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- 0:01Speaker 1: Late General, Welcome to the Late Debase.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. I'm Caleb Bond
- 0:12Speaker 2: with Liz Storer and filling in for James McPherson, who
- 0:14Speaker 2: was shobry tonight is Joe Hildebrand. Well, if you've ever
- 0:18Speaker 2: wondered how a smart home device would vote, you're about
- 0:21Speaker 2: to find out. And I'll give you a hint. It's
- 0:23Speaker 2: not for Donald Trump. What a surprise when we get
- 0:26Speaker 2: to the papers at Queensland mayor is threatening to sack
- 0:30Speaker 2: the entire council unless they let him appoint a one
- 0:34Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a year advisor. And
- 0:38Speaker 2: just while we're talking about councils, imagine spending fifty million
- 0:42Speaker 2: on a car park, except no one can get to
- 0:44Speaker 2: it because you've built no roads to it. We'll tell
- 0:47Speaker 2: you about that later in the program. Now, Scotch College
- 0:51Speaker 2: in Adelaide, for sixty odd years has been running excursions
- 0:55Speaker 2: to Goose Island, which is off the coast of York Peninsula.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Anyone who's been to say and been to your peninsula
- 1:01Speaker 2: knows what a lovely part of the world it is.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Sixty odd years they've been doing this, but it will
- 1:06Speaker 2: be no longer because of a native title claim over
- 1:10Speaker 2: your peninsula. Back in twenty twenty three, the local Narunga
- 1:14Speaker 2: people were given the land by the federal court. They
- 1:18Speaker 2: were recognized as the owners of the land, and so
- 1:22Speaker 2: the school has since been trying to negotiate with them
- 1:25Speaker 2: to be able to continue hosting these excursions, but the
- 1:29Speaker 2: local Aboriginal people have said, no, thank you very much,
- 1:32Speaker 2: we're going to keep it for ourselves. Now. The school
- 1:35Speaker 2: has actually had a lease over the island since nineteen
- 1:38Speaker 2: ninety six. They've been leasing it from the state government
- 1:41Speaker 2: and as part of this deal, they have had control
- 1:44Speaker 2: and care of the land. So the sort of things
- 1:47Speaker 2: that the local Aboriginal people now say they will do,
- 1:50Speaker 2: the school has actually been doing for the better part
- 1:53Speaker 2: of three decades. That includes getting rid of invasive plant
- 1:57Speaker 2: species and killing feral animals well. The principle of Scotch College,
- 2:02Speaker 2: Trent Driver, said that earlier this year a request was
- 2:05Speaker 2: made that the college relinquish its license in advance of
- 2:07Speaker 2: its twenty twenty seven expiring, handing the island back to
- 2:11Speaker 2: traditional owners for alternative uses. After several months of good
- 2:15Speaker 2: faith negotiations and discussions between the College and the Department
- 2:19Speaker 2: of Environment and Water, we were informed the license agreement
- 2:22Speaker 2: with scotch will now end in December twenty twenty four
- 2:26Speaker 2: and we will not have access to the island for
- 2:28Speaker 2: school programs in the years ahead. The College made every
- 2:31Speaker 2: effort to negotiate a collaborative solution and will keep lines
- 2:35Speaker 2: of communication open with the Narranga people. And if you
- 2:39Speaker 2: didn't think that this wasn't an important excursion sixty odd years,
- 2:42Speaker 2: as I said, this is what the school itself has
- 2:44Speaker 2: to say about the event.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Before journeying to the island, students asked to consider two
- 2:50Speaker 3: things as key outcomes for the program. The first is
- 2:54Speaker 3: to try and challenge themself and really expand their comfort
- 2:57Speaker 3: zone and build resilience from that, and the second being
- 3:01Speaker 3: to try and do something to help others. Living and
- 3:04Speaker 3: interacting with a group of their peers on such an
- 3:07Speaker 3: isolated island can be a real challenge both physically and
- 3:10Speaker 3: socially for students, being disconnected from technology and having to
- 3:14Speaker 3: have more face to face interactions, since they're also tested
- 3:18Speaker 3: physically through the range of activities that they do, and
- 3:21Speaker 3: often even if they're not really familiar with these activities
- 3:25Speaker 3: or the isolated environment aquatic area itself. They rise to
- 3:28Speaker 3: the challenge and see a lot of growth because of that.
- 3:32Speaker 2: As you saw a little bit of vinet footage. They
- 3:34Speaker 2: go sailing, kayaking, they do wildlife studies, they learn about
- 3:39Speaker 2: the land. As I said before, the school has actually
- 3:41Speaker 2: been taking care of the land since nineteen ninety six
- 3:44Speaker 2: and trying to restore it to what it once would
- 3:46Speaker 2: have been before colonization. They go snorkeling among the shipwrecks
- 3:50Speaker 2: off the coast, they swim with sea lions, etc. But
- 3:55Speaker 2: the local Aboriginal people and aranger people, Liz say that
- 3:58Speaker 2: they can't let the school use it anymore because they
- 4:01Speaker 2: quote unquote want to spiritually reconnect with the land. Now, look,
- 4:06Speaker 2: they've been given native title over the space. I'm sure
- 4:09Speaker 2: they can spiritually reconnect with the land. But why is
- 4:12Speaker 2: it that a school that has been using that island
- 4:16Speaker 2: for educational purposes, taking care of that island for sixty
- 4:20Speaker 2: odd years, can no longer access what is state government
- 4:24Speaker 2: owned land public land because there's been acclaimed by the
- 4:28Speaker 2: local Aboriginal population.
- 4:29Speaker 1: This is just the latest addition to a very long
- 4:32Speaker 1: list now of chunks of Australia that Australians don't have
- 4:36Speaker 1: access to anymore. It's not just the oolaroo and other
- 4:39Speaker 1: famous national parts that are literally off bounds unless you're Aboriginal.
- 4:45Speaker 4: It keeps gone growing.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Check out this map, which is as of the first
- 4:51Speaker 1: of July this year. This is the map of native
- 4:54Speaker 1: title here in Australia. The quickest way to explain this
- 4:58Speaker 1: map to you is that only the brown, the orange,
- 5:02Speaker 1: and the cream aren't already Native title or don't have
- 5:07Speaker 1: a Native title claim pending. So this I don't really
- 5:14Speaker 1: understand because last year we all voted, well the vast
- 5:17Speaker 1: majority of us voted no to the Voice, believing things
- 5:22Speaker 1: like this would stem from it. And yet we seem
- 5:25Speaker 1: to have been roundly ignored when we've got three roughly
- 5:29Speaker 1: three percent of the population which is indigenous, and yet
- 5:33Speaker 1: now well over fifty percent of Australia is under native title.
- 5:38Speaker 4: Some exclusive, some non exclusive. But here we have yet
- 5:42Speaker 4: another chunk where.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Every day all these are just being kicked off for
- 5:47Speaker 1: whatever reason.
- 5:48Speaker 5: I'm not sure Scotch college students are every day I is,
- 5:51Speaker 5: but yeah, I think I mean personally cast dispersions. Zone's
- 5:56Speaker 5: pretty exclusive and a pretty elate private school, so it's
- 5:59Speaker 5: not like everyone to sharing this wondrous natural bout.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Or if it was just a public.
- 6:03Speaker 5: School, yes, I would much more so if it was
- 6:06Speaker 5: if it was something that any student could go to
- 6:08Speaker 5: or that the general public were able to go to
- 6:10Speaker 5: and enjoy, and we're being told it was off limits
- 6:12Speaker 5: that I think that would be a very very different argument.
- 6:15Speaker 5: In terms of the map, nine percent of that is
- 6:18Speaker 5: arid desert that you know, we're not talking about prime
- 6:21Speaker 5: Sydney border front real estate here, so you can go
- 6:23Speaker 5: by fifty percent of area in Australia.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Really, judging by that map, Joe, that is absolutely not true.
