Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 6 August
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Lately. Welcome to the laitter base.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the late Debate.
- 0:08Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with kayleb Bond and Freyer Leech coming
- 0:11Speaker 3: up tonight. Sadik Kahan promises to show Donald Trump around London,
- 0:16Speaker 3: but wait until you hear how the London mayor describes London.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Plus Family Feud used to be a great family show.
- 0:22Speaker 3: The clue is in the name, but the latest episode
- 0:24Speaker 3: in America has got families calling for a boycott and
- 0:27Speaker 3: trainee solicitors claim the bar exam discriminates against non whites
- 0:31Speaker 3: because it's too difficult, which sounds kind of racist to me.
- 0:34Speaker 3: We'll get into that shortly, but first, Melbourne primary school
- 0:38Speaker 3: children are being taught to scold their parents for not
- 0:41Speaker 3: doing enough in the fight against climate change. Idling car
- 0:45Speaker 3: engines at school pickups are contributing to global emissions, and
- 0:49Speaker 3: who better to tackle this existential crisis than nine year
- 0:52Speaker 3: olds who can barely spell emissions but know exactly how
- 0:55Speaker 3: to ruin ap Pearan's day with a climate lecture. Researchers
- 0:58Speaker 3: from Deacon University spent two days teaching kids about the
- 1:01Speaker 3: evils of idling cars at the school gate and providing
- 1:04Speaker 3: them with talking points so.
- 1:06Speaker 2: They can have the chat with mum and dad.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Now we've not seen the talking points, but we imagine
- 1:10Speaker 3: kids were taught to greet mum and dad at the
- 1:12Speaker 3: school gate with something like this, you have.
- 1:15Speaker 4: Stolen my dreams in my childhood with your empty words.
- 1:20Speaker 4: People are suffering, people are dying, and entire ecosystems are collapsing.
- 1:28Speaker 4: We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.
- 1:32Speaker 3: How dare you hand lo The researchers noted a forty
- 1:36Speaker 3: percent drop in idling cars. If my kid came home
- 1:39Speaker 3: as Greta Tongberg, I'd be scared too. The researchers say
- 1:42Speaker 3: the point was to resource kids, who are often anxious
- 1:45Speaker 3: about climate change with tools to do something about it
- 1:48Speaker 3: and therefore feel empowered and less scared. But they also
- 1:51Speaker 3: noted children are very useful in driving behavioral change. So
- 1:54Speaker 3: is this a good thing or is this just another
- 1:56Speaker 3: way kids being turned into activists while failing nap plan Caleb.
- 1:59Speaker 5: How can they argue that it makes the kids less scared,
- 2:02Speaker 5: because you have to scare the kids into thinking that
- 2:05Speaker 5: their parents sitting out the front of the school with
- 2:07Speaker 5: their cars idling is terrible. And going to kill the planet,
- 2:11Speaker 5: so that they then go off and tell them, well, oh,
- 2:13Speaker 5: you can't do that.
- 2:14Speaker 1: You're going to leave nothing for me when you leave
- 2:16Speaker 1: this world.
- 2:17Speaker 5: I mean, for goodness, say, climate anxiety in children is
- 2:20Speaker 5: a real thing. It is driven by the curriculum. Climate
- 2:25Speaker 5: is integrated into all parts of the curriculum essentially, and
- 2:30Speaker 5: they do the same with aboriginal affairs.
- 2:32Speaker 1: But you know, even in mathematics and English and whatever.
- 2:36Speaker 5: They're instructed as part of the curriculum to work the
- 2:39Speaker 5: themes of climate change into it. A great research by
- 2:43Speaker 5: the IPA you can find online into this recently.
- 2:47Speaker 1: And this is just a ploy to scare kids further,
- 2:52Speaker 1: not to.
- 2:53Speaker 5: Alleviate any of their concern And I love the idea
- 2:56Speaker 5: that they've finally woken up to the fact that these
- 2:59Speaker 5: eco activists that idling cars is a bad thing, because indeed,
- 3:03Speaker 5: idling cars chew through fuel unnecessarily and they spew stuff out.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Into the atmosphere needlessly.
- 3:11Speaker 5: If only they'd realized that when they were gluing themselves
- 3:14Speaker 5: to the road and forcing cars to sit on roads,
- 3:18Speaker 5: major roads, idling in our capital cities for hours on end.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Think of all the emissions.
- 3:23Speaker 5: And fuel that were burnt, while those you know whatever
- 3:26Speaker 5: they're called, what were the extinction rebellion plea a rising
- 3:29Speaker 5: time blue rinses were gluing themselves to the road. They've
- 3:33Speaker 5: done more to cause idling cars than anyone else.
- 3:35Speaker 6: Look, the part of this that I do like is
- 3:38Speaker 6: that they're teaching kids to take action instead of just
- 3:41Speaker 6: being victims. So tell your parents to turn off the
- 3:44Speaker 6: car instead of just scare them about climate change. But
- 3:48Speaker 6: there are so many other causes you could be teaching
- 3:51Speaker 6: kids about that take far more lives every year than
- 3:55Speaker 6: climate change. We have fifty million people in modern day slavery.
- 4:00Speaker 6: Eighty million people a year die from household pollution from
- 4:04Speaker 6: burning wood and kerosene, three million because they don't have
- 4:07Speaker 6: access to cheap, abundant energy like coal that I'm sure
- 4:11Speaker 6: these eco warriors would like to ban as well. So
- 4:13Speaker 6: there are a lot of problems in our world. Climate
- 4:17Speaker 6: change is a small one in comparison to the massive
- 4:21Speaker 6: issues faced by millions of people every single year.
- 4:24Speaker 3: Forgive me for being cynical, but I don't think the
- 4:26Speaker 3: researchers here, and I don't know the researchers, but I
- 4:28Speaker 3: suspect they're less interested in empowering kids to overcome climate
- 4:32Speaker 3: fear than garnering kids as little activists to get in
- 4:37Speaker 3: the heads of mums and dads, because as we showed them,
- 4:39Speaker 3: and we had a laugh at Greta Tunberg when we watched.
- 4:41Speaker 2: But remember when Greta gave.
- 4:43Speaker 3: That speech and world leaders were like, oh, we've got
- 4:46Speaker 3: to do something because a kid has just told us off.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Kids do have nag power shops. Climate activists know it,
- 4:53Speaker 3: and I suspect that's the real motivation for this.
- 4:55Speaker 6: And also how many of these kids are studying, how
- 4:58Speaker 6: many of these kids are doing their homework, how many
- 5:00Speaker 6: of them are making their beds. Before you try to
- 5:02Speaker 6: fix the world out there, fix your own backyard, fix
- 5:06Speaker 6: your age.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Talk to my sons, please. They need to hear that.
- 5:11Speaker 5: But you know, they say, we're alleviating the fear. They
- 5:14Speaker 5: create the fear. So it's like, I'm going to create
- 5:17Speaker 5: a problem by telling the kids that the world is
- 5:19Speaker 5: going to end because of climate change. And guess what,
- 5:22Speaker 5: I have the solution for your fear, which is to
- 5:25Speaker 5: go and tell your parents to not have their cars
- 5:27Speaker 5: idling at the front of the schools. It is patently
- 5:30Speaker 5: ridiculous and worse than that, it's actually bad for children.
- 5:34Speaker 5: It's introducing ideas into children's brains, particularly primary school aged kids,
- 5:39Speaker 5: that they're just not equipped to deal with.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Leave it for later in school. But how good is this?
- 5:45Speaker 5: I mean, you thought that was a funny story. This
- 5:47Speaker 5: one I think takes the cake for tonight. Over in Spain,
- 5:51Speaker 5: a bunch of people just sitting around on the beach having.
- 5:54Speaker 1: A whale of a time. I think they were on.
- 5:57Speaker 5: The Sotillo beach just enjoying themselves, selling and they see
- 6:01Speaker 5: this boat rock up and all these people jump off
- 6:04Speaker 5: the boat, illegal migrants that they then chase down. You
- 6:08Speaker 5: can see the footage there on the screen of an
- 6:10Speaker 5: illegal margrant being chased. That's the boat rocking up to
- 6:14Speaker 5: the beach, and they just watch these illegal migrants brought
- 6:17Speaker 5: in by the people smugglers, jumping off the front of
- 6:19Speaker 5: the boat.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And they're sitting anything.
