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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to the Late Pay.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the Late Debate.
- 0:08Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Denika to Georgio and kayleb Bond.
- 0:11Speaker 2: How are you both?
- 0:12Speaker 4: This evening excellent, A much better for your company.
- 0:15Speaker 2: I would have thought so, Cale. How are you doing, Denis?
- 0:17Speaker 5: It's very polite. That was a very polite answer. Well,
- 0:20Speaker 5: very polite people on this panel, as you can see,
- 0:22Speaker 5: very very kind to one another.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Only win a paid to do so.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, all right, let's see what's coming up tonight.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Here's what we're going to talk about. Clive Palmer announces
- 0:30Speaker 3: he'll run for office at the next election, but just
- 0:33Speaker 3: how much money.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Does it take to garner enough votes?
- 0:36Speaker 3: Victoria's nightmare continues, with the state labor government now using
- 0:40Speaker 3: taxpayer money to pay people who had agreed to sit
- 0:43Speaker 3: on public boards as volunteers, and former Kiss frontman Gene
- 0:47Speaker 3: Simmons has some advice for celebrities who insist on sharing
- 0:50Speaker 3: their political opinions. Now, the language is pretty strong, so
- 0:53Speaker 3: I'll let you hear it straight from his.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Mouth a little later in the show.
- 0:57Speaker 3: We'll get to all of that shortly, But first of all,
- 0:59Speaker 3: commission into the Bondi terror attack has been thrown into
- 1:02Speaker 3: a spin with the shock resignation tonight of former as
- 1:05Speaker 3: O boss Dennis Richardson. Attorney General Michelle Rowlands released a
- 1:09Speaker 3: statement this evening saying, my Department has been notified that
- 1:13Speaker 3: Dennis Richardson AC has resigned as Special Advisor to the
- 1:17Speaker 3: Royal Commission into Anti Semitism and Social Cohesion. The Government
- 1:21Speaker 3: thanks mister Richardson for his efforts to date. The Government
- 1:25Speaker 3: will continue to support the Royal Commission to deliver its
- 1:28Speaker 3: important work, including the delivery of the interim report by
- 1:31Speaker 3: thirty April. The Royal Commission, which is independent of Government,
- 1:35Speaker 3: will provide further updates in due course. Now, Dennis Richardson
- 1:39Speaker 3: had been appointed by the government to lead a review
- 1:42Speaker 3: of security agencies and the Federal Police. His role was
- 1:45Speaker 3: then folded into the Royal Commission, headed by Virginia Bell.
- 1:50Speaker 3: At the time, Anthony Albanzi insisted that Dennis Richardson would
- 1:53Speaker 3: be central to examining the performance of security agencies in
- 1:57Speaker 3: the lead up to Australia's worst terror attack.
- 2:01Speaker 6: Three Examine the circumstances surrounding the Bondai terrorist attack on
- 2:05Speaker 6: the fourteenth of December twenty twenty five and the work
- 2:10Speaker 6: of Dennis Richardson will be central to this.
- 2:15Speaker 3: But it's being reported in the Australian tonight that Richardson
- 2:18Speaker 3: has quit over concerns about his ability to contribute to
- 2:22Speaker 3: the Royal Commission. Bearing in mind this appointment was only
- 2:26Speaker 3: what three months old.
- 2:28Speaker 2: This is shock news tonight.
- 2:30Speaker 1: It's odd.
- 2:30Speaker 4: I mean, there's scant detail as we go to it
- 2:33Speaker 4: tonight of why this has actually happened. The Royal Commissioner
- 2:38Speaker 4: and the Minister have given us no detail of why
- 2:41Speaker 4: he has left. That will presumably come out in the
- 2:44Speaker 4: wash tomorrow. But it does seem odd that being involved
- 2:48Speaker 4: in what, at the moment is one of the most
- 2:51Speaker 4: important inquiries that this country has had in some time
- 2:55Speaker 4: in light of the worst terror attack in this country's history.
- 3:00Speaker 1: A man of.
- 3:01Speaker 4: Mister Richardson, Mister Richardson, I should say, a man of
- 3:05Speaker 4: his standing and his expertise, as the Prime Minister said,
- 3:09Speaker 4: should be central to an inquiry like this. So it
- 3:14Speaker 4: seems strange that you would part way into your post
- 3:18Speaker 4: leave it, and particularly so early on in proceedings. It's
- 3:21Speaker 4: not as though he's been there to be able to
- 3:24Speaker 4: do a great deal of work yet at this point,
- 3:26Speaker 4: so it raises many questions about why he would want
- 3:29Speaker 4: to go.
- 3:29Speaker 5: What has led to them, Well, it is bizarre. And
- 3:31Speaker 5: my question now is because the Royal Commission was set
- 3:33Speaker 5: to introduce to release its interim report in April, so
- 3:37Speaker 5: next month, will that now have an impact on the timeline?
- 3:40Speaker 5: It's very quick, by the way, which is that I
- 3:43Speaker 5: thought the same thing. It is quite quick given you
- 3:45Speaker 5: know the terms of reference. They're quite broad as well,
- 3:49Speaker 5: and he is one of the very best, i mean
- 3:51Speaker 5: security bosses around the country. Was saying, if you're going
- 3:53Speaker 5: to put somebody in charge of this, this is the
- 3:55Speaker 5: man that you want. So it is very very strange.
- 3:59Speaker 5: But he has said he had concerns about his ability
- 4:02Speaker 5: or this is what it's understood, to sufficiently contribute to
- 4:05Speaker 5: the Commission's work. And there was an article that just
- 4:06Speaker 5: got put up on the Australian newspaper saying that multiple
- 4:09Speaker 5: senior figures within the Jewish community had met with him
- 4:11Speaker 5: only a couple of days ago and there was certainly
- 4:13Speaker 5: no indication of his resignation. But this would worry many
- 4:17Speaker 5: within that community because obviously over the last couple of
- 4:19Speaker 5: months he's built a sense of trust with them, going
- 4:21Speaker 5: to speak with them, it would sort of throw this
- 4:25Speaker 5: into doubt. Now you just don't know, and I actually
- 4:28Speaker 5: think we should find out what's happened here. Why has
- 4:30Speaker 5: he suddenly pulled the pin? I think actually the public
- 4:32Speaker 5: deserved to know, given that this was a major terrorist incident.
- 4:36Speaker 3: He was contacted by The Australian tonight and declined to comment.
- 4:40Speaker 3: I wonder if this has got to do with the
- 4:41Speaker 3: fact that he was not appointed a co commissioner with
- 4:45Speaker 3: Virginia Bell with those powers to then really properly investigate
- 4:49Speaker 3: security agencies and police, and perhaps he feels like that
- 4:53Speaker 3: really has restricted his ability to do the job. That
- 4:56Speaker 3: was some of the commentary when the Royal Commission was
- 4:59Speaker 3: first announced and he was not included as co commissioner.
- 5:02Speaker 4: So yeah, it's really there are only two possibilities that
- 5:06Speaker 4: seem plausible. One is major health concern I can't do
- 5:11Speaker 4: the job anymore, or I felt like I wasn't able
- 5:14Speaker 4: to do the job to the fullness that I believe
- 5:17Speaker 4: it deserves, because otherwise, why would you walk out of
- 5:21Speaker 4: being part of this Royal Commission? As I say, one
- 5:23Speaker 4: of the most important this country has had and probably
- 5:26Speaker 4: will ever have.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Well, we certainly hope for more details tomorrow. It's going
- 5:29Speaker 3: to be fascinating to find out what is actually going
- 5:32Speaker 3: on there all right. In other news, the AFL is
- 5:34Speaker 3: set to overhaul its illicit drugs policy after complaints that
- 5:38Speaker 3: the current system is too lax. Now, the first change
- 5:41Speaker 3: is that drug tests will involve players hair rather than urine.
- 5:44Speaker 3: That enables doctors to detect drug use over a much
- 5:47Speaker 3: longer period. The second change is that when players test positive,
- 5:51Speaker 3: they'll be managed by the AFL rather than by their
- 5:54Speaker 3: club doctor. Now that's important because it will stop clubs
- 5:58Speaker 3: hiding or failing to report positive tests. Players caught in
- 6:01Speaker 3: the new system with drugs will be required to undergo
- 6:04Speaker 3: an education process as well as additional testing, and failure
- 6:07Speaker 3: to comply will result in the AFL suspending them from competition.
- 6:12Speaker 3: What's particularly interesting to me is that news of a
- 6:15Speaker 3: player's positive test will be kept private within AFL headquarters
- 6:19Speaker 3: and shared only with the club's doctor. No one else
- 6:22Speaker 3: will know so long as they follow the process, and
- 6:25Speaker 3: so that protects the privacy of players while they go
- 6:28Speaker 3: through that rehabilitation.