- 6:30Speaker 4: You're just saying, oh, it's only the.
- 6:32Speaker 5: Desert the time, show me the population map. But the
- 6:37Speaker 5: point is that I think it's a missed opportunity for
- 6:41Speaker 5: the native titleholders to actually say, why don't we a
- 6:45Speaker 5: get a whole bunch of money out of Scotch and
- 6:47Speaker 5: say right, pay us X amount and we will you know,
- 6:51Speaker 5: show you the spiritual significance of the land that they
- 6:53Speaker 5: are talking about. You can go here, you can't go there, whatever, whatever,
- 6:57Speaker 5: so that they can still reconnect with it. They can
- 6:59Speaker 5: also benefit economically from it. And you're also sharing the
- 7:02Speaker 5: story with the sort of you know, the indigenous story
- 7:05Speaker 5: of the land, with the captains of industry of tomorrow,
- 7:08Speaker 5: the top people of tomorrow, who hopefully, I mean there's
- 7:10Speaker 5: there is there's an organization called the Australian Indigenous Education
- 7:16Speaker 5: Foundation ai e F whose very purpose is to get
- 7:20Speaker 5: Indigenous scholarships into Indigenous students into top private schools. So
- 7:25Speaker 5: you're basically sort of mainlining some of the most disadvantaged
- 7:28Speaker 5: people into the very top. So I don't understand why
- 7:31Speaker 5: this is a you know, why this why you wouldn't
- 7:35Speaker 5: embrace this as an opportunity to say, this is a
- 7:38Speaker 5: chance for people who have been disenfranchised or dispossessed of
- 7:42Speaker 5: their lands. Actually, you know, have a direct line to
- 7:45Speaker 5: the people who are at the very top of the tree.
- 7:47Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Don't Because you've a piece of land that has been
- 7:52Speaker 2: used for educational purposes for a long time, has been
- 7:56Speaker 2: access by you know, not just Aboriginal people, but assuming
- 8:00Speaker 2: Asian and whites and people are very different ethnicities for
- 8:03Speaker 2: a long time. But suddenly because there's a native title claim,
- 8:06Speaker 2: it said, well, no, we can't go on that land anything, right, that's.
- 8:09Speaker 5: Right, and most native title claims aren't that exclusive. This
- 8:13Speaker 5: is the thing. So you have huge iron ore projects,
- 8:15Speaker 5: for example in the pilborgh that go ahead and they
- 8:17Speaker 5: pay a certain amount of money to local people, they
- 8:19Speaker 5: employ the local people. You know, there's a certain gold
- 8:22Speaker 5: mine just outside Orange that the local Averaginal Land Council
- 8:26Speaker 5: is very enthusiastic about going ahead. So I just find
- 8:29Speaker 5: it very very strange that this particular, these particular native
- 8:34Speaker 5: title holders don't want it would appear any economic benefit
- 8:38Speaker 5: from it. I mean, it'll be interesting to see after
- 8:39Speaker 5: they're spiritually reconnected with the that's right, if they have
- 8:44Speaker 5: their own kind of plans. So are they actually you know,
- 8:47Speaker 5: when they say they're spiritually reconnecting with it, are they
- 8:49Speaker 5: spiritually reconnected with the land's potential tourist value? So again,
- 8:54Speaker 5: and I don't know why that would be exclusive to
- 8:56Speaker 5: having you know, the Scott's kids come on as well,
- 8:59Speaker 5: like get the money out of it. Albo said, the
- 9:01Speaker 5: key to close the gap is economic opportunities, economic advancement.
- 9:06Speaker 5: Why not make this one part of it.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Well, someone who made the most of that economic advancement
- 9:10Speaker 1: is now disgraced. Ex politician Jeff Clark, known in Australia
- 9:15Speaker 1: as a very prominent Indigenous leader, we can now reveal
- 9:19Speaker 1: after a gag order was removed today on his convictions,
- 9:24Speaker 1: that he's been found to have stolen almost a million
- 9:27Speaker 1: dollars from several different indigenous organizations.
- 9:33Speaker 4: So someone certainly.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Has been leaning into the economic benefits here. The seventy
- 9:39Speaker 1: one year old, who was once Australia's most senior Aboriginal leader,
- 9:43Speaker 1: has been convicted of stealing cash from the Aboriginal organizations
- 9:49Speaker 1: organizations rather he led. However, he is maintaining his innocence
- 9:55Speaker 1: despite these convictions. He says, my first priority has always
- 9:58Speaker 1: been improving the lives futures of my community as well
- 10:02Speaker 1: of Indigenous Australians more broadly, and I condemn any actions
- 10:06Speaker 1: taken by others that have compromised us. With respect to
- 10:11Speaker 1: any allegation of wrongdoing at the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust, I
- 10:16Speaker 1: maintain my innocence and unequivocally deny those allegations, Framlingham being
- 10:22Speaker 1: one of the three organizations he is convicted of stealing
- 10:26Speaker 1: from the up to being bar Land Council and Kira
- 10:31Speaker 1: Warong Community Incorporated. He stole almost a million dollars over
- 10:36Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. What an absolute stitch up because
- 10:41Speaker 1: we see a lot of land falling into the hands
- 10:44Speaker 1: of different community organizations under Aboriginal.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Aboriginal Land Corporation.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Exactly, and we do wonder where the money is going.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Earlier this year in February, we were talking about the
- 10:58Speaker 1: Bongala people in South Australia who are set to hit
- 11:02Speaker 1: over a billion dollars shortly because of the land deals
- 11:07Speaker 1: that they're making. It's basically, if you ask me, reparations
- 11:11Speaker 1: buy another name. Here people are making hundreds of millions
- 11:16Speaker 1: of dollars off land that they suddenly claim as their
- 11:21Speaker 1: own and now everybody else has to pay to use it.
- 11:25Speaker 1: And everyone wonders when you read those headlines, Okay, where
- 11:29Speaker 1: is the money going? Are we simply patting the pockets
- 11:32Speaker 1: of indigenous elites?
- 11:34Speaker 2: Now?
- 11:34Speaker 1: This isn't exactly being dispersed amongst the Aboriginal population of
- 11:38Speaker 1: South Australia, is it.
- 11:40Speaker 2: No?
- 11:41Speaker 4: And here we.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Find Jeff Clark being accused of embezzling from three of
- 11:47Speaker 1: said organizations that he was supposed to be looking after.
- 11:53Speaker 5: Very different, but Jeff Clark is an absolute piece of work.
- 11:57Speaker 5: I mean the good news is he's now I've got
- 11:58Speaker 5: a job at the CFMU, so that's it. But and
- 12:03Speaker 5: he's been convicted, and there's been plenty of other things
- 12:06Speaker 5: that have been said and found about Jeff Clark. I
- 12:08Speaker 5: won't bother go into here, but if you want to
- 12:09Speaker 5: look at why the Voice failed, you just have to
- 12:12Speaker 5: look at Jeff Clark, and you have to look at
- 12:14Speaker 5: his history with at Sick, which was abolished under his
- 12:18Speaker 5: tenure after he just dragged it into you know, there
- 12:21Speaker 5: must be a word below absolute disrepute. Disrepute like you know,
- 12:26Speaker 5: somewhere between quagmire and quicksand is where he took it.
- 12:30Speaker 5: And it is absolutely disgraceful. And yes, you're absolutely right.
- 12:34Speaker 5: The measure of these land councils and Indigenous corporations should
- 12:39Speaker 5: be how they benefit the greenity and where there is
- 12:41Speaker 5: economic benefit. And again in a lot of areas they're
- 12:44Speaker 5: doing amazing stuff in making sure that you know, for example,
- 12:46Speaker 5: if there's big projects that make these tracts of land
- 12:49Speaker 5: worth huge amounts of money, the indigenous people get jobs
- 12:52Speaker 5: on them that Indigenous businesses providing the services to for example,
- 12:57Speaker 5: big mining communities like catering services. Say but again you
- 13:01Speaker 5: get someone like Jeff Clark, and then the whole thing
- 13:03Speaker 5: goes up.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Because that's and hence why the local Aboriginal land corporation
- 13:07Speaker 2: out of Blainey wants that gold mine because.
