Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 27 August
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Late Debate. Well, unfortunately,
- 0:07Speaker 1: you won't find him here tonight because the lazy sod
- 0:11Speaker 1: has decided, as he's hosting the Bolt Report at the moment,
- 0:14Speaker 1: he's not going to show up. How rude of him. Unbelievable.
- 0:18Speaker 2: What a disgrace.
- 0:19Speaker 1: So instead, you have Caleb Bond, Danica DiGiorgio, and Michelle Stevenson. And,
- 0:25Speaker 1: you know, James is going to have to... We're going
- 0:26Speaker 1: to have to have a word with him about this.
- 0:27Speaker 1: We'll have a private word.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Well, I think it's OK.
- 0:30Speaker 2: I'm here, right? Well, that's it. Exactly.
- 0:33Speaker 3: It's not too much to have me, I don't think.
- 0:35Speaker 2: No, that's it.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Well, poor old James, though. I think we're going to
- 0:37Speaker 1: have to wrap him over the knuckles for not being
- 0:39Speaker 1: a team player. Here's what's coming up tonight. One Nation
- 0:42Speaker 1: Senator Malcolm Roberts says the White Australia Party, which is
- 0:45Speaker 1: a banned hate group, Should we be allowed to exist
- 0:47Speaker 1: on free speech grounds? Is it time for Pauline Hanson
- 0:50Speaker 1: to put a ban on One Nation MPs and Senators
- 0:54Speaker 1: freelancing in.
- 0:54Speaker 3: The media for a while?
- 0:55Speaker 1: We'll debate that soon. Geelong Football Club has been fined
- 0:59Speaker 1: $ 140, 000 by the AFL for a secret deal with a
- 1:02Speaker 1: player for him to take responsibility for any head knocks.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Did they really do anything wrong, though? And a man
- 1:09Speaker 1: who bashed a triple amputee has successfully challenged the denial
- 1:13Speaker 1: of his protection visa on the basis that it would
- 1:16Speaker 1: make him more of a risk to the community. Unbelievable.
- 1:19Speaker 1: That's on the front of Tomorrow's Australian. But first, a
- 1:23Speaker 1: transgender cricketer in India has been cleared now to play
- 1:27Speaker 1: in the Big Bash League here in Australia. That is
- 1:30Speaker 1: a biological man who has been given permission, if he desires...
- 1:35Speaker 1: to come and compete in the women's Big Bash. The
- 1:38Speaker 1: player in question is Ahaya Bangar, who is the biological son,
- 1:44Speaker 1: now identifies as the daughter of Sanjay Bangar, who is
- 1:47Speaker 1: an international cricketer for India, and a few years ago
- 1:52Speaker 1: decided to start going through transition. Now has had the
- 1:57Speaker 1: whole works done, surgery, the whole lot. But under the
- 2:00Speaker 1: ICC's rules, and that is the governing body for worldwide cricket...
- 2:05Speaker 1: you cannot, as a biological man, if you've been through
- 2:09Speaker 1: male puberty, compete in international women's cricket. So that is
- 2:13Speaker 1: the end of any potential international career for Bangar. But
- 2:18Speaker 1: we have different rules for our domestic leagues in Australia.
- 2:21Speaker 1: So Bangar has written to Cricket Australia and received a
- 2:25Speaker 1: letter back, which has been posted to social media. You
- 2:28Speaker 1: can see that letter there. And in part it reads,
- 2:30Speaker 1: based on the medical information provided... and taking into account
- 2:34Speaker 1: when you commence testosterone suppression treatment and your definitive surgery,
- 2:38Speaker 1: that is gender reassignment surgery, we confirm that your eligibility
- 2:42Speaker 1: determination to commence in March 2027 on the basis set
- 2:47Speaker 1: out in Cricket Australia's eligibility determination letter dated 20 July
- 2:51Speaker 1: 2026 will not be impacted by the amendments to Cricket
- 2:55Speaker 1: Australia's policy. So that is the clearance for Ahaya Bangar,
- 3:00Speaker 1: a biological man... to play in the Women's Big Bash
- 3:03Speaker 1: League if a contract can be picked up. This is
- 3:07Speaker 1: Bangar addressing it on social media. MUSIC that is his
- 3:33Speaker 1: transition from male to female. I don't understand how you
- 3:40Speaker 1: can have a situation where you've been through male puberty.
- 3:44Speaker 1: And you can say, OK, they have determinations around testosterone levels.
- 3:50Speaker 1: But even if your testosterone is below a certain level,
- 3:54Speaker 1: as determined by Cricket Australia or some other mob, if
- 3:57Speaker 1: you've been through male puberty, you have developed... larger muscle mass,
- 4:02Speaker 1: all sorts of things that a biological female does not
- 4:06Speaker 1: have the advantage of. So even if your testosterone is
- 4:09Speaker 1: later suppressed to a lower level, I still believe, and
- 4:14Speaker 1: there's plenty of evidence, that you are of a stronger disposition,
- 4:19Speaker 1: you have benefits as a biological male that a biological
- 4:22Speaker 1: woman doesn't have. And so I can't understand why, when
- 4:26Speaker 1: the ICC, the World Cricketing Bodies, says that you can't
- 4:30Speaker 1: compete in world cricket if you've been through male puberty.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Why in Australia? We would say, all good, come over
- 4:37Speaker 1: from India and potentially play in our women's league.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Well, but, like, we've got to be really clear, this
- 4:41Speaker 3: is a pathway. It's not an absolute place in a
- 4:43Speaker 3: women's cricket team. She still has to fulfil her obligations
- 4:48Speaker 3: and apply for a cricket team. A cricket team may
- 4:50Speaker 3: not want to sign her up, but at the end
- 4:52Speaker 3: of the day, they are using their own format to
- 4:55Speaker 3: get her through on this. Now she's going to have
- 4:58Speaker 3: to submit to testing for a year. She has to
- 5:01Speaker 3: hit so many specific testosterone levels and make sure that
- 5:05Speaker 3: that stays under for a year. This is working on
- 5:08Speaker 3: evidence base. I think you can in some instances look
- 5:12Speaker 3: at this at a case by case basis. because this
- 5:15Speaker 3: is genuinely someone who believes they're a woman, has transitioned
- 5:19Speaker 3: and is doing the work. This is not a man
- 5:21Speaker 3: in a dress who looks like a man who is
- 5:24Speaker 3: in a full-contact sport that could literally take advantage of
- 5:29Speaker 3: being up against other women. This is a female for
- 5:32Speaker 3: all intents and purposes. So I think, you know, you
- 5:35Speaker 3: follow the evidence, you see how it goes. This is
- 5:38Speaker 3: them trialling it. I think you can't begrudge them anything.
- 5:42Speaker 3: trialling it and seeing how it goes. But I know
- 5:45Speaker 3: you're probably not going to agree with me.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. You can't say they're female.
- 5:49Speaker 4: I can't.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Because that's determined by your chromosomes.
- 5:52Speaker 3: I understand that. But, like, she is saying that she's
- 5:55Speaker 3: a female. I'm not going to offend her by calling
- 5:57Speaker 3: her a male.
- 5:59Speaker 1: But she is. Biologically, she's male. I went through male puberty.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Born a biological man.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 6:04Speaker 5: That's fine. Now, my concern with this is you open
- 6:07Speaker 5: the door now and so what? The door just keeps
- 6:09Speaker 5: getting wider and wider and suddenly you've got an influx
- 6:12Speaker 5: in the league of biological men who then, you know,
- 6:15Speaker 5: become women. I really despair about this and it's an
- 6:20Speaker 5: overarching theme. The problem is that they are allowed to
- 6:22Speaker 5: because we know that in the Sex Discrimination Act... The
- 6:25Speaker 5: terms male and female have been removed. So we don't
- 6:28Speaker 5: know what a woman is in this country. And therefore,
- 6:31Speaker 5: Cricket Australia, of course, can come out and say, oh, well,
- 6:33Speaker 5: you know, we welcome anybody because legally they have a
- 6:36Speaker 5: leg to stand on with this. I think shame on
- 6:39Speaker 5: Cricket Australia for allowing them through. Good on the ICC
- 6:42Speaker 5: for actually having the guts in the first place to say, no,
- 6:45Speaker 5: if you are a biological man and you identify as
- 6:48Speaker 5: a woman and you have taken puberty medication and for
- 6:51Speaker 5: that transition, then you are not allowed to enter the league. But,
- 6:54Speaker 5: of course, Cricket Australia is going to go down this
- 6:55Speaker 5: woke pathway where we've got to really appease about, you know,
- 6:58Speaker 5: the small percentage of the population as opposed to the
- 7:01Speaker 5: majority of women out there who want a chance to
- 7:04Speaker 5: have a fair game. And I do, I agree with you, Caleb,
- 7:08Speaker 5: in that I, you know, I don't care if this
- 7:12Speaker 5: biological man has a lower testosterone or has these sorts
- 7:16Speaker 5: of levels. We do know that, in general, men are
- 7:20Speaker 5: stronger men. than women, and I just think that it
- 7:22Speaker 5: is so disappointing to see another biological man take a
- 7:27Speaker 5: woman's position in a league when a woman has worked
- 7:30Speaker 5: their backsides off in professional sport to get a position
- 7:34Speaker 5: and beaten by a man.
