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- 0:00Speaker 1: Lately, General Man, welcome the Late Debates. It's great to
- 0:08Speaker 1: have your company on the Late Debate James Macpherson with
- 0:10Speaker 1: Liz Storer and Caleb Bond coming up. How to amuse
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- 0:23Speaker 1: about it. Plus when we look at the papers, Scotland
- 0:26Speaker 1: to host the twenty twenty six Commonwealth Games, Victorians to
- 0:29Speaker 1: pay for it, and an interesting story in tomorrow's Australian
- 0:34Speaker 1: school teachers will use AI chatbots to set your child's
- 0:38Speaker 1: homework and assignments. What could possibly go wrong? But first,
- 0:43Speaker 1: New South Wales alcohol laws could be loosened to allow
- 0:47Speaker 1: drinking in public places, such as in parks and on beaches.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Now currently alcohol can't be consumed on public footpaths or
- 0:55Speaker 1: on roads, and local councils are able to declare alcohol
- 0:59Speaker 1: free zones in parks and beaches. But Upper House MP
- 1:02Speaker 1: John Ruddick has introduced a private members build to overturn
- 1:06Speaker 1: the bands, and New South Wales Premier Chris mins Well
- 1:10Speaker 1: he likes the.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Idea generally on the side of believing there's just too
- 1:16Speaker 2: many rules and regulations, particularly when it comes to hospitality
- 1:21Speaker 2: or having fun in Sydney. There's too many places around Sydney,
- 1:25Speaker 2: not just in a CBD that close pretty close to
- 1:28Speaker 2: eight point thirty and there's a lot of people that
- 1:30Speaker 2: want to go out and spend money and drive the economy.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Having an economy that fires after five pm during the
- 1:37Speaker 2: week is really important for cities like Sydney, and that
- 1:41Speaker 2: means that we've got to be open to cutting red tape.
- 1:44Speaker 2: The general discussion about the amount of restrictions that are
- 1:47Speaker 2: in place for people that want to open a bar,
- 1:49Speaker 2: or serve food, or create some kind of excitement and
- 1:54Speaker 2: energy that people see in other international cities around the
- 1:56Speaker 2: world would be really valuable and long overdue for Sydney.
- 2:01Speaker 1: I think most people would agree with the new South
- 2:03Speaker 1: Wales labor premiere that we need less rules. But it
- 2:06Speaker 1: does beg the question as long as labor are in power,
- 2:09Speaker 1: caleber who can afford alcohol?
- 2:11Speaker 3: That's quite a federally anyway. That is true because as
- 2:15Speaker 3: of August the first, the excise has gone up again
- 2:18Speaker 3: and by the way, the alcohol excise, like the tobacco excise,
- 2:22Speaker 3: goes up every six months, and a bit like compound interest,
- 2:25Speaker 3: when you put money in the bank, it just gets
- 2:28Speaker 3: worse and worse and worse because it's tied to CPI,
- 2:31Speaker 3: so it goes up, you know, whatever CPI is, every
- 2:35Speaker 3: six months. And of course over the last couple of
- 2:37Speaker 3: years that's been really bad. You can barely get a
- 2:40Speaker 3: bottle of spirits for less than fifty bucks. These days.
- 2:44Speaker 3: You go and buy a bottle of bunderberg Rum and
- 2:47Speaker 3: sixty three percent of the cost of that is tax.
- 2:50Speaker 3: It is outrageous how we are taxed in this country.
- 2:53Speaker 3: But good on.
- 2:53Speaker 4: Them has a very personal dereth.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Caleb has no idea. Every time we go out, you
- 2:59Speaker 1: may pace you know about the cost.
- 3:03Speaker 3: That's because I'm getting you to make up for lost time,
- 3:05Speaker 3: because it was fifty odd years until you started drinking.
- 3:08Speaker 3: So you've got you got a lot of rounds, a
- 3:10Speaker 3: lot of rounds to make up for James. But good
- 3:14Speaker 3: on mens for getting behind the idea of pulling some
- 3:16Speaker 3: red tape out of the way, because, for heaven's sake,
- 3:19Speaker 3: if you can't have a beer on the beach, we
- 3:22Speaker 3: are not a serious country. If you can't go and
- 3:25Speaker 3: have a picnic in the park and enjoy a glass
- 3:28Speaker 3: of wine with your plowman's lunch or whatever you're have
- 3:30Speaker 3: in your ketca seriously, like it's hot. It is harming
- 3:35Speaker 3: no one, and New South Wales in particular, since they
- 3:38Speaker 3: introduced the lockout laws in Sydney's g what a decade
- 3:42Speaker 3: or so ago, totally destroyed the nightlife in Sydney. You
- 3:47Speaker 3: can barely buy a bottle of wine after ten pm.
- 3:51Speaker 3: We meant to be a serious international city and it's
- 3:54Speaker 3: illegal to have a drink on the beach or have
- 3:57Speaker 3: a restaurant open to the late. But they did all
- 4:00Speaker 3: the damage they brought in the lockout laws killed King's Cross,
- 4:04Speaker 3: killed all the night. Like, oh well, we'll lift that now,
- 4:06Speaker 3: and let's just hope you can sort of gets where
- 4:10Speaker 3: we were, is it, Caleb, Let's not go to for
- 4:13Speaker 3: anyone anymore because it doesn't bloody exist anymore. But like,
- 4:17Speaker 3: what's the problem with having a beer on the beach.
- 4:19Speaker 3: If someone is causing a nuisance, they're going to cause
- 4:21Speaker 3: a nuisance, regardless of whether there is a ban on
- 4:24Speaker 3: having a drink on the beach anyway, deal with people
- 4:27Speaker 3: who are publicly drunk and carry on like lauts. You
- 4:30Speaker 3: can find them in any pub or any license of
- 4:33Speaker 3: in you anywhere, and they should rightfully be dealt with.
- 4:35Speaker 3: But what's wrong with having a beer on the beach
- 4:37Speaker 3: or at the park play on? I say, but.
- 4:39Speaker 4: That is something that falls into the jurisdiction of the councils.
- 4:44Speaker 4: Being a city councilor myself, I remember that. Well, So
- 4:46Speaker 4: unless he's talking about amending the legislation to take that
- 4:51Speaker 4: power back off the councils, all this was was a
- 4:54Speaker 4: pile of hot air. I'm not really sure what we're
- 4:57Speaker 4: excited about. All he said is general discussion would be
- 5:01Speaker 4: really valuable. Mate. That the only line older than that
- 5:05Speaker 4: in politics is let there be live I mean, he's
- 5:08Speaker 4: not actually promised any action here. It is simply a yes,
- 5:13Speaker 4: this is something we should have a discussion about. So
- 5:15Speaker 4: I find it very hard to get excited when all
- 5:19Speaker 4: he's really done is prove that he's capable of stating
- 5:22Speaker 4: an observable fact. But what is he going to do
- 5:25Speaker 4: about it? Sure, but at least you see the men's
- 5:29Speaker 4: government then amending the state legislation that gives that power
- 5:34Speaker 4: to the councils, because obviously counsels differ greatly in their makeups.
- 5:39Speaker 4: You've got the really beach rich ones, the park rich ones,
- 5:43Speaker 4: the ones that see a lot of tourists coming through.
- 5:46Speaker 4: They're more likely to be far more adverse to now
- 5:52Speaker 4: allowing there to be because a lot of people have
- 5:55Speaker 4: big parties on the beach in those parts, et cetera,
- 5:59Speaker 4: and that is going to lend itself to public drunkend.
- 6:02Speaker 1: What's your view? Do you think it's a good idea.
- 6:04Speaker 4: I do think it's a good idea. I'm simply saying
- 6:07Speaker 4: I'm not excited about this little spiel that is given
- 6:10Speaker 4: today until it's backed up with action, because, like I say,
- 6:13Speaker 4: it's not very usual that the States slap the rests
- 6:19Speaker 4: of the councils and say, actually, we've changed our minds.
