Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 18 November
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Late Welcome to the Late Debate.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the Late Debate. James Macpherson
- 0:09Speaker 2: with Caleb Bond and filling in for Frei Leitch. It's
- 0:11Speaker 2: the wonderful Danika de Giorgio coming up tonight. Bob Katter
- 0:15Speaker 2: being investigated by police after waving a knife around as
- 0:19Speaker 2: a prop during a political campaign. Queensland's finance minister was
- 0:24Speaker 2: charged with enforcing responsible spending by MPs.
- 0:28Speaker 3: So why she build.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Taxpayers for milk, medicine and heat packs while on an
- 0:33Speaker 2: overseas trip. Plus, a tech company causes outrage after offering
- 0:37Speaker 2: people a chance to interact with dead relatives using AI.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Now we'll get to all.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Of that shortly, but we have to start with news
- 0:47Speaker 2: of an extraordinary action set to take place in New
- 0:50Speaker 2: York tomorrow. What's going under the hammer, you ask, Well,
- 0:54Speaker 2: a toilet bowl, But not just any toilet bowl. This
- 0:57Speaker 2: is a fully functional throne sculpted from solid gold by
- 1:01Speaker 2: Italian artist Marizzio Catlan. It's the kind of lou that
- 1:05Speaker 2: doesn't just flush at flauntce weighing it at one hundred
- 1:09Speaker 2: and one kilograms of eighteen carrot bling, It's valued at
- 1:13Speaker 2: ten million dollars US and Sotheby's reckon it might fetch
- 1:17Speaker 2: even more than that, proof that some people really do
- 1:20Speaker 2: piss their money away. But who's going to buy a
- 1:22Speaker 2: solid gold toilet. I don't want to be a party
- 1:26Speaker 2: pooper here, Caleb and Dnika.
- 1:28Speaker 3: But how wise, if it's passed in it.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Started, I wonder if you when you lift up the lid,
- 1:35Speaker 4: do you find a golden nugget inside? Oh, good evening, John,
- 1:39Speaker 4: who is joining us from their bathrooms and and other
- 1:42Speaker 4: places this evening?
- 1:44Speaker 1: I love this and as a piece of art, I
- 1:46Speaker 1: love it.
- 1:47Speaker 4: And because Marizio Catalan's point in doing this, and he
- 1:51Speaker 4: was the same bloke who did that banana yes, take
- 1:54Speaker 4: to the wall last year that sold from senior amount
- 1:56Speaker 4: of money. Then the bloke who bought it ate it
- 1:58Speaker 4: soon after he bought it. But the whole point of
- 2:01Speaker 4: this piece is to demonstrate how absurd a lot of
- 2:05Speaker 4: the art world is, and how absurd our bounds of.
- 2:09Speaker 1: What we call art actually is.
- 2:12Speaker 4: He has said at one point, whatever you eat a
- 2:14Speaker 4: two hundred dollars lunch or a two dollar hot dog,
- 2:17Speaker 4: the results are the same toilet wise.
- 2:20Speaker 1: And I think the point is great. He's also called it.
- 2:23Speaker 4: One percent art for the ninety nine percent it is obscene,
- 2:28Speaker 4: but it is obviously obscene and deliberately obscene to make
- 2:32Speaker 4: a point about just how ridiculous a lot of art
- 2:36Speaker 4: is these days.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I mean, if you can.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Make a crap out of solid gold and sell it
- 2:41Speaker 4: for ten million dollars and people think it's a lovely
- 2:44Speaker 4: art piece, you know. I mean, he makes money out
- 2:47Speaker 4: of doing it, but he's making a social point about
- 2:50Speaker 4: how crazy all of this stuff is, and for that
- 2:54Speaker 4: I love it.
- 2:54Speaker 5: Well, this guy is a comedian after all.
- 2:56Speaker 6: I mean, we're not talking about a genuine artist by
- 2:59Speaker 6: no means.
- 3:00Speaker 5: But look, I do agree with your point there.
- 3:02Speaker 6: One of the funniest things I found about this was
- 3:05Speaker 6: some of these says that it believes it may be
- 3:07Speaker 6: the only surviving edition of the work. One was stolen
- 3:11Speaker 6: and never recovered. Who's going around stealing these things?
- 3:14Speaker 5: And how do you actually steal the gold? You steal
- 3:19Speaker 5: that though?
- 3:19Speaker 6: Because I think, I mean, correct me if I'm no
- 3:22Speaker 6: expert in the weight of gold, but I would expect
- 3:25Speaker 6: that it would be quite heavy.
- 3:26Speaker 5: So how does one do that? I don't know.
- 3:29Speaker 3: A couple of guys, a couple of guys.
- 3:32Speaker 2: This particular toilet was on display at a gallery in
- 3:35Speaker 2: New York and it was fully plummed in installed, and
- 3:39Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people lined up for a chance to
- 3:41Speaker 2: sit on it and use it as a functioning toilet.
- 3:45Speaker 6: You were plounful as a possible loan to the Trump
- 3:48Speaker 6: White House. I mean, now the millionaires finally have a
- 3:53Speaker 6: place to dump their assets.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Did you see members of ABBA?
- 3:57Speaker 2: Members of ABBA went and saw it and they said, wow,
- 3:59Speaker 2: what a loo ah.
- 4:00Speaker 4: Well, actually I'm mad.
- 4:03Speaker 1: This is not my joke.
- 4:05Speaker 4: It did come from one of our bosses. But it's
- 4:07Speaker 4: so good that I have to retell it. The rumor
- 4:09Speaker 4: is that the Pope is going to buy it so
- 4:11Speaker 4: he can put it in the Cistern Chapel. But it's
- 4:14Speaker 4: a bit like have you been to Mona in her art?
- 4:19Speaker 4: I really enjoyed Mona because there's some weird and wacky
- 4:21Speaker 4: stuff in Mona, but there's also some magnificent art, which
- 4:25Speaker 4: Olsen's and streets and whatever in Mona. This these Egyptian artifacts,
- 4:29Speaker 4: all sorts of stuff. And the bloke who started at
- 4:32Speaker 4: David Walsh, who I'm sure many of you are aware of,
- 4:34Speaker 4: he made his money and still makes his money out
- 4:36Speaker 4: of gambling because he worked out how to beat the
- 4:38Speaker 4: house and that's how he's made his fortunes and spend
- 4:41Speaker 4: it all building. Mona unashamedly says, I know nothing about art,
- 4:46Speaker 4: and that's why I thought I was the best person
- 4:48Speaker 4: to start an art gallery, because all these other wanky
- 4:51Speaker 4: people think they know absolutely everything.
- 4:54Speaker 1: So why can't I, as someone who knows nothing, give
- 4:56Speaker 1: it a go?
- 4:57Speaker 4: And I think that's what I like about this piece
- 4:59Speaker 4: is at some on giving the middle linger to art
- 5:03Speaker 4: and say, actually a lot of it is just garbage
- 5:06Speaker 4: and it's only got any value because someone out there
- 5:10Speaker 4: decides it has that.
- 5:11Speaker 2: Well, the other thing is, if you want to know
- 5:13Speaker 2: about the society in which we live, don't listen to politicians.
- 5:15Speaker 2: Listen to artists, no, because artists are supposed to say
- 5:18Speaker 2: something about the culture.
- 5:20Speaker 3: And I kind of like it.
- 5:21Speaker 2: A solid gold toilet, which is really just a very
- 5:24Speaker 2: expensive container for crap, is pretty symptomatic of the society
- 5:28Speaker 2: in which we live.
- 5:30Speaker 6: Right, I mean, you can go the road tonight if
- 5:31Speaker 6: we're already starting robe, it's going on.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Wait for my point.
- 5:35Speaker 2: You can have gold plated everything, and isn't that materialism. Right,
- 5:38Speaker 2: you can have opulence everywhere, but if it's empty, if
- 5:42Speaker 2: there's nothing of value in it, then what's it for?
- 5:45Speaker 2: And I think he makes a great point about the
- 5:48Speaker 2: Western culture that we're living in at the moment, where
- 5:50Speaker 2: we've got the best of everything but lacking meaning and purpose.
- 5:53Speaker 6: Quite sentimental of you, James mcperson tonight. But no, look,
- 5:57Speaker 6: I do a great I think this was done obviously
- 5:59Speaker 6: as a tongue in This is not meant to be
- 6:01Speaker 6: a serious piece of art.
- 6:02Speaker 5: But hey, ten million dollars is done quite well.
- 6:05Speaker 4: Look I may will be sitting on it tomorrow night.
- 6:07Speaker 4: We shall see if I can rummage up for funds
- 6:09Speaker 4: this evening. But I go home and have a look
- 6:12Speaker 4: at my bank account.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Speaking of artist Bob.
- 6:15Speaker 4: Catter, he is basically a modern political artist, isn't he?
- 6:19Speaker 4: But Bob Catter he's been a bit of a naughty boy.