- 7:35Speaker 1: And the critical point is the puberty thing, right? Because
- 7:39Speaker 1: the bone density and the muscle mass and whatever that
- 7:42Speaker 1: is developed as a boy going through male puberty is
- 7:46Speaker 1: entirely different to that that a woman goes through or
- 7:48Speaker 1: a girl goes through when going through puberty. And I
- 7:51Speaker 1: just don't understand how Cricket Australia or any other league
- 7:54Speaker 1: can justify having a rule that is so wildly different
- 7:57Speaker 1: to the internationals.
- 7:58Speaker 3: Well, I think they're just going to do it on
- 8:00Speaker 3: a case-by-case basis and they're going to see how it
- 8:02Speaker 3: plays out. Look, I agree with you. I don't want
- 8:04Speaker 3: men in women's sports. I've spoken about this ad nauseum.
- 8:08Speaker 3: And I do think there is a massive issue with
- 8:11Speaker 3: men in dresses in female spaces.
- 8:13Speaker 6: 100%.
- 8:13Speaker 3: I am across that. But I do think there are
- 8:16Speaker 3: instances where there are biological men who transition into being
- 8:21Speaker 3: females who do deserve their opportunity as well. And I
- 8:25Speaker 3: think we have to strike that balance. I know I'm
- 8:27Speaker 3: probably going to cop a lot of hate for saying that,
- 8:29Speaker 3: but I am 100% on your side. I see all
- 8:33Speaker 3: these sides. But I think it's a really, really... it's
- 8:36Speaker 3: a fine balance that we need to strike on how
- 8:39Speaker 3: we can appease and make, you know, people like this
- 8:42Speaker 3: person feel comfortable or if they want to play sport,
- 8:46Speaker 3: have that opportunity as well. And I know, I know
- 8:49Speaker 3: what you're going to say. Like, I don't like it,
- 8:52Speaker 3: particularly in AFL. I don't think we should have, you know...
- 8:56Speaker 3: people who have transitioned in AFL. We shouldn't have them
- 8:59Speaker 3: competing in the Olympics, but they should also have opportunities elsewhere.
- 9:03Speaker 5: So what would be the threshold then if you said
- 9:06Speaker 5: it should be a case-by-case basis?
- 9:08Speaker 3: What's the threshold? Well, then you look at how it goes.
- 9:10Speaker 3: You monitor the testosterone levels. You see how it goes. Look,
- 9:15Speaker 3: cricket isn't... Like, I don't think cricket... Cricket is more
- 9:18Speaker 3: a game of skill to me than.
- 9:19Speaker 2: A game of... But you've still got to be able
- 9:20Speaker 2: to run fast to catch up.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's... To me, it's more about skill and
- 9:24Speaker 3: less about, like, being able to be strong or... I
- 9:28Speaker 3: don't even think you really need to be... I mean,
- 9:31Speaker 3: half of the cricketers in the 80s, look, they weren't really, like,
- 9:34Speaker 3: the most muscular athletic people.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Women's cricket has shorter boundaries and adjusted balls, et cetera.
- 9:40Speaker 1: They change these things to deal with the fact that
- 9:43Speaker 1: women have less strength than men do. And so what
- 9:46Speaker 1: you are doing is allowing someone who has gone through
- 9:48Speaker 1: male puberty... to enter into effectively an easier form of
- 9:52Speaker 1: the game. So does that not give that person an advantage?
- 9:56Speaker 3: Well I think this whole point is absolutely moot anyway.
- 10:00Speaker 3: because we don't know if she's ever going to be
- 10:02Speaker 3: picked up by anyone in the Big Bash League. They've
- 10:05Speaker 3: just said you're allowed to.
- 10:06Speaker 1: But why should it be a possibility in the first place?
- 10:07Speaker 3: Well, I think they're trying to, like, find a system
- 10:10Speaker 3: that maybe it could work out. But, you know, look,
- 10:13Speaker 3: they're going to watch it, they're going to see it,
- 10:14Speaker 3: they're going to test it. It might not be anything
- 10:17Speaker 3: that comes into fruition. I think it's still early days.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Rachel, we need to test. I just, I worry the
- 10:23Speaker 2: door's open and where does it lead to? And I
- 10:25Speaker 2: get it, I get it.
- 10:27Speaker 5: Suddenly half the team are all biological men taking away
- 10:30Speaker 5: the rights of women.
- 10:31Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. Who have worked their
- 10:33Speaker 2: backs off.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Their backsides off for a long time.
- 10:34Speaker 2: And I agree with you.
- 10:35Speaker 5: And, you know, once you open that door, it's a
- 10:37Speaker 5: very dangerous pathway.
- 10:39Speaker 2: And there's only one leader around the world that.
- 10:41Speaker 5: Said, no, we're going to put a stop to this,
- 10:42Speaker 5: and that is Donald Trump, while the rest of world leaders,
- 10:44Speaker 5: including our own, run away from this very topic, just,
- 10:47Speaker 5: as I said, to appease a very small percentage of
- 10:49Speaker 5: the population. But never mind biological women out there. Never
- 10:53Speaker 5: mind our spaces and our right to a fair game.
- 10:55Speaker 5: It's an absolute disgrace. I want to stay on this topic, though,
- 10:59Speaker 5: and we have heard in the last 12 months about
- 11:01Speaker 5: a number of biological men who now identify as women
- 11:04Speaker 5: being transferred from male prisons into female prisons because, you know,
- 11:08Speaker 5: they suddenly decide that they're women. And it's happening again
- 11:12Speaker 5: now in New South Wales. It's been revealed that a
- 11:15Speaker 5: violent offender who had assaulted a man, resulting in criminal
- 11:19Speaker 5: charges being laid to a female.
- 11:24Speaker 2: The male at birth.
- 11:25Speaker 5: Inmate has undergone gender reassignment surgery. and has now been
- 11:29Speaker 5: approved to be transferred to a New South Wales women's jail.
- 11:35Speaker 5: And here's the thing, it was approved by the Corrective
- 11:37Speaker 5: Services Commissioner, Gary McConn. So as I said, the male
- 11:42Speaker 5: at birth inmate undertook gender realignment surgery and entered the
- 11:46Speaker 5: prison system at Silverwater Prison in New South Wales on
- 11:50Speaker 5: assault occasioning actual bodily harm charges. and now is being
- 11:55Speaker 5: transferred despite the New South Wales government or the Premier
- 11:59Speaker 5: only a couple of months ago admitting that, yes, that
- 12:01Speaker 5: biological men do not belong in women's prisons, but we
- 12:05Speaker 5: are yet to see actually anything done on that. I really,
- 12:09Speaker 5: really worry about this because there are a number of
- 12:12Speaker 5: women in prisons who are victims of domestic violence themselves
- 12:16Speaker 5: and there have been a number of alleged incidents, for example,
- 12:20Speaker 5: in South Australia where allegations of sexual assault against a
- 12:23Speaker 5: female prisoner by a trans prisoner. In Western Australia, a
- 12:27Speaker 5: man accused of domestic violence against his female partner was
- 12:32Speaker 5: placed in a women's prison after they decided to use
- 12:34Speaker 5: the self-ID laws, which are in place across the country,
- 12:38Speaker 5: to then change his gender. And you recall that story
- 12:41Speaker 5: last year of a Victorian man who raped his own child,
- 12:44Speaker 5: then decided to identify as a woman and was put
- 12:47Speaker 5: into an all-female prison. And the former Premier of Victoria,
- 12:51Speaker 5: Jacinta Allen, was doing cartwheels over at the time, didn't
- 12:55Speaker 5: want to know about it, despite the fact that this
- 12:57Speaker 5: person had raped their own child and was being transferred
- 13:01Speaker 5: into a female-only jail and was in close quarters with
- 13:05Speaker 5: biological women.
- 13:07Speaker 3: I just.
