WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 24 February 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.519 On Scolds Australia. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.280 This is the Wider Panalty Show. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.280 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panny Show. Coming 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.040 up tonight, the Prime Minister's under fire for sitting down 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.439 for an in depth interview with a reality star with 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.680 virulently anti Israel, anti Australia de views professor and Plymer 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.520 will join me to fact check Climate change Minister Chris 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.960 Bowen's latest claims. We'll have the latest from the US, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.400 including the Trump administration's pledge to dismantle anwah. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.480 Josh Hammer will join me after the break, and later. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.239 In the hour, Kinsey Schofield We'll be here to explain 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.000 why Greg Gottfeld is out rating each and every big 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.000 star on late night TV and we never neglect left 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:54.440 He's losing it tonight featuring freshly sacked MSNBC anchor Joy Read. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:59.960 Particularly Mail wait tears, really wait tiers in general, because 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.120 that's what Carerot's are right their care now, ad Ministerota 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.200 get CODs b waterworks. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:06.679 But first. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.560 The Coalition has achieved its biggest lead in the poll 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.200 since the last election, pulling ahead of Labor in the 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.679 latest Freshwater Strategy poll. The Australian Financial Review reports the 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.560 Coalition now leads Labor fifty two to forty eight percent. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.080 That represents a four point one percent swing away from 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.080 Labor since the twenty twenty two election, and it could 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.200 mark a turning point for the coalition as the party 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.880 also holds double digit leads over Labor on key issues 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.720 including cost of living, economic management and crime. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.560 On their current trajectory. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.320 It's possible that the Coalition could form a majority government, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.800 but Labor still has some good news. Anthony Alberanizi is 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.240 a head of Peter Dutton as p therred Prime minister 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.880 forty five to forty three percent. Let's bring in the 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.400 deputy executive director at the Institute of Public Affairs, Dan Wild. Now, Dan, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.880 the coalition is close, but if the election result mirrored 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.520 that poll, well they wouldn't get a majority. We're going 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.880 to look at a labor minority government. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.560 Well that's right, but I think you'd rather be in 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.239 the coalition camp than the labor camp at the moment. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:20.880 You know, people have sort of made up their minds 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:25.519 about Labor that Labor doesn't deserve a second term because 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.160 they haven't delivered for Australians alls they did to spend 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.240 half a billion dollars in half their first term in 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.280 Parliament on a Voice to Parliament to divide us by race, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.480 which was rejected by sixty percent of Australians and also 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.000 a significant share of Labor voters. And things have only 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.680 gotten worse since then. And I think that Australians are 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.359 also looking at Peter Dutton because he supports australiat A. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.320 He's been very strong on the Australian flag and other 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.639 key cultural issues and they see somebody who is going 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.080 to stand up for Australian values. So you know, I 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.000 think things are only going to get worse for Labor. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.080 Anthony Abernezi historically has not been a strong campaigner. We 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.799 saw that in twenty twenty two when Labour actually did 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.639 the best in the campaign when they said that Anthony 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.520 Abernezi had COVID and they took him off the campaign 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.760 town and maybe he had remember that, I don't know, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.720 but he was lying in bed and you know the 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.400 polls were going up for Labor when he was lying 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.239 in bed, So you know, not a great campaigner. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.920 No, I do remember that. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:24.280 Now. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.720 I don't know what excuse they can use this time. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.040 Perhaps will be busy planning his wedding, or maybe about 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:30.839 of influenza. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.560 Will wait and see. But the Prime Minister did. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.160 Make time in his very busy schedule last week to 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.840 sit down with extreme left hysteric Abbi Chatfield for a 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.040 lengthy interview. This wasn't some five minute phone in chat 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.400 He went on for about nineteen minutes. And Chatfield is 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.840 a dad so intolerant that she has boasted about unfollowing 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.040 friends who hold any sort of gathering or party on 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.119 Australia Day, even if they call it Invasion Day. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.080 So this is the sort of character we're talking about. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.000 She's also banded pro Israel people from her platform while 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.840 hosting those who promote all sorts of ugly lies and 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.400 hate towards the only Jewish state. Why is the Prime 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.040 Minister coosing up to a character like. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:26.200 This, Well, he wanted a softball interview, you know that 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.000 sort of shows him in some kind of normal setting 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.680 would be the thinking. I mean, I think most I 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.440 didn't watch all of the ninety minutes. It was just 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.080 I mean, I don't know anyone who can get through that, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.800 to be honest, But the parts I did watch were 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.839 obviously scripted. It wasn't sort of this free wheeling, you know, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.120 interview like Trump had with Joe Rogan for example, or 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.560 Jadie Vance for that matter, where there was no scripting 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.560 the you know, you could tell that Albin Easy had 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.960 the questions in advance. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:51.080 You know. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:52.760 It just kind of shows also the kind of people 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.080 he hangs out with, people that don't like Australia, you know, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.280 that don't support Australia day. This is a long running 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.520 theme of this Prime minister in this government. So look, 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.000 it's hardly surprising that he's talking to these sort of 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:10.040 pseudo you know, pseudo celebrities on social media who don't 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.599 really speak to the mainstream. Again, Anthony Abnez, he only 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.240 ever speaks to the activist class. He's never spoken to 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.600 mainstream Australians because he doesn't understand mainstream Australian values. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.680 But he tells us he's governing for the mainstream. Because 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.720 I remember in the election campaign last time around, even 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.760 when he got elected, we kept hearing that he's not 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.560 some woke, far. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:34.640 Left ideal loge. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.520 Remember that famous front page I'm not woke, telling everybody, no, no, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.200 I'm all about mainstream Australian values. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:43.680 And then he. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.640 Thrust the voice upon US and now this he is 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.800 closing up to people who are very far from mainstream 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.040 Australian values. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.960 Now, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.560 A pledge to splurge even more than Labor on Medicare. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.040 Labor announced a eight point five billion dollar Medicare funding 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:09.800 package yesterday. Peter Dutton has immediately returned fire. He's pledging 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.720 nine billion, and neither policy dan. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.359 Appears to be fully costed. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:20.400 And I do wonder if this does undermine the coalition's 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.600 pledge to be fiscally responsible, to be different from Labor. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.560 How can we expect them not to blow up the 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.080 budget if they're spending billions like this. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.640 Willy nilly, Yeah, I think Peter Dunton recently has said 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.000 that the cutting of public servants would say about six 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.279 billion a year and that presumably would help pay for 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.880 this commitment. So you know, we'll see if that transpires 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.520 in terms of the cutting of thirty one thousand bureaucratic 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.320 penpushes in Canberra, which is a very good idea, you know, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.880 in terms of the broader issue here well, obviously Anthony 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.400 Albereze's trying to do Mediscare two point zero, which worked 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.599 in twenty sixteen in a political sense for two reasons. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.440 One is that it was sort of believable to a 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.839 lot of people that Malcolm Turnble would privatize and sell 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.400 off Medicare, which wasn't a fair claim, but a lot 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.360 of people believed it. And secondly, it wasn't actually rebutted 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.760 by Malcolm Turnbull all the Liberals at the time, so 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.160 obviously Peter Dutton's not going to let that happen again. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.240 And I think it also shows how desperate labor is. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.000 Elections are about two things. What if you've done for 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:26.520 me lately and what are you going to do for 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.600 me next? If Labor is reaching into the bottom drawer 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.640 to pull out another scare campaign about Medicare and that's 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.240 all they've got, then I think they're toast. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.720 Now let's talk about the ABC that don't seem to 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.560 be fearful about any cuts at all, the Department of 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.880 Government Efficiency. I wonder if they're going to have a 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.840 look at the ABC billion plus we give them every 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:56.800 single year to churn out leftist activist nonsense, including attacks 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.440 against the US Doge. Their Department of Government said the 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.880 ABC is just parroting Democrat talking points with hit pieces 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.200 like this. This one says, as Elon Musk and Doge 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.680 get to work, there is concern that they're slash and 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.480 burn approach will have unwanted consequences. Just ask Megan, us 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.440 AID employee who got one of the billionaires dreaded emails 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.960 that was on X And they've done several articles and 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.280 I guess, Dan, I shouldn't be surprised that we've got 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:32.679 a taxpayer funded leftist activist organization defending another taxpayer funded 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.400 leftist activist organization. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.000 Yeah, imagine shock horror getting an email. I mean, wow, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.040 you know, something to be dreaded. You know, it just 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.920 shows the mentality. It really shows the mentality. Not allowed 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.640 us send emails to people now because they might be 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.800 offended by it. Look, the reality is Australia needs a 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.679 bit of a taste of the of the Doge and 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.920 done in a way that's consistent with Australian policies. You know, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.760 you're not just going to transplant something that works in 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.720 a and bring it straight here. But you know, Senator 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.400 just Enter Price has been made head of Government Efficiency. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.240 If the Coalition informs government and we need a more 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.800 efficient government, there's a lot of waste. We just talked 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.600 to before about the public servants. But you know, I reckon, 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.560 if you went through the grant programs, all of the 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.640 woke grant programs that are spent on transgenderism and whatever 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.400 else there is, that all needs to be cut and 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.000 we should go through the bureaucracy and see, well, you know, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.959 where is the waste, Where can we reduce it to 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.680 get a better return for taxpayers. And you know, clearly 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.240 Elon Musk has gone in there and had a good 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.079 look at the waste that's there and cut back on 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.520 billions and billions of dollars. And Trump has said, well 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.840 some of that's going to be returned back to the 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.040 American people as tax cuts. Now, if we could do 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.560 that here, I think that's. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:48.000 A very good thing, absolutely, And I wonder what sort 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.920 of programs we're funding. You look at all the crazy 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:58.440 expended chain USAID that's been revealed. Just so much money 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.960 go into these ngo, these activist organizations who are pushing 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.120 this far left lunacy. It's not grassroots, it's not organic. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.720 It's all funded by taxpayer dollars and then pushing things 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.079 that majority of taxpayers don't want. Labour's been accused of 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.400 a mass vote buying scheme amid revelations that they ordered 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:26.640 twenty five additional citizenship ceremonies to be held, mainly in 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:32.080 Western Sydney seats. Around thirteen thousand people have become citizens 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.480 through this. Labor claims that these extra ceremonies were scheduled 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.000 to a backlog. They were trying to clear this backlog. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:45.280 But we spoke to the Fairfield Mayor, Frank Carbone yesterday 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.840 on Outsiders and his local government area was targeted with 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.920 these additional citizenship ceremonies. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.479 He said there was no backlog. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.079 The AEC, which is Australian Litical Commission, informed us that 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.440 we actually didn't have a baitlog. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.360 If there was a backlog, let us know, we will 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:03.040 put more on. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.240 But somehow magically thousands of people have appeared. And it's 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.840 my guest that the Home Affairs Minister or his department 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.960 has asked the AEC to fast track. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.120 Some citizenship. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.320 People that receive a citizenship and hasn't told the councils. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.040 Very curious, Stan, what do you think is going on here? 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.160 Well, it's pretty obvious it's all political, and you know 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.640 this has been the point that we've been making with 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.160 the government's policies. As it pertains to those you know 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.040 in Western Sydney that the migration policy is being driven 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.480 by votes, not by Australian values, not by what's in 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.640 our national interests. The migration program has been a total 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.280 disaster from day one under this government. Something like one 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.679 point four million on a net basis have been brought 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.959 into this country and that's why we're getting poorer. Mass 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.280 migration is making Australians poorer. We've had seven consecutive orders 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.040 of negative per capita growth, which is the longest aclient 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.200 to living standards since Whitlam. And now they're just putting 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.839 more people in without any plan for housing or infrastructure 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.880 or social services that we all rely upon. Now we 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.880 want to be a nation that can welcome migrants. Of 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.600 course that's been the case since the end of World 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.439 War Two, but everybody knows it needs to be planned for. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.360 You've got to have the infrastructure in first before you 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.640 start bringing people in. And now this is just obviously 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.880 a vote buying scheme by Labor and I think most 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.160 Australians will look at that with a ghast and say, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.000 we need to have a properly managed migration system, not 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.840 one that's based on winning votes. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.760 And we're talking here about thousands of new voters, and 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.400 if they skew a certain way, that could decide certain 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:52.040 seats with small margins. And they are expecting a swing 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.600 against labor in those Western Sydney seats, so it is 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.439 a big issue. Before you go, I want to ask 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:04.319 you about the elections in Germany. The Conservative Christian Democratic 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.319 Union has won that election. They got twenty eight point 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:09.840 six percent of the vote. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.480 They're expected to form a. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:17.239 Coalition with other right wing parties, but not the AfD, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.760 which saw huge gains in its share of the vote. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:25.120 They came in second place, record breaking twenty point eight 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:29.040 percent for them. But I do wonder whether the exclusion 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.720 of the AfD, which is all about shutting those borders 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:33.480 having a. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.319 Orderly immigration process. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.240 I wonder if not including them in the coalition is 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.040 going to mean that we're just going to see more 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.760 of the same in Germany. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.640 Yeah, I think it's strange that you wouldn't have the 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.760 second the party with the second largest vote share have 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.680 the opportunity to form government in coalition. And I say 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.440 that regardless of the political leanings of the party, you know, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.120 and I think we've seen this with gert Wielders in 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.640 the Netherlands up until recently, and also Marine le Pen 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:11.800 in France, which is, if you exclude you know, parties 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:16.040 from governing that have significant shares of the vote, then 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.920 you are going to anger people and show it reinforces 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.600 the message of these populist parties that regular people are 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.480 being ignored and neglected by the political establishment. So if 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.760 you're a part of the establishment and you're concerned about 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.200 the rise of populism, the best thing you can do 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.280 is to include people in a governing coalition, not exclude them. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.520 So yeah, sure you'll keep them out of government for 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.240 a few years, but I think it only strengthens the 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.960 hand that many of these populous insurgencies have. And again 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.800 it's going to anger a lot of people who have 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.480 voted for these parties that say, this just proves the 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.800 point people who are in power don't care about us. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.200 Absolutely, it's an overwhelming result for right leaning parties. And 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.600 yet if you're going to have a coalition that's going 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:08.400 to keep pushing leftist policies, you wonder about the state 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.440 of democracy in a country like Germany and That's precisely 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.960 what Vice President jd Vance was talking about during that 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.560 groundbreaking speech about the elites almost disregarding what the people 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.640 want and doing as they wish regardless of the election results. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.920 Dan Wild, thank you so much for your time tonight. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:29.600 Joining me now is. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:34.280 A esteem geologist and author, Professor Ian Plymer, Professor Energy 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.960 and climate change. Minister Chris Bowen is added again on 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.160 social media. I don't know he thinks he's some sort 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.200 of an instant influencer these days. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.600 Let's have a look at his latest offering. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.720 So Peter Dutton reckons we need nuclear to make more 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.560 electricity for things like AI and alminium smelters. But his 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.640 own policy documents show that nuclear would create forty percent 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.720 less electricity for Australia. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:15:59.200 Got it? 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.920 Nuclear will generate less electricity than renewables. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.560 Ian is there a flaw in that claim? 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.120 Well, mister Bowen is wrong. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.560 There is a major flaw in his argument. We have 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.960 thirty two countries that use nuclear power. We have nineteen 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.520 of the twenty G twenty countries that have nuclear power. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.680 We're the only one that does it. The G seven countries, 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.800 all of them have nuclear power. We've had a nuclear 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.680 reactor in Australia since the late nineteen fifties, and the 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.960 first reactor, the High Fi Reactor, operated from nineteen fifty 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.320 eight to two thousand and seven when it was retired. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.240 Our second reactor, the Opal reactor, is still going now. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.520 We have a nuclear industry already and our nuclear power 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:53.080 station provides medicines for people who might be suffering from cancer. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.560 But if we look around the world, we see that 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.920 there are many countries much smaller than us, like Slow 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:01.280 only two. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.639 Million people, they've got nuclear power, Finland five and a 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.520 half million people, they've got nuclear power, Hungry, smaller than thus, Belgium, Israel, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.199 the Netherlands are media. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.960 They're all smaller than us and they have nuclear power. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.800 Spain has more people, but its economies less than ours, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.119 and they have nuclear power. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.800 So mister Bowen should actually give you facts right now. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.000 The labor government in Wa has said that mining giant 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.080 Fordescue Owes between five and ten million dollars in compensation 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.879 for damaging two hundred and forty nine indigenous cultural heritage 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.119 sites during the construction of the Solomon or Iron ore 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.480 mine in the Pilbra. The local people there are fighting 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.520 a Landmark one point eight billion dollars in compensation in 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.160 their federal court case against Fortescue in What else can 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:52.919 you tell us about this case? 