- 6:30Speaker 2: I like this, DANEAKA. I think this is a good plan.
- 6:32Speaker 3: We're dealing with young men who are not always the
- 6:35Speaker 3: brightest or the most well behaved. It gives them a
- 6:39Speaker 3: chance to deal with issues they've got in privacy. It
- 6:42Speaker 3: doesn't compromise the AFL because if they don't follow the process,
- 6:46Speaker 3: they don't play.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Clubs aren't involved. I like it.
- 6:49Speaker 5: Look, I actually think that they should be made public.
- 6:52Speaker 5: I look, firstly, what I'll say about this new policy,
- 6:55Speaker 5: I'm surprised that it wasn't introduced many years ago. I
- 6:57Speaker 5: think this is absolutely welcome because it was a three
- 7:00Speaker 5: strikes rule initially. When you think about it, you know,
- 7:04Speaker 5: I mean, I'm from Perth. I know. I was a
- 7:07Speaker 5: reporter when the Ben Cousins saga, the former captain of
- 7:10Speaker 5: the West Coast Eagles, happened, and I remember him saying
- 7:13Speaker 5: that he was high on ice speed and cocaine. So
- 7:16Speaker 5: what he would do is organize his vendors around when
- 7:19Speaker 5: he knew he was about to get drug tested, so
- 7:21Speaker 5: he would plan it out to make sure it was
- 7:22Speaker 5: weeded out of his system before he would have this test.
- 7:25Speaker 5: But he always said, because of the three strikes and
- 7:27Speaker 5: you're out policy, he thought, well, even if I got
- 7:30Speaker 5: caught once, it doesn't matter because I had a couple
- 7:32Speaker 5: more up my sleeve. So it's I guess if you
- 7:35Speaker 5: are a user of drugs and you're playing at an
- 7:37Speaker 5: elite level, you can get around it right now. So
- 7:39Speaker 5: I think this is absolutely fantastic, But I do not
- 7:42Speaker 5: agree with the fact that they should be kept private
- 7:44Speaker 5: and their names not released to the public. I'm sorry,
- 7:47Speaker 5: but you are many of them on multimillion dollar contracts, right.
- 7:50Speaker 5: Sponsors have invested a lot of money into them as players.
- 7:53Speaker 5: They've all got private contracts, but even sponsorship for the
- 7:56Speaker 5: club themselves, you bring your club into disrepute when you
- 7:59Speaker 5: carry on like this. You know the consequences of it.
- 8:02Speaker 5: You deserve to be punished, and you deserve to have
- 8:04Speaker 5: your name out there. And don't forget as well. Members.
- 8:07Speaker 5: Members are paying a lot of money, and you demand
- 8:09Speaker 5: that when you are investing that sort of money, that
- 8:12Speaker 5: the players act like the role models and the players
- 8:15Speaker 5: that they should be in the community. So I think
- 8:17Speaker 5: name and shame them. Learn your lesson otherwise, do not
- 8:19Speaker 5: play at an elite level.
- 8:20Speaker 3: You say you don't want the club to be brought
- 8:22Speaker 3: into disrepute, isn't naming and shaming them, bringing the club
- 8:25Speaker 3: into disrepute.
- 8:26Speaker 2: If they do well with it privately, they kind.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Of brought the club into disrepute by behaving that way,
- 8:30Speaker 4: haven't they.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Well, if they deal with it sound ivately and get
- 8:32Speaker 3: the person back on the right track, isn't that better
- 8:36Speaker 3: for everybody? The player doesn't lose face, the club isn't
- 8:39Speaker 3: embarrassed everybody, can I think another?
- 8:42Speaker 4: It depends on the circumstance, right, Like if you I mean,
- 8:44Speaker 4: if you've got a player who clearly is just not
- 8:47Speaker 4: interested in cleaning themselves up. And look, I understand young
- 8:51Speaker 4: men who earn a lot of money, and like we're
- 8:53Speaker 4: talking young young like eighteen years old, and it's like,
- 8:56Speaker 4: you know, here's minimum two hundred grand a year, a
- 8:59Speaker 4: hell a position to be in, and it is very
- 9:01Speaker 4: easy to fall into the wrong hands and hang around
- 9:04Speaker 4: with the wrong people. And you've got to spend the
- 9:06Speaker 4: money on something. And we know that many of.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Them decided to spend it on illicit drugs on the weekend.
- 9:12Speaker 4: Now, they're not the only people we should note who
- 9:14Speaker 4: are spending their money on illicit drugs on the weekend,
- 9:17Speaker 4: but they are in the public eye and they are
- 9:19Speaker 4: answerable to the members of the club who pay membership,
- 9:22Speaker 4: and they are there to represent them. So I kind of,
- 9:26Speaker 4: you know, at the risk of getting splinters in my bum,
- 9:28Speaker 4: I kind of see where you're both coming from. Because, yes,
- 9:31Speaker 4: if a player genuinely has an addiction problem, you'd want
- 9:35Speaker 4: to give them the best opportunity to get over that,
- 9:38Speaker 4: and simply naming and shaming them probably doesn't achieve that.
- 9:42Speaker 4: But there is also a level of responsibility to the
- 9:45Speaker 4: club and the board of the club and the people
- 9:46Speaker 4: who pay membership to the club.
- 9:48Speaker 3: So the way it would work is they go through
- 9:50Speaker 3: an education process, they get more regular testing, and provided
- 9:55Speaker 3: they comply with that and get through it, well, they play.
- 9:57Speaker 2: On and all is good. No one ever knows.
- 10:00Speaker 3: They're not embarrassed that they're able to deal with whatever
- 10:02Speaker 3: issues they've got. If they fail to complete that process,
- 10:05Speaker 3: then they would be suspended. Then there would have to
- 10:07Speaker 3: be some sort of public acknowledgment because everyone will be
- 10:10Speaker 3: asking how come our star players not taking the field
- 10:14Speaker 3: this month. Then there would need to be an explanation
- 10:16Speaker 3: what's wrong with that?
- 10:17Speaker 5: No, but the problem is is that you take on
- 10:19Speaker 5: a big responsibility when you get drafted.
- 10:21Speaker 3: ABAFL never responsibility to these young guys.
- 10:24Speaker 2: If they've clearly got problems.
- 10:26Speaker 3: Let's try and get this guy back on the right
- 10:28Speaker 3: track without publicly shaming him may make his situation in
- 10:32Speaker 3: his own mental health even worse.
- 10:34Speaker 5: Yeah, but again, and you've sort of just answered it.
- 10:36Speaker 5: If a player just vanishes for six weeks because they've
- 10:39Speaker 5: been suspended by the club, you don't think people are
- 10:41Speaker 5: going to go, oh, where's Jack Smith gone?
- 10:43Speaker 2: Is That's what I'm saying. Then you have to give
- 10:45Speaker 2: an explanation.
- 10:45Speaker 5: I think that you would pick it up. I mean,
- 10:47Speaker 5: especially in an AFL state like Victoria when people live
- 10:52Speaker 5: and breathe AFL and same in wa. You know, if
- 10:55Speaker 5: you're a member of the club, you're going to be
- 10:56Speaker 5: asking questions, well, where has he gone? He's just been drafted,
- 10:59Speaker 5: or he's a star player, where's the foot, where's the forward,
- 11:01Speaker 5: where's the defense? You're going to ask questions and what
- 11:04Speaker 5: the club's going to go? Oh with taking time off
- 11:06Speaker 5: for his health? No, sorry, I think that you need
- 11:09Speaker 5: to say, look, you know, this is what's happened. I
- 11:12Speaker 5: think be upfront, teach a less teach the player a lesson.
- 11:16Speaker 5: You train your life for this one moment, and then
- 11:20Speaker 5: what you bugger it up because you make stupid decisions
- 11:23Speaker 5: over the weekend or in the week I'm sorry, you
- 11:26Speaker 5: don't deserve to play. Then that's how I look at it.
- 11:28Speaker 5: You shall deserve the opportunity to represent your state.
- 11:31Speaker 3: You only suspend that if you fail to commit. Correct,
- 11:34Speaker 3: So if you fail to commit to the education process
- 11:37Speaker 3: and you fail multiple drug tests, well then you suspend it.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Then people would notice.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Then there would have to be an explanation, and the
- 11:43Speaker 3: explanation would be owed to the public, to the sponsors
- 11:46Speaker 3: of the star players not playing. But if he's going
- 11:49Speaker 3: through the process and doing all the right things to
- 11:51Speaker 3: get himself on track, could they not just do that
- 11:54Speaker 3: privately and let the guy get on with it without
- 11:57Speaker 3: the public exposure. Bearing in mind, as you said, the
- 12:00Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen twenty year.
