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- 0:01Speaker 1: Live from the sky New Center.
- 0:03Speaker 2: This is the Kenny Report.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Welcome to The Kenny Report. I'm Caroline Marcus filling in
- 0:10Speaker 3: for Chris Kenny. Coming up tonight, the celebrity rabbi calling
- 0:14Speaker 3: for Trump to ban Anthony Alberesi from the US over
- 0:18Speaker 3: his failure to act on anti Semitism, and he says
- 0:22Speaker 3: the administration is considering it.
- 0:24Speaker 4: Alberizi has become an Australian abomination. He has no place
- 0:29Speaker 4: in the United States. He should be banned by President Trump.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Rabbi Schmilly coming up on the show, Hamas agrees to
- 0:37Speaker 3: release ten Israeli hostages amid ongoing ceasefire talks. And in
- 0:42Speaker 3: another win for diversity, Mattel has released a new barbie
- 0:46Speaker 3: with diabetes.
- 0:53Speaker 5: But first more performative.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Compassion from Anthony Albanzi on anti Semitism. There was much
- 1:01Speaker 3: fanfare as Anthony Albinizi launched a new action plan from
- 1:05Speaker 3: his Special Envoy to combat anti Semitism, to tackle do
- 1:10Speaker 3: hatred at a Sydney press conference.
- 1:14Speaker 6: Any Semitism has risen to deeply troubling levels in Australia.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Yes, under your watch, Albanzi. This was the new report.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Everyone was there to spook the Special Envoy's plan to
- 1:30Speaker 3: combat anti Semitism. And yes, there are a lot of
- 1:34Speaker 3: worthy recommendations in there, and I'll go through some of
- 1:37Speaker 3: them shortly. But here's the sticking point. They are just recommendations.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Most bar a few of them, all minor ones have
- 1:46Speaker 3: not yet been adopted. Here's the PM talking about how
- 1:50Speaker 3: the government is going to take time to reflect on this.
- 1:54Speaker 6: Will now carefully consider the report recommendations. There's a number
- 1:59Speaker 6: of in here that we are doing. As a number
- 2:02Speaker 6: of things can be implemented quickly, there are a number
- 2:04Speaker 6: of things that will require work over a period of time.
- 2:10Speaker 5: But how much time will it take.
- 2:12Speaker 3: We've already seen three Australian synagogue set a light or
- 2:17Speaker 3: be attempted to be set alight in recent months, two
- 2:20Speaker 3: in Melbourne, one in Sydney. Attacks on places of worship
- 2:24Speaker 3: just because they're Jewish. We've seen a Melbourne restaurant violently
- 2:29Speaker 3: attacked over the weekend because it's Israeli. Diners and staff terrorized.
- 2:35Speaker 3: We don't need more talk, we need action. Now here's
- 2:41Speaker 3: what the government will be taking. It's time to consider
- 2:43Speaker 3: and I think you'll agree it's simply common sense first,
- 2:48Speaker 3: well look at stripping taxpayer funding from universities, academics and
- 2:52Speaker 3: researchers where the recipient engages in anti Semitic, hateful speech
- 2:58Speaker 3: or actions.
- 2:59Speaker 5: Funding will would be.
- 3:00Speaker 3: With hells from universities which fail to act against anti Semitism,
- 3:06Speaker 3: holocaust and anti Semitism education embedded into our schools in
- 3:11Speaker 3: the arts, where we've seen so many examples of artists
- 3:14Speaker 3: promoting extremism and the cancelation and doxing of Jewish creatives
- 3:20Speaker 3: and who were just revealed through WhatsApp chats and told
- 3:26Speaker 3: that they can't be part of festivals. Well, the report
- 3:29Speaker 3: recommends the efficient termination of funding where the institution of
- 3:34Speaker 3: festival promotes, facilitates, or does not deal effectively with hate
- 3:40Speaker 3: or anti semitism. In terms of our laws, the Envoy
- 3:43Speaker 3: wants to review them, including in respect to violent and
- 3:47Speaker 3: intimidating protest activity.
- 3:50Speaker 5: We will look at.
- 3:51Speaker 7: Whether it is now necessary to strengthen hate crime legislation,
- 3:55Speaker 7: including provisions relating to not only incitement and vilification and
- 4:00Speaker 7: habit of symbols which we have, but actual hatred and
- 4:04Speaker 7: the speaking of hatred and demonstrated hatred.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Education would be provided to police prosecutors the judiciary so
- 4:13Speaker 3: that the application of the law is informed by a
- 4:16Speaker 3: thorough understanding of anti semitism. On migration and this is
- 4:21Speaker 3: a key one. It's recommended visa applicants be screened for
- 4:25Speaker 3: anti Semitic views or affiliations, and the Migration Act facilitate
- 4:31Speaker 3: visa refusals or cancelations for anti Semitic conduct and rhetoric.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Considering Australia is taking in thousands of people from the
- 4:41Speaker 3: terror enclave of Gaza among other war torn regions, this
- 4:45Speaker 3: is vital for national security and cohesion. Now, this strategy
- 4:50Speaker 3: adopts many of the fifteen points out of the sky
- 4:53Speaker 3: Newese Anti Semitism Summit and Executive Council of Australian Jury
- 4:58Speaker 3: Action Plan. Part of that summit moderating a panel on
- 5:02Speaker 3: education and the Arts.
- 5:04Speaker 5: Where there were also calls.
- 5:06Speaker 3: For a ban on encampments at university campuses.
- 5:10Speaker 5: And I've got to.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Wonder again why it has taken so long for this
- 5:15Speaker 3: government to even get to the point where they're just
- 5:18Speaker 3: considering our recommendations. We've had now almost two years of
- 5:24Speaker 3: sky rocketing anti semitism, including daycare centers being bombed, schools
- 5:30Speaker 3: being vandalized, the former home of a Jewish community leader
- 5:34Speaker 3: targeted all to come to this point consideration of recommendations.
- 5:41Speaker 3: Albanezi tried to sound tough today, especially on the protesters
- 5:45Speaker 3: calling for death and attacking a restaurant over the weekend.
- 5:51Speaker 6: I saw on the ABC the other night a woman
- 5:56Speaker 6: who participated in the treash and violence that occurred at
- 6:03Speaker 6: the restaurant in Melbourne justifying that, justifying it. There is
- 6:11Speaker 6: no justification for that whatsoever. And what's more, the idea
- 6:20Speaker 6: that somehow the cause of justice for Palestinians is advanced
- 6:27Speaker 6: by behavior like that is not only delusional, it is destructive.
- 6:37Speaker 3: But the time has long passed for tough sounding words.
- 6:41Speaker 3: We need strong action and a strong leader. Unless some
- 6:46Speaker 3: of these key recommendations are acted upon urgently, it's only a.
- 6:51Speaker 5: Matter of time before someone is seriously hurt.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Yet more looming economic pain for the government out of
- 7:01Speaker 3: the US. The Pentagon now considering making Australia pay more
- 7:06Speaker 3: for submarines under the Orcas Pact. The Senday Morning Herald's
- 7:10Speaker 3: reports the Trump administration's review may also compel Australia to
- 7:15Speaker 3: guarantee that US made subs would be used to support
- 7:19Speaker 3: the United States in any future conflict with China. The
- 7:23Speaker 3: new potential costs and conditions yet another worrying sign. The
- 7:27Speaker 3: three hundred and sixty eight billion dollar ORCAS deal could
- 7:30Speaker 3: be under threat. The Trump administration is currently reviewing the
- 7:34Speaker 3: pact made between former President Joe Biden, former Australian PM
- 7:39Speaker 3: Scott Morrison, and the UK. The Opposition says it's urgent
- 7:43Speaker 3: Albanesi takes back control.
- 7:46Speaker 8: We should be able to save UCAS. But we are
- 7:49Speaker 8: not going to save UCAS if we just let this
- 7:51Speaker 8: thing on cruise, if we don't take charge of it,
- 7:53Speaker 8: if the Prime Minister doesn't personally take charge with it.
- 7:56Speaker 3: Well that's going to be tough to do when Alberanzi
- 7:59Speaker 3: can't even snap bag a phone call with Trump, let
- 8:02Speaker 3: alone a meeting. But I guess he has more important
- 8:05Speaker 3: things to do, like head to China this weekend. Wonder
- 8:08Speaker 3: what his Beijing mates will make of their handsome boy
- 8:11Speaker 3: having to promise the US he'll use our subs against them,
- 8:16Speaker 3: although frankly, what else would they be for? And of
- 8:19Speaker 3: course the Greens want us to just rip up the
- 8:22Speaker 3: entire Orchist deal.
- 8:24Speaker 9: It's an absolute dud deal and Australia should walk away
- 8:28Speaker 9: from it. There's plenty of other things we could invest
- 8:31Speaker 9: that money into, both in the defense space, but also
- 8:34Speaker 9: in doing more to help Australians who really need social supports.
- 8:40Speaker 5: And also climate change.
- 8:41Speaker 3: I suppose add to that the new two hundred percent
- 8:44Speaker 3: tariffs we're now facing on pharmaceuticals, one of our biggest
- 8:48Speaker 3: exports to the US, and things are not looking good.
- 8:52Speaker 3: That PM inspired precisely no confidence when asked about the
- 8:56Speaker 3: fresh tariffs today.
- 8:59Speaker 6: On trade and tariffs, We're continuing to engage in the
- 9:06Speaker 6: national interest with the United States, but I've made it
- 9:10Speaker 6: very clear that the issues such as the pharmaceutical benefit
- 9:14Speaker 6: scheme are not on the table for negotiations. They are
- 9:17Speaker 6: part of who Australia is.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Albaniz's failure to manage a relationship with Trump is looking to.
- 9:25Speaker 5: Be very costly. Indeed.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Well joining me now is Claire Chandler, Tasmanian Liberal Senator.
- 9:35Speaker 5: Claire. Great to see you.
- 9:37Speaker 3: First off, what is your reaction to this new anti
- 9:40Speaker 3: Semitism action plan that I talked about at the top
- 9:43Speaker 3: of the show.
- 9:46Speaker 10: Thanks for having me on the show, Caroline, and look,
- 9:49Speaker 10: I thought your comments at the top of the show
- 9:51Speaker 10: were spot on. There seems to be an awful lot
- 9:54Speaker 10: of considering of these recommendations that will now be underway
- 9:58Speaker 10: by the Albaneze government rather than ACTU putting them into action.
- 10:01Speaker 10: And I think you know, we know that this review
- 10:05Speaker 10: has been underway for some time. I don't think that
- 10:07Speaker 10: the recommendations were revolutionary or unheard of. Now is the
- 10:12Speaker 10: time for Anthony Albanesi and his government to stand up
- 10:15Speaker 10: and say enough is enough. We are going to put
- 10:18Speaker 10: these recommendations into actions. So a fantastic piece of work
- 10:22Speaker 10: by the anti Semitism Special Envoy, but like I say,
- 10:27Speaker 10: a disappointing response from the government in not saying here
- 10:31Speaker 10: today we're going to do this.
- 10:33Speaker 3: I know it would have been such an easy opportunity
- 10:35Speaker 3: to at least implement some of them. But let's move
- 10:37Speaker 3: on to your party now. And we have an opposition
- 10:40Speaker 3: leader who is clearly clearly trying to brand herself as
- 10:42Speaker 3: pro women. There are photos that are out today in
- 10:45Speaker 3: the Women's Weekly, showcasing shots of Susan Lee with her
- 10:48Speaker 3: granddaughter Sage, who calls her Glamy, which is lovely.
- 10:52Speaker 5: Plus the horrifying.
- 10:53Speaker 3: Story about the night she had to draw a gun
- 10:56Speaker 3: on a menacing man but Claire, one of the criticisms
- 10:59Speaker 3: I've made on before about Susan Lee is that she's
- 11:02Speaker 3: talked very publicly about supporting women, but demoted talented female
- 11:07Speaker 3: performers like yourself out of the shadow cabinet. I mean,
- 11:10Speaker 3: what do you think of this attempt to rebrand the
- 11:12Speaker 3: Liberals as more women friendly?
- 11:17Speaker 5: Oh?
- 11:17Speaker 10: Look, I don't think anyone out there in Australia, you
- 11:22Speaker 10: know it was looking at the Liberal Party's performance at
- 11:25Speaker 10: the last election and thinking that we have a good
- 11:27Speaker 10: record when it comes to engaging with women. I've publicly
- 11:31Speaker 10: said many, many times that the Liberal Party has to
- 11:34Speaker 10: do better when it comes to engaging with women. I
- 11:36Speaker 10: want to see more Liberal women in our parliament.
- 11:39Speaker 11: So I want to.
- 11:39Speaker 10: See more Liberal women within our party.
- 11:43Speaker 5: But you know that there's.
- 11:45Speaker 10: There are many various ways that we do that, and
- 11:48Speaker 10: you know, I know quotas have been talked about. I'm
- 11:51Speaker 10: vehemently anti quota. I think they're you know, they fundamentally
- 11:56Speaker 10: undermine what we as Liberals believe in, and I don't
- 11:58Speaker 10: think they're the best tool whereas Liberals can use to
- 12:01Speaker 10: increase our female parliamentary ranks. But in terms of the
- 12:06Speaker 10: piece of the Women's Weekly that you refer to with
- 12:09Speaker 10: our opposition leader, Susan Lay.
- 12:11Speaker 12: Look, I think that's a good thing.
- 12:14Speaker 10: Often I hear people criticize politicians that we don't get
- 12:18Speaker 10: to see who you really are, We don't get to
- 12:20Speaker 10: see your backstory, and that's certainly true, and I think
- 12:23Speaker 10: it's you know, entirely fair and expected that Susan would
- 12:27Speaker 10: be doing some of these interviews now, sharing her personal
- 12:31Speaker 10: stories with Australians, just as Peter Dutton, Scott Morrison, many
- 12:35Speaker 10: of our liberal leaders have done before.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Well, look, let's move on to Albanize now their affairs,
- 12:41Speaker 3: that Australia could be asked to pay more for nuclear
- 12:43Speaker 3: submarines as part of the Pentagon's review, and to the
- 12:46Speaker 3: Aucust deal. That's on top of these flagged tariffs from
- 12:51Speaker 3: Trump on copper and pharmaceuticals, with the chairman of the
- 12:54Speaker 3: country's biggest drugs manufacturers saying tweaks to the PBS should
- 12:58Speaker 3: be considered.
- 12:59Speaker 5: To have the tariffs.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Claire, as I've said many times, Albanizy can't even secure
- 13:05Speaker 3: one meeting with the leader of the free world and
- 13:07Speaker 3: it's looking like a very expensive failing right now.
- 13:13Speaker 10: Well, that's certainly right, And I think it's been about
- 13:15Speaker 10: two hundred and forty seven days since President Trump was
- 13:19Speaker 10: elected and our Prime Minister hasn't been able to secure
- 13:22Speaker 10: a meeting with him in that time. Now, I think,
- 13:25Speaker 10: as our closest ally that securing a meeting with President
- 13:29Speaker 10: Trump after his election should have been a pretty high
- 13:32Speaker 10: priority for Prime Minister Alban Easy and it's incredibly disappointing
- 13:36Speaker 10: that that hasn't happened yet. And like you say, we
- 13:39Speaker 10: are now seeing the fallout from that failure to secure
- 13:43Speaker 10: a meeting. And it's all very well for the Prime
- 13:45Speaker 10: Minister to show up at press conferences and say, oh,
- 13:48Speaker 10: and this is under consideration, or we're having conversations, or
- 13:50Speaker 10: we're engaging at the highest level, but the reality is
- 13:54Speaker 10: we haven't engaged at the highest level because the Prime
- 13:56Speaker 10: Minister hasn't been able to secure that meeting with President
- 13:59Speaker 10: Trump yet. Like so many Australians, I'm concerned about what
- 14:03Speaker 10: the US tariff policies is going to have on Australians
- 14:09Speaker 10: and on our businesses here. But I also want to
- 14:12Speaker 10: see our Prime minister engaging with the US administration and
- 14:16Speaker 10: fighting for Australian interests. And we all know that that
- 14:19Speaker 10: hasn't happened yet.
- 14:20Speaker 3: Oh but here's off to China this weekend, don't forget.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Just quickly, speaking of China, in a bizarre press club experience,
- 14:26Speaker 3: the CEO of a major climate change charity has praised China. Yes,
- 14:30Speaker 3: China the world's worst carbon Polluto.
- 14:34Speaker 9: There was this one thing you can say about the
- 14:36Speaker 9: Chinese system is that China plays as a team.
- 14:41Speaker 5: Then came this.
- 14:43Speaker 13: And Australia spends all of our time trying to tear
- 14:46Speaker 13: each other apart.
- 14:48Speaker 1: That is no way to compete for Team Australia.
- 14:51Speaker 5: Claire, just quickly your response.
- 14:56Speaker 10: I mean I was baffled by those comments, as I
- 14:58Speaker 10: think anyone would be. We all know that China is
- 15:02Speaker 10: the greatest global omittal when it comes to CO two,
- 15:04Speaker 10: and we have to always view what we're doing here
- 15:07Speaker 10: in Australia.
- 15:08Speaker 5: Within that context.
- 15:09Speaker 10: But I think it was a complete falsehood to try
- 15:13Speaker 10: and say that that China is playing its part on
- 15:15Speaker 10: the global stage, where we know that's not the case.
- 15:17Speaker 5: I was very.
- 15:18Speaker 3: Confused, many people were. Claire Chandler, thank you so much
- 15:23Speaker 3: for your time. Now back to the PM's new plan
- 15:26Speaker 3: to combat the explosion of anti semitism in this country.
- 15:30Speaker 3: Joining me now is Peter Wertime am CO, Chief Executive
- 15:34Speaker 3: Officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jury, who was
- 15:37Speaker 3: at today's press conference. Peter, thanks for coming on. You
- 15:41Speaker 3: may have heard some of the criticisms I had about this.
- 15:44Speaker 3: The plan itself seems good, but the government is just
- 15:47Speaker 3: considering it at this stage. Are you confident that most
- 15:50Speaker 3: of the recommendations will be adopted.
- 15:54Speaker 14: I think they will be, to the extent that government
- 15:57Speaker 14: is the party that needs to be the response to
- 16:00Speaker 14: the report. Don't forget this report covers many different sectors
- 16:05Speaker 14: in Australian society, because anti Semitism is coming from many
- 16:09Speaker 14: different sectors, and you've covered this in previous news reports.
- 16:12Speaker 14: That's coming from the university sector, from the arts and
- 16:15Speaker 14: culture sector, from social media, even the healthcare sector and
- 16:20Speaker 14: its regulator are a problem. And so the response has
- 16:23Speaker 14: to come in a united way and a coordinated way
- 16:27Speaker 14: from society. Certainly, government has to give the leadership and
- 16:30Speaker 14: I think the Prime Minister has committed to doing that.
- 16:33Speaker 14: I thought his comments at the press conference and those
- 16:35Speaker 14: of the Home Affairs Minister were especially strong and welcome.
- 16:40Speaker 14: But it doesn't just sit on the government to be
- 16:43Speaker 14: the actor in this Government has to give the leadership
- 16:47Speaker 14: and we need cooperation from all the other sectors of
- 16:51Speaker 14: society where the problem is emanating from.
- 16:55Speaker 5: I agree with you.
- 16:56Speaker 3: He did sound stronger today, as did Tony Burke. I
- 17:00Speaker 3: was pleased to see that, but I think a lot
- 17:02Speaker 3: of people have had enough of just strong words and
- 17:04Speaker 3: want to see some strong action.
- 17:06Speaker 5: If Alban Eazy had.
- 17:08Speaker 3: To focus on prioritizing some of the recommendations, there's plenty
- 17:12Speaker 3: in here, which, in your view, are the most urgent
- 17:15Speaker 3: for government and other sectors to implement.
- 17:18Speaker 14: I would say the education recommendations are the most urgent
- 17:21Speaker 14: because they are the ones that shape attitudes and effect
- 17:26Speaker 14: attitudes the most directly. And we're not just talking about
- 17:30Speaker 14: the university sector here. We're talking about school education, beginning
- 17:34Speaker 14: in the very earlier stages of a school education all
- 17:38Speaker 14: the way through to senior school level. So there's work
- 17:42Speaker 14: to be done there in the curriculum in terms of
- 17:44Speaker 14: professional development, and then there's a broader education function as well,
- 17:50Speaker 14: educating the corporate sector, educating university administrators, educating people who
- 17:57Speaker 14: are engaged in social media, administration on about the nature
- 18:01Speaker 14: and forms that anti semitism takes today in the twenty
- 18:05Speaker 14: first century, not the forms that they took one hundred
- 18:08Speaker 14: years ago, and so that they understand the full import
- 18:11Speaker 14: of what contemporary anti semitism looks like and can understand
- 18:16Speaker 14: also as well the historical context out of which it arose.
- 18:20Speaker 14: Those education measures that are being recommended across a number
- 18:26Speaker 14: of different sectors with obviously the imprimentre of government are
- 18:30Speaker 14: going to be critical because they are the ones that
- 18:33Speaker 14: will actually have the most long term impact.
- 18:36Speaker 3: Well, I hope your confidence is well placed and these
- 18:40Speaker 3: many of them will be implemented soon.
- 18:42Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Peter worktime.
- 18:44Speaker 3: Now, I want to go to someone who has been
- 18:46Speaker 3: very outspoken about the government's failure to combat anti Semitism,
- 18:50Speaker 3: and that's Jewish advocate Mini Perlstein Money.
- 18:53Speaker 5: Thanks for coming on.
- 18:54Speaker 3: I want to first of all, get your response to
- 18:56Speaker 3: these recommendations, because, as I've said, my first thought is
- 19:00Speaker 3: why didn't Albanezi just come out and universally endorse them
- 19:04Speaker 3: if he was truly serious about this crisis.
- 19:07Speaker 12: Because I think he's actually truly serious about placating the
- 19:11Speaker 12: Jewish community rather than fixing the crisis, which is a
- 19:15Speaker 12: crisis of his.
- 19:16Speaker 13: Own making, by the way, and I found today supremely disappointing.
- 19:22Speaker 13: I felt like Albanzi dangled a carrot in front of us.
- 19:25Speaker 13: It's like he's a comprehensive plan, it's a really great plan,
- 19:29Speaker 13: but will.
- 19:30Speaker 12: Just carefully consider it?
- 19:31Speaker 13: And I think this is an insult to every Australian
- 19:35Speaker 13: Jewish and non Jewish Australian who really cares about social
- 19:39Speaker 13: cohesion and racial hatred towards Jews in this country and
- 19:42Speaker 13: who wants to see action taken now.
- 19:47Speaker 3: I know it is so frustrating, and that's very well articulated.
- 19:51Speaker 3: What would you say to the PM then about how
- 19:54Speaker 3: the Jewish community is feeling about his handling of this
- 19:58Speaker 3: crisis and how he form today.
- 20:01Speaker 13: Well, I'm predominantly an online advocate, so I had a
- 20:05Speaker 13: lot of response.
- 20:06Speaker 12: To what happened today in a few short hours.
- 20:09Speaker 13: I had probably ten thousand views and a thousand comments
- 20:12Speaker 13: in only a.
- 20:12Speaker 12: Couple of hours.
- 20:13Speaker 13: And what I would say to the Prime Minister is
- 20:17Speaker 13: that the community, both Jewish and non Jewish, are very
- 20:20Speaker 13: very angry about how slowly this issue has been handled.
- 20:25Speaker 12: It's been almost two years and it's been allowed to fester.
- 20:28Speaker 13: To a point where racial hatred towards Jews is almost acceptable.
- 20:34Speaker 12: So there's a lot of anger. I think also there's
- 20:36Speaker 12: a lot of distrust, and a lot of people are.
- 20:39Speaker 13: Saying, well, you know, great plan, but let's wait and
- 20:43Speaker 13: see if any of it is implemented.
- 20:45Speaker 12: And I think a lot of people don't have faith that.
- 20:48Speaker 13: These plans will be implemented in a timely fashion. And
- 20:51Speaker 13: I think people are really worried that there is no
- 20:55Speaker 13: accountability still on the part of the government, no real accountability,
- 20:58Speaker 13: because today was almost insulting. It's like, well, here's some
- 21:03Speaker 13: great ideas, but we can't be sure that we're going
- 21:05Speaker 13: to implement them or not. And I really believe that
- 21:08Speaker 13: the public is worried that what gets going to take
- 21:12Speaker 13: is a death before any serious action is taken.
- 21:17Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, you know, you've nailed it.
- 21:20Speaker 3: I mean, it sounded good if you're sort of half listening,
- 21:23Speaker 3: But the keywords are they haven't implemented any of it yet,
- 21:26Speaker 3: and none of us have much faith in the community
- 21:30Speaker 3: that is going to happen in a timely way. Mani Polstine,
- 21:33Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time. Now the PM
- 21:35Speaker 3: is set to jet off to Beijing this Saturday for
- 21:38Speaker 3: yet another meeting with Jijin Ping and yet still my
- 21:42Speaker 3: meeting with Donald Trump. Ahead of the PM's trip, Former
- 21:45Speaker 3: Security and Diplomatic Chief Dennis Richardson has warned China will
- 21:50Speaker 3: engage in coercive trade practices, saying we've got to remain
- 21:54Speaker 3: aware they're not a paragon of virtue when it comes
- 21:57Speaker 3: to trade, and that Beijing will put us in the
- 22:00Speaker 3: doghouse again if we fall out politically, and of course
- 22:04Speaker 3: we saw this when Scott Morrison raised valid questions about
- 22:09Speaker 3: the origins of COVID. Joining me now to break down
- 22:12Speaker 3: the PM's China trip and more, Former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer,
- 22:17Speaker 3: thank you for your time, Alexander. What should be the
- 22:21Speaker 3: red lines for the PM on this trip. He's reportedly
- 22:24Speaker 3: rebuffed China's approach to include Ai in a broader trade deal,
- 22:28Speaker 3: But what else?
- 22:30Speaker 15: Well, I think it's very important the Prime Minister is
- 22:34Speaker 15: robust in supporting Australia's broad geopolitical interests, so we expect
- 22:41Speaker 15: China to adhere to the rule of international law in
- 22:44Speaker 15: South China see and particularly in relation to Taiwan. And
- 22:50Speaker 15: I think he should have Frank discussions with China about
- 22:53Speaker 15: how the United States, Australia and are Broad or Alliance
- 23:02Speaker 15: are concerned about the assertion of Chinese power, in appropriate
- 23:07Speaker 15: assertion of Chinese power.
- 23:08Speaker 11: So it's not just about trade. I mean, there'll be
- 23:11Speaker 11: all sorts of.
- 23:11Speaker 15: Details about trade. But the problem for the Prime Minister
- 23:17Speaker 15: is he has no relationship with the President of the
- 23:20Speaker 15: United States because he's not met him. I mean, it
- 23:24Speaker 15: means he goes to Beijing without the one great advantage
- 23:29Speaker 15: Australia has always had in Asia, and that is that
- 23:33Speaker 15: it has been the country which is closest to the
- 23:37Speaker 15: United States of any country in the region, and the
- 23:41Speaker 15: United States is the country ultimately on which we all
- 23:45Speaker 15: depend for the balance of power in Asia. So and
- 23:49Speaker 15: it's in that sense the Prime Minister goes to Beijing
- 23:53Speaker 15: with a relatively weak hand.
- 23:56Speaker 3: Well, speaking of that, it will be his second trip
- 23:58Speaker 3: to China in two You isn't as you say, he
- 24:00Speaker 3: hasn't got this meeting with Trump. I mean, do you
- 24:03Speaker 3: see this as part of a drift are drift closer
- 24:06Speaker 3: to Beijing? Especially with that speech that John Curtin speech
- 24:10Speaker 3: that Albanize gave recently, he seemed to be suggesting.
- 24:15Speaker 15: That, Yeah, I mean, he is beginning to downplay the
- 24:22Speaker 15: importance of the US alliance. He looks at it in
- 24:25Speaker 15: entirely in that speech, looks at it entally in the
- 24:30Speaker 15: wrong way. He just thinks, the US Alliance exists, so
- 24:36Speaker 15: America can come to our support if somebody invades Australia.
- 24:41Speaker 11: But it's much more than that. The US alliance that.
- 24:46Speaker 15: We have is part of the broad balance of power
- 24:50Speaker 15: relationship in the Indo Pacific region. And he doesn't even
- 24:55Speaker 15: begin to understand the importance of the balance of power
- 24:59Speaker 15: in the Indo Pacific region.
- 25:01Speaker 11: If you want a peaceful region, you need.
- 25:04Speaker 15: An active America in the region, working closely with its
- 25:08Speaker 15: allies and allies who contribute to that alliance. He has
- 25:13Speaker 15: to try to think in those broader terms. So yeah,
- 25:18Speaker 15: I think what he has do he is doing is
- 25:21Speaker 15: reducing the importance of the American Alliance. After all, President
- 25:25Speaker 15: Trump has been the president since January this year, it's
- 25:29Speaker 15: now July, and he still hasn't even even met President
- 25:34Speaker 15: Trump in that time, and rushing off to Beijing, which
- 25:39Speaker 15: is the power that the United States and its allies
- 25:43Speaker 15: are trying to balance in the Indo Pacific region.
- 25:46Speaker 11: I mean, it's a bit odd.
- 25:48Speaker 3: It's odd, and it's embarrassing, I think too. And look,
- 25:52Speaker 3: speaking of Trump, we've got this ongoing tariff war concerns
- 25:56Speaker 3: now that the US President's proposal to slap a two
- 25:58Speaker 3: hundred tax on pharmaceuticals could impact the PBS.
- 26:02Speaker 5: We also find out today.
- 26:04Speaker 3: Trump will follow through on this fifty percent tariff on copper,
- 26:09Speaker 3: citing security concerns.
- 26:11Speaker 5: What are your thoughts.
- 26:12Speaker 3: About these two specific tariffs, especially given how es central
- 26:16Speaker 3: copper is for the defense sector.
- 26:18Speaker 5: Is this the right call, It's the wrongful.
- 26:22Speaker 15: I'm not a supporter of tariffs at all, and I
- 26:25Speaker 15: think it is the real downside of the Trump administration, the.
- 26:30Speaker 11: Passion that President Trump has for tariffs.
- 26:34Speaker 15: Though there are many upsides and they've done many things well,
- 26:37Speaker 15: but this is one thing which is not a positive
- 26:41Speaker 15: contributor to the stability of the global economy. However, faced
- 26:50Speaker 15: with the threat of these tariffs, the Prime minister should
- 26:54Speaker 15: I mean, he's our head of government. He should be
- 26:58Speaker 15: engaging with is American counterpart President Trump.
- 27:03Speaker 11: He should build a relationship with him.
- 27:06Speaker 15: By contrast, Keir Starmer, the British labor Prime Minister, coming
- 27:12Speaker 15: from a completely different political perspective from President Trump. He
- 27:17Speaker 15: has built a very successful relationship with Trump and that's
- 27:21Speaker 15: been very much to.
- 27:22Speaker 11: The advantage of the UK.
- 27:25Speaker 15: It's just an extraordinary thing that the Prime Minister of
- 27:29Speaker 15: Australia has such a distant, apparently cold relationship with the
- 27:35Speaker 15: President of the United States, who he has apparently never met.
- 27:40Speaker 5: It does not bode well at all.
- 27:41Speaker 3: Just finally, very quickly, the European Court of Human Rights
- 27:44Speaker 3: has found Russia was in fact responsible for the downing
- 27:47Speaker 3: of Flight M seventeen, which two hundred and ninety eight people,
- 27:51Speaker 3: including thirty eight Australians, died. Alexander I think this was
- 27:54Speaker 3: already pretty clear. But how much weight, if any, does
- 27:57Speaker 3: this find and carry and do we have any hope
- 28:01Speaker 3: of ever getting justice just quickly?
- 28:04Speaker 15: Well, we have to persuade the Russians and that won't
- 28:09Speaker 15: be possible in the short term. And this just confirms
- 28:12Speaker 15: what we already know. The European Court of Justice doesn't
- 28:17Speaker 15: have any jurisdiction in Russia though, because Russia was expelled
- 28:21Speaker 15: from the Court and from the European Court Human Rights
- 28:27Speaker 15: Convention some years ago, so it's symbolic.
- 28:31Speaker 11: It doesn't have any practical.
- 28:33Speaker 3: Meaning Alexander Danna, thank you so much for your time
- 28:37Speaker 3: after the break yesterday, pharmaceutical and copper tariffs today a
- 28:41Speaker 3: potential orcers price hike. Is it stubbornness or ineptitude keeping
- 28:46Speaker 3: alban easy from sorting out his Trump problem? Either way,
- 28:49Speaker 3: it's humiliating. Peter Jennings will join us to discuss next.
- 28:58Speaker 3: Welcome back to the major concern of the day. The
- 29:02Speaker 3: United States may demand Australia pay more for submarines under
- 29:06Speaker 3: the Orcus Pact, in what some are calling a shakedown
- 29:10Speaker 3: and yet another sign this PM needs to get it
- 29:13Speaker 3: together when it comes to America. It's thought US Under
- 29:16Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense for Policy Lbridge Colby wants major changes
- 29:21Speaker 3: before Australia gets its promised nuclear submarines. Here with Senator
- 29:26Speaker 3: James Patterson today.
- 29:28Speaker 8: We are entitled to try and influence that process, and
- 29:32Speaker 8: any country with any diplomatic heft or ability to move
- 29:36Speaker 8: quickly would be all over this. We should be able
- 29:38Speaker 8: to save UCAS, but we are not going to save
- 29:41Speaker 8: UCAS if we just let this thing on cruise, if
- 29:43Speaker 8: we don't take charge of it, if the Prime Minister
- 29:45Speaker 8: doesn't personally take.
- 29:46Speaker 3: Charge of it, Meanwhile, Green Senator Nick McKim had this
- 29:51Speaker 3: very different take.
- 29:53Speaker 9: It's an absolute dud deal and Australia should walk away
- 29:57Speaker 9: from it. There's plenty of other things we invest that
- 30:00Speaker 9: money into, both in the defense space but also endoing
- 30:04Speaker 9: more to help Australians who really need social supports.
- 30:09Speaker 3: Joining me now is Peter Jennings, director at Strategic Analysis Australia. Peter,
- 30:14Speaker 3: this potential US request to pay more under ORCAS has
- 30:18Speaker 3: unleashed total fury.
- 30:20Speaker 5: In some quarters.
- 30:22Speaker 3: Do you think that's justified and do you think it
- 30:24Speaker 3: will actually happen, that will be asked to pay more
- 30:27Speaker 3: and how will Australia respond.
- 30:31Speaker 16: Well, I think what we've got to get our heads
- 30:32Speaker 16: around is that we will need to pay more for
- 30:35Speaker 16: our own security. We don't have a complete sense of
- 30:39Speaker 16: the real cost of the orcust Submarines. I mean, it's
- 30:43Speaker 16: a twenty year project, Caroline, so how could we possibly
- 30:46Speaker 16: know at this point? And I think what the Americans
- 30:49Speaker 16: are going to be saying to us is we want
- 30:51Speaker 16: to see more signs of seriousness from your Australia that
- 30:54Speaker 16: you're actually going to do this. So, okay, you've got
- 30:58Speaker 16: a couple of hundred people under t right now. But
- 31:01Speaker 16: where's that port that you need to build on the
- 31:03Speaker 16: east coast of for the country. Where's the nuclear storage
- 31:06Speaker 16: facility that you can use to house spent reactors? You know,
- 31:11Speaker 16: these are billions of dollars worth of costs which we
- 31:13Speaker 16: will have to spend ourselves if we want to be
- 31:15Speaker 16: serious about getting the submarine capability. So I don't think
- 31:19Speaker 16: it's necessarily about more money into the pockets of Americans,
- 31:22Speaker 16: although it's their submarine technology that they're selling. It's about
- 31:26Speaker 16: whether or not we're going to spend enough to actually
- 31:28Speaker 16: look after our own defense. And that's the thing our
- 31:31Speaker 16: government seems to be so reluctant about right now.
- 31:35Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they have refused that request from Pete Hagsath,
- 31:39Speaker 3: the US Defense or Secretary, to increase defense spending as
- 31:43Speaker 3: a proportion to our GDP.
- 31:45Speaker 5: Haven't they. Look.
- 31:47Speaker 3: Trump's mammoth threats to China and Russia have been exposed
- 31:51Speaker 3: in some leaked audio, and according to this audio obtained
- 31:55Speaker 3: by CNN, Trump tolls a toll the private gathering of
- 31:59Speaker 3: Dome he'd once sought to deter Vladimir Putin from invading
- 32:04Speaker 3: Ukraine by threatening to bomb the s out of Moscow
- 32:08Speaker 3: if he did so, here's the clip.
- 32:12Speaker 17: Said, if you go in to Ukraine, I'm telling you
- 32:18Speaker 17: I would the presidentship, Jana.
- 32:20Speaker 11: But I said the same thing to them. I said,
- 32:22Speaker 11: you know, if.
- 32:22Speaker 12: You're going to what over the biblisher and he believe.
- 32:26Speaker 17: He except ten percent and ten percent five Poul.
- 32:32Speaker 5: Peter.
- 32:32Speaker 3: This was back in twenty twenty four when Trump was
- 32:35Speaker 3: still just seeking a second term. And of course we've
- 32:37Speaker 3: seen him go hot and cold on Putin as president.
- 32:41Speaker 5: But did this reveal anything to you?
- 32:44Speaker 16: Yes, that he'll say anything in front of a bunch
- 32:47Speaker 16: of Republican donors. So I guess, Caroline, that's what it says,
- 32:50Speaker 16: and it's not to be believed fact. Thank goodness.
- 32:55Speaker 18: You know.
- 32:55Speaker 16: Trump has actually shown himself to be one of the
- 32:57Speaker 16: more risk averse American presidents would it comes to using
- 33:00Speaker 16: military force overseas. And I think the giveaway in his
- 33:04Speaker 16: comments was his observation while Putin might have believed me
- 33:09Speaker 16: for ten percy. So he's kind of showing himself to
- 33:12Speaker 16: be the New York real estate negotiator we know him
- 33:16Speaker 16: to be. I don't think we should take anything he
- 33:18Speaker 16: says particularly seriously, but and bear in mind this is
- 33:23Speaker 16: pre his election, So I don't believe that he was
- 33:28Speaker 16: planning to bomb Moscow, and I don't think the Russians
- 33:31Speaker 16: thought it, and I don't think.
- 33:32Speaker 11: He was serious.
- 33:33Speaker 3: No, no, it wouldn't seem that way, And you're right,
- 33:36Speaker 3: he probably would say anything, but he is all about.
- 33:39Speaker 5: The art of the deal.
- 33:40Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Hamas has announced it will release ten Israeli hostages
- 33:45Speaker 3: from Gaza as part of the progression of these seas
- 33:49Speaker 3: fire talks. It said, in the framework of Hamas's commitment
- 33:53Speaker 3: to ensuring the success of ongoing efforts, the movement displayed
- 33:58Speaker 3: the required flexibility and agreed to release ten prisoners. And
- 34:03Speaker 3: by prisoners, of course, they mean innocent Israeli hostagees Peter.
- 34:07Speaker 3: This is surely a welcome development, though so too Nanyahu's
- 34:11Speaker 3: saying that there is a good chance of a ceasefire,
- 34:14Speaker 3: but do you think we will see one at the stage?
- 34:17Speaker 16: Well, it's welcome, but agonizing at the same time. I mean,
- 34:20Speaker 16: one of the challenges that israelp has faced is that
- 34:24Speaker 16: it's negotiating with Hamas, which is the entity that it's
- 34:28Speaker 16: it wants to destroy and to exile from Gaza. So
- 34:33Speaker 16: if a ceasefire is agreed. What that means is that
- 34:35Speaker 16: Hamas remains the dominant political entity in Gaza. I don't
- 34:41Speaker 16: think we've come to the end of the conflict yet.
- 34:44Speaker 16: I think Israel is determined, beyond rescuing the hostages to
- 34:48Speaker 16: try and find a way to depose Hamas from political
- 34:52Speaker 16: power in Gaza. That's the tougher and longer term objective.
- 34:57Speaker 16: So we've got to think about this as being a
- 35:00Speaker 16: sort of a tactical situation which is designed around maybe
- 35:04Speaker 16: being able to get some hostages back, but it doesn't
- 35:06Speaker 16: really fix the longer term need, which is that her
- 35:09Speaker 16: Mask cannot be in power in Gaza into the future.
- 35:13Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's going to be very difficult to get
- 35:15Speaker 3: her master agree to that, isn't it. Peter Jennings, thank
- 35:18Speaker 3: you so much for your time. Up next, the celebrity
- 35:21Speaker 3: rabbi who wants our prime minister banned from entering the
- 35:25Speaker 3: United States of America, and he says the Trump administration
- 35:29Speaker 3: is listening.
- 35:29Speaker 5: Rabbi Shmooley joins me.
- 35:31Speaker 3: Next, Welcome back a high profile American rabbi.
- 35:42Speaker 5: Rabbi Schmooley has.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Published an open letter calling on Donald Trump to ban
- 35:48Speaker 3: Anthony Albanesi from entering the US.
- 35:51Speaker 5: Rabbi Shmooley writes President Donald J. Trump. I write to
- 35:54Speaker 5: you now with urgent moral concern.
- 35:56Speaker 3: I implore you to take the extraordinary but necessary step
- 36:00Speaker 3: of publicly calling for a ban on Australian Prime Minister
- 36:04Speaker 3: Anthony Alberizi from entering the United States of America, and
- 36:08Speaker 3: Rabbi Schmooley claims his connections with the administration are seriously
- 36:13Speaker 3: considering his request. I spoke to the Rabbi from Miami
- 36:16Speaker 3: earlier today.
- 36:18Speaker 4: Well, Caroline, I love Australia, I love an Australia and
- 36:21Speaker 4: my wife of thirty seven years, and I am the
- 36:23Speaker 4: father of nine Australian citizens. Australia is becoming a global
- 36:27Speaker 4: pariah nation as we read daily of abominable antisemitic attacks.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Why should we allow Australians to be pariahs when it
- 36:38Speaker 4: is Anthony Albernizi who should be the pariah. He is
- 36:41Speaker 4: the prime minister who did nothing with Jews were balled
- 36:44Speaker 4: upon to be guessed October ninth, twenty twenty three. He
- 36:47Speaker 4: did nothing when a synagogue was burned to the ground
- 36:49Speaker 4: last December. He played tennis literally through its burning. Took
- 36:53Speaker 4: them days to get there. He has not even visited
- 36:56Speaker 4: Victoria or Melbourne after the Sabbath from Hell the Gehenna sad.
- 37:00Speaker 1: But this past weekend.
- 37:01Speaker 4: Where a synagogue was torched, bars Jewish bars were burnt
- 37:06Speaker 4: down and an Israeli restaurant was targeted for absolute vilification
- 37:12Speaker 4: destruction as people called for Jews the ideas to be murdered.
- 37:18Speaker 4: Albanisi has become an Australian abomin nation. He has no
- 37:22Speaker 4: place in the United States. He should be banned by
- 37:25Speaker 4: President Trump. We are using every contact we have in
- 37:27Speaker 4: the Trump administration, from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to
- 37:31Speaker 4: HHS Secretary of my very close friend Robert Kennedy Junior,
- 37:33Speaker 4: whose first cousin, Caroline was the ambassador until recently in Canberra.
- 37:39Speaker 4: From the United States, we're speaking to Steve whitbuff ALBINIZI
- 37:44Speaker 4: should be sanctioned as a pariah.
- 37:47Speaker 1: And not allowed to enter this great nation.
- 37:50Speaker 5: So, Rabbi, this is more than just a letter.
- 37:53Speaker 3: You've got people in the administration actually considering this.
- 37:57Speaker 5: How is it being received.
- 37:59Speaker 4: I think it's received with great pain and with great credibility.
- 38:03Speaker 4: I think that Australia until very recently had the reputation
- 38:08Speaker 4: of having the Chillis vibe in the entire world. You know,
- 38:11Speaker 4: fair dicome and drimp on the Barbie interests. And I'm
- 38:15Speaker 4: sorry to sounds the crocodile dundee watching American, But we
- 38:19Speaker 4: Americans loved Australia.
- 38:20Speaker 1: I studied there for two years. I lived in Bondai.
- 38:23Speaker 4: If you would have told me that when I visited
- 38:25Speaker 4: Australia three months ago that I would have people stopping
- 38:27Speaker 4: me on Kouji Beach saying pre Palestine, you know, with
- 38:32Speaker 4: a Hyle Hitler salute.
- 38:33Speaker 1: If you would have told me.
- 38:34Speaker 4: That during my speech on anti Semitism it would be
- 38:37Speaker 4: disrupted by the most despicable hecklers and the police called
- 38:42Speaker 4: in Sydney who go through the motions, Oh, we're going
- 38:44Speaker 4: to arrest them and then release them instantly. If you
- 38:47Speaker 4: would have told me that all acaust survivors' children and
- 38:50Speaker 4: grandchildren and the survivors themselves are thinking of leaving Australia
- 38:54Speaker 4: after having been granted sanctuary in that beautiful country in
- 38:57Speaker 4: the nineteen fifties, when Australia accepted one.
- 39:01Speaker 1: Wallcusts vibor for every one Jew that was.
- 39:03Speaker 4: Living a one to one ratio about fifty thousand, bringing
- 39:06Speaker 4: the community to one hundred thousand. Now it's a one hundred
- 39:08Speaker 4: and twenty thousand. If you would have told me that
- 39:10Speaker 4: these people now want to leave and move Tosual because
- 39:12Speaker 4: they do all feel safe, I would never have believed it.
- 39:14Speaker 1: It is all Albanisi.
- 39:16Speaker 3: The government does have a new anti Semitism report today.
- 39:20Speaker 5: What do you think of that?
- 39:21Speaker 4: It was in Australia two months ago speaking, I could
- 39:23Speaker 4: have produced a report in ten minutes. Australia is becoming
- 39:26Speaker 4: a sewer of anti Semitism. It's becoming assessin of jew
- 39:30Speaker 4: hatreds Arrest the.
- 39:32Speaker 18: Perpetrators, stop condemning Israel, stop funding universities whose students are
- 39:38Speaker 18: doing these encampments to intimidate and harass other Jewish students
- 39:42Speaker 18: and make it weird that no one can immigrate into
- 39:45Speaker 18: the country if they have social media posts where they
- 39:47Speaker 18: hate Jews.
- 39:48Speaker 1: There's your report. Why did it take a year?
- 39:52Speaker 3: The government says it's only considering implementing the recommendations out
- 39:56Speaker 3: of its new report.
- 39:58Speaker 5: What do you make of that?
- 40:00Speaker 4: I think it's perfectly in align with with with Albinizi,
- 40:02Speaker 4: which is why I'm calling for him to be banned
- 40:04Speaker 4: from the United States. What is required now is the
- 40:08Speaker 4: ultimate international censure against the Prime Minister of Australia official.
- 40:12Speaker 4: How serious this is, he must be barred entry from
- 40:15Speaker 4: the United States of America. Australia uses this school all
- 40:18Speaker 4: the time. They recently barred one of the world's you know, foremost.
- 40:23Speaker 1: Defenders of Israel, a man named mister foold. I have
- 40:27Speaker 1: no idea.
- 40:27Speaker 4: Why think about Albanizi? What business does he have coming
- 40:32Speaker 4: to Washington, DC, for instance? All he doesn't even really
- 40:34Speaker 4: want to come here, So let's ban him anyway, because
- 40:36Speaker 4: all he wants to do is suck up to China.
- 40:39Speaker 4: He isn through all with dictators. He loves totalitarianism. He
- 40:43Speaker 4: puts economy before human rights. And then he think, dares
- 40:47Speaker 4: damn Israel. This is a man that is sucking up
- 40:50Speaker 4: to the Chinese day and night. Although the Chinese are
- 40:55Speaker 4: guilty of a real genocide against the Vegas, the Jews
- 40:58Speaker 4: are guilty of nothing but wanting to defend themselves and
- 41:01Speaker 4: liberate the Palestinians from Tamas. Every innocent Palestinian child who
- 41:05Speaker 4: is dying in Gaza right now is a child of God.
- 41:09Speaker 1: They are of infinite value.
- 41:10Speaker 4: They are the same value, of course, of every Jewish
- 41:12Speaker 4: and Christian child, and every single one of those children
- 41:15Speaker 4: is dead because of Tamas.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Tamas, Tamas using them as human shields. Tamas uses these children.
- 41:20Speaker 1: It's as if they strapped Kalestinian babies to their front
- 41:23Speaker 1: and back and use them as bulletproof.
- 41:25Speaker 4: Vest I want every Australian watching this to ask yourself
- 41:28Speaker 4: a simple question.
- 41:29Speaker 1: I lived in Australia.
- 41:30Speaker 4: A marriage in Australian Canberra is a is a forty
- 41:32Speaker 4: five minute flight from Melbourne. You want to tell me
- 41:36Speaker 4: that Anthony ALBERIZI couldn't get on and government provided yet
- 41:40Speaker 4: to go to the East Melbourne Synagogue and say I
- 41:43Speaker 4: am the leader of this country.
- 41:44Speaker 1: You Jews are not alone.
- 41:46Speaker 4: He couldn't go to the Israeli owned restaurant and tell
- 41:49Speaker 4: the owner you are not alone.
- 41:52Speaker 1: I am with you.
- 41:53Speaker 3: The US has today imposed sanctions on another Albanesi, Francesca Albanesi,
- 41:59Speaker 3: the UN Special Rappertoire for the occupied Palestinian territories.
- 42:03Speaker 5: A good move.
- 42:04Speaker 4: Not only is a good move, but let me tell you, Carolina,
- 42:07Speaker 4: I think we should get two Albanesis for the price
- 42:09Speaker 4: of one. The United States through Marco Rubio. I'm speaking
- 42:13Speaker 4: to you from Florida. He was the Senator from Florida.
- 42:17Speaker 4: I know the senator now the secretary, and he's a
- 42:19Speaker 4: great man. His actions show how much the Trump administration
- 42:24Speaker 4: in general and American people in particular are behind the
- 42:28Speaker 4: state of Israel.
- 42:29Speaker 1: And she now cannot come to the United States. She
- 42:31Speaker 1: is banned. Let's get two Alberanitis for the.
- 42:33Speaker 4: Price of one. In the same way that we ban
- 42:35Speaker 4: Francesco Albanesi, who can never stop condemning Israel and wants
- 42:39Speaker 4: to choose to have no right to defend themselves, we
- 42:41Speaker 4: must now ban Anthony Albanesi, who is almost basically there.
- 42:46Speaker 3: After the break insulin resistant, Bobby Mattel releases a doll
- 42:50Speaker 3: with diabetes.
- 42:51Speaker 5: That's next come back.
- 43:00Speaker 3: Well viewers will no doubt be pleased to learn that
- 43:03Speaker 3: our defense department has used our hard earned taxpayer funds,
- 43:07Speaker 3: no not to help our flailing defense force, but to
- 43:10Speaker 3: produce our harmony cookbook.
- 43:13Speaker 5: What insanity will they cook up next?
- 43:16Speaker 3: Joining me to discuss this is the Daily Telegraphs Tim
- 43:19Speaker 3: Blair and Mark Nicholson from step Mate Studios. Welcome to
- 43:23Speaker 3: you both, Tim, this has got to be some sort
- 43:25Speaker 3: of joke. We're in the most precarious time geopolitically since
- 43:31Speaker 3: World War Two? Do they think a mean pastor will
- 43:34Speaker 3: help stave off our enemies?
- 43:38Speaker 19: They should be promoting recipes of death? And you know,
- 43:41Speaker 19: I mean there's a certain people.
- 43:44Speaker 5: Aaron Patterson might be able to nominate.
- 43:46Speaker 1: One I work.
- 43:48Speaker 19: Just you mentioned World War two. Imagine if in World
- 43:50Speaker 19: War two it is often our soldiers took a break
- 43:53Speaker 19: to flick through the latest sushi recipes coming out of Russiama,
- 43:57Speaker 19: and it's it's not exactly mission critical to get your
- 44:03Speaker 19: to get your venues correct.
- 44:05Speaker 5: No, it isn't.
- 44:06Speaker 3: But you know, more broadly, Mark, do you think you
- 44:10Speaker 3: know Defense Minister Richard Miles has ordered these sweeping reforms
- 44:14Speaker 3: of his department. Do you reckon this is the kind
- 44:17Speaker 3: of thing that will be culled first?
- 44:22Speaker 2: It has to be surely Like I was, much like
- 44:25Speaker 2: most people. I woke up and saw that this morning
- 44:27Speaker 2: and went, oh god, we're cooked. This is what's going on,
- 44:29Speaker 2: As you said, geo politically, look what's going on. Iran's
- 44:32Speaker 2: cooking this up, cooking up nuclear bombs, where nuking wrissoles.
- 44:36Speaker 2: I don't know what we're doing in this cookbook. You
- 44:37Speaker 2: know we've got orcust falling apart.
- 44:39Speaker 1: This is what we're up to.
- 44:41Speaker 2: But I think you've nailed Carolina Reckon. This might be
- 44:43Speaker 2: part of a bigger strategy here, which is lure them in,
- 44:46Speaker 2: make them think we've got some woke, incompetent, useless, pathetic
- 44:50Speaker 2: defense force. Don't show a defense force, give them an
- 44:52Speaker 2: invitation to dinner, and serve him up a lethal dish
- 44:55Speaker 2: of death to him, Beef Wellington with secret recipe, serve
- 45:00Speaker 2: that up and they never saw it coming. Maybe that's
- 45:02Speaker 2: what it is, But unfortunately I don't think Richard Marles
- 45:04Speaker 2: is capable of such a strategy.
- 45:06Speaker 5: On, No, I don't think so.
- 45:07Speaker 3: I do know someone in custody who has a currently
- 45:10Speaker 3: who has a recipe for one of those recipes. Now, look,
- 45:15Speaker 3: if only there was a recipe for fixing diplomatic relations,
- 45:18Speaker 3: I definitely know a prime minister who could use it.
- 45:21Speaker 5: Look, let's some move on to something else.
- 45:23Speaker 3: Should motorists be entitled to a toll free day when
- 45:27Speaker 3: they get stuck in traffic for hours on end due
- 45:30Speaker 3: to complex accidents? There was really heavy congestion yesterday here
- 45:35Speaker 3: in Sydney in all directions following a full car crash
- 45:39Speaker 3: on the Sydney Harbor Bridge. One person had to be freed,
- 45:42Speaker 3: but its compensation. The acting opposition leader in New South Wales,
- 45:47Speaker 3: Damien tewed Hope.
- 45:48Speaker 5: Floated this idea of a toll free day. Tim your thoughts.
- 45:54Speaker 19: In a people realize when they live in city that
- 45:57Speaker 19: it's a great, big city with lots of things called
- 46:00Speaker 19: cars and lots of lanes of traffic, and that every
- 46:02Speaker 19: so often things might just go a little bit, you know,
- 46:06Speaker 19: outside of the boundaries, and there will big collisions as
- 46:10Speaker 19: painful and often as deadly as those collisions will be.
- 46:12Speaker 19: This is reality of living in a big city. And
- 46:16Speaker 19: the Sydney slows down a huge amountment just you know,
- 46:18Speaker 19: a few splashes of water hit the road. Let alone,
- 46:21Speaker 19: we have head on impacts that require medical and emergency attendance.
- 46:26Speaker 19: So I don't think I don't think it's going to
- 46:29Speaker 19: make a great deal difference if they throw a few
- 46:31Speaker 19: bucks at each motorist. Also, it's just a little bit
- 46:34Speaker 19: sort of shy of where they should be policy wise
- 46:36Speaker 19: at the moment instead of just you know, compensating people
- 46:39Speaker 19: for a fifteen or twenty minute or a half hour,
- 46:41Speaker 19: whatever delay it was on this uber ridge. Maybe look
- 46:44Speaker 19: at why energy prices are insane and why you have
- 46:48Speaker 19: to wells is coppying the worst of them.
- 46:49Speaker 5: Yeah, that would be a good place to start.
- 46:51Speaker 3: Now, Trump says he would be putting America first, and
- 46:55Speaker 3: now he's hiking up the costs for foreign well hikers.
- 46:58Speaker 3: He was Trump announcing his latest executive order.
- 47:02Speaker 17: I've just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees
- 47:07Speaker 17: for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans. And
- 47:11Speaker 17: we're going to do that. The national parks will be
- 47:15Speaker 17: about America first.
- 47:17Speaker 5: Mark, Will this have an impact on your travel plans?
- 47:22Speaker 2: No, I'd be happy to pay it, to be honest,
- 47:24Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm a bit flat on Trump in
- 47:26Speaker 2: general after the last couple of days with the Epstein
- 47:28Speaker 2: Least stuff, I'm super flat on him. But you can't
- 47:32Speaker 2: walk away from it, just how much he does want
- 47:33Speaker 2: to put America first. And this is one of those things,
- 47:35Speaker 2: Like I looked it up. We don't have like a
- 47:37Speaker 2: comparison here. We don't pay for national parks, but SeaWorld
- 47:41Speaker 2: like a theme park, you know, that's one hundred and
- 47:43Speaker 2: twenty nine dollars a ticket. That's just one day. That's
- 47:45Speaker 2: not a three park superpass. That's just one theme park
- 47:49Speaker 2: for a day. That's tourism pricing. That's tourist pricing. That's
- 47:51Speaker 2: not what national should be paying. That's not what citizens
- 47:53Speaker 2: should be paying. So another way to phrase this is
- 47:56Speaker 2: not that tourists should be paid, should be paying water
- 47:58Speaker 2: go to national parks. Citizens should be getting there into
- 48:01Speaker 2: their cheaper in the States.
- 48:03Speaker 5: So I kind of agree.
- 48:04Speaker 2: If I'm going to go to the States, I'll save
- 48:06Speaker 2: up my shekels, I'll get down there and I'm happy
- 48:08Speaker 2: to tip in to help the national park. And I
- 48:10Speaker 2: think it should be the same for SeaWorld, Movie World,
- 48:12Speaker 2: Wild all the same down here as well.
- 48:14Speaker 3: Yeah, look, the process are exorbitant. You know, in Singapore
- 48:17Speaker 3: they charge you more if you're a citizen to go
- 48:20Speaker 3: to the casino because they want less people to go
- 48:22Speaker 3: to the casino.
- 48:23Speaker 5: The foreigners, they're happy.
- 48:24Speaker 3: To take their money, but tim with tips, unfavorable exchange rate,
- 48:29Speaker 3: a trip to the US is already out of reach
- 48:31Speaker 3: from many Australians at the moment. Do you think that
- 48:33Speaker 3: this executive water is going to have an impact on
- 48:36Speaker 3: us here?
- 48:37Speaker 19: Well, I'll be there next month. Carolin, so I'll be
- 48:39Speaker 19: able to report firsthand on poverty and my own personal hardship.
- 48:45Speaker 19: But I think I think Trump, for all of is
- 48:48Speaker 19: obvious financial acumen and creativity when it comes to government policies,
- 48:52Speaker 19: might be missing something here. Why not make inferance to
- 48:55Speaker 19: the parts free for foreign visitors but you have to
- 48:58Speaker 19: pay to get out rather than maybe there are terrifying
- 49:04Speaker 19: pythons through all matal creatures in the part. You know
- 49:07Speaker 19: there's there's alligator altacas. He's opened up there in Florida.
- 49:10Speaker 19: If you're paying to get it out, it's not going
- 49:12Speaker 19: to be a few bucks, is it. It's not going
- 49:14Speaker 19: to be one hundred and twenty dollars of the paying
- 49:15Speaker 19: up at a place in Queensland. Oh, people will be
- 49:18Speaker 19: paying thousands, and very willingly too.
- 49:21Speaker 3: I mean, Mark this probably it didn't help your feelings
- 49:25Speaker 3: about Trump. All these latest tariffs in the news today
- 49:28Speaker 3: we learned about this orcast deal might cost us more.
- 49:31Speaker 3: I mean, at this point we really need Alban easy
- 49:35Speaker 3: to secure a meeting with him. But do you have
- 49:38Speaker 3: any confidence he's going to be able to do that?
- 49:42Speaker 1: Zero?
- 49:44Speaker 2: Absolutely zero, Like I wouldn't trust this bloke to hold
- 49:47Speaker 2: my phone, let alone deal on my behalf, on behalf
- 49:50Speaker 2: of the country. Now, if anything, he's going to make
- 49:52Speaker 2: this worse. And as we just saw from Rabbi Schmooley
- 49:55Speaker 2: as well just before us was watching the segment while
- 49:58Speaker 2: I was waiting to come on air.
- 50:00Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he's going to make it.
- 50:01Speaker 2: He's actually he's gonna put his foot in it and
- 50:03Speaker 2: going to make it worse.
- 50:04Speaker 5: If anything, I don't know.
- 50:07Speaker 2: We just just keep quiet and maybe maybe it'll all
- 50:10Speaker 2: work out without him. That's that's the best I can
- 50:12Speaker 2: hope for it, because he's just super negligent.
- 50:14Speaker 5: I don't know what to expect. Maybe it would work
- 50:16Speaker 5: out better without him. Actually, that's a good point. Look. Lastly,
- 50:19Speaker 5: to a.
- 50:19Speaker 3: Big day in Barbie history, Mattel has just launched its
- 50:23Speaker 3: latest Barbie doll, who has type one diabetes, as well
- 50:27Speaker 3: as pretty frogs and heels. Her accessories include a continuous
- 50:31Speaker 3: gluecoast monitor and an insulin pump. Tim I'm sure, look,
- 50:35Speaker 3: some will welcome this is a great move for representation,
- 50:38Speaker 3: but really, what is next colostomy bag Barbie.
- 50:43Speaker 19: Well, I'm actually kind of in favor of this one, Carolin,
- 50:46Speaker 19: because please type one diabetes especially you know, type two diabetes.
- 50:50Speaker 19: You know, we're as you get her up around my
- 50:52Speaker 19: sort of age and dietary habits and alcohol hobbiest type
- 50:57Speaker 19: you know, more of a self inflicted thing. Type one.
- 51:00Speaker 19: It's get it, and they have to sort of deal
- 51:02Speaker 19: with these sort of issues. So no, I'm fine with
- 51:04Speaker 19: the I'm fine with the diabetes barbie as long as
- 51:06Speaker 19: we don't get to the amputation barbie, which is one
- 51:09Speaker 19: of the drastic side effects of that illness.
- 51:12Speaker 5: Yeah, for dame, putation would be a bit awkward.
- 51:14Speaker 3: I mean, actually, I would like to see type two
- 51:16Speaker 3: diabetes mark because that would be a plus size barbie.
- 51:19Speaker 3: I think that's a politically correct.
- 51:20Speaker 5: Term we have for that. Now, Will you be buying
- 51:23Speaker 5: one of these dolls?
- 51:26Speaker 16: I think it's genius.
- 51:27Speaker 2: I agree with him. I think this is capitalism, by
- 51:29Speaker 2: the way. I think, like I'm looking forward to because
- 51:30Speaker 2: it's a genetic condition. We've got asthma barbie coming as well,
- 51:33Speaker 2: which is you got to think this is all about
- 51:35Speaker 2: the extras. You've got to buy the insulin for type
- 51:38Speaker 2: one diabetes Barbie. That doesn't come free. You've got to
- 51:40Speaker 2: you've got to update that that glucose monitor, does it
- 51:42Speaker 2: not free? You got asthma, Barbie, you gotta get the
- 51:44Speaker 2: ventil and pump or you've got anaphoal axis. She gets
- 51:46Speaker 2: this little Barbie EPI pen. There's a whole bunch of
- 51:49Speaker 2: extras there.
- 51:49Speaker 1: This is not this is capitalist.
- 51:52Speaker 3: Needs to have both of you as consultants. Tim Mark,
- 51:55Speaker 3: thanks for your time. It's all the time we have
- 51:57Speaker 3: for tonight. I'll be back tomorrow for Steve Price. But
- 51:59Speaker 3: up next is Peter Cretlin.
- 52:01Speaker 5: Good not