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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Late Debate.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. I'm Caleb Bond
- 0:09Speaker 2: with Lucy Zilich and Joe Hildebrand. Joe, how did you
- 0:12Speaker 2: get in tonight, given the cars.
- 0:14Speaker 1: I walked in using my sneakers. Oh, no, Joe! Look,
- 0:18Speaker 1: I know this always causes a lot of controversy. My
- 0:21Speaker 1: proper TV boots are in the car and at my mechanics.
- 0:25Speaker 2: He's got an excuse. That's what we're hearing.
- 0:28Speaker 1: And also... If we're going to spill the tea before
- 0:31Speaker 1: we get underway, Lucy forgot her clipboard and I had
- 0:35Speaker 1: to run back to the control room to get it
- 0:37Speaker 1: and I never would have made it if I hadn't
- 0:40Speaker 1: been wearing my runners.
- 0:42Speaker 3: The whole assumption from my part was that you had
- 0:45Speaker 3: to hide your feet because you would potentially get in
- 0:48Speaker 3: trouble and now here you are showing them in.
- 0:50Speaker 2: All of their glory.
- 0:51Speaker 1: That was the original plan before Caleb outed me like
- 0:55Speaker 1: Rebel Wilson. LAUGHTER So, yes, I was trying to be
- 0:59Speaker 1: discreet about it. And then, next thing you know, my
- 1:01Speaker 1: business is all over the television.
- 1:03Speaker 2: I mean, I know you were trying to be discreet,
- 1:04Speaker 2: but you see that there are cameras over there? And, yeah, anyway,
- 1:08Speaker 2: we could see it. There we are.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Here's what's coming up tonight.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Schools are dropping house names with colonial links and instead
- 1:14Speaker 2: replacing them with Indigenous names. And so tonight I can
- 1:17Speaker 2: exclusively reveal that racism is solved. And shortly, if you're
- 1:22Speaker 2: sitting behind the wheel of a driverless car, so you're
- 1:24Speaker 2: not actually driving it, Should you have to be under
- 1:27Speaker 2: the legal limit? Well, one US state was on the
- 1:29Speaker 2: verge of making that law, but now it's been vetoed.
- 1:32Speaker 2: And Jim versus Jim, the founder of Jim's Mowing, is
- 1:35Speaker 2: taking on the Treasurer, who he says is incompetent. That
- 1:39Speaker 2: is on the front of the advertiser tomorrow. But first,
- 1:42Speaker 2: can you believe it? Melbourne City Council has decided that
- 1:46Speaker 2: Australia Day is on the 26th of January. Extraordinary, isn't it?
- 1:52Speaker 2: It was just a few years ago that, in the
- 1:54Speaker 2: midst of COVID... They got rid of the traditional Australia
- 1:59Speaker 2: Day parade that they used to have in Melbourne. Of course,
- 2:01Speaker 2: that was because, you know, COVID and we couldn't stage
- 2:04Speaker 2: it because it'd be all these people coming out, etc.
- 2:06Speaker 2: It never came back. They also passed a motion a
- 2:11Speaker 2: few years ago to say, look, we don't want Australia
- 2:15Speaker 2: Day on January 26, as though a council could ever
- 2:18Speaker 2: actually fix that problem. And they seem to have now
- 2:21Speaker 2: recognised that. that they can't fix that problem because last
- 2:25Speaker 2: night they have passed this motion. They say that they
- 2:28Speaker 2: adopt the position that the City of Melbourne recognises 26
- 2:32Speaker 2: January as Australia's National Day, consistent with its recognition by
- 2:37Speaker 2: the Australian Government and all state and territory governments, and
- 2:40Speaker 2: acknowledges that any decision to change the date is a
- 2:42Speaker 2: matter for the Australian government and outside the jurisdiction of
- 2:46Speaker 2: local government. Yippee! And they've also voted to investigate what
- 2:51Speaker 2: they would need to do in order to bring back
- 2:54Speaker 2: that Australia Day parade. He was the Deputy Lord Mayor
- 2:58Speaker 2: of the Melbourne City Council, Rashina Campbell, last night.
- 3:03Speaker 4: And for my part, I am incredibly disappointed that we
- 3:05Speaker 4: no longer have the Australia Day Parade. That used to
- 3:08Speaker 4: bring in, along with other activities like the State Government's fireworks,
- 3:11Speaker 4: over 70,000 people to this municipality to attend Australia Day celebrations.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Since the State Government cancelled the Australia Day Parade and
- 3:22Speaker 4: the fireworks, we've seen a reduction of attendees at Australia
- 3:25Speaker 4: Day celebrations from over 70,000 to a mere 8,000. That's
- 3:32Speaker 4: 60-odd thousand people who want to celebrate Australia Day and
- 3:35Speaker 4: no longer can do it in the City of Melbourne.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Reality bites eventually, doesn't it?
- 3:41Speaker 3: You know, I want to take you back, right, to
- 3:43Speaker 3: that moment in 2022 where this whole decision came about,
- 3:46Speaker 3: which was why they brought the motion forward to can
- 3:49Speaker 3: the celebrations. So they conducted a survey of 1,600 locals
- 3:53Speaker 3: in the City of Melbourne.
- 3:55Speaker 1: That was their first mistake.
- 3:59Speaker 5: So 1,600 only, right?
- 4:01Speaker 3: And the census data at that time put, I think,
- 4:03Speaker 3: the population roughly at around 149,000.
- 4:06Speaker 5: So in that survey, which.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Had been conducted with 1,600 people, 60% had come back
- 4:12Speaker 3: and said that they supported changing the date.
- 4:14Speaker 5: So if you run the numbers, we're talking.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Literally about 900 people 960 people out of 149,000 odd.
- 4:23Speaker 5: Who said they supported changing the date.
- 4:25Speaker 3: That, in all of their wisdom, was enough to bring
- 4:27Speaker 3: this motion forward. The then Lord Mayor Sally Capp, supported
- 4:31Speaker 3: by her deputy Nick Rees and five other councillors, put
- 4:35Speaker 3: it forward and all agreed that this was what had
- 4:37Speaker 3: to happen.
- 4:38Speaker 5: I mean, just ruminate on that point for a moment, right?
- 4:41Speaker 5: 960 people.
- 4:43Speaker 3: Filling out a survey saying they wanted to change the
- 4:46Speaker 3: date was enough to trigger that. Now what you've seen
- 4:48Speaker 3: is a backflip because I think now you've got Nick Rees,
- 4:52Speaker 3: the Lord Mayor, who's obviously reading the tea leaves and
- 4:55Speaker 3: is recognising that being anti-patriot and anti-this country isn't so
- 4:59Speaker 3: trendy anymore. And you've got the November election coming up
- 5:03Speaker 3: where this, I feel, was something that they couldn't avoid.
- 5:05Speaker 5: They had to get on board with this.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Fair?
- 5:08Speaker 1: Yeah, very fair. And if you think back to 2022,
- 5:11Speaker 1: it was kind of like the maybe the sort of
- 5:14Speaker 1: apex of the change the date movement. It was the
- 5:18Speaker 1: last year of the Morrison government. And so all the
- 5:21Speaker 1: lefties were still frothing. at the mouth and jumping up
- 5:25Speaker 1: and down. Of course, we had the voice referendum before
- 5:28Speaker 1: it had lost all its momentum and came crashing down
- 5:31Speaker 1: in flames. And so I think what you have to
- 5:33Speaker 1: be aware of, and full credit to Nick Rees, now
- 5:35Speaker 1: that he's become mayor, he's reinstated it, and Sally Ann Catt,
- 5:39Speaker 1: you know, made a few iffy decisions.
- 5:42Speaker 2: But.
- 5:43Speaker 5: Full credit why, though? He's done a backflip because, again,
- 5:45Speaker 5: he's obviously recognised.
- 5:46Speaker 1: He wasn't in charge back then.
- 5:47Speaker 5: But he voted for it, Joe.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he thought he was... He thought he was
- 5:51Speaker 1: following the will of the people. But again, this is
- 5:54Speaker 1: the problem when you are so reliant on polls or
- 5:57Speaker 1: focus groups. People always, or almost always, if they're asked
- 6:02Speaker 1: a question in a poll or a focus group, will
- 6:04Speaker 1: not just give their honest answer... but they'll also be
- 6:08Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure to give the answer that
- 6:11Speaker 1: they think they should give. And so, especially when you're
- 6:14Speaker 1: asking people about something like, should we change the date
- 6:16Speaker 1: or not? They might think, oh, I don't want them
- 6:18Speaker 1: to think I'm racist. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, if
- 6:21Speaker 1: they're unhappy about it. And so, and then you get
- 6:24Speaker 1: the other thing as well, where you get, you know,
- 6:25Speaker 1: sometimes there can be a whole lot of momentum in
- 6:27Speaker 1: another direction on a, on an issue. So, you know,
- 6:31Speaker 1: so are you going to vote for One Nation? Like,
- 6:32Speaker 1: hell yeah, because you've seen that everyone else is jumping
- 6:35Speaker 1: on board. So I think you've got to be pretty careful.
