Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wait to Pay.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Good evening and thanks for joining us. I'm James Macpherson
Speaker 3: with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond. Coming up tonight, the
Speaker 3: critics of panned Megan Markel's latest Netflix series. We'll give
Speaker 3: you our thoughts a little later. Plus, when we look
Speaker 3: at what's making news tomorrow, the Albenze government promises to
Speaker 3: increase defense spending on the advice of Donald Trump, and
Speaker 3: an indigenous group paid one hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 3: dollars in taxpayer money to make tools out of a
Speaker 3: tree that had to be removed from a property that
Speaker 3: was going to be developed. All of that when we
Speaker 3: look at the papers tomorrow. But first, with a cyclone
Speaker 3: bearing down on Southeast Queensland, you'd think the government would
Speaker 3: do everything they possibly can to keep people safe, and
Speaker 3: they claim that they are. Anthony Albenezi right now is
Speaker 3: in Brisbane, proving just how much the government cares, but
Speaker 3: claims that the government will do everything it can to
Speaker 3: protect life and property.
Speaker 1: Ring a little hollow when.
Speaker 3: You realize a disaster emergency text messaging system announced in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three and promised to be operational last year
Speaker 3: is still on well the government's to do list. The
Speaker 3: mass Text Messaging program would allow the government to send
Speaker 3: important messages to every person within a specified area, no
Speaker 3: matter what phone company they are with. And this is
Speaker 3: really important because last time there was a big disaster
Speaker 3: in Brisbane back in twenty twenty two, massive flooding, the
Speaker 3: government sent text messages warning people of rising floodwaters and
Speaker 3: some of those texts reached people twelve hours after the
Speaker 3: flooding occurred. So this new system is pretty important. In fact,
Speaker 3: when Michelle Rowlands, the Communications Minister, announced it back in
Speaker 3: May of twenty twenty three, she said, and I quote
Speaker 3: the first priority of any government is to keep Australian
Speaker 3: safe and defective communications are crucial to that. So it
Speaker 3: was crucial that this system being developed. It was promised
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, ten point one million dollars set
Speaker 3: aside to make it happen. We were told it would
Speaker 3: be operational in twenty twenty four, and here we are
Speaker 3: now in March twenty twenty five with a cyclone bearing
Speaker 3: down on Brisbane and this crucial bit of communications infrastructure
Speaker 3: the government just haven't quite got around to doing it yet.
Speaker 3: But don't worry Anthony Albanezi is in Brisbane every opportunity
Speaker 3: he gets, telling everybody how much the government cares and
Speaker 3: how they'll do whatever it takes to help residents. Caleb,
Speaker 3: these guys can't even organize a text message.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, normally I'd say you can't organize
Speaker 2: a route in a brothel, and that's a pretty low bar.
Speaker 2: This mob can't even organize a text message. How hard
Speaker 2: can it be? I mean the police already do this
Speaker 2: kind of thing right now. I didn't know that it
Speaker 2: depended on what to provider you were with. Often, you know,
Speaker 2: you'll get a text message it says such and such
Speaker 2: as been missing since yesterday. If you've seen them, contact police.
Speaker 2: And I always thought that worked by they send the
Speaker 2: signal out from a phone tower and every phone that
Speaker 2: pings against that phone tower gets the text message. I
Speaker 2: don't know why this operation can't be exactly the same.
Speaker 2: But if you set money aside in twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty five, you can't deliver it. I mean,
Speaker 2: these people are governing us. How can we trust them
Speaker 2: to do anything if they can't get something as I
Speaker 2: would have thought, as simple as a system to send
Speaker 2: an emergency text message out to someone. But wonder what
Speaker 2: kind of content would be in these messages, right, And
Speaker 2: I've got to thank one of our viewers, Steve Walkinshaw,
Speaker 2: who emailed this through to me. He was looking he's
Speaker 2: up in Queensland and he was taking a look on
Speaker 2: the Bureau of Meteorology today to see what he should
Speaker 2: do in the event of the cyclone hitting him. And
Speaker 2: if you go through their official warning there, it's got
Speaker 2: all this business or show it here on the screen
Speaker 2: about you know, if you're in this zone, you should
Speaker 2: do this and get ready and put your gear inside.
Speaker 2: Read down a little bit. It says if you choose
Speaker 2: to take shelter away from your home, stay COVID nineteen
Speaker 2: safe and pack a mask and hand sanitizer. I mean,
Speaker 2: for even's sake, can you imagine all these people in
Speaker 2: Brisbane and North New South Wales tonight worried that a
Speaker 2: cyclone's about to hit them and they're all running around
Speaker 2: the heath. Where's the mask, where's the hand sanitizer? What
Speaker 2: am I going to do?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Seriously, this is the advice that the Fear of Meteorology
Speaker 2: is giving out to people. What is going on here?
Speaker 2: To can't get a text messaging system, and the info
Speaker 2: they do get out to you says you need a
Speaker 2: mask of business.
Speaker 5: So don't be worried.
Speaker 4: About gale force winds, the storm flooding, flash flooding that
Speaker 4: everyone's bracing themselves on. Don't be worried about your insurance
Speaker 4: premium which is bound to shoot through the roof after
Speaker 4: There's all the experts.
Speaker 5: Are warning us. Anyway, don't be worried about the uh.
Speaker 4: This massive cyclone headed toward your home, said to They
Speaker 4: think wipe out at least twenty thousand homes. No, No,
Speaker 4: make sure that you are COVID safe while you are
Speaker 4: trying to ensure you're not going to lose your life
Speaker 4: or an arm and a leg.
Speaker 5: Do us a favor.
Speaker 4: This is the government's priorities, and it's not just this
Speaker 4: in which they are completely underprepared in terms of their
Speaker 4: texting system. Brisbane Council, you thought they should have taken
Speaker 4: some notes after those terrible floods of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: which I don't know about you, but it seems like yesterday.
Speaker 5: And yet despite knowing.
Speaker 4: That they ought to have at least one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty thousand sandbags ready to go. Four terrible natural disasters
Speaker 4: like this, which aren't all that uncommon in Queensland, being
Speaker 4: the tropics up there. They've had people queuing for four hours,
Speaker 4: over four hours, just trying to get their hands on
Speaker 4: a few sand bags to prepare for what is going
Speaker 4: to be the first cyclone in quite a while. Wildly underprepared,
Speaker 4: absolutely no excuse.
Speaker 5: For it, and Queenslanders.
Speaker 4: Have every right to be utterly outraged.
Speaker 5: Moral of the story. Never rely on government.
Speaker 4: We're always telling them to pull their heads in get
Speaker 4: out of our lives. But when it comes to a
Speaker 4: natural disaster, you want all the help you can get.
