Speaker 1: Leens.
Speaker 2: Welcome, wait to pay.
Speaker 1: Well, good evening and thanks for joining us for a
Speaker 1: brand new year. On the Late Debate, I'm James Macpherson
Speaker 1: with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: coming up tonight, including another day another seventy nine million
Speaker 1: dollars wasted in Victoria. Can you believe it? Of course
Speaker 1: you can. Turns out there sobering up centers are sitting idle.
Speaker 1: You'll be shocked at just how much taxpayers are paying
Speaker 1: per night, per person to use these things. No one's
Speaker 1: using them. When we get to the papers, Anthony Alberanezi
Speaker 1: is not that excited about meeting Donald Trump. In fact,
Speaker 1: he hasn't even set a date for such a meeting yet.
Speaker 1: And the Canberra Times reports that more than one point
Speaker 1: five million Australians has delayed seeing a doctor because of
Speaker 1: rising prices. All of that when we get to tomorrow's news.
Speaker 1: But first, it's no surprise to anybody that Victorian police
Speaker 1: are having trouble recruiting new officers. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine why who wouldn't want to be part of a
Speaker 1: highly politicized police force that goes around arresting pregnant women
Speaker 1: in their pajamas for naughty Facebook posts like they did
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, And who wouldn't want to spend their
Speaker 1: weekends babysitting pro Palestinian mobs as they marched through the
Speaker 1: CBD chanting support for terrorists. So recruitment is a bit
Speaker 1: of a problem in Victoria for the police, but it
Speaker 1: turns out retention is just as much a problem. Numbers
Speaker 1: of Victorian police are moving north to Queensland, lured by
Speaker 1: massive incentives of cash and other riches to get them
Speaker 1: to work in the northern state. The Herald Sun reports
Speaker 1: that the ranks of Victorian police are under siege, with
Speaker 1: Queensland's force revealing that their twenty thousand dollars cash bonus
Speaker 1: and relocation incentives are successfully alluring recruits from down South.
Speaker 1: New data released by Queensland Police Service revealed Victorians were
Speaker 1: among the most keen recruits after an advertising blitz for
Speaker 1: the Sunshine State hit Melbourne in October. Now all of
Speaker 1: this at a time when local police job vacancies continue
Speaker 1: to rise. There's one thousand and eighty six vacancies for
Speaker 1: police in Victoria. That's up from oney twenty six, just
Speaker 1: a couple of months prior, Liz. I know it's a
Speaker 1: tight job market, so obviously there's a lot of competition
Speaker 1: for people in every industry, including police. But I'm surprised
Speaker 1: that you would need incentives to get out of Victoria.
Speaker 1: I mean, the economy is so bad. Plus the L
Speaker 1: ANDP government they're going tough on crime, you know, with
Speaker 1: their adult crime adult time. If you're a police officer
Speaker 1: frustrated by the lack of support you're getting in Victoria,
Speaker 1: with a bit of extra cash, it wouldn't take much
Speaker 1: to lure you north where you're going to get some support.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Indeed, and this is the beauty of Federation, right. It
Speaker 3: sets up a competitive market for these essential services. So
Speaker 3: if you're a nurse, if you're a police officer, if
Speaker 3: you're any number, if you're an ambo, the list goes on.
Speaker 3: What a lot of people in the private sector don't
Speaker 3: appreciate is the public sector don't get to just put
Speaker 3: in for a pay rise. If you were a nurse
Speaker 3: in this state, that is your wage. If you're a
Speaker 3: policeman in this state, that is your wage. So these
Speaker 3: states get to set up bidding wars basically because these
Speaker 3: are the essential services.
Speaker 4: That all of us need. Who is giving me a
Speaker 4: better bang for my buck here?
Speaker 3: And I'm not surprised to learn that Queensland is like, hey, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: we're doing very well out of Victoria.
Speaker 4: Of course, this is.
Speaker 3: Very concerning for Victorians who are seeing their own youth
Speaker 3: crime spree take a very stronghold in their streets as
Speaker 3: well as we all know at the moment, the Victorian
Speaker 3: police are lobbying the broke Victorian government for an extra
Speaker 3: dollar or two as well, because once the nurses got it,
Speaker 3: it sets off a chain reaction. The police so far
Speaker 3: haven't had any success, which just adds to the perfect
Speaker 3: timing of the Queensland L and B government saying, Hey,
Speaker 3: while you're getting nowhere with your pay dispute with the
Speaker 3: Victorian government, how about you just move up here. We've
Speaker 3: got way better weather for one thing.
Speaker 5: And you can hardly begrudge the coppers asking for a
Speaker 5: pay rise when they've seen the compatriots in other parts
Speaker 5: of the public service get a pay rise.
Speaker 2: Exactly, how can you.
Speaker 5: Justify a pay rise for nurses and then say that
Speaker 5: the coppers don't get one, all the ambos don't get one,
Speaker 5: all the fieries don't get one.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you can to.
Speaker 5: Open that floodgate, the water is going to flood through.
Speaker 2: We did right, And they've been in.
Speaker 5: Dispute, the coppers in Victoria with the government for some time.
Speaker 5: You've been down in Melbourne over Christmas period and you saw.
Speaker 2: The writing on the police.
Speaker 1: Police are graffitiing their own police vehicles protesting against the government.
Speaker 5: I saw this during the Spring Carnival when I was
Speaker 5: down in Mellow. This is at the front of the
Speaker 5: Flemington Racecourse. You know, we'd like to buy donuts, but
Speaker 5: labor as peanuts. I thought that was hilarious. When you've
Speaker 5: got the public service standing up against a labor government,
Speaker 5: you know something is wrong.
Speaker 1: To say it was they not least so in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: I saw ambulances had officers had graffited their own vehicles
Speaker 1: in protest that lack of government support the police. Of course,
Speaker 1: it doesn't say much for morale amongst your public servants
Speaker 1: and especially your frontline workers when they're using their government
Speaker 1: supplied vehicles to protest as their only form of protest
Speaker 1: against the government, who.
Speaker 5: Were during the pandemic put on the front line and
Speaker 5: in many times used as shields when it came to protest,
Speaker 5: like literal police were used as shields between the people
Speaker 5: and the government. Essentially when people were trying to say.
Speaker 3: We shield we had fired rubber bullets on an armed citizens.