- 12:02Speaker 5: Olds, they're adults. They're adults.
- 12:05Speaker 2: The male brain doesn't fully develop until us and.
- 12:11Speaker 1: We should know.
- 12:12Speaker 4: I mean, there are different degrees of misbehavior, you know.
- 12:15Speaker 4: I mean, if you're acting like an idiot in public,
- 12:18Speaker 4: it's probably rather different to doing it in private because
- 12:21Speaker 4: it does become necessarily a public issue.
- 12:24Speaker 1: But you both mentioned embarrassment.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Right, I'll tell you who ought to be embarrassed CNN. Now,
- 12:29Speaker 4: I don't know whether you've seen this story over in
- 12:32Speaker 4: the US over the weekend or a few days ago,
- 12:36Speaker 4: there was a protest held out the front of the
- 12:38Speaker 4: official home of the Mayor of New York's or on
- 12:41Speaker 4: ma'm darney. This was by a bloke called Jake Lang. Now,
- 12:45Speaker 4: he's an online influencer.
- 12:47Speaker 1: He had a.
- 12:47Speaker 4: Protest of twenty odd people. It was very small, against
- 12:51Speaker 4: what he calls the Islamification of New York. There was
- 12:55Speaker 4: then a counter protest which consisted of about one hundred and.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Twenty five people who rocked up to have a go.
- 13:01Speaker 4: And in the midst of all of this, there were
- 13:04Speaker 4: a couple of bombs thrown during this protest.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Now, these bombs were allegedly.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Thrown by people who were inspired by ISIS, so it
- 13:15Speaker 4: is in effect a terror attack or an attempted terror attack.
- 13:20Speaker 4: The authorities in New York have said that one of
- 13:24Speaker 4: these alleged defenders that they spoke to afterwards obviously said
- 13:28Speaker 4: that he wanted it to be quote even bigger than
- 13:31Speaker 4: what happened at the Boston marathon in twenty thirteen. So
- 13:35Speaker 4: you know, this is an allegedly ISIS inspired attempted terror attack.
- 13:39Speaker 4: So how did CNN report on it? When they put
- 13:43Speaker 4: up a post on x they said, two Pennsylvania teenagers
- 13:46Speaker 4: crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could
- 13:50Speaker 4: have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally
- 13:54Speaker 4: warm weather. I mean, I don't know, stands at the
- 13:56Speaker 4: start of some sort of novel, hasn't it. But in
- 13:59Speaker 4: less than an hour their lives would be drastically changed,
- 14:02Speaker 4: as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs
- 14:05Speaker 4: during an anti Muslim protest outside Maya z Or and
- 14:09Speaker 4: Mum Danny's house. Here's what we know so far. What
- 14:14Speaker 4: we did know is that it was allegedly linked to ISIS.
- 14:17Speaker 4: There was no mention of that. I mean, they opened
- 14:19Speaker 4: it up as though it were just, you know, a
- 14:21Speaker 4: couple of blokes to start enjoying the warm weather in
- 14:24Speaker 4: New York, just a couple of normal old fellas. And
- 14:27Speaker 4: there they were at an anti Muslim protest and they
- 14:30Speaker 4: found some bombs.
- 14:31Speaker 1: I wonder what could be going on there.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Of course, that's not what happened, So CNN had to
- 14:37Speaker 4: correct at the issue. This groveling apology a post regarding
- 14:40Speaker 4: the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of
- 14:44Speaker 4: New York City Maya Zor and Mum Danny's home failed
- 14:46Speaker 4: to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the
- 14:50Speaker 4: editorial stand as we require for all our reporting. It
- 14:53Speaker 4: has therefore been deleted. Maybe you just shouldn't have posted
- 14:58Speaker 4: it in the first place. For his part to the Mayor,
- 15:01Speaker 4: Saor and Mam Dannie, what did he have to say?
- 15:06Speaker 7: On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where
- 15:11Speaker 7: I lived with my wife Rama. Neither of us were
- 15:14Speaker 7: home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted
- 15:18Speaker 7: in white supremacy, entitled stop the Islamic Takeover of New
- 15:21Speaker 7: York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city.
- 15:26Speaker 7: Anti Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is
- 15:29Speaker 7: it anything new for the one million or so Muslim
- 15:32Speaker 7: New Yorkers who know this city as our home.
- 15:35Speaker 4: I mean, they threw bombs at the front of his place,
- 15:37Speaker 4: and the first thing he's on about his anty Muslim hate.
- 15:40Speaker 4: As opposed to the fact that this was allegedly inspired
- 15:42Speaker 4: by ISIS, CNN can't acknowledge the fact that it was
- 15:46Speaker 4: allegedly inspired by ISIS. It was at an anti Muslim rally.
- 15:49Speaker 4: It's all very strange, isn't it.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Well, the New York mayor is almost setting the scene
- 15:53Speaker 3: such that you would feel some sympathy for the ISIS
- 15:57Speaker 3: inspired allegedly bomb throwers, because you know, there was all
- 16:01Speaker 3: this Islamophobia going on out the front of his house.
- 16:03Speaker 3: So of course they reacted. How could they not react?
- 16:06Speaker 3: That seems to be what he's doing in that press conference.
- 16:10Speaker 3: As for C and N, I mean, I always like
- 16:12Speaker 3: to know whether it was, you know, seasonally warm or
- 16:15Speaker 3: abnormally warm when a terror.
- 16:16Speaker 2: Attack takes place. So I appreciated their.
- 16:18Speaker 3: Reporting, But they were protecting alleged ISIS members and indeed
- 16:26Speaker 3: humanizing these alleged terrorists, saying that you know, they'd come
- 16:30Speaker 3: from New York, these teenagers, they'd crossed into the state
- 16:33Speaker 3: that it was war. You know that they're It's almost
- 16:36Speaker 3: like the report of the toll of the obituary that
- 16:39Speaker 3: appeared in the New York Yes Times. Yeah, where they
- 16:42Speaker 3: talked about how he had a warm smile. That was
- 16:45Speaker 3: the Washington Post and Washington Post and an interest in
- 16:49Speaker 3: literature including Lamas Arabin and you're humanizing someone who is
- 16:54Speaker 3: effectively a demon.
- 16:55Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, Well, firstly, I would say, welcome to New York.
- 16:59Speaker 5: I thought that everything was going to be safe and
- 17:01Speaker 5: free under man Danny. But yet here we are, and
- 17:05Speaker 5: this happened, ironically, writes out right outside of Gracie Mansion
- 17:09Speaker 5: where he lived. You know, the liberal media in the
- 17:14Speaker 5: US has conducted themselves in an absolute chronic disgrace. I
- 17:18Speaker 5: mean they've been like this ever since Donald Trump was
- 17:20Speaker 5: re elected, but in particular in the last few weeks.
- 17:23Speaker 5: It has been appalling the way that they have described
- 17:26Speaker 5: this incident, like there was a warm, sunny afternoon, a
- 17:29Speaker 5: couple of bombs were thrown, but no biggie. At least
- 17:31Speaker 5: the weather was good. The bias that was inserted from
- 17:35Speaker 5: these journalists, it was if that they were they were
- 17:37Speaker 5: writing it from their own personal bias. They didn't want
- 17:39Speaker 5: to actually deal with the facts. That's not journalism, and
- 17:43Speaker 5: they should be sacked. I actually think that I think
- 17:46Speaker 5: there was two journalists involved in this. They should be
- 17:49Speaker 5: They should be absolutely sacked. But you're right. I was
- 17:52Speaker 5: going to mention as well the Washington Post where they
- 17:54Speaker 5: described the eye of Tola having a bushy Beard. The
- 17:57Speaker 5: New York Post did calld him a hardline cleric, as
- 18:01Speaker 5: New York Times. Yeah, sorry, The New York Times apologies.
- 18:04Speaker 5: In New York Times called him a hardline cleric. This
- 18:07Speaker 5: is not journalism, but they always and for Mam Danny,
- 18:11Speaker 5: I mean, this could have been a serious terrorist incident
- 18:14Speaker 5: that they're very lucky that these bombs didn't detonate. And
- 18:17Speaker 5: for him to come out and say Islamophobia instead of
- 18:21Speaker 5: in the very first instance, calling this out and saying
- 18:24Speaker 5: that we do not accept this just goes to show
- 18:27Speaker 5: where his biases lay lie as well.
- 18:30Speaker 3: Could you imagine if CNN had existed a few hundred
- 18:33Speaker 3: years ago, they would have said, Abraham Lincoln's wife had
- 18:36Speaker 3: a lovely night at the theater aside from an unfortunate
- 18:38Speaker 3: incident halfway through the show.
- 18:40Speaker 2: That's the way they would have reported it.