Speaker 4: This is their opportunity to shine, This is their opportunity
Speaker 4: to remind us all why they exist, and they drop
Speaker 4: the ball so catastrophically, And you're quite right. I was
Speaker 4: thinking the same thing, Caleb, about the systems that are
Speaker 4: already in place. When the government wants to send you
Speaker 4: a text, you're getting one, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 4: You receive them from the police saying we're trying to
Speaker 4: find Billy Bloggs.
Speaker 5: He's in your area. Have you seen him? Contact us
Speaker 5: if you have.
Speaker 4: I was in wa for Christmas and there was some
Speaker 4: sort of they shut down streets in the suburbs that
Speaker 4: we were having dinner in and we all got a
Speaker 4: text then to say, look there's been some sort of
Speaker 4: domestic I think a firearm was involved. It was quite
Speaker 4: serious and we've shut down all these streets.
Speaker 5: Do not go anywhere near it, etc.
Speaker 4: Why on earth in a situation like this, can you not,
Speaker 4: as the government, flex and make that happen. I don't
Speaker 4: believe that it's not possible. I don't believe that ten
Speaker 4: million dollars has.
Speaker 5: To be spent. You're the government.
Speaker 4: We can't even get a toll rebate without giving you
Speaker 4: our passports, a urine sample, our fingerprints. And you mean
Speaker 4: to tell me in a natural disaster you've lost our
Speaker 4: mobile numbers.
Speaker 5: What a fun.
Speaker 1: The technology is completely available.
Speaker 3: Other countries have the technology to be able to override
Speaker 3: phone company systems to deliver straight to people instant messages.
Speaker 1: It's just that they haven't got around to it yet.
Speaker 2: No, that's right. And while people are trying to find
Speaker 2: the text message, they'll also be looking for the hand sanitizer,
Speaker 2: because of course that's so important. While we're talking about
Speaker 2: governments spending money not so wisely take a look at this.
Speaker 2: In New South Wales. Seven hundred days ago today, the
Speaker 2: state government, the Men's government, commissioned a report into the
Speaker 2: toll system in New South Wales. We've got Allen Fells,
Speaker 2: who used to run the A Triple C to go
Speaker 2: and run the ruler over the system and work out
Speaker 2: how better things could be delivered for motorists on the
Speaker 2: road and how to get discounts. All this sort of
Speaker 2: business right, that cost millions and millions of dollars, and
Speaker 2: we find out today that it's costing even more two
Speaker 2: point seven five million dollars of legal advice in just
Speaker 2: five months alone. That comes out to one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars a week, seven hundred days on from
Speaker 2: when they commissioned this bloody thing. This is in the
Speaker 2: Daily Telegraph today. Former Baker McKenzie chair Christopher Sason has
Speaker 2: been engaged on a nine hundred nuns ninety thousand dollar
Speaker 2: contract to give negotiation, strategy and advice on overhauling the
Speaker 2: tolling system. That's on top of the money they've already
Speaker 2: spent on the report, mind you, that comes on top
Speaker 2: of the two hundred and sorry two point seventy five
Speaker 2: million the government is paying for legal advice between February
Speaker 2: five and June thirty this year, which is in addition
Speaker 2: to the five point four million dollars already spent on
Speaker 2: mister Fell's toll review, which included one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars in flights and accommodation for the reviews
Speaker 2: to authors. So you'd get a bloke in to draw
Speaker 2: up this report and tell you how the system can
Speaker 2: be made better and how we can all save money.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile he's spending a lot of money, five point four million.
Speaker 1: Dollars of it.
Speaker 2: And when he was employed, his job was to then
Speaker 2: negotiate with the tolling companies. But now they've got him
Speaker 2: off the job and they put some other bloke on
Speaker 2: the job on a million dollars a year to negotiate
Speaker 2: with the tolling companies. Then two point seventy five million
Speaker 2: dollars in legal fees. We will be paying tolls for
Speaker 2: fifty years to pay for the review into the tolling system.
Speaker 3: For heaven's sake, they said, Allen Fells, who was on
Speaker 3: a huge amount of money, he got them to the
Speaker 3: negotiating table, and that required a skill in and of itself.
Speaker 3: And now this new guy Saxon, he will actually take
Speaker 3: over from there and do the negotiation, though Allen Fells,
Speaker 3: according to the article, continues to be on the payroll.
Speaker 3: I like the Transport Minister John Graham in New South
Speaker 3: Wales who rationalized the huge amount of money that's been
Speaker 3: spent over the last seven hundred days on consulting. He
Speaker 3: said the cost of the reform, And I love it
Speaker 3: how they always call it a reform. Oh yes, the
Speaker 3: cost of the reform is infinitely smaller than the one
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety five billion dollars in tolls we paid
Speaker 3: between now and twenty sixty. Well, in that case, spend
Speaker 3: thirty billion dollars on the consultancy.
Speaker 1: Spend one hundred billion.
Speaker 3: It's still cheaper than the one hundred and ninety five
Speaker 3: billion in tolls. That sort of logic is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: No one buys that.
Speaker 2: But I mean, and I know we talked about this
Speaker 2: when had happened, but it still gets me that you
Speaker 2: had just been one hundred and forty five thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in flights and accommodation and to look at tolls like
Speaker 2: what was Alan Phil's just so.
Speaker 1: He couldn't afford to drive.
Speaker 2: He was tearing live, just tearing around the world looking
Speaker 2: at toll roads, going hmm, yeah, I must check.
Speaker 1: I must go to Russia or wherever it.
Speaker 2: Is, I must go and look over there their toll
Speaker 2: system to make sure that there's not a certain thing
Speaker 2: they're doing over there that we could be doing here to.
Speaker 1: Make it better.
Speaker 2: Can you spend one hundred and forty five grand looking
Speaker 2: at toll roads for him? And say, I mean, you
Speaker 2: know there are train spotters right who sit around and
Speaker 2: they love watching the train and go past and all
Speaker 2: the tracks. I'm sure there are people out there who
Speaker 2: are obsessed with toll roads who could have done this
Speaker 2: work for Zilch. Like if you told them you can
Speaker 2: investigate toll systems around the world, there is someone out
Speaker 2: there who would have been like, oh my god, I
Speaker 2: am the man for the job, and I will do
Speaker 2: it for nothing because he's obsessed with toll roads. I'm
Speaker 2: sure they exist. Why didn't they get them on the job?
Speaker 4: They ask any Sydney cider that gets that invoice emailed
Speaker 4: to them every single month, always a hair raising amount.
Speaker 4: I hail from God's Country otherwise known as Western Australia,
Speaker 4: whereby in two thoyd and thirteen Premier Colin Barnett said
Speaker 4: there will be no told.
