Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 11 August
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Well wait, well, good evening.
- 0:07Speaker 2: I'm James Macpherson with the Nikka to Georgio and Caleb Bond,
- 0:10Speaker 2: who was doing his grocery shopping this afternoon. Do you
- 0:13Speaker 2: take your own bags, Caleb, or do you pay for
- 0:16Speaker 2: the paper ones?
- 0:17Speaker 3: If I have the foresight to take my own bags,
- 0:20Speaker 3: I will, but sometimes I don't think that far ahead,
- 0:24Speaker 3: and so I have to buy the paper ones.
- 0:26Speaker 1: What do you do to Nika.
- 0:27Speaker 4: I take my own bags, I know, always, again, like
- 0:30Speaker 4: ninety five percent of the.
- 0:31Speaker 5: Do you have them in the back of your car.
- 0:32Speaker 6: I have one in the back of my car and
- 0:34Speaker 6: too at home.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Yeah. See that's where I come a cropper. I don't
- 0:36Speaker 3: have them in the car because I do a lot
- 0:38Speaker 3: of just you know, I'll just walk up to the
- 0:40Speaker 3: shop sort of, so I'll have bags at home. But
- 0:41Speaker 3: then if I'm in the car, I stop off somewhere.
- 0:44Speaker 3: I don't have the.
- 0:44Speaker 6: Vands, James.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Our local supermarket, they provide boxes. It's all all their
- 0:49Speaker 2: excess boxes. They just have a pilot. Oh yeah, and
- 0:51Speaker 2: so you just pile all your.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Groceries into a box and you don't have to pay
- 0:54Speaker 1: for them. You don't have to pay for it.
- 0:55Speaker 6: That's actually a very good idea.
- 0:57Speaker 1: All right, then let's get into the show. Is what's
- 0:59Speaker 1: coming up tonight?
- 1:00Speaker 2: The majority of Australians say the Albanezy government should ban
- 1:04Speaker 2: social media companies from using algorithms to decide what we see.
- 1:07Speaker 6: Online without our permission.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Is this a sensible attempt to wrestle control back from
- 1:12Speaker 2: big tech or just another opportunity for Canberra to interfere
- 1:15Speaker 2: with our lives. Both One Nation and the LNP have
- 1:18Speaker 2: stalls at this week's Brisbane Exhibition. And while they may
- 1:21Speaker 2: both describe themselves as conservative, I'll tell you what their
- 1:24Speaker 2: approach to the public is very different. Will compare and
- 1:27Speaker 2: contrast the two parties at the Echo later in the show.
- 1:30Speaker 2: And a Sydney council wants to make English compulsory on
- 1:33Speaker 2: business signs. Good idea or just another council needlessly making
- 1:37Speaker 2: other people's businesses it's business. We'll talk about all of
- 1:40Speaker 2: that shortly, but first, there are growing calls for primary
- 1:43Speaker 2: schools to ban or at least dramatically limit children's access
- 1:47Speaker 2: to iPads and laptops. Many people fear the very technology
- 1:50Speaker 2: we were told would revolutionize education may well be revolutionizing it.
- 1:54Speaker 1: But entirely the wrong direction.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Thousands of parents have signed a petition arguing that falling
- 2:01Speaker 2: that plan results are at least in part due to
- 2:03Speaker 2: an overalliance on technology in the classroom. They say the
- 2:07Speaker 2: use of computers is hindering the development of foundational skills
- 2:10Speaker 2: such as handwriting, numerously, comprehension, and concentration. Center for Independent
- 2:16Speaker 2: Studies director of Education Research Blaze Joseph told journalists twenty
- 2:21Speaker 2: years ago, there was all this excitement around technology and education,
- 2:25Speaker 2: and everyone was saying, this is awesome. Kids are going
- 2:27Speaker 2: to be so much more engaged. Well, all that has
- 2:30Speaker 2: turned out to be wrong. It's exactly the opposite. It
- 2:34Speaker 2: makes students less engaged in learning, and it makes it
- 2:37Speaker 2: harder for them to concentrate.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Well.
- 2:39Speaker 2: I think these parents make a very good point. If
- 2:42Speaker 2: the great technological revolution in education has produced kids who
- 2:45Speaker 2: are less able to concentrate, less engaged with learning, and
- 2:49Speaker 2: less and more and more dependent on screens, maybe the
- 2:53Speaker 2: revolutionary idea isn't giving them another iPad, it's taking the
- 2:57Speaker 2: iPad away.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Danika, I'm in favor of this.
- 3:00Speaker 6: I actually am not in favor of this.
- 3:02Speaker 4: I think that laptops or any sort of technology in
- 3:04Speaker 4: the classroom is actually very important to equip children with
- 3:08Speaker 4: digital literacy that they will need to take into their
- 3:10Speaker 4: adult years when they do go to university, when they
- 3:13Speaker 4: enter the workforce. When I was in school, I think
- 3:15Speaker 4: we're about ten years old. I was in year five.
- 3:17Speaker 6: We were either the first school in the.
- 3:19Speaker 4: State or even maybe in the country to get laptops,
- 3:22Speaker 4: so we had them very early on, and I felt
- 3:26Speaker 4: like I was quite a whiz at using the computer
- 3:28Speaker 4: back then because I did learn so many important skills.
- 3:32Speaker 4: But what really carried it through and what I remember
- 3:34Speaker 4: in particular throughout the high school years was what was
- 3:38Speaker 4: valuable to me was learning how to use Excel, for example.
- 3:41Speaker 4: So I think it actually equips you with what you
- 3:44Speaker 4: will need for the future. There is one point that
- 3:46Speaker 4: I will agree with with this author that the guy
- 3:49Speaker 4: that you mentioned. He says there's a connection between actually
- 3:51Speaker 4: handwriting something down and retaining it in our brain. When
- 3:55Speaker 4: you physically write something down, you retain it and you
- 3:57Speaker 4: can retrieve.
- 3:58Speaker 6: It more with success.
- 4:00Speaker 4: I think he is absolutely spot on the art of
- 4:02Speaker 4: physically writing it out I think helps you commit it
- 4:05Speaker 4: to memory. But the reality is we live in a
- 4:08Speaker 4: technologically advanced world. We've got to get with the times,
- 4:11Speaker 4: and that does include children in the classrooms.
- 4:14Speaker 6: I actually think it can be a very very good resource.
- 4:16Speaker 3: I think there are some things you can't unstitch. I
- 4:18Speaker 3: don't think you'll ever completely remove a technology from the classroom,
- 4:22Speaker 3: and indeed there is a place for technology in the classroom.
- 4:25Speaker 3: But I think you can quite fairly say that we
- 4:28Speaker 3: went too far on it. And all of these points
- 4:31Speaker 3: are entirely correct about distraction and all this sort of thing.
- 4:35Speaker 3: I mean, I remember I was sort of in that
- 4:38Speaker 3: generation of ten fifteen years ago in high.
- 4:42Speaker 5: School where you were encouraged to.
- 4:44Speaker 3: Bring your own laptop to school, and you know, it
- 4:47Speaker 3: was basically the laptop is used in all facets of education,
- 4:51Speaker 3: in every classroom, etc. And I can tell you that
- 4:55Speaker 3: I was not always performing schoolwork on my laptop in
- 4:58Speaker 3: the classroom.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Don't say, you know, I hate to tell you.
- 5:02Speaker 3: I hate to tell my teachers that I wasn't always
- 5:04Speaker 3: focused on school.
- 5:05Speaker 1: You're probably writing columns for the Atletic.
- 5:08Speaker 3: I was reading them, you know, reading newspapers from inter
- 5:11Speaker 3: state and looking up all this sort of stuff because
- 5:13Speaker 3: that's what I was interested in it and the teacher
- 5:15Speaker 3: was prattling on about maths or something, a bugger that
- 5:18Speaker 3: I'll look up something that I want to know about.
- 5:20Speaker 3: So I made my own fun. And I'm sure I'm
- 5:22Speaker 3: not the only kid who's ever done that, not the
- 5:24Speaker 3: only kid that would be doing it at this very moment.
- 5:27Speaker 3: So I think we need to seriously rethink how use
- 5:30Speaker 3: of technology in the classroom. Obviously, you've had states that
- 5:34Speaker 3: have moved towards banning mobile phones in the classroom, and
- 5:38Speaker 3: I think that's been a great first step, But I
- 5:40Speaker 3: think we should look further than that and say that
- 5:43Speaker 3: first and foremost, i'd say, you don't have students bringing
- 5:46Speaker 3: their own devices of any kind to school, so they're
- 5:49Speaker 3: not using their own laptops. If they're using a laptop,
- 5:53Speaker 3: it's a school provided one that is given to you
- 5:56Speaker 3: at the start of the class for the purpose of
- 5:58Speaker 3: doing some sort of class work with or the teacher says, okay,
- 6:01Speaker 3: we're going to do an exercise now that requires a computer.