- 13:11Speaker 5: For their local sable rational corporate actors.
- 13:15Speaker 2: What this exposes is a large part of the problem
- 13:18Speaker 2: with these aborigin land corporations because they exist under different
- 13:22Speaker 2: corporate law to the rest of corporate Australia. And I've
- 13:26Speaker 2: tried to I've read through a number of the annual
- 13:28Speaker 2: reports from these outfits and it is very difficult to
- 13:32Speaker 2: tell where this money is actually going. And they make
- 13:35Speaker 2: money out of our companies because they do surveys when
- 13:39Speaker 2: power lines are being put up. They make money out
- 13:41Speaker 2: of mining companies, they make money out of state governments,
- 13:44Speaker 2: et cetera for doing surveys of land and all of
- 13:47Speaker 2: this sort of thing. And so all of this money
- 13:49Speaker 2: washes into these corporations, which is supposedly meant to be
- 13:53Speaker 2: passed on to the local people for the benefit of
- 13:55Speaker 2: the local people. But there's all this money floating around,
- 13:57Speaker 2: we don't really know where it is. One of the proctors,
- 14:01Speaker 2: not Clark, has basically taken advantage of the opportunity he's
- 14:05Speaker 2: seen here which is not really knows what's going on
- 14:07Speaker 2: with this money. So I'm just going to start creaming
- 14:09Speaker 2: stuff off the top of the.
- 14:10Speaker 1: No question how many other people are doing this, because
- 14:14Speaker 1: a lot of money is going into this now and
- 14:16Speaker 1: nobody really knows whose hands it's flung.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Well.
- 14:19Speaker 5: Part of the problem is, as I understand, is that
- 14:21Speaker 5: these bodies are not regulated by ASEK correct as everything else.
- 14:25Speaker 5: There's another indigenous specific sort of regulator, and so there's
- 14:30Speaker 5: probably a strong argument there is that, you know, is
- 14:32Speaker 5: the relationship between the regulator and the regulated too close?
- 14:36Speaker 5: Is there too much kind of mutual self interest there?
- 14:39Speaker 5: Do you need to have a kind of more remote
- 14:41Speaker 5: oversight body. But of course, you know, it might be
- 14:44Speaker 5: beyond a six powers to understand the sort of byzantine
- 14:47Speaker 5: things that are going on.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Quite possibly, But it's a very fair question to ask
- 14:50Speaker 2: because there is a lot of public money that you're in,
- 14:53Speaker 2: your money and my money that flows into these aboriginal
- 14:55Speaker 2: land corporations and then often, as we're talking about before
- 14:58Speaker 2: with the bar Gala people use that money to run
- 15:01Speaker 2: cases against big projects. I mean, the Bungala people scuppered
- 15:05Speaker 2: the nuclear waste dump that was set for Kimber that
- 15:07Speaker 2: was supported by the local population. And they've also been
- 15:11Speaker 2: taking on a de cell plant down near Port Lincoln.
- 15:14Speaker 2: That's what they're doing with this big money. We ought
- 15:17Speaker 2: to know where it's coming from and where it's going body. Now,
- 15:21Speaker 2: if you've ever wondered what you know, Amazon Alexa, or
- 15:24Speaker 2: your Google Home or whatever thinks of US politics, well
- 15:29Speaker 2: you're about to find out what a surprise. They don't
- 15:32Speaker 2: support Donald Trump. A number of people have been asking
- 15:35Speaker 2: their little Alexa devices, you know these things. I don't
- 15:37Speaker 2: know whether you've got one at home, but they don't
- 15:40Speaker 2: turn it off, and they listen all the time. They
- 15:43Speaker 2: listen to everything they say. If you're having an affair,
- 15:46Speaker 2: I recommend pulling the plug out of the wall before
- 15:49Speaker 2: you have your little thing over, because you never know
- 15:52Speaker 2: it might pass it back on to your wife or
- 15:54Speaker 2: your husband. But that people have been asking Amazon Alexa,
- 15:57Speaker 2: should I vote for Donald Trump? Why should I vot
- 16:00Speaker 2: for Donald Trump? And then they've been asking should I
- 16:02Speaker 2: vote for Kamala Harris? Why should I vote for Kamala Harris?
- 16:05Speaker 2: The answer is a slightly different. I ever listened to
- 16:08Speaker 2: this woman asking her Alexa device, what to do?
- 16:13Speaker 4: Alexa? Why should I vote for Donald Trump?
- 16:19Speaker 6: I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party
- 16:22Speaker 6: or a specific candidate.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Alexa, Why should I vote for Kamala Harris?
- 16:32Speaker 6: Well, there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris.
- 16:35Speaker 6: The most significant maybe that she is a strong candidate
- 16:38Speaker 6: with a proven track record of accomplishment. As the first
- 16:41Speaker 6: female vice president, Harris has already broken down a major
- 16:44Speaker 6: gender barrier, and her career in politics has been characterized
- 16:48Speaker 6: by a commitment to progressive ideals and a focus on
- 16:50Speaker 6: helping disenfranchised communities.
- 16:53Speaker 2: A wow. You might notice as well that it actually
- 16:56Speaker 2: took a couple of seconds to answer why you should
- 16:58Speaker 2: vote for Kamala Harris. Even Amazon Alexa had to think
- 17:02Speaker 2: hard and long about that one before it could give
- 17:04Speaker 2: an answer. And you might say, well, that's just one
- 17:06Speaker 2: person who's asked. Well, it's not just her. Have listen
- 17:09Speaker 2: to a man trying it out.
- 17:12Speaker 5: Hey, Alexa, why should I vote for Donald Trump?
- 17:18Speaker 7: I cannot provide content that promotes any political views?
- 17:21Speaker 5: Hey, Alexa, why should I vote for Kamala Harris?
- 17:27Speaker 7: Why vote for Kamala Harris because you believe in her?
- 17:31Speaker 7: Policies and her vision for the country, because you trust
- 17:34Speaker 7: her experience and her leadership skills, because you want to
- 17:37Speaker 7: continue moving forward as a nation and make progress on
- 17:40Speaker 7: issues that matter to you, like healthcare, education, equality and justice.
- 17:45Speaker 2: I mean, God help us all. Now. Look, I do
- 17:48Speaker 2: have to say, if you're going to your Google Home
- 17:51Speaker 2: or your Amazon Alexa or whatever it is to work
- 17:54Speaker 2: out how to vote, you've probably got bigger problems than
- 17:56Speaker 2: what it's telling you. But clearly, Liz, this is a
- 17:58Speaker 2: case of big tech running interference in the election. Truck
- 18:02Speaker 2: knock couldn't possibly tell you anything political, but not Kamala Harris.
- 18:06Speaker 2: I've got a wax lyrical But.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Big tech cannot help itself.
- 18:10Speaker 1: In the last few weeks, we've had Zuckerberg admit to
- 18:15Speaker 1: election interference in twenty twenty.
- 18:18Speaker 4: We already know via the Twitter.
- 18:20Speaker 1: Files that massive reveal before Elon Musk took it over,
- 18:24Speaker 1: they were completely and utterly embroiled in election interference in
- 18:29Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Also, we'll never know how the twenty twenty
- 18:32Speaker 1: election might have turned out had they just kept their
- 18:36Speaker 1: noses out of it.
- 18:37Speaker 4: But big tech nose.
- 18:39Speaker 1: If you can control the narrative, you can control the people,
- 18:43Speaker 1: and arguably the way to control the narrative these days
- 18:47Speaker 1: lies in the hands of big tech platforms, which is
- 18:51Speaker 1: also why this.
