WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 23 May 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.200 On sco Lils Oscodia thinks it's the winder Panety Show. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.479 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Pannety Show coming 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:12.080 up tonight. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:13.960 What's behind the rift between. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.840 The Victorian Liberal leader and the Federal Liberal leader Peter Darton. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.440 The new chair of the Australian Sports Commission, Kate Jenkins 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.040 criticized for undermining female athletes with a raft of trans 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.360 inclusion policies. David Limbrick joins me to discuss We'll have 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.480 the Great Alex Epstein fact checking Albo's big battery claims, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.000 and Kinziscofield joins me with the latest celebrity news, including 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.879 reports that Kate Blanchette has taken a stand on the 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.199 Israeli Palestinian conflict and he left is losing it. We 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.440 get marriage advice from the leader of the Free World. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.320 I said, have a young man think you getting married 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.440 marrying a family. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.640 Of five or more daughters? I did my wife's sowld 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:03.280 us a five sisters. You know why Wonderful's always love you. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.399 Here to go over the day's top stories, this Sky 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.960 News contributor Kosher Gata Kosher. Just as the Victorian Liberals 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.080 get some good news that had a fantastic poll in 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.640 the Age. This week, John Pursuto, the hapless Leader goes 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.959 and spoils it. It's got a feud with Peter Dutton happening, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.440 The Herald Sun reports, in a move that's done sections 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.040 of the party and some of his own MPs. John 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.640 Pursuita this week refused to attend a Liberal Party multicultural 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.680 dinner headlined by Peter Dutton after being told he wouldn't 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:42.360 be allowed to make a speech. His political judgment is lacking, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:43.720 to say the least kosher. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.160 It would be hard to dry any other conclusion for sure. 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.080 Not exactly covering himself in political savvy in fighting is 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.080 never a good look. Having internal dirty laundry within a 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.360 party airing out is never a good look. We see 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.240 these cracks happening more and more in different political parties. Here, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.360 of course, it seems to all be downstream from that 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.040 original sin of the more redeeming situation and amerquent sideways 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.200 from there, and you're just seeing a show up in 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.919 different ways. It was a bit ironic because it was 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:14.800 a multicultural dinner and that's his portfolio. But here we are, and. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.000 It's said that more deeming a FED does have a 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.320 FED bit to do about this rift. It's been reported 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.040 Peter Dutton wasn't particularly happy with the timing of some 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.239 of that action, undermining the lead up to the ast 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.840 and by election. So you can understand why the FEDS 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.480 would be looking on not too happy, because you would 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:38.560 think if any state has a party that should be 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.040 flying in opposition, it should be the Liberals. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.600 That the problems we've got in this. 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.680 State, with the debt highest stet of any state in 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:51.200 the country, state taxes going up, so much dissatisfaction, and 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.800 yet despite this poll, I think most people would expect 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.880 if there was an election today, labor would win. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.720 Indeed, a lot of people did expect that after the 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.519 lock down fiasco as well, and we did have an election, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.959 So who knows. That's a bigger topic, but it does 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.640 feel a little bit like snatching defeat from the jobs 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.760 of victory. Yeah, all the fundamentals are favorable to the 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.840 Liberal Party, as you pointed out, and it feels like 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.200 a little bit of a head scratcher that if they're 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.280 not able to advantage that for their own re electoral prospects, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.360 then what would they What would it take. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.120 Now to a story broken by the Australian newspaper that 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.360 really exposes some troubling cultural issues at Channel nine, and 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.640 the chief executive, Mike Sneezebe, is now urging the company's 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.960 staff to come forward with any complaints about inappropriate behavior. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.920 This follows claims about former news boss Darren Wick's behavior, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:48.120 but Kosher, this concern for the welfare of stuff only 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.600 came about after The Australian broke this story. Before that, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.680 they appeared to be going out of their way to 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.920 hide any wrongdoing in the workplace. So excuse me if 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.480 I'm a little bit dubious about their claims of caring 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:04.920 about the welfare of staff. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.720 Now it has shades, and obviously this is still an 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.360 investigation internally that's ongoing and that will run its course. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:13.920 But from what we know so far, it really to 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.800 me had shades of all these other things that we've seen, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.880 whether it was Fox News, CBS, less members, Harvey Weinstein, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.400 and Hollywood, like in all those situations, Matt Lauer at NBC, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.880 you know, it was sort of not equating and give 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.840 those people to this scenario, but it's in the same 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.440 category basically of somebody who was obviously misbehaving against staff 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.479 in a pretty egregious way. Everybody knew about it, and 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.280 they never say anything until somebody leaks at breaks and 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.120 it's impossible to ignore, and then they can conduct these 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.839 internal investigations and maybe this is in the same. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.640 Vein Well, we'll say at this point nothing has been proven, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:56.040 but there's certainly allegations and how someone in a position 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.000 of power left their job. I think that is also 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.120 something that Channel I weren't completely transparent about it at 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:08.040 the time. Reporter r V Yemeni has captured incredible footage 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:13.279 of himself being threatened by pro Palestinian activists thugs really 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.960 as Victoria police looked on. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.520 I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna what are you going 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:21.240 to do live? 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:22.240 What are you going to do live? 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.240 What are you going to do live? 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.839 What do you get my way? 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:32.919 You're the camera? 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:36.640 You want to me? 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:42.840 Why did you turn my way? 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:43.440 Why? 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.000 Why did you turn? 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.040 This is Victoria Kosher. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.159 The police watched a man throw what looked like a bottle, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.560 look like the threats were being made a lot of aggression, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.000 and they did nothing even as they see the entire 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.480 I think being filmed. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:02.280 So if they've got. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.560 Someone here with a profile who's got a camera crew there, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:06.680 and they don't do nothing. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:08.240 I hate to. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.320 Think what their approach would be if you're just an 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.239 ordinary person who's attacked in this way. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.280 For sure, it's hard to really understand why when there's 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.000 such an obvious case of assault or violence, or somebody 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.880 you know, flinging a bottle as you say, that's when 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.000 it crosses that line. There's a lot of talk about 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.080 freedom of speech and protecting protesters rights versus when it 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.360 crosses over. That would be an example when it crossed over. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.880 And it is interesting. I'm not sure we could speculate 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.640 that maybe there's politics that's baked into this issue so 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.839 much that it's affecting the way the police are deciding 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.520 and in real time what they do or don't do. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.840 But needless to say, for somebody like Avi who had 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.919 a camera behind him and captures his footage, it's not 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.160 a good look. And obviously he's gonna he's got a 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.320 big audience and he's gonna market that and expose you know, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:52.719 what he experienced there. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:57.000 Victoria police really need to be far more consistent in 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.680 how they apply the law. They can't have this two 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:05.400 tier policing, selective policing where if they like the alleged victim, 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.760 they step in. If they don't, then we can't do anything. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.160 This is really undermining faith in the police force. Now 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.200 let's go to the UK, where Prime Minister Isshi Sunak 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.160 made the surprise announcement that the general election will be 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.360 held on July fourth this year. The Daily Telegraph calls 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.200 it a gamble. That's putting it lightly. They also mocked 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.520 his rain drenched appearance with things can only get wetter. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.440 His party is. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.880 Behind in the polls, Kosher badly, twenty seven points behind 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.600 Labor according to the latest Yugov poll for The Times. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.840 But you have inflation falling. He's got this. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.520 Rwandant plan that finally seems to be making its way 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.280 through Parliament. How do you assess this decision to go 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.440 early when you're this far behind. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.800 It's a gamble. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.320 Indeed, gamble. I've heard it described as a suicide mission 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.760 instead of I like that one better that you know 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.640 you're going down, so just cut your losses and go out, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.560 go down on your own terms. Earlier who knows, but 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.160 it seems like something along those lines. We talked earlier 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.040 about snatching victory defeat from the jaws of victory. Excuse me, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.000 this is kind of the same thing that they had 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.320 a massive majority in twenty nineteen. People in the UK 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:28.360 are really really dissatisfied with both parties. Huge issues, immigration, inflation, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.800 all of that the same in their counterparts everywhere, and 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.920 if there were ever a party that had an opportunity 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.560 to present high contrast positions that address those issues, it 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.400 should have been the Liberal Party. When they're in power. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.480 They completely failed to do that and many are not surprised, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.920 including people who are sympathetic to them or voters of them, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.720 a lot of them saying that they deserve to lose. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.679 Other tories have been so hopeless. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.280 They really have. They've been in power for such a 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.839 length of time, but it seems like the bureaucracy is 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.880 round the show and you really wonder how much worse 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:58.640 lib it can be. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.000 I guess we'll find out very shortly. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:07.480 Now's who Israeli campaign group which is released really disturbing 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.040 footage year and I do give a warning for people 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.319 to step away from the television because this is disturbing footage. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:20.880 This is female troops being captured by her mass militants 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.720 on October seven. The families of these victims want this 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.079 footage to be shown. These young women are still hostages 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:59.520 of her masks. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:47.720 Beautiful. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:55.400 And kosher. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.560 The plight of these hostages has been lost in the 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.880 coverage that we're getting. There's nothing mentioned in all these 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:08.120 protests and marches, the pro Palestinian marches and campus protests. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:14.040 There's nothing said about the hostages. It's almost their hostile 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.720 to any mention of the hostages. We saw the posters 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.360 of the hostages being torn down early on and you 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.760 look at that and it is just so sadistic and barbaric. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.319 It is a just stick and barbaric, and that's why 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.800 the family members released it. I think as they're trying 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.800 to bring attention back to this issue, they're being very 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.160 critical of the leadership of israel leadership because these are 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.199 Israeli troops and whether rightly or wrongly, they're saying, it's 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.880 been more than six months, seven months, where is the 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.400 hostage negotiation strategy, where is a hostage rescue plan? Why 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.440 aren't they more of a focal point, as you say, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.360 And I think this issue is just morerphed. You know, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.679 its tentacles have turned up in all sorts of venues, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.360 from free speech to immigration, and different factions of people 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.960 who view this Israel versus Palestine issue through different lens. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.400 But the one thing that was the most unifying in 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.200 all of it was innocent hostages needing to be released. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.959 All sides generally agree with that, and it's completely gotten 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.280 lost in the fog of war. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:14.640 Absolutely, and some world leaders are rewarding Hamas's barbaric attack 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.000 by announcing that they recognize the state of Israel. His 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.400 Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.320 Last month, I stood on these same steps with Prime 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.760 Minister Sanchez of Spain, and we said that the point 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.320 of recognizing the state of Palestine was coming closer. That 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:38.120 point has now arrived. Today Ireland, Norway and Spain are 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:43.200 announcing that we recognize the state of Palestine. Each of 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:48.120 us will now undertake whatever national steps are necessary to 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.960 give effect to that decision. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.520 Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote on x Today's decision 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.080 sends a message to the Palestinians and the world that 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.920 terrorism pa. He also said, these countries are choosing to 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.360 reward her mass and I ran by recognizing a Palestinian 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.360 state strong words, and then now before you go Kosher. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.839 Fox News's Bill Milujin has done superb work on the 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.440 US border crisis, has been reporting on it for many 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:25.280 Years've seen millions, yes, millions, pouring through that southern border 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.160 illegally every year of Biden's presidency. Here he is interviewing 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.840 some recent arrivals, and this group are not economic migrants 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.120 from Mexico or even South America. They have traveled all 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.600 the way from Asia and the Middle East to cross 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.640 into the US through the southern border. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:53.520 Where he goes from the country, Folks, Pakistan, India, India, Turkey, Yeah, Turkey, Okay, Yeah, India, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.199 where he goes from Turkey, Turkey, Turkey. Where he goes 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:05.760 from China, China, Where you guys from India, India, India. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:07.400 And Kosher. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.959 We're hearing the numbers may increase further because they want 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.640 to take advantage of what could be Joe Biden's final 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.640 months in office. And it really is incredible to see 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.320 more than two million every year under Biden coming in 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:24.280 this way so. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.080 Reason and in the era of airfare and air travel, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.280 it's not a surprise that people can travel and fly 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.200 in from anywhere in the world across the border. That 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.679 is wide open. This is an issue that is also 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.240 unifying the electorate in a way as never before. People 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.880 don't want it and it may well be his downfall. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.000 Kosha Gator, thank you so much for your time to 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:46.440 save me. Joining me now is Victorian Libertarian MP David Limbrica. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:48.600 David, the new chair of the. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.840 Australian Sports Commission, Kate Jenkins, has said, my vision is 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.280 for sports to be safe, air, accessible and inclusive for everyone, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:02.559 with every athlete supported to reach their full potential. Sounds wonderful. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.959 But before female athletes celebrate this a little too much, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.680 the CEO of Women's Forum Australia, Rachel Wong, reminds us 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.880 that Jenkins helped destroy the female sporting category when she 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:19.680 implemented trans inclusion guidelines in her previous role as a 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:24.000 sex discrimination commissioner. Wong rites, so, in other words, Kate 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:30.880 wants safe, fair, etc. Sport for everyone except women and girls. David, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.400 I know you are deeply involved. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:33.920 In this issue. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.320 Is that a fair assessment or should we give Kate 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.640 Jenkins an opportunity to show what she's going to do 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:40.520 in this new role. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.080 Well, look, I think what Rachel Wong's saying here is 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.760 exactly right in that ultimately the reason that different sporting 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.720 classes were separated between boys and girls is because there's 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.400 physical differences, and just taking hormones for a period of 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.880 time doesn't change any of that. The fact of the 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.560 matter is that female and males are different, and if 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.880 they want to have sports that are separated, then they 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:04.840 should be allowed to do that. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.200 Now, let's go to the energy crisis. New South Wales 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.680 and Victorian households are facing a very real threat of 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.480 energy blackouts this coming summer as both states push ahead 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.120 with shutting down the cheapest and most reliable current forms 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.280 of energy we have. David, will renewables ever give us 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:28.920 the stable energy supply we need. It seems mad, particularly 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.800 in this state when we're sitting on so much gas 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.800 that we could have a shortage. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.440 Well, we've got cole as well in Victoria, which we've 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:37.920 been running on for a very long time. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:38.280 Now. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.720 Whether or not you can get to a fully renewable 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.520 system is more a matter of cost and reliability, and 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.400 to my mind, it seems pretty risky to go down 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.120 a path where your entire energy supply is dependent on 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.760 the weather rather than dependent on what you can mine 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.720 or what you can get from gas. So I think 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.800 it's very risky over the long term. I've been saying 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.320 for a long time that we need to look at 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:06.000 other technologies such as nuclear energy. But yeah, we're risking blackouts. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.040 And a lot of this is around the infrastructure that 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.680 they need to build as well. They need to build 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.640 a web of networks all over the state and other 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.960 infrastructure like batteries and condensers and all these things, and 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.560 that's going to take time. It adds complexity, it adds cost, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.600 and where you've got more complexity, more cost, you have 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:24.720 things go wrong. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.800 Well, you've put up a private members built to remove 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.800 the nuclear prohibition in this state. What are the chances 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.640 that's going to get up? And with all due respect, why. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:37.840 Is it left to you to do this? 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.960 Why aren't the liberal opposition coming up with these plans 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:46.560 and trying to ensure we have safe, reliable energy. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.760 Well, with regards to the nuclear prohibition in Victoria, I 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.360 just think it's a no brainer that if people who 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.400 are against it are saying, well it's too expensive, well 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.080 why have the prohibition? That's argument for prohibition. Look as 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.400 for the Liberal Party, I don't know like they did 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.840 end up supporting my bill in Parliament. But the current government. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.080 I think that the Premier today said that she's never 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.960 going to have nuclear because it's too risky. I would 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.439 argue it's too risky to put, you know, depend on 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.359 the weather and depend on being perpetually dependent on China, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.920 which is what we're doing with the so called cheap renewables. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.359 Is just so dishonest, I think to try to scare 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.640 people off nuclear, it's really just ignoring the evidence from 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:36.560 around the world. So many countries safely using nuclear energy. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.520 We're sitting on the world's biggest reserves of uranium and 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.480 we're not. We spoke on the show last night about 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.080 that promising pole for the Victorian Liberals in the Age newspaper. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.760 They're well in front of labor. According to that pole. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:56.640 Clearly Victorians are fed up therese state taxes are hurting, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.600 but other liberals. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:00.680 Are viable alternative. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.960 How are you seeing their performance in Parliament and are 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.159 they coming up with policies that differentiate them adequately from labor. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.200 Look, I think a lot. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.840 Of the decline in labor really honestly has to do 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.159 with Dan going away. A lot of people did like 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.720 him and if you look at it, it's quite interesting. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.040 The poll shows are decline in support for Labor, but 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.280 it doesn't show people going to the Greens. The Greens 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.639 are sort of flatlining, and it's going to the Liberal 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.919 Party and cross benches like Libertarian Party. And if you 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.400 look at it, I think it's the first time I've 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.719 seen it where the cross benches combined are actually gaining 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.879 more support than either major party. So I think a 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:41.639 lot of people are saying, well, I'm not happy with 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.719 the government. Some of those are going and looking at 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.879 the Liberal Party. Some of them are looking at minor 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.240 parties like the Libertarian Party, you know, as to whether 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.359 the opposition is viable or not. Look, they've got a 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.399 lot of problems. They've got to need they need to 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.960 sort out, I think. But you know, they're trying to unify. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.960 How successful that is, I mean, that's up to the electorate. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.440 But they've certainly got a lot of problems and they've 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.200 been on the back foot a lot over the last year. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:09.480 Well, there's a lot of material that Labor give the 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.120 Liberal Party which they never use. I mean, you look 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.399 at this week, this crazy position and conjecture about the 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:21.359 treaty with the minister making the most remarkable comments about 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.000 colonization and stolen land and people being murdered, the sort 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:27.880 of things you'd expect to hear from a first year 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:33.119 art student, not a senior cabinet minister. Why are the 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:38.640 Liberals so reluctant to venture into those areas and where 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.760 they know they're on safe ground? The overwhelmed, melming majority 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.159 of Victorians do not want a treaty. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.320 A lot of these things. I think they're just scared 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.440 of being called names. Like we saw it with the 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.359 fracking band in the last term of parliament. They were 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.240 scared of getting called, you know, fossil dinosaurs or whatever, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.240 and so they end up supporting the government on that. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.199 We saw it with things around gender medicine and and 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.040 the Change of Suppression Act in the last term of parliament, 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.480 and we see it with issues like nuclear as well. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.720 Even though the majority of Victorians are okay with nuclear, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.399 they don't come out and say, yes, we're supportive of 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.560 this like the Federal government has been doing the Federal 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.440 Opposition has been doing recently. So I think a lot 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:19.880 of it is they're just sort of scared of being 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:20.760 called names. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.080 But at the end of the day, you are being 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:29.560 called the state's unofficial opposition leader. So it's an honor, 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.240 I guess because thank you, and it's something you really 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.159 took to during those COVID years where we had the 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.879 liberals again too scared to challenge some of the crazy 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.399 draconian policies that we saw in this state. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.120 Before you go, we're seeing wonderful. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:52.080 Things from Argentina's new Leaderjava Mila. Here's a libertarian like yourself. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.800 Does this give you hope that people will look at 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.120 libertarians and say they don't just have some good ideas, 0:20:58.119 --> 0:20:59.280 they can actually govern. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.399 Well, he's been handed one of the probably one of 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.639 the worst situations that you could ever come up with. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:10.320 The state was totally in chaos, like in every way, financially, socially, everything, 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.159 and so he's really focused on economic issues. So one 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.960 of the things he's done, they had a problem with 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.160 their rental properties, same as what we've got in Victoria. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.280 He went to fully deregulate it because they had regulated pricing, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.080 so he wanted to deregulate that. They've seen an increase 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.879 in the number of rental properties for being available of 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.240 over two hundred and forty percent in like a month 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.840 or so. He's already brought the budget back into surplus 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.159 in only a few months by slashing the public service 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.320 and a lot of the and also inflation is starting 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.919 to come down. So I think he's making a fantastic 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:49.080 headway so far by focusing on solid libertarian policies, and 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.159 I wish him all the best for the future. I 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.520 think they're off to a good start considering he's only 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:54.520 been there a few months. 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.879 David Limbrick, thank you so much for your time this evening. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:57.520 Thanks for having me. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:58.239 Still to come. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:03.280 Alex Epstein breaks down left's latest claims that climate change. 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:16.720 Is racist plus lefties losing it Welcome back. 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:20.000 Now it's time for lefties losing it. We've been seeing 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.080 a lot of Bill Maher lately. He has a book 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.639 to flog, so he's been everywhere from the View to Guttfeld. 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.199