Latest / The Late Debate / The Late Debate | 28 November
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Lately.
- 0:01Speaker 2: General, welcome to the Late pay.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Well.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
- 0:08Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Joe Hildebrand and Liz Sto. Great
- 0:11Speaker 3: to have your company.
- 0:12Speaker 2: We've got a.
- 0:12Speaker 3: Lot to get through tonight, including a woman accused of
- 0:16Speaker 3: race hate for playing a Bob Bob Marley record. I reckon,
- 0:20Speaker 3: if you're going to engage your hate, you'd probably pay
- 0:22Speaker 3: us Taylor Swift record or something like that. We'll talk
- 0:25Speaker 3: about that later. Plus, when we look at the papers,
- 0:27Speaker 3: a new South Wales school slammed over sexually explicit questions
- 0:32Speaker 3: being asked of students in a classroom, and Victoria Park's
- 0:36Speaker 3: boss loses his job over the controversial closure of climbing
- 0:41Speaker 3: routes in Victoria. We'll get to all of that when
- 0:43Speaker 3: we look at the papers. But first, it's Islamophobia Awareness
- 0:47Speaker 3: Month in the United Kingdom and to celebrate, Prime Minister
- 0:51Speaker 3: Keir Starmer has left open the possibility of introducing blasphemy laws.
- 0:56Speaker 2: He was asked in Parliament today.
- 0:58Speaker 3: By one of his own Muslim mp if you would
- 1:01Speaker 3: commit to criminalizing the desecration of religious texts and the
- 1:06Speaker 3: prophet and Kirstama seemed way too inclined to oblige have
- 1:11Speaker 3: a listen.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Will the Prime Minister commit to introducing megas to prohibit
- 1:17Speaker 4: the desecration of.
- 1:18Speaker 5: All religious texts and the profits.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Of the Abrahamic religion. We are, as I said, the
- 1:24Speaker 1: foremost to speaker, committed to tackling all forms of hatred
- 1:27Speaker 1: and division, including of course Islamophobia in all of its forms.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Just before we get into the discussion on this, just.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Should point out the sleight of hand by Tahir A
- 1:39Speaker 3: Lee who asked the question he's a Muslim MP. He
- 1:44Speaker 3: talked about can we outlaw disrespect for religious texts and
- 1:50Speaker 3: for profits of the Abrahamic religions? And of course what
- 1:53Speaker 3: that means is he's talking on behalf of Christians, Jews
- 1:58Speaker 3: and Muslims. Interesting, of course, is that neither Christians nor
- 2:02Speaker 3: Jews are calling for the criminalization of anybody disrespecting their religion,
- 2:08Speaker 3: but he pulls them in to make it seem like
- 2:11Speaker 3: he's doing this for everybody.
- 2:14Speaker 1: He's worried about criticism of for the prophet Isaiah. Sure,
- 2:18Speaker 1: every obviously Isaiah, that was the first one that came
- 2:21Speaker 1: to mind. Mind, who are you thinking of it?
- 2:23Speaker 3: Well, it's also nonsensical because Christians believe Jesus is God
- 2:27Speaker 3: in human form. Muslims do not believe that at all.
- 2:30Speaker 3: They just believe he's a mere man, though a very
- 2:32Speaker 3: good one. And Jews think he was a total blasphemous.
- 2:36Speaker 3: So you've got all of these contradictions. But here's the
- 2:38Speaker 3: big thing. What he's asking for is not for people
- 2:41Speaker 3: to be protected. He's asking for ideas to be protected.
- 2:45Speaker 3: And the one idea that should never be protected, and
- 2:48Speaker 3: I said this is a Christian is the idea of religion,
- 2:51Speaker 3: because religion is your answer to the big questions in life,
- 2:55Speaker 3: where do we come from, what's wrong with the world,
- 2:57Speaker 3: how do we fix it? How do you define right
- 3:00Speaker 3: and wrong? What happens when you die? If you can't
- 3:02Speaker 3: discuss those questions openly, then it pretty much makes it
- 3:06Speaker 3: impossible to talk about anything meaningful at all. And that's
- 3:10Speaker 3: what he's asking for, and that's what the UK Prime
- 3:13Speaker 3: Minister is saying he is.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Open to doing, to outlawing.
- 3:17Speaker 3: Any disrespect of religious ideas. You can't have a free
- 3:21Speaker 3: society in which religious ideas are unable to be critique,
- 3:25Speaker 3: criticized and if you want mocked.
- 3:28Speaker 6: Indeed, and the Prime Minister, of course, no one would
- 3:31Speaker 6: expect this from kir Starmer should have responded by saying.
- 3:35Speaker 5: Mate, get stuffed.
- 3:36Speaker 2: This is the UK.
- 3:37Speaker 6: We have freedom of speech here and that includes people
- 3:40Speaker 6: being able to say things that you might not like.
- 3:43Speaker 5: Boohoo, so sad, this very weird would have.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Been a weird thing.
- 3:49Speaker 6: Is utterly ridiculous, right, because a phobia isn't an irrational fear.
- 3:55Speaker 6: And I genuinely get hot under the collar when I
- 4:00Speaker 6: consider that people in the UK are being lectured on
- 4:03Speaker 6: is Lamophobia on the daily, when these guys have copped it,
- 4:09Speaker 6: when we talk about terrorist attacks on their own soil,
- 4:14Speaker 6: all by radical Islamist Back to two thousand and six,
- 4:18Speaker 6: we've got fifty two dead in.
- 4:20Speaker 5: The July London bombings.
- 4:21Speaker 1: In the tubes.
- 4:22Speaker 6: We all remember that one May twenty seventeen Manchester.
- 4:27Speaker 5: Arena bombing, another twenty two dead.
- 4:29Speaker 6: A month later, eight dead in the London Bridge attack.
- 4:34Speaker 6: And this is to say nothing of the individual instances
- 4:38Speaker 6: of people being beheaded in the street, as was the
- 4:41Speaker 6: case with Samuel Patty in twenty twenty, a teacher in
- 4:47Speaker 6: France going about his own business beheaded in the street,
- 4:51Speaker 6: and the twenty sixteen case. These are just the ones
- 4:54Speaker 6: that came to mind, by the way, the twenty sixteen
- 4:58Speaker 6: case of the pre least his name was.
- 5:01Speaker 5: Jack Hammel who's beheaded during Mass.
- 5:04Speaker 6: And of course most recently they're still coming to mind,
- 5:07Speaker 6: ladies and gentlemen, the Southport case where we had three
- 5:11Speaker 6: little girls killed by a guy who had in his
- 5:16Speaker 6: possession an El Qaida training manual.
- 5:19Speaker 5: So how dare.
- 5:20Speaker 6: You lecture people in the UK on being Islamophobic when
- 5:25Speaker 6: any fear they have is bloody well founded if they
- 5:30Speaker 6: have concerns relating to Islam. That is a country who
- 5:34Speaker 6: can say, don't lecture us, mate.
- 5:37Speaker 5: And this is nothing to do with a phobia.
- 5:39Speaker 6: This has nothing to do with racism, This has nothing
- 5:42Speaker 6: to do with us hating Muslims. We've simply had a
- 5:45Speaker 6: gut full of you gaslighting us into believing there's something
- 5:49Speaker 6: wrong with us when we simply keep looking at these cases.
- 5:53Speaker 6: And I'm sure if I lived in the UK I
- 5:55Speaker 6: could name far, far more. I haven't even got started
- 5:58Speaker 6: on the grooming gangs have been making a lot of
- 6:01Speaker 6: headlines in the UK recently, and their Prime Minister just
- 6:05Speaker 6: wants to be like, oh, yeah, well, we're just going
- 6:08Speaker 6: to keep you know, putting the screws in you guys,
- 6:11Speaker 6: we can't have Islamophobia.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I think he's actually doing something a bit cleverer than that,
- 6:16Speaker 1: I think because so he's obviously got his MP who said,
- 6:20Speaker 1: all right, will you commit to laws banning the desecration
- 6:24Speaker 1: quote unquote of religious texts? That is not what Keir
- 6:27Speaker 1: Starmer agrees to. So kis Dama says, oh, we're committed to,
- 6:31Speaker 1: you know, to tackling Islamo phobia, just.