Speaker 5: Indeed, but they were requested to do that, but they
Speaker 5: were put forward during the pandemic. You've got to go
Speaker 5: and do the job for us that we as politicians
Speaker 5: certainly wouldn't do, whether it's walking around wards full of
Speaker 5: COVID patients, etcetera. Of course they want to pay raise
Speaker 5: and then you talk about the health. I mean in
Speaker 5: New South Wales where we're sitting tonight, psychiatrists are threatening
Speaker 5: to walk off the job is only would you believe
Speaker 5: in New South Wales and the public mental health system,
Speaker 5: there are only three hundred psychiatrists right, so if you're
Speaker 5: trying to rock up to a hospital in Sydney tonight
Speaker 5: with some sort of mental health episode hoping to see
Speaker 5: a psychiatrist, the chances are slim. Some two hundred of
Speaker 5: these psychs who are asking for it should be said,
Speaker 5: a twenty five percent pay rise, but they're paid less
Speaker 5: than the public psychiatrists in every other state, so again
Speaker 5: no wonder they're coming through and saying, well, everyone else
Speaker 5: is getting a pay rise, why can't we get one?
Speaker 5: Two thirds of them are now threatening to walk off
Speaker 5: the job. Now, the public will not.
Speaker 1: Walk off the job to resign. They're not going on strike.
Speaker 5: Because they can go to the private sector sent more,
Speaker 5: a lot more. Public mental health system in this country
Speaker 5: is in absolute disarray. And the stories that have been
Speaker 5: told to me by people who work within the system
Speaker 5: about the cases that rock up to public hospitals, and
Speaker 5: I'm talking the most extreme stuff that people have or
Speaker 5: have attempted to do to themselves, and they rock up
Speaker 5: to a public hospital and they cannot see a psychiatrist.
Speaker 5: I mean, what sort of health system do we have
Speaker 5: in our first world country? If a we can't pay
Speaker 5: our doctors properly to do the job to the point
Speaker 5: where they will walk out, resign on mass, and then
Speaker 5: you don't have a public health So.
Speaker 1: You've got two thirds of state psychiatrists threatening to quit completely.
Speaker 3: Well, they have actually already resignation, walked.
Speaker 4: Off on the twenty first Minister response have already resigned.
Speaker 1: The Minister responsible is on holidays in Japan, so she's
Speaker 1: not present to sort this thing out, and public hospitals
Speaker 1: are putting extra security on because they don't have psychiatrists
Speaker 1: to deal with people, so all they're left with is
Speaker 1: guards to stand up the door. It's just an unbelievable place.
Speaker 3: This is one hundred and ten percent the men's government's
Speaker 3: fault because this has been boiling for quite a while.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: One hundred and forty psychiatrists here in New South Wales
Speaker 3: already resigned, so the build up has already been extreme.
Speaker 4: That's an extortionate amount of.
Speaker 3: Such a very essential service and also very limited. No
Speaker 3: state has psychiatrists coming out of their coming out of
Speaker 3: their ears, so this is a precious resource. And they
Speaker 3: after the one forty left, the two hundred or so
Speaker 3: remaining have been so flat strap. That is what has
Speaker 3: driven them to this mass resignation. I'm good friends with
Speaker 3: someone who is a good friend of one of these
Speaker 3: sites here in New South Wales, and they were asking them,
Speaker 3: don't you feel responsible knowing that people could even die,
Speaker 3: they could take their lives because you guys have walked
Speaker 3: off the job, to which this person responded, the system
Speaker 3: is so broken already. We have decided as a collective,
Speaker 3: if that is what it takes to wake up this
Speaker 3: government to ensure that this just doesn't go on in perpetuity.
Speaker 3: You've already got people not getting the care that they need.
Speaker 3: If that is what it takes, that is what we're
Speaker 3: going to do. Because a lot of people have just
Speaker 3: read this and said, oh, it's hard to feel sorry
Speaker 3: for someone who wants a twenty five percent pay rise.
Speaker 4: They are paid very well.
Speaker 3: Again, they're a precious, rare resources exactly, but what they
Speaker 3: were asking for didn't even put them on parity with
Speaker 3: the other states, where they can get well over more
Speaker 3: than one hundred k what they're currently earning here in
Speaker 3: New South Wales. So all they were really asking for
Speaker 3: was their dues. The Men's government has consistently proved to
Speaker 3: be completely tone deaf, and so you do wonder who
Speaker 3: among us would do any differently.
Speaker 1: I think about these stories. I always think the government
Speaker 1: was going to spend twenty five million dollars on a
Speaker 1: flag pole on the Harbor Bridge. So we can't afford
Speaker 1: mental health, but a flagpole for the indigenous flag, Oh,
Speaker 1: we could do twenty five million.
Speaker 5: Novel is just obscene, particularly in the middle of a
Speaker 5: mental health crisis that we know we're facing in this
Speaker 5: country that the government state governments can spend money on
Speaker 5: all of these ridiculous things and they can't stop up
Speaker 5: the money to have an operational public health system. And
Speaker 5: wonder our countries in tatus And when we're talking about
Speaker 5: the public surface, let's go down to my old state
Speaker 5: of South Australia, where, far from having troubles with being
Speaker 5: able to get public service.
Speaker 2: They've got too many of them.
Speaker 5: Now I suspect these people don't work in the health system.
Speaker 5: In fact, the people we're talking about here most of
Speaker 5: them worked, or I should say used to work in
Speaker 5: the Department of Transport and Infrastructure. They have in South
Speaker 5: Australia one hundred and eighteen of what they call x
Speaker 5: SESS public servants who sit supposedly in what is referred.
Speaker 2: To as a waiting room.
Speaker 5: Now these are public service and these numbers are basically
Speaker 5: doubled in the last four years, from fifty one in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty now to one hundred and eighteen in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four. So these are people who've been put off work.
Speaker 5: I don't know their jobs have been made redundant, or
Speaker 5: their roles have changed, et cetera. But for whatever reason
Speaker 5: they can't actually be sacked from the public service. So
Speaker 5: they are told, you just go and wait for us
Speaker 5: to find a job for you to do. Meanwhile, you're
Speaker 5: on full pay. I mean, how good.
Speaker 2: Does this sound? Where do I get one of these jobs?