- 6:21Speaker 5: What on earth is going to these people jumping off
- 6:23Speaker 5: for a swim or something. No, they are illegal migrants
- 6:26Speaker 5: brought in by people smugglers. So the sun loungers on
- 6:30Speaker 5: the beach decided to take matters into their own hands
- 6:33Speaker 5: and tackle them to the ground until the authorities could
- 6:36Speaker 5: come to get them. I suppose you know two things.
- 6:39Speaker 5: One is the just the you know, the fact that
- 6:42Speaker 5: you would even think you could rock up at a
- 6:44Speaker 5: busy beach in Spain and just jump in the water
- 6:46Speaker 5: and walk on land and get away with it. It
- 6:48Speaker 5: probably tells you what they think of the migration laws
- 6:53Speaker 5: in match of Europe. I know we've talked a lot
- 6:54Speaker 5: about the UK recently, but they're trying it on in
- 6:57Speaker 5: other parts.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Of Europe as well, obviously.
- 6:59Speaker 5: But good on these people for taking the initiative to
- 7:02Speaker 5: chase them down and hold them down and get the
- 7:05Speaker 5: authorities involved.
- 7:06Speaker 1: These people deserve medals, well.
- 7:08Speaker 3: They do deserve medals, but it likely made no difference
- 7:10Speaker 3: because after handing these illegal migrants to the authorities, the
- 7:13Speaker 3: authorities would have put them in a luxury coach air conditioned,
- 7:16Speaker 3: driven them to a five star hotel and put them
- 7:19Speaker 3: up for three months at taxpayer expense.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Which explains why you said they're so bold.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I mean, that's incredible audacity to rock up to a
- 7:27Speaker 3: major beach and just jump into the ocean, as if
- 7:31Speaker 3: you know no one's going to bat an eyelid. But
- 7:33Speaker 3: I think it demonstrates how real people react when illegal
- 7:37Speaker 3: migrants arrived. They don't welcome them, and they jump on
- 7:41Speaker 3: them as we saw there, holding them down until authorities arrived.
- 7:44Speaker 3: Because beach goers realize, if you have a whole lot
- 7:46Speaker 3: of illegal migrants arriving over and over again, eventually you
- 7:49Speaker 3: won't be having a vacation at the beach because the
- 7:52Speaker 3: country will be fundamentally changed.
- 7:54Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, mass immigration is the one policy no
- 7:56Speaker 6: one voted for, but everyone gets and no one wants
- 7:59Speaker 6: to stand up to this, and so it's good Spanish
- 8:02Speaker 6: citizens are taking things into their own hands.
- 8:04Speaker 7: But I do fear you're right.
- 8:06Speaker 6: They would have caught these migrants and then probably been
- 8:09Speaker 6: released into the community. Because Spain has a left wing government.
- 8:13Speaker 6: They actually started a program in May of this year
- 8:17Speaker 6: to make three hundred thousand illegal migrants legal every single year,
- 8:23Speaker 6: so they're making almost a million illegal migrants legal under
- 8:27Speaker 6: Spanish law if they've been there for two years or more.
- 8:31Speaker 6: So clearly the Spanish government themselves have no respect for
- 8:35Speaker 6: their own laws, their own borders, and how does a
- 8:39Speaker 6: country survive.
- 8:40Speaker 2: It's given me an idea Thoughka.
- 8:42Speaker 3: You know, we've got virgin commercial aircraft pilots now patrolling
- 8:46Speaker 3: our borders looking out for enemy warships. We could have
- 8:50Speaker 3: Spanish beach goers patrolling the top, Spaniards keeping illegal migrants out.
- 8:55Speaker 1: That's it.
- 8:55Speaker 5: Who needs the border force? You can just get a
- 8:57Speaker 5: boatload of Spaniards. And the thing, of course, is, as
- 9:00Speaker 5: you say, that, nobody asked for any of this, but
- 9:04Speaker 5: it just keeps on happening. And it's almost like, and
- 9:07Speaker 5: I mean it's been the case for more than a decade,
- 9:09Speaker 5: but it just feels like there's a level of inevitability
- 9:12Speaker 5: to this that you just go, well, that's just how
- 9:15Speaker 5: it is now, because no one has actually taken the
- 9:18Speaker 5: time to do anything about it. I mean, thank god
- 9:21Speaker 5: you have people, obviously not in Spain, but thank god
- 9:24Speaker 5: you have people like Nigel Farage in the UK who
- 9:27Speaker 5: are starting to seriously talk about this. And if you
- 9:30Speaker 5: look across the rest of Europe during EU elections and
- 9:34Speaker 5: other local elections in France and Germany, you've seen a
- 9:38Speaker 5: rise of right wing and conservative parties in response to
- 9:43Speaker 5: this mass migration that they are experiencing in Europe. Finally,
- 9:47Speaker 5: it feels like people are empowered to stand up and say, actually,
- 9:52Speaker 5: I don't want this to happen to my country.
- 9:54Speaker 1: I'm sad it's taken this long.
- 9:56Speaker 5: For it to happen, because if they've been saying this
- 9:59Speaker 5: fifteen yar years ago, we wouldn't be in the pickle
- 10:02Speaker 5: a Europe is in now.
- 10:03Speaker 1: But at least we finally.
- 10:04Speaker 5: Reached a point where people feel comfortable to say it,
- 10:07Speaker 5: and people feel comfortable to tackle illegal migrants on beaches.
- 10:10Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 10:10Speaker 6: Well, you're now in a position where people in many
- 10:13Speaker 6: parts of Europe feel like strangers in their own lands,
- 10:16Speaker 6: strangers in their own what was supposed to be their home.
- 10:19Speaker 6: Another place where people feel that is London, where white
- 10:24Speaker 6: British citizens are now a minority in their own city.
- 10:28Speaker 6: They have been for at least a decade now, and
- 10:31Speaker 6: part of that is thanks to Mayor Siddiq Khan. He's
- 10:34Speaker 6: been in a stoush with Trump really since twenty fifteen,
- 10:37Speaker 6: but it has escalated again recently. When Trump was in
- 10:41Speaker 6: the UK meeting with Sarma, he had some not so
- 10:44Speaker 6: nice words to say.
- 10:47Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of your mayor.
- 10:48Speaker 6: I think your manager, I think he's not terrible.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Joe the Mayor of London a nasty person.
- 10:57Speaker 2: I think is a friend of mine. Russia.
- 11:00Speaker 1: No, I think you shown a.
- 11:01Speaker 6: Terrible chat kiss Salma doing the awkward tie shuffle there.
- 11:05Speaker 7: This is how Citi Khan responded, Come to.
- 11:09Speaker 8: London and let me take let me shame around. I
- 11:13Speaker 8: wonder if for diverse communities. Let me take him on
- 11:16Speaker 8: the pride march, this come in summer, next summer, let
- 11:21Speaker 8: me take him to a mosque. Let me take into
- 11:23Speaker 8: some of our diverse communities and understand that actually it
- 11:28Speaker 8: is perfectly compatible to be a Westerner and to be
- 11:32Speaker 8: a Muslim. It's perfectly compatible to treat.
- 11:34Speaker 6: Women with risp So city Khan's grand vision for all
- 11:40Speaker 6: that London could offer to Donald Trump and the world
- 11:44Speaker 6: is pride, Islam and diverse communities.
- 11:49Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure he's just proved Trump's points.
- 11:52Speaker 3: He's promising to show Trump everything except London. I mean,
- 11:55Speaker 3: I remember when I went to London and you would
- 11:57Speaker 3: know you Trafelga Square, Big Ben, the London Bridge, Buckingham Palace,
- 12:02Speaker 3: Pride marches and mosques.
- 12:04Speaker 2: But I mean the boldness of Sidik Khan to say
- 12:06Speaker 2: that with a straight face.
- 12:08Speaker 3: And did you notice he's being interviewed by a couple
- 12:10Speaker 3: of presumably.
- 12:11Speaker 1: White bread Brits who.
- 12:13Speaker 3: Don't raise an objection at all. They just smile as
- 12:16Speaker 3: if this is perfectly normal. Sadik Khan has got London.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Well you can imagine the rest.
- 12:22Speaker 1: By the goa nay.