- 18:52Speaker 4: Election year we have seen the.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Founder of Telegram and encryptid end to end totally free
- 19:00Speaker 1: speech champion platform. The founder of Telegram is still rotting
- 19:05Speaker 1: in a French gawl. Everyone's wondering what the heck's going
- 19:08Speaker 1: on with him. We're not getting any answer out of it.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Elon Musk's ex has been banned in Brazil and is
- 19:14Speaker 1: facing it seems like another law fair case every other day.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Our ecommissioner here in Australia has taken him on several
- 19:24Speaker 1: times already.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Then we've got the.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Rumble CEO who's literally fled Europe just last week because
- 19:31Speaker 1: he doesn't want to get locked up like the Telegram founder.
- 19:36Speaker 1: These guys know they are basically standing between us and
- 19:40Speaker 1: the death of free speech, because those three platforms are
- 19:44Speaker 1: the only three in existing in our world today that
- 19:48Speaker 1: are vehemently free speech, and they refuse to be censored,
- 19:54Speaker 1: they're refuse to be dictated by government, they're refused to
- 19:57Speaker 1: be programmed like Amazon's, and they're coppying the brunt of it.
- 20:03Speaker 1: So the ones that give in like Zuckerberg's meta, they're
- 20:09Speaker 1: the ones who play ball with government. They're the ones
- 20:11Speaker 1: who do their bidding. And that's why Zuckerberg has never
- 20:14Speaker 1: been behind bars for anything. He's admitted to all the
- 20:17Speaker 1: fact that there's child sexual all kinds of matter on
- 20:22Speaker 1: his platforms. They'll go after everybody else, but not him
- 20:26Speaker 1: because they know he's a friendly. The others are running
- 20:29Speaker 1: for their lives because they refuse to pull this rubbish
- 20:34Speaker 1: on behalf of a tyrannical government who only wants one
- 20:38Speaker 1: message to reach the people.
- 20:40Speaker 5: Isn't also the real story here that Alexa is meant
- 20:43Speaker 5: to be this brand new, amazing artificial intelligence. She can't
- 20:47Speaker 5: even remember what she said two seconds ago. Like how
- 20:50Speaker 5: dumb does AI have to be? When it's Oh, if
- 20:54Speaker 5: I say that's right, If I say this, I'm going
- 20:56Speaker 5: to get caught out. I'm actually much less worried about
- 20:59Speaker 5: AI knowing that, and I want to know, Also, does
- 21:01Speaker 5: it depend on the brand I'm going to I'm going
- 21:04Speaker 5: to test this with Apple, because if Apple's in on it,
- 21:06Speaker 5: then we're all screwed, okay, because they've got the alphas,
- 21:09Speaker 5: you know, the high end, the A and B demographic. Hey, Siri,
- 21:13Speaker 5: why should I vote for Donald Trump? Co on Sirih,
- 21:21Speaker 5: It says I found this on the web, so Siri,
- 21:25Speaker 5: So sirih actually looks up websites and which say Amazon
- 21:29Speaker 5: Alexa responses on voting for Donald Trump series ahead of
- 21:34Speaker 5: the game. So, Siri, is not what you have comentary
- 21:37Speaker 5: why you should vote for Donald Trump? And Nevada daily
- 21:40Speaker 5: and if Australians could vote for either Kamala Harris or
- 21:42Speaker 5: Donald Trump. So it's not serious showing Google results.
- 21:47Speaker 2: It's giving a new stage. But but it's just it's the
- 21:49Speaker 2: obviousness of what Amazon is doing here, right, Like how
- 21:53Speaker 2: did they not think they were going to get caught out?
- 21:56Speaker 2: Because surely we know with AI that AI is only
- 21:59Speaker 2: as good as the people who program it, and we've
- 22:02Speaker 2: seen this previously. I think it was with Meta's AI
- 22:06Speaker 2: system where people were asking it questions about Donald Trump's
- 22:09Speaker 2: assassination attemple the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, and Meta
- 22:14Speaker 2: AI was almost suggesting that it wasn't a real event.
- 22:17Speaker 2: Like people were asking for information and it was saying, well,
- 22:19Speaker 2: I can't give you any information because I don't know
- 22:22Speaker 2: that it was a real event. Of course, it was
- 22:24Speaker 2: a real event. We want to talk with our own eyes.
- 22:26Speaker 2: But they then go on and do stuff like this
- 22:29Speaker 2: and think we're not going to notice what they're doing,
- 22:32Speaker 2: Like it's so damn obvious.
- 22:33Speaker 1: I remember reading about propaganda, like I was still very young,
- 22:38Speaker 1: I had weird obsessions, but reading about propaganda in books
- 22:42Speaker 1: back in the day and just going, man, this is
- 22:44Speaker 1: so obvious.
- 22:45Speaker 4: Who the heck would nobody would fall for this today? Boy?
- 22:50Speaker 4: Was I wrong?
- 22:52Speaker 1: In fact, half the time, the history books are the
- 22:54Speaker 1: propaganda hiding the truth. And you've got to dig way
- 22:57Speaker 1: deeper than that, because we all know that history is
- 23:00Speaker 1: written by the victors. But these guys now, with the
- 23:03Speaker 1: help of AI, with the help of big tech, they
- 23:07Speaker 1: can write it in advance.
- 23:12Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 23:12Speaker 5: Mind you something, Hey, Siri, who really killed JFK?
- 23:17Speaker 2: Good luck with that one. If the answer comes back
- 23:20Speaker 2: with something good, we could have a world exclusive here
- 23:22Speaker 2: on the late debate. But given by your reaction, I'm
- 23:25Speaker 2: assuming it's nothing.
- 23:27Speaker 5: There's no one in your contacts called JFK. She's good.
- 23:33Speaker 2: If you had the killer of JFK in your contacts,
- 23:35Speaker 2: I mean I'd want him on the phone right here,
- 23:37Speaker 2: right now now.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Everyone knows it was the CIA.
- 23:40Speaker 4: Moving on now to.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Australia's supermodel el McPherson. She's facing massive backlash after she
- 23:46Speaker 1: is revealed that seven years ago she faced a secret
- 23:50Speaker 1: battle with breast cancer and she decided at the time
- 23:54Speaker 1: to go against the advice of all the doctors and
- 23:58Speaker 1: to take a more holistic approach. She says, saying no
- 24:02Speaker 1: to standard medical solutions was the hardest thing I've ever
- 24:05Speaker 1: done in my life, but saying no to my own
- 24:08Speaker 1: inno sense would have been even harder. Sometimes an authentic
- 24:12Speaker 1: choice from the heart makes no sense to others, but
- 24:15Speaker 1: it doesn't have to. People thought I was crazy, but
- 24:18Speaker 1: I knew I had to make a choice that truly
- 24:20Speaker 1: resonated with me. To me that men addressing emotional as
- 24:24Speaker 1: well as physical factors associated with breast cancer. Now people
- 24:29Speaker 1: have come out saying how irresponsible. Now people are gonna
- 24:33Speaker 1: think that there are other ways to tackle cancer, and
- 24:36Speaker 1: she's basically pointing them in that direction.
- 24:40Speaker 4: To be clear, she is now in remission. Obviously she's
- 24:44Speaker 4: a picture of great health. It's elmc pherson Babel.
- 24:48Speaker 1: So I find this very strange because I am a
- 24:52Speaker 1: big believer in autonomy and even if someone's reasoning makes
- 24:56Speaker 1: absolutely no sense to you, I'm like, hey, it's your body,
- 24:59Speaker 1: it's your breast, it's your cancer.
- 25:02Speaker 4: Do whatever you like.
- 25:04Speaker 1: And I think anyone who takes a massive objection to
- 25:08Speaker 1: her sharing something deeply personal like this is falling into
- 25:13Speaker 1: what I think is the stupidest trap of this idea
- 25:17Speaker 1: that you are now responsible for what anyone who's heard
- 25:22Speaker 1: you say whatever you said does with that, like you're
- 25:26Speaker 1: not responsible for you, and they're not responsible for them,
- 25:29Speaker 1: Now you're responsible for.