Speaker 5: One hundred and eighteen of them, ninety four of them
Speaker 5: have not worked for at least nine months. I mean
Speaker 5: they've been at home on gardening leave. I don't know,
Speaker 5: they've been on caravan holidays.
Speaker 2: Doing whatever they want all week nine months, at least
Speaker 2: on full pay.
Speaker 5: Now, the average public service in South Australia gets ninety
Speaker 5: five and a half grand every year. Now, of course
Speaker 5: average includes teachers and nurses, so that drags the average down.
Speaker 5: So if we're to assume that you've made it to
Speaker 5: a level where you basically can't be sacked, you're probably
Speaker 5: well into the one hundred thousand dollars mark, and you're
Speaker 5: twe hundred and eighteen of them in South Australia alone.
Speaker 5: And I'd hate to think about the rest of the
Speaker 5: country sitting around doing just waiting for a job.
Speaker 2: And can you believe it?
Speaker 5: The government said this is to quote the Advertiser. Government
Speaker 5: officials say excess employees who for a variety of reasons
Speaker 5: are surplus to requirements but still have a job undertake
Speaker 5: different tasks. This has previously included helping with the COVID
Speaker 5: nineteen response and minor maintenance worm.
Speaker 2: So they're just sitting there waiting that life paying.
Speaker 5: Barry, Barry, we need someone to put a liquor of
Speaker 5: paint on the front of.
Speaker 2: The hospital today.
Speaker 1: Reckon, you can do it. Seriously, I love their definition
Speaker 1: and excess employees. A staff member who is surfl surplus
Speaker 1: to requirements but still has a job, Well, how do
Speaker 1: you have a job before surplus to requirements? This would
Speaker 1: never be tolerated in the private segment. Mismanagement and these
Speaker 1: public service that's not a problem.
Speaker 4: That's money.
Speaker 1: That's may money, and that's the problem. They've never had
Speaker 1: their own business, so they've never run a business, and
Speaker 1: they've never had to spend their own money or put
Speaker 1: their own capital on the line, and so you end
Speaker 1: up with wastage like this.
Speaker 4: And yet you should.
Speaker 3: Be using the taxpayer dollar even more sacredly than you
Speaker 3: would if you were running your own business, because at
Speaker 3: least then you're only throwing around your own money and
Speaker 3: taking risks. This is everybody else's hard earned cash, and
Speaker 3: not just the disdain with which they tried to explain
Speaker 3: this away, like South Australians are just stupid flogged who
Speaker 3: are going to be like, oh yeah, so they're access
Speaker 3: to requirements.
Speaker 4: But they've still got a job. They didn't explain it
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 3: You've got one hundred and eighteen bums not in seats
Speaker 3: doing absolutely nothing on full pay. But everyone in every
Speaker 3: single state knows that the number of excess employees when
Speaker 3: it comes to government are a lot higher than that.
Speaker 3: I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
Speaker 4: What am I saying?
Speaker 3: I love it when it's about government, but this is
Speaker 3: we learned last year that one in five workers in
Speaker 3: Australia works for the government.
Speaker 4: Now, if you're essential.
Speaker 3: Services, if you're a nurse, if you're a policeman, if
Speaker 3: you're an ambo, if you're one of those guys, thank you.
Speaker 4: You run the country. You are the backbone.
Speaker 3: We literally wouldn't be alive without you. I'm talking about
Speaker 3: all the people who are sitting in these bloated government
Speaker 3: departments that we know are doing sweet jack all with
Speaker 3: their nine to five. It used to be that when
Speaker 3: someone was in the public service, we knew that they
Speaker 3: were actually paid slightly less than the average person in
Speaker 3: the private sector, but they also did slightly less as well.
Speaker 3: Since when have we not heard someone say, oh, I
Speaker 3: work in the public sector and we all roll our eyes, right,
Speaker 3: But nowadays everyone knows these guys have never been paid
Speaker 3: more to do so little.
Speaker 1: And the next time you hear the government boast about
Speaker 1: how they've got unemployment down. Yeah, they've got unemployment down
Speaker 1: by having a waiting room where they pay people. Try
Speaker 1: it around. But I'll tell you what the economic figures
Speaker 1: look fantastic.
Speaker 5: It's the doll bear in mind, in mind they're on
Speaker 5: fifteen percent super public servants as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know, or actually it's probably more.
Speaker 5: Because it used to be when it was ten percent
Speaker 5: in the private sect, was fifteen and what's it now
Speaker 5: twelve odd percent in the privacy, So it's probably seventeen
Speaker 5: percent in the in the public sector now. But I
Speaker 5: used to sit we're talking about Adelaide. I used to
Speaker 5: go to a cafe regularly in the city in Adelaide,
Speaker 5: and without fail, every day at roughly three pm, there
Speaker 5: was a public service building next door. This same group
Speaker 5: would always come in and they'd sit there for about
Speaker 5: forty five minutes and have a coffee in a chat.
Speaker 2: I thought, hang on a minute.
Speaker 5: So you've probably had a one hour lunch break earlier
Speaker 5: in the day. You probably had morning tea and smoko,
Speaker 5: and now you're coming in at three o'clock and you're
Speaker 5: sitting here for forty five minutes gates bag and having coffee,
Speaker 5: and then you probably go back to the office and
Speaker 5: do fifteen minutes of emails and get on the bus.
Speaker 4: And go on.
Speaker 1: What do you say at parties when people say, so,
Speaker 1: what do you do for work? I'm an excess employee.
Speaker 1: I am so important that.
Speaker 3: Even when they have no work committed, do they They
Speaker 3: just want me to hang around They.
Speaker 4: Cannot part with me.
Speaker 3: Well, Mark Zuckerberg's that Meta has decided that they are
Speaker 3: joining the list of companies that are trying out the
Speaker 3: DEI policies. Diversity equity inclusions suddenly doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 4: Now companies have kind of made this cool of late.
Speaker 3: McDonald's done it, Starbucks has done it, Walmart, Ha's done it,
Speaker 3: Ford Harley Davison.
Speaker 4: The list wears on.