- 6:33Speaker 5: Something fun.
- 6:35Speaker 2: A lot of forms, in all its forms, in.
- 6:38Speaker 1: All its forms. That's right, But he's not actually committing
- 6:40Speaker 1: to And again this is sort of politics. One oh one. Yeah,
- 6:42Speaker 1: I answer the question that you want to answer, not
- 6:44Speaker 1: the questions that's actually been asked. So it's a bit
- 6:46Speaker 1: like the very famous example in New South Wales was
- 6:50Speaker 1: when there was a bit of a law and order
- 6:51Speaker 1: auction and the coalition was demanding minimum sentences of twenty
- 6:56Speaker 1: five years for murder, and the state government under bobcast It.
- 7:00Speaker 7: You say, minimum sentence of twenty five years for murder,
- 7:02Speaker 7: we are proposing maximum sentences of thirty five years for murder.
- 7:06Speaker 7: Because yeah, but we're talking about minimum centers is twenty
- 7:08Speaker 7: five years. Yeah, but we're saying, we're going to have
- 7:09Speaker 7: a maximum sentence of thirty five years. So you place
- 7:12Speaker 7: the So you're you're responding to a question he's not saying. Now, Islamophobia,
- 7:17Speaker 7: like homophobia or like you know, anti Semitism or whatever,
- 7:21Speaker 7: is not the irrational fear or hatred of religious texts,
- 7:29Speaker 7: which is.
- 7:29Speaker 1: It's not of the text. You're falling for the same trap. Again,
- 7:33Speaker 1: it's not of the text. It's of the people, rights
- 7:35Speaker 1: of the So it's the mistreatment of Muslims based on
- 7:38Speaker 1: whatever you think, just as antisemitism is the mistreatment of
- 7:41Speaker 1: Jews based on what you think of them. And so
- 7:43Speaker 1: he answers a completely different question to that, and I
- 7:46Speaker 1: think you can. You can. And again, you know, there's
- 7:50Speaker 1: Muslims and there's actual Islamness, which is the extreme form
- 7:52Speaker 1: of Islam that results in terrorism and extremism and fundamentalism.
- 7:56Speaker 1: And again that is a sort of different thing. Again,
- 7:58Speaker 1: so you can tackle you can. You can still have
- 8:01Speaker 1: measures that apply to zonophobia, just as they would to
- 8:04Speaker 1: anti Semitism without touching which is vital, Without touching the
- 8:08Speaker 1: ability of people to be able to criticize the Koran
- 8:11Speaker 1: or indeed, you know, make jokes about it like they
- 8:13Speaker 1: do about it.
- 8:16Speaker 2: That's very clever politics.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Then, from Kirstar, if it is as you described, except
- 8:21Speaker 3: this is not a time for clever politics. This has
- 8:24Speaker 3: made front page news right through the UK because people
- 8:27Speaker 3: have said he's clearly given an obtuse answer. He's given
- 8:32Speaker 3: a clever answer when what people want is clear direction
- 8:35Speaker 3: that we've got leadership who won't put up with the
- 8:38Speaker 3: sorts of things that you have described and the kind
- 8:40Speaker 3: of retrick that leads to that.
- 8:42Speaker 2: But he's not given clear leadership.
- 8:43Speaker 3: He's trying to play both sides of defence and in
- 8:47Speaker 3: doing that all he does is give you encouragement to extremists.
- 8:49Speaker 1: That's right. Sorry, if you look at and I dare say,
- 8:52Speaker 1: if you look at the election result we've just had
- 8:54Speaker 1: in the US, and I dare say Labor would have that,
- 8:56Speaker 1: and it's got its own problems as well with the
- 8:58Speaker 1: budget have just passed. I think I think they would
- 9:02Speaker 1: be very sort of I suppose they would be have
- 9:07Speaker 1: one eye on that. They would have one eye on
- 9:09Speaker 1: their constituents. And again there are a lot of very
- 9:11Speaker 1: very Muslim heavy seats in the four million four million.
- 9:16Speaker 1: There are also I think five seats that were won
- 9:19Speaker 1: by Muslim voice or Muslim votes matter type candidates either.
- 9:24Speaker 1: I don't think they ran as an actual party, but
- 9:26Speaker 1: people who are aligned to that movement, so they are
- 9:28Speaker 1: going to have half an eye on that as well.
- 9:31Speaker 1: But I totally agree that it should be absolutely no
- 9:33Speaker 1: place for blasphemy laws. I mean, look at the number
- 9:36Speaker 1: of jokes that people have made throughout the centuries about
- 9:39Speaker 1: characters in the Bible, including Jesus himself. Now the idea
- 9:43Speaker 1: that you would add a stroke effectively ban all of
- 9:47Speaker 1: those because imagine the law fare that Christian groups would
- 9:50Speaker 1: engage on. Imagine the mass class actions they would if
- 9:53Speaker 1: there was the same applied to it. And again, does
- 9:57Speaker 1: this means that you know that Kiostama or you Calaber
- 10:00Speaker 1: says Charlie, hebdo had it coming.
- 10:02Speaker 3: The reason you can tell so many Christian jokes is
- 10:04Speaker 3: because Christians don't believe in shutting down any critique.
- 10:08Speaker 6: People know that they're not going to be beheaded in
- 10:10Speaker 6: the street if they criticize Christianity, Catholicism, et cetera, et cetera,
- 10:16Speaker 6: and so on to the US now, and perhaps the
- 10:19Speaker 6: biggest confirmation that most Polsters are absolutely pathetic at their jobs. Today,
- 10:26Speaker 6: we learned from one of Harris's main campaign guys that
- 10:32Speaker 6: their internal polling actually never showed Harris out front of
- 10:37Speaker 6: Trump in any way, shape or form.
- 10:41Speaker 5: Check it out.
- 10:41Speaker 6: Hear it from him here he is talking to Pod
- 10:45Speaker 6: Save America podcast.
- 10:47Speaker 5: You can hear it from the horse's mouth.
- 10:51Speaker 8: When we got in. My recollection is some of that snapback.
- 10:54Speaker 8: But you know we were behind. I mean, I think
- 10:56Speaker 8: it surprised people because there was these public polls that
- 10:59Speaker 8: came out in late September early October shown us with
- 11:03Speaker 8: leads that we never saw. I think even after the
- 11:05Speaker 8: debate we might have gained what point five to one.
- 11:08Speaker 8: It wasn't a race that moved a lot. You know,
- 11:10Speaker 8: you've got to have bun decided to break your way
- 11:12Speaker 8: more than your opponents, and you've got to get a
- 11:14Speaker 8: little benefit from turnout, which we weren't able to do.
- 11:18Speaker 5: Thank you, David Plof.
- 11:20Speaker 6: So how was it that the public polls which he
- 11:23Speaker 6: made reference to there were so out of step with
- 11:26Speaker 6: their own internal polling, whereby they knew there was more
- 11:30Speaker 6: than one other guy on their campaign who joined him
- 11:33Speaker 6: on that podcast, and they said, look, we knew we
- 11:35Speaker 6: actually knew it was a lost cause, which begs the question,
- 11:40Speaker 6: had everyone known it was a lost cause, do you
- 11:43Speaker 6: think Harris would have had a billion dollars to incinerate?
- 11:49Speaker 5: I think not.
- 11:50Speaker 6: Can you imagine being one of her donors right now
- 11:53Speaker 6: and learning that these guys always knew that it was
- 11:57Speaker 6: a jolly lost cause. Check out this great of just
- 12:01Speaker 6: how out of touch the average polster was with what
- 12:06Speaker 6: was actually going on behind the scenes in the Harris camp.
