Latest / The Rita Panahi Show / The Rita Panahi Show | 29 September

Transcript

The Rita Panahi Show | 29 September · The Rita Panahi Show

0:02
Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panaghi Show.
0:08
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to The Rita Panaghi Show. Coming
0:10
Speaker 2: up tonight, Treasurer Jim Chalmers under fire as interest rates
0:15
Speaker 2: soar to a 15-year high. My panel will cover that
0:18
Speaker 2: and today's other top headlines. Climate change and Energy Minister
0:22
Speaker 2: Chris Bowen claims coal is an expensive and unreliable form
0:27
Speaker 2: of energy. Professor Ian Plymer will be here to fact-check
0:30
Speaker 2: those claims. Kosher Gator will have the latest from the US,
0:33
Speaker 2: including the lone juror in the Lindsay Clancy case breaking
0:37
Speaker 2: his silence. And the ABC mocked for a ridiculous media
0:42
Speaker 2: watch expose. Diddy Dunleavy will have all your entertainment and
0:47
Speaker 2: royal news later in the hour. And Lefty's Losing It
0:51
Speaker 2: features a female pastor who says God is trans.
0:56
Speaker 3: God is non-binary. God is non-binary, but I'm going to
1:01
Speaker 3: go further than that and I'm going to say God
1:04
Speaker 3: is actually also trans.
1:09
Speaker 2: But first, economists have unleashed on the Treasurer for blaming
1:12
Speaker 2: the war in the Middle East for the government's failure
1:15
Speaker 2: to rein in inflation. Jim Chalmers was on News 24
1:19
Speaker 2: this morning and he claimed Australians were paying a hefty
1:22
Speaker 2: price for decisions taken on the other side of the world.
1:27
Speaker 4: We do have an inflation challenge. It is made much
1:30
Speaker 4: worse by the war in the Middle East. That's not
1:33
Speaker 4: an opinion, that's a fact. This war has now dragged
1:35
Speaker 4: on for more than six months. It's been absolutely disastrous
1:38
Speaker 4: from a cost of living point of view for Australian families.
1:43
Speaker 2: The Treasurer also claimed the government's spending growth is at
1:48
Speaker 2: its lowest in 11 years, but AMP Chief Economist Shane
1:52
Speaker 2: Oliver points out it is still operating at a very
1:55
Speaker 2: high level, which meant any increases in private investment had
2:00
Speaker 2: increased inflation. He said... If we didn't have such a
2:04
Speaker 2: high level of public demand, the private demand by Australian consumers,
2:08
Speaker 2: home builders and business could have picked up without causing
2:13
Speaker 2: an inflation problem. Joining me now for more on this
2:16
Speaker 2: is One Nation Victorian Upper House candidate Colleen Harkin and
2:19
Speaker 2: former Liberal MP Nicole Flint. Colleen, the Treasurer appears to
2:24
Speaker 2: be in denial about the perilous state of the economy
2:29
Speaker 2: and the perilous state of household budgets across the country.
2:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, the issue here is that oil prices
2:37
Speaker 5: have an effect on what's happening here, but the Middle
2:41
Speaker 5: East didn't write the Australian budget. And that's the ongoing
2:45
Speaker 5: underlying issue here and how much the government is spending.
2:48
Speaker 5: All the economists are saying the same thing, that saying
2:50
Speaker 5: that the rate of spending, that spending is growing slower.
2:55
Speaker 5: is not the same as saying that the government has
2:57
Speaker 5: got its spending under control. It's a very different point.
3:01
Speaker 5: And the real question here is how much is the
3:02
Speaker 5: government contributing to the problem? And that's a question that
3:05
Speaker 5: we never seem to actually be able to ask properly
3:07
Speaker 5: and get a proper answer to.
3:09
Speaker 2: Well, no, because the RBA, with its 2,000-odd staff, hasn't
3:12
Speaker 2: modelled what would happen if government spending reduced, what impact
3:17
Speaker 2: that would have on inflation, Nicole. The RBA rate hike
3:21
Speaker 2: today sees us with... one of the highest interest rates
3:25
Speaker 2: in the developed world among advanced economies. Only Iceland has
3:29
Speaker 2: a high rate. And Nicole, this is the highest we've
3:33
Speaker 2: seen interest rates go in this country for 15 years.
3:37
Speaker 2: It's going to push some people over the edge financially.
3:40
Speaker 2: They'll be forced to sell their homes in what is
3:44
Speaker 2: a terrible market.
3:46
Speaker 6: Precisely, Rita.
3:47
Speaker 7: And you have been calling out this incompetent, hopeless Labor
3:53
Speaker 7: government on the housing crisis that they have created.
3:56
Speaker 6: It's all of their own making for months now.
3:59
Speaker 7: And if, you know, another interest rate rise will be
4:04
Speaker 7: catastrophic for people who have been struggling under this historic
4:09
Speaker 7: cost of living crisis. It's been exacerbated by rate rises.
4:13
Speaker 7: You know, it is also, yes, as we've just discussed, the.
4:16
Speaker 6: Fuel prices, but it's grocery prices, it's power prices.
4:20
Speaker 7: It's a government who is spending completely out of control
4:24
Speaker 7: and refusing to rein in their costs, which would bring
4:28
Speaker 7: down inflation. And the fact that we had the Reserve
4:31
Speaker 7: Bank governor saying last year that we need to see
4:34
Speaker 7: unemployment rise to get inflation under control is disgusting and disgraceful.
4:42
Speaker 6: And this is firmly on the Albanese Labor government.
4:46
Speaker 7: How can they look Australian voters in the eye and say,
4:49
Speaker 7: we are proud of what we've done if we've got
4:52
Speaker 7: our highest economist, the Reserve.
4:55
Speaker 6: Bank governor, saying we need more people unemployed?
4:58
Speaker 7: Now, if you're unemployed, you certainly can't pay your mortgage,
5:02
Speaker 7: can you? Let alone your rent, let alone for your groceries.
5:05
Speaker 7: So this is an absolute disaster. When are we going
5:09
Speaker 7: to see Labor backtrack, for example, their changes on housing tax?
5:16
Speaker 7: Capital gains, negative gearing, that has added to this housing crisis.
5:21
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely it has. The damage the Albanese government has
5:25
Speaker 2: inflicted on the housing sector is enormous. We've got a
5:29
Speaker 2: deepening crisis. We've got millions of Australians who are watching
5:32
Speaker 2: their biggest asset go backwards in value while their mortgage
5:36
Speaker 2: payments go up and up and up. This is the
5:39
Speaker 2: fourth increase this year alone. And, Colleen, the RBA deserves
5:44
Speaker 2: more scrutiny. They have one blunt instrument to lower inflation
5:47
Speaker 2: and that blunt instrument is right now hurting the wrong people.
5:51
Speaker 2: They're punishing struggling households for government over expenditure. The government
5:57
Speaker 2: isn't reining in its expenditure in the manner it needs
6:02
Speaker 2: to to bring down inflation. And we've got households that
6:06
Speaker 2: are already under enormous pressure.
6:10
Speaker 8: Yeah.
6:10
Speaker 2: We've had the stats on this. We discussed it last week.
6:13
Speaker 2: The number of Australian households who are going without essential
6:18
Speaker 2: needs to be able to pay their mortgage.
6:22
Speaker 5: And the other component of this is those people who aren't...
6:24
Speaker 5: I mean, the government doesn't feel the pressure.
6:26
Speaker 2: People do.
