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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome the Late Debate.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. It's great to have your company.
- 0:08Speaker 2: I'm James MacPerson with Caleb Bond and Danika di Giorgio.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Already for a big night Before we get to what
- 0:14Speaker 2: we're talking about tonight, we're speaking earlier about the John
- 0:17Speaker 2: Farnham tribute concert.
- 0:18Speaker 3: We go to that, of course, absolutely, there's a great lineup,
- 0:22Speaker 3: Jessica Malboy, Tina Arena, that's a big roverack our same.
- 0:26Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think so I.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Would go too. I would go for Tina Arena. I
- 0:29Speaker 2: think she's one of the most underrated as silly as
- 0:31Speaker 2: the sounds Australian recording artists. Ever.
- 0:33Speaker 1: If Tina Arena were born in the United States, she
- 0:37Speaker 1: would have been a global superstar. Notwithstanding that she's had
- 0:40Speaker 1: a bit of success in Europe and spends a lot
- 0:42Speaker 1: of her time living over there these days, but she
- 0:44Speaker 1: would have been a global superstar she was born in
- 0:46Speaker 1: the US.
- 0:46Speaker 2: It'd be a magnificent which September, isn't it. Yeah, magnificent
- 0:50Speaker 2: event that in the Grand Final. Oh, we should all go.
- 0:52Speaker 2: That would be what if our little.
- 0:54Speaker 4: Late Debate team outing, that would be very cute.
- 0:57Speaker 1: We're almost making Melbourne sound like a great place Jane
- 1:00Speaker 1: to visit.
- 1:00Speaker 2: It's wonderful. Here's what's coming up on the Late Debate tonight.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Australia's population today reach twenty eight million people, but not
- 1:07Speaker 2: that many people are celebrating. We'll take you through the
- 1:09Speaker 2: figures shortly. South Australia's debt is set to hit fifty
- 1:13Speaker 2: billion dollars, but does anyone care? One nation do? They've
- 1:17Speaker 2: got a plan to stop debt going even higher. As
- 1:19Speaker 2: Corey Bernardi prepares to make his mark and Sydney's Lakember
- 1:23Speaker 2: Mosque wants to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, they
- 1:27Speaker 2: argue it's no different to church bells. They also say
- 1:30Speaker 2: if you don't like it, you're racist and Islamophobic. We'll
- 1:33Speaker 2: get to all of that shortly, but first. The Queensland
- 1:35Speaker 2: State government believes it has a plan to crack down
- 1:39Speaker 2: on e bikes and east scooters, which are currently terrorizing
- 1:42Speaker 2: roadways and footpaths. We all know the problem, kids riding
- 1:45Speaker 2: what are effectively motorbikes all over the road, no regard
- 1:49Speaker 2: for the law or for their own safety, and good
- 1:51Speaker 2: luck walking on the footpath with kids on east scooters,
- 1:53Speaker 2: treating pedestrians pretty much like witches hats. So here's what
- 1:57Speaker 2: the LNP government up in Queensland is proposing in legislation
- 2:01Speaker 2: to be introduced to Parliament tomorrow. They're saying that children
- 2:05Speaker 2: age twelve to seventeen would be allowed to ride e
- 2:08Speaker 2: bikes and e scooters under parental supervision. Otherwise you'd need
- 2:12Speaker 2: at least a learner's permit to ride one solo. If
- 2:15Speaker 2: kids are caught riding unsupervised, parents would cop a six
- 2:19Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty dollars fine. There's other rules. Speeds
- 2:23Speaker 2: would be limited to twenty five kilometers an hour, and
- 2:25Speaker 2: there'd be a twelve kilometer an hour limit on footpaths,
- 2:29Speaker 2: which all sounds very sensible, But Caleb, I think the
- 2:32Speaker 2: problem would.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Be in the enforcement of all of this, which is
- 2:35Speaker 1: the problem is already in the enforcement. There are existing
- 2:38Speaker 1: rules about ebiks and escooters. If we will take Queensland
- 2:42Speaker 1: as the example that we're talking about here, you already
- 2:45Speaker 1: have to be supervised if you're over the age of
- 2:48Speaker 1: twelve and under the age of sixteen. If you're under
- 2:51Speaker 1: the age of twelve, you're not allowed to ride one
- 2:52Speaker 1: at all. After sixteen, you can do what you want
- 2:56Speaker 1: they're already limited to twenty five kilometer in our spaces.
- 3:00Speaker 1: So all of this stuff basically already exists, and yet
- 3:04Speaker 1: we still have problems with e bikes and e scooters.
- 3:08Speaker 1: You cannot convince me that more laws and more regulation,
- 3:12Speaker 1: which you know, governments seem to think is the answer
- 3:14Speaker 1: to everything, will actually fix this. You already have rules
- 3:18Speaker 1: in place. Why don't you start by enforcing them first
- 3:23Speaker 1: before you start bringing in other rules and laws. Because
- 3:26Speaker 1: the problem is not a kid of thirteen or fourteen
- 3:30Speaker 1: who's riding his e bike to school at a maximum
- 3:33Speaker 1: of a maximum of twenty five kilometers an hour. It's
- 3:36Speaker 1: kids who've managed to get their hands on illegal souped
- 3:39Speaker 1: up e bikes and scooters that are doing forty kilometers
- 3:42Speaker 1: an hour plus that they're going out joy riding on
- 3:45Speaker 1: and all sorts of stuff that they shouldn't be doing.
- 3:48Speaker 1: That's the problem. And yet the rules we already have
- 3:51Speaker 1: have not fixed that. So you can't tell me for
- 3:54Speaker 1: one minute that this will actually do anything about it.
- 3:57Speaker 1: If you want to fix it, you need the will
- 3:59Speaker 1: power to crack down with the rules you already have.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Laws won't change a thing.
- 4:03Speaker 3: I understand that, but I feel like the difference this
- 4:05Speaker 3: time is that the onus is now more on a parent,
- 4:09Speaker 3: Like it is the parent that is going to have
- 4:11Speaker 3: to take responsibility should they not be there to supervise
- 4:13Speaker 3: their child. If this child is acting like a whoon
- 4:16Speaker 3: and doing forty kilometers an hour roaming around the suburbs,
- 4:20Speaker 3: you know, being an absolute delinquent. This is the difference
- 4:23Speaker 3: now with this sort of legislation. Now, I'm not all
- 4:25Speaker 3: for red tape, bread tape and laws, laws and laws,
- 4:28Speaker 3: but I think it's fantastic that we're finally going to
- 4:30Speaker 3: see parents take some bloody responsibility. I mean, we literally
- 4:33Speaker 3: cry out for parental responsibility every time a youth crime
- 4:36Speaker 3: story happens. We've got hons like this on our screens
- 4:39Speaker 3: right now that we can see hold their parents in
- 4:42Speaker 3: and say, take.
- 4:42Speaker 4: Some responsibility for your child.
- 4:44Speaker 3: It should not be up to everyday ordinary Australians to
- 4:47Speaker 3: have to deal with this nonsense.
- 4:49Speaker 2: I think you're right, that's the only way to stop it,
- 4:50Speaker 2: because parents will pretty quickly rain in their kids once
- 4:53Speaker 2: you hit with the six hundred and twenty dollars worth
- 4:55Speaker 2: of fines. Just the other day, I'm having coffee and
- 4:58Speaker 2: I'm watching I know, five or pulling monos straight down
- 5:01Speaker 2: the middle of the street, and I got to admit
- 5:03Speaker 2: I thought delinquents, and I wish I could have done
- 5:06Speaker 2: that when I was fifteen. Quite so, there's this mixture
- 5:10Speaker 2: of you know, they're out of control and quiet admiration
- 5:15Speaker 2: on my own.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Would they have been going faster than twenty five kilometers
- 5:18Speaker 1: an hour.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Not doing a mono? No, that would be ridiculous.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You never know. But look, I don't disagree about the
- 5:25Speaker 1: point that parents need to be held responsible because you
- 5:27Speaker 1: know who's buying. I mean, the kids aren't going out
- 5:29Speaker 1: and dropping five grand themselves. Now, I wouldn't have thought
- 5:32Speaker 1: on these e bikes. So they're getting them from somewhere.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Presumably parents or others in their family, maybe siblings or whatever,
- 5:38Speaker 1: are funding them. But like, is there really a problem
- 5:40Speaker 1: if you were at thirteen or fourteen year old kid
- 5:43Speaker 1: riding an east b bike or an EES scooter to
- 5:46Speaker 1: school at a maximum of twenty five kilometers an hour?
- 5:49Speaker 1: Is that a terror to society? A menace to society?
- 5:52Speaker 1: I don't think it particularly is The issue is those
- 5:55Speaker 1: who go out on these souped up bikes that are
- 5:57Speaker 1: going way faster than twenty five kilometers an hour getting
- 6:00Speaker 1: around in gangs and terrorizing people on the roads and footpaths.