Speaker 5: In a state that I laid.
Speaker 4: That isn't a direct quote, but that was his edict
Speaker 4: and this is revelatory. The reason why he said there
Speaker 4: will never be any tolls in WA was because people
Speaker 4: pay taxes in the expectation that their governments will provide
Speaker 4: proper transport systems. People already pay for car REGOs, their
Speaker 4: license fees, petrol etc.
Speaker 5: And so on.
Speaker 4: If only Queensland at Victoria and New South Wales had
Speaker 4: taken a leaf out of that man's book, I find
Speaker 4: it utterly nonsensical, even though I've lived here for years now,
Speaker 4: that the taxpayer is already paid for the roads, and
Speaker 4: the government at the time made a decision to instead
Speaker 4: of just fitting the bill so that people could then
Speaker 4: travel on the roads that they paid for for free,
Speaker 4: and then to fit the bill for any repairs that
Speaker 4: need doing, etc. And so on, no, we've just got
Speaker 4: to pay to keep using them in perpetuity. Because they
Speaker 4: got into bed with some private firms who were like, mate,
Speaker 4: this will have us laugh and all the way to
Speaker 4: the bag forever and these states just go well, screw
Speaker 4: the people. They can keep on paying. It's a terrible
Speaker 4: system to begin with. And now, by the way, if
Speaker 4: you're in New South Wales, make sure you jump online
Speaker 4: and get your forty percent rebate.
Speaker 5: It applies to last financial year, so you can get
Speaker 5: hundreds back. You may not have heard of it.
Speaker 4: Jump online, get your money back, because this is day
Speaker 4: light robbery.
Speaker 2: Doua did have the benefit of mining royalties that we
Speaker 2: probably should point out in terms of how they get money.
Speaker 4: Paved the streets in gold in the Eastern States in
Speaker 4: the form of our gin.
Speaker 5: You're going to go there, don't bug me.
Speaker 1: But I don't have better off.
Speaker 5: I do have some guys milk dost drive.
Speaker 2: I do have some sympathy because the M eight, which
Speaker 2: I drive on reasonably frequently, though not at the moment,
Speaker 2: because my car is still at the workshop. It's been
Speaker 2: there for more than a month. If you're my insurance company.
Speaker 1: Can you please get me the car back. Please?
Speaker 2: But thet if you drive the entire length of it,
Speaker 2: is nearly twelve dollars now, and I thought, I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: surely there must be a point where the toll company
Speaker 2: has recouped the money that they have spent, plus interest
Speaker 2: in their contribution to build the road, and so surely
Speaker 2: after that point the toll disappears.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I looked up.
Speaker 2: It's a forty year contract and over that forty years
Speaker 2: the toll goes up every year on the first of January.
Speaker 1: So it's twelve dollars.
Speaker 2: Now by the end of that forty years, I'll be
Speaker 2: paying forty bucks.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: This is what the government signed you up to pay
Speaker 4: in I say perpetuity. It's forty years. But fine, fine, okay,
Speaker 4: what government does that and just goes, oh yeah, the
Speaker 4: people can just fit the bill. That is obviously not
Speaker 4: a workable system for people who have to travel every
Speaker 4: day to and from work and for whatever reason can't
Speaker 4: use public transport.
Speaker 1: It's funny living in Sydney.
Speaker 3: When my son's twin nineteen year old boys got their
Speaker 3: driver's licenses, they were so.
Speaker 1: Excited they got their cars.
Speaker 3: They're finally free, and you know, most of the time
Speaker 3: these days they're on the Sydney Metro. When I ask
Speaker 3: why is your car in the garage? Why you're on
Speaker 3: public transport? You know what they say, not fuel, not red.
Speaker 1: Jo the tolls they just kill them and serve. There
Speaker 1: you go, Liz.
Speaker 5: To the US now, where President Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump has delivered his first address to a joint session
Speaker 4: of Congress, creating a new record. Obviously, because it's the longest,
Speaker 4: beating Bill Clinton's State of the Union address back in
Speaker 4: two thousand by quite a few minutes. All the speech
Speaker 4: watches were keeping a sharp eye on that. Trump clocked
Speaker 4: in at an hour and forty minutes. He's known for
Speaker 4: his punch, not for his brevity, but the whole address
Speaker 4: can be summed up very short and succinctly. It was
Speaker 4: basically saying, America is back.
Speaker 6: Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this
Speaker 6: capital and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
Speaker 6: From that moment dawn, there has been nothing but swift
Speaker 6: and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most
Speaker 6: successful era in the history of our country. We have
Speaker 6: accomplished more in forty three days, and most administrations accomplished
Speaker 6: in four years or eight years, and we are just
Speaker 6: getting started.
Speaker 4: He also took the opportunity, of course, to address the
Speaker 4: issue of those tariffs that the Dems have been bashing
Speaker 4: on about. He insists look, this is just tit for.
Speaker 5: Tat, and this is how we wild power.
Speaker 6: April second, reciprocal tariffs kick in, and whatever they tariff
Speaker 6: us other countries, we will tariff them. That's reciprocal back
Speaker 6: and forth. Whatever they tax us, we will tax them.
Speaker 1: If they do non.
Speaker 6: Monitory tariffs to keep us out of their market, then
Speaker 6: we will do non monitory barriers to keep them out
Speaker 6: of our market.
Speaker 4: And as he does, he fearlessly waded into the culture wars,
Speaker 4: saying that under the Trump administration, the mutilation of Chu
Speaker 4: in the name of the transagender ends.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer
Speaker 6: funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation
Speaker 6: of our youth.
Speaker 2: And now I.
Speaker 6: Want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing
Speaker 6: sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that
Speaker 6: any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is
Speaker 6: a big line. And our message to every child in
Speaker 6: America is that you are perfect, exactly the way God
Speaker 6: made you.
Speaker 1: Preage.
Speaker 4: Brother Vans and Johnson really got to work out standing
Speaker 4: behind him for an hour and forty minutes, standing to
Speaker 4: their face.
Speaker 5: They happen very two minutes of boxes up.
Speaker 4: I'm absolutely incredible, And of course we can't forget this
Speaker 4: really heart warming moment where he took the time to
Speaker 4: bestow the honor of becoming Secret Service to a very
Speaker 4: unlikely recipient.
Speaker 6: Joining us at the gallery tonight is a young man
Speaker 6: who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel.
Speaker 6: He is thirteen years old and he has always dreamed
Speaker 6: of becoming a police officer. DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Speaker 6: The doctors gave him five months at most to live.
Speaker 6: That was more than six years ago. We're going to
Speaker 6: do you the biggest honor of them all. I am
Speaker 6: asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Curran to officially
Speaker 6: make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.