- 6:22Speaker 4: His certain powers we're taking off you. They do leave
- 6:26Speaker 4: that to the councils, and in some ways that is
- 6:29Speaker 4: good because, like I say, councils differ greatly in terms
- 6:32Speaker 4: of demographics and their kind of parkland areas. They're beaches,
- 6:37Speaker 4: some of them are inland. Wouldn't actually this wouldn't affect
- 6:41Speaker 4: them that much at all. It's the other councils who
- 6:44Speaker 4: will be quite typefisted about that and say, well, hang
- 6:47Speaker 4: on a minute. If you're going to say that where
- 6:50Speaker 4: to allow alcohol to flow freely in the parts and beaches,
- 6:55Speaker 4: We're gonna need more cops on the beat. We're gonna
- 6:57Speaker 4: need I mean, it's one of those issues that has
- 7:01Speaker 4: significant extrapolations for other areas, and of course that then
- 7:05Speaker 4: falls on the state because policing is a state issue,
- 7:08Speaker 4: not a council issue, and so it's just one of
- 7:11Speaker 4: those pebbles that creates a lot more ripples than you
- 7:14Speaker 4: might think initially, rather than just saying, oh, yeah, it
- 7:17Speaker 4: would be good to see a lot more nightlife. Well,
- 7:20Speaker 4: as Caleb's pointed out, nightlife was killed off by the
- 7:23Speaker 4: lockdown laws, and even though they were scrapped years ago,
- 7:26Speaker 4: a lot of people and a lot of people running,
- 7:30Speaker 4: whether it's their pubs or bars or clubs, still act
- 7:34Speaker 4: like those are in place. It's almost like most people
- 7:38Speaker 4: in New South Wales don't know that they have been scrapped,
- 7:41Speaker 4: and so all the people who are bar owners and
- 7:45Speaker 4: the like just still do the same because people aren't
- 7:50Speaker 4: hanging around as late as they used to because it's
- 7:53Speaker 4: been years since they've thought that. That's even legal and
- 7:56Speaker 4: I'm not going to get a drink.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Let me play devil's advocate on this, right, So don't
- 8:00Speaker 1: buy the idea that we're an international city. You know
- 8:02Speaker 1: they do it in Europe, and who cares what they
- 8:04Speaker 1: do in Europe. We're our own country. We do what
- 8:07Speaker 1: we want. So I dismissed that argument. What do you
- 8:09Speaker 1: say to families who say we like going to the beach.
- 8:12Speaker 1: You take hot summers in Australia a bunch of young
- 8:16Speaker 1: people drinking all day. You're going to end up with
- 8:18Speaker 1: drunken LUTs who behave like idiots and make everybody's life miserable.
- 8:22Speaker 1: What's wrong with the status quo where if you want
- 8:24Speaker 1: to drink, go to a pub where people are contained,
- 8:26Speaker 1: they're looked after by bar, attendance and so on and so.
- 8:30Speaker 4: Forth, responsible service of alcohol.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Right. I want to be able to go to the
- 8:33Speaker 1: beach with my family and not have to worry about idiots.
- 8:36Speaker 1: When there will be idiots because summer beers, long days
- 8:40Speaker 1: on the beach, you'll end up with problems.
- 8:42Speaker 3: But there's idiots everywhere. I mean, I grew up, but we.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Don't have drunken idiots on the beach right now? But
- 8:46Speaker 1: we will if they do this.
- 8:47Speaker 3: But I know I don't think that's correct necessarily, because
- 8:50Speaker 3: if you want to be a drunken idiot on the beach,
- 8:52Speaker 3: you're probably already going to do it anyway. And I
- 8:54Speaker 3: grew up going to the beach as a kid and
- 8:56Speaker 3: there was always an esky. I mean that I wasn't
- 8:58Speaker 3: having the beers as a kid, but there was always
- 9:00Speaker 3: an eski full of beers and soft drinks for me, unfortunately,
- 9:03Speaker 3: but there was always an eski full of beers. That's
- 9:05Speaker 3: never been a problem. I've been to plenty of picnics
- 9:08Speaker 3: where alcohol has been consumed. And this is happening all
- 9:11Speaker 3: over the country right now. We're not probably not right
- 9:13Speaker 3: now ten o'clock at night, but you know it's happening
- 9:15Speaker 3: all over the country all the time without much problem.
- 9:18Speaker 3: I mean, you don't really hear a great deal of
- 9:20Speaker 3: issue about to hear about the mums down at the
- 9:23Speaker 3: local park getting on the white wines causing lots of trouble,
- 9:27Speaker 3: and the beach is full of drunken yobbos, like it's
- 9:30Speaker 3: not a big issue. It happens in other parts of
- 9:33Speaker 3: the country. I don't see why it can't happen in
- 9:35Speaker 3: New South Wales as well. If someone is making a
- 9:37Speaker 3: dickhead of themselves, you call the cops and the cops
- 9:40Speaker 3: come and deal with them like any other situation.
- 9:42Speaker 1: But the reason it's not a big issue is because
- 9:44Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do it currently.
- 9:46Speaker 3: You're allowed to do it in other but you can
- 9:47Speaker 3: do it in other Australia.
- 9:48Speaker 4: Where they just do it surreptitiously. Yeah yeah, the flask,
- 9:51Speaker 4: or they'll put it in something that's unrecognizable. They're not
- 9:54Speaker 4: actually getting the bottles of wine out and pouring into
- 9:57Speaker 4: like what's obviously champagne glasses, but they one hundred percent
- 10:01Speaker 4: still do it, but they do it in such a
- 10:04Speaker 4: responsible way that they're not kind of also, I think
- 10:07Speaker 4: people are trying to protect kids from that kind of
- 10:10Speaker 4: I'm going to the park with mom and dad, and
- 10:13Speaker 4: you know, five of the six families here are getting
- 10:17Speaker 4: on the plank. I mean that that's not something that
- 10:20Speaker 4: we do want advertised to kids, like everyone gather around
- 10:25Speaker 4: this is this is perfectly okay, and you can see
- 10:28Speaker 4: them all getting rowdy. I just think it would it
- 10:31Speaker 4: would be naive to say that legalizing that wouldn't lend
- 10:35Speaker 4: itself and the other. The other way this argument falls
- 10:40Speaker 4: down is that MINS is saying, well, we want to
- 10:42Speaker 4: get business back up and running, et cetera, and so on.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Those are two very different things. So it's not like
- 10:47Speaker 4: people are buying less alcohol because they can't take it
- 10:51Speaker 4: to a park. It either means they'll go to a
- 10:53Speaker 4: pub or some other place to have alcohol, or they'll
- 10:57Speaker 4: buy it, take it home and have a backyard barbecue
- 10:59Speaker 4: in instead. So the whole argument of oh well this
- 11:03Speaker 4: will really fire the economy, no, people are getting their
- 11:07Speaker 4: booze one way or another.
- 11:08Speaker 3: In a cost of living crisis. The opportunity to be
- 11:11Speaker 3: able to have your picnic at the park with your
- 11:13Speaker 3: wine instead of being forced to go to the pub
- 11:16Speaker 3: where you have to spend you know, I mean ten
- 11:18Speaker 3: dollars of pint is pretty good these days, to be
- 11:20Speaker 3: perfectly honest. That's a good cost of living. Drive, go
- 11:23Speaker 3: and have fun in the park instead of having to
- 11:25Speaker 3: go to the pub.
- 11:26Speaker 4: Tell you when you could. Though, during COVID, I still
- 11:29Speaker 4: remember these signs. In part there's this one right by
- 11:34Speaker 4: Circular Key. In fact, you're in Circular Kee and there's
- 11:37Speaker 4: this plot of grass and they'd done the crop circles.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Everyone's sitting in your crop circle. Oh my gosh, the
- 11:43Speaker 4: idiocy of this time. But the signs literally said you
- 11:48Speaker 4: can enjoy alcohol. You can't enjoy anything else. Everything's closed,
- 11:53Speaker 4: but hey, for this particular period of time, alcohol is
- 11:58Speaker 4: allowed to be consumed down here on. Everyone gather around,
- 12:01Speaker 4: just stay within new crop circles, and it's all fine.