- 6:04Speaker 1: That's not some kid who's going to school or the
- 6:06Speaker 1: local shops on the weekend. I just don't I think
- 6:10Speaker 1: everyone is being caught in this when they don't need to.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I rode an e bike and an e scooter. This
- 6:16Speaker 1: is long before they sort of became commonplace. When I
- 6:20Speaker 1: was in my teenage years, my grandfather had one. I
- 6:23Speaker 1: used to go down a stay at his place in
- 6:26Speaker 1: Gulwa and used to ride it all over the shop.
- 6:28Speaker 1: And I wasn't terrorizing people. I was just having some
- 6:31Speaker 1: fun on my holidays. But what's the issue.
- 6:33Speaker 3: But I think in this case, I know that twenty
- 6:35Speaker 3: five kilometers an hour is.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Slow, too faster on a normal I get.
- 6:39Speaker 3: That, But I think in this case it's more making
- 6:41Speaker 3: sure than at that speed that there is still a
- 6:44Speaker 3: parent supervising to make sure that that child is obeying
- 6:47Speaker 3: all of the rules, because that's the problem. Some of
- 6:50Speaker 3: them go over the limits and then they don't know
- 6:52Speaker 3: how to you know, if they're on the cycle paths,
- 6:55Speaker 3: they don't know which way to go. I mean, kids
- 6:57Speaker 3: do make mistakes, but it's like a parent into an
- 7:00Speaker 3: l plator's car.
- 7:01Speaker 4: It's like that level of supervision.
- 7:03Speaker 1: So what about it on a pushback without a motor
- 7:05Speaker 1: and I'm ripping forty kilometers an hour downhill, which is
- 7:08Speaker 1: quite easy to do. What's the what are the copper
- 7:10Speaker 1: is going to do about that?
- 7:11Speaker 3: Well, then the parents need to be holding the pizza parents' responsibility.
- 7:14Speaker 1: It's not in this, is it? This is about ebuch?
- 7:16Speaker 2: Well, that's fine because it's not motorized. Therefore it's a bicycle, So.
- 7:20Speaker 1: It's okay to go really fast and terrorized pedestrians as
- 7:23Speaker 1: long as it doesn't have a motor on it.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Yes, because the problem here is what's a bicycle and
- 7:27Speaker 2: what's a motorcycle? And now the two have fused and
- 7:31Speaker 2: so there's confusion. There's a gray area. So your bicycle
- 7:34Speaker 2: is fine, but the moment you put a motor on it,
- 7:36Speaker 2: it's a different kind of area, isn't.
- 7:38Speaker 1: But isn't the issue the terrorization of other people and
- 7:41Speaker 1: the behavior not the vehicle itself? I mean, because would
- 7:44Speaker 1: you say, for instance, with cars, right, you know you
- 7:47Speaker 1: can buy cars that could go four or five hundred
- 7:50Speaker 1: k an hour, but we don't put speed limits on cars,
- 7:53Speaker 1: we have speed limits on the road, and if you
- 7:55Speaker 1: break those rules, we then find you for doing so,
- 7:58Speaker 1: or worse, you could lose your license whatever it might be.
- 8:01Speaker 1: We don't say, well, the cars have a legal limit
- 8:04Speaker 1: that they must be produced to only go that fast.
- 8:08Speaker 1: So we could say you can drive a car as
- 8:09Speaker 1: fast as you want on the road if it's possible to,
- 8:11Speaker 1: but if you get caught, you'll get in trouble. Why
- 8:14Speaker 1: would the same not apply to an ebuch for instance.
- 8:16Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that. But here's something
- 8:18Speaker 2: we've not discussed with this. You've been in Brisbane recently,
- 8:21Speaker 2: they've got Lime bikes everywhere. You have to have a
- 8:24Speaker 2: license now to use these Lime scooters. The company is
- 8:29Speaker 2: arguing this is going to destroy their business because tourists,
- 8:32Speaker 2: young backpackers, et cetera, probably won't have international licenses, therefore
- 8:36Speaker 2: won't be allowed to ride these things legally.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's ridiculous, Like do you need a
- 8:41Speaker 1: license to ride a scooter? I remember they introduced the
- 8:44Speaker 1: scooters in Adelaide, well, becuz I was still living there.
- 8:46Speaker 1: I left their five years and it was long before then,
- 8:49Speaker 1: so they must have had them for seven eight nine
- 8:51Speaker 1: years now down in Adelaide, they introduced them as part
- 8:53Speaker 1: of the Fringe Festival. Now magnificent to get around town
- 8:56Speaker 1: on because you go to a fringe show and then
- 8:59Speaker 1: you go to the other side of the one bloody fantastic.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Should the Queensland government carve out some legislation to allow
- 9:05Speaker 2: those sort of rental e scooters to be but.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Just think we are over governed, We're just so governed.
- 9:13Speaker 3: Should have a license because what happens if you're a
- 9:15Speaker 3: tourist again, you can't read the road, What if you
- 9:17Speaker 3: don't speak a word of English, you've come to Australia,
- 9:19Speaker 3: you've rented an e scooter, or you've rented any sort
- 9:23Speaker 3: of form of mobility like that, you should be able
- 9:25Speaker 3: to at least read the road signs and understand our
- 9:27Speaker 3: road rules.
- 9:27Speaker 1: But that person could still then legally ride a push
- 9:30Speaker 1: bike faster than they could go on.
- 9:33Speaker 3: But I think even if you want to read to
- 9:35Speaker 3: ride an e scooter, I think that you need to
- 9:36Speaker 3: at least have a license. I think that's absolutely fair
- 9:39Speaker 3: enough because it puts other people at risk if you've
- 9:41Speaker 3: got no idea because you can't read the road signs
- 9:43Speaker 3: and you.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Don't understand the left from right.
- 9:44Speaker 3: What if you drive on the other side of the
- 9:46Speaker 3: road in the country, no idea.
- 9:48Speaker 4: Sorry, But if they do it on a pushback, no, No,
- 9:52Speaker 4: I think there should be licenses.
- 9:53Speaker 3: I absolutely feel every every pushbo not for push bikes.
- 9:58Speaker 4: I'm talking to e scooter.
- 10:00Speaker 1: No, But I'm saying that you can do the same
- 10:01Speaker 1: things on a pushback. So if a tourist needs a
- 10:04Speaker 1: license to ride an escooter, which for the most part,
- 10:07Speaker 1: don't go more than fifteen kilometers an hour, those those
- 10:10Speaker 1: hired ones, unless you have not they've made forty No,
- 10:13Speaker 1: they don't do forty the one I was on.
- 10:14Speaker 4: I feel like they could go a lot quicker than that.
- 10:17Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely not. I've ridden dozens of the things.
- 10:20Speaker 2: You're not writing it properly, cave, I don't know what
- 10:22Speaker 2: you've been doing for yours.
- 10:23Speaker 1: All the ones I've been been speed limited. But you
- 10:26Speaker 1: can go faster than that very easily on a pushback.
- 10:28Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is, if the problem is that
- 10:31Speaker 1: going at speed is a terror to other people on
- 10:33Speaker 1: the roads or the footpaths, why would you not apply
- 10:36Speaker 1: those same rules to other vehicles that would you would
- 10:39Speaker 1: use on a footpath like a pushback that you can
- 10:42Speaker 1: very easily get along at more than twenty k out.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Look, you know what, I don't have the answer for
- 10:47Speaker 3: that one, Caleb, But let me government.
- 10:49Speaker 1: That's our problem over regulation.
- 10:51Speaker 4: I do agree that we are over governed.
- 10:52Speaker 3: That that I'm not I'm not into all these rules, but
- 10:55Speaker 3: I just think when it comes to road safety, you've
- 10:57Speaker 3: got to take some responsibility, and if it means putting
- 11:01Speaker 3: a license forward, then so be it. I'd feel safer
- 11:03Speaker 3: on the roads if I knew that people around me
- 11:05Speaker 3: were licensed, whether they're in a car or not, wouldn't you?
- 11:08Speaker 1: Oh no, not necessarily been.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Plenty of licensed drivers have scared the lights out of
- 11:12Speaker 2: the pore.
- 11:13Speaker 1: I'm not sure why license is the difference between the
- 11:16Speaker 1: misbehavior or not.
- 11:17Speaker 4: That is a very very good point.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Well, look, big Australia keeps getting bigger. As of today,
- 11:23Speaker 3: our population reached twenty eight million people. Would you believe
- 11:27Speaker 3: with five hundred thousand new people in the last twelve
- 11:32Speaker 3: months alone, the ABS estimates that a person arrived to
- 11:36Speaker 3: live in Australia every fifty nine seconds. My goodness, with
- 11:40Speaker 3: an overall population increase of one person every one minute,
- 11:44Speaker 3: and fifteen seconds now. Based on these ABS statistics released today,
- 11:49Speaker 3: the current model the nation's population will reach twenty nine
- 11:53Speaker 3: million sometime in two thousand and twenty eight and could
- 11:56Speaker 3: rise to thirty million by twenty thirty one. The model
- 12:01Speaker 3: also estimates that in twenty twenty six, the average age
- 12:04Speaker 3: of the country is now thirty nine point seventy two
- 12:06Speaker 3: years old. The female population is one point eight percent
- 12:10Speaker 3: higher than the male population, which I thought was actually
- 12:13Speaker 3: quite interesting. Now, when are we actually going to have
- 12:17Speaker 3: a serious and proper debate on population in this country.