- 6:04Speaker 3: We either go to the computer room or we bring
- 6:05Speaker 3: out the laptops on which you do that. And apart
- 6:08Speaker 3: from that, i'd say, if you can expunge it from
- 6:10Speaker 3: the classroom, beyond that, it's generally a good thing.
- 6:13Speaker 5: And I'd say what, and I've advocate of this for.
- 6:15Speaker 3: A long time, is that they should give every student
- 6:18Speaker 3: a fountain pen and they can rediscover the joy of
- 6:21Speaker 3: handwriting with a fountain pen.
- 6:24Speaker 5: I think that do you to.
- 6:25Speaker 3: Bring technology into the classroom, Let's regress a little bit
- 6:28Speaker 3: and introduce them to the joys of riting with a fans.
- 6:31Speaker 6: That's a very caleb thing to say, very very sweet.
- 6:34Speaker 4: Well, I'm surprised to hear that people are being told
- 6:38Speaker 4: that kids are being told to bring their own laptops
- 6:40Speaker 4: into the classroom.
- 6:41Speaker 6: Poll I was, well, we weren't.
- 6:42Speaker 4: We were handed school laptops which we were to take
- 6:45Speaker 4: home because we had to complete homework assignments on that laptop.
- 6:49Speaker 4: But it was given to us by the school and
- 6:50Speaker 4: then obviously handed back upon graduation or when we had
- 6:53Speaker 4: to upgrade the computer.
- 6:55Speaker 2: This has been one of the changes, right because I
- 6:57Speaker 2: remember many years ago schools were saved. You know, enroll
- 7:00Speaker 2: here and will provide your child with a laptop. Now
- 7:04Speaker 2: you've got schools like Saint Joseph's Primary and Schofields here
- 7:06Speaker 2: in Sydney who are advertising come to our school and
- 7:09Speaker 2: your child will not use a laptop at all, at
- 7:12Speaker 2: least in their primary years because of as you've raised,
- 7:15Speaker 2: cognitive function and motor skills are foundational for everything else.
- 7:19Speaker 2: And if they're not given time to develop, they don't
- 7:22Speaker 2: And that's their concern.
- 7:23Speaker 4: Why can't they work in candomains? Why can't they work
- 7:26Speaker 4: hand in hand?
- 7:26Speaker 2: Well, I mean you mentioned you know you were at
- 7:28Speaker 2: an advantage because you learn to use an Excel spreadsheet, right, yeah,
- 7:31Speaker 2: So why can't you have computer studies or computer literacy
- 7:34Speaker 2: as a standalone subject or as a standalone period within
- 7:38Speaker 2: class time that is separate from your literacy and numeracy,
- 7:42Speaker 2: which is done with a pen and paper, So you
- 7:44Speaker 2: get the best of both.
- 7:45Speaker 4: Because when you have to start writing long form essays,
- 7:48Speaker 4: you're not going to start writing that on a pen and.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Paper, granted, but that would be in sort of late
- 7:53Speaker 2: years of primary school, high school, but wades one, two, three, four, five,
- 7:58Speaker 2: when they're still developing those foundational skills.
- 8:00Speaker 4: But there are also a lot of educational programs on
- 8:04Speaker 4: a laptop.
- 8:08Speaker 6: That's my point.
- 8:09Speaker 4: There are a lot of educational programs plugged into a lap.
- 8:12Speaker 3: So that becomes a replacement for what would otherwise happen
- 8:14Speaker 3: in the classroom.
- 8:15Speaker 6: Yeah, but I don't think that's a problem.
- 8:17Speaker 3: But I think really has been proved to be a problem.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Screen time problem.
- 8:21Speaker 2: We're trying to reduce the amount of screen time kids
- 8:23Speaker 2: are getting at every point, I get that the last
- 8:26Speaker 2: thing you want to do is replace a classroom teacher
- 8:28Speaker 2: with a computer program.
- 8:29Speaker 4: And some of them are also plugged in to fit
- 8:33Speaker 4: in with different children's needs as well, which helps a
- 8:36Speaker 4: teacher out too well.
- 8:37Speaker 3: But that's then getting into an individual you know, each
- 8:40Speaker 3: school can make an individual assessment. If a kid for
- 8:43Speaker 3: a particular reason can't write because he's got his hand
- 8:45Speaker 3: cut off, then sure, maybe he'll be using a laptop
- 8:48Speaker 3: or some other system I don't know, But that doesn't
- 8:51Speaker 3: mean that by and large every kid should then be
- 8:53Speaker 3: using a computer all the time in the classroom.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Does it?
- 8:55Speaker 4: No, But I'm not talking about I'm not talking about
- 8:56Speaker 4: physical interest. I'm talking about learning. Learning, you know, people
- 9:00Speaker 4: kids that need a little bit more help with their development.
- 9:02Speaker 4: I'm saying that there are specific computer programs that help
- 9:05Speaker 4: kids at every single leveltation.
- 9:07Speaker 3: So that is available individual kids who specifically need that
- 9:10Speaker 3: individual help. But that doesn't mean that you then apply
- 9:13Speaker 3: that out to the rest of the classroom and say, okay, well,
- 9:15Speaker 3: now the rest of the classroom be using laptops.
- 9:17Speaker 4: But I don't see what the problem is with using
- 9:19Speaker 4: a laptop. I think it's such an important educational tool.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Well, I think that the data says that NAP plan
- 9:24Speaker 2: results have been going backwards, and it seems to coincide
- 9:28Speaker 2: with the introduction of technology into the classroom because, as
- 9:33Speaker 2: you said, concentration levels have dropped. When you physically write something,
- 9:36Speaker 2: you remember and retain it better.
- 9:38Speaker 6: I do agree with the physical writing. I definitely agree
- 9:41Speaker 6: with it.
- 9:41Speaker 2: You've got comprehension and concentration are both diminished because of
- 9:45Speaker 2: devices in the classroom. Comprehension and concentration are pretty foundational
- 9:49Speaker 2: to the rest of your education right now.
- 9:50Speaker 4: I still think though, that laptop is important. I do
- 9:52Speaker 4: think it equips kids with the skills that you need.
- 9:55Speaker 4: It's just far more advanced to use a laptop now
- 9:57Speaker 4: that I think in conjunction handwriting. I don't think we
- 10:02Speaker 4: should ever get rid of laptops or technology in the classroom.
- 10:05Speaker 3: Well, I wonder if the kids are using social media
- 10:07Speaker 3: in the classroom, because you know, the social the social.
- 10:10Speaker 5: Media ban remember the social media ban. I wonder how
- 10:14Speaker 5: well that's going.
- 10:15Speaker 3: In fact, I was only thinking the other day. I
- 10:18Speaker 3: was on a tram and there was a I assume
- 10:22Speaker 3: it was dad and two young girls.
- 10:24Speaker 5: They would have looked about it.
- 10:25Speaker 3: I don't know, eleven or twelve, and they're playing away
- 10:28Speaker 3: on the Snapchat, and I thought, Ah.
- 10:29Speaker 4: The social media band's working so much snapchats, don't you.
- 10:33Speaker 5: Now, I have not used Snapchat for quite some time.
- 10:36Speaker 6: A couple of face fields.
- 10:38Speaker 3: You might use the face field as the lega, but
- 10:40Speaker 3: I certainly don't. But I thought, oh, this social media
- 10:43Speaker 3: band is going so well. Of course, that was the
- 10:45Speaker 3: beginning of the federal government saying that, you know, we
- 10:48Speaker 3: want to regulate social media in some large way. We
- 10:51Speaker 3: believe there are harms being caused by social media, and
- 10:53Speaker 3: of course there are, so they came up with this
- 10:56Speaker 3: social media band. But again I don't think that has
- 10:58Speaker 3: worked particularly well. But another idea that is being shopped
- 11:02Speaker 3: around to the federal government is that they should regulate
- 11:06Speaker 3: the algorithms on social media services. And indeed, there's a
- 11:10Speaker 3: new study or a poll that's been done by Essential
- 11:14Speaker 3: Research which is found that are whopping seventy one percent
- 11:18Speaker 3: of Australians apparently want the government to regulate what you
- 11:23Speaker 3: see on social media in the form of mandating an
- 11:26Speaker 3: opt in feature for social media algorithms. So basically you
- 11:31Speaker 3: would be able to see, say I want to see
- 11:33Speaker 3: content showed to me via the algorithm that the social
- 11:37Speaker 3: media service decides, or presumably you'd be able to have
- 11:41Speaker 3: it come to you as people post it based on
- 11:43Speaker 3: who you follow. And they then break this down into
- 11:46Speaker 3: the political parties that people support. Seventy six percent of
- 11:49Speaker 3: Labour people want it, seventy two percent of Coalition people,
- 11:52Speaker 3: seventy one percent of One Nation people, sixty eight percent
- 11:55Speaker 3: of Green's voters, So it would seem there is a
- 11:58Speaker 3: huge amount of support for this six percent. Only six
- 12:02Speaker 3: percent of people said they either somewhat or strongly disagreed
- 12:06Speaker 3: with the idea of the government mandating that you should
- 12:09Speaker 3: be able to opt out of a social media algorithm.