- 18:41Speaker 3: Indeed, someone went on Twitter and gave this example of
- 18:44Speaker 3: what CNN are prone to do. They made this up,
- 18:48Speaker 3: but it's not bad at all. Two Japanese naval aviators
- 18:51Speaker 3: crossed into Hawaiian water Sunday morning for what could have
- 18:54Speaker 3: been a normal day of routine training during unusually clear weather,
- 18:57Speaker 3: but in less than an hour their lives were drastically
- 19:00Speaker 3: changed as the pair would be caught in the crossfire
- 19:02Speaker 3: of a sudden massive naval engagement at Pearl Harbor.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Here's what we know so far.
- 19:07Speaker 3: CNN, of course, the network that famously had a reporter
- 19:11Speaker 3: describe a riot happening right behind him as a mostly
- 19:15Speaker 3: peaceful process protest.
- 19:17Speaker 2: So they have form in this Veneaka.
- 19:19Speaker 5: Yeah, it tells you everything that you need to know,
- 19:21Speaker 5: doesn't it. Now you might recall last night we brought
- 19:23Speaker 5: you the story in the UK where the Labor government
- 19:25Speaker 5: over there has introduced a new definition for anti Muslim hostility.
- 19:29Speaker 5: Of course it used to be Islamophobia, but this is
- 19:31Speaker 5: apparently a new definition. Well, it seems that nothing is
- 19:35Speaker 5: safe now, nothing at all is safe. In fact, schools
- 19:39Speaker 5: are being targeted. Now have a look at this children's drawings.
- 19:44Speaker 5: I repeat, children's drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic as
- 19:49Speaker 5: under Islamic law. Schools have been warned and apparently it
- 19:53Speaker 5: is a offensive. So basically Labor has released what they're
- 19:57Speaker 5: calling a new advice and they're targeting classrooms and will
- 20:02Speaker 5: just bring up exactly where the problems lie. One a
- 20:06Speaker 5: three dimensional figurative imagery of humans is considered now adultrous.
- 20:14Speaker 5: I've never heard of that word adultrous by some Muslims. Two,
- 20:17Speaker 5: it is very important that the school understands this and
- 20:20Speaker 5: is also careful not to ask its students to reproduce
- 20:22Speaker 5: images of Jesus as well as a prophet Muhammad or
- 20:25Speaker 5: other figures considered to be prophets in Islam. Some Muslim
- 20:28Speaker 5: pupils may not wish to draw the human figure. In Islam,
- 20:32Speaker 5: music is traditionally limited to the human voice and non
- 20:35Speaker 5: tunable percussion instruments. Schools should listen to any concerns, discuss
- 20:39Speaker 5: the place of music in the curriculum, and ensure that
- 20:42Speaker 5: students are not asked to join in songs that conflict
- 20:45Speaker 5: with their religious beliefs. So drawing percussion and music may
- 20:52Speaker 5: be offensive to some Muslim students. I mean, where on
- 20:57Speaker 5: earth are we heading to in society now? My first
- 21:00Speaker 5: point that I would make on this, So this is
- 21:02Speaker 5: just guidelines at the moment this is happening in the
- 21:04Speaker 5: North of England. The first point I would make whoever
- 21:06Speaker 5: said diversity is our strength, whoever said that multiculturalism is
- 21:11Speaker 5: our strength when you've got a majority Christian country or
- 21:14Speaker 5: one that was once a very proud Christian country being
- 21:17Speaker 5: told that maybe drawings of God or drawings of what
- 21:21Speaker 5: is in the Bible might be offensive. I mean, if
- 21:25Speaker 5: you are a Christian, I would be so offended in
- 21:29Speaker 5: that country. What are they going to ban Bibles next?
- 21:31Speaker 5: Are they going to Are they going to go that far?
- 21:34Speaker 5: But this is exactly what happens when mass migration fails,
- 21:38Speaker 5: when you're bringing in people from other cultures whose cultures
- 21:43Speaker 5: do not represent your own, and then suddenly it starts
- 21:46Speaker 5: infiltrating in the classrooms. You know, you've got a problem
- 21:48Speaker 5: when young kids are being indoctrinated. And it's always the
- 21:50Speaker 5: young kids that start first, right, because it's easy. It's
- 21:53Speaker 5: easy to indoctrinate children. And just recently as well, UK
- 21:56Speaker 5: label was doing a diversity drive in the regions to
- 21:59Speaker 5: make the regions less white. It's like this reverse racism,
- 22:02Speaker 5: but that's considered okay.
- 22:03Speaker 4: I mean you mentioned that the UK's majority Christians. It's
- 22:08Speaker 4: actually an officially Christian country. The Church of England is
- 22:12Speaker 4: the official religion, right And you know, I remember as
- 22:15Speaker 4: a kid going to school and you know, we'd do
- 22:18Speaker 4: Easter stuff and there was a Jehovah's witness kid in
- 22:21Speaker 4: the class who would sit out of that stuff, And
- 22:24Speaker 4: that was kind of like, whatever, this is not official
- 22:27Speaker 4: curriculum business we're doing here. But when you start talking
- 22:30Speaker 4: about stuff that is actually part of the school curriculum,
- 22:33Speaker 4: like music, for instance, in drama or whatever it is,
- 22:38Speaker 4: and music is part of the curriculum, you can't just
- 22:41Speaker 4: start dictating that because my religion sees this, it means
- 22:44Speaker 4: I can no longer.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Adhere to the rules of the curriculum.
- 22:48Speaker 4: Would you expect if I moved to or any of
- 22:51Speaker 4: us moved to a Muslim country, that we would be
- 22:54Speaker 4: able to turn around and say, oh, well, you know, actually,
- 22:57Speaker 4: back in my homeland, this is how we do it.
- 22:59Speaker 4: None of my religion, and this is how we do it,
- 23:01Speaker 4: and that they would concede. Of course they wouldn't concede. No,
- 23:04Speaker 4: and nor should they have to concede. It's their country.
- 23:06Speaker 4: You play by their rules, and surely if you're in
- 23:10Speaker 4: the UK, you play by their rules too.
- 23:12Speaker 1: I mean this idea that we have.
- 23:13Speaker 4: To be very careful about whether kids are drawing the
- 23:16Speaker 4: prophet Muhammad or drawing Jesus in a classroom. We live
- 23:20Speaker 4: in a country and people in the UK live in
- 23:22Speaker 4: a country where.
- 23:22Speaker 1: You have the right to do that.
- 23:24Speaker 4: I don't give two hoots. I couldn't give a rats
- 23:27Speaker 4: toss bag. As Malcolm Blat once said, what your religion is,
- 23:31Speaker 4: that's how we operate. If you don't like it, go
- 23:34Speaker 4: somewhere else.
- 23:35Speaker 3: No one ever considers the fact that these problems occur
- 23:37Speaker 3: largely in Christian countries in the West, not in other
- 23:41Speaker 3: nations that you mentioned. And the reason is religion, because
- 23:44Speaker 3: the Christian religion is actually the most tolerant religion that
- 23:47Speaker 3: the world has ever known. That's why we get these
- 23:50Speaker 3: issues in Western Christian nations. To your point, Daniki, you
- 23:53Speaker 3: said tolerance has gone too far and maybe this is
- 23:56Speaker 3: about being overly tolerant, or maybe it's about being prudent,
- 24:00Speaker 3: because this advice is being given not right across the UK,
- 24:03Speaker 3: but in certain parts of the UK North where there
- 24:06Speaker 3: are particularly high Muslim populations, including in one town where
- 24:11Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty one, a religious studies teacher showed
- 24:15Speaker 3: some photographs of the prophet Mohammed. It'sn't it funny? I
- 24:18Speaker 3: just called him the prophet Muhammed rather than just Muhammed.
- 24:20Speaker 3: Because we've been so trained that he must be spoken
- 24:23Speaker 3: about even by people who aren't Muslims.
- 24:24Speaker 2: As the prophet.
- 24:26Speaker 3: He showed a photo of Mohammed in class and there
- 24:29Speaker 3: were riots outside the school gate, threats of death. That
- 24:34Speaker 3: school teacher has not been able to return to work,
- 24:36Speaker 3: and five years later he is still in hiding. So
- 24:39Speaker 3: I'm just wondering, is this advice because England have lost
- 24:42Speaker 3: their mind to become so tolerant, or is it because
- 24:45Speaker 3: they are thoroughly intimidated and they're trying to save teachers
- 24:49Speaker 3: from well, who knows what could happen if you breach
- 24:54Speaker 3: some of these prohibitions that Islam proscribed.