6:27
Speaker 5: When these interest rates happen, it's people who's..... their businesses
6:30
Speaker 5: and their houses who feel the direct pressure and the
6:32
Speaker 5: government doesn't really feel it at all. And then when
6:35
Speaker 5: people do have to sell their homes in order to
6:37
Speaker 5: buy in... They've got an extraordinary tens of thousands of dollars, again,
6:41
Speaker 5: to get back into the market. So we need to
6:44
Speaker 5: be doing as much as we can to keep people
6:46
Speaker 5: in their homes and keep them being able to pay
6:48
Speaker 5: off their mortgages. You know, we've got an inflation problem
6:52
Speaker 5: not because the RBA can't find that sweet, magical number.
6:56
Speaker 5: It's because we've got a productivity problem and a government
6:59
Speaker 5: spending problem. And to your point earlier that you made
7:03
Speaker 5: is that we don't seem to have ever done, or
7:05
Speaker 5: not for decades, done the modelling to say, well, what
7:07
Speaker 5: would happen if the government changed its spending? If it
7:10
Speaker 5: actually reduced its spending, what would the impact be? And
7:12
Speaker 5: that doesn't seem to be a question that anyone's actually
7:15
Speaker 5: really genuinely looking at.
7:17
Speaker 2: And Jim Chalmers, Nicole, is on track to be Australia's
7:21
Speaker 2: highest taxing treasurer in history. The final budget outcome for
7:26
Speaker 2: the 12 months to June 30 shows tax receipts as
7:29
Speaker 2: a proportion of GDP jump from the 23.6% forecast... in
7:34
Speaker 2: the May budget to 24.1%. That surpasses the self-imposed ceiling
7:36
Speaker 2: of 23.9% set by former Coalition Finance Minister Matthias Korman. Nicole,
7:47
Speaker 2: it's just shy of the 24.2% mark reached in 2004
7:53
Speaker 2: and 2006, but that was at the height of the
7:57
Speaker 2: mining boom. Are Australian taxpayers getting value for money with
8:02
Speaker 2: all this enormous tax expenditure?
8:04
Speaker 7: Well, that's an excellent joke you've just made there, Rita.
8:08
Speaker 6: Of course they're not.
8:10
Speaker 7: This is just, again, this catastrophically failed Labor government who
8:16
Speaker 7: are now heading towards being the highest taxing government.
8:19
Speaker 6: And what are we getting for that? Them employing more bureaucrats.
8:23
Speaker 7: Them spending even more on the NDIS and failing to
8:28
Speaker 7: iron out all of the rorts and even some criminal
8:31
Speaker 7: activity that we've seen as well.
8:33
Speaker 6: It's It's Labor just spending, spending, spending.
8:36
Speaker 7: I mean, we've seen the recent reports that they've plunged
8:40
Speaker 7: something like $ 340 million into multicultural grants.
8:44
Speaker 6: Well, goodness me, imagine what that could have done for.
8:46
Speaker 7: Health care or something that people are desperately needing in
8:50
Speaker 7: our communities. So Labor have nothing to show the Australian
8:54
Speaker 7: people for the highest tax rates ever, aside from even
8:58
Speaker 7: more economic pain in every single household for every single
9:02
Speaker 7: small business and every single hardworking Australian.
9:06
Speaker 6: And their families.
9:07
Speaker 7: And on top of that, as we've already discussed, the
9:10
Speaker 7: housing crisis and the cost of living crisis. This is
9:14
Speaker 7: the most failed government I think we have ever seen.
9:19
Speaker 2: And Defence Minister Richard Marles is facing calls to resign
9:23
Speaker 2: over his insulting remarks about former army generals. The Deputy
9:27
Speaker 2: Prime Minister was on News 24 when he claimed those
9:31
Speaker 2: in opposition to his plan to sell Sydney's Victoria Barracks
9:35
Speaker 2: include former generals who just liked hanging out there.
9:40
Speaker 1: It is not my priority for Defence to be a
9:42
Speaker 1: heritage organisation. It's not my priority to see Defence manage
9:45
Speaker 1: the oldest wine cellar in Australia. To put this in
9:48
Speaker 1: the hands of the diggers is actually quite wrong. You know,
9:51
Speaker 1: there are a few former generals who liked hanging out
9:54
Speaker 1: there who are lamenting this.
9:59
Speaker 2: Colleen, this isn't really about wine cellars, though, is it?
10:02
Speaker 2: This is about a defence minister who seems to have
10:05
Speaker 2: disdain for the armed forces.
10:08
Speaker 5: And what a, you know, like dismissive statement to make
10:12
Speaker 5: about people who have served the country.
10:13
Speaker 6: I mean, it's appalling.
10:15
Speaker 5: What happens here is that, you know, typically the the
10:17
Speaker 5: Labor government when they're caught off guard, say incredibly poor
10:20
Speaker 5: taste things about other people. And look, this is an
10:24
Speaker 5: historic and an operating facility. I don't understand how they've
10:27
Speaker 5: made decisions to actually pay $ 44 million in a fit
10:31
Speaker 5: out on a building that they didn't even have.
10:32
Speaker 9: A lease for.
10:34
Speaker 5: And I've got a question of who owns that building?
10:36
Speaker 5: You know, like, where is that money going? Why are
10:39
Speaker 5: they sort of changing all of this around for what
10:41
Speaker 5: I don't see is actually a purpose, other than someone
10:43
Speaker 5: who seems to have trouble with our ex-service people. I
10:47
Speaker 5: don't understand what the issue is.
10:49
Speaker 2: Nicole, we speak a lot about the Albanese government's disdain
10:54
Speaker 2: for small business, the lack of private sector experience in
10:58
Speaker 2: that government, but there's also an ignorance, perhaps a disdain
11:03
Speaker 2: of the armed forces that's evident there.
11:06
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
11:06
Speaker 7: So if we look at Richard Marr's appalling comments, the
11:10
Speaker 7: fact that we've got almost record low spending on our
11:14
Speaker 7: defence forces in the history of Australian governments, it is
11:20
Speaker 7: as sorry, compared to GDP at one of the very
11:24
Speaker 7: lowest levels we've ever seen, heading towards the Gillard government,
11:27
Speaker 7: who were the lowest spending on record, at a time
11:31
Speaker 7: when we've got really big international challenges. And so we
11:35
Speaker 7: should be investing in our defence force, men and women,
11:39
Speaker 7: and the equipment that they desperately need to keep themselves
11:42
Speaker 7: safe and also the country safe.
11:44
Speaker 6: So in a sense, this is also just a massive distraction.
11:47
Speaker 7: But Richard Miles has made the most offensive comments But
11:51
Speaker 7: are we surprised because his junior minister, Matt Keogh, is,
11:56
Speaker 7: of course, the man who... in one of the most
12:01
Speaker 7: cruel and bizarre decisions, cut just $ 3, 000 of funding to
12:06
Speaker 7: the family of the late Cameron Baird, who gave his
12:08
Speaker 7: life for our nation, serving our nation, defending our nation,
12:13
Speaker 7: because he thought it wasn't, I don't know, a good investment.
12:16
Speaker 6: I mean, this is, as you've just said, the complete disdain.
12:19
Speaker 7: And disrespect with which this Labor government treats the men
12:24
Speaker 7: and women who put their lives on the line for
12:26
Speaker 7: our country every single day.
12:30
Speaker 2: Now, Colleen, the Victorian election is just 60 days away.
12:33
Speaker 2: And as a One Nation candidate and as a woman,
12:36
Speaker 2: I'm keen to get your response to this video posted
12:39
Speaker 2: by Victoria's Minister for Equality, Steve Dimopoulos.
12:44
Speaker 8: Do you believe in a woman's right to choose? Well,
12:46
Speaker 8: because One Nation doesn't. On their own website, they have
12:50
Speaker 8: said they will seek every opportunity, quote, to roll back
12:54
Speaker 8: abortion laws here in Victoria.
