don't behavior but some people might feel
- 5:15Speaker 6: embarrassed to reach out. If you are really at your
- 5:18Speaker 6: wits end and you are so stressed out, you don't
- 5:21Speaker 6: know how you're going to make ends meet, you don't
- 5:23Speaker 6: know how you're going to feed your family. Sometimes your
- 5:26Speaker 6: pride might get in the way and you just feel
- 5:28Speaker 6: embarrassed to even ask for help, that you resort to
- 5:31Speaker 6: these sort of stupid measures when you are so worried
- 5:34Speaker 6: and you're so anxious and stressed out. Again, I don't
- 5:37Speaker 6: agree with theft. I'm not sitting here going yay, everybody,
- 5:40Speaker 6: go and steal petrol from the bowser.
- 5:41Speaker 5: This is fantastic.
- 5:42Speaker 6: I'm just saying I can understand the rationale behind it.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Theft from petrol stations cost eighty two million dollars annually.
- 5:51Speaker 3: It's about ten thousand dollars per fuel station that is
- 5:54Speaker 3: lost to this sort of crime. And the last time
- 5:57Speaker 3: theft from fuel stations was this high was back in
- 6:00Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, which of course was the start of
- 6:02Speaker 3: the Ukrainian War. So we've seen this before, and I
- 6:06Speaker 3: suppose we'll see a lot more of it if the
- 6:08Speaker 3: Uranian War continues and shipping channels are continually blocked well, you.
- 6:13Speaker 5: Know what else is going up?
- 6:14Speaker 1: Coffee?
- 6:14Speaker 6: Apparently the cost of coffee. I know you to, you're
- 6:17Speaker 6: both avid coffee drinkers.
- 6:18Speaker 2: I can't function without it.
- 6:19Speaker 5: You can't function without as much as you want to
- 6:21Speaker 5: cost me. Well, here's Neil. This is a Neil Perry.
- 6:23Speaker 5: Now you might remember him as a celebrity shift.
- 6:25Speaker 6: He's warning that, because of this potential looming recession, he
- 6:29Speaker 6: reckons that coffee could soon cost twelve dollars. Twelve dollars
- 6:33Speaker 6: for a cup of coffee.
- 6:34Speaker 2: For goodness, say you know what I'm going to do,
- 6:36Speaker 2: what I'm going to steal it.
- 6:40Speaker 6: Look, would you honestly seriously pay twelve dollars for.
- 6:42Speaker 5: A cup of coffee?
- 6:43Speaker 2: Just walk into the petrol station? Get my joking.
- 6:46Speaker 5: They're a dollar at the post seven.
- 6:49Speaker 3: Fill it up a dollar, fill it before you pay
- 6:51Speaker 3: for it. Right, it's the same thing as the petrol
- 6:53Speaker 3: and you'd be very sympathetic.
- 6:54Speaker 5: But I mean, but.
- 6:55Speaker 6: That's actually frightening to think that it could go to
- 6:57Speaker 6: twelve twelve already. Coffee is actually I don't drink coffee,
- 7:01Speaker 6: but I know that sometimes you can pay up to
- 7:03Speaker 6: six dollars.
- 7:04Speaker 5: I mean, it's just ridiculous.
- 7:05Speaker 3: You know, the most expensive coffee I've ever had, a
- 7:07Speaker 3: fifty dollars cup of coffee. What in North Queensland there's
- 7:11Speaker 3: this special coffee that.
- 7:13Speaker 1: That's not the one that that animal poos.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Yeah, there's an animal Indonesia that eats the beans, that
- 7:20Speaker 3: poos the beans out and then they make coffee out
- 7:22Speaker 3: of it. And it's fifty dollars a cup.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Now was it any good? Was it worth fifty dollars?
- 7:26Speaker 3: It tasted like international roast, but do you know extra fegal.
- 7:33Speaker 5: Yeah, it's terrific.
- 7:34Speaker 6: But you know, just to put it into perspective though,
- 7:36Speaker 6: just to go to show how tough things are out
- 7:38Speaker 6: there at the moment. And when we're talking now possibly
- 7:40Speaker 6: twelve dollars for a cup of coffee, I mean, come on, seriously,
- 7:44Speaker 6: have we really reached that point?
- 7:45Speaker 5: So I think it's frightening.
- 7:47Speaker 4: But what we haven't got to the bottom of is
- 7:48Speaker 4: would you actually pay the twelve dollars James for a
- 7:51Speaker 4: cup of coffee?
- 7:52Speaker 3: My immediate instinct is no, But then when I think
- 7:55Speaker 3: about how much I crave a cup of coffee in
- 7:57Speaker 3: the morning, I probably would. So instead of having really,
- 8:01Speaker 3: instead of instead of having two cups of coffee one
- 8:04Speaker 3: in the morning, I'd have one, and that's how I'd justify.
- 8:06Speaker 5: You to ration it out.
- 8:07Speaker 6: But so basically, instead of paying six dollars here, six
- 8:09Speaker 6: dollars mid morning, twelve dollars one hit done.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Yeah, Macpherson math very far.
- 8:15Speaker 5: It's like girl math.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Sense in girl math, and costs a lot less.
- 8:20Speaker 5: Probably.
- 8:20Speaker 4: Look, I think my machine at home does a decent coffee,
- 8:23Speaker 4: and that costs a hell of a lot less than
- 8:24Speaker 4: twelve dollars, So I might.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Stick to doing that. To be perfectly on it, It
- 8:28Speaker 1: wasn't all that long ago.
- 8:28Speaker 4: You get a flat white for three bucks, you know,
- 8:31Speaker 4: less than a five. And I mean now, anything less
- 8:35Speaker 4: than five.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Dollars is a pretty good deal really for a coffee.
- 8:38Speaker 4: I mean, twelve dollars for a coffee, I'd rather pay
- 8:40Speaker 4: twelve dollars for a pint a beer.
- 8:42Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you.
- 8:43Speaker 4: Know, I suppose that'll be twenty dollars next to Yeah.
- 8:46Speaker 6: Look out, what's there coming for you at the pubs
- 8:48Speaker 6: as well?
- 8:48Speaker 5: Look Out?
- 8:49Speaker 4: This is not a real country anymore. We are not
- 8:51Speaker 4: living in a real country. You've got to pay twelve
- 8:53Speaker 4: dollars for coffee for goodness sake. Speaking of not living
- 8:57Speaker 4: in a real country. People are, of course reacting to
- 9:00Speaker 4: all of this stuff. They're not happy with the way
- 9:03Speaker 4: politics is going. And as I've been saying for some time,
- 9:05Speaker 4: one of.
- 9:06Speaker 1: The first rule tests of all of this, in.
- 9:08Speaker 4: The phenomenon we've seen in the rise of One Nation
- 9:10Speaker 4: will be this weekend the South Australian election. Now, I'm
- 9:14Speaker 4: sure this afternoon you watched the debate between the Premier
- 9:18Speaker 4: of South Australia, Peter Malenowskis and the opposition leader Ashton
- 9:22Speaker 4: Hern here on Sky News. And as Peter Malenowskus was
- 9:26Speaker 4: walking into the Advertiser building this afternoon for the debate,
- 9:30Speaker 4: walking out of the building was Pauline Hanson and Cory Bernardi,
- 9:35Speaker 4: who is the leader of One Nation in South Australia,
- 9:38Speaker 4: and they had a rather interesting little chat.
- 9:42Speaker 5: But I hope that you know, if.
- 9:43Speaker 6: Corey wendesay we do get seats there, quite happy work
- 9:47Speaker 6: the Labor Party and good policy.
- 9:49Speaker 5: For the state.
- 9:50Speaker 4: I'm always happy to work with those that are happy
- 9:52Speaker 4: to work with us.
- 9:54Speaker 1: We might have seem policy, good legislation.
- 9:56Speaker 8: We might have one violently different views on a number
- 9:59Speaker 8: of subjects, but I'm always ready to work with those
- 10:01Speaker 8: that would need to work.
- 10:02Speaker 9: In the interest in the statement.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Correct, and I wish it's safe travels back to Queensland.