- 24:57Speaker 5: Actually, that's a really good point, and I reckon it
- 24:59Speaker 5: is the life. I think that they are absolutely terrified
- 25:02Speaker 5: of any repercussions. But that is a problem, right, and
- 25:05Speaker 5: it goes and again it goes to the heart of
- 25:07Speaker 5: the problem mass migration. Multiculturalism is not a strength when
- 25:11Speaker 5: you're bringing in too many different cultures who are entirely
- 25:14Speaker 5: different and maybe do not in some aspects fit in
- 25:18Speaker 5: with a liberal Western democracy, and all of a sudden
- 25:21Speaker 5: they've got no interest in assimilating. So you you're being
- 25:25Speaker 5: told that you have to fit in with their culture
- 25:27Speaker 5: instead of them having to fit in with your culture,
- 25:29Speaker 5: and that is wrong.
- 25:30Speaker 4: And that being the case, you'll remember these comments a
- 25:33Speaker 4: few weeks ago from Jim Radcliffe, the co owner of
- 25:36Speaker 4: Manchester United, that he was a how down for at.
- 25:40Speaker 8: The time afford you can't have an economy with nine
- 25:44Speaker 8: million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in.
- 25:50Speaker 8: I mean, the UK's being colonized. It's costing too much money.
- 25:54Speaker 8: It will cause, it will cause the UK has been
- 25:59Speaker 8: gone immigrants, really, isn't it.
- 26:02Speaker 1: I think he may be due an apology.
- 26:05Speaker 3: He may have a point, or at least something that
- 26:07Speaker 3: should be talked about. Interesting developments in Iran with the
- 26:12Speaker 3: announcement of the new Supreme Leader.
- 26:15Speaker 2: He's kept a very low profile up until now.
- 26:18Speaker 3: No one had heard about Mataba Komeni, the fifty six
- 26:22Speaker 3: year old son of the Ayatoll who's now in charge.
- 26:25Speaker 3: But he hasn't been sitting around doing nothing for the
- 26:28Speaker 3: past fifty six years. While Iranians struggle under economic sanctions,
- 26:33Speaker 3: the new Supreme Leader has been doing very very well.
- 26:36Speaker 3: In fact, it's come to light he owns about one
- 26:38Speaker 3: hundred and thirty million dollars in luxury property that's in
- 26:42Speaker 3: London alone. In fact, he's got a couple of mansions
- 26:45Speaker 3: on Bishop's Avenue. Other people to live on Bishop's Avenue,
- 26:49Speaker 3: the late George Michael, Jamie Oliver, Kate Moss, Justin Bieber,
- 26:52Speaker 3: They've all got or had homes in this street.
- 26:55Speaker 2: Gb News went to.
- 26:57Speaker 3: See if they could find a Supreme leader on Bishop's Avenue.
- 27:01Speaker 9: So we're here in North London, Bishops Avenue aka Billionaires Row,
- 27:06Speaker 9: where we understand that the new Supreme Leader, Moushitaba Khamani
- 27:11Speaker 9: owns another of properties. We're going to knock on those properties,
- 27:14Speaker 9: ask some questions and also ask locals if they've seen
- 27:18Speaker 9: this man.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Yes, so there's no one available right.
- 27:20Speaker 9: Now, Okay, it's just that they have links to the
- 27:23Speaker 9: Iran Supreme Leader and we just wanted to ask if
- 27:26Speaker 9: they're comfortable with this guy before.
- 27:30Speaker 5: Personally, I think it's a just grace.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Is anyone there.
- 27:37Speaker 5: We like to talk to the Supreme Leader of Iran.
- 27:42Speaker 2: Of course we shouldn't single him out.
- 27:44Speaker 3: It's not exactly Robinson Krosso when it comes to Tellityrians
- 27:49Speaker 3: making mirry while the population suffer. The Hamas leadership famously
- 27:53Speaker 3: were very very wealthy. In fact, their political leader who
- 27:55Speaker 3: was assassinated in twenty twenty four, but he had reportedly
- 27:58Speaker 3: four billion dollars worth of property and assets. And if
- 28:02Speaker 3: you want to go back a little further, Gaddafi was
- 28:05Speaker 3: I think the richest of all the dictators, had about
- 28:07Speaker 3: two hundred billion dollars worth of assets when he died.
- 28:11Speaker 4: It's amazing how they enriched themselves, isn't it. You know,
- 28:14Speaker 4: we'll have a revolution so we can do the best
- 28:16Speaker 4: thing by the people. The people being me, of course,
- 28:19Speaker 4: you know I have money to make here. But amazing
- 28:22Speaker 4: that this was allowed to happen in the first place.
- 28:23Speaker 4: I mean he's done it through sort of complicated system
- 28:26Speaker 4: of trust and these shell companies, and then he's got
- 28:29Speaker 4: this proxy bloke in England who buys the properties for him,
- 28:33Speaker 4: and on.
- 28:33Speaker 1: And on it goes.
- 28:34Speaker 4: So, yes, it is somewhat difficult to work out. But
- 28:37Speaker 4: now that they know it's there, surely Sir Kiostarma has
- 28:41Speaker 4: to simply say, well, this, this is not on, We've
- 28:43Speaker 4: got to do something about it.
- 28:45Speaker 3: He can't reckon, Kiostarma would be you won't even supply
- 28:48Speaker 3: an aircraft.
- 28:51Speaker 2: Strip for the US to use.
- 28:52Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he should, I mean that they just should
- 28:55Speaker 4: do something about this. You've got a country that one
- 28:57Speaker 4: of your allies is at war with. This guy has
- 29:00Speaker 4: just been made the leader, and you're allowing him to
- 29:02Speaker 4: own land in your country for financial gain.
- 29:06Speaker 5: That's not on No, it's not. But I wonder, now,
- 29:08Speaker 5: shouldn't they be seizing these properties? I just wonder what
- 29:10Speaker 5: the what the procol would be. You'd have to seize them, right,
- 29:14Speaker 5: even one of them's next to the Israeli embassy. That
- 29:17Speaker 5: go figure out how on earth is that available. The
- 29:19Speaker 5: other thing I was thinking is, you know, you're right,
- 29:21Speaker 5: these dictators have got so much money. But don't forget
- 29:24Speaker 5: as well. I mean, the Democrats were sending so much
- 29:27Speaker 5: money to Iran. This is under Obama and the Biden administration. Well,
- 29:32Speaker 5: I wonder where some of that money has gone to.
- 29:34Speaker 5: I'd like to know who's taken the money.
- 29:36Speaker 3: You've actually given me a great idea. They seize the property, right,
- 29:39Speaker 3: then what do you do with it? You can sell it,
- 29:40Speaker 3: I suppose, and put it into the coffers of the government,
- 29:43Speaker 3: or you could get together five or six Iranian female
- 29:47Speaker 3: soccer players in Sydney, put him on a plane to
- 29:50Speaker 3: London and give them brand.
- 29:53Speaker 5: That would be that.
- 29:55Speaker 4: Is that is not a bad idea at all. All right,
- 29:57Speaker 4: let's talk about some stuff at home, shall we. In
- 30:00Speaker 4: today's political news. Yes, James just said, I thought it
- 30:13Speaker 4: was going to be the dope of the days thing
- 30:14Speaker 4: there Actually no. But I'll tell you who's back. It's
- 30:17Speaker 4: Clive Palmer. Yes, Clive Palmer, of course, who was once
- 30:21Speaker 4: in the Lower House, now says he's going to have
- 30:25Speaker 4: another tiltatted end along the way.
- 30:27Speaker 1: He's lost some weight.
- 30:29Speaker 10: I've lost a lot of weight. Can't you see that.
- 30:32Speaker 10: I've been on a kito diet. I've been running right.
- 30:35Speaker 10: I've been reinvigorated by not having too much sugar and
- 30:39Speaker 10: too much carbohydrates. I think that I've been sold on that.
- 30:43Speaker 10: Every day I feel better, I feel stronger, and every
- 30:45Speaker 10: day I watch the appalling situation of politics in Canberra.
- 30:49Speaker 1: There you go. I mean the guys on a diet.
- 30:51Speaker 4: He's reinvigorated, he's off the sugar and now he wants
- 30:55Speaker 4: to get back to Canberra.
- 30:56Speaker 1: I wonder what could have motivated him. Of course, he'd
- 30:59Speaker 1: said this just a few weeks weeks ago as.
- 31:01Speaker 10: A fifth wealthiest Australian and former life member of the
- 31:04Speaker 10: Liberal Party and spokesman for the National Party. I can
- 31:08Speaker 10: tell you the Liberal Party is a party full of wankers.
- 31:12Speaker 10: It would be if they could be. That's a good
- 31:14Speaker 10: quote for you, Phil, A party full of wankers.
- 31:18Speaker 6: There you go.