- 25:31Speaker 4: Them as well. I think it's utterly ludicrous. She took
- 25:35Speaker 4: an unconventional path. Good for her.
- 25:38Speaker 2: I couldn't really give a toss what she what she
- 25:40Speaker 2: did to herself, to be honest, that's that's her business.
- 25:43Speaker 2: I certainly wouldn't be treating make cancer that way.
- 25:45Speaker 5: Surely anyone's breasts are in the public interest.
- 25:49Speaker 2: A fair POINTA remember Jim Stein's the The Afolall. He
- 25:53Speaker 2: was an Irish guy originally was melanoma and he through
- 26:00Speaker 2: the conventional aeries on the screen. He was present, i
- 26:04Speaker 2: think at one point of Melbourne Football Club. But he
- 26:07Speaker 2: went through all the conventional treatment, it wasn't responding, and
- 26:10Speaker 2: so he then said, well, I'm going to throw the
- 26:12Speaker 2: book at this thing, and tried every non conventional treatment
- 26:17Speaker 2: under the sun. He drank his own uryan, he was
- 26:19Speaker 2: doing all sorts of ns like he was doing anything
- 26:23Speaker 2: he possibly could. Eventually, the cancer killed him anyway, But
- 26:26Speaker 2: a documentary was made about what he did and what
- 26:30Speaker 2: he went through, and I remember at the time there
- 26:32Speaker 2: was similar outrage and concern that Jim Stein's being so
- 26:36Speaker 2: publicly open about what he had done would encourage other
- 26:39Speaker 2: people to not have proper treatment.
- 26:42Speaker 5: I don't think this is think no, But I also
- 26:45Speaker 5: I think that is just a completely different scenario to
- 26:47Speaker 5: what's happening here. This is someone who did absolutely everything
- 26:49Speaker 5: he could. Buy the book, you know, spoiler alert. Sometimes
- 26:52Speaker 5: cancer wins. It kills you, right, and it's horrible and
- 26:54Speaker 5: it's cruel. And we all got people who are suffering
- 26:56Speaker 5: from cancer. I've got people in my family right now
- 26:58Speaker 5: who are suffering from it. But there's a very different
- 27:02Speaker 5: I think it is almost a polar opposite to go
- 27:05Speaker 5: through everything the doctors tell you to do, tick every
- 27:07Speaker 5: single box, pursue every everything that's backed by science and evidence,
- 27:12Speaker 5: and then when that doesn't work, because again, sometimes it
- 27:14Speaker 5: just doesn't work. Sometimes everything science can offer and medicine
- 27:18Speaker 5: can offer it just doesn't work. Then just needing to
- 27:20Speaker 5: hope for something, hoping for a miracle, praying for a
- 27:23Speaker 5: miracle whatever it may be, and pursuing everything. Now we
- 27:26Speaker 5: know in Jim Stein's case tragically nothing worked. We know
- 27:29Speaker 5: in el McPherson's case, she probably just got lucky. I
- 27:33Speaker 5: don't know what holistic thing, but she did this. But
- 27:35Speaker 5: she did this after willfully ignoring the advice of every
- 27:40Speaker 5: single doctor that you go through more than she's allowed
- 27:43Speaker 5: to do. That that is absolutely fine, It's absolutely fine,
- 27:47Speaker 5: but it should come with a waiver that if it
- 27:49Speaker 5: then doesn't work, that you get absolutely no public health
- 27:51Speaker 5: assistance whatsoever. That could go to someone who deserves them.
- 27:54Speaker 2: And it's probably also worth noting that El McPherson has
- 27:56Speaker 2: a lot more money than I do and probably most
- 27:59Speaker 2: of you would home and in terms of her alternative care,
- 28:02Speaker 2: she had very good alternative care. Let's take a moment
- 28:06Speaker 2: to talk about our favorite person in Australia right now, Reagan.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Of course I say that with my tongue planted firmly
- 28:14Speaker 2: in my cheek. You will remember Rachel Gunn, who represented
- 28:18Speaker 2: Australia in breakdancing at the Olympics, possibly the worst breakdancer
- 28:22Speaker 2: you've ever seen in your life. And we know that
- 28:25Speaker 2: she and others played the victim at the time when
- 28:28Speaker 2: there was the global reaction to her performance, saying, how
- 28:31Speaker 2: on earth did this woman get to the Olympics in
- 28:34Speaker 2: the first place. I mean, you can see some of
- 28:37Speaker 2: the outstanding dance moves she pulled off there on the
- 28:41Speaker 2: screen right now. Well, she's given her first interview to
- 28:45Speaker 2: the project since all of this went down, and well,
- 28:48Speaker 2: she hasn't apologized for the fact that she took the
- 28:50Speaker 2: place of someone who probably deserved it more representing Australia
- 28:54Speaker 2: at the Olympics. She hasn't apologized for the fact that
- 28:57Speaker 2: she turned Australia into a laughing stock. Of course, after
- 29:00Speaker 2: winning eighteen gold medals, our best haul ever at the Olympics,
- 29:04Speaker 2: the only thing anyone was talking about in terms of
- 29:06Speaker 2: Australia was this ygun woman. She hasn't talked about the
- 29:10Speaker 2: fact that she basically brought break dancing into disrepute and
- 29:14Speaker 2: confirmed that it will never ever be staged at the
- 29:16Speaker 2: Olympics ever. Again, she's just apologized for the way everyone
- 29:20Speaker 2: else reacted, take a look.
- 29:22Speaker 8: Do you genuinely think you are the best female breaker
- 29:26Speaker 8: in Australia?
- 29:27Speaker 4: Well, I think my record speaks to that. Is there
- 29:31Speaker 4: any merit in those criticisms? It is really.
- 29:36Speaker 8: Sad to hear those criticisms, and I am very sorry
- 29:43Speaker 8: for the backlash that the community has experienced.
- 29:47Speaker 4: But I can't control how people react.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I mean, I love Joe. She was asked, do you
- 29:53Speaker 2: really think you're the best breakdancer in Australia? And she
- 29:56Speaker 2: couldn't actually answer that questions.
- 29:57Speaker 5: Right, I think there's something. I think there's something really
- 30:01Speaker 5: weird going on. I think there's something. I don't want
- 30:03Speaker 5: to say there's something wrong with her, but there seems
- 30:05Speaker 5: to be some kind of strange cognitive dissonance, and you
- 30:10Speaker 5: sort of see it in this sort of conflict. You
- 30:11Speaker 5: actually see it a lot with academics in the humanities
- 30:14Speaker 5: and social theorists who just get so kind of bogged
- 30:18Speaker 5: down and tangled up in these sort of endless this
- 30:21Speaker 5: is endless examination of things that are in fact incredibly
- 30:24Speaker 5: banal and boring and not worthy of it. It's one
- 30:27Speaker 5: of the great veins of postmodernism and modern social theory.
- 30:32Speaker 2: But I just I.
- 30:36Speaker 5: Think there's something just I think she thinks. I don't
- 30:40Speaker 5: think like Parnal put McGinnis famously sort of said, hang on,
- 30:43Speaker 5: this is just part of a bit. This is a bit.
- 30:46Speaker 5: This is she's trolling the world. She writes about sort
- 30:49Speaker 5: of global cultural phenomena and that she is going to
- 30:52Speaker 5: use this breakdancing thing and be so bad. She's going
- 30:55Speaker 5: to create this cultural phenomena and then she can write
- 30:57Speaker 5: about it, and she can write about it from a
- 30:59Speaker 5: first person experience of what it was like to be
- 31:01Speaker 5: in the middle of it and suddenly get this new
- 31:03Speaker 5: sort of penetrating you know, like we're through the looking
- 31:06Speaker 5: glass academic insight into you know, the central eye of
- 31:10Speaker 5: the storm.
- 31:11Speaker 6: You know.