- 12:04Speaker 4: And I remember just thinking this has got to be
- 12:07Speaker 4: peak idiocy. All the gyms are closed, no one can
- 12:10Speaker 4: go to work, but you can drink in the park
- 12:14Speaker 4: like full slab.
- 12:16Speaker 3: God, God forbid your lart have a cigarette, though a
- 12:18Speaker 3: copper would come and make it. Put in that egg
- 12:19Speaker 3: as you'll have beeen someone. And it's funny you mention it,
- 12:22Speaker 3: because I remember I was living in Victoria when that
- 12:24Speaker 3: final long lockdown happened.
- 12:26Speaker 4: You guys learned to drink in part.
- 12:27Speaker 3: Well. It was funny because someone organized online, like through
- 12:31Speaker 3: a community Facebook group, almost like a pub crawl because
- 12:35Speaker 3: you get takeaway alcohol, right, And so all the local
- 12:37Speaker 3: businesses were doing you know, cocktails and whatever so people
- 12:41Speaker 3: could have their one hours exercise a day. I think
- 12:43Speaker 3: it was in Richmond, and they mapped out all the
- 12:46Speaker 3: places doing takeaway alcohol and it was like a community
- 12:49Speaker 3: pub crawl to support the local businesses. And then Daniel
- 12:52Speaker 3: Andrews came out the next day and said that shit,
- 12:54Speaker 3: we cannot have that. That is not within the spirit
- 12:56Speaker 3: of the rules, and then he banned public drinking. So
- 13:00Speaker 3: my little bit of pushback on that was every day
- 13:03Speaker 3: when I walked home from work, I grabbed a beer
- 13:06Speaker 3: from the local bottle shop and drank that on the
- 13:08Speaker 3: way home with the mask down to oh my god,
- 13:12Speaker 3: breaking the rules. While we are on the craziness of bureaucracy,
- 13:17Speaker 3: let's go to Victoria where nurses are having trouble with
- 13:21Speaker 3: a drug that was introduced last year, or was introduced
- 13:24Speaker 3: more freely last year, called naloxone. Now, basically what this
- 13:28Speaker 3: does if someone is having a drug overdose, particularly an
- 13:31Speaker 3: opioid drug overdose, they could administer this drug. It's often
- 13:35Speaker 3: done by a nasal spray and it reverses the effects
- 13:38Speaker 3: of the overdose. Very effective, great drug to have available
- 13:42Speaker 3: to nurses, except if you're a paramedic or a nurse
- 13:46Speaker 3: or a volunteer paramedic, etc. You have to call Triple
- 13:51Speaker 3: zero to get permission to administer the drug in the
- 13:55Speaker 3: first place. Because if you don't do that and there's
- 13:57Speaker 3: some sort of adverse reaction to this person who is
- 14:00Speaker 3: already having a drug overdose, by the way, they could
- 14:04Speaker 3: then potentially sue you and you're not covered by the
- 14:07Speaker 3: indemnity scheme, which seems a bit ridiculous, and even more
- 14:10Speaker 3: ridiculous when you then find out that if you're just
- 14:13Speaker 3: an average joe on the street who manages to get
- 14:16Speaker 3: his hands on some nlocks own, you can administer that
- 14:19Speaker 3: without calling Triple zero. But if you are a qualified medic, nurse, paramedic,
- 14:27Speaker 3: you have to call for permission. And what is being
- 14:30Speaker 3: pointed out a year after this was introduced in Victoria
- 14:33Speaker 3: is that you know, the two minutes or so you
- 14:35Speaker 3: might be sitting on the phone to Triple zero waiting
- 14:37Speaker 3: to get permission could be the difference between life and death.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Richie Goonan is from Youth Projects. They do work on
- 14:44Speaker 3: the street in terms of medical stuff. He says two
- 14:47Speaker 3: minutes is an extremely long time when you've got someone
- 14:49Speaker 3: with a really shallow breathing lips going blue. He said
- 14:53Speaker 3: that such a delay could be the difference between receiving quote,
- 14:56Speaker 3: a life saving drug in a timely fashion and death
- 14:59Speaker 3: or permanent at harm. The lock zowone is a safe
- 15:01Speaker 3: drug to use, with the side effects in the literature
- 15:04Speaker 3: being very rare. I mean, what a stupid situation where
- 15:10Speaker 3: you have something that could save someone's life and I
- 15:13Speaker 3: don't know because of bureaucracy and laws that simply have
- 15:16Speaker 3: not kept up with where things are at. If you
- 15:20Speaker 3: don't want to potentially lose your job for trying to
- 15:23Speaker 3: save someone's life, you have to make a phone call
- 15:26Speaker 3: and sit on hold and watch this person die. It's
- 15:30Speaker 3: just outrageous.
- 15:31Speaker 1: This drug is so effective and so safe that they're
- 15:34Speaker 1: now putting it in vending machines around Melbourne so it
- 15:37Speaker 1: can be accessed twenty four to seven by anyone. And
- 15:40Speaker 1: the biggest belief of the Victorian government that's spent so
- 15:43Speaker 1: much political capital and so much time on drug injecting
- 15:47Speaker 1: rooms because we want to look after people who are
- 15:49Speaker 1: using drugs and care for them in the event of
- 15:52Speaker 1: an overdose. Haven't soughted out something as simple as allowing
- 15:55Speaker 1: frontline workers to use this simple drug which has very
- 15:59Speaker 1: rare side effects in a matter of life and death.
- 16:02Speaker 4: Well, they're worried about indemnity and insurance schemes but when
- 16:05Speaker 4: you're in a life and death situation calling Triple zero
- 16:09Speaker 4: and spending two minutes on hold, like Richie Coogan shared
- 16:13Speaker 4: that one of his nurses had done. He runs youth projects,
- 16:18Speaker 4: so they do a lot of outreach and see people
- 16:21Speaker 4: having these kinds of experiences and they need to act
- 16:24Speaker 4: fast otherwise it's not going to be very effective. So,
- 16:27Speaker 4: according to Victoria's good Samaritan laws, a bystander like if
- 16:32Speaker 4: you or I had it on us, we could just
- 16:34Speaker 4: run up to this person inject them straight up. But
- 16:37Speaker 4: someone who actually is a nurse and knows far better
- 16:41Speaker 4: what they're doing has to call Triple zero and wait
- 16:44Speaker 4: for what. Can you imagine how that conversation would go.
- 16:47Speaker 4: It'd just be someone at the end of the other
- 16:49Speaker 4: line going, I have someone here who looks like they're
- 16:52Speaker 4: experiencing a OD. I'm going to administer this drug and
- 16:58Speaker 4: what else is.
- 16:59Speaker 3: The Triple one person going to go for it for?
- 17:01Speaker 4: Like, yeah, okay, thanks for the indemnity insurance.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Okay, bye.
- 17:06Speaker 4: But I think what this really opens up again is
- 17:09Speaker 4: another conversation about how easy and safe do we want
- 17:14Speaker 4: to make drug taking. So Victoria already has this permanent
- 17:19Speaker 4: pill testing in place eighteen months trial, then they're just
- 17:23Speaker 4: going to have it permanently, so round the clock. If
- 17:26Speaker 4: you hasn't have an illicit substance and you want to
- 17:28Speaker 4: make sure that you're not going to die from taking it,
- 17:31Speaker 4: the state, we will pay for you to go and
- 17:36Speaker 4: make sure that, Okay, I can safely take this illegal drug. Now,
- 17:42Speaker 4: the state is introducing twenty four hour vending machines for
- 17:46Speaker 4: this meloxone. So in the event that you're a friend
- 17:49Speaker 4: does have an overdose because you're having a wild night,
- 17:52Speaker 4: someone just administer that quick fast and hopefully nothing bad
- 17:56Speaker 4: will happen. How accessible do we want to make this
- 18:00Speaker 4: because we are creating a society now where there are
- 18:04Speaker 4: no repercussions to taking illegal drugs. So why would I
- 18:08Speaker 4: not buy them? Why would I not take them? Why
- 18:10Speaker 4: would my friends and I partying young, don't really know
- 18:15Speaker 4: any better, just experimenting, going to a music festival, whatever
- 18:19Speaker 4: the case may be. Why wouldn't we avail ourselves of
- 18:23Speaker 4: these illicit substances that we know are a societal evil.