- 12:22Speaker 3: It is something that the coalition is asking questions about today.
- 12:27Speaker 5: The one thing that the government has total control over
- 12:29Speaker 5: is the number of people who come into our country
- 12:31Speaker 5: every year, and labor has allowed millions of people to
- 12:33Speaker 5: come in on their watch in a way that is
- 12:35Speaker 5: completely unsustainable. We need to get migration back down to
- 12:38Speaker 5: more sustainable levels.
- 12:41Speaker 4: And he's right.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Nobody ever voted for this, nobody ever voted for a
- 12:44Speaker 3: big population. Yet here we are, and I'm sure that
- 12:47Speaker 3: you see that every time you're out on the roads.
- 12:50Speaker 3: And we don't have the infrastructure, we don't have the housing.
- 12:52Speaker 3: There's a cost of living crisis right now. Migration is
- 12:55Speaker 3: at record highs. More than one point two million migrants
- 12:57Speaker 3: have come in under labor and another one point point
- 13:00Speaker 3: two are expected by the end of this decade. And
- 13:02Speaker 3: if you remember from the budget papers, migration is not
- 13:05Speaker 3: expected to lower until two years time, around the time
- 13:09Speaker 3: of the next election.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Very very convenient.
- 13:12Speaker 3: We have not had a proper debate over population in this.
- 13:15Speaker 4: Country, not that I can recall.
- 13:17Speaker 3: I know it's something that Pauline Hanson has felt very
- 13:19Speaker 3: strongly about. I've always said that we need a plever site.
- 13:23Speaker 3: We need to decide what sort of a country we
- 13:25Speaker 3: want to be and how many people we want in
- 13:28Speaker 3: this country, because right now it is at unsustainable levels.
- 13:31Speaker 3: And when it comes to migration, I don't think it
- 13:33Speaker 3: is unreasonable to say we've got to close the door
- 13:36Speaker 3: until we actually figure out what we're doing, and we've
- 13:39Speaker 3: got to lower it to try and get every day
- 13:41Speaker 3: assies into housing.
- 13:42Speaker 2: It's interesting. Richard Marles, who was speaking at a defense
- 13:45Speaker 2: summit today, talked about the need for for us to
- 13:50Speaker 2: get rid of xenophobia. His words, because xenophobia will become
- 13:54Speaker 2: a national security issue, it will undermine social cohesion very much.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Positioning the Labour Party to push back on one nation,
- 14:02Speaker 2: which I thought was a bit of a compliment to
- 14:04Speaker 2: Paul Enhance, and that Richard Marles would go down that
- 14:07Speaker 2: track at a defense summit, clearly talking about one nation
- 14:10Speaker 2: they consider a threat. What we're not talking about while
- 14:13Speaker 2: we're talking about immigration, whether we are okay with the
- 14:17Speaker 2: numbers or whether we need to slash it, is the
- 14:19Speaker 2: birth rate. Because we keep thinking immigration's got to be
- 14:22Speaker 2: the solution to all of our problems, be it skilled workers,
- 14:26Speaker 2: be it helping the GDP. But if we keep going
- 14:30Speaker 2: down that track, we're becoming a very different country, whether
- 14:33Speaker 2: we like it or not. The real issue no one
- 14:36Speaker 2: wants to address is why aren't Australians having children, Why
- 14:39Speaker 2: aren't young people forming families? And what can the government
- 14:42Speaker 2: do to help that process and make it more attractive
- 14:45Speaker 2: for people?
- 14:46Speaker 1: Well Indeed, and John Howard used to talk about the
- 14:49Speaker 1: economy delivering a human dividend, and the point of a
- 14:53Speaker 1: good economy was not a good economy in and of itself.
- 14:56Speaker 1: It was that the economy delivered for its people, rather
- 14:58Speaker 1: than the people delivering for the economy. And I would
- 15:02Speaker 1: argue that these days we've strayed into the territory of
- 15:04Speaker 1: the people delivering for the economy rather than the other
- 15:07Speaker 1: way around. And you see that constantly in our economic conditions,
- 15:12Speaker 1: whether it be the basic cost of living, whether it
- 15:14Speaker 1: be the cost of housing. You know, the fact that
- 15:17Speaker 1: only a couple of generations ago, it was quite common
- 15:19Speaker 1: and feasible on reasonably low incomes to have a parent
- 15:23Speaker 1: at home. Most people these days couldn't even dream of
- 15:25Speaker 1: doing that if they want to have kids, because they
- 15:28Speaker 1: couldn't afford to pay the mortgage and all the other
- 15:30Speaker 1: expenses if mum or dad, for that matter, decided to
- 15:33Speaker 1: spend the majority of their time at home. We just
- 15:36Speaker 1: don't have those chances anymore, and they are things that lead,
- 15:39Speaker 1: of course to people either delaying having children or not
- 15:42Speaker 1: having children at all. We also have other problems, problems,
- 15:47Speaker 1: if you want to call them that. But I think
- 15:49Speaker 1: we've delayed adulthood to some degree. And you'd probably have
- 15:55Speaker 1: some people who would argue that that's a good thing,
- 15:57Speaker 1: because largely it's happened because the economic conditions have improved
- 16:01Speaker 1: in some regard, so that you know, kids don't have
- 16:04Speaker 1: to leave school at fourteen or fifteen to go off
- 16:06Speaker 1: and earn money to help support their families or whatever.
- 16:10Speaker 1: The opportunities to go to university or obviously a lot
- 16:14Speaker 1: more available than they used to be, but all of
- 16:16Speaker 1: this is then delaying people going out and starting families
- 16:20Speaker 1: and getting married and buying their own homes. They're staying
- 16:23Speaker 1: at home with their parents much longer, so all of
- 16:26Speaker 1: these things that make that far more difficult, and you're
- 16:29Speaker 1: competing for all of these things with all these margrants
- 16:32Speaker 1: that they then bring in because you know, you've got
- 16:34Speaker 1: to have this eternal economic growth. Now, a lot of
- 16:37Speaker 1: the migration that we've seen in the last few years
- 16:40Speaker 1: under this government. I know, Janiki, you said, we didn't
- 16:42Speaker 1: vote for it, but the only problem is that it
- 16:44Speaker 1: wasn't all that long ago. The Albanese government was re
- 16:47Speaker 1: elected with a huge majority after they'd already brought in
- 16:50Speaker 1: more than a million people, so we were aware of
- 16:52Speaker 1: that then. It's only really in the last twelve months
- 16:55Speaker 1: or less than twelve months that people have started to
- 16:57Speaker 1: wake up to the effects of that, and you're now
- 16:59Speaker 1: seeing that the polling for one nation. But largely the
- 17:03Speaker 1: migration we've seen in the last few years has been
- 17:06Speaker 1: to patch up a weak economy, because if you bring
- 17:10Speaker 1: people in it necessarily creates inflation and alleged economic growth.
- 17:16Speaker 1: Most of these people are then given jobs that are
- 17:18Speaker 1: in some way funded by the government, be it in
- 17:21Speaker 1: aged care or the NDAs or something like this, and
- 17:24Speaker 1: something like seventy five percent of jobs in recent years
- 17:27Speaker 1: have been connected to government funding in some way. And
- 17:30Speaker 1: then we go, hey, presto, we've got economic growth. Well,
- 17:34Speaker 1: we've not had real growth at all, and we're all
- 17:37Speaker 1: paying for correct.
- 17:38Speaker 3: I mean, we would have been in a recession years
- 17:40Speaker 3: ago had migration not been the only thing that's been
- 17:43Speaker 3: propping up the Ponzi scheme economy.
- 17:45Speaker 4: But labor loves a big Australia. Labor loves to see a.
- 17:47Speaker 3: Big population because it means obviously they can tax people more.
- 17:51Speaker 3: And as we know, they love migration because migrants tend
- 17:55Speaker 3: to favor the labor vote. We have to remember Tony
- 17:59Speaker 3: Burk's citizen tour of Australia just prior to the election,
- 18:02Speaker 3: where everybody got a citizenship, because migrants do tend to
- 18:05Speaker 3: vote for the government that let them in. So it
- 18:09Speaker 3: works politically very well for labor to keep this on.
- 18:12Speaker 3: But twenty eight million is our population. Now, look, that
- 18:17Speaker 3: is frightening. That is frightening, and.