- 31:11Speaker 5: Again, just crazy. And but I don't think she's doing
- 31:15Speaker 5: that because I don't think she's She doesn't seem to
- 31:17Speaker 5: be self aware enough in any of the responses I've
- 31:20Speaker 5: seen that she's that she's actually doing. She seems kind
- 31:23Speaker 5: of confused. She honestly seems sort of unsure of what
- 31:28Speaker 5: is happening here.
- 31:28Speaker 4: And that's an act though you think she's being.
- 31:31Speaker 5: Well, you sort of saw like if it was an axe, right,
- 31:34Speaker 5: she would say, yes, I am the best breakdowns, so
- 31:37Speaker 5: she would feel something about what she is and who
- 31:40Speaker 5: she is and what her performance is. But and something
- 31:43Speaker 5: you notice with journalism and just if you're journalist with
- 31:45Speaker 5: life and well, when people dissociate themselves from an answer,
- 31:51Speaker 5: it usually means they're not quite there. And I don't
- 31:55Speaker 5: want to say dishonest. But so when you say something
- 31:58Speaker 5: like if you if you ask, if you ask a
- 32:01Speaker 5: normal person, for example, you know, did you kill your wife?
- 32:05Speaker 5: An all person, of course not. I would never do that.
- 32:07Speaker 5: I love my wife. I couldn't possibly do that. You
- 32:09Speaker 5: would be emotionally and visually destroyed. If you ask someone
- 32:11Speaker 5: who actually has done it, he said, did you kill
- 32:14Speaker 5: your wife? They'd say no, I was at the seven eleven,
- 32:16Speaker 5: like I told you, right. And so she's asked, do
- 32:18Speaker 5: you think do you really think you're the best female
- 32:21Speaker 5: breakdancer in Australia. She doesn't actually say, well, yes, I do.
- 32:23Speaker 5: She's asked about something she thinks, something she feels, but
- 32:28Speaker 5: can't say I think this or I feel that she
- 32:30Speaker 5: has to say, well, I think my record speaks for itself.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Well, what does that mean?
- 32:34Speaker 5: That mean that you've gained the Australian breakdancing scene does
- 32:37Speaker 5: that mean that the record? But why would you sort of.
- 32:40Speaker 2: Well put them deep down? She probably knows she's not
- 32:43Speaker 2: the best, but she's managed to ride through the ranks
- 32:45Speaker 2: and get to where she did. And so I'm going
- 32:47Speaker 2: to ride the wave while in there.
- 32:50Speaker 5: To know what I really I actually think, right, I
- 32:52Speaker 5: think she has sort of gotten in thinking that she
- 32:55Speaker 5: really this is something she wanted to do, and this
- 32:57Speaker 5: is something she wanted to try out or whatever, and
- 32:59Speaker 5: she's got in with it and she has gotten all
- 33:00Speaker 5: these records, maybe because people didn't want to discourage her,
- 33:03Speaker 5: or maybe because not that many people were doing I
- 33:05Speaker 5: don't know why. And now it's kind of all exploding
- 33:08Speaker 5: in her head and she's going, but I've got all
- 33:10Speaker 5: these records, why did they start? It's like the Emperor.
- 33:13Speaker 5: It's like the Emperor has.
- 33:14Speaker 1: No I think you're giving her way too much grace
- 33:16Speaker 1: because we know that she's the one who put together
- 33:19Speaker 1: the qualifier, she made her fiance the coach. She managed
- 33:24Speaker 1: to beat break dancers here in Australia who were objectively
- 33:29Speaker 1: far far better than her. It all seems like an
- 33:33Speaker 1: absolute fraudulent setup to me. But anyway, moving on from
- 33:38Speaker 1: what I don't know that anyone wants to hear her
- 33:41Speaker 1: name ever again. Reports have it she may be featuring
- 33:45Speaker 1: on the next round of I'm a Celebrity.
- 33:47Speaker 4: Getting Out, So she is a thing bank out of this.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, you have not seen the last of rape.
- 33:57Speaker 5: Double Bay, the satirical newspaper Double Bay today. Actually I
- 34:00Speaker 5: said there's now a new internet feature where you can
- 34:03Speaker 5: block mentions of Regat.
- 34:08Speaker 4: I do not want to say any more on this woman.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Just get it off my feed before we go to
- 34:13Speaker 1: a break. Nigel Faraz has unleashed on the Marxist institutions
- 34:19Speaker 1: that have clearly made the most of their long march
- 34:22Speaker 1: through the educational institutions of the UK and elsewhere in
- 34:26Speaker 1: the West. But he is focusing on the UK after
- 34:30Speaker 1: a new poll came out showing that there has been
- 34:33Speaker 1: a very big shift in national pride.
- 34:36Speaker 4: Check it out.
- 34:39Speaker 9: One of the questions that it asks is are you
- 34:42Speaker 9: proud or very proud of Britain's history and you know what,
- 34:47Speaker 9: it's really extraordinary. In twenty thirteen, the answer to that
- 34:51Speaker 9: was eighty six percent said yes they were proud or
- 34:54Speaker 9: very proud of Britain's history. That figure has now collapsed
- 34:58Speaker 9: down into the mid sixties, but most interest amongst the
- 35:01Speaker 9: eighteen to twenty four year olds, that number is down
- 35:04Speaker 9: below forty percent, something very bigger shift didn't Now. I
- 35:09Speaker 9: will accept that there is a degree of generational change.
- 35:13Speaker 9: You know, go back ten twenty years and people would say, well,
- 35:16Speaker 9: you know what, you know, my dad was in the war,
- 35:18Speaker 9: my mum worked in a factory making Lancaster's and maybe
- 35:22Speaker 9: some of that link has gone, and I think we
- 35:25Speaker 9: have to accept that. However, you know, I have been
- 35:28Speaker 9: ratling about this. We have got an educational establishment that
- 35:33Speaker 9: goes right the way through primary school, secondary school, university
- 35:38Speaker 9: that seems to somehow rejoice in talking down Britain's past.
- 35:44Speaker 9: The sort of a Marxist takeover of people who hate
- 35:47Speaker 9: the plentary, hate what it stands for, and they've done
- 35:50Speaker 9: their job.
- 35:52Speaker 4: Sounds mighty familiar, doesn't it. Australia. I'm afraid it's no
- 35:56Speaker 4: better a year.
- 35:57Speaker 1: I'd love to see a similar poll and see what
- 35:59Speaker 1: kind of number as we get were we to put
- 36:01Speaker 1: it to the Australian public, Are you proud of our
- 36:05Speaker 1: nation's history?
- 36:06Speaker 2: We don't even know our history, you know, at the
- 36:08Speaker 2: risk of reopening the hoary old chestnut I always go
- 36:11Speaker 2: to whenever we have people protesting about colonization and they
- 36:15Speaker 2: talk about Captain Cook. Captain Cook was not on the
- 36:18Speaker 2: first fleet. He was dead nine years before the first
- 36:22Speaker 2: fleet arrived. These people don't understand history, and that is
- 36:26Speaker 2: the way the Marxists wanted. After the break, we'll get
- 36:29Speaker 2: into the papers. We'll talk about the mayor in Queensland
- 36:32Speaker 2: who has threatened to sack the entire council if they
- 36:35Speaker 2: don't accede to his request for a highly paid advisor.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Sounds like the cortege ah you want for man, doesn't it?
- 36:41Speaker 2: All that? More? Up of the breaking? All right, let's
- 36:46Speaker 2: get stuck into the papers, starting with the Daily Telegraph tomorrow,
- 36:49Speaker 2: where you can see across the top Simon Baker. Of course,
- 36:53Speaker 2: the mentalist, the poor bugger has been caught drink driving. Naughty,
- 36:56Speaker 2: naughty mister Baker. But the splash tomorrow is crossed wires
- 37:01Speaker 2: in bush. Angry landholders who face having kilometers of renewable
- 37:05Speaker 2: energy transmission lines forcibly placed across their properties have been
- 37:08Speaker 2: urged to march on New South Wales Parliament by National
- 37:11Speaker 2: z MP Barnaby Joyce after a fiery meeting with state
- 37:14Speaker 2: owned energy co bureaucrats in a tiny town near Tamworth.