- 6:23Speaker 7: Oh, Mike, don't say that, because that aerotates me and
- 6:27Speaker 7: I punch blokes in the mouth for saying that.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Don't you dare say that?
- 6:32Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I'm sorry, mister Catta. I'm sorry, mister I
- 6:35Speaker 4: didn't mean to offend you. It's not coming from me
- 6:38Speaker 4: it's coming from the Queensland Police Services. It's not called
- 6:41Speaker 4: the police force up there, it's the Queensland Police Service.
- 6:44Speaker 4: They are looking into Bob Catter because he put up
- 6:47Speaker 4: a video on social media in which he uses a
- 6:52Speaker 4: knife and the police believe it may well be a
- 6:55Speaker 4: flick knife, which is banned in Queensland.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Take a look.
- 6:58Speaker 8: Castle law has been the law until recently, and we
- 7:05Speaker 8: the KP will ensure that it'll be there again.
- 7:11Speaker 9: Well, not a savage people will not entertain the thought
- 7:17Speaker 9: of murdering people who break into our house. But I
- 7:21Speaker 9: have the right to defend my house with whatever I
- 7:26Speaker 9: dim a suitable way to defend my house.
- 7:30Speaker 4: And not only has he punch blokes in the mouth,
- 7:34Speaker 4: he's threatened to stab them too. Yes, what he's talking
- 7:36Speaker 4: about Castle law is the idea that if someone breaks
- 7:39Speaker 4: into your house, you should be able to use whatever
- 7:42Speaker 4: means necessary to defend yourself, all the way up to
- 7:46Speaker 4: lethal force.
- 7:47Speaker 1: At the moment.
- 7:48Speaker 4: If someone breaks into your house and you kill them,
- 7:51Speaker 4: well you're probably going to end up on either a
- 7:53Speaker 4: most likely a manslaughter charge, probably not murder because it's
- 7:56Speaker 4: not premeditated. But you can get in serious trouble go
- 7:59Speaker 4: to jail for killing someone who trespasses on your property
- 8:03Speaker 4: and threatens you. And you're saying, well, you should be
- 8:05Speaker 4: able to have the right, which I don't disagree with necessarily.
- 8:09Speaker 4: But the issue is this knife. So the police in
- 8:13Speaker 4: Queensland have confirmed that they are aware of the video
- 8:16Speaker 4: and they are investigating mister Kata as to whether the
- 8:19Speaker 4: knife he used in that video was illegal or not. Now,
- 8:23Speaker 4: flick knives are illegal in every state in Australia. In Queensland,
- 8:28Speaker 4: if you have a flick knife, you can be fine
- 8:30Speaker 4: fourteen one hundred and nine dollars and get two years
- 8:34Speaker 4: in jail.
- 8:34Speaker 1: So you can imagine mister Catta would have a lot
- 8:36Speaker 1: of fun if he ended up over there.
- 8:38Speaker 4: He claims it was actually a double movement knife, which
- 8:42Speaker 4: under certain rules is allowed, and he says that the
- 8:46Speaker 4: knife was purchased in Queensland, so he is of the
- 8:49Speaker 4: belief that it is a legal knife. But nevertheless, the
- 8:52Speaker 4: police are looking into social media videos made by Bob Katter.
- 8:56Speaker 6: I mean, this is absolutely ridiculous, isn't it, Because when
- 8:59Speaker 6: you think about Ituzland actually has a genuine crime problem
- 9:02Speaker 6: at the moment, albeit it has come down since the
- 9:05Speaker 6: adult crime, adult time laws came in, but there is
- 9:08Speaker 6: a genuine crime problem up there, and they've got to
- 9:10Speaker 6: look at whether what kind of a knife Bob Catter
- 9:13Speaker 6: was using.
- 9:13Speaker 5: Firstly, I will say this, it.
- 9:15Speaker 6: Was very vigorous the way he is that knife in
- 9:18Speaker 6: that video. But I was actually looking more into the
- 9:22Speaker 6: laws up in Queensland.
- 9:23Speaker 5: Now they say it states that a person.
- 9:26Speaker 6: May only use force that is reasonably necessary.
- 9:30Speaker 5: Now, I think that this is where it presents.
- 9:31Speaker 6: A problem because what would you classify as reasonably necessary.
- 9:35Speaker 6: Now I'm not genuinely saying go and kill an intruder, obviously,
- 9:40Speaker 6: but you know, you tell me, if you are a
- 9:43Speaker 6: father and you've got two young kids sleeping, your wife
- 9:46Speaker 6: is sleeping, and the intruder breaks into your property and
- 9:51Speaker 6: there is a knife there, wouldn't I just feel like
- 9:54Speaker 6: any father would absolutely leap to the defense of their
- 9:57Speaker 6: family and they would use any four necessary in order
- 10:01Speaker 6: to protect them.
- 10:02Speaker 5: But that's where this law gets a little bit shifty,
- 10:06Speaker 5: because you don't know.
- 10:06Speaker 6: So I actually think that Bob Catter is raising a
- 10:10Speaker 6: very very valid point here.
- 10:12Speaker 5: He put out a petition.
- 10:13Speaker 6: It closed last month with more than one hundred and
- 10:16Speaker 6: twenty two thousand signatures.
- 10:17Speaker 5: This is for the Castle law.
- 10:19Speaker 6: This is the highest number ever for a public e
- 10:22Speaker 6: petition and in Far North Queensland it's actually officially the
- 10:26Speaker 6: state's youth crime capital, so there's no doubt that there
- 10:29Speaker 6: is a problem up there.
- 10:31Speaker 5: I just think that what would you do if you
- 10:34Speaker 5: were presented in that sort of a scenario.
- 10:36Speaker 2: The problem you raise of proportionality in terms of defending yourself,
- 10:40Speaker 2: and proportionality is a great thing to talk about after
- 10:43Speaker 2: the event, but in the heat of the moment, you're
- 10:45Speaker 2: not thinking about proportionality. You're thinking about perceived threat, which
- 10:49Speaker 2: after the event could be very different to reality. But
- 10:52Speaker 2: you act on what you perceive to be the threat.
- 10:54Speaker 2: I think, if someone comes into your home, all bets
- 10:56Speaker 2: are off.
- 10:57Speaker 3: You're in my home.
- 10:58Speaker 2: If I've got my wife, my kids, I'm doing whatever
- 11:00Speaker 2: it takes to defend them from the perceived threat. I'm
- 11:03Speaker 2: not worrying about proportionality. What interests me about this is
- 11:07Speaker 2: who was the person who saw Bob Catter's campaign video
- 11:11Speaker 2: and thought I'm going to report him to police?
- 11:14Speaker 3: I mean, what a more on to do that.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Surely you'd have bigger things to worry about than reporting
- 11:19Speaker 2: Bob Catter to police as some kind of public danger.
- 11:23Speaker 2: I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous and it's pretty so I
- 11:26Speaker 2: guess police have to follow it up now. But you
- 11:29Speaker 2: point out the irony that he's there trying to make
- 11:32Speaker 2: a point that people need protection from criminals, and in
- 11:37Speaker 2: doing so he's now being investigated for a criminal offense,
- 11:40Speaker 2: potentially by some wowser who clearly hates Bob Catter and
- 11:45Speaker 2: decided to use this as an opportunity to go him.
- 11:47Speaker 5: Well, it's obviously political.
- 11:49Speaker 6: I mean, you know, police have come out and saying
- 11:51Speaker 6: a statement that they're looking into it, but at this
- 11:52Speaker 6: stage nothing's happened and I don't think anything will probably
- 11:56Speaker 6: come of this. As he said, it's probably some fool
- 11:58Speaker 6: just sitting there Karen on the computer, bought out of
- 12:01Speaker 6: their brains, decides to make a complaint.
- 12:03Speaker 2: The thing that made me laugh Aneaka was Robbie Catder,
- 12:05Speaker 2: Bob's son who's also in parliament. He said, and I
- 12:08Speaker 2: quote Dad can be pretty irresponsible at times, but he's
- 12:11Speaker 2: not that irresponsible.
- 12:12Speaker 3: Wow, that's from his son.
- 12:14Speaker 1: This is the thing.
- 12:14Speaker 4: Does anyone seriously believe that the Bob Catter is a
- 12:17Speaker 4: threat to anyone?
- 12:18Speaker 5: Of course, and stabbing people with a flick.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Nat though on the social media post it did say
- 12:23Speaker 4: underneath it to this is his post hashtag Bob is
- 12:26Speaker 4: a bad bastard. But I do believe we have some
- 12:29Speaker 4: footage here of Bob's dealings with the police and his
- 12:32Speaker 4: advice to them on this matter.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Let there be a thousand blossoms blooms.
- 12:38Speaker 7: So but I ain't spending any time warrant because in
- 12:42Speaker 7: the meantime, every three months a person is torn to
- 12:46Speaker 7: pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Hashtag Boby is a bad bastard index I tell you what.
- 12:52Speaker 5: You got to say. That guy is colorful.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Colorful.
- 12:55Speaker 3: That's probably putting it.
- 12:55Speaker 5: Mildly, a very very colorful character.
- 12:58Speaker 6: Now, look, you might recall that most a year ago now,
- 13:01Speaker 6: two Melbourne teenagers died from methanol poisoning in Laos. It
- 13:05Speaker 6: was a terrible incident. These are best friends Bianca Jones
- 13:08Speaker 6: and Holy Bowls. They were among six people who died
- 13:11Speaker 6: after consuming a bad batch of local alcohol containing the
- 13:14Speaker 6: higher levels of methanol during happy hour at a Laos hostel.
- 13:19Speaker 6: Now this happened during schooly celebrations overseas and of course
- 13:23Speaker 6: we are heading into that time of the year and
- 13:25Speaker 6: so now their parents, alongside some of their best friends,
- 13:29Speaker 6: they've joined together in partnership to put out videos as
- 13:33Speaker 6: part of a national campaign to warn other young people
- 13:36Speaker 6: about the dangers of drinking and just as a reminder
- 13:39Speaker 6: to look after your mates.
- 13:41Speaker 5: Have a listened to this.
- 13:43Speaker 10: We know how much your schoolies adventure means to you
- 13:45Speaker 10: because we remember how much it meant to us and
- 13:47Speaker 10: our friends.
- 13:48Speaker 3: Any occasion where you get to experience new things with your.
- 13:51Speaker 5: Friends is exciting.
- 13:53Speaker 10: That's why two of our close friends, Bianco and Holly
- 13:56Speaker 10: were so excited about traveling overseas together, talking about it
- 14:00Speaker 10: and planning for it. It was going to be a
- 14:02Speaker 10: trip of a lifetime. They were like you, They were
- 14:05Speaker 10: smart and they knew how to look after themselves, which
- 14:09Speaker 10: is why it was so devastating that something outside of
- 14:11Speaker 10: their control ended their lives. They were having fun having
- 14:14Speaker 10: some drinks. They've done that here in Australia without any issue,
- 14:18Speaker 10: but this time it wasn't in Australia and it was different.
- 14:21Speaker 10: The drinks they consumed on this occasion contained methanol and
- 14:25Speaker 10: I think this is a very very powerful campaign when
- 14:27Speaker 10: you've got the best friends and you've got the two
- 14:29Speaker 10: girls mums joining them.
- 14:31Speaker 6: And look, it is a very very timely reminder given
- 14:34Speaker 6: that it is November now ended year celebrations the beginning
- 14:37Speaker 6: and Schoolies weekend.
- 14:39Speaker 5: Now, obviously this occurred overseas.
- 14:41Speaker 6: In Laos and I'm sure if you're a parent at
- 14:44Speaker 6: home watching you're going to be thinking about your own
- 14:47Speaker 6: children right now, if they are graduating and they're about
- 14:50Speaker 6: to go on schoolies, whether they go overseas.
- 14:53Speaker 5: And back home.
- 14:54Speaker 6: But this campaign has now restarted the yearly debate that
- 14:57Speaker 6: we hear about whether or not children should indeed go
- 15:00Speaker 6: on schoolies weekends.
- 15:02Speaker 5: Now. Look, my opinion of.
- 15:04Speaker 6: This is that I actually think Schoolies is a great weekend. Now,
- 15:07Speaker 6: I don't think Look, obviously a lot of stuff goes
- 15:12Speaker 6: down on Schoolies weekend.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Your schoolies today.
- 15:14Speaker 6: Well, I actually went to Sydney and Melbourne. I was
- 15:16Speaker 6: quite well behaved, to be honest, I didn't have a
- 15:19Speaker 6: rage e in Perth or you know, down South or
- 15:22Speaker 6: whatever in Western Australia. But when you have been at
- 15:25Speaker 6: school for so many years, I think this is the
- 15:29Speaker 6: best time of your life to just go out and
- 15:31Speaker 6: have some fun. And let loose, and you're going to
- 15:34Speaker 6: keep doing that because you're about to turn eighteen, you're
- 15:37Speaker 6: about to hit the nightclubs.
- 15:38Speaker 5: You've got to go to bars, pubs.
- 15:40Speaker 6: You're going to start going overseas on kentiquy tours. The
- 15:43Speaker 6: fun really begins around that age. So I am very
- 15:46Speaker 6: pro schoolies. Obviously, you've got to be careful, and I
- 15:51Speaker 6: don't agree with going overseas for schoolies.
- 15:53Speaker 5: As if I was a parent, I.
- 15:54Speaker 6: Would be very, very concerned with a child going overseas
- 15:58Speaker 6: because you don't know what they could get up to
- 16:00Speaker 6: over there. You don't know what they could be taking,
- 16:02Speaker 6: you don't know what they could be offered. I mean,
- 16:04Speaker 6: look what happened to these poor girls. But I am
- 16:07Speaker 6: very pro schoolies. I say, go for it, go enjoy it.
- 16:10Speaker 6: You're a parent, You're the only parent on this panel.
- 16:13Speaker 6: I'm curious to know your thoughts on this.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Well, leaning young people, here we go. Your story.
- 16:18Speaker 2: I've got two boys, twins. One of them did not
- 16:20Speaker 2: want anything to do with schoolies. He's my favorite. The
- 16:24Speaker 2: other one, the black sheep of the family. He was
- 16:26Speaker 2: desperate to go on schoolies.
- 16:27Speaker 3: I love him as well.
- 16:28Speaker 2: I don't have favorites. So I said to him, here's
- 16:30Speaker 2: the deal. You can go on schoolies, but I will
- 16:33Speaker 2: be going as well, and I will rent an apartment
- 16:35Speaker 2: and you can go do your thing, but you will
- 16:38Speaker 2: be back in the apartment by midnight every night. And
- 16:41Speaker 2: he screamed blue bloody murder. But I held my ground
- 16:44Speaker 2: because I'm a parent, and I said that's the rules.
- 16:47Speaker 2: If you want to go to schoolies, your choice.
- 16:49Speaker 3: So eventually he said all right, but he was not happy.
- 16:52Speaker 3: So I went to schoolies with my other son, who.
- 16:55Speaker 5: Was tuy, you're a toolly.
- 16:57Speaker 3: No, Janika. I just think.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Anyway, he accepted it, and I think the first two
- 17:06Speaker 2: nights he was home on the dot at midnight, and
- 17:09Speaker 2: after that I eased up and he enjoyed schoolies and
- 17:13Speaker 2: kept himself out of trouble, I think, knowing that he had.
- 17:15Speaker 3: A dad who was there just keeping tabs. Here's the thing, right,
- 17:19Speaker 3: they're great kids.
- 17:20Speaker 2: I trust them, but as a parent, you've just spent
- 17:23Speaker 2: eighteen years giving your all for these kids, and then
- 17:27Speaker 2: you go and let them loose for a bunch of
- 17:29Speaker 2: idiots on the Gold Coast who will.
- 17:30Speaker 3: Apply them with all sorts of things.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Try and manipulate them, and that's just their friends everybody else,
- 17:36Speaker 2: and you just your kids are the most precious thing
- 17:38Speaker 2: in the world, and you don't want to be a
- 17:39Speaker 2: helicopter parent.
- 17:40Speaker 3: And this is the problem with parenting.
- 17:42Speaker 2: You're trying to balance watching over them and caring for
- 17:46Speaker 2: them and also giving them freedom and allowing them to
- 17:49Speaker 2: do things. And so that's what I did. I don't
- 17:52Speaker 2: think many parents would do it. I think my son
- 17:54Speaker 2: to this day still cringes. But he had a bit
- 17:58Speaker 2: of both. He had schoolies, but dad was there at
- 18:01Speaker 2: the same time.
- 18:02Speaker 4: Can I just say, James, is it fair to call
- 18:04Speaker 4: your son a black sheet? Given he's African?
- 18:06Speaker 3: I hadn't even occurred. The fun you make get away
- 18:14Speaker 3: is my kids make those jokes more. And you know
- 18:17Speaker 3: my kids exactly.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're allowed to get away with it. You know.
- 18:21Speaker 2: One time at least school teacher said that we need
- 18:24Speaker 2: someone to clean the whiteboard, and my son volunteered, and
- 18:27Speaker 2: the school teacher said, well that.
- 18:29Speaker 3: Would be the blackboard.
- 18:30Speaker 2: And the teacher rang up and almost in tears, apologized
- 18:35Speaker 2: to me for this racial comment, and I said, well, hold,
- 18:38Speaker 2: So I went and spoke to my son.
- 18:39Speaker 3: I said, were you upset.
- 18:40Speaker 2: He said, No, I just thought it was a really
- 18:41Speaker 2: bad joke. So I said to the teacher, don't be upset.
- 18:44Speaker 2: My son just thought it was a really bad joke. Again,
- 18:46Speaker 2: no offense taken.
- 18:47Speaker 4: If only we could have a bit more of that.
- 18:48Speaker 4: And as for the matter of school is I suppose
- 18:51Speaker 4: the issues. Of course, as a parent, you worry about
- 18:53Speaker 4: what your kids are going to do. But the reality is,
- 18:55Speaker 4: as you will know, the worry doesn't stop just because
- 18:59Speaker 4: they've turned eighteen. It does stop when they turn twenty one,
- 19:03Speaker 4: it doesn't stop when they're twenty five. I mean, you know,
- 19:06Speaker 4: I get on a plane and my mother still wants
- 19:07Speaker 4: me to send her a text to say that I've
- 19:09Speaker 4: landed safely right, And I find that terribly annoying. But
- 19:13Speaker 4: I understand as a parent that you want to know
- 19:15Speaker 4: that your children.
- 19:16Speaker 3: Are safety's tracking the flight on radar. That's probably a little.
- 19:19Speaker 4: Bit too, But you never stop being a parent, and
- 19:22Speaker 4: so at some point you have to accept that your
- 19:25Speaker 4: kids have autonomy and they're going to go out and
- 19:27Speaker 4: do things that perhaps you don't like, or perhaps are
- 19:30Speaker 4: risky or a bit dangerous, and they're going to get
- 19:32Speaker 4: themselves in precarious positions. But these are all part of
- 19:35Speaker 4: the learning experiences of life. And if you've got someone
- 19:39Speaker 4: who is seventeen eighteen, who's just finished school and they're
- 19:42Speaker 4: about to go off and learn a trade or go
- 19:44Speaker 4: to university and they're going to meet people and start
- 19:48Speaker 4: going out, if you go too hard on them at
- 19:51Speaker 4: that point and say look, I'm sorry, little Johnny or
- 19:54Speaker 4: little Johnny a big Johnny at this point, you can't
- 19:57Speaker 4: go to schoolies, it's a pretty good recipe for making
- 20:00Speaker 4: sure that they do go to schoolies. And I know
- 20:02Speaker 4: someone I know, I won't mention them because you may
- 20:04Speaker 4: be aware of them who was told, you know, don't
- 20:09Speaker 4: go to schoolies, right, and snuck up to schoolies with
- 20:15Speaker 4: the cousin and got into trouble at schoolies and then
- 20:20Speaker 4: had to make the sheepish phone call back to dad
- 20:22Speaker 4: to say, look, I'm in a bit of trouble up
- 20:25Speaker 4: at schoolies.
- 20:26Speaker 1: And of course you know he was beside himself and
- 20:27Speaker 1: read the Riot Act and whatever.
- 20:29Speaker 4: But this is what happens. If you tell a teenager
- 20:32Speaker 4: don't do something, they go out and do it. So
- 20:34Speaker 4: he kind of got to be realistic in saying and.
- 20:36Speaker 1: I suppose that's the approach you took.
- 20:38Speaker 4: You didn't say you couldn't go to schoolies, but you
- 20:40Speaker 4: put some boundaries around it, and he respected that and.
- 20:42Speaker 3: All was fine too, because all kids respond differently.
- 20:46Speaker 2: I've got twins, but they're very different boys, So what
- 20:48Speaker 2: works with one child doesn't work with the other ones.
- 20:51Speaker 6: So the reality is is they're about to turn eighteen anyway, okay,
- 20:54Speaker 6: so you know you can chain them up and say
- 20:57Speaker 6: you can't go to schoolies. Well, the year after going
- 21:00Speaker 6: to turn eighteen, so guess what, they're going to go
- 21:02Speaker 6: out and they're going to do whatever they want because
- 21:04Speaker 6: they are classified then as legal adults. So kids are
- 21:07Speaker 6: going to make mistakes. They're going to have to learn
- 21:09Speaker 6: from those mistakes. They might make a mistake or two
- 21:12Speaker 6: on school is as long as they're safe. I think,
- 21:14Speaker 6: you know what, go and enjoy it because you finish school.
- 21:17Speaker 6: It's a massive milestone. And I think that they're the
- 21:20Speaker 6: years where you don't have any responsibilities.
- 21:23Speaker 5: Really, they're the years where you can.
- 21:24Speaker 6: Go out, have fun, do what you want before life
- 21:27Speaker 6: actually gets very very serious.
- 21:28Speaker 2: Joe and Ben, if you're watching You're meant to be
- 21:30Speaker 2: in bed at seven thirty. You go all right, the
- 21:33Speaker 2: queens and Trade Minister Ross Bates. She is also the
- 21:37Speaker 2: Finance Minister in Queensland and as Finance ministers she was
- 21:42Speaker 2: charged with enforcing discipline for responsible spending among LNP members
- 21:48Speaker 2: because they were going to be very different to the
- 21:50Speaker 2: Labor government who were wasteful and just take advantage of
- 21:54Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars.
- 21:55Speaker 3: The LNP though they were going to be different.
- 21:58Speaker 2: Well, Ross Bates, as the Aid Minister, has done a
- 22:01Speaker 2: number of overseas trips in the last twelve months and
- 22:04Speaker 2: you wouldn't believe what she's built taxpayers for.
- 22:08Speaker 7: Now.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Bear in mind, this is a politician earning about three
- 22:11Speaker 2: hundred and ninety thousand dollars a year and when she's
- 22:14Speaker 2: away she gets a four hundred dollars a day travel allowance.
- 22:19Speaker 2: And yet, in spite of all of that, while she
- 22:22Speaker 2: was way in India, she had a sore back, so
- 22:24Speaker 2: she had to buy a heat pack for her back.
- 22:27Speaker 2: It cost thirty three dollars and sixteen cents, which she
- 22:30Speaker 2: charged to the taxpayer. When she was in Japan, she
- 22:34Speaker 2: was unwell and needed some medicine, so she charged twenty
- 22:37Speaker 2: two dollars for medicine to the taxpayer and then to
- 22:40Speaker 2: wash down the medicine, she needed some milk, so she
- 22:43Speaker 2: charged the taxpayer eleven dollars and forty two cents for
- 22:46Speaker 2: milk from hotel room service. Now, I guess this proves
- 22:51Speaker 2: a couple of things, guys. One, wasteful spending is not
- 22:55Speaker 2: about politics. It's about human nature. Really, it doesn't matter
- 22:58Speaker 2: whether you're from the left or the right.
- 23:00Speaker 1: They all do it.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Here's the other thing, though, If you can't be trusted
- 23:04Speaker 2: with small things, and my first instance was it was
- 23:07Speaker 2: only eleven bucks for some milk, But if you're going
- 23:10Speaker 2: to change the taxpayer for eleven dollars worth of milk,
- 23:14Speaker 2: what else are you going to do? If you can't
- 23:16Speaker 2: be trusted with the small things, how can you be
- 23:18Speaker 2: trusted with the big things?
- 23:20Speaker 3: Now?
- 23:20Speaker 2: I think David Kusa fooles should just sack her and
- 23:22Speaker 2: make an example of it.
- 23:24Speaker 3: If you're going to be different, then be different.
- 23:26Speaker 2: The problem though, and I guess the reason you can't
- 23:28Speaker 2: do that is can you imagine the labor opposition then
- 23:31Speaker 2: would go through everything with a fine tooth comb and
- 23:34Speaker 2: you'd be left with not a politician in the parliament.
- 23:37Speaker 1: I know, but it speaks to character, doesn't it.
- 23:39Speaker 4: I mean you paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year,
- 23:43Speaker 4: you know, between three and four hundred thousand.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Dollars as a state minister.
- 23:47Speaker 4: I mean, surely you can spare eleven dollars and forty
- 23:49Speaker 4: two cents to buy yourself some milk for the room
- 23:52Speaker 4: zones or I mean Japan, I didn't think is a
- 23:55Speaker 4: country where you worry about the water that comes out
- 23:57Speaker 4: of the tap.
- 23:58Speaker 1: You could just turn the hotel.
- 23:59Speaker 4: Tap on and wash your medication down that way and
- 24:03Speaker 4: charging for the medicat twenty two dollars for medication. I mean, look,
- 24:06Speaker 4: you know, if I'm staying in a hotel courtesy of
- 24:10Speaker 4: Sky News for work, do you think I'm going to
- 24:13Speaker 4: build a company for twenty two dollars for my somac
- 24:17Speaker 4: that I have to tell? Of course not. It's just
- 24:19Speaker 4: I haven't paid a salary. There are certain things I
- 24:22Speaker 4: pay for out of my own money.
- 24:24Speaker 1: And this is the problem. If you have politicians, particularly ministers.
- 24:29Speaker 4: Who don't think that way, who don't treat the taxpayers
- 24:32Speaker 4: money as someone else's money, you have a big problem.
- 24:37Speaker 4: She feels like she is entitled to charge the taxpayer
- 24:40Speaker 4: for her medicine and her milk, that's not on Well.
- 24:43Speaker 5: What bothered me the most a few things.
- 24:45Speaker 6: One was the fact that I don't understand why she
- 24:47Speaker 6: couldn't just have gotten some water for herself to wash
- 24:50Speaker 6: down the medicine.
- 24:51Speaker 5: I mean, that's just.
- 24:51Speaker 6: Bizarre that she required milk in particular. Secondly, her hotel
- 24:56Speaker 6: was actually across the road from a convenience store, so
- 25:00Speaker 6: I'm not sure again why she couldn't just trot down.
- 25:02Speaker 5: The road herself.
- 25:03Speaker 6: And thirdly, when she was asked about this, her response was,
- 25:07Speaker 6: and I quote, I had.
- 25:08Speaker 1: A crook back.
- 25:10Speaker 6: Now, that's all well and good if you've got a
- 25:12Speaker 6: crook back there, but again we've all been there exactly Caleb.
- 25:16Speaker 6: But the reality is, why did you require milk then
- 25:19Speaker 6: for your crook back. There's a lot of things that
- 25:21Speaker 6: don't add up.
- 25:22Speaker 5: And the other thing is instead of just owning this,
- 25:24Speaker 5: instead of just coming out and saying.
- 25:25Speaker 6: You know what, yes, I really stuck this up, I
- 25:28Speaker 6: apologize it was an error of judgment. She then went
- 25:31Speaker 6: on to blame labor for it. She tried to turn
- 25:34Speaker 6: it around. This is above politics. This is not about left,
- 25:38Speaker 6: this is not about right. It is about what the
- 25:40Speaker 6: voters expect and this absolutely goes beyond expectations. Milk and medication, please.
- 25:48Speaker 4: Well politics, angel, milk and cookies. So now, last night
- 25:51Speaker 4: we talked about the fact that if Sydney did not
- 25:55Speaker 4: have large overseas migration, the population of the city would
- 25:58Speaker 4: be going backwards in our words, because you have such
- 26:01Speaker 4: large overseas migration. It's one of the reasons you continue
- 26:04Speaker 4: to have problems with housing. And of all people to
- 26:08Speaker 4: blow the whistle on this issue today was the Chief
- 26:11Speaker 4: Executive of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Common, who was up
- 26:15Speaker 4: at a Senate Estimates committee and was saying, look, he said,
- 26:19Speaker 4: this is his personal view, it's not the view of
- 26:21Speaker 4: Commonwealth Bank. But he says he believes net migration should
- 26:26Speaker 4: be cut to in the order of one hundred and
- 26:27Speaker 4: eighty thousand people dollars one hundred and eighty thies. What
- 26:31Speaker 4: did I say, people dollars one hundred and eighty thousand
- 26:35Speaker 4: people a year in order to make homes more affordable.
- 26:39Speaker 4: Now we're well above that at the moment. The year
- 26:42Speaker 4: to March, on the latest numbers, the migration was three
- 26:47Speaker 4: hundred and fifteen nine hundred people and between the twenty
- 26:51Speaker 4: three twenty five financial years are estimated when the numbers
- 26:54Speaker 4: are all added up, that it will be one point
- 26:56Speaker 4: three million people with our overseas net migration. You have
- 27:00Speaker 4: the CEO of one of the biggest businesses in Australia
- 27:04Speaker 4: saying we need to cut migration in order to make
- 27:07Speaker 4: housing more affordable. I think that's a really significant moment
- 27:12Speaker 4: in terms of this discussion about immigration, because of course,
- 27:16Speaker 4: what we've seen in the last decade or so is
- 27:18Speaker 4: that chief executives and big companies have veered far to
- 27:22Speaker 4: the left and they've jumped on every single social issue
- 27:25Speaker 4: and social cause that is available to them. And here
- 27:28Speaker 4: we have a big CEO, one of the best paid
- 27:31Speaker 4: in the country, breaking ranks and saying, actually, we need
- 27:34Speaker 4: to cut migration.
- 27:35Speaker 6: And you know what, can I just say good on
- 27:37Speaker 6: him for coming out because so many people, CEOs, so
- 27:41Speaker 6: many politicians, actually shy away from this debate.
- 27:44Speaker 5: Because they're all scared of the r word racism.
- 27:47Speaker 6: It is not racist to have a discussion about the
- 27:50Speaker 6: number of people we're bringing into this country when we
- 27:53Speaker 6: cannot get everyday assies into houses. It is not racist
- 27:56Speaker 6: to have a discussion about the types of people we
- 27:59Speaker 6: are also bringing into this country. This is the debate
- 28:02Speaker 6: that we need to have because it was not prosecuted
- 28:05Speaker 6: at the last two elections. You recall, in the dying
- 28:07Speaker 6: days of this year's election, Peter Dutton did put a
- 28:10Speaker 6: policy on.
- 28:10Speaker 5: The table, but then we wasn't prosecuted. It absolutely disappeared
- 28:14Speaker 5: into the never never.
- 28:15Speaker 6: Yet we've got record migration under labor. More than one
- 28:18Speaker 6: point one million migrants have come into this country. We
- 28:21Speaker 6: can't get every day oz is into houses, Labor is
- 28:23Speaker 6: opening the welcome matt Well. And truly the other issue
- 28:27Speaker 6: is is that it is basically the only thing that
- 28:29Speaker 6: is propping up our economy at the moment. We've got
- 28:31Speaker 6: this real Ponzi scheme economy.
- 28:34Speaker 5: And obviously migration suits labor politically.
- 28:37Speaker 6: Now you've got labor coming out saying, oh you know, yes,
- 28:39Speaker 6: we've got all these targets. Forget it, the target's James.
- 28:43Speaker 6: They are breaking records year on year. In fact, the
- 28:48Speaker 6: latest records in the first nine months of twenty twenty
- 28:51Speaker 6: five it hit four hundred and fifteen thousand. That's net
- 28:53Speaker 6: permanent and long term arrivals. Again, another record issue. And
- 28:57Speaker 6: I also think this is a huge vote driving issue.
- 29:01Speaker 6: I mean, the IPA did a poll recently finding that
- 29:03Speaker 6: seventy percent of Australians actually want to lower migration or
- 29:06Speaker 6: temporarily pause it while we actually get some infrastructure in
- 29:10Speaker 6: place to deal with it. Big Australia keeps getting bigger.
- 29:12Speaker 6: So all the power to Matt Common for actually starting
- 29:15Speaker 6: this debate.
- 29:16Speaker 2: It's funny Matt Common comes out today and we say
- 29:19Speaker 2: more power too. In Pauline Hanson's been saying this the
- 29:22Speaker 2: longest time.
- 29:23Speaker 3: She's an extremist.
- 29:24Speaker 2: But now the boss of the Commonwealth Bank is saying it,
- 29:27Speaker 2: maybe they'll pay attention. Bear in mind Jim Chalmer's last
- 29:30Speaker 2: year was dismissive of any relationship between immigration and a
- 29:34Speaker 2: housing shortage, and Anthony Albanesi just a few months ago
- 29:37Speaker 2: said the problem is not immigration, the problem is supply. Well,
- 29:41Speaker 2: of course, says supply and demand isn't there. And I
- 29:43Speaker 2: think the Commonwealth Bank boss knows a little more about
- 29:46Speaker 2: supply and demand and basic economics than Anthony Elbanezi. But
- 29:51Speaker 2: you're right, when the big end of town finally start
- 29:53Speaker 2: to talk, maybe people will listen and it's why, and
- 29:56Speaker 2: we'll get to it in the papers. Susan Lee needs
- 29:59Speaker 2: to get on with her immigration policy because God forbid
- 30:03Speaker 2: that the opposition to the government's coming from the leader
- 30:05Speaker 2: of the Commonwealth Bank. It should be coming from the
- 30:08Speaker 2: Liberal Party and they need to get their skates on.
- 30:09Speaker 6: Well, she did say that they're going to announce a
- 30:11Speaker 6: policy in the coming week. So I'm curious to know
- 30:14Speaker 6: how far it's going to go because it has to
- 30:16Speaker 6: be a very very serious cut. But let's see what
- 30:19Speaker 6: the papers are saying about that.
- 30:20Speaker 5: Now.
- 30:21Speaker 6: Look, it's been more than a year now since the
- 30:24Speaker 6: attempted assassination on Donald Trump's life. You recall at this
- 30:28Speaker 6: rally in Pennsylvania back in July last year when twenty
- 30:31Speaker 6: year old Thomas Crooks fired from a rooftop and it
- 30:35Speaker 6: grazed Donald Trump's ear. Let's watch how it unfolded. Okay, well, okay,
- 30:44Speaker 6: well that scene that we're seeing there. Of course he
- 30:47Speaker 6: got up said fight, fight, fight. But now more questions
- 30:51Speaker 6: are being raised about whether the FBI missed serious red
- 30:54Speaker 6: flags when it came to this man, twenty year old Thomas.
- 30:57Speaker 5: Crooks, that would be assassin.
- 30:59Speaker 4: Now.
- 30:59Speaker 6: According to Post, Thomas Crook's had a history of political
- 31:03Speaker 6: violence online. He had radical views as part of his
- 31:07Speaker 6: online digital footprint he used. They then pronouns, and it's
- 31:11Speaker 6: now emerged that he had this so called muscle mummy fetish.
- 31:16Speaker 6: Now I've had to google this. Unfortunately, I thought you've
- 31:19Speaker 6: noted was well, no, I didn't know what a muscle mummy.
- 31:22Speaker 6: Did you know what a muscley mummy fetish is? Basically
- 31:24Speaker 6: where it's where scrawny men have a fetish about mums
- 31:28Speaker 6: who are quite physically like bodybuilders.
- 31:31Speaker 5: Bodybuilders to do.
- 31:33Speaker 6: With Egyptians, clearly not up to date with the lingo
- 31:37Speaker 6: of today. The problem here is is that his digital
- 31:41Speaker 6: footprint presents a very different view to what the FBI
- 31:45Speaker 6: has said in congressional statements about the twenty year old
- 31:48Speaker 6: Moranda divide in the Post says that the public was
- 31:50Speaker 6: led to believe that Thomas Crooks was a ghost online,
- 31:52Speaker 6: that there was no motive that could be ascertained from
- 31:54Speaker 6: his online accounts, and yet sources have provided the Post
- 31:58Speaker 6: with a lot of information about the seven different online accounts. Now,
- 32:02Speaker 6: my point on this is what an absolute shambles this
- 32:06Speaker 6: has been from the very beginning from day one. During
- 32:09Speaker 6: that assassination attempt, you recall the fumbling fumblinas from the
- 32:12Speaker 6: Secret Service. One couldn't find her gun holster. I mean,
- 32:16Speaker 6: these were small women trying to protect.
- 32:18Speaker 5: A very big president.
- 32:19Speaker 3: They were not muscle mummies.
- 32:20Speaker 5: They were not muscle mummies as.
- 32:22Speaker 6: Well, exactly the rooftop. There was a failure to secure
- 32:25Speaker 6: the rooftop. That was a problem. Of course, the FBI
- 32:28Speaker 6: were more interested in their DEI hires and DEI training,
- 32:32Speaker 6: so that was another part of the issue, as well
- 32:34Speaker 6: as the Secret Service. And a State report has already
- 32:37Speaker 6: found that there were a number of security issues that
- 32:40Speaker 6: led to this and that it could have indeed been prevented.
- 32:43Speaker 5: And now we're led to believe that this guy was
- 32:45Speaker 5: a ghost online.
- 32:46Speaker 6: Yet he's got you know, violence, he was into fetishes,
- 32:50Speaker 6: he had pronouns, he's got all sorts of problems for
- 32:53Speaker 6: goodness sake.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Well, the thing that these online activity shows is that
- 32:57Speaker 2: prior to twenty twenty he was a Trump supporters, very
- 33:00Speaker 2: vocal in his support of Donald Trump and quite anti
- 33:03Speaker 2: the Democrats, and then after twenty twenty he has a
- 33:07Speaker 2: complete one aid degree change, and all of a sudden,
- 33:10Speaker 2: he's incredibly aggressive in his social media posts against Donald Trump,
- 33:14Speaker 2: which begs the question.
- 33:16Speaker 3: Who got in his ear? Who changed him?
- 33:19Speaker 2: What happened that he became so disenchanted with Trump to
- 33:22Speaker 2: the point of allegedly trying to assassinate him, that the
- 33:26Speaker 2: FBI didn't pick up on his threats, and nor have
- 33:30Speaker 2: they investigated why the change begs questions, and Miranda Divine
- 33:36Speaker 2: has been very right to point them out, yep.
- 33:38Speaker 4: And I mean there are so many things that had
- 33:40Speaker 4: to line up in order for this to happen that
- 33:42Speaker 4: have just gone unanswered, and I suspect they will always
- 33:46Speaker 4: go unanswered because there are certain people who don't want
- 33:49Speaker 4: to answer those questions and don't want to admit to
- 33:52Speaker 4: failures or to other things.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Potentially, it is all of this has just been too
- 33:57Speaker 1: perfect and too crazy in order for it to be
- 34:02Speaker 1: real as far as any concerned. So when I say real,
- 34:05Speaker 1: I mean just like it is so.
- 34:06Speaker 4: Unbelievable as a story that it unfolded in the way
- 34:09Speaker 4: it has has been treated.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Well, speaking of unbelievable, there's an unbelievable story in the
- 34:14Speaker 2: US at the moment with a tech company causing absolute
- 34:16Speaker 2: outrage with a new app there promoting that is a
- 34:20Speaker 2: way to keep your deceased family members alive at least
- 34:25Speaker 2: to you, and a way that you can interact with
- 34:28Speaker 2: loved ones even though they have died. It's the creation
- 34:31Speaker 2: of a digital avatar that you have on your phone.
- 34:36Speaker 2: So the company has released a commercial which shows a
- 34:40Speaker 2: pregnant woman talking to an AI recreation of her dead
- 34:43Speaker 2: mum on the phone, telling her about her pregnancy. Then
- 34:46Speaker 2: it skips forward to the baby's being born and the
- 34:50Speaker 2: baby is being read a story by deceased grandma on
- 34:54Speaker 2: the phone, and that skips further again. The boy has
- 34:56Speaker 2: grown up and he's getting advice from his grandma about
- 35:00Speaker 2: what it'll.
- 35:00Speaker 3: Be like when he himself is a father. He's part
- 35:02Speaker 3: of that commercial.
- 35:05Speaker 6: Would you tell Charlie that bedtime story you always used
- 35:07Speaker 6: to tell me?
- 35:08Speaker 11: Once upon a time there was a baby unicorn who
- 35:12Speaker 11: didn't know he knew how to fight. This baby unicorn
- 35:16Speaker 11: was like your mom because she didn't know that she
- 35:18Speaker 11: knew how to fight, but she knew how to do
- 35:21Speaker 11: all kinds of fabulous things. Hi remember, Hey, Charlie, how
- 35:25Speaker 11: was school today?
- 35:26Speaker 5: It was really fun?
- 35:27Speaker 11: I mean this crazy. I don't really care that much
- 35:30Speaker 11: about basketball?
- 35:30Speaker 12: And what about the crush?
- 35:32Speaker 10: Stop stop talking.
- 35:35Speaker 2: So the idea is that while your loved one is
- 35:37Speaker 2: still alive, you record them. You only need to record
- 35:39Speaker 2: them for about three minutes, just get them talking, and
- 35:42Speaker 2: then the tech company creates an avatar of your loved
- 35:45Speaker 2: one who is then able to say all sorts of things,
- 35:48Speaker 2: and as long as you pay the subscription, that person
- 35:51Speaker 2: remains alive at least on your phone.
- 35:54Speaker 3: A couple of things with this.
- 35:55Speaker 2: First, it replaces real grief with artificial comfort. I think
- 36:00Speaker 2: that's a very dangerous thing, because grief is a painful
- 36:03Speaker 2: but normal part of life. The other thing this does
- 36:06Speaker 2: is it replaces the hope of heaven. People used to
- 36:08Speaker 2: believe in heaven that one day we'll see people again.
- 36:11Speaker 2: It gets rid of that completely and replaces it just
- 36:14Speaker 2: with this. Well, as long as you pay the subscription,
- 36:17Speaker 2: you can have some sort of memory of that person
- 36:21Speaker 2: on your phone and interact in a very fake way.
- 36:24Speaker 2: I don't think either of those a good thing.
- 36:26Speaker 1: I think it's psychologically damaging.
- 36:27Speaker 4: As you say, grief is something we have to go
- 36:29Speaker 4: through because you have to not only physically but also
- 36:32Speaker 4: emotionally come to terms with the concept of loss. And
- 36:36Speaker 4: this deprives you of that opportunity, which is it is
- 36:39Speaker 4: so true so many things today where we just avoid
- 36:42Speaker 4: anything difficult.
- 36:43Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
- 36:44Speaker 6: I think this is actually quite worrying, especially the ones
- 36:46Speaker 6: where you're actually having a conversation with them. It's like
- 36:49Speaker 6: they're still in front of you psychologically. I worry about
- 36:52Speaker 6: what that does to a person who is not in
- 36:54Speaker 6: a good place because of grief. I don't like this
- 36:57Speaker 6: and the subscription that you have to pay for it,
- 37:00Speaker 6: that's something that doesn't sit right with that at all.
- 37:02Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of cruel and emotionally manipulative.
- 37:05Speaker 4: It is.
- 37:05Speaker 3: I think we're going to go to a break when
- 37:07Speaker 3: we come back.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Why Susan Lee's immigration policy is unlikely to please many people.
- 37:13Speaker 2: Plus the Golco City Council have come up with a
- 37:15Speaker 2: novel solution to the problems with young people riding e bikes.
- 37:19Speaker 3: All of that.
- 37:20Speaker 2: Shortly, Okay, welcome back to the program. Let's take a
- 37:29Speaker 2: look at what's making headlines tomorrow. We'll start with The
- 37:32Speaker 2: Herald's son and of course the big story there a
- 37:35Speaker 2: new Dawn liberals first female leader vows to tackle state's
- 37:39Speaker 2: debt after toppling Baton in bloodless coup.
- 37:43Speaker 3: The headline reads, you can bank on me.
- 37:45Speaker 2: Newly elected Liberal leader Jess Wilson has vowed to fix
- 37:48Speaker 2: the Allen government's ballooning debt as a top priority if
- 37:52Speaker 2: her party wins power. Ms Wilson thirty five toppled Brad
- 37:56Speaker 2: Batton in what Inside has termed the most efficient spill
- 38:00Speaker 2: in recent memory. I'm not sure you want your party
- 38:03Speaker 2: to be known for its efficiency and dumping leaders, especially
- 38:07Speaker 2: when this is their third in what eleven months. Anyway,
- 38:10Speaker 2: he's Jess Wilson talking to Peter Credlin earlier tonight.
- 38:14Speaker 13: We have to be talking about the fact that debt
- 38:16Speaker 13: in this state is soaring towards two hundred billion dollars,
- 38:19Speaker 13: and the opportunity cost of that means that we won't
- 38:22Speaker 13: be able to fund essential services. I can take that
- 38:24Speaker 13: broader gender and really sell an economic narrative and a
- 38:28Speaker 13: broad narrative about why the Liberal Party will be a
- 38:31Speaker 13: credible economic alternative for Victoria.
- 38:35Speaker 3: I got to ask you this, Taniker.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I read the headline liberals first female leader. Is that
- 38:40Speaker 2: the most important thing about her?
- 38:42Speaker 3: And is that what is going to help the Liberals
- 38:46Speaker 3: get up at the next election.
- 38:47Speaker 6: No, I'm having flashbacks to Susan Lee when she was
- 38:49Speaker 6: the first Liberal a female leader who cares about gender.
- 38:53Speaker 5: The question is are they going to do the job properly.
- 38:55Speaker 6: My concern over this is Victorians don't know who Brad
- 38:59Speaker 6: Batton was now now they are less than twelve months
- 39:01Speaker 6: away from an election, or almost twelve months away from
- 39:04Speaker 6: an election, and now they've got a new leader who
- 39:06Speaker 6: now has to reintroduce themselves to the public all over again.
- 39:10Speaker 5: Look credit to her. I hope that she does the.
- 39:12Speaker 6: Job because clearly there are so many issues in Victoria
- 39:16Speaker 6: and she's going to have to come out and be
- 39:17Speaker 6: very decisive and straightforward.
- 39:20Speaker 5: But it's not a lot of time, is it.
- 39:22Speaker 1: Yeah, and look good luck to her.
- 39:24Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 39:24Speaker 4: But there was polling today showing that Brad Baton was
- 39:30Speaker 4: beating Jacinta Allen in the preferred premier stakes and that
- 39:34Speaker 4: the Libs were actually in a reasonably good position. I
- 39:36Speaker 4: meant first party preferred. So for a second, you know
- 39:41Speaker 4: what am I talking about. I've lost the plot tonight
- 39:43Speaker 4: and not first preference. Two party preferred fifty one to
- 39:47Speaker 4: forty nine for the Libs. So you know, if an
- 39:49Speaker 4: election was held today, they could will have won it.
- 39:52Speaker 4: So I don't know that they had to get rid
- 39:53Speaker 4: of Baton, but anyway, good luck to them if they
- 39:56Speaker 4: think this is the right move.
- 39:58Speaker 1: I hope they're right.
- 39:58Speaker 4: They're probably the biggest or in Melbourne is the one
- 40:01Speaker 4: above it that says foreigners invade Bay thirteen Barmi Army
- 40:04Speaker 4: and enemy territory Barmie Army in Bath the MCG for
- 40:09Speaker 4: the ashes. My god, things are going to go down there.
- 40:12Speaker 4: Let's go to the front of the OS tomorrow. We're
- 40:15Speaker 4: speaking of leaders who may or may not be in
- 40:19Speaker 4: a bit of trouble in the Liberal Party TIS coalition.
- 40:21Speaker 4: To avoid a hard migration target, Susan Lee will release
- 40:26Speaker 4: immigration policy principles and directions rather than a fixed net
- 40:29Speaker 4: migration number before Christmas and oppose Anthony Alberaneze's environmental laws
- 40:34Speaker 4: overhaul as she moves to secure her leadership ahead of
- 40:37Speaker 4: the summer break. A mid backlash or sorry, backbench agitation
- 40:41Speaker 4: for the coalition to take the fart up to labor
- 40:43Speaker 4: on the vexed issue of immigration. The Australian understands there
- 40:47Speaker 4: are no plans to lock in a preferred net overseas
- 40:51Speaker 4: migration target twenty nine months before the twenty twenty eight election.
- 40:57Speaker 3: Honestly, really here we are you.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Just come up with a number, So.
- 41:00Speaker 2: We going to go right Yep, you're going to reduce
- 41:03Speaker 2: immigration by how much and that's going to be.
- 41:05Speaker 1: The well will depend on this and it will depend
- 41:08Speaker 1: on that.
- 41:08Speaker 3: And now you sound like you have no conviction, no
- 41:11Speaker 3: real commitment to it. It's a disaster.
- 41:13Speaker 6: It's actually a shame because you know, Susan Lee did
- 41:15Speaker 6: say on Sunday that she was going to come out
- 41:17Speaker 6: with a policy and now this is actually walking away
- 41:20Speaker 6: from it.
- 41:21Speaker 3: It's the principle principle.
- 41:23Speaker 6: This is the Liberal Party hokey pokey again, half in
- 41:27Speaker 6: and half out.
- 41:28Speaker 1: Do the hokey pokey? Can you sing it for us
- 41:30Speaker 1: to need?
- 41:31Speaker 5: No, definitely I thought you could.
- 41:33Speaker 4: No, no, no. Mary Joe Fisher knew how to do
- 41:35Speaker 4: it in the Senate though.
- 41:37Speaker 1: Speaking of which state libs to follow Lee's net.
- 41:40Speaker 4: Zero lead, look that up by the way, if you've
- 41:42Speaker 4: never seen it, Mary Joe Fisher doing that hokey pokey
- 41:44Speaker 4: in the Senate. I'm sure it's online somewhere, but seys
- 41:47Speaker 4: here on the front of the earls tomorrow. Federal Liberal
- 41:49Speaker 4: MPs believe New South Wales counterparts will ditch NIT zero
- 41:52Speaker 4: bout twenty fifty A mid doubts over Mark Speakman's leadership
- 41:56Speaker 4: now of course, the Libs today in New South Wales
- 41:59Speaker 4: back in in neit zero despite what their federal counterparts
- 42:03Speaker 4: have done, and Mark Speaquan may or may not be
- 42:07Speaker 4: the leader of the Liberal Party New South Wales by
- 42:09Speaker 4: the end of the week. Now the feeds are saying
- 42:11Speaker 4: if they get rid of Mark Speakman, and they'll get
- 42:13Speaker 4: rid of it zero two.
- 42:15Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a lot of the Liberal Party
- 42:17Speaker 1: talking about the Liberal.
- 42:18Speaker 6: Pat It's actually a mess when you think about it
- 42:20Speaker 6: across the country right now that there is not one
- 42:24Speaker 6: Liberal Party branch that is functional other than the Northern Territory,
- 42:28Speaker 6: the territory government up there. I mean Lefanochiaro is doing
- 42:32Speaker 6: great as a Conservative leader, but the rest of them good.
- 42:35Speaker 2: If Mark Speakman was not the opposition leader in Sydney,
- 42:38Speaker 2: would anybody.
- 42:39Speaker 3: Notice No, I don't think so.
- 42:40Speaker 6: I mean apparently over the weekend they were trying to
- 42:42Speaker 6: gather numbers for a leadership spill and nobody put their
- 42:45Speaker 6: hand up so they couldn't find anybody. I mean, that's
- 42:48Speaker 6: half of the problem. Now, let's take a look at
- 42:51Speaker 6: the Gold Coast bulletin there down the bottom right hand corner,
- 42:56Speaker 6: Parental Protection Gold Coast counselors say parents need to stop
- 42:59Speaker 6: their children illegally riding e bikes as a city lacks
- 43:03Speaker 6: a silver bullet to stop teenage who's causing accidents. At
- 43:06Speaker 6: a planning committee meeting on Tuesday, councilor Naomi Fowler backed
- 43:10Speaker 6: a recommendation by city officials that the state government, through
- 43:14Speaker 6: the Queensland Police Service, continued to lead the crackdown on offenders,
- 43:19Speaker 6: saying that it should be up to parents, and you
- 43:22Speaker 6: know what, good on her, because I think she's right.
- 43:24Speaker 6: It should start with discipline at home, parents actually enforcing this.
- 43:28Speaker 6: I mean it's always up to government officials to do so. Now,
- 43:32Speaker 6: hang on, what about mum and dad at home? What
- 43:34Speaker 6: are they going to do about it?
- 43:35Speaker 2: You remember a couple of weeks ago there was a
- 43:36Speaker 2: fifteen year old kid who tragically died on the Gold
- 43:40Speaker 2: Coast riding what we were told was an e bike
- 43:43Speaker 2: and there were immediate calls for the government needs to
- 43:45Speaker 2: crack down and regulate. I remember thinking at the time
- 43:48Speaker 2: it was three am in the morning, the e bike
- 43:51Speaker 2: was actually an electric dirt bike that should never be
- 43:53Speaker 2: on a road in the first place, and all the
- 43:56Speaker 2: calls were for government regulation.
- 43:58Speaker 3: No one was talking about, how was fifteen year.
- 44:00Speaker 2: Old out at three am, lit alone on the road
- 44:04Speaker 2: on an electric powered dirt bike that shouldn't be on
- 44:07Speaker 2: the road.
- 44:07Speaker 3: That was the problem, not a lack of regulation.
- 44:09Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not surprised it was three am in the
- 44:11Speaker 4: morning because it probably wasn't going to be three am
- 44:13Speaker 4: in the evening. But I mean, you've got to ask
- 44:15Speaker 4: the question, how do they get their hands on these
- 44:17Speaker 4: things like a teenager. I don't know. Maybe they're earning
- 44:20Speaker 4: enough money to go and buy these things, but the
- 44:22Speaker 4: thousands and thousands of dollars some of these bikes are worth,
- 44:25Speaker 4: so they're only getting hold of them presumably because parents
- 44:28Speaker 4: are paying.
- 44:28Speaker 3: For really quickly.
- 44:29Speaker 2: The Mercury In Tasmania, forty plus public schools closed amid
- 44:33Speaker 2: asbestos risked saga sand storm is the headline. Forty public
- 44:38Speaker 2: schools across Tasmania closed or partially closed after sand that
- 44:43Speaker 2: kids were playing in the playground was found to potentially
- 44:47Speaker 2: contain traces of a similar problems in the act.
- 44:51Speaker 3: And I believe one school in Queensland. So kids being
- 44:55Speaker 3: kept at home.
- 44:56Speaker 2: But Caleb, you've got the Advertiser a big story on
- 44:58Speaker 2: the kids don't.
- 44:59Speaker 1: Go halfing sand and it's probably not a good idea,
- 45:01Speaker 1: but how good is this?
- 45:02Speaker 4: On the front of the Ties at tomorrow head of
- 45:05Speaker 4: the class, the Ossie Alaric and set to teach bas
- 45:08Speaker 4: ball lessons to the Poms. The great South Australian that
- 45:11Speaker 4: is Travis said, I cannot wait for Friday the Ashes
- 45:15Speaker 4: kickoff in Perth. I'll be glued to the TV. Of course,
- 45:19Speaker 4: I'll be at the Adelaide Test. God it's a good
- 45:22Speaker 4: timer year, isn't it.
- 45:23Speaker 2: James absolutely, I cannot wait for the cricket Australia versus England.
- 45:26Speaker 2: It's the greatest series other than the one against India.
- 45:29Speaker 2: After the break, we're just talking about Mark Speakman.
- 45:31Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
- 45:32Speaker 2: He's got a lot of enemies, but they're not half
- 45:34Speaker 2: as scary as his friends. Will show you one of
- 45:36Speaker 2: his friends in a moment and Nigeria kicked out of
- 45:39Speaker 2: the World Cup and they blame witchcraft.
- 45:42Speaker 3: That's next.
- 45:47Speaker 2: We were talking before the break about New South Wales
- 45:49Speaker 2: Liberal leader Mark Speakman and Caleb. There was talks of
- 45:53Speaker 2: whether or not there'd be a coup against him. What's
- 45:55Speaker 2: the latest?
- 45:56Speaker 4: Oh, well, I tell you the support he's getting from
- 45:59Speaker 4: people within the party is just you.
- 46:01Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe how strong it is.
- 46:04Speaker 4: Take a look at Chris Wrath, one of the moderates
- 46:06Speaker 4: in the New South Wales Ugal Party, walking into Parliament
- 46:09Speaker 4: this afternoon.
- 46:11Speaker 6: Mark has my full support and I think he will
- 46:14Speaker 6: be the leader for the rest of this week and
- 46:17Speaker 6: lead us to the next election.
- 46:20Speaker 1: I'm glad he take the end of the leaders to
- 46:22Speaker 1: the needs.
- 46:23Speaker 4: He'll be the leader until the end of the week. Look,
- 46:26Speaker 4: you don't go around saying things like that unless it's
- 46:29Speaker 4: in the back of your head that he's not going
- 46:31Speaker 4: to be the leader at the end of the week.
- 46:33Speaker 4: I'm sure Mark Speakman took great comfort in hearing only
- 46:36Speaker 4: the leader at the end.
- 46:37Speaker 6: Of the week, I would say was playing in his
- 46:39Speaker 6: subconscious life and what season. Probably after he said it,
- 46:42Speaker 6: he went, oh, I shouldn't have said that, but had
- 46:44Speaker 6: only been there till the next election.
- 46:46Speaker 5: But I better get inside as quickly as stronger support
- 46:49Speaker 5: you can get out of the abundance of the heart.
- 46:51Speaker 2: The mouth speaks, the mouth spoken. Then you can see
- 46:54Speaker 2: in his eyes, you can just clear that up.
- 46:57Speaker 5: The clubs were turning as he said it.
- 46:59Speaker 6: You could actually see his soul Leave's body at that point,
- 47:03Speaker 6: and he knew.
- 47:03Speaker 5: That he had absolutely stuffed up.
- 47:06Speaker 6: Now, look, we're going to go over to the bitter
- 47:08Speaker 6: banshees at the view in the United States, primarily bitter
- 47:12Speaker 6: bansheet number one. Whoopi Goldberg, who's having g a really
- 47:16Speaker 6: hard time trying to comprehend.
- 47:19Speaker 5: I mean, talk about clogs turning in your head.
- 47:22Speaker 6: She's having a couple of issues trying to figure out
- 47:24Speaker 6: how health insurance works.
- 47:27Speaker 5: Have a listen to this. I pay into my insurance.
- 47:31Speaker 5: You pay into your insurance. I don't understand if I
- 47:34Speaker 5: don't go to the hospital for a whole year, where's
- 47:36Speaker 5: my money? Why don't you give me the money back?
- 47:39Speaker 4: There?
- 47:39Speaker 5: You don't have to worry about because I feel like,
- 47:43Speaker 5: you know I said this, Okay, Okay, Yeah.
- 47:47Speaker 6: Poor old Whoopy is having a real whooping moment, as
- 47:49Speaker 6: she tends to do quite regularly on this dreadful program
- 47:52Speaker 6: over in the US.
- 47:54Speaker 5: I just wonder, does she understand where the money comes from?
- 47:58Speaker 3: Insurance? That never burned there? So do I get to
- 48:00Speaker 3: give her money back?
- 48:01Speaker 5: Money back?
- 48:02Speaker 4: I think even the like the really muted laughter in
- 48:06Speaker 4: the in the live TV audience, even they knew.
- 48:08Speaker 1: It was terribly stupid.
- 48:10Speaker 4: And these are people who asked to go and watch
- 48:12Speaker 4: the view being recorded exactly.
- 48:14Speaker 3: All right, let's go to football, and I'll tell you what.
- 48:17Speaker 2: Football is pretty big in Africa, especially in Nigeria. They
- 48:21Speaker 2: played a World Cup qualifier against rivals Congo and lost
- 48:25Speaker 2: four to three in a penalty shootout. I tell you what,
- 48:28Speaker 2: Nigerians were pretty upset, but most upset was coach Eric Shelley.
- 48:33Speaker 2: Here's why they lost, according to him, have listened to
- 48:36Speaker 2: his reason for their loss.
- 48:39Speaker 12: During the penalty decision, a guy of Congod did some
- 48:44Speaker 12: voodo every time, every time, every time, So this is
- 48:48Speaker 12: why I was a little nervous after him. What did
- 48:51Speaker 12: you see something like that? You know, with the with
- 48:54Speaker 12: the I don't know if if it's a water or.
- 48:57Speaker 3: Something like that. You know, I got a speeding ticket
- 49:00Speaker 3: the other day than Nick, and I said to the officer,
- 49:02Speaker 3: I think it was some voodoo.
- 49:04Speaker 1: Voodoo jays.
- 49:06Speaker 2: Stories become huge in Africa though, where a lot of
- 49:08Speaker 2: people believe in this stuff, being debated everywhere online, whether
- 49:12Speaker 2: it was in fact voodoo, that.
- 49:14Speaker 5: African magic is actually apparently a thing over there.
- 49:16Speaker 3: There you go, there you go, that's it. From US
- 49:19Speaker 3: stick Around. Coming up is the Read a Penny Show,
- 49:21Speaker 3: Good Night,