- 18:18Speaker 4: You see it, you see it out there, you see
- 18:20Speaker 4: it on the roads.
- 18:21Speaker 3: Every time I go back to Perth, I just cannot
- 18:24Speaker 3: believe how much the population has increased in the seven
- 18:26Speaker 3: years that I've been living in Sydney. It shocks me
- 18:29Speaker 3: when I go back to see how many people are
- 18:31Speaker 3: living there now.
- 18:31Speaker 2: So we know one nation stance. Angus Taylor has very
- 18:35Speaker 2: publicly tied their immigration numbers to housing supply. Will the
- 18:40Speaker 2: next election It's not going to be a clever site
- 18:42Speaker 2: on immigration, but will it by default.
- 18:45Speaker 4: Well it should be be that, but it should be
- 18:47Speaker 4: James which should be a choice.
- 18:49Speaker 2: It will be a choice between continued high immigration or
- 18:53Speaker 2: massive cuts and Australians will be able to have.
- 18:56Speaker 4: This is why, and I've said this many times.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Before, the Coalition to release their migration plan in full,
- 19:02Speaker 3: that includes the non how many migrants they are going
- 19:05Speaker 3: to let in every single year, how many they're going
- 19:08Speaker 3: to cut it by. And now they say we don't
- 19:10Speaker 3: need to do that, it will be unnecessary. We'll do
- 19:11Speaker 3: that closer to the election. But if you want, if
- 19:14Speaker 3: this is not more data, this abs started today, more
- 19:17Speaker 3: proof that we've got to have some figures. Then I'm
- 19:20Speaker 3: not sure what will because clearly this it should be.
- 19:24Speaker 3: The last two elections, immigration has barely made it to
- 19:27Speaker 3: the forefront, and both elections should have been a plebiscite
- 19:30Speaker 3: on immigration as well.
- 19:31Speaker 4: But it hasn't been. Third time lucky hopefully, And.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Of course this is what is driving the increase, largely
- 19:37Speaker 1: in the One Nation vote One Nation down in South Australia.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Of course they did reasonably well at the state election
- 19:44Speaker 1: in March, the good four in the lower House and
- 19:46Speaker 1: three in the Upper House. Now Corey Bernardi, who is
- 19:50Speaker 1: the leader of One Nation in South Australia, says that
- 19:53Speaker 1: state should have a debt ceiling. Now I'd talked before
- 19:56Speaker 1: about the economy serving the people and all of this
- 19:59Speaker 1: government spending, right, I mean, and we've been hearing from
- 20:02Speaker 1: the federal government after the federal budget, all this business
- 20:06Speaker 1: about intergenerational equity. We want to talk about matters of
- 20:10Speaker 1: intergenerational equity. Why don't we talk about the intergenerational theft
- 20:14Speaker 1: that is being perpetrated by a rampant government debt, Because
- 20:19Speaker 1: this stuff does have to be paid for at some point,
- 20:22Speaker 1: and certainly in the meantime we're paying for the interest
- 20:25Speaker 1: on it. And when someone comes knocking and wants their
- 20:28Speaker 1: money back, it won't be the people who are spending
- 20:30Speaker 1: it today who have to pay it back. It'll be
- 20:33Speaker 1: my generation, it'll be your kids, it'll be your grandkids.
- 20:37Speaker 1: So Coryberardi in South Australia says we need a debt ceiling.
- 20:40Speaker 1: He says, the fact is at federal and state level
- 20:43Speaker 1: we are creating an intergenerational burden with next to nothing
- 20:47Speaker 1: to show for it. Debt has become a runaway train
- 20:49Speaker 1: under both the labor and Liberal parties in recent times.
- 20:52Speaker 1: It is the debt ceiling, he says, is a practical measure.
- 20:56Speaker 1: It means that they can't get the debt problem off
- 20:59Speaker 1: into the long grass. That means that our children can
- 21:01Speaker 1: actually have a confidence in the future that it will
- 21:03Speaker 1: not be burdened with errors of the past. Now, this
- 21:05Speaker 1: system exists in the United States where if they want
- 21:08Speaker 1: to go above the debt ceiling that has been set,
- 21:10Speaker 1: they have to go to Congress for approval. And what
- 21:13Speaker 1: one nation Corbinardi in South Australia are proposing is that
- 21:18Speaker 1: based on figures that will come out of the state
- 21:20Speaker 1: budget which will be handed down on Thursday. They will
- 21:23Speaker 1: put up legislation or put afford a bill this week
- 21:26Speaker 1: to institute a debt ceiling, and that would mean that
- 21:30Speaker 1: the Treasurer would need to get a majority of seventy
- 21:33Speaker 1: five percent of the Parliament to agree to borrowing more
- 21:37Speaker 1: money above a number that the Parliament would then set.
- 21:41Speaker 1: And I think it's eminently sensible and I think it
- 21:44Speaker 1: should go national because there has to be some level
- 21:47Speaker 1: of accountability for the borrowing and the spending that we
- 21:51Speaker 1: see from all levels of government. Now.
- 21:53Speaker 2: It was Thomas Sowlo was reading today who said politicians
- 21:56Speaker 2: have two major priorities. Being elected is number one. Number
- 22:00Speaker 2: two is being re elected and number three is well,
- 22:03Speaker 2: who knows what number three is, but it's a long
- 22:05Speaker 2: way behind the other two, which goes to your point.
- 22:08Speaker 2: They spend and spend and spend because as long as
- 22:11Speaker 2: they're reelected, and they're not really worried about paying it
- 22:13Speaker 2: back because they'll be long gone enjoying their pensions. As
- 22:16Speaker 2: you say, this is totally sensible. But do you think
- 22:19Speaker 2: the South Australian Labor Party will agree to it? I
- 22:23Speaker 2: doubt it. Their debt's already at forty eight point seven
- 22:26Speaker 2: billions so fifty billion dollars as a net ceiling is
- 22:29Speaker 2: not far away if they reach that. Danika, the annual
- 22:32Speaker 2: interest bill for South Australians with three billion dollars a year.
- 22:37Speaker 2: The Royal Adelaide Hospital costs two point four I think
- 22:40Speaker 2: to build, so it's a brand new hospital every year
- 22:44Speaker 2: that they're losing just in interest repayments if they get
- 22:47Speaker 2: to that point. Ashton Hern who's the Liberal leader, she
- 22:50Speaker 2: said that the government needs to come up with a
- 22:52Speaker 2: plan to pay down debt, which is a little bit nebulous.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Corey Benardi's plan. I agree with kleb It's it's an
- 23:00Speaker 2: objective number that they all agree on. They don't go
- 23:04Speaker 2: beyond that unless there's seventy five percent agreement. Good plan.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Well, who says that one nation doesn't have any policies,
- 23:10Speaker 3: that doesn't have any economic policies, Hello, there's one right
- 23:14Speaker 3: here and it.
- 23:15Speaker 4: Is a very very smart one.
- 23:16Speaker 3: And you know, to Caleb's point, you're right, we don't
- 23:19Speaker 3: talk about debt enough in this country.
- 23:22Speaker 4: It seems to be something.
- 23:23Speaker 3: That's part of every budget or party and part of
- 23:25Speaker 3: every finance sheet that we don't prosecute enough and we
- 23:29Speaker 3: don't talk about it, But the reality is it is
- 23:31Speaker 3: such a burden on future generations. And you know it's
- 23:36Speaker 3: easy to say, oh, well, it will happen down the track. No,
- 23:38Speaker 3: it is a disaster for down the track for as
- 23:41Speaker 3: you said, my generation, your kids generation, and they're going
- 23:44Speaker 3: to be.
- 23:44Speaker 4: The ones that are going to be taxed higher and
- 23:46Speaker 4: higher and are.
- 23:47Speaker 3: Going to be squeezed out of every market and it's
- 23:49Speaker 3: going to be very, very difficult to pay off things.
- 23:52Speaker 3: And I was also thinking, you know, it wouldn't this
- 23:54Speaker 3: be great, not only if it was implemented nationally, but gee,
- 23:57Speaker 3: Victoria could do with a debt sealing right now. Couldn't
- 24:00Speaker 3: down and down in Victoria.
- 24:02Speaker 1: The problem is if they tried to put a ceiling
- 24:04Speaker 1: in the ceiling, it'd be up somewhere near heaven or something.
- 24:08Speaker 1: Any problem is that if they went any further, that
- 24:10Speaker 1: would put them in heaven. And I don't think anyone
- 24:12Speaker 1: involved in this deserves to be up there.
- 24:14Speaker 4: No, that's but I mean, they are so broken backwards.
- 24:17Speaker 3: They are prosecuting the taxpayer for their own reckless policies,
- 24:21Speaker 3: but around the country. To be in more than a
- 24:23Speaker 3: trillion dollars of debt is so unsustainable and you've got
- 24:27Speaker 3: Jim Chalmers coming out there. No, look, we're finding savings,
- 24:30Speaker 3: we're doing exceptionally well.
