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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to the Late Debate.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Well, it's great to have your company on the Late Debate.
- 0:08Speaker 2: I'm James Macpherson with the Nika to Georgio and filling
- 0:11Speaker 2: in for Caleb Bond tonight. This is the wonderful Joe
- 0:14Speaker 2: Hilda Brand, Welcome to the Late Tollor.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Very big shoes to fill.
- 0:17Speaker 4: But I'm going to try, you know, if I can
- 0:19Speaker 4: be just half the man that Caleb my mother will be.
- 0:23Speaker 5: This is a big moment for you, Joe, Yeah, it is.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Look, I'm just starting out.
- 0:27Speaker 4: I'm trying to take all the opportunities I can get,
- 0:31Speaker 4: you know, you know, just one step at.
- 0:32Speaker 5: A time, trying to break into the industry.
- 0:34Speaker 3: That's right, you know.
- 0:35Speaker 4: I mean I heard there's a lot of nice people
- 0:37Speaker 4: in television and and I just want to meet them.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Well, we'll see how our work experience, kid goes as
- 0:42Speaker 2: The Night Unfolds is what's coming up tonight. Celebrations in
- 0:46Speaker 2: the AFL as former Brisbane Lions player becomes the first
- 0:49Speaker 2: openly gay past or present player that will lessen the
- 0:53Speaker 2: win a game this year that I really want to know.
- 0:56Speaker 2: As the Church of England and Thrones, the first ever
- 0:58Speaker 2: female Archbishop of Cantor reports that British school children have
- 1:03Speaker 2: been coerced into performing Islamic prayers at a Church of
- 1:06Speaker 2: England primary school, and lefties lose their minds over the
- 1:10Speaker 2: latest installment of Harry Potter. They're not upset about the
- 1:13Speaker 2: new series. They're upset that JK Rowling, a transphobe, is
- 1:17Speaker 2: going to make money from it. We'll get to all
- 1:19Speaker 2: of that shortly, but first, a Monash University study is
- 1:22Speaker 2: found up to half of Australian preschoolers have a mental
- 1:26Speaker 2: health disorder.
- 1:28Speaker 1: These are three to four year olds.
- 1:30Speaker 2: According to the study reported today, forty eight percent of
- 1:33Speaker 2: Australian preschoolers have a mental health disorder, forty three percent
- 1:37Speaker 2: have anxiety, eleven percent have separation anxiety, two percent have
- 1:42Speaker 2: a depressive disorder. And if you're a parent of a preschooler,
- 1:46Speaker 2: now you have a mental health disorder. Having heard those statistics,
- 1:50Speaker 2: the findings sparked calls for the government to institute routine
- 1:54Speaker 2: mental health screenings of the nation's preschoolers. So, I guess
- 1:58Speaker 2: I've got two questions Joe and Anka. First, what do
- 2:01Speaker 2: you make of these stats? And second, what do you
- 2:04Speaker 2: think about routine mental health assessments?
- 2:07Speaker 1: For kids.
- 2:08Speaker 5: Give me a break.
- 2:09Speaker 6: The more you stay to kids that there's something wrong
- 2:11Speaker 6: with them, they're going to grow up to be absolute
- 2:14Speaker 6: more on, Seriously, I really despair for this next generation
- 2:17Speaker 6: because they're growing up to be a bunch of snowflakes.
- 2:19Speaker 6: They've got absolutely zero resilience whatsoever, and they wouldn't even
- 2:23Speaker 6: last one day in the workforce. Seriously, what is a
- 2:27Speaker 6: child doing being diagnosed with anxiety and.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Depression at at.
- 2:32Speaker 5: The age of five years old?
- 2:33Speaker 6: No, but seriously, come on, they're five years old, right,
- 2:36Speaker 6: and you know what this comes down to. I think
- 2:38Speaker 6: it comes down to parenting, because again, if say the child,
- 2:42Speaker 6: what the child's upset? I'm upset today, Mum, Oh, well
- 2:45Speaker 6: what you've got diagh? You might have depression and anxiety.
- 2:48Speaker 5: And this is part of the problem.
- 2:50Speaker 6: Stop telling kids that there's something wrong with them, Stop
- 2:53Speaker 6: telling kids that they can be one gender or another.
- 2:56Speaker 6: Stop worrying them about the fake climate change armageddon. How
- 3:00Speaker 6: about let kids be kids, let them go out and play.
- 3:04Speaker 6: I just think it's this gentle parenting technique that is
- 3:07Speaker 6: making this next generation grow up to be a bunch
- 3:10Speaker 6: of absolute whimps.
- 3:11Speaker 4: I think I'm not even sure if it's the parents,
- 3:13Speaker 4: But I think it's more the sort of the sort
- 3:15Speaker 4: of hyper vigilance and the hyper medicalization that is now
- 3:18Speaker 4: built into the system. And I think you have educators who,
- 3:23Speaker 4: with all the good will in the world, are so
- 3:26Speaker 4: anxious about missing something, a lot of anxiety going around
- 3:30Speaker 4: that they will be over They basically over compensate by
- 3:34Speaker 4: searching for, you know, searching for problems that in days
- 3:38Speaker 4: gone by we would just think of as totally normal. So,
- 3:40Speaker 4: for example, if you're talking about separation anxiety, eleven percent,
- 3:44Speaker 4: so that's more than one in ten kids. Any parent
- 3:47Speaker 4: who's ever had a preschool that knows dropping them off
- 3:50Speaker 4: on that first day, for those first few days, is
- 3:53Speaker 4: often going to be fraught. They are going to get upset,
- 3:56Speaker 4: They're going to want to come with you, They're not
- 3:57Speaker 4: going to want to be left behind. Now, in the
- 3:59Speaker 4: old days, you would just call that them getting used
- 4:01Speaker 4: to preschool. These days, that would be called separation anxiety.
- 4:05Speaker 4: And again, anyone who's ever had a kid at preschool
- 4:08Speaker 4: will know if the slightest thing happens, if they get
- 4:10Speaker 4: upset by something, or if god knows, God forbid, they
- 4:13Speaker 4: fall over and you scrape their knee or whatever. You've
- 4:16Speaker 4: got to sign all these forms to say that it's okay,
- 4:18Speaker 4: blah blah blah.
- 4:19Speaker 3: And so what happens is, and this is a really.
- 4:21Speaker 4: Pet bugbear of minds, so I'm going to go on
- 4:23Speaker 4: a slight raant, But what happens is you end up
- 4:27Speaker 4: over medicalizing or over sort of diagnosing all these things
- 4:30Speaker 4: that really are just kind of pretty much part of
- 4:33Speaker 4: growing up, part of getting used to the world. And
- 4:36Speaker 4: the problem is, of course that this then places huge
- 4:38Speaker 4: burdens on an industry that therefore has to address all
- 4:42Speaker 4: these issues. So again, we've found all these things because
- 4:45Speaker 4: we're testing for them like we've never done before. The
- 4:48Speaker 4: solution to having found them all because we're testing too much,
- 4:51Speaker 4: is they say, is to now to do more testing.
- 4:54Speaker 4: And in the meantime, you've got all these normal kids
- 4:57Speaker 4: who all these normal kids who are being diagnos or
- 5:01Speaker 4: stigmatized it with these you.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Both you both know my kids. You've met my kids.
- 5:04Speaker 2: They're twenty year old twins and they're brilliant. One of
- 5:07Speaker 2: our boys, when he was in his preteens, he went
- 5:10Speaker 2: through a really difficult period for a couple of years.
- 5:12Speaker 1: And he was a handful of Tellia and anyway.
- 5:17Speaker 2: So eventually we thought we need to get help, so
- 5:19Speaker 2: we went and saw a professional and I was shocked
- 5:21Speaker 2: at how quick they were, firstly to diagnose this, this,
- 5:25Speaker 2: and this and that was one of them. And then
- 5:28Speaker 2: I was even more shocked at the solution, get these pills.
- 5:32Speaker 2: And the truth is, I think that sometimes pills are
- 5:35Speaker 2: easier than parenting. And what we found is we just
- 5:38Speaker 2: had to change the way we were parenting this kid
- 5:40Speaker 2: because twin boys, but they were both very different and
- 5:44Speaker 2: it was a lot of work, but he turned out great.
- 5:46Speaker 2: But the advice we got was give him these pills.
- 5:50Speaker 2: All the problems will be solved. And I think the
- 5:53Speaker 2: temptation for parents. You know what it's like, Joe, you
- 5:55Speaker 2: flat out. I mean, you're so busy with everything else,
- 5:58Speaker 2: You've barely got time to hand you kid the phone
- 6:00Speaker 2: so they can.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Be entertained, TikTok, raise them exactly.
- 6:04Speaker 2: So it's just easier to get a diagnosis. You feel
- 6:07Speaker 2: better about yourself because it's not me, it's a medical issue.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Give them a pill.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Now I don't have to take responsibility. That solves it.
- 6:14Speaker 2: It's a did I get that.
- 6:16Speaker 6: I get that, But I also think that parents have
- 6:18Speaker 6: a responsibility to you know that the kids have to
- 6:21Speaker 6: toughen up a little bit as well. And I think
- 6:23Speaker 6: that it is down to parental responsibility. I'm saying to
- 6:27Speaker 6: build resilient children, to give them the best start in
- 6:30Speaker 6: life so that when something does go wrong, because as
- 6:33Speaker 6: they become an adult, life changes, when they get responsibilities,
- 6:37Speaker 6: when bad things happen, when people die, for example, they're
- 6:40Speaker 6: going to have absolutely zero chance of actually surviving in
- 6:44Speaker 6: life if they are weak from a young guy.
- 6:45Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 6:46Speaker 4: That is the whole thing that I don't think this
- 6:48Speaker 4: is a snowflake generation of anxious kid I do.
- 6:50Speaker 3: I think.
- 6:51Speaker 4: I think the generation that has been diagnosed over diagnosed
- 6:56Speaker 4: like no generation has before. And I'll give it another
- 6:58Speaker 4: example just to your point. And you're absolutely right, so
- 7:01Speaker 4: that the problem is you've got all these people and
- 7:03Speaker 4: again you've had experts raising this issue with you know,
- 7:07Speaker 4: autism diagnosis for example, which are also through the roof
- 7:09Speaker 4: and placing huge burdens on the ndis for example, and
- 7:13Speaker 4: doctor is saying, look, once you start over diagnosing this
- 7:17Speaker 4: to the point where the criteria becomes lower and lower
- 7:20Speaker 4: and lower for a diagnosis, the diagnosis ends up being meaningless.
- 7:24Speaker 4: But the other perverse thing in the case of an
- 7:26Speaker 4: ADHD is sort of the new autism.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Maybe.
- 7:29Speaker 4: So I had friends, for example, where the kid just
- 7:31Speaker 4: needed a bit of help at school because he wasn't
- 7:34Speaker 4: you know, he was behind in some of his subjects
- 7:37Speaker 4: or whatever.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Great kid, lovely kid.
- 7:39Speaker 4: He's not mentally ill, you know, it's totally fine, but
- 7:42Speaker 4: he just needed a bit of help. And the teacher
- 7:45Speaker 4: basically said, well, you have to go and get a diagnosis,
- 7:48Speaker 4: because in order to qualify for a bit of help,
- 7:52Speaker 4: you actually need a bit of paper that says no,
- 7:55Speaker 4: I've actually got this thing. So again, you're taking away
- 7:58Speaker 4: something that would have normally just been a conversation between
- 8:01Speaker 4: a parent and a teacher for a kid who just
- 8:03Speaker 4: needed something.
- 8:03Speaker 3: Now that kid has to be.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Diagnosed with a mental disorder or whatever you want to
- 8:08Speaker 4: call it, just to get the resources that he should
- 8:11Speaker 4: have been able to get all along.
- 8:13Speaker 6: Look, I don't deny that, but I remember interviewing a
- 8:15Speaker 6: school principle a couple of years ago that said that
- 8:17Speaker 6: this is the most troubled generation he's ever seen. They've
- 8:19Speaker 6: all got something wrong with them. Now, where does that
- 8:21Speaker 6: start in my view, it starts from home. It starts
- 8:23Speaker 6: from their home life, and that is a big problem.
- 8:26Speaker 6: So I take your point, and I do agree with
- 8:28Speaker 6: you about the over diagnosis. I don't deny that, but
- 8:30Speaker 6: I also think that parents play a really, really big
- 8:32Speaker 6: responsibility in this hole.
- 8:34Speaker 1: On that very quickly.
- 8:36Speaker 2: This study did have some interesting findings. For instance, they
- 8:38Speaker 2: talked about phobias and they found that a lot of
- 8:41Speaker 2: kids are scared.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Of the dark.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Who would have guessed, well, I mean when other kids
- 8:45Speaker 2: were scared of spiders and I've got to say, I'm
- 8:47Speaker 2: still scared of spiders.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Well, I know, maybe.
- 8:51Speaker 5: Maybe that's it.
- 8:52Speaker 6: But look, speaking of children and resilience, we've got to
- 8:55Speaker 6: talk about a case over in the US which is
- 8:57Speaker 6: going to have serious ramifications across the world. This was
- 9:00Speaker 6: a landmark judgment in a social media case. Meta and
- 9:04Speaker 6: YouTube have been found to be addictive to users. I mean,
- 9:08Speaker 6: I'm sure you go on social media. I'm sure you
- 9:10Speaker 6: can't stop scrolling at night, while showing no concern for
- 9:13Speaker 6: their well being. Now, this case centered around a twenty
- 9:16Speaker 6: year old woman who claimed her early use of social
- 9:19Speaker 6: media addicted her to technology and exacerbated her mental health struggles.
- 9:25Speaker 5: Now.
- 9:25Speaker 6: She said that she began using YouTube at the age
- 9:28Speaker 6: of six and Instagram at nine. And she said that
- 9:31Speaker 6: she told the jury that she was on social media
- 9:34Speaker 6: all day long as a child.
- 9:36Speaker 5: Now.
- 9:36Speaker 6: It took days of deliberations, but jurors ultimately found that
- 9:39Speaker 6: the social media giants were indeed liable and they have
- 9:43Speaker 6: been forced to pay this woman over four million dollars
- 9:46Speaker 6: in damages outside of court. The decision was welcomed by
- 9:51Speaker 6: victims of meta.
- 9:52Speaker 5: Have a look, stop blaming the parents. It's on you.
- 10:00Speaker 7: And this is what this is showing today and pre parents,
- 10:03Speaker 7: we now know that they were manipulating our children for
- 10:07Speaker 7: profits while we were watching and trying to keep our
- 10:10Speaker 7: families safe.
- 10:12Speaker 5: A few points on this.
- 10:13Speaker 6: Firstly, I do not deny the impact that social media
- 10:17Speaker 6: has had on young children. There've been studies that have
- 10:20Speaker 6: done it. And also obviously cyberbullying, for example, is a massive,
- 10:24Speaker 6: massive problem. I don't deny that, but I disagree with
- 10:27Speaker 6: what that woman said, don't blame the parents, because again
- 10:31Speaker 6: I'm going to blame the parents for this. This woman
- 10:34Speaker 6: that won the damages, she said that she was on
- 10:36Speaker 6: social media from the age of six.
- 10:38Speaker 5: What on earth was she doing?
- 10:40Speaker 6: One with a mobile phone and two with social media
- 10:44Speaker 6: at the age of six. Is that not the responsibility
- 10:47Speaker 6: of a parent to be saying no, honey, you are
- 10:50Speaker 6: too young for this.
- 10:51Speaker 5: So what was she doing there in the first place?
- 10:54Speaker 6: And stop blaming others again, outsourcing for your mental health struggles.
- 10:59Speaker 6: If you've got mental health struggles, people need to start
- 11:02Speaker 6: taking responsibility for their own. I'm sorry, go and see
- 11:05Speaker 6: a doctor, go for a walk, go help yourself, but
- 11:09Speaker 6: don't blame others. And now this is going to have
- 11:11Speaker 6: serious ratifications around the world, could put on more legal challenges.
- 11:15Speaker 6: I do not deny that social media giants have a
- 11:18Speaker 6: role to play. Do I think they are liable in
- 11:21Speaker 6: exacerbating a person's mental health problems?
- 11:23Speaker 7: No?
- 11:24Speaker 2: I do so, so let me ask you this. Her
- 11:25Speaker 2: complaint was not with the content on social media that
- 11:28Speaker 2: that was not the issue. The issue was the model
- 11:31Speaker 2: of social media. That is, it's designed, through positive reinforcement
- 11:35Speaker 2: to get you addicted. So that was her complaint. Yes,
- 11:39Speaker 2: do you think they bear responsibility for that or they
- 11:42Speaker 2: just do it? Any normal corporation would do you want
- 11:44Speaker 2: people to buy your product?
- 11:45Speaker 5: It's a money making product, right, We.
- 11:48Speaker 4: Don't let crack dealers hang out the front of school
- 11:51Speaker 4: gates and say, oh, that's fine. You know, if kids
- 11:52Speaker 4: are going to take the drugs, it's a parent's fault
- 11:54Speaker 4: for not training them to be raising them to be
- 11:56Speaker 4: more responsible. I mean, we don't let kids into bottle shops,
- 11:59Speaker 4: we don't let them go and play the pokey's Like,
- 12:01Speaker 4: there is so why.
- 12:02Speaker 5: They're on social media at the age of six.
- 12:04Speaker 3: Well, that is why we are, That's why.
- 12:06Speaker 4: But whose responsibility is That is why this newspaper, this corporation,
- 12:10Speaker 4: and the federal government has banned social media for those
- 12:14Speaker 4: under the age of under the age of sixteen, and
- 12:16Speaker 4: you still have people saying, oh, no, this band's terrible.
- 12:18Speaker 4: It's a way of you know. And again, so there
- 12:20Speaker 4: is always there always has to be a role for
- 12:23Speaker 4: society to protect kids from things that we know are
- 12:28Speaker 4: harmful to them. And this is a model that is
- 12:31Speaker 4: deliberately addictive. As James said, it uses algorithms to try
- 12:36Speaker 4: to trigger responses which reward more engagement with social media.
- 12:42Speaker 4: So it's the same thing that pokey machines actually do
- 12:45Speaker 4: themselves and hit all those little sweet spots in the
- 12:49Speaker 4: brain and trigger all those hormones and those ecstatic releases,
- 12:53Speaker 4: and that's what gets kids sucked into that.
- 12:55Speaker 1: So you've got kids, how have you and your home?
- 12:58Speaker 2: Because this is a big one, right, every kid wants
- 13:01Speaker 2: to be on social media. All my friends are and
- 13:03Speaker 2: this starts early. I mean she was on social media
- 13:06Speaker 2: from the age of six.
- 13:07Speaker 5: Yeah, she was.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Late to the party right at six. So how have
- 13:11Speaker 2: you done it in yours? All?
- 13:12Speaker 3: Right?
- 13:12Speaker 4: You shouldn't, you know, just don't let your kids have
- 13:14Speaker 4: any devices. Don't really have kids have access to them.
- 13:16Speaker 4: That doesn't work anymore because the way that kids communicate
- 13:19Speaker 4: with each other is that they communicate.
- 13:21Speaker 3: On their iPads.
- 13:23Speaker 4: Or their phones if they're a bit older, they're in
- 13:25Speaker 4: WhatsApp groups, they're organizing things, they're organizing players. My son
- 13:29Speaker 4: didn't get a phone until relatively late. All his friends
- 13:32Speaker 4: had one before, and he was like really upset because
- 13:36Speaker 4: they were all organizing to do things and he was
- 13:38Speaker 4: being left out of that. So you can't just say, oh,
- 13:40Speaker 4: don't let them have the phone. So you let them
- 13:42Speaker 4: have the phone, and then you've got to make sure
- 13:44Speaker 4: that they're not on social media. Now, none of my
- 13:46Speaker 4: kids have social media accounts, obviously, but they can still
- 13:49Speaker 4: get on YouTube, just via the web. You can't really
- 13:52Speaker 4: blame the web. They're on accounts that you know, are
- 13:54Speaker 4: linked to me to show that, you know, so that
- 13:57Speaker 4: I've got, you know, super vision over what they're looking at.
- 14:00Speaker 3: I'm a fifty year old man. You know, I don't
- 14:01Speaker 3: know that.
- 14:02Speaker 5: But you're taking responsibility, Joe, that's.
- 14:04Speaker 4: Still getting But that's the point still and it is
- 14:07Speaker 4: still the.
- 14:07Speaker 6: Point is you, as a parent, are taking responsibility for that.
- 14:11Speaker 6: And you're saying, no, you're not allowed to have a
- 14:12Speaker 6: social but this come in.
- 14:15Speaker 4: But this woman, I'm my kid because my six year
- 14:19Speaker 4: old came in, stole my phone to so she could
- 14:22Speaker 4: watch it, and of course I missed my alarm.
- 14:25Speaker 3: So responsibility.
- 14:27Speaker 6: But you are taking responsibility as right, but a lot
- 14:31Speaker 6: of parents out there would not be taking the responsibility.
- 14:34Speaker 6: And in this case, I mean, this woman has now
- 14:36Speaker 6: been given millions of billions of dollars millions of millions
- 14:40Speaker 6: because she has claimed that she became addicted. Where was
- 14:44Speaker 6: where were her parents? That's what I would like to know.
- 14:47Speaker 6: That that is my key question which I couldn't find
- 14:49Speaker 6: in any of the articles.
- 14:50Speaker 5: What happened when she was younger? What I would like
- 14:53Speaker 5: to know.
- 14:53Speaker 2: If You've got a six year old kid who claims
- 14:55Speaker 2: she was on social media all day every day. That's
- 14:59Speaker 2: a parenting. You're not a Mark Zuckerberg. Whichever way you
- 15:02Speaker 2: skin it. Let's go to the AFL. It's been a
- 15:04Speaker 2: massive day for the AFL. This is the number one
- 15:07Speaker 2: story on the Herald Sun website for most of the
- 15:10Speaker 2: day when I was checking. The first ever AFL player
- 15:14Speaker 2: past or present to come out as gay and so
- 15:17Speaker 2: apparently this changes everything Brisbane Lions player Lee Riswick. The
- 15:24Speaker 2: funny thing is, Joe, I am addicted to AFL. I'm
- 15:28Speaker 2: not suing the AFL. I am a willing addict of
- 15:31Speaker 2: AFL football.
- 15:32Speaker 3: And I've read this article to Essendon peptides.
- 15:36Speaker 2: To North Melbourne. Yeah, who probably should take pep tides.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Maybe we'd win a game. But the point is I
- 15:42Speaker 2: read about this Brisbane Lions player who's come out as
- 15:45Speaker 2: gay and I've never heard of him in my life,
- 15:47Speaker 2: and I follow it pretty closely. He played one game
- 15:51Speaker 2: back in two thousand and five. In that game, he
- 15:54Speaker 2: had four disposals for the entire match. He was later
- 15:58Speaker 2: delisted never played in the AFL again, but he's gone
- 16:02Speaker 2: on to Joy Radio and talked about how he is
- 16:06Speaker 2: gay and they have said congratulations. My own football club
- 16:09Speaker 2: North Melbourne posted on Twitter today our game is for everyone.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Congratulations Lee, Your courage will change lives.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Now.
- 16:20Speaker 2: That's wonderful that gay people are playing AFL. AFL is
- 16:23Speaker 2: for everyone. I'm just not sure that that was a secret,
- 16:26Speaker 2: and I'm not sure how someone who played one game
- 16:30Speaker 2: twenty years ago coming out as gay today is going
- 16:35Speaker 2: to change anyone's lives.
- 16:36Speaker 5: I mean, I personally could not give a toss.
- 16:39Speaker 6: Let me tell you this about the personal status of
- 16:41Speaker 6: any AFL player. I just want my team to win, exactly,
- 16:44Speaker 6: and as a punter, you just support your team. You
- 16:47Speaker 6: actually don't care about them. This is what bothers me
- 16:49Speaker 6: the most about this. Like a couple of months ago,
- 16:51Speaker 6: there was a former West Coast Eagles player, his name
- 16:53Speaker 6: is Mitch Brown. He came out as bisexual. Now basically,
- 16:58Speaker 6: Mitch Brown went on it was like a to the
- 17:00Speaker 6: Bisexual Tour of Australia where he went on radios, he
- 17:03Speaker 6: went on on podcast everybody had to know that he
- 17:06Speaker 6: was bisexual, and then he went out and criticized the
- 17:09Speaker 6: AFL and certain AFL clubs for not recognizing the fact
- 17:12Speaker 6: that he was bise.
- 17:13Speaker 1: A lot of clubs posted in support, but a few didn't,
- 17:17Speaker 1: and he.
- 17:17Speaker 6: Got offended at their silence. He was upset by their silence.
- 17:20Speaker 5: But good to know. We've heard from Mitch Brown today.
- 17:22Speaker 6: He's very supportive of Lee and said this is what
- 17:24Speaker 6: bravery looks like. Look this, Lee, as you pointed out,
- 17:27Speaker 6: played one game for the AFL, and everyone's going, Lee, congratulate.
- 17:31Speaker 1: I've got to point out your hero.
- 17:33Speaker 2: He could have been a three hundred game player and
- 17:35Speaker 2: I would have the same view.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Who cares?
- 17:36Speaker 5: Who cares?
- 17:37Speaker 1: Like?
- 17:38Speaker 3: Played football?
- 17:38Speaker 4: Yes, a NFL's big in Adelaide.
- 17:42Speaker 1: He was apparently good local club football. Here's what I
- 17:45Speaker 1: want to know, Joe.
- 17:46Speaker 2: So we already had a trans former player, Dean Laidley,
- 17:50Speaker 2: former coach of North Melbourne, former West Coast Eagles player,
- 17:54Speaker 2: great player, good coach too. He now identifies as Danny Lady.
- 17:58Speaker 2: So we've got a former, transgendered former player, Mitch Brown,
- 18:02Speaker 2: as you mentioned, bisexual. He's a former player. There's at
- 18:05Speaker 2: least four couples in the AFL. W it's the women's league.
- 18:09Speaker 2: There's at least four couples that is, female players married
- 18:13Speaker 2: to or in relationships with other players. Now we've got
- 18:16Speaker 2: a gay former player. Can that be the end of it?
- 18:19Speaker 2: Can we now just get on with football and not
- 18:22Speaker 2: over who's going.
- 18:22Speaker 4: To be at to make sure and they'll be mapping
- 18:25Speaker 4: the AFL roster onto the Australian census to make sure
- 18:29Speaker 4: that it entirely correlates with the national average and any
- 18:32Speaker 4: sort of shortcomings. I mean, I feel like, you know,
- 18:36Speaker 4: the representation in elite sports of you know, skinny forty
- 18:41Speaker 4: nine year olds with arthritis is probably a bit below
- 18:44Speaker 4: where it should be. So you know, I'm here happy
- 18:46Speaker 4: to be selected, but I think it's strange, isn't it?
- 18:50Speaker 4: This thing where you know, the whole principle of gay
- 18:54Speaker 4: rights when it started and rightly started, was that it
- 18:57Speaker 4: shouldn't matter what your sexual are is.
- 19:00Speaker 3: You should be you know, treated like everyone that shouldn't
- 19:03Speaker 3: shouldn't matter.
- 19:04Speaker 4: The same with when Martin Luther King famously said, you
- 19:07Speaker 4: know that someone should be judged by the content of
- 19:10Speaker 4: their character, not the color of their skin. And now
- 19:12Speaker 4: we're finding things like sexuality or race or whatever become
- 19:15Speaker 4: the defining characteristics of someone's own identity. When you know,
- 19:19Speaker 4: and that's great, that's what you like, but really who cares?
- 19:21Speaker 4: Although I guess having said that, I do have a
- 19:25Speaker 4: bit of an announcement to make tonight.
- 19:26Speaker 5: Oh here we go.
- 19:27Speaker 4: So I've been struggling with this a lot, obviously because
- 19:32Speaker 4: it is something very personal and it's something I haven't
- 19:35Speaker 4: told many people, but for years now even my wife
- 19:39Speaker 4: doesn't know this, but for years now, I well, there's
- 19:43Speaker 4: no easy way to say it.
- 19:45Speaker 3: I am an AFL player.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Why think you identify.
- 19:49Speaker 5: As you identify as an AFL player.
- 19:52Speaker 4: I'm going to I'm not getting the support quite frankly,
- 19:54Speaker 4: but I expected we see you, we were visible.
- 19:58Speaker 6: But you also ident defy as a work experienced student.
- 20:02Speaker 5: So it's a big knife.
- 20:03Speaker 6: It's a really is it an incredible evening for Joe
- 20:05Speaker 6: Hildebrand tonight on the Late to Break.
- 20:07Speaker 5: Look, let's go to the UK now and.
- 20:09Speaker 6: In interesting news, they have their first female Archbishop of Canterbury,
- 20:14Speaker 6: a woman by the name of Sarah Malali. Now, the
- 20:19Speaker 6: ceremony took place overnight. It will say it was quite
- 20:21Speaker 6: a multicultural affair, a little bit of everything. But here's
- 20:25Speaker 6: what we found a little bit odd about this. In
- 20:28Speaker 6: the ceremony she said that she still sees herself as
- 20:32Speaker 6: just Sarah, just Sarah, just Sarah.
- 20:35Speaker 3: Just just Sarah.
- 20:36Speaker 5: We hat just Sarah.
- 20:38Speaker 6: But look, I've got a couple of issues with this
- 20:40Speaker 6: new Archbishop of Canterbury. I would describe her really as woke.
- 20:45Speaker 6: And this is this is quite a big problem.
- 20:47Speaker 5: A few things.
- 20:48Speaker 6: In her Christmas sermon last year, this was at St
- 20:50Speaker 6: Paul's Cathedral, she raised concerns about immigration. Now I want
- 20:54Speaker 6: to be raising concerns about immigration if I was living
- 20:57Speaker 6: over in the UK when they've got this open border
- 20:59Speaker 6: polo see where every man and their dogs seem to
- 21:01Speaker 6: get rights ahead of ordinary Brits. But she said, and
- 21:05Speaker 6: I quote, our national conversations about immigration continue to divide
- 21:08Speaker 6: us when our common humanity should unite us. Probably not
- 21:12Speaker 6: the right tone. I'm all for humanity, I'm all for
- 21:15Speaker 6: equal rights. But sorry, these people are coming in illegally
- 21:18Speaker 6: into the country.
- 21:19Speaker 5: Probably don't involve yourself in that.
- 21:21Speaker 6: And secondly, she urged churches not to be anxious about
- 21:24Speaker 6: baptizing illegal migrants.
- 21:27Speaker 5: Not really a good start for just Sarah James.
- 21:30Speaker 2: No, it's gonna be interesting to see how she goes
- 21:33Speaker 2: with regards to her I'm just Sarah, I get it.
- 21:37Speaker 3: Sounds humble, It sounds like the title of a children's book.
- 21:40Speaker 2: It sounds like, you know, you're trying to be one
- 21:42Speaker 2: of the people. But it really annoys me that people
- 21:46Speaker 2: kind of downgrade institutions as if they're not important, and
- 21:49Speaker 2: we shouldn't have tradition and we shouldn't look up to
- 21:52Speaker 2: certain people. If you're the Archbishop of Canterbury, then don't
- 21:56Speaker 2: go around saying I'm just Sarah.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Don't be apologetic for it.
- 21:59Speaker 2: You've got a very important leadership role, especially at this
- 22:02Speaker 2: time in the history of the UK. Whether or not
- 22:04Speaker 2: she's up for it, Danika, now the question, but don't
- 22:08Speaker 2: be just Sarah. If you're going to be the leader,
- 22:10Speaker 2: take on the role of leader. My concern is that
- 22:13Speaker 2: she should stop talking about social issues completely. You're the
- 22:17Speaker 2: leader of the church. The church has one message. Jesus
- 22:20Speaker 2: is the savior of the world. Make that your focus
- 22:22Speaker 2: and don't get distracted. Let the politicians deal with all
- 22:25Speaker 2: the other stuff, but make that message your message. Because
- 22:28Speaker 2: the number of people attending church in the UK, in
- 22:31Speaker 2: the Church of England is declining, so deal with that.
- 22:36Speaker 2: And that is incredibly important to the future of the UK.
- 22:40Speaker 1: I'll say this lastly, then I'll give you a shot, Joe. Please.
- 22:43Speaker 1: You can tink around the edges with politics.
- 22:46Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I forget which
- 22:48Speaker 2: famous Russian it was, but he said that the line
- 22:51Speaker 2: of good and evil runs not through institutions, it runs
- 22:54Speaker 2: through the human heart. And governments don't address hearts. You
- 22:57Speaker 2: can't legislate to change hearts. It's the church job to
- 23:00Speaker 2: change hearts, and God knows we need some heart to
- 23:03Speaker 2: change at the moment around our world. She's got an
- 23:05Speaker 2: important role. Don't apologize for it, embrace it and do
- 23:08Speaker 2: it well.
- 23:09Speaker 4: But the role has already been utterly, utterly demeaned and
- 23:12Speaker 4: diminished already. And I'm not talking about the elevation of
- 23:15Speaker 4: a female to the role of Archbiship of Canbury. I'm
- 23:18Speaker 4: talking about the Reformation people. The Archbishop of Canterbury isn't
- 23:22Speaker 4: even the head of the Anglican Church. That's the king.
- 23:25Speaker 4: And so we've had female heads of the church before.
- 23:28Speaker 4: They were called Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth
- 23:32Speaker 4: the iond That's how stupid this dumb new religion is.
- 23:36Speaker 4: It's only five hundred years old. Obviously, the wheels are
- 23:39Speaker 4: already falling off. And this is what happens when you're
- 23:41Speaker 4: just start making up the rules as you go along
- 23:43Speaker 4: and divorce from the one true Church and the only
- 23:46Speaker 4: throne that matters in terms of religion, and that is
- 23:49Speaker 4: the throne of Saint Peter at the Vatican in Rome.
- 23:54Speaker 5: Preach, Preach, Joe, Preach, Joe.
- 23:56Speaker 2: I know you well, John, I knew that's exactly where
- 23:58Speaker 2: you would go with this topic.
- 24:00Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what.
- 24:01Speaker 2: The Church of England do have some things to pay
- 24:03Speaker 2: attention to, because how a look at this story. School
- 24:07Speaker 2: children at a Church of England school. They're doing religious
- 24:11Speaker 2: education as you would expect if you're a parent, you
- 24:14Speaker 2: send your kids to the Church of England school, so
- 24:16Speaker 2: they're going to do some religious classes.
- 24:18Speaker 1: That's fine.
- 24:19Speaker 2: The question, though, Denique, is what religion would you be
- 24:21Speaker 2: expecting them to learn about in the Church of England school.
- 24:24Speaker 1: It's not a question.
- 24:27Speaker 6: Well, Christianity maybe that's probably what I would have assumed too.
- 24:31Speaker 2: And yet parents have complained that at a Lincolnshire Church
- 24:35Speaker 2: of England school they were taught to engage in Islamic
- 24:39Speaker 2: prayers during the lesson which began following the relevant lesson
- 24:43Speaker 2: plan pupils were invited to demonstrate some of the movements
- 24:47Speaker 2: associated with Muslim prayer, although this was outside the lessons
- 24:51Speaker 2: intended approach, I should think so it was not an
- 24:54Speaker 2: act of worship.
- 24:55Speaker 1: The school said.
- 24:56Speaker 2: No prayers or religious words were spoken, and no child
- 24:58Speaker 2: was required to take part. No mats were used, and
- 25:01Speaker 2: pupils were not asked to face any particular direction. This
- 25:05Speaker 2: is a quote from the Board of Education in response
- 25:07Speaker 2: to a parent's complaint.
- 25:09Speaker 3: No mates were used in making this correction.
- 25:11Speaker 2: They were just being given a general kind of feel
- 25:15Speaker 2: for what it might be like to engage in Muslim prayers.
- 25:18Speaker 2: I can understand why parents were ropable about this, and
- 25:22Speaker 2: maybe the new Archbishop of Cantaby could make this her
- 25:25Speaker 2: first focus of attention.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Deal with this.
- 25:28Speaker 6: Well, do you know how this was discovered a child?
- 25:30Speaker 6: So bear in mind these kids are just seven years old.
- 25:34Speaker 6: One of the fathers was putting his daughter to bed
- 25:36Speaker 6: and the daughter said, and I quote, Dad, we did
- 25:38Speaker 6: prayers to Allah yesterday, and that's how.
- 25:42Speaker 5: He found out. Now can you imagine if your child
- 25:44Speaker 5: says to you, dad, we did prayers to Allah.
- 25:46Speaker 6: You be going what the heck You're going to a
- 25:47Speaker 6: Christian school and this is what you're doing. I have
- 25:49Speaker 6: a few issues with that statement, though. Firstly, he goes
- 25:53Speaker 6: it was just an outside of the lesson approach. Sorry,
- 25:57Speaker 6: I mean, we have seven year old kids being taught
- 25:59Speaker 6: how to do a prayer. But it was just tinkering
- 26:02Speaker 6: around the edges of an outside classroom approach.
- 26:04Speaker 5: I mean, seriously, and.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Second, diabolically poose.
- 26:07Speaker 5: Diabolically a post.
- 26:08Speaker 6: Second, the spokesperson said that no child was required to
- 26:11Speaker 6: take part.
- 26:13Speaker 5: They're seven years old. Of course they're going to take part.
- 26:16Speaker 5: They've got to do it. They're going to They're kids,
- 26:18Speaker 5: for goodness sake. Look, I'm really worried about this.
- 26:21Speaker 6: Actually, I think this is a really really concerning situation
- 26:24Speaker 6: and it's another example of how Islam is being shoved
- 26:26Speaker 6: down the throats of the West. Now, obviously Islam claims
- 26:29Speaker 6: to be that the religion of peace, and there are
- 26:31Speaker 6: certain parts of it, radical Islam that are a problem
- 26:34Speaker 6: to the world right now. But we are in trouble
- 26:39Speaker 6: in the West, which a lot of countries Australia, the
- 26:42Speaker 6: UK are built on Christian values, and this is going
- 26:46Speaker 6: on in a school now. I worry that sooner or later,
- 26:49Speaker 6: the West is not going to know itself, and already
- 26:51Speaker 6: we're heading in that direction. And it's very easy, isn't
- 26:54Speaker 6: it to start with kids because kids can be easily
- 26:56Speaker 6: indoctrinated and then what's next? So I despair for young kids.
- 27:02Speaker 6: This is a big concern to me.
- 27:03Speaker 3: Do you know what I reckon?
- 27:04Speaker 4: I don't actually think it is a sinister sort of
- 27:05Speaker 4: takeover of Islam by Islam of the school system or whatever.
- 27:11Speaker 3: I reckon.
- 27:11Speaker 4: It is useful idiots who are dum white, woke liberal
- 27:17Speaker 4: do good as who are thinking, oh, we've got to
- 27:19Speaker 4: make this more inclusive blah blah, bah blah blah blah blah,
- 27:22Speaker 4: and so they do it. They do it with the kids.
- 27:25Speaker 4: They think they're just being so diverse and in inclusive
- 27:28Speaker 4: and multicultural. And of course you know who, this goes
- 27:31Speaker 4: straight to go straight to reform UK, which is on
- 27:36Speaker 4: an absolute war path and will probably if the polls
- 27:39Speaker 4: today are replicated a general election be the next government
- 27:44Speaker 4: of the United Kingdom. And so again you've got and
- 27:46Speaker 4: it's the same with you know these you know, I
- 27:50Speaker 4: can't swear on television, but these people like his but
- 27:52Speaker 4: Teria and these ugly, nasty, obnoxious a holes that abused
- 28:00Speaker 4: the PM at the Kember Mosque the other day. These
- 28:04Speaker 4: weren't the guys. These are guys who run the mosque.
- 28:07Speaker 4: They were the ones who invited the PM to be
- 28:09Speaker 4: there and the press service. They weren't the majority of attendees,
- 28:12Speaker 4: but they're an extremist group who sort of took on
- 28:15Speaker 4: the mantle as the ugly face of Islam, if you like.
- 28:18Speaker 4: And what does that do with drives voters straight into
- 28:20Speaker 4: the arms of Pauline Hanson and one nation which a
- 28:22Speaker 4: lot of people think is a great thing.
- 28:24Speaker 3: And that's fine.
- 28:25Speaker 4: But the people who think it's a great thing aren't
- 28:27Speaker 4: the stupid lefty lovies who are doing this sort of
- 28:30Speaker 4: stuff like they are at this school, or the radical
- 28:32Speaker 4: Islamists who are making absolute knob ends of themselves on
- 28:36Speaker 4: the national stage.
- 28:37Speaker 3: But that's a result they're getting. That's how stupid they are.
- 28:40Speaker 4: They are actually delivering the people they presumably hate the most,
- 28:44Speaker 4: you know, the biggest shot at power in history.
- 28:47Speaker 2: What's interesting to me on this subject is that, you know,
- 28:49Speaker 2: Richard Dawkins, who's made a career out of lampooning Christianity,
- 28:53Speaker 2: has recently said he doesn't want Britain to lose its
- 28:57Speaker 2: Christian traditions. Now he's not a Christian, but all of
- 28:59Speaker 2: a sudden, he's up to the fact if we want
- 29:01Speaker 2: our country to remain as it has been and to
- 29:03Speaker 2: be recognizable, then even though I don't go to church,
- 29:06Speaker 2: I actually want the church to do well.
- 29:08Speaker 1: Because we need it.
- 29:09Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people are coming to
- 29:10Speaker 2: that conclusion belatedly, but they're starting to get there.
- 29:13Speaker 3: Well.
- 29:13Speaker 5: Don't forget.
- 29:14Speaker 6: There was also a mass prayer session in the middle
- 29:16Speaker 6: of Trafalda Square in London last week, So that just
- 29:18Speaker 6: just goes to my point earlier. Now, look, let's move
- 29:21Speaker 6: on ground control to major tom Oh what a lyric.
- 29:24Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we're talking about the space race. How exciting.
- 29:28Speaker 6: And Donald Trump has got his eyes firmly set on
- 29:32Speaker 6: the Moon and he's hoping to beat China there. Now
- 29:34Speaker 6: he is backing a twenty billion dollar mission to build
- 29:38Speaker 6: a base on the surface of the Moon. NASA has
- 29:41Speaker 6: announcedis decided to abandon a proposal to have a station
- 29:44Speaker 6: hanging in lunar orbit and establish what's been called a
- 29:47Speaker 6: building surface. So Jared isaac Man, who's the chief of NASA,
- 29:52Speaker 6: has introduced plans on how the US plans to get there, but.
- 29:58Speaker 8: This time the goal there's not flags and footprints. This
- 30:01Speaker 8: time the goal is to stay. Just as there was
- 30:04Speaker 8: Mercury and Jeminy before Apollo, there will be an evolutionary
- 30:07Speaker 8: path to building humanity's first permanent surface outposts beyond Earth.
- 30:12Speaker 6: I mean, I find this really cool, to be honest,
- 30:14Speaker 6: a base on the Moon that's never happened before.
- 30:17Speaker 5: I think it's awesome.
- 30:18Speaker 6: So Donald Trump he wants a permanent lunar outpost. This
- 30:21Speaker 6: is by twenty thirty and a return to the Moon
- 30:24Speaker 6: by twenty twenty eight. But I'll tell you what, it's
- 30:27Speaker 6: quite high stakes the race of the Moon. You've got
- 30:29Speaker 6: the United States, you've got Russia, and you've got China,
- 30:32Speaker 6: all vying. I find it interesting that Donald Trump is
- 30:35Speaker 6: trying to be the first person to do all this.
- 30:37Speaker 6: But it's quite an industry, and I guess it's to
- 30:40Speaker 6: try to like exert dominance and technical superiority.
- 30:44Speaker 3: Well, you do it.
- 30:45Speaker 4: You do it for the same reason why you know,
- 30:47Speaker 4: empires of the past raced around the world to kind
- 30:49Speaker 4: to get colonies because you know the other empire might
- 30:52Speaker 4: get there, might get there first. But I've got to say,
- 30:56Speaker 4: I've got a I've got an issue with the cost,
- 31:00Speaker 4: like twenty billion bucks. We can't even build a metro
- 31:03Speaker 4: in New South Wales. There's no way they are going
- 31:06Speaker 4: to stick to that budget.
- 31:08Speaker 3: Anyway. Let's have a look at Oh wait.
- 31:10Speaker 6: Before we go, we've got to show you this incredible
- 31:12Speaker 6: picture that we put together tonight of Donald Trump and
- 31:15Speaker 6: the space race.
- 31:16Speaker 5: Have a look at that.
- 31:17Speaker 6: What do you reckon that the man in the moon
- 31:20Speaker 6: and in gold as well, shine and bright like the moon.
- 31:24Speaker 4: The other great thing is that this will and this
- 31:26Speaker 4: is what I really want to say after the permanent
- 31:28Speaker 4: base of the room is all the protesters who rush
- 31:31Speaker 4: to the moon to protest against the colonization. But that'd
- 31:36Speaker 4: be great. I just want to know where are they
- 31:38Speaker 4: going to get their suits? Are they going to tear
- 31:40Speaker 4: down the statue?
- 31:41Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the way the world is going
- 31:44Speaker 1: A human what's the word? A habitation on the moon.
- 31:49Speaker 2: I think there'll be a lot of people who might say,
- 31:51Speaker 2: you know what, I'm ready to leave and take up
- 31:53Speaker 2: residence on the moon.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Might go better.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Harry Potter has got a new series starting on at HBO.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Yes where they're starting and so it's received pretty sort
- 32:04Speaker 2: of mediocre reviews.
- 32:06Speaker 1: Really.
- 32:06Speaker 2: I'm no Harry Potter fan, but apparently those who are
- 32:09Speaker 2: say the new series is not that much different and
- 32:11Speaker 2: not that much improved on what we've already seen. But
- 32:14Speaker 2: av Club, that's a online magazine that deals with matters
- 32:18Speaker 2: of entertainment. They've taken issue not with the new series itself,
- 32:22Speaker 2: but with the fact that the new series means that JK.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Rowling will be making money. Have listened to this review,
- 32:28Speaker 2: The series is what it is only now billionaire Potter
- 32:32Speaker 2: author JK. Rowling, who has spent the last decade using
- 32:35Speaker 2: her fortune and influence to discriminate against trans people, stands
- 32:39Speaker 2: to become even wealthier and more influential thanks to the show.
- 32:43Speaker 2: There isn't that much new here in the show, well,
- 32:46Speaker 2: aside from the decade of increasingly alarming retric from Potter's creator,
- 32:50Speaker 2: who's been cooking her brain on X at such an
- 32:53Speaker 2: alarming rate that being a turf is sort of her
- 32:56Speaker 2: whole personality. Now, OK, yeah, three a half starts. That's
- 33:02Speaker 2: actually yeah, is Harry Potter. Is Harry Potter really about
- 33:07Speaker 2: the author or is it about the art itself? Or
- 33:10Speaker 2: we're now going to judge all art based on our
- 33:13Speaker 2: political views of the author.
- 33:15Speaker 6: Well, you know, we should actually be also thinking about
- 33:17Speaker 6: how incredible JK.
- 33:19Speaker 5: Rowling is. I mean, aside from.
- 33:20Speaker 6: Her views, I think that she's absolutely brilliant. But she
- 33:24Speaker 6: also wrote this story when she was flat broken. This
- 33:27Speaker 6: is a real rags to riches story, and now the
- 33:30Speaker 6: left have turned on her. Why because she says that
- 33:34Speaker 6: she talked about women like a very very simple, simple,
- 33:38Speaker 6: simple fact.
- 33:40Speaker 5: But also this, this.
- 33:41Speaker 6: Show has been ridiculed though for going woke. Like in
- 33:43Speaker 6: the original Harry Potter series Snape, one of the key
- 33:46Speaker 6: characters is white, but in this he's now black. It's
- 33:50Speaker 6: with a black actor, so that, you know, another woke remake.
- 33:53Speaker 6: But I just think that the fact that this is
- 33:56Speaker 6: what the left have a problem with, give me a break.
- 33:58Speaker 3: How's how's this for a hot take?
- 34:02Speaker 4: This is the same the same class of sort of
- 34:04Speaker 4: left wing academic elites who actually invented postmodernism, which held
- 34:09Speaker 4: according to Roland Bart's The Death of the Author, which
- 34:11Speaker 4: I'm sure we've all read, that in fact, who wrote
- 34:14Speaker 4: a work is irrelevant because all that matters is.
- 34:17Speaker 3: The audience's response to the work itself.
- 34:20Speaker 4: So the context of who wrote it or what they
- 34:21Speaker 4: were trying to say is completely relevant. But now suddenly
- 34:24Speaker 4: when they don't like who wrote something, then suddenly that's
- 34:27Speaker 4: all that matters. I think the real takeout message here
- 34:30Speaker 4: is the maturing of the American cultural palate, because, of course,
- 34:35Speaker 4: when Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released as
- 34:37Speaker 4: a movie in America, they had to call it Harry
- 34:40Speaker 4: Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone because the Americans didn't know
- 34:44Speaker 4: what a philosopher was. Later appears that they're finally caught
- 34:48Speaker 4: up and they could actually release the book as a
- 34:52Speaker 4: TV series under the name that it actually was, which
- 34:55Speaker 4: isn't the name of the movie which at previously.
- 34:57Speaker 5: Well, they go The Boy who Leaves, The Boy Who Leaves.
- 35:00Speaker 5: As I say in the.
- 35:02Speaker 4: Fold, I just want to before we go to a break,
- 35:04Speaker 4: I think we should have saved the most important to
- 35:06Speaker 4: we have us, as we often do on the show,
- 35:08Speaker 4: I have to say, and that is that thirty six
- 35:11Speaker 4: thousand brave souls, and I'm proud to say as a
- 35:15Speaker 4: patriotic Australian Australian souls have signed a petition calling for
- 35:22Speaker 4: Harry and Meghan's tour of Australia to be deprived of
- 35:28Speaker 4: all public funding. Now, firstly, I didn't know they were coming,
- 35:33Speaker 4: but that's just awesome because now I can get upset
- 35:36Speaker 4: about that as well. And secondly, a spokesperson for the
- 35:40Speaker 4: Duke and Duchess has said, and this is where I
- 35:43Speaker 4: don't think they're quite picking up what we're putting down,
- 35:47Speaker 4: said quote, it's a moot point. The trip is being
- 35:49Speaker 4: funded privately, so I'm not sure what this position hoops
- 35:52Speaker 4: to achieve.
- 35:54Speaker 3: The spokesperson said, we don't care.
- 35:57Speaker 4: We don't care if it's if it's relevant, if it's
- 36:00Speaker 4: actually going to have any material.
- 36:01Speaker 3: This is just a petition to show that we.
- 36:04Speaker 4: All think just a couple of wankers, just the worst
- 36:08Speaker 4: people in the world. Like we didn't even know whether
- 36:11Speaker 4: there was public funding or not.
- 36:12Speaker 3: We didn't even know you were coming. We just thought
- 36:14Speaker 3: I just won't make the point.
- 36:15Speaker 1: That has already bought tickets to here.
- 36:18Speaker 6: Men, I cannot wait for the mister and Missus Grifter
- 36:21Speaker 6: to arrive down Under for the latest installment of Grifter's
- 36:24Speaker 6: on Tour.
- 36:26Speaker 5: Why did they need to release a statement?
- 36:27Speaker 1: Just shut up, You've got to go to a break.
- 36:32Speaker 2: When we come back We'll look at what's making headlines tomorrow,
- 36:35Speaker 2: including while the government dancers around the fuel crisis, looks
- 36:38Speaker 2: like a food crisis is looming.
- 36:41Speaker 1: That's coming up next. Welcome back to the program.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Let's take a look at what's making headlines tomorrow, so
- 36:52Speaker 2: you get it all here first, Aneka, you've got the Australia.
- 36:55Speaker 5: I do headline their nation comes a.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Cropper Australia I did there.
- 37:01Speaker 5: But that was very good.
- 37:02Speaker 6: Australian farmers are warning the nation is racing towards catastrophe
- 37:06Speaker 6: due to dwindling fertilizer supplies and no immediate federal government
- 37:10Speaker 6: rescue plan, raising the prospect of million of multimillion dollar
- 37:14Speaker 6: crop losses and rising food prices and shortages.
- 37:17Speaker 5: As grain growers raise concerns.
- 37:20Speaker 6: Went to crop yields are at risk and half the
- 37:22Speaker 6: nation's vegetable growers reported their fertilizer would run out within
- 37:26Speaker 6: three weeks. The Albanezy government has been accused of promising
- 37:29Speaker 6: nothing concrete to avert a crisis.
- 37:31Speaker 5: Look, this is a.
- 37:31Speaker 6: Big concern because if grain growers are feeling it, this
- 37:35Speaker 6: is going to have a massive impact on.
- 37:37Speaker 5: Supply of food.
- 37:39Speaker 6: Obviously huge impact on regional communities and there will be
- 37:42Speaker 6: flow on effects for the national economy. And once again,
- 37:46Speaker 6: it is absolutely bamboozling that there was no plan or
- 37:51Speaker 6: no foresight from labor in the event that something like
- 37:54Speaker 6: this could have happened. And it's almost like, to me,
- 37:57Speaker 6: it feels like the COVID days are coming.
- 38:00Speaker 1: It's incredible.
- 38:01Speaker 2: It's only been three weeks, right, it seems like things
- 38:04Speaker 2: are happening at such a rapid rate. Every day you
- 38:06Speaker 2: open the paper, you look at the new headline, and
- 38:09Speaker 2: you see sort of the cascading consequences of what's happened
- 38:13Speaker 2: in the Middle East. This starts to put the fuel
- 38:15Speaker 2: crisis in a bit of perspective, because it's one thing
- 38:18Speaker 2: to talk about fuel. Once you start talking about food,
- 38:21Speaker 2: you realize this thing affects absolutely every part of our economy.
- 38:25Speaker 2: And you think there's panic buying about fuel. If people
- 38:28Speaker 2: start to worry there's not going to be food on
- 38:30Speaker 2: the shelves, then we'll see panic.
- 38:32Speaker 6: Well, they're saying that supermarkets could soon be empty, like
- 38:35Speaker 6: shelves could be empty in the next couple of weeks.
- 38:39Speaker 4: I was in such a good mood before I came
- 38:41Speaker 4: and did this segment. What are you doing way fine.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Trump's starting on the moon.
- 38:45Speaker 4: You've got social tweets, He's winning. It's fine. Ever is
- 38:51Speaker 4: the winning is winning that he's ever won in his life?
- 38:55Speaker 5: On its needs? The regeames on its knees.
- 38:57Speaker 4: You want it? Well, that's right. That's what an IDF told.
- 39:00Speaker 4: Idea of Official told very good friend Cameron.
- 39:02Speaker 3: Stuart and Oz. The problem is, though, and this is
- 39:04Speaker 3: the thing.
- 39:05Speaker 4: I am all for the war, more for the campaign,
- 39:07Speaker 4: but how do you force a regime that believes in
- 39:11Speaker 4: the apocalypse, Yeah, from into any sort of compromise, so
- 39:17Speaker 4: you know, do this orvill end world?
- 39:20Speaker 2: Yeah, believe in the apocalypse. They're going quite well, that's right.
- 39:23Speaker 6: Also on the front page of the OS tomorrow isis
- 39:26Speaker 6: Rocketmakers released from jail. Poser's risk a terrorist to research
- 39:30Speaker 6: missiles for Islamic State and believes he was incarcerated in
- 39:34Speaker 6: a system that punishes Muslims for what they believe. Will
- 39:37Speaker 6: be released from prison on Friday, despite only participating in
- 39:40Speaker 6: prison deradicalization programs in the belief they would reduce his sentence,
- 39:44Speaker 6: has seems A Harb was arrested in young in twenty
- 39:47Speaker 6: seventeen and jailed for nine years for designing guided missiles
- 39:51Speaker 6: and laser warning devices for Islamic state. Under the conditions
- 39:54Speaker 6: of his release, he's been banned from contacting notorious Islamic
- 39:57Speaker 6: preacher Wisa Haddad, a radical cleric once followed by alleged
- 40:01Speaker 6: bond I shooter Nevin Acroma.
- 40:04Speaker 4: I might run out of herd, but at least national
- 40:06Speaker 4: security is as tired as ever.
- 40:07Speaker 3: Well.
- 40:07Speaker 6: I mean, if they're so worried about this bloke, then
- 40:10Speaker 6: you know, why is he being released, If he poses
- 40:12Speaker 6: a risk in this climate, why is he being released
- 40:16Speaker 6: from jail?
- 40:17Speaker 2: Based on those quotes, he certainly doesn't sound like he's
- 40:19Speaker 2: reformed his views. Mind you, when you have those sorts
- 40:22Speaker 2: of views, they're not views. It's a worldview oppressed. You
- 40:25Speaker 2: don't reform those views oppressed.
- 40:28Speaker 1: It's worry.
- 40:29Speaker 2: Let's go to the front page of the Tasmanian Mercury
- 40:32Speaker 2: fuel price cap reads the headline. The state government has
- 40:36Speaker 2: introduced urgent legislation, showed stud It sounds like antheolberanzied as
- 40:43Speaker 2: strong and inspired leadership from their urgent legislation so it
- 40:48Speaker 2: can better deal with the effects of fuel costs, including
- 40:51Speaker 2: here's the point, temporary price caps.
- 40:55Speaker 1: So this is well, Tasmania. The going are going on
- 41:01Speaker 1: their own.
- 41:02Speaker 2: And I got to say, I think a lot of
- 41:04Speaker 2: people would be pleased to hear about some price caps
- 41:06Speaker 2: because every time you drive past the fuel station now
- 41:08Speaker 2: the price of fuel is going up. We'll wait and
- 41:11Speaker 2: see what other states do, but there you go, Tasmania
- 41:14Speaker 2: taking the lead on this.
- 41:15Speaker 3: Or will it be?
- 41:15Speaker 4: Because the other thing is has been not actually capping
- 41:19Speaker 4: the price of the fuel for people, but actually tapping
- 41:22Speaker 4: how much people can spend so you're still paying top dollar.
- 41:26Speaker 4: And I was driving here tonight three bucks for Super
- 41:30Speaker 4: ninety eight. It's got a three in front of it.
- 41:32Speaker 4: Three dollars plus for the good stuff. So whether or
- 41:37Speaker 4: not there's talk about maybe a forty dollars cap for
- 41:41Speaker 4: people filling up now, that.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Would don't you drive around the block and fill up again?
- 41:45Speaker 3: That would that would get you?
- 41:46Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I suppose, but I would discourage it at
- 41:49Speaker 4: least I suppose, And and but that would get you what.
- 41:53Speaker 3: Quarter of a tank these days?
- 41:55Speaker 4: That anyway, onto the Mighty Daily Telegraph, and we touched
- 41:59Speaker 4: on this landmark case earlier in the show. But they
- 42:04Speaker 4: have got a message from the lawyer at the heart of.
- 42:09Speaker 3: It get the ban back together.
- 42:11Speaker 4: See, but that's a good one. Good thousands of kids
- 42:15Speaker 4: join apps and still no fines for tech giants. Let
- 42:18Speaker 4: them be kids is, of course the campaign that started
- 42:20Speaker 4: the social media ban in the first place, the world first,
- 42:24Speaker 4: something that Australia has done that everyone is now looking
- 42:26Speaker 4: to follow suit. Anyway, That's enough patting myself on the
- 42:29Speaker 4: back because it wasn't even my idea. Australia's teenage social
- 42:31Speaker 4: media ban risks failing unless the federal government muscles up
- 42:35Speaker 4: and imposes hefty fines on non compliant tech giants. The
- 42:39Speaker 4: lawyer who won a victory against Meta in a global
- 42:42Speaker 4: landmark case has warned.
- 42:45Speaker 3: There's thousands of ouzzie kids flat the four month old law,
- 42:48Speaker 3: including mine.
- 42:49Speaker 4: Pressure is mounting on missing in action Communication Minister Anika
- 42:53Speaker 4: Wells right, come on, I thought she was behind you know,
- 42:57Speaker 4: Come on, guys to find tech companies failing to protect
- 43:01Speaker 4: our kids. Despite under sixteen has been banned from platforms
- 43:03Speaker 4: including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, x, read.
- 43:08Speaker 3: It, kick and threads.
- 43:11Speaker 4: A leading child safety I think there's a lot of
- 43:13Speaker 4: them in there, A leading child safety advocate. So there
- 43:17Speaker 4: has been no change to access for many children. So
- 43:20Speaker 4: obviously they have got to smash that up. But I'm
- 43:23Speaker 4: sure Ankle will tow it up the Minister, she'll go.
- 43:26Speaker 3: And come in swinging.
- 43:27Speaker 5: Well she's not on holidays then.
- 43:29Speaker 4: Was that a telecommunications conferences spoke out and she was
- 43:32Speaker 4: very you know, pugnacious.
- 43:34Speaker 2: Well, Si, if there's any follow through with what they've promised.
- 43:39Speaker 2: The Canberra Times have well it's a bit of a
- 43:42Speaker 2: shameless front page really. They basically have written a letter
- 43:46Speaker 2: begging the Prime Minister to give funding to the act
- 43:51Speaker 2: Government so that the Canberra Football Stadium can be restored
- 43:56Speaker 2: and renovated. And basically they're pitch an open letter to
- 43:59Speaker 2: the Prime to save our stadium SOS is really just
- 44:05Speaker 2: a pleading to the Prime Minister saying, you're in Canberra,
- 44:09Speaker 2: this is the Canberra Stadium.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Don't you care about us? Do you not love us?
- 44:13Speaker 3: Some money?
- 44:14Speaker 1: Please give us some money.
- 44:15Speaker 2: So whether or not that has the desired effect, we'll see,
- 44:18Speaker 2: but there you go. The Canberra Times tomorrow is basically
- 44:21Speaker 2: a personal letter to the PM.
- 44:23Speaker 4: It's the first time the Canbra Times is actually acting
- 44:26Speaker 4: like a tabloid and doing actual crusading journalism.
- 44:29Speaker 3: That tabloids.
- 44:30Speaker 4: I meant to do because remember every time we'd be
- 44:33Speaker 4: reading the Canberra Times in the past, it'll be like
- 44:35Speaker 4: a bureaucrat left work at warfare. Very true PM last
- 44:39Speaker 4: Wednesday in and otherwise.
- 44:41Speaker 2: It is typically written for public servants. So it's about football.
- 44:44Speaker 3: So exactly right, pencil.
- 44:47Speaker 6: Before we go to a break, we'll look at the
- 44:48Speaker 6: Herald's son. Our police up beat is the headline. Rank
- 44:51Speaker 6: and file police have delivered a savage rebuke to the
- 44:54Speaker 6: Allen government over the worsening resourcing crisis on the front line.
- 44:57Speaker 6: A secret survey of more than two thousand police This
- 45:00Speaker 6: Union members has also revealed growing concerns about the government's
- 45:03Speaker 6: management of criminal justice policy.
- 45:04Speaker 5: Who would have thought? And youth crime? Who would have thought?
- 45:07Speaker 6: With a staggering eighty two percent of police saying tackling
- 45:09Speaker 6: youth crime is a key drain on their time. Well,
- 45:14Speaker 6: I mean you didn't need to serve. I had to
- 45:16Speaker 6: tell you that, do you though? Just enter Allen will
- 45:18Speaker 6: tell you that Melbourne is safe.
- 45:19Speaker 1: Yeah, of course it is all right.
- 45:21Speaker 2: When you go to a break, you think fuel is expensive,
- 45:23Speaker 2: wait until after the break when we tell you how easter.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Eggs are going up in costs. That's next.
- 45:33Speaker 2: Okay, there was a global Technology summit held in Washington yesterday.
- 45:36Speaker 2: It was hosted by Milania Trump, and I want to
- 45:40Speaker 2: show you the way she walked into the summit as
- 45:42Speaker 2: it began with the first US made humanoid.
- 45:58Speaker 3: Was the robot.
- 45:58Speaker 2: I got to tell you, I'm thinking, why is she
- 46:00Speaker 2: walking with Joe Biden?
- 46:03Speaker 1: I was a humanoid? There you go, waiting for the
- 46:06Speaker 1: robot to.
- 46:06Speaker 6: Malfunction like that, I say, work at gals strutting down
- 46:10Speaker 6: that red carpet.
- 46:12Speaker 5: Melania is such a babe.
- 46:13Speaker 1: She's such a professional whole thing.
- 46:15Speaker 2: She started a little too fast and she actually adjusts
- 46:18Speaker 2: her stride to be in time.
- 46:20Speaker 5: A quick A professional total.
- 46:23Speaker 4: Should we be worried about this robot thing coming because
- 46:26Speaker 4: every movie I've seen about humanoid robots things don't end
- 46:30Speaker 4: well for the actual humans.
- 46:32Speaker 6: Well, I got a couple of weeks ago, Remember we
- 46:34Speaker 6: were talking about it a few weeks ago when the
- 46:36Speaker 6: robots were attacking old women in the streets.
- 46:38Speaker 4: So they're not all bad, but you know, I'm saying
- 46:40Speaker 4: there could be some downsides as well.
- 46:42Speaker 3: Now I'm joking.
- 46:43Speaker 4: Obviously, I do not condone robots attacking old women in
- 46:46Speaker 4: the streets. Nor do I condone linked bunnies now hitting.
- 46:51Speaker 3: The twenty dollars price. Believe it or not, that is
- 46:55Speaker 3: what happened.
- 46:56Speaker 7: Now.
- 46:56Speaker 4: I can't get my head around this. I know I'm
- 46:58Speaker 4: only a mere art student. I do not have an
- 47:01Speaker 4: economics degree. But even though cocoa prices have crashed, Easter
- 47:07Speaker 4: egg chocolate prices have gone through the roof. We've got
- 47:12Speaker 4: the twenty dollars limp bunnies if you're a bit sort
- 47:14Speaker 4: of fancy.
- 47:15Speaker 3: But even if you just go for the humble.
- 47:17Speaker 4: Cadbury hollow egg, they have actually the prices of them
- 47:21Speaker 4: have doubled per gram since two Easters ago. But they
- 47:26Speaker 4: might not have actually doubled per product because at the
- 47:30Speaker 4: same time, there's a bit of and I think we
- 47:33Speaker 4: all know this economic term shrink flation going out ah
- 47:37Speaker 4: something that happens when men go swimming in cold water,
- 47:40Speaker 4: and also when companies try to disguise the fact that
- 47:45Speaker 4: they're jacking up prices by keeping prices the same or
- 47:48Speaker 4: not as high as they otherwise would be, but reducing
- 47:50Speaker 4: the size of their product.
- 47:53Speaker 3: So what you sesus died for this.
- 47:56Speaker 2: What you're saying is if my kids get eggs and
- 47:58Speaker 2: it's a big if with the price will be smaller, yes.
- 48:01Speaker 6: Right, twenty dollars though, what a rawt. But that's just ridiculous. Seriously,
- 48:05Speaker 6: come on, is it going to get worse now though?
- 48:07Speaker 6: With the fuel and food shortagees a lot next week
- 48:10Speaker 6: it'll be forty dollars on Easter Sunday.
- 48:12Speaker 3: You've got to leave it to the last minute.
- 48:14Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
- 48:14Speaker 3: And when they think, holy crap, do you want to get.
- 48:16Speaker 6: Rid of the egg well, let's let's go over to
- 48:18Speaker 6: New York now, because when Mayor Zora and Mam Dami
- 48:21Speaker 6: isn't platforming the anti Israel agenda, he's taking part in
- 48:24Speaker 6: muck bang videos online.
- 48:25Speaker 5: What is muck bang? It's when people sit there and.
- 48:27Speaker 6: Eat copious amounts of food on on a YouTube or
- 48:30Speaker 6: a web live stream.
- 48:32Speaker 5: Lord knows why. But here's the irony in this.
- 48:34Speaker 6: He's been seen munching on taco Bell and Duncan to
- 48:37Speaker 6: announce a one point five million dollars settlement against against
- 48:40Speaker 6: franchises of fast food giants, have a look.
- 48:44Speaker 3: I think, okay, now this is important.
- 48:46Speaker 1: I'm very curious about the mayor.
- 48:47Speaker 3: This is a hard ball for.
- 48:48Speaker 5: The war sour cream or no sour.
- 48:52Speaker 4: Cream as a life question.
- 48:55Speaker 7: As a life questions, and as a taco boat order question,
- 48:58Speaker 7: always sour cream.
- 49:01Speaker 5: Enthralling. Another episode of Zora and Ma'am Darmi. What does
- 49:04Speaker 5: he actually do?
- 49:05Speaker 2: Oh he creates cringe videos, Tanika, that's what he does.
- 49:08Speaker 5: Want to do a much bang new time.
- 49:10Speaker 3: I've heard socialist when they just killed people.
- 49:12Speaker 2: All right, that's all we've got time for tonight. Stick
- 49:14Speaker 2: around Coming up is to read a penalty show. Good
- 49:16Speaker 2: night and well done, Joe, Thank you very much.
- 49:18Speaker 3: I think I'm getting better