- 6:39Speaker 1: And also, if you are going to outsource all your
- 6:42Speaker 1: decisions to an opinion poll, why are you there? You know,
- 6:47Speaker 1: AI could do your job.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Why is this even a council issue in.
- 6:50Speaker 1: The first place? Well, that's what they said.
- 6:53Speaker 2: It's the same as, you know, the Inner West Council
- 6:55Speaker 2: in Sydney and all these other councils. you know, had
- 6:57Speaker 2: motions going up about, we condemn what's going on in Palestine. So, OK,
- 7:02Speaker 2: I bet Benjamin Netanyahu is sitting there in Israel in
- 7:06Speaker 2: Tel Aviv and going, can you believe the Inner West
- 7:09Speaker 2: Council in Sydney didn't like what... It's a bit of
- 7:12Speaker 2: your business.
- 7:13Speaker 1: It's a bit Varun Mandani-esque, isn't it?
- 7:15Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Just stay out of it.
- 7:17Speaker 1: That's right. These are people who actually don't want to
- 7:19Speaker 1: be in council. They think they're foreign policy gurus. They
- 7:23Speaker 1: think they're all Greta Thunbergs. But the interesting thing is,
- 7:26Speaker 1: that if you listen to, because Melbourne's city is still
- 7:29Speaker 1: greener than greener than green. It is the People's Republic.
- 7:34Speaker 1: And if you go to the first motion that they passed,
- 7:39Speaker 1: the City of Melbourne adopts the position that the City
- 7:41Speaker 1: of Melbourne recognises 26 January as Australia's National Day, consistent
- 7:45Speaker 1: with its recognition by the Australian Government and all state
- 7:48Speaker 1: and territory governments, and acknowledges that any decision to change
- 7:50Speaker 1: the date is a matter for the Australian Government and
- 7:53Speaker 1: outside the jurisdiction of our local government. So, in other words,
- 7:57Speaker 1: our position is we have no position.
- 7:59Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Our position is whatever the federal government... Exactly as you
- 8:02Speaker 1: were saying. So we're just going to stay in our lane.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Which is what it always should have been. You don't
- 8:06Speaker 1: need a motion to prove that. That's right, but it's
- 8:07Speaker 1: also them desperately trying to hedge their bets because they
- 8:10Speaker 1: then pass another part of the motion which declares that
- 8:15Speaker 1: the City of Melbourne respects the diversity of views held
- 8:17Speaker 1: within the community regarding Australia Day and supports an approach
- 8:20Speaker 1: that enables those who wish to celebrate the day while
- 8:23Speaker 1: acknowledging the significance the date holds for many First Nations
- 8:26Speaker 1: people and others. So they are just desperately trying to
- 8:29Speaker 1: cover all bases and their arses at the same time,
- 8:33Speaker 1: issuing something so sort of anodyne, so beige, so benign.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Well, this is where it gets interesting too, right, because
- 8:39Speaker 3: it will be left up to council officers to figure
- 8:42Speaker 3: out if the motion means what is written or what
- 8:44Speaker 3: councillors think.
- 8:45Speaker 5: Think it means.
- 8:47Speaker 1: So it's whatever you want it to be. So we
- 8:49Speaker 1: can't even.
- 8:51Speaker 3: Be guaranteed now that, you know, they'll actually have a
- 8:53Speaker 3: parade and that you'll see this.
- 8:55Speaker 1: That parade will never get those sort of numbers back.
- 8:58Speaker 1: And that is a crying shame because that is three
- 9:00Speaker 1: quarters of the number of people that were in the
- 9:01Speaker 1: MCG for the grand final. It is, you know, basically
- 9:06Speaker 1: it would increase the population of the city of Melbourne by,
- 9:09Speaker 1: you know, 70,000 by 50%. And they've just thrown it
- 9:15Speaker 1: all away.
- 9:16Speaker 3: But do you think the mood and the appetite exists
- 9:19Speaker 3: there in Melbourne for that? You know, for there to
- 9:22Speaker 3: be a return of the Australia Day Parade?
- 9:24Speaker 5: I'm sure it does.
- 9:24Speaker 2: I mean, Melbourne, you know, notwithstanding the fact that Victoria's
- 9:28Speaker 2: re-elected Andrews and whatever government all those times, it doesn't
- 9:32Speaker 2: mean that there aren't people who are not patriotic in Melbourne.
- 9:36Speaker 2: I mean, yes, there are plenty of lefties there. But
- 9:39Speaker 2: I still think there's lots of appetite. OK. Some would say.
- 9:43Speaker 1: You can't get people to return to the CBD at gunpoint,
- 9:45Speaker 1: and they've tried.
- 9:48Speaker 5: Stop it! Alright, let's switch gears now.
- 9:50Speaker 3: Not so much, though, because we're still sticking with the
- 9:53Speaker 3: Indigenous theme. I don't know about you, but we've certainly
- 9:55Speaker 3: had a gutful of what's going on right around the
- 9:58Speaker 3: country with respect to schools and their decisions now to
- 10:01Speaker 3: change names.
- 10:02Speaker 5: Because they're too colonial. They feel too disturbed by the
- 10:05Speaker 5: history of our country.
- 10:07Speaker 3: And this latest report has shown that a Western Australian
- 10:10Speaker 3: high school is the latest to scrap its, quote, colonial
- 10:13Speaker 3: sport houses and replace it with names and icons reflective
- 10:17Speaker 3: of the local Indigenous community. Applecross Senior High School in
- 10:20Speaker 3: Perth recently announced it had replaced its four existing schoolhouses,
- 10:25Speaker 3: named after four ships connected to the colonisation of WA,
- 10:29Speaker 3: with new names and symbols that, quote, reflect our community,
- 10:33Speaker 3: our place and and our connection to the Wadjuk Noongar country.
- 10:38Speaker 5: And of course, this Perth High School is not the
- 10:40Speaker 5: only one.
- 10:41Speaker 3: We've also seen that in 2025, Bolwyn High School in
- 10:44Speaker 3: Victoria replaced the house names there. Also, Lismore Heights Public
- 10:48Speaker 3: School in New South Wales and Brighton Secondary School in
- 10:51Speaker 3: South Australia I did some digging to find out what
- 10:54Speaker 3: electorates all of these schools sat in, and they're all
- 10:58Speaker 3: Labor electorates, with the exception of Bolwyn High School in Victoria,
- 11:02Speaker 3: whose House of Representatives rep there is actually Jess Wilson, right,
- 11:07Speaker 3: the leader of the opposition.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs.
- 11:11Speaker 5: Leafy eastern suburbs, but... Their federal member is, of course,
- 11:15Speaker 5: Koo Yong, and it's... Yeah, it's a teal. Am I
- 11:18Speaker 5: being a.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Little bit too conspiracy theorist here if I kind of
- 11:23Speaker 3: point to the fact that there's a theme that all
- 11:25Speaker 3: of these schools happen to be in Labor-left electorates and
- 11:29Speaker 3: that these are the decisions that they're making?
- 11:31Speaker 1: I think it's probably more that they're schools in sort
- 11:33Speaker 1: of touchy-feely electorates that are, you know, woke electorates, if
- 11:38Speaker 1: you like, more than Labor electorates. I don't think you
- 11:40Speaker 1: really see people that worried in... traditional Western suburbs electorates,
- 11:44Speaker 1: for example, in Sydney and Melbourne, I don't think you'd
- 11:46Speaker 1: see schools sort of bending over backwards to do this
- 11:49Speaker 1: because they've got actual real issues that they need to
- 11:52Speaker 1: deal with and real academic results that they need to
- 11:57Speaker 1: work on. And so I think it's often, I mean,
- 11:59Speaker 1: if you look at, you know, I mean, Baldwin High is...
- 12:03Speaker 1: is just in the leafiest of the leafy eastern suburbs. No,
- 12:07Speaker 1: it is in a very well-heeled area, so much so
- 12:10Speaker 1: that a lot of the people who went there have
- 12:12Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulder because they were the only
- 12:14Speaker 1: ones going to a public school and all their friends
- 12:16Speaker 1: were going.