Speaker 3: So Mark Zuckerberg thinks, well, I'm going to get onto
Speaker 3: this too. So I'm announcing to everyone that I too,
Speaker 3: am ditching my DEI policies. Of course, I personally don't
Speaker 3: buy this for five seconds. This is the same guy
Speaker 3: who just last week told everyone that, despite insisting for
Speaker 3: years that Facebook wasn't censoring free speech, that Facebook is
Speaker 3: now going to stop censoring free speech. This is the
Speaker 3: same guy who allegedly stole the very idea of Facebook
Speaker 3: from the Twins, who then successfully sued him for sixty
Speaker 3: five million dollars. This is the same guy who admitted
Speaker 3: just last year to colluding with the Biden administration. He
Speaker 3: admitted to doing their bidding. He outright admitted to participating
Speaker 3: in mucking.
Speaker 4: Up the campaigns.
Speaker 3: This was election interference straight, and he stared down the
Speaker 3: barrel and told everyone so. This guy is so desperately
Speaker 3: in need of a pr revamp and image revamp. He's
Speaker 3: even presenting himself very differently these days.
Speaker 4: Physically, he's grown his hair around. He's talking to Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3: About how actually masculinity is a good thing.
Speaker 4: Of all things to talk about.
Speaker 6: It's one thing to say we want to be kind
Speaker 6: of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone,
Speaker 6: and I think it's another to basically say that masculinity
Speaker 6: is bad. And I just think we kind of swung
Speaker 6: culturally to that part of the kind of the spectrum
Speaker 6: where it's all like, Okay, masculinity is toxic, we have
Speaker 6: to get rid of it completely. It's like no, like
Speaker 6: it's both of these things are good.
Speaker 3: He said he's done with culturally newted aspects of corporate
Speaker 3: America and is now helping lead the charge saying we
Speaker 3: need masculine energy.
Speaker 4: And I'm riding it all the way to gold.
Speaker 3: Seriously, who is falling for this? We all know it's
Speaker 3: the Trump effect. Guys, lectus fingers. Dark it up in
Speaker 3: the air. The winds are changing, and now he wants
Speaker 3: to be in the cool club.
Speaker 1: Would he be saying this if Kamala Harris had won
Speaker 1: the election. Absolutely not. He's of course sucking up to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. The irony is, if he had an ounce
Speaker 1: of masculinity, he would not be sucking up to Trump.
Speaker 1: He would stand on his principles that he's a Democrat.
Speaker 1: He hates Trump, he hates all that Trump stands for,
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't have that haircut either.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that right because you mentioned it before. He's
Speaker 2: had a total image. Even look at what Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 2: used to look like.
Speaker 5: I mean, it looks like an alien. And suddenly now
Speaker 5: he's got the curly hair and he's got the chain
Speaker 5: out over the top of the T shirt.
Speaker 2: He's trying to look cool.
Speaker 5: He's trying to put himself forward as though he's cool.
Speaker 5: I think he's actually a bit jealous. I mean, look
Speaker 5: at him there. I think he's a bit jealous of
Speaker 5: Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Now massively, there's a positive side to this though, right
Speaker 1: because we wonder how big will the Trump effect be
Speaker 1: if someone like Mark Zuckerberg is going to go to
Speaker 1: such extreme lengths. He's been on Fox and Friends, he's
Speaker 1: talking to Joe Rogan. He must have hated that. Internally,
Speaker 1: He's appointed a Trump official to his board. He's appointed
Speaker 1: a high ranking Republican to be his global affairs chief.
Speaker 5: He's given money to the Trump inauguration.
Speaker 1: And if he's going to all of this effort to
Speaker 1: try and ingratiate himself, it just tells you how afraid
Speaker 1: the left are of the influenced Trump will have and
Speaker 1: that many of them believe we better get on board
Speaker 1: otherwise we're going to go the way of bud life.
Speaker 5: And this is why the election of Trump was so important.
Speaker 5: You know, whether it's Trump or someone as it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: It's what Trump brings to the table, his leadership that
Speaker 5: has turned the culture almost president again.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: But if you were thinking, oh, who's running in the
Speaker 5: United States, you're not thinking about Joe Biden. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's already met with every world leader basically except for
Speaker 5: Anthony Alban Easy, He's met with Maloney, he's had a
Speaker 5: Trudeau came to well.
Speaker 2: Before accident.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't want to meet.
Speaker 5: But Trudeau came down and kissed the ring to try
Speaker 5: and smooth the waters over. He has been far more
Speaker 5: of a president than Biden has been in four years,
Speaker 5: in the two odd months he's been waiting to become
Speaker 5: the inaugurated president of the people.
Speaker 3: Have to be careful here because obviously there's going to
Speaker 3: be a lot of victory marches over the next four
Speaker 3: years of the Trump term where things like this happen.
Speaker 3: These giants of the left seemingly come and kiss the ring.
Speaker 3: The point is, never forget their true loyalties, never forget
Speaker 3: who they really are, and that is weak, weak men.
Speaker 4: The irony of listening to.
Speaker 3: Mark Zuckerberg talk about true masculinity. You are the week kissed,
Speaker 3: week kissed person on the planet that you would see
Speaker 3: supposedly change all your deeply held virtues and convictions.
Speaker 4: You clearly don't have any.
Speaker 3: And that is what every single one of these corporates
Speaker 3: has done. Yes, we can view it as a victory,
Speaker 3: but they are simply doing it because they don't want
Speaker 3: to lose money. They don't want to lose customers. They
Speaker 3: are trying to appeal to their base. They have not
Speaker 3: had to come to Jesus moment. This is not revelatory
Speaker 3: in any way. It comes down to the bottom line. So,
Speaker 3: like I say, just do not forget who these people really.
Speaker 5: That is the funniest bit of all of it, of course, right,
Speaker 5: because all of the useless idiot lefties have been running
Speaker 5: around all these years saying, well, of course we're right,
Speaker 5: because the corporates agree with us as well. And this
Speaker 5: is the zeit guys to sit the corporates. I'm sorry
Speaker 5: to break it to you, we're only ever doing it
Speaker 5: because they thought it would make the money. They didn't
Speaker 5: give a toss about DEI and making sure they had
Speaker 5: more Asians than white people and more gay people and straba.
Speaker 2: They couldn't give a top.
Speaker 5: All they care about is that money is flowing into
Speaker 5: their coffers. If they think they can do something that
Speaker 5: will make money come in, that is what they will do.
Speaker 5: And that's all they were ever doing. They never actually
Speaker 5: cared about your diversity.