- 12:10Speaker 6: In the right hand column there you can see how
- 12:13Speaker 6: badly the end result deviated from what they projected was
- 12:19Speaker 6: going to happen. This is an absolute embarrassment. And we
- 12:23Speaker 6: had David Plouf there saying that.
- 12:25Speaker 5: It didn't even change.
- 12:27Speaker 6: Much after she took after dementia Joe. Now we were told, oh,
- 12:31Speaker 6: Harris is at the wheel. Now she actually did really
- 12:34Speaker 6: well during the debate. Don't you think that was amazing?
- 12:37Speaker 6: She's doing incredibly. The Trump camp should be worried. She's
- 12:41Speaker 6: actually skyrocketing and popularity, and we all said, oh, maybe
- 12:44Speaker 6: it's just a honeymoon period. You know, she's just taken
- 12:47Speaker 6: over from Joe. She didn't actually crash and burn in
- 12:51Speaker 6: the debate as we were expecting, and we just thought, oh,
- 12:54Speaker 6: you know, she's has got a bit of a pump
- 12:57Speaker 6: in the polls. Maybe this will be tighter than we thought.
- 13:00Speaker 5: Turns out it was all a nonsense. So much for
- 13:04Speaker 5: suppression polls being a conspiracy theory. Another great day to
- 13:08Speaker 5: be a conspiracy theory.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I mean, well, this is private internal party polling. They're
- 13:13Speaker 1: not going to make a public they never do, never have,
- 13:15Speaker 1: never will. Otherwise, what's the point They're not going to
- 13:19Speaker 1: do it before during the actual election campaign. No, of course,
- 13:22Speaker 1: that's the whole point of having your own internal polster.
- 13:25Speaker 1: And then you've got the public poles. If you actually
- 13:26Speaker 1: looked at the public polls throughout the entire campaign, as
- 13:30Speaker 1: I was doing obsessively, they showed pretty much the same
- 13:33Speaker 1: thing he was talking here, mostly about the battleground states,
- 13:36Speaker 1: which is also the ones that matter, that's right, And
- 13:39Speaker 1: you know there's about seven of those that really matters,
- 13:41Speaker 1: Pennsylvania being the most important, but you know, Wisconsin, Michigan,
- 13:46Speaker 1: and a handful of others, Georgia, Arizona, those sorts of
- 13:49Speaker 1: things if you actually looked at them, if you look
- 13:51Speaker 1: at the average of polls, that the real clear politics.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Who are five thirty eight puts up all the time.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Trump was marginally ahead, a tiny bit ahead in most
- 13:59Speaker 1: of those most of the time. And that's why, that's why,
- 14:03Speaker 1: and that's why you saw and that's why you no
- 14:04Speaker 1: Trumps mostly and again. And Paul Murray, you know, was
- 14:10Speaker 1: constantly drawing attention to this fact. And it was a
- 14:12Speaker 1: white knuckle ride. But Trump won by much much, much
- 14:16Speaker 1: more than those poles predicted. So those poles still got
- 14:19Speaker 1: it wrong. But this is what I found really strange.
- 14:21Speaker 1: It was that even when I think I mentioned it
- 14:23Speaker 1: on my podcast, the real story with Joe Hilda Round
- 14:26Speaker 1: download it now, which is the gas sliding. And this
- 14:30Speaker 1: is what makes it even worse, the obsession of say
- 14:33Speaker 1: the MSNBC types or the CNN types, or we had
- 14:36Speaker 1: certain you know, Twitter raadi here, you know, saying I
- 14:38Speaker 1: predict it's going to be Carmela by this and that
- 14:40Speaker 1: we sat the ridiculous Iowa pole. But it was right
- 14:45Speaker 1: there in front of their faces. This is this wasn't
- 14:47Speaker 1: even like in twenty sixteen where everyone's saying, oh, it's
- 14:50Speaker 1: definitely Hillary Clinton, it's all over bar the shouting. The
- 14:53Speaker 1: poles were still showing it was incredibly close. The battleground
- 14:58Speaker 1: states edged towards Trump more than Harris the vast majority
- 15:03Speaker 1: of the time, and the bedding market had Trump pretty much,
- 15:07Speaker 1: you know, fifty five forty five.
- 15:09Speaker 3: So how do you for the whole time parody because
- 15:12Speaker 3: between the internal polling and all the other polling.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Well, no, this is what I'm saying, though their internal
- 15:17Speaker 1: polling actually matches up pretty well with the public polling.
- 15:20Speaker 1: What neither matches up with is the result, and neither
- 15:25Speaker 1: matches up with the commentary of.
- 15:26Speaker 5: People who thought it was sad.
- 15:28Speaker 6: He said, the public polls had us ahead, and we
- 15:31Speaker 6: never saw that in our internal poll didn't you.
- 15:33Speaker 1: He said that we were always behind the battleground.
- 15:36Speaker 5: Rod about post debate famous right.
- 15:41Speaker 1: And that that polster has actually resigned. That showed up
- 15:44Speaker 1: something like a ten to fifteen point turnaround. It was
- 15:47Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers, right, So that was some weird, crazy anomally
- 15:51Speaker 1: and that should have just been put on the scrap
- 15:53Speaker 1: heap and just burned alive, because that was clearly just
- 15:55Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy outlier. And yeah, maybe the pub and
- 15:58Speaker 1: the public poles I think were probably a bit more
- 16:00Speaker 1: favorable to Carmla because I think a lot of Trump
- 16:04Speaker 1: voters were gaming the polls and just not answering. And
- 16:07Speaker 1: there was some anecdotal evidence after that. Say here a poster,
- 16:10Speaker 1: I say, no, f you, I'm not talking to you,
- 16:11Speaker 1: don't trust you. You're part of the system.
- 16:13Speaker 6: But they don't explain that people are watching these polls
- 16:18Speaker 6: unfold on MSNBCC and.
- 16:21Speaker 1: What I'm saying, even those false hope, but even those
- 16:24Speaker 1: but even the polls, if you actually look at them,
- 16:27Speaker 1: weren't giving them pulse. You had people talking about them,
- 16:31Speaker 1: talking about Karmala mentor.
- 16:33Speaker 5: Internal polling clearly disagree with you, Joe.
- 16:36Speaker 1: So no privately knew they that to stay privately knew
- 16:43Speaker 1: that things were not going as well as all Karmala
- 16:45Speaker 1: Harris's cheerleaders were saying they were going. That is exactly
- 16:48Speaker 1: what I'm trying to tell you that you had people
- 16:50Speaker 1: who were so blinded, it was so completely dissociated from
- 16:55Speaker 1: the possibility that Donald Trump could actually win, that they
- 16:57Speaker 1: were talking about Karmala Harris having this rollicking campaign, having
- 17:02Speaker 1: all this Famouskama momentum and being ahead and going to win,
- 17:05Speaker 1: when even the public polls that were published were saying
- 17:09Speaker 1: in most cases the opposite of that. That is how
- 17:11Speaker 1: deluded they were so again, it wasn't like Hillary Clinton
- 17:14Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, where they were following what the Poles
- 17:16Speaker 1: were actually telling them. Well, poles never pointed to They
- 17:20Speaker 1: didn't point to a Trump landslide, but they sure as
- 17:22Speaker 1: hell never pointed to a Harris landslide. It was always
- 17:25Speaker 1: at most a white no you.
- 17:27Speaker 3: Mentioned disassociation from reality, which is a perfect way to
- 17:31Speaker 3: describe Kamala Harris.
- 17:33Speaker 2: She's still talking to.
- 17:35Speaker 3: Americans saying, don't lose your power, even though she of
- 17:38Speaker 3: course has lost hers.
- 17:39Speaker 2: He is a recent video she released and a look
- 17:41Speaker 2: at this.
- 17:42Speaker 9: I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
- 17:47Speaker 9: anybody take your power from you. You have the same
- 17:51Speaker 9: power that you did before November fifth, and you have
- 17:56Speaker 9: the same purpose that you did, and you have the
- 18:00Speaker 9: same ability to engage and inspire. So don't ever let
- 18:07Speaker 9: anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.
- 18:12Speaker 3: Now, she's still speaking in word sounds, but to help
- 18:14Speaker 3: us understand what's really going on in that video, someone's
- 18:18Speaker 3: just added a few little parts to make it a
- 18:20Speaker 3: bit more obvious what's actually happening.
- 18:23Speaker 9: Would you ever let anybody take your power from you?
- 18:27Speaker 9: You have the same power that you did before November fifth,
- 18:32Speaker 9: and you have the same purpose that you did.
- 18:37Speaker 3: You know, when your friends are drinking, you typically take
- 18:40Speaker 3: away their keys. Maybe take away their camera, Liz, that would.
- 18:45Speaker 5: Be very kind.
- 18:45Speaker 6: The funniest part of all of this the video goes
- 18:48Speaker 6: for almost ten minutes, her full address to the nation,
- 18:52Speaker 6: first we've heard of her since the failed election bid,
- 18:56Speaker 6: and the full length is so much more painful to watch.
- 19:00Speaker 5: I do not recommend it.
- 19:02Speaker 6: Back to Australia now, where medical cannabis is taking the
- 19:07Speaker 6: nation by storm.
- 19:08Speaker 5: Get this, we are expected to.
- 19:11Speaker 6: Spend a billion dollars on medical cannabis this year as
- 19:15Speaker 6: use of the drug sky rocket.
- 19:18Speaker 1: That's just Kamala Harris's use.
- 19:21Speaker 6: I was gonna say, maybe we shouldn't have put alcohol
- 19:24Speaker 6: in the AI version of that.
- 19:25Speaker 5: Someone could have just easily put a bong in there instead.
- 19:29Speaker 6: But this spending correlates with usage, which jumped from just
- 19:33Speaker 6: three point nine percent of survey respondents in a twenty
- 19:37Speaker 6: nineteen survey to almost thirty percent admitting they.
- 19:41Speaker 5: Use prescription marijuana.
- 19:44Speaker 6: Now, it's true, this is a wonder plant for people
- 19:49Speaker 6: with a plethora of physical and mental issues. Anyone who
- 19:54Speaker 6: knows much about medical marijuana knows that.
- 19:57Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's referred to as.
- 19:58Speaker 6: The wonder drug, although so I don't really call it
- 20:01Speaker 6: a drug because it ain't appeal. It is a plant,
- 20:04Speaker 6: thanks God. And so people are getting I'm not surprised
- 20:09Speaker 6: by this at all. People are getting incredible results from
- 20:14Speaker 6: it that they have not been able to see from
- 20:17Speaker 6: drugs from Big Farmer.
- 20:19Speaker 5: And it's interesting because this is.
- 20:21Speaker 6: At a time as well where legalized cannabis type parties
- 20:25Speaker 6: have got quite a foothold in nearly every state parliament now,
- 20:29Speaker 6: so it's an interesting.
- 20:31Speaker 3: Time and that they're using the popularity of medicinal cannabis
- 20:35Speaker 3: to make the case that cannabis should be legalized recreationally,
- 20:39Speaker 3: and that as medicinal cannabis is used so to the
- 20:43Speaker 3: acceptance of it in the general community is becoming more
- 20:47Speaker 3: important common This is not being lost on the green
- 20:49Speaker 3: or the cannabis part.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Ironically, early their use of medicinal cannabis, for the most part,
- 20:54Speaker 1: is meant to be in such a way that it
- 20:55Speaker 1: doesn't actually produce a high. You don't actually go high
- 20:58Speaker 1: for it, to which I think most people would say,
- 21:00Speaker 1: what's the full point? But yes, no, that is exactly
- 21:03Speaker 1: what's happening, and it is and it is. It's basically
- 21:07Speaker 1: just one party, which is the Legalized Cannabis Party, which
- 21:10Speaker 1: has done deals or is about to do deals. It
- 21:14Speaker 1: did a deal with Labor at the Queensland state election
- 21:17Speaker 1: and did very well and possibly help Labor win maybe
- 21:19Speaker 1: three seats it wouldn't have otherwise. Now, I no one
- 21:22Speaker 1: particularly cares if Stephen Miles wins government or not. Well,
- 21:25Speaker 1: no one wants him to win. But this does mean
- 21:28Speaker 1: that they could help Anthony Albanezi and Labor federally sneak
- 21:32Speaker 1: over the line. And more importantly, they give Labor an
- 21:35Speaker 1: option to shore up second preference votes from a minor
- 21:40Speaker 1: party that is not the Greens, and so Labor can
- 21:45Speaker 1: have as its first party of choice, its primary partnership
- 21:48Speaker 1: in the electorate where does a deal where it gives
- 21:51Speaker 1: two to that party above any others, it can have
- 21:54Speaker 1: that as the Legalized Cannabis Party and not the Greens.
- 21:57Speaker 1: And of course we all know Labor hates the Greens.
- 21:59Speaker 1: At the moment, the Greens are trying to destroy Labor.
- 22:01Speaker 1: It's never been more toxic. The Greens are a bunch
- 22:02Speaker 1: of extremist a holes and are doing just terrible, terrible things,
- 22:06Speaker 1: holding the country to ransom. So this, this deal with
- 22:09Speaker 1: legalized cannabis gives labor a huge, huge, huge sort of
- 22:14Speaker 1: I suppose shot in the arm if you're like where
- 22:17Speaker 1: it doesn't have to associate with people who are fundamentally crazy,
- 22:21Speaker 1: anti submitted extremists. Which is a long way of saying
- 22:25Speaker 1: that cannabis, the wonder drug, can not only you know,
- 22:29Speaker 1: help cure arthritis or other forms of chronic pain or
- 22:33Speaker 1: whatever islands or whatever whatever these things are, it can
- 22:36Speaker 1: also cure Australia from the Greens.
- 22:41Speaker 5: They're fixed.
- 22:43Speaker 1: It just gets rid of them.
- 22:47Speaker 3: You finally convince me if.
- 22:51Speaker 1: It does legalizing dope to get rid of the Greens,
- 22:54Speaker 1: I say, let it rain down, Let it rain down
- 22:56Speaker 1: from heaven.
- 22:57Speaker 2: I reckon.
- 22:57Speaker 3: You get a lot of support for that, Joe, if
- 22:59Speaker 3: only get find something to heal us from the ABC.
- 23:02Speaker 3: Kim Williams, the boss of the ABC, is in all
- 23:05Speaker 3: sorts over his criticism of the most popular podcaster in
- 23:09Speaker 3: the world, Rogan. He went nuclear on Joe Rogan, talking
- 23:13Speaker 3: about all sorts of descriptors of the podcast, and then
- 23:17Speaker 3: got surprised when people said he was completely divorced from
- 23:21Speaker 3: reality and out of touch. Just to remind you, here's
- 23:24Speaker 3: Kim Williams speaking at the Press Club. He was asked
- 23:27Speaker 3: what he thought about Joe Rogan and if maybe the
- 23:29Speaker 3: ABC could learn from Joe Rogan in order to boost
- 23:33Speaker 3: their influence in this country.
- 23:34Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
- 23:36Speaker 4: I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that
- 23:41Speaker 4: someone has such remarkable power in the United States is
- 23:48Speaker 4: something that I look at him disbelief. I'm also absolutely
- 23:55Speaker 4: in dismay that this can be a source of public
- 23:59Speaker 4: entertaining when it's really treating the public as plunder for
- 24:06Speaker 4: purposes that are really quite malevolent.
- 24:10Speaker 3: So he's talking about Joe Rogan, who is incredibly popular,
- 24:14Speaker 3: way more popular than the ABC will ever be, and
- 24:16Speaker 3: with nowhere near the.
- 24:17Speaker 2: Budget or the staff.
- 24:19Speaker 3: He's talking about Joe Rogan being a malevolent force in
- 24:24Speaker 3: the public discourse.
- 24:26Speaker 2: And he said all of that.
- 24:29Speaker 3: After he admitted he doesn't listen to Joe Rogan at all.
- 24:32Speaker 3: So how he came up with all those criticisms is
- 24:35Speaker 3: a mystery. Anyway, there was a massive pilon, of course,
- 24:39Speaker 3: because how out of touch could a man be? And
- 24:41Speaker 3: then he was surprised by the pylon here is talking
- 24:44Speaker 3: on radio today.
- 24:46Speaker 10: I might say I've been surprised since making that response
- 24:50Speaker 10: that there has been an astonishingly large pylon from people
- 24:55Speaker 10: saying that I was an embarrassment to Australia. I've been
- 24:58Speaker 10: accused of having a walk down look on life. I've
- 25:01Speaker 10: been accused of being unhinged. I've been threatened with I'm
- 25:06Speaker 10: staying in my lane. I find the reaction really out
- 25:10Speaker 10: of all proportion with what I said.
- 25:13Speaker 3: Well, if you are the boss of the ABC, then
- 25:16Speaker 3: what you say about media matters does tend to matter.
- 25:19Speaker 3: And especially when you say that someone who simply provides
- 25:23Speaker 3: plenty of opportunity for very powerful and well known people
- 25:27Speaker 3: to discuss their ideas and share them in a free
- 25:30Speaker 3: ranging conversation, when you call that malevolent, and when you
- 25:35Speaker 3: say that it's a terrible thing, then of course it's
- 25:38Speaker 3: going to make news. He's surprised Liz that people were
- 25:41Speaker 3: critical of him, which was.
- 25:43Speaker 6: Such a dumb move, because you're doubling down on these
- 25:47Speaker 6: accusations of people saying you are so out of touch
- 25:50Speaker 6: with the everyday person, and then you.
- 25:52Speaker 5: Go on radio the next day to be like.
- 25:55Speaker 6: I can't believe they think I'm out of touch, just
- 25:58Speaker 6: admit fold button. But if you're worried about Joe Rogan,
- 26:02Speaker 6: don't be. He tweeted today news of little Kim Williams
- 26:06Speaker 6: yacking these terrible remarks about him. Loll what that's how
- 26:12Speaker 6: much he cares. Lol, by the way means laugh out loud.
- 26:16Speaker 6: This is Joe's way of saying, I couldn't give a
- 26:19Speaker 6: rip mate and Elon Musk and also, incredibly, these are
- 26:24Speaker 6: probably the two of the most famous men on the
- 26:28Speaker 6: planet right now. Elon Musk then tweeted from the head
- 26:32Speaker 6: of Australian government media, they're Pravda. Pravda of course being
- 26:37Speaker 6: the Russian newspaper that was the official mouthpiece of the
- 26:42Speaker 6: Soviet Communist Party in Russia for.
- 26:44Speaker 5: Sixty nine years.
- 26:47Speaker 1: Kim Williams.
- 26:49Speaker 6: There was also other people laughing at Kim Williams on
- 26:52Speaker 6: social media today.
- 26:53Speaker 5: One of my favorites came from milk.
- 26:56Speaker 6: Bar TV, who said, oh, yes, well, Kim Williams. Joe
- 27:00Speaker 6: Rogan is so upholesev. I heard that he docted wartime
- 27:05Speaker 6: footage to make our.
- 27:07Speaker 5: Guys, our soldiers, Australian soldiers.
- 27:10Speaker 6: Look like they were committing war crimes. Overseas when they
- 27:13Speaker 6: really weren't. Oh whoops, Kim Williams, that was your lot, that.
- 27:17Speaker 5: Was the ABC. It really gets my goat Joe when
- 27:22Speaker 5: these tiny, tiny men.
- 27:25Speaker 6: Yap at the heels of titans, because when we're talking
- 27:28Speaker 6: about Joe Rogan, we're.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Talking about that's how I feel like has al.
- 27:30Speaker 6: Those twenty million subscribers on YouTube, almost fifteen million subscribers
- 27:37Speaker 6: on Spotify. Every single one of his episodes gets at
- 27:41Speaker 6: least eleven million eyeballs on it his podcast, Yes, and
- 27:46Speaker 6: then you've got Kim Williams being like he's just malevolent,
- 27:50Speaker 6: He's disgusting, and you're like, mate, like, what is going
- 27:55Speaker 6: on upstairs?
- 27:57Speaker 1: Well, I don't think this is the thing. Yeah, it
- 27:59Speaker 1: is high the ironic there's a home. All these people
- 28:03Speaker 1: calling me out of touch took me completely by surprise.
- 28:08Speaker 1: But I don't think I like Kim Williams. He was
- 28:10Speaker 1: a former CEO at News Corps and so it's strange
- 28:14Speaker 1: to see that's usually the sort of accusation that he's
- 28:17Speaker 1: making about Joe Rogan. That's the sort of thing that
- 28:19Speaker 1: people often say about Rupert Murdock can use him. This
- 28:22Speaker 1: is this man who's controlling everything, and he's ironically, I think,
- 28:26Speaker 1: falling for the same line that you know that people
- 28:29Speaker 1: aren't actually sentient beings that decide for themselves what they
- 28:34Speaker 1: want to read or watch or listen to, and that
- 28:36Speaker 1: they don't think for themselves and know what they like
- 28:38Speaker 1: and what they don't like, and what they believe and
- 28:41Speaker 1: don't believe. They're just somehow kind of formless blobs that
- 28:45Speaker 1: get molded into clo or agents of evil by these
- 28:51Speaker 1: evil sort of media proprietors or media performers, these puppet masters,
- 28:56Speaker 1: who tell them what to think because of course they're
- 28:58Speaker 1: so sluggish and dim witted and slow minded themselves they
- 29:01Speaker 1: couldn't possibly they couldn't possibly think for themselves. And it
- 29:05Speaker 1: is really interesting. I don't think Kim is doing it deliberately,
- 29:08Speaker 1: and clearly he hasn't realized clearly, I mean self evidently
- 29:12Speaker 1: he hasn't actually listened to much, if any, of Joe
- 29:15Speaker 1: Rogan podcast. And that's fair enough because they're about three
- 29:17Speaker 1: hours long, right, But you know, Joe Rogan, we're talking
- 29:20Speaker 1: about this still marijuana. Joe Rogan to Stoner. Joe Rogan
- 29:23Speaker 1: sits around with his mates, some of whom happened to
- 29:26Speaker 1: be billionaires or the most the rich and famous, and
- 29:28Speaker 1: they just they just shoot the ship. They just talk
- 29:30Speaker 1: about whatever, and so they go down all these rabbit
- 29:32Speaker 1: holes and people call them conspiracy theories or whatever. Oh
- 29:35Speaker 1: my god, that's dangerous, but none of it's actually malevolent.
- 29:38Speaker 1: They're just they're just sitting there kind of Isn't.
- 29:40Speaker 3: That why people like Kim Williams, who are in charge
- 29:44Speaker 3: of you know what they call the legacy media organizations,
- 29:47Speaker 3: are so offended by the very presence of Joe Rogan
- 29:50Speaker 3: on the media landscape because he's got this huge audience.
- 29:54Speaker 3: I feel on his qualifications. He used to be involved
- 29:56Speaker 3: in World Federation wrestling. It's like, who's this guy? Usc, Yeah,
- 30:01Speaker 3: World Federation?
- 30:01Speaker 1: That was Donald Trump, sorry as it was.
- 30:05Speaker 2: You've got Kim Williams.
- 30:05Speaker 3: He's got a one point something billion dollar but obviously
- 30:10Speaker 3: very traditional.
- 30:11Speaker 1: He's a classical penist, I believe, and then he was
- 30:13Speaker 1: in charge of Fox Tail. I did a great job
- 30:15Speaker 1: here in the news court and stuff. But again I
- 30:17Speaker 1: think you're just looking at something else and you don't
- 30:20Speaker 1: understand it, and you think, oh my god, this is terrifying.
- 30:23Speaker 3: So rather than colonize, maybe try and learn something it
- 30:26Speaker 3: might help the ABC with ratings, although he also said
- 30:28Speaker 3: in that address that ratings don't really matter.
- 30:31Speaker 2: That The irony, of course is, isn't it.
- 30:33Speaker 6: Yeah, because your taxpayer funded, you don't have to deliver
- 30:36Speaker 6: on any KPIs, you won't get the boot. We're used
- 30:39Speaker 6: to the ABC sucking, so you keep that up while
- 30:43Speaker 6: sucking up one point two billion dollars worth of taxpayer
- 30:46Speaker 6: money and asking for more, which he also did at
- 30:49Speaker 6: the Press Club yesterday.
- 30:51Speaker 5: How pathetic.
- 30:54Speaker 2: Exactly so not a fan, not a fan, he wants
- 30:58Speaker 2: more money.
- 30:58Speaker 3: I tell you what who when I'm a fan of either,
- 31:01Speaker 3: and that is Senator Lydia Thorpe.
- 31:03Speaker 2: But we better talk.
- 31:04Speaker 3: About her antics in the Senate because of course they've
- 31:07Speaker 3: made headlines, oh the country. She was, of course suspended
- 31:12Speaker 3: for a couple of days because she tore into pieces
- 31:16Speaker 3: a Senate motion, threw it into Pauline Hanson's face, and
- 31:19Speaker 3: then flicked Senator Hanson the bird as she left the chamber.
- 31:23Speaker 3: So suspended for a couple of days, but she'd only
- 31:25Speaker 3: been suspended for five minutes before already the talk was
- 31:29Speaker 3: do we think she'll stay away or will she violate
- 31:32Speaker 3: the suspension and indeed, as predicted, she did. She appeared
- 31:36Speaker 3: in the press gallery. And here's what happened.
- 31:40Speaker 5: Ray Palist I called a clerk.
- 31:46Speaker 2: I called a clerk.
- 31:49Speaker 3: Now, she was suspended from the Chambert because she was
- 31:52Speaker 3: accusing Pauline Hansen of racism.
- 31:54Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a moment. But then she
- 31:56Speaker 2: comes back.
- 31:57Speaker 3: In the day of her first suspension and she's yelling
- 32:01Speaker 3: for Palestine.
- 32:02Speaker 6: What on earth doesn't exactly a peck acause lady.
- 32:08Speaker 1: What comes? It's like when brain damage. People just want
- 32:11Speaker 1: to make a noise. They just want to make her sound,
- 32:15Speaker 1: but they don't actually know what to say. They don't
- 32:17Speaker 1: have anything to say. No, but she is that she's
- 32:19Speaker 1: clearly impaired, and so she just starts chanting, I don't
- 32:22Speaker 1: want free Palestine.
- 32:24Speaker 2: This is a crazy thing.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Like they put security guards, I believe reading the media
- 32:29Speaker 3: reports today at the doors of the Senate chamber. Yeah,
- 32:31Speaker 3: we'll try to prevent her use of them. You've got
- 32:35Speaker 3: a senator who needs to be She.
- 32:38Speaker 6: Got into the press gallery anyway, So I'm like, seriously,
- 32:42Speaker 6: were you not paying attention yesterday when she was suspended
- 32:45Speaker 6: and you just let her in the doors or where
- 32:47Speaker 6: You're like oh well, the press gallery isn't exactly the chamber,
- 32:50Speaker 6: although it is in the.
- 32:51Speaker 5: Exact same room.
- 32:53Speaker 6: But of course she made even her suspension about the
- 32:57Speaker 6: fact the Parliament was just being racist and treating her
- 33:01Speaker 6: like a naughty little black girl.
- 33:04Speaker 11: It seems like there's one rule for white people who
- 33:09Speaker 11: get away with racism, and there's one rule for us
- 33:12Speaker 11: when we call that out, we're the ones that are
- 33:15Speaker 11: the naughty little black girl.
- 33:18Speaker 6: Again, she really seemed to have a theme during this address,
- 33:24Speaker 6: the first of its kind following her suspension.
- 33:27Speaker 5: See if you can pick up on what that theme
- 33:29Speaker 5: might have been.
- 33:31Speaker 11: You know, I'll do what it takes to stamp out racism.
- 33:34Speaker 11: We need to stand up to racism, inquiry into racism,
- 33:39Speaker 11: in stamping out racism, anti racism, training, discussing racism.
- 33:45Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll get right on that. Love. I mean that interview, she.
- 33:49Speaker 3: Spoke for four minutes and thirty seconds. She used the
- 33:52Speaker 3: word racism or racist seventeen times, which is once every
- 33:56Speaker 3: fifteen seconds. And this is all because Senator Pauline Hansen
- 34:01Speaker 3: dared to ask a question about the eligibility of fatima
- 34:04Speaker 3: payment because she's got dual citizenship. The same question that
- 34:09Speaker 3: was asked of Barnaby Joyce. This is what the time ago.
- 34:12Speaker 2: It's not racists what I'm saying. Someone is eligible based
- 34:16Speaker 2: on their capacity.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Like she's she is not functional, She's she's clearly not
- 34:23Speaker 1: a functioning human being. I honestly, I'm not the first
- 34:26Speaker 1: person to raise concerns about her the status of her mind.
- 34:32Speaker 1: She's like, she's either I mean, I'm pretty crazy myself,
- 34:34Speaker 1: I being too kind, Maybe I am maybe I'm being kind.
- 34:37Speaker 2: She is exactly what she's doing.
- 34:39Speaker 1: How many, like, how many other indigenous senators felt the
- 34:41Speaker 1: need to rip up bits of paper and flip.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Many Indigenous senators?
- 34:46Speaker 1: How many non indigenous? How many? How many white senators
- 34:49Speaker 1: ripped up some emotion someone else's motion, flipped the bird
- 34:53Speaker 1: to the other senators in the chamber and had no
- 34:56Speaker 1: action taken against them. So where the double like? And
- 35:01Speaker 1: she's manufacturing this double standard? And again it is like
- 35:04Speaker 1: that there is there is some form of malfunction in
- 35:07Speaker 1: the brain seeing things that are not there. It might yeah,
- 35:11Speaker 1: it might be like borderline personality disorder. It might be
- 35:14Speaker 1: delusions of grandeur. But there is something just so wrong.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Why is she not completely disowned by all the key
- 35:22Speaker 3: Indigenous voices in this country and in the parliament. That's
- 35:25Speaker 3: the question I always ask, where are all the Indigenous
- 35:27Speaker 3: people saying this woman does not represent us?
- 35:29Speaker 2: She did as a scrap.
- 35:34Speaker 1: Extremist activists of her ilk who are again completely and
- 35:37Speaker 1: utterly deluded, who who want a revolution or a civil
- 35:42Speaker 1: war or just love I just love the chance, you know,
- 35:44Speaker 1: they just rock. I'm here for the chance. And those
- 35:47Speaker 1: sorts of people will end up backing her in or
- 35:49Speaker 1: just not saying anything. And then I think there are
- 35:51Speaker 1: other people who have come out and said she's an embarrassment.
- 35:54Speaker 1: She's an embarrassment to indigenous scores. She helped sink the voice,
- 35:57Speaker 1: which I.
- 35:58Speaker 3: Think she's useful to the call because she's so extreme.
- 36:02Speaker 2: She makes other requests seem reason.
- 36:09Speaker 1: To the conservative cause because they look at her, she's
- 36:13Speaker 1: what all activists look like, and in many cases they're
- 36:15Speaker 1: not wrong.
- 36:16Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break.
- 36:17Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll look at what's making news tomorrow,
- 36:19Speaker 3: including a new South Wales school slammed after students were
- 36:23Speaker 3: asked sexually explicit questions in the classroom.
- 36:26Speaker 2: That's coming up in a moment. Welcome back.
- 36:31Speaker 3: Let's take a look at What's Making News tomorrow. We'll
- 36:33Speaker 3: start with a really disturbing story in the Newcastle Herald.
- 36:37Speaker 3: The headline reads porn fan fiction, sex ed material in spotlight.
- 36:43Speaker 3: Another story of students at school being exposed to sexually
- 36:47Speaker 3: explicit material without their parents' knowledge, let alone consent. A
- 36:51Speaker 3: Hunter School is under fire over its choice of material
- 36:55Speaker 3: to help teach sex health in the classroom.
- 36:58Speaker 1: Now.
- 36:59Speaker 3: The book contained questions asking kids to brainstorm listing as
- 37:05Speaker 3: many sex acts as they could possibly think of, and
- 37:10Speaker 3: then after that they were asked to list the sex
- 37:13Speaker 3: acts they look forward to trying, the ones they're not
- 37:17Speaker 3: sure about, and the ones that they definitely don't want
- 37:20Speaker 3: to do. So, just to be clear, the kids were
- 37:23Speaker 3: put into groups. They had to brainstorm what sex actually
- 37:27Speaker 3: aware of, what would you like to try? And then
- 37:30Speaker 3: there was discussion. Parents, of course, are outraged because they
- 37:34Speaker 3: didn't know this was happening, They certainly didn't give consent
- 37:37Speaker 3: for it, and.
- 37:39Speaker 2: The school was slow to respond.
- 37:43Speaker 3: It begs the question what happens to teachers who have
- 37:47Speaker 3: these kinds of discussions in the classroom without parents consent?
- 37:51Speaker 3: Because if I had that discussion with some kid at
- 37:53Speaker 3: a shopping center, it would be hell to pay. And
- 37:57Speaker 3: it's before the police were called. You stand in a
- 38:00Speaker 3: classroom at a public school. This wasn't a public school.
- 38:03Speaker 3: This is a private school, I should say, and somehow
- 38:05Speaker 3: it Yeah.
- 38:06Speaker 1: Even with public schools and private schools, the problem always
- 38:09Speaker 1: seems to be is they get these people in from outside,
- 38:11Speaker 1: these experts in, and they tend to be the one
- 38:15Speaker 1: within the actual school.
- 38:17Speaker 2: You still have a duty of kids.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Absolutely acutely right, and the school absolutely is responsible. But
- 38:23Speaker 1: this seems to be the problem that is happening is
- 38:25Speaker 1: but where they're getting these people from outside and then
- 38:27Speaker 1: they're coming in with all these crazy whackamami ideas. I mean,
- 38:30Speaker 1: if you know, if you want someone to talk about
- 38:33Speaker 1: all the sex they don't want to have, just get
- 38:34Speaker 1: my wife to come in there and have talk to
- 38:36Speaker 1: the kids.
- 38:36Speaker 5: But this is utterly disgusting.
- 38:39Speaker 6: I mean, year ten, so these kids are what fifteen
- 38:43Speaker 6: years old?
- 38:44Speaker 5: Fifteen years old. You can't even legally have.
- 38:47Speaker 6: Sex at fifteen years old, So what are you doing
- 38:51Speaker 6: inspiring them with all these different sex acts and getting
- 38:55Speaker 6: them to basically rate them in order of the ones
- 38:58Speaker 6: that they want to try.
- 38:59Speaker 5: We've got pedophiles in the school. Room here. No, seriously, who.
- 39:03Speaker 6: What adult in their right mind thinks this is appropriate
- 39:07Speaker 6: when it's just you the teacher in the room and
- 39:10Speaker 6: a pile of students And what's really galling about this is.
- 39:13Speaker 5: His The response from the school.
- 39:15Speaker 6: Hunter Valley Grammar School principal Rebecca Butterworth says the material
- 39:20Speaker 6: in the workbook is.
- 39:21Speaker 5: Aligned with age appropriate lessons.
- 39:25Speaker 6: Okay Butterworth, let's see your head roll next, because that's
- 39:30Speaker 6: not true and the parents certainly don't agree with you. God,
- 39:34Speaker 6: i'd be ropable to the front page of the Australian
- 39:37Speaker 6: Now SeaBus scandal. I'm so sorry, says Swanen. This is
- 39:43Speaker 6: the death payment saga. You will recall, SeaBus chairman, when
- 39:47Speaker 6: Swann has apologized unreservedly for the excessive delay in paying
- 39:53Speaker 6: millions in payments to grieving families and disabled people in
- 39:57Speaker 6: an extraordinary address to the ninety four billion dollars superannuation giants.
- 40:03Speaker 5: And you will.
- 40:04Speaker 6: Meeting this of course, as the article goes on to say,
- 40:08Speaker 6: and I will speculate this is why.
- 40:10Speaker 5: He's saying sorry now.
- 40:12Speaker 6: It's as he faces questioning in Parliament on Friday over
- 40:16Speaker 6: the ten thousand SeaBus members and claimants whose death and
- 40:19Speaker 6: disability insurance claims we're delaid for twelve.
- 40:22Speaker 5: Months or more.
- 40:23Speaker 6: Mister Swan apologized for the fund's latest scandal, but stood
- 40:27Speaker 6: by a raft of new board members source from the
- 40:30Speaker 6: controversial CFFMEU, Well, I'm sure they'll be better than the
- 40:34Speaker 6: last ones who came from the same source.
- 40:37Speaker 5: But sure, Okay.
- 40:39Speaker 3: What made me laugh about this article is it says
- 40:41Speaker 3: the apology was mister Swan's strongest statement yet on the
- 40:45Speaker 3: death three payments saga, and I thought, sorry, it would
- 40:48Speaker 3: have been the first thing you would say, the strongest yet.
- 40:51Speaker 1: Do you remember last night we talked about how to
- 40:54Speaker 1: handle a crisis? Peter mallanows, because yes, you're absolutely right.
- 40:58Speaker 1: It is absolutely terrible and we're not going to do
- 40:59Speaker 1: it and be the head of Jaguar saying what do
- 41:03Speaker 1: you mean This ad with no cars and all these
- 41:05Speaker 1: gender neutral, weird people with strange kind of hair is
- 41:09Speaker 1: a good idea. We think it's genius. But again, this
- 41:13Speaker 1: has been on the front page of The Eyes for
- 41:14Speaker 1: a week now or thereabouts. And Wayne Swine, you would
- 41:18Speaker 1: think with someone who had the nouse of a former treasurer,
- 41:21Speaker 1: a very well seasoned politician or you know, elbowed his
- 41:25Speaker 1: way up through the Labor Party in the awe what
- 41:29Speaker 1: and could have you know, you could have just nipped
- 41:31Speaker 1: this in the bud on day one. You still have
- 41:33Speaker 1: the same thing. You still have to make your unreserved apology.
- 41:36Speaker 1: And so yeah, you haven't actually won any kind of
- 41:39Speaker 1: political skin. You haven't say any political skin. All you've
- 41:41Speaker 1: done is given yourself a week of hell that you
- 41:44Speaker 1: didn't need. I just find it very strange he didn't
- 41:46Speaker 1: just come out straight away yet. Absolutely we're going to
- 41:49Speaker 1: you know, root and branch review to make sure this
- 41:51Speaker 1: never happens again.
- 41:52Speaker 6: Ter At this point those affected would be like, mate,
- 41:55Speaker 6: you can stuff your apology.
- 41:56Speaker 5: It took you this long for a simple sorry.
- 41:59Speaker 1: The apology didn't not take as long as the death
- 42:02Speaker 1: payments did to drive to the greeting families. How's that
- 42:05Speaker 1: going from?
- 42:07Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, If that's what we're trying for to
- 42:09Speaker 6: talk him back up, it's.
- 42:11Speaker 5: A low bar.
- 42:12Speaker 6: Also on the front page of the Oars, a rock
- 42:14Speaker 6: shock Parts Parts boss goes Hope climbs the Allen government's
- 42:19Speaker 6: destruction of the state's globally significant rock climbing industry over
- 42:24Speaker 6: cultural Heritage Bands has cost the Parts Victoria boss his
- 42:27Speaker 6: job and forced an independent review into the organization's failures
- 42:32Speaker 6: and future. For five years, Parks Victoria chief executive Matthew
- 42:36Speaker 6: Jackson rubber stamped a secretive process that destroyed Victoria's reputation
- 42:42Speaker 6: as a world destination for rock climbing and pitted First
- 42:45Speaker 6: Nations people against outdoors enthusiasts.
- 42:49Speaker 5: Now the Environment Minister.
- 42:52Speaker 6: Steve Demopolis is acting all embarrassed over this, but I
- 42:56Speaker 6: don't buy that for a second. This is exactly the
- 43:01Speaker 6: kind of move that this Victorian government would have rubber
- 43:05Speaker 6: stamped themselves had it been up to them.
- 43:08Speaker 5: Let's not kid ourselves.
- 43:09Speaker 1: If it had it worked out, they would have been
- 43:11Speaker 1: claiming complete responsibility for it. Exactly the fact that it
- 43:15Speaker 1: was a complete shambolet disaster leads its blank and you
- 43:19Speaker 1: know it doesn't even notice the bullet in the back
- 43:21Speaker 1: of his head as he's jumping to the sharks. Let's
- 43:23Speaker 1: get to the Townsville bulletin now, because this is, without
- 43:26Speaker 1: a doubt, my favorite story in the country. Yes, he's
- 43:30Speaker 1: back the mayor of Townsville, where he belongs on the
- 43:33Speaker 1: front page of the board. And when I say he's back.
- 43:38Speaker 2: Left there all along.
- 43:40Speaker 1: This is just a great one. So as we know,
- 43:43Speaker 1: we told you last night, this guy's is pulling in
- 43:45Speaker 1: more than seventy grand a year to do nothing, to
- 43:47Speaker 1: just be suspended while he's investigated for his various allegedly
- 43:53Speaker 1: misleading the allegedly misleading the voters and his counselors and
- 43:57Speaker 1: the council and the rate pay to everyone. But I
- 43:59Speaker 1: just have the headline here explosive spray over mayors paid
- 44:03Speaker 1: holiday falsifier must go. Doesn't that have a just a
- 44:08Speaker 1: great kind of tent pole Baptist evangelical zeal about it?
- 44:16Speaker 1: Command you leave this moder butter your evil leagion and brethren.
- 44:22Speaker 3: On the other side, the people demanding that the false,
- 44:28Speaker 3: the people demanding the falsified must go. In the tent
- 44:32Speaker 3: pentecostal meeting that you are reenacting is the state opposition,
- 44:36Speaker 3: which just a couple of weeks ago, were the state
- 44:38Speaker 3: government decided even Miles could have done this, his government
- 44:43Speaker 3: could have done a couple of weeks ago. Now you
- 44:46Speaker 3: guys should have sacked him rather than keeping him on
- 44:49Speaker 3: on paidgation.
- 44:53Speaker 1: Misleader.
- 44:54Speaker 3: And on that note, we go to a break.
- 45:01Speaker 2: But when we come back.
- 45:02Speaker 3: A person investigated by the police for a hate crime
- 45:07Speaker 3: and what did they do played a Bob Marley record.
- 45:10Speaker 2: It's coming up in a moment.
- 45:14Speaker 3: Just when you thought the British police couldn't get any
- 45:16Speaker 3: more ridiculous with their investigation of hate crimes, it gets
- 45:20Speaker 3: more ridiculous. You remember last week we talked about a
- 45:23Speaker 3: couple of nine year olds who were investigated by police
- 45:26Speaker 3: after the school reported they were calling each other retard
- 45:28Speaker 3: in the playground. Another kid was investigated when she said
- 45:31Speaker 3: that her friend smelt like fish. Police were called to
- 45:35Speaker 3: investigate at the primary school. Well, it gets even more
- 45:39Speaker 3: ridiculous than that. Can you believe it? Two neighbors had
- 45:43Speaker 3: been at each other for quite a while, squabbling over
- 45:47Speaker 3: things that neighbors squabble over.
- 45:48Speaker 2: One was white, one was black.
- 45:51Speaker 3: Well, the white neighbor decided to play some reggae music,
- 45:54Speaker 3: some Bob Marley music. The black neighbor took a fence,
- 45:58Speaker 3: saying the only reason the white neighbor was playing Bob
- 46:00Speaker 3: Marley was to mock her for the fact that she
- 46:04Speaker 3: was black.
- 46:05Speaker 2: She called the police.
- 46:06Speaker 3: The police arrived at a big investigation and recorded a
- 46:10Speaker 3: non crime hate incident had been committed.
- 46:15Speaker 2: If you were going to taunt your.
- 46:16Speaker 3: Neighbor, the last thing you would play is Bob Marley,
- 46:19Speaker 3: because everyone knows when you play Bob Marley, everything's going
- 46:22Speaker 3: to be all right. Mocking your black neighbor, that's paying
- 46:39Speaker 3: tribute to black culture and black music, Bob Marley.
- 46:45Speaker 1: A white woman playing reggae, playing Bob Marley. If she
- 46:51Speaker 1: was really into reggae, she'd be playing Ub forty.
- 46:53Speaker 2: We both know exactly.
- 46:56Speaker 3: But this is this is just out of control where
- 46:59Speaker 3: you now have to double guess what CD am I
- 47:01Speaker 3: going to put on?
- 47:02Speaker 2: What track on Spotify?
- 47:04Speaker 3: Am I going to select them? Will it offend someone?
- 47:06Speaker 3: And we will end up with the police off.
- 47:07Speaker 6: The worst part of it is the police actually came
- 47:10Speaker 6: instead of laughing this woman off the line and did
- 47:13Speaker 6: indeed record a non crime hate incident. Yes that is
- 47:19Speaker 6: literally the technical term over there, they call it a NCCHI.
- 47:24Speaker 5: Yeah, what so there's been no crime, but there has been.
- 47:27Speaker 6: Some hate, but that hate isn't breaking any laws whatever.
- 47:31Speaker 5: To a really cool story.
- 47:33Speaker 6: Now in Tibet, a worker really tired goes to bed.
- 47:38Speaker 6: Guess what the CCTV camera capture. This guy is out
- 47:42Speaker 6: like a light when a bear just ambles in to
- 47:47Speaker 6: his obviously very tight space.
- 47:49Speaker 5: Here.
- 47:50Speaker 6: The worker wakes up, realizes what's going on, does a
- 47:55Speaker 6: little scoochlett to get out of here, grabs his phone
- 47:59Speaker 6: first because you know, hashtag priorities, and sprints out of
- 48:03Speaker 6: the room.
- 48:04Speaker 5: The ban doesn't seem to care that he's there at all.
- 48:07Speaker 1: That that super Tibetan shop worker startled by bear. That's
- 48:11Speaker 1: incredibly offensive. He's not startled at all. He's cool as
- 48:13Speaker 1: it's like I'm not again. It's almost like his phone.
- 48:23Speaker 5: There's no startled.
- 48:25Speaker 2: Yeah, Canada very very well kept his cool, got his phone.
- 48:31Speaker 2: That's all.
- 48:31Speaker 3: We got time for tonight, but don't go anywhere. Coming
- 48:34Speaker 3: up in just a moment is three dependent.
- 48:36Speaker 2: He show