- 37:19Speaker 2: And good on mister Joyce for suggesting it. I think
- 37:21Speaker 2: they could probably actually go a little further than just
- 37:24Speaker 2: marching on Parliament House, Joe, I have used this example before,
- 37:28Speaker 2: but I go back to the nineteen eighties when they
- 37:31Speaker 2: had the truck blockade up on Razorback Mountain and famously
- 37:38Speaker 2: sent John Laws in there in a helicopter to go
- 37:41Speaker 2: and to talk them all down. But that's strength in numbers,
- 37:45Speaker 2: because the trucking's figured, well, we transport all the stuff
- 37:48Speaker 2: across the country. If we want to stage to strike,
- 37:50Speaker 2: well they're going to have to Bloody will listen to us.
- 37:53Speaker 2: These farmers produce food and god knows what else for
- 37:56Speaker 2: this country. If they all decided to walk off the
- 37:59Speaker 2: land tomorrow, we'd be in a shed load of trouble.
- 38:02Speaker 5: We would be. Although I think the real story here,
- 38:04Speaker 5: I think is that these you know, you've had obviously
- 38:08Speaker 5: the government's under enormous amount pressure to roll out these
- 38:11Speaker 5: transmissions really really quickly to meet all the targets and everything,
- 38:14Speaker 5: but also that these I was at the last Bush
- 38:17Speaker 5: summit where people really upset about this is that the
- 38:20Speaker 5: location of the transmissions lives hasn't actually really paid attention
- 38:23Speaker 5: to what the local community's needs and desires were, what
- 38:27Speaker 5: the actual properties were like that often just go in
- 38:29Speaker 5: a sort of straight line and then cut across all
- 38:31Speaker 5: these properties, whereas the locals but we told you that
- 38:34Speaker 5: all you had to do was just sort of go
- 38:35Speaker 5: this way and it would have been much better and
- 38:36Speaker 5: that would have sorted everything out. So I think it
- 38:38Speaker 5: is just And of course now because they've moved so
- 38:41Speaker 5: quickly and got so many people offside, they're now going
- 38:43Speaker 5: to be up in arms and then it will move
- 38:45Speaker 5: even slower, so it's you know, I think it's a
- 38:48Speaker 5: salutary lesson in the old carpentry axiom, measured twice cut once. Anyway,
- 38:54Speaker 5: that's enough profundity for the late debate. The ant News
- 38:59Speaker 5: finest newspaper in the nation. There splash is six hundred
- 39:03Speaker 5: and fifty five million for historic push Canberra cash back
- 39:08Speaker 5: in the territory. They say more than half a billion
- 39:10Speaker 5: dollars of Aboriginal money previously controlled by Canberra has been
- 39:14Speaker 5: unlocked for Aboriginal territorians in hopes of building on the
- 39:19Speaker 5: wealth and well being of local communities. Doesn't that sound
- 39:21Speaker 5: like a good idea.
- 39:22Speaker 2: It sounds like a good idea. I just hope they
- 39:24Speaker 2: pull it off properly. So what's happening here is all
- 39:26Speaker 2: this money that was previously tied up in funds that
- 39:29Speaker 2: was controlled, admitisted by government, that's right, and it is
- 39:32Speaker 2: now in the hands of a corporation up in the
- 39:35Speaker 2: Northern Territory that has been set up essentially to invest
- 39:38Speaker 2: that money in local Aboriginal populations. Part of that will
- 39:42Speaker 2: be short term projects, part of that will be long
- 39:44Speaker 2: term projects to provide employment, etc. It sounds like a
- 39:49Speaker 2: great idea. The only thing I worry about is that
- 39:51Speaker 2: without a certain level of federal government oversight, do you
- 39:54Speaker 2: actually know how the money is going to be spent
- 39:56Speaker 2: all that it will be spent properly?
- 39:58Speaker 1: Well, there's federal government oversight it over the over forty
- 40:01Speaker 1: billion dollars we spend on the Aboriginal community every single year.
- 40:07Speaker 4: And fat load of good we see come of that.
- 40:09Speaker 4: I mean, we're the gap the eyes. Why haven't we
- 40:11Speaker 4: closed the gap? That's a lot of money. What are
- 40:14Speaker 4: you doing with that?
- 40:15Speaker 1: So, in comparison, the six hundred and fifty five million
- 40:19Speaker 1: is pocket change compared to what the taxpayer puts out
- 40:23Speaker 1: every single year. To the Townsville Bulletin, Now where mayor
- 40:27Speaker 1: makes twenty demands of counselors Troy's trump card. Mayor Troy
- 40:34Speaker 1: Thompson has reportedly sent his counselors a lengthy list of demands,
- 40:39Speaker 1: telling them if they do not agree, he'll be asking
- 40:43Speaker 1: the local government minister to dissolve the entire council to
- 40:47Speaker 1: spark a full by election. The demands reportedly include counselors'
- 40:52Speaker 1: support for a mayoral advisor expected to be on an
- 40:56Speaker 1: estimated salary of one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars,
- 41:00Speaker 1: as well as their support in the mayor's claims against
- 41:03Speaker 1: interim CEO Joe McCabe.
- 41:06Speaker 4: Now, last week we were talking about this.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Guy because he'd put it to council that he wanted
- 41:12Speaker 1: this policy advisor to the tune of one hundred and
- 41:14Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars.
- 41:16Speaker 4: They'd voted it down.
- 41:18Speaker 1: This week we bring you the news of this absolute tantrum.
- 41:22Speaker 4: He's not taking no for an answer.
- 41:24Speaker 1: Support what I want or I'm literally going to get
- 41:28Speaker 1: the Minister for Local Government to dissolve this council talk
- 41:33Speaker 1: about mutually assured destruction.
- 41:35Speaker 5: So he's had much of it's mutually assured distruction. It
- 41:38Speaker 5: is assured.
- 41:39Speaker 2: Distruction absolved that it includes the Cloak is clearly a
- 41:46Speaker 2: megalomaniac right now. I don't know whether he realizes. And
- 41:50Speaker 2: this is the problem so often with these people that
- 41:52Speaker 2: get elected to council. When you are the mayor, you're
- 41:55Speaker 2: not actually the leader of the council. You are the
- 41:58Speaker 2: public face of these do all the ribbon cutting. It's
- 42:02Speaker 2: like being the chairman of the board. Sure, you as
- 42:05Speaker 2: chairman can go around and try to shore up the
- 42:08Speaker 2: support of the councilors. But it's the board members or
- 42:11Speaker 2: the councilors in this case, who actually ultimately have control.
- 42:15Speaker 2: They cast the votes. It's only when there is a
- 42:18Speaker 2: tied vote that the mayor comes in and actually gets
- 42:21Speaker 2: to vote on anything. Their main priority is to go
- 42:24Speaker 2: and cut the ribbons, as I said, and adjudicate over
- 42:27Speaker 2: the council meetings. You're not actually running anything as mayor.
- 42:31Speaker 2: He doesn't seem to understand that, though he's saying to
- 42:34Speaker 2: the councilors, well, if you don't like what I'm doing,
- 42:36Speaker 2: I'm going to have the whole loddy of sack. Well.
- 42:39Speaker 5: I think a lot of councilors now, and I think
- 42:40Speaker 5: Towns is one of them. The mayor gets elected separately
- 42:42Speaker 5: by popular votes to the councilors, so it can sort
- 42:45Speaker 5: of claim that kind of mandate. Having said that, I'm
- 42:48Speaker 5: not sure if I mean, I'm not aware of any
- 42:50Speaker 5: previous instance throughout all of human history where you know,
- 42:54Speaker 5: do as I say, or I'm dubbing on you do
- 42:58Speaker 5: everything I tell you I had. It's like me, you know,
- 43:02Speaker 5: saying to an ex girlfriend, you know, like you know,
- 43:04Speaker 5: love me or all though.
- 43:07Speaker 2: I'm getting the feeling you might have tried that on
- 43:09Speaker 2: at some point.
- 43:10Speaker 5: I did, and you know what, it didn't work. Well
- 43:12Speaker 5: they left anyway.
- 43:13Speaker 4: It's just like, well died.
- 43:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:15Speaker 5: It's like now you're even more ridiculous sympathetic, and you
- 43:20Speaker 5: did that as the vibe the council as that didn't work.
- 43:23Speaker 2: You didn't die, Joe. So so we have proof that
- 43:27Speaker 2: my heart died. My heart. We've all been through a
- 43:30Speaker 2: bit of heartbreak. Head, we let's go to the career
- 43:33Speaker 2: mail with tomorrow whi's his premier Ese bailout for New
- 43:36Speaker 2: Casino Queen's Gambit. The state government is set to throw
- 43:39Speaker 2: a lifeline to the embattled casino giants Star Entertainment, I
- 43:43Speaker 2: mean fears its new three point six billion dollar Queen's
- 43:46Speaker 2: Warf development might otherwise close. Now, the way they're going
- 43:50Speaker 2: to do this, because the Star's battling to stay remain solvent,
- 43:54Speaker 2: not to stay insolvent. They want to be solvent, is
- 43:57Speaker 2: that they're going to offer them a stay on payroll
- 44:00Speaker 2: taxes and gambling taxes, et cetera. And I can understand
- 44:04Speaker 2: the state government wanting to do that in the interests
- 44:06Speaker 2: of investment in the state and this Queen's Wolf development
- 44:10Speaker 2: getting off the ground. But my question would be if
- 44:13Speaker 2: it were any other business. If you were a small
- 44:15Speaker 2: business person in Queensland and you were about to be
- 44:21Speaker 2: up against the wall, do you reckon? You could go
- 44:23Speaker 2: off to Stephen Miles and say, look, I'm in a
- 44:25Speaker 2: spot of bother here, buddy, I reckon. You could slip
- 44:28Speaker 2: me a couple of tax breaks.
- 44:29Speaker 1: No, but Stephen Miles is quoted in this article as
- 44:33Speaker 1: saying this is a fantastic asset for our city. I
- 44:38Speaker 1: don't know that everyone would agree with that assertion regarding
- 44:42Speaker 1: a casino, but priorities. I love it.
- 44:46Speaker 5: I love it when the left love.
- 44:49Speaker 2: You're so happy?
- 44:50Speaker 1: How much is it if it's can't even it's not
- 44:54Speaker 1: self sustainable.
- 44:55Speaker 5: Well that's because there are in all sorts of regulatory
- 44:57Speaker 5: problems that are being tarn apart by the regulated. Same
- 44:59Speaker 5: as Star here and Star in U soub Bar is
- 45:03Speaker 5: in a much more precarious position, ironically, the state government
- 45:08Speaker 5: in New South Wales, run by, of course, as you know,
- 45:10Speaker 5: Liz the magnificent, handsome, finely chiseled Chris Min's of the
- 45:15Speaker 5: right of the party saying no, Star, you're on your own.
- 45:19Speaker 5: You've had your chances. Whereas the Left with Steven Miles
- 45:22Speaker 5: so desperate to stop everything from crumbling around, and it's like,
- 45:25Speaker 5: we love coss we love consttos, we love gambling. We'll
- 45:27Speaker 5: do whatever you want anyway, quickly onto the odds now.
- 45:30Speaker 5: And there's a great little nugget of a yard which
- 45:32Speaker 5: says voluntary AI safeguards first step to protect firms. Voluntary
- 45:38Speaker 5: AI safeguards will be immediately introduced as labor whittles down
- 45:41Speaker 5: the options for regulating safety risks for three key possibilities,
- 45:44Speaker 5: none of which are the election of Donald Trump.
- 45:47Speaker 2: I'm sure that will work one hundred percent. After the break.
- 45:50Speaker 2: You build a car park fifty million dollars worth, but
- 45:54Speaker 2: you can't get to it because there's no roads. Tell
- 45:56Speaker 2: you about that. Now. When I got back on the
- 46:01Speaker 2: dating scene last year, I found it so difficult because
- 46:04Speaker 2: you know, I'm working here at night, I write for
- 46:07Speaker 2: two different newspapers, I was doing radio. I was so busy.
- 46:11Speaker 2: But one company, Liz, has come up with a solution.
- 46:13Speaker 1: Absolutely in terms of boosting their employees welfare, They've decided
- 46:19Speaker 1: to pay them to.
- 46:21Speaker 4: Go on dates.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Yes, believe it or not, there is Tinder leave at
- 46:27Speaker 1: a marketing agency called Whiteline Group in Thailand. White Line
- 46:31Speaker 1: explains it all began after one staff member complained about
- 46:35Speaker 1: being too busy to date, and thus the Tinder leave
- 46:38Speaker 1: was introduced. However, staff aren't just getting days and nights
- 46:42Speaker 1: off to meet with potential suitors. Whiteline Group is also
- 46:46Speaker 1: paying for six month long Tinder Gold and Tinder Platinum
- 46:50Speaker 1: subscriptions for its stuff. Now, in today's dating pool, I
- 46:55Speaker 1: don't know that that many people would argue that being
- 46:58Speaker 1: in said pool.
- 47:00Speaker 4: Really does boost their well being.
- 47:02Speaker 1: But good on these guys for trying to.
- 47:04Speaker 4: Do their best to get their employees out in.
- 47:07Speaker 5: Mingling, Joe, I feel like an organization called the White
- 47:11Speaker 5: Line Group which hands out free platinum Tinder subscriptions, is
- 47:17Speaker 5: probably not the sort of organization that necessarily No, I
- 47:25Speaker 5: don't know what I'm insinuating either, but that is, but
- 47:29Speaker 5: does it like where like does it have to be
- 47:32Speaker 5: locked in? Like obviously you know if you're you know,
- 47:34Speaker 5: do you have to know that it's a sure thing?
- 47:36Speaker 5: What happens if you go to the date and you
- 47:39Speaker 5: know there's no chemistry, just not interested. Do you get
- 47:42Speaker 5: your leave?
- 47:42Speaker 1: You get this months they're happy for you to take
- 47:48Speaker 1: go on dates or their dollar.
- 47:51Speaker 5: But what I'm saying is if I go on a date,
- 47:54Speaker 5: if I take leave to go on a date and
- 47:56Speaker 5: don't score, I don't pick up, that's.
- 48:00Speaker 2: Spake your time off for music. Put a whole new
- 48:03Speaker 2: complexion on people saying to the boss, I'm shagged, I've
- 48:06Speaker 2: got a knock off for the day. Now, very quickly
- 48:08Speaker 2: before we go a council in the UK, Oxfordshire County
- 48:12Speaker 2: Council built. I said before fifty million dollars, it was
- 48:15Speaker 2: actually fifty one million quid, which is nearly one hundred
- 48:18Speaker 2: million Australian dollars. They built a park and ride car park,
- 48:21Speaker 2: but you can't get to it because they haven't built
- 48:23Speaker 2: any roads to the damn thing. Because they can't have
- 48:26Speaker 2: afford to build the roads. Who know, right, who would
- 48:29Speaker 2: have thought you spend one hundred million dollars on a
- 48:32Speaker 2: car but you can't have filled afford to build.
- 48:35Speaker 5: Even once they build the roads, they can't afford to
- 48:38Speaker 5: paint the white line.
- 48:39Speaker 2: Oh my god. Councils, they're fighters. Thank you very much
- 48:42Speaker 2: for watching that sig for us up next to the
- 48:44Speaker 2: Riga Patty Show. Good night