Speaker 1: And it's beautiful to see how Trump is fooled by
Speaker 1: any of this. I love the way Trump has invited
Speaker 1: Kevin Rudd and Pennywong to his inauguration. All is forgiven. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he just wants to give them front row seats to
Speaker 1: see him do exactly now, as nothing would be sweeter
Speaker 1: talking about trying to understand people's convictions and where they stand.
Speaker 1: The Catholic Church is proving a little bit confusing. Last
Speaker 1: year they started to bless same sex couples, though said
Speaker 1: that was not an endorsement of same sex relationships. The
Speaker 1: Pope last year complained that too many homosexuals were entering
Speaker 1: seminary used an Italian word that was roughly translated. He said,
Speaker 1: there's too much faggotry in the Vatican, and of course
Speaker 1: everybody picked up his violation of woke language codes. Rather
Speaker 1: than addressing the issue that he was trying to point
Speaker 1: to is that the Church believes homosexuality is a sin,
Speaker 1: and yet there's all these homosexuals in the seminary that
Speaker 1: was last year. This year, the pope is trying to
Speaker 1: win friends from people who will never be his friends.
Speaker 1: But he said this that they're going to approve gay
Speaker 1: men as priests, but they'll be barred from quote, flaunting
Speaker 1: their homosexuality, which CALEBN Liz begs the question, what exactly
Speaker 1: do you define as flaunting homosexuality before you answer that,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure you've got an answer, But let me
Speaker 1: review what the Vatican have said. They've least a sixty
Speaker 1: eight page guideline specifically directed at persons with homosexual tendencies
Speaker 1: who approach seminaries or who discover such a situation during
Speaker 1: their training. So the Vatican has said the Church, while
Speaker 1: profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the
Speaker 1: seminary and to Holly orders those who practice homosexuality present
Speaker 1: deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support the so called gay culture.
Speaker 1: So you can have homosexual tendencies provided you're.
Speaker 5: Not two.
Speaker 1: One the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 5: Camp, camp, camp, as long as you're not, mister Humphreys
Speaker 5: in are you being served?
Speaker 2: Then you're five. I can't.
Speaker 5: I mean, I thought it says that those who practice homosexually.
Speaker 5: I didn't think you were allowed to practice any form
Speaker 5: of sexuality. If you were a priest, you take a
Speaker 5: vow of celibacy. And what they're essentially saying is, look,
Speaker 5: you know, we don't necessarily want gay people, but we'll
Speaker 5: put it in the context because they're saying, if you
Speaker 5: have homosexual tendencies whatever exactly that is that they must
Speaker 5: grasp its significance quotes unquote in the global picture of
Speaker 5: a young person's personality to form an overall harmony. I
Speaker 5: don't know. This sounds like the stuff you read in
Speaker 5: those corporate modules you have to do about not bullying
Speaker 5: people and not sexually harassing people, et cetera. But they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: we'll look at it and go look if there's something
Speaker 5: here that doesn't really fit the doctrine of the church.
Speaker 5: But we're desperate enough to get some more priests will
Speaker 5: let you in any way. I mean, do you believe
Speaker 5: it or don't you? Surely it's as simple as that.
Speaker 5: I'm not a Catholic, but Surely if you believe in
Speaker 5: the doctrine, you believe in the doctrine.
Speaker 2: Or you don't exactly.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is that simple.
Speaker 3: And all my actual Catholics out there, we have got
Speaker 3: to take back the Vatican.
Speaker 4: Seriously.
Speaker 3: We all know Pope Benny should never have resigned, chosen
Speaker 3: by God resigns. I mean, explain to me how that works.
Speaker 3: Pope Francis has been a blasphemer in my humble estimation,
Speaker 3: since the day he was elected.
Speaker 4: For crying out loud, last year, he.
Speaker 3: Decided that popes could bless not pope's priests, sorry, could
Speaker 3: bless same sex marriages.
Speaker 4: I'm like, mate, have you even read the Bible?
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember having this discussion with Joeyldebran one
Speaker 3: night live on air, and he said to me, with Storra,
Speaker 3: are you saying that you know more than the Pope.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Joe, I'm as surprised as you are.
Speaker 3: Yes, it turns out I do. For crying out loud,
Speaker 3: we are now talking about black and white biblical principles.
Speaker 3: You don't need to read fifty and cyclicals. You don't
Speaker 3: have to go through the ancient Catholic texts of no
Speaker 3: no This is straight out of the Bible, very black
Speaker 3: and white.
Speaker 4: No question marks whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I have a degree in biblical studies, so I can
Speaker 3: read it in any language you like. Unfurl the dead
Speaker 3: seas grolls. I'll walk you through it. And these people
Speaker 3: in the Vatican have decided, oh no, this is perfectly fine.
Speaker 3: Now you will even be able to practice. You will
Speaker 3: be sworn in as a priest. You will be able
Speaker 3: to administer the Holy You charrest while being just gay
Speaker 3: in priests.
Speaker 1: And the problem is the role of the church is
Speaker 1: to preach what they believe is God's word, whether people
Speaker 1: accept it or not. They're there to communicate it, not
Speaker 1: to win a popularity contest. So the pope here believes
Speaker 1: obviously that this will ingratiate him with a section of
Speaker 1: the community who might otherwise be very critical of the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church. But count to five and they'll be saying,
Speaker 1: how could the Catholic Church suppress the natural urges or
Speaker 1: tendencies of people by allowing them in? But then saying,
Speaker 1: but you must not be your authentic true self. So
Speaker 1: the very people he's trying to impress will be nailing
Speaker 1: him to a cross. Five minutes from now because they
Speaker 1: won't appreciate this sop to the LGBTQ culture. Meanwhile, he's
Speaker 1: alienating all the Catholics who believe in biblical truth because
Speaker 1: no one now.
Speaker 4: Knows he did that a long time ago. He lost
Speaker 4: them a long time.
Speaker 5: I've told this story before, but a maid of mine
Speaker 5: who's been a lifelong Catholic, he was the treasurer of
Speaker 5: his local Catholic church for twenty odd years, is that
Speaker 5: he'll never darken the door of a Catholic church again.
Speaker 5: Whilst Francis is pope because he's too woke, he's just
Speaker 5: had it up.
Speaker 2: You can't do it anymore.
Speaker 5: And I would say, again, as someone without a dog
Speaker 5: in the fight.