12:58
Speaker 2: Colleen... He didn't provide much context there. Of course, Victoria
13:03
Speaker 2: has got some of the most radical abortion laws anywhere
13:07
Speaker 2: in the world. You can technically get an abortion right
13:12
Speaker 2: up to birth for any reason. So he didn't mention
13:15
Speaker 2: that context. But tell me about this claim that One
13:19
Speaker 2: Nation is essentially, if you listen, their misogynistic party that
13:23
Speaker 2: wants to take away women's rights.
13:25
Speaker 9: Yeah.
13:26
Speaker 5: And where is the misinformation and disinformation laws when you
13:28
Speaker 5: need them? You know, look, to me, it just goes
13:32
Speaker 5: to show how worried they are that they're peddling out
13:35
Speaker 5: all of this rubbish. One Nation's view on these things is,
13:38
Speaker 5: for example, to your point, we have the most radical
13:41
Speaker 5: abortion laws almost in the world as to due date
13:44
Speaker 5: and to reduce the time limit on that. and to
13:48
Speaker 5: not have selective choice of gender abortions. So it's, you know,
13:53
Speaker 5: it's not radical stuff, but there is a push to
13:56
Speaker 5: kind of like sort of try and frighten people. And
13:58
Speaker 5: it is all just misinformation.
14:00
Speaker 2: Well, any discussion about abortion has got so much scaremongering
14:04
Speaker 2: around it. And there is no nuance, is there? Because
14:08
Speaker 2: you can be very much pro-choice and believe women have
14:10
Speaker 2: the right to choose in the first trimester, perhaps even
14:15
Speaker 2: into the second trimester. But I think most Victorians, if
14:18
Speaker 2: you poll them, would not be for third trimester abortions
14:22
Speaker 2: for any reason.
14:22
Speaker 5: And I don't think people even know that.
14:25
Speaker 2: And because we never had the debate, because even the
14:27
Speaker 2: suggestion of a debate is categorised as anti-women somehow. Colleen Harkin,
14:33
Speaker 2: Nicole Flynn, thank you for your time tonight. Now, Climate
14:39
Speaker 2: Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has attacked Australia's coal-fired
14:43
Speaker 2: power plants. He told the Australian newspaper that coal is
14:47
Speaker 2: the biggest threat to reliability and claimed that frequent unplanned
14:51
Speaker 2: outages are making electricity bills dearer. He said the Coalition's
14:57
Speaker 2: plan to stop renewables and household batteries and sweat coal
15:02
Speaker 2: would mean Aussie households are left to pick up the
15:05
Speaker 2: bill of global shocks. Every time coal breaks down, bills
15:09
Speaker 2: go up. Australians can't trust Angus Taylor on energy. Joining
15:14
Speaker 2: me now is esteemed geologist, author and executive director at
15:19
Speaker 2: Hancock Energy, Professor Ian Plymer. Ian, I have a feeling
15:24
Speaker 2: you're going to disagree with Chris Bowen's claims there that
15:27
Speaker 2: coal is both expensive and unreliable.
15:32
Speaker 10: Well, you've only got to go back in the past
15:34
Speaker 10: a little bit.
15:36
Speaker 11: Coal formed when we had much more carbon dioxide in
15:39
Speaker 11: the atmosphere than now. It didn't form in Amazonian swamps.
15:43
Speaker 11: It formed at high latitudes, rather similar to where we
15:46
Speaker 11: find peat today. And it sucked a lot of carbon
15:49
Speaker 11: dioxide out of the atmosphere. When we burn coal, we
15:52
Speaker 11: just put that carbon dioxide back where it came from. Now,
15:56
Speaker 11: coal for 200 years has fired the Industrial Revolution. It's
16:02
Speaker 11: currently doing it in China. It has bought people jobs.
16:05
Speaker 11: from mud and dung to living comfortable lives. It is
16:10
Speaker 11: cheap and it is reliable. What has happened is that
16:14
Speaker 11: we've had this fad to believe that the gas of life,
16:17
Speaker 11: carbon dioxide, drives global warming. No one's ever shown this,
16:21
Speaker 11: but we have this great fad. And so Labour and
16:26
Speaker 11: Liberals got on the bandwagon and said, oh, we've got
16:29
Speaker 11: to get rid of emissions of carbon dioxide. And so
16:32
Speaker 11: they started to put pressure on the coal companies. And
16:36
Speaker 11: so now we burn coal. We keep coal-fired power stations
16:40
Speaker 11: spinning 24-7. And it's only when the sun doesn't shine
16:44
Speaker 11: or the wind doesn't blow that we then produce electricity
16:48
Speaker 11: that we can put into the grid. Now, it's become
16:51
Speaker 11: a very, very difficult operation to run. Many are not
16:55
Speaker 11: maintaining coal-fired power stations as they could if they were
16:58
Speaker 11: making money. And many are saying, no, we'll get out
17:01
Speaker 11: of the business. Now, Labor does this because the union
17:05
Speaker 11: super funds have a huge stake in wind and in solar.
17:10
Speaker 11: The union super funds benefit by actually shutting down coal-fired
17:14
Speaker 11: power stations. And who provides cash to the Labor Party
17:18
Speaker 11: to keep them going?
17:19
Speaker 10: It's the union.
17:20
Speaker 11: To be a member of parliament... And if you're a
17:23
Speaker 11: Labor member of parliament, you have to be a member
17:26
Speaker 11: of the unions. So this is a giant jobs for
17:29
Speaker 11: the boys, killing off industry, making the consumer pay enormously.
17:34
Speaker 11: But if we had a free market and had electricity
17:38
Speaker 11: from coal entering the grid whenever it wanted to, and
17:41
Speaker 11: if wind and solar could be cheaper, they could enter
17:43
Speaker 11: the grid, then we wouldn't have the situation.
17:47
Speaker 10: This has been created by Labor.
17:49
Speaker 11: They're now blaming the coal companies for their own creation.
17:53
Speaker 11: So Mr Barman should learn a little bit of history,
17:56
Speaker 11: should understand how industry works, how the Industrial Revolution started,
18:01
Speaker 11: and tell the truth.
18:02
Speaker 10: He's doing this to line the pockets of his union mates.
18:07
Speaker 2: Well, imagine if coal was unreliable and expensive, China wouldn't
18:13
Speaker 2: be importing so much of it and building power stations
18:18
Speaker 2: every other week. And, yeah, there's so much we can
18:23
Speaker 2: say about that. But let's move on to this New
18:25
Speaker 2: England story. This is incredible. The New England Renewable Energy
18:30
Speaker 2: Zone project is turning out to be an absolute disaster, Ian.
18:34
Speaker 2: The project was initially designed for around four gigawatts of generation,
18:38
Speaker 2: but that was later doubled to eight, creating major challenges
18:43
Speaker 2: for transmission infrastructure and requiring power lines to cross prime farmland. Now,
18:49
Speaker 2: a legal challenge could also force the New South Wales
18:52
Speaker 2: government to publicly disclose the true cost of this project
18:56
Speaker 2: with estimates suggesting it could exceed $ 100 billion. Ian, we've
19:05
Speaker 2: already got Queensland saying they've abandoned plans to connect to
19:10
Speaker 2: the New England zone. The Libs in Victoria are also
19:13
Speaker 2: considering pulling out. What exactly are we getting for this
19:18
Speaker 2: $ 100 billion?