- 12:14Speaker 3: And I get on the face of it that it
- 12:16Speaker 3: sounds great because if you can opt out of the algorithm,
- 12:19Speaker 3: you know it's meant to give you more control of
- 12:21Speaker 3: social media. I will note the one social media platform
- 12:26Speaker 3: at the moment that voluntarily allows you to opt out
- 12:28Speaker 3: of the algorithm is x, which is the one, of course,
- 12:32Speaker 3: that the net nanny, the e Safety Karen seems to
- 12:36Speaker 3: have most problems with, even though they will let you
- 12:40Speaker 3: use the service in the order of people you followed
- 12:43Speaker 3: posting things when they post them as opposed to what
- 12:46Speaker 3: they want to send to you. But what concerns me
- 12:48Speaker 3: about this is that it becomes a slippery slope that
- 12:51Speaker 3: we say, okay, the government effectively regulates the algorithm by
- 12:57Speaker 3: saying you can opt out of it if you can
- 12:59Speaker 3: say to us, so social media service, and I've always
- 13:02Speaker 3: advocated that they should be treated in the same way
- 13:04Speaker 3: as a publisher. But if you can say to a
- 13:06Speaker 3: social media service that they must give you an option
- 13:10Speaker 3: to consume content on that service which you have no
- 13:14Speaker 3: obligation to sign up to, which is a privately owned company,
- 13:17Speaker 3: a website that you don't have to go to, we
- 13:19Speaker 3: will now dictate the way in which you show content
- 13:22Speaker 3: on that. Well, here we are doing a television program.
- 13:25Speaker 3: We're owned by a private company. The three of us,
- 13:28Speaker 3: in conjunction with our producer and our bosses, choose the
- 13:33Speaker 3: stories that we want to present to viewers on this show,
- 13:36Speaker 3: and we choose the order in which they are presented
- 13:39Speaker 3: to people on this show, because we think, you know,
- 13:41Speaker 3: this story is most important, this is what is most interesting.
- 13:44Speaker 3: That's what we're going to give to the viewers, because
- 13:46Speaker 3: this is what we think we'll keep viewers watching from
- 13:48Speaker 3: the top of the hour to the end of the hour.
- 13:50Speaker 3: We're doing this all the time I've worked in newspapers.
- 13:53Speaker 3: I'm there as a chief of staff having these discussions
- 13:56Speaker 3: with the editor about what are we going to put
- 13:58Speaker 3: on pages one, three, five, seven, etc. Because we want
- 14:01Speaker 3: someone to a pick up the paper and buy it
- 14:04Speaker 3: and then keep flicking the pages of the newspaper. We've
- 14:07Speaker 3: been doing algorithms in a more manual way for a
- 14:11Speaker 3: very long time, and the news media still does and
- 14:14Speaker 3: always will do. But we're going to tell social media
- 14:17Speaker 3: companies that they can't use their own algorithms. I think
- 14:21Speaker 3: that's a dangerous territory to head into.
- 14:23Speaker 2: I disagree with you that the government is regulating algorithms
- 14:26Speaker 2: by this move. They're not regulating anything. They're simply providing
- 14:30Speaker 2: consumers with choice, which I thought you would have been
- 14:32Speaker 2: in favor of.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Well, but no, no.
- 14:34Speaker 3: But could they then come and say to a newspaper
- 14:37Speaker 3: you can't choose the order in which the stories go
- 14:40Speaker 3: because it's fundamentally the same thing.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Well, I think it's fundamentally different, and I think to
- 14:44Speaker 2: draw a line between those two is a bit of
- 14:46Speaker 2: a stretch.
- 14:47Speaker 3: That no, but it's the I would order a newspaper
- 14:51Speaker 3: because I want someone to buy it because they like
- 14:53Speaker 3: page one, and then they get to page three and go,
- 14:55Speaker 3: that was a good story, So I'm going to flip.
- 14:56Speaker 5: The page and keep reading like it's.
- 14:59Speaker 3: The principle of try to keep people engaged with the
- 15:01Speaker 3: product is exactly the same as social media, except that
- 15:04Speaker 3: social media is doing it, you know, by automated means.
- 15:07Speaker 2: I think social media stands in a class of its
- 15:10Speaker 2: own because it's so ubiquitous for everybody, and also because
- 15:14Speaker 2: the way they work the algorithm is more than I mean,
- 15:16Speaker 2: we sit around a table and we think what do
- 15:18Speaker 2: we believe people will be most interested in, whereas social
- 15:21Speaker 2: media companies literally monitor how long you watch a particular video,
- 15:26Speaker 2: how long you, you know, look at a certain picture,
- 15:30Speaker 2: and then start to formulate a whole dossier on you
- 15:33Speaker 2: personally and direct things your way. I think that's very
- 15:36Speaker 2: different to the way newspapers put together or a TV
- 15:39Speaker 2: show and to suggest that the government would say we're
- 15:42Speaker 2: going to start regulating you know, social media companies to
- 15:45Speaker 2: provide opt in or opt out with algorithms, and then
- 15:48Speaker 2: you know that's on Friday, and then Monday Elbow's ringing
- 15:51Speaker 2: News twenty four to say, hey, listen, I want to
- 15:52Speaker 2: have input into the way you present the late debate
- 15:55Speaker 2: is but this is a bit of a.
- 15:57Speaker 6: Straight but no.
- 15:58Speaker 4: But I think this is a slippery slope that we're
- 15:59Speaker 4: heading down to. I mean, as Caleb pointed out, are
- 16:02Speaker 4: we going to have the net nanny or some sort
- 16:04Speaker 4: of a bureaucrat sitting in their office in Canberra and
- 16:07Speaker 4: dictating what should be coming up on people's social media
- 16:09Speaker 4: feeds as per their algorithm? Because that's what that's the
- 16:13Speaker 4: slope that once you start opening that giving.
- 16:16Speaker 1: You the ability to determine whether you want the algorithm
- 16:18Speaker 1: or not.
- 16:18Speaker 4: The thing is with algorithms, I actually think that they
- 16:21Speaker 4: are very useful. I like the algorithm because it provides
- 16:25Speaker 4: me with what I am most interested in looking at.
- 16:28Speaker 4: So for example, if you are looking at cooking videos
- 16:32Speaker 4: on your social media, your algorithm will start flooding you
- 16:36Speaker 4: with more cooking videos. I don't see what the problem
- 16:39Speaker 4: is that, because that is content that I would genuinely
- 16:42Speaker 4: engage in, that I generally enjoy. It's not something that's
- 16:46Speaker 4: foreign and random to me that's popping up, like you know,
- 16:49Speaker 4: I don't know Caleb Bond.
- 16:50Speaker 6: On a weekend.
- 16:52Speaker 1: You don't want to see that.
- 16:53Speaker 2: On the contrary, you and I sit here talking about
- 16:55Speaker 2: cooking for ten minutes, and next thing, I look at
- 16:56Speaker 2: Instagram and I'm inundated with cooking videos and I've got
- 16:59Speaker 2: no But I don't think at all but that I
- 17:01Speaker 2: should have to say I don't want them.
- 17:03Speaker 1: To do that.
- 17:03Speaker 4: But that's but that's not only just a social media thing.
- 17:06Speaker 4: Your phone is listening to you all the time, for
- 17:09Speaker 4: all sorts of apps and for a range of things.
- 17:11Speaker 4: That's just that's not just solely a social media issue.
- 17:14Speaker 2: But I would love to have the ability to say
- 17:17Speaker 2: to Instagram or Facebook or whatever, I don't want you
- 17:19Speaker 2: doing that. I only want to look at the stuff
- 17:21Speaker 2: that I have asked to look at. Keep everything out.
- 17:24Speaker 4: But you've already sort of programmed yourself. You know, you
- 17:28Speaker 4: say I want to I've asked to look at it,
- 17:30Speaker 4: but you've already programmed the algorithm to give you.
- 17:33Speaker 6: What you're asking.
- 17:34Speaker 3: You have a choice, though, but you want to ask
- 17:37Speaker 3: you for the matter, James, you did have a choice.
- 17:40Speaker 5: Do you have to use Facebook?
- 17:43Speaker 1: No?
- 17:43Speaker 5: Do you have to use X?
- 17:45Speaker 1: Yes? Why for this job you have to use X?
- 17:48Speaker 5: No? You don't forced to do.
- 17:50Speaker 2: You Every newsperson in the country is on X constantly?
- 17:53Speaker 1: You know that better than anybody else? All right, say
- 17:55Speaker 1: you're average? Right about that?
- 17:57Speaker 6: Average?