- 12:16Speaker 5: To a private.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Going to private. So I think it is just kind
- 12:22Speaker 1: of woke, overprivileged virtue ceiling. I don't really have a
- 12:26Speaker 1: problem with it, to be honest, but I just think
- 12:27Speaker 1: it's kind of a waste of time. I think I'm
- 12:29Speaker 1: much more concerned about You know, some of the stories
- 12:32Speaker 1: we'll be reading about during the headlines about what's happening
- 12:35Speaker 1: in WA, just like it is in the NT and
- 12:38Speaker 1: other remote parts of Australia.
- 12:39Speaker 2: That's what annoys me about it, is that they think
- 12:41Speaker 2: they're doing something great by erasing colonial history, trying to
- 12:47Speaker 2: pretend it doesn't exist. So we'll do a straight swap
- 12:51Speaker 2: from a colonial name to an Indigenous name. as though
- 12:54Speaker 2: that A fixes everything.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Absolves you of all guilt.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Absolves you of all guilt. Oh, you know, if we
- 12:59Speaker 2: just don't acknowledge that this country has a colonial history,
- 13:02Speaker 2: then all will be right. Well, no, there's actually a
- 13:04Speaker 2: lot of good in great parts of that colonial history.
- 13:09Speaker 2: And if it weren't for the fact that these, you know,
- 13:12Speaker 2: in the case of the school in WA, Applecross, and
- 13:15Speaker 2: the same Broughton in Adelaide, You know, they were using
- 13:19Speaker 2: names of ships, boats that had been used to transport
- 13:22Speaker 2: people to this country. Now, the fact remains that these
- 13:26Speaker 2: schools wouldn't exist if those boats had not sailed out here.
- 13:30Speaker 2: And so we're going to pretend now that none of
- 13:32Speaker 2: this exists is rubbish.
- 13:33Speaker 3: But do you know what frustrates me more is that
- 13:35Speaker 3: they're more concerned about dedicating time and energy to this
- 13:39Speaker 3: than they are lending their voices to the causes that
- 13:41Speaker 3: we've seen come out of WA, for example, recently. I mean,
- 13:45Speaker 3: I had the honour, and I'll say that because it's
- 13:47Speaker 3: one of the most fascinating interviews I'd ever conducted. It
- 13:49Speaker 3: was with Robyn Cahill, who is the Minister for Domestic Violence,
- 13:52Speaker 3: Prevention and Child Protection in NT.
- 13:54Speaker 5: She was so enlightening and told me about the real
- 13:57Speaker 5: issues that are occurring. You've been to the Territory.
- 13:59Speaker 3: You know what's really going on down there with our
- 14:02Speaker 3: Indigenous brothers and sisters, and none of what this country
- 14:05Speaker 3: and this woke mob are obsessed with are of issue
- 14:09Speaker 3: or concern to these communities.
- 14:11Speaker 1: That is absolutely correct, yeah. It is nauseating, and again,
- 14:15Speaker 1: I don't think it's any coincidence that I'm sure that
- 14:16Speaker 1: these are pretty well-heeled areas, except in the case of Lismore,
- 14:20Speaker 1: where they might just be high on pot. But it's
- 14:27Speaker 1: frustrating because, you know, We're seeing, you know, the Australian,
- 14:31Speaker 1: for example, doing incredible work, the Children's Commissioner, the Children's Advocate,
- 14:35Speaker 1: you know, saying that these kids are living in just
- 14:38Speaker 1: atrocious conditions that is absolutely intolerable and this needs to
- 14:42Speaker 1: be addressed immediately. And you've still got, you know, the
- 14:45Speaker 1: Minister over there saying, oh, no, everything's fine because my
- 14:48Speaker 1: caseworker's told me that, you know, this wasn't a problem
- 14:51Speaker 1: and it wasn't really... Like, and instead you've got you know,
- 14:55Speaker 1: the house as school in WA thinking, well, I'll know
- 14:58Speaker 1: how we'll fix our Indigenous problem. We'll change the names
- 15:01Speaker 1: of our ships. Now, again, I'm guaranteed no one outside
- 15:05Speaker 1: Applecross Senior High School could name any of those four ships.
- 15:08Speaker 1: I have no idea what they are. And so I
- 15:10Speaker 1: don't have a problem with just changing the name. But
- 15:11Speaker 1: if you reckon that by doing something like that, you know,
- 15:14Speaker 1: job done, you've recognised our Indigenous heritage and now we
- 15:18Speaker 1: can be at peace. We can't be at peace until
- 15:20Speaker 1: you fix up what your government's doing.
- 15:22Speaker 2: It's, you know, it's the same as the people who
- 15:24Speaker 2: want to change the date of Australia Day. It's all
- 15:26Speaker 2: just tokenistic because they think it solves the problem. It
- 15:29Speaker 2: does nothing, as we're talking about here, to practically solve anything. And, frankly,
- 15:34Speaker 2: the closest most of these people have probably ever been
- 15:36Speaker 2: to an Indigenous person is driving their beamer down the
- 15:39Speaker 2: road and someone was standing on the footpath.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Well, that's right. Although I look forward to it happening
- 15:43Speaker 1: at my beloved... I love my kids' school, where the
- 15:48Speaker 1: house names were... Hewitt, all named after sports stars. So
- 15:54Speaker 1: it was Hewitt, Thorpe, Freeman and Sauvage, right?
- 15:58Speaker 5: See, that's fantastic.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Four of our greatest athletes ever, all wonderful Australians. Now,
- 16:02Speaker 1: imagine if they got told they had to change them
- 16:04Speaker 1: all to Indigenous names. Suddenly they would be racist because
- 16:09Speaker 1: they'd have to remove Cathy Freeman. They'd be ableist because
- 16:12Speaker 1: they'd have to remove Louise Sawad and they'd be homophobic
- 16:15Speaker 1: as well for taking down poor old Forby's name. So
- 16:18Speaker 1: I look forward to that national debate, which is probably
- 16:21Speaker 1: a reason in itself as to why we should... focus
- 16:23Speaker 1: on more important issues.
- 16:24Speaker 3: It also leads to that broader question then and that
- 16:26Speaker 3: issue around schools overall, right, and what they're being taught.
- 16:29Speaker 3: So if you're constantly telling the kids, well, the reason
- 16:32Speaker 3: that we've done this is because of those awful colonists
- 16:34Speaker 3: and we have to move away from that and sympathise
- 16:36Speaker 3: with our Indigenous communities, then what do you think you're
- 16:39Speaker 3: raising the next generation to be?
- 16:40Speaker 5: It's why we're seeing all these university kids.
- 16:42Speaker 3: As activists and high school students wishing death on Pauline Hanson.
- 16:46Speaker 3: I mean, I was at my, you know, a friend's
- 16:48Speaker 3: school recently, an all-girls school, Catholic, by the way, Gee,
- 16:53Speaker 3: they went hard. Eight performances that this cohort had to
- 16:57Speaker 3: put together.
- 16:57Speaker 5: I'll tell you what they were.
- 16:59Speaker 3: They were about politics, climate change and the environment, reconciliation
- 17:03Speaker 3: with First Nations, refugees, gender and politics, nepotism, more on
- 17:08Speaker 3: refugees and gender inequality.
- 17:10Speaker 5: That's 16-year-old girls.
- 17:12Speaker 1: How about reconciliation in the confessional booth?
- 17:14Speaker 2: OK.
- 17:15Speaker 1: That's what the Catholic Church used to be about. Yeah, look,
- 17:20Speaker 1: kids are like that. I mean, some of the stuff that,
- 17:22Speaker 1: you know, the changes of the house's name was done
- 17:24Speaker 1: because two kids, the school captains gave a presentation. I
- 17:27Speaker 1: actually really like... I think that's really, really sweet and
- 17:29Speaker 1: that they care about this and that kids are thinking
- 17:31Speaker 1: about this sort of stuff. But, again, you know, if
- 17:36Speaker 1: grown adults, and there's far too many of them, are
- 17:38Speaker 1: obsessed with the politics of grievance, obsessed with the politics
- 17:42Speaker 1: of history... and the history wars, which are all about
- 17:46Speaker 1: who's to blame for things and not about what to
- 17:50Speaker 1: do about them, then nothing will ever get done. And
- 17:53Speaker 1: because the terrible poverty will always, and the disadvantage will all,
- 17:59Speaker 1: and the violence will always be either excused in the
- 18:02Speaker 1: case of the violence and not taken seriously and addressed,
- 18:05Speaker 1: or it will just be or people would just say, oh,
- 18:09Speaker 1: but this is all your fault, as though that somehow.