- 18:28Speaker 1: There's no doubt that's the way we're going in Victoria.
- 18:30Speaker 1: In the Act, they've loosened drug laws to an incredible degree.
- 18:34Speaker 1: But I mean, you've got the ridiculous situation where if
- 18:36Speaker 1: Caleb overdoses on drugs and you're a qualified just for
- 18:43Speaker 1: the sake of the illustration, and we've got this effective medicine,
- 18:47Speaker 1: right yeah, and you're a nurse and you say to me, James,
- 18:50Speaker 1: you treat him because I'm qualified to do it. You're
- 18:52Speaker 1: a coverin man Jo, I'm unqualified. Therefore I'm the only
- 18:56Speaker 1: one that can treat you. That's a ridiculous situation. And
- 18:58Speaker 1: the other thing in this story is how could someone
- 19:01Speaker 1: spend two minutes on hold to triple O what that
- 19:05Speaker 1: call was about. But that biggest belief that puts.
- 19:11Speaker 4: You on hold.
- 19:13Speaker 3: The triples we're paying for. The triple zero system in
- 19:16Speaker 3: Victoria has been in a bad way for a long time,
- 19:19Speaker 3: and there's more than thirty people. When I was the
- 19:21Speaker 3: Herald Son were doing stories about there's more than thirty
- 19:24Speaker 3: people whose deaths are directly connected to the fact that
- 19:28Speaker 3: they couldn't get through to someone on Triple zero. In time.
- 19:31Speaker 3: I think there was even a point where the phone
- 19:33Speaker 3: just wouldn't ring because all the operators we were engaged, right,
- 19:38Speaker 3: which is utterly ridiculous. But this is the stupidity of
- 19:42Speaker 3: government that they cannot get their ducks in a row
- 19:46Speaker 3: like you would think, Okay, we've introduced this life saving drug.
- 19:50Speaker 3: We're equipping ambulances and other workers with it so that
- 19:53Speaker 3: they have it on hand if they need it. But
- 19:55Speaker 3: by the way, we're going to put a hurdle in
- 19:57Speaker 3: the way so that you can't actually use it when
- 19:59Speaker 3: it is most effective. How with all the people who
- 20:03Speaker 3: are employed in the public service, we see these examples
- 20:05Speaker 3: time and time again, all the people employed in the
- 20:07Speaker 3: public service. How was there not someone who went, okay, yep,
- 20:11Speaker 3: we should probably amend this bit here so that this
- 20:14Speaker 3: bit here works. We pay for this stuff and they
- 20:19Speaker 3: cannot do anything properly. Like what are we paying public
- 20:23Speaker 3: servants for? If you outsourced all of this stuff to
- 20:25Speaker 3: the private sector, it'll be done in five minutes flat.
- 20:28Speaker 3: But no to public service. I can't possibly.
- 20:31Speaker 4: The drug is free, but you don't even need a prescription.
- 20:35Speaker 4: You can get it out of a vending machine, or
- 20:37Speaker 4: you will very shortly be able to get it out
- 20:40Speaker 4: of a vending machine around the clock. And yeah, if
- 20:44Speaker 4: I'm a nurse, everyone can admit a through it, except
- 20:48Speaker 4: if you're a trained professional. Then you're in trouble. You
- 20:52Speaker 4: have to think about insurance and called triple zero to
- 20:55Speaker 4: New South Wales now where there's a warning that Oxford
- 20:59Speaker 4: Street I'm losing its LGBTQ flavor now. I had to
- 21:04Speaker 4: read this in laugh today because I used to live
- 21:07Speaker 4: in Darlinghurst and trust me, nothing is getting rid of
- 21:11Speaker 4: that flavor. When I first moved to Sydney and I
- 21:14Speaker 4: didn't know the Darlinghurst was basically the LGBTQ capital of
- 21:19Speaker 4: the world, not just Australia, the world. The roads are rainbow,
- 21:24Speaker 4: the flags a rainbow. I was like, is this all
- 21:27Speaker 4: of Sydney or all of I just really badly chosen
- 21:31Speaker 4: while I'm trotting around in my Trump twenty twenty cap
- 21:34Speaker 4: but really badly chosen which suburb I'm living in. So
- 21:39Speaker 4: there's a few developments going on and the mayor is
- 21:42Speaker 4: trying to reassure everyone this is not going to change
- 21:46Speaker 4: the LGBTIQ flavor of Oxford Street. She said, we want
- 21:50Speaker 4: the strip to be a celebration of the LGBTIQ culture
- 21:54Speaker 4: and community, a destination and workplace for cultures and creatives,
- 21:59Speaker 4: with more businesses and local services in the street heritage buildings.
- 22:04Speaker 4: That is literally all they are doing. There's a few
- 22:07Speaker 4: rehnos happening, there's a few more bike lanes going in,
- 22:10Speaker 4: which I know you're very passionate about Kale, but I
- 22:13Speaker 4: don't see how that is going to alter the culture
- 22:17Speaker 4: on Oxford Street whatsoever.
- 22:19Speaker 3: I was so funny this story that the SMH did
- 22:23Speaker 3: about it, because you know, the SMH kids about this
- 22:25Speaker 3: kind of thing. And they quoted a blow called Marty Nasif,
- 22:30Speaker 3: who is a travel agent. He's got a shop just
- 22:32Speaker 3: off of Oxford Street, and he was complaining that the
- 22:35Speaker 3: character of Oxford Street has been diluted by quote unquote
- 22:39Speaker 3: gentrification and an influx of young families with kids. In all,
- 22:45Speaker 3: he says, King Street, Newtown and Innmore Road clearly have
- 22:48Speaker 3: a lot more vibe and buzz because there are heaps
- 22:50Speaker 3: of cafes, shops and different cultures. And he said that
- 22:53Speaker 3: Oxford Street was dominated by convenience stores and vape shops
- 22:57Speaker 3: as well as empty shop fronts. He said there are
- 22:59Speaker 3: own only a few token gay establishments really left. So
- 23:03Speaker 3: what he's saying is that Oxford Street at the moment
- 23:06Speaker 3: is a dump, and so someone else is coming in
- 23:08Speaker 3: to put up some developments and some housing that might
- 23:12Speaker 3: actually attract some business to Oxford Street, and some cafes
- 23:16Speaker 3: and some restaurants that would give it the kind of
- 23:18Speaker 3: vibe that he wants, so it's not just a dump
- 23:21Speaker 3: full of convenience stores and vape shops. And he thinks
- 23:24Speaker 3: that's a bad thing. And I find it so delicious that,
- 23:28Speaker 3: you know, moneyed lefties who've gone and gentrified the rest
- 23:33Speaker 3: of Australia like you think of working class strongholds. I'm
- 23:37Speaker 3: going to go to Melbourne because I lived there long
- 23:40Speaker 3: enough to sort of understand places like Fitzroy etc. Right
- 23:43Speaker 3: that once upon a time were real working class territory.
- 23:46Speaker 3: And even here in Sydney, if you want to talk
- 23:48Speaker 3: about Glebe and places like that, real working class territory
- 23:52Speaker 3: that moneyed lefties moved into, Greens voters moved into and
- 23:56Speaker 3: gentrified the place because we can't have that riffraff living
- 23:59Speaker 3: hell to make it good for us to live in.
- 24:02Speaker 3: And now they're complaining that someone else is coming in
- 24:05Speaker 3: and gentrifying the one bit of grungy Sydney that they
- 24:08Speaker 3: left alone so they could go and enjoy it on
- 24:11Speaker 3: the weekend but not have to live in it. That
- 24:15Speaker 3: my friends is called going full circle. It's come back
- 24:19Speaker 3: to bite you on the bum. You gentrified everyone else's
- 24:22Speaker 3: territory and now you're upset that they're going to gentrify
- 24:25Speaker 3: your playground.