- 24:32Speaker 4: Yeah right, but I do applaud one nation for this policy.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Well, times are certainly tough, including in Tasmania where a
- 24:39Speaker 2: Tasmanian institution. Did James help me with this culub? Is
- 24:42Speaker 2: that Boag or Bob, the James Bogue Brewery, which has
- 24:46Speaker 2: existed in Lon Sessten since eighteen eighty one, that's one
- 24:49Speaker 2: hundred and forty five years, is going to close down
- 24:53Speaker 2: because of the slowing demand for beer, not just in
- 24:56Speaker 2: Tasmania but right around the country. I get Caleb to
- 24:58Speaker 2: address that in the moment, but.
- 25:00Speaker 1: These really I can tell you. But anyway, I'm doing
- 25:03Speaker 1: my bit for the country.
- 25:05Speaker 2: The brewery in Tasmania has been running at one fifth
- 25:07Speaker 2: capacity for quite a few years now. That look, I'm
- 25:12Speaker 2: not a beer drinker, so it's sad that it's closing down.
- 25:15Speaker 2: That's life. What caught my attention about this story was
- 25:17Speaker 2: the forty two staff at the brewery reportedly were absolutely
- 25:21Speaker 2: shocked and said they had no warning that this was coming.
- 25:25Speaker 2: I read that and I just thought it's interesting to
- 25:27Speaker 2: me that workers can work for a company or a
- 25:29Speaker 2: business and take I presume little interest in what's actually
- 25:34Speaker 2: going on. How could you be running at one fifth
- 25:36Speaker 2: capacity for a number of years and the workers have
- 25:40Speaker 2: no idea that you know what this cannot you know
- 25:43Speaker 2: what cannot continue won't continue. How could they have been
- 25:46Speaker 2: shocked that it's closing down knowing that it's running so
- 25:50Speaker 2: far beneath capacity for so many years.
- 25:52Speaker 1: I guess because there may still be some value on
- 25:54Speaker 1: tradition and.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Edition don't pay the bill.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Well, I know, but for the north of Tasmania, you know,
- 26:00Speaker 1: James bog is a hell of a traditional company. And
- 26:05Speaker 1: you go down to Tazzy and I've been to the
- 26:07Speaker 1: Bogus brewery and there is something different because they they
- 26:11Speaker 1: brew bogues on the mainland with mainland water, but they
- 26:15Speaker 1: brew the bogues in Tasmany with Tazzy water, specifically for Tazzy,
- 26:20Speaker 1: and I reckon it does taste different down there. And
- 26:22Speaker 1: they also brew stuff there that is only for Tasmany,
- 26:24Speaker 1: like different varieties of beers that they don't export to
- 26:27Speaker 1: the mainland. Some of them are very tasty, having been
- 26:30Speaker 1: there and tried them, but it's really tribal in Tazzy
- 26:33Speaker 1: you know, if you're in the north of Tazzy, you
- 26:35Speaker 1: drink Bogues and in the south of Tassy they all
- 26:37Speaker 1: drink Cascade and the sort of the two. She'll never meet.
- 26:41Speaker 1: And I think it's really sad to lose a traditional
- 26:45Speaker 1: product coming out of lon Cisteon, like Bogues they'll now
- 26:48Speaker 1: have to get. I mean, this is the thing. It's
- 26:50Speaker 1: a Tazzy beer that's now going to be brewed on
- 26:52Speaker 1: the mainland and exported to Tasmania. How sad is that.
- 26:56Speaker 1: I suppose that's just the economy of scale, isn't it.
- 26:59Speaker 1: But there are being shifts in the way people drink.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Young people in particular now seem to be into these
- 27:06Speaker 1: ready to drink spirits as opposed to beer. But also
- 27:09Speaker 1: the cost of beer has gone through the roof. You
- 27:12Speaker 1: go and buy a slab or a cart and a
- 27:14Speaker 1: beer depending on your terminology, depending on where in the
- 27:16Speaker 1: country live, and something like twenty dollars on average of
- 27:21Speaker 1: a slab of beer goes direct to the government. The
- 27:25Speaker 1: tax increases twice a year at the rate of inflation,
- 27:29Speaker 1: so it compounds. It's a significant tax that they put
- 27:33Speaker 1: on it, and then people try to go, oh, I
- 27:35Speaker 1: can't believe that this business is no longer profitable. Well,
- 27:38Speaker 1: if you tax the product into oblivion, of course people
- 27:42Speaker 1: are going to stop buying it. They'll go and get
- 27:44Speaker 1: their jollies somewhere else that they can do it a
- 27:47Speaker 1: little bit cheap. And I want to people get on
- 27:48Speaker 1: buddy drugs and stuff because they can pick that up
- 27:50Speaker 1: for cheaper. Then they can go and get beer. You know,
- 27:53Speaker 1: it's just the wowserism of the government doing in good
- 27:57Speaker 1: Australian businesses. If you want to have a year on
- 28:00Speaker 1: the weekend after a hard week at work, you should
- 28:03Speaker 1: be able to do so with an Anthony Albinizi reaching
- 28:05Speaker 1: into your pocket and taking twenty dollars every time plus GST.
- 28:09Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's the alcohol excise tax. As you said,
- 28:12Speaker 3: that's twice a year. I think the other part is
- 28:15Speaker 3: the cost of doing business in this country is getting
- 28:18Speaker 3: harder and harder, and we've seen many companies either close up,
- 28:23Speaker 3: shut up shop, look for overseas ventures, or move to
- 28:26Speaker 3: the mainland or move to other parts of Australia simply
- 28:28Speaker 3: because it is cheaper to do so, which is really
- 28:30Speaker 3: sad because you are losing these local production companies and
- 28:34Speaker 3: not just in this industry, and this is not just
- 28:36Speaker 3: you know, to the alcohol industry. Look at retailers as well.
- 28:40Speaker 3: They're shutting up shop across the country because it is very,
- 28:42Speaker 3: very difficult to do business in this economy when you've
- 28:45Speaker 3: got energy costs at absolutely exorbitant prices, you've got red tape,
- 28:49Speaker 3: you've got ir legislation. It is so difficult to do
- 28:52Speaker 3: business right now. But the other thing is is that
- 28:55Speaker 3: I think that drinking habits have changed across the board.
- 28:59Speaker 3: And if you look at study after study, people are
- 29:02Speaker 3: actually stopping drinking. The young younger people are not drinking
- 29:05Speaker 3: like they used to. They're more health conscious, Caleb, would
- 29:08Speaker 3: you believe again? I know, we're definitely not going to
- 29:12Speaker 3: blame you for that, but they are. Younger people are
- 29:14Speaker 3: more health conscious and they're not putting as much money
- 29:17Speaker 3: into their weekend drinking binge.
- 29:19Speaker 4: Habits as they once used to.
- 29:20Speaker 3: They're putting money into the gym and money into kombucher instead.
- 29:24Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we say they're more health conscious, but do
- 29:27Speaker 1: you reckon they don't dabble in in other drugs on
- 29:29Speaker 1: the weekend.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Yeah, I think probably they probably doubling it. I do
- 29:32Speaker 4: think probably dabbling.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Health health conscious.
- 29:36Speaker 3: I think that like people are more I do think
- 29:40Speaker 3: that more well, if you look at.
- 29:42Speaker 4: Their ass have been studies.
- 29:43Speaker 3: More men are going to the gym, more men are
- 29:45Speaker 3: looking after themselves for vapes.
- 29:48Speaker 4: But a vape still a thinker. Vapes are illegal now.
- 29:51Speaker 1: I mean, have you been anywhere?
- 29:54Speaker 4: No, No, obviously not no.
- 29:56Speaker 1: No.
- 29:56Speaker 3: I do see them, but they're not as not compared
- 29:59Speaker 3: to years ago. You don't see them as frequently.
- 30:02Speaker 1: In my view, I everywhere. Making them illegal made no difference.
- 30:07Speaker 1: And this is part of the problem. You've now got
- 30:09Speaker 1: an illegal or illicit alcohol market is opening up. What
- 30:13Speaker 1: was it recently in Victoria they reckon that something like
- 30:16Speaker 1: a third of bottle shops are now selling illicted alcohol
- 30:20Speaker 1: because the tax is so high. You know, you drive
- 30:23Speaker 1: people away from the legal product. They'll look elsewhere.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Yeah, they certainly will well look.
- 30:27Speaker 3: Speaking of looking elsewhere, the city of Melbourne is looking elsewhere.
- 30:30Speaker 4: It's got its hand out desperate for.
- 30:32Speaker 3: Donations, and it's asking the state government for a casual
- 30:36Speaker 3: three point two million dollars to help fund a tribute
- 30:39Speaker 3: to the Stolen Generation. Now, this tribute's been on the
- 30:43Speaker 3: cards for quite a while. The problem is is they've
- 30:45Speaker 3: got nobody to fund it. We'll bring up the pictures
- 30:48Speaker 3: of what it's going to look like. This was designed
- 30:51Speaker 3: by a leading Victorian Aboriginal artist.