- 13:09Speaker 5: I don't understand why our political system is so weak
- 13:12Speaker 5: on this. So you've got the Corrective Services Commissioner in
- 13:14Speaker 5: New South Wales going, yep, tick off, we're going to
- 13:17Speaker 5: transfer this prisoner. Leah Finocchiaro, the Northern Territory Chief Minister,
- 13:21Speaker 5: is the only leader in this country who came out
- 13:24Speaker 5: pretty swiftly last year and said we are putting a
- 13:26Speaker 5: blanket ban on biological men in women's prison. She is
- 13:29Speaker 5: the only one with the guts to do so. The
- 13:32Speaker 5: rest of our political leaders have not and we're still
- 13:34Speaker 5: to this day seeing these sorts of instances.
- 13:37Speaker 1: There's a couple of complicating factors in this case. One is,
- 13:40Speaker 1: of course, that this individual has gone through the gender
- 13:44Speaker 1: reassignment surgery, right? Which means in a male prison would likely,
- 13:49Speaker 1: and quite rightly, fear for their safety because they would
- 13:53Speaker 1: presumably become a target of sexual harassment, potentially rape, whatever.
- 13:58Speaker 1: because you've got a bunch of sex-starved men who would go, well,
- 14:01Speaker 1: you know, I've basically got someone with a vagina in prison, right?
- 14:05Speaker 1: And so the male prison becomes a big problem. But then,
- 14:09Speaker 1: on the other hand, female prison is also a big
- 14:12Speaker 1: problem because women in prison can quite rightly say, well,
- 14:15Speaker 1: why the hell are you putting a biological man who,
- 14:18Speaker 1: of course, as we just talked about, comes with higher
- 14:20Speaker 1: levels of strength and all the rest, into prison with me,
- 14:24Speaker 1: that makes me feel unsafe. And so, really, the only
- 14:27Speaker 1: answer that I can see is that, unfortunately, you end
- 14:30Speaker 1: up in solitary confinement. And I say unfortunately. I mean,
- 14:33Speaker 1: this person is a criminal, has committed assault, and so...
- 14:36Speaker 1: My level of sympathy is pretty low on the scale,
- 14:39Speaker 1: it has to be said. But I don't see any
- 14:42Speaker 1: other answer than you have to be put into solitary
- 14:45Speaker 1: confinement because you wouldn't be safe in a male prison.
- 14:49Speaker 1: I think that's a fair statement. It's unsafe for female prisoners.
- 14:53Speaker 1: I think that's a fair statement. Unfortunately, you've just got
- 14:56Speaker 1: a cop that, because you're transgender... You are different. And
- 15:01Speaker 1: that means for both your safety and the safety of
- 15:03Speaker 1: other prisoners, you've got to be put somewhere else.
- 15:06Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I kind of agree with you. I think
- 15:08Speaker 3: it's a really hard one. It's like a catch-22. You've
- 15:11Speaker 3: got 47... transgender inmates at the moment and 46 of
- 15:15Speaker 3: those are housed according to biological sex. So this is
- 15:18Speaker 3: like this person's a real outlier in the system. So
- 15:21Speaker 3: I think they're kind of sitting there going, what do
- 15:23Speaker 3: we do? What is the best option here? And unfortunately,
- 15:25Speaker 3: there is no better option. There is not a lot
- 15:27Speaker 3: that they can do. So I think it is a
- 15:30Speaker 3: tough one. Like, do they have their own special system?
- 15:33Speaker 3: I don't know. But I guess they're doing the best
- 15:37Speaker 3: they can. But look, at the end of the day,
- 15:39Speaker 3: women are vulnerable in prison and we don't want them
- 15:41Speaker 3: around someone who could potentially be, you know, violent, particularly
- 15:46Speaker 3: towards women.
- 15:48Speaker 5: And, you know, my question would be, why are prisoners
- 15:51Speaker 5: being allowed to undergo gender reassignment surgery in the first
- 15:55Speaker 5: place while they're behind bars?
- 15:57Speaker 2: Are there some sort of special provisions?
- 15:59Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure whether this particular individual done it
- 16:03Speaker 1: while they were in prison. I think they were in.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Silverwater at the time first, weren't they?
- 16:07Speaker 5: Unless they've done it before Silverwater.
- 16:09Speaker 1: I think it might have been done before. And I
- 16:11Speaker 1: would imagine... Here we go.
- 16:12Speaker 5: Entered the prison system at the men's Silverwater Metropolitan Remand.
- 16:16Speaker 3: But they did have gender reassignment surgery previously.
- 16:20Speaker 2: So it was prior to entering the system.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Has been transferred to women's prison.
- 16:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:25Speaker 1: But in answer to your question, I would imagine that
- 16:26Speaker 1: if you were already undergoing medical treatment... before you went
- 16:29Speaker 1: to prison, they would continue rendering that medical treatment to you,
- 16:34Speaker 1: would be the situation there. But, no, this is, you know,
- 16:36Speaker 1: you've gone into a male prison and they've been sent
- 16:38Speaker 1: off to a female prison because of, obviously, the dangers
- 16:41Speaker 1: that may have been faced in a male prison. But,
- 16:43Speaker 1: you know, if you are, say, a Darren Hinch type, right,
- 16:48Speaker 1: who gets sent off to prison because you broke suppression
- 16:51Speaker 1: orders in regards to paedophiles and they can't guarantee your
- 16:55Speaker 1: safety because there's a bunch of paedophiles in the prison...
- 16:58Speaker 1: They don't go and put all the other paedophiles in solitary.
- 17:00Speaker 1: They'd put Darren Hinch in solitary. And so I think
- 17:04Speaker 1: that is what has to happen in a case like this. Sorry,
- 17:07Speaker 1: but you've got to go to solitary because it's the
- 17:09Speaker 1: only way we can secure the safety of everyone.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Makes sense. Let's move on to Dubbo now, where things
- 17:14Speaker 3: got pretty heated at the Bush summit between Pauline Hanson
- 17:19Speaker 3: and Matt Canavan. Why don't we take a quick look?
- 17:22Speaker 7: Our enemy now, and I'm telling you who's ruining this country,
- 17:25Speaker 7: is the Labor Greens. That's why we, as a conservative side,
- 17:30Speaker 7: have to start working together. Stop knocking me, having a
- 17:33Speaker 7: go at me. I've taken the Libs and the Nats
- 17:36Speaker 7: kicking and screaming to change their policies, whether it's immigration,
- 17:40Speaker 7: net zero and the voice.
- 17:42Speaker 8: I do think what we've got to do, the primary
- 17:44Speaker 8: goal that I've got as Leader of the Nationals, is
- 17:47Speaker 8: to remove this terrible government. They've got to go. That
- 17:49Speaker 8: will be my priority, and yes, I think I get
- 17:51Speaker 8: along with Pauline. We need to keep the focus on
- 17:53Speaker 8: winning seats off Labor, because they're the ones that are
- 17:55Speaker 8: causing the problems at the moment in our country, and
- 17:57Speaker 8: I'm happy to work with anyone to do that.
- 18:00Speaker 3: Now, look, once again, this has turned into a conversation
- 18:03Speaker 3: about the fight for a right. And what I see
- 18:05Speaker 3: as a media narrative to kind of exploit what is
- 18:10Speaker 3: happening between One Nation and the Libs and the Nats.
- 18:13Speaker 3: I think the Libs and the Nats are doing the
- 18:15Speaker 3: right thing. They are focusing right now on winning government.
- 18:19Speaker 3: That is their primary focus. It's not about what One
- 18:21Speaker 3: Nation is doing. It's about what they need to do
- 18:23Speaker 3: to win those votes. Unfortunately, everyone is wrapped up in
- 18:28Speaker 3: conflating the issue and making it a one nation versus
- 18:31Speaker 3: a lib national nation idea. But I think what we
- 18:35Speaker 3: really need to be focusing on, again, is getting Labor
- 18:38Speaker 3: and the Greens out 100%. But we shouldn't be focusing
- 18:43Speaker 3: on what everyone else is focusing on. And that's the
- 18:47Speaker 3: two right, the people on the right, just going at
- 18:50Speaker 3: each other.
- 18:50Speaker 5: Well, I don't think that, to be honest, that they
- 18:52Speaker 5: are focused right now on winning government when you've got
- 18:55Speaker 5: people like Andrew Hastie coming out constantly talking about One Nation.
- 18:59Speaker 3: Because One Nation is going after him.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Matt Canavan. But why... The question is... That's why... is that...
- 19:05Speaker 2: And every... I have so much respect for Andrew Hastie.
- 19:09Speaker 2: I really, really do. I think he's good. And I...
- 19:11Speaker 2: backed him in to be the leader of the party.
- 19:13Speaker 5: But all I've heard from Andrew Hastie of late is
- 19:17Speaker 5: talking about One Nation. Matt Canavan, another person I've got
- 19:20Speaker 5: a lot of respect for, but talks about One Nation
- 19:22Speaker 5: a lot.
- 19:23Speaker 3: And I think... I don't think he talks about One Nation.