- 18:11Speaker 5: And that's the issue. It's not what's being taught, it's
- 18:13Speaker 5: how it's being taught.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Right? Terrible. Anyway, let's move on to something a bit
- 18:18Speaker 1: more upbeat and light-hearted. Tennessee death row killer Krista Pike
- 18:25Speaker 1: has refused her last meal ahead of her historic execution,
- 18:29Speaker 1: the first of a female in the state of Tennessee
- 18:33Speaker 1: in 200 years, by the way. Do you know what
- 18:36Speaker 1: the Tennessee state song is, incidentally? No. The Tennessee Waltz.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Oh.
- 18:40Speaker 1: They've got their own state song. It is a beautiful song.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Absolutely beautiful song. Anyway.
- 18:45Speaker 2: I was dancing with my baby.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Oh, it's fantastic. One of my.
- 18:48Speaker 2: To the 10, 10 Tennessee Waltz.
- 18:49Speaker 1: My darling. I was dancing with my darling to the 10,
- 18:52Speaker 1: 10 Tennessee Waltz. Beautiful. Oh, it's fantastic. Anyway, not so
- 18:56Speaker 1: lucky for poor old Krista Pike, who made the mistake
- 18:58Speaker 1: of torturing a girl, a teenage young woman, to death in.
- 19:03Speaker 1: 1996 and was sentenced to death. I think we actually
- 19:08Speaker 1: have some very traumatic, I guess, images of her crying. However,
- 19:16Speaker 1: just to remind everyone, she did torture a 19-year-old to death.
- 19:20Speaker 1: And also after being in prison, she attempted to kill
- 19:24Speaker 1: another person about five years later. And that resulted in
- 19:29Speaker 1: 25 years being tacked onto her sentence, which I guess
- 19:32Speaker 1: if you're already facing the The death penalty wouldn't be
- 19:36Speaker 1: that much of a disincentive. But anyway, let's have a
- 19:41Speaker 1: listen to the judge handing down the Krista sentence, well,
- 19:45Speaker 1: 30 years ago now.
- 19:47Speaker 2: You shall be transferred.
- 19:48Speaker 5: To the custody of the warden.
- 19:50Speaker 4: At the Tennessee Prison Police.
- 19:52Speaker 2: And further, on the 12th day of January, 1997, your
- 19:55Speaker 2: body shall be subjected to shock by sufficient current of electricity.
- 20:00Speaker 4: May God have mercy upon you.
- 20:07Speaker 6: Can I please have a bubble before I go?
- 20:10Speaker 1: Please, let me just have a bubble.
- 20:14Speaker 5: Please, let me just have a bubble.
- 20:17Speaker 1: I love you. I love you too. I love you too.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Gotta say, they should have let her hug her mum.
- 20:31Speaker 1: I'm just putting that on the record. Now, listen, I
- 20:33Speaker 1: obviously oppose... The death penalty, as you would think, being
- 20:37Speaker 1: a bleeding heart lefty on Sky News, not according to Twitter.
- 20:41Speaker 1: News 24. News 24. Sorry, sorry. Oh, God. I'd like
- 20:44Speaker 1: to thank News 24 for my previous decade at the channel.
- 20:48Speaker 1: It's been an honour to serve and I'll miss you all. Anyway,
- 20:54Speaker 1: the point being, again, when you read the details of
- 20:56Speaker 1: what this person did, it was a horrible, horrible crime.
- 21:02Speaker 1: She also said that she wasn't crying because she was
- 21:05Speaker 1: scared of dying, but she had doubts about how it
- 21:08Speaker 1: would be done, how the electrocution would take place. And again,
- 21:12Speaker 1: even after she's sentenced, maybe because she thought she got
- 21:16Speaker 1: nothing to lose, sentenced to die. But again, five years later,
- 21:19Speaker 1: she tries to kill. She's done for attempted murder again. Anyway,
- 21:26Speaker 1: she's had another 30 years. on the earth before she
- 21:31Speaker 1: has to go to the great hereafter. And on her
- 21:34Speaker 1: final night, she refused to have a last meal. She
- 21:38Speaker 1: said she didn't want a last meal. And so I
- 21:41Speaker 1: guess my question is, if you were about to be executed,
- 21:44Speaker 1: what would your last meal be?
- 21:45Speaker 2: I'd be, well, put it this way. I'd have a steak, probably,
- 21:51Speaker 2: steak or duck. duck breast and copious amounts of alcohol.
- 21:57Speaker 2: I'd want to be absolutely three shoots to the wind.
- 21:59Speaker 1: I've always wanted to know that. I don't think they
- 22:01Speaker 1: let you do that.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Oh, that's bull.
- 22:02Speaker 1: I'd want to be absolutely... Because that would be... You
- 22:04Speaker 1: have to be cognisant of your.
- 22:05Speaker 2: You've got to be completely cognisant. I'd want to be
- 22:06Speaker 2: three shoots to the wind if and.
- 22:08Speaker 1: When it happened. That's a no-brainer, yes.
- 22:10Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know. I'd be sad if
- 22:12Speaker 2: I couldn't have a glass of red on the way out. But,
- 22:14Speaker 2: you know, I've got to say... I think you can
- 22:15Speaker 2: have a glass. Maybe.
- 22:17Speaker 1: You can have it if you pee, did he? Apparently
- 22:19Speaker 1: he is getting everything he wants in jail.
- 22:22Speaker 5: But he's not being executed.
- 22:23Speaker 2: No. But I have to say, if I were her
- 22:26Speaker 2: and I'd done what she did, I think it'd be
- 22:28Speaker 2: fair that I'd be... put to death. I have no
- 22:31Speaker 2: issue with eye for an eye in this situation.
- 22:33Speaker 3: OK so I am and there's no secret of this.
- 22:36Speaker 3: I'm a woman of deep faith a Christian woman and
- 22:39Speaker 3: I've always followed the belief Exodus chapter 20 verse 13
- 22:44Speaker 3: you shall not murder Jesus also in the book of John.
- 22:47Speaker 3: This is my moment to evangelize. He's also preventing the
- 22:51Speaker 3: woman who committed adultery. He's against the idea of execution
- 22:54Speaker 3: and I know that there are earlier chapters in the
- 22:56Speaker 3: Old Testament like in Genesis.
- 22:58Speaker 5: For example, which talks about effectively an eye for an eye.
- 23:01Speaker 5: If you shed.
- 23:02Speaker 3: Human blood, then yours shall be shed too. So I'm
- 23:05Speaker 3: against it in all forms. That's just my position, again,
- 23:09Speaker 3: from my position of faith. And there is more context
- 23:12Speaker 3: to this, not that I'm excusing it, because I have
- 23:14Speaker 3: interviewed victims of serious rape and abuse and they haven't
- 23:18Speaker 3: gone on to do what this young woman did. But,
- 23:20Speaker 3: of course, she was, as a child, she was raped
- 23:23Speaker 3: and subjected to serious abuse. Her parents neglected her and
- 23:26Speaker 3: abandoned her. And so it's a really awful, awful state
- 23:30Speaker 3: of affairs for this woman. But in saying that, I
- 23:33Speaker 3: don't think that she should be excused from a life
- 23:36Speaker 3: in jail. I think that she should have been left
- 23:39Speaker 3: there to die, quite frankly, because.
- 23:41Speaker 5: Of what she did. She was 18 when she did
- 23:42Speaker 5: it with her then boyfriend.
- 23:44Speaker 3: They literally lured this young girl into the forest and they.
- 23:48Speaker 5: Tortured her to death. It is awful.
- 23:49Speaker 1: It's really horrible, yeah.
- 23:50Speaker 2: But you think of what it costs to keep a
- 23:54Speaker 2: prisoner alive. And look, I think today with all the
- 23:58Speaker 2: advancements we've had in DNA and whatever, the evidence you
- 24:01Speaker 2: can build is far better than it used to be.
- 24:04Speaker 2: And I hate the idea of someone who was wrongfully
- 24:07Speaker 2: convicted being put to death. But, you know, it takes
- 24:11Speaker 2: a long time to actually get to the end of
- 24:13Speaker 2: death row. There's plenty of opportunity to appeal. The technology
- 24:16Speaker 2: is far better.
- 24:16Speaker 5: Than it used to be.
- 24:17Speaker 2: But the money that we spend keeping a prisoner alive
- 24:21Speaker 2: for all that time they're in prison, like in Australia,
- 24:23Speaker 2: it's more than 100 grand a year.
- 24:24Speaker 5: So what's your solution then? You want to just off everybody?
- 24:28Speaker 2: For those who have committed the most serious of offences,
- 24:32Speaker 2: namely murder.
- 24:34Speaker 2: And sort of paedophilic offences. I'd say, yep, you're in
- 24:38Speaker 2: line for the death penalty.