Speaker 4: Watching that kid's eyes light off as the people did
Speaker 4: all around the world, just going house this for a
Speaker 4: heartwarming moment.
Speaker 5: It was very wellful.
Speaker 1: It just shows you the power of leadership, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's only been in the Oval Office when
Speaker 3: it was at forty three days, which is hardly any
Speaker 3: time at all, and yet the whole tone of America
Speaker 3: seems to have changed. Trump talks about the fact our
Speaker 3: spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back.
Speaker 3: Our momentum is back. And of course, unless you've got
Speaker 3: Trump arrangement syndrome and you just hate everything he does,
Speaker 3: the truth is America has changed massively in the last
Speaker 3: forty three days. A certainly the perception of America has changed.
Speaker 3: And really the only thing that's changed is leadership. And
Speaker 3: leadership is always the problem and it's always the answer.
Speaker 3: And you go from Joe Biden, who was a wet
Speaker 3: lettus leaf in the Oval Office offered nothing, to a
Speaker 3: man who actually knows what he wants to do, has
Speaker 3: got a mandate to do it, despite the fact that
Speaker 3: the Democrats are still protesting.
Speaker 1: He doesn't.
Speaker 3: In fact, five minutes into the speech, El Green, a Democrat,
Speaker 3: stood up and started yelling, you have no mandate to
Speaker 3: do anything you're doing.
Speaker 1: He was promptly ejected.
Speaker 3: From the Capitol building. There he is there, pointing at Trump,
Speaker 3: interrupting the speech. The other great thing about this speech, Caleb,
Speaker 3: was can you imagine Biden bumbling on for an hour
Speaker 3: and forty minutes?
Speaker 1: I want he was inspiring, He was.
Speaker 3: Funny, He handled the interjectors really really well. He didn't
Speaker 3: ignore them, nor did he carry on too much about them,
Speaker 3: but just occasionally a little jibe making fun of you know,
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Warren referring to her as Pocahontas when she dared
Speaker 3: to chirp.
Speaker 1: Up while he was trying to speak.
Speaker 3: But there are also parts of incredibly moving, like when
Speaker 3: he stood that young cancer sufferer up and bestowed him
Speaker 3: with a honorary Secret Service membership.
Speaker 1: I watched the speech in its entirety today and I've.
Speaker 3: Got to say, and the other thing about it is
Speaker 3: so much policy in it. He didn't get up there
Speaker 3: and just waffle or hammer the Democrats and talk about,
Speaker 3: you know, personal issues. He talked about issues relating to
Speaker 3: the nation. It was an impressive performance.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. I can imagine that Biden could
Speaker 2: do an hour and forty minutes, but he'd be stuck
Speaker 2: on the second word the whole time. There wouldn't be
Speaker 2: a great deal of substance to it. And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: How extraordinary is it that forty three days into a
Speaker 2: presidency he can stand up there and give a you
Speaker 2: know what was effectively a state of the Union speech
Speaker 2: so early into his presidency, and he's got so much
Speaker 2: he can already talk about. Because as we've talked about
Speaker 2: many times before. I mean, he was changing America before
Speaker 2: he was even sworn in as president. He was the
Speaker 2: de facto president from the moment he was elected, basically,
Speaker 2: and in that period before Biden finally handed it over,
Speaker 2: he was achieving more than Biden had been able to
Speaker 2: do in four years. Like he said at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the speech, I've done more than forty three days
Speaker 2: than some administrations have done in eight years. And that
Speaker 2: is the movement that people voted for. He didn't vote
Speaker 2: for Trump so that the world could continue to be
Speaker 2: like it was yesterday. You had that under Biden. People
Speaker 2: were sick of it. So he's true to his word
Speaker 2: in that way, I'm going to do something. And he
Speaker 2: stood there and said, yeah, this is what I'm actually doing.
Speaker 2: But the light in the shade of that speech, which
Speaker 2: is what you're talking about before, you know. He's a showman.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is a showman, and he knows when to
Speaker 2: hit the policy point and he knows when to hit
Speaker 2: the emotional point, and he had it all in there. Now,
Speaker 2: whether or not you like the guy for his politics,
Speaker 2: you have to respect the fact that he brings people
Speaker 2: along with him, even if you don't like the message
Speaker 2: he's selling. He's a good retail politician. And so often
Speaker 2: this is why people get upset with a lot of
Speaker 2: the elite politicians. They don't feel like they understand them,
Speaker 2: they can't relate to them, they don't know what they're
Speaker 2: talking about. And Donald Trump has an excellent way of
Speaker 2: telling a message to the public that the public can understand.
Speaker 1: And that's a key part of leadership.
Speaker 3: If you say you're a leader and no one's following,
Speaker 3: you're just taking a walk. He's able to take people
Speaker 3: with him because he's able to communicate effectively. The other
Speaker 3: interesting thing you talk is about, you know, the Speaker
Speaker 3: of the House and the Vice President got a workout,
Speaker 3: standing up, sitting down, standing up, sitting down. It was
Speaker 3: amazing how the Democrats were unmoved throughout it. The only
Speaker 3: thing that moved was their facial expression from scout to outrage,
Speaker 3: back to scale again. And you showed that clip where
Speaker 3: Trump said He's going to end the mutilation of children
Speaker 3: in the name of gender ideology because he wants every
Speaker 3: American child to know you're exactly the way God.
Speaker 1: Intended you to be. You're perfect.
Speaker 3: And the Democrats could not even manage an applause for that.
Speaker 3: One side of the house all stood and applauded.
Speaker 1: The other side. No, no, they are so committed.
Speaker 3: To their transgender as it relates to kids, they couldn't
Speaker 3: even applaud that statement, which I think every single parent
Speaker 3: would say. Thank God, we've got someone in the White
Speaker 3: House who's speaking some truth like that. Compare and contrast, though,
Speaker 3: with the Democrats. I mean, while Trump is a brilliant
Speaker 3: communicator and proved that in a one hour and forty
Speaker 3: minute speech today, the Democrats and they are terrible at communication,
Speaker 3: so bad they can't even come up with their own lines.
Speaker 3: They've released a video, first, one or two Democrats, but
Speaker 3: then it became clear it's not just one or two.
Speaker 3: We've got more than twenty Democrats, all posting videos, all
Speaker 3: not just hitting the same talking points, they're all saying
Speaker 3: exactly the same words.
Speaker 1: Have a look at this.
Speaker 6: When I will immediately bring prices down starting on daywatch.
Speaker 7: That's what you just heard instead, Donald Trump, prices are
Speaker 7: down there.
Speaker 1: Inflation is getting worse.