- 19:25Speaker 3: I think he's asked about One Nation a lot. I
- 19:27Speaker 3: think that is the problem. I think the problem is
- 19:29Speaker 3: that the media consistently asks people on the right about
- 19:34Speaker 3: the other people on the right instead.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Of saying, what are you doing on the left?
- 19:38Speaker 5: But couldn't you just say, yeah, you know what, One
- 19:40Speaker 5: Nation is there, but right now we are focusing on
- 19:42Speaker 5: ourselves and we are focusing on tackling Labor and the Greens.
- 19:46Speaker 3: But the Nationals are also fighting One Nation, particularly in
- 19:48Speaker 3: their seats, right?
- 19:49Speaker 1: They.
- 19:50Speaker 3: They're trying to protect their own stake in the game.
- 19:53Speaker 1: They're an existential threat to the Nationals. But, I mean,
- 19:55Speaker 1: you've got people like Angus Taylor who have voluntarily... I mean,
- 20:00Speaker 1: the comments he made at the Sydney Institute, what, I
- 20:03Speaker 1: don't know, a month, two months ago... gave a speech,
- 20:06Speaker 1: which he did talk in that speech about how we've
- 20:09Speaker 1: got to take on Labor, et cetera, but he couldn't
- 20:11Speaker 1: help himself and made comments about, you know, how One
- 20:14Speaker 1: Nation was basically an empty column of smoke, I think,
- 20:17Speaker 1: was along those.
- 20:19Speaker 6: Lines, right?
- 20:19Speaker 1: And it's like, you know when you say that stuff
- 20:23Speaker 1: that it's going to be picked up. So why do
- 20:25Speaker 1: people in the Liberal and National parties keep talking about
- 20:29Speaker 1: One Nation? The only way you win back support for
- 20:32Speaker 1: your party, I think, is with policy, and you've actually
- 20:34Speaker 1: got to have some policy to begin with, and then
- 20:36Speaker 1: you've got to calmly explain that policy. It's no good saying, oh, well,
- 20:41Speaker 1: you know, One Nation's not a party of government. You've
- 20:43Speaker 1: got to demonstrate why you're a party of government.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that.
- 20:45Speaker 1: So the best way to avoid it is to shut
- 20:47Speaker 1: up about One Nation.
- 20:48Speaker 5: And the other thing is, is that right now, we
- 20:51Speaker 5: saw in the news24.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Com.
- 20:52Speaker 5: Au YouGov Pulse poll that only just came out yesterday,
- 20:58Speaker 5: the day before, that One Nation's primary vote is up two.
- 21:01Speaker 5: points and the Coalition's is down one point. And this
- 21:04Speaker 5: is a trend that we're seeing now across multiple polls
- 21:08Speaker 5: and has been the case for the last eight to
- 21:10Speaker 5: nine months. it's very clear that the Liberal Party has
- 21:14Speaker 5: bled votes to One Nation and if they want to
- 21:17Speaker 5: try and claw back that conservative vote, I don't believe
- 21:20Speaker 5: that the best way to do that is to bag
- 21:22Speaker 5: out One Nation because there is a reason why voters
- 21:25Speaker 5: are leaving the Liberal Party for One Nation and in
- 21:28Speaker 5: search of a person or a party that they believe
- 21:31Speaker 5: represents their conservative views. in which the Liberal Party right
- 21:34Speaker 5: now does not. The enemy out there is Labor. The
- 21:38Speaker 5: enemy is the Greens, because right now, under Labor, we
- 21:41Speaker 5: are going broke and backwards, not just for the economy,
- 21:44Speaker 5: obviously for housing, for a number of reasons. And I
- 21:48Speaker 5: just think that that needs to be the focus. But
- 21:50Speaker 5: this constant tearing down of Pauline Hanson It's exhausting. And
- 21:55Speaker 5: that debate there at the Bush Summit today, that got really,
- 21:57Speaker 5: really feisty.
- 21:58Speaker 2: And I'm all for debate, but there was a lot
- 22:00Speaker 2: of anger in that.
- 22:02Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think, look, I don't think we
- 22:04Speaker 3: should be necessarily as Liberals antagonistic to One Nation, 100%.
- 22:07Speaker 3: You're not going to win back those voters by basically
- 22:12Speaker 3: saying bad things about the people that they believe that
- 22:14Speaker 3: they should be voting for, 100%. But I do think
- 22:18Speaker 3: the fight is on. And at the end of the day,
- 22:20Speaker 3: the Liberal Nationals have to differentiate themselves from one nation,
- 22:24Speaker 3: and the way they do that is on the battlefield.
- 22:27Speaker 3: And so, at the moment, there is a battlefield to
- 22:29Speaker 3: work out who is going to take that conservative vote.
- 22:32Speaker 3: But we also should be taking the votes from Labor.
- 22:35Speaker 3: We shouldn't be relying on taking the votes from each other.
- 22:38Speaker 3: We should be taking them from the Labor people. The
- 22:40Speaker 3: Labor people should be sick and tired of this government.
- 22:43Speaker 3: Have they not woken up yet? I don't understand.
- 22:46Speaker 1: I think some of them are, but they tend to
- 22:48Speaker 1: be going to One Nation.
- 22:50Speaker 3: One extreme to another.
- 22:51Speaker 2: One extreme to another.
- 22:53Speaker 5: Now, look, speaking of One Nation, the party's having a
- 22:56Speaker 5: little bit of a doozy of a week, I've got
- 22:58Speaker 5: to say, with its members. Of course, what happened with
- 23:01Speaker 5: David Farley when he went onto the ABC and he
- 23:03Speaker 5: bungled up the net overseas migration targets that the party
- 23:07Speaker 5: had pledged for. And now enter Malcolm Roberts. According to
- 23:12Speaker 5: the Sydney Morning Herald, Malcolm Roberts has done an interview
- 23:15Speaker 5: with a far-right influencer by the name of Andre Marmette.
- 23:20Speaker 5: The paper said that Marmette is closely associated with figures.
- 23:24Speaker 2: Who attend Nazi training camps.
- 23:26Speaker 5: He also enjoys sponsorship from a bookstore selling Adolf Hitler
- 23:30Speaker 5: texts and was a paid-up member of One Nation.
- 23:34Speaker 2: Now, on this podcast, Roberts.
- 23:36Speaker 5: Was asked a series of questions, but he defended the
- 23:39Speaker 5: rights of the nation's main neo-Nazi.
- 23:41Speaker 2: Group, White Australia.
- 23:43Speaker 5: This is how the exchange took hold.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Should the White Australia Party have the right to exist?
- 23:50Speaker 7: I'm opposed to racism and making decisions based on race
- 23:54Speaker 7: or calling one race superior to another.
- 23:56Speaker 8: But, of course, it should have a right to exist.
- 23:58Speaker 7: Because if there's free speech and freedom of association, you
- 24:02Speaker 7: have to have these things.
- 24:05Speaker 5: Now, the Liberal Party has, of course, seized on these
- 24:07Speaker 5: comments and they're calling on Pauline Hanson to immediately denounce
- 24:11Speaker 5: this chap, Andre Marmette, and his associates.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Now, look.
- 24:17Speaker 2: We spoke a little bit about this.
- 24:18Speaker 5: Last night, about this sort of freelancing that's occurring right now,
- 24:22Speaker 5: it seems to be, with politicians there. And I guess
- 24:25Speaker 5: it is different for One Nation in that they're not
- 24:28Speaker 5: the Liberal Party whereby everybody sort of has to follow a.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Certain narrative.
- 24:34Speaker 5: Everybody has a bit more freedom in a party that
- 24:36Speaker 5: does express freedom. I do worry, though, about Malcolm Roberts
- 24:41Speaker 5: doing an interview with a chap that is reportedly, according
- 24:44Speaker 5: to this newspaper, you know, has attended, is associate with
- 24:49Speaker 5: figures who attended Nazi training camps.
- 24:52Speaker 2: I think that that is highly concerning.
- 24:55Speaker 5: But then again, I didn't have a problem as well
- 24:58Speaker 5: with Pauline Hanson doing her interview with Tommy Robinson over
- 25:02Speaker 5: in the UK. I just think the issue is maybe
- 25:06Speaker 5: right now when the party is under scrutiny with what
- 25:08Speaker 5: it's saying in the media, maybe it's time to pull
- 25:11Speaker 5: back a bit. I don't think that you should ban
- 25:13Speaker 5: free speech. I think that, you know, don't ban them
- 25:16Speaker 5: fully from doing media interviews because But maybe just take
- 25:19Speaker 5: a little bit of a time out over the next
- 25:20Speaker 5: couple of weeks.
- 25:21Speaker 2: Let's time out. Let's regroup as.