- 24:40Speaker 1: I would just say on the cost issue, there is
- 24:43Speaker 1: an argument that it actually costs more to sentence someone
- 24:47Speaker 1: to death because that then will trigger, that will then
- 24:50Speaker 1: stop at nothing to go to every possible level of appeal.
- 24:55Speaker 1: And also, of course, there are plenty of organisations out there,
- 24:59Speaker 1: volunteer organisations, who will take on death penalty cases pro bono,
- 25:03Speaker 1: even if they can't afford them. And so they will
- 25:06Speaker 1: launch those never-ending appeals right up until the 11th hour
- 25:10Speaker 1: and therefore clog up the court system when it wouldn't
- 25:12Speaker 1: need to be. Whereas if you were just getting 25
- 25:14Speaker 1: years or something, you might just cop it sweet and
- 25:17Speaker 1: you wouldn't get all that extra.
- 25:18Speaker 5: And that's what did happen.
- 25:19Speaker 3: Her lawyers had applied for clemency, right, on the grounds
- 25:22Speaker 3: of her trauma and things like that.
- 25:25Speaker 5: Again, I don't subscribe to that. If you're going to
- 25:27Speaker 5: go down that path and make excuses for all murderers, then.
- 25:29Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to eat either, though. This is the point.
- 25:32Speaker 1: If we can return to.
- 25:33Speaker 5: Oh, you wouldn't want to eat?
- 25:34Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't want to eat. Why? Well, I suppose
- 25:37Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to be hangry because you wouldn't want
- 25:38Speaker 1: to be sort of depressed and anxious, but you couldn't eat.
- 25:42Speaker 1: You couldn't enjoy a meal before you.
- 25:43Speaker 5: I'm having tiramisu.
- 25:44Speaker 3: You know, have you seen those Instagram videos of those
- 25:46Speaker 3: giant slabs of it that they have at weddings?
- 25:48Speaker 5: Wheel out that slab for me and just.
- 25:50Speaker 1: Buy yourself some extra time.
- 25:51Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 25:53Speaker 3: Just think very slowly and see where you end up.
- 25:57Speaker 2: While we're talking about matters of the law, an interesting
- 26:00Speaker 2: one also in the US they've been grappling with in
- 26:03Speaker 2: California is whether or not people who are behind the
- 26:06Speaker 2: wheel of a driverless car or a car that is
- 26:09Speaker 2: in autopilot mode, i.e. you're not actually driving it, the
- 26:13Speaker 2: car is driving itself, ought to be held responsible for
- 26:17Speaker 2: anything that happens and potentially be done for DUI if
- 26:20Speaker 2: they are pulled over. And this was included in a
- 26:23Speaker 2: bill that went up in California to reform DUI laws.
- 26:28Speaker 2: It's been vetoed by the Governor Gavin Newsom. He said
- 26:31Speaker 2: he's not happy with the way some of it is written.
- 26:34Speaker 2: He wants it to go back to the drawing board.
- 26:37Speaker 2: But what it would have included is that if you
- 26:40Speaker 2: are behind the wheel of a car that is driving itself,
- 26:44Speaker 2: you could be done. for driving under the influence, which
- 26:48Speaker 2: to me kind of seems like it defeats the point
- 26:51Speaker 2: of a car being driverless.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Isn't the whole purpose that you can go out and
- 26:54Speaker 1: get pissed and then fall asleep in the passenger seat
- 26:56Speaker 1: and the car gets you home? Isn't that why God
- 26:59Speaker 1: invented driverless cars in the first place?
- 27:01Speaker 3: Until it starts to malfunction and then it's careening off
- 27:03Speaker 3: the road and then you're in charge.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Well, that's a bigger problem for whoever designed it than
- 27:08Speaker 1: it is for me. I'm asleep in the back.
- 27:09Speaker 2: And this is the question, right, is who is actually
- 27:12Speaker 2: responsible if a driverless car decides to go haywire? Because
- 27:16Speaker 2: it's big now in the US, and this is apparently
- 27:18Speaker 2: going to come to Australia within the next 12 months.
- 27:20Speaker 2: They've got those, you know, Waymo things over there, right,
- 27:23Speaker 2: which are, you know, robo-cabs. You just get in them
- 27:27Speaker 2: and they take you where you want to go. There's
- 27:30Speaker 2: no driver in it or anything. So if you get
- 27:32Speaker 2: into one of those things, pissed, and it decides to
- 27:35Speaker 2: crash into someone, well, you couldn't have done anything to
- 27:40Speaker 2: prevent that happening because you were under the influence or
- 27:42Speaker 2: you were distracted or whatever.
- 27:43Speaker 5: No, that's a cab.
- 27:44Speaker 2: I know, but it's still effectively the same thing. Just
- 27:48Speaker 2: because you're sitting in the car that you own as
- 27:51Speaker 2: opposed to you're sitting in a driverless car that someone
- 27:54Speaker 2: else owns, is it not still doing exactly the same thing?
- 27:58Speaker 2: If it's in an autopilot mode, the car is driving itself.
- 28:02Speaker 5: But hang on now. Just take away the driverless experience.
- 28:06Speaker 3: If you got into an Uber and the Uber driver
- 28:08Speaker 3: was drunk and you crashed and had an accident, that's
- 28:11Speaker 3: not your responsibility. If you're driving behind the wheel of
- 28:14Speaker 3: a car drunk and you crash, that's your responsibility.
- 28:17Speaker 1: But in both cases, no-one's driving drunk.
- 28:19Speaker 5: You're not driving.
- 28:20Speaker 3: But if your car does start to malfunction and you
- 28:24Speaker 3: are behind the wheel, even though it is a driverless vehicle,
- 28:28Speaker 3: I would have really had the general assumption that then...
- 28:32Speaker 3: you should be sober so that you can actually drive it.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Well, I think the rule is that you do actually...
- 28:37Speaker 1: For all my incredibly funny joking about being in the
- 28:40Speaker 1: back seat asleep, you do actually have to be behind
- 28:42Speaker 1: the wheel for just that reason. Correct. That's the law
- 28:44Speaker 1: as it stands at the moment. But, again... Does that not,
- 28:48Speaker 1: you know, isn't the whole point of a driverless car
- 28:50Speaker 1: that it frees you up to do other stuff? You
- 28:52Speaker 1: can work, you could do.
- 28:54Speaker 2: It would seem pointless to have a personal driverless car
- 28:58Speaker 2: if you then have to be alert all the time. No.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Because you may as well just be driving the car.
- 29:02Speaker 1: And having fun, because driving is fun.
- 29:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:05Speaker 1: I just think it's a whole bunch of nonsense.
- 29:08Speaker 5: I think it's nonsense.
- 29:09Speaker 3: I think the whole concept of driverless cars, I think
- 29:11Speaker 3: we've seen enough malfunctioning incidents as well. We've shown some
- 29:15Speaker 3: funny clips on here for everyone's amusement. I just think
- 29:19Speaker 3: the whole concept for me, give me my internal combustion engine,
- 29:22Speaker 3: 1967 Mustang, my dream car, every day of the week,
- 29:25Speaker 3: I've no interest in EVs or driverless cars.
- 29:28Speaker 2: It's interesting because I have generally felt the same way.
- 29:31Speaker 2: But I was reading a story today in The Oz
- 29:34Speaker 2: and they're talking about these Waymos and they're looking at
- 29:37Speaker 2: the crash data for Waymos versus, you know, person operated
- 29:41Speaker 2: vehicles in the United States. And on average, the Waymos
- 29:45Speaker 2: have far fewer crashes than humans do. And so, you know,
- 29:50Speaker 2: as much as it pains me to say it, maybe
- 29:53Speaker 2: the technology is actually getting better than us.
- 29:56Speaker 5: Would you get in one?
- 29:57Speaker 2: I'd give it a go, yeah. You know, actually, many
- 30:00Speaker 2: years ago, and this is... Oh, jeez, I was still
- 30:03Speaker 2: working in Adelaide. So I reckon this is seven or
- 30:06Speaker 2: eight years ago, there was a driverless bus... that they
- 30:11Speaker 2: were doing a trial of, right? And it was just
- 30:13Speaker 2: on a fixed, you know, road circuit. And they were
- 30:17Speaker 2: trialling this driverless bus and I went out and went
- 30:19Speaker 2: on the driverless bus to write a story about it.
- 30:21Speaker 5: And?
- 30:22Speaker 2: Well, it was going very slow at the time. I
- 30:24Speaker 2: think they'd be doing a bit more pace these days.