19:19
Speaker 11: Well, we're getting very little except long-term debt, which we're
19:24
Speaker 11: passing on to the next generation. Now, $ 100 billion could
19:27
Speaker 11: buy us half a dozen nuclear power stations spread around
19:30
Speaker 11: the country. buy us half a dozen coal-fired power stations
19:33
Speaker 11: on top of that, reduce the cost of electricity as
19:36
Speaker 11: happened in Finland when they went nuclear. This is an
19:40
Speaker 11: absolute disaster. It's based on ideology, not on the costs
19:44
Speaker 11: to the consumer. And what we're doing is we're spoiling
19:49
Speaker 11: land that's been in families for generations. These families have
19:54
Speaker 11: preserved this land. These families have provided food for the
19:56
Speaker 11: average Australian. And now by a stroke of the bureaucratic pen,
20:01
Speaker 11: people are losing their property. This is a theft of
20:04
Speaker 11: people's land. They're losing their ability to produce food. These
20:08
Speaker 11: eyesores are costing an absolute fortune. They're not making energy
20:12
Speaker 11: any cheaper. They're not making the New England area look
20:15
Speaker 11: any more beautiful. And to me, it's just like Snowy
20:19
Speaker 11: 2 and all these other harebrained schemes. It's an ideological dream,
20:24
Speaker 11: knowing full well that whatever it costs, it doesn't matter
20:27
Speaker 11: whether it's $ 10 million or $ 100 billion, whatever it costs,
20:31
Speaker 11: you can pass it on to the consumer, and the
20:33
Speaker 11: consumer has no choice. We can't change and say, oh, look,
20:37
Speaker 11: we only want to have coal-fired power stations into our
20:40
Speaker 11: factories and into our businesses and our homes.
20:43
Speaker 12: No.
20:44
Speaker 11: We are forced to pay the highest cost of electricity
20:47
Speaker 11: run by people who are ideologically sending us broke and
20:52
Speaker 11: people who have sold off a lot of our infrastructure,
20:55
Speaker 11: such as our coal-fired power stations, our poles and wires
20:59
Speaker 11: and our distribution networks. and are doing deals with foreign
21:03
Speaker 11: companies and with our union mates, of course, to put
21:06
Speaker 11: in solar and wind across the country. This is an
21:10
Speaker 11: absolute rort, and it's about time people took up pitchforks
21:14
Speaker 11: and decided this is enough. We cannot destroy fertile agricultural
21:18
Speaker 11: land on some whim.
21:20
Speaker 10: No other country in the world runs on sea breezes
21:23
Speaker 10: and sunbeams. Why should we? There's nothing special about Australian sunshine.
21:29
Speaker 2: Professor Ian Plymer, thank you so much for your time.
21:32
Speaker 10: Thank you.
21:33
Speaker 2: Still to come, lefties losing it, plus the latest from
21:36
Speaker 2: the US, including the lone juror in the Lindsay Clancy
21:40
Speaker 2: case breaking his silence. Kosher Gator has the details. You're
21:51
Speaker 2: watching the Rita Panahy Show and it's time for Lefty's
21:54
Speaker 2: Losing It. And we're coming in hot with a female
21:58
Speaker 2: pastor saying stuff that sounds kind of blasphemous. Some may
22:03
Speaker 2: even call it demonic. I just call it Lefty's Losing It.
22:07
Speaker 3: God is non-binary. God is non-binary, but I'm going to
22:12
Speaker 3: go further than that. And I'm going to say God
22:14
Speaker 3: is actually also trans. And now let's get on the
22:19
Speaker 3: same page here.
22:21
Speaker 2: No, no, no lady. I don't ever want to be
22:24
Speaker 2: on the same page as you. I don't even want
22:26
Speaker 2: to be in the same library. You are crazy. Now
22:30
Speaker 2: let's have a look at what happens when stupidity meets
22:33
Speaker 2: arrogance head on. You get what I'm about to show you.
22:37
Speaker 2: People saying spectacularly stupid stuff with absolute bulletproof confidence.
22:44
Speaker 6: Capitalism or socialism?
22:47
Speaker 3: That is the stupidest question ever. Capitalism is a bane
22:51
Speaker 3: on the whole planet.
22:53
Speaker 10: So you love socialism.
22:54
Speaker 8: Why do you love socialism? Because socialism supports community.
22:58
Speaker 13: Socialism supports community.
23:00
Speaker 2: It supports everyone.
23:02
Speaker 3: Its purpose is to care for those who have least.
23:06
Speaker 8: What country has it succeeded in?
23:08
Speaker 14: There are plenty of countries that run off of socialist
23:10
Speaker 14: type of ideals.
23:12
Speaker 6: Give me a few that have prospered.
23:14
Speaker 1: All of those.
23:15
Speaker 2: Now to Sweden's worst export since fermented herring. Here is
23:20
Speaker 2: global warming doom maiden Greta Thunberg kicking Ed Sheeran when
23:25
Speaker 2: he's down. Apparently he's complicit in genocide.
23:29
Speaker 14: Yes, Ed Sheeran should be held accountable for his lack
23:32
Speaker 14: of spine. But remember... that we have to continuously apply
23:36
Speaker 14: the same pressure on all those complicit in all genocides.
23:41
Speaker 14: The bigger your platform and your access to resources, the
23:44
Speaker 14: bigger your responsibility. But also on ourselves and the institutions
23:48
Speaker 14: that we are part of, where we have to push
23:51
Speaker 14: for boycotts, sanctions and divestments. If we ourselves are not
23:56
Speaker 14: stepping out of our comfort zones, we are not doing enough.
24:00
Speaker 14: And remember, silence is complicity. and you cannot be neutral
24:05
Speaker 14: in a genocide.
24:06
Speaker 2: Also laying the boots into Ed Sheeran is fellow musician
24:10
Speaker 2: Charlotte Church. Now remember when she was adorable and sounded angelic? Well,
24:17
Speaker 2: this is her now. Oh, she has made millions!
24:22
Speaker 15: Whereas he has an enormous following, an enormous platform to
24:27
Speaker 15: do real good in the world. He chose consumerism and
24:32
Speaker 15: capitalism and we're doing the right thing. So we say
24:36
Speaker 15: the same thing to Ed Sheeran.
24:40
Speaker 2: Because f * * *.
24:42
Speaker 15: That.
24:43
Speaker 14: The musicians shouldn't be involved in politics.
24:45
Speaker 5: F * * * that s * * *.
24:47
Speaker 2: Politics is life.
24:50
Speaker 8: So.
24:54
Speaker 3: We're ready! X She-Ra!
24:54
Speaker 14: We're watching you!
24:59
Speaker 3: X She-Ra!
25:00
Speaker 14: We're watching you!
25:00
Speaker 15: X She-Ra!
25:01
Speaker 3: We're watching you!
25:01
Speaker 7: X She-Ra!
25:02
Speaker 2: We're watching you!
25:03
Speaker 3: Free Palestine!
25:03
Speaker 2: Free Palestine! Free Palestine!
25:05
Speaker 15: Free Palestine!
25:06
Speaker 3: Free Palestine!
25:07
Speaker 14: Free Palestine!
25:10
Speaker 3: Free Palestine!
25:17
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, this pro-Palestinian dude in a purple bra in New
25:21
Speaker 2: York climbed on a police car, waving a cross and
25:25
Speaker 2: a Palestinian flag To shout, you guessed it. Free, free Palestine!
25:31
Speaker 6: Free, free Palestine!
25:33
Speaker 14: Free, free Palestine!
25:35
Speaker 10: Free, free Palestine!
25:37
Speaker 2: Free, free Palestine!
25:39
Speaker 10: Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine!
25:43
Speaker 9: Free, free Palestine!
25:45
Speaker 10: Free, free Palestine!