- 24:26Speaker 1: This story is hilarious to me. I mean, firstly, it's
- 24:28Speaker 1: quite serious. There's a serious side to this, and that
- 24:31Speaker 1: is that Sydney, Why are you laughing already?
- 24:33Speaker 3: I'm waiting for it. I'm serious.
- 24:34Speaker 4: Did as we say you say something serious?
- 24:37Speaker 3: You know it's not.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Trust me, this is very serious. Sydney City Council could
- 24:40Speaker 1: be guilty of gay conversion therapy by trying to make
- 24:42Speaker 1: Oxford Street go straight. Ah, that's the big problem here.
- 24:47Speaker 4: It has spent millions of dollars on the LGBT IT
- 24:51Speaker 4: Museum in Darling, So that's another reason why this is
- 24:55Speaker 4: just absurd. I'm like, you just had your grand opening.
- 24:58Speaker 4: Thousands of people are coming through the doors. Is this
- 25:01Speaker 4: constant celebration of all things lgbt IQ And now because
- 25:06Speaker 4: a few developments are going up because I was looking
- 25:08Speaker 4: a bit dere elite, They're all like this is going
- 25:12Speaker 4: to ruin the culture.
- 25:13Speaker 1: One of the best part is it's not just the developments.
- 25:15Speaker 1: It's young families with kids are moving in. I think
- 25:18Speaker 1: it's terrible diversity. Oh no, no, we not have diversity.
- 25:22Speaker 1: Do they talk about the fact that retailers in Oxford
- 25:25Speaker 1: Street apparently have to sign a Pride Business Charter whereby
- 25:30Speaker 1: they agree to prefer LGBTQ staff. Well, woe betider Catholic
- 25:35Speaker 1: school that preferences Catholic staff. I mean, I remembering.
- 25:39Speaker 3: About to say Catholic school opening up.
- 25:43Speaker 1: They would really ruin the character of the area. But
- 25:45Speaker 1: I remember when you know, the gay community wanted to
- 25:47Speaker 1: be just like everybody else, and so I would have
- 25:50Speaker 1: thought it was a sign of great success on behalf
- 25:53Speaker 1: of the LGBTQ community that families with children want to live.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Next story, this is a group that have campaign for
- 26:00Speaker 1: social change for years and now they're campaigning against any
- 26:04Speaker 1: social change. So that the ironies through this story are numerous.
- 26:10Speaker 1: But trust Clovermoret. She promises, no, no, we'll retain the
- 26:13Speaker 1: LGBTQ character. We'll put in a whole lot more rainbow crossings,
- 26:18Speaker 1: which is just what Sydney need. Let's talk about something
- 26:20Speaker 1: far more serious, and that is the threat of Islamic terrorism.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Is a new report come out from King's College which
- 26:27Speaker 1: details just the kinds of people that are being arrested
- 26:30Speaker 1: on terrorism charges in Europe and it's got implications for
- 26:34Speaker 1: the rest of the West, including Australia. They say that
- 26:37Speaker 1: two thirds of ISIS linked arrests in Europe over the
- 26:41Speaker 1: past nine months have been involving teenagers. Of fifty eight
- 26:46Speaker 1: arrests for ISIS linked terror acts, thirty eight arrests involved
- 26:52Speaker 1: young people aged thirteen to nineteen. And of course this
- 26:56Speaker 1: was brought to the fore just recently when the Taylor
- 26:58Speaker 1: Swift concert was postpar owned because of seventeen eighteen and
- 27:02Speaker 1: nineteen year old were charged with planning a terror attack.
- 27:07Speaker 1: So that makes forty one teenagers recruited to commit terror
- 27:11Speaker 1: acts in Europe over the past nine months. Most of
- 27:14Speaker 1: them contacted online and then manipulated into attempting one of
- 27:20Speaker 1: these attacks. Director of research at Syracuse University Institute for
- 27:25Speaker 1: Security Policy and Law said, and I quote, there's no
- 27:28Speaker 1: doubt in anybody's mind that the preferred means and mechanisms
- 27:31Speaker 1: for recruitment in the West, meaning Europe, but also in
- 27:34Speaker 1: the US, Canada, Australia and elsewhere is with teenagers. Everybody
- 27:39Speaker 1: loves to recruit young people, especially young men, because there's
- 27:42Speaker 1: developmental issues. Their brains aren't fully formed until they're twenty five.
- 27:47Speaker 3: How old are you calm twenty five until they're twenty bucks.
- 27:50Speaker 1: So it's a Siah story until they're twenty five or so.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Handful online, Taylor, mate, I'm going to come in tomorrow.
- 27:58Speaker 3: Terrorst decisions. You're vulnerable, So there's a point.
- 28:01Speaker 1: To talk about here. But what I find alarming is
- 28:05Speaker 1: that you would think the entire problem is you've got
- 28:08Speaker 1: young men whose brains aren't fully developed going on the internet. Well,
- 28:12Speaker 1: which brings up the point that you just joked about
- 28:14Speaker 1: you better stay off the internet from lost another birthday,
- 28:18Speaker 1: otherwise you might be going all ghad on it.
- 28:22Speaker 3: My brain was fully developed at about four years old. Different,
- 28:26Speaker 3: different to the rest, Claudia.
- 28:27Speaker 1: It's not just going online as a young person. And
- 28:30Speaker 1: this article says, you know, people could be searching something
- 28:33Speaker 1: as and this was the quote as innocuous as sharia law.
- 28:39Speaker 1: That's the problem when you think that sharia law is innocuous,
- 28:43Speaker 1: that it's just a nothing burger, no wonder, we're not
- 28:46Speaker 1: doing anything to start to get a grip on this issue.
- 28:49Speaker 1: When that's the mentality.
- 28:51Speaker 4: No one what anyone's to say, This is not young
- 28:53Speaker 4: people getting on the internet is not the problem Radical
- 28:56Speaker 4: Islam is because like when every time there's a shooting
- 28:59Speaker 4: in the state, they want to make guns the problem. Well, no,
- 29:02Speaker 4: guns have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years,
- 29:05Speaker 4: and we didn't have these weird whack job mass shootings,
- 29:08Speaker 4: did we. No. No one wants to talk about the
- 29:12Speaker 4: mental health issues that inevitably then gets found out about
- 29:16Speaker 4: the perpetrator of those tragic, unthinkable events. No one wants
- 29:21Speaker 4: to talk about all the underlying factors. They just want
- 29:24Speaker 4: to make it about gun control. And if we didn't
- 29:26Speaker 4: have guns, this wouldn't happen, by the way, those kind
- 29:29Speaker 4: of sicko psycho people would find some way, They would
- 29:33Speaker 4: find some way to do what they wanted to do
- 29:36Speaker 4: because they are mentally unwell, So making guns the problem
- 29:40Speaker 4: is a furfey just like how the governments now across
- 29:44Speaker 4: the West are saying, oh, we need to clamp down
- 29:47Speaker 4: on access to the Internet for younger people because they're vulnerable.
- 29:51Speaker 4: You didn't care when it was pornography, did you, And
- 29:54Speaker 4: that was ravaging is still ravaging our young people and
- 29:58Speaker 4: making it really hard for them to have more healthy
- 30:00Speaker 4: relationships with the opposite sex. You didn't care about that
- 30:04Speaker 4: at all, even though you know you have all the
- 30:06Speaker 4: research of how that literally affects their mental development. So
- 30:11Speaker 4: they're happy to talk about oh, males, brains aren't fully
- 30:14Speaker 4: formed till they're twenty five. But they won't do anything
- 30:17Speaker 4: to keep pornography away from them. Now they want to
- 30:20Speaker 4: say radical Islam without saying radical Islam. No, no, the
- 30:24Speaker 4: issue is just access to the internet. No, it's not.
- 30:28Speaker 4: And also, why don't we talk about the fact that
- 30:31Speaker 4: why are these guys attracted to this kind of radical ideology?
- 30:35Speaker 4: Is it because we as a society have kicked out
- 30:38Speaker 4: every single prick from underneath them. They used to inform
- 30:42Speaker 4: their identity, their religion, their race, their every single other thing,
- 30:49Speaker 4: including their gender. Oh toxic masculinity. Now, don't want any
- 30:53Speaker 4: of that. Everything that someone used to rely on as
- 30:57Speaker 4: a young person, the family that they belong to, the
- 31:00Speaker 4: church that they attended, the religion they were raised in,
- 31:04Speaker 4: all of that. It's like, no, no, no, all those points
- 31:06Speaker 4: of identification have been ripped out from underneath them. They've
- 31:10Speaker 4: been told that every single thing about them is basically meaningless,
- 31:13Speaker 4: including even your gender that can change every five minutes,
- 31:16Speaker 4: and so they're looking for purpose, They're looking for meaning.
- 31:20Speaker 4: That is what is making them vulnerable to this kind
- 31:24Speaker 4: of radical ideology that a reasonable person would read it
- 31:27Speaker 4: and go, wow, this sounds like hell on Earth. Absolutely,
- 31:30Speaker 4: I'm not signing us.
- 31:31Speaker 1: So just before you go, everything you said is absolutely true.
- 31:33Speaker 1: There's one more thing and that we should add. When
- 31:35Speaker 1: you bring people into a Western culture and their entire
- 31:39Speaker 1: worldview is that the Western culture is licentious, it's evil,
- 31:43Speaker 1: it's crude, and then they are ghetto or ghettoised is
- 31:48Speaker 1: that a word that they're basically a ghetto where they're
- 31:51Speaker 1: shielded from the rest of the culture and they are
- 31:53Speaker 1: taught that the culture around them is evil. They're a
- 31:56Speaker 1: prime target for radicalization.
- 31:58Speaker 4: Especially in our universities, we're very cognizant of the fact
- 32:03Speaker 4: they're already being told the West is crap, our history
- 32:08Speaker 4: is just something to be so ashamed of, where the
- 32:12Speaker 4: worst and they aren't told about the incredible empire of
- 32:17Speaker 4: Western civilization, what it was built upon, the Christian values, etc.
- 32:21Speaker 4: So they're already taught to be ashamed of it, look
- 32:24Speaker 4: down on it, and then they tap into an ideology
- 32:27Speaker 4: like this that is like, yes, it's inferior in every
- 32:29Speaker 4: way and disgusting, So you should join our club because
- 32:32Speaker 4: you guys are on a terrible path you always have been,
- 32:36Speaker 4: and welcome.
- 32:37Speaker 3: Well, if your culture is denigrated enough, you'll eventually go
- 32:40Speaker 3: looking for another one, And if it's denigrated enough that
- 32:43Speaker 3: you start to believe it's bad, you might convince yourself
- 32:46Speaker 3: it's worth fighting against. And this is where these kids
- 32:49Speaker 3: end up. And as you say that, the problem is
- 32:51Speaker 3: not so much the Internet, that the Internet makes it
- 32:53Speaker 3: much easier to radicalize young men. So it is now
- 32:57Speaker 3: more easy to radicalize a young man or a young
- 32:59Speaker 3: person than it has ever been in history, which means
- 33:02Speaker 3: it is more important to fight against radical Islam than
- 33:06Speaker 3: it has ever been in history. But of course we
- 33:08Speaker 3: don't have that discussion about all. You know, radical Islam
- 33:12Speaker 3: is more of a danger now than it's ever been.
- 33:14Speaker 3: It's the discussion around will the modes that they use
- 33:17Speaker 3: to get to them? Who cares what modes they use
- 33:19Speaker 3: to get to them? You have to get down to
- 33:21Speaker 3: the ideology itself. Trying to deal with the mode is
- 33:24Speaker 3: like putting a band aid over a wound. And then
- 33:26Speaker 3: pretending it's not there. Unless you cut a cancer out,
- 33:30Speaker 3: the cancer will continue to spread through your body. And
- 33:33Speaker 3: so you have to wonder then why. The boss of ASIO,
- 33:37Speaker 3: Mike Burgess, went on the ABC yesterday morning on Insiders
- 33:41Speaker 3: and was asked whether people who have expressed support or
- 33:45Speaker 3: sympathy for Hamas should be allowed to come into the country,
- 33:49Speaker 3: and Mike Burgess gave this sort of all over the
- 33:52Speaker 3: shop answered, you know, oh, well, if they given money
- 33:56Speaker 3: to them, yeah, we probably shouldn't have them. But if
- 33:58Speaker 3: they've just you know, rhetorically given to support to Hamas,
- 34:03Speaker 3: no problem. If they've expressed any support or sympathy for Hamas, is.
- 34:08Speaker 5: That a problem. Depends on the know what that looks like.
- 34:13Speaker 5: If they're supportive because they want their homeland. If they're
- 34:16Speaker 5: giving financial support or material aid, that can be a problem.
- 34:19Speaker 5: And obviously we take each case on its merits and
- 34:22Speaker 5: the context of the information we have before us. But
- 34:25Speaker 5: if it's just rhetorical support, if it's just rhetorical re
- 34:27Speaker 5: support and they don't have an ideology or support for
- 34:30Speaker 5: a violent extreme as an ideology, then that's not a problem.
- 34:33Speaker 5: If they have a support for that idergy, that will
- 34:35Speaker 5: be a problem.
- 34:36Speaker 3: Just back up from it. They've given rhetorical support to Hamas,
- 34:43Speaker 3: which is a terrorist organization which believes that Israel shouldn't exist,
- 34:47Speaker 3: that believes the Jews should be wiped out. They're given
- 34:50Speaker 3: rhetorical support to Hamas, but they don't believe in any
- 34:55Speaker 3: sort of extremist ideology. How does that work? Like, how can.
- 35:00Speaker 4: Support isn't support?
- 35:01Speaker 3: Well, I know, And how can the man who yesterday
- 35:04Speaker 3: not yesterday last week stood up with the Prime Minister
- 35:07Speaker 3: and raise the terror threat from possible to probable then
- 35:11Speaker 3: say there could be situations where it's okay to import
- 35:15Speaker 3: people who support a terrorist organization into the country.
- 35:20Speaker 1: For the head of ASIO to say that rhetorical support
- 35:23Speaker 1: is okay as long as you don't have the ideology
- 35:26Speaker 1: you know deep inside, well, he should listen to a
- 35:28Speaker 1: famous Jew who once said, out of the abundance of
- 35:31Speaker 1: the heart, the mouth speaks. If you are cheering for
- 35:35Speaker 1: people to behead Jews, but as long as you yourself
- 35:38Speaker 1: don't do the beheading, that's okay. That's ridiculous. But did
- 35:41Speaker 1: you also note he equivocated on if they're providing material
- 35:45Speaker 1: or financial support, that could be a problem. What do
- 35:49Speaker 1: you mean it could be a problem. That's automatic disqualification.
- 35:53Speaker 1: We are more and we're being protected by absolute fools.
- 35:58Speaker 1: I could not believe that interview. This is the same
- 36:00Speaker 1: man who said in December that pro Palestinian marches every
- 36:03Speaker 1: weekend around our city calling for Israel to be wiped
- 36:06Speaker 1: from the map are a good pressure release and.
- 36:10Speaker 4: There's just blowing off scene. It's fine, you guys, Thank goodness.
- 36:15Speaker 4: Senator James Patterson then took the mic to slap this down.
- 36:19Speaker 4: What we all wouldn't give to see this guy in
- 36:24Speaker 4: charge of Azio and heck our borders, our immigration. Listen
- 36:29Speaker 4: to what he had to say and see if you
- 36:30Speaker 4: don't resonate.
- 36:32Speaker 6: MUSS a listed terrorist organization. It has political objectives which
- 36:36Speaker 6: it believes should be achieved through violence, and anybody who
- 36:40Speaker 6: supports using violent means to achieve political objectives is not
- 36:43Speaker 6: welcome in Australia and should not come to Australia. But
- 36:46Speaker 6: if you support using attacks like the seventh October, which
- 36:49Speaker 6: killed the largest number of Jews since the end of
- 36:51Speaker 6: the Holocaust, twelve hundred people on one day and kidnapped
- 36:54Speaker 6: hundreds more, then I don't think you should come to
- 36:56Speaker 6: this country. I mean we should ask ourselves. Will our
- 36:58Speaker 6: country be stronger, bring hamas supporters in. Will we be
- 37:02Speaker 6: more united? Will we be more cohesive? Will our problems
- 37:05Speaker 6: of andty seventism be better or will they be worse?
- 37:08Speaker 1: Absolutely well, said Senator James Pattison. We're going to go
- 37:11Speaker 1: to a break. When we come back, we'll look at
- 37:13Speaker 1: what tomorrow's papers are reporting, including school teachers to use
- 37:16Speaker 1: AI chatbots to set your child's homework. That's coming up
- 37:20Speaker 1: from the moment. Welcome back. Well, let's take a look
- 37:25Speaker 1: at what's making news in tomorrow's papers. And Caleb. With
- 37:28Speaker 1: the Paris Games now over, the talk is turning to
- 37:31Speaker 1: Brisbane in twenty thirty two.
- 37:33Speaker 3: Indeed it is the career Mail says tomorrow. Don't shame
- 37:36Speaker 3: the games. Sally fears Brisbane twenty thirty two will embarrass us.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Brisbane risks embarrassing Australia on the world stage in twenty
- 37:45Speaker 3: thirty two and falling well short of Paris if it
- 37:48Speaker 3: sticks with a lackluster, no frills athletics stadium in the Suburbs.
- 37:51Speaker 3: Olympic Great and Queensland Golden Girl Sally Pearson has worn
- 37:56Speaker 3: because of course they're going to have the Athletics supposedly
- 37:59Speaker 3: at Cusack, which is out in bloody whoop woop. Right,
- 38:02Speaker 3: and look, the trouble that the Queensland state government is
- 38:05Speaker 3: in is that the Brisbane Olympics is meant to be
- 38:09Speaker 3: the blueprint going forward for how you can host the
- 38:12Speaker 3: Olympics without bankrupting a city or a country. Right, so
- 38:16Speaker 3: they've kind of got to do a budget version of
- 38:19Speaker 3: the Olympics in some way, otherwise it will get to
- 38:21Speaker 3: the point because it's just becoming so expensive that no
- 38:24Speaker 3: one will want to bid for it anymore. But for
- 38:27Speaker 3: heaven's sake, like, surely we can do better than sending
- 38:30Speaker 3: them to Cusack, which has been there forever in a day,
- 38:32Speaker 3: which is so far out of the city that no
- 38:34Speaker 3: one will want to go there. Like you do actually
- 38:37Speaker 3: have to invest some money in making the Olympics work
- 38:40Speaker 3: because you look at Paris and I know that the
- 38:43Speaker 3: opening ceremony was it was a bit lackluster in many ways,
- 38:46Speaker 3: et cetera.
- 38:46Speaker 4: But your blasphemy, but.
- 38:50Speaker 3: You look at the setting that they is from aside
- 38:55Speaker 3: from that, but.
- 38:56Speaker 4: Also we've heard about the swimmers throwing up they all
- 38:59Speaker 4: got after swimming the river hardboard beds everywhere within forty
- 39:06Speaker 4: eight hours. There's no dairy because we're all doing this
- 39:10Speaker 4: climate communism, diet welcome elite athletes of the world. The
- 39:15Speaker 4: no air conditioning. When I read this headline, I was like,
- 39:18Speaker 4: don't shame the games. I think Paris has already drunk
- 39:23Speaker 4: that beer.
- 39:24Speaker 3: The thing that Paris work, I think the Paris.
- 39:26Speaker 4: We go on.
- 39:27Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the beds, the food, et cetera.
- 39:29Speaker 1: You know, there's one part of the Olympic village I
- 39:31Speaker 1: didn't see anyone else talk about. And I read it
- 39:33Speaker 1: the other day the toilet brushes in the athletes rooms
- 39:36Speaker 1: where they called them reclaimed toilet brushes where they were
- 39:40Speaker 1: reclaimed from. But I mean that was the worst. What
- 39:43Speaker 1: the anyway? With that thought in mind, going.
- 39:47Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure about what I was going to say.
- 39:53Speaker 3: The version of the toilet is that Paris has the backdrop, right,
- 39:58Speaker 3: and I mean, you know, looked at the venting and
- 40:03Speaker 3: the Eiffel It was just it's a beautiful setting. I mean,
- 40:07Speaker 3: Brisbane's got what the Brisbane River, that's what we're looking at.
- 40:12Speaker 3: So we've we're going to be on the world stage.
- 40:15Speaker 3: Brisbane is going to be broadcast into every country in
- 40:18Speaker 3: the world, and broadcasters will pay exorbitant sums of money
- 40:22Speaker 3: to pay for this to be broadcast on their networks.
- 40:25Speaker 3: And then we're going to serve them up the Brisbane
- 40:27Speaker 3: River and cusack like it will be an embarrassment people
- 40:30Speaker 3: on the other side of the Australia ge. I'm not
- 40:33Speaker 3: going to go there anymore. What a dump I reckon.
- 40:36Speaker 4: They should just toss it out the window. Have it
- 40:39Speaker 4: back in Sydney. Homebush is still good to go. We'll
- 40:42Speaker 4: give it spit and polish and Sydney, as we all know,
- 40:46Speaker 4: is the most beautiful city in this country and has
- 40:49Speaker 4: all the national icons right here. What more could you want, Australia.
- 40:53Speaker 4: Please vote now to the front page of the Herald
- 40:56Speaker 4: Sun now games for free. We're talking about the Commonwealth
- 41:00Speaker 4: Games this time. Glasgow is set to host the twenty
- 41:03Speaker 4: twenty six Commonwealth Games for as little as three hundred
- 41:08Speaker 4: million dollars after Victoria banned in the event, saying it
- 41:13Speaker 4: would cost taxpayers up to seven billion. What were you doing, Victoria?
- 41:19Speaker 4: Commonwealth Games Scotland chairman he and Reid said he was
- 41:22Speaker 4: hopeful Glasgow would be confirmed as host of a scaled
- 41:25Speaker 4: back games within days. Get this, So the bulk of
- 41:30Speaker 4: the three hundred million is going to be footed by
- 41:34Speaker 4: the Victorian government anyway, to the tune of two hundred million.
- 41:38Speaker 4: So Glasgow gets to host it and only chalks up
- 41:42Speaker 4: one hundred mili.
- 41:43Speaker 1: A credit card is a wonderful thing, Liz and the
- 41:45Speaker 1: Victorian government, they know how to swipe. The reason Glasgow
- 41:49Speaker 1: were doing it so much cheaper is they came up
- 41:51Speaker 1: with this brilliant idea that no one's ever thought of before. Right,
- 41:53Speaker 1: They're going to have the games in like one central place. No, yeah,
- 41:58Speaker 1: see Victoria. They were going to have a bit in Indigo,
- 42:00Speaker 1: a bit in Horsham, a bit in Shepherdon, a bit everywhere.
- 42:03Speaker 1: The cost were bananas. Glasgow actually doing it properly and
- 42:08Speaker 1: are able to afford it, unlike Daniel Andrews' plan, which
- 42:11Speaker 1: was basically to guarner votes from regional areas in preparation
- 42:15Speaker 1: for an election, and whether they have held the games
- 42:17Speaker 1: or not was kind of irrelevant. Now they're not.
- 42:20Speaker 4: Second Slash on front of the hun victims snubbed youth
- 42:25Speaker 4: crime crisis, moved to outlaw grieving families from having a
- 42:29Speaker 4: say in juveniles offender's release on parole. Are you kidding me? No,
- 42:35Speaker 4: they're not. Victims of youth crime would be banned from
- 42:39Speaker 4: having a say over whether offenders are released on parole
- 42:42Speaker 4: under justice system reforms. The proposal, dubbed a snub to victims,
- 42:47Speaker 4: comes as the government seats to tough and bail laws
- 42:50Speaker 4: a mid community angst over rampaging teams. You'd think if
- 42:55Speaker 4: you were looking to toughen bail laws a mid community angst,
- 43:01Speaker 4: the last thing you would do is gag the victims
- 43:04Speaker 4: and their families when you're talking about should this person
- 43:08Speaker 4: get let out on bail or not.
- 43:10Speaker 3: Well, we're talking about parole here and not bail, right,
- 43:14Speaker 3: So you've already been locked up. They want to toughen
- 43:17Speaker 3: the bail laws. But if you're getting parole, you've been
- 43:20Speaker 3: locked up, you've been in prison, and so a parole
- 43:23Speaker 3: board should have the ability to talk to victims' families
- 43:28Speaker 3: before they make a decision about whether they let someone out.
- 43:32Speaker 3: And I'll be very interested to talk to a friend
- 43:35Speaker 3: of mine who used to be the chair of the
- 43:39Speaker 3: children's parole board in Victoria about what all of this means,
- 43:43Speaker 3: because if you're going to say Okay, we're going to
- 43:45Speaker 3: let someone else. We're going to let someone out, and
- 43:48Speaker 3: then you can't go and say to someone who's been
- 43:51Speaker 3: affected by them how you're feeling. Would you feel safe
- 43:54Speaker 3: with them on the street. What's the job of the
- 43:55Speaker 3: parole board? Are they just going to be a rubber stamp.
- 43:57Speaker 3: I don't get it.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got to try and asstate whether this person
- 44:00Speaker 1: has been reformed or whatever. That would be the question
- 44:03Speaker 1: they ask. But you're right to not have victims speak
- 44:06Speaker 1: into that decision. Seems a little silly, especially when they
- 44:09Speaker 1: keep going on about how they're trying to fix crime issues.
- 44:12Speaker 1: Incredible scenes in Cans early this morning. Great photo on
- 44:17Speaker 1: the front of the Cans post crash probe. Unauthorized chopper
- 44:21Speaker 1: was stolen from airport in all the early hours fatal
- 44:25Speaker 1: flights as the headline. A helicopter on an unauthorized flight
- 44:29Speaker 1: I guess unauthorized means stolen crashed into the roof of
- 44:33Speaker 1: a Cans waterfront hotel, killing the pilot and forcing the
- 44:37Speaker 1: evacuation of hundreds of people. Police have confirmed the pilot
- 44:40Speaker 1: and single occupant of the aircraft was found dead at
- 44:43Speaker 1: the scene. This was the Hilton hotel I think in
- 44:46Speaker 1: Cans and an elderly couple were fast asleep at one
- 44:49Speaker 1: fifty am when a helicopter literally flew into the side
- 44:54Speaker 1: of their hotel room. They weren't injured, taking to hospital
- 44:57Speaker 1: precaution area, I guess, but it's a miracle they weren't killed.
- 45:02Speaker 1: It's extreme this, and please still trying to work out
- 45:05Speaker 1: the identity of the person who took the helicopter. Clearly
- 45:08Speaker 1: they were able to fly, because there are reports this
- 45:10Speaker 1: helicopter was in the air for around an hour before
- 45:12Speaker 1: it actually crashed, but no one knew it was in
- 45:15Speaker 1: the air because there was no flight path logged or
- 45:17Speaker 1: anything like that.
- 45:18Speaker 3: And when he's such an idiot, thankfully the only person
- 45:20Speaker 3: who's killed is himself. You know, well done, mate. But
- 45:24Speaker 3: I have been drunk, and I've never been so drunk
- 45:27Speaker 3: in my life that I've thought I'm going to go
- 45:29Speaker 3: and steal a helicopter and try to fly it around Cans. Like,
- 45:32Speaker 3: how out of your brain do you have to be? Like?
- 45:34Speaker 3: You know, stealing a car is one thing that's bad enough,
- 45:37Speaker 3: but imagine thing, I'm going to steal a helicopter a
- 45:40Speaker 3: thinking you'd ever be able to get away with that.
- 45:43Speaker 3: You can't just go and dump a car out the
- 45:44Speaker 3: back of a park and set it on fire a helicopter.
- 45:48Speaker 3: What was going through this man's head?
- 45:50Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out over the next few weeks.
- 45:52Speaker 1: We're going to go to a break when we come back.
- 45:54Speaker 1: But the bizarre new trend, the way people are occupying
- 45:57Speaker 1: themselves on long haul flights, will show you. Okay, well,
- 46:04Speaker 1: if you've ever been on a long haul flight, you'll
- 46:06Speaker 1: know the dilemma how to amuse yourself until you get
- 46:08Speaker 1: to your destination. Well, there's a new trend that's gone
- 46:11Speaker 1: viral on social media. It's called raw dogging, where people
- 46:14Speaker 1: on long haul flights sit and stare straight ahead at
- 46:17Speaker 1: the navigation map, occupied only by their own thoughts. The
- 46:22Speaker 1: current record holder is Damon Bailey, who, for thirteen point
- 46:26Speaker 1: five hours from Shanghai to Dallas sat and stared without
- 46:30Speaker 1: saying a word or doing anything. Here's a social media
- 46:33Speaker 1: influencer explaining, see.
- 46:36Speaker 3: Now a flight across the world, no music, no movies,
- 46:40Speaker 3: ride dogget stare at the flight mapping entire away.
- 46:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure it's a trend. I think that's
- 46:47Speaker 1: just Jetstar. But this whole phenomena. Really, I think came
- 46:51Speaker 1: from a famous Seinfeld scene.
- 46:57Speaker 3: You want something to read, nuck?
- 47:05Speaker 4: Are you going to take a nap? Or you're just
- 47:10Speaker 4: gonna sit there staring at the back of the seat.
- 47:18Speaker 2: That's it.
- 47:19Speaker 4: I can't take it.
- 47:22Speaker 1: I sympathize. I reckon if someone was sitting beside me
- 47:24Speaker 1: on a flight doing nothing, I'd get annoyed if it.
- 47:27Speaker 3: Would be a bit disconcerting. I thought raw dogging was
- 47:30Speaker 3: what you did when you wanted to join the male
- 47:31Speaker 3: High Club. But anyway, but you just do what I
- 47:34Speaker 3: do and drink on the flight. If you drink enough,
- 47:37Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about anything else. I love this.
- 47:40Speaker 4: This is so like stoic. It's like I don't need
- 47:43Speaker 4: to constantly distract myself and detain my boat, watch a movie,
- 47:47Speaker 4: read another book.
- 47:48Speaker 3: Down alcohol.
- 47:50Speaker 4: But before we leave you tonight, we've got to tell
- 47:52Speaker 4: you about this woman in Illinois who stole two point
- 47:56Speaker 4: two million dollars worth of chicking where from her school district.
- 48:02Speaker 4: She worked at the school for ten years and then
- 48:06Speaker 4: decided maybe they weren't paying her enough. She ordered more
- 48:09Speaker 4: than eleven thousand cases of chicken wings from the school
- 48:13Speaker 4: district's food provider and then got a district cargo van
- 48:17Speaker 4: to pick it up. The school didn't even notice this
- 48:20Speaker 4: had happened until a mid year audit picked up on
- 48:24Speaker 4: the fact that they had spent a heck of a
- 48:26Speaker 4: lot of money on chicken wings and they did not
- 48:29Speaker 4: have that many chicken wings in their order. I mean,
- 48:33Speaker 4: Vera a Little, her name is Vera Little. I'm not
- 48:35Speaker 4: sure whether this is Does this make her legendary? What
- 48:40Speaker 4: do you do with that many chicken wings?
- 48:41Speaker 1: She was never going to get away with it because
- 48:43Speaker 1: they don't even serve chicken wings to the kids because
- 48:45Speaker 1: of the bones, So it was even on the menu.
- 48:47Speaker 1: That's all we've got time for, but don't go anywhere.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Coming right up is the red Penneesio