Speaker 2: To whom are you preaching?
Speaker 5: I mean, if you're saying we need more people, because
Speaker 5: I don't know, that's the only reason I can think
Speaker 5: of that you're doing now.
Speaker 4: They don't.
Speaker 5: It's not like oh to wa'ts the point drastic point point.
Speaker 1: Is popular, and this pope has always been about trying
Speaker 1: to have the crowd applaud him and it never works.
Speaker 3: And Jesus was about the very opposite. The Gospel is
Speaker 3: a short synopsis. He is like sob the crowd like,
Speaker 3: if you like the approval of the world, whatever you do,
Speaker 3: don't follow me.
Speaker 4: Jesus literally said that. And the point of this everything
Speaker 4: he does is eat whether.
Speaker 1: People watching agree with the Church or not. The point
Speaker 1: is we want our institutions to stand for what they
Speaker 1: believe in, rather than you know, always sniffing the breeze
Speaker 1: and think I'll go in that direction. Mark Zuckenberg has
Speaker 1: done exactly what the Pope did, all the same thing.
Speaker 1: They sniffed the breeze. Move with that instead of standing
Speaker 1: by conviction, we need politicians, We need priests, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera, who have the courage of their con.
Speaker 5: The Trump effect hasn't made it to the Catholic Church apparently,
Speaker 5: but one more place you imagine, I know, can you imagine?
Speaker 5: But the Trump effect is playing out here in Australia.
Speaker 5: But because it's not the Trump effect here, it was
Speaker 5: basically the voice effect. I said earlier on the Shari's
Speaker 5: program tonight, the greatest thing that Anthony Albanezi ever did
Speaker 5: for this country was setting up the.
Speaker 2: Voice to fail.
Speaker 5: Because by the voice failing, it gave us the ordinary
Speaker 5: Australians a voice to say what we actually think the
Speaker 5: things we've been thinking for so long about the direction
Speaker 5: of this country, especially when it comes to things like
Speaker 5: Indigenous affairs, that we don't want to be welcome to
Speaker 5: our own country anymore, that we are actually happy to
Speaker 5: celebrate Australia Day. And new polling from the IPA has
Speaker 5: found that people are more ready now to say that
Speaker 5: they support Australia Day. Their poll last year, and they've
Speaker 5: been doing this poll for years about how many people
Speaker 5: support Australia Day being on January the twenty sixth. Last
Speaker 5: year it was sixty three percent of respondents said it
Speaker 5: should be on January twenty sixth. This year it's sixty
Speaker 5: nine percent. Now, I suspect that there are a lot
Speaker 5: of people who've been sitting on the fence for a
Speaker 5: while because they feel like they can't say what they
Speaker 5: actually think, because you know, in polite company, when I
Speaker 5: go to my dinner parties in Wallara or Balmaine or somewhere,
Speaker 5: and I can slack Balmain now because I live there
Speaker 5: amongst all the inner West lefties in Sydney, but oh
Speaker 5: I couldn't possibly look, you know, maybe we should change
Speaker 5: it from January twenty six Now they're like, no, don't
Speaker 5: have to hide this anymore. I do actually support Australia Day,
Speaker 5: and thank God for that.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: I think was the year that woke started to die
Speaker 5: in this country, thank heavens. And we're starting to see
Speaker 5: the results of that, including the Opposition leader Peter Dutton
Speaker 5: saying that if he were to become primetill later this year,
Speaker 5: he would enforce councils holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, which,
Speaker 5: of course, as we know, they have been canceling.
Speaker 7: Would we reinstate the requirement for councils to hold citizenship
Speaker 7: ceremonies on Australia You bet it'll be done the first
Speaker 7: hundred days and it will be a sign of pride
Speaker 7: and nationalism in our country. I want us as a
Speaker 7: population to be united.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: I don't know that might have been a bit of
Speaker 5: policy on the run there, because if you look at
Speaker 5: Michaulia Cash after he said, if he sort of turns
Speaker 5: all that's good, that's good. I don't care if it's
Speaker 5: policy on the run, because it's just common sense and
Speaker 5: we're starting to see a return of common sense.
Speaker 2: I don't have to hide.
Speaker 5: The fact I like Australia Day anymore. And it was
Speaker 5: the same last year, of course, when Woolley said that
Speaker 5: they weren't going to stock Australia Day year, and it
Speaker 5: felt like a real turning point where after years and
Speaker 5: years and years of being beaten over the head and
Speaker 5: told oh, you can't suff at Australia Day, on January
Speaker 5: twenty sixth people just sort of unashamedly came out and said, actually, no,
Speaker 5: we do like Australia Day. And I reckon last year
Speaker 5: Australia Day had a real reinvigoration.
Speaker 1: I think we owe you know, Woolworth's vote of thanks.
Speaker 1: I think we owe some of our elites like Ray Martin,
Speaker 1: who famously said if you don't vote for the Voice,
Speaker 1: you're a dickhead. We owe Ray Martin a great vote
Speaker 1: of thanks. Those pit for support for Australia Day to
Speaker 1: rise six percent in twelve months. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: those guys should just keep on going, keep slagging off
Speaker 1: about colonialism, keep hating on Australia, and watch support for
Speaker 1: Australia Day go up and up, because people have had
Speaker 1: a gutful of it, and we've seen these pro Palestinian
Speaker 1: protests every weekend in our streets and people are literally
Speaker 1: watching our country fall apart before their eyes. And people
Speaker 1: are saying, we want to get back to the things
Speaker 1: that unify and unite us when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Maybe not when you're a kid, because that was much
Speaker 1: more recent. But Liz, you're a bit older than Caleb,
Speaker 1: not quite as old as me. Australia day you go
Speaker 1: to the beach and you'd wave your Australian flag. No
Speaker 1: one was protesting, no one was going on about it,
Speaker 1: no one was toppling statues. It was a much better time.
Speaker 1: And think people want to get back to those times
Speaker 1: where we just all were Australian. We all enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: we're all proud of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're celebrating the present day. But I've got to
Speaker 3: say this is such a gift to Dutton this year
Speaker 3: because you've got the Trump administration roaring from the other
Speaker 3: side of the world. We've seen populous leaders take the Netherlands,
Speaker 3: take Italy, take how many other Argentina, So many of
Speaker 3: them are coming back into the West.