- 30:26Speaker 2: But it was a very odd experience, particularly then. But, no,
- 30:30Speaker 2: I'd get in the way, mate.
- 30:31Speaker 1: I'd give it a go.
- 30:31Speaker 5: You would, Joe?
- 30:32Speaker 1: What I'd do, I'd buy a driverless car and then
- 30:35Speaker 1: register it as a cab and then get drunk and.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Fall asleep in bed.
- 30:38Speaker 5: So you can get in a fist?
- 30:39Speaker 1: That's right. Exactly. Beautiful.
- 30:42Speaker 5: Love it.
- 30:43Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to test the boundaries and the temperature
- 30:46Speaker 3: in households now when I bring up the following story.
- 30:49Speaker 3: Are there any secret or unknown things that you do
- 30:54Speaker 3: when your partner falls asleep?
- 30:56Speaker 5: Now, before your mind goes to the gutter, There's a
- 30:58Speaker 5: particular story.
- 30:59Speaker 6: There's a particular story that's come out that's revealed that
- 31:03Speaker 6: partners now, the bedroom habit that has couples sneaking around
- 31:07Speaker 6: after dark is actually them changing the thermostat.
- 31:12Speaker 3: Your core body temperature actually drops in the evening and
- 31:15Speaker 3: research found that people are most likely to fall asleep
- 31:18Speaker 3: while that drop is happening quickly. And survey respondents said
- 31:22Speaker 3: that their bedroom became too warm for comfortable sleep at
- 31:25Speaker 3: about 23.8 degrees Celsius. And research generally puts the sweet
- 31:31Speaker 3: spot closer to about 18.
- 31:34Speaker 5: Degrees, they're saying.
- 31:36Speaker 3: And 68 percent of partnered sleepers said they've used separate blankets.
- 31:40Speaker 3: A quarter have bailed to another bed for the night.
- 31:42Speaker 3: Another 11 percent have stopped sharing the bed all together.
- 31:47Speaker 3: And it begs the question, Are you getting up to
- 31:50Speaker 3: change the thermostat in the middle of the night or
- 31:53Speaker 3: are there other reasons that you're getting out of bed?
- 31:55Speaker 5: Joseph?
- 31:56Speaker 1: It begs the question, what happened to Vice? Remember when
- 32:00Speaker 1: it used to be edgy?
- 32:00Speaker 5: I know.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Now it's writing stories about how couples prefer different temperatures
- 32:05Speaker 1: on the thermostats. I'm saying it doesn't go far enough.
- 32:10Speaker 1: As you could probably gather by my previous commentary, my
- 32:13Speaker 1: wife and I sleep in separate bedrooms and we've both
- 32:15Speaker 1: never been happier.
- 32:17Speaker 5: It's called sleep divorce.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Yes. And apparently we're not, I mean, I'm used to
- 32:20Speaker 1: being a trendsetter in other areas. So I guess it
- 32:22Speaker 1: makes sense that she's catching on as well. The shoes, everything. But,
- 32:26Speaker 1: but yeah, it's like, it wasn't really like my, like
- 32:29Speaker 1: we aren't giving away too many trade secrets. My, our
- 32:32Speaker 1: youngest was sleeping with my, my wife, her mum, you know,
- 32:36Speaker 1: and curled up with her and didn't want to sleep
- 32:37Speaker 1: by herself. So basically I got booted out of the bed.
- 32:41Speaker 1: But look, my wife tells me she's very happy. And
- 32:44Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. And meanwhile, and I'm, you know,
- 32:47Speaker 1: so I've got my own. No one's really asked me that. Yeah, no,
- 32:54Speaker 1: because we just like, because we are complete opposites nocturnally.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Like she is an early to bed, early to rise.
- 33:00Speaker 1: I'm totally nocturnal. I stay up late. She is the
- 33:06Speaker 1: worst tosser and turner as well. She is just an
- 33:10Speaker 1: absolute beast. I've got to say just a minute. never ends,
- 33:13Speaker 1: just constantly.
- 33:14Speaker 5: Without getting too personal, though.
- 33:15Speaker 1: No, ask me anything.
- 33:16Speaker 3: And fair enough, because, I mean, in my household, I
- 33:18Speaker 3: haven't slept in the same bed as my husband since, gee,
- 33:21Speaker 3: what is it, five years?
- 33:22Speaker 1: Yeah, see how happy you are?
- 33:23Speaker 5: But I'm just a.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Generally happy person until I get talking about politicians. But,
- 33:28Speaker 3: I mean, five years now because.
- 33:30Speaker 5: Of my son, right? I've got both of my kids
- 33:32Speaker 5: in the bed with me. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Do you
- 33:34Speaker 5: feel that it's had an impact on your relationship?
- 33:37Speaker 1: No, no, no. In fact, it's actually been really good
- 33:40Speaker 1: for it because... If either one of us ever shows
- 33:42Speaker 1: up in the other's bed, we know what we're there for.
- 33:45Speaker 1: LAUGHTER No, there's no need for... We don't need to
- 33:49Speaker 1: fill out the official government-approved consent form.
- 33:51Speaker 5: I love how I said without getting too personal.
- 33:53Speaker 2: You know what's coming, so to speak. But it's also...
- 33:57Speaker 2: And this... I have had this problem before.
- 33:59Speaker 1: Where's ACMA when you need them?
- 34:00Speaker 2: Because I run hot during the night.
- 34:03Speaker 5: Yes.
- 34:03Speaker 2: Like, I, you know, covers off and I like a
- 34:06Speaker 2: really cold.
- 34:06Speaker 1: And during the day too, a lot of people say.
- 34:08Speaker 2: I like a cold... whereas I've had partners who, you know,
- 34:13Speaker 2: want to be really warm. And so it does actually
- 34:16Speaker 2: pose a problem. But I just, I don't like the
- 34:20Speaker 2: idea of sleeping separately because I'm a big cuddler. And, oh,
- 34:23Speaker 2: that's cute. And I like to roll over in the night.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Are you the big spoon or the little spoon?
- 34:28Speaker 2: Both.
- 34:29Speaker 3: Let's have that conversation when you're eventually off the market, right?
- 34:33Speaker 5: Young buck like you.
- 34:36Speaker 2: The time will come one day. But, no, I get
- 34:40Speaker 2: it for practical reasons, but I find it rather sad myself.
- 34:44Speaker 2: I'd prefer to be in the same bit.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Wake up, Paul Caleb. Marriage is sad.
- 34:48Speaker 2: Honestly.
- 34:51Speaker 5: No, it's not.
- 34:51Speaker 1: No, it's wonderful. I've never been happier.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Joe's really selling it, isn't he?
- 34:56Speaker 1: Never been happier.
- 34:57Speaker 2: While we're speaking of really happy things, we'll take a
- 34:59Speaker 2: look at the front pages. After this break, Jim Penman,
- 35:03Speaker 2: the man who, of course, founded Jim's Mowing, he's having
- 35:05Speaker 2: a go at the other Jim, the one federally running
- 35:09Speaker 2: the budget. We'll tell you more about that in a minute.
- 35:18Speaker 2: Just before we get into the papers, you might have
- 35:20Speaker 2: heard at the end of Paul's program, but Nathan Cleary...
- 35:23Speaker 2: has won the Dallium in the NRL tonight. And the
- 35:27Speaker 2: poor bugger, of course, is laid up because he broke
- 35:29Speaker 2: his leg on the weekend. But, you know, I'm sure
- 35:33Speaker 2: he's glad to have won the Dallium, but I'm sure
- 35:35Speaker 2: a part of him wishes that, A, he was not injured, but, B,
- 35:38Speaker 2: that the Panthers had made it into another grand final.
- 35:41Speaker 5: Holy cannoli, but can I tell you, I've had enough
- 35:43Speaker 5: of the Panthers. Like, it's all sort of four-peat.
- 35:45Speaker 1: Five would be greedy. Five is greedy, you know what
- 35:48Speaker 1: I mean?
- 35:48Speaker 5: It's enough.
- 35:49Speaker 1: Four-peat doesn't even rhyme. LAUGHTER No. At least three feet works.
- 35:55Speaker 1: That's right. We're running out of adjectives to describe it.
- 35:57Speaker 5: That's right.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Indeed. What a great kid, though.
- 35:58Speaker 2: All right, let's take a look at the papers on
- 35:59Speaker 2: the front of the advertiser tomorrow. Iconic mower man's takedown
- 36:04Speaker 2: of namesake treasurer Jim's mowing us down. Good headline. The
- 36:08Speaker 2: founder of iconic Jim's mowing has lashed his namesake, branding
- 36:11Speaker 2: the treasurer incompetent. The advertiser consulted businessman called Jim about
- 36:16Speaker 2: Jim Chalmers' refusal to acknowledge government spending was helping to
- 36:19Speaker 2: drive interest rates up. Lawn mogul Jim Penman said, I
- 36:23Speaker 2: think we're in trouble as a nation. Now, you know what, Sherlock?
- 36:27Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 36:28Speaker 3: And more and more of these business owners are coming out.
- 36:30Speaker 3: You remember the owner of Boost Juice as well? She
- 36:32Speaker 3: took to social media to lash the government as a
- 36:35Speaker 3: business owner.
- 36:36Speaker 5: It's a sad state of affairs.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Although the one upside is the continuation of the grand
- 36:42Speaker 1: old News Corp tradition of... calling people with the same
- 36:45Speaker 1: name as the prime minister or politician they're after and
- 36:49Speaker 1: finding out what they think of that. You know, you'd
- 36:52Speaker 1: always go to some other guy who's also called John
- 36:54Speaker 1: Howard or you'd go to all the families on Rudd
- 36:56Speaker 1: Street to see her.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Well, that's like remembering the games and there was all
- 37:02Speaker 2: this business about, you know, whether or not there'd be
- 37:04Speaker 2: an Indigenous apology and they got John Howard the actor.
- 37:07Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going the wrong way. That's right, yeah. We
- 37:11Speaker 1: actually did it on purpose. All right, let's have a
- 37:13Speaker 1: look at what's happening on the front page of The Australian.
- 37:15Speaker 1: And this, of course, you would have heard from the
- 37:17Speaker 1: coverage early in the evening, especially on Shari earlier as
- 37:22Speaker 1: the news was breaking. But a pilot tried to crash
- 37:27Speaker 1: a jet headed to Israel. This is, of course, the
- 37:29Speaker 1: tale of an actual pilot who tried to stab the
- 37:35Speaker 1: other pilot in the cockpit. But I'll let Oz tell
- 37:39Speaker 1: the story. Passengers and crew on board A passenger jet
- 37:41Speaker 1: flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv reportedly subdued one of
- 37:45Speaker 1: the pilots mid-flight after he attempted to hijack the jet
- 37:49Speaker 1: and crash it into the ground. Passengers on board FlyDubai
- 37:54Speaker 1: flight FZ17073 have described scenes of chaos and blood as
- 38:00Speaker 1: they struggled with crew members to bring the person under
- 38:03Speaker 1: control after a violent altercation between the aircraft's pilots. So
- 38:10Speaker 1: this was extraordinary. I was on the desk with Shari
- 38:13Speaker 1: as this story was breaking and just reading the news.
- 38:16Speaker 1: There was an interview with the mother of one of
- 38:18Speaker 1: the passengers who was waiting at Ben Gurion Airport in
- 38:22Speaker 1: Tel Aviv and had just received a phone call from
- 38:24Speaker 1: her daughter. And apparently the pilot, the pilot under attack
- 38:29Speaker 1: or another one, and this is another interesting part of
- 38:31Speaker 1: the story, but just called for anyone, all passengers in
- 38:37Speaker 1: the cabin, in the fuselage, to come and help him.
- 38:40Speaker 4: Wow.
- 38:41Speaker 1: There was screaming among the passengers, obviously, as you would
- 38:44Speaker 1: have heard this. The plane plummeted almost half as high
- 38:48Speaker 1: as it was in the air, or in fact, even
- 38:50Speaker 1: exactly half as high. So I was sitting at about,
- 38:53Speaker 1: I think, 33,000 feet, so a bit over 10,000 metres,
- 38:56Speaker 1: and plummeted 17,000 feet in like a minute. I mean,
- 39:01Speaker 1: that's bonkers. Terrifying. Imagine how you would feel. And then
- 39:04Speaker 1: there was some, and it was a bit unclear as
- 39:07Speaker 1: what the woman was telling the news agencies, but she
- 39:12Speaker 1: said they were able to subdue this other pilot and
- 39:16Speaker 1: then two other pilots were able to land the plane.
- 39:18Speaker 1: So there were maybe three pilots or there was a
- 39:20Speaker 1: spare maybe hitching a ride or something in the cockpit.
- 39:24Speaker 1: And thank God, because obviously if the killer pilot had
- 39:26Speaker 1: have alleged taking out the other pilot, there would have
- 39:30Speaker 1: been no one to bring it home. So anyway, an
- 39:32Speaker 1: extraordinary story, and thank God it's ended the way it did.
- 39:36Speaker 1: We also mentioned on the Indigenous front, there's the terrible,
- 39:41Speaker 1: terrible state of affairs in WA, and again, just... you know,
- 39:46Speaker 1: same as we've seen in Alice Springs recently with David Mungy.
- 39:49Speaker 1: But anyway, on the outside looking out as caseworkers take
- 39:54Speaker 1: the kids away. At the end of a cul-de-sac overlooking
- 39:57Speaker 1: the vast scrubby plains of Port Hedland is a ramshackle
- 40:01Speaker 1: corrugated iron shack squatting on a slab of Pilbara red dirt.
- 40:05Speaker 1: The matriarch of this large household is a mother and
- 40:08Speaker 1: grandmother called Nola, a strong, no frills, indigenous woman who
- 40:12Speaker 1: looks life right in the eye. But Noel was blindsided
- 40:16Speaker 1: last Tuesday, and again, this just breaks your heart, at
- 40:19Speaker 1: 4pm when police and child protection officers arrived en masse
- 40:23Speaker 1: in her driveway. She claims eight officers and four caseworkers
- 40:27Speaker 1: descended on her house, grabbed her baby granddaughter, toddling across
- 40:31Speaker 1: the yard, bundled her youngest son, aged just eight, into
- 40:34Speaker 1: a government car and removed him from the only home
- 40:37Speaker 1: they've ever known to become wards of It is just
- 40:43Speaker 1: extraordinary stuff. And obviously they're in the grandmother's care because
- 40:46Speaker 1: the actual parents are presumably in no fit state to
- 40:51Speaker 1: care for these kids. And this follows other revelations such as,
- 40:55Speaker 1: you know, another carer, I think it was a grandparent,
- 40:58Speaker 1: who had their baby taken away and just given to
- 41:03Speaker 1: an ice-addled mother, picked up from preschool and said, no,
- 41:06Speaker 1: you're not going home. You're going to your ice junkie mum's.
- 41:10Speaker 5: My heart just breaks.
- 41:11Speaker 1: For these kids.
- 41:12Speaker 5: It's absolutely devastating.
- 41:14Speaker 3: Let's move on to the front page of the Herald Sun.
- 41:17Speaker 3: And there's an exclusive via Shannon Deary. Victorians reveal the
- 41:21Speaker 3: number one issues that will drive their election decision crime
- 41:25Speaker 3: vote verdict. Youth crime and bail laws will be the
- 41:28Speaker 3: biggest issues driving votes at next month's state election, whilst
- 41:31Speaker 3: almost two-thirds of Victorians say the state is heading in
- 41:35Speaker 3: the wrong direction under the Carroll government.
- 41:38Speaker 5: La-di-da, no, bull.
- 41:40Speaker 3: And latest Herald Sun polling shows Labor looks set to
- 41:44Speaker 3: lose the election with the primary vote trailing the coalition
- 41:47Speaker 3: by five points.
- 41:49Speaker 5: And how about this?
- 41:49Speaker 2: You can only hope.
- 41:50Speaker 5: You can only hope. I actually am not holding my breath.
- 41:53Speaker 3: Depending on who you speak to, some are saying Labor
- 41:55Speaker 3: are going to get back into power.
- 41:57Speaker 5: Others are saying, nah, they're gone. Do you have any hope?
- 42:00Speaker 2: You know, talking not all that long ago, earlier in
- 42:02Speaker 2: the month, to people who are campaigning on the right
- 42:07Speaker 2: side of things. And they're saying to me, the numbers
- 42:10Speaker 2: we're looking at, you know, the Carroll government could actually
- 42:13Speaker 2: be returned. That is horrifying.
- 42:15Speaker 1: I would find that extraordinarily hard to believe. That is not,
- 42:18Speaker 1: from what I have heard from polling on the Labor side... But.
- 42:22Speaker 3: Didn't we all have that feeling with Dan Andrews? We thought,
- 42:24Speaker 3: there's no way this guy's going to get re-elected.
- 42:26Speaker 1: We're talking about totally different sets of numbers. With Dan Andrews, like, maybe...
- 42:30Speaker 1: He won't be elected, but the polls weren't showing anything like... Well, actually,
- 42:33Speaker 1: the opposition's polls were showing some crazy stuff.
- 42:36Speaker 5: Sick of the polls.