- 10:06Speaker 4: Okay, now, wasn't that an interesting little jabb again? Safe
- 10:12Speaker 4: travels back to Queensland. And this is a point that
- 10:14Speaker 4: mister malinowskis raised a number of times today before he
- 10:17Speaker 4: went into that bit debate.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Sorry I should say he stood.
- 10:21Speaker 4: Up a oppressor and he made this point that to
- 10:23Speaker 4: paul In Hanson is from Queensland, trying to say that
- 10:25Speaker 4: you know, one nation isn't a South Australian party. But
- 10:29Speaker 4: you've only got to step out onto the streets, as
- 10:32Speaker 4: did Chris Kenny today to see that Pauline Hanson and
- 10:35Speaker 4: Corey Bernardi were mobbed by people. This is a little
- 10:38Speaker 4: bit of Corey talking to Chris Kenny this afternoon.
- 10:43Speaker 9: It's a disgrace and a lot of people have said
- 10:44Speaker 9: that were really offended when the premier started punching down
- 10:47Speaker 9: on carers in the elderly and saying we had to
- 10:49Speaker 9: import people to effectively wipe their bums. And now we've
- 10:53Speaker 9: got a minister that's punching down on people because they're
- 10:56Speaker 9: saying there's something wrong with what their government's been doing.
- 10:58Speaker 9: People have been left behind. It's really shocking that the
- 11:02Speaker 9: arrogance and the entitlement of both the government and the
- 11:04Speaker 9: opposition is showing. And I think people we're going to
- 11:08Speaker 9: vote accordingly.
- 11:09Speaker 4: It was Andrew Jarles, the minister he was talking about,
- 11:11Speaker 4: who gave a speech basically suggesting that One Nation was
- 11:15Speaker 4: appealing to less educated voters. But again, I mean they
- 11:19Speaker 4: get mobbed on the streets in Adelaide and look at
- 11:22Speaker 4: the polls. And this was revealed at the start of
- 11:24Speaker 4: the debate this afternoon that One Nation in the final
- 11:28Speaker 4: advertiser you gov bowl before the election has overtaken the
- 11:33Speaker 4: Liberal Party.
- 11:34Speaker 1: You can see there that Labor.
- 11:35Speaker 4: Their primary voter, has gone up one percent to thirty
- 11:37Speaker 4: eight percent. One Nations on twenty two percent and the
- 11:40Speaker 4: Liberals are down one percent to nineteen percent. There's a
- 11:44Speaker 4: very real possibility, and this is what will be so
- 11:48Speaker 4: interesting about Saturday night, because we'll get a feel for
- 11:51Speaker 4: where preferences might flow from one nation, how much of
- 11:55Speaker 4: that goes through to the lives, and how much of
- 11:57Speaker 4: it goes through to labor, which will give us an
- 11:59Speaker 4: idea of where where the One Nation verte is coming
- 12:01Speaker 4: from and I preface all of this by saying that
- 12:04Speaker 4: people vote differently in federal and state elections, but there
- 12:08Speaker 4: are great similarities between the Federal Liberal Party and the
- 12:11Speaker 4: South Australian Liberal Party in the fact that the South
- 12:14Speaker 4: Australian Liberal Party is basically just non existent at the moment.
- 12:18Speaker 4: People don't trust it, they don't see any viable option
- 12:21Speaker 4: in it right, which is the same as what has
- 12:23Speaker 4: happened federally.
- 12:24Speaker 1: But we could by this time next.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Week be talking about the fact that there is no
- 12:29Speaker 4: longer a Liberal opposition in South Australia.
- 12:32Speaker 1: We could be talking about a one nation opposition.
- 12:34Speaker 4: If they get seats in the Lower House, they could
- 12:37Speaker 4: have more seats than the Liberal Party and be the
- 12:39Speaker 4: official opposition. That would be an extraordinary turnative into Australian policy.
- 12:44Speaker 6: I think that this is going to be a very
- 12:46Speaker 6: telling election, as will the Pharah by election as well,
- 12:49Speaker 6: because this will be the first time we actually are
- 12:51Speaker 6: able to see whether or not the polling that we've
- 12:54Speaker 6: been seeing at federal and state levels across the country,
- 12:57Speaker 6: whether or not it's actually correct. Is one nation actually
- 13:00Speaker 6: doing well? And where does the Liberal Party poll? I mean,
- 13:03Speaker 6: there was a poll recently that showed that Angus Taylor
- 13:05Speaker 6: was making up ground.
- 13:06Speaker 5: But the thought of a possible opposition.
- 13:09Speaker 6: Being one nation, I mean, that's extraordinary, But we are
- 13:13Speaker 6: I don't think we can be surprised by this because
- 13:15Speaker 6: the blueprint is happening over in the UK right now
- 13:17Speaker 6: with reform. Look how well Nigel Farage has performed in
- 13:20Speaker 6: certain areas, and this is the trajectory that one nation
- 13:24Speaker 6: is certainly going on. So I'm not surprised. The other
- 13:27Speaker 6: thing is, you know Andrew Giles out there today, and
- 13:31Speaker 6: this is the problem with a lot of Labor politicians
- 13:33Speaker 6: and coalition for that matter, they're all taking jabs at
- 13:36Speaker 6: Pauline Hanson. Well that suggests to me one that they
- 13:38Speaker 6: are very very threatened by the success of the party.
- 13:42Speaker 6: But two, when they say that she is divisive, or
- 13:45Speaker 6: they fire shots at her like they keep doing, it
- 13:47Speaker 6: actually only emboldens her and it actually emboldens her base.
- 13:50Speaker 6: So these sorts of petty attacks do absolutely nothing. They're
- 13:54Speaker 6: better off are they not working with one nation, working together,
- 13:58Speaker 6: working on better preference.
- 14:00Speaker 5: It's otherwise who does this benefit Labor?
- 14:03Speaker 2: So the.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Good wishes towards Pauline Hanson from the South Australian premier
- 14:10Speaker 3: have a safe flight back to Queensland, which was not
- 14:12Speaker 3: good wishes at all.
- 14:13Speaker 2: That was very much a political.
- 14:15Speaker 3: Statement reminding everybody this is a South Australian election.
- 14:18Speaker 2: She's a banana bender.
- 14:20Speaker 3: Might have cut through if there wasn't Corey Bernardi, a
- 14:23Speaker 3: well recognized, well regarded face of the party who is
- 14:28Speaker 3: a local. Moving to the Victorian state election that's coming
- 14:31Speaker 3: up later in the year, how important do you think
- 14:33Speaker 3: it is that Pauline Hanson finds a Corey Bernardi in
- 14:38Speaker 3: Victoria because at the moment none of us could name
- 14:40Speaker 3: I mean you probably could, but most people could not
- 14:43Speaker 3: name a One Nation person in Victoria. But most of
- 14:47Speaker 3: Australia would be aware of Corey Bernardi. So they've got
- 14:50Speaker 3: to find someone to hang their hat on.
- 14:51Speaker 4: It's vital because of course you wouldn't say if the
- 14:55Speaker 4: Prime Minister rocked up during the campaign and was campaigning
- 14:59Speaker 4: with Melanie, you know, you wouldn't have the Opposition leader
- 15:02Speaker 4: turning around and saying save flight back to New South Wales,
- 15:05Speaker 4: suggesting that the Labor Party was run out of New
- 15:07Speaker 4: South Wales.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Because the major parties have.
- 15:10Speaker 4: Clear delineation between their state branches and this I've said
- 15:13Speaker 4: this for a long time since this started. One thing
- 15:17Speaker 4: that one nation has to be really careful about is
- 15:19Speaker 4: that it moves beyond it just being the party of
- 15:22Speaker 4: Pauline Hanson, because if they do want to work effectively
- 15:25Speaker 4: in the States, they kind of have to let the
- 15:27Speaker 4: states run their own race, just as the South Australian
- 15:31Speaker 4: Liberal Party operates, says it wants to operate and the
- 15:33Speaker 4: Victorians do their thing and the Queenslanders do their thing.