- 31:19Speaker 4: So he said, I'm going to clean the joint out
- 31:21Speaker 4: of the wankers. Let me back into the building of
- 31:24Speaker 4: interesting to.
- 31:24Speaker 1: See how he goes. I mean, you know, he's foreshiated.
- 31:27Speaker 4: This for the next federal election right when he had
- 31:29Speaker 4: one last year, so were still a few years away
- 31:32Speaker 4: from this. And last time you'll recall he spent sixty
- 31:37Speaker 4: million dollars on his campaign for the Trumpet of Patriots
- 31:41Speaker 4: says the party was then called and in return for that,
- 31:45Speaker 4: they got one point nine to one percent of primary
- 31:48Speaker 4: votes in the lower House and two point six percent
- 31:51Speaker 4: in the Senate.
- 31:52Speaker 1: So good luck to him, I suppose.
- 31:55Speaker 3: Do you imagine if they'd spent one hundred million dollars
- 31:57Speaker 3: they might have got two and a half.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Themselves. That it's a bit a bit more, hasn't he
- 32:03Speaker 2: done this?
- 32:04Speaker 3: Didn't we go through this circus back in twenty thirteen,
- 32:08Speaker 3: And to be fair, back in twenty thirteen they got
- 32:11Speaker 3: quite a few people elected, and then it all fell
- 32:13Speaker 3: apart very very quickly and became pretty much the joke
- 32:16Speaker 3: of Canberra. Why someone with all of that money would
- 32:20Speaker 3: choose to try to get into parliament as an individual
- 32:23Speaker 3: rather than use your money to have influence behind the scenes,
- 32:27Speaker 3: I do not know.
- 32:28Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it's all about Clive, isn't it. That's
- 32:30Speaker 5: the thing. It's always ego. It's always about Clive. I
- 32:34Speaker 5: mean you said goes to his back again, it's actually
- 32:36Speaker 5: half of Clive now that he's lost on his Keto
- 32:39Speaker 5: diet of high fat, low carbohydro.
- 32:41Speaker 4: Does anyone remember when he went on Kitchen Cabinet. I
- 32:45Speaker 4: think it was on Kitchen Cabinet with Annabel Krab on
- 32:48Speaker 4: ABC many years ago, ten years ago. And he's at
- 32:53Speaker 4: his Koolham resort and he goes around for breakfast at
- 32:58Speaker 4: one of the cafes at the resort. His breakfast was
- 33:00Speaker 4: two sausage rolls.
- 33:02Speaker 5: Well, I wonder if he's still on the that's why now,
- 33:05Speaker 5: that's why he's on the keto. That's why he's okay.
- 33:07Speaker 5: But the problem, look the problem, I mean, the guys
- 33:08Speaker 5: had more comebacks, let's be honest, than John Farnham The
- 33:11Speaker 5: thing with Clive Palmer is he lacks total credibility, doesn't
- 33:14Speaker 5: he Because he's tried this by himself. He's tried with
- 33:16Speaker 5: the trumpet of patriots. Now he's trying to resurrect the
- 33:19Speaker 5: what is it, the United Australia Party Again. This is
- 33:22Speaker 5: what happens when you've got too much money and you
- 33:24Speaker 5: don't know what to do with it. Because he's failed
- 33:26Speaker 5: at every single bid he has had, and yet he
- 33:29Speaker 5: keeps coming back over and over. But all he's trying
- 33:31Speaker 5: to do is really, when you think about it, split
- 33:33Speaker 5: the Conservative vote, which would end up supporting Labor. I
- 33:36Speaker 5: mean that would be beneficial for the Labor Party in
- 33:39Speaker 5: the end. So you know, he can call the Liberal
- 33:40Speaker 5: Party a bunch of wankers and claim that he has
- 33:43Speaker 5: liberal conservative values, Well, you're actually doing them a massive disservice.
- 33:47Speaker 4: I think this is the thing is that he's seen
- 33:49Speaker 4: the rise of one nation and thought, well, I kind
- 33:51Speaker 4: of want to get into that market. This is always
- 33:53Speaker 4: what I wanted to do. But there are lots of
- 33:55Speaker 4: people who've wanted to do that. Auline Hanson, Yeah, Pauline
- 33:59Speaker 4: Hanson is the one who has managed to succeed in
- 34:01Speaker 4: doing it. But there was talk before the election last
- 34:04Speaker 4: year that he was trying to I think he went
- 34:06Speaker 4: trying to register the Pauline and Clive party like he
- 34:10Speaker 4: was trying to do some sort of deal to get
- 34:12Speaker 4: one nation in the tent with the trumpet of patriots.
- 34:15Speaker 4: Of course that didn't come up. So I think he
- 34:17Speaker 4: wants to be part of this movement. But someone else
- 34:20Speaker 4: has done it. Pauline Hanson's done it. So you're a
- 34:22Speaker 4: bit Johnny.
- 34:23Speaker 5: What's the definition of in Sunday? When you do the
- 34:25Speaker 5: same thing over different results. That's a different results.
- 34:29Speaker 2: To be so rich? You can be that inside exactly.
- 34:31Speaker 5: But money his.
- 34:33Speaker 2: Version of golf, right, so what he does for a
- 34:36Speaker 2: bit of fun and.
- 34:36Speaker 4: He does own golf courses too. Though I will I
- 34:39Speaker 4: will give him applaud. It's for one thing he did
- 34:41Speaker 4: say today he was going to give ten grand to
- 34:42Speaker 4: each of the Iranian soccer players who have.
- 34:47Speaker 3: But then he challenged Angress Taylor to match it, so
- 34:50Speaker 3: he gave, but then turn it into a political exercise.
- 34:52Speaker 2: So it's a bit cheap, isn't it.
- 34:54Speaker 5: It's a little bit cheap. Hey, look before we go,
- 34:56Speaker 5: if you're the Victoria, if you're a Victoria. You're about
- 34:59Speaker 5: to be slugged yet again. Now the Allen government's coming
- 35:01Speaker 5: after you the taxpayer yet again. Have a look at this.
- 35:04Speaker 5: If you're on a board, so specific board spots that
- 35:08Speaker 5: were previously on a voluntary basis just into Alan will
- 35:11Speaker 5: now come at you with a taxpayer funded salary of
- 35:15Speaker 5: fifty nine thousand dollars or up to fifty nine thousand
- 35:18Speaker 5: dollars and it's going to now cost the taxpayer millions.
- 35:20Speaker 5: But you've got like ex Labor Minister Martin Pacoola, Richmond
- 35:24Speaker 5: FC president John O'Rourke as part of these boards, the
- 35:26Speaker 5: Bulldog president Kylie Watson Wheeler, all now about to be paid.
- 35:31Speaker 5: And don't forget the ex labor minister is still on
- 35:33Speaker 5: a pension. For goodness sake, still has a pension and
- 35:36Speaker 5: yet now is going to be more money. Is this
- 35:38Speaker 5: why they want to pay people to go and visit
- 35:42Speaker 5: the Apostles says basically they need money.
- 35:45Speaker 3: There's thirty two thousand people who are volunteering on public boards.
- 35:49Speaker 3: We're now all going to be paid and none of
- 35:50Speaker 3: them are asking to be paid.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Who dripped this one up?
- 35:53Speaker 5: I'll probably just send to herself another just In deploy,
- 35:57Speaker 5: isn't it. She needs the money, just like she does
- 35:59Speaker 5: with the apostles.
- 36:00Speaker 2: All right, we're going to go to a break.
- 36:01Speaker 3: When we come back, we take a look at tomorrow's papers,
- 36:04Speaker 3: so you hear all of tomorrow's news first tonight.
- 36:07Speaker 2: That's next.
- 36:13Speaker 3: Well, welcome back to the program. Let's take a look
- 36:15Speaker 3: at tomorrow's headlines. Caleb, you've got the Australian some great
- 36:18Speaker 3: stories on the front page.
- 36:19Speaker 4: Indeed, long arm of Tehran's terror threatens brave asylum seekers.
- 36:23Speaker 4: Fears over Tehran's deadly reach into Australia's suburbs prompted police
- 36:27Speaker 4: to swoop in and relocate six Iranian soccer players granted
- 36:30Speaker 4: humanitarian visas this week after one of their teammates abandoned
- 36:34Speaker 4: her asylum bid, exposing the location of the defectors Brisbane
- 36:38Speaker 4: safehouse oper Fears. Minister Toney Burke revealed the precaution after
- 36:42Speaker 4: confirming one of the two members of the Iranian Lionessa's
- 36:45Speaker 4: team who made the late asylum claims changed her mind
- 36:49Speaker 4: and contacted Iranian officials on Wednesday morning asking to be
- 36:52Speaker 4: picked up. The move followed advice from national security agencies
- 36:56Speaker 4: and came as a Sydney Court heard quote unknown person
- 37:00Speaker 4: overseas order and arson attack targeting one of the nation's
- 37:04Speaker 4: most prominent Jewish leaders to divide the Arabs and Jewish communities.
- 37:09Speaker 4: And this sort of goes to the point of what
- 37:12Speaker 4: mister Burke also said today, which is that there was
- 37:15Speaker 4: no asylum offered to the people who were working with
- 37:18Speaker 4: the team because they had been deemed to be a threat. Now,
- 37:22Speaker 4: clearly reading between the lions, what that means is that
- 37:25Speaker 4: they're part of the regime. They were rumored to be
- 37:27Speaker 4: part of the IRGC and so the influence we know,
- 37:31Speaker 4: the influence that has been used by Iran in this country.
- 37:35Speaker 4: They've had to move these girls now that the location
- 37:38Speaker 4: has been given out of me. You can imagine how
- 37:41Speaker 4: concerned they must be and how concerned Home Affairs must
- 37:44Speaker 4: be that Iran might seek some kind of retribution for
- 37:48Speaker 4: what we have done in granting them refuge.
- 37:51Speaker 3: So we kicked the Iranian ambassador out of the country
- 37:53Speaker 3: because Iran funded organized a terror attack on.
- 37:59Speaker 2: A Melbourn synagogue. Why do we still have an Iranian
- 38:02Speaker 2: embassy in this country?
- 38:03Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's really one.
- 38:04Speaker 3: Don't They all out of the place, especially when the
- 38:07Speaker 3: Australian government is so concerned that the embassy in Canberra
- 38:10Speaker 3: knowing where these young women are, well will.
- 38:14Speaker 5: I think that they weren't meant to know where these
- 38:16Speaker 5: young women are. She told them, she told them, so,
- 38:19Speaker 5: you know, I guess you know, I don't think she
- 38:22Speaker 5: was to know.
- 38:23Speaker 3: We'll give it the benefit of well she told them
- 38:25Speaker 3: were to come and come around and get me.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean maybe she didn't. I'm saying I
- 38:29Speaker 5: don't think it was a purposeful thing. I think it
- 38:31Speaker 5: was just you.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Know, what I'm saying is the government are now so
- 38:33Speaker 3: worried that there could be retribution because the embassy knows.
- 38:37Speaker 3: Why do we have an Iranian embassy? Iran is clearly
- 38:40Speaker 3: no friend of Australia. Why are any of their officials
- 38:43Speaker 3: in this country.
- 38:44Speaker 5: It is good, It is a really good point. And
- 38:45Speaker 5: before we came on air, I saw vision of the
- 38:48Speaker 5: women who did leave, who did leave Australia. They had
- 38:51Speaker 5: arrived earlier on this evening in Kuala Lumpur as they
- 38:54Speaker 5: make their way back to Iran, and you know, you
- 38:57Speaker 5: just feel for them because you don't know what the
- 38:59Speaker 5: journey is going to be for them. As soon as
- 39:00Speaker 5: they arrived back there, and a lot of them would
- 39:03Speaker 5: have made decisions worried out of fear of their own families,
- 39:07Speaker 5: because there had been reports that some of the families
- 39:09Speaker 5: were being threatened, were even being taken hostage. I mean,
- 39:12Speaker 5: what an impossible decision to make. And a lot of
- 39:16Speaker 5: them are young, you know, they're in their early twenties.
- 39:18Speaker 5: It's just the burden that they must be carrying is
- 39:21Speaker 5: just horrific.
- 39:24Speaker 4: Indeed, another story on the front of the Olds tomorrow
- 39:26Speaker 4: the Canavan Split for good of kids. New Nationals leader
- 39:30Speaker 4: Matt Canavan has declared his support for income tax splitting
- 39:33Speaker 4: as a way to create a tech system that encourages
- 39:36Speaker 4: parental bonds rather than a reliance on childcare, as he
- 39:40Speaker 4: moves to take on One Nation through a hyper Australian vision,
- 39:44Speaker 4: including a new coal fired power stations and industry protection.
- 39:48Speaker 4: After being elected the sixteenth Nationals leader on Wednesday morning,
- 39:51Speaker 4: Senator Canavan told The Australian that income splitting would allow
- 39:55Speaker 4: parents to quote spend more time with their newborn children.
- 39:59Speaker 4: One Nation has formally adopted the policy to share the
- 40:01Speaker 4: tax burden among couples, but the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates
- 40:05Speaker 4: it would cost the budget nearly seventy billion dollars over
- 40:08Speaker 4: a decade. Oh, wouldn't that be a terrible thing. The
- 40:11Speaker 4: government would have less money. You're telling me it would
- 40:14Speaker 4: have to tighten its belt a little bit, and that
- 40:17Speaker 4: instead money would be in the hands of Australians so
- 40:20Speaker 4: that they can spend it and do things they would
- 40:23Speaker 4: prefer to do.
- 40:23Speaker 1: Outrageous. Great policy. It's a great policy.
- 40:27Speaker 4: I'm glad he's jumped on it, and I hope this
- 40:30Speaker 4: means that, you know, we actually see a bit of
- 40:32Speaker 4: real movement and gumption from the coalition.
- 40:35Speaker 3: This is a great thing for the coalition having Canavan
- 40:38Speaker 3: lead the Nationals. My only criticism was that in his
- 40:42Speaker 3: first press conference he had to go at One Nation,
- 40:45Speaker 3: calling them divisive and misconstruing Pauline Hanson's comments about there
- 40:49Speaker 3: being no good Muslims, which is not what she said.
- 40:52Speaker 3: But Canavan repeated that I just don't think it's going
- 40:54Speaker 3: to help the Nationals by going after Pauline Hanson and
- 40:57Speaker 3: their supporters as being device of an anti Muslim because
- 41:01Speaker 3: I don't think it's true and I don't think that's
- 41:03Speaker 3: the way to win back supporters is by insulting those
- 41:06Speaker 3: who have left you.
- 41:07Speaker 5: But also I think that when you do call one
- 41:09Speaker 5: nation divisive, it only just rallies her base even more
- 41:12Speaker 5: as it has been proven in the past when labor
- 41:15Speaker 5: have gone after one nation. So I don't think those
- 41:17Speaker 5: sorts of insults work anymore. I think they actually work
- 41:19Speaker 5: at the opposite.
- 41:19Speaker 3: Direction and in terms of being divisive. If you don't
- 41:21Speaker 3: want to be divisive, don't be in politics, well the
- 41:23Speaker 3: whole idea of politics. As you say this, but I
- 41:26Speaker 3: say that and again, mavision.
- 41:27Speaker 5: Talking about mass migration is not being divisive. Okay. The
- 41:31Speaker 5: majority of Australians want to discuss mass migration, So I
- 41:33Speaker 5: don't think that that argument stacks up at all. All right.
- 41:35Speaker 3: The front page of the Daily Telegraph here in Sydney,
- 41:39Speaker 3: the headline reads Clueless. Families and Communications Minister Kate Washington
- 41:44Speaker 3: is facing calls to resign or be sacked after the
- 41:47Speaker 3: guardian of New South Wales's most vulnerable children revealed she
- 41:50Speaker 3: was clueless that two kids in state care were living
- 41:54Speaker 3: with a triple murderer. Missus Washington last night insisted she
- 41:58Speaker 3: was not going anywhere after issuing a groveling apology for
- 42:01Speaker 3: not knowing serial killer Reginald Regina Arthur All is that
- 42:05Speaker 3: how I say the name was living under the same
- 42:08Speaker 3: roof as two foster children. Her department, however, had been
- 42:11Speaker 3: aware of the living arrangement since December.
- 42:15Speaker 2: Someone needs to get sacked over this.
- 42:17Speaker 3: If not the Minister, then certainly a whole lot of
- 42:19Speaker 3: people in the Department office who allowed this to happen.
- 42:23Speaker 3: And it only became public or it was only dealt
- 42:27Speaker 3: with rather after it became public on the radio.
- 42:29Speaker 5: Yeah, only on two it was revealed by Ben Fordham
- 42:31Speaker 5: on two GB. I mean, these are some of the
- 42:33Speaker 5: most vulnerable children already in foster care. How could the
- 42:37Speaker 5: state let these children down? It's an absolute disgrace and
- 42:40Speaker 5: for the minister to have no answers to serious questions
- 42:45Speaker 5: just as wofle just as well.
- 42:47Speaker 4: And if the department is aware and the department has
- 42:49Speaker 4: not told her, as a minister, I would be in
- 42:52Speaker 4: there with the brooms sweeping the whole joint clean, because
- 42:55Speaker 4: that's the sort of stuff you ought to be briefed
- 42:58Speaker 4: about and told about when it happens.
- 42:59Speaker 5: Yeah, let's look at the Herald's son. Now, this is
- 43:01Speaker 5: a big story over in Victoria about Kate and Luke Sayers.
- 43:06Speaker 5: You might remember this one Kate Sayers will escalate defamation
- 43:11Speaker 5: as action against a strange husband Luke with a substantiate
- 43:16Speaker 5: substantiative malice claim as his Dick Pick lawsuit defense was revealed. Now,
- 43:24Speaker 5: you might remember this story from a couple of months
- 43:27Speaker 5: back about a photo that had been taken. Well, now
- 43:31Speaker 5: he has revealed that it was for medical reasons. And
- 43:35Speaker 5: we're limited to what we can talk about here because
- 43:37Speaker 5: this is before the courts, but it's certainly doing the
- 43:40Speaker 5: rounds of Victoria, Caleb right now.
- 43:42Speaker 1: Certainly is.
- 43:43Speaker 4: It is one of the biggest stories in Victoria and
- 43:46Speaker 4: there's no sign of it going away. And you know,
- 43:50Speaker 4: we're so fun watching all the Bruce Leraman defamation action
- 43:53Speaker 4: go on.
- 43:53Speaker 1: Remember all of that.
- 43:55Speaker 4: We have the Victorian equivalent right here and people will
- 43:58Speaker 4: be paying attention on the front of the advertisers borrow
- 44:00Speaker 4: down in South Australia, I'm Out Chris. Former AFL star
- 44:05Speaker 4: Chris McDermott launched his campaign with Sarah games Fair go
- 44:08Speaker 4: for Australian's Party with a bang, but quit with a whimper.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Via text. McDermot cited irreconcilable differences with miss Game.
- 44:16Speaker 4: Now Chrism German of course played for the Adelaide Crows
- 44:19Speaker 4: and he was going to contest at the state election
- 44:23Speaker 4: next weekend with Sarah Games fair Go for Australian's Party.
- 44:27Speaker 4: But now all the ballot papers have been printed. He's
- 44:30Speaker 4: pulled out after the ballot papers have been printed, so
- 44:32Speaker 4: when people go to vote, he will still be the
- 44:35Speaker 4: fair Go candidate in the Upper House. You now have
- 44:38Speaker 4: Sarah again, the leader of the party, telling people to
- 44:41Speaker 4: vote for the Liberals in the Upper House and not
- 44:43Speaker 4: for her own party because the guy on the ballot
- 44:46Speaker 4: has walked away.
- 44:47Speaker 1: What a ridiculous city.
- 44:48Speaker 3: I just love that the party is called the fair
- 44:49Speaker 3: Go Party and there's not much fair about this. Really Quickly,
- 44:53Speaker 3: on the front page of the cans Post, Pasta Power
- 44:56Speaker 3: reads the headline Spaghetti Church fights for right to wear
- 44:59Speaker 3: co Hollanders. This goes back to a story a couple
- 45:02Speaker 3: of weeks ago. An Indonesian man who moved to Australia
- 45:06Speaker 3: a couple of years ago had a driver's license photo
- 45:09Speaker 3: taken wearing a colander on his head because he claims
- 45:12Speaker 3: his religion is the Spaghetti Church, which is basically a
- 45:17Speaker 3: piss take on actual religions. When he posted a photograph
- 45:20Speaker 3: of his driver's license on social media, the Queensland government
- 45:24Speaker 3: contacted him and said that is not legit.
- 45:26Speaker 2: You need to get another one.
- 45:28Speaker 3: He refuses because he says it's a legitimate religion. Why
- 45:31Speaker 3: my religious rights being legend?
- 45:33Speaker 1: Just to find the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
- 45:36Speaker 3: Absolutely there you go, all right, we're going to go
- 45:38Speaker 3: to a break when we come back. If you've ever
- 45:41Speaker 3: sort of contemplated getting one of those self driving cars,
- 45:45Speaker 3: you may rethink that.
- 45:46Speaker 2: Decision in our next.
- 45:52Speaker 3: Well its official tennis players have replaced soccer players.
- 45:55Speaker 2: As the prima donnas of sport.
- 45:57Speaker 3: World number eight mirror and Riva lost the match at
- 46:00Speaker 3: Indian Wells, and then she lost her call. First abusing
- 46:04Speaker 3: her racket and then have a look at the way
- 46:07Speaker 3: she abuses the crowd. In fact, you can see it
- 46:10Speaker 3: right now, and that woman can hardly believe it. I
- 46:12Speaker 3: think I'm not sure if you can catch oh, you
- 46:14Speaker 3: might be able to read what she said.
- 46:15Speaker 2: She actually tells the crowd.
- 46:18Speaker 3: If you so, When she was asked why did you
- 46:21Speaker 3: react like that, she said, I need to better get
- 46:24Speaker 3: my emotions under control.
- 46:26Speaker 5: What an absolute soul looser. Who does that? Seriously, don't
- 46:30Speaker 5: take your frustrations out on the crowd, don't. Don't. I
- 46:33Speaker 5: just think.
- 46:34Speaker 3: Finally, something interesting happened at the tennis No, no, look
- 46:39Speaker 3: so boring. I missed John McEnroe.
- 46:46Speaker 5: Behavior.
- 46:48Speaker 2: It's entertainment. He was entertaining.
- 46:50Speaker 3: Remember Ivan Lyndall yet well not personally played like a robot.
- 46:54Speaker 2: Was so boring.
- 46:55Speaker 1: But you know, look, it's not exactly Roger Federer, is it.
- 46:59Speaker 1: You wouldn't see feed behavior.
- 47:00Speaker 5: And she brought the crowd into the game, and she
- 47:04Speaker 5: she insulted the crowd.
- 47:06Speaker 2: She did. I'm being facetious. It was poor behavior.
- 47:09Speaker 5: So it is very poor behavior. Now our look, Waimo,
- 47:13Speaker 5: which is a US driverless vehicle company, is in a
- 47:17Speaker 5: spot of bother after social media video captured. Have a
- 47:22Speaker 5: look at this. Bring this up. So this is well, okay,
- 47:25Speaker 5: so this car, it was an autonomous taxi stopping past
- 47:29Speaker 5: a train station gate. Look how look where it's stopped.
- 47:33Speaker 5: It's actually gone under the barrier, under the like within
- 47:39Speaker 5: centimeters of missing that train. Doesn't it make you want
- 47:43Speaker 5: to think trie about twice about hopping into a driver.
- 47:46Speaker 2: I've had taxi drivers like that.
- 47:48Speaker 5: Well, actually, that's a good point. But they're big over
- 47:50Speaker 5: there because they've got the driverless ubers. Actually, I think
- 47:54Speaker 5: that Australia in the last couple of months has allowed
- 47:57Speaker 5: Tesla's to go for a driverless option. So you still
- 48:01Speaker 5: I think you still have to be in the driver's seat,
- 48:03Speaker 5: but it can be you don't have to be.
- 48:05Speaker 3: It's driverless, but you've still going to have your hands
- 48:07Speaker 3: ready to grab radio.
- 48:09Speaker 4: What's the point anyway, I'm not going to get on
- 48:12Speaker 4: board with that. You know, China will hacket and have
- 48:15Speaker 4: been killed or something, I suppose, but to other things
- 48:17Speaker 4: that might have you killed a radioactive material for instance, Well,
- 48:21Speaker 4: how would you like to be Ricky Lee Larko who
- 48:23Speaker 4: was walking along the beach at Byron and.
- 48:26Speaker 1: It came across this box.
- 48:28Speaker 4: And her and her hobby were having a look at
- 48:31Speaker 4: it and so what's going on here? And he attempted
- 48:33Speaker 4: to open it apparently until they saw the bit that
- 48:36Speaker 4: said Fukashima, Japan Electric and ted Co. And they thought
- 48:40Speaker 4: maybe we shouldn't open it, so they called the cops up.
- 48:42Speaker 4: The cops came and took her a look at it.
- 48:45Speaker 4: They determined that it was actually a movie props so
- 48:48Speaker 4: there is no radioactive material in there. I'm afraid to
- 48:51Speaker 4: say that would have been a bit of fun.
- 48:53Speaker 2: Though.
- 48:53Speaker 4: Radio climate boxes rocked up from Fukashima and of Australia
- 48:59Speaker 4: very good.
- 48:59Speaker 3: Did they keep the prop I don't know. I hope
- 49:01Speaker 3: they kept out. That's it from us stick around. Coming
- 49:04Speaker 3: up is the Read the Penney Show, hosted by Caroline
- 49:06Speaker 3: Marcus this evening.
- 49:07Speaker 2: Good night, m mm hmm.