Speaker 7: Get the prices of gross it's not getting better.
Speaker 1: And they're all saying exactly the same thing.
Speaker 3: Now, because you couldn't hear it, I summarize it for you,
Speaker 3: Thore saying inflation is high because Trump's been office forty
Speaker 3: three days. The place offak should have come down by now.
Speaker 3: They actually had the hide to talk about crime rates.
Speaker 3: Crime rates are high, I wonder why. And then they
Speaker 3: complained about doze. You know, it's terrible that the government
Speaker 3: is getting rid of waste. And Evon Musk was fascinated
Speaker 3: by this, and he put out the challenge on Twitter
Speaker 3: saying we're now up to twenty two. It's twenty three
Speaker 3: since he posted this tweet, but twenty two Democrat senators
Speaker 3: all doing the same cringe video simultaneously. I will buy
Speaker 3: a cyber truck for anyone who can provide proof of
Speaker 3: who wrote this particular piece of propaganda. First person to
Speaker 3: post proof in the replies to this post gets the truck.
Speaker 3: Not a bad incentive to do a bit of digging,
Speaker 3: But I mean, you couldn't on the same day have
Speaker 3: a greater contrast between why Trump is so successful and
Speaker 3: why everybody hates the Democrats. Trump is a great communicator,
Speaker 3: speaks from the heart, but he's telling his story. The
Speaker 3: Democrats are just parrots repeating lines that someone else anonymously
Speaker 3: in the shadows has written for them, zero authenticity. They
Speaker 3: clearly don't know how to respond to Trump.
Speaker 4: How is that any different to Labor Caucus. I mean,
Speaker 4: they get together, they decide, they're talking points, and then,
Speaker 4: like lemmings, that's all any of them say in perpetuity
Speaker 4: regarding that topic and the next topic and the next topic.
Speaker 4: When I first came to politics and learned the major
Speaker 4: differences between the two major parties, there's.
Speaker 5: Not that many, sadly, and they're dwindling.
Speaker 4: But the idea of Labor Caucus, which is this is
Speaker 4: essentially what they do. It's like, word for word, this
Speaker 4: is what we say on this topic, on that topic,
Speaker 4: as opposed to the Libs that often get bashed in
Speaker 4: the media because oh, you know they're so divided. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because they allow independent thought. They allow the people members
Speaker 4: of the same party to have vastly different opinions on
Speaker 4: the same issues.
Speaker 5: So here you've got the Dems.
Speaker 4: And this was obviously intended to be a stunt. It
Speaker 4: wasn't an accident that they were word for word using
Speaker 4: the same clip of Trump word for word responding to it.
Speaker 4: And I tell you what, someone did take elon musk
Speaker 4: up on his offer I don't know what his name
Speaker 4: is because his ex account is anonymous, but he found
Speaker 4: out who wrote it. It's a guy, a Democrat, Senator
Speaker 4: Cory Booker. And Corey Booker, having been then exposed, tweeted,
Speaker 4: clearly you are triggered by the truth. He's speaking back
Speaker 4: to Elon Musk. It was me, cheap.
Speaker 5: Your truck, well, Senator Booker, I don't think you read
Speaker 5: the Musk's tweet properly.
Speaker 4: He offered the truck to the person who uncovered you,
Speaker 4: not to you for coming forward once you were busted
Speaker 4: and saying, yeah, it was me who wrote that ridiculous
Speaker 4: piece for everyone to parrot.
Speaker 2: And the thing is right, talking points, as you say
Speaker 2: is are not uncommon in politics. There's a sheet that
Speaker 2: is sent out every morning to federal politicians from their
Speaker 2: respective parties that tells them, these are the things that
Speaker 2: we want to hit on today. If you're asked a
Speaker 2: question about this in an interview, you know, here's a
Speaker 2: line to use, et cetera, et cetera. And that's just
Speaker 2: how if you're looking at how the sausage is made,
Speaker 2: that is how the sausage is made. But the real
Speaker 2: problem here and that the awful political strategy that was
Speaker 2: deployed in this circumstance is that you should be able
Speaker 2: to say to any politician, okay, you remember of our party,
Speaker 2: these are the points we want to hit, and they
Speaker 2: should be able to take those points away and then
Speaker 2: create a video or a speech or whatever it might
Speaker 2: be from their own head about that. Like they should
Speaker 2: have independent thoughts along party lines generally about an issue.
Speaker 2: So if you said, as a strategist to all of
Speaker 2: the senators, we want you to do a video on
Speaker 2: X y Z, they should just be able to go
Speaker 2: and do it. But clearly not. They actually have to
Speaker 2: all be given the eggs that script because there is
Speaker 2: not a sceric of independent thought, and that is why
Speaker 2: people like Trump are so successful, because they're not running
Speaker 2: by a script. They can give a stump speech, they
Speaker 2: actually have conviction, they have real thought, they have real
Speaker 2: feelings about politics. You ask them a question, they can
Speaker 2: give you an answer. That's why Trump has answered more
Speaker 2: than a thousand questions from journalists since he became president,
Speaker 2: competed about one hundred and forty in the same period
Speaker 2: by Joe Biden after he became president. He can actually
Speaker 2: talk to people what you saw there was the absolute
Speaker 2: example of what is wrong with the political elite, that
Speaker 2: is that they cannot talk to people because they can't
Speaker 2: form an independent thought. Let's come back home and go
Speaker 2: to Victoria where the crime crisis worsens. It feels like
Speaker 2: there's basically nowhere that isn't in the grips of a
Speaker 2: crime crisis in this country at the moment. But it
Speaker 2: has gotten so bad in Melbourne that people are now
Speaker 2: hiring security guards to drive around in their suburbs. Now
Speaker 2: at Brighton, anyone who's familiar with Melbourne will know is
Speaker 2: a high socioeconomic area, so they can afford to do
Speaker 2: this kind of thing. But there are pamphlets whatever been
Speaker 2: putting people's letterboxes from other residents saying, look, we've got
Speaker 2: to get together. You can see it on the screen there.
Speaker 2: They want to raise three hundred thousand dollars so they
Speaker 2: can have a dedicated security guard driving around the suburb
Speaker 2: at night. I think it's from seven pm to six
Speaker 2: am every day, monitoring the streets to try and deter
Speaker 2: people from coming into to do home invasions. They've had
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen burglaries last year alone in that
Speaker 2: one suburb. Of Brighton, so that's two every night. Basically,
Speaker 2: people are afraid in their own homes and they are
Speaker 2: going so far as to stump up the money to
Speaker 2: have their homes monitored. How sad is that that you
Speaker 2: cannot rely on a the government to snip this thing
Speaker 2: in the bud, but b to have a police presence
Speaker 2: to deter people. No, they're actually putting up their own
Speaker 2: money to stop people coming into their suburbs and invading
Speaker 2: their homes. And then car theft is up in Victoria
Speaker 2: as well, so much so that this little thing, I'm
Speaker 2: sure you remember this, particularly if you're an older viewer.
Speaker 2: It's a car lock that goes on your steering wheel, right.
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen one of these things for at least
Speaker 2: twenty years, I think, but Repco is now reporting that
Speaker 2: they have had a massive increase forty fifty percent increase
Speaker 2: in the sale of steering wheel locks because people are
Speaker 2: afraid of having their car stolen in Victoria.
Speaker 1: Now, I mean, if that.
Speaker 2: Doesn't tell you that that bit of archaic technology. Genuinely,
Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen one since my nan would
Speaker 2: have put one on a little diets of Syrian twenty
Speaker 2: years ago. I've not seen someone use one of those,
Speaker 2: but they're back in vogue because well, what else are
Speaker 2: you going to do. You can't rely on the government,
Speaker 2: you can't rely on the cops. That's what people are
Speaker 2: resorting to.
Speaker 3: Now, that old question, how does the premiere of Victoria
Speaker 3: sleep at night? And the answer is a lot better
Speaker 3: than the residents of Brighton.
Speaker 1: Apparently.
Speaker 3: When you've got local residents having to employ their own
Speaker 3: security for their own suburb, it kind of reminds you
Speaker 3: of a third world country.
Speaker 2: You get that in South Africa or somewhere they be
Speaker 2: doing exactly.
Speaker 3: And as for those car locks, the number of Google
Speaker 3: searches for those steering wheel car locks is at a
Speaker 3: twenty year high, and it's because we've gone away from
Speaker 3: keyless from keys, and so the electronic you know, you
Speaker 3: just push the button and the engine starts. Will crims
Speaker 3: have got technology now to override that, and so your
Speaker 3: car keys can be sitting on your kitchen bench for
Speaker 3: what they're worth, but in less than five minutes they
Speaker 3: can break into your car and use that technology to
Speaker 3: steal it. The other thing, forgive me, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you mentioned this already, but a thirty five percent
Speaker 3: increase at Repco in the sale of anti theft screws
Speaker 3: for number plates.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that I didn't mention that, but yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: What an incredible thing because the plates are being stolen.
Speaker 2: Well, of course, because if you want to commit a crime,
Speaker 2: you need to get away car, you take a number
Speaker 2: plate off someone's car. And these are the ways that
Speaker 2: it actually affect people in real life. Like you can say, oh, well,
Speaker 2: my home hasn't been invated, so I don't really know
Speaker 2: what's going on. But if you look at one suburb
Speaker 2: where there have been one hundred and sixteen burglaries, two
Speaker 2: a night for an entire year, then you would be
Speaker 2: worried that your house is going to be broken into,
Speaker 2: your car is going to be stolen, or your number
Speaker 2: plates are going to be stolen. And this seriously is
Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that can turn a state. I
Speaker 2: suspect that may will happen next year. I think we
Speaker 2: get a state election in Victoria.
Speaker 1: Well, don'torry at the state election.
Speaker 3: The polls are showing that the federal election, the Victorian
Speaker 3: Labor Party is probably going to be responsible for Albanesi
Speaker 3: losing a whole lot of seats. But the other thing
Speaker 3: that lives in Brighton is the mayor was also one
Speaker 3: of those people who's been burgled. So it's a pretty
Speaker 3: well to do suburb too.
Speaker 5: It is, it is.
Speaker 4: It's a very popular holiday destination. Everyone's familiar with bright
Speaker 4: and I've never lived in Victoria, but I am familiar
Speaker 4: with bright Now you're telling a lie.
Speaker 2: We've lived in Victoria. Don't disavow the state.
Speaker 5: A long time ago.
Speaker 4: Come full disclosure from the courage of seven to fourteen.
Speaker 4: I did live in Country Victoria, little town called Coyabram.
Speaker 5: It's still amazing.
Speaker 4: If you live in Country Victoria, that part of the
Speaker 4: state is still a wonderful, wonderful place to live and
Speaker 4: especially to raise kids.
Speaker 5: I know I absolutely loved it.
Speaker 4: But before we go to a break, we've got to
Speaker 4: tell you about another disastrous story regarding an illegal immigrant.
Speaker 4: You should be kicked out of the UK, but may
Speaker 4: well get to stay.
Speaker 5: We told you last month about a guy.
Speaker 4: Who has said, look, you can't send me back to
Speaker 4: my country of origin because my kids don't like the
Speaker 4: chicken nuggets there. There are ridiculous cases coming out of
Speaker 4: the UK. Unfortunately Australia is mirroring them. When it comes
Speaker 4: to our release detainees committing crimes and getting to stay here.
Speaker 4: But this latest hair raising story out of the UK
Speaker 4: involves an Albanian criminal for more than three years for
Speaker 4: running a cannabis factory.
Speaker 5: He's not going to be deported. The judges ruled it
Speaker 5: would deprive his daughter of a male role model.
Speaker 4: What kind of male role model are you if you
Speaker 4: are running a cannabis factory? The shadow, the shadow rather
Speaker 4: Home Secretary Chris Philp has said drug dealers.
Speaker 5: Are not role models.
Speaker 4: This is another absurd decision by soft and naive immigration judges.
Speaker 4: Either enough of ECCHR and human rights laws being abused
Speaker 4: by foreign criminals being allowed to stay in this country
Speaker 4: when they should be deported. Of course, the pressing question
Speaker 4: there is the same as the question here, which we
Speaker 4: discuss every other night. Why are our laws such that
Speaker 4: if you come here, especially illegally, and we've taken you
Speaker 4: in out of the goodness of our own hearts nothing
Speaker 4: to gain from it. Why do you get to stay
Speaker 4: here when you slap us in the face by committing
Speaker 4: crimes here, some of them far more heinous than running
Speaker 4: a cannabis factory, and you're allowed to stay on our dime,
Speaker 4: no less, whether it's back into detention, whether it's in jail,
Speaker 4: or whether it's running around with some sort of monitoring
Speaker 4: device on your ankle.
Speaker 2: This bloke into the UK illegally twenty thirteen, was denied
Speaker 2: residency multiple times. Obviously, while he's been over there, he's
Speaker 2: hooked up with some chicken, knocked her up, so they've
Speaker 2: had a kid. In twenty twenty, he's caught with drugs
Speaker 2: and he's sent to jail. And now we say, you
Speaker 2: entered illegally, then committed crimes in our country, and we
Speaker 2: tried to get you out of here, but because you
Speaker 2: had a kid while you were here illegally, now you
Speaker 2: must stay.