- 12:23Speaker 5: And this is what I mean about the inevitability of it,
- 12:26Speaker 5: because those words coming out of the mouth of the
- 12:29Speaker 5: Mayor of London is almost like, well, of course he'd
- 12:32Speaker 5: say that, you know, this is just the point we've
- 12:34Speaker 5: come to. I mean, it's about fourteen percent of the
- 12:38Speaker 5: population of London is Muslim. Across the UK, it's about
- 12:42Speaker 5: six and a half percent, and that's the twenty twenty
- 12:44Speaker 5: one census, so you'd assume it's grown since then. But
- 12:49Speaker 5: that's the latest data that we know, so more than
- 12:52Speaker 5: double the average British population of Muslims in London. So yeah,
- 12:57Speaker 5: there would be plenty of mosques to go and.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Take a look at.
- 13:00Speaker 5: He says that is a Muslim man himself, as though
- 13:02Speaker 5: that's the greatest thing that London has to offer, and
- 13:04Speaker 5: that there's not something odd about that. And of course
- 13:07Speaker 5: that's not to say that Muslims can't live in London
- 13:10Speaker 5: or they can't live in the UK.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Of course they can.
- 13:13Speaker 5: But when you're saying that this is part of the
- 13:16Speaker 5: Greatness of the United Kingdom.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Well, no it's not. I mean, if you think about.
- 13:21Speaker 5: I want to go to London and check out London,
- 13:24Speaker 5: all the things you listed off, James are the things
- 13:27Speaker 5: that you would think of.
- 13:28Speaker 1: I mean, who's ever thought.
- 13:30Speaker 5: I'm going to take my winter Australian holiday, summer europ
- 13:33Speaker 5: holiday in London so I can go and look at
- 13:35Speaker 5: the mosques and the Pride marches. It's not what people
- 13:38Speaker 5: associate with London, but that's what he wants people to
- 13:41Speaker 5: associate with London for some sick reason. I hope Trump
- 13:45Speaker 5: takes him up on the offer. And of course Trump
- 13:47Speaker 5: has already accepted.
- 13:48Speaker 1: An offer from King Charles the Third to go and
- 13:51Speaker 1: have a state visit over there, so I hope he
- 13:53Speaker 1: takes him up on the offer, because how funny.
- 13:55Speaker 5: Will it be to see Sadik Kahan leading Donald Trump
- 13:59Speaker 5: around London to Pride marches and mosques. It will be hilarious,
- 14:04Speaker 5: almost as good as him standing next to Jerome Powell
- 14:06Speaker 5: that the new building.
- 14:08Speaker 1: I mean, it will be so good.
- 14:10Speaker 3: Only there's more chance of Anti Albanzi going to meet
- 14:13Speaker 3: Trump and you can't actually making good on that offer.
- 14:16Speaker 6: But the other thing is if all you want to
- 14:18Speaker 6: see are mosques and pride marches. Come to Sydney, go
- 14:21Speaker 6: to Melbourne, go to any city in the western world.
- 14:25Speaker 6: There is nothing quintessentially British or London about that, and
- 14:29Speaker 6: that is the whole point. We have replaced and he
- 14:32Speaker 6: raised our own cultures for this experiment of endless openness,
- 14:37Speaker 6: diversity and multiculturalism.
- 14:39Speaker 7: We are a multi racial society.
- 14:41Speaker 6: That's great, but we have to have a shared culture,
- 14:44Speaker 6: shared values, customs, institutions. Otherwise society will break down and
- 14:49Speaker 6: all you're left with is generic phrases about mosques and pride.
- 14:53Speaker 7: Could be London, could be anywhere in the world.
- 14:55Speaker 3: Well, speaking of society breaking down and staying in the UK,
- 15:00Speaker 3: it's a clothing store used to be called Marx and Spencer,
- 15:03Speaker 3: major department stores in the UK. They're under fire after
- 15:07Speaker 3: a transgendered staff member harassed a fourteen year old girl
- 15:11Speaker 3: who was.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Shopping with her mum.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Now the mother complained she'd gone to the store with
- 15:16Speaker 3: her fourteen year old who was buying her first bra,
- 15:19Speaker 3: when a transgendered staff member that is a man who
- 15:24Speaker 3: identifies as a woman about six foot two, comes over
- 15:27Speaker 3: to the fourteen year old girl and offers assistance with
- 15:31Speaker 3: trying on her first bra.
- 15:33Speaker 2: The girl was.
- 15:34Speaker 3: Horrified, immediately reported it to her mum and they left
- 15:38Speaker 3: the store. Then they complained as you would, and this
- 15:41Speaker 3: is the response they got from the store. They replied
- 15:45Speaker 3: in writing, we want our stores to be inclusive and
- 15:48Speaker 3: welcoming places for our colleagues, staff and customers. We've written
- 15:53Speaker 3: to the customer and explained that our colleagues typically work
- 15:56Speaker 3: across all departments in our stores, and customers can always
- 15:59Speaker 3: ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with,
- 16:03Speaker 3: except that it was the transgendered staff member approaching the
- 16:07Speaker 3: fourteen year old girl, not the girl picking and choosing
- 16:10Speaker 3: or having a lack of choice as to who served her.
- 16:13Speaker 2: JK.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Rowling, the Harry Potter author, has taken this up and
- 16:18Speaker 3: she has posted on social media it's time for women
- 16:20Speaker 3: to vote with their wallets. If stores like M and
- 16:22Speaker 3: S continue to flat the Supreme Court ruling on women
- 16:25Speaker 3: only spaces prioritizing the wishes of men who want to
- 16:28Speaker 3: undress near or help fit bras on teenage girls, a
- 16:31Speaker 3: boycott seems appropriate.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Well, that's absolutely true.
- 16:35Speaker 3: I should point out the incident at Emins happened in March.
- 16:40Speaker 3: The Supreme Court ruling was the month after that, So
- 16:45Speaker 3: there is that factor. But the department stor's response to
- 16:50Speaker 3: the mother is entirely unsatisfactory. There wasn't an apology, There
- 16:54Speaker 3: wasn't an acknowledgment that this was not only wrong, it
- 16:57Speaker 3: was gross and completely inappropriate. It was just this language
- 17:01Speaker 3: of well, we're all about inclusion and we're all about welcoming.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Inclusion would have to be the most overdone word in
- 17:08Speaker 3: Western culture right now, and it's used to cover a
- 17:11Speaker 3: multitude of sins.
- 17:12Speaker 5: I know, And from a legal standpoint, there's probably a
- 17:14Speaker 5: question over whether a brass section of a department store
- 17:17Speaker 5: is actually a women's only space. But putting that to
- 17:19Speaker 5: one side, you would think, just as a matter of business,
- 17:22Speaker 5: you would no.
- 17:23Speaker 1: You say that who else would go to that? Well?
- 17:25Speaker 5: Is there a law saying that a man can't walk
- 17:27Speaker 5: through the bras section of a department store? So I'm
- 17:30Speaker 5: just saying on a legal sense, law of common sense,
- 17:33Speaker 5: But in a legal sense, if you took it to court,
- 17:35Speaker 5: I don't think you'd get away with that as it
- 17:37Speaker 5: being an issue, but you would think as a matter
- 17:40Speaker 5: of business that you wouldn't have male or you know,
- 17:44Speaker 5: biological men who now say they're women going up to
- 17:48Speaker 5: people in the brass section of a department store, particularly
- 17:51Speaker 5: a teenage girl, and asking them if they want to
- 17:53Speaker 5: try a bra on. And the thing that I just
- 17:55Speaker 5: don't understand is this having happened, which is a situation
- 18:00Speaker 5: that I assume management didn't foresee happening for pretty obvious reasons,
- 18:05Speaker 5: because it's not all that long ago. You wouldn't have
- 18:07Speaker 5: had transgender staff walking around in there anyway. But having
- 18:10Speaker 5: now had that experience and a complaint being made, that
- 18:14Speaker 5: they don't just turn around and say, yes, we understand
- 18:18Speaker 5: what the problem is. Henceforth, we will advise male staff
- 18:22Speaker 5: and transgender staff who are biological men not to work
- 18:26Speaker 5: in the brass section of the shop. I mean, how
- 18:29Speaker 5: obvious is that stuff? But they can't do it because
- 18:32Speaker 5: they are slaves to the diversity agenda.
- 18:35Speaker 3: The bigger problem here is either men can become women
- 18:38Speaker 3: or they can't.
- 18:39Speaker 2: It's a binary.