- 25:22Speaker 5: A party, figure out what the policy is, and let's
- 25:25Speaker 5: go out and sell it to the right people.
- 25:27Speaker 3: And I think if people show you who they are,
- 25:28Speaker 3: believe them. Like, it's not about whether you want to
- 25:32Speaker 3: say what you want to say. Of course, I believe
- 25:34Speaker 3: in free speech as well. But maybe just shh. while
- 25:38Speaker 3: you're trying to ascertain and try to build your momentum
- 25:41Speaker 3: on how you're moving forward as a party. Because right now,
- 25:44Speaker 3: these are really critical moments for One Nation. So they
- 25:47Speaker 3: should be coming across as a party that is united,
- 25:50Speaker 3: that is together, that is on the same page, but
- 25:53Speaker 3: not with outliers and people who aren't across the detail
- 25:57Speaker 3: and who contradict each other. I mean, even Pauline Hanson
- 25:59Speaker 3: is contradicting herself at times over her migration policy. I
- 26:03Speaker 3: think it's not about media training. It's just about being
- 26:05Speaker 3: across detail. It's about understanding how to speak to media
- 26:09Speaker 3: and maybe understanding when you don't speak to media.
- 26:11Speaker 1: The only problem is, though, that if you sort of
- 26:13Speaker 1: start saying, oh, we'll pull back a bit, the question
- 26:16Speaker 1: will then become, well, why aren't One Nation people talking
- 26:19Speaker 1: to the media? You know, they've got something to hide,
- 26:22Speaker 1: not good enough, et cetera, et cetera. If you can't
- 26:26Speaker 1: trust your people to go out and talk, you've probably
- 26:30Speaker 1: got a problem with your people, is what I would say. And, yes,
- 26:35Speaker 1: I think they ought to be tighter on their message,
- 26:38Speaker 1: and we saw that with Farley, obviously, over the weekend.
- 26:42Speaker 1: But you should be able to trust that members of
- 26:45Speaker 1: a political party can go out and fairly represent the
- 26:48Speaker 1: views of that party. It comes back in part to
- 26:52Speaker 1: what I have said earlier this week, and I think
- 26:54Speaker 1: I might have said last week as well, which is
- 26:56Speaker 1: that one nation has to decide as a party whether
- 26:59Speaker 1: it operates in the same way the Liberals do, which
- 27:02Speaker 1: is that as a backbencher, you are allowed to freelance,
- 27:06Speaker 1: say what you want, you've got a conscience vote, you
- 27:08Speaker 1: don't have to adhere to the policies of the party,
- 27:10Speaker 1: or do you operate like Labor, where it's one in,
- 27:13Speaker 1: all in? You know, you can have your own views
- 27:16Speaker 1: about things, but when we vote, we vote as a bloc,
- 27:20Speaker 1: we operate as a bloc, we back in the policies
- 27:22Speaker 1: of the party. And One Nation, I think, has to
- 27:25Speaker 1: sort that out very soon. Otherwise, we will keep seeing
- 27:29Speaker 1: more of this stuff. And the more this happens, I
- 27:32Speaker 1: think the more people will go, oh, you know, I'm
- 27:34Speaker 1: not so sure. But on the other hand, there's a
- 27:37Speaker 1: lot of people, I suspect, who couldn't give a toss.
- 27:39Speaker 1: I mean, they go, you can scream at me until
- 27:42Speaker 1: the cows come home. about how bad One Nation is.
- 27:45Speaker 1: But you know what? You can't tell me they're any
- 27:47Speaker 1: worse than the mob that's running the show at the moment. Absolutely.
- 27:51Speaker 2: I agree.
- 27:51Speaker 3: And at least with One Nation, I will say this
- 27:53Speaker 3: on the flip side, you're making a very valid point,
- 27:54Speaker 3: which I've been saying from the get-go. They are in
- 27:58Speaker 3: their infantile stages. They haven't developed what they're going to
- 28:01Speaker 3: be doing or how they're going to be running as
- 28:04Speaker 3: a political party. So I think they really need to
- 28:06Speaker 3: develop that and they really need to set that in place. But, look,
- 28:09Speaker 3: I think at the end of the day, people want
- 28:11Speaker 3: transparency in politics, and whether you agree with them or
- 28:14Speaker 3: not or whether they say the most ridiculous things, you're
- 28:17Speaker 3: getting transparency in politics. It's very Donald Trump. It's very
- 28:19Speaker 3: Donald Trump-coded. So I think that's what people want.
- 28:22Speaker 2: Indeed.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Of course, a few weeks ago, there was a big
- 28:25Speaker 1: story in the AFL about the fact that the Geelong
- 28:27Speaker 1: Football Club had signed a secret deal a couple of
- 28:31Speaker 1: years prior with Jake Kolodjazny. Now, he had suffered a
- 28:34Speaker 1: few head knocks during his career and he really wanted
- 28:37Speaker 1: to keep playing. And so he signed a document with
- 28:40Speaker 1: the club that more or less said, if you continue
- 28:43Speaker 1: to play, any future head knocks and the injuries and
- 28:47Speaker 1: maladies that come as a result of them, you will
- 28:50Speaker 1: take responsibility for them. You know, they've acknowledged the fact
- 28:53Speaker 1: that he's on the precipice of potential danger. And if
- 28:57Speaker 1: you want to keep playing, we as a club cannot
- 29:00Speaker 1: take full responsibility for what happens from here on in
- 29:03Speaker 1: because you know that you are in potential danger if
- 29:07Speaker 1: you keep playing. He signed that, the club signed that,
- 29:10Speaker 1: it came out in the Herald Sun. It became a
- 29:12Speaker 1: big problem, a big discussion point within Aussie rules and
- 29:16Speaker 1: sport more generally, because we know that in contact sports,
- 29:19Speaker 1: concussion is now a major issue. And a lot of
- 29:23Speaker 1: people said at the time that there is no way
- 29:26Speaker 1: this should happen, that it was wrong, that there is
- 29:29Speaker 1: no situation where a player should be able to basically
- 29:32Speaker 1: sign away his rights and say that I take full
- 29:36Speaker 1: responsibility for any head knocks. Well, the AFL has investigated.
- 29:39Speaker 1: They have come back and said the club didn't actually
- 29:42Speaker 1: do anything wrong in signing this document with Jake Coller-Jasny,
- 29:47Speaker 1: but they did get something wrong in not lodging it
- 29:51Speaker 1: with the AFL. And for that, they have been fined $ 140, 000.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Here is the AFL's boss, Andrew Dillon.
- 29:59Speaker 4: There was nothing ultimately wrong with entering into the contract.
- 30:03Speaker 4: It was the lodging of it. Now, once it had
- 30:06Speaker 4: been lodged, then that would have initiated a line of
- 30:08Speaker 4: inquiry between the AFL and the Players Association, which may
- 30:11Speaker 4: have led to changes to that. The reviewers found that
- 30:13Speaker 4: they were acting in the best interest of the player.
- 30:15Speaker 4: They did almost everything right. They conducted consultation with the AFL,
- 30:19Speaker 4: with insurers, with lawyers, and most importantly, with the player
- 30:22Speaker 4: himself and his family and his representative.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Look, the AFL seems to be having a bet each way,
- 30:28Speaker 1: I think, on this one. They're essentially saying, look, you know,
- 30:32Speaker 1: the fact that they went about doing up a document
- 30:35Speaker 1: was fine, but if they come and told us about
- 30:38Speaker 1: the document, maybe the contents of the document would have
- 30:41Speaker 1: been different. I'm not really sure what they mean by that.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Are they saying that he wouldn't have had a document
- 30:48Speaker 1: to sign? I'm not sure. So they fine Geelong Football
- 30:52Speaker 1: Club 140 grand for not telling them that they were
- 30:55Speaker 1: doing this deal. I'm not sure that Geelong did anything
- 30:59Speaker 1: wrong at all because I've written about this, I've explained
- 31:03Speaker 1: on here before, that concussion is the biggest threat to
- 31:09Speaker 1: the continuation of our beloved contact sports in this country,
- 31:13Speaker 1: rugby league and Aussie rules. And, you know, it's feasible,
- 31:17Speaker 1: completely feasible, I think, you get to a point where
- 31:20Speaker 1: we know and we do know now how bad concussion
- 31:23Speaker 1: is and the potential results of concussions. We know that
- 31:26Speaker 1: concussion is basically baked into these games. I mean, in
- 31:29Speaker 1: Aussie rules, concussion is the second most common injury. So
- 31:34Speaker 1: there's no getting around the fact this is just part
- 31:36Speaker 1: and parcel of playing football. And if we have guys
- 31:40Speaker 1: who suffer brain damage, permanent impairment because of this stuff,
- 31:44Speaker 1: they're going to want compensation. Fair enough. So at what
- 31:47Speaker 1: point do you say, well, clubs in the league take
- 31:50Speaker 1: a certain level of responsibility because they know that, but
- 31:53Speaker 1: players also know now. They run onto the field, they
- 31:58Speaker 1: know that concussion is a possibility and they also know
- 32:01Speaker 1: the potential dangers of concussion. So is there really anything
- 32:04Speaker 1: wrong with a football club saying, look, you know, beyond
- 32:07Speaker 1: a certain number of head knocks, you have to take
- 32:10Speaker 1: responsibility for what happens to you.