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:55.840 Well, this is a can of worms. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:01.800 We have mining companies that pay royalties, they pay taxes, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.000 the employees pay taxes, they pay company tax and on 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.240 top of that, you've got another impost and that is 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:17.960 so called compensation to Aboriginal people. And this becomes fairly onerous. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.280 The rules are very flexible. It just depends upon whether 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.960 the Aboriginal population can see that there's a gold mine 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.119 there of money that they can extract from you. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.440 So I'm fairly. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.320 Dubious about some of the claims that are made because 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.560 we already have very very strict environmental regulations which are 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.480 checked all the way through a process, and we have 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.879 massive royalties that are paid, and yet there's another impost 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:48.880 that comes on to us. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.880 So I'm always quite skeptical of these sort of claims. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.840 Well, we'll watch this case and we'll bring you the 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.760 latest as it happens. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:18:59.919 Before you go. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.160 So, the Trump administration is looking to develop an LNG 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.240 project in Alaska so you can export gas to its 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:09.640 allies in Asia. 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.639 This is an effort to. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:16.320 Revitalize the US fossil fuel investment in Asia. Donald Trump 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.920 revived this decade's old proposal. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.159 In his talks with the Japanese Prime Minister. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.520 Who reported he told Donald Trump that he hoped Japan 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.879 could participate in this sixty nine billion dollar project. And 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.080 this is again just more evidence of the US pressing 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:40.639 ahead with its fossil fuel projects and not just becoming 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.480 energy independent, but becoming an energy superpower. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.399 Well, that's quite right. Alastica does have a lot of 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:48.119 oil and gas. 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:55.160 It's basically unexploited, and we in Australia export. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.480 A lot of gas around the world, a lot of 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:57.159 it to Japan. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.159 So because we're not active, what it means is that 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.320 the Americans are going to take our markets from us. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.640 They're also going to take markets from other big gas 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.480 suppliers like Kawait. So we're sitting back while Rome's burning. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.960 We should be aggressively out there marketing. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:13.200 Now. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.840 We've burnt our bridges some time ago with the Japanese. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:20.040 With the green tape, the red tape, the black tape, 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.919 and the UN's blue tape, and what that means is 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.440 that we are now an insecure supplier and the Japanese, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.560 of course, would look elsewhere to get a supplier that 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:31.520 is more secure. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.520 So this is bad news for Australia. It's an own goal. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.359 State and federal governments have done this to US. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.600 Professor and Plymer, It's always a pleasure. Thanks for your 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:44.199 time tonight. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:45.360 Thank you. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.560 Still to come. Lefties losing it plus. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.679 The latest from the US, including the Trump administration's about 0:20:52.720 --> 0:21:06.040 to dismantle ANWA. Josh Hammer is up next. Welcome back. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.520 Now it's time for lefties losing it. Let's start lefties 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.240 with my favorite moment over the weekend where. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:16.879 President Donald Trump called out the far left main governor Janet. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:20.600 Mills who's refusing to abide by federal laws and protect 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.879 women's sport from male bodies. Grab the popcorn and enjoy 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:26.920 this exchange. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.199 Is the mean here the governor of Man, Are you 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.359 not going to comply with it? Well, we are the 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.639 federal law. Well you better do it. 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:39.440 You better do it. 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.320 Because you're not going to get any federal funding at 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.360 all if you don't. And by the way, your population, 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:45.639 even though it's somewhat liberal or law, I did very 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:50.120 well there. Your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.320 So you better, you better comply because otherwise you're not 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.800 getting any federal funding every state. 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:57.200 Good. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:57.920 I'll see you good. 0:21:57.960 --> 0:21:58.800 I look forward to that. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.600 That should be a really easy one. And enjoy your 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:04.480 life after governor, because I don't think you'll be an 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:05.520 elected politics. 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.359 Oh oh, doesn't she look mad there? 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:13.680 Imagine being so committed to allowing men to invade women's 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.040 sport that you go to court over it, that you 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:21.360 defy federal laws. What sort of extreme left simpleton would 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:25.000