- 18:40Speaker 3: Choice, right, they can or they can't, and we all
- 18:43Speaker 3: know they can't, but we pretend they can. And so
- 18:46Speaker 3: now we've got all these weird things where this person
- 18:50Speaker 3: is a woman in this situation, but can't be a
- 18:52Speaker 3: woman in that situation. Nicholas Sturgia in Scotland tried to
- 18:55Speaker 3: say that transgendered women could go to women's prisons unless
- 18:59Speaker 3: they committed a sexual offense, in which case they had
- 19:02Speaker 3: to go to So you were a man or a
- 19:05Speaker 3: woman based on the type of crime you had committed.
- 19:08Speaker 2: And we're playing all these games.
- 19:09Speaker 3: Because we know it's not true, but we're trying to
- 19:12Speaker 3: pretend like it is, and all these anomalies keep cropping
- 19:15Speaker 3: up where we have to compromise. You cut, something's either
- 19:18Speaker 3: true or it's not, and the consequences just naturally unfold
- 19:22Speaker 3: once you determine truth.
- 19:24Speaker 7: But we refuse to do that exactly. And ultimately what
- 19:26Speaker 7: it is is it's putting the.
- 19:27Speaker 6: Feelings of a very small group of the population ahead
- 19:32Speaker 6: of the rights of fifty percent of the population. And
- 19:36Speaker 6: I also hate this response mark from m ands where
- 19:39Speaker 6: they say, well, you could just ask to speak to
- 19:42Speaker 6: the colleague you feel most comfortable with. Don't put the
- 19:45Speaker 6: onus on women to want to speak to a woman.
- 19:48Speaker 6: If you've ever been bra shopping, especially your first bar
- 19:51Speaker 6: at fourteen, it's uncomfortable at the best of times, let
- 19:55Speaker 6: alone having a six foot two male try to you know,
- 19:59Speaker 6: it's into you're literally stating there butt naked. I don't
- 20:02Speaker 6: need to go into the details, but it's not pleasant.
- 20:06Speaker 6: You should be trying to make this as comfortable as possible,
- 20:09Speaker 6: not saying to the customer, Well, if you're offended by
- 20:11Speaker 6: six foot two man trying to feel you out, maybe
- 20:14Speaker 6: you should just speak to someone you feel more comfortable with.
- 20:16Speaker 3: Can you imagine if you bypass the transgender person to
- 20:19Speaker 3: speak to the real woman.
- 20:21Speaker 7: You well, rand so, oh my goodness.
- 20:25Speaker 5: You can't exactly, you can't get away with it, which
- 20:27Speaker 5: is why every shop should have like a basic rule
- 20:31Speaker 5: that you don't have men working in the brass section
- 20:33Speaker 5: of the shop. It seems straightforward, but you know, we
- 20:36Speaker 5: live in twenty twenty five. Now we're even the most
- 20:38Speaker 5: obvious things just.
- 20:39Speaker 2: We've got to move on. But I'm taking issue with that.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Shops shouldn't have a policy politicians and courts who just
- 20:44Speaker 3: decide common sense will apply and what we all know
- 20:47Speaker 3: will be lawd and will stop mucking around.
- 20:49Speaker 2: With this issue.
- 20:49Speaker 1: Yeah, well we shouldn't.
- 20:50Speaker 2: But listen, we shouldn't even.
- 20:52Speaker 5: Have to get to the point of it having to
- 20:54Speaker 5: be any concern of the law. I mean that was
- 20:56Speaker 5: when when the Supreme Court made that decision in the
- 20:59Speaker 5: UK that a woman is a woman, and we were
- 21:02Speaker 5: all like, how good, But like, what are we doing
- 21:05Speaker 5: going to courts asking them to define.
- 21:06Speaker 2: What a woman is in Australian courts right now?
- 21:09Speaker 1: Precisely.
- 21:10Speaker 5: I hope they make the right decision. Otherwise we are
- 21:12Speaker 5: all well and truly stuffed. But while we're talking about
- 21:14Speaker 5: these matters moving from the UK to the US, I'm
- 21:19Speaker 5: sure you've heard of the TV show Family Feud. They've
- 21:22Speaker 5: rebooted it in various forms in this country. I think
- 21:24Speaker 5: it was two thousand and six. I remember it was
- 21:25Speaker 5: Bert's Family Feud with Burt Newton here in Australia.
- 21:28Speaker 1: I quite enjoyed it as a child.
- 21:30Speaker 5: But Family Feud is still going in the US and
- 21:33Speaker 5: they have a celebrity.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Edition of Family Feud, and so they've.
- 21:36Speaker 5: Had this celebrity edition of Family Feud with these people,
- 21:40Speaker 5: none of whom I've ever heard of, Laverne Cox, Miller,
- 21:44Speaker 5: jam Joslyn de Fries and Ts Madison, which I don't
- 21:48Speaker 5: know who the hell they are, but they all happen
- 21:50Speaker 5: to be transgender, and well they were cracking some fruity jokes.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Shall we say TS?
- 21:57Speaker 9: Can't just call you ts?
- 21:59Speaker 1: Of course you can give you Listen, I take it
- 22:01Speaker 1: shorter long. It's okay to free ball. We're free ball
- 22:09Speaker 1: and k all day.
- 22:11Speaker 10: Some of us are without the word.
- 22:16Speaker 1: Some of us are free. Some of us have set
- 22:19Speaker 1: them free.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Oh my god.
- 22:25Speaker 5: Now, look, apparently this is in sense some viewers, and
- 22:28Speaker 5: they've said, oh, you've got to stop watching the show,
- 22:30Speaker 5: And well, I thought it was funny, to be honest,
- 22:32Speaker 5: they've got a sense of humor. If you don't like it,
- 22:34Speaker 5: just like if you don't like watching me, turn off
- 22:36Speaker 5: the Telly and go and watch something else. But an
- 22:39Speaker 5: interesting part of this is that as part of celebrity
- 22:42Speaker 5: family feud, they raise money for a charity, and that
- 22:46Speaker 5: team was raising money for a charity that belongs to
- 22:50Speaker 5: one of the participants, Ts Madison, who made that joke
- 22:53Speaker 5: you saw at the beginning of that clip. And this charity,
- 22:57Speaker 5: which is called TS Madison Starter is and I'm quoting here,
- 23:02Speaker 5: I'm telling you that this is real. It is a
- 23:05Speaker 5: charity for an Sorry, it is an innovative housing initiative
- 23:11Speaker 5: designed to support and empower black trans women.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Engaged in sex work.
- 23:18Speaker 5: Now, if you don't quite know what that means, it
- 23:21Speaker 5: means if you are a black transgender person who's been
- 23:24Speaker 5: banged up in jail for being a sex worker, they put.
- 23:28Speaker 1: You in a house when you get released from prison.
- 23:30Speaker 5: It would have to be the most niche charity of
- 23:33Speaker 5: all time. I didn't know this was such an issue
- 23:36Speaker 5: in the United States that you needed a specific charity
- 23:40Speaker 5: to run a house for transgender black people who've been
- 23:43Speaker 5: locked up for being prostitutes.
- 23:47Speaker 3: And people wonder why Donald Trump won the election honestly
- 23:50Speaker 3: to have an all transgendered team on Family Feud. So
- 23:54Speaker 3: they says a good idea.
- 23:57Speaker 6: They would have known what they were doing by allowing
- 24:00Speaker 6: these guys to these guys to come on the show.
- 24:03Speaker 7: They all have social media. It's pretty clear.
- 24:05Speaker 6: That they're quite wild characters. And so it's kind of
- 24:08Speaker 6: on Disney for this one for letting them go on
- 24:11Speaker 6: a show called Family Feud. They are especially given a well.
- 24:15Speaker 6: Ts Madison definitely was a prostitute engaged in sex work.
- 24:20Speaker 6: I mean, this is where the whole charity idea comes from.
- 24:23Speaker 6: She was a black transwoman in sex work in the
- 24:28Speaker 6: Deep South of America.
- 24:29Speaker 7: As well, quite brave, really very brave.
- 24:33Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, doesn't this just epitomize the culture
- 24:36Speaker 6: war that is raging in the US. I mean, the
- 24:38Speaker 6: most niche minority group who somehow have a grievance against
- 24:44Speaker 6: the system and are going to raise money for themselves
- 24:46Speaker 6: and their own friends got a house together.
- 24:49Speaker 5: You could be raising money for starving African children and
- 24:53Speaker 5: all these sorts of.
- 24:54Speaker 3: Well, you could just have a game show. That's a
- 24:55Speaker 3: fun game show. It's owned by Disney, now, right, kid,
- 25:00Speaker 3: on Saturday nights, we'll be allowed to staff and watch
- 25:02Speaker 3: the Wonderful World of Disney or whatever it was called.
- 25:04Speaker 2: And it was certainly not.
- 25:06Speaker 1: You weren't watching Hey Saturday, No.
- 25:08Speaker 3: I wasn't, and I certainly wasn't watching family feud like that.
- 25:10Speaker 3: Let's stay in the US where some more crazy thing,
- 25:13Speaker 3: maybe even crazier than that, is happening. But politically in Texas,
- 25:16Speaker 3: where the House of Representatives want to pass a bill,
- 25:20Speaker 3: the House of course is dominated by Republicans, that it's
- 25:22Speaker 3: going to move some electoral boundaries and it will probably
- 25:25Speaker 3: result in more seats for Republicans. So obviously the Democrats,
- 25:29Speaker 3: who are in a minority in the House they don't
- 25:30Speaker 3: want this, so to avoid this bill being passed, they're
- 25:34Speaker 3: just not showing up for work so that there's not
- 25:37Speaker 3: enough representatives to form a quorum, so the bill can't
- 25:40Speaker 3: be voted upon. The problem, of course, is that they
- 25:44Speaker 3: can be fined and or arrested for not showing up
- 25:47Speaker 3: to vote, so they've gotten around that by actually leaving
- 25:51Speaker 3: the state.
- 25:52Speaker 2: So you've got Texan representatives.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Democrats who have now gone into state so that there's
- 25:59Speaker 3: no ability for them to be arrested for not showing up.
- 26:02Speaker 3: I think it's been three days that they've refused to
- 26:04Speaker 3: turn up to the House of Reps to do their job.
- 26:07Speaker 3: The House of Reps will sit for another two weeks,
- 26:09Speaker 3: and they're proposing that they may well not come back
- 26:12Speaker 3: at all.
- 26:13Speaker 2: Now.
- 26:13Speaker 3: The problem with this, of course, is there are other
- 26:15Speaker 3: bills that need to be passed, flood relief bills. There's
- 26:19Speaker 3: a bill to create an early warning system so that
- 26:21Speaker 3: floods as we saw recently don't affect people so badly again.
- 26:26Speaker 3: And the Dems are just flat out refusing to come
- 26:28Speaker 3: to work and represent their constituents in the House because
- 26:33Speaker 3: there's a bill they don't like.
- 26:34Speaker 2: They don't want it to pass, so they just won't
- 26:36Speaker 2: show up.
- 26:36Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a serious neglect of your civic duty. You
- 26:39Speaker 6: were elected to do a job to represent the people.
- 26:42Speaker 6: And there are other bills that are being held up.
- 26:44Speaker 6: This is what the Republican governor Greg Abbott had to say.
- 26:49Speaker 11: So they're leaving, and they've left because they're very untaxaned.
- 26:54Speaker 9: Texas.
- 26:54Speaker 12: Don't run from a fate. And there's a fight going
- 26:56Speaker 12: on in the legislature right now about redistring as well
- 27:00Speaker 12: as other things.
- 27:01Speaker 11: But I'll make two quick points stand about this.
- 27:03Speaker 12: For one, to run to states like New York and
- 27:07Speaker 12: Illinois to protest redistricting is kind of like running to
- 27:10Speaker 12: Wisconsin to protest cheese. It's just kind of outrageous.
- 27:13Speaker 11: Those are New York and Illinois to hallmark states. They've
- 27:17Speaker 11: already done redistricting to eliminate Republicans. But the second thing
- 27:22Speaker 11: is far more serious, and that is what these Democrats
- 27:25Speaker 11: have done.
- 27:26Speaker 12: Just a small fraction of them were needed to break
- 27:29Speaker 12: a quorum, and that small fraction is holding hostage legislation
- 27:32Speaker 12: in the state of Texas, where we will be able
- 27:34Speaker 12: to provide assistance and reform for all of the victims
- 27:39Speaker 12: of that horrific flooding that we've had in the state
- 27:42Speaker 12: of Texas.
- 27:43Speaker 6: Honestly, this kind of reminds me of student politics at
- 27:46Speaker 6: Sydney University when different groups on campus would routinely pull
- 27:51Speaker 6: quorum at SRC meetings so they could tank motions and
- 27:55Speaker 6: derail the entire meeting, and that was the strategy. This
- 27:58Speaker 6: is so immature. It is the behavior of student politicians
- 28:03Speaker 6: on university campuses, not real politicians who are supposed to
- 28:06Speaker 6: be representing people. And I also love the Democrats always
- 28:10Speaker 6: going on about how Republicans are taking away democracy. Trump
- 28:13Speaker 6: is killing democracy, but as soon as there's a bill
- 28:16Speaker 6: that they don't like, they just leave the state and
- 28:19Speaker 6: shut down democracy.
- 28:21Speaker 5: Well, so many, you know, real politicians are former student politicians.
- 28:25Speaker 5: So I suppose you can't teach an old dog new tricks,
- 28:28Speaker 5: can you. I mean, you know, you have to be
- 28:30Speaker 5: able to roll with the punchers in politics, and sometimes
- 28:32Speaker 5: things go your way and sometimes they don't, and you.
- 28:36Speaker 1: Just have to hack the fact that that's how it is.
- 28:38Speaker 5: I mean, essentially, what they're doing here is a blatant gerrymander,
- 28:43Speaker 5: and Greg Abbott has even acknowledged that it is basically
- 28:46Speaker 5: a Gerrymanda, but.
- 28:47Speaker 3: It's legal for them to do it, so the Republicans,
- 28:50Speaker 3: that's what the Republicans are doing.
- 28:51Speaker 1: Yeah, so they know what they're doing, but it is legal.
- 28:55Speaker 5: They've had the legal advices says they can do it,
- 28:58Speaker 5: and the Dems are now threatening to do it them
- 29:00Speaker 5: in other states. So you know, all's fair in love
- 29:03Speaker 5: and war. If that's what you can do, that's what
- 29:05Speaker 5: you can do.
- 29:05Speaker 1: Go for your life.
- 29:07Speaker 5: It is within the law, and so you ought to
- 29:09Speaker 5: rock up and vote and do your job. I mean,
- 29:12Speaker 5: if this is how politics was run in general, every time.
- 29:17Speaker 1: There was a piece of legislation, a.
- 29:19Speaker 5: Bill came before you know, our parliament or any parliament
- 29:23Speaker 5: or whatever in legislature in the United States saying you know,
- 29:27Speaker 5: we don't like what you're going to try to do,
- 29:29Speaker 5: and we know it's going to pass because you've got
- 29:30Speaker 5: a majority, so we're just going to yank how people
- 29:34Speaker 5: out of the parliament. If that's how things ran, we
- 29:37Speaker 5: would be and you know Tasmania is probably sitting at
- 29:39Speaker 5: home going, well, we know about this, but we would
- 29:42Speaker 5: be in an election every second month's you just can't
- 29:46Speaker 5: do it.
- 29:46Speaker 7: Yeah, it is complete, complete chaos. Well, staying in the US.
- 29:50Speaker 6: Now, if you have kids who are sort of in
- 29:53Speaker 6: there teen years, you may have heard of this thing
- 29:56Speaker 6: called the Bop House. It is the biggest on social
- 30:00Speaker 6: media at the moment. What it is is a house
- 30:03Speaker 6: of a group of girls all in their late teens
- 30:05Speaker 6: and early twenties. They made catchy videos dancing, singing, braiding
- 30:10Speaker 6: each other's hair at sleepovers. It all looks pretty innocent,
- 30:15Speaker 6: but it masks something extremely sinister between them. They have
- 30:20Speaker 6: thirty three million followers, and they're actually only fans content creators.
- 30:26Speaker 6: This is the kind of video though, that they post
- 30:29Speaker 6: to lure kids into watching their stuff. So it's not
- 30:50Speaker 6: exactly complex stuff with a lot of intellectual rigger or firepower,
- 30:56Speaker 6: and it's not even that entertaining.
- 30:58Speaker 7: Really.
- 30:58Speaker 6: Choreography was amazing, yeah, But thirty three million followers and
- 31:03Speaker 6: these girls are ranged from ages of eighteen to early twenties,
- 31:09Speaker 6: and they're making millions of dollars on only Fans, which
- 31:12Speaker 6: is essentially a pornography site. And the risk here is
- 31:17Speaker 6: they are attracting young people, particularly girls. They're glamorizing a
- 31:23Speaker 6: lifestyle of sex work, and this has now become aspirational
- 31:29Speaker 6: to young girls. We've given them feminism choice, and what
- 31:32Speaker 6: do people want to do now?
- 31:34Speaker 7: Be prostitutes the oldest profession.
- 31:36Speaker 3: So they're using the TikTok videos which appeal to teenage girls.
- 31:40Speaker 3: So then link the teenage girls to the individuals who
- 31:43Speaker 3: feature in these videos. They're OnlyFans accounts, which are basically
- 31:47Speaker 3: pornographic sites, and thereby normalizing pornographic content creation for twelve, thirteen,
- 31:54Speaker 3: fourteen year old girls.
- 31:56Speaker 1: And I suspect their original intention is.
- 31:59Speaker 5: To get the blokes to carry through and buy a
- 32:02Speaker 5: subscription to their platform, because this is a way for
- 32:06Speaker 5: them to make money. Right, So blokes looking and go, oh,
- 32:08Speaker 5: they've got an only fans, I'll go.
- 32:10Speaker 1: And buy that.
- 32:10Speaker 5: But buy product is that younger girls are also seeing this,
- 32:13Speaker 5: and so it legiti marters is normalizes the idea.
- 32:16Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to do porn, go
- 32:18Speaker 1: for your life. That's your business.
- 32:20Speaker 5: It's a free market, you can do what you want.
- 32:22Speaker 5: But this brings me back to the argument I've been
- 32:24Speaker 5: making for a long time that we need to ban
- 32:26Speaker 5: TikTok because it is just pure brain rot sent out
- 32:30Speaker 5: by the CCP in China to destroy Western brains. And
- 32:34Speaker 5: this is the logical conclusion of what that platform is
- 32:38Speaker 5: doing to people.
- 32:39Speaker 1: It is because the.
- 32:40Speaker 5: Algorithm pushes this content, it puts it in the faces
- 32:44Speaker 5: of teenage girls and men who go on to buy
- 32:46Speaker 5: subscriptions to this stuff.
- 32:48Speaker 1: This is what the CCP wants.
- 32:50Speaker 5: They want people to watch this mindless garbage and then
- 32:53Speaker 5: go by Is this.
- 32:54Speaker 6: The product of TikTok as a platform or is this
- 32:57Speaker 6: the product of the exact argument you've just made.
- 32:59Speaker 7: Where you can do porn. It's your choice.
- 33:02Speaker 6: There's not really any objective moral standard. If you want
- 33:04Speaker 6: to do this, you can go for it, because that's
- 33:06Speaker 6: all they're doing. They're just exercising their bodily or chinament
- 33:10Speaker 6: to make pornographic content. Their content is also promoted on Instagram,
- 33:14Speaker 6: on any other social media platform.
- 33:16Speaker 7: It's not about the platform. It's about the fact that.
- 33:19Speaker 6: It's objectively horrible that young girls are aspiring to do sex.
- 33:25Speaker 1: Because that then mean it should be illegal.
- 33:27Speaker 7: Well, I think it should be morally frowned upon, for sure.
- 33:30Speaker 3: But the point with TikTok, though, is it's unusual in
- 33:33Speaker 3: that it is responsible from the CCP, where they have
- 33:37Speaker 3: a very different version in China for their young people.
- 33:40Speaker 3: They're exporting a pernicious version to children in Western countries
- 33:44Speaker 3: as a way of breaking down Western culture and for
- 33:47Speaker 3: that reason alone. And everyone was worried about the data
- 33:50Speaker 3: mining aspect. It's the content that's the big problem. The
- 33:53Speaker 3: Chinese not just an open market. It's deliberately targeting Western
- 33:57Speaker 3: nations for that reason, Freyan, no one should be on
- 33:59Speaker 3: t Nobody, Frayer, no one.
- 34:02Speaker 6: But there is something deeper going on here that is
- 34:05Speaker 6: irrespective of which platform you use. It's that young girls
- 34:09Speaker 6: are buying into this porn culture. It was typically that
- 34:13Speaker 6: it was young men who were viewing porn. Now young
- 34:16Speaker 6: women also viewing it and they're aspiring to produce it.
- 34:19Speaker 6: And that is for me the scary thing where young
- 34:22Speaker 6: women are voluntarily looking up to these people and saying, yeah,
- 34:26Speaker 6: that's what I want to be when I grow up
- 34:27Speaker 6: a porn stuff.
- 34:29Speaker 5: It is interesting because Channel four in the UK has
- 34:32Speaker 5: recently made a documentary about a porn actress called Bonnie Blue,
- 34:37Speaker 5: and she filmed this thing. She is on only fens,
- 34:40Speaker 5: was on only fans, I don't know where. She had
- 34:43Speaker 5: sex with one thousand men in twenty four hours. So
- 34:47Speaker 5: Channel four has made a documentary about this take a
- 34:50Speaker 5: look at the trailer.
- 34:52Speaker 10: You've seen the headlines, you've heard the nose, and now
- 34:54Speaker 10: Channel four is taking a.
- 34:55Speaker 8: Look behind you on one thousand Men and Me. The
- 34:59Speaker 8: Bonnie Blue story streaming now.
- 35:01Speaker 12: The content I love making the most is the barely legals,
- 35:05Speaker 12: the students, the husbands.
- 35:08Speaker 6: The last I went up by myself was probably about
- 35:10Speaker 6: six months ago.
- 35:11Speaker 10: If you could earn a million pounds in a month,
- 35:14Speaker 10: your morals had soon changed and you'd get your better.
- 35:17Speaker 8: I found my purpose and found their niche I want
- 35:21Speaker 8: to focus on.
- 35:23Speaker 5: And some are saying that this is legitimizing what she does.
- 35:27Speaker 5: I mean, you know, as a journalist, I think all
- 35:30Speaker 5: is fear in journalism, and you can make documentaries about everything,
- 35:33Speaker 5: and it is actually a news story at the moment.
- 35:37Speaker 5: So I understand why they've made the doco and why
- 35:39Speaker 5: they're marketing it because it's a window into the weird
- 35:42Speaker 5: and wacky things that go on in the world. But
- 35:44Speaker 5: you know that that's sort of where you've got to now,
- 35:46Speaker 5: where that's that's the number one thing. Someone saying I
- 35:49Speaker 5: want to shag a thousand men on camera.
- 35:52Speaker 2: I liked mum saying for a million pounds, stuff your.
- 35:55Speaker 6: Morals, and I think that's why body is so popular
- 36:00Speaker 6: and people are just I guess, enthralled by her because
- 36:05Speaker 6: she pushes all boundaries and really she takes this idea
- 36:09Speaker 6: of my body, my choice, complete sexual liberation, unbound from
- 36:13Speaker 6: any social norms to its absolute extreme, and that is
- 36:18Speaker 6: shocking to most. But also you wonder how is this
- 36:22Speaker 6: going to go for her? What does that do to
- 36:24Speaker 6: you physically but also emotionally To put yourself through that
- 36:29Speaker 6: and really just reduce yourself to a sex object for
- 36:32Speaker 6: random men.
- 36:32Speaker 7: It's really sad.
- 36:33Speaker 1: But it is her right.
- 36:35Speaker 5: Though I suppose you can't stop someone from doing that
- 36:38Speaker 5: kind of thing, and nor should you, I don't think,
- 36:40Speaker 5: because you know, you limit freedom. If you start telling
- 36:43Speaker 5: people they can't do that kind of thing. Doesn't necessarily
- 36:45Speaker 5: mean everyone agrees with it or thinks it's great, but
- 36:48Speaker 5: you know, like it or not, that's just what some
- 36:50Speaker 5: people are doing. Very quickly, before we get to the
- 36:53Speaker 5: break in the UK, going back there for just a moment,
- 36:56Speaker 5: they're complaining now that the entry test to become a
- 36:58Speaker 5: lawyer is racist.
- 37:00Speaker 1: Honestly, how can this be real?
- 37:03Speaker 5: But apparently these solicitors' qualifying examination the SQE which is
- 37:08Speaker 5: the test you have to take to pass and go
- 37:11Speaker 5: to the bar, is difficult for people of different ethnic
- 37:16Speaker 5: origins to pass.
- 37:17Speaker 1: And so they've now started a petition a bunch.
- 37:19Speaker 5: Of people to say that it is disproportionately challenging and
- 37:23Speaker 5: favors certain backgrounds and learning styles. So it does turn
- 37:27Speaker 5: out that seventy percent of white people who take the
- 37:29Speaker 5: test pass it, forty nine percent of Asians pass it,
- 37:32Speaker 5: so fifty one percent fail, and only thirty seven percent
- 37:36Speaker 5: of black people who take the test pass it.
- 37:39Speaker 1: But how does that mean that the test is racist?
- 37:43Speaker 5: Like all the tests that everyone takes at school are
- 37:45Speaker 5: the same and they've never heard a complaint that they're
- 37:48Speaker 5: racist before, But all of a sudden, because some people
- 37:50Speaker 5: have failed the test is proportionately it means the test
- 37:54Speaker 5: must be race.
- 37:55Speaker 3: Judging by some of the asylum seeker decisions made by
- 37:58Speaker 3: British judiciary. I'll tell you what they need to make
- 38:00Speaker 3: the exam harder, because there's a lot of dummies in
- 38:02Speaker 3: the British Court at the moment.
- 38:04Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break.
- 38:05Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll look at what's making headlines tomorrow,
- 38:08Speaker 3: including one consultant of the Queensland government earning almost two
- 38:12Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars just four weeks work, and no one
- 38:17Speaker 3: knows what he's doing.
- 38:18Speaker 2: That's coming up in just a moment. Welcome back to
- 38:27Speaker 2: the program.
- 38:27Speaker 3: We'll take a look at what's making headlines in tomorrow's
- 38:30Speaker 3: papers and Caleb, we think we might have found the
- 38:32Speaker 3: best paid person in Queensland.
- 38:34Speaker 5: How good it says on the front of the courier
- 38:37Speaker 5: mail tomorrow consultant gets one hundred and eighty seven day
- 38:41Speaker 5: for a twenty.
- 38:42Speaker 1: Five day job.
- 38:43Speaker 5: Nice work if you can get it, and you can
- 38:46Speaker 5: get it if you try. I'm no Tony Bennett, but
- 38:49Speaker 5: you get the picture. An Elien p donor has been
- 38:51Speaker 5: quietly handed at one hundred and eighty seven thousand and
- 38:54Speaker 5: five hundred dollar government contract for just twenty five days
- 38:58Speaker 5: of work, and Resources Minister Last won't reveal what he's delivered.
- 39:03Speaker 5: Ian Davies, who is you can see there in the story,
- 39:07Speaker 5: was appointed to provide quote unquote special analysis to miss
- 39:11Speaker 5: the last about the resources industry in Northwest Queensland.
- 39:15Speaker 1: The former energy.
- 39:16Speaker 5: Executive is being paid one hundred and eighty seven five
- 39:18Speaker 5: hundred dollars for up to twenty five days work, equating
- 39:21Speaker 5: to an eye watering seven thousand, five hundred dollars per day,
- 39:25Speaker 5: double the eighty four thousand and seventy eight bucks annual
- 39:28Speaker 5: pay of a first year teacher. Once again I asked
- 39:32Speaker 5: the question, how do I get my hands on one
- 39:35Speaker 5: of these government contracts because I could do it for
- 39:38Speaker 5: half the price with twice as much work involved, I'm sure.
- 39:42Speaker 3: And of course the career mail is comparing and contrasting
- 39:44Speaker 3: this guy's wage from the government with the wage that
- 39:47Speaker 3: teachers receive because teachers were on strike in Queensland over
- 39:50Speaker 3: their wages. So that will be fuel to the fire,
- 39:54Speaker 3: no doubt. Going to the front page of tomorrow's Herald's
- 39:57Speaker 3: Son in Melbourne, empty promise reads the headline. One in
- 40:02Speaker 3: five CBD office spaces empty for more than a year
- 40:05Speaker 3: as fears grow Premiers work from home edict will drive
- 40:08Speaker 3: more people from Melbourne.
- 40:11Speaker 2: That's the headline. At the moment.
- 40:13Speaker 3: One in three workers in the Melbourne CBD is choosing
- 40:16Speaker 3: to work from home, according to this article, and Melbourne's
- 40:19Speaker 3: now got the highest office vacancy rates in the country
- 40:22Speaker 3: eighteen percent seventeen point nine to be exact, but about
- 40:26Speaker 3: eighteen percent of offices are empty.
- 40:28Speaker 2: And this is before just into.
- 40:30Speaker 3: Allen legislates to make it a right to work at
- 40:33Speaker 3: least two days from home if your job can reasonably
- 40:37Speaker 3: be done from home.
- 40:38Speaker 2: So this is going to destroy and not.
- 40:41Speaker 3: Just business, but you've got cafes, restaurants, all of those
- 40:45Speaker 3: auxiliary businesses in the CBD rely on workers being at work.
- 40:50Speaker 2: I don't know how to sink to.
- 40:51Speaker 3: Allen believes the CBD can recover when she is promoting
- 40:55Speaker 3: laws like the one she is promoted.
- 40:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 40:56Speaker 6: Well, it just feels like the life of our cities
- 40:59Speaker 6: is just being drained. The nightlife is shutting down, cafes
- 41:04Speaker 6: are going bust, restaurants can't survive. And all of this
- 41:06Speaker 6: is being compounded by our new hermit culture where we
- 41:10Speaker 6: all just want to stay at home all the time
- 41:12Speaker 6: and not socialized, not go out. It's really really sad.
- 41:16Speaker 6: Moving on to the Canberra Times now, the headline is ire.
- 41:19Speaker 7: Over Russia's lost plot.
- 41:21Speaker 6: Russia claims the cancelation of an embassy lease is illegal,
- 41:25Speaker 6: as lawyers for the Australian government argue in the nation's
- 41:28Speaker 6: highest court imposes a security risk. Diplomatic tensions are playing
- 41:32Speaker 6: out in the High Court after the Albinisi government rushed
- 41:34Speaker 6: laws through parliament in twenty twenty three to cancel Russia's
- 41:38Speaker 6: lease on a plot of land where it planned to
- 41:41Speaker 6: build a new embassy. Russia rejected the cancelation as Russophobic hysteria.
- 41:48Speaker 7: I mean, that's a new phobia we can all.
- 41:50Speaker 6: Have now, Russophobic hysteria.
- 41:53Speaker 1: Wow.
- 41:53Speaker 6: I mean, I think this is the right call. Typically,
- 41:55Speaker 6: these governments will use their embassies for the diplomatic immunity
- 42:00Speaker 6: provide and then that gives them the ability to carry
- 42:03Speaker 6: out foreign interference, spy operations, basically anything they want.
- 42:07Speaker 7: On Australian soil.
- 42:08Speaker 6: But while you're at it, maybe shut the Iranian embassy
- 42:11Speaker 6: and the Chinese one too, because it's not only Russia
- 42:14Speaker 6: that's doing DODGYP.
- 42:15Speaker 5: Well, this is the thing, right, I mean, you know
- 42:17Speaker 5: you can say, oh, we're doing.
- 42:19Speaker 1: It to Russia because Russia's bird at the moment.
- 42:21Speaker 5: But our Chinese friends, who we've just been over visiting,
- 42:26Speaker 5: and there is a case now going before the court
- 42:29Speaker 5: about you know, the CCP allegedly using someone in Australia
- 42:34Speaker 5: to spy on people in Australia.
- 42:36Speaker 1: That's fine.
- 42:37Speaker 5: They can have all of their infrastructure here in our
- 42:39Speaker 5: major cities, but Russia can't.
- 42:42Speaker 1: I'm not sure it quite was.
- 42:44Speaker 3: I'd take a contradiction, but let's start with where we're at.
- 42:47Speaker 3: There's no way a Russian embassy should be built that
- 42:49Speaker 3: close to Partament House. And bear in mind they got
- 42:52Speaker 3: this block of land in two thousand and eight.
- 42:54Speaker 2: Now they haven't built an embassy.
- 42:56Speaker 3: But imagine the change in technology over the last almost
- 42:59Speaker 3: twenty since that embassy was proposed, knowing what we know
- 43:03Speaker 3: about surveillance these days, and ASIO have warned Russia is
- 43:06Speaker 3: one of the countries that is actively spine on Australia.