Speaker 4: Canada is about to change.
Speaker 3: We're watching this in real time unfold in France and Germany.
Speaker 3: As people say we are sick to death of this nonsense.
Speaker 3: Most of it is driven by far too higher immigration,
Speaker 3: and that has given birth to this resurgence of nationalism
Speaker 3: in people who still love their country and want it back,
Speaker 3: and that.
Speaker 4: Means more votes go to the more.
Speaker 3: Right leaning major party in any number of these countries.
Speaker 3: And I think that this is Dutton already has the
Speaker 3: playbook for his campaign written out for him, and he's
Speaker 3: already playing it beautifully. This is what people want and
Speaker 3: we all know democracy in a nutshell, it is majority rules.
Speaker 3: Whoever has the most numbers gets elected and they get
Speaker 3: the power. And this guy is very much on track.
Speaker 3: I think if he keeps up this kind of rhetoric,
Speaker 3: that's the first time I've heard an Australian Prime minister
Speaker 3: even use the word nationalism for far too long.
Speaker 4: Thank you Dutton. That was music to my ears.
Speaker 1: Just before we go to a break, I think we've
Speaker 1: got time to show you a quote from one of
Speaker 1: the fire chiefs in LA. Of course, everyone's aware of
Speaker 1: the situation in Los Angeles, those catastrophic fires that have
Speaker 1: killed what was it twenty four people now dead, huge
Speaker 1: numbers of homes and property destroyed, and of course there's
Speaker 1: been failures on multiple levels, but I'm just got it.
Speaker 1: Before we go to a break, show you this clip
Speaker 1: from the LA Deputy Fire Chief. Now, this is Christine Larson,
Speaker 1: whose job with the LA Fire Brigade is equity and
Speaker 1: human resources boss. Have a listened to her and ask yourself.
Speaker 1: Many wonder they've got problems with fires in LA and
Speaker 1: rescuing people haven't listened to this.
Speaker 8: You want to see somebody that responds to your house,
Speaker 8: your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call,
Speaker 8: that looks like you. It gives that person a little
Speaker 8: bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
Speaker 8: Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't
Speaker 8: carry my husband out of a fire, which my response
Speaker 8: is he got himself in the wrong place if I
Speaker 8: have to carry him out of a fire.
Speaker 1: I just had to show you that because we've spent
Speaker 1: so much time tonight talking about Wokery and DEEI could
Speaker 1: you believe a deputy fire chief in a city like
Speaker 1: Los Angeles says it's really important if you're caught in
Speaker 1: the burning building that the person who comes to save
Speaker 1: you looks approximately like you. Otherwise you'd want to send
Speaker 1: them back to the fire truck and say you've got
Speaker 1: someone who's a bit more sort of you know, representative of.
Speaker 5: Beer bed or you're not carrying me out of this
Speaker 5: fire now?
Speaker 2: Like serious?
Speaker 1: And people blame climate chain for the devastation.
Speaker 3: Is you've lost everything in this fire, right and guess
Speaker 3: who comes to comfort you now? On top of everything
Speaker 3: you've got to put up with Megan Markl. I mean,
Speaker 3: is there anything this woman can't make about herself?
Speaker 4: Police?
Speaker 3: This is the bride at every wedding, the corpse at
Speaker 3: every funeral, the baby at every baby dedication.
Speaker 4: Here she is in the thick of it, making.
Speaker 3: Sure everyone knows that she Megan Markle has arrived on
Speaker 3: the scene to hand out well hugs, maybe some maybe
Speaker 3: some money would be nice. I mean, are you going
Speaker 3: to put any of that.
Speaker 4: Shiggy where your mouth is or are you just literally.
Speaker 3: Here to hand out hugs because you're a famous personality
Speaker 3: so people must care. I mean this absolutely did my
Speaker 3: head in when you look at the level of the devastation.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen any actual movie stars or rock stars
Speaker 3: come out to behave like this, But no Meghan Markel,
Speaker 3: Meghan Markle, He's on the scene.
Speaker 1: If my house was destroyed in the La fires, I
Speaker 1: would rather deal with the looters.
Speaker 5: Than you know what that fire chief should have said.
Speaker 5: I don't lift a man mate.
Speaker 1: We're going to go to a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll look at what's making news tomorrow, including Anthony Albaneze
Speaker 1: very vague on when he might get around to meeting
Speaker 1: with the President elect. And news that one point five
Speaker 1: million Australians have put off going to the doctors because
Speaker 1: it's just too expensive. All of that when we look
Speaker 1: at the papers in just a moment, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the program. Let's take a look at what's making news
Speaker 1: in tomorrow's papers. We'll start with the Herald's Sun, which
Speaker 1: has got a pretty alarming story. As they're splash. It's
Speaker 1: an exclusive Alarming figures reveal hundreds of Victoria Police members
Speaker 1: investigated for alleged rapes, sexual harassment and family violence. Dark
Speaker 1: Side of the Force, reads the headline. The article says
Speaker 1: Victoria Police is grappling with accusations of sexual misconduct in
Speaker 1: its ranks, as hundreds of members face internal investigations for
Speaker 1: alleged rapes, harassment and family violence. The force's sexual offenses
Speaker 1: and Family Violence Unit has investigated about six hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty of its own offices during the past five years. Now,
Speaker 1: the report continues inside the paper. We don't have access
Speaker 1: to that. We've just got the front page for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But six hundred and eighty Victorian police serving police over
Speaker 1: the past five years investigated by their own task force
Speaker 1: over things as serious as rape and domestic violence. Man,
Speaker 1: that's going to shake your faith in the police force.
Speaker 3: And do you get stood down while you're being investigated?
Speaker 4: I mean if you are.
Speaker 3: Literally you are the government's muscles supposed to be exacting
Speaker 3: justice on the streets and you yourself are under investigation.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to say it, but this reminded me of
Speaker 3: the stories that we were made aware of when I
Speaker 3: was studying criminal law at u SID And you learn
Speaker 3: where the cops earned this nickname by some of pigs.
Speaker 3: And that's how people, certain people, usually people from the
Speaker 3: wrong side of the tracks, see them, because these stories
Speaker 3: are something that you go into depth in criminal law.
Speaker 3: And I swear especially our lecturer was just trying to
Speaker 3: make defense.
Speaker 4: Lawyers out of us. All don't work for the crown, become.
Speaker 3: A defense lawyer like me, so that was kind of
Speaker 3: this person's bent as they were lecturing, and I was
Speaker 3: aware of that, but stories like this just bring that
Speaker 3: back to mind, and I'm like, my goodness, And as
Speaker 3: I always say, when nearly any story comes up, you
Speaker 3: know that whatever makes it to the press is really
Speaker 3: just the tip of the iceberg. If that's how many
Speaker 3: cases that they're aware of, how many of them aren't.
Speaker 3: And this is just one state, how many in the
Speaker 3: other states?
Speaker 4: What the hell? And who puts them?
Speaker 5: As you're talking about earlier that you know, the Victorian
Speaker 5: police are in such a pickle at the moment in
Speaker 5: terms of staff numbers.
Speaker 2: If you were the.
Speaker 5: Police commissioner, you'd probably feel retis to tell anyone to
Speaker 5: buzz off while we investigate, because if you start losing
Speaker 5: more and more numbers, you end up in such a position.
Speaker 2: But you're being pulled in one.
Speaker 1: For us, the Victorian Police commissioner, I'd be taking a
Speaker 1: trip up north to Queensland.
Speaker 2: I'd be taking.
Speaker 1: Twenty grand and I'd go there much less problems. Palatial
Speaker 1: palace costs is the other interesting front page headline in
Speaker 1: The Herald's son jetting jet setting rather Former Treasurer Tim
Speaker 1: Pallas slug taxpayers more than six hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars during a decade of luxury travel in the top job.
Speaker 1: Now this is the former labor Victorian premier who resigned
Speaker 1: in December, leaving his state approaching one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: seven billion dollars in debt. But it turns out just
Speaker 1: a month or two before he resigned, he spent seventy
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars on a farewell tour of Britain, France,
Speaker 1: Italy and Spain. And just before that, he spent sixty
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars for a fifteen day trip to the
Speaker 1: US and Canada. Get this, exploring strategies to tackle debt.
Speaker 1: Of course, he resigned just weeks after that lightning trip.
Speaker 1: Great service to the Victoria taxpayer. Can you believe it's.
Speaker 5: Tim Pallas not heard of the Internet? Here's this amazing
Speaker 5: thing now where you can go online. You can read
Speaker 5: pretty much anything you want anywhere in the world. Heck,
Speaker 5: you can even talk to anyone you want, pretty much
Speaker 5: anywhere in the world about things like I don't know.
Speaker 2: Economics and how to tackle debt.
Speaker 5: It's like if you've got to get on a plane
Speaker 5: to go overseas to work out how to fix the
Speaker 5: problem that you created by spending lots of money to
Speaker 5: go overseas. For God, the treasurer of Victoria, what do
Speaker 5: you need to do going to Britain, France and Italy.
Speaker 5: You're not running their books, are you? I mean, for
Speaker 5: goodness sake, if Pallace was running their books.
Speaker 2: I think that's been kicking him out, deporting him.
Speaker 5: What does a treasurer need to be doing that force
Speaker 5: so serious?
Speaker 4: If you dosn't to the front page of the Townsville Bulletin.
Speaker 3: Now you've heard of flying doctors. Check out flying coppers.
Speaker 3: Five foo cops target city new thirty two million dollar
Speaker 3: flying squad to crack down on crem's. A specialized state
Speaker 3: flying squad will soon be deployed in crime hotspots of
Speaker 3: Queensland at a moment's notice. With Townsville suburbs set to
Speaker 3: benefit from more eyes in the sky, I mean, that's
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I know that they have incentives for.
Speaker 3: People to go ruural, much like they do for rural teachers, etc.
Speaker 3: There's certain areas people just don't want to work for
Speaker 3: rather obvious reasons, Townsville being one of them. I imagine
Speaker 3: if you're a copper, quite a few crime problems.
Speaker 4: But now they're just literally gonna parachute him in. It
Speaker 4: sounds pretty epic.
Speaker 1: It's actually a great idea for a state as vast
Speaker 1: as Queens And they used to have seventeen police on
Speaker 1: this fly in squad. They've bumped it up to fifty
Speaker 1: eight because of the increased L and P funding. So
Speaker 1: if you've got a place like Townsville that has a
Speaker 1: sudden crime surge all of a sudden, you can bump
Speaker 1: up police numbers by fifty eight. These especially trained officers
Speaker 1: could come in to address a specific thing good for
Speaker 1: the community, a helpful local police. I think it's a
Speaker 1: good move.
Speaker 5: Sounds fantastic. I can't believe no one's thought of it earlier.
Speaker 5: To be perfectly honest, let's go to the Olds tomorrow,
Speaker 5: where it says crucial face to face with Trump. It'll
Speaker 5: be a journey to the summit. Anthony Albanizi has pointed
Speaker 5: to the Quad leaders meeting that could be months away for.
Speaker 2: His possible first face to face.
Speaker 5: Meeting with Donald Trump, as former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop
Speaker 5: cast out on how long Australian Ambassador to the us.
Speaker 5: Kevin Rudd will last funny about that. But he's got
Speaker 5: an invitation to the inauguration and the Prime Minister doesn't.
Speaker 5: I mean imagine saying oh, we'll meet at the Quad
Speaker 5: in a few months when he may or may not
Speaker 5: even be Prime minister. He knows why and this is
Speaker 5: the problem for him, right. He knows he's steering down
Speaker 5: the barrel of an election. He is very much in
Speaker 5: election mode. Darton's very much in election mode.
Speaker 2: He can't afford to.
Speaker 5: Go overseas at the moment to say that, you know,
Speaker 5: I won't be here on the screens in Australia. I
Speaker 5: might lose my prime ministership. You can't even go to
Speaker 5: one of the most important events in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that worry.
Speaker 1: And he's saying maybe at the Quad. The court hasn't
Speaker 1: even been scheduled yet, so he's literally just making stuff
Speaker 1: very quickly. The Canberra Times have got an interesting store
Speaker 1: in the front page. GPS call for larger rebates. The
Speaker 1: Peak body for doctors is calling on the federal government
Speaker 1: to lift Medicare rebates to address rising out of pocket
Speaker 1: costs that disproportionately affect act residents. As the Albanezy government,
Speaker 1: of course ramp up a pