WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 13 January 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.320 Leens. 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Welcome, wait to pay. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.880 Well, good evening and thanks for joining us for a 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.440 brand new year. On the Late Debate, I'm James Macpherson 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.040 with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond. We've got a lot 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:17.200 coming up tonight, including another day another seventy nine million 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.400 dollars wasted in Victoria. Can you believe it? Of course 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.000 you can. Turns out there sobering up centers are sitting idle. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.120 You'll be shocked at just how much taxpayers are paying 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.600 per night, per person to use these things. No one's 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.560 using them. When we get to the papers, Anthony Alberanezi 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.080 is not that excited about meeting Donald Trump. In fact, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.120 he hasn't even set a date for such a meeting yet. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.320 And the Canberra Times reports that more than one point 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.519 five million Australians has delayed seeing a doctor because of 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.920 rising prices. All of that when we get to tomorrow's news. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.760 But first, it's no surprise to anybody that Victorian police 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.400 are having trouble recruiting new officers. I mean, I can't 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.960 imagine why who wouldn't want to be part of a 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.360 highly politicized police force that goes around arresting pregnant women 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.959 in their pajamas for naughty Facebook posts like they did 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.760 during the pandemic, And who wouldn't want to spend their 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.720 weekends babysitting pro Palestinian mobs as they marched through the 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:19.040 CBD chanting support for terrorists. So recruitment is a bit 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.560 of a problem in Victoria for the police, but it 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.760 turns out retention is just as much a problem. Numbers 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.759 of Victorian police are moving north to Queensland, lured by 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.600 massive incentives of cash and other riches to get them 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.040 to work in the northern state. The Herald Sun reports 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.039 that the ranks of Victorian police are under siege, with 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.959 Queensland's force revealing that their twenty thousand dollars cash bonus 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.200 and relocation incentives are successfully alluring recruits from down South. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.880 New data released by Queensland Police Service revealed Victorians were 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.400 among the most keen recruits after an advertising blitz for 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.640 the Sunshine State hit Melbourne in October. Now all of 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.240 this at a time when local police job vacancies continue 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:08.000 to rise. There's one thousand and eighty six vacancies for 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.280 police in Victoria. That's up from oney twenty six, just 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.160 a couple of months prior, Liz. I know it's a 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.000 tight job market, so obviously there's a lot of competition 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.560 for people in every industry, including police. But I'm surprised 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.160 that you would need incentives to get out of Victoria. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.760 I mean, the economy is so bad. Plus the L 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.440 ANDP government they're going tough on crime, you know, with 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.760 their adult crime adult time. If you're a police officer 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.480 frustrated by the lack of support you're getting in Victoria, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.280 with a bit of extra cash, it wouldn't take much 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.520 to lure you north where you're going to get some support. 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:42.800 No. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.720 Indeed, and this is the beauty of Federation, right. It 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.640 sets up a competitive market for these essential services. So 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.480 if you're a nurse, if you're a police officer, if 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.800 you're any number, if you're an ambo, the list goes on. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.400 What a lot of people in the private sector don't 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.880 appreciate is the public sector don't get to just put 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.600 in for a pay rise. If you were a nurse 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.080 in this state, that is your wage. If you're a 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.399 policeman in this state, that is your wage. So these 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.880 states get to set up bidding wars basically because these 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.720 are the essential services. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.639 That all of us need. Who is giving me a 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.600 better bang for my buck here? 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.440 And I'm not surprised to learn that Queensland is like, hey, yeah, no, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.480 we're doing very well out of Victoria. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:31.320 Of course, this is. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.080 Very concerning for Victorians who are seeing their own youth 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:40.160 crime spree take a very stronghold in their streets as 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.320 well as we all know at the moment, the Victorian 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:48.200 police are lobbying the broke Victorian government for an extra 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.840 dollar or two as well, because once the nurses got it, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.000 it sets off a chain reaction. The police so far 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:00.000 haven't had any success, which just adds to the perfect 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.840 timing of the Queensland L and B government saying, Hey, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.760 while you're getting nowhere with your pay dispute with the 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.520 Victorian government, how about you just move up here. We've 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.640 got way better weather for one thing. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.880 And you can hardly begrudge the coppers asking for a 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.559 pay rise when they've seen the compatriots in other parts 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.240 of the public service get a pay rise. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.920 Exactly, how can you. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.680 Justify a pay rise for nurses and then say that 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.480 the coppers don't get one, all the ambos don't get one, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:28.880 all the fieries don't get one. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:29.720 I mean, if you can to. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.719 Open that floodgate, the water is going to flood through. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.760 We did right, And they've been in. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.360 Dispute, the coppers in Victoria with the government for some time. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.720 You've been down in Melbourne over Christmas period and you saw. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.040 The writing on the police. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:49.679 Police are graffitiing their own police vehicles protesting against the government. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.919 I saw this during the Spring Carnival when I was 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.160 down in Mellow. This is at the front of the 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.039 Flemington Racecourse. You know, we'd like to buy donuts, but 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.280 labor as peanuts. I thought that was hilarious. When you've 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.320 got the public service standing up against a labor government, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:07.520 you know something is wrong. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.919 To say it was they not least so in Melbourne. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.640 I saw ambulances had officers had graffited their own vehicles 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.120 in protest that lack of government support the police. Of course, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.400 it doesn't say much for morale amongst your public servants 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.800 and especially your frontline workers when they're using their government 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.839 supplied vehicles to protest as their only form of protest 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.240 against the government, who. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.360 Were during the pandemic put on the front line and 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.640 in many times used as shields when it came to protest, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.120 like literal police were used as shields between the people 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.719 and the government. Essentially when people were trying to say. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.719 We shield we had fired rubber bullets on an armed citizens. 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.280 Indeed, but they were requested to do that, but they 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.440 were put forward during the pandemic. You've got to go 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.240 and do the job for us that we as politicians 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.359 certainly wouldn't do, whether it's walking around wards full of 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.880 COVID patients, etcetera. Of course they want to pay raise 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.719 and then you talk about the health. I mean in 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.440 New South Wales where we're sitting tonight, psychiatrists are threatening 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.279 to walk off the job is only would you believe 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.720 in New South Wales and the public mental health system, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.360 there are only three hundred psychiatrists right, so if you're 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.520 trying to rock up to a hospital in Sydney tonight 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.360 with some sort of mental health episode hoping to see 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:27.000 a psychiatrist, the chances are slim. Some two hundred of 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.560 these psychs who are asking for it should be said, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.760 a twenty five percent pay rise, but they're paid less 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.839 than the public psychiatrists in every other state, so again 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.080 no wonder they're coming through and saying, well, everyone else 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.960 is getting a pay rise, why can't we get one? 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.120 Two thirds of them are now threatening to walk off 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.000 the job. Now, the public will not. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.200 Walk off the job to resign. They're not going on strike. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.880 Because they can go to the private sector sent more, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.760 a lot more. Public mental health system in this country 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.279 is in absolute disarray. And the stories that have been 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.360 told to me by people who work within the system 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.480 about the cases that rock up to public hospitals, and 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:11.040 I'm talking the most extreme stuff that people have or 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.760 have attempted to do to themselves, and they rock up 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.280 to a public hospital and they cannot see a psychiatrist. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.280 I mean, what sort of health system do we have 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.640 in our first world country? If a we can't pay 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.600 our doctors properly to do the job to the point 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.800 where they will walk out, resign on mass, and then 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:30.880 you don't have a public health So. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.680 You've got two thirds of state psychiatrists threatening to quit completely. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:40.240 Well, they have actually already resignation, walked. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:45.120 Off on the twenty first Minister response have already resigned. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.720 The Minister responsible is on holidays in Japan, so she's 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.520 not present to sort this thing out, and public hospitals 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.200 are putting extra security on because they don't have psychiatrists 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.640 to deal with people, so all they're left with is 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.640 guards to stand up the door. It's just an unbelievable place. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.240 This is one hundred and ten percent the men's government's 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.880 fault because this has been boiling for quite a while. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:09.120 Now. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.760 One hundred and forty psychiatrists here in New South Wales 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.240 already resigned, so the build up has already been extreme. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.520 That's an extortionate amount of. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.960 Such a very essential service and also very limited. No 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.720 state has psychiatrists coming out of their coming out of 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.000 their ears, so this is a precious resource. And they 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.120 after the one forty left, the two hundred or so 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.920 remaining have been so flat strap. That is what has 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.360 driven them to this mass resignation. I'm good friends with 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.800 someone who is a good friend of one of these 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.920 sites here in New South Wales, and they were asking them, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.880 don't you feel responsible knowing that people could even die, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.280 they could take their lives because you guys have walked 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.319 off the job, to which this person responded, the system 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:10.760 is so broken already. We have decided as a collective, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.360 if that is what it takes to wake up this 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.679 government to ensure that this just doesn't go on in perpetuity. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.880 You've already got people not getting the care that they need. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.840 If that is what it takes, that is what we're 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.240 going to do. Because a lot of people have just 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.480 read this and said, oh, it's hard to feel sorry 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.079 for someone who wants a twenty five percent pay rise. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.360 They are paid very well. 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.080 Again, they're a precious, rare resources exactly, but what they 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.600 were asking for didn't even put them on parity with 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.440 the other states, where they can get well over more 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.400 than one hundred k what they're currently earning here in 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.600 New South Wales. So all they were really asking for 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.440 was their dues. The Men's government has consistently proved to 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.480 be completely tone deaf, and so you do wonder who 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.880 among us would do any differently. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.320 I think about these stories. I always think the government 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.240 was going to spend twenty five million dollars on a 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.000 flag pole on the Harbor Bridge. So we can't afford 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.120 mental health, but a flagpole for the indigenous flag, Oh, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.080 we could do twenty five million. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.240 Novel is just obscene, particularly in the middle of a 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.840 mental health crisis that we know we're facing in this 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.880 country that the government state governments can spend money on 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.679 all of these ridiculous things and they can't stop up 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.160 the money to have an operational public health system. And 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.040 wonder our countries in tatus And when we're talking about 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.839 the public surface, let's go down to my old state 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.120 of South Australia, where, far from having troubles with being 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.720 able to get public service. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.080 They've got too many of them. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.040 Now I suspect these people don't work in the health system. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.320 In fact, the people we're talking about here most of 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.640 them worked, or I should say used to work in 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:56.520 the Department of Transport and Infrastructure. They have in South 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.920 Australia one hundred and eighteen of what they call x 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.359 SESS public servants who sit supposedly in what is referred. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.760 To as a waiting room. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.760 Now these are public service and these numbers are basically 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.640 doubled in the last four years, from fifty one in 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.800 twenty twenty now to one hundred and eighteen in twenty 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.840 twenty four. So these are people who've been put off work. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.800 I don't know their jobs have been made redundant, or 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.240 their roles have changed, et cetera. But for whatever reason 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:31.000 they can't actually be sacked from the public service. So 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.720 they are told, you just go and wait for us 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.560 to find a job for you to do. Meanwhile, you're 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.959 on full pay. I mean, how good. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.199 Does this sound? Where do I get one of these jobs? 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.400 One hundred and eighteen of them, ninety four of them 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.079 have not worked for at least nine months. I mean 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.439 they've been at home on gardening leave. I don't know, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.400 they've been on caravan holidays. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.680 Doing whatever they want all week nine months, at least 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.040 on full pay. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.960 Now, the average public service in South Australia gets ninety 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.040 five and a half grand every year. Now, of course 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.200 average includes teachers and nurses, so that drags the average down. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.240 So if we're to assume that you've made it to 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.440 a level where you basically can't be sacked, you're probably 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.160 well into the one hundred thousand dollars mark, and you're 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.680 twe hundred and eighteen of them in South Australia alone. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.040 And I'd hate to think about the rest of the 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.520 country sitting around doing just waiting for a job. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.520 And can you believe it? 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.280 The government said this is to quote the Advertiser. Government 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.200 officials say excess employees who for a variety of reasons 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.640 are surplus to requirements but still have a job undertake 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:42.000 different tasks. This has previously included helping with the COVID 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.640 nineteen response and minor maintenance worm. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.120 So they're just sitting there waiting that life paying. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.760 Barry, Barry, we need someone to put a liquor of 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:52.800 paint on the front of. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:53.640 The hospital today. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.080 Reckon, you can do it. Seriously, I love their definition 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.720 and excess employees. A staff member who is surfl surplus 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.000 to requirements but still has a job, Well, how do 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.320 you have a job before surplus to requirements? This would 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.959 never be tolerated in the private segment. Mismanagement and these 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.080 public service that's not a problem. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.679 That's money. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.839 That's may money, and that's the problem. They've never had 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.920 their own business, so they've never run a business, and 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.840 they've never had to spend their own money or put 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.080 their own capital on the line, and so you end 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.199 up with wastage like this. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.240 And yet you should. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.400 Be using the taxpayer dollar even more sacredly than you 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.880 would if you were running your own business, because at 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.480 least then you're only throwing around your own money and 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:38.280 taking risks. This is everybody else's hard earned cash, and 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.280 not just the disdain with which they tried to explain 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.200 this away, like South Australians are just stupid flogged who 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.319 are going to be like, oh yeah, so they're access 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.880 to requirements. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.680 But they've still got a job. They didn't explain it 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:54.120 at all. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.720 You've got one hundred and eighteen bums not in seats 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:02.280 doing absolutely nothing on full pay. But everyone in every 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.960 single state knows that the number of excess employees when 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.360 it comes to government are a lot higher than that. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.800 I hate to be the bearer of bad news. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:12.760 What am I saying? 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.679 I love it when it's about government, but this is 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.560 we learned last year that one in five workers in 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.560 Australia works for the government. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.000 Now, if you're essential. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.960 Services, if you're a nurse, if you're a policeman, if 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.480 you're an ambo, if you're one of those guys, thank you. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.880 You run the country. You are the backbone. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.800 We literally wouldn't be alive without you. I'm talking about 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.520 all the people who are sitting in these bloated government 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.600 departments that we know are doing sweet jack all with 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.080 their nine to five. It used to be that when 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.040 someone was in the public service, we knew that they 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.200 were actually paid slightly less than the average person in 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.760 the private sector, but they also did slightly less as well. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.840 Since when have we not heard someone say, oh, I 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.400 work in the public sector and we all roll our eyes, right, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:07.040 But nowadays everyone knows these guys have never been paid 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.120 more to do so little. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.120 And the next time you hear the government boast about 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.440 how they've got unemployment down. Yeah, they've got unemployment down 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.920 by having a waiting room where they pay people. Try 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.440 it around. But I'll tell you what the economic figures 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:22.160 look fantastic. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.520 It's the doll bear in mind, in mind they're on 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.320 fifteen percent super public servants as well. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.000 I don't know, or actually it's probably more. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.040 Because it used to be when it was ten percent 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.400 in the private sect, was fifteen and what's it now 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.000 twelve odd percent in the privacy, So it's probably seventeen 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.520 percent in the in the public sector now. But I 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.520 used to sit we're talking about Adelaide. I used to 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.320 go to a cafe regularly in the city in Adelaide, 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.720 and without fail, every day at roughly three pm, there 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.920 was a public service building next door. This same group 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.280 would always come in and they'd sit there for about 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.440 forty five minutes and have a coffee in a chat. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:15:59.920 I thought, hang on a minute. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.440 So you've probably had a one hour lunch break earlier 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.320 in the day. You probably had morning tea and smoko, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.480 and now you're coming in at three o'clock and you're 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.160 sitting here for forty five minutes gates bag and having coffee, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.880 and then you probably go back to the office and 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.000 do fifteen minutes of emails and get on the bus. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:16.120 And go on. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.720 What do you say at parties when people say, so, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:23.880 what do you do for work? I'm an excess employee. 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.960 I am so important that. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.760 Even when they have no work committed, do they They 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.200 just want me to hang around They. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.240 Cannot part with me. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.520 Well, Mark Zuckerberg's that Meta has decided that they are 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.200 joining the list of companies that are trying out the 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:45.560 DEI policies. Diversity equity inclusions suddenly doesn't matter anymore. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.680 Now companies have kind of made this cool of late. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.600 McDonald's done it, Starbucks has done it, Walmart, Ha's done it, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.120 Ford Harley Davison. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.160 The list wears on. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.480 So Mark Zuckerberg thinks, well, I'm going to get onto 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.120 this too. So I'm announcing to everyone that I too, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:08.000 am ditching my DEI policies. Of course, I personally don't 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:13.240 buy this for five seconds. This is the same guy 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.200 who just last week told everyone that, despite insisting for 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.240 years that Facebook wasn't censoring free speech, that Facebook is 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.800 now going to stop censoring free speech. This is the 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.080 same guy who allegedly stole the very idea of Facebook 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.240 from the Twins, who then successfully sued him for sixty 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.440 five million dollars. This is the same guy who admitted 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:43.119 just last year to colluding with the Biden administration. He 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:50.159 admitted to doing their bidding. He outright admitted to participating 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:51.800 in mucking. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:52.520 Up the campaigns. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:57.159 This was election interference straight, and he stared down the 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.920 barrel and told everyone so. This guy is so desperately 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:06.000 in need of a pr revamp and image revamp. He's 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.960 even presenting himself very differently these days. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.280 Physically, he's grown his hair around. He's talking to Joe Rogan. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.960 About how actually masculinity is a good thing. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:19.600 Of all things to talk about. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.720 It's one thing to say we want to be kind 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.080 of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.640 and I think it's another to basically say that masculinity 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.280 is bad. And I just think we kind of swung 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.639 culturally to that part of the kind of the spectrum 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.199 where it's all like, Okay, masculinity is toxic, we have 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.199 to get rid of it completely. It's like no, like 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.359 it's both of these things are good. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.800 He said he's done with culturally newted aspects of corporate 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.560 America and is now helping lead the charge saying we 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.280 need masculine energy. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.080 And I'm riding it all the way to gold. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.720 Seriously, who is falling for this? We all know it's 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.040 the Trump effect. Guys, lectus fingers. Dark it up in 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.880 the air. The winds are changing, and now he wants 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:09.920 to be in the cool club. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.959 Would he be saying this if Kamala Harris had won 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.600 the election. Absolutely not. He's of course sucking up to 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.440 Donald Trump. The irony is, if he had an ounce 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.040 of masculinity, he would not be sucking up to Trump. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.879 He would stand on his principles that he's a Democrat. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.800 He hates Trump, he hates all that Trump stands for, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:28.960 and he wouldn't have that haircut either. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.160 You mentioned that right because you mentioned it before. He's 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.240 had a total image. Even look at what Mark Zuckerberg 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:38.679 used to look like. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.840 I mean, it looks like an alien. And suddenly now 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.680 he's got the curly hair and he's got the chain 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.160 out over the top of the T shirt. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:48.440 He's trying to look cool. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.120 He's trying to put himself forward as though he's cool. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.000 I think he's actually a bit jealous. I mean, look 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.600 at him there. I think he's a bit jealous of 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:55.359 Elon Musk. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.920 Now massively, there's a positive side to this though, right 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.840 because we wonder how big will the Trump effect be 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.960 if someone like Mark Zuckerberg is going to go to 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.960 such extreme lengths. He's been on Fox and Friends, he's 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.840 talking to Joe Rogan. He must have hated that. Internally, 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.880 He's appointed a Trump official to his board. He's appointed 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.359 a high ranking Republican to be his global affairs chief. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.280 He's given money to the Trump inauguration. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.399 And if he's going to all of this effort to 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:27.760 try and ingratiate himself, it just tells you how afraid 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.800 the left are of the influenced Trump will have and 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.159 that many of them believe we better get on board 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.200 otherwise we're going to go the way of bud life. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.399 And this is why the election of Trump was so important. 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.920 You know, whether it's Trump or someone as it doesn't matter. 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.879 It's what Trump brings to the table, his leadership that 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.000 has turned the culture almost president again. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:49.360 Right. 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.639 But if you were thinking, oh, who's running in the 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.560 United States, you're not thinking about Joe Biden. I mean, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.119 he's already met with every world leader basically except for 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:01.520 Anthony Alban Easy, He's met with Maloney, he's had a 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.600 Trudeau came to well. 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.960 Before accident. 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:08.719 And he doesn't want to meet. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.920 But Trudeau came down and kissed the ring to try 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.400 and smooth the waters over. He has been far more 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.320 of a president than Biden has been in four years, 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.360 in the two odd months he's been waiting to become 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.080 the inaugurated president of the people. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.879 Have to be careful here because obviously there's going to 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.240 be a lot of victory marches over the next four 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.679 years of the Trump term where things like this happen. 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:40.720 These giants of the left seemingly come and kiss the ring. 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:45.280 The point is, never forget their true loyalties, never forget 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.120 who they really are, and that is weak, weak men. 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:50.600 The irony of listening to. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:56.080 Mark Zuckerberg talk about true masculinity. You are the week kissed, 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.960 week kissed person on the planet that you would see 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:05.200 supposedly change all your deeply held virtues and convictions. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.560 You clearly don't have any. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.399 And that is what every single one of these corporates 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.600 has done. Yes, we can view it as a victory, 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:15.800 but they are simply doing it because they don't want 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.240 to lose money. They don't want to lose customers. They 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.679 are trying to appeal to their base. They have not 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.480 had to come to Jesus moment. This is not revelatory 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.879 in any way. It comes down to the bottom line. So, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:31.040 like I say, just do not forget who these people really. 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.680 That is the funniest bit of all of it, of course, right, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.160 because all of the useless idiot lefties have been running 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.840 around all these years saying, well, of course we're right, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.159 because the corporates agree with us as well. And this 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:46.840 is the zeit guys to sit the corporates. I'm sorry 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:49.080 to break it to you, we're only ever doing it 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.960 because they thought it would make the money. They didn't 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:55.480 give a toss about DEI and making sure they had 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.760 more Asians than white people and more gay people and straba. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:22:59.960 They couldn't give a top. 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.920 All they care about is that money is flowing into 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.200 their coffers. If they think they can do something that 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:07.520 will make money come in, that is what they will do. 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:11.320 And that's all they were ever doing. They never actually 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:13.240 cared about your diversity. 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.560 And it's beautiful to see how Trump is fooled by 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:18.600 any of this. I love the way Trump has invited 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:23.000 Kevin Rudd and Pennywong to his inauguration. All is forgiven. No, no, no, 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:24.720 he just wants to give them front row seats to 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:27.959 see him do exactly now, as nothing would be sweeter 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.520 talking about trying to understand people's convictions and where they stand. 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.240 The Catholic Church is proving a little bit confusing. Last 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:39.040 year they started to bless same sex couples, though said 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.240 that was not an endorsement of same sex relationships. The 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:47.600 Pope last year complained that too many homosexuals were entering 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.600 seminary used an Italian word that was roughly translated. He said, 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:55.600 there's too much faggotry in the Vatican, and of course 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:59.120 everybody picked up his violation of woke language codes. Rather 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:01.359 than addressing the issue that he was trying to point 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.480 to is that the Church believes homosexuality is a sin, 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.840 and yet there's all these homosexuals in the seminary that 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:10.800 was last year. This year, the pope is trying to 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:13.639 win friends from people who will never be his friends. 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:16.080 But he said this that they're going to approve gay 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:20.359 men as priests, but they'll be barred from quote, flaunting 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:25.440 their homosexuality, which CALEBN Liz begs the question, what exactly 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.520 do you define as flaunting homosexuality before you answer that, 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:31.240 because I'm sure you've got an answer, But let me 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:35.600 review what the Vatican have said. They've least a sixty 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:40.600 eight page guideline specifically directed at persons with homosexual tendencies 0:24:40.920 --> 0:24:44.639 who approach seminaries or who discover such a situation during 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:48.000 their training. So the Vatican has said the Church, while 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:51.639 profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:55.200 seminary and to Holly orders those who practice homosexuality present 0:24:55.280 --> 0:25:00.440 deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support the so called gay culture. 0:25:01.000 --> 0:25:04.800 So you can have homosexual tendencies provided you're. 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:05.919 Not two. 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:08.679 One the word I'm looking for. 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.720 Camp, camp, camp, as long as you're not, mister Humphreys 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:14.040 in are you being served? 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:17.240 Then you're five. I can't. 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:20.840 I mean, I thought it says that those who practice homosexually. 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:22.800 I didn't think you were allowed to practice any form 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:25.720 of sexuality. If you were a priest, you take a 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:28.880 vow of celibacy. And what they're essentially saying is, look, 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:32.160 you know, we don't necessarily want gay people, but we'll 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:34.840 put it in the context because they're saying, if you 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:40.240 have homosexual tendencies whatever exactly that is that they must 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:45.359 grasp its significance quotes unquote in the global picture of 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:50.720 a young person's personality to form an overall harmony. I 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:52.399 don't know. This sounds like the stuff you read in 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:55.040 those corporate modules you have to do about not bullying 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:58.479 people and not sexually harassing people, et cetera. But they're like, oh, well, 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.119 we'll look at it and go look if there's something 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.919 here that doesn't really fit the doctrine of the church. 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:06.960 But we're desperate enough to get some more priests will 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.640 let you in any way. I mean, do you believe 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.119 it or don't you? Surely it's as simple as that. 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:15.159 I'm not a Catholic, but Surely if you believe in 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:17.320 the doctrine, you believe in the doctrine. 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:18.720 Or you don't exactly. 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:21.520 I mean, it is that simple. 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:25.520 And all my actual Catholics out there, we have got 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.720 to take back the Vatican. 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:29.000 Seriously. 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.280 We all know Pope Benny should never have resigned, chosen 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:36.119 by God resigns. I mean, explain to me how that works. 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:41.160 Pope Francis has been a blasphemer in my humble estimation, 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:44.480 since the day he was elected. 0:26:44.640 --> 0:26:47.320 For crying out loud, last year, he. 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:51.720 Decided that popes could bless not pope's priests, sorry, could 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:54.520 bless same sex marriages. 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:59.520 I'm like, mate, have you even read the Bible? 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:02.760 I mean, I remember having this discussion with Joeyldebran one 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.800 night live on air, and he said to me, with Storra, 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:09.560 are you saying that you know more than the Pope. 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.280 I'm like, Joe, I'm as surprised as you are. 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:18.520 Yes, it turns out I do. For crying out loud, 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:23.400 we are now talking about black and white biblical principles. 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:26.680 You don't need to read fifty and cyclicals. You don't 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:30.160 have to go through the ancient Catholic texts of no 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:34.680 no This is straight out of the Bible, very black 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:35.480 and white. 0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:36.920 No question marks whatsoever. 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:39.480 I have a degree in biblical studies, so I can 0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:42.400 read it in any language you like. Unfurl the dead 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:46.320 seas grolls. I'll walk you through it. And these people 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:51.440 in the Vatican have decided, oh no, this is perfectly fine. 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:53.960 Now you will even be able to practice. You will 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.840 be sworn in as a priest. You will be able 0:27:56.840 --> 0:28:03.000 to administer the Holy You charrest while being just gay 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:04.160 in priests. 0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:06.040 And the problem is the role of the church is 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:08.800 to preach what they believe is God's word, whether people 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:11.239 accept it or not. They're there to communicate it, not 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:14.600 to win a popularity contest. So the pope here believes 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:17.199 obviously that this will ingratiate him with a section of 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:19.840 the community who might otherwise be very critical of the 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:22.879 Catholic Church. But count to five and they'll be saying, 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:26.719 how could the Catholic Church suppress the natural urges or 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:29.400 tendencies of people by allowing them in? But then saying, 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:31.919 but you must not be your authentic true self. So 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:34.879 the very people he's trying to impress will be nailing 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:36.960 him to a cross. Five minutes from now because they 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:42.480 won't appreciate this sop to the LGBTQ culture. Meanwhile, he's 0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:46.200 alienating all the Catholics who believe in biblical truth because 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:46.920 no one now. 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:51.440 Knows he did that a long time ago. He lost 0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:52.800 them a long time. 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:55.960 I've told this story before, but a maid of mine 0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:59.400 who's been a lifelong Catholic, he was the treasurer of 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:02.520 his local Catholic church for twenty odd years, is that 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:05.040 he'll never darken the door of a Catholic church again. 0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:08.120 Whilst Francis is pope because he's too woke, he's just 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:08.560 had it up. 0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:10.160 You can't do it anymore. 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.320 And I would say, again, as someone without a dog 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:12.960 in the fight. 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:14.320 To whom are you preaching? 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.480 I mean, if you're saying we need more people, because 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:19.280 I don't know, that's the only reason I can think 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:20.000 of that you're doing now. 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:21.000 They don't. 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:25.760 It's not like oh to wa'ts the point drastic point point. 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:29.080 Is popular, and this pope has always been about trying 0:29:29.160 --> 0:29:32.800 to have the crowd applaud him and it never works. 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:36.280 And Jesus was about the very opposite. The Gospel is 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:39.520 a short synopsis. He is like sob the crowd like, 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:42.320 if you like the approval of the world, whatever you do, 0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:43.000 don't follow me. 0:29:43.600 --> 0:29:46.440 Jesus literally said that. And the point of this everything 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:47.680 he does is eat whether. 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:49.800 People watching agree with the Church or not. The point 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:52.480 is we want our institutions to stand for what they 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:56.080 believe in, rather than you know, always sniffing the breeze 0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:58.400 and think I'll go in that direction. Mark Zuckenberg has 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.000 done exactly what the Pope did, all the same thing. 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:04.320 They sniffed the breeze. Move with that instead of standing 0:30:04.360 --> 0:30:07.760 by conviction, we need politicians, We need priests, et cetera, 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:09.560 et cetera, who have the courage of their con. 0:30:09.880 --> 0:30:12.640 The Trump effect hasn't made it to the Catholic Church apparently, 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.680 but one more place you imagine, I know, can you imagine? 0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:18.400 But the Trump effect is playing out here in Australia. 0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:20.360 But because it's not the Trump effect here, it was 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:24.160 basically the voice effect. I said earlier on the Shari's 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:27.320 program tonight, the greatest thing that Anthony Albanezi ever did 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.440 for this country was setting up the. 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:30.520 Voice to fail. 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:34.080 Because by the voice failing, it gave us the ordinary 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:38.000 Australians a voice to say what we actually think the 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:41.120 things we've been thinking for so long about the direction 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:44.040 of this country, especially when it comes to things like 0:30:44.200 --> 0:30:47.000 Indigenous affairs, that we don't want to be welcome to 0:30:47.120 --> 0:30:50.800 our own country anymore, that we are actually happy to 0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:54.680 celebrate Australia Day. And new polling from the IPA has 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.720 found that people are more ready now to say that 0:30:57.760 --> 0:31:00.600 they support Australia Day. Their poll last year, and they've 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:02.800 been doing this poll for years about how many people 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:06.520 support Australia Day being on January the twenty sixth. Last 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.440 year it was sixty three percent of respondents said it 0:31:09.440 --> 0:31:13.200 should be on January twenty sixth. This year it's sixty 0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:16.360 nine percent. Now, I suspect that there are a lot 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:18.360 of people who've been sitting on the fence for a 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:21.200 while because they feel like they can't say what they 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:24.840 actually think, because you know, in polite company, when I 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:29.160 go to my dinner parties in Wallara or Balmaine or somewhere, 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:31.560 and I can slack Balmain now because I live there 0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:35.640 amongst all the inner West lefties in Sydney, but oh 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:39.280 I couldn't possibly look, you know, maybe we should change 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:41.600 it from January twenty six Now they're like, no, don't 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:45.320 have to hide this anymore. I do actually support Australia Day, 0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:47.080 and thank God for that. 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:48.480 Twenty twenty four. 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:51.080 I think was the year that woke started to die 0:31:51.320 --> 0:31:54.600 in this country, thank heavens. And we're starting to see 0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:58.000 the results of that, including the Opposition leader Peter Dutton 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:01.160 saying that if he were to become primetill later this year, 0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:06.280 he would enforce councils holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, which, 0:32:06.320 --> 0:32:08.480 of course, as we know, they have been canceling. 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:14.000 Would we reinstate the requirement for councils to hold citizenship 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:17.000 ceremonies on Australia You bet it'll be done the first 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:20.120 hundred days and it will be a sign of pride 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:22.720 and nationalism in our country. I want us as a 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:24.080 population to be united. 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:25.040 Now. 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:26.200 I don't know that might have been a bit of 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:27.720 policy on the run there, because if you look at 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.400 Michaulia Cash after he said, if he sort of turns 0:32:30.440 --> 0:32:33.760 all that's good, that's good. I don't care if it's 0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:36.200 policy on the run, because it's just common sense and 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.560 we're starting to see a return of common sense. 0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:40.680 I don't have to hide. 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:42.840 The fact I like Australia Day anymore. And it was 0:32:42.880 --> 0:32:44.880 the same last year, of course, when Woolley said that 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:48.000 they weren't going to stock Australia Day year, and it 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:51.360 felt like a real turning point where after years and 0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:53.520 years and years of being beaten over the head and 0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:55.400 told oh, you can't suff at Australia Day, on January 0:32:55.440 --> 0:32:59.840 twenty sixth people just sort of unashamedly came out and said, actually, no, 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:02.720 we do like Australia Day. And I reckon last year 0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:04.760 Australia Day had a real reinvigoration. 0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:07.880 I think we owe you know, Woolworth's vote of thanks. 0:33:07.920 --> 0:33:10.680 I think we owe some of our elites like Ray Martin, 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:12.760 who famously said if you don't vote for the Voice, 0:33:12.800 --> 0:33:15.360 you're a dickhead. We owe Ray Martin a great vote 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:18.560 of thanks. Those pit for support for Australia Day to 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:22.080 rise six percent in twelve months. I mean, I think 0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:24.800 those guys should just keep on going, keep slagging off 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:28.200 about colonialism, keep hating on Australia, and watch support for 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:30.520 Australia Day go up and up, because people have had 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.360 a gutful of it, and we've seen these pro Palestinian 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:37.040 protests every weekend in our streets and people are literally 0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:40.360 watching our country fall apart before their eyes. And people 0:33:40.400 --> 0:33:42.160 are saying, we want to get back to the things 0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:45.320 that unify and unite us when I was a kid. 0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:47.160 Maybe not when you're a kid, because that was much 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:49.200 more recent. But Liz, you're a bit older than Caleb, 0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:51.640 not quite as old as me. Australia day you go 0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:54.320 to the beach and you'd wave your Australian flag. No 0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:57.200 one was protesting, no one was going on about it, 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:00.880 no one was toppling statues. It was a much better time. 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:03.240 And think people want to get back to those times 0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:05.920 where we just all were Australian. We all enjoyed it, 0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:06.760 we're all proud of it. 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:10.160 Yeah, you're celebrating the present day. But I've got to 0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:13.359 say this is such a gift to Dutton this year 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:17.040 because you've got the Trump administration roaring from the other 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:21.040 side of the world. We've seen populous leaders take the Netherlands, 0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:26.960 take Italy, take how many other Argentina, So many of 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.640 them are coming back into the West. 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:31.560 Canada is about to change. 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:35.880 We're watching this in real time unfold in France and Germany. 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:40.680 As people say we are sick to death of this nonsense. 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:44.000 Most of it is driven by far too higher immigration, 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:48.600 and that has given birth to this resurgence of nationalism 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:53.360 in people who still love their country and want it back, 0:34:53.640 --> 0:34:54.160 and that. 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:57.840 Means more votes go to the more. 0:34:57.719 --> 0:35:01.880 Right leaning major party in any number of these countries. 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:05.680 And I think that this is Dutton already has the 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:10.040 playbook for his campaign written out for him, and he's 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:14.920 already playing it beautifully. This is what people want and 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:19.320 we all know democracy in a nutshell, it is majority rules. 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:23.040 Whoever has the most numbers gets elected and they get 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:26.920 the power. And this guy is very much on track. 0:35:26.920 --> 0:35:29.120 I think if he keeps up this kind of rhetoric, 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:32.080 that's the first time I've heard an Australian Prime minister 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:37.200 even use the word nationalism for far too long. 0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:39.839 Thank you Dutton. That was music to my ears. 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:41.520 Just before we go to a break, I think we've 0:35:41.560 --> 0:35:44.040 got time to show you a quote from one of 0:35:44.120 --> 0:35:47.440 the fire chiefs in LA. Of course, everyone's aware of 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:50.880 the situation in Los Angeles, those catastrophic fires that have 0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:54.120 killed what was it twenty four people now dead, huge 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:57.319 numbers of homes and property destroyed, and of course there's 0:35:57.360 --> 0:36:00.279 been failures on multiple levels, but I'm just got it. 0:36:00.320 --> 0:36:02.280 Before we go to a break, show you this clip 0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:07.920 from the LA Deputy Fire Chief. Now, this is Christine Larson, 0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:11.800 whose job with the LA Fire Brigade is equity and 0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:16.000 human resources boss. Have a listened to her and ask yourself. 0:36:16.640 --> 0:36:19.239 Many wonder they've got problems with fires in LA and 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:20.640 rescuing people haven't listened to this. 0:36:22.000 --> 0:36:24.840 You want to see somebody that responds to your house, 0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:27.560 your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.239 that looks like you. It gives that person a little 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:33.799 bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better. 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:36.440 Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't 0:36:36.480 --> 0:36:39.120 carry my husband out of a fire, which my response 0:36:39.280 --> 0:36:41.040 is he got himself in the wrong place if I 0:36:41.080 --> 0:36:42.280 have to carry him out of a fire. 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:44.600 I just had to show you that because we've spent 0:36:44.719 --> 0:36:48.919 so much time tonight talking about Wokery and DEEI could 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:51.920 you believe a deputy fire chief in a city like 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:55.080 Los Angeles says it's really important if you're caught in 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:57.279 the burning building that the person who comes to save 0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:00.799 you looks approximately like you. Otherwise you'd want to send 0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:02.359 them back to the fire truck and say you've got 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:05.480 someone who's a bit more sort of you know, representative of. 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:08.200 Beer bed or you're not carrying me out of this 0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:10.800 fire now? 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:11.840 Like serious? 0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:14.440 And people blame climate chain for the devastation. 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:19.440 Is you've lost everything in this fire, right and guess 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:22.360 who comes to comfort you now? On top of everything 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:26.120 you've got to put up with Megan Markl. I mean, 0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:30.279 is there anything this woman can't make about herself? 0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:31.520 Police? 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:34.520 This is the bride at every wedding, the corpse at 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:38.680 every funeral, the baby at every baby dedication. 0:37:38.920 --> 0:37:41.480 Here she is in the thick of it, making. 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:44.960 Sure everyone knows that she Megan Markle has arrived on 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:49.320 the scene to hand out well hugs, maybe some maybe 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:51.080 some money would be nice. I mean, are you going 0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:51.840 to put any of that. 0:37:51.960 --> 0:37:55.560 Shiggy where your mouth is or are you just literally. 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:59.000 Here to hand out hugs because you're a famous personality 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:03.360 so people must care. I mean this absolutely did my 0:38:03.440 --> 0:38:05.759 head in when you look at the level of the devastation. 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:09.600 I haven't seen any actual movie stars or rock stars 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:12.400 come out to behave like this, But no Meghan Markel, 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.040 Meghan Markle, He's on the scene. 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:17.600 If my house was destroyed in the La fires, I 0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:19.480 would rather deal with the looters. 0:38:19.520 --> 0:38:22.399 Than you know what that fire chief should have said. 0:38:22.920 --> 0:38:24.920 I don't lift a man mate. 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:27.680 We're going to go to a break. When we come back, 0:38:27.800 --> 0:38:30.800 we'll look at what's making news tomorrow, including Anthony Albaneze 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:33.440 very vague on when he might get around to meeting 0:38:33.480 --> 0:38:37.040 with the President elect. And news that one point five 0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:39.759 million Australians have put off going to the doctors because 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:41.399 it's just too expensive. All of that when we look 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:45.200 at the papers in just a moment, Welcome back to 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:47.279 the program. Let's take a look at what's making news 0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:50.600 in tomorrow's papers. We'll start with the Herald's Sun, which 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:53.640 has got a pretty alarming story. As they're splash. It's 0:38:53.680 --> 0:38:57.440 an exclusive Alarming figures reveal hundreds of Victoria Police members 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:03.280 investigated for alleged rapes, sexual harassment and family violence. Dark 0:39:03.360 --> 0:39:06.520 Side of the Force, reads the headline. The article says 0:39:06.600 --> 0:39:10.040 Victoria Police is grappling with accusations of sexual misconduct in 0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:14.160 its ranks, as hundreds of members face internal investigations for 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:18.920 alleged rapes, harassment and family violence. The force's sexual offenses 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:22.560 and Family Violence Unit has investigated about six hundred and 0:39:22.600 --> 0:39:27.960 eighty of its own offices during the past five years. Now, 0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:31.160 the report continues inside the paper. We don't have access 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:33.800 to that. We've just got the front page for tomorrow. 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:38.680 But six hundred and eighty Victorian police serving police over 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:41.840 the past five years investigated by their own task force 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:45.719 over things as serious as rape and domestic violence. Man, 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:47.480 that's going to shake your faith in the police force. 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:50.760 And do you get stood down while you're being investigated? 0:39:50.920 --> 0:39:52.080 I mean if you are. 0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:56.800 Literally you are the government's muscles supposed to be exacting 0:39:57.080 --> 0:40:01.160 justice on the streets and you yourself are under investigation. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:04.480 I'm sorry to say it, but this reminded me of 0:40:04.520 --> 0:40:07.160 the stories that we were made aware of when I 0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:11.120 was studying criminal law at u SID And you learn 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:16.160 where the cops earned this nickname by some of pigs. 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:19.360 And that's how people, certain people, usually people from the 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:23.000 wrong side of the tracks, see them, because these stories 0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:25.799 are something that you go into depth in criminal law. 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:29.080 And I swear especially our lecturer was just trying to 0:40:29.080 --> 0:40:29.920 make defense. 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:33.279 Lawyers out of us. All don't work for the crown, become. 0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:36.919 A defense lawyer like me, so that was kind of 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:39.920 this person's bent as they were lecturing, and I was 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:44.680 aware of that, but stories like this just bring that 0:40:44.800 --> 0:40:48.200 back to mind, and I'm like, my goodness, And as 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:51.719 I always say, when nearly any story comes up, you 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:54.960 know that whatever makes it to the press is really 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:56.879 just the tip of the iceberg. If that's how many 0:40:56.880 --> 0:40:59.680 cases that they're aware of, how many of them aren't. 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:02.560 And this is just one state, how many in the 0:41:02.600 --> 0:41:03.520 other states? 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:05.399 What the hell? And who puts them? 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:07.520 As you're talking about earlier that you know, the Victorian 0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:09.560 police are in such a pickle at the moment in 0:41:09.920 --> 0:41:11.280 terms of staff numbers. 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:12.279 If you were the. 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:16.279 Police commissioner, you'd probably feel retis to tell anyone to 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:19.560 buzz off while we investigate, because if you start losing 0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.880 more and more numbers, you end up in such a position. 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:23.200 But you're being pulled in one. 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:25.560 For us, the Victorian Police commissioner, I'd be taking a 0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:27.440 trip up north to Queensland. 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:28.800 I'd be taking. 0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:32.320 Twenty grand and I'd go there much less problems. Palatial 0:41:32.480 --> 0:41:36.320 palace costs is the other interesting front page headline in 0:41:36.360 --> 0:41:40.080 The Herald's son jetting jet setting rather Former Treasurer Tim 0:41:40.080 --> 0:41:43.760 Pallas slug taxpayers more than six hundred and fifty thousand 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:46.439 dollars during a decade of luxury travel in the top job. 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:50.280 Now this is the former labor Victorian premier who resigned 0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:53.000 in December, leaving his state approaching one hundred and seventy 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:56.120 seven billion dollars in debt. But it turns out just 0:41:56.360 --> 0:42:00.360 a month or two before he resigned, he spent seventy 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:03.600 two thousand dollars on a farewell tour of Britain, France, 0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:07.480 Italy and Spain. And just before that, he spent sixty 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:10.040 six thousand dollars for a fifteen day trip to the 0:42:10.120 --> 0:42:14.200 US and Canada. Get this, exploring strategies to tackle debt. 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:19.480 Of course, he resigned just weeks after that lightning trip. 0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:23.800 Great service to the Victoria taxpayer. Can you believe it's. 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:28.239 Tim Pallas not heard of the Internet? Here's this amazing 0:42:28.440 --> 0:42:31.919 thing now where you can go online. You can read 0:42:31.960 --> 0:42:35.040 pretty much anything you want anywhere in the world. Heck, 0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:38.399 you can even talk to anyone you want, pretty much 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:41.359 anywhere in the world about things like I don't know. 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:44.200 Economics and how to tackle debt. 0:42:44.280 --> 0:42:46.480 It's like if you've got to get on a plane 0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:50.000 to go overseas to work out how to fix the 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:54.319 problem that you created by spending lots of money to 0:42:54.400 --> 0:42:59.000 go overseas. For God, the treasurer of Victoria, what do 0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:01.880 you need to do going to Britain, France and Italy. 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:05.000 You're not running their books, are you? I mean, for 0:43:05.040 --> 0:43:07.560 goodness sake, if Pallace was running their books. 0:43:07.320 --> 0:43:09.640 I think that's been kicking him out, deporting him. 0:43:10.120 --> 0:43:11.960 What does a treasurer need to be doing that force 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:12.480 so serious? 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:17.360 If you dosn't to the front page of the Townsville Bulletin. 0:43:17.440 --> 0:43:21.440 Now you've heard of flying doctors. Check out flying coppers. 0:43:21.960 --> 0:43:26.960 Five foo cops target city new thirty two million dollar 0:43:27.080 --> 0:43:31.200 flying squad to crack down on crem's. A specialized state 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:34.200 flying squad will soon be deployed in crime hotspots of 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:38.400 Queensland at a moment's notice. With Townsville suburbs set to 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:43.760 benefit from more eyes in the sky, I mean, that's 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:44.480 pretty cool. 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:47.480 I know that they have incentives for. 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.640 People to go ruural, much like they do for rural teachers, etc. 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:53.759 There's certain areas people just don't want to work for 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:57.280 rather obvious reasons, Townsville being one of them. I imagine 0:43:57.280 --> 0:44:00.280 if you're a copper, quite a few crime problems. 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:05.520 But now they're just literally gonna parachute him in. It 0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:06.400 sounds pretty epic. 0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:08.640 It's actually a great idea for a state as vast 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:10.839 as Queens And they used to have seventeen police on 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:14.960 this fly in squad. They've bumped it up to fifty 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:17.520 eight because of the increased L and P funding. So 0:44:17.520 --> 0:44:19.799 if you've got a place like Townsville that has a 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:22.880 sudden crime surge all of a sudden, you can bump 0:44:22.960 --> 0:44:26.000 up police numbers by fifty eight. These especially trained officers 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:28.759 could come in to address a specific thing good for 0:44:28.800 --> 0:44:31.239 the community, a helpful local police. I think it's a 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:31.600 good move. 0:44:31.760 --> 0:44:34.800 Sounds fantastic. I can't believe no one's thought of it earlier. 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:37.520 To be perfectly honest, let's go to the Olds tomorrow, 0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:40.399 where it says crucial face to face with Trump. It'll 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:44.560 be a journey to the summit. Anthony Albanizi has pointed 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:48.400 to the Quad leaders meeting that could be months away for. 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:50.520 His possible first face to face. 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:53.400 Meeting with Donald Trump, as former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:56.120 cast out on how long Australian Ambassador to the us. 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:59.319 Kevin Rudd will last funny about that. But he's got 0:44:59.320 --> 0:45:03.000 an invitation to the inauguration and the Prime Minister doesn't. 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:05.839 I mean imagine saying oh, we'll meet at the Quad 0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:08.080 in a few months when he may or may not 0:45:08.200 --> 0:45:11.279 even be Prime minister. He knows why and this is 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:13.719 the problem for him, right. He knows he's steering down 0:45:13.800 --> 0:45:16.080 the barrel of an election. He is very much in 0:45:16.239 --> 0:45:18.880 election mode. Darton's very much in election mode. 0:45:19.320 --> 0:45:20.719 He can't afford to. 0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:24.440 Go overseas at the moment to say that, you know, 0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:26.800 I won't be here on the screens in Australia. I 0:45:26.880 --> 0:45:29.640 might lose my prime ministership. You can't even go to 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:32.279 one of the most important events in the world. Yeah, 0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:32.800 that worry. 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:34.720 And he's saying maybe at the Quad. The court hasn't 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:38.200 even been scheduled yet, so he's literally just making stuff 0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:41.640 very quickly. The Canberra Times have got an interesting store 0:45:41.640 --> 0:45:44.960 in the front page. GPS call for larger rebates. The 0:45:44.960 --> 0:45:47.279 Peak body for doctors is calling on the federal government 0:45:47.320 --> 0:45:49.920 to lift Medicare rebates to address rising out of pocket 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:54.600 costs that disproportionately affect act residents. As the Albanezy government, 0:45:54.640 --> 0:45:58.160 of course ramp up a pre election scare campaign warning 0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:01.400 of coalition cuts now the camera. Time also reported that 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:04.319 about one point five million Australians did not go to 0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:07.600 see a doctor in the last twelve months because they 0:46:07.600 --> 0:46:11.160 couldn't find anyone who bulk bills and so couldn't afford 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:15.160 to pay the gap. So that's pretty concerning, but even 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:18.880 more interesting when you consider that Labor, as the paper reports, 0:46:19.080 --> 0:46:22.120 are ramping up this scare campaign against the coalition. They're 0:46:22.160 --> 0:46:24.480 not doing great on health themselves. We're going to go 0:46:24.560 --> 0:46:27.720 to a break when we come back. The Victorian government 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:32.399 started a sobering up center for drunken Victorians to give 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:34.160 them a bed for the night. Turns out no one's 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:37.319 using it, but Victorians are paying a mozza that's coming 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:43.360 up in just a moment. Well, Victoria continues to amaze 0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:47.760 the public. Drunkenness used to be a offence in Victoria, 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:50.600 but then the Labor government, in their wisdom, decided drunks 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:52.760 don't need to sell for the night and to find. 0:46:53.120 --> 0:46:56.000 What they need is love and a warm bed. Provided 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:59.640 that taxpayer expense. They stripped police of the ability to 0:46:59.719 --> 0:47:03.040 erect people for being drunk in public and instead ordered 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:07.520 police to take people to taxpayer funded sobering up centers. 0:47:07.840 --> 0:47:09.960 They built three of these centers at a cost of 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:14.080 seventy nine million dollars over three years. So how do 0:47:14.080 --> 0:47:16.319 you reckon they're going? Do you reckon people drunk on 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:18.640 the streets say, oh, look, we'll go to a sobering 0:47:18.719 --> 0:47:21.279 up center run by the government for the night. It 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:25.080 turns out, on average, two point nine people per night 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:29.719 are using the sobering up centers, which Liz means that 0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:33.680 on current trends, victorians will be paying twenty five thousand 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:38.440 dollars per person per night to have a government funded 0:47:38.520 --> 0:47:41.920 bed so they can get sober. I reckon the politicians 0:47:41.920 --> 0:47:44.520 who came up with this were themselves in need of 0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:46.240 a sobering up center. 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:48.560 They were drunk at the time. 0:47:48.640 --> 0:47:52.279 No, but honestly, what drunk have you ever been privy to? 0:47:52.840 --> 0:47:55.000 That is like, you know what, I'm going to take this. 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:57.720 Opportunity stop being drunk. 0:47:58.680 --> 0:48:02.239 But they're not so that they can't what look up 0:48:02.320 --> 0:48:03.360 on the website? 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:07.239 Where are these centers? Where's my nearest one? Maps it? 0:48:07.400 --> 0:48:11.000 Maybe catch an uber or stagger there themselves, like have 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:14.640 you not met any drunk people? They are not going 0:48:14.760 --> 0:48:16.880 to do that, my goodness. 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:19.319 Oh and like public drugon when was the last time 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:22.839 you heard of someone being arrested for public drunkenness drunken disorderly? 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:25.080 But hacky, you're making a dickhead of yourself. You're going 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:25.960 to get picked up by the Hea. 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:27.040 You're disturbing the people. 0:48:27.040 --> 0:48:29.239 It wasn't even a problem in the first place. But 0:48:29.680 --> 0:48:32.520 the Labor government of Victoria has lots of solutions to 0:48:32.600 --> 0:48:36.880 problems that don't exist. Speaking of Victoria, the Victorian Trades 0:48:36.920 --> 0:48:41.560 Hall rocked up to Peter Dutton's quasi campaign launch yesterday 0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:44.960 with that three eyed fish who saw of course, when 0:48:45.040 --> 0:48:47.960 Dutton first said that he was going to bring nuclear 0:48:48.040 --> 0:48:50.960 energy to Australia, he's the image here. Remember that we're 0:48:50.960 --> 0:48:54.799 posting Labor MPs, etc. We're posting photos of this thing 0:48:54.840 --> 0:48:57.440 online saying oh, this is what's going to happen if 0:48:57.440 --> 0:49:01.280 you have nuclear energy. Albanezy todd to take that stuff 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:04.520 down and this is what the Victorian Trades Hall reckon 0:49:04.640 --> 0:49:06.959 is going to win the election for Albanezi. 0:49:07.160 --> 0:49:10.919 Again, I say to them, keep going, let's have more 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:11.600 of this three. 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:13.640 I fish stuff, because if you think that's gonna work 0:49:13.800 --> 0:49:14.600 you've got another thing. 0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:16.799 I just love the fact they're dragging around a toy 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:20.160 made of petrochemical perfect. That's it from us, good night, 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:22.160 but stick around. Coming up in just a moment, it's 0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:23.120 the Reader Penny Show.