- 17:57Speaker 3: Well, you know you don't have to I don't think
- 17:59Speaker 3: you have either. Are people who don't be watching you.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Chris Kenny for a very long time as was not
- 18:03Speaker 3: on I think he's just recently rejoined it.
- 18:05Speaker 1: For long Joves not on X. Even Chris Kenny uses for.
- 18:08Speaker 5: The average Joan the Street. Do you have to use X?
- 18:10Speaker 5: Do you have to use YouTube? Do you have to
- 18:12Speaker 5: use Face?
- 18:12Speaker 2: I just can't believe how argue his instasume is to
- 18:15Speaker 2: have no choice.
- 18:15Speaker 3: No, no, but the choices whether or not you use the service.
- 18:18Speaker 3: So you have opted in to use the service and
- 18:21Speaker 3: then having voluntarily begun using the service. You said, I
- 18:24Speaker 3: don't like the service. I want the government to intervene
- 18:26Speaker 3: and change the way the service works.
- 18:28Speaker 2: I would like the government to intervene on my behalf
- 18:31Speaker 2: so that I can have the social media experience I
- 18:33Speaker 2: would like, rather than having it foisted upon me by
- 18:36Speaker 2: Facebook executives who do not have my best interests at heart.
- 18:39Speaker 1: They only have their top dollar at heart.
- 18:42Speaker 2: I never thought I would hear the days agreed with
- 18:46Speaker 2: only six percent agree with you.
- 18:48Speaker 4: I never thought i'd hear the day where James Macpherson
- 18:51Speaker 4: is calling for more.
- 18:52Speaker 6: Government, more regulation.
- 18:53Speaker 4: He literally wants another hand in his pocket from the
- 18:57Speaker 4: net nantny and the government bureaucrat.
- 18:59Speaker 1: No. No, they're giving me the power to choose.
- 19:01Speaker 6: They're not choosing, James, You already have the power to choose.
- 19:05Speaker 6: To stop, just stop, to stop.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Use side argument.
- 19:09Speaker 4: Well again, you've got the power to look at whatever
- 19:11Speaker 4: videos you want, and your feet is providing it with you.
- 19:14Speaker 4: Unless you want to look at Caleb on a Sunday,
- 19:17Speaker 4: then it's wrong with that. By the way, there's nothing wrong.
- 19:19Speaker 5: It's wrong with me on a Sunday.
- 19:21Speaker 6: I also think of you as an example.
- 19:23Speaker 2: It's a fellacy just to make the argument that government
- 19:25Speaker 2: intervention is always bad. Otherwise you don't have any The
- 19:29Speaker 2: point of government is that that does intervene, but in
- 19:31Speaker 2: your private in.
- 19:32Speaker 4: Your private usage, what you're looking at on your social
- 19:34Speaker 4: media that you want intervention in that though.
- 19:36Speaker 1: No, it's not intervening in what I love.
- 19:38Speaker 6: It is intervenient.
- 19:40Speaker 1: No, it's not saying anything about what I look at.
- 19:42Speaker 2: It's giving me the opportunity to determine what I look at.
- 19:45Speaker 6: It's government intervention. I never thought i'd hear you say it,
- 19:48Speaker 6: James McPherson. But we learn everything.
- 19:50Speaker 5: We're forced to look at Instagram.
- 19:51Speaker 6: He's forced to look at everything. This guy is. He
- 19:55Speaker 6: lives this very very sad life. Now look it is.
- 20:00Speaker 1: For us, he lives a sad life.
- 20:04Speaker 4: No, absolutely, that's probably what the saddest.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Part of it, to the one respite for.
- 20:13Speaker 4: Spending time with caleber and I is the saddest part
- 20:16Speaker 4: of James.
- 20:17Speaker 2: McPherson's Give the government to intervene.
- 20:20Speaker 4: This nett Nanny would be all over it like her rash.
- 20:24Speaker 6: She'd love that. She'd love that. Okay.
- 20:27Speaker 4: Now it is that time of the year, the best
- 20:29Speaker 4: time of the year in Queensland. Of course the Ecka
- 20:32Speaker 4: is on the show that everyone of every age loves
- 20:36Speaker 4: and this year there is a special guest at the Ecka.
- 20:39Speaker 6: Her name is Pauline Hansen.
- 20:42Speaker 4: Yes, one nation has actually set up its own booth
- 20:45Speaker 4: there at the one of the pavilions, costing about three
- 20:49Speaker 4: thy nine hundred dollars for a three meter by three
- 20:52Speaker 4: meter spot according to the ECHA leasing guide.
- 20:56Speaker 6: The LMP is also there, but as you can.
- 20:58Speaker 4: See by this vision here, Pauline Hanson's proving quite popular.
- 21:02Speaker 6: Now.
- 21:02Speaker 4: What makes her stand different, aside from the fact that
- 21:05Speaker 4: punters can meet and greet with the leader herself, is
- 21:08Speaker 4: that she's also selling merchandising. So there are there is
- 21:12Speaker 4: a twenty five dollar make elbow go away hat, a
- 21:15Speaker 4: thirty five dollar Pauline Hanson bobblehead figurine, a five dollar
- 21:20Speaker 4: pack of playing cards featuring a CPR digitally altered image
- 21:24Speaker 4: of miss Hanson as a nineteen fifties housewife manually washing
- 21:29Speaker 4: clothes with an Australian flag draped over her shoulder.
- 21:32Speaker 6: I like this.
- 21:33Speaker 4: This is amazing ingenuity. I think this is absolutely fantastic.
- 21:36Speaker 4: Now the LMP. Let's do a bit of a compare
- 21:39Speaker 4: and contrast. If we can just bring up the LMP please.
- 21:43Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they're holding a cabinet meeting at the ecka
- 21:46Speaker 4: versus Pauline Hanson meeting and greeting. I don't know about
- 21:49Speaker 4: you too, but I think there's one that looks fun
- 21:51Speaker 4: and one maybe that doesn't look as much fun. Now
- 21:55Speaker 4: I have to say this is such smart politics by
- 21:59Speaker 4: One Nation taking Pauline Hanson out into the ECHA to
- 22:03Speaker 4: meet with people, to meet with her supporters, and they
- 22:07Speaker 4: are capitalizing on not only her polling but her success
- 22:11Speaker 4: right now.
- 22:12Speaker 6: So what better way to throw her into the limelight to.
- 22:14Speaker 4: Send it to one of the most popular festivals of
- 22:17Speaker 4: the year, to have her photos taken, and by all accounts,
- 22:20Speaker 4: she's enjoying it.
- 22:22Speaker 7: Go on here at the.
- 22:23Speaker 4: Aircraft and the One Nations said, I've had a fantastic time.
- 22:26Speaker 6: I've met so many cheerful I'm going to have a
- 22:28Speaker 6: one to day here, So if you're at the ap
- 22:30Speaker 6: please come down to the One Action soon.
- 22:32Speaker 4: I'm out having to go. Oh, I've been here for
- 22:34Speaker 4: the rest week.
- 22:35Speaker 6: I've got chamber. I'm I've got to go down that day.
- 22:37Speaker 4: Time public to google what I have noticed about One
- 22:42Speaker 4: Nation social media in the last few months. And I've
- 22:45Speaker 4: said this before, they are doing it so well compared
- 22:48Speaker 4: to the other parties. Pauline Hanson is not talking policy
- 22:52Speaker 4: at you. She's putting herself at your level. Even with
- 22:56Speaker 4: that video. Look, I'm not going to be there all day.
- 22:58Speaker 4: It's like she's having a chat to a mate. It's
- 23:01Speaker 4: not I am. You know Anthony Albanesi the Prime Minister
- 23:07Speaker 4: of Australia and I love the EKA. It's not a
- 23:10Speaker 4: pre recorded, pre rehearsed Anthony Albanesi script. It's very one
- 23:14Speaker 4: on one and very relatable. But even when she was
- 23:17Speaker 4: spending time overseas, when she was in London, she had
- 23:20Speaker 4: those videos when she was sitting in the back of
- 23:21Speaker 4: the car and she was just talking at the camera,
- 23:24Speaker 4: very off the cuff.
- 23:25Speaker 6: It didn't look scripted.
- 23:27Speaker 4: So whatever one nation is doing right now, whoever is
- 23:30Speaker 4: behind the social media campaigns, the ad campaigns, I would say,
- 23:35Speaker 4: well done because it's working. And to put Pauline at
- 23:39Speaker 4: the EKA brilliant. Well.
- 23:41Speaker 2: I think James Ashby is behind most of this and
- 23:43Speaker 2: it is marketing genius.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Frankly, when it comes from politics, of course you'd be
- 23:47Speaker 1: at the ECHA.
- 23:48Speaker 2: They're expecting four hundred and thirty thousand people at the
- 23:50Speaker 2: exhibition this week, so Pauline Hanson would be mad not
- 23:54Speaker 2: to be there. I think the interesting point of difference
- 23:56Speaker 2: between the LNP stand and the One Nation stand is
- 24:00Speaker 2: that the LNP stand is providing people with policy information.
- 24:05Speaker 2: The One Nation stand is providing people with an opportunity
- 24:08Speaker 2: for a selfie.
- 24:08Speaker 1: With Pauline Hanson.
- 24:09Speaker 2: And if you talk to a lot of One Nation supporters,
- 24:12Speaker 2: they tend to be far more sold on Pauline Hanson
- 24:15Speaker 2: the person and a little less oa with the policies.
- 24:19Speaker 2: But we like Pauline Hanson and we believe in her.
- 24:24Speaker 2: With the LNP, it's more about the policies when it
- 24:27Speaker 2: comes to merch. I mean, so you tell me you
- 24:30Speaker 2: go to the Echo, right, you're not really interestant politics
- 24:32Speaker 2: at the Echo. So you could go to the One
- 24:35Speaker 2: Nation stand and get a Pauline Hanson bobblehead to put
- 24:38Speaker 2: on the dash of your white camery, Caleb or my
- 24:42Speaker 2: white camery. Well, you're talking to me about that before
- 24:44Speaker 2: the show. Or you can go to the L and
- 24:46Speaker 2: P stand. Do you know what they're offering or they're
- 24:47Speaker 2: giving to hit me. They're giving away a chore chart.
- 24:52Speaker 2: So it's an ln P coort chart, so you can
- 24:54Speaker 2: put all the chores for the household on the chart.
- 24:57Speaker 2: LLENP logo or an NP hight chart, you know those
- 25:01Speaker 2: hype charts.
- 25:03Speaker 1: So what would you rather make?
- 25:05Speaker 2: Albanezy go away hat or a chor chart to put
- 25:08Speaker 2: on the fridge with the LNP logo.
- 25:10Speaker 4: How embarrassy if I saw a chor chart with the
- 25:12Speaker 4: L ANDP logo in someone's house and go where they go?
- 25:15Speaker 2: What a Why would want a political party to be
- 25:18Speaker 2: associated with chores?
- 25:20Speaker 1: I mean, is it bad?
- 25:21Speaker 3: But this is emblematic of just how far more agile
- 25:24Speaker 3: One Nation is than the major parties. And they just
- 25:28Speaker 3: get the new landscape much better, which is why they're
- 25:32Speaker 3: doing so well. People are sick of the old way
- 25:36Speaker 3: of doing things because they look at the old way
- 25:39Speaker 3: of doing things and say, well, and I'm delivered very
- 25:41Speaker 3: much for me, and so I'm willing to go and
- 25:44Speaker 3: look at something completely different. I'm willing to say, actually,
- 25:47Speaker 3: you know what, I'll work out my make my mind
- 25:50Speaker 3: up about policy later. I just need something.
- 25:53Speaker 5: Else to believe in.
- 25:54Speaker 3: And at the moment, they'll believe in One Nation and
- 25:56Speaker 3: Pauline Hanson and so all they need to do is
- 25:58Speaker 3: rock up and say well here's the product.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Now.
- 26:01Speaker 3: The product they're selling is not the policy. The product
- 26:03Speaker 3: they're selling is the person. The product they're selling is
- 26:06Speaker 3: the mood, it's the vibe. It's that we don't like
- 26:09Speaker 3: the way things are going. Here's someone who talks differently,
- 26:12Speaker 3: treats you differently.
- 26:13Speaker 5: Is available, do you?
- 26:15Speaker 3: I mean you know you wouldn't see Anthony Albanisi or
- 26:19Speaker 3: I suspect Angus Taylor or in the case you know
- 26:22Speaker 3: that they've got the state government having a cabinet meeting
- 26:25Speaker 3: up there, David Chris A foley.
- 26:28Speaker 5: Man, anyone cares worry, but you wouldn't.
- 26:30Speaker 3: You wouldn't have these people manning a stand at the
- 26:32Speaker 3: ecka so that the average Joe blow.
- 26:35Speaker 5: Can come up and have a yarn with them.
- 26:36Speaker 3: You know, their interactions with the public are stage managed mostly.
- 26:42Speaker 3: You know, you're more likely with an opposition leader perhaps
- 26:45Speaker 3: run into them in the street, but most of your
- 26:46Speaker 3: interactions with the public are stage manager and there's staff
- 26:50Speaker 3: they're making sure that everything stays on track, and you know,
- 26:53Speaker 3: will move you on if someone asks you a difficult question,
- 26:55Speaker 3: and all these sorts of things, right, it's just so
- 26:59Speaker 3: completely different, and that is fundamentally why one nation is
- 27:03Speaker 3: working and the faster. The Labor Party in the Coalition
- 27:07Speaker 3: realize that the better.
- 27:08Speaker 5: It will be for them.
- 27:09Speaker 3: But I think, as I asked Roskadel this question one
- 27:12Speaker 3: evening when I was hosting PML, I said, why didn't
- 27:15Speaker 3: you come up with the Father lire Ad campaign the
- 27:20Speaker 3: fundraiser before One Nation did? And he said, fundamentally, we're
- 27:24Speaker 3: just not as agile as they are, and that is basically.
- 27:28Speaker 4: I don't think we have seen an on the ground
- 27:31Speaker 4: campaign like it in politics at the moment in the
- 27:35Speaker 4: last decade, in my view, at least than what we're
- 27:38Speaker 4: seeing right now from One Nation.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Remember a couple of weeks ago when Barnaby Joyce yelled
- 27:41Speaker 2: at his dog during an ABC interview. Oh yeah, the
- 27:44Speaker 2: next day on the One Nation website they had Barnaby
- 27:47Speaker 2: Joyce dog leashes that you could buy called shut up
- 27:52Speaker 2: or be quiet or down whatever it was. That they're
- 27:54Speaker 2: incredibly quick. Paul and Hansen might have some allies at
- 27:57Speaker 2: the Strathfield Council here in Sydney where it comes to
- 28:01Speaker 2: social cohesion, because the council there has just moved a
- 28:04Speaker 2: motion that would compel local businesses to put shop signs
- 28:09Speaker 2: in English. It doesn't mean they can't have signs in
- 28:12Speaker 2: other languages as well, but the motion would make it
- 28:16Speaker 2: compulsory for them to have English signs. And this is
- 28:19Speaker 2: important because in Strathfield forty five thousand residents seventy three
- 28:24Speaker 2: percent of whom speak a language other than English, and
- 28:28Speaker 2: indeed about that percentage were born overseas as well. Consequently,
- 28:32Speaker 2: and we'll show you some vision. When you walk through
- 28:35Speaker 2: the suburb of Strathfield, it's not unusual at all to
- 28:40Speaker 2: walk past shops where you've got no idea optometrist.
- 28:43Speaker 1: I know what that says.
- 28:44Speaker 2: But many of the shops there's no English whatsoever. The
- 28:48Speaker 2: motion was carried four votes to two. But what's particularly
- 28:52Speaker 2: interesting is the motion was moved not by some white
- 28:56Speaker 2: supremacist but by a South Korean immigrant councillor, Esther Kim.
- 29:02Speaker 2: She moved to Australia forty nine years ago, and she says,
- 29:05Speaker 2: as a local in Strathfield and as an immigrant, it's
- 29:08Speaker 2: crazy having all of these different languages but no English.
- 29:12Speaker 2: She said, English is the glue that binds us all together.
- 29:16Speaker 2: How can we ever have social cohesion if, at a
- 29:19Speaker 2: minimum we can't communicate with each other. So it seems
- 29:23Speaker 2: perfectly sensible to mandate in a suburb of Australia that
- 29:28Speaker 2: you should have English shop signs. She said she was
- 29:32Speaker 2: astonished that the opposition to this was led by labor
- 29:36Speaker 2: councilors who were not immigrants at all, but white Australians
- 29:40Speaker 2: were the ones opposed to this. And that's the thing
- 29:42Speaker 2: I find fascinating about this. You've got, as I said,
- 29:45Speaker 2: an immigrant counselor saying we should have English signs, and
- 29:49Speaker 2: you've got English locals saying no, no, no, no, we don't want
- 29:53Speaker 2: to impose that on people. I think the premise here
- 29:56Speaker 2: is that when you come to this country, you move
- 29:59Speaker 2: to a you don't come here and demand Australia booths
- 30:02Speaker 2: to you.
- 30:03Speaker 1: And I think that's the difference.
- 30:04Speaker 2: They're not outlawing signs in other languages, they're just saying,
- 30:08Speaker 2: as a minimum, we should have English.
- 30:10Speaker 4: What do you think, well, yeah, I oh, I think
- 30:11Speaker 4: this is absolutely brilliant. Finally we actually see a council
- 30:14Speaker 4: with some common sense. Well, why are other councils across
- 30:17Speaker 4: the country following suit. I find it fascinating that this
- 30:20Speaker 4: came from a migrant Yet, as you mentioned, James, you've
- 30:23Speaker 4: got white people in the council the only ones opposing it,
- 30:26Speaker 4: and I thought about it, and I thought, you know,
- 30:29Speaker 4: I feel like they're just preconditioned to always go, oh,
- 30:32Speaker 4: we can't offend people. It's this it's like it's like
- 30:35Speaker 4: a second nature. No, we can't do that because we
- 30:39Speaker 4: might offend. It's this white guilt that's constantly thrust.
- 30:42Speaker 6: No.
- 30:42Speaker 4: In the end, people come to this country to assimilate,
- 30:45Speaker 4: and we are a predominantly English speaking nation. Yes, people
- 30:49Speaker 4: bring their own language and their own culture, but in
- 30:52Speaker 4: the end, you've got to assimilate with our way of life.
- 30:55Speaker 4: I don't go to Russia, for example, and demand there
- 30:58Speaker 4: to be English signs when I'm in Russia.
- 31:01Speaker 5: I think you should give it a go. Janeka, Oh,
- 31:03Speaker 5: i'd like to see that.
- 31:04Speaker 4: Okay, Well maybe one day, Caleb, I might just trop
- 31:07Speaker 4: myself off to Moscow.
- 31:08Speaker 6: I don't know yet. I haven't quite decided.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I never see against that's what he wants.
- 31:14Speaker 6: Now.
- 31:15Speaker 4: I have to say, the very first time I went
- 31:17Speaker 4: to Stratfield, and I've only been once.
- 31:20Speaker 6: My first thought was, wow, there are a lot of
- 31:24Speaker 6: signs in Chinese. That was the initial thought that I had.
- 31:27Speaker 4: And I was there for and for the state election campaign,
- 31:31Speaker 4: and that was my first thought that everything was in Chinese,
- 31:34Speaker 4: and it's just something that you notice when you go
- 31:37Speaker 4: to I guess, very multicultural suburbs.
- 31:40Speaker 6: And again that is absolutely fine.
- 31:43Speaker 4: But we are a predominantly English speaking nation, and in
- 31:46Speaker 4: the end people need to be able to participate and
- 31:49Speaker 4: put up their hand and say, I'm trying to be
- 31:50Speaker 4: part of your country.
- 31:51Speaker 3: You want Chinese, go down to Hurstville and have a
- 31:54Speaker 3: look around there. I mean you say, Danika, people come
- 31:57Speaker 3: here to assimilate. They should come here to assimilate. I
- 32:01Speaker 3: think some people don't, unfortunately, and you would think that
- 32:06Speaker 3: if you went to another country that you would do
- 32:09Speaker 3: your best to fit into it and use the language
- 32:11Speaker 3: of that country. I don't understand why you would go, Okay,
- 32:15Speaker 3: I'm moving to another country, presumably because you think that
- 32:17Speaker 3: is a better place to go than the one that
- 32:20Speaker 3: you've come from, and then make very little effort to
- 32:24Speaker 3: be part of that country in a meaningful way that
- 32:27Speaker 3: contributes not just to your ethnic community and is available
- 32:30Speaker 3: to your ethnic community, but.
- 32:32Speaker 5: Is available to all people.
- 32:34Speaker 3: And so I think it is absolutely fair and right
- 32:38Speaker 3: that we would ask that a business conducts itself in English,
- 32:42Speaker 3: so that all Australian people can be part of it,
- 32:45Speaker 3: not just people who come from the same ethnic background
- 32:48Speaker 3: as you. You know, you wouldn't get away with it
- 32:51Speaker 3: in most parts of the world. I suspect, and we
- 32:54Speaker 3: should not be so accommodating ourselves now.
- 32:56Speaker 5: Of course we're told.
- 32:57Speaker 3: Renewable energy best thing since slash spread, cheapest form of energy.
- 33:02Speaker 5: Don't worry about it.
- 33:03Speaker 6: It'll work all the time.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Except if you have a solar eclipse. Because they're going
- 33:09Speaker 3: to have a solar eclipse over in the Arctic and Europe,
- 33:13Speaker 3: and they're very worried now over in the UK that
- 33:17Speaker 3: they're going to run out of power.
- 33:18Speaker 5: They're not going to have enough, they're going to have
- 33:20Speaker 5: to turn on all this fossil fulls again.
- 33:23Speaker 3: Have listen to this from the Telegraph in London. They
- 33:26Speaker 3: say the slump that is caused by the fact that
- 33:29Speaker 3: the moon is going to block out the Sun could
- 33:31Speaker 3: knock out as much as one point three gigawatts of supply.
- 33:35Speaker 3: According to the National Energy System Operator, which runs Britain's
- 33:38Speaker 3: electricity grid. That is enough electricity to power roughly half
- 33:42Speaker 3: a million homes. Gas fired power stations will have to
- 33:45Speaker 3: be turned on to make up some of the shortfall
- 33:48Speaker 3: alongside other sources of electricity and indeed Octopus Energy, which
- 33:55Speaker 3: is the biggest energy company in the UK.
- 33:58Speaker 5: Interesting name, I have to say.
- 34:00Speaker 3: But they've asked people not to turn their washing machines
- 34:05Speaker 3: and dishwashers and all these sorts here we go, energy
- 34:08Speaker 3: intensive things on between the six and eight pm on
- 34:11Speaker 3: Wednesday because they're worried that the solar eclipse is going
- 34:15Speaker 3: to cause the country to run out of power.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Oh seriously, you know, I'm having flashbacks slash PTSD to
- 34:21Speaker 4: when we were told to turn off our washing machines
- 34:23Speaker 4: and dishwashers during a heat wave here in New South Wales.
- 34:26Speaker 4: And now apparently the solar eclipse is going to impact
- 34:30Speaker 4: the energy grid as well. I mean, where does it end?
- 34:33Speaker 4: Where does it end in a big bang and a
- 34:35Speaker 4: big blowout.
- 34:36Speaker 1: This will come as a massive shock to Chris Bow
- 34:38Speaker 1: and won't it.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Doesn't He always boast that nothing can stop the sun
- 34:42Speaker 2: or the wind.
- 34:45Speaker 7: Energy must be secure. Renewable energy is a secure form
- 34:49Speaker 7: of energy. The Australian Sun cannot be interrupted by a
- 34:53Speaker 7: war or anything else. The solar energy has to travel
- 34:56Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty million kilometers from the Sun. It
- 34:59Speaker 7: doesn't have to travel the w one hundred and fifty
- 35:00Speaker 7: klometers of are stretch of homewards.
- 35:03Speaker 3: Yep.
- 35:03Speaker 2: Some cannot be interrupted by a war, can be interrupted
- 35:06Speaker 2: by the moon though and nighttime, which happens fairly regularly.
- 35:10Speaker 6: And G jumps is like Chris Bowen.
- 35:12Speaker 2: For Chris Bowen who always talks about, you know, energy security,
- 35:15Speaker 2: energy security, that the last solar eclipse in the UK
- 35:19Speaker 2: was in nineteen ninety nine, and when that occurred, no
- 35:23Speaker 2: one even thought twice about whether or not they should
- 35:25Speaker 2: use their washing machine or their dishwasher. Here we are,
- 35:28Speaker 2: just twenty seven years later, and all of a sudden,
- 35:31Speaker 2: everybody is being told try not to use your power
- 35:34Speaker 2: while the eclipse is taking place. And we call this progress,
- 35:38Speaker 2: doesn't it.
- 35:39Speaker 4: Remember once upon a time it was don't look outside
- 35:41Speaker 4: during the during and eclipse, or.
- 35:43Speaker 6: You have to have your special glasses on.
- 35:44Speaker 4: Now it's don't use your power during the How we
- 35:48Speaker 4: have evolved as humans over time?
- 35:50Speaker 2: They were absolutely evolving backwards. All right, we're going to
- 35:53Speaker 2: go to a break. When we come back, the Reserve
- 35:55Speaker 2: Bank leave interest rates alone, but they warn the only
- 35:58Speaker 2: thing keeping the economy going is high immigration. That's coming
- 36:02Speaker 2: up next well, if you believe tomorrow's papers, we'd be
- 36:12Speaker 2: in a lot of trouble if it wasn't for our
- 36:14Speaker 2: migrant Staneker.
- 36:15Speaker 4: Yeah, indeed, let's have a look at the os tomorrow
- 36:18Speaker 4: migrants carry alp economy. Australia's economic recovery will rely on
- 36:23Speaker 4: higher immigration, the Reserve Bank has warned, with productivity growth
- 36:26Speaker 4: going backwards and unemployment to jump, placing Labour's economic agenda
- 36:31Speaker 4: under increased pressure. As Anthony Albanesi works on a plan
- 36:34Speaker 4: to slash migration back to budget targets amid one nation's
- 36:37Speaker 4: ascendancy and a divided labor caucus, Reserve Bank Governor Michelle
- 36:42Speaker 4: Bullock says she is concerned that productivity is so low
- 36:46Speaker 4: and population growth is set to be a key driver
- 36:49Speaker 4: of higher GDP growth. I mean this is really nothing new.
- 36:55Speaker 4: We've known for many years that migration is propping up
- 36:59Speaker 4: the economy right now because had it not been for
- 37:02Speaker 4: Labour's record migration, we would have been in a recession
- 37:06Speaker 4: years ago. Now we still don't have a plan from
- 37:08Speaker 4: Labor on how it's going to tackle migration. And above
- 37:11Speaker 4: all this it's going to have an impact regardless on
- 37:14Speaker 4: GDP growth. So I mean Labor has buggered it up
- 37:17Speaker 4: from the beginning.
- 37:18Speaker 3: It's not real economic growth. It's not I mean, we're
- 37:21Speaker 3: just saying, okay, we have higher demand because we have
- 37:24Speaker 3: more people, but it doesn't mean we're actually making anything
- 37:27Speaker 3: or meeting that demand properly, or it just further exacerbates
- 37:31Speaker 3: the problems we already have.
- 37:33Speaker 5: But we go, oh, a few.
- 37:34Speaker 3: It means we've got economic it's not real economic growth.
- 37:37Speaker 1: It's kind of a national pyramid scheme.
- 37:39Speaker 3: Yes it is, and the government funds it because of course,
- 37:42Speaker 3: you know, they bring the migrants out and then they
- 37:44Speaker 3: create jobs in the service economy like health care and
- 37:48Speaker 3: all these They go.
- 37:49Speaker 5: Oh look, jobs, jobs, it's all good. It's not real.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 37:53Speaker 2: So the question becomes can the government find a way
- 37:56Speaker 2: out of this? And you wouldn't be super confident if that,
- 38:00Speaker 2: would you, judging by no the geniuses we have in
- 38:03Speaker 2: Canber right now, what do I forget?
- 38:04Speaker 6: As well?
- 38:05Speaker 4: Burke canceled his speech that he was set to give
- 38:07Speaker 4: last week on migration.
- 38:09Speaker 6: So let's see they're clearly divided.
- 38:11Speaker 4: So let's see when he does actually make his speech,
- 38:13Speaker 4: what Labor is going to come up with when it
- 38:15Speaker 4: comes to its immigration figures because as we know, more
- 38:18Speaker 4: than one point two million have come in under under
- 38:20Speaker 4: Labour's watch. Stay tuned for that one. Also on the
- 38:24Speaker 4: front page of the old secret powers for ASIO to
- 38:26Speaker 4: probe unis, AZO was set to get new powers to
- 38:29Speaker 4: secretly probe university collaborations with hostile nations after the Education
- 38:34Speaker 4: Department rebuked twenty six universities over risky research. Universities will
- 38:40Speaker 4: be forced to report all dealings with any institution in China, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Brunei,
- 38:45Speaker 4: Vietnam or Laos under changes to the Foreign Relations Act
- 38:49Speaker 4: before Parliament. Every education and research institution in those countries
- 38:53Speaker 4: will be deemed to lack institutional autonomy from their government,
- 38:57Speaker 4: meaning hostile or authoritarying gunsments can meddle in sensitive research
- 39:01Speaker 4: raining raging from cybersecurity to military and biological warfare.
- 39:06Speaker 6: Fantastic.
- 39:07Speaker 4: I think this is absolutely terrific because if our institutions
- 39:12Speaker 4: are going to be compromised by hostile foreign powers, well
- 39:16Speaker 4: finally we need something in place. I think that this
- 39:19Speaker 4: is fantastic that they should be probed.
- 39:21Speaker 2: And our universities only have themselves to blame for ASIO
- 39:23Speaker 2: now having these powers, because if they had been more
- 39:27Speaker 2: vigilant and not allowed, for instance, universities here to do
- 39:32Speaker 2: combined research with scientists in a ran on drone technology
- 39:37Speaker 2: of all things, they wouldn't be in this situation. But
- 39:39Speaker 2: because they refuse to police themselves, now Asio will be
- 39:42Speaker 2: given the task.
- 39:44Speaker 3: I think God, the real scandal is that we need
- 39:46Speaker 3: to do this in the first place. You'd think it
- 39:48Speaker 3: would be pretty self evident to universities that you know,
- 39:51Speaker 3: you don't do certain things with Charana, and you don't
- 39:53Speaker 3: do certain things in the Iran and other countries, but
- 39:56Speaker 3: you know, the allmighty dollar seems to be more important
- 39:59Speaker 3: to them, and so we've.
- 40:01Speaker 5: Had to step in.
- 40:02Speaker 1: Sad but needed.
- 40:04Speaker 6: That's it.
- 40:06Speaker 5: No, there's another story on the front.
- 40:07Speaker 6: Of Sorry, there is sorry.
- 40:09Speaker 4: That was my kid, how Alberizis meet girls back in
- 40:13Speaker 4: their boss Anthony Alberze's most senior female colleagues have closed
- 40:17Speaker 4: ranks around him to deflect allegations he made a crude
- 40:21Speaker 4: and sexist joke about Japanese leader Sanae Takiyachi's melons. As
- 40:26Speaker 4: the Prime Minister refused to apologize for the remarks, Cabinet
- 40:28Speaker 4: ministers Katie Gallaher and Penny Wong, who led Labour's attack
- 40:31Speaker 4: on Scott Morrison over the Britney Higgins scandal, defended mister
- 40:34Speaker 4: Albinizi as a supporter of women and said his remarks
- 40:37Speaker 4: had been misinterpreted. I trust his assurance regarding misrepresentation of
- 40:41Speaker 4: those comments. Senator Galaher said, I don't know how much
- 40:44Speaker 4: longer Sellator Gallaher and the likes of Tania Pliboset can
- 40:47Speaker 4: keep dancing around this issue. Pretty no, no, it didn't happen.
- 40:50Speaker 4: Now look at the vision yourself. We have seen the vision.
- 40:52Speaker 4: We all know what it meant. We didn't all come
- 40:54Speaker 4: down in the last shower. Stop trying to pull the
- 40:57Speaker 4: wool over everybody's eyes. And I actually find it so
- 41:01Speaker 4: hypocritical because the mean girls are apparently the champions of women,
- 41:06Speaker 4: but not these sorts of comments.
- 41:08Speaker 2: Did you hear Tony Abbott on Kredlin tonight and he
- 41:11Speaker 2: talked about the Prime ministerm needs to be man enough
- 41:14Speaker 2: to apologize in person enough. I just thought it's just
- 41:17Speaker 2: another example of Tony Abbott understanding the art of a
- 41:20Speaker 2: good line. Because Angus Taylor made criticisms a couple of
- 41:24Speaker 2: days ago, but it just sort of disappeared beneath all
- 41:26Speaker 2: the other news. But I just thought that phrase from
- 41:29Speaker 2: Tony Abbott saying that the Prime Minister should quote man.
- 41:32Speaker 1: Up and apologize. It's just a good line.
- 41:35Speaker 3: I thought we all knew that when you're talking about
- 41:37Speaker 3: melons and you're pulling these ones, that it has absolutely
- 41:39Speaker 3: nothing to do with a woman's bret. The fact that
- 41:43Speaker 3: they're still trying to run this line that no, no,
- 41:46Speaker 3: it had come on, I pulled the other one.
- 41:50Speaker 5: And the fact that all these women in the labor
- 41:52Speaker 5: they must know it's a load of garbage.
- 41:55Speaker 3: You can't tell me that ten you're plibber sick and
- 41:57Speaker 3: Katie Gallaha, they as if they don't know what he
- 42:00Speaker 3: meant by it, and they're lining up to defend it.
- 42:03Speaker 1: What a joke.
- 42:04Speaker 3: On the front of the Daily Telegraph tomorrow, exclusive tobacco
- 42:07Speaker 3: crackdown on metro servos to hit petrol prices smoking guns
- 42:12Speaker 3: is the headline. The nation's largest independent petrol station chain
- 42:16Speaker 3: has had stores rated across the country, some of them
- 42:19Speaker 3: shut down after a major investigation into the alleged supply
- 42:23Speaker 3: and distribution of illegal tobacco, with industry experts warning the
- 42:27Speaker 3: scale of the crackdown could increase prices at the bowser.
- 42:30Speaker 3: It's part of a major probe into the fuel giant
- 42:33Speaker 3: owned by a wealthy Sydney family and good to see
- 42:39Speaker 3: some crackdown on all of this stuff. Of course, you know,
- 42:42Speaker 3: I still don't think it'll really be a drop in
- 42:44Speaker 3: the ocean. You can take some cigarettes out of the system,
- 42:48Speaker 3: but we know they come in by the container load
- 42:50Speaker 3: and there'll be someone else selling them tomorrow if they're
- 42:53Speaker 3: not selling them.
