WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 5 March 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.840 Welcome to the Wait to Pay. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:06.760 Well. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.119 Good evening and thanks for joining us. I'm James Macpherson 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.879 with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond. Coming up tonight, the 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.760 critics of panned Megan Markel's latest Netflix series. We'll give 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.400 you our thoughts a little later. Plus, when we look 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.759 at what's making news tomorrow, the Albenze government promises to 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.000 increase defense spending on the advice of Donald Trump, and 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.960 an indigenous group paid one hundred and twenty five thousand 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.839 dollars in taxpayer money to make tools out of a 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.080 tree that had to be removed from a property that 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.879 was going to be developed. All of that when we 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.440 look at the papers tomorrow. But first, with a cyclone 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.720 bearing down on Southeast Queensland, you'd think the government would 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.640 do everything they possibly can to keep people safe, and 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.440 they claim that they are. Anthony Albenezi right now is 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.080 in Brisbane, proving just how much the government cares, but 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.600 claims that the government will do everything it can to 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.560 protect life and property. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.280 Ring a little hollow when. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:09.080 You realize a disaster emergency text messaging system announced in 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.640 twenty twenty three and promised to be operational last year 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.760 is still on well the government's to do list. The 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.800 mass Text Messaging program would allow the government to send 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.160 important messages to every person within a specified area, no 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.760 matter what phone company they are with. And this is 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.920 really important because last time there was a big disaster 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.760 in Brisbane back in twenty twenty two, massive flooding, the 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.360 government sent text messages warning people of rising floodwaters and 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:44.120 some of those texts reached people twelve hours after the 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:48.360 flooding occurred. So this new system is pretty important. In fact, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.160 when Michelle Rowlands, the Communications Minister, announced it back in 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.080 May of twenty twenty three, she said, and I quote 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.760 the first priority of any government is to keep Australian 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:03.200 safe and defective communications are crucial to that. So it 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.280 was crucial that this system being developed. It was promised 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.400 in twenty twenty three, ten point one million dollars set 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.360 aside to make it happen. We were told it would 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.040 be operational in twenty twenty four, and here we are 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.959 now in March twenty twenty five with a cyclone bearing 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.480 down on Brisbane and this crucial bit of communications infrastructure 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.200 the government just haven't quite got around to doing it yet. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.839 But don't worry Anthony Albanezi is in Brisbane every opportunity 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.840 he gets, telling everybody how much the government cares and 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.040 how they'll do whatever it takes to help residents. Caleb, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.160 these guys can't even organize a text message. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.520 I mean, you know, normally I'd say you can't organize 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.400 a route in a brothel, and that's a pretty low bar. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.760 This mob can't even organize a text message. How hard 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.960 can it be? I mean the police already do this 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.960 kind of thing right now. I didn't know that it 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.880 depended on what to provider you were with. Often, you know, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.960 you'll get a text message it says such and such 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.960 as been missing since yesterday. If you've seen them, contact police. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.840 And I always thought that worked by they send the 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.280 signal out from a phone tower and every phone that 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.240 pings against that phone tower gets the text message. I 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.600 don't know why this operation can't be exactly the same. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.200 But if you set money aside in twenty twenty three 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.280 and in twenty twenty five, you can't deliver it. I mean, 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.880 these people are governing us. How can we trust them 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.480 to do anything if they can't get something as I 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.079 would have thought, as simple as a system to send 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.160 an emergency text message out to someone. But wonder what 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.120 kind of content would be in these messages, right, And 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.000 I've got to thank one of our viewers, Steve Walkinshaw, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.080 who emailed this through to me. He was looking he's 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.680 up in Queensland and he was taking a look on 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.760 the Bureau of Meteorology today to see what he should 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.760 do in the event of the cyclone hitting him. And 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.160 if you go through their official warning there, it's got 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.840 all this business or show it here on the screen 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.080 about you know, if you're in this zone, you should 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.360 do this and get ready and put your gear inside. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.400 Read down a little bit. It says if you choose 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.120 to take shelter away from your home, stay COVID nineteen 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.160 safe and pack a mask and hand sanitizer. I mean, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.880 for even's sake, can you imagine all these people in 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.120 Brisbane and North New South Wales tonight worried that a 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.839 cyclone's about to hit them and they're all running around 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.240 the heath. Where's the mask, where's the hand sanitizer? What 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.200 am I going to do? 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:24.840 Like? 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.440 Seriously, this is the advice that the Fear of Meteorology 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.320 is giving out to people. What is going on here? 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.240 To can't get a text messaging system, and the info 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.200 they do get out to you says you need a 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:36.920 mask of business. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.120 So don't be worried. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:43.479 About gale force winds, the storm flooding, flash flooding that 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.479 everyone's bracing themselves on. Don't be worried about your insurance 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.440 premium which is bound to shoot through the roof after 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.240 There's all the experts. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.760 Are warning us. Anyway, don't be worried about the uh. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.760 This massive cyclone headed toward your home, said to They 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.480 think wipe out at least twenty thousand homes. No, No, 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.840 make sure that you are COVID safe while you are 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.920 trying to ensure you're not going to lose your life 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.000 or an arm and a leg. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:15.599 Do us a favor. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.760 This is the government's priorities, and it's not just this 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.000 in which they are completely underprepared in terms of their 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:29.560 texting system. Brisbane Council, you thought they should have taken 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.080 some notes after those terrible floods of twenty twenty two, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.680 which I don't know about you, but it seems like yesterday. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.080 And yet despite knowing. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.920 That they ought to have at least one hundred and 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:48.600 fifty thousand sandbags ready to go. Four terrible natural disasters 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.040 like this, which aren't all that uncommon in Queensland, being 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:58.799 the tropics up there. They've had people queuing for four hours, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.760 over four hours, just trying to get their hands on 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.320 a few sand bags to prepare for what is going 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:10.600 to be the first cyclone in quite a while. Wildly underprepared, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.920 absolutely no excuse. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.400 For it, and Queenslanders. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.520 Have every right to be utterly outraged. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.760 Moral of the story. Never rely on government. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.599 We're always telling them to pull their heads in get 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.520 out of our lives. But when it comes to a 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.919 natural disaster, you want all the help you can get. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.560 This is their opportunity to shine, This is their opportunity 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.680 to remind us all why they exist, and they drop 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.680 the ball so catastrophically, And you're quite right. I was 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.720 thinking the same thing, Caleb, about the systems that are 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.560 already in place. When the government wants to send you 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.359 a text, you're getting one, whether you like it or not. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.479 You receive them from the police saying we're trying to 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:55.440 find Billy Bloggs. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.480 He's in your area. Have you seen him? Contact us 0:06:58.520 --> 0:06:58.960 if you have. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.839 I was in wa for Christmas and there was some 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.560 sort of they shut down streets in the suburbs that 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.960 we were having dinner in and we all got a 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.760 text then to say, look there's been some sort of 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.880 domestic I think a firearm was involved. It was quite 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.400 serious and we've shut down all these streets. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.480 Do not go anywhere near it, etc. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.920 Why on earth in a situation like this, can you not, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.000 as the government, flex and make that happen. I don't 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.760 believe that it's not possible. I don't believe that ten 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.960 million dollars has. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.920 To be spent. You're the government. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.080 We can't even get a toll rebate without giving you 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.000 our passports, a urine sample, our fingerprints. And you mean 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.720 to tell me in a natural disaster you've lost our 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.760 mobile numbers. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:45.360 What a fun. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.600 The technology is completely available. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.560 Other countries have the technology to be able to override 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:55.000 phone company systems to deliver straight to people instant messages. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.840 It's just that they haven't got around to it yet. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.440 No, that's right. And while people are trying to find 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.000 the text message, they'll also be looking for the hand sanitizer, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.920 because of course that's so important. While we're talking about 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.680 governments spending money not so wisely take a look at this. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:14.200 In New South Wales. Seven hundred days ago today, the 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.200 state government, the Men's government, commissioned a report into the 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.800 toll system in New South Wales. We've got Allen Fells, 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.280 who used to run the A Triple C to go 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.000 and run the ruler over the system and work out 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.960 how better things could be delivered for motorists on the 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.880 road and how to get discounts. All this sort of 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.200 business right, that cost millions and millions of dollars, and 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.960 we find out today that it's costing even more two 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.040 point seven five million dollars of legal advice in just 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.000 five months alone. That comes out to one hundred and 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.319 thirty thousand dollars a week, seven hundred days on from 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.679 when they commissioned this bloody thing. This is in the 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.079 Daily Telegraph today. Former Baker McKenzie chair Christopher Sason has 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.480 been engaged on a nine hundred nuns ninety thousand dollar 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.600 contract to give negotiation, strategy and advice on overhauling the 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.560 tolling system. That's on top of the money they've already 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.440 spent on the report, mind you, that comes on top 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.640 of the two hundred and sorry two point seventy five 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.800 million the government is paying for legal advice between February 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.640 five and June thirty this year, which is in addition 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.040 to the five point four million dollars already spent on 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.000 mister Fell's toll review, which included one hundred and forty 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.160 five thousand dollars in flights and accommodation for the reviews 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.200 to authors. So you'd get a bloke in to draw 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.280 up this report and tell you how the system can 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.800 be made better and how we can all save money. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.960 Meanwhile he's spending a lot of money, five point four million. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:43.240 Dollars of it. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.199 And when he was employed, his job was to then 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.000 negotiate with the tolling companies. But now they've got him 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.680 off the job and they put some other bloke on 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.200 the job on a million dollars a year to negotiate 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.760 with the tolling companies. Then two point seventy five million 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.640 dollars in legal fees. We will be paying tolls for 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.000 fifty years to pay for the review into the tolling system. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.200 For heaven's sake, they said, Allen Fells, who was on 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.280 a huge amount of money, he got them to the 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.000 negotiating table, and that required a skill in and of itself. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.960 And now this new guy Saxon, he will actually take 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.360 over from there and do the negotiation, though Allen Fells, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.640 according to the article, continues to be on the payroll. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.200 I like the Transport Minister John Graham in New South 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.199 Wales who rationalized the huge amount of money that's been 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.600 spent over the last seven hundred days on consulting. He 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.800 said the cost of the reform, And I love it 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.920 how they always call it a reform. Oh yes, the 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.520 cost of the reform is infinitely smaller than the one 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.400 hundred and ninety five billion dollars in tolls we paid 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.040 between now and twenty sixty. Well, in that case, spend 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.280 thirty billion dollars on the consultancy. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:45.680 Spend one hundred billion. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.960 It's still cheaper than the one hundred and ninety five 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.080 billion in tolls. That sort of logic is just ridiculous. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.199 No one buys that. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.200 But I mean, and I know we talked about this 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.520 when had happened, but it still gets me that you 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.720 had just been one hundred and forty five thousand dollars 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.120 in flights and accommodation and to look at tolls like 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:03.600 what was Alan Phil's just so. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:04.800 He couldn't afford to drive. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.840 He was tearing live, just tearing around the world looking 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.200 at toll roads, going hmm, yeah, I must check. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.000 I must go to Russia or wherever it. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.160 Is, I must go and look over there their toll 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.640 system to make sure that there's not a certain thing 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.400 they're doing over there that we could be doing here to. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:22.840 Make it better. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.640 Can you spend one hundred and forty five grand looking 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.400 at toll roads for him? And say, I mean, you 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.360 know there are train spotters right who sit around and 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.200 they love watching the train and go past and all 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.640 the tracks. I'm sure there are people out there who 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.440 are obsessed with toll roads who could have done this 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.600 work for Zilch. Like if you told them you can 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.280 investigate toll systems around the world, there is someone out 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.600 there who would have been like, oh my god, I 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.760 am the man for the job, and I will do 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.640 it for nothing because he's obsessed with toll roads. I'm 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.800 sure they exist. Why didn't they get them on the job? 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.440 They ask any Sydney cider that gets that invoice emailed 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.199 to them every single month, always a hair raising amount. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.959 I hail from God's Country otherwise known as Western Australia, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.280 whereby in two thoyd and thirteen Premier Colin Barnett said 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.319 there will be no told. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.920 In a state that I laid. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.240 That isn't a direct quote, but that was his edict 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.120 and this is revelatory. The reason why he said there 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:28.760 will never be any tolls in WA was because people 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:34.960 pay taxes in the expectation that their governments will provide 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:40.480 proper transport systems. People already pay for car REGOs, their 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.720 license fees, petrol etc. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:43.760 And so on. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.199 If only Queensland at Victoria and New South Wales had 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.600 taken a leaf out of that man's book, I find 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.280 it utterly nonsensical, even though I've lived here for years now, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.680 that the taxpayer is already paid for the roads, and 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.280 the government at the time made a decision to instead 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.360 of just fitting the bill so that people could then 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.360 travel on the roads that they paid for for free, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.280 and then to fit the bill for any repairs that 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.680 need doing, etc. And so on, no, we've just got 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.880 to pay to keep using them in perpetuity. Because they 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.120 got into bed with some private firms who were like, mate, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.520 this will have us laugh and all the way to 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.520 the bag forever and these states just go well, screw 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.079 the people. They can keep on paying. It's a terrible 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.120 system to begin with. And now, by the way, if 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.200 you're in New South Wales, make sure you jump online 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.880 and get your forty percent rebate. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.920 It applies to last financial year, so you can get 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.600 hundreds back. You may not have heard of it. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.520 Jump online, get your money back, because this is day 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:53.840 light robbery. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.040 Doua did have the benefit of mining royalties that we 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.320 probably should point out in terms of how they get money. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.480 Paved the streets in gold in the Eastern States in 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:04.600 the form of our gin. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.040 You're going to go there, don't bug me. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.320 But I don't have better off. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.120 I do have some guys milk dost drive. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.320 I do have some sympathy because the M eight, which 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.560 I drive on reasonably frequently, though not at the moment, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.760 because my car is still at the workshop. It's been 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.440 there for more than a month. If you're my insurance company. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.360 Can you please get me the car back. Please? 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.800 But thet if you drive the entire length of it, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.680 is nearly twelve dollars now, and I thought, I thought, oh, 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.600 surely there must be a point where the toll company 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.960 has recouped the money that they have spent, plus interest 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.080 in their contribution to build the road, and so surely 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.600 after that point the toll disappears. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:46.760 No. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:47.640 I looked up. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.400 It's a forty year contract and over that forty years 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.400 the toll goes up every year on the first of January. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:56.480 So it's twelve dollars. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.000 Now by the end of that forty years, I'll be 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.000 paying forty bucks. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:01.480 I'm talking about. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.400 This is what the government signed you up to pay 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.720 in I say perpetuity. It's forty years. But fine, fine, okay, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.280 what government does that and just goes, oh yeah, the 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.960 people can just fit the bill. That is obviously not 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.360 a workable system for people who have to travel every 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.600 day to and from work and for whatever reason can't 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:25.240 use public transport. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.400 It's funny living in Sydney. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.800 When my son's twin nineteen year old boys got their 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.400 driver's licenses, they were so. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:31.880 Excited they got their cars. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.520 They're finally free, and you know, most of the time 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.520 these days they're on the Sydney Metro. When I ask 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.200 why is your car in the garage? Why you're on 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.440 public transport? You know what they say, not fuel, not red. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.400 Jo the tolls they just kill them and serve. There 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:46.040 you go, Liz. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.680 To the US now, where President Donald J. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.720 Trump has delivered his first address to a joint session 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:59.040 of Congress, creating a new record. Obviously, because it's the longest, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.680 beating Bill Clinton's State of the Union address back in 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.800 two thousand by quite a few minutes. All the speech 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.200 watches were keeping a sharp eye on that. Trump clocked 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.080 in at an hour and forty minutes. He's known for 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:17.000 his punch, not for his brevity, but the whole address 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:21.120 can be summed up very short and succinctly. It was 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.040 basically saying, America is back. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.880 Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:41.080 capital and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.920 From that moment dawn, there has been nothing but swift 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:49.280 and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.440 successful era in the history of our country. We have 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:59.680 accomplished more in forty three days, and most administrations accomplished 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.160 in four years or eight years, and we are just 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:04.879 getting started. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.359 He also took the opportunity, of course, to address the 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.440 issue of those tariffs that the Dems have been bashing 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.000 on about. He insists look, this is just tit for. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.919 Tat, and this is how we wild power. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:27.400 April second, reciprocal tariffs kick in, and whatever they tariff 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:32.640 us other countries, we will tariff them. That's reciprocal back 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:39.480 and forth. Whatever they tax us, we will tax them. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:40.840 If they do non. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:46.880 Monitory tariffs to keep us out of their market, then 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.000 we will do non monitory barriers to keep them out 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:51.719 of our market. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.080 And as he does, he fearlessly waded into the culture wars, 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.879 saying that under the Trump administration, the mutilation of Chu 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.240 in the name of the transagender ends. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.000 Now. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.919 I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.520 funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:14.400 of our youth. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:23.520 And now I. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:28.040 Want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.840 sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.159 any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.760 a big line. And our message to every child in 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.680 America is that you are perfect, exactly the way God 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:45.199 made you. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:49.040 Preage. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.440 Brother Vans and Johnson really got to work out standing 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.159 behind him for an hour and forty minutes, standing to 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:55.760 their face. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.439 They happen very two minutes of boxes up. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.760 I'm absolutely incredible, And of course we can't forget this 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.439 really heart warming moment where he took the time to 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:09.400 bestow the honor of becoming Secret Service to a very 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:10.760 unlikely recipient. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.800 Joining us at the gallery tonight is a young man 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:19.080 who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.959 He is thirteen years old and he has always dreamed 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:29.280 of becoming a police officer. DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.600 The doctors gave him five months at most to live. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.840 That was more than six years ago. We're going to 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.240 do you the biggest honor of them all. I am 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:46.160 asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Curran to officially 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.760 make you an agent of the United States Secret Service. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.960 Watching that kid's eyes light off as the people did 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.639 all around the world, just going house this for a 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:08.879 heartwarming moment. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:09.919 It was very wellful. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.199 It just shows you the power of leadership, doesn't it. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.080 I mean, he's only been in the Oval Office when 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.320 it was at forty three days, which is hardly any 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.800 time at all, and yet the whole tone of America 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.880 seems to have changed. Trump talks about the fact our 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.920 spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.639 Our momentum is back. And of course, unless you've got 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.399 Trump arrangement syndrome and you just hate everything he does, 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.080 the truth is America has changed massively in the last 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.000 forty three days. A certainly the perception of America has changed. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.679 And really the only thing that's changed is leadership. And 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.320 leadership is always the problem and it's always the answer. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.320 And you go from Joe Biden, who was a wet 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.119 lettus leaf in the Oval Office offered nothing, to a 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.200 man who actually knows what he wants to do, has 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.639 got a mandate to do it, despite the fact that 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.040 the Democrats are still protesting. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:57.560 He doesn't. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:01.840 In fact, five minutes into the speech, El Green, a Democrat, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.639 stood up and started yelling, you have no mandate to 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:05.600 do anything you're doing. 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:07.439 He was promptly ejected. 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.560 From the Capitol building. There he is there, pointing at Trump, 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.679