- 32:11Speaker 5: But I think with the AFL situation, as the overarching body,
- 32:15Speaker 5: they should have been informed of this because the AFL
- 32:17Speaker 5: does take concussion very seriously.
- 32:19Speaker 2: It has strict concussion laws. And the fact that Geelong
- 32:22Speaker 2: kept it a secret is entirely the issue. It was
- 32:25Speaker 2: like under the table... don't tell anybody else, sign this contract.
- 32:30Speaker 5: Now, I also think that $ 140, 000 for withholding information, I
- 32:34Speaker 5: think that's actually pretty cheap in my view and I
- 32:36Speaker 5: think that the club can easily pay that off. But
- 32:39Speaker 5: they're still, as I said, part of an organisation that
- 32:41Speaker 5: does take concussion very seriously and it did not notify
- 32:44Speaker 5: the AFL Players Association and it did not.
- 32:47Speaker 2: Lodge the document.
- 32:48Speaker 5: Therefore, it breached AFL rules and as a club, you've
- 32:51Speaker 5: got to play by the rules. I think the fine
- 32:53Speaker 5: was entirely appropriate and entirely fair for for the situation.
- 32:56Speaker 2: You've got to set a standard.
- 32:57Speaker 5: Because otherwise everyone's going to be engaging in these little
- 32:59Speaker 5: private contracts that are all going to be kept secret.
- 33:02Speaker 3: But I think that this is a very different scenario
- 33:04Speaker 3: to what we were served like a couple of weeks ago.
- 33:07Speaker 3: I think now they're coming out and saying, you know,
- 33:09Speaker 3: we were aware of it, they just didn't put the
- 33:11Speaker 3: documents in, which I think is a completely different scenario
- 33:13Speaker 3: to what we... previously was known to us. Moving on,
- 33:18Speaker 3: I want to talk about the Greens and Independents, because
- 33:20Speaker 3: who doesn't like talking about the Greens and Independents? Well,
- 33:24Speaker 3: they're agitating to push for an import ban on what
- 33:27Speaker 3: they're calling the pervert smart glasses. So you know those
- 33:29Speaker 3: smart glasses, Meta has them, where you can go in
- 33:32Speaker 3: and you can secretly record. So they want to put
- 33:34Speaker 3: a ban on that because they think that it's very insidious. Now,
- 33:38Speaker 3: the difference between the meta ones, the meta ones you
- 33:41Speaker 3: can actually see when someone's recording. But what we've been seeing,
- 33:46Speaker 3: particularly in Australia, is a kind of underground movement where
- 33:50Speaker 3: you can get the cheap knock-offs, where you can't be
- 33:53Speaker 3: sure whether someone's filming or not. So there's a lot
- 33:57Speaker 3: of questions here about data and what happens to it.
- 33:59Speaker 3: But I just love that the Greens and the Independents
- 34:01Speaker 3: are banding together to do an import ban, considering we
- 34:05Speaker 3: know how well that worked with vaping. We can still
- 34:08Speaker 3: buy that.
- 34:18Speaker 6: I didn't know I was being recorded. So it was
- 34:19Speaker 6: purely just, I need to get out of the situation.
- 34:21Speaker 6: For me, it's the knowledge as well, like informed consent.
- 34:25Speaker 6: But when you don't know you're being recorded, you can't
- 34:27Speaker 6: control your image in any way. And then it's posted
- 34:30Speaker 6: and shared. If he was filming with a phone, I
- 34:32Speaker 6: could have easily been like, oh, can you not?
- 34:36Speaker 3: Look, definitely there are some issues here, but how do
- 34:40Speaker 3: you regulate this? I don't know. So, look, we have
- 34:44Speaker 3: a hiking influencer who is kind of on the side
- 34:47Speaker 3: of meta. Surprise, surprise.
- 34:50Speaker 7: In the mountains, on a Sunday, these Oakley Man AI glasses.
- 34:53Speaker 3: It's a crazy combination. Hey, meta, start recording in 3K.
- 34:59Speaker 1: Hey, meta, how far have I run?
- 35:01Speaker 6: You're running 5.1 kilometres in 26 minutes and 48 seconds.
- 35:07Speaker 3: Look, I'm not opposed to them, but I do understand
- 35:10Speaker 3: why there are concerns, particularly where you can wear them
- 35:14Speaker 3: in bathrooms, on the beach, you don't know what people
- 35:16Speaker 3: are filming, and also there's strong concerns around, you know, children.
- 35:20Speaker 1: I just don't understand how you'll regulate it.
- 35:24Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Because part of the problem is that you can film
- 35:27Speaker 1: in a public place. It's completely legal to film in
- 35:30Speaker 1: a public place. And so if you start making judgements about, OK, well,
- 35:34Speaker 1: you know, glasses with cameras in them are bad, phones
- 35:38Speaker 1: with cameras in them are not. I'm just not sure
- 35:40Speaker 1: how you actually feasibly do it.
- 35:42Speaker 5: Well, in the end, all I have to do is
- 35:43Speaker 5: take out my phone in a public place and I
- 35:45Speaker 5: can start filming, whether it's on my eyes or on
- 35:48Speaker 5: my phone here.
- 35:48Speaker 2: I don't think it makes any difference. And you know what?
- 35:51Speaker 5: I think that level of creativity, going out for a run,
- 35:53Speaker 5: filming it with your glasses, I think that's actually pretty cool.
- 35:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:56Speaker 2: I've heard... So gone.
- 35:58Speaker 3: But you can't see, you sometimes can't tell if someone
- 36:01Speaker 3: is wearing the glasses and they're filming you. I think
- 36:03Speaker 3: that's the point. You can tell when someone's got a phone.
- 36:05Speaker 1: And Paul Murray, I know, said a few weeks ago
- 36:07Speaker 1: he's used them on some of the out towns when
- 36:09Speaker 1: they're out, you know, filming local things and whatnot. And
- 36:13Speaker 1: people absolutely hate them. He said people see you wearing
- 36:15Speaker 1: them and he has to explain what he's doing because
- 36:18Speaker 1: they clock them and they hate them. After the break,
- 36:20Speaker 1: we'll have a look at tomorrow's on the front of
- 36:24Speaker 1: the Gold Coast Bulletin. Very interesting story about a woman
- 36:27Speaker 1: who was acting as a surrogate and she's ended up
- 36:30Speaker 1: having two completely biologically unrelated children. More on that in
- 36:34Speaker 1: a moment. Let's get stuck into tomorrow's news tonight. Understandably,
- 36:44Speaker 1: the flood in Nepal is on the front of quite
- 36:47Speaker 1: a number of papers tomorrow. We'll start with the advertiser.
- 36:51Speaker 1: They've splashed on it there. Valley of Death, it was
- 36:54Speaker 1: like an inland tidal wave, sweeping away lives and livelihoods
- 36:57Speaker 1: in scenes that were scarcely believable, even as more and
- 37:00Speaker 1: more footage emerged of the devastating tragedy that has unfolded
- 37:04Speaker 1: in Nepal. At least 35 Australians, including two children, are
- 37:08Speaker 1: missing after an avalanche triggered devastating flooding near the border
- 37:12Speaker 1: of Tibet. More than 180 people have been confirmed dead.
- 37:15Speaker 1: and the Australian government is preparing for days of worsening news.
- 37:20Speaker 1: And there's actually more updated numbers, actually. 395... So, 359,
- 37:25Speaker 1: I should say, people are now confirmed dead in Nepal,
- 37:28Speaker 1: three in Tibet. There are 910 people missing in Nepal,
- 37:34Speaker 1: and 517 of them are tourists, 35 Australians missing in Nepal.
- 37:39Speaker 1: I mean, and your heart goes out to families who...
- 37:43Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with tourists who are over there.
- 37:47Speaker 1: They will be hanging on to hear from DFAT and
- 37:50Speaker 1: obviously others all around the world as well in exactly
- 37:53Speaker 1: the same position. But, I mean, the footage, which you
- 37:57Speaker 1: can see there, it's just unbelievable, Danika.
- 38:00Speaker 2: It's apocalyptic. It is so scary.