- 30:54Speaker 4: Here we go.
- 30:56Speaker 3: The installation will feature thirty nine bronze sculptures of average
- 31:00Speaker 3: children and a smoking pit set with native landscape. Now,
- 31:05Speaker 3: Melbourne's recent budget allocated four point five million dollars for
- 31:08Speaker 3: all of its public projects, including this stolen Generations marker.
- 31:15Speaker 4: But the problem is is that the City of Melbourne
- 31:17Speaker 4: needs help.
- 31:18Speaker 3: Not just for this, but also to fund some artwork
- 31:22Speaker 3: by way of a kangaroo. Yes, you heard that correct,
- 31:27Speaker 3: This is the kangaroo. Can you guess how much it's
- 31:29Speaker 3: going to cost? This is a four sculpture installation just
- 31:32Speaker 3: for a casual twenty two million dollars for the rum
- 31:36Speaker 3: can you believe it?
- 31:36Speaker 2: What was the original budget?
- 31:38Speaker 4: The original budget water million two.
- 31:40Speaker 2: It blew out from two to twenty two million dollars.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Well, the remaining two point five million dollars, don't worry,
- 31:48Speaker 3: it'll just go for philanthropic efforts.
- 31:52Speaker 2: All so they had they had four point five as
- 31:53Speaker 2: you said, four point five million dollars all of their artwork,
- 31:57Speaker 2: two million of that four point five was all towards
- 32:00Speaker 2: the kangaroo that's blown out twenty two million.
- 32:02Speaker 4: It's kangaroo.
- 32:03Speaker 2: The remaining two and a half of that four point
- 32:07Speaker 2: five million or whatever it was that was allocated towards
- 32:09Speaker 2: the Stolen Generation thing. But that was two point five
- 32:14Speaker 2: and now it's going to be three point two.
- 32:16Speaker 4: This is just extraordinary.
- 32:17Speaker 3: The city of Melbourne, literally, the spending in the City
- 32:21Speaker 3: of Melbourne is out of control. The Herald Sun did
- 32:24Speaker 3: an article a couple of weeks ago that the town
- 32:27Speaker 3: Hall spent five hundred thousand dollars operating an office in
- 32:31Speaker 3: China and also whining and dining members of the CCP.
- 32:35Speaker 3: And then you've got in Victoria this treaty that nobody
- 32:37Speaker 3: ever voted for. You got justinto Allen apologizing to the
- 32:40Speaker 3: Stolen Generation.
- 32:41Speaker 4: And now they're.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Spending three point two million dollars on a tribute to
- 32:46Speaker 3: the Stolen Generation. And we wonder why the state's broken backwards.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Well they're not, actually because they don't have the three.
- 32:52Speaker 4: They don't have the money.
- 32:52Speaker 3: But all right, hey, if you're a taxpayer out there,
- 32:55Speaker 3: please by all means.
- 32:56Speaker 2: They could afford it if they pulled back the kangaroo budget,
- 32:58Speaker 2: then they could do the stolen.
- 33:00Speaker 4: Dollars for a kangaroo.
- 33:01Speaker 1: What is it? It goes back to the arguing' having before.
- 33:04Speaker 1: What is it with government spending money that they simply
- 33:06Speaker 1: don't have. If you can't afford it, just don't do it.
- 33:10Speaker 1: I'm starting to wonder whether this evening had the first
- 33:13Speaker 1: and auction of the contents of John Law's home and
- 33:16Speaker 1: there all these were darns and there was a Joel
- 33:18Speaker 1: Ellenburg sculpture that sold for three hundred and eighty k
- 33:21Speaker 1: might have been the Melbourne City Council that was bidding
- 33:24Speaker 1: for all of those things. Now, before we get to
- 33:26Speaker 1: a breaks and news out of Sydney today that La
- 33:28Speaker 1: Kimber Mosque, which about a year ago tried to put
- 33:31Speaker 1: an application to the local council asking to put up
- 33:34Speaker 1: her loud speakers so they could broadcast on a Friday
- 33:38Speaker 1: at midday the call to prayer. They're now having a
- 33:40Speaker 1: second go at it, and they reckon that if you're
- 33:43Speaker 1: not on board with them blasting the call to a
- 33:46Speaker 1: prayer across the suburb, you are a racist and you
- 33:50Speaker 1: are an islamophobe. The Lebanese Muslim Association Secretary Gamilk here said,
- 33:55Speaker 1: if the church bells are allowed to ring, and we
- 33:58Speaker 1: are in favor of those bells ringing, then why are
- 34:01Speaker 1: we not allowed to do the call to prayer? You'll
- 34:03Speaker 1: only hear it within a twenty meter radius of the mosque.
- 34:07Speaker 1: If you're not coming to pray, then you're not going
- 34:10Speaker 1: to hear it. Now, I would question why you would
- 34:13Speaker 1: bother doing it at all if it was only for
- 34:16Speaker 1: a twenty meter radius, because I went on at Google
- 34:19Speaker 1: Maps this evening and I measured the distance between the
- 34:23Speaker 1: minaret on which they would fix these loudspeakers and the footpath,
- 34:29Speaker 1: and it's twenty six and a half meters from the
- 34:31Speaker 1: minaret to the footpath. So you would have to be
- 34:34Speaker 1: literally walking through the front door allegedly in order to
- 34:38Speaker 1: hear this playing. So I don't understand why you would
- 34:41Speaker 1: even need a council permit to do that in the
- 34:45Speaker 1: first place. Surely that's not the case they want to
- 34:47Speaker 1: broadcast it across the suburb. And this comparison that it's
- 34:52Speaker 1: like the church bells. I live in Balmain in Sydney,
- 34:55Speaker 1: and I've got three churches probably within a few hundred
- 34:57Speaker 1: meters of my place, and They've been ring bells long
- 35:00Speaker 1: before I was born, or my father was born, or
- 35:03Speaker 1: my grandfather was born. I knew what the deal was
- 35:05Speaker 1: when I moved in. People don't move into a suburb
- 35:09Speaker 1: expecting that a minority religion will then start saying, well,
- 35:13Speaker 1: we should have the right to blast our religious tunes
- 35:16Speaker 1: across the suburb every Friday.
- 35:18Speaker 2: So is that your objection because Islam is a minority religion,
- 35:21Speaker 2: they shouldn't be allowed.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Well, in part, that is part of it. Yes, any
- 35:25Speaker 1: other objections, well, A, you couldn't do it beforehand, so
- 35:30Speaker 1: why should you be able to do it now. It's
- 35:32Speaker 1: a wrong comparison to compare it to church bells. And
- 35:36Speaker 1: also I don't want to listen to it. I think
- 35:37Speaker 1: it's a nuisance noise.
- 35:39Speaker 2: What do you think?
- 35:40Speaker 3: I couldn't agree war, but I thought diversity was our strength.
- 35:44Speaker 4: Wasn't it.
- 35:44Speaker 3: We told that multiculturalism was the best thing to happen
- 35:47Speaker 3: to this country.
- 35:48Speaker 4: Isn't that what we were told?
- 35:49Speaker 1: You know what?
- 35:50Speaker 3: This is separatism to me, this is absolute, blatant separatism.
- 35:55Speaker 4: And where does it end?
- 35:56Speaker 3: And as for the church bells, the church bells go
- 35:58Speaker 3: for literally two seconds, ding dong, ding do and not
- 36:01Speaker 3: this call it's going to ring out.
- 36:04Speaker 4: Please.
- 36:05Speaker 2: Church bells is a musical sound. The call to prayer
- 36:08Speaker 2: is somebody proclaiming that Ahlah is the greatest and above
- 36:11Speaker 2: all other religions. It's for the Lakember Mosque to compare
- 36:15Speaker 2: church bells with the call to prayer is assuming that
- 36:18Speaker 2: no one knows what the call to prayer actually is,
- 36:20Speaker 2: which most people don't. The other thing I don't understand
- 36:24Speaker 2: is why they say it's racist and islamophobic. Well, is
- 36:27Speaker 2: Islam a race or is it a religion? You've got
- 36:29Speaker 2: to make up your mind on these things. And the
- 36:31Speaker 2: other criticism from the La Kember Mosque was all these
- 36:33Speaker 2: people that don't live in La Kember, why are they
- 36:36Speaker 2: having an opinion on this? Was because we all understand
- 36:38Speaker 2: the power of precedent, right, you have one opportunity here
- 36:42Speaker 2: in La Kemba. If that's approved by the Lakember Council,
- 36:45Speaker 2: you'll end up with this in all sorts of places.
- 36:47Speaker 2: So I think people have got a great interest in
- 36:49Speaker 2: not having it go ahead. We're going to go to
- 36:51Speaker 2: a break. When we come back, we'll take a look
- 36:52Speaker 2: at what's making headlines tomorrow, including a push from within
- 36:56Speaker 2: the Labor Party to get elban easy, to ditch the
- 36:59Speaker 2: Orchestra deal. We'll have a look at that in a moment. Okay,
- 37:09Speaker 2: let's take a look at the front page of Tomorrow's
- 37:11Speaker 2: Australian with Denika to Georgia.
- 37:13Speaker 4: Yes, internal torpedo alert.
- 37:16Speaker 3: PM faces orcust strife is the headline tomorrow Exclusive. Anthony
- 37:20Speaker 3: Alberanezi faces our revolts over ORCUS, with rebel labor MPs,
- 37:26Speaker 3: former ministers, Teal Independence and unionists demanding the PM reconsider
- 37:30Speaker 3: his backing of the agreement, while claiming there is growing
- 37:34Speaker 3: uncertainty over its roll out under.
- 37:36Speaker 4: The Trump administration.
- 37:37Speaker 3: After Labor MP and former Cabinet minister Ed Husick used
- 37:40Speaker 3: a caucus meeting on Tuesday to question the future of
- 37:43Speaker 3: the three hundred and sixty eight billion dollar deal, one
- 37:46Speaker 3: of Australia's most prominent left faction unionists, urged the government
- 37:50Speaker 3: to hold a review into the trilateral defense partnership with
- 37:54Speaker 3: the US and written ed Husick was saying today it
- 37:59Speaker 3: is not the deal that we agreed to. We had
- 38:01Speaker 3: to change Stage three tax cuts and now ORCUS, and
- 38:05Speaker 3: the Union Workers' Union National Secretary Tim Kennedy said I
- 38:08Speaker 3: wouldn't think it would be intelligent if we didn't revisit
- 38:11Speaker 3: the parameters of it. As the world is changing quickly
- 38:14Speaker 3: and we have got to make smart decisions. You just
- 38:18Speaker 3: wonder what these MPs though, are doing here with this
- 38:21Speaker 3: aucurt agreement and why now?
- 38:24Speaker 4: Why now?
- 38:24Speaker 3: I mean already our relationship with the US is treading water. Okay,
- 38:29Speaker 3: it hasn't been strong under this Labor government, but what
- 38:33Speaker 3: are they doing?
- 38:34Speaker 4: What's the objective here?
- 38:36Speaker 2: Up until now, most of the talk has been is
- 38:38Speaker 2: Trump really committed to UCUS? Are the Brits going to
- 38:41Speaker 2: be able to get their act together? And now that's
- 38:44Speaker 2: all sort of been put to bed, and it seems
- 38:46Speaker 2: the US and the UK are committed. And now all
- 38:49Speaker 2: of a sudden the Labor Party decides to have an
- 38:51Speaker 2: internal argument over whether Australia should be committed to this thing.
- 38:55Speaker 2: I mean, would you trust the defense of the nation
- 38:57Speaker 2: to these people? Not the way they carry on late?
- 39:00Speaker 1: For that isn't it because they are in its of
- 39:03Speaker 1: this nation. Looking in principle, I have no issue with
- 39:07Speaker 1: the idea that we should be assessing all deals all
- 39:09Speaker 1: the time, because of course, yeah, we should be keeping
- 39:11Speaker 1: an eye on the deals that we are a part of.
- 39:14Speaker 1: But I don't think these calls are coming from a
- 39:16Speaker 1: place of let's make sure that we're getting the best
- 39:18Speaker 1: value for market and getting the most out of it.
- 39:20Speaker 1: It comes from an ideological opposition to the idea of
- 39:23Speaker 1: having a deal at all. If that's what they believe,
- 39:26Speaker 1: they should be upfront about that.
- 39:27Speaker 4: I think I completely agree.
- 39:29Speaker 3: Also on the front page, Wong say so on foreign deals,
- 39:32Speaker 3: Foreign Minister Penny Wong will intervene to slap conditions on
- 39:35Speaker 3: risky foreign deals involving state and territory governments after the
- 39:39Speaker 3: University of Sydney attempted to collaborate with Russia in April.
- 39:43Speaker 3: Citing an unprecedented foreign interference risk, Senator Wong told The
- 39:47Speaker 3: Australian on Tuesday that she would introduce legislation within a
- 39:51Speaker 3: month to strengthen the foreign Arrangement scheme. The Register of
- 39:55Speaker 3: more than fourteen thousand foreign Deals reveals that Senator Wong
- 39:58Speaker 3: veto two data train for agreements in April between the
- 40:01Speaker 3: University of Sydney and the Northern State Medical University in Russia,
- 40:05Speaker 3: as well as the Republican Research and Practical Center for
- 40:09Speaker 3: Pullman Mono oh Hang On Sorry.
- 40:12Speaker 4: I don't know what that word is.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Pull monology, pull monology and tuberculosis in Belarus.
- 40:17Speaker 4: That's quite a word to pull monology.
- 40:20Speaker 3: I felt like he did very well with that word
- 40:22Speaker 3: pull monology.
- 40:23Speaker 4: There you go.
- 40:24Speaker 3: So I guess that to me just sounds like the
- 40:28Speaker 3: risk of foreign threats are still very real in this country.
- 40:31Speaker 2: What I don't understand is so they're going to take
- 40:33Speaker 2: action on that right Meanwhile, they're all driving around in
- 40:37Speaker 2: Chinese made evs AZO have warned are effectively spying machines
- 40:43Speaker 2: and are not secure enough even for Tony Burke to
- 40:45Speaker 2: plug his or connect his phone when he's in the car.
- 40:48Speaker 2: That they seem to really pick and choose when it
- 40:51Speaker 2: comes to which security threats they're concerned about and which
- 40:54Speaker 2: ones don't matter. And I suspect they're concerned about these
- 40:57Speaker 2: threats because the Australian newspaper has beenublishing on the front
- 41:00Speaker 2: page for weeks now. All of these universities that have
- 41:04Speaker 2: got dodgy research deals going on with effectively our enemies
- 41:08Speaker 2: and finally, belatedly, labor are going to do something about it.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Well, you know that that old joke, you know, when
- 41:13Speaker 1: is a door not a door? When it's a jar,
- 41:16Speaker 1: or when is a threat not a threat when it's
- 41:18Speaker 1: a car. Clearly, sorry, that was pretty bad, but I
- 41:21Speaker 1: thought i'd do. But you know, I mean, this is
- 41:25Speaker 1: this is pathetic, isn't it The fact that universities were
- 41:28Speaker 1: even looking at doing it in the first place, and
- 41:31Speaker 1: that the government would have to intervene at all, Like
- 41:34Speaker 1: you should just be able to use a mordicum of
- 41:35Speaker 1: common sense on this stuff. I would have thought.
- 41:37Speaker 2: I would have thought so. Front page of Tomorrow's Daily Telegraph,
- 41:40Speaker 2: Inflation gets a raise, reads the headline. A higher than
- 41:43Speaker 2: expected pay boost for workers on the minimum wage will
- 41:47Speaker 2: pave the way for a further two rate risers this year.
- 41:50Speaker 2: With Australia's lagging productivity and already high inflation to blame,
- 41:54Speaker 2: economists say business leaders now fear a quote tsunami of
- 41:58Speaker 2: insolvencies from small operators who are already feeling the cost crunch.
- 42:03Speaker 2: About three million workers we'll get a four point seventy
- 42:05Speaker 2: five percent pay rise from July, and about one hundred
- 42:10Speaker 2: thousand workers on the lowest wage we'll get a six
- 42:12Speaker 2: percent pay rise, which is great for them, but not
- 42:15Speaker 2: great for the cafes. The retailers who employ them, who
- 42:21Speaker 2: are going to have to pay above inflationary wages for of.
- 42:24Speaker 3: Course, we want low paid workers to have a fair
- 42:27Speaker 3: go here. But we just spoke earlier about how tough
- 42:29Speaker 3: it is to do business in this country. It is
- 42:31Speaker 3: yet another burden on the employer, and not to mention
- 42:35Speaker 3: at a time when off inflation is back surging once
- 42:38Speaker 3: again and certainly by all means, labour is not going
- 42:41Speaker 3: to be able to get it under control.
- 42:43Speaker 4: The timing couldn't be worse, and it's.