25:46
Speaker 2: Yep, and again, I wouldn't recommend doing that in Gaza
25:50
Speaker 2: or even the West Bank because you wouldn't last five minutes, son. Now,
25:54
Speaker 2: we're used to ladies of The View making a spectacle
25:57
Speaker 2: of themselves, saying outrageously stupid things, uttering lies and half-truths,
26:03
Speaker 2: being blatant political activists while pretending to be impartial purveyors
26:07
Speaker 2: of truth. But now they stand accused of breaching ABC's
26:12
Speaker 2: broadcast licence. by electioneering? And are they also breaching the
26:18
Speaker 2: Federal Election Commission's equal time guidelines? Has Ana Navarro caused
26:24
Speaker 2: a world of trouble for ABC with this endorsement?
26:28
Speaker 16: I had taken for granted this race because she won
26:32
Speaker 16: two years ago by 20 points. And this is a
26:34
Speaker 16: district that Donald Trump won.
26:36
Speaker 6: By 15 points.
26:38
Speaker 16: So I thought, okay, you know, no point in paying attention.
26:41
Speaker 16: The polls have her dead even. So anybody who lives
26:46
Speaker 16: in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in downtown Miami,
26:50
Speaker 16: pay attention to that race and go vote because it's
26:53
Speaker 16: going to matter. And we can actually knock this woman out.
26:56
Speaker 9: There's a great guy running.
26:57
Speaker 2: His name is Elliot Rodriguez.
26:58
Speaker 9: Give him a look.
26:59
Speaker 6: Look at what is happening.
27:01
Speaker 2: Let's bring in News24 contributor, Kosha Gader. Kosha, explain to
27:05
Speaker 2: my audience the background to this controversy, the dispute over
27:10
Speaker 2: the FCC's equal time regulations. And then there's this issue
27:15
Speaker 2: of electioneering.
27:18
Speaker 10: Yes.
27:18
Speaker 17: So the FCC has pretty clear rules that there has
27:22
Speaker 17: to be equal time granted because it's sort of like
27:25
Speaker 17: kind rather than cash in terms of the benefit that
27:27
Speaker 17: you're giving to political candidates. And we know that most
27:30
Speaker 17: of the media is biased. If you're an opinion show
27:33
Speaker 17: on private cable, for example, like Fox News or MSNBC,
27:36
Speaker 17: it doesn't matter. But this is free to air ABC television.
27:39
Speaker 17: So they are required to, A, give equal time to
27:42
Speaker 17: political candidates because that is a benefit in kind, not
27:45
Speaker 17: in cash. And B, to not be able to very
27:49
Speaker 17: clearly give this sort of a political opinion that favors
27:51
Speaker 17: one side versus the other. Now, the Trump FCC has
27:54
Speaker 17: been quite bold in ways that previous administrations have not
27:57
Speaker 17: been in trying to enforce that, trying to threaten that
28:00
Speaker 17: they may take away some of their spectrum rights or
28:03
Speaker 17: other benefits that they get as a free to air
28:05
Speaker 17: broadcast network. And we would expect to see some of
28:09
Speaker 17: that come through. I also would not be surprised to
28:11
Speaker 17: see lawsuits in the other direction or a judge issuing
28:14
Speaker 17: an injunction if they were to actually pursue this a
28:17
Speaker 17: little bit more. And then lastly, I think ABC and
28:20
Speaker 17: parent company Disney may very likely settle, as they have
28:23
Speaker 17: done before in various lawsuits that Trump brought against them
28:26
Speaker 17: personally or the administration. So this may grow in a
28:30
Speaker 17: few different directions, but I think it's definitely going to
28:32
Speaker 17: heat up.
28:34
Speaker 2: Now, let's stick with the media. I want to look
28:36
Speaker 2: at the media coverage of a horrific crime, the murder
28:39
Speaker 2: of a mother in Mississippi, a black woman who was
28:42
Speaker 2: found hanging from a tree, and the media has gone
28:46
Speaker 2: out of its way to insert race into this story
28:50
Speaker 2: from the very start. Let's have a quick listen to CNN.
28:54
Speaker 1: Again, a lot we still don't know here, but obviously
28:57
Speaker 1: the raw imagery of a black person hanging from a
29:00
Speaker 1: tree in the American South evokes a very painful history.
29:05
Speaker 2: And they have not stopped, even as it emerged that
29:08
Speaker 2: the first man arrested was black. Earlier today, Associated Press
29:13
Speaker 2: posted another update saying a third suspect was arrested on
29:19
Speaker 2: murder charges in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old
29:23
Speaker 2: black mother of four whose body was found hanging from
29:27
Speaker 2: a tree behind an apparently vacant Jackson, Mississippi home on
29:32
Speaker 2: August 3rd. Now, from the start, Kosher, they have highlighted
29:37
Speaker 2: the race of the victim but failed to mention in
29:41
Speaker 2: headlines and in tweets like that that the men arrested,
29:45
Speaker 2: all three of them, are black. No mention of the
29:49
Speaker 2: race of the suspects, Kosher, just a dog whistle about lynchings.
29:55
Speaker 10: Of course.
29:56
Speaker 17: And yes, that imagery of somebody hanging from a tree
29:58
Speaker 17: in the South does evoke a lot of very painful emotion.
30:03
Speaker 17: And therefore, the media should be extra careful to not
30:05
Speaker 17: invoke it unless it actually is. And if you conveniently
30:09
Speaker 17: leave out the race of the suspects, as you mentioned
30:11
Speaker 17: that they did, or any of the other facts, that
30:13
Speaker 17: doesn't help. The police chief actually of Jackson, Mississippi, where
30:17
Speaker 17: this awful crime took place, has come out and made
30:20
Speaker 17: statements to the effect that it might even have been staged.
30:23
Speaker 17: So the murder is real, but that it was a
30:25
Speaker 17: drug deal gone awry. That was the, or is the
30:28
Speaker 17: emerging motive over here. They're still investigating. This case is
30:32
Speaker 17: very much still under active investigation, but it was a
30:35
Speaker 17: drug deal gone awry. And then after the fact, the
30:38
Speaker 17: culprits or the perpetrators, this is what the police chief
30:41
Speaker 17: is suggesting may have staged that to derail the investigation
30:45
Speaker 17: into the real crime and the real motive, which has
30:48
Speaker 17: to do with drug dealing. So if that ends up
30:50
Speaker 17: being true, they are going to look even more foolish.
30:53
Speaker 17: And everybody is nakedly transparent. They've got one framework for
30:57
Speaker 17: these things, so much so that this is actually a
30:59
Speaker 17: real crime and it's awful. But there have been fake
31:02
Speaker 17: crimes like Jussie Smollett, who we will never forget.
31:04
Speaker 9: They just want to kind.
31:05
Speaker 17: Of evoke this imagery of being hung and they will
31:09
Speaker 17: stop at nothing if they think that there is some
31:11
Speaker 17: truth to that to really push that narrative.
31:15
Speaker 2: It's like they want to manufacture cases of racism. For
31:19
Speaker 2: what purpose? That's the bigger question there. Now, the lone juror,
31:23
Speaker 2: the holdout who insured Lindsay Clancy did not get away
31:27
Speaker 2: with triple murder. He's broken his silence earlier today. He
31:31
Speaker 2: thanked those supporting him as elements of the left seek
31:34
Speaker 2: to destroy his life. And that juror, Michael Desronville, also
31:39
Speaker 2: put the focus back on the victims.
31:42
Speaker 12: My name is Michael Peggy Desronville, also known as the
31:45
Speaker 12: lone juror. I know the whole focus has been on me,
31:50
Speaker 12: but we want to reel everything back and put the
31:53
Speaker 12: focus on the three angels that's at hand. The ones
31:57
Speaker 12: that can't speak for themselves, the ones that can't defend themselves,
32:01
Speaker 12: and the ones that can't fight the battles. And those
32:04
Speaker 12: are Cora, Dawson and Callan.