- 42:53Speaker 1: At other places.
- 42:54Speaker 3: But you know they do have to do this stuff, absolutely,
- 42:57Speaker 3: But is it going to.
- 42:59Speaker 5: We're gonna have least person smoking tomorrow because of it?
- 43:01Speaker 3: Probably not.
- 43:02Speaker 6: I'm interested to see what it does to the fuel prices.
- 43:04Speaker 5: Well indeed.
- 43:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 43:05Speaker 2: The other question over this is like you said, you've got
- 43:07Speaker 2: nine stations, right, was that a coordinated theme and this
- 43:12Speaker 2: will be the question or was it just individual? It
- 43:14Speaker 2: seems a little too many to be not.
- 43:17Speaker 3: And this is what they've got to look into now,
- 43:19Speaker 3: because yeah, it's a big operation. It obviously had multiple
- 43:23Speaker 3: stores allegedly selling stuff. So you've got to wonder where
- 43:26Speaker 3: is it organized? Is people trying to make a barckup?
- 43:28Speaker 3: And I mean it's organized crime obviously, is running this
- 43:31Speaker 3: whole elicit tobacco things, so play more to can all right.
- 43:35Speaker 2: The front page of tomorrow's Herald's son shot full of
- 43:38Speaker 2: holes reads the headline, and of course talking about potholes.
- 43:42Speaker 2: Less than two percent of Victorian motorists seeking compensation for
- 43:46Speaker 2: damage caused by potholes are receiving payouts. Secret government data reveals.
- 43:51Speaker 2: Documents obtained under freedom of information show drivers are facing
- 43:54Speaker 2: virtually impossible odds when seeking repair work payouts for damages
- 43:58Speaker 2: caused by the states broke road network, with ninety eight
- 44:02Speaker 2: percent turned away. Seven hundred and eighty six of the
- 44:06Speaker 2: eighteen hundred and nine compensation claims were rejected by the
- 44:09Speaker 2: Department of Transport. That's over the last two financial years,
- 44:13Speaker 2: the state's road authority covered repair costs for just twenty
- 44:18Speaker 2: three drivers. Now, to give you an idea of how
- 44:21Speaker 2: crazy that is, at the weekend we saw more than
- 44:24Speaker 2: thirty cars damaged by one pothole.
- 44:27Speaker 1: That was just on the weekend.
- 44:28Speaker 2: And then last month there was another pothole on the
- 44:30Speaker 2: Princess Highway that had more than twenty cars damaged. So
- 44:36Speaker 2: this is proving to be a major election issue. Yeah,
- 44:38Speaker 2: who would have thought A surprise.
- 44:40Speaker 6: I know, I'm out of everything.
- 44:41Speaker 4: I mean, it's got a state with crime, debt, and
- 44:45Speaker 4: now potholes are the problem.
- 44:47Speaker 3: I was talking to made man earlier in Victoria evening
- 44:51Speaker 3: Pierce and he was driving while we're on the phone,
- 44:55Speaker 3: and he goes, oh, just hit a potholes.
- 44:59Speaker 5: You know you're talking to a Victorian when he and
- 45:01Speaker 5: then he's like, Jesus, is the car still all right?
- 45:03Speaker 5: Because he did? He hit one once and did the
- 45:05Speaker 5: rim They cost him four grand?
- 45:08Speaker 1: Oh wow, very quickly.
- 45:10Speaker 2: The other story on the front page of the Herald's
- 45:11Speaker 2: son work from home pause fails. Job Premier Ben Carroll
- 45:15Speaker 2: will delay implementing Victoria's contentious work from home laws until
- 45:19Speaker 2: next year, but big employers say the move still falls
- 45:22Speaker 2: short and should be scrapped entirely. Ben Carroll delaying the
- 45:26Speaker 2: implementation of those controversial laws until after the election.
- 45:32Speaker 6: I come, of course, he is.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Why we're going to go to a break.
- 45:35Speaker 2: When we come back, I'm going to tell you about
- 45:37Speaker 2: a golfer who wanted a birdie and got a fishy.
- 45:40Speaker 1: That's next.
- 45:44Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure King Charles is still alive, But Deniki,
- 45:47Speaker 2: you can never be too sure these days.
- 45:49Speaker 6: Well, no, now, you might remember at home.
- 45:51Speaker 4: A couple of months ago, a radio station in Essex
- 45:54Speaker 4: in the UK by the name of Radio Caroline accidentally
- 45:58Speaker 4: announced that the King had died, when actually the King
- 46:01Speaker 4: was very much alive and well.
- 46:03Speaker 1: Well.
- 46:03Speaker 4: Now a media watchdog investigation has found out why this happened.
- 46:08Speaker 4: Are you ready for it? It was done out of curiosity.
- 46:12Speaker 4: That was a reason. Out of curiosity, that pre recorded
- 46:16Speaker 4: segment went to air.
- 46:17Speaker 6: Out of curiosity. This was it.
- 46:20Speaker 3: This is Radio Caroline.
- 46:22Speaker 2: We have suspended our normal programs until further notice as
- 46:26Speaker 2: a mark of respect following the passing of His Majesty
- 46:29Speaker 2: King Charles the Third.
- 46:30Speaker 6: Yeah, whoop.
- 46:31Speaker 4: See So I'm not sure if that worker that was
- 46:33Speaker 4: very curious is curious any more about his job.
- 46:36Speaker 2: So they've got these obituaries, all these announcements pre recorded
- 46:39Speaker 2: right in the event, and he just wanted to know
- 46:41Speaker 2: what it sounded.
- 46:42Speaker 6: Him out of curiosity.
- 46:43Speaker 3: Why didn't I just bang that one on the air
- 46:45Speaker 3: and see how and give it a crow? You know,
- 46:47Speaker 3: why don't we do that one night? Why don't we
- 46:50Speaker 3: just you know, pronounce the king dead or you know, oh,
- 46:53Speaker 3: they can use The Prime Minister has come acropper and
- 46:56Speaker 3: done another Harald Holt, who does I'll just I'll just
- 47:02Speaker 3: I'm just testing the buttons.
- 47:04Speaker 2: It's all right, you want to know what the announcement
- 47:06Speaker 2: sounds like, don't we all?
- 47:08Speaker 4: Well you're going first, Caleb. You give that one a
- 47:10Speaker 4: whirl and we'll follow.
- 47:11Speaker 3: Now, I don't think I will be giving that one
- 47:12Speaker 3: a will. Speaking of giving things a whirl, though, how
- 47:15Speaker 3: about a literal whirl. If you happen to be in
- 47:18Speaker 3: Greenwich Park in London over the weekend, maybe you thought,
- 47:21Speaker 3: you know that the weather is still lovely in London
- 47:24Speaker 3: at the moment, I'm going to make the best of
- 47:26Speaker 3: the euro summer. I'm going to go out for a picnic,
- 47:29Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you watched your cucumber
- 47:32Speaker 3: sandwiches disappear into the air.
- 47:46Speaker 1: Stream of things that.
- 47:51Speaker 8: What, this is going to ruin my food?
- 47:55Speaker 3: Now, I think he's hit on the most important bit
- 47:57Speaker 3: at the end there.
- 47:58Speaker 5: This is going to ruin my food.
- 48:00Speaker 3: I mean, imagine you're sitting there and his hungry, bloody
- 48:02Speaker 3: wind thing comes on take your food away?
- 48:05Speaker 5: Would you? Would you run a mild a negro?
- 48:07Speaker 3: I feel like you'd be like you'd think it was
- 48:09Speaker 3: going to sack you up and send you up to heaven.
- 48:11Speaker 4: Or I would run, Yeah, I would, I'd run away
- 48:14Speaker 4: from that. That's frightening. Well you wouldn't run.
- 48:16Speaker 6: You just sit there and just be engulfed.
- 48:18Speaker 5: Dust yep, take it like a man.
- 48:21Speaker 1: Exclusive Vision.
- 48:23Speaker 2: South African golfer Carl Schwartzel was teeing off on the
- 48:27Speaker 2: seventh hole at the Trump National Golf Club. He was
- 48:30Speaker 2: hoping for a birdie. Instead he got a fishy.
- 48:35Speaker 8: Oh oh yeah.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Could be in for a shock and someone would say
- 48:53Speaker 1: his golf shop was tailor made.
- 48:55Speaker 5: Hid. I want to know what happens to the fish?
- 48:59Speaker 1: Now? How do you pass a golf I know, Indian
- 49:02Speaker 1: golf ball.
- 49:03Speaker 6: Surely cannot be dead, for it has to be dead.
- 49:05Speaker 5: Well maybe yeah, that's look, he got a hole in one.
- 49:08Speaker 2: Anyway, the guy who played the shot, he's been carping
- 49:11Speaker 2: on about the that's it for us to stick around.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Here is the Rida Petty Show. Good night,