- 42:45Speaker 1: You know, you've got to have a balance of Yes,
- 42:49Speaker 1: obviously we want people to earn a decent living and
- 42:52Speaker 1: to be able to put a roof over their head
- 42:54Speaker 1: and afford to live, and we know how bad the
- 42:55Speaker 1: cost of living is. But a small business operator is
- 42:58Speaker 1: facing the same troubles and costs that a person on
- 43:01Speaker 1: a low incomings. You know they've got they've borrowed money,
- 43:04Speaker 1: presumably to run a business. All of their overheads are
- 43:08Speaker 1: going up just as your overheads are going up, and
- 43:10Speaker 1: of course that's the person who then has to pay
- 43:12Speaker 1: these wage increases. And if enough businesses fall over, well,
- 43:16Speaker 1: then your income goes from whatever the new rate is
- 43:19Speaker 1: to zero and then you have to rely on the
- 43:22Speaker 1: government to make up the difference. So I look, you know,
- 43:25Speaker 1: it's all good will to see you to pay rise,
- 43:27Speaker 1: but at some point I think we need to think
- 43:28Speaker 1: about the balance of all of this. On the front
- 43:31Speaker 1: of the advertiser tomorrow it says taking the Mickey doctors,
- 43:35Speaker 1: you're good yarn here from Liz Henson. Doctors claim trips
- 43:38Speaker 1: to Disneyland, Balley Wellness retreats, bags and watches worth up
- 43:43Speaker 1: to twenty three thousand dollars on a sixty four million
- 43:47Speaker 1: dollar tax payer funded quote unquote professional development fund. The
- 43:52Speaker 1: Independent Commission against Corruption has placed the fund under scrutiny
- 43:57Speaker 1: and no wonder what sort of professional development do you
- 44:01Speaker 1: think you would get as a doctor by going to
- 44:04Speaker 1: Disneyland or BALI any guesses anybody knows struggling.
- 44:09Speaker 4: I couldn't think of anything.
- 44:10Speaker 1: I can think of one. We were talking last night
- 44:14Speaker 1: about the fact that all these people going to Disneyland
- 44:17Speaker 1: in Europe, we're using the disability pensions or whatever they
- 44:23Speaker 1: get in order to skip the cue. So maybe all
- 44:26Speaker 1: of these doctors in Adelaide and South Australia have been
- 44:29Speaker 1: going to Europe to inspect the long lines of people
- 44:33Speaker 1: health concerns who are trying to get special dispensation. Maybe
- 44:37Speaker 1: that's the.
- 44:38Speaker 3: Loop and diagnosing them with depression and anxiety while they
- 44:41Speaker 3: were in the queue. Obviously, let's take a look at
- 44:44Speaker 3: the Herald Sun on the side there our boys in crisis.
- 44:47Speaker 3: Australian boys are facing a crisis across the entire education pipeline,
- 44:51Speaker 3: with experts revealing they are falling behind in nearly every
- 44:54Speaker 3: measure of educational attainment and more likely to get in
- 44:58Speaker 3: trouble or be labeled disabled. Statistics show more boys drop
- 45:02Speaker 3: out of school than girls and they are much less
- 45:04Speaker 3: likely to end university. It comes as exclusive new data
- 45:07Speaker 3: shows all boys schools are now in decline, with one
- 45:11Speaker 3: in five having disappeared since two thousand and ten.
- 45:15Speaker 4: This is a real concern. And look, we know that.
- 45:20Speaker 3: Typically boys typically girls excel in learning a lot quicker
- 45:24Speaker 3: than what boys do, but to see that the decline
- 45:29Speaker 3: is it's quite worrying. And there's obviously a divide between
- 45:33Speaker 3: how boys are learning or what's being taught, or how
- 45:36Speaker 3: they're understanding or has it got to do with parents.
- 45:40Speaker 4: I'm not entirely sure.
- 45:41Speaker 2: It's pretty clearly they learn differently to girls, which is
- 45:44Speaker 2: why it's amazing when we're having such problems with boys.
- 45:46Speaker 2: We all know they learn differently to girls, but there's
- 45:49Speaker 2: this pushback against boys only schools. As you said, the
- 45:54Speaker 2: numbers of them decreasing all the time. It's not new
- 45:58Speaker 2: that there's a problem with boys, but it's about tomm
- 46:00Speaker 2: we come up with something to address it.
- 46:03Speaker 1: It's been unfashionable to talk about boys having problems because
- 46:06Speaker 1: then apparently you're discounting that girls and women also have
- 46:09Speaker 1: other problems. Or we all have problems, and there are
- 46:12Speaker 1: certain problems that are specific to certain sexes and genders.
- 46:16Speaker 1: To point one out is not to discount that the
- 46:20Speaker 1: other is also true.
- 46:22Speaker 2: Surely, very true. All right, we're going to go to
- 46:24Speaker 2: a break. When we come back, we've got our Dope
- 46:26Speaker 2: of the day and completely disconnected from Dope of the Day, Caleb,
- 46:30Speaker 2: he's going to talk about some dance moves. That's next.
- 46:37Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program. All right, Danik, you were
- 46:39Speaker 2: talking about art earlier. You've got some more art.
- 46:42Speaker 4: Stories for Yes, banana arts.
- 46:44Speaker 2: Banana banana arts.
- 46:46Speaker 3: Banana art actually worth six point two million dollars, would
- 46:50Speaker 3: you believe? Yes, it was ripe for the picking, but
- 46:53Speaker 3: banana bandits have actually stolen the banana part of a centerpiece.
- 46:58Speaker 3: This is it a carently can you believe it? It's
- 47:02Speaker 3: called Comedian. I'm not sure why it's called Comedian, but
- 47:05Speaker 3: there you go. It's a masterpiece by Italian visual artist
- 47:08Speaker 3: Marizio Catalan. It's on display at a museum in France,
- 47:14Speaker 3: and thieves have gone in and stolen this banana. The
- 47:16Speaker 3: problem is is this a second time or third time
- 47:18Speaker 3: this banana has actually been stolen because well it's a
- 47:21Speaker 3: banana for goodness sake. One person was last year caught
- 47:25Speaker 3: eating the banana. It's been swapped out several times since
- 47:29Speaker 3: December twenty nineteen, but unfortunately it's just had an unfortunate
- 47:33Speaker 3: end because people keep eating the banana.
- 47:36Speaker 2: What are you saying that's worth six point two million dollars?
- 47:38Speaker 3: Yeah, six point two million dollars crescent shaped centerpiece of Comedian.
- 47:43Speaker 3: It's apparently a masterpiece. So I mean, maybe we don't
- 47:46Speaker 3: know enough about You know who the art connoisseur is
- 47:48Speaker 3: of this panel is cayleb Bond. He loves a bit
- 47:51Speaker 3: of art, So maybe you could explain to us the lasterpiece.
- 47:53Speaker 1: I cannot explain that to you. It makes absolutely no
- 47:56Speaker 1: sense because there was a bloke previously boarded at auction
- 48:00Speaker 1: specifically so he could eat it right, Because you know,
- 48:04Speaker 1: if you've got that sort of money, you can just
- 48:06Speaker 1: drop on a piece of art being a banana, and
- 48:10Speaker 1: but it's a banana.
- 48:13Speaker 2: That's what I understand. How can we worth six million
- 48:14Speaker 2: dollars if you can't replace them on Lisa.
- 48:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that.
- 48:18Speaker 2: I go down to coals and replace it. It is
- 48:20Speaker 2: insane really quickly. Well, it's one of our favorite segments
- 48:23Speaker 2: on the Late Debate. It's our it's our dope of
- 48:28Speaker 2: the day. I didn't think my John Robinson, he's a
- 48:32Speaker 2: forty eight year old. He was driving his car. Police
- 48:34Speaker 2: were watching him and thought he was driving a little
- 48:37Speaker 2: bit erratically, so they pulled him over and they found
- 48:40Speaker 2: he had an imitation gum, so they handcuffed him and
- 48:43Speaker 2: told him to get out of the vehicle. He protested
- 48:45Speaker 2: and said, I'm disabled, so can you give me some time.
- 48:49Speaker 2: The police stood back and said, all right, no worries,
- 48:51Speaker 2: take your time, at which point handcuffed you tried to
- 48:54Speaker 2: drive off in the car, potentially still in vehicle of
- 49:00Speaker 2: a moment.
- 49:10Speaker 1: Ray.
- 49:12Speaker 2: He was handcuffed, so you get very far. I suggest
- 49:15Speaker 2: if you're going to do that, do it in a
- 49:16Speaker 2: self driving Tesla, not a vehicle that requires you to
- 49:19Speaker 2: steer it. His defense lawyer pleading for him not to
- 49:23Speaker 2: be jailed. He was jailed for a year, but said
- 49:25Speaker 2: he'd made a series of poor decisions.
- 49:27Speaker 1: I would say he is a cuff witch, and very
- 49:29Speaker 1: quickly before we go, have a look at this. If
- 49:32Speaker 1: you want to get a lady, this apparently is the
- 49:35Speaker 1: optimum dance moves to pull out. There's been some survey
- 49:39Speaker 1: done by a Northumbria University of women and they've been
- 49:43Speaker 1: told by the ladies that this is what they want
- 49:46Speaker 1: to see from the.
- 49:47Speaker 4: Blokes on now why because it's dad dancing.
- 49:49Speaker 1: You like it, Danika, it's hot.
- 49:50Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all from us stick Around. Coming up is
- 49:54Speaker 2: the Red Pennanty Show. Good Night,