- 38:05Speaker 5: You know, there's some vision, and I think we played
- 38:07Speaker 5: it earlier on in the night, And you can see
- 38:10Speaker 5: people running for their lives and then all of a sudden.
- 38:12Speaker 2: A wall of water collapses on top of them.
- 38:17Speaker 5: You wouldn't survive that.
- 38:20Speaker 2: You know, my heart goes out to all this. Sorry,
- 38:23Speaker 2: this is actually the vision I'm referring to right here.
- 38:25Speaker 2: This is it.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Then you can see that you'll see in a minute.
- 38:29Speaker 5: It's going to come over the back of that building there.
- 38:33Speaker 5: It's just frightening and, you know, we hope and pray
- 38:36Speaker 5: for the very best. It's a case of telecommunication lines.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Jeez, look at that. I can't believe it.
- 38:41Speaker 5: They're just down at the moment and we hope everyone
- 38:44Speaker 5: is in a safe place.
- 38:45Speaker 3: Yeah, particularly, I mean, there's a fair few Sydneysiders, I
- 38:48Speaker 3: think 14 out of the 15 who were caught up
- 38:51Speaker 3: in a tourist company. 14 of the 15 were from Sydney.
- 38:55Speaker 3: We've got one from Melbourne, I believe. There's a gentleman
- 38:58Speaker 3: from North Queensland. So they're really scattered from all across Australia.
- 39:04Speaker 3: And we look at the end of the day, they
- 39:06Speaker 3: are saying, though, they are still pulling people out alive.
- 39:08Speaker 3: So we really hope and pray that people find it
- 39:11Speaker 3: home safely. Yeah, absolutely.
- 39:12Speaker 5: Our thoughts and prayers are with Nepal right now. It's
- 39:16Speaker 5: going to be a very, very long clean-up process, that's
- 39:19Speaker 5: for sure. Let's take a look at tomorrow's Australian newspaper.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Of course, they're also covering Nepal. Valley of Death is
- 39:26Speaker 2: their headline.
- 39:27Speaker 5: But have a look at this exclusive down the bottom.
- 39:29Speaker 5: Triple amputee basher wins visa stress appeal. A South Sudanese
- 39:34Speaker 5: man who viciously bashed a triple amputee with the victim's
- 39:37Speaker 5: crutch has become the latest person to use visa stress
- 39:41Speaker 5: to quash the denial of their protection visa. The man,
- 39:44Speaker 5: who can be identified as GNHW, successfully argued in the
- 39:47Speaker 5: federal court... that being placed on a more restrictive bridging
- 39:50Speaker 5: visa would likely make him more of a risk to
- 39:52Speaker 5: the Australian community than if he was handed a protection
- 39:55Speaker 5: visa similar to the humanitarian visa he lost after his
- 39:59Speaker 5: brutal assault on a vulnerable disabled man. So stress, visa stress, everybody.
- 40:06Speaker 5: A new term's been invented, visa stress. So don't worry,
- 40:09Speaker 5: if you're a little bit stressed out, no problems.
- 40:11Speaker 2: A bit of anxiety? Stay as long as you want.
- 40:14Speaker 5: Please do whatever you want, but stay as long as
- 40:16Speaker 5: you want if you've got stress and anxiety.
- 40:17Speaker 3: When I first read this, I was like, oh, yeah,
- 40:20Speaker 3: I get it. Credit card stress, visa stress.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Oh, no, wait.
- 40:23Speaker 3: He's talking about an actual visa. This is just another
- 40:26Speaker 3: way that he's just trying to scan the system. Obviously, right?
- 40:29Speaker 2: Yeah, extraordinary.
- 40:31Speaker 1: So the argument is, you know, I might fly off
- 40:33Speaker 1: the handle if I don't get the visa I want.
- 40:36Speaker 1: therefore you'd better give me the visa I want so
- 40:38Speaker 1: people will be safe.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Correct.
- 40:39Speaker 1: I mean, what sort of warped country are we living
- 40:42Speaker 1: in when this is the kind of stuff that flies
- 40:46Speaker 1: in the federal court? I don't know what to say.
- 40:50Speaker 1: It's just what is going through the minds of some
- 40:55Speaker 1: of the judiciary who could look at that and go, yep,
- 40:59Speaker 1: that makes sense. It's wild. I mean, are we not
- 41:03Speaker 1: governing and running courts in this country... four people in
- 41:07Speaker 1: this country. OK, you're a foreigner, you come over here,
- 41:10Speaker 1: you bash up a triple amputee with his own crutch
- 41:13Speaker 1: and then we give you a better visa because you
- 41:15Speaker 1: would otherwise go and bash up more people. I just...
- 41:18Speaker 1: I cannot believe that this is real.
- 41:20Speaker 5: We're becoming the UK, because the UK has had all
- 41:22Speaker 5: sorts of examples of how people stay in the country.
- 41:24Speaker 1: All he needs to do is say he doesn't like
- 41:26Speaker 1: the taste of chicken nuggets.
- 41:27Speaker 2: Chicken nuggets in New York? Yeah, roll them up, boys.
- 41:30Speaker 2: All right.
- 41:31Speaker 5: And also on the front page, Labor told to get
- 41:33Speaker 5: tough on visa mums and dads. John Howard's immigration minister,
- 41:37Speaker 5: Philip Ruddock, says Labor must overhaul family reunion visas to
- 41:40Speaker 5: rein in immigration and address a breakdown of international students.
- 41:45Speaker 5: Gaming the system as the government faces calls to tackle
- 41:48Speaker 5: the explosion in appeals from visa holders.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Well, you know what? I think that's pretty smart.
- 41:53Speaker 5: If anyone is going to be able to give you
- 41:54Speaker 5: a fair dinkum view on the visa system, you should
- 41:56Speaker 5: listen to.
- 42:10Speaker 5: Liberal Party members of the past who actually have had
- 42:12Speaker 5: good immigration policies. And I'm curious to know, more importantly,
- 42:17Speaker 5: what the immigration policy Labor is going to be presenting
- 42:20Speaker 5: to us is going to be.
- 42:21Speaker 3: Let's be clear, they're not going to be doing this
- 42:23Speaker 3: because this is right in their wheelhouse of people who
- 42:26Speaker 3: vote for them, particularly in Western Sydney. So they will
- 42:29Speaker 3: be trying to skirt around this as best they can.
- 42:32Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I think a lot of the immigration rot actually
- 42:34Speaker 1: did begin under the Howard government. There were quite high numbers...
- 42:39Speaker 1: that began under the Howard government and has followed through
- 42:41Speaker 1: ever since, unfortunately.
- 42:43Speaker 3: Now, let's turn to the Herald Sun with my favourite story,
- 42:46Speaker 3: the SRL tax backflip. So, state government insiders say Deputy
- 42:52Speaker 3: Premier Gabrielle Williams deliberately avoided announcing a secret new levy
- 42:56Speaker 3: on fares when she was public transport minister, with the funding.....
- 43:02Speaker 3: threatening to rip open political wounds within the ALP. Now,
- 43:06Speaker 3: Premier Ben Carroll, on Thursday, pledged to dump the 1%
- 43:10Speaker 3: rail improvement charge 24 hours after it was revealed by
- 43:14Speaker 3: the state's financial watchdog as a key mechanism to help
- 43:18Speaker 3: pay for the $ 34. 5 billion suburban rail loop. Now, I
- 43:23Speaker 3: love this story because Ben Carr was actually the Minister
- 43:25Speaker 3: for Public Transport when this was kind of first approved.
- 43:30Speaker 3: And then, you know... Under the Allen government, it was
- 43:33Speaker 3: brought in secretly, didn't tell anyone, and here we are.
- 43:37Speaker 3: It's out, and now Ben Carr seems to kind of
- 43:41Speaker 3: have been around when it was, like, thought of, then
- 43:44Speaker 3: he was Deputy Premier when it was instituted, but he
- 43:47Speaker 3: claims he knew nothing about it.
- 43:48Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
- 43:49Speaker 2: I mean.
- 43:51Speaker 1: If you believe that one, come and stand on my
- 43:54Speaker 1: balcony and I'll sue you for sitting up. Like.
- 43:58Speaker 2: How could Mr.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Carroll possibly think that we're... Oh, yes, you were the
- 44:02Speaker 1: minister in charge and then you were the deputy premier
- 44:05Speaker 1: and you had no idea that you were secretly charging
- 44:08Speaker 1: people this debt?
- 44:09Speaker 5: How embarrassing that he can stand there with a straight
- 44:10Speaker 5: face and say that as well.
- 44:12Speaker 2: Totally. And he believes his own rot.
- 44:14Speaker 3: But that's because it's Victorian Labor and they have been
- 44:17Speaker 3: able to get away with lie after lie after lie,
- 44:19Speaker 3: but it's wearing thin now, guys.