32:07
Speaker 2: Kosha, he said their names, something Lindsay Clancy's lawyers and
32:12
Speaker 2: her thousands of supporters won't do. They pretend those children
32:17
Speaker 2: never even existed.
32:19
Speaker 17: Yes, because it's very convenient for them, of course, to
32:23
Speaker 17: not acknowledge that and that would force them to humanise
32:27
Speaker 17: it and maybe on some level if there's some humanity
32:29
Speaker 17: in them, confront that. Just also going back to the
32:32
Speaker 17: race point, I think it was interesting for the longest time,
32:35
Speaker 17: people assumed and nobody was mentioning this lone jurors race.
32:38
Speaker 17: And that's kind of funny to say Haitian descent. And
32:42
Speaker 17: that was a plot twist that I think most of
32:44
Speaker 17: us did not see coming in this whole saga. And
32:46
Speaker 17: he was somebody who got called to jury duty, did
32:49
Speaker 17: his civic duty, wound up on this case. We all
32:52
Speaker 17: know what he did and the amount of pressure that
32:54
Speaker 17: he was under, immense pressure from, I call them.
32:57
Speaker 2: The three witches of Macbeth, those three.
32:59
Speaker 17: That have been running their media tour. And for him
33:01
Speaker 17: to now come out, he thankfully has representation and he's
33:05
Speaker 17: making a statement, which is all fine and well, but
33:07
Speaker 17: he probably did not want this. He didn't want to
33:08
Speaker 17: be put in the national spotlight. And at least now
33:11
Speaker 17: that he has been thrust into it, he is calling
33:13
Speaker 17: their names and reminding everybody of who the real victims
33:16
Speaker 17: are here.
33:18
Speaker 2: Well, he really didn't have an option but to make
33:21
Speaker 2: a statement because they won't leave him alone. They've tried
33:26
Speaker 2: to dox him. They've tried to destroy his life. Even
33:28
Speaker 2: his family have been impacted. They've gone after his family.
33:31
Speaker 2: And Lindsay Clancy's defence attorney, Kevin Reddington, called Michael Deserenville
33:37
Speaker 2: obstructionist and incredibly kosher. He asked the court to launch
33:42
Speaker 2: an investigation into him. I mean, to me, that is
33:45
Speaker 2: so sinister. That really is a message to prospective jurors
33:51
Speaker 2: in the future that this could happen to you. If
33:53
Speaker 2: you want to stand by your principle and what you
33:57
Speaker 2: heard in that courtroom and what decision you made, we
34:01
Speaker 2: could destroy your life.
34:03
Speaker 17: That really is what it's about. And it is unprecedented.
34:06
Speaker 17: I haven't seen anything like this, the level of juror
34:08
Speaker 17: intimidation that they're doing. There are laws in Massachusetts on
34:11
Speaker 17: the books that even after the case is concluded, the
34:14
Speaker 17: you could be found liable for juror intimidation. So I'm
34:17
Speaker 17: interested to see if this loan juror's legal representation actually
34:22
Speaker 17: goes after Kevin Reddington or the other jurors out there,
34:25
Speaker 17: other people in the media that are maligning him because
34:27
Speaker 17: it could actually qualify as intimidation. What he what Kevin
34:31
Speaker 17: Reddington is going for is he sees this narrow legal
34:34
Speaker 17: pathway on whether or not the court was derelict in
34:38
Speaker 17: their due diligence that they did on the jurors. In
34:41
Speaker 17: that did he did Michael lie on his form and
34:45
Speaker 17: the affidavit that he had to sign when he came
34:47
Speaker 17: on as a juror? And if so, that he's trying
34:49
Speaker 17: to use that as a means to declare that the
34:52
Speaker 17: whole case was not properly adjudicated. So I think that
34:56
Speaker 17: is the one narrow lane that the judge is still
34:58
Speaker 17: looking at. But by all reporting so far, there does
35:01
Speaker 17: not seem to be enough evidence that he'll succeed in
35:03
Speaker 17: that lane. And therefore, the broader point is the one
35:05
Speaker 17: you mentioned, that even if this falls down and there
35:08
Speaker 17: isn't an actual pathway for him to disqualify this juror
35:11
Speaker 17: after the fact, he is trying to intimidate and send
35:14
Speaker 17: a message that if this goes back to trial, the
35:16
Speaker 17: prosecution is still considering bringing charges again a second time around,
35:21
Speaker 17: that you better find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason
35:25
Speaker 17: of insanity, otherwise we will destroy your life.
35:27
Speaker 2: Now let's check on the modern Democrats and where they
35:30
Speaker 2: are as a party. Look at what happened at an
35:33
Speaker 2: event at Cornell University, headlined by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, where
35:40
Speaker 2: they were chanting this.
35:41
Speaker 5: Palestine will be free!
35:42
Speaker 15: Palestine will be free!
35:47
Speaker 2: Yep, the co-chairs of the Young Democrats Socialists of America
35:52
Speaker 2: led chants and kosher. They also said things like, long
35:57
Speaker 2: live the student intifada. It's hard to say. Where are
36:03
Speaker 2: the Democrats? I spoke to John Heinrich about this last night.
36:08
Speaker 2: He seems to think that the socialists have a hold
36:11
Speaker 2: of this party, that this is no longer a fringe element.
36:15
Speaker 2: This is the modern Democrats.
36:18
Speaker 17: Certainly would seem that way because they do keep dragging
36:22
Speaker 17: the center of gravity of the party more and more
36:24
Speaker 17: leftward and more and more in this direction. Every so
36:27
Speaker 17: often you see a little bit of pushback when they've
36:30
Speaker 17: tried the same playbook. It's like rinse and repeat at Harvard,
36:33
Speaker 17: at Columbia. You saw a little bit where Bill Ackman,
36:36
Speaker 17: for example, big donor to Harvard, closed his checkbook to
36:39
Speaker 17: put pressure on them. And then that led to the
36:41
Speaker 17: Claudine Gay resignation and all of that. And then on Columbia,
36:45
Speaker 17: there were protesters who were on student visas or even
36:48
Speaker 17: one was on a green card. And Secretary of State
36:50
Speaker 17: Marco Rubio canceled the green card, canceled the visa. So
36:53
Speaker 17: you'll see a little bit of a pushback in that
36:56
Speaker 17: case from the right or Bill Ackman. Not sure what
36:58
Speaker 17: his politics are, but more as a private sector person.
37:01
Speaker 17: But other than that, you're not seeing anything from the
37:03
Speaker 17: Democrat Party leaders. People like Chuck Schumer, whose Jewish background,
37:08
Speaker 17: not that that necessarily matters, but you would think that
37:11
Speaker 17: he doesn't actually agree with this being chanted on American
37:14
Speaker 17: university campuses. But he's very quiet and the silence is
37:17
Speaker 17: quite conspicuous. So I do think the left led by
37:20
Speaker 17: AOC and her ilk are the ones that seem to
37:23
Speaker 17: be in charge.
37:25
Speaker 2: Now, before you go, I want to play you an
37:28
Speaker 2: ad that has some conservatives attacking one of their own,
37:31
Speaker 2: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They're not happy that the
37:36
Speaker 2: face of welfare is a young white man. They argue
37:41
Speaker 2: it's a PC decision and it's not backed by the stats.
37:45
Speaker 2: Let's have a look at the ad.
37:46
Speaker 17: Yeah, you want some of this?
37:48
Speaker 11: Come on.
37:49
Speaker 13: Meet Brad. Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession.
37:55
Speaker 13: But you, you actually work hard. You pay taxes to
37:59
Speaker 13: cover welfare for guys like Brad who just choose not
38:02
Speaker 13: to work.
38:02
Speaker 10: Whoa.
38:04
Speaker 13: That's why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement.
38:08
Speaker 17: Almost there.
38:09
Speaker 13: Now, more Arkansans are working than ever before.
38:13
Speaker 4: Whoa.
38:14
Speaker 2: Even Brad. Now, there's been a great deal of criticism
38:19
Speaker 2: of that ad. I'll just read one example from influential...
38:24
Speaker 2: author and commentator Matt Walsh, who said white males are
38:28
Speaker 2: the Republican Party's voting base and yet they are the
38:31
Speaker 2: group the Republican Party shits on at every possible opportunity. Meanwhile,
38:38
Speaker 2: back in reality, women are significantly more likely to be
38:41
Speaker 2: on welfare than men and black people are astronomically more
38:46
Speaker 2: likely to be on welfare than white people. So the
38:49
Speaker 2: number of single young white male brads abusing the welfare
38:54
Speaker 2: system is minuscule. Kosha, he's making some good points there.
39:01
Speaker 2: Was that ad a own goal by Sarah Huckabee Sanders?
39:06
Speaker 17: It's an interesting one. So in marketing terms, you would
39:09
Speaker 17: have a segmentation and then you would choose the most
39:12
Speaker 17: likely representative avatar to a given segment to sort of
39:17
Speaker 17: be the face of it. And that's what Matt Walsh
39:18
Speaker 17: is talking about. Choose a woman who's more likely depending
39:21
Speaker 17: on the state or a black person or other person
39:24
Speaker 17: of color. I'm guessing that Huckabee Sanders team knew that
39:29
Speaker 17: if they do that, that would become the headline, that
39:31
Speaker 17: you're sexist, you're racist, et cetera, by trying to portray
39:34
Speaker 17: that group as being failing in society. And she wanted
39:38
Speaker 17: to sidestep that and just talk about this program of
39:41
Speaker 17: getting people back to work. And you could take a
39:43
Speaker 17: positive look at it, that there actually are a lot
39:45
Speaker 17: of white working class males that are suffering and struggling,
39:49
Speaker 17: the forgotten man and woman, as Trump called them. And
39:51
Speaker 17: so it's okay to show that person and actually give
39:54
Speaker 17: that person the limelight, I guess, in the story, because
39:57
Speaker 17: it had a positive ending that he is back at
39:59
Speaker 17: work and his life is turned around. So I think
40:01
Speaker 17: you could take a charitable approach to it. And in general,
40:04
Speaker 17: the right would do better to not be in a
40:07
Speaker 17: circular firing squad, criticizing one another. Train your fire on.
40:12
Speaker 10: The left, which is a real rival and enemy.
40:15
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying 100% and Sarah Huckabee Sanders
40:19
Speaker 2: is a very good governor indeed, my home state of Arkansas,
40:22
Speaker 2: but I can understand the contempt for this ad because
40:27
Speaker 2: you're playing by the left's playbook. When you don't select
40:33
Speaker 2: the face of welfare as you otherwise would because you're
40:36
Speaker 2: worried about how the media are going to react, how
40:39
Speaker 2: the activist class are going to react, then you've almost
40:42
Speaker 2: given up the game already and that's... I think what
40:46
Speaker 2: many conservatives want to see an end to. They want
40:49
Speaker 2: the conservatives to be bold and unafraid. Kosha Gader, always
40:53
Speaker 2: a pleasure. Thanks so much for your time.
40:55
Speaker 6: Thanks, Rita.
40:56
Speaker 2: Coming up after the break, the ABC mocked for a
40:59
Speaker 2: ridiculous media watch expose. Dede Dunleavy is up next. Welcome back.
41:11
Speaker 2: And we're going to get into the ABC wasting more
41:14
Speaker 2: of your money shortly. But first, let's check in on
41:18
Speaker 2: the VMAs and Madonna stole the show for all the
41:23
Speaker 2: wrong reasons. Yes, I swear this footage is real. It's
41:27
Speaker 2: not AI. The material girl has morphed into somewhat of
41:31
Speaker 2: a freak show. I'm old enough to remember when Madonna
41:35
Speaker 2: was cool, edgy when she could sing and dance. Now
41:39
Speaker 2: we get this. You know, it was about the time
41:53
Speaker 2: when she got full-blown TDS that she lost her charm,
41:58
Speaker 2: lost her talent. Even her jokes are lame.
42:02
Speaker 9: First of all.
42:04
Speaker 16: I would like to thank my fingers because I can
42:09
Speaker 16: always count on them.
42:13
Speaker 10: Yep.
42:14
Speaker 2: And don't even ask me to explain this. There are
42:18
Speaker 2: no words. First of all, I just want to get
42:20
Speaker 2: this thing out of my ass. It's been in here
42:26
Speaker 2: all night. Anyways, now I can party in the park.
42:31
Speaker 2: Why are you guys so far away?
42:34
Speaker 9: Get over here.
42:37
Speaker 2: My microphone is too short. Yep, it's all just a sad,
42:42
Speaker 2: sad spectacle. It didn't have to be like this. You
42:45
Speaker 2: can age gracefully. You can age even disgracefully without becoming
42:50
Speaker 2: a freak show. You know what Madonna desperately needs in
42:54
Speaker 2: her circle is some honesty, some people strong enough to
42:58
Speaker 2: tell her the truth. Joining me now is broadcaster and
43:03
Speaker 2: News 24 contributor, Deedee Dunleavy. Deedee, she needs people in
43:08
Speaker 2: her circle who will protect her, protect her from herself sometimes.
43:14
Speaker 9: No, she's responsible for her own actions and she needs... Oh, look...
43:19
Speaker 9: I don't want to ever tell anyone else what to do,
43:21
Speaker 9: but you said a moment ago there were no words.
43:24
Speaker 9: There is a word and it is pathetic. I just
43:27
Speaker 9: thought her whole performance the whole evening was pathetic. There
43:30
Speaker 9: was so much wrong.
43:31
Speaker 10: She was wearing a.
43:32
Speaker 9: Sort of padded bottom thing that looked like a nappy,
43:35
Speaker 9: a full nappy at that. Her head looked like a
43:38
Speaker 9: balloon when you draw a face on it and stretch
43:40
Speaker 9: it tight. Like her face is just so distorted from.
43:43
Speaker 2: What it originally was.
43:44
Speaker 9: I don't mind anyone, you know, go ahead and have
43:46
Speaker 9: plastic surgery. But she's gone way too far. She was
43:50
Speaker 9: unsteady on her feet. She was slurring her words. She
43:53
Speaker 9: was cracking dad jokes. It was just off. And I
43:57
Speaker 9: think the thing that concerned me the most was that
43:59
Speaker 9: made it so pathetic was she was waving a hoo-ha
44:02
Speaker 9: about on stage. Now, if you're doing that, you're trying
44:04
Speaker 9: to appear sexual. She's 68. If she's trying to attract
44:08
Speaker 9: men her own age, well, they're not watching the VMAs.
44:11
Speaker 9: They're watching the golf. And the younger guys were watching
44:14
Speaker 9: Sabrina Carpenter. So she's basically putting it out for nobody.
44:18
Speaker 10: It's pathetic.
44:19
Speaker 9: Well, she does.
44:22
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying and, yeah, I don't know
44:25
Speaker 2: what is happening with her bottom, whether that is a
44:29
Speaker 2: part of the outfit or she's actually been augmented because
44:33
Speaker 2: that is some bizarre plastic surgery.