- 15:36Speaker 4: If it's all run centrally, you will run into that
- 15:39Speaker 4: trouble of someone in Queensland trying to dictate what goes
- 15:42Speaker 4: on in another state, and that won't necessarily work. They
- 15:45Speaker 4: do need to have freedom and they do need to
- 15:47Speaker 4: have a good figurehead in each state if they're going
- 15:49Speaker 4: to do that.
- 15:50Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 15:50Speaker 6: Absolutely, And one thing that Paul Enhnson is very strong
- 15:52Speaker 6: on is of course immigration and mass immigration and people
- 15:56Speaker 6: that were bringing into this country, which takes us to
- 15:59Speaker 6: the now.
- 16:00Speaker 5: Where would you believe it?
- 16:01Speaker 6: About forty percent of British Muslims have a positive view
- 16:06Speaker 6: towards Iran's murderous regime than the general public. In fact,
- 16:10Speaker 6: about five times they're five times more likely too. That's
- 16:15Speaker 6: according to a new poll which found almost two and
- 16:18Speaker 6: five Muslims in the UK hold a favorable view of
- 16:21Speaker 6: the Iranian regime, compared to eight percent of the wider public.
- 16:25Speaker 6: British Muslims also have a plus twenty two net favorability
- 16:29Speaker 6: rating towards the dictatorship as you can see they're on
- 16:31Speaker 6: your screen in Tehran, while minus forty two percent for
- 16:36Speaker 6: the rest of the British population. And it also found
- 16:39Speaker 6: seventeen percent of the public considered the US and Israeli
- 16:42Speaker 6: strikes on Iran to be definitely wrong, compared to fifty
- 16:46Speaker 6: percent of British Muslims.
- 16:48Speaker 5: And Muslims in the.
- 16:49Speaker 6: UK are far more hostile towards the US and Israel,
- 16:52Speaker 6: while they are much warmer would you believe towards China
- 16:57Speaker 6: and Russia?
- 16:58Speaker 5: Now? Am I prize by this?
- 17:01Speaker 6: No, I'm absolutely not surprised by this, And all I
- 17:04Speaker 6: can say is hello and wake up to the West.
- 17:08Speaker 5: Is this not a stark warning?
- 17:11Speaker 6: Now we'll preface by saying the majority of Muslims do
- 17:13Speaker 6: live peacefully.
- 17:14Speaker 5: Okay, let's put that out of the way.
- 17:16Speaker 6: But is this not a warning when you've got about
- 17:18Speaker 6: forty percent of those surveyed in favor of a murderous
- 17:22Speaker 6: regime which has adopted a shoot to kill policy on
- 17:25Speaker 6: its own citizens, has murdered innocent civilians, its own people,
- 17:31Speaker 6: beats women for showing their face in public, hangs gay people.
- 17:35Speaker 6: I mean, we're talking the worst of the worst here,
- 17:38Speaker 6: state sponsor of terror, a supporter of HESBLA, the hooty rebels,
- 17:44Speaker 6: and they're in favor of it. Now is this is
- 17:47Speaker 6: not another example of the types of people we're bringing
- 17:50Speaker 6: into Western democracies, of people whose values do not align
- 17:54Speaker 6: with a Western democracy. And this is why we need
- 17:56Speaker 6: to have a more broader conversation about mass immigration, about
- 18:00Speaker 6: the suitability of people that we're bringing into the country
- 18:02Speaker 6: and whether or not their values do align.
- 18:04Speaker 5: I actually find this quite frightening.
- 18:06Speaker 6: I don't know about the two of you, but when
- 18:07Speaker 6: you're talking about forty percent of people saying yeah, this
- 18:10Speaker 6: is all absolutely fantastic, Britain is eroded. What has happened
- 18:15Speaker 6: to Britain because it is no longer Britain at its best.
- 18:18Speaker 5: It has been.
- 18:19Speaker 6: Eroded by tribes of people being brought in who just
- 18:22Speaker 6: do not align.
- 18:23Speaker 3: It makes you wonder how Britain survives when you've got
- 18:27Speaker 3: such a division in terms of who people support, I mean,
- 18:32Speaker 3: naturally your allegiance would be with other Western liberal democracies,
- 18:36Speaker 3: not with Islamic totalitarian regimes. But when you've got a significant, small,
- 18:41Speaker 3: but still significant group of people who prefer an Islamist regime,
- 18:46Speaker 3: that signals major problems now and massive problems down the track.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Pure Research a while back said that on current trends, England,
- 18:54Speaker 3: which is now seven percent Muslim, will be twenty percent
- 18:58Speaker 3: Muslim by twenty fifty. Well, can you imagine the trouble
- 19:02Speaker 3: any government would have in twenty fifty making decisions on
- 19:06Speaker 3: who to support in a international conflict when it's not
- 19:10Speaker 3: forty percent of seven people but forty percent of twenty percent.
- 19:15Speaker 3: They've got some major problems in the UK. I'm not
- 19:17Speaker 3: sure how they soort this out.
- 19:19Speaker 4: Demographics are destiny basically marks fine, and you look at
- 19:23Speaker 4: the numbers for the other countries you mentioned. Russia was
- 19:28Speaker 4: plus two percent favorability amongst British Muslims versus minus fifty
- 19:33Speaker 4: two percent for the rest of Britain. China was plus
- 19:38Speaker 4: twenty two for Muslims versus minus twenty two for the
- 19:41Speaker 4: rest of the country. And then you look at the UK,
- 19:44Speaker 4: for which Muslims had a net favorability rating of plus
- 19:48Speaker 4: twenty five, so the UK rates plus twenty five, China
- 19:51Speaker 4: rates plus twenty two, in Iran rates plus twenty two,
- 19:55Speaker 4: so they only just like the UK more than they
- 19:59Speaker 4: like and Iran, which kind of begs the question, what
- 20:03Speaker 4: are they doing living in the UK and not China
- 20:06Speaker 4: or Iran.
- 20:07Speaker 3: The iron If they lived in China, they'd be persecuted exactly, Goverment.
- 20:11Speaker 2: They're one of the biggest persecutors of muslim indexactly, so
- 20:13Speaker 2: it makes no sense.
- 20:15Speaker 4: And this is the thing is that you know, it's
- 20:17Speaker 4: we should note the majority of muslim sixty one percent
- 20:20Speaker 4: of them do not have a favorable view of Iran,
- 20:25Speaker 4: which is great, but thirty nine percent is a sizeable
- 20:28Speaker 4: chunk of people. It is a big number of people,
- 20:32Speaker 4: and you have to take that into account and we
- 20:35Speaker 4: have to be able to note this without people jumping
- 20:37Speaker 4: up and down saying is Lamophobia, which I'm sure in
- 20:40Speaker 4: the UK they'll be having these discussions over the next
- 20:42Speaker 4: few days because that's how it will be framed.
- 20:45Speaker 1: You can't we can't mention that, we can't talk about that.
- 20:47Speaker 4: Well, we have to have these discussions because it is
- 20:50Speaker 4: real and it is right in front of our faces.
- 20:53Speaker 3: Okay, so what we're considering interesting stats from the UK.
- 20:55Speaker 3: You have look at this one concerning hate crimes. Now,
- 20:58Speaker 3: of course hate crimes have been a major issue for
- 21:01Speaker 3: some time in the UK, particularly but especially since the
- 21:04Speaker 3: war in Iran began. The number of hate crimes has
- 21:08Speaker 3: increased exponentially. But statistics from the Home Office revealed that
- 21:12Speaker 3: when it comes to complaints about hate crimes against Muslims,
- 21:18Speaker 3: the prosecution rate is about six point seven percent. So
- 21:22Speaker 3: six point seven percent of complaints regarding hate crimes directed
- 21:26Speaker 3: at Muslims result in prosecution. What do you reckon the
- 21:31Speaker 3: prosecution rate is for hate crimes reported against members.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Of the Jewish community.
- 21:36Speaker 3: Well, it's almost exactly half, just three point eight percent. Now,
- 21:41Speaker 3: no explanation as to the disparity has been offered. I
- 21:46Speaker 3: could suggest a couple. It seems like political pressure would
- 21:50Speaker 3: probably be a thing the Muslim community in the UK especially,
- 21:56Speaker 3: we're seeing parts of it here in Australia now very
- 21:58Speaker 3: well organized.
- 22:00Speaker 2: There's also the public perception.
- 22:02Speaker 3: Of Islamophobia being a major problem. Every time there's an
- 22:07Speaker 3: Islamist terror attack, you only have to count down from
- 22:10Speaker 3: ten before some politician will talk about the dangers of Islamophobia.
- 22:14Speaker 3: So there's the perception issue. And then we just did
- 22:17Speaker 3: a story the other night about members of the Home
- 22:19Speaker 3: Office being in the Iranian Embassy celebrating the Islamic Revolution
- 22:23Speaker 3: in Iran. Since that story appeared, there's been more reports
- 22:28Speaker 3: of people concerned with Islamists propagating right through the public
- 22:32Speaker 3: service in the UK. That was an article in The
- 22:34Speaker 3: Times today. So there's a few factors I think that
- 22:37Speaker 3: feed into this. I don't know how much weight you
- 22:38Speaker 3: can put on any of those in particular, but how
- 22:42Speaker 3: do you explain twice the number of prosecutions for Islamophobic
- 22:47Speaker 3: complaints as compared anti Semitic Well.
- 22:51Speaker 6: I was also thinking it could be institutional bias, and
- 22:54Speaker 6: I think that there needs to be an investigation into this.
- 22:56Speaker 6: Is there an issue at the top of the Crown
- 22:59Speaker 6: Prosecution serve over in the UK?
- 23:01Speaker 2: Right?
- 23:02Speaker 6: Is there some sort of institutional bias where they want
- 23:04Speaker 6: to target one, you know, community over the other. I
- 23:08Speaker 6: don't know, but what I will say is I think
- 23:10Speaker 6: this needs to be urgently looked at because it says
- 23:13Speaker 6: here that Muslim victims was seventy six percent more likely
- 23:16Speaker 6: to see their perpetrator prosecuted than those of Jewish victims.
- 23:23Speaker 5: So seventy six percent.
- 23:25Speaker 6: And I was also reading this statistic Jews are almost
- 23:28Speaker 6: ten times more likely to be victims of religious hate crimes.
- 23:32Speaker 6: So you've got Jews ten times more likely, you get
- 23:35Speaker 6: seventy six percent of Muslim crimes compared to Jews being investigator.
- 23:39Speaker 6: That's a very, very big disparity. But we think about it.
- 23:43Speaker 6: It's happening here in Australia too. Look at labor for example.
- 23:47Speaker 6: Labor can't talk about anti Semitism without talking about Islamophobia.
- 23:52Speaker 6: It's like it just becomes the norm of no, we
- 23:54Speaker 6: can't upset you know, we can upset the Jews, but no,
- 23:58Speaker 6: we can't upset the Muslim population.
- 24:00Speaker 5: That's why I believe it could be institutional bias.
- 24:02Speaker 4: Well, I'll come to that in a second. I'll go
- 24:05Speaker 4: back to the numbers. So the number of hate crimes
- 24:09Speaker 4: recorded against Muslims four thousand, four hundred and seventy eight during.
- 24:15Speaker 1: The period that was assessed.
- 24:17Speaker 4: For Jews, it was two thousand, eight hundred and seventy three.
- 24:20Speaker 4: So they've recorded more hate crimes against Muslims. But to
- 24:24Speaker 4: the point you raised about the rate at which it occurs.
- 24:28Speaker 4: For Muslims, that equates to twelve hate crimes per ten
- 24:32Speaker 4: thousand people. For Jews it equates to one hundred and
- 24:35Speaker 4: six hate crimes wow per ten thousand people. So the
- 24:39Speaker 4: number is far and away much higher, right, And then
- 24:43Speaker 4: you go, okay, well, that being the case, why would
- 24:46Speaker 4: you not have the imperative to prosecute alleged hate crimes
- 24:50Speaker 4: against Jewish people harder? Because clearly it is happening at
- 24:54Speaker 4: a much higher rate. And the reason I think is
- 24:57Speaker 4: probably again it's the demographic. When you are as a
- 25:02Speaker 4: police force or a DPP weighing up what you're going
- 25:07Speaker 4: to spend your time and money, on your resources on,
- 25:10Speaker 4: there are many things you have to consider, including are
- 25:14Speaker 4: there other more pressing cases that we should deal with,
- 25:17Speaker 4: what is most in the public interest, what's going to
- 25:19Speaker 4: get the most publicity from the media, because that then
- 25:22Speaker 4: sends a message to other people. And in a country well,
- 25:26Speaker 4: as is true pretty much every country except Israel, where
- 25:29Speaker 4: the Muslim population is much higher than the Jewish population,
- 25:33Speaker 4: there is an imperative somewhat political to prosecute those crimes
- 25:39Speaker 4: faster and more often. I would have thought, because you've
- 25:43Speaker 4: simply got more people to send that message to that
- 25:45Speaker 4: you're dealing with it. It's almost like, well, because you're
- 25:49Speaker 4: Jewish and you are a smaller population, you are less
- 25:51Speaker 4: of a priority. That's the reason, the only reason I
- 25:54Speaker 4: can really read into, why you wouldn't go harder on it.
- 25:57Speaker 5: Well, I mean, what message does that send to dus?
- 26:00Speaker 6: You know, Jews since October seven have feared for their
- 26:03Speaker 6: lives every single day, and now there are genuine hate
- 26:07Speaker 6: crimes going on in the United Kingdom and around the world.
- 26:10Speaker 5: In the UK though, against.
- 26:11Speaker 6: Jews, and it's almost like their allegations or their claims
- 26:15Speaker 6: are just sort of fobbed off as not important. Yet
- 26:20Speaker 6: you know, they're the ones who have got police and
- 26:22Speaker 6: armed guards outside of synagogues. They're the ones who have
- 26:25Speaker 6: got security twenty four to seven. I just what does
- 26:29Speaker 6: that say to Jews? What message are you sending to
- 26:33Speaker 6: the Jewish population?
- 26:34Speaker 4: Well, on a related matter, yesterday was Saint Patrick's Day,
- 26:37Speaker 4: and I know you're scratching, He goes, how on earth
- 26:39Speaker 4: are those two related?
- 26:41Speaker 1: Well, do I have this story for you?
- 26:43Speaker 4: Someone has found a way to connect what's going on
- 26:47Speaker 4: in the Middle East to Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, I
- 26:49Speaker 4: mean here, I was thinking it was just a nice
- 26:53Speaker 4: day to celebrate Irish music and drink guinness.
- 26:55Speaker 1: But no, Zora and.
- 26:57Speaker 4: Mum Dani, the Mayor of New York had on Saint
- 27:01Speaker 4: Patrick's Day visiting him the former Irish President Mary Robinson,
- 27:05Speaker 4: and lickety split, he managed to turn his speech into
- 27:09Speaker 4: one about Palestine.
- 27:11Speaker 10: As we've witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there
- 27:14Speaker 10: has been deafening silence from so many for those who
- 27:17Speaker 10: have long cared about universal human rights and the extension
- 27:20Speaker 10: of them to Palestinians. Silence, however, is nothing new, for
- 27:24Speaker 10: Palestinians are so often left to weep alone. The story
- 27:27Speaker 10: of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City,
- 27:31Speaker 10: is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation,
- 27:33Speaker 10: and of discrimination. As we know it was on Irish
- 27:36Speaker 10: soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project.
- 27:42Speaker 4: I mean, come on, yes, I know that Irish people
- 27:45Speaker 4: have been pressed and discriminated against, but come on, it's
- 27:49Speaker 4: Saint Patrick's Day.
- 27:51Speaker 1: The Irish get a day and Zora and mum Dani.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Has to turn it into some Palestine like, can't wait,
- 27:58Speaker 4: we don't have to weave every every thing into something
- 28:01Speaker 4: to do with the Middle Eagle.
- 28:02Speaker 3: I'm trying to work out is he the mayor of
- 28:04Speaker 3: New York or is he the ambassador for Palestine in America.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Some people have taken to calling him Quran Zoran.
- 28:12Speaker 3: But you know, the thing, of course he fails to
- 28:15Speaker 3: mention as a man who's very compassionate for the oppressed,
- 28:19Speaker 3: is right now, there's quite a few oppressed Muslims in Iran.
- 28:24Speaker 2: No mention of them at all.
- 28:26Speaker 3: And of course, the other thing he failed to mention
- 28:28Speaker 3: on Saint Patrick's day is that the Irish who moved
- 28:30Speaker 3: to America very much assimilated and became part of the
- 28:35Speaker 3: United States in every way, unlike what is happening, not
- 28:38Speaker 3: with all, but with a significant number of Muslims in
- 28:42Speaker 3: the US. Mamdami not least of them.
- 28:45Speaker 6: No, And you know what I reckon that you would
- 28:47Speaker 6: never want to invite Zora and Mamdame into your party,
- 28:50Speaker 6: right because what he would do is he'd always bring
- 28:52Speaker 6: up politics, but all he would talk about is.
- 28:54Speaker 5: Gaza and Palestine. I mean, the guy would be an absolute.
- 28:57Speaker 4: War and also he'd do a key stammer at the barbecue.
- 29:03Speaker 1: He'd say, release the sausages.
- 29:05Speaker 5: He would And you know what.
- 29:06Speaker 6: The other thing about Zora m Mam Darmie is, I
- 29:08Speaker 6: don't know if you've noticed, but he always tries to
- 29:10Speaker 6: out victim people. I mean, he's you know, he's at
- 29:12Speaker 6: an event with the Irish where really all she should
- 29:14Speaker 6: have been doing was chugging back a Guinness, enjoying himself toast.
- 29:19Speaker 5: He should just have been enjoying himself.
- 29:21Speaker 6: But he's gone, Okay, yes there are issues in Ireland,
- 29:24Speaker 6: but how can.
- 29:25Speaker 5: I out victim the Irish.
- 29:27Speaker 6: I know, I'm going to talk about Gaza and Palestine
- 29:29Speaker 6: because that's all he's gotten in his repertoire And it
- 29:32Speaker 6: was interesting because a day earlier, I just this is
- 29:34Speaker 6: just a point to show you that he's got no
- 29:36Speaker 6: idea about policy, because a day earlier he was asked
- 29:39Speaker 6: a question about whether he supported a unified island. So
- 29:42Speaker 6: this is the political push to get all thirty two
- 29:44Speaker 6: Irish counties to be governed as one independent nation. I mean,
- 29:48Speaker 6: this has been a long standing issue and his response was,
- 29:51Speaker 6: I gotta be honest, I haven't thought enough on that question. No,
- 29:54Speaker 6: of course, you haven't because your head's always in Gaza.
- 29:57Speaker 6: You've got no idea what you're tal talking about. Again,
- 30:00Speaker 6: he's got nothing on policy whatsoever.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Also the mayor of New York.
- 30:04Speaker 5: You're also the mayor of New York.
- 30:05Speaker 1: I don't think it's got much to do with you to.
- 30:07Speaker 5: No, exactly, I completely agree.
- 30:10Speaker 6: Well, look, we've got to talk about the BBC because
- 30:13Speaker 6: it is back to its old and very tiresome woke tactics.
- 30:17Speaker 6: This time it has invited a biological man who now
- 30:21Speaker 6: identifies as a woman onto one of its programs to
- 30:24Speaker 6: talk about, ready for it, female misogyny. Yes, the guest
- 30:29Speaker 6: was Raewyan Connell. Her name is This is actually an
- 30:32Speaker 6: Australian female sociologist and a transgender woman who now studies
- 30:36Speaker 6: gender relations and masculinity. Now, firstly, a trans person speaking
- 30:40Speaker 6: about female misogyny is one thing. But the segment also
- 30:43Speaker 6: aired during the BBC's Women's Our program. That's another problem altogether. Now,
- 30:48Speaker 6: the presenter of the program, Nuela McGovern, introduced debate explaining
- 30:52Speaker 6: how discussions to tackle extreme misogyny were sparked online following
- 30:57Speaker 6: a Netflix series by Louis Thrue called Inside the Manisphere. Now,
- 31:01Speaker 6: just to give you a brief rundown. It talks about
- 31:04Speaker 6: like toxic masculinity, for example. So think you know Andrew Tait.
- 31:08Speaker 6: And here was Raywan Connell's answer, riemand let me begin
- 31:12Speaker 6: with you, how would you describe the manisphere.
- 31:15Speaker 1: As a business.
- 31:16Speaker 2: In a way, it's the market. There is boys and
- 31:22Speaker 2: young men, as you've said, who are facing difficulties finding
- 31:29Speaker 2: a path in life.
- 31:31Speaker 5: And we're led to believe that that's a woman. Apparently.
- 31:34Speaker 6: Now Connor was asked whether they had noticed any differences
- 31:37Speaker 6: between misogyny prior to transitioning, and to share the response,
- 31:42Speaker 6: I think that's unquestionable and usual for trans women. They
- 31:44Speaker 6: discover some realities that other women have long experienced, like
- 31:48Speaker 6: harassment on the street, suspicion, a general atmosphere of being marginalized.
- 31:52Speaker 5: That kind of thing is familiar enough.
- 31:54Speaker 6: The BBC, as you can imagine, have received a wave
- 31:56Speaker 6: of complaints.
- 31:57Speaker 5: Now, riddle me this.
- 31:59Speaker 6: More than half of the population are female and the
- 32:02Speaker 6: best the BBC could do was bring on a biological
- 32:05Speaker 6: man who now identifies as a woman onto their Women's
- 32:07Speaker 6: Hour program to talk about misogyny. As a female myself,
- 32:11Speaker 6: I am offended by this that bringing a biological man
- 32:15Speaker 6: onto a program that is misogyny.
- 32:17Speaker 5: Do you want to know why?
- 32:18Speaker 6: Because it actually is another example of why women are
- 32:21Speaker 6: being raised. When you've got a man who's put on
- 32:24Speaker 6: address and lipstick and then identifies as a woman, right,
- 32:28Speaker 6: that is to me offensive, Stop trying to raise women.
- 32:33Speaker 5: And secondly, this talk of misogyny and the way this
- 32:36Speaker 5: Raylen Raewan.
- 32:37Speaker 6: Connell responded, it's such an old fashioned ideal of misogyny.
- 32:41Speaker 6: I am so sick to death of men being destroyed
- 32:46Speaker 6: and diminished in life. I'm very lucky to know a
- 32:49Speaker 6: lot of wonderful men, and I know that is not
- 32:51Speaker 6: the same for every single woman out there. But stop
- 32:54Speaker 6: attacking men for the sake of it, and for goodness sake,
- 32:58Speaker 6: bringing a trans person on to all so attack men.
- 33:01Speaker 4: Come on, I'm glad you clarified that you're female, because
- 33:04Speaker 4: of course these these.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Things require clarification.
- 33:07Speaker 4: But you know, once again more proof that men are
- 33:09Speaker 4: better than everything there, everything than women. And who better
- 33:14Speaker 4: to talk about misogyny than a man?
- 33:17Speaker 3: Isn't inviting a man onto Women's Hour to talk about
- 33:21Speaker 3: misogyny the height of misogyny exactly?
- 33:24Speaker 1: That's right there. The irony is iron so damn thick,
- 33:29Speaker 1: isn't it? And I don't know whether they realize it
- 33:32Speaker 1: or not.
- 33:32Speaker 4: I mean, I think they're probably quite earnest in doing
- 33:34Speaker 4: all of this because they think, well, you know, like
- 33:37Speaker 4: a trans woman is a woman, so they must be
- 33:39Speaker 4: experiencing misogyny, and it's the same thing.
- 33:42Speaker 1: It's not. So it lets you in on the secret
- 33:44Speaker 1: it's not, but it's not.
- 33:45Speaker 6: How would they know what life is like as a woman.
- 33:48Speaker 6: How would you know that you're not born as a woman.
- 33:50Speaker 6: How would you know? How can you speak on behalf
- 33:52Speaker 6: of women play?
- 33:53Speaker 3: I'm sure what he said about being marginalized and harassed
- 33:56Speaker 3: is all true in this person's case. The problem was
- 34:00Speaker 3: like all women that It was that sentence, you can't
- 34:03Speaker 3: say what it's like to be.
- 34:04Speaker 2: A woman because you're not.
- 34:06Speaker 3: Let's talk about another man who's making headlines all around
- 34:08Speaker 3: the world, the man formerly known as Prince Andrew. He's
- 34:11Speaker 3: moving into his new digs, having been kicked out of
- 34:14Speaker 3: the old joint. He's had to downsize, but the move
- 34:17Speaker 3: has started. And the big question, of course, that is
- 34:21Speaker 3: plaguing the former Prince Andrew is what to do about
- 34:24Speaker 3: his collection of sixty very expensive teddy bears. A source
- 34:31Speaker 3: close to Andrew says that he has complained it really
- 34:37Speaker 3: seems like being forced to move has sent him into
- 34:40Speaker 3: a full on meltdown because he keeps telling people the
- 34:43Speaker 3: Bears won't cope with the change. It's like he's transferring
- 34:47Speaker 3: his own emotions onto them the way a.
- 34:49Speaker 2: Little kid would.
- 34:50Speaker 3: In fact, he has complained that he shouldn't be made
- 34:53Speaker 3: to move because quote unquote, this is the bears home.
- 34:57Speaker 1: Two.
- 34:57Speaker 5: Oh, there's very wrong about this.
- 34:59Speaker 3: Isn't that it's iron Forget the Epstein stuff. That's the
- 35:02Speaker 3: reason why he should not be in the succession line
- 35:05Speaker 3: to become King of Australia.
- 35:06Speaker 6: No well, I read today that apparently his teddy collection,
- 35:10Speaker 6: which is over seventy has got over seventy bears. Apparently
- 35:13Speaker 6: it's under twenty four hour guard. However, in good news,
- 35:17Speaker 6: Andrew has taken his cuddling monkey with him, apparently.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Because the rest have gone into storage. He can't he
- 35:23Speaker 4: isn't gon room for them, he said, to put them
- 35:25Speaker 4: into storage. I wonder whether they'll be getting this sort
- 35:27Speaker 4: of treatment in the storage container.
- 35:33Speaker 5: Where does he go rou as in Kanga put them together?
- 35:40Speaker 7: What's you get.
- 35:44Speaker 2: Who Kanga go away.
- 35:48Speaker 4: From the film scoop and this is apparently how he's
- 35:51Speaker 4: very particular.
- 35:52Speaker 1: About how they will get lined up on the Bear.
- 35:55Speaker 4: I mean, for goodness sake, how's he going to cope
- 35:57Speaker 4: with all of these Teddy Bears?
- 35:58Speaker 1: I wonder will he go and visit them in the.
- 36:01Speaker 5: I wonder if I wonder if he and Epstein ever
- 36:02Speaker 5: shared Teddy's.
- 36:05Speaker 3: If only that was his biggest problem. We're going to
- 36:07Speaker 3: go to a break. When we come back, we'll look
- 36:09Speaker 3: at what's making headlines tomorrow, including the updated Australia's rich list,
- 36:13Speaker 3: who's doing well and who's little Skint will tell.
- 36:16Speaker 2: You after the break.
- 36:23Speaker 3: Okay, we'll get to what's making headlines tomorrow in just
- 36:26Speaker 3: a moment. But a story that dropped on the Australian
- 36:29Speaker 3: website about an hour ago says that Victorian Premier just
- 36:32Speaker 3: Into Allen's leadership is looking shaky. That's because party members
- 36:36Speaker 3: have started discussing internal research that should have been kept private,
- 36:41Speaker 3: detailing just into Ellen's popularity or lack thereof. That's in
- 36:45Speaker 3: terms of whether or not she should be replaced. Now
- 36:48Speaker 3: there is speculation that what could happen in the election
- 36:51Speaker 3: later this year is just into Allan loses her seat
- 36:54Speaker 3: in Bendigo, Labor win enough seats, well more than the Liberals,
- 36:59Speaker 3: but not enough to form government and then have to
- 37:01Speaker 3: do a deal with the Greens, which would be a
- 37:03Speaker 3: horrible place, not just for the state but for the
- 37:06Speaker 3: Labor Party obviously. And the paper reports that members are
- 37:10Speaker 3: now saying Jacinta Allen is one more crisis away from
- 37:14Speaker 3: a leadership spill. How many crises can she have before
- 37:19Speaker 3: she comes to an end? That's the question I've got.
- 37:22Speaker 3: She's like the cat that has nine lives. Dan Andrews
- 37:25Speaker 3: was the same. So whether or not this report is correct,
- 37:28Speaker 3: that one more and she's done for who knows, but
- 37:32Speaker 3: thin ice.
- 37:32Speaker 4: Dan Andrews was far better at it, that's the difference.
- 37:35Speaker 4: She looks like she's under pressure at the moment, particularly
- 37:38Speaker 4: around the CFMU stuff. Yeah, and they just they have
- 37:43Speaker 4: to get rid of it, and they have to get
- 37:44Speaker 4: rid of her fast if they want any chance. Ben
- 37:46Speaker 4: Carol's probably the best replacement. And if they get rid
- 37:50Speaker 4: of her and they go for being Carol, who is
- 37:52Speaker 4: Labor right as opposed to socialist left, which she is.
- 37:56Speaker 4: In the footsteps of Daniel Andrews. They might actually be
- 37:59Speaker 4: able to get Anne whose tentacles off the Victorian Labor
- 38:02Speaker 4: Party because she was very much Andrew's pick. She was
- 38:05Speaker 4: his deputy. He wanted her to succeed him. If they
- 38:09Speaker 4: can get as far away from that as possible, they
- 38:12Speaker 4: may get themselves back in a reasonable position. But as
- 38:15Speaker 4: it's going pol last week saying she's the most unpopular
- 38:18Speaker 4: premiere by a long way in the country, They're in
- 38:22Speaker 4: a lot of trouble and I think they need to
- 38:23Speaker 4: cut it off at the head.
- 38:24Speaker 6: Isn't this another example though, why the Liberal Party have
- 38:27Speaker 6: really got to keep up their campaigns, really got to
- 38:29Speaker 6: keep up the pressure because if this is the case,
- 38:31Speaker 6: if these reports are true, I think this would work
- 38:33Speaker 6: into the liberals favor and I think they really need
- 38:36Speaker 6: some sort of luck at the moment.
- 38:38Speaker 4: Indeed, let's take a look at the Daily Telegraph tomorrow where,
- 38:41Speaker 4: and this is a theme across a lot of the
- 38:43Speaker 4: newspapers tomorrow, what's going on with fuel? Its is dozens
- 38:46Speaker 4: of bars has run completely dry as crisis hits city
- 38:50Speaker 4: tanks for nothing. Widespread petrol station shutdowns have gone from
- 38:55Speaker 4: the Bush to Sydney, with multiple retailers running out of petrol.
- 38:58Speaker 4: Despite Energy Minister Chris Bowen repeated denials of a fuel shortage,
- 39:03Speaker 4: The Daily Telegraph spoke with nine Western and north Western
- 39:06Speaker 4: Sydney service station retailers who said they had completely run
- 39:09Speaker 4: out of petrol or were very close to running dry
- 39:13Speaker 4: as drivers rushed to bowsers with jerry kans. Prime Minister
- 39:16Speaker 4: Anthony Albanezi is expected to announce urgent new measures today.
- 39:20Speaker 1: To distribute fuel across the country.
- 39:22Speaker 4: And the issue is not necessarily that we don't have fuel.
- 39:26Speaker 4: The issue is that people are buying a lot of
- 39:28Speaker 4: fuel at the moment in the anticipation of the fact
- 39:32Speaker 4: that we might run out of fuel. That itself just
- 39:35Speaker 4: makes the problem even worse because you're more likely to
- 39:38Speaker 4: run out of fuel if you're going off and barring
- 39:40Speaker 4: it all in one shot. But none of this would
- 39:42Speaker 4: be a problem if we kept to our international obligations,
- 39:47Speaker 4: which is ninety days, because then we wouldn't be worrying
- 39:50Speaker 4: about whether or not we were going to run out
- 39:52Speaker 4: of fuel, and you wouldn't have this phenomenon of panic
- 39:54Speaker 4: bar And that's.
- 39:55Speaker 3: The point politicians who have blamed the public for hoarding, well,
- 39:58Speaker 3: people would not hoard if they had confidence in the
- 40:01Speaker 3: government to look after things. So spare hoarding is a
- 40:03Speaker 3: vote of no confidence in Cris Bowen, Anthony Albanesi and
- 40:07Speaker 3: the cabinet generally.
- 40:09Speaker 6: The other issue is Labour's language on this has been
- 40:11Speaker 6: very wishy washing, and I think that that's also half
- 40:13Speaker 6: the problem, because it's confused people. I mean, for weeks
- 40:15Speaker 6: Chris Bowin has been saying no, no, no, no, no,
- 40:17Speaker 6: don't panic, don't worry about it. But then it was
- 40:19Speaker 6: only a couple of days ago when Labour refused to
- 40:21Speaker 6: rule out fuel rationing. So no wonder people are getting
- 40:24Speaker 6: concerned and starting to worry about it. And if we
- 40:27Speaker 6: take a look as well at the Mercury tomorrow, same
- 40:31Speaker 6: story their fuel crisis Cabinet. Prime Minister Anthony Alberti Albanesi
- 40:35Speaker 6: used a visit to Bernie to outline new steps to
- 40:38Speaker 6: manage fuel security. Mister Albanesi announce a snap national Cabinet
- 40:41Speaker 6: meeting to be held virtually from Hobart today to coordinate
- 40:45Speaker 6: states and territories on fuel security and share best practice.
- 40:49Speaker 6: You know, the problem is though it's taken them weeks
- 40:51Speaker 6: to act, you know.
- 40:52Speaker 5: Weeks speak. Well, let's take it let's do a national
- 40:54Speaker 5: cabinet today.
- 40:55Speaker 6: Maybe a national cabinet might have been good maybe a
- 40:56Speaker 6: week and a half to two weeks ago.
- 40:58Speaker 5: Always late to the party.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Fortnight too late exactly.
- 41:02Speaker 3: The fuel crisis continues.
- 41:04Speaker 2: On which paper am I looking for?
- 41:06Speaker 3: Here we go the advertiser cop that your fuels.
- 41:09Speaker 2: I like that headline, great, isn't it very very good?
- 41:12Speaker 3: Now this relates to the story we did at the
- 41:15Speaker 3: top of the show about people stealing fuel. Service stations
- 41:19Speaker 3: are being encouraged to urgently implement prepaid fuel systems or
- 41:24Speaker 3: get a load of this. South Australian police may stop
- 41:26Speaker 3: accepting reports of petrol drive offs. Police Commissioner Grant Stevens
- 41:30Speaker 3: has warned, so the police. If I read this correctly, Caleb,
- 41:34Speaker 3: the police are saying, if service stations don't act to
- 41:38Speaker 3: put in prepaid systems, then when they report someone stealing fuel,
- 41:43Speaker 3: the police will say, you know what, We're too busy
- 41:46Speaker 3: with other things.
- 41:46Speaker 2: You should have sorted your systems out better.
- 41:49Speaker 4: Which I guess is suggesting how significant this problem has become.
- 41:53Speaker 4: And you can understand the cops saying, look, I've got,
- 41:56Speaker 4: you know, real crime as it were, that I want
- 41:58Speaker 4: to deal with violent crime and things like this. I
- 42:01Speaker 4: don't want to divert all my coppers to be dealing
- 42:03Speaker 4: with people who are stealing fuel, so you know, you've
- 42:06Speaker 4: kind of got to do something about it. And there's
- 42:08Speaker 4: an element of victim blaming, I guess in that. But again,
- 42:11Speaker 4: if you don't lock the front door to your house,
- 42:13Speaker 4: of course, if someone comes and rob you, you're a
- 42:15Speaker 4: bit of an idiot.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Adds you. You should have locked your front door. That's
- 42:18Speaker 1: what the lock is there for.
- 42:20Speaker 4: And the cops are simply saying, well, if you can
- 42:22Speaker 4: take precautionary measures, take precautionary measures because it will prevent
- 42:25Speaker 4: my force having to be diverted to deal with this.
- 42:28Speaker 5: And that's the problem.
- 42:29Speaker 6: They're taking officers off the beat to deal with these things.
- 42:32Speaker 6: I actually don't see what the problem is with the
- 42:34Speaker 6: prepaid system.
- 42:36Speaker 5: I think it's actually I actually, even if it.
- 42:38Speaker 6: Wasn't in a fuel crisis, I'd prefer a prepaid system
- 42:41Speaker 6: where I can just do it myself as opposed to
- 42:43Speaker 6: having to go in.
- 42:44Speaker 5: I think it's great.
- 42:45Speaker 2: I think it's kind of sad.
- 42:46Speaker 3: It's one of those things where you know, maybe twelve
- 42:50Speaker 3: months from now, pretty much every service station in the
- 42:52Speaker 3: country we prepaid and our kids will never remember what
- 42:55Speaker 3: it was like to go up and put the bit
- 42:57Speaker 3: like flying Like my kids have got no idea what
- 42:59Speaker 3: it was like to get on a plane without having
- 43:01Speaker 3: every bone in your body scanned. It's a fundamental change
- 43:05Speaker 3: in the country that doesn't say anything good about our
- 43:07Speaker 3: culture at all.
- 43:08Speaker 4: Maybe they should go back to the days of someone
- 43:10Speaker 4: filling up your car for you and then you love that.
- 43:12Speaker 4: Then you wouldn't be able to drive off with the fuel?
- 43:14Speaker 1: Would I love that?
- 43:15Speaker 5: Please?
- 43:16Speaker 4: Let's let's go to the front of the Australian tomorrow.
- 43:18Speaker 4: WI says, get this straight.
- 43:20Speaker 1: It's only right you help. The US Democratic.
- 43:23Speaker 4: Senator John Fetterman has declared Australia has a responsibility to
- 43:27Speaker 4: help reopen the Strait of Hormers. As Donald Trump's rebuke
- 43:30Speaker 4: of Australia failing to back his mission to get oil
- 43:32Speaker 4: flowing into the Middle East split the conservative side of politics.
- 43:36Speaker 4: Senior Liberal Front bencher Andrew Hasty lashed the US president's
- 43:39Speaker 4: petulant post on truth social in which he hit out
- 43:42Speaker 4: at NATO allies who didn't want to get involved in
- 43:44Speaker 4: America's war against Iran, but one nation MP Barnaby Joyce
- 43:48Speaker 4: warned the swipe raised a lot to be concerned about.
- 43:52Speaker 1: How interesting I mean, John Fetterman.
- 43:53Speaker 4: Has actually turned out, you know, despite the fact that
- 43:55Speaker 4: he has know how to put on a certain tie
- 43:57Speaker 4: and always rocks around in his trackie decks as of late,
- 44:01Speaker 4: turned out to be far more sensible than most of
- 44:05Speaker 4: his Democratic colleagues and falling to lower Trump Allard.
- 44:07Speaker 5: I don't know why he's a Republican.
- 44:09Speaker 6: To be honest, he should be a Republican because a
- 44:11Speaker 6: lot of his commentary is so conservative. He does not
- 44:14Speaker 6: suits the Democrats, but he kind of has a point here.
- 44:18Speaker 5: I mean, we are allies. This is a thing.
- 44:19Speaker 6: I don't necessarily agree with the way that Trump handled
- 44:22Speaker 6: the situation this morning calling out Australia.
- 44:24Speaker 5: I think that was very petulant.
- 44:26Speaker 6: But again, we're allies, and in the event that we
- 44:28Speaker 6: were attacked, we would be on the phone to Trump
- 44:30Speaker 6: quick smart.
- 44:31Speaker 5: We would want that support. That's the problem.
- 44:34Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 44:35Speaker 3: With regards Fentimen, I mean, it's public knowledge that he's
- 44:38Speaker 3: got brain damage as a result of medical issues. But
- 44:40Speaker 3: even with brain damage, he's still the smartest Democrat, yes,
- 44:43Speaker 3: in the United States, and I agree with him fully
- 44:44Speaker 3: we should, I mean we're relying on that straight to
- 44:47Speaker 3: get our petrol. Our government should be part of opening
- 44:50Speaker 3: that up.
- 44:51Speaker 4: Amazing is another story in front of the oars, richest
- 44:53Speaker 4: of rich and the biggest losers. Software is so old
- 44:56Speaker 4: hat old industries are back in fashion for our richest billionaires,
- 45:00Speaker 4: while a couple of one time technology gurus have suffered
- 45:03Speaker 4: a massive cut in their fortunes. This is from the
- 45:05Speaker 4: Richest two one hundred and fifty. The list is there
- 45:09Speaker 4: the top ten Gina Ryan Hart on forty one point
- 45:12Speaker 4: sixty six billion. Harry Triggeybov comes in second, followed by
- 45:15Speaker 4: Anthony Pratt, Clive Palmer, Cliff Olbricht, Melanie Perkins, Nikola Forrest,
- 45:19Speaker 4: who is ahead of her husband from whom she is separated,
- 45:23Speaker 4: Andrew Forrest, Michael Dowl and Kerry Stokes, and who's fallen
- 45:27Speaker 4: down the list, Scott Farquhar and Mike cannon Brooks of
- 45:30Speaker 4: course at Lassion and Richard White as well. It seems
- 45:34Speaker 4: in the tech sect things ain't going so swimmingly.
- 45:38Speaker 2: All right.
- 45:38Speaker 3: We're going to go to a break when we come
- 45:39Speaker 3: back and all mighty fight breaks out in a cocktail
- 45:43Speaker 3: bar after an off duty police woman is accused of
- 45:45Speaker 3: dancing like an angry chicken.
- 45:47Speaker 2: We'll show you after this.
- 45:52Speaker 3: Okay, Going down to the beach on a weekend in
- 45:54Speaker 3: Sydney is always wonderful. But you can't find a park.
- 45:57Speaker 3: But Caleb, maybe you've got someone who can help me.
- 46:00Speaker 1: So what do you do when you're bored? What would
- 46:03Speaker 1: you do.
- 46:03Speaker 2: When I'm bored? I'm never bored. My life is far
- 46:05Speaker 2: too full and exciting.
- 46:06Speaker 1: Color can you give me an answer to quit?
- 46:08Speaker 5: If I was bored, I'd go for a walk.
- 46:10Speaker 4: Well, what about this fella? Gareth Wilde? He lives in
- 46:13Speaker 4: England and he was bored. So he decided he would
- 46:16Speaker 4: map every parking space at his local supermarket and then
- 46:20Speaker 4: rate them to work out which was his favorite.
- 46:24Speaker 8: Each time I'd come down, I'd make a note of
- 46:26Speaker 8: it on my phone, all the information from the bay,
- 46:29Speaker 8: number of the day that I came down, the date,
- 46:31Speaker 8: the time, and then how much I spent on that shop.
- 46:34Speaker 1: After testing all one hundred and eight spaces.
- 46:36Speaker 2: He even has a favorite.
- 46:37Speaker 8: As you come in through the entrance, it's one of
- 46:39Speaker 8: the first spots that you see and you can you
- 46:41Speaker 8: can just roll right into it.
- 46:43Speaker 4: Oh goodness, me his favorite A one and A two,
- 46:47Speaker 4: which are right next to the entrance. I don't know
- 46:49Speaker 4: that you needed to tagle that time to work out
- 46:51Speaker 4: that the best parking spots in the joint were the
- 46:55Speaker 4: ones right next to the entrance. Can you imagine being
- 46:57Speaker 4: that bored or perhaps that boring vitulate.
- 47:00Speaker 1: Yes, I'm going.
- 47:01Speaker 4: To map every car parking spot in this thing, and
- 47:05Speaker 4: then he ranks them from god, tear, useful, and avoid.
- 47:10Speaker 1: I mean, he's taken this very serious. You know, I'm
- 47:12Speaker 1: passionate about his past.
- 47:13Speaker 6: I'm going to give him some credit here, right. It
- 47:15Speaker 6: takes a certain level of intelligence. Though I have a
- 47:18Speaker 6: whole map out system. He's done what he has, He's
- 47:21Speaker 6: done a whole mapping system. It looks like he's got
- 47:23Speaker 6: some sort of a spreadsheet, some sort of a piegraph.
- 47:26Speaker 5: He's obviously very This is why I.
- 47:27Speaker 3: Like you, because you can find the best in anybody.
- 47:31Speaker 2: Sorry for him to all right.
- 47:32Speaker 3: Eight women involved in an almighty brawl in a London
- 47:36Speaker 3: cocktail club have all been cleared of charges, despite the
- 47:39Speaker 3: footage that we're about to show you. The fight broke
- 47:42Speaker 3: out after a mum who was celebrating on the night
- 47:45Speaker 3: out with two daughters, got annoyed by five off duty
- 47:48Speaker 3: police women who were dancing nearby.
- 47:51Speaker 2: She accused him of strutting.
- 47:52Speaker 3: Around, turning the venue into a technical support group dance
- 47:56Speaker 3: floor and moving like angry chickens. Then the mum called
- 48:01Speaker 3: one of the police officers a les up, which I
- 48:03Speaker 3: think is a homophobic slur. And well, the only thing
- 48:06Speaker 3: missing from that footage is Betty Hill music. Really, but Denika,
- 48:09Speaker 3: I think that what we just saw is a classic
- 48:11Speaker 3: example of toxic masculinity.
- 48:14Speaker 6: I ask the BBC what they think about it? Can
- 48:16Speaker 6: we get this on the Women's Hour program? Please give
- 48:18Speaker 6: us your your how embarrassing?
- 48:21Speaker 5: I mean seriously because mother and daughter as well, because of.
- 48:23Speaker 6: The chicken dats that her family is really seriously Kamala
- 48:28Speaker 6: Harris the word salad queen. Yes, guess what, she's back
- 48:30Speaker 6: and she's met her own match in drag.
- 48:35Speaker 4: Directly.
- 48:38Speaker 1: It's nice to finally meet me. I need I need
- 48:46Speaker 1: you to know right this is all for you. This
- 48:50Speaker 1: is because of the love and the late and the
- 48:53Speaker 1: joy that you put in me.
- 48:55Speaker 5: I can't tell who's her at this point.
- 48:56Speaker 6: They look exactly the same and they sound exactly the same.
- 48:59Speaker 6: So don't Trumps out there fighting wars and Kamala Harris
- 49:03Speaker 6: is watching herself as a dragon personator.
- 49:05Speaker 3: Do you imagine if she was prosecuting the war in
- 49:07Speaker 3: the Middle East.
- 49:08Speaker 6: She'd get a drag queen to stand at the Oval
- 49:10Speaker 6: office and give it.
- 49:11Speaker 1: The ie toll of You know, Kimane might be on
- 49:14Speaker 1: board with that, but you know it's I don't even
- 49:18Speaker 1: know what to say. I was all on board with
- 49:19Speaker 1: it until he was saying all the light and love and.
- 49:22Speaker 2: What is Yeah too fast?
- 49:23Speaker 1: Completely, That's it from us.
- 49:25Speaker 3: Stick around came up is to read a penny show
- 49:27Speaker 3: good night,