- 42:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Was that Freshwater? Anyway.
- 42:39Speaker 5: Here's another funny story too. How about this? How many
- 42:42Speaker 5: reboots are they going to have of Neighbours, by the way?
- 42:44Speaker 3: Margot's AI return rocks Neighbours. Key cast member slams plan
- 42:49Speaker 3: for AI-assisted reboot of soap opera.
- 42:52Speaker 5: featuring Margot Robbie's return.
- 42:55Speaker 3: Dare I say, you will never actually find a better
- 42:58Speaker 3: AI version than Margot Robbie in real life.
- 43:01Speaker 1: Do you think Margot Robbie's lawyer might have something to
- 43:04Speaker 1: say about that as well? You're going to do what
- 43:07Speaker 1: with my body? Sorry?
- 43:10Speaker 2: AI-generated neighbours?
- 43:12Speaker 1: Like, come on.
- 43:13Speaker 2: How low have we sunk?
- 43:14Speaker 3: Can't we just let that soap opera rest in peace?
- 43:18Speaker 5: How many reboots?
- 43:19Speaker 1: You're obviously not a real fan, Lucy.
- 43:20Speaker 2: LAUGHTER Our house as kids, it was always neighbours at
- 43:25Speaker 2: 6.30 followed by home and away at 7. Mum had
- 43:29Speaker 2: control of the TV after the 6pm news. There was
- 43:32Speaker 2: no doubt about that. On the front of the NT News,
- 43:34Speaker 2: Thai beef gets spicy. Good headline. Thai embassy officials could
- 43:39Speaker 2: be dragged into one of the territory's most closely watched
- 43:41Speaker 2: court cases after the lawyer for Labor MP Luke Gosling
- 43:45Speaker 2: claimed there are five foreigners whose statements need to be collected.
- 43:48Speaker 2: 22 civilian statements and 19 CCTV files. Bit going on
- 43:53Speaker 2: in that case.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Oh, I'm looking forward to that so much. I like
- 43:56Speaker 1: Luke Gosling.
- 43:57Speaker 2: Well, you want to go and defend him in court then, mate?
- 43:59Speaker 1: No, I don't think I... Well, I certainly would if
- 44:02Speaker 1: you ask me to.
- 44:03Speaker 5: How about we just wait to see how this plays out?
- 44:06Speaker 1: I'm not saying whether he did it or not. I'm
- 44:07Speaker 1: just saying I like him. I met him. There you go.
- 44:10Speaker 2: He gets the Joe stamp of approval.
- 44:12Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
- 44:13Speaker 2: After the break, Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister now over
- 44:16Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom, he has had... I've seen some
- 44:18Speaker 2: awkward moments in politics. I think this one may well
- 44:22Speaker 2: take the cake. Big call, but it could do.
- 44:25Speaker 1: We'll show you soon.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Now, you know, your kid grows up and you want
- 44:32Speaker 2: certain things for them. You might wish that your kid
- 44:35Speaker 2: goes into a certain career. You might hope that they
- 44:38Speaker 2: get married and have kids so you can have grandkids,
- 44:41Speaker 2: all these sorts of things. But have you ever wished
- 44:44Speaker 2: that your son would be gay? Well, I can tell
- 44:47Speaker 2: you that Cameron Mannheim, the actress certainly, has what she
- 44:50Speaker 2: decided to announce at a dinner of the Human Rights
- 44:53Speaker 2: Commission in the United States.
- 44:56Speaker 7: I have photographs of my son in high heels, in
- 45:00Speaker 7: full drag. He knows every word to every musical ever written.
- 45:05Speaker 7: His fairy godfather, Aaron Walton, is here with us tonight.
- 45:10Speaker 5: I mean, truly, I thought I.
- 45:12Speaker 7: Had this f * * * ing thing locked up.
- 45:14Speaker 5: But no, no.
- 45:16Speaker 7: He's the only straight guy in his entire musical theater company.
- 45:22Speaker 5: Oh, boo-hoo.
- 45:23Speaker 1: How sad. I wanted to wait and hear the laughter, though,
- 45:27Speaker 1: because I think she stuffed the joke.
- 45:29Speaker 5: You reckon? They didn't get it?
- 45:31Speaker 1: It's a valid joke, but no, I think she was
- 45:33Speaker 1: just too sort of wound up.
- 45:35Speaker 3: I thought James McPherson summed it up best when he said,
- 45:37Speaker 3: can you imagine the outrage if the script was flipped
- 45:40Speaker 3: and it was a woman saying that she wished her
- 45:43Speaker 3: gay son was actually straight?
- 45:44Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 45:45Speaker 2: Right?
- 45:45Speaker 3: Imagine the horror. Speaking of horror, how about this? I'm
- 45:48Speaker 3: a big high fashion fan, have always loved it. I
- 45:51Speaker 3: reminisce routinely about the beautiful runway that Tom Ford used
- 45:54Speaker 3: to produce while he was the creative director at Gucci,
- 45:57Speaker 3: Gianni Versace while he was still alive.
- 45:59Speaker 5: The fashion was impeccable. But now, have a look at this. Um, what?
- 46:16Speaker 2: What is that?
- 46:16Speaker 5: That's imagery coming out of Paris Fashion Week, which is on.
- 46:19Speaker 1: Is that derelict from Zoolander?
- 46:21Speaker 5: It's more than derelict. It looks satanic. I mean, they
- 46:25Speaker 5: look demonic. It's really uncomfortable. I just, like.
- 46:29Speaker 2: It doesn't even look hot. These people are meant to
- 46:31Speaker 2: be the ones who know about fashion.
- 46:33Speaker 5: Right.
- 46:34Speaker 2: Hey, I'm looking at this going, what on earth are
- 46:36Speaker 2: they thinking?
- 46:37Speaker 5: You look like mutants.
- 46:38Speaker 2: What the hell is that? Seriously. Like, if that's what
- 46:42Speaker 2: fashion is these days, count me out.
- 46:45Speaker 5: Yeah, me too.
- 46:46Speaker 2: I'll just do what I want to do. I mean,
- 46:48Speaker 2: you do what you want to do.
- 46:48Speaker 1: I do, yeah.
- 46:49Speaker 5: Very clearly, Jack.
- 46:49Speaker 1: That's right, I do.
- 46:50Speaker 2: And maybe we're the smart ones because I wouldn't be
- 46:53Speaker 2: taking my cues from them.
- 46:54Speaker 1: It's incredible, isn't it, though? I mean, the guy in
- 46:56Speaker 1: the boot tube, he's doing it right and no one
- 46:58Speaker 1: else is catching on. Now, we all know that the
- 47:01Speaker 1: three most dangerous words in any speech are hold for applause.
- 47:07Speaker 1: And the catch is when there's no applause, you don't hold.
- 47:13Speaker 1: But apparently nobody told new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham
- 47:18Speaker 1: at the UK Labor Conference this week. Have a look.
- 47:23Speaker 1: interest of this country.
- 47:35Speaker 2: Yes.
- 47:36Speaker 1: This is not on time delay.
- 47:38Speaker 2: What on earth is he doing?
- 47:39Speaker 1: It's still going.
- 47:40Speaker 5: What is he doing? Was he genuinely waiting for people?
- 47:44Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 47:45Speaker 5: Here it is.
- 47:46Speaker 2: Fancy floors.
- 47:49Speaker 1: So.
- 47:51Speaker 1: Whoever's job it was to get there.
- 47:54Speaker 2: They needed that.
- 47:55Speaker 5: You know the signs?
- 47:56Speaker 1: Now they're all standing up to compensate.
- 47:58Speaker 2: I know, I know. But also what.
- 47:59Speaker 1: Oh, it's just... Just move on.
- 48:02Speaker 5: After all that.
- 48:02Speaker 2: So he's standing here awkwardly for that whole time, waiting
- 48:05Speaker 2: for the applause. No-one is applauding. And then eventually they decide.
- 48:09Speaker 1: Yeah... oh- ho- ho! Now we need to applaud. Now we need
- 48:12Speaker 1: to over-applaud to make up for all the non-applause earlier on. I...
- 48:18Speaker 1: I swear to God, that moment alone.
- 48:21Speaker 2: I wish I'd remembered this earlier so we could show it,
- 48:23Speaker 2: but it just reminds me of that iconic moment. Jeb Bush,
- 48:27Speaker 2: please clap.
- 48:27Speaker 1: You remember the line?
- 48:29Speaker 2: Please clap. That's what Andy Burnham needed. Thank you for
- 48:33Speaker 2: joining us tonight. Thanks for reading about Andy's show.
- 48:35Speaker 1: Good night.