44:36
Speaker 9: Well, she has had a butt lift.
44:38
Speaker 2: Well, that's more than a lift. There's a double implant
44:41
Speaker 2: and some.
44:41
Speaker 9: She has.
44:43
Speaker 2: And some. But she does have a 30-year-old boyfriend or
44:47
Speaker 2: maybe 35. So you've got to give her credit for
44:50
Speaker 2: that because he's certainly, yeah, young enough to be her son.
44:55
Speaker 2: So props there, Madonna. Now let's talk about the Prince
44:59
Speaker 2: of Wales. He's understood to have declined several offers to
45:03
Speaker 2: make or appear in a documentary series. in tribute to
45:07
Speaker 2: his late mother as the 30th anniversary of her death approaches. Diddy,
45:12
Speaker 2: it is understood that William wants to avoid a situation
45:15
Speaker 2: where he and Harry are pitted against each other during filmmaking.
45:21
Speaker 2: It really is quite sad that even this anniversary, he
45:25
Speaker 2: can't market as he wants to because of the ongoing
45:30
Speaker 2: conflict with Harry.
45:31
Speaker 9: Well, he can market as he wants to and he'll
45:34
Speaker 9: do that privately. And I don't want to be mean,
45:37
Speaker 9: but I don't consider 30 to be a significant anniversary.
45:41
Speaker 9: It's certainly a great length of time since we lost
45:43
Speaker 9: Princess Diana, but usually like 25 and then maybe 50
45:47
Speaker 9: are the anniversaries that are marked. But when we talk
45:50
Speaker 9: about documentary that he won't be part of, what are
45:53
Speaker 9: we actually talking about? Is it this rumoured one that
45:56
Speaker 9: Harry is supposedly working on, which I find deeply offensive?
46:00
Speaker 9: We don't need another documentary whether William is in it
46:03
Speaker 9: or Harry is in it. There have been thousands of
46:06
Speaker 9: words written about Diana. There have been multiple productions, including movies.
46:10
Speaker 2: They bombed.
46:12
Speaker 9: People want to just remember her as she was. For
46:14
Speaker 9: goodness sakes, can they just let her rest in peace?
46:19
Speaker 10: Good point.
46:19
Speaker 2: Good point. Now, Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel has confirmed he
46:24
Speaker 2: dumped Meghan Markle as a client. Meghan signed with Ari
46:28
Speaker 2: back in April 2023 and, And there were rumours that
46:32
Speaker 2: had drifted, but no confirmation till now. He was recently
46:36
Speaker 2: asked by the Sunday Times about where he thought Meghan's
46:40
Speaker 2: career was headed. And he said on a quote, here's
46:43
Speaker 2: the great thing. I don't have to think about that anymore.
46:47
Speaker 9: Did he?
46:48
Speaker 2: It seems he is relieved to be rid of her.
46:52
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's really interesting this, partly because he's one of
46:54
Speaker 9: the biggest power players in Hollywood. So he's used to
46:58
Speaker 9: dealing with all sorts of difficult characters, as you can imagine.
47:01
Speaker 9: But the fact that he's come out and said something
47:03
Speaker 9: about a former client is extraordinary because in Hollywood, everyone
47:08
Speaker 9: wants to keep all their contacts up because you never
47:10
Speaker 9: know who's going to be involved in the next deal.
47:12
Speaker 9: You never know who's friends with who. Nobody wants to
47:14
Speaker 9: offend anyone. So to come out and say something where
47:17
Speaker 9: he's effectively wiped her from his life means that he's
47:21
Speaker 9: burned that bridge, which also means that he doesn't care
47:23
Speaker 9: who knows that he doesn't want anything to do with her,
47:26
Speaker 9: which probably confirms what we already suspected, and that is
47:29
Speaker 9: that she's just so on the nose in Hollywood. Nobody
47:32
Speaker 9: wants to be associated.
47:35
Speaker 2: No, I think all of that curiosity factor with her
47:39
Speaker 2: is gone. The more she did, whether it were podcast,
47:43
Speaker 2: the reality series, the cooking show. It just showed you
47:47
Speaker 2: how fake she is. She's just uniquely unlikable. I don't
47:50
Speaker 2: know what it is. I can't put my finger on it,
47:52
Speaker 2: but I, as you know, felt it from the start. Now,
47:56
Speaker 2: before you go, I've got to show you this from
47:58
Speaker 2: the ABC, the most weird bit of outrage I think
48:01
Speaker 2: we've seen from them all year. Media Watch has devoted
48:04
Speaker 2: an entire segment to the West Australians' coverage of the
48:09
Speaker 2: AFL and particularly the grand final. Apparently a WA paper
48:14
Speaker 2: covering the biggest story in WA is weird or an
48:18
Speaker 2: outrage requiring scrutiny and coverage from the clowns at Media Watch.
48:23
Speaker 18: Perth's hometown rag in mauve meltdown. Utter heartbreak after a
48:28
Speaker 18: week's long drumbeat of expectation.
48:32
Speaker 2: Never in doubt.
48:33
Speaker 11: Get on board.
48:34
Speaker 6: Wharf-y time.
48:36
Speaker 10: Wharf-y time?
48:37
Speaker 18: For those living on Mars, a clarion call to the
48:40
Speaker 18: Dockers faithful.
48:42
Speaker 8: To the last resort, the Dockers, in what will be
48:45
Speaker 8: their last game here. What is the sound?
48:56
Speaker 18: But those bells played at the MCG in the dying
48:59
Speaker 18: minutes of Saturday's grand final appeared to rally not the
49:03
Speaker 18: Dockers but the Lions, the West's Sunday edition sensitive to
49:08
Speaker 18: the moment. The newspaper has been shoulder to shoulder with
49:12
Speaker 18: the fans after having put the Dockers on page one
49:15
Speaker 18: of the paper and its wraparounds 19 times in the
49:19
Speaker 18: past two weeks. printing more than 140,000 words on the
49:23
Speaker 18: Fremantle team, the equivalent of two full-length novels, across no
49:28
Speaker 18: fewer than 235 pages.
49:33
Speaker 2: And it went on and on and on. Dee Dee,
49:36
Speaker 2: what is the problem? That's how taxes would work, by
49:39
Speaker 2: the way. Just exactly what is the problem with the
49:44
Speaker 2: paper in WA covering the biggest story in WA and
49:47
Speaker 2: giving it saturation coverage? What else are they expected to do?
49:52
Speaker 9: Well, obviously someone at the ABC barracks for the Brisbane
49:54
Speaker 9: Lions and just wanted to ram the point home. I
49:57
Speaker 9: haven't watched media watch in a long time. What's happened
50:00
Speaker 9: to it?
50:00
Speaker 15: No one does.
50:02
Speaker 9: I mean, as objectionable as it's always been, but at
50:04
Speaker 9: least they used to, you know, pick up genuine points
50:08
Speaker 9: in the media that were worthy of discussion. But that's
50:11
Speaker 9: just a point that every single TV footy show and
50:14
Speaker 9: TV talking head mentioned at the time that, oh, Wharfie time,
50:18
Speaker 9: you overdid it, you went too soon with that.
50:20
Speaker 18: That's not insight.
50:21
Speaker 9: That's not analysis. What a waste of money.
50:25
Speaker 2: Well, somebody there counted, you know, all the words and
50:28
Speaker 2: front pages devoted to the doctors. So there you go.
50:31
Speaker 2: That's our Taxes at Work, Denny Dunleavy. Thank you for
50:35
Speaker 2: your time. And that's all the time we have. Late
50:38
Speaker 2: Edition is up next.
50:41
Speaker 13: Music