- 44:21Speaker 1: Look, you know, I can't wait for him to turn
- 44:23Speaker 1: water into wine as well. Yeah, well, you've got to roll.
- 44:26Speaker 1: The sort of level he seems to be operating on.
- 44:28Speaker 1: The Gold Coast Bulletin tomorrow. How's this for a yarn?
- 44:31Speaker 1: DNA test splits twins in Australian first delivery. Surrogate bub hers.
- 44:36Speaker 1: A Queensland mother who gave birth to twins while acting
- 44:38Speaker 1: as a surrogate has found out one of the babies
- 44:41Speaker 1: is biologically hers. In an Australian first, the unnamed woman
- 44:45Speaker 1: gave birth to two babies last year but only found
- 44:48Speaker 1: out the baby boy was... was biologically hers during a
- 44:52Speaker 1: procedure to determine DNA.
- 44:54Speaker 2: Wow.
- 44:55Speaker 1: So she was simultaneously pregnant with her own child.
- 44:58Speaker 2: It's crazy.
- 44:59Speaker 1: And a surrogate child.
- 45:00Speaker 3: It's crazy.
- 45:00Speaker 9: Wow.
- 45:01Speaker 3: So then are they related? That's what I want to know.
- 45:03Speaker 3: Even though they're not related by DNA, but are they
- 45:06Speaker 3: related by birth?
- 45:08Speaker 5: I want to know how that happens and how rare,
- 45:09Speaker 5: because that must be an extremely rare case.
- 45:11Speaker 1: Extremely rare.
- 45:12Speaker 3: It's like buy a lottery ticket.
- 45:14Speaker 5: Yeah, buy a lottery ticket. I completely agree. And just finally,
- 45:18Speaker 5: we'll take a look at the Daily Telegraph. The power
- 45:21Speaker 5: of one as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was jeered over
- 45:24Speaker 5: the renewables rollout. A straight-talking farmer became the voice of
- 45:27Speaker 5: the National Bush Summit yesterday.
- 45:29Speaker 2: Emma Webb from the.
- 45:30Speaker 5: Yaz Valley said the rollout that would see wind turbines
- 45:33Speaker 5: shadowing her land was damaging, rushed, unchecked corporate greed.
- 45:37Speaker 2: And Emma's been on Sky News quite a lot, on
- 45:39Speaker 2: News 24, sorry.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Oh, God, whoops.
- 45:43Speaker 5: Quite a bit, actually, with Peter Credlin, and she is
- 45:46Speaker 5: a formidable voice for the regions.
- 45:48Speaker 3: I was going to say, I did just speak to...
- 45:50Speaker 3: I saw her speak today at the Bush Summit, and
- 45:52Speaker 3: she was incredibly articulate, and she's a real voice.
- 45:55Speaker 1: Well, you know what? People in the bush also care
- 45:58Speaker 1: about energy, which means they care about gas. And we're
- 46:00Speaker 1: going to talk about gas after the break, because teachers
- 46:02Speaker 1: over in the United States have come up with an
- 46:05Speaker 1: interesting way to mitigate gas in the classroom.
- 46:09Speaker 3: See what you did there.
- 46:14Speaker 1: Now, Michelle, you have a story about your favourite topic, cockroaches.
- 46:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 46:18Speaker 3: Yeah, it's totally my favourite topic. Imagine if one day
- 46:21Speaker 3: cockroaches could be literally the difference between life and death. Well,
- 46:26Speaker 3: we've got cyborg roaches. They could be one day coming
- 46:31Speaker 3: and saving your life. Biorobotics engineers have been working on
- 46:34Speaker 3: the design of these six-legged cyborg insects with cameras and
- 46:38Speaker 3: miniature medical injectors... to search and rescue missions. Now, the
- 46:42Speaker 3: roaches are designed to deliver emergency aid to people trapped
- 46:44Speaker 3: in collapsed buildings, caves or other places too dangerous for
- 46:48Speaker 3: rescuers to reach. Now, in my mind, they always say
- 46:52Speaker 3: that nothing's going to kill a cockroach, so you may
- 46:55Speaker 3: as well use it to your advantage, I say.
- 46:56Speaker 2: I think that's really smart.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 46:58Speaker 2: You know, I don't like roaches, but that's intelligent.
- 47:01Speaker 1: Yeah, but if I were in some precarious position and
- 47:04Speaker 1: I saw that thing coming towards me, I think my
- 47:06Speaker 1: initial reaction would be to... Whack the hell out of it.
- 47:09Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say run away and
- 47:11Speaker 2: get scared.
- 47:12Speaker 1: Well, how can you run away?
- 47:12Speaker 3: Scream and jump on a table.
- 47:14Speaker 2: Scream like a girl.
- 47:15Speaker 1: I'm under rubble or something. I'm not going to run away,
- 47:17Speaker 1: am I?
- 47:18Speaker 2: Well, you're not hitting it either.
- 47:19Speaker 1: But if I saw some bug coming towards me, I'd
- 47:20Speaker 1: kill it. All right.
- 47:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably would too if I had more time,
- 47:23Speaker 2: if I'm being quite frank.
- 47:25Speaker 5: Now, we've been talking all week about robots, these humanoid robots,
- 47:28Speaker 5: but have a look at this Kung Fu robot that
- 47:30Speaker 5: was actually taught the art of it within two hours.
- 47:33Speaker 5: Engineers at the Universities of California and Stanford have created
- 47:37Speaker 5: what they say is the most interesting human or lifelike
- 47:40Speaker 5: humanoid to date.
- 47:41Speaker 2: Have a look at that.
- 47:42Speaker 5: Two hours and it can just kung fu you away.
- 47:44Speaker 3: I'm loving all the robotics stuff that's been going on.
- 47:49Speaker 3: I mean, we are just getting better and better at it,
- 47:51Speaker 3: I think.
- 47:51Speaker 2: We are.
- 47:52Speaker 1: Well, you see those, you know, robot Olympics that have
- 47:55Speaker 1: been going on in China. Yes.
- 47:57Speaker 3: How fun.
- 47:58Speaker 1: Except, you know, when they fail, they seem to fail
- 48:00Speaker 1: quite spectacularly.
- 48:01Speaker 2: They really malfunction. Sparks flying.
- 48:03Speaker 1: Did you see the one of the robot trying to
- 48:05Speaker 1: lift a weight and it had, like, the... The lightest
- 48:08Speaker 1: weight imaginable and it fell over.
- 48:10Speaker 2: The boxing one that we played the other night.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, the boxing was quite good, particularly when they
- 48:13Speaker 1: get decapitated. Anyway, I did tell you there'd be a
- 48:15Speaker 1: story about gas in this segment and so there is
- 48:20Speaker 1: over in the United States. Teachers apparently are coming up
- 48:23Speaker 1: with ingenious ways to deal with gas in the classroom and, no,
- 48:27Speaker 1: I don't mean the kind that you used to cook with.
- 48:30Speaker 9: This is our.
- 48:33Speaker 9: This is our fart corner. If you need to fart,
- 48:36Speaker 9: simply come over here, fart, take about 10 seconds, get
- 48:40Speaker 9: your little spray going on, go sit down. Nobody's paying attention.
- 48:45Speaker 9: Nobody cares. Nobody's worried about it.
- 48:49Speaker 2: What the hell are they on about?
- 48:51Speaker 1: A fart corner?
- 48:52Speaker 2: Are you serious?
- 48:54Speaker 1: Like, just get up and walk out of the classroom
- 48:56Speaker 1: for five seconds and come back. what the hell is
- 48:58Speaker 1: this crap?
- 48:59Speaker 3: I know.
- 48:59Speaker 2: What are they doing in that classroom? Wouldn't you be embarrassed?
- 49:01Speaker 2: Everyone knows what you're doing.
- 49:03Speaker 3: And how are you going to say, like, whoever smelt
- 49:05Speaker 3: it dealt it?
- 49:05Speaker 2: I mean, you can't even, like.
- 49:06Speaker 5: Say the good words.
- 49:09Speaker 1: If this is what it's come to, you know, if
- 49:11Speaker 1: teachers don't have enough to worry about.
- 49:13Speaker 2: I know.
- 49:14Speaker 1: that now they're coming up with fart corners.
- 49:16Speaker 3: You've got to be polite. Be polite at all times.
- 49:18Speaker 2: I think it's time to go back to basic math
- 49:19Speaker 2: in England. Yeah, I think so.
- 49:21Speaker 3: Could you imagine?
- 49:22Speaker 1: Just fart on your own time, perhaps. Thanks for joining
- 49:24Speaker 1: us tonight. Up next, the Rita Panahy show. Good night.