Speaker 5: I mean, that is just such an amazing role.
Speaker 2: That is the message that is being said that if
Speaker 2: you enter illegally and commit crimes here, it's okay. As
Speaker 2: long as you get a woman pregnant while you're here,
Speaker 2: and it's all fine.
Speaker 5: You can start.
Speaker 3: Someone said you should have considered the risk of deportation
Speaker 3: before he did the crime, but I think he actually
Speaker 3: did consider the risk of deportation and thought I'm going
Speaker 3: to go ahead and recommit the crime. We're going to
Speaker 3: go to a break. When we come back, we'll look
Speaker 3: at what's making news tomorrow, including the Albanezi government announcing
Speaker 3: a massive injection of funds into defense, all on the
Speaker 3: advice of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: That's coming up in a moment. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Well, let's take a look at what's making news tomorrow, Caleb.
Speaker 3: Most of the papers obviously talking about the cyclone that's
Speaker 3: approaching southeast Queensland.
Speaker 2: Indeed they are. We'll start with the Daily Telegraph where
Speaker 2: it says Alfred intensifiers as he heads for coast. Hold
Speaker 2: on flights are canceled, more than two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: schools are closed, and northern New South Wales households have
Speaker 2: bunkered down and midfears Cyclo and Alfred will deliver three
Speaker 2: natural disasters in one when it slams into the coast
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning, that being Friday. Because this is Thursday's paper.
Speaker 2: The Gold Coast Bulletin says Alfred's knocking. Premier David Christoph
Speaker 2: Fooley visits at the Gold Coast on Wednesday along with
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy six extra pleas as flooding began
Speaker 2: to warn residents to prepare for cyclone. Alfred quote there
Speaker 2: is the prospect this cyclone could cross the coast in
Speaker 2: the middle of the night with a high tide. That
Speaker 2: is not the time to be making your evacuation plan.
Speaker 2: And the Australian says millions face Alfred's Capital Punishment cyclone
Speaker 2: Alfred's predicted to lash Brisbane for twelve hours on Friday,
Speaker 2: with the slow moving and intensifying Category two storm now
Speaker 2: on track for a direct hit on the city of
Speaker 2: two and a half million people. For the Gold Coast,
Speaker 2: it'll be their worst weather event in some seventy years,
Speaker 2: and the story goes on to say that the latest modeling,
Speaker 2: which came out tonight, shows that as it crosses the
Speaker 2: Queensland coast, it'll be the first since nineteen seventy four
Speaker 2: to do so. It'll hit in the hours after one
Speaker 2: of the highest tides of the year. It'll drive a
Speaker 2: storm surge that threatens to inundates and estimated twenty thousand
Speaker 2: properties in Brisbane, six thousand on the Gold Coast and
Speaker 2: four thousand, six hundred on the Sunshine Coast. And you
Speaker 2: know Queensland, obviously is it's not unusual to see tropical
Speaker 2: cyclones up there, but it's not often that they go
Speaker 2: that far down and particularly into northern New South Wales
Speaker 2: as well, so a lot of people who never really
Speaker 2: have to deal with these issues, despite living in Queensland
Speaker 2: and northern New South Wales, will be seeing it potentially
Speaker 2: for the first time in their lives.
Speaker 3: And the big problem is houses in Brisbane, you know,
Speaker 3: those old Queenslanders timber and tin, not like in North Queensland,
Speaker 3: where you're expecting cyclones you get what two or three
Speaker 3: every year, so you're kind of used to it. A
Speaker 3: category one or two for a North Queenslander is not
Speaker 3: a big deal. Three four or five gets serious. But
Speaker 3: it's a different proposition in Brisbane where homes just aren't
Speaker 3: built to withstand it.
Speaker 5: That's so true.
Speaker 4: Well, the Queenslanders are built on stilts because of flooding.
Speaker 5: They're like they're used to that.
Speaker 4: But when we're talking about a cyclone, it ain't just flooding,
Speaker 4: it's these gale force winds is.
Speaker 5: The complete force of the entire thing. This looks like
Speaker 5: a degree too, as.
Speaker 4: You've mentioned, so thankfully we're not looking at a cyclone
Speaker 4: Tracy type thing, but who knows what's going to happen
Speaker 4: when you've got I mean, these things do turn out
Speaker 4: to be wrong. We've had really wrong reports from the
Speaker 4: bomb before, so well, I'm.
Speaker 5: Saying it's a category too.
Speaker 4: If I was in Queensland right now, i'd been, I'd
Speaker 4: be preparing for the absolute worst.
Speaker 5: We make sure just knows they've got it wrong.
Speaker 2: Make sure you do follow the advice of the bomb.
Speaker 2: Have your mask and hand sanitizer ready. Oh when the
Speaker 2: cyclone does his let's get another story on the front
Speaker 2: of yours tomorrow, it says Marles. Target's defense spending. The
Speaker 2: Albanezy government has opened the door to hosting so boosting, sorry,
Speaker 2: defense spending after one of US President Donald Trump's key
Speaker 2: Pentagon appointees called for a massive rise in Australia's military
Speaker 2: spending from two percent to three percent of GDP. Defense
Speaker 2: Minister Richard Marles revealed the government was ready for an
Speaker 2: ongoing conversation with the Trump administration about lifting defense beending
Speaker 2: further than the government promised fifty billion dollar boost over
Speaker 2: a decade. Isn't it amazing what this president can get done.
Speaker 3: Or just shows that he knows exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3: He's playing tough, not because he doesn't care about the
Speaker 3: rest of the world, not because he doesn't care about
Speaker 3: the free world, not because he's only concerned about the US,
Speaker 3: but he understands that the rest of the world needs
Speaker 3: to lift their game. And funnily enough, even the Elbanezi
Speaker 3: government seems to have gotten the message.
Speaker 4: Indeed, and this is timely for them as well, because
Speaker 4: this is going to be an issue going into the election.
Speaker 4: So they're killing two birds with one stone here being
Speaker 4: like a keep Trump happy and B promise the people.
Speaker 4: We're raising this by one percent of GDP, which is
Speaker 4: a very impressive jump. Indeed, we saw Kirstamer in the
Speaker 4: UK come out saying we're raising it by half a
Speaker 4: point of GDP. But something that's not really talked about
Speaker 4: when they make these announcements is you can buy more firepower, sure,
Speaker 4: but we are so low on man power. In the UK,
Speaker 4: they are set to this year hit levels so low
Speaker 4: in terms of troops and manpower in their forces. It's
Speaker 4: going to be at the lowest level since the Napoleonic era.