- 43:09Speaker 3: They just shouldn't allow it to go ahead, and they're
- 43:11Speaker 3: right to block it.
- 43:13Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, but do it to China as well,
- 43:15Speaker 5: because there are even more imminent threat to US than
- 43:18Speaker 5: Russia is on the front of the Australian Tomorrow. EV
- 43:21Speaker 5: makers coming up short on distance claims guilty as charged, well,
- 43:26Speaker 5: I'll be bugger. Electric vehicle brands are falling short sorry
- 43:31Speaker 5: of their advertised ranges on a single battery charge, with
- 43:34Speaker 5: real world testing of byd Tesla, Kia and smart ev
- 43:38Speaker 5: models revealing the performance of a Chinese manufactured car was
- 43:42Speaker 5: twenty three percent below it's promoted road distance. The first
- 43:46Speaker 5: independent Australian testing of electric vehicle ranges, conducted by the
- 43:50Speaker 5: nation's peak motoring body found far popular TV models all
- 43:53Speaker 5: fell below their advertised on road performance. Who would have
- 43:58Speaker 5: thought that would have been the case?
- 44:00Speaker 1: What a surprise. People aren't buying them in Greatcown.
- 44:02Speaker 3: Well sixty percent of Australian So that's the reason they
- 44:04Speaker 3: don't want to buy one.
- 44:06Speaker 2: And there you go, being misled.
- 44:07Speaker 3: The front page of today Telegraph Exclusive Net closes on
- 44:11Speaker 3: AI creeps. New laws banned creation of deep fake poorn.
- 44:15Speaker 3: The creation of sexually explicit deep fakes will now be
- 44:18Speaker 3: a criminal offense in New South Wales under strengthened reforms
- 44:21Speaker 3: brought in by the Men's government. The legislation being introduced
- 44:25Speaker 3: to Parliament today that is Thursday, will expand existing offenses
- 44:30Speaker 3: relating to the production distribution of intimate images without consent
- 44:33Speaker 3: to cover those created entirely using artificial intelligence. Now, this
- 44:38Speaker 3: comes after a number of horrific instances of deep fakes
- 44:42Speaker 3: really affecting people, as a fifteen year old girl a
- 44:44Speaker 3: couple of years ago who took her own life after
- 44:47Speaker 3: kids made sexually explicit deep fake.
- 44:50Speaker 2: Pictures of her. More recently, there were.
- 44:53Speaker 3: School teachers in New South Wales saying male students had
- 44:56Speaker 3: created sexually explicit deep fake images of them when they
- 44:59Speaker 3: were sending them around to one another. So this is
- 45:02Speaker 3: a good change to the law.
- 45:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 45:04Speaker 6: Curious as to how they're going to enforce this, because
- 45:06Speaker 6: they're policing websites.
- 45:08Speaker 7: I don't know, but it's definitely a step in the
- 45:10Speaker 7: right direction. And in the Mercury tomorrow, if you're in.
- 45:13Speaker 6: Tasmania, I am so so sorry, hold on to your hats.
- 45:17Speaker 6: The Liberals' fifth term in office could last just two weeks,
- 45:20Speaker 6: as Opposition leader Dean Winter foreshadowed a no confidence motion
- 45:25Speaker 6: which might return Labor to power in Tasmania.
- 45:28Speaker 7: So imagine that.
- 45:28Speaker 6: You've just had your second election in about eighteen months
- 45:32Speaker 6: and you could be heading for number three very soon.
- 45:35Speaker 5: They won't do that, They'll just try and get confidence
- 45:37Speaker 5: in the parliament.
- 45:39Speaker 1: But I was going to use a word I shouldn't
- 45:42Speaker 1: use the television. It starts with an east and into
- 45:44Speaker 1: the shirt.
- 45:45Speaker 3: Well, speaking of that word and show after the break,
- 45:51Speaker 3: a couple.
- 45:51Speaker 2: Build their dream home.
- 45:53Speaker 3: Just one problem, they built it in the wrong spot.
- 45:56Speaker 2: What do you do in that instance. We'll talk about
- 45:58Speaker 2: it after this.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people I know are critical of cricket,
- 46:05Speaker 3: saying it's a boring game. How can a game go
- 46:07Speaker 3: for five days and at the end of five days
- 46:09Speaker 3: end in a draw. Well, here's proof that cricket really
- 46:12Speaker 3: is boring for a lot of people, because the most
- 46:14Speaker 3: excitement in a game at Lord's recently was when a
- 46:17Speaker 3: fox entered the arena.
- 46:22Speaker 9: Well, this is a first at the home of cricket.
- 46:28Speaker 1: I'm quite sure.
- 46:31Speaker 9: I always going to exit or somebody can help him out.
- 46:45Speaker 9: How do you catch a fox?
- 46:46Speaker 2: Brody never Gon asked up question.
- 46:55Speaker 9: I'll tell you what. We've gone from asking to Cheltenham.
- 46:59Speaker 9: I'm back to Lord's and he's still running. Jesus, I
- 47:06Speaker 9: wish some of my horses run that fast.
- 47:10Speaker 3: So I watched that, and I thought that fox has
- 47:13Speaker 3: got a better tail than the English rickety.
- 47:15Speaker 5: It's a very good point and jumps a bit better
- 47:17Speaker 5: than a few orders.
- 47:18Speaker 2: I love.
- 47:19Speaker 6: That's so cute. But he looks so confused. I wonder
- 47:21Speaker 6: how they got him out. Caleb, you couldn't hear this,
- 47:24Speaker 6: but he said someone should just shoots a shotgun.
- 47:26Speaker 1: I mean it's a bloody fox. They should be still
- 47:28Speaker 1: able to hunt them.
- 47:29Speaker 6: A real heartless person. Well, moving on, now, imagine this.
- 47:34Speaker 6: You buy your perfect block of land. You're looking forward
- 47:37Speaker 6: to a peaceful, idyllic retirement, only to find out you've
- 47:41Speaker 6: built your house on the wrong land.
- 47:46Speaker 10: Dave had He was working inside the house, getting the
- 47:48Speaker 10: house to getting it to certificate of occupancy, fixing up
- 47:54Speaker 10: all the cuts on the inside of the house with
- 47:57Speaker 10: the plaster, and he got a call from the ounswort
- 48:00Speaker 10: to say you need to stop work immediately because the
- 48:02Speaker 10: house is on the wrong block, and he locked everything
- 48:05Speaker 10: up and left the property. We thought it was a hoax.
- 48:08Speaker 10: We thought it was a scam. We went to the
- 48:10Speaker 10: council the next day and found out that it wasn't.
- 48:12Speaker 10: It was the council.
- 48:15Speaker 6: Did they have a builder or someone who was helping them,
- 48:19Speaker 6: because isn't that the first thing you do You look
- 48:21Speaker 6: at the council title deeds and you make sure you
- 48:25Speaker 6: actually own the property.
- 48:26Speaker 5: Well, the council initially had inspected the house and everything.
- 48:29Speaker 1: It was on the neighbors block instead. Now they're in
- 48:32Speaker 1: legal trouble.
- 48:33Speaker 2: Over given fourteen days to get rid of the house.
- 48:35Speaker 1: Just for, isn't it.
- 48:36Speaker 5: And we can't leave tonight without acknowledging the death of
- 48:39Speaker 5: Cold Joy of course.
- 48:40Speaker 1: So the first.
- 48:41Speaker 5: Australian to have a number one here take a look
- 48:54Speaker 5: his first hit, Bye Bye Baby, and then eventually My
- 48:58Speaker 5: Woman's Love. You know, he was the teen idol in
- 49:02Speaker 5: Australia when the Elvis was going on in the United
- 49:04Speaker 5: States and whatever. And there are some great stories back
- 49:07Speaker 5: in the day, him and Brian Henderson and John Laws
- 49:10Speaker 5: knocking about together in the days of bandstand.
- 49:13Speaker 1: Which many of you at home will remember. Jeez, they
- 49:15Speaker 1: got up to some fun.
- 49:17Speaker 3: Well that's all we've got time for, but stick around.
- 49:19Speaker 3: Coming up is the reed A Penny Show. We'll see
- 49:21Speaker 3: you again tomorrow night.
- 49:22Speaker 2: Good night,