Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 16 June
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wait wait we the late base.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Great to have your company.
- 0:07Speaker 3: I'm James MacPerson with Caleb Bond and Jemmy ton Yini.
- 0:10Speaker 2: How are you both?
- 0:11Speaker 1: Calebi? You know in top order? Given the company here tonight.
- 0:16Speaker 3: I would have thought that would put you in absolutely
- 0:18Speaker 3: great spirits.
- 0:19Speaker 4: But I mean I I'm in top order. Where would
- 0:21Speaker 4: I rather be at ten o'clock on a Tuesday night
- 0:24Speaker 4: but right here talking to you people at home?
- 0:26Speaker 2: Exactly? Jemma, how is your day? Would you get?
- 0:28Speaker 5: I had a frantic day.
- 0:29Speaker 6: I am doing well for a person who, unlike you
- 0:32Speaker 6: two fine gentlemen, is not really a night house.
- 0:34Speaker 5: So I'm here unfueled by coffee, very pleased to be here,
- 0:38Speaker 5: and sparkling ready to go.
- 0:40Speaker 2: By the end of the week, your sleep patterns will
- 0:42Speaker 2: be completely.
- 0:43Speaker 6: Upended, up ended all sorts of drive myself to bed
- 0:46Speaker 6: like a fifty year old toddler.
- 0:47Speaker 5: I'm okay with it.
- 0:48Speaker 4: A Royal Asket starts tonight too, So you're going to
- 0:51Speaker 4: be up watching natil three am like me, aren't you?
- 0:53Speaker 5: I will most definitely not.
- 0:55Speaker 2: You're not joking about that, are you? You will sit
- 0:57Speaker 2: up and watch the.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Watch Royal Asket right too. We've got four or five
- 1:00Speaker 4: nights of it to come.
- 1:02Speaker 2: I can't imagine anything worse now.
- 1:04Speaker 6: I love the ponies, as you know, I'm a subject
- 1:06Speaker 6: expert when it comes to the four legged, beautiful creatures,
- 1:09Speaker 6: but I'm not doing that.
- 1:09Speaker 4: We've got Australian horses. Docklands is running in the coin
- 1:13Speaker 4: ann the first race, and the King Charles we've got overpassed.
- 1:17Speaker 4: So there's some Aussie representation tonight.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Well worth staying up for all.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Right, let's get into the program. Here's what's coming up tonight.
- 1:23Speaker 3: The Prime Minister questions Pauling Hanson's ability to relate to Asians,
- 1:27Speaker 3: presumably because of something she.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Said thirty years ago.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Iconic craft retailer Lincraft announces they'll close all their physical
- 1:34Speaker 3: stores in Australia and New Zealand. Is this the new
- 1:37Speaker 3: normal now as people increasingly shop online? And why is
- 1:40Speaker 3: it that every time a private school kid gets into
- 1:42Speaker 3: trouble the media love to emphasize that it's a private
- 1:45Speaker 3: school kid. Is it really relevant when reporting the news.
- 1:48Speaker 3: We'll get to all of that shortly, but first, there's
- 1:51Speaker 3: little doubt the public's aversion to mass immigration has driven
- 1:55Speaker 3: the rise of one nation. People believe that nearly one
- 1:58Speaker 3: point four million long term net migrant arrivals since Albanyze
- 2:02Speaker 3: was elected in twenty twenty two is far too high
- 2:05Speaker 3: and it's hard to argue with that. Labour have imported
- 2:08Speaker 3: the equivalent of Adelaide's population and then some in just
- 2:12Speaker 3: four years, and the problem, of course is we haven't
- 2:14Speaker 3: built another Adelaide to house them all. Labour said that
- 2:17Speaker 3: cap international student numbers they didn't.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Foreign students at New.
- 2:21Speaker 3: South Wales universities increased by seven point five percent last year,
- 2:25Speaker 3: and it was a similar story in other states. The
- 2:27Speaker 3: number of people on temporary visas has gone from one
- 2:30Speaker 3: point nine million where Elbow was elected to two point
- 2:33Speaker 3: nine million currently. And it's not just the increasing number
- 2:36Speaker 3: of foreigners, it's where they're coming from. Our largest source
- 2:39Speaker 3: of migrants used to be people born in the UK,
- 2:42Speaker 3: now it's people born in India. Australia's Indian population has
- 2:45Speaker 3: gone from four hundred and forty nine thousand in twenty
- 2:48Speaker 3: fifteen to just under a million today, a doubling in
- 2:51Speaker 3: ten years. And here's where I think there's an interesting
- 2:54Speaker 3: discussion to be had because just mentioning some of those
- 2:57Speaker 3: statistics risks having you labeled a race sister, are bigger
- 3:00Speaker 3: as enophobe or whatever the slur is this week? So
- 3:04Speaker 3: is it racist to be bothered by the inevitable changes
- 3:07Speaker 3: mass migration brings or are those concerns are normal part
- 3:10Speaker 3: of human nature that deserve to be heard and perhaps
- 3:14Speaker 3: acted on.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Jimma, what do you think?
- 3:16Speaker 6: I think we have to have a sensible conversation about immigration.
- 3:20Speaker 6: As some of you would know, my dad came to
- 3:23Speaker 6: Australia on a boat after the Second World War along
- 3:26Speaker 6: with hundreds of thousands of other both economic migrants, displaced
- 3:31Speaker 6: people's refugees, after the world was ravaged by war. It
- 3:35Speaker 6: was a different time and it was a different expectation
- 3:37Speaker 6: of migrants that came to Australia. And I think we're
- 3:39Speaker 6: just out of balance and we can't have a balanced
- 3:42Speaker 6: conversation unless we can say things like is there cultural alignment?
- 3:46Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest one that people are afraid
- 3:48Speaker 6: of having a conversation about. I know I used to
- 3:51Speaker 6: be a little bit nervous about that. Oh my gosh,
- 3:53Speaker 6: you know, well, people think I'm being unfair or unkind.
- 3:55Speaker 6: But I remember being a kid going to a very
- 3:59Speaker 6: I went to a State School in Perth, but it
- 4:00Speaker 6: was a very waspy part of Perth. I was the
- 4:02Speaker 6: only kid in my class with a funny name and
- 4:05Speaker 6: had funny food in my lunch box. And I know
- 4:07Speaker 6: what it's like to be called, you know, your dirty.
- 4:09Speaker 5: Wog, your silly wog.
- 4:10Speaker 6: You know, kids could be cruel, but kids learn it
- 4:13Speaker 6: from somewhere else, right, And I remember my late father
- 4:16Speaker 6: saying to me things like, well, Gemma, it's US and
- 4:18Speaker 6: the Greeks, and later on it was the Vietnamese and
- 4:21Speaker 6: the Chinese. And you know, I like to think we
- 4:23Speaker 6: grow as a country. But let's be honest. My people
- 4:26Speaker 6: imported the mafia. Let's be honest. We imported things that
- 4:29Speaker 6: the Australian government dealt with. They were incompatible with Australian values.
- 4:34Speaker 6: There are cultures that have incompatible.
- 4:36Speaker 5: Values with Australian values.
- 4:37Speaker 6: That's the piece I think we haven't been allowed to
- 4:39Speaker 6: have free conversations about apart from the things like for example,
- 4:43Speaker 6: when my grandfather came out after the war, it wasn't
- 4:45Speaker 6: like Charlie Toanini, you can live wherever you want. No, no, Charlie,
- 4:48Speaker 6: there's a need in the regions. You're going to go
- 4:49Speaker 6: do two years in a little town called Quinnap which
- 4:52Speaker 6: is three hours south of Perth, and back then there
- 4:54Speaker 6: was not a lot of infrastructure. We need to have
- 4:56Speaker 6: conversations about structure and process. Don't just say you can
- 5:00Speaker 6: come to Australia. You can go to the heart of
- 5:02Speaker 6: Melbourne and go to the heart of Sydney. Put pressure
- 5:04Speaker 6: on housing, infrastructure, all of that sort of thing. I
- 5:07Speaker 6: just don't think we're having an honest or a full
- 5:09Speaker 6: or a fully fledged or a mature conversation about the
- 5:13Speaker 6: issues that are concerning Australians.
- 5:14Speaker 4: The reason we're not having, or have not historically had
- 5:17Speaker 4: those conversations is because the minute you start doing so,
- 5:20Speaker 4: the left likes to frame it as a racial issue.
- 5:24Speaker 4: The minute you say, well, actually I think people coming
- 5:26Speaker 4: from certain parts of the world may not be compatible
- 5:29Speaker 4: with our country, well that's racist. You can't possibly say that.
- 5:32Speaker 4: I think it's just true. And the problem you have
- 5:36Speaker 4: as well, even if you might have people who are
- 5:38Speaker 4: largely compatible, when the face of your nation racially changes significantly,
- 5:46Speaker 4: you start to create special interest groups.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Now you mentioned India.
- 5:50Speaker 4: Right now, there is, as we know now a major
- 5:53Speaker 4: Indian population in this country. Most of them are great
- 5:57Speaker 4: people contributing to this country. But once you start to
- 6:00Speaker 4: talk about the Indian population in Australia, and I know
- 6:04Speaker 4: these discussions are being had on the right of politics,
- 6:08Speaker 4: particularly in the Liberal Party. They're concerned about how they
- 6:13Speaker 4: frame issues because they're worried that talking about immigration will
- 6:18Speaker 4: lose them votes with migrant communities in the suburbs, and
- 6:22Speaker 4: the Liberal Party is very well aware that it needs
- 6:24Speaker 4: to pick up votes in the suburbs.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Now, if that's the point you've hit where you're saying.
- 6:29Speaker 4: Well, if we're talking about migration, we're worried that, you know,
- 6:32Speaker 4: large groups of people, because they have a mirgrant background,
- 6:35Speaker 4: are going to start labeling as racist. You've lost the
- 6:38Speaker 4: fight before you've even begun, and you've done it to
- 6:41Speaker 4: yourself because you've led all these people into the country
- 6:44Speaker 4: and then.
- 6:44Speaker 1: You're effectively letting them.
- 6:46Speaker 4: Dictate migration policy because you are scared of being labeled racist. Well,
- 6:52Speaker 4: it's not racist. We have to face up to these things.
- 6:55Speaker 4: And it is no wonder that people get antsy when
- 6:58Speaker 4: they see the face of their nation and changing so quickly.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Part of it is culture, part of it is race.
- 7:04Speaker 1: But when people don't.
- 7:05Speaker 4: Recognize the country that they grew up in and they
- 7:07Speaker 4: see it changing really fast without them being asked. I
- 7:11Speaker 4: think they have the right to say something's not right here.
- 7:14Speaker 3: What did you think of the media commentary around the
- 7:17Speaker 3: socceru's brilliant victory at the World Cup? And then there
- 7:20Speaker 3: was an article in the City Morning Herald Julian Hill
- 7:24Speaker 3: went on media and talked about the fact that, well,
- 7:26Speaker 3: if Pauline Hanson had her way, none of the soccous
- 7:30Speaker 3: would ever have been allowed into Australia and we would
- 7:32Speaker 3: never have won a game at.
- 7:33Speaker 2: The World Cup.
- 7:34Speaker 3: I mean, that's the infantile level of debate that the
- 7:37Speaker 3: left want to impose upon this whole issue, which is
- 7:41Speaker 3: not only just a silly argument. I mean, if Pauline
- 7:44Speaker 3: Hanson had her way, mon Manus wouldn't have been in
- 7:48Speaker 3: the country either. So you know, you can argue those
- 7:51Speaker 3: sort of things, but it infantilizes the debate. It does
- 7:55Speaker 3: makes it very difficult when they bring up stupid things
- 7:58Speaker 3: like that.
- 7:59Speaker 5: It does that.
- 8:00Speaker 6: Moreover, I tell you what, it does show that labor
- 8:02Speaker 6: is running scared, because what a ridiculous thing.
- 8:05Speaker 5: To say that if Pauline had Hanson had.
- 8:08Speaker 6: Her way that the soccer us wouldn't be there and
- 8:10Speaker 6: the soccer half the players wouldn't be there.
- 8:12Speaker 5: That is a.
- 8:12Speaker 6: Ridiculous statement and it shows to me just how worried
- 8:18Speaker 6: the Labor Party is because every time they talk about her,
- 8:21Speaker 6: they talk about her and these extreme sort of phrases
- 8:25Speaker 6: that are designed to oh.
- 8:26Speaker 5: My god, don't you know vote.
- 8:27Speaker 6: They may as well run a recruitment campaign for one nation.
- 8:30Speaker 6: The way they're responding to this threat. It's embarrassing.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Yep, I agree absolutely.
- 8:36Speaker 3: In fact, it goes to the point of the criticism
- 8:41Speaker 3: with Anthony ALBERNIZI I think you're going to.
- 8:44Speaker 5: Talk about oh yeah, that we're still talking about them.
- 8:47Speaker 3: So it just prompted me to think, I mean, now
- 8:49Speaker 3: he's saying that she won't be able to deal with ages.
- 8:51Speaker 6: I mean, it's nonsense, right, and it is a really
- 8:53Speaker 6: nice segue. Actually, so the Prime Minister. I think this
- 8:55Speaker 6: talks about the Prime This talks to how nervous the
- 8:58Speaker 6: Prime Minister is on the one hand, and he's presenting,
- 9:02Speaker 6: you know that nothing to see here, move along. He's
- 9:04Speaker 6: almost the fact that he's brought this up actually shows
- 9:06Speaker 6: I think his mindset.
- 9:07Speaker 5: So the story is this thea.
- 9:10Speaker 6: The Prime Minister wants us to believe that something that
- 9:12Speaker 6: Pauline Hanson said in nineteen ninety six, so a good
- 9:15Speaker 6: thirty years ago, and we all remember Pauline Hanson. Let's
- 9:18Speaker 6: call it Pauline Hanson version one. We've got Pauline Hanson
- 9:21Speaker 6: two point oh. Now we've got Pauline Hanson version one
- 9:23Speaker 6: back in the day where she you know, she was
- 9:26Speaker 6: very well known for things that she said that were
- 9:29Speaker 6: I think quite unacceptable at our Asians overrunning the country,
- 9:32Speaker 6: that kind of thing.
- 9:33Speaker 5: The Prime Minister has come out and.
- 9:35Speaker 6: Basically said that Pauline Hanson's not worthy of being leadership
- 9:39Speaker 6: of this country because of things she said.
- 9:41Speaker 5: Thirty he's got let's have a look at what he
- 9:42Speaker 5: had to say.
- 9:44Speaker 7: Iron Most Australians want our immigration policy policy radically reviewed
- 9:50Speaker 7: and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in
- 9:55Speaker 7: danger of being swamped by Asians. They have their own
- 10:00Speaker 7: culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. Of
- 10:05Speaker 7: course I will be called racist.
- 10:08Speaker 8: It's easy to identify grievance. The issue is providing solutions.
- 10:14Speaker 8: Think about the global fuel crisis that it just occurred,
- 10:19Speaker 8: and think about whether everyone in public life would be
- 10:23Speaker 8: in a position to go to our Asian friends in Singapore,
- 10:27Speaker 8: in Brunei, in Malaysia, in China, in South Korea and
- 10:31Speaker 8: Japan and say, we have a relationship that is important
- 10:36Speaker 8: of mutual interest in our region.
- 10:39Speaker 2: We need to make.
- 10:40Speaker 8: Sure that we continue to have fuel supply.
- 10:45Speaker 6: There's so much to unpack their first of all, classic deflection.
- 10:48Speaker 6: Second of all, the reason we had to go running
- 10:51Speaker 6: cap in hand to our Asian neighbors and friends for
- 10:53Speaker 6: fuel is because this government allowed our fuel reserves to
- 10:56Speaker 6: dwindle to just thirty days supply, and we don't produce
- 11:00Speaker 6: enough of our own anymore. Let's just remember Singapore doesn't
- 11:02Speaker 6: actually produce any of its own field. We had to
- 11:04Speaker 6: go running to them cap in hand just to keep
- 11:06Speaker 6: the lights on here.
- 11:07Speaker 5: And I find it really if at.
- 11:09Speaker 6: Fest of all, I found what Pauline Hansen said thirty
- 11:12Speaker 6: years ago offensive. I think most of Australians did and
- 11:15Speaker 6: still do. That party doesn't exist anymore. It is a
- 11:19Speaker 6: different party, it is a different person. Let's not judge
- 11:23Speaker 6: somebody by what they.
- 11:23Speaker 5: Said thirty years ago.
- 11:24Speaker 6: This is alban Easy, so desperate and so scared, and
- 11:27Speaker 6: if we're gonna let's.
- 11:28Speaker 5: Play game, guys. If we're going to judge someone by.
- 11:31Speaker 6: What they said thirty years ago, here's what Anthony Albanesi
- 11:34Speaker 6: said thirty years ago about the public sector.
- 11:36Speaker 5: For example, the ideologically.
- 11:38Speaker 6: Driven view is that the public sector is a huge
- 11:40Speaker 6: monolith which exhausts economic and human resources, and that must
- 11:44Speaker 6: be challenged. A recent survey by the International Monetary Fund
- 11:48Speaker 6: found that the Australian public sector, as a percentage of GDB,
- 11:51Speaker 6: it's the third smallest.
- 11:52Speaker 5: In the world. How things have changed, How things have changed.
- 11:57Speaker 6: I mean, it just goes to show I think how
- 12:01Speaker 6: frightened the Labor Party is, how they don't know how
- 12:04Speaker 6: to deal with a legitimate threat.
- 12:06Speaker 3: I just love the hypocrisy, Caleb, that Anthony Albanezi doesn't
- 12:09Speaker 3: seem to think what he said about Donald Trump in
- 12:11Speaker 3: twenty seventeen makes any difference to our relationship in the US.
- 12:14Speaker 3: But what Pauline Hanson said about Asians thirty years ago
- 12:18Speaker 3: is going to make it impossible for her to run
- 12:20Speaker 3: the country and deal with our neighbors.
- 12:22Speaker 2: That's just a silly argument.
- 12:24Speaker 4: And paul Enhanson herself has said she was wrong about that,
- 12:28Speaker 4: and that they've been you know, largely productive members of
- 12:30Speaker 4: Australian society.
- 12:32Speaker 1: So it's really a moose point.
- 12:33Speaker 4: But this idea, basically what the Prime Minister is suggesting
- 12:37Speaker 4: is that you know, we should have infinity migration lest
- 12:40Speaker 4: we offend our Asian neighbors. Well, I'm sorry, we do
- 12:43Speaker 4: have sovereign borders and the right to dictate who comes
- 12:47Speaker 4: to this country in the circumstances in which they come.
- 12:49Speaker 4: To borrow a frase from John Howard, and even the
- 12:53Speaker 4: idea that you would be scared about what your standing
- 12:57Speaker 4: is amongst other countries because you dare to say, ang
- 13:01Speaker 4: on a minute, we need to put the brakes on
- 13:03Speaker 4: a bit here because we can't cope with the number
- 13:05Speaker 4: of margrants coming into the country. Again, you've lost the
- 13:08Speaker 4: argument before you've even started it, because you're starting from
- 13:11Speaker 4: the position of we need migration in order to appease people,
- 13:17Speaker 4: whether it's people who are already in this country because
- 13:20Speaker 4: you've invited them in and now you need their vote,
- 13:23Speaker 4: or people who are currently outside of the country but
- 13:25Speaker 4: you want something out of them, be it fuel or
- 13:27Speaker 4: something else. Seemingly according to the government, to we just
- 13:31Speaker 4: got to bring more.
- 13:31Speaker 1: And more and more and more and more and more
- 13:33Speaker 1: and more and.
- 13:33Speaker 4: More people in order to appease all these people. Well,
- 13:36Speaker 4: do they also realize that the more margrants you have
- 13:39Speaker 4: coming into the country, the more fuel and all these
- 13:41Speaker 4: other resources you require, which we then go off cap
- 13:45Speaker 4: in hand to ask other people for.
- 13:47Speaker 1: It's just a load of garbage.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Indeed, the other thing I thought was interesting from that
- 13:53Speaker 3: clip we played at the Albanizias. We all knew who
- 13:56Speaker 3: he was talking about, but he did not name Pauline
- 13:59Speaker 3: hands Lord did he name one nation. I'm just wondering,
- 14:03Speaker 3: is that a deliberate strategy you think he will? He
- 14:06Speaker 3: will criticize her, but indirectly so as not to raise
- 14:10Speaker 3: her profile too high, because they would be well aware
- 14:13Speaker 3: every time you criticize Pauline Hansen, her popularity increases. So
- 14:17Speaker 3: they won't stop criticizing, but they'll try and do it
- 14:19Speaker 3: a little more subtly without actually using her name.
- 14:22Speaker 6: She speak, so, I think so, And I think again,
- 14:25Speaker 6: that speaks to the lack of like the flying blind,
- 14:27Speaker 6: they've never had a challenge like this. They don't know
- 14:29Speaker 6: how to deal with it.
- 14:31Speaker 5: I am, for one, enjoying the spectacle from the front row.
- 14:35Speaker 4: Yeah, and also how weak does it make us look
- 14:37Speaker 4: as a country when we're worried about what other countries
- 14:40Speaker 4: think of our migration policy, Because tell me, do you
- 14:43Speaker 4: think there's any nation in Asia or any other country
- 14:47Speaker 4: around the world that's sitting around thinking, gee, I wonder
- 14:50Speaker 4: if we sort of change our migration policy a bit,
- 14:53Speaker 4: whether we'll have a relationship with Australia. No one, not one,
- 14:56Speaker 4: no one, And yet we are here, not we but
- 14:59Speaker 4: the prime he's saying, well, you know, if we had
- 15:02Speaker 4: tartar policies on migration, we have to fret about our
- 15:05Speaker 4: relationship with other countries. Why are other countries so keen
- 15:08Speaker 4: to push their people out of their country and in
- 15:12Speaker 4: two hours it's almost like they want us to be
- 15:14Speaker 4: the dumping ground or so.
- 15:15Speaker 3: I think you also he underestimates how effective Pauline Hanson
- 15:19Speaker 3: could be, because I think you find nations are pretty
- 15:21Speaker 3: pragmatic when dealing with other leaders, whether they personally like
- 15:24Speaker 3: them or not. It's about national interest. And I think
- 15:27Speaker 3: while he underestimates Pauline Hanson, I think he greatly overinflates
- 15:31Speaker 3: his own relationships in Asia. I mean, he's got a
- 15:35Speaker 3: great relationship with Jujin Ping, who famously called him handsome boy.
- 15:39Speaker 3: So how good is the relationship really, I don't think
- 15:42Speaker 3: it matters that much. Nations do what's best for nations
- 15:45Speaker 3: and that will be true whether Pauline Hanson, Angus Taylor
- 15:48Speaker 3: or at the alb and easiest prime minis.
- 15:51Speaker 4: And also the Sky News Yugo Pulse poll which you
- 15:54Speaker 4: can go and find online now paul was running through
- 15:58Speaker 4: it in the last hour. You know, fifty percent of
- 16:01Speaker 4: people believe that one nation is ready to govern and
- 16:04Speaker 4: that's more than people are ready to vote for one
- 16:07Speaker 4: nation twenty eight percent or twenty nine percent, whatever it
- 16:10Speaker 4: was in that poll. Forgive me for not having the
- 16:12Speaker 4: exact number in front of me, but fifty percent say
- 16:14Speaker 4: that one nation is ready to govern another thirty two percent.
- 16:17Speaker 4: I think, so they would be ready to govern by
- 16:19Speaker 4: the next election, and so Australians aren't worried.
- 16:22Speaker 6: That's a really interesting nuance to that as well, because
- 16:24Speaker 6: they're ready to govern, I think indicates that people have
- 16:27Speaker 6: actually recognized that they obviously they weren't in the past.
- 16:30Speaker 6: We've seen an iteration of this party which is completely different.
- 16:34Speaker 3: I've got to quickly say, I'm not sure if they're
- 16:36Speaker 3: ready to govern, but do you think people look at
- 16:37Speaker 3: the government we have and saying how big the bar's
- 16:40Speaker 3: not that high?
- 16:41Speaker 1: Or bad could it be? Speaking of how bad could
- 16:45Speaker 1: it be?
- 16:45Speaker 4: It seems like every second day we hear about a
- 16:48Speaker 4: business falling over in this country. We know insolvencies are
- 16:52Speaker 4: at some of the highest they have ever been any particular,
- 16:55Speaker 4: the retail sector is suffering trouble. We see in the
- 16:59Speaker 4: news today another major Australian retail business, well known business
- 17:03Speaker 4: lind Craft, has decided that it will shut all its
- 17:06Speaker 4: physical stores.
- 17:07Speaker 1: They say they're going online only.
- 17:10Speaker 4: They've had to make what they call a difficult and
- 17:12Speaker 4: deeply emotional decision to close their physical stores across Australia
- 17:18Speaker 4: and New Zealand after eighty years of serving people. Of
- 17:22Speaker 4: course with craft products, most people at some point have
- 17:25Speaker 4: probably been into a lind Craft shop.
- 17:28Speaker 1: Or if you don't do a lot of craft, but y.
- 17:30Speaker 4: Nana does the knitting, she's probably need to use something
- 17:33Speaker 4: that has come from lind Craft, or with products that
- 17:35Speaker 4: have come from lind Craft. I am concerned that we
- 17:40Speaker 4: have a dwindling retail sector in this country now.
- 17:45Speaker 1: And it says two things.
- 17:46Speaker 4: One, it says that it's harder and harder to do
- 17:49Speaker 4: business in this country.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Now that does not only apply to retail, that is
- 17:54Speaker 1: across the board.
- 17:55Speaker 4: But I also worry that the more we lose these
- 17:58Speaker 4: physical places to go and shop, we lose places of
- 18:02Speaker 4: physical interaction. We lose touch points in our communities, places
- 18:07Speaker 4: where we bump into our neighbors and people we know, etc.
- 18:11Speaker 4: And that eventually we become more and more insular. The
- 18:14Speaker 4: rise of online shopping. I know it's convenient, but the
- 18:17Speaker 4: more shops we lose physically, the more places we lose
- 18:21Speaker 4: to actually interact with the product personally, but to interact.
- 18:25Speaker 1: With the people in the shop. We've seen in supermarkets
- 18:27Speaker 1: they've tried to take away the checkouts. Now you've got to.
- 18:30Speaker 4: Use self service, and you lose that level of human interaction.
- 18:34Speaker 4: I worry that if you follow this to its logical conclusion,
- 18:37Speaker 4: which will take many, many decades, but we will get
- 18:40Speaker 4: to a point where we just don't have shops anymore.
- 18:45Speaker 1: And I think that's really sad.
- 18:48Speaker 4: Why is it that we keep seeing these retailers either
- 18:51Speaker 4: go into administration. Retailers that have been successful in this
- 18:54Speaker 4: country for decades are going into administration or shutting their
- 18:58Speaker 4: shops because it's just not economic anymore.
- 19:00Speaker 2: I got to say.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Lincraft closing their physical stores I think is heartbreaking because
- 19:06Speaker 3: now we won't be able to stand outside with all
- 19:08Speaker 3: the other husbands bored out of our brains wondering how
- 19:11Speaker 3: long we're going to be here, so.
- 19:13Speaker 1: It will be at spotlight instead.
- 19:15Speaker 2: It's going to be a terrible thing.
- 19:16Speaker 3: Look, I don't think you can stop this, Caleb. I
- 19:18Speaker 3: think before COVID, people were flirting with online shopping. During COVID,
- 19:23Speaker 3: people learned how convenient it is, how easy it is.
- 19:26Speaker 2: They became conditioned to it.
- 19:28Speaker 3: The numbers of online shoppers have dropped slightly after COVID,
- 19:32Speaker 3: but if you look at eighteen to twenty four year olds,
- 19:34Speaker 3: twenty five percent of them now purchase regularly online. Thirty
- 19:38Speaker 3: percent of twenty five to thirty four year olds purchase
- 19:41Speaker 3: regularly online. The numbers dip after that, but if you
- 19:44Speaker 3: look at eighteen to thirty five year olds, as that
- 19:47Speaker 3: cohort ages and then the next generation come up behind them,
- 19:50Speaker 3: online shopping is only going to become more popular. So
- 19:54Speaker 3: I think the future is instead of have shops having shops,
- 19:57Speaker 3: you have showrooms. Maybe you have service st and return centers,
- 20:02Speaker 3: but most of what you buy, apart from fresh fruit
- 20:04Speaker 3: and vegetable, will be online. Whether that's a good thing
- 20:07Speaker 3: or a bad thing, that's up for debate. But I
- 20:09Speaker 3: don't think there can be a debate about whether or
- 20:11Speaker 3: not that's the future.
- 20:13Speaker 2: I think it's inevitable.
- 20:14Speaker 6: I'm going to give you a debate, gentlemen. I am
- 20:16Speaker 6: I am the last well maybe not the last past.
- 20:18Speaker 6: I love to shop in a shop, first of all,
- 20:20Speaker 6: but I am in my day job because surprise surprises
- 20:23Speaker 6: is not my day job.
- 20:24Speaker 5: We have clients who are in retail that.
- 20:27Speaker 6: Are expanding their physical shopprunt true story, and I obviously
- 20:30Speaker 6: won't name them, but they are expanding their bricks and
- 20:33Speaker 6: mortar footprint because there is a demand. I look at
- 20:35Speaker 6: Lindcraft and whilst I'm you know, sorry, that's a very
- 20:38Speaker 6: difficult decision. And I can only imagine. I'm a business
- 20:41Speaker 6: owner myself, I can only imagine how difficult that was
- 20:43Speaker 6: for them. But it's craft, and it's haberdasherie. And isn't
- 20:48Speaker 6: that a great word, by the way, haberdasherie. I remember
- 20:50Speaker 6: when I was a kid, there was a there was
- 20:52Speaker 6: a I don't think I've ever used that word in
- 20:53Speaker 6: mod Tonight Tonight, say night, James.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Haberdasherie, We've made his There was a.
- 20:59Speaker 5: Shop at my local shopping center in Perth.
- 21:01Speaker 6: It was a mini version of Limb Craft and it
- 21:03Speaker 6: was a pumping little store in the late seventies and
- 21:05Speaker 6: early eighties, and then society moved on.
- 21:08Speaker 5: I mean I wouldn't buy.
- 21:10Speaker 6: I would get if I needed stuff for I'm not
- 21:12Speaker 6: a crafty person. It may shock you to understand that
- 21:14Speaker 6: I don't do craft and I don't sew, but that
- 21:17Speaker 6: stuff is easy to get online, and it's quick to
- 21:19Speaker 6: get online.
- 21:20Speaker 5: I don't see even.
- 21:21Speaker 6: In my own village where I live here in Sydney,
- 21:24Speaker 6: the neighborhood I live in, shop fronts are growing.
- 21:27Speaker 5: People are moving in. The florist is moving in, the
- 21:29Speaker 5: bookstore is moving in.
- 21:31Speaker 6: And I don't believe that we are heading towards this inevitable,
- 21:35Speaker 6: you know, collapse of shop fronts. I think it depends
- 21:38Speaker 6: on the sector. I think it depends on the cohort
- 21:41Speaker 6: that is your traditional commercial base. Like you said, you know,
- 21:45Speaker 6: the niches of the world. I mean, knitting is having
- 21:47Speaker 6: a resurgence, but I don't see it being you know,
- 21:50Speaker 6: it's not like it's not rebel Sports, not a client
- 21:52Speaker 6: for the record, and it's not that kind of thing.
- 21:54Speaker 6: There are some things like we were talking about this
- 21:57Speaker 6: the other night. I don't shop online for my groceries
- 21:59Speaker 6: at all.
- 22:00Speaker 5: I want to go in. I want to eyeball my
- 22:01Speaker 5: fruit and veggies, and I want to buy.
- 22:03Speaker 4: It as you should. I mean, look, it's nice the
- 22:05Speaker 4: chops are opening up near you. But on the whole,
- 22:08Speaker 4: the retail sector is in decline. We've had, according to
- 22:11Speaker 4: the abs A, three consecutive financial years of decline in
- 22:16Speaker 4: the retail sector. Last financial year twenty twenty four to
- 22:19Speaker 4: twenty five, I think got the graph there there were
- 22:21Speaker 4: two sectors went back One was agriculture, forestry and fishing,
- 22:25Speaker 4: the other one was retail. It declined by zero point
- 22:28Speaker 4: four percent. In the twenty three twenty four financial year,
- 22:31Speaker 4: it was the same story too, sectors went backwards agriculture, forestry, fishing,
- 22:36Speaker 4: and retail. Retail went back point two percent. In twenty
- 22:39Speaker 4: twenty two to twenty three, there were three went backwards
- 22:42Speaker 4: was agriculture, forestry and fishing, accommodation and food services, and retail.
- 22:48Speaker 4: Again retail went back point two percent. In that time
- 22:51Speaker 4: we had population growth of six point three percent, and
- 22:56Speaker 4: we've had I can't calculate it year on year because
- 22:59Speaker 4: I'm not that good with percentages, but you know, four percent, sorry,
- 23:02Speaker 4: point four percent, point two percent, point two percent. So
- 23:05Speaker 4: let's say the retail sector has gone back a year
- 23:07Speaker 4: on year, if you work it out, about one percent, right,
- 23:11Speaker 4: but the population has increased. I mean, surely the retail
- 23:14Speaker 4: sector should be concurrently increasing to serve the people who
- 23:18Speaker 4: are moving into the country.
- 23:19Speaker 1: That's not happening. Doors are shutting.
- 23:21Speaker 6: What you're talking about is a sector decline that's not
- 23:24Speaker 6: necessarily all of that sector decline represented by shutting physical shops.
- 23:30Speaker 5: That's people just not shopping in general.
- 23:32Speaker 6: That's not saying that that let's call it one percent
- 23:34Speaker 6: for argument's sake, that's not saying that whole one percent
- 23:36Speaker 6: is represented wholly and solely by physical shopfront shopping, shopping shopping.
- 23:43Speaker 5: So it's a different thing.
- 23:44Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, I take your point.
- 23:46Speaker 4: Amalgamation that my point is an aalgamation of online and
- 23:50Speaker 4: shop frat, but it's also.
- 23:51Speaker 5: A reflection of the general economic.
- 23:54Speaker 1: But every other sector has grown.
- 23:56Speaker 6: Right, But this argument is about, you know, is it
- 23:59Speaker 6: the end of the show upfront as well.
- 24:01Speaker 5: And I don't think that that is the case.
- 24:03Speaker 6: I mean, you were talking about showrooms only, and you know,
- 24:05Speaker 6: apart from that, I don't think that's the logical conclusion
- 24:09Speaker 6: here at all.
- 24:10Speaker 3: How do you reverse the momentum towards purchasing things online,
- 24:15Speaker 3: the convenience, it's cheaper, it saves so much time, Isn't
- 24:19Speaker 3: it inevitable?
- 24:20Speaker 2: Unless if that keeps growing? I don't see any other.
- 24:22Speaker 6: Cop And let's look at Mecca. I mean you said
- 24:25Speaker 6: you stood Outsideling Craft. You ever stood outside Mecca? Have
- 24:27Speaker 6: you ever stood outside of Mecca?
- 24:29Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 24:30Speaker 5: Mecca's fantastic, fantastic.
- 24:32Speaker 1: That's a story for another day, like dabbling, dabbling Mecca.
- 24:38Speaker 6: Mecca's biggest shop front in Australia, I think is in Melbourne,
- 24:41Speaker 6: which is super counterintuitive, right because it's Melbourne economically depressed,
- 24:45Speaker 6: you know, broken state, that sort of thing. But their
- 24:47Speaker 6: biggest flagship bricks and water stories in Melbourne and it
- 24:51Speaker 6: is pumping. I don't have the numbers in front of me,
- 24:52Speaker 6: but they have been a record breaking store that people
- 24:56Speaker 6: physically go to, and they have a strong online store
- 24:59Speaker 6: as well.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Really briefly out of curiosity, have they tailored their store
- 25:04Speaker 3: to sort of make the most of the experience, so
- 25:07Speaker 3: you just don't walk in them checking up. They have
- 25:09Speaker 3: they made the shopping experience something that they're promoting.
- 25:12Speaker 6: I don't know necessarily whether it's promotion of a product,
- 25:15Speaker 6: but the mecha experience is an experience.
- 25:18Speaker 5: But that answers your question.
- 25:19Speaker 6: So what's the decline you go to a store for
- 25:22Speaker 6: an experience? Like I bought something online this week? Why
- 25:25Speaker 6: because I already had one of it, I knew my size,
- 25:27Speaker 6: it was on sale, That's what I bought.
- 25:29Speaker 5: But if I want to try something new or I
- 25:31Speaker 5: want an experience, I'm going to go in. What's a
- 25:33Speaker 5: blocky experience.
- 25:34Speaker 2: I don't know if this store still exists, but I
- 25:37Speaker 2: love a Bunnings.
- 25:37Speaker 5: I love going to Bunnings.
- 25:38Speaker 3: There's a store called Culture Kings and they have a
- 25:41Speaker 3: DJ playing, and you can get a haircut there, and
- 25:44Speaker 3: you could play basketball in the store. And my kids
- 25:47Speaker 3: loved going there to buy shirts. I think more because
- 25:49Speaker 3: they just loved going into the store even more than
- 25:52Speaker 3: the product itself. Maybe that's the way retailers will have
- 25:55Speaker 3: to sort of market themselves to get you off your
- 25:58Speaker 3: computer and out on the road. Atling traffic and going
- 26:01Speaker 3: into the store fun physically.
- 26:03Speaker 6: Bunnings is I won't go into detail, but Saturday night
- 26:08Speaker 6: somebody had to make an emergency trip to Bunnings from
- 26:10Speaker 6: my house at six pm because we couldn't get we
- 26:12Speaker 6: want what we wanted online delivered.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Yep, there you go, There you go.
- 26:16Speaker 1: You want from Bunnings.
- 26:18Speaker 5: I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Let us talk about that one during the ad. Let's
- 26:22Speaker 2: talk about the football.
- 26:23Speaker 3: Australia of course had a famous first round win in
- 26:27Speaker 3: the World Cup. But I'll tell you who wasn't winning,
- 26:30Speaker 3: and that's Australian referee Sean Evans. He's over at the
- 26:33Speaker 3: World Cup as a video assistant referee. Let me show
- 26:37Speaker 3: you what went to air and then we'll zoom in
- 26:40Speaker 3: on what made the news. Here's Australian ref Seawan Evans.
- 26:44Speaker 3: He's the one standing up in this footage in the
- 26:50Speaker 3: var Hub operations there being led by hamza Al.
- 26:55Speaker 4: For each.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Okay, so that's the vision that went to air.
- 26:59Speaker 3: But let me show you a still photograph of what
- 27:02Speaker 3: everybody focused on. Sean Evans was holding his hand in
- 27:07Speaker 3: a particular way that to some represents a white supremacist symbol,
- 27:13Speaker 3: and that photograph went viral, with people arguing about whether
- 27:17Speaker 3: or not he was secretly signaling white supremacists around the world.
- 27:21Speaker 3: It got so ridiculous that poor On Short Evans had
- 27:24Speaker 3: to release a statement via a FIFA. In his statement,
- 27:27Speaker 3: he said, the only explanation I can offer is that
- 27:31Speaker 3: the movement was an involuntary, subconscious.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Twitch, he said.
- 27:37Speaker 3: He went on to explain that I would like to
- 27:39Speaker 3: clarify I didn't intentionally make a hand gesture or symbol
- 27:42Speaker 3: to communicate a message, affiliation, game, or belief of any kind.
- 27:48Speaker 3: Is this not a ridiculous micro analysis where he has
- 27:53Speaker 3: to put out a statement to explain the way he
- 27:55Speaker 3: was holding his hand while doing his job was not
- 27:58Speaker 3: some signal to racists. And then FIFA had to put
- 28:02Speaker 3: out a statement saying we confirm no disciplinary action will
- 28:07Speaker 3: be taken. Instead of being asked to clarify what some
- 28:11Speaker 3: people were confused about, he was presumed to be sending
- 28:15Speaker 3: a racist signal, and then he had to defend himself.
- 28:17Speaker 4: It's just stupid, isn't it. I mean, apparently try and
- 28:22Speaker 4: follow me here. The Okay symbol is allegedly a white
- 28:29Speaker 4: supremacist thing because it means it's okay to be white one.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't do it. I don't know it. You'll
- 28:39Speaker 1: have you next.
- 28:40Speaker 5: Oh yes, I'm so white supremacist.
- 28:42Speaker 4: But allegedly I think that's what it is, because it
- 28:46Speaker 4: means it's okay to be white, apparently, and so if
- 28:49Speaker 4: you do the okay symbol, it means you're a white Like,
- 28:52Speaker 4: how are we even talking about?
- 28:53Speaker 1: How is it real?
- 28:55Speaker 4: A guy has his hand on his leg and his
- 28:58Speaker 4: fingers just happened to be touching, and they go.
- 29:01Speaker 1: Why must be a light supremacist at the World Cup.
- 29:06Speaker 4: I mean, give it a rest, people, but I mean, unfortunately,
- 29:10Speaker 4: you do have to think of this stuff. The other day,
- 29:13Speaker 4: I'm doing a podcast now with news dot com doty
- 29:15Speaker 4: you unseerious.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Look it up here.
- 29:16Speaker 2: It's very good.
- 29:17Speaker 4: By the way, y see, there's a recommendation. You haven't
- 29:19Speaker 4: gone and had a look at it wherever you get
- 29:20Speaker 4: your podcast?
- 29:21Speaker 1: Unseious. But we were talking about something the other.
- 29:24Speaker 4: Day and I said, you know, there's been a meteoric
- 29:29Speaker 4: rise or whatever, right, and so I have demonstrated this
- 29:32Speaker 4: with my hand and in so doing my hand has risen.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Now I'm not going to do the full gesture.
- 29:37Speaker 2: You did that Elon musk Well, correct.
- 29:39Speaker 1: And this was pointed out to me afterwards.
- 29:41Speaker 4: I said, I don't think we'll put that in there
- 29:42Speaker 4: before no, because people might take that screen grab and
- 29:47Speaker 4: suggest that it was some kind of Nazi salute. Now
- 29:51Speaker 4: obviously that is ridiculous, but this is what you've got
- 29:54Speaker 4: to deal with now. But this is what people will do.
- 29:57Speaker 2: But by cutting that from.
- 29:59Speaker 3: Your pod casto is this a podcast?
- 30:02Speaker 1: If you get this video of it online, yeah.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Isn't that just going to perpetuate the fact that that
- 30:06Speaker 3: now these symbols cannot be done for you?
- 30:09Speaker 4: And this is but this is the problem though, is
- 30:11Speaker 4: because you know, I understand people don't want to deal
- 30:13Speaker 4: with the fallout of it because it's just too difficult
- 30:15Speaker 4: in whatever. But like, this is the crap that we're
- 30:17Speaker 4: now having to think about because just normal everyday things
- 30:22Speaker 4: are somehow taken out of context and turning done and
- 30:25Speaker 4: some racist kind of takes.
- 30:26Speaker 3: So, Jim, I'm annoyed that FIFA put out a statement
- 30:29Speaker 3: saying no disciplinary action will be taken. They should have
- 30:31Speaker 3: put out a statement saying this is absolutely ridiculous and
- 30:34Speaker 3: people need to stop being so sad that.
- 30:36Speaker 6: The problem is the management of it as much and
- 30:39Speaker 6: almost the sort of tacit endorsement of it by as
- 30:42Speaker 6: you say, putting.
- 30:43Speaker 5: Out a statement saying, oh, look, we're not going to They.
- 30:46Speaker 6: May as well have said we're not going to discipline
- 30:48Speaker 6: this referee because there was nothing to discipline him for. Everybody,
- 30:51Speaker 6: Log off, go outside, ground, your feet on the ground
- 30:54Speaker 6: for a little bit, have a little toddle around.
- 30:55Speaker 5: But to your point, Caleb, with your podcast, which.
- 30:58Speaker 6: I will get on board, well done, which I will
- 31:00Speaker 6: get on board.
- 31:02Speaker 5: See you're an influencer. Now you should have just done it.
- 31:06Speaker 5: You should have just done it.
- 31:07Speaker 6: And if anyone had arked up the simple responses, don't
- 31:10Speaker 6: be so bloody stupid. Honestly, it's ridiculous that it is ridiculous,
- 31:16Speaker 6: And I think there are circumstances in which one needs
- 31:18Speaker 6: to exercise caution. That would not be one of them,
- 31:21Speaker 6: and it is that it is that unintended validation when
- 31:24Speaker 6: you jump at shadows.
- 31:25Speaker 5: I've done it myself.
- 31:26Speaker 6: It's really easy when you have some kind of public
- 31:30Speaker 6: you know, perceptual public persona and a sort of a
- 31:32Speaker 6: responsibility to conduct.
- 31:34Speaker 5: Yourself in a certain way.
- 31:36Speaker 6: But it's so easy to jump in shadows, and in
- 31:38Speaker 6: so doing, giving these peanuts exactly.
- 31:41Speaker 5: The fuel for their weird conspiracy theories that they are
- 31:44Speaker 5: looking for.
- 31:45Speaker 2: Ye indeed, well, Jim.
- 31:47Speaker 5: Speaking of this is not a weird conspiracy. That was
- 31:50Speaker 5: a terrible segway.
- 31:51Speaker 6: Can I instead talk about I had to ask the
- 31:54Speaker 6: boys earlier.
- 31:54Speaker 5: We're talking about good I can't pronounce it? Can you
- 31:57Speaker 5: pronounce it for me? This wouldn't go.
- 32:00Speaker 6: Oh, that's actually not that hard. But we were talking
- 32:01Speaker 6: about GYG. So I don't eat junk food because my
- 32:03Speaker 6: body is a temple.
- 32:04Speaker 5: They would, they would.
- 32:05Speaker 1: Just mine I desecrated.
- 32:09Speaker 5: I don't have to be convinced of that, actually, Caleb.
- 32:12Speaker 6: But the fact is that I know that you're a
- 32:19Speaker 6: connoisseur of red wine.
- 32:20Speaker 1: That's right.
- 32:20Speaker 6: So it was a very gentle desecration, very stylish deration,
- 32:24Speaker 6: treating it very well, steering back from the abyss if
- 32:27Speaker 6: I may. Next time you're on the road, people craving
- 32:30Speaker 6: a burrito, well, guess what if you've got Apple Play
- 32:33Speaker 6: in your car, you might be able to get one.
- 32:36Speaker 5: You can order one with your car and not with
- 32:39Speaker 5: your phone.
- 32:39Speaker 6: This is because Apple Play have teamed up with GYG.
- 32:43Speaker 6: For this this new capacity to be able to you know,
- 32:47Speaker 6: tap your tap your finger on your screen if you've
- 32:49Speaker 6: got the Apple car play, and just order your burrito.
- 32:52Speaker 6: I personally have never wanted a burrito that badly that
- 32:54Speaker 6: I'd need to order by my car. I wonder if
- 32:56Speaker 6: this is just good marketing rather than anyone actually using it.
- 33:00Speaker 6: It's the first Australian fast food chain to be able
- 33:03Speaker 6: to do this.
- 33:04Speaker 5: I mean, we use our Spotify. We were talking about
- 33:06Speaker 5: that before.
- 33:08Speaker 6: Do we really do Is it just clever marketing or
- 33:10Speaker 6: do we really need burritos as we're going down their one?
- 33:13Speaker 4: Well, let's have a look at how this thing works, right,
- 33:32Speaker 4: So essentially this is some kind of legal loophole so
- 33:36Speaker 4: that you can use a touch screen to order fast
- 33:39Speaker 4: food while you're driving. I mean, people drive badly enough
- 33:43Speaker 4: as it is without having the introduction of being able
- 33:47Speaker 4: to order food on their car radio as they're driving along.
- 33:53Speaker 4: If you did that on your phone and the copper
- 33:55Speaker 4: went past, you'd have I don't know, four or five
- 33:57Speaker 4: hundred dollars fine or whatever it is. But because you
- 34:00Speaker 4: doing it on the car screen, well that's all fine
- 34:03Speaker 4: with me. I think this is ridiculous how is this
- 34:05Speaker 4: possibly legal?
- 34:06Speaker 1: You've got the.
- 34:07Speaker 4: Cars and they bing and they bong, and they go
- 34:09Speaker 4: off one hundred miles an hour, and this thing you're
- 34:12Speaker 4: doing wrong, and that thing you're doing wrong, and if
- 34:14Speaker 4: you look in the wrong direction for a millisecond and go.
- 34:17Speaker 1: Oh, you know, you could be distracted. But oh no,
- 34:20Speaker 1: it's all fine. We'll let people order burritos as they're
- 34:22Speaker 1: driving along. This is just stupid.
- 34:24Speaker 3: It's a strange anomally, isn't it. You can't touch your phone,
- 34:27Speaker 3: but you can touch the screen. I suppose the difference
- 34:30Speaker 3: is the screen is part of the vehicle itself. It's
- 34:33Speaker 3: also probably much harder the police people touching the screen
- 34:36Speaker 3: than touching their actual physical phone, which is we have.
- 34:39Speaker 1: To charge people with death by ordering a burrito.
- 34:43Speaker 6: The screen's pretty I think the screen is pretty distracting,
- 34:45Speaker 6: I have to say, I think. I mean, I got
- 34:48Speaker 6: caught very early on when I was still living in
- 34:50Speaker 6: Way touching my phone four hundred and fifty dollar five.
- 34:54Speaker 6: Never did again, literally phone in the handbag in the backseat.
- 34:56Speaker 6: Best way to manage it. But I do feel like
- 34:59Speaker 6: sometimes the screen equally is problematic.
- 35:01Speaker 3: That they argue that because of where the screen is placed,
- 35:04Speaker 3: it's less of a movement of your eyes. You're still
- 35:07Speaker 3: taking your eyes off the road, but less than if
- 35:08Speaker 3: you're looking down like this at your phone. They also
- 35:11Speaker 3: argue that because the screen is larger, the icons are larger,
- 35:14Speaker 3: so you can be quicker in touching the screen rather
- 35:18Speaker 3: than trying to find something on your phone, so you do
- 35:21Speaker 3: not need a burrito.
- 35:22Speaker 4: Very quickly before we get to a break. You wouldn't
- 35:24Speaker 4: believe what the New South Wales Teachers Federation is trying
- 35:28Speaker 4: to get down the throats of your children. They're putting
- 35:30Speaker 4: out these gender and sexuality teaching materials. This is for
- 35:34Speaker 4: kids as young as in year seven, so like eleven
- 35:36Speaker 4: and twelve years old, and they're promoting these things with
- 35:40Speaker 4: the activities they can do, which includes stuff such as
- 35:45Speaker 4: Past the Pronouns, which is a role play where you
- 35:48Speaker 4: talk about kids who have different pronouns, and also a
- 35:53Speaker 4: thing called alphabit soup now alphabet soup. According to the
- 35:57Speaker 4: material they're putting around, all of this activity is to
- 36:01Speaker 4: familiarize students with the diverse expressions and terminology related to
- 36:05Speaker 4: gender and sexuality so that they can better understand and
- 36:08Speaker 4: accept it within themselves and their communities. This activity encourages
- 36:12Speaker 4: students to think about the different way these terms worked.
- 36:16Speaker 4: It also invites them to consider that identity is often
- 36:20Speaker 4: non linear and not easily categorized by which it means
- 36:25Speaker 4: the kids are being told that gender fluidity is quite normal.
- 36:30Speaker 4: And it also says that most commonly labeled as male
- 36:32Speaker 4: or female, this is biological sex. But this doesn't capture
- 36:36Speaker 4: everyone and there is a range of variations in sex.
- 36:39Speaker 4: This is what the New South Wales Teachers Federation wants
- 36:42Speaker 4: to be taught to middle school students.
- 36:45Speaker 3: And we wonder why homeschooling is gaining in popularity.
- 36:48Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break. When we come back,
- 36:49Speaker 2: look at the papers.
- 36:51Speaker 3: One Nation have found a new role for Barnaby Joyce
- 36:54Speaker 3: as they attempt to take on the government.
- 36:56Speaker 2: We'll talk about that after this.
- 37:04Speaker 3: Well, Pauline Hanson is dominating the news, and she dominates
- 37:07Speaker 3: the front page of Tomorrow's Australian Gemma.
- 37:10Speaker 5: She certainly does James.
- 37:11Speaker 6: The strategy of the rebellion is the header there and
- 37:15Speaker 6: this story a good one.
- 37:17Speaker 5: From Greg Brown and Sarah Eisen.
- 37:21Speaker 6: One Nation star recruit Barnaby Joyce is set to take
- 37:24Speaker 6: on Jim Chalmers as the Populist Party's treasury spokesman. I'm
- 37:28Speaker 6: here for that, by the way, and a bit too
- 37:30Speaker 6: sharpen his economic agenda labeled vague and expensive as Anthony
- 37:34Speaker 6: Albanizi goes on a cost of living blitz to starve
- 37:37Speaker 6: Pauline Hanson's political ascendancy amid a historic poll surge putting
- 37:42Speaker 6: her party ahead of Labor. Senator Hanson will on Wednesday
- 37:45Speaker 6: make her inaugirl addressed to the National Press Club and
- 37:49Speaker 6: present an alternative vision for the country, after saying she
- 37:52Speaker 6: has the ability to lead Australia as Prime minister. Independent
- 37:56Speaker 6: economists are ramping up critiques of One Nation's agenda, declaring
- 38:00Speaker 6: its policies will not help the fight against inflation.
- 38:04Speaker 5: Towards the wealthy.
- 38:04Speaker 6: They are also demanding Senator Hanson officially cost her policies.
- 38:09Speaker 6: I mean, costing policies is something neither of the parties
- 38:12Speaker 6: have ever done really and completely or accurately.
- 38:17Speaker 5: You know, in an election campaign.
- 38:18Speaker 6: It's always a little bit robbery figures and there's always conjecture.
- 38:21Speaker 6: But the truth of the matter is, guys that if
- 38:24Speaker 6: one nation wants to continue this ascendancy, this trajectory they're
- 38:29Speaker 6: going to have to come up with detail, and pretty
- 38:31Speaker 6: tight detail.
- 38:32Speaker 3: And that's the weakness they've got, right, especially on costings.
- 38:35Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Paul En Hanson famously.
- 38:38Speaker 3: A week or so again a week or so ago,
- 38:40Speaker 3: said that she'd been able to get costings because they
- 38:43Speaker 3: hadn't officially been recognized as a party. Now it turns
- 38:47Speaker 3: out that may not have been the actual case. But nevertheless,
- 38:51Speaker 3: their weaknesses. Can they pay for these costings? Can they
- 38:54Speaker 3: explain how they're going to be their policies rather, how
- 38:56Speaker 3: they're going to explain those policies and how they'll be costed.
- 39:01Speaker 3: So I mean, at the moment it's Barnaby Joyce or
- 39:04Speaker 3: it's no one. He was on the Expenditure Review Committee
- 39:07Speaker 3: for the Morrison government. He's an accountant, he's been Deputy
- 39:11Speaker 3: Prime minister, he's the guy to do it.
- 39:14Speaker 2: So good move, I say.
- 39:15Speaker 4: Can I be so bold as to suggest that people
- 39:18Speaker 4: don't particularly care whether the costings stack up at the moment,
- 39:23Speaker 4: because going back to the point you made earlier, they're
- 39:25Speaker 4: so peeved at the way things are now they'll give
- 39:28Speaker 4: anything a shot. You know, when, as I say in
- 39:30Speaker 4: the Sky News, you pulse poll it says that fifty
- 39:33Speaker 4: percent of people think.
- 39:34Speaker 1: One nation is ready to govern.
- 39:36Speaker 4: That's them saying, you know what, even if one nation
- 39:40Speaker 4: is a bit rough and ready compared to a labor
- 39:43Speaker 4: or a liberal party which has been around for decades
- 39:46Speaker 4: and decades and has big machines and whatever behind it,
- 39:50Speaker 4: people know that one nation is a small party as
- 39:53Speaker 4: it stands, and that it doesn't have the same resources,
- 39:55Speaker 4: and that it's starting from a position that's way back
- 39:58Speaker 4: compared to a labor or a liberal part and they're fine
- 40:01Speaker 4: with that because they don't like what the labor and
- 40:03Speaker 4: liberal parties or the coalition have been doing. So they're
- 40:06Speaker 4: willing to accept the foibles some one nation to see
- 40:10Speaker 4: how it goes.
- 40:11Speaker 1: So I don't think it really matters. I don't think
- 40:13Speaker 1: it hurts them at all.
- 40:14Speaker 3: How do you think, sorry, go on, how do you
- 40:15Speaker 3: think Barnaby Joyce stacks up against Jim Charmers one.
- 40:18Speaker 5: Hundred percent out of the straight out of the jump ahead?
- 40:22Speaker 6: But Barnaby Joyce, with you lik him or not, is
- 40:24Speaker 6: one of the best retail politicians in a very very
- 40:27Speaker 6: long time by the length of the strait. To use
- 40:30Speaker 6: a nice racing analogy for you there, Caleb Jim Chalmers
- 40:34Speaker 6: is unlikable.
- 40:35Speaker 5: He's unwarm. He's unwarm, He's unlikable, he's cold, he is
- 40:40Speaker 5: I don't.
- 40:40Speaker 6: Know if you guys saw the interview sixty minutes interview
- 40:43Speaker 6: on the weekend, it was dreadful and as my good
- 40:45Speaker 6: friend Parnell mcginna says, you know it's been a really
- 40:47Speaker 6: bad hit out when you have to release your own
- 40:49Speaker 6: cut of the interview which he's been putting out on
- 40:51Speaker 6: social media. Jim Charmers against Barnaby Joyce, Barnaby Joyce any
- 40:55Speaker 6: day of the week and thrice on Sundays, and I
- 40:58Speaker 6: just wanted to say, Thrice, be careful.
- 41:00Speaker 1: Will we get your news from you?
- 41:01Speaker 3: And of course Paul and Hansen speaking at the National
- 41:03Speaker 3: Press Club tomorrow will no doubt be talking about that
- 41:06Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Rate escape as economy to hit skids, reads
- 41:10Speaker 3: the front page of the Adelaide Advertiser. Australians will suffer
- 41:14Speaker 3: through an economic slow down and rising unemployment over the
- 41:17Speaker 3: next few months as the Reserve Bank moves to contain
- 41:20Speaker 3: high inflation. The Central Bank held the cash rates steady
- 41:24Speaker 3: at four point three five percent on Tuesday, its highest
- 41:29Speaker 3: level in years, and stated it was deliberately pushing for
- 41:31Speaker 3: a slow down to reduce price pressures and reduce inflation
- 41:35Speaker 3: from four point two percent. The Reserve Bank also noted
- 41:38Speaker 3: that they have not ruled out a a rate rise
- 41:42Speaker 3: when they meet again next time, so rates on hold,
- 41:47Speaker 3: but with a warning that may not remain the case.
- 41:50Speaker 4: And interestingly, economists are quite divided on whether or not
- 41:54Speaker 4: there will be another rate rise. Westpac and I think
- 41:59Speaker 4: it was, and HSBC last week said they don't think
- 42:03Speaker 4: there would be. The NAB said they think there would be.
- 42:06Speaker 1: I speak to Shane Oliver on Friday from AMP.
- 42:09Speaker 4: He thinks there will be. I mean, you know, things
- 42:11Speaker 4: are bad enough as it is. We know inflation is
- 42:14Speaker 4: a problem, but government spending is a problem.
- 42:18Speaker 1: But we have to copy it through these rap rises.
- 42:21Speaker 4: On the front of the Herald Sun tomorrow, interesting story
- 42:24Speaker 4: was with the Desi Freeman case. Exclusive Police investigating cop
- 42:27Speaker 4: burderer target property linked to ex player and parent of
- 42:31Speaker 4: Premiership Duo AFL star in Desi raid. Police investigating the
- 42:36Speaker 4: movements of cop killer Desi Freeman have raided a property
- 42:39Speaker 4: linked to the former Carlton star Bruce Red, father of
- 42:43Speaker 4: Aohl AFL. I should say Premiership duo Ben and Sam. Now,
- 42:47Speaker 4: of course that infers no guilt upon mister Reid, but
- 42:51Speaker 4: an interesting development in this case because, of course, what
- 42:54Speaker 4: the police are now trying to ascertain is how it
- 42:57Speaker 4: was possible that Desi Freeman was able to survive for
- 43:01Speaker 4: so long and move undetected through the community up until
- 43:04Speaker 4: the point where the police originally or sorry eventually found him.
- 43:08Speaker 1: That's what they are trying to work out.
- 43:10Speaker 4: And similarly they're leaving no stone unturned in trying to
- 43:13Speaker 4: find out how he managed to do it.
- 43:15Speaker 3: And carlt im pliers are normally associated with coach killers,
- 43:17Speaker 3: not cop kills, so little AFL joke.
- 43:22Speaker 6: Therefore you see spice with spicy front page of the
- 43:27Speaker 6: mercury water going down the drain.
- 43:29Speaker 5: This is a really curious story.
- 43:31Speaker 6: Taswater continues to lose about a fifth of the state's
- 43:35Speaker 6: drinking water every year, and it's being urged to improve
- 43:38Speaker 6: dam safety and limit environmental risks associated with its sewage
- 43:42Speaker 6: treatment plants. No one wants to hear drinking water and
- 43:44Speaker 6: sewage treatment in the same paragraph, but here we are.
- 43:47Speaker 6: In its twenty twenty four to twenty five report on
- 43:49Speaker 6: the State of the Tasmanian water and sewage industry. The
- 43:52Speaker 6: Tasmanian Economic Regulator found that while water loss performance improved
- 43:57Speaker 6: compared with the previous year, twenty one point five four
- 44:00Speaker 6: percent of drinking water was still unaccounted for.
- 44:04Speaker 5: How do you lose drinking water? Anyone? Anyone so weird?
- 44:09Speaker 1: I got no idea.
- 44:10Speaker 3: Twenty one percent of the orange juice in our house
- 44:12Speaker 3: is unaccounted. I don't know where the water in Tasmania goes.
- 44:16Speaker 3: Is it evaporating?
- 44:17Speaker 2: There's not that much some in Tasmania.
- 44:19Speaker 5: No, exactly. And it's the it's the let's call it
- 44:23Speaker 5: the axis.
- 44:23Speaker 6: Of evil between the sewerage facility and the drinking water
- 44:26Speaker 6: that it makes me deeply uncomfortable about this story.
- 44:29Speaker 2: All right, quickly before we go to a break.
- 44:31Speaker 3: The Townshire Bulletin has It's a story it's far too
- 44:35Speaker 3: typical to be honest. In North Queensland, ten arrested over
- 44:38Speaker 3: baby taken in car. Police have arrested ten people, including
- 44:43Speaker 3: adults and children. I believe it was two adults eight
- 44:46Speaker 3: children on a stolen vehicle investigation that involved a baby
- 44:50Speaker 3: being taken from a property. Authorities confirmed a black Iszusu
- 44:55Speaker 3: was parked in a garbet street driveway with a mother nearby.
- 44:58Speaker 3: When the alleged defenders entered the vehicle drove off with
- 45:01Speaker 3: the baby still in the car seat. The offenders have
- 45:03Speaker 3: placed the baby in the car seat on the footpath
- 45:06Speaker 3: before fleeing again. A police spokesman said, so, thank god
- 45:10Speaker 3: the child was okay. But these people who have been arrested,
- 45:16Speaker 3: if found guilty, should absolutely receive This is worse than
- 45:20Speaker 3: to stealing a car. If you steal a car and
- 45:22Speaker 3: there is a child in the back seat, I'm not
- 45:24Speaker 3: sure if there's a special category of crime that that
- 45:27Speaker 3: falls under.
- 45:28Speaker 2: If there's not, there certainly should be. When you go
- 45:31Speaker 2: to a break.
- 45:31Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll show you why sports stars
- 45:35Speaker 3: probably shouldn't be interviewed immediately after winning major championships. Well,
- 45:44Speaker 3: many of you would be familiar that the UK Caleb
- 45:46Speaker 3: has followed Australia's lead when it comes to the social
- 45:49Speaker 3: media band.
- 45:50Speaker 4: No, indeed, I mean so Keyo stammer as though he
- 45:52Speaker 4: wasn't in enough trouble already thought I know what I'll do.
- 45:55Speaker 4: I'll be more like Anthony Alban Easy.
- 45:57Speaker 1: That'll really helped me out.
- 46:00Speaker 4: Introducing this social media band. Of course, for teenagers if
- 46:03Speaker 4: you're under sixteen, you're in a spot of bother. So
- 46:06Speaker 4: the BBC decided to go and ask some school children
- 46:09Speaker 4: what they were going to do now that they would
- 46:12Speaker 4: not have access to their social media and one girl
- 46:15Speaker 4: said this.
- 46:17Speaker 5: Earlier we looked at screen time. What was your screen
- 46:19Speaker 5: time over the weekend?
- 46:20Speaker 1: Nine hours?
- 46:21Speaker 5: Nine hours? So suddenly you're going to have a lot
- 46:24Speaker 5: more time to fill and what will you do?
- 46:27Speaker 1: Stare at a wall.
- 46:31Speaker 4: This is a good is that the quick wit of
- 46:34Speaker 4: that girl to stare at a wall?
- 46:38Speaker 1: I think that's hilarious, isn't it? But you know that
- 46:41Speaker 1: is that is such brittish humor in the face of
- 46:44Speaker 1: you know what.
- 46:45Speaker 4: For a lot of kids, they'd probably be a somewhat
- 46:48Speaker 4: distressing moment to be told they're having their Facebook and
- 46:51Speaker 4: Instagram and taken away stare at a wall.
- 46:54Speaker 2: I'm just glad that's not my daughter. How would you
- 46:56Speaker 2: discipline a kid like that?
- 46:57Speaker 5: You'd like to be.
- 46:59Speaker 2: Angry and pressed all at the same time.
- 47:01Speaker 1: It's just it's so dry, It's just it's so good.
- 47:05Speaker 2: She delivered that line beautiful.
- 47:07Speaker 4: Yes, I know if she doesn't have a future in
- 47:09Speaker 4: stand up comedy, you know, I think she's found here.
- 47:12Speaker 1: I think she's found it. Bulling now, I hope she
- 47:14Speaker 1: does something with it.
- 47:16Speaker 4: She is.
- 47:17Speaker 6: Well, this is my worst nightmare. I have to say
- 47:19Speaker 6: this story I'm about to share, but spoiler alert, there
- 47:21Speaker 6: is a happy ending. An elderly citizen of black Butt,
- 47:25Speaker 6: which I've just discovered is in Queensland, was caught in
- 47:29Speaker 6: a fire.
- 47:29Speaker 5: The house was burning.
- 47:31Speaker 6: Down and a beautiful pet dog was caught inside. Thanks
- 47:35Speaker 6: to the actions of a wonderful police officer.
- 47:38Speaker 5: We do have a happy ending. Let's take a quick look.
- 47:40Speaker 1: Yeah, four fifty and the fire is come and life inside.
- 47:57Speaker 6: Now, I have to say, having experienced let's call it
- 47:59Speaker 6: the the less caring end of a Chihuahua that belongs
- 48:03Speaker 6: to my cousin's daughter. That's the only way to deal
- 48:06Speaker 6: with the chihuahua. That dog was obviously very frightened. Candace
- 48:09Speaker 6: was the Chiuhaha's name. Gentlemen, I think that's a very
- 48:11Speaker 6: apt name. Constable Tranmore is.
- 48:14Speaker 5: The hero of that particular story.
- 48:16Speaker 6: And as a former dog owner, those who were playing
- 48:18Speaker 6: along at home you would remember.
- 48:20Speaker 5: The people's dog, rip Buster.
- 48:22Speaker 6: The idea of something might happen to he would have
- 48:24Speaker 6: been absolutely devastating, so God bless the boys and girls
- 48:27Speaker 6: in blue.
- 48:27Speaker 4: Well, the Glad was lucky because going into a fire,
- 48:29Speaker 4: he could have ended up with a black butt.
- 48:32Speaker 2: Glad the Dog's ok.
- 48:34Speaker 5: One hundred, Caleb, That is such a dad joke.
- 48:36Speaker 1: All right.
- 48:36Speaker 3: The New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in
- 48:39Speaker 3: fifty three years.
- 48:40Speaker 2: They celebrated pretty hard. In fact, they celebrated so hard
- 48:44Speaker 2: it was a big mistake to go on Good Morning
- 48:46Speaker 2: America the next day.
- 48:48Speaker 1: Talk about the difference coach Brown Mead and how he
- 48:51Speaker 1: brought you all together.
- 49:03Speaker 3: He's been a great Clearly it had been a big
- 49:06Speaker 3: night the night before, and the response said everything you
- 49:10Speaker 3: need to know about their celebrations.
- 49:12Speaker 4: Go ah, well, do you know, give it a rest,
- 49:14Speaker 4: and then they have the right to celebrate after a
- 49:16Speaker 4: big win like that, don't they.
- 49:18Speaker 1: It's cruel to make him rock up the next morning.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, that's all we've got time for tonight.
- 49:22Speaker 3: We'll see you tomorrow. Stick around. Coming up is the
- 49:24Speaker 3: reader Pennehy show.
- 49:25Speaker 2: Good Night