Speaker 4: And here in Australia, we can't laugh because we're doing
Speaker 4: just as badly. Last year alone in the UK, fifteen
Speaker 4: thousand troops hung up their boots and we're like found
Speaker 4: another job. I'm out of here for whatever reasons, and
Speaker 4: you find that this is the issue that needs to
Speaker 4: be addressed because for every Western nation which is going
Speaker 4: through a complete identity crisis due to massive, massive, multicultural
Speaker 4: everyone just piling into the countries. I do believe that
Speaker 4: is at the root crux of these historically very low
Speaker 4: problems that we're facing in beefing up our.
Speaker 5: Militaries across the West. Still.
Speaker 4: Well, so you can make these impressive announcements, but who's
Speaker 4: going to be firing them, who's going to be going
Speaker 4: to the front lines.
Speaker 5: Who's going to.
Speaker 4: Be sad at the desk with the required skills, who've
Speaker 4: been in the job years in training. What are we
Speaker 4: going to suddenly decide to conscript everyone should something bad
Speaker 4: happen and then you've got a pile of newbies who
Speaker 4: are still wet behind the ears.
Speaker 1: Well, talk that easily. You just defund the ABC.
Speaker 3: So that's not making our military look like the bad guys,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden recruitment might improve.
Speaker 2: We have done conscription before, and of course now we're
Speaker 2: leading people who are citizens in ter our military.
Speaker 1: What does that tell you?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: The story on the front of the US tomor are
Speaker 2: textpayers one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for tree felling.
Speaker 2: New South Wales textpayers have been asked to fork at
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five grand for an Indigenous group
Speaker 2: to cut down and quote unquote make items from a
Speaker 2: tree that needed to be removed from the proposed site
Speaker 2: of a controversial nine million dollar performing arts center in
Speaker 2: Baptist under a requirement for Aboriginal participation. The only Indigenous
Speaker 2: group to take up the offer of visits for the
Speaker 2: project was the Woraduary Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation,
Speaker 2: also behind a controversial heritage claim on the peak of
Speaker 2: Mount Panorama. I mean, there you go, just pony up money.
Speaker 2: We're going to cut the tree down anyway, but here's
Speaker 2: the money to go and do something with it. Look,
Speaker 2: greenies should be outraged by this because they've cut a
Speaker 2: tree down in the first place. I cannot wait to
Speaker 2: see the greenees tomorrow saying that the local Aboriginal Land
Speaker 2: Corporation should not get a sceric of funding because they
Speaker 2: are vandalizing the environment. Do you reckon it's going to happen?
Speaker 2: No funny about it.
Speaker 3: I don't think that what's the other story there, of course,
Speaker 3: is the green hydrogen is.
Speaker 2: You left me hanging there, James. I thought you're going
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: It's a simple question. No, they're not going to get
Speaker 1: upset because they never do fair enough.
Speaker 3: For another story, the greenies aren't that worried about the
Speaker 3: environment of Kayleb.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know that that was the joke. Another story
Speaker 2: quickly before we go to the break Forest axss hydrogen deal.
Speaker 2: Australia's biggest promoter of green hydrogen, and Andrew Forrest, has
Speaker 2: axed an investment packed with the US hydrogen giant plug Power,
Speaker 2: in the latest blow for the hyped clean energy source.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just goes through to worse.
Speaker 2: We had the story yesterday that you know, ninety percent
Speaker 2: of these projects can't get off the ground, ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Now the big players just pulled out. I mean, at
Speaker 2: this point, why don't we just say it's not going
Speaker 2: to happen. It ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And for them not to be able to make this
Speaker 3: work with all the subsidies they get and they still
Speaker 3: can't make it work. Imagine if Australia went back to
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Cold gas, beef and sheep resources. We're going to go
Speaker 1: to a break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, Meghan Markel's got a new program
Speaker 3: on Netflix.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know our thoughts. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Well, if a little later tonight you decide to flick
Speaker 3: through Netflix, Liz, Meghan Markele is.
Speaker 5: A would you encourage people to watch this? Don't give
Speaker 5: it few.
Speaker 1: I didn't say you should. I just said we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about.
Speaker 2: It about what is going in said to cry out loud.
Speaker 4: This is Megan Markle in the dying gasps of relevance,
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: Is this her final form? At last?
Speaker 4: She's now playing Martha Stewart, launching this show on Netflix
Speaker 4: to of course, actually.
Speaker 5: Deliver on the deal that the Sussex has signed with
Speaker 5: Netflix years ago. This is part of that.
Speaker 4: And now she's just like a stay at home mom,
Speaker 4: harvesting honey, making basalts, preparing dishes for the kids, having
Speaker 4: the neighbor over, and there we are in the front row.
Speaker 4: If you're one of those people, can't wait to tune
Speaker 4: in and find out who she's gonna have over next
Speaker 4: and what delicious culinary skills she's going to show off here.
Speaker 4: She is just having a neighborly chat with an next
Speaker 4: door neighbor, Vicky talking about I don't know, see if
Speaker 4: you can figure it out.
Speaker 1: You gave me this idea.
Speaker 5: I think it's so.
Speaker 8: Meaningful that if you break something that is precious and valuable,
Speaker 8: it's not broken, that that fracturing. You taught me this,
Speaker 8: that that fracture actually makes it more beautiful, That break
Speaker 8: makes it more beautiful. And I just think that it
Speaker 8: felt really symbolic of saying to anyone, if you've been
Speaker 8: through something, you're not broken. It can be fixed, it
Speaker 8: can be sealed and healed.
Speaker 4: We think it all sounds really symbolic of your current
Speaker 4: relationship with the Royal family, Miss Yoko Ono of the
Speaker 4: Royal Family. I mean another part of this that absolutely
Speaker 4: cracked me up was firstly this massive fruit platter that
Speaker 4: she has, which is it looks absolutely incredible. What one
Speaker 4: glance at that actual Housewives of Australia, you'll know that
Speaker 4: thing costs hundreds of dollars to make. So firstly, this
Speaker 4: is not a recipe that she's sharing. You haven't learned
Speaker 4: how to cook anything. This is like a handful of blueberries.
Speaker 5: These days is five bucks. If you're lucky.
Speaker 4: This is not a show that is relevent to the
Speaker 4: everyday homemaker and all she's in her luxury mansion.
Speaker 3: Highlight is in episode three where she laments the fact
Speaker 3: that people's aversion to MSG was because of racial undertones
Speaker 3: because the MSG is in Chinese food, but she says
Speaker 3: forty we've evolved beyond that.
Speaker 2: And she also pulls up Mindy Kaling for calling a
Speaker 2: Megan Markle says, no, I'm actually a Sussex. Will you
Speaker 2: chose to leave the family woman?
Speaker 1: And now you want to claim the name?
Speaker 5: Please?
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