Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 11 August
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Late General, welcome to the Late Debate.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Well, it's great to have your company on the Late Debate.
- 0:08Speaker 2: I'm James Macpherson with Freilich and Caleb Bond coming up tonight.
- 0:12Speaker 3: Has Sidney Sweeney single handedly.
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- 0:22Speaker 2: the Tasmanian government is set to end greyhound racing, but
- 0:26Speaker 2: is it out of concern for animal welfare or the
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- 0:36Speaker 2: the weekend, the future less looks less like the Jetsons
- 0:40Speaker 2: and more like Well mad Max will show you what
- 0:43Speaker 2: happened shortly, but first, just when you think our justice
- 0:47Speaker 2: system can't get any more farcical, it orders an accused
- 0:50Speaker 2: murderer out on bail to send police hourly selfies because
- 0:55Speaker 2: nothing says public safety like a twelve photo Instagram story.
- 0:59Speaker 2: This is what passes for law and order in New
- 1:01Speaker 2: South Wales after the government scraped ankle bracelets when the
- 1:04Speaker 2: private monitoring company went belly up without telling anyone. Now,
- 1:08Speaker 2: instead of a GPS tracker, the accused must buy his
- 1:12Speaker 2: supervising officer a brand new iPhone and been through hourly
- 1:15Speaker 2: glamour shots from eight am to eight pm. Oh and
- 1:18Speaker 2: the judge ordered that the man's location settings must stay on, which,
- 1:22Speaker 2: as every teenager knows, means the phone will be tracked,
- 1:25Speaker 2: not the person.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Opposition police spokesman Paul Toole.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Called the decision bs so he wasn't as polite as
- 1:32Speaker 2: I was just then, and he's right to be furious.
- 1:35Speaker 2: There's got to be a better way to keep the
- 1:36Speaker 2: public safe than asking accused killers to perform duckface every
- 1:41Speaker 2: sixty minutes.
- 1:41Speaker 4: Freyer, Well, I mean, you're exactly right.
- 1:44Speaker 5: And my question as well is they said here the
- 1:47Speaker 5: accused would have to buy the policeman and iPhone so
- 1:51Speaker 5: he could receive the selfies.
- 1:53Speaker 4: But knowing the way our justice system is.
- 1:56Speaker 5: Going and how left wing an activist it is, soon
- 1:58Speaker 5: people will be saying it's a matter of equity that
- 2:01Speaker 5: the defendants get bought an iPhone so that they can
- 2:04Speaker 5: send the selfies, and then tax phase will be paying
- 2:06Speaker 5: for iPhones for accused criminals to send selfies to the police.
- 2:10Speaker 5: I mean, this is just so selfies tell you nothing
- 2:13Speaker 5: about where you are. You could be on any background whatsoever.
- 2:17Speaker 5: What does a selfie prove? And this is just an
- 2:19Speaker 5: example of I think a labor government that wants to
- 2:23Speaker 5: look like they are being tough on crime, but actually
- 2:26Speaker 5: at the end of the day they're compromising everyone's safety
- 2:29Speaker 5: by not having proper ankle monitoring in place.
- 2:32Speaker 6: Well, the point you raise about buying mobile phones for
- 2:36Speaker 6: alleged offenders on bail as I legitimate one, because what
- 2:40Speaker 6: if they don't have a mobile phone or as you
- 2:42Speaker 6: would call it, James, the mobile telephone service, you know,
- 2:45Speaker 6: because if you're an older person who doesn't have a mobile,
- 2:48Speaker 6: what are they going to do? Tell you to turn
- 2:50Speaker 6: around your landline and you know, show it to the
- 2:52Speaker 6: world and maybe we'll hear some birds squawking in the
- 2:55Speaker 6: background to prove that you're not somewhere that you shouldn't be. So, yes,
- 2:58Speaker 6: you could legitimately say my phone doesn't have a camera,
- 3:01Speaker 6: I've got a dumb phone.
- 3:03Speaker 1: What am I meant to do? If the court.
- 3:04Speaker 6: Requires me to do this, then I expect you to
- 3:06Speaker 6: be able to give me a telephone to do it.
- 3:08Speaker 6: The whole thing is a joke, and I mean so
- 3:11Speaker 6: much of the stuff we talk about on this show
- 3:13Speaker 6: every night, I go, how.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Does this even happen?
- 3:16Speaker 6: How do we get to a point where courts are
- 3:20Speaker 6: now asking people to send selfies to the police, as
- 3:24Speaker 6: though to say, yes, officer, my head is still attached
- 3:27Speaker 6: to my body, as though that really means anything. And
- 3:31Speaker 6: the problem is that bail Safe, which famously didn't tell
- 3:35Speaker 6: the Victorian government that it was going bust, so they
- 3:38Speaker 6: just had no idea down there that anyone was not
- 3:40Speaker 6: being monitored anymore with their ankle bracelets.
- 3:43Speaker 1: They went bust.
- 3:44Speaker 6: They were the main provider of these bracelets. The New
- 3:46Speaker 6: South Wales government's been confirmed in the Daily Telegraph tonight,
- 3:50Speaker 6: is not going to use ankle bracelets anymore as a result,
- 3:54Speaker 6: because they banned private operators from being able to provide
- 3:57Speaker 6: ankle bracelets in New South Wales anymore. The only circumstance
- 4:01Speaker 6: is domestic violence offenders, because those bracelets are administered by
- 4:05Speaker 6: the government. So if the government already has a manner
- 4:09Speaker 6: by which it can monitor certain offenders with ankle bracelets,
- 4:13Speaker 6: why can't it just roll that system out.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Across the rest of the justice system.
- 4:18Speaker 6: It does not make any sense at all, and You're
- 4:21Speaker 6: going to have more of these cases coming up where
- 4:23Speaker 6: courts are going to come up with all sorts of bizarre, wacky,
- 4:27Speaker 6: creative ways to get alleged defenders on bail to report
- 4:30Speaker 6: themselves in because you've taken away the one thing that
- 4:33Speaker 6: we know that works to tell you where they are,
- 4:36Speaker 6: which is an ankle brace.
- 4:37Speaker 5: And why does one ankle bracelet company going bus? I
- 4:40Speaker 5: mean they have to ban all private operators. That doesn't
- 4:43Speaker 5: make any sense. So one business goes bus, We're going
- 4:45Speaker 5: to ban an entire industry. It's always more efficient for
- 4:49Speaker 5: private operators to provide these services in the government. So
- 4:52Speaker 5: wouldn't the logical solution to be just look, ask for tenders,
- 4:56Speaker 5: ask for private companies to apply for the contract and
- 4:59Speaker 5: find a new provide I don't can't be that hard.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Of course, there is another option which we were talking
- 5:03Speaker 2: to Paul Murray about just before we came on air,
- 5:05Speaker 2: and that is dangerous offenders.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Don't get given bail. That would solve the whole problem.
- 5:10Speaker 2: No ankle bracelet required, no iPhone required, Just lock them
- 5:13Speaker 2: up until the court case happens, and that way everybody
- 5:16Speaker 2: is safe and no one's inconvenience.
- 5:18Speaker 6: Yes, but then you have the trifling issue of the
- 5:20Speaker 6: prison beds to fill up. And we know what's going
- 5:23Speaker 6: on down in Victoria where they've been told about their
- 5:27Speaker 6: bail laws, or the government is saying about their bail
- 5:30Speaker 6: laws that they will come into effect at such time
- 5:33Speaker 6: as we have enough beds available to not have bail
- 5:36Speaker 6: for people.
- 5:37Speaker 1: It's just incredible, isn't it.
- 5:39Speaker 6: Speaking of incredible, let's go up to a Queensland where
- 5:41Speaker 6: Pauline Hanson has rightly called out something that I hadn't
- 5:44Speaker 6: really thought about, but now that she's brought it up,
- 5:47Speaker 6: I think she's making a really fair point. That is
- 5:50Speaker 6: that there are organizations that get government funding to put
- 5:54Speaker 6: in applications for Native title. The federal government funds these things,
- 5:59Speaker 6: and so if you then have to respond to an
- 6:02Speaker 6: application for Native title, and it's often state governments or
- 6:06Speaker 6: particularly councils that end up having to deal with these applications,
- 6:10Speaker 6: they have to do so under their own steam.
- 6:13Speaker 1: They don't get government money from anywhere.
- 6:15Speaker 6: Now. They used to have a scheme in Queensland that
- 6:17Speaker 6: was scrapped about ten years ago that the state government
- 6:20Speaker 6: would provide money to private operators or to councils if
- 6:23Speaker 6: they had to deal with these applications for native title.
- 6:27Speaker 6: But that disappeared and so now you are effectively forced
- 6:30Speaker 6: to spend your own money to fight a court case
- 6:34Speaker 6: that is in part being funded by the federal government.
- 6:37Speaker 6: So Paul Enhanson says to the Queensland government, she's written
- 6:40Speaker 6: a letter to them. We need to do something about
- 6:42Speaker 6: this status, she said in the letter, given the Queensland
- 6:45Speaker 6: Government is often liable for the compensation awarded to successive
- 6:48Speaker 6: successful sorry native title claimants, I'm seeking your government support
- 6:53Speaker 6: to provide a native title respondent scheme for Queensland councils
- 6:57Speaker 6: and opposing entities native title claims impacting the Livingston Shire
- 7:01Speaker 6: and Redland City Councils, both of which are required to
- 7:04Speaker 6: spend rate payers money to defend against objectionable claims. And
- 7:09Speaker 6: there's so many cases we know going through at the
- 7:13Speaker 6: moment for native title. One of them is on Great
- 7:15Speaker 6: Keppel Island in Queensland, which has sort of been the
- 7:17Speaker 6: nexus for her coming out and saying this.
- 7:19Speaker 1: But it's a good point. I mean, why should one.
- 7:22Speaker 6: Side of the argument be able to get hold of
- 7:25Speaker 6: public money if the other side can't. If the government's
- 7:28Speaker 6: willing to tip in money for one, they should be
- 7:30Speaker 6: willing to tip in money for the other, unless, of course,
- 7:33Speaker 6: their position is that the whole country ought to be
- 7:35Speaker 6: native title.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Well, the current situation is unfair and immoral. It's unfair because,
- 7:39Speaker 2: as you said, if you're an indigenous group, you are
- 7:42Speaker 2: funded by the government to make your claim, but if
- 7:45Speaker 2: you're defending the claim a council or you're a farmer,
- 7:48Speaker 2: you don't get any funds to try and defend the claim.
- 7:52Speaker 2: Redland City Council have currently got three and a half
- 7:54Speaker 2: thousand properties that they either own or manage on behalf
- 7:58Speaker 2: of rate payers currently under native title claims. So you
- 8:01Speaker 2: can imagine the bill that they're going to have to fork,
- 8:04Speaker 2: but they get no government assistance whatsoever.
- 8:06Speaker 3: That's unfair.
- 8:07Speaker 2: But second, it's immoral because you're asking rate payers to
- 8:12Speaker 2: fund indigenous groups to make claims against the rate payer. Well,
- 8:16Speaker 2: that's not just unfair, that's immoral. The only people that
- 8:18Speaker 2: win out of this, and the only people that like
- 8:20Speaker 2: the current laws are lawyers, and I would say they
- 8:23Speaker 2: actually don't mind Pauline Hanson's suggestion either, because they will
- 8:26Speaker 2: only benefit more.
- 8:28Speaker 3: The solution here is to get rid of native title completely.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Where all Australians, the land belongs to all of us,
- 8:35Speaker 2: get rid of it.
- 8:36Speaker 6: You can't do that because it was decided by the
- 8:38Speaker 6: High Court.
- 8:39Speaker 2: You can always go back and have the High Court
- 8:41Speaker 2: change the decision.
- 8:42Speaker 5: But the underlying point of the government funding groups and
- 8:47Speaker 5: bodies that are fundamentally opposed to Australia's unity and existence
- 8:53Speaker 5: as a country, that is the absurdity of this. And
- 8:56Speaker 5: it's not limited to native title claims. The government also
- 9:00Speaker 5: gives millions of dollars every year to the Environmental Defenders Office,
- 9:04Speaker 5: which is another green activist lawfare group. They wage lawfare
- 9:08Speaker 5: against big mining projects, productive economic opportunities for the country.
- 9:13Speaker 5: Our own government is funding people to fight against our
- 9:18Speaker 5: own country's development and that has.
- 9:20Speaker 4: Got to stop.
- 9:21Speaker 6: And it's a great Ponzi scheme as well. Because you
- 9:24Speaker 6: have a successful native title claim and then you know,
- 9:27Speaker 6: one of these Aboriginal land councils sort of takes charge
- 9:31Speaker 6: of the area and then once they do that, they
- 9:33Speaker 6: have the rights to charge all sorts of people and
- 9:36Speaker 6: service providers and whatever for things that are done on
- 9:39Speaker 6: that land. For instance, if power lines or whatever's going
- 9:42Speaker 6: to go through there. You know, they've got to pay
- 9:44Speaker 6: the Aboriginal Land Council to provide advice and all this
- 9:46Speaker 6: sort of business. So they get money out of that
- 9:50Speaker 6: having been given native title, which they then go and
- 9:53Speaker 6: use to run other court cases, just like you've seen
- 9:56Speaker 6: in South Australia where the Bangala people, a local Aboriginal
- 10:01Speaker 6: corporation went up against a nuclear waste stump at Kimba
- 10:05Speaker 6: and were successful on a legal technicality. But they have
- 10:08Speaker 6: the right to earn that money because they're given native title.
- 10:12Speaker 6: So you create the publicly funded system that allows them
- 10:14Speaker 6: to make the claim, and then once the claim is successful,
- 10:18Speaker 6: they then have the right to make even more money,
- 10:20Speaker 6: which they then go and spend.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Tying us up in the court. Once again. I mean,
- 10:23Speaker 1: great work if you can get it.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 10:25Speaker 5: Well, another thing that is definitely a Ponzi scheme is
- 10:28Speaker 5: what Albanezi has given to Hamas today. Who would have
- 10:32Speaker 5: thought less than two years after the worst massacre of
- 10:36Speaker 5: Jewish people since the Holocaust, our government would be recognizing
- 10:42Speaker 5: a state of Palestine. Benjamin Atnyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel,
- 10:46Speaker 5: rightfully said this is shameful and personally I cannot believe
- 10:53Speaker 5: a government has done.
- 10:54Speaker 7: This, those will say that as well as a right
- 10:57Speaker 7: to defend itself, or also saying, but don't exercise outright
- 11:00Speaker 7: when we do what any country would do faced with
- 11:02Speaker 7: this genocidal terrorist organization that has performed the worst attack
- 11:07Speaker 7: on Jews since the Holocaust. I think we're actually applying
- 11:10Speaker 7: force judiciously and they know it. They know what they
- 11:13Speaker 7: would do if right next to Melbourne or right next
- 11:17Speaker 7: to Sydney you had this horrific attacks. I think you
- 11:22Speaker 7: would do it at least what we're doing, probably maybe
- 11:25Speaker 7: not as efficiently and as as precisely as we're doing it.
- 11:30Speaker 5: And he is exactly spot on with that. I mean,
- 11:33Speaker 5: there are so many issues with this proposal. One, there
- 11:37Speaker 5: has never been a self governed Palestinian state. To the
- 11:42Speaker 5: idea that this would be a democracy is ludicrous. The
- 11:44Speaker 5: Palestinian Authority, who Albanezi is looking to, is the Messiah
- 11:48Speaker 5: of the Palestinians. Mah Mudabas, the president of the Palestinian Authority,
- 11:53Speaker 5: is in the twentieth year of a four year term.
- 11:56Speaker 5: He is refusing to hold elections. Why because they know
- 12:00Speaker 5: that if they held elections in the West Bank, her
- 12:02Speaker 5: Maas would win, So that brings you to the other problem.
- 12:04Speaker 2: If he's promised to change Frayer, he's assured Anthi Albanzi
- 12:07Speaker 2: it's going to be different this time.
- 12:10Speaker 5: Yes, and you know, eighty years of intractable conflict, it
- 12:13Speaker 5: is all going to be solved because they've given assurances
- 12:16Speaker 5: to Albanesi. I mean, it is so so, so absurd.
- 12:21Speaker 5: And what's going to happen when the people of Palestine
- 12:24Speaker 5: elect Harmas or another extremist group, And that is the
- 12:27Speaker 5: fundamental problem. Alban Easy with his sort of internationalist liberal mindset,
- 12:32Speaker 5: he views everyone as fundamentally like us, wanting peace, wanting democracy,
- 12:37Speaker 5: wanting Western liberal values.
- 12:39Speaker 4: But that is just not the case.
- 12:42Speaker 5: You're dealing with a radicalized population, the majority of whom
- 12:45Speaker 5: support Hermas. Never forget, har Maas was democratically elected then
- 12:49Speaker 5: murdered all of their political opponents. So how you think
- 12:52Speaker 5: it's going to be different this time, I truly do
- 12:56Speaker 5: not understand, is.
- 12:56Speaker 3: The other question I've got.
- 12:57Speaker 2: It was just two weeks ago that Anthony alban He
- 13:00Speaker 2: went on Insiders on the ABC and he said, look,
- 13:05Speaker 2: it's a matter of when, not if, but it's not imminent.
- 13:08Speaker 2: It's not imminent that we will recognize a Palestinian state.
- 13:11Speaker 3: That was a fortnight ago.
- 13:13Speaker 2: So at the Albanezi's definition of imminent I think needs
- 13:17Speaker 2: to be examined. And as you said, you know Hamas
- 13:20Speaker 2: will play no role in a future Palatinian state.
- 13:22Speaker 3: How do they guarantee that?
- 13:24Speaker 2: How do they know that the new political party, which
- 13:26Speaker 2: will be called We Are Not Hamas, is not actually
- 13:30Speaker 2: just rebranded.
- 13:31Speaker 5: Israel has been trying to wipe out Hamas for twenty years.
- 13:35Speaker 5: They've been trying to wipe out Palestinian extremism since the
- 13:38Speaker 5: founding of the State of Israel. The idea that somehow,
- 13:41Speaker 5: now because we've recognized a Palestinian state, all of the
- 13:44Speaker 5: extremist elements within the pro Palestine movement are suddenly going
- 13:48Speaker 5: to evaporate is ludicrous thinking.
- 13:50Speaker 2: So tonight our government has rewarded Hamas. They have destroyed
- 13:55Speaker 2: our relationship with Israel. They've damaged even further our relationship.
- 13:58Speaker 3: With the United States.
- 14:00Speaker 2: They've sent a dangerous message to the world that terrorism
- 14:03Speaker 2: will be rewarded. They've emboldened Israel's enemies. Have you noticed
- 14:07Speaker 2: that here in Australia, news that the government will recognize
- 14:11Speaker 2: Palestine has been greeted by the left with calls for
- 14:14Speaker 2: sanctions against Israel.
- 14:15Speaker 3: So they're just emboldened. And for what.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Well, this is the fundamental issue with it, isn't it.
- 14:21Speaker 6: Because you put the cart before the horse and say,
- 14:23Speaker 6: here's the objective we want to achieve. We're going to
- 14:27Speaker 6: give you the reward for it before you've achieved the objective. Now,
- 14:30Speaker 6: anyone who's owned an animal, anyone who's had a child,
- 14:34Speaker 6: knows that you don't get effective results by giving the
- 14:38Speaker 6: reward before achieving the objective. You say to a kid,
- 14:41Speaker 6: here's a chocolate, go and clean up your bedroom, the
- 14:44Speaker 6: kid will take the chocolate bug her off into the
- 14:47Speaker 6: backyard and forget about his bedroom. If you say I'll
- 14:50Speaker 6: give you the chocolate after you clean up your bedroom,
- 14:52Speaker 6: it may be a different story. And so we have
- 14:55Speaker 6: this fanciful idea that you're going to say, okay, if
- 14:58Speaker 6: we recognize you as a state, please go and clean
- 15:00Speaker 6: yourself up now, and all will be well.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't work like that.
- 15:04Speaker 6: And the thing that I don't understand is that regardless
- 15:08Speaker 6: of where you stand on this war, even if you've
- 15:10Speaker 6: been out there shouting free Palistine and all this sort
- 15:13Speaker 6: of business, and you know there were even protests in
- 15:16Speaker 6: Tel Aviv over the weekend, people in Israel, including families
- 15:20Speaker 6: with hostages currently in Gaza, saying we don't want this
- 15:23Speaker 6: war to continue into Gaza.
- 15:26Speaker 1: You know they're talking now about occupying the place, right,
- 15:29Speaker 1: So regardless of what your view is on.
- 15:31Speaker 6: This war, surely everyone should be able to say that
- 15:36Speaker 6: without achieving the objectives of removing Hamas and having some
- 15:42Speaker 6: kind of proper democracy there, which is probably never going
- 15:44Speaker 6: to happen, you.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Don't get statehood.
- 15:47Speaker 6: Like this shouldn't be an issue of I'm a supporter
- 15:50Speaker 6: of Palestine or I'm a supporter of Israel, therefore I
- 15:53Speaker 6: think that they should be given statehood or not. You
- 15:56Speaker 6: don't deserve statehood when you are run by a terrorist organizedzation.
- 16:00Speaker 6: And everyone who's ever opined on this war should be
- 16:03Speaker 6: able to see that.
- 16:04Speaker 5: And her Mass is more popular with the Palestinian people
- 16:07Speaker 5: than the Palestinian authority.
- 16:09Speaker 4: That is what Albaneze has to get through his head.
- 16:12Speaker 5: The Palestine authority are not liked, more people support her Mass.
- 16:15Speaker 5: What this also does is it relieves pressure from her Mass,
- 16:19Speaker 5: which will hold up the negotiations that the US is leading.
- 16:23Speaker 5: They were making progress in moving towards a ceasefire in
- 16:26Speaker 5: getting the hostages home.
- 16:28Speaker 4: But this thwarts that because it removes the pressure from
- 16:31Speaker 4: her Maas.
- 16:32Speaker 5: And the other flaw in Albanesi's thinking is he seems
- 16:35Speaker 5: to think that if you recognize a Palestinian state, you're
- 16:38Speaker 5: going to make harmas redundant. What he doesn't realize is
- 16:42Speaker 5: that every time we've moved towards peace, her mass has
- 16:46Speaker 5: become more violent or whatever form Palestinian extremism takes. Nineteen
- 16:51Speaker 5: forty eight UN Partition Plan Israel was recognized. What did
- 16:55Speaker 5: everyone do the next day? Well, the Arabs declared war
- 16:57Speaker 5: on Israel.
- 16:58Speaker 4: The Oslo Peace.
- 16:59Speaker 5: Accords happened after that, the second into Fata, the Abraham Accords.
- 17:03Speaker 4: What happened after that?
- 17:04Speaker 5: October seven recognition of a Palestinian Say, what will happen
- 17:07Speaker 5: after that? I don't even want to contemplate what will
- 17:10Speaker 5: happen next, but I can tell you it won't be peace.
- 17:13Speaker 2: The other thing I was thinking is we're watching vision
- 17:15Speaker 2: there of protests in Israel, and people say, see there's
- 17:17Speaker 2: protests in Israel. They don't want this either, Oh, I think, yeah,
- 17:21Speaker 2: and there's protests. Oh no, there's no protests in the
- 17:24Speaker 2: West Bank or in Gaza, because you're not allowed to
- 17:26Speaker 2: express your opinion.
- 17:28Speaker 3: It might be different. We are signing in people.
- 17:31Speaker 6: Some brave people have protested in Gaza. God knows what
- 17:34Speaker 6: has become of them. And I mean dad, His dad
- 17:37Speaker 6: is proper bravery to be able to protest in Gaza
- 17:39Speaker 6: against Hamas because you know you're going to have a
- 17:43Speaker 6: target put on your back for den.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Indeed, let's go to the UK, where police are not
- 17:47Speaker 2: that bothered protecting retailers from thieves, but very eager to
- 17:50Speaker 2: protect thieves from hurty words. Rob Davies runs a vintage
- 17:55Speaker 2: clothing shop in the North of Wales and he was
- 17:58Speaker 2: robbed five times in a week and just got jack
- 18:01Speaker 2: of people shoplifting in his store.
- 18:04Speaker 3: So he put up a sign that read and I'll
- 18:06Speaker 3: quote it for you.
- 18:07Speaker 2: In fact, we'll have an image of it due to
- 18:09Speaker 2: scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets.
- 18:14Speaker 3: Thank you. Well, someone complained to police, didn't they know?
- 18:18Speaker 2: You'd think police would just reject such a frivolous complaint.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Who cares about a shopkeeper referring to thieves as scumbags?
- 18:27Speaker 2: I mean, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner referred to conservatives
- 18:31Speaker 2: as scum just a few years ago. But no, no, no,
- 18:34Speaker 2: the British bobbies, they are on the beat, and they
- 18:36Speaker 2: quickly visited Rob Davy's vintage clothing store and told him
- 18:40Speaker 2: to remove the sign because well, some people, namely thieves,
- 18:45Speaker 2: might be offended by being referred to as scumbags. Personally,
- 18:49Speaker 2: I think Rob Davey should have put up a new
- 18:51Speaker 2: sign that said, due to scumbag police not arresting thieves,
- 18:55Speaker 2: please ask for assistance to open the cabinet.
- 18:57Speaker 6: Well, this is precisely what started all of this in
- 19:00Speaker 6: the first place. And the great irony of this story
- 19:03Speaker 6: is that he's had been burgled a number of times
- 19:06Speaker 6: and on one occasion he had the bloke there, he
- 19:08Speaker 6: calls the coppers. The coppers come around, find the bloke,
- 19:11Speaker 6: get the shirt back that he's stolen. They handed the
- 19:14Speaker 6: shirt back to mister Davies and let this criminal go
- 19:17Speaker 6: on his way. So he's had enough of that. He's
- 19:19Speaker 6: put the locks on the cabinets and said, because of
- 19:22Speaker 6: the scum bags, you got to come and ask me
- 19:23Speaker 6: if you want to have a look at the clothes.
- 19:25Speaker 6: And then the coppers get a complaint about like the
- 19:28Speaker 6: biggest non crime of all time, and they've actually taken
- 19:31Speaker 6: the time to go around and tell him that he
- 19:35Speaker 6: has to take it down. He said, mister Davies, that
- 19:37Speaker 6: is you couldn't make it up when I asked you
- 19:40Speaker 6: it could offend. I was told a member of the
- 19:42Speaker 6: public had reported the sign to them. I just wonder
- 19:45Speaker 6: if that person was a shoplifter who was offended as
- 19:47Speaker 6: it was detrimental to their work. If police had the
- 19:52Speaker 6: time to go and tell a guy who's had, you know,
- 19:55Speaker 6: unsatisfactory interactions with the police about robbery, that the one
- 20:00Speaker 6: thing he needs to do is take a sign that's
- 20:02Speaker 6: his scum bag out of his window.
- 20:04Speaker 1: You can understand why you put it there in the
- 20:06Speaker 1: first place.
- 20:06Speaker 5: Well, the police now are taking more action against offensive
- 20:10Speaker 5: language than actual criminal offenses. But that does seem to
- 20:14Speaker 5: sum up a lot of what we've seen from the
- 20:16Speaker 5: UK justice system recently. It's all about these non violent
- 20:20Speaker 5: hate incidences. It's all about policing language. But at the
- 20:24Speaker 5: end of the day, your job as police is to
- 20:26Speaker 5: ensure the safety of citizens.
- 20:28Speaker 4: That's it. Stop policing language.
- 20:30Speaker 5: Stop policing language in a shop owned by someone that
- 20:33Speaker 5: is his property, his business. If it was so detrimental
- 20:36Speaker 5: to his public brand and image, wouldn't he just take
- 20:39Speaker 5: down the sign?
- 20:40Speaker 2: Well, I wonder if police were really motivated to get
- 20:42Speaker 2: him to take down the sign, because the sign reminds
- 20:45Speaker 2: everyone who enters that store that there's a major shoplifting
- 20:48Speaker 2: problem in the UK twenty million.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Reports of shoplifting. That's reports last year, and.
- 20:55Speaker 2: You can debate what percentage of shoplifting is actually reported,
- 20:58Speaker 2: costing the economy two point two billion dollars. So I
- 21:02Speaker 2: think police just don't like folk being reminded that essentially
- 21:06Speaker 2: shoplifting is not being policed. And it's far easier, as
- 21:09Speaker 2: it turns out, to get a law abiding citizen to
- 21:11Speaker 2: take down a sign than to catch the blighters who
- 21:14Speaker 2: are making off with people's produce.
- 21:16Speaker 6: I can't wait, James, for you to receive an angry
- 21:18Speaker 6: letter from the North Wales Police complaining that you've called
- 21:21Speaker 6: them scum bags, because that is.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Hurtful and insulting and how dare you do it?
- 21:26Speaker 6: While we're talking about robbery, the greyhound industry greyhound racing
- 21:29Speaker 6: down in Tasmania has been robbed by the state government. Now,
- 21:33Speaker 6: of course you'll know that Jeremy Rockliffe has been returned
- 21:36Speaker 6: as Premier, though without a majority, so he needs to
- 21:40Speaker 6: shore up his votes in the Parliament because he's only
- 21:43Speaker 6: got fourteen seats he needs eighteen for majority. When they
- 21:46Speaker 6: rock up in Parliament in a couple of weeks, Labor
- 21:48Speaker 6: is going to put up another motion of no confidence
- 21:51Speaker 6: and hope that they can get supply to then form government.
- 21:55Speaker 6: So outcomes mister Rockcliffe over the weekend with a little
- 21:58Speaker 6: sweetener for the Greens and some of the other cross benches,
- 22:01Speaker 6: which is, well, we're just going to throw greyhound racing
- 22:04Speaker 6: under the bus.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Take a look.
- 22:06Speaker 8: We need to draw a line in the sand when
- 22:08Speaker 8: it comes to the greyhound racing industry in Tasmania. For
- 22:12Speaker 8: many years now and increasingly so, there's been concerns around
- 22:16Speaker 8: animal welfare and we're seeing an industry that is at
- 22:20Speaker 8: the crossroads in decline and does not meet community expectations anymore.
- 22:27Speaker 6: What an absolute load of garbage. I'll tell you who's
- 22:30Speaker 6: at a crossroads. It's Jeremy Rockcliffe and he wants to
- 22:33Speaker 6: make sure he can remain premier. He couldn't give two
- 22:36Speaker 6: hoots about the good people who work in racing or
- 22:39Speaker 6: greyhound racing in Tasmania. He only gives a hoot about himself. Now,
- 22:44Speaker 6: the way he's doing this, it's not an actual ban,
- 22:47Speaker 6: it's an effective ban. What he is doing is removing
- 22:50Speaker 6: the government funding that goes through to greyhound racing. Now,
- 22:54Speaker 6: state governments, councils all fund to some degree.
- 22:57Speaker 1: Basically every sport.
- 22:59Speaker 6: In this particularly grassroots sport, is underpinned by significant funding
- 23:04Speaker 6: from state and federal and local government because we understand
- 23:08Speaker 6: that sport is generally a good thing for the people
- 23:11Speaker 6: of Australia, so they tip in the money for the
- 23:14Speaker 6: social dividend that it returns.
- 23:16Speaker 1: But mister Rockcliffe sniffs.
- 23:17Speaker 6: The wind and realizes that there are animal activists out there,
- 23:20Speaker 6: including in the Parliament, that he can just throw greyhound
- 23:23Speaker 6: racing under the bus and no one's going to give
- 23:25Speaker 6: a toss.
- 23:26Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you mate, people do give a toss.
- 23:28Speaker 6: Remember the last premier who decided he would get rid
- 23:31Speaker 6: of greyhound racing.
- 23:33Speaker 1: His name is Mike Baird.
- 23:34Speaker 6: You know how much longer he lasted as premier after that,
- 23:37Speaker 6: about one hundred days. It did him in when he
- 23:40Speaker 6: tried to get rid of greyhound racing. And I hope
- 23:43Speaker 6: he gets exactly the same treatment. And I have to
- 23:46Speaker 6: say the CEO of greyhound Racing New South Wales, Steve Griffin,
- 23:50Speaker 6: came out today strongly great statement saying as a sport,
- 23:54Speaker 6: why do we have to get dragged into these things
- 23:56Speaker 6: and get treated like second class citizens?
- 23:58Speaker 1: It's just a joke.
- 24:00Speaker 6: I'm not sure when politicians are going to learn that
- 24:02Speaker 6: we are just not going to put up with this stuff.
- 24:04Speaker 6: The majority of Australians believe in a fair go. Sports
- 24:07Speaker 6: like ours have been working hard and doing really well
- 24:10Speaker 6: over the last ten years to improve welfare and improve
- 24:13Speaker 6: the sport, and time and time again we get kicked
- 24:15Speaker 6: by these politicians who want to treat us like our
- 24:18Speaker 6: political football and we're just over it. And to that
- 24:22Speaker 6: I say here here, greyhound racing is full of proper
- 24:25Speaker 6: citizen salt of the earth, people who love their animals.
- 24:29Speaker 6: And I know because I'm involved in the industry. You know,
- 24:32Speaker 6: Rockliffe has just chosen an easy target here. So I'll
- 24:35Speaker 6: save some money there, maybe I'll win some votes in
- 24:37Speaker 6: the Parliament staff people who are worried about their jobs.
- 24:40Speaker 2: I don't know about greyhound racing, but I do know
- 24:42Speaker 2: that right before the election which was just a couple
- 24:45Speaker 2: of weeks ago on the Liberal Party website, Jeremy Rockcliffe
- 24:48Speaker 2: was promising to quote unquote strengthen the racing industry.
- 24:52Speaker 3: So just a couple of weeks ago it was all good.
- 24:55Speaker 2: He was all for sustainability and for good funding for
- 24:58Speaker 2: the racing industry in his state.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Now all of a sudden he's against it.
- 25:02Speaker 2: And what's interesting, as you point out, Caleb, the current
- 25:05Speaker 2: funding arrangement ends in twenty twenty nine, so it's got
- 25:09Speaker 2: four years to run. But all of a sudden today
- 25:12Speaker 2: it's very important that he makes an announcement and draws
- 25:15Speaker 2: a line in the sands.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Is that worried about animal welfare?
- 25:18Speaker 6: He's so worried about animal welfare that he says for
- 25:21Speaker 6: all year years.
- 25:22Speaker 1: I mean, it's just pathetic, entirely political. And the thing,
- 25:25Speaker 1: of course is.
- 25:25Speaker 6: You know they came for jumps racing and were largely
- 25:29Speaker 6: successful in getting rid of that. And by the way,
- 25:31Speaker 6: it was at col Rand Race Club yesterday with the
- 25:33Speaker 6: Great Western Steeple Chase, a great job as always, Victoria's
- 25:36Speaker 6: the only place I've still had it.
- 25:37Speaker 1: But they're largely successful with that.
- 25:39Speaker 6: Now they're coming for Greyhound racing, they've had a bit
- 25:42Speaker 6: of success. I mean, this will be like a red
- 25:44Speaker 6: rag to a bull to use an animal welfare thing here,
- 25:48Speaker 6: but you.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Know they will look at this and they'll start coming
- 25:51Speaker 1: for the rest of racing too. You say we'll sacrifice
- 25:54Speaker 1: greyhound racing. It ain't going to end there.
- 25:56Speaker 5: Yeah, But I totally understand the argument we shouldn't be
- 25:59Speaker 5: bad greyhound racing. But at the same time, the greyhound
- 26:03Speaker 5: racing industry in Tasmania is receiving over seven million dollars
- 26:06Speaker 5: a year in taxpayer funds. That is more than many
- 26:10Speaker 5: other grassroots sports receive. There was a report done, Admittedly
- 26:14Speaker 5: it was sponsored by anti greyhound racing groups.
- 26:17Speaker 4: So I will preface that, but they.
- 26:19Speaker 5: Did find that the economic returns were not great. For
- 26:22Speaker 5: every million dollars of funding that the sport was given,
- 26:25Speaker 5: they were only generating eighty two jobs. And so I mean,
- 26:29Speaker 5: if a sport is so great, if an industry is
- 26:31Speaker 5: so wonderful and people love it so much, then it
- 26:34Speaker 5: should be self sustaining. The idea that we should just
- 26:37Speaker 5: be handing out millions of dollars to sports because they
- 26:40Speaker 5: just exist and people just like them, Well, no, we
- 26:43Speaker 5: can't do that for everything. I want my local pickleball
- 26:46Speaker 5: team to get seven million dollars for our competition, but
- 26:49Speaker 5: we don't get.
- 26:49Speaker 4: That, and so greyhound racing shouldn't either.
- 26:52Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm not anti greyhound racing, but I do
- 26:55Speaker 5: think you have to draw the line somewhere. Is this
- 26:57Speaker 5: a priority that delivers benefit for most Tasmanians?
- 27:01Speaker 4: Probably not. Should they be self sufficient as a business, Yeah.
- 27:04Speaker 6: There's basically no sport that's truly self sufficient. I mean,
- 27:08Speaker 6: you know, the AFL and the NRL and whatever are
- 27:10Speaker 6: sure they're they're big operations, but they're underpinned largely by
- 27:14Speaker 6: the fact that they are tax free. So if you
- 27:16Speaker 6: levied them like any other business, they would be in.
- 27:19Speaker 1: A world of trouble.
- 27:20Speaker 6: The existence of sport in this country is underpinned by
- 27:23Speaker 6: government funding or the lack of taxation to allow them
- 27:27Speaker 6: to flourish, because we say.
- 27:28Speaker 1: That it's a good thing for sport to exist.
- 27:30Speaker 6: If you said you've got to stand on your own
- 27:32Speaker 6: two feet, there'd be basically no sport.
- 27:34Speaker 5: Couldn't you just do the same thing for greyhound racing?
- 27:36Speaker 5: Then say you're tax example, we're not going to give
- 27:38Speaker 5: you seven million.
- 27:39Speaker 4: Dollars a year.
- 27:39Speaker 6: Well, well, the governing bodies are governed by the actual government,
- 27:43Speaker 6: so it's a different kettle of fish. But you know,
- 27:46Speaker 6: everyone is on the take in sport in some way
- 27:48Speaker 6: or another.
- 27:49Speaker 2: The thing you said free, which I think will resonate
- 27:51Speaker 2: for a lot of people watching tonight, is governments do
- 27:54Speaker 2: have to draw a line somewhere, and I think they
- 27:56Speaker 2: should draw the line at pickleball.
- 28:00Speaker 4: For pickaball, I'll get you guys.
- 28:01Speaker 1: Out for pickleball. By the way, it's kind.
- 28:04Speaker 4: Of like tennis for people.
- 28:06Speaker 3: It's tennis for people who can't play tennis. Let's be honest.
- 28:09Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very, very fun though, but something that is
- 28:13Speaker 5: definitely dead, unlike pickleball, which is a massive and growing.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Spot, deserving ofment funding.
- 28:19Speaker 5: Maybe deserving of government's funny if greyhound racing is well,
- 28:22Speaker 5: something that is definitely.
- 28:24Speaker 4: Not is woke Hollywood.
- 28:26Speaker 5: Even the New York Times has now come to terms
- 28:30Speaker 5: with the fact that Hollywood's progressive snowflake era is over. Instead,
- 28:37Speaker 5: shows these days are hot, horny and white.
- 28:42Speaker 4: I mean, part of me thinks.
- 28:43Speaker 5: This was all canalyzed by Sydney Sweeney's ad And in
- 28:45Speaker 5: this article they say a couple of years ago that
- 28:48Speaker 5: ad with the amount of backlash it received for simply
- 28:51Speaker 5: having a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes talking
- 28:55Speaker 5: about how great her jeans were, that would have had
- 28:57Speaker 5: serious ramifications for Sydney C.
- 28:59Speaker 4: Sweeney's career.
- 29:01Speaker 5: She would have been forced to apologize make some token
- 29:04Speaker 5: donation to an anti racist group. But today nothing's happened.
- 29:10Speaker 5: In fact, American Eagle stocks have gone up. Sidney Sweeney
- 29:13Speaker 5: has won more fans. People are happy to see the
- 29:18Speaker 5: woke cult that's been controlling Hollywood finally lose its grip
- 29:23Speaker 5: on the industry. So if even The New York Times
- 29:26Speaker 5: is finally admitting that woke Hollywood is over, have we
- 29:30Speaker 5: turned the point in the culture war?
- 29:32Speaker 3: I don't think though.
- 29:33Speaker 2: I think this is a premature victory lap for a
- 29:35Speaker 2: couple of reasons. Number One, you can't get mad at
- 29:37Speaker 2: Sidney Sweeney, so I think she's just an exception to
- 29:41Speaker 2: the rule. Number two, the fural about the Sydney Sweeney
- 29:44Speaker 2: had is so ridiculous that it no doubt damages the
- 29:48Speaker 2: whole woke movement, which eventually collapses in on its own contradictions. Right,
- 29:52Speaker 2: But the contradictions in this one and it's based on
- 29:56Speaker 2: the misunderstanding or deliberate and wilful misinterpretation of a pun
- 30:00Speaker 2: is so ludicrous as to be stupid enough that everybody
- 30:04Speaker 2: gets that.
- 30:05Speaker 3: But having said I think it's.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Premature to to declare woke defeated. I think we should
- 30:10Speaker 2: keep on saying that it is because woke people, by definition,
- 30:13Speaker 2: are highly suggestible. In fact, woke survives by telling everybody
- 30:17Speaker 2: everyone believes this. If you don't believe this, you're the
- 30:20Speaker 2: only one who doesn't believe it.
- 30:22Speaker 3: We all know trans women are women.
- 30:24Speaker 2: And if we repeat it often enough, remember the United
- 30:26Speaker 2: Nations us to put out tweets trans women are women,
- 30:28Speaker 2: trans women are women, transomen That's how the left works.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Woke becomes fashionable by its suggestion. So I think if
- 30:35Speaker 2: the right just continually suggest that woke is finished, woke
- 30:39Speaker 2: is over, woke is done, that people who normally gravitate
- 30:42Speaker 2: towards woke, not wanting to be the odd ones out,
- 30:44Speaker 2: will agree, oh, woke is not fashionable or call anymore.
- 30:48Speaker 6: I do think you're right that we shouldn't get too
- 30:50Speaker 6: cocky about it. There has been a major culture shift,
- 30:53Speaker 6: particularly in the United States, and that sort of feeds
- 30:56Speaker 6: through to everywhere else because of the reelection of Donald Trump,
- 30:59Speaker 6: And so there is a danger. I suppose that for
- 31:02Speaker 6: so long as Donald Trump is there, everything is going
- 31:05Speaker 6: all right. But in three odd years time, when Donald
- 31:09Speaker 6: Trump is not there anymore, it can very quickly turn
- 31:12Speaker 6: like that back to what it was. But the one
- 31:15Speaker 6: thing we have in our advantage, apart from the fact
- 31:18Speaker 6: that Trump has managed to get Mark Zuckerberg and all
- 31:20Speaker 6: these people to come and kiss the ring, is that
- 31:22Speaker 6: you just got to look at where people have spent
- 31:24Speaker 6: their money. And Hollywood has tried really hard to push
- 31:28Speaker 6: the work garbage down people's throats, and much like you
- 31:31Speaker 6: saying that if we keep declaring work is dead, they
- 31:34Speaker 6: just sort of kept hoping that if they kept making
- 31:36Speaker 6: work movies, eventually people had accept them and go, well,
- 31:39Speaker 6: bloody hell, if I want to go to the cinema,
- 31:41Speaker 6: it's all I'm going to see. But people didn't go
- 31:43Speaker 6: and spend their money watching work movies.
- 31:45Speaker 1: I mean things like the snow White.
- 31:47Speaker 6: They came out with, where snow White wasn't white bizarre.
- 31:51Speaker 6: You know, it was an absolute flop at the box office.
- 31:54Speaker 1: So people have voted.
- 31:55Speaker 6: With their dollars and their feet and said, we don't
- 31:57Speaker 6: actually want this content anymore. So if mos like Disney
- 32:00Speaker 6: and everyone else want to make money, they've kind of
- 32:03Speaker 6: got to produce what their audiences want to watch.
- 32:05Speaker 2: I want to believe that, but I was reading to
- 32:07Speaker 2: mel Gibson's Got the sequel to Passion of the Christ
- 32:11Speaker 2: me Christ the Resurrection. I think it's called comes out
- 32:14Speaker 2: next year or the year after. But remember it was
- 32:17Speaker 2: back in two thousand and four and mel Gibson funded
- 32:20Speaker 2: that movie himself, spent thirty million dollars on it made
- 32:23Speaker 2: six hundred and ten million dollars worldwide.
- 32:26Speaker 3: It was a huge financial success.
- 32:28Speaker 2: You'd think, according to your argument, Hollywood studios would suddenly say, well,
- 32:31Speaker 2: there's a market there, let's start producing conservative films. But
- 32:35Speaker 2: they didn't. And so I'm not sure about the commercial argument.
- 32:38Speaker 2: It makes sense, but since when have woke all the
- 32:41Speaker 2: people who subscribed to ever done things according to logic
- 32:44Speaker 2: or rational things.
- 32:45Speaker 5: That's right, and the problem is the industry is still
- 32:48Speaker 5: full of so many idea logues who actually see their
- 32:50Speaker 5: role as an activist role. They want to use this
- 32:54Speaker 5: medium of film to push a political agenda. And that's
- 32:57Speaker 5: one of the other reasons I do think woke is dead.
- 33:00Speaker 5: It's because it's just boring. Every single movie line is
- 33:04Speaker 5: the same. Oh, character wakes up, character rebels against societal norms,
- 33:08Speaker 5: characters are rule breaker, character finds in a self. Character
- 33:12Speaker 5: is black, lesbian, bisexual, blah blah blah, like that is.
- 33:14Speaker 4: Every single Hollywood movie.
- 33:16Speaker 5: And eventually characters breaking rules and being rebels and finding
- 33:20Speaker 5: true in a self gets boring and people just don't
- 33:24Speaker 5: want to be bored anymore, and they don't want to
- 33:27Speaker 5: go to the movies and feel like they're getting a
- 33:28Speaker 5: political lecture every time they do.
- 33:31Speaker 6: Counterpoint though, James Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood just keeps making
- 33:35Speaker 6: movie point and they just keep selling.
- 33:37Speaker 1: So there is a market for it if someone's willing to.
- 33:39Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a good point, very good point.
- 33:41Speaker 2: Well, let's want to talk about self driving vehicles for
- 33:44Speaker 2: a moment, because we're told.
- 33:45Speaker 3: That they are the future.
- 33:46Speaker 2: In fact, the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research says
- 33:50Speaker 2: that by twenty thirty, two point six percent of Australian
- 33:53Speaker 2: vehicles will be self driving, and by twenty forty six
- 33:56Speaker 2: half the vehicles on Australian roads will be self driving vehicles.
- 34:00Speaker 2: But I'm not so sure the future looks like the Jetsons,
- 34:03Speaker 2: because according to what happened in China just a few
- 34:06Speaker 2: days ago, it looks.
- 34:07Speaker 3: More like Mad Max.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Going to show you vision of a transport delivery truck
- 34:12Speaker 2: fully self automated, but it gets a scooter stuck under
- 34:16Speaker 2: its wheels and you'd think it would stop, But no, no, no,
- 34:19Speaker 2: this self driving truck just keeps trucking on.
- 34:23Speaker 3: One of many self driving vans in China that are
- 34:25Speaker 3: making daily deliveries.
- 34:26Speaker 1: But will we be seeing anything like this in Australia.
- 34:29Speaker 1: Probably not.
- 34:30Speaker 2: Check out this next video here that shows one of
- 34:32Speaker 2: those vans dragging a scooter across the road.
- 34:34Speaker 1: So it's safe to say there still needs to be.
- 34:36Speaker 3: A lot of safety development before they come here.
- 34:40Speaker 2: You would think the truck would realize that there's a
- 34:42Speaker 2: scooter beneath the wheel, and not only that, but the
- 34:45Speaker 2: wheel under which the scooter was trapped was not actually
- 34:48Speaker 2: even moving, and yet the truck just kept going. I
- 34:51Speaker 2: should point out the truck did not hit the scooter.
- 34:54Speaker 2: The scooter was involved in a prior accident and the
- 34:57Speaker 2: truck maneuvered to avoid it but ended up getting the
- 35:00Speaker 2: debris from that accident. I either scooter stuck under the
- 35:03Speaker 2: wheel doesn't fill you with confidence though, Okay, Leber, imagine
- 35:06Speaker 2: if it was someone's wheelchair, or it was the scooter
- 35:09Speaker 2: rider or a pram or what have you. I mean,
- 35:12Speaker 2: for the truck to just keep on going is pretty disturbingle.
- 35:16Speaker 6: And this is going to become the big issue with
- 35:18Speaker 6: it because of course right now, if I drive out
- 35:21Speaker 6: of here tonight and on my way home I clean
- 35:24Speaker 6: up some old lady, well, I'm going to be in
- 35:26Speaker 6: court for hitting someone and potentially killing them. If I
- 35:30Speaker 6: drive away from that scene, I'll be up in court
- 35:33Speaker 6: for hit and run, and I'll be spending a lot
- 35:34Speaker 6: of time in the clink. What happens when an automated
- 35:39Speaker 6: truck bawls over some old lady? Do you charge the
- 35:43Speaker 6: owner of the company? Do you charge the bloke who
- 35:46Speaker 6: was doing the electronics on it? I mean, someone ultimately
- 35:50Speaker 6: has to be responsible for the actions of these things,
- 35:53Speaker 6: and that clearly demonstrates the technology that we have it
- 35:56Speaker 6: as it is at the moment.
- 35:57Speaker 1: You know, if that was.
- 35:58Speaker 6: A scooter that had a person on it, and that
- 36:00Speaker 6: thing's just trundling along with this person hanging on for
- 36:03Speaker 6: dear life, how do you deal with.
- 36:05Speaker 5: That after Yeah, but at the same time, how many
- 36:07Speaker 5: people die from falling asleep at the wheel?
- 36:09Speaker 4: Driving under the influence?
- 36:11Speaker 5: Human error is a massive cause of fatalities on the road.
- 36:15Speaker 5: If you can eliminate human error, I think you'll actually
- 36:17Speaker 5: eliminate a lot of fatalities on the road. So, if anything,
- 36:21Speaker 5: automated driving might actually be safer, except in these rare
- 36:24Speaker 5: freak accidents.
- 36:24Speaker 2: They are predicting that it will eliminate so many accidents,
- 36:28Speaker 2: no question about it.
- 36:29Speaker 3: But there's a long way to go.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Road rules, the question of liability in insurance, who is
- 36:34Speaker 2: the driver in an automated situation? Cybersecurity data, There's a
- 36:39Speaker 2: lot of water to go under the bridge, so to speak.
- 36:43Speaker 2: Before we get this is a common thing on our roads.
- 36:45Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break when we come back.
- 36:47Speaker 2: I've heard some good excuses in my life. But wait
- 36:50Speaker 2: until you hear as being reported in the papers. To
- 36:52Speaker 2: borrow the excuse one guy caught with drugs. Users and
- 36:57Speaker 2: experts are tipping that long awaited interest rate four will
- 37:02Speaker 2: happen tomorrow. We'll talk about all of that in just
- 37:04Speaker 2: a moment. Welcome back to the program. Let's take a
- 37:16Speaker 2: look at what the papers are reporting tomorrow, starting with
- 37:18Speaker 2: the Australian Kalb.
- 37:19Speaker 6: Indeed, it is China paid two hundred k to alleged spa.
- 37:23Speaker 6: A woman accused of spaing on a Canberra Buddhist association
- 37:28Speaker 6: was paid more than two hundred thousand dollars by the
- 37:30Speaker 6: Chinese government and was taking instructions from a mysterious security
- 37:33Speaker 6: official over encrypted messaging platform we Chat. Federal police officers
- 37:37Speaker 6: will allege officers sorry. Executing a search warrant on the
- 37:42Speaker 6: woman's home last month located hundreds of thousands of dollars
- 37:45Speaker 6: worth of luxury goods, according to fresh court documents, including
- 37:49Speaker 6: a Rolex watch receipt and large boxes of hay and
- 37:52Speaker 6: handbags that were too numerous to practicably count. Police also
- 37:56Speaker 6: found a receipt for a mystery item costing four hundred
- 38:00Speaker 6: thousand dollars. I mean, this case will continue to heat up.
- 38:04Speaker 6: Of course, she's accused of spying on this Buddhist mob.
- 38:07Speaker 6: And you know, we can't say too much about it
- 38:10Speaker 6: at the moment because it is going through the courts.
- 38:12Speaker 1: But I suspect there'll be a lot of.
- 38:14Speaker 6: People in Canberra keeping a very close eye on what
- 38:17Speaker 6: comes out of this, because it may or may not
- 38:19Speaker 6: give us a good window into what's going on in
- 38:22Speaker 6: this country when it comes to espionage.
- 38:24Speaker 2: The other thing that the Australian are reporting tomorrow is
- 38:26Speaker 2: that police have identified other individuals who've been given similar
- 38:30Speaker 2: tasks by the CCP, So this may well not be
- 38:34Speaker 2: the first prosecution arising from what they've discovered, and that's what.
- 38:38Speaker 5: We need to know here, and hopefully the police will
- 38:41Speaker 5: be investigating. If any espionage rings do exist, they're probably
- 38:45Speaker 5: going to be focused around embassies or key individuals, so
- 38:48Speaker 5: if you can start to crack into some of them,
- 38:50Speaker 5: hopefully the whole web starts to fallover.
- 38:53Speaker 6: Indeed, now the story on the front of the Yours
- 38:54Speaker 6: Tomorrow Future Fund KOI on costs. Future Fund chiefs, including
- 38:59Speaker 6: Chairman Greg Comb, spent about one hundred and eighty thousand
- 39:01Speaker 6: dollars on dozens of domestic and international flights and hotels
- 39:05Speaker 6: in just one year, but the publicly owned investment giant
- 39:08Speaker 6: is refusing to reveal the travel bill for the rest
- 39:10Speaker 6: of its three hundred plus staff and executives. The Future
- 39:13Speaker 6: Fund released the expenses for the former acting chairman the
- 39:16Speaker 6: current chairman six directors and its chief executive officer in
- 39:19Speaker 6: response to a freedom of information request from The Australian
- 39:22Speaker 6: but blocked the release of travel costs for its staff,
- 39:25Speaker 6: including the other eight members of its executive team in
- 39:28Speaker 6: twenty twenty four twenty five.
- 39:32Speaker 1: What are they doing all this travel for?
- 39:35Speaker 6: I thought we lived now in the world of Skype
- 39:40Speaker 6: and teams and all this sort of business and have
- 39:42Speaker 6: to go into state for meetings anymore. They've got no
- 39:45Speaker 6: reason to spend this money today.
- 39:46Speaker 2: And of course typically these are the mob who are
- 39:48Speaker 2: always worried about climate change and emissions and ethical investment,
- 39:53Speaker 2: and it's pretty obvious for they're not staying at the
- 39:55Speaker 2: IBS either.
- 39:57Speaker 5: Well, I think anytime a bureaucrats's three hundred billion dollars
- 40:00Speaker 5: worth of taxpayer money, which is the amount they're managing
- 40:03Speaker 5: in the Future Fund, they see business class trips and
- 40:07Speaker 5: a lot of nice perks to the job. In the
- 40:10Speaker 5: career mail tomorrow, of course, the big news is the
- 40:13Speaker 5: recognition of the state of Palestine, so the headline is
- 40:17Speaker 5: two faced solution. But another interesting headline is Bali drugs personal.
- 40:23Speaker 5: A Queensland man facing death by firing squad may be
- 40:27Speaker 5: saved by a diagnosis that he has a cocaine use disorder.
- 40:31Speaker 4: It can be revealed.
- 40:33Speaker 5: So also say Lamar Aaron Archie from Pans may receive
- 40:37Speaker 5: a custodial sentence if found guilty of smuggling one point
- 40:40Speaker 5: seven kilos of cocaine into Bali for personal use. Archie
- 40:45Speaker 5: was arrested on May twenty second after police seized cocaine
- 40:48Speaker 5: hidden in chocolate wrappers one.
- 40:52Speaker 4: Point seven kilos. It's a lot of personal use.
- 40:55Speaker 1: He's off for a good holiday in Bali.
- 40:57Speaker 2: And that's the same lawyer who's advised him to play
- 41:00Speaker 2: as a cocaine euse disorder is apparently representing gang members
- 41:03Speaker 2: in Victoria who've got Masheti euse disorders.
- 41:08Speaker 6: He sounds like the sort of lawyer you'd want to
- 41:10Speaker 6: have on board if you're facing one of these cases.
- 41:13Speaker 1: You know, good luck to him.
- 41:14Speaker 6: I mean, you've got to be pretty bloody stupid to
- 41:17Speaker 6: try and smuggle nearly two kilograms of any drag into Bali,
- 41:21Speaker 6: don't you.
- 41:21Speaker 3: Well.
- 41:22Speaker 5: I mean, if you're facing death by firing squad, you're
- 41:24Speaker 5: going to try any and every argument at your.
- 41:27Speaker 4: Disposal to get out of that one. So if this
- 41:29Speaker 4: helps him, good luck.
- 41:31Speaker 2: Let's go to the front page of tomorrow's Herald's Son
- 41:34Speaker 2: should note the main story there a win for Hamas
- 41:37Speaker 2: is how the Herald's Son are reporting the Albanizi government's
- 41:41Speaker 2: decision to recognize a state of Israel state of Palestine.
- 41:45Speaker 3: But the one we're to.
- 41:46Speaker 1: Do that, James, what are you talking about?
- 41:48Speaker 2: Well, I mean the irony there is that the Albanizi
- 41:50Speaker 2: government probably wouldn't recognize the state of Israel.
- 41:52Speaker 3: So there you go.
- 41:54Speaker 2: Rate cut locked in, reads the headline on the sidebar.
- 41:57Speaker 2: After being caught off guard by a soul rushing hold
- 42:00Speaker 2: on interest rates last month, Australian economists have overwhelmingly tipped
- 42:04Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank of Australia will cut the cash rate
- 42:06Speaker 2: on Tuesday. Of course, the same economists overwhelmingly tipped that
- 42:10Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank would cut rates the last time the
- 42:13Speaker 2: Reserve Bank met, so we'll see how they go this time.
- 42:17Speaker 2: The Reserve Bank, of course, at their last meeting said
- 42:20Speaker 2: they needed more information on inflation. That information has now
- 42:24Speaker 2: come in. Inflation is better than expected, so they're probably right.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Rates will come down.
- 42:28Speaker 3: What is a quarter of a percent I think they're predicting.
- 42:31Speaker 6: Yeah, it'd be hard to see anything else happening. I mean,
- 42:33Speaker 6: you know, when the economists this in lockstep about the results,
- 42:37Speaker 6: you're pretty sure it's going to happen. And on the
- 42:39Speaker 6: basis of the numbers that they've waited for, it'd be
- 42:42Speaker 6: hard to see how they would argue against it tomorrow,
- 42:46Speaker 6: and the government would certainly be apoplectic. I suspect if
- 42:49Speaker 6: there was not a rate cut tomorrow, not that the
- 42:52Speaker 6: government can do anything about it, but they're certainly counting
- 42:54Speaker 6: on it as well. Let's move on to the front
- 42:57Speaker 6: of the Canbra Times tomorrow. While we're talking about saving money,
- 43:01Speaker 6: it turns out over in Canberra people have been robbed
- 43:04Speaker 6: of their money. It's very strange story. Call for refunds
- 43:08Speaker 6: over toll fiasco. The big steel Canberns are coming forward
- 43:12Speaker 6: with complaints about increaged billing on Sydney roads after The
- 43:15Speaker 6: Canberra Times reveal technical flaws and duplicated number plates. I
- 43:19Speaker 6: mean motorists were being wrongly told. Complainants including Drew Kaiburz,
- 43:25Speaker 6: whose Subaru Outback gathered two hundred nineteen dollars in charges
- 43:29Speaker 6: after being mistaken for a Suzuki with the same but
- 43:32Speaker 6: new South Wales number plates. Act Transport Minister Chris Steele
- 43:35Speaker 6: is demanding urgent refunds, while courage On independent Thomas Emerson.
- 43:39Speaker 1: Called it a fiasco. How good's that?
- 43:42Speaker 6: So you've got the toll operators in Sydney just you know, going, ah,
- 43:46Speaker 6: well that's a number plate that exists in New South Wales.
- 43:49Speaker 1: But there's also one in and in Canberra as well.
- 43:51Speaker 6: So we'll just send the toll down the road to
- 43:53Speaker 6: them and say, yeah, go, you been driving on our road?
- 43:56Speaker 1: Do you need to pay? What a great scheme?
- 43:58Speaker 2: Yeah, basically they were saying up close enough yesday, just
- 44:02Speaker 2: paying people.
- 44:03Speaker 5: Tolls are annoying at the best of times, and in
- 44:06Speaker 5: Sydney we have so many tolls. If you just want
- 44:09Speaker 5: to get around the city, especially during peak hour, the
- 44:12Speaker 5: traffic is incredible, you almost have to use toll roads.
- 44:15Speaker 5: But yeah, getting that bill when it wasn't even your
- 44:17Speaker 5: car work's lessons.
- 44:19Speaker 2: It's only people from the ACT that are dumb enough
- 44:21Speaker 2: to drive on Sydney roads these days, exactly mist of
- 44:24Speaker 2: us know we can't afford it.
- 44:25Speaker 4: Well.
- 44:26Speaker 5: In the Gold Coast bulletin Tomorrow, here's to Roy Beener,
- 44:30Speaker 5: counselors are expected to greenlight renaming a gold Coast Sports
- 44:34Speaker 5: Ground Andrew Simon's Oval in the Cricket Greats Memory. The
- 44:38Speaker 5: push to rename Robina's Cheltenham Park Oval stems from Simons,
- 44:42Speaker 5: known as Roy, playing there in junior's counselor Dan Duran said,
- 44:48Speaker 5: it means a young boy or girl coming to play
- 44:50Speaker 5: can believe you can go from a junior cricket club
- 44:52Speaker 5: in Roybina to representing your country.
- 44:56Speaker 4: Really nice.
- 44:57Speaker 2: Andrew Simon's was a great cricket providing him so much entertainment.
- 45:01Speaker 3: Yep, and sorry, did I say his name wrong again? No, No,
- 45:06Speaker 3: I said it wrong.
- 45:07Speaker 1: I was just just smiling along its stories about Andrew Simon.
- 45:09Speaker 2: He was just such a great cricketer and so good
- 45:12Speaker 2: to watch and brought so many people to the game. Again,
- 45:14Speaker 2: people that otherwise would not have watched. But when he
- 45:16Speaker 2: came on, it didn't matter what you were doing, it
- 45:19Speaker 2: didn't matter how disinterested you were in cricket, you watched
- 45:22Speaker 2: because he was such an entertainment.
- 45:23Speaker 1: And he was such a knock about. Lad to him.
- 45:24Speaker 6: And remember all the times he was getting trouble because
- 45:26Speaker 6: he wasn't turning up to training because he was out
- 45:28Speaker 6: fishing instead.
- 45:29Speaker 1: Because that's what he preferred to do.
- 45:30Speaker 6: And of course I think everyone's favorite Andrew Simon's moment
- 45:34Speaker 6: isn't when the streaker came out on the field and
- 45:37Speaker 6: he just gave him a lack and not the streaker
- 45:40Speaker 6: over and everyone was like, jeez, I wish I could
- 45:42Speaker 6: do something like that. And that was a moment if
- 45:45Speaker 6: even if you weren't a great follower of cricket, you
- 45:47Speaker 6: just look at that and go, yep, that's exactly the
- 45:49Speaker 6: sort of bloke I want representing Australia, because our Australian.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Is that absolutely well, we're going to go to a
- 45:55Speaker 2: break when we'd come back. The most dangerous part of
- 45:58Speaker 2: driving a race car is not driving, and it's winning.
- 46:01Speaker 2: Will show you what happens to one unfortunate winner. And
- 46:05Speaker 2: the Left have provided an alternative to Sidney Sweeney, and
- 46:08Speaker 2: I'm sure you're gonna love her. That's coming up in
- 46:10Speaker 2: just a moment. All right, welcome back to the show. Now,
- 46:16Speaker 2: as announcements go, this one is a big one.
- 46:19Speaker 3: It's so big only Caleb can do it.
- 46:21Speaker 6: Oh it is, it is big LEI, as Donald Trump
- 46:23Speaker 6: would say. Before I get to that, I'm going to
- 46:26Speaker 6: take you on a walk down memory lane. We love
- 46:29Speaker 6: to do that here on the Late Debate have a
- 46:30Speaker 6: look Oh the sound of my childhood, often accompanied by
- 47:01Speaker 6: Mum telling me to get off the computer and stop
- 47:04Speaker 6: playing games with my mates so she could make a
- 47:07Speaker 6: telephone call. But it turns out the dial up is
- 47:10Speaker 6: officially dead in America. Apparently there are a couple of
- 47:13Speaker 6: ISPs still offering it here in Australia, but one of
- 47:15Speaker 6: the big ones in the United States has put out
- 47:18Speaker 6: a statement to its customers warning them that they are
- 47:21Speaker 6: about to.
- 47:22Speaker 1: Cut off dial up.
- 47:23Speaker 6: Aol it is that is getting rid of it in
- 47:26Speaker 6: the US, And when I read this today I thought it.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Was is anyone still using dial up?
- 47:31Speaker 6: Like it's this a statement to the five customers that
- 47:34Speaker 6: are still using dial up?
- 47:35Speaker 1: But there you go, it is gone.
- 47:37Speaker 2: I would not have believed it unless i'd heard it
- 47:39Speaker 2: direct from you, Caleb, and I did. Racing Nascars is
- 47:42Speaker 2: a pretty dangerous sport. But it turns out even more
- 47:44Speaker 2: dangerous than racing a NASCAR is winning a race in
- 47:48Speaker 2: a NASCAR, as nineteen year old winner Connor Zilich found
- 47:51Speaker 2: out at the weekend, having won the race driving it
- 47:54Speaker 2: over three hundred kilometers an hour.
- 47:56Speaker 3: That wasn't the dangerous part. The dangerous part was when
- 47:59Speaker 3: he went to get up on the roof of his
- 48:00Speaker 3: car to celebrate. Have a look been career wins.
- 48:04Speaker 2: Let's go down to Mobil one Victory Lane, dye.
- 48:14Speaker 1: On the cage store.
- 48:15Speaker 3: My gosh, oh now now he broke his collar phone.
- 48:19Speaker 2: Turns out the car was pristine, but the driver's ego
- 48:22Speaker 2: was well and truly dnted out well.
- 48:25Speaker 5: The Left has found their answer to a very attractive, slim, blondehaired,
- 48:30Speaker 5: blue eyed Sydney Sweeney.
- 48:32Speaker 4: And it's Lizzo. And I'm sorry for these distressing images.
- 48:36Speaker 1: What did I tell you?
- 48:37Speaker 9: I'm going into October exacting like the fun is over,
- 48:41Speaker 9: ex acting like Summer's over, the am coming over, ladder
- 48:44Speaker 9: bottles and a ladasodas shots cold like Minnesota flat jeez.
- 48:48Speaker 1: Like I'm Sydney.
- 48:53Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a bit disturbing. I'll take American Eagle and
- 48:56Speaker 5: Sydney Sweeney over that any day. She definitely has good jeans, Lizzo,
- 49:01Speaker 5: I think you got.
- 49:02Speaker 4: Some work to do.
- 49:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Sidney Sween. Sidney Sweeney wins that one
- 49:05Speaker 2: and a half of.
- 49:06Speaker 6: Canter Well, I yes, I would agree, but you know,
- 49:09Speaker 6: we shouldn't get too down on her because she has
- 49:11Speaker 6: actually lost a fair bit of weight, so she may
- 49:13Speaker 6: well continue down that road.
- 49:15Speaker 1: But surely this puts it all to bed now.
- 49:17Speaker 6: I mean, you can't complain about it anymore when you've
- 49:20Speaker 6: got Lizzo getting on board with it as well, that
- 49:22Speaker 6: the trend is well and truly off.
- 49:24Speaker 1: There you go.
- 49:25Speaker 2: That's all we've got time for tonight stick around. Coming
- 49:27Speaker 2: up in just a moment is the readA Penney Show
- 49:28Speaker 2: hosted by Anika de Georgio.
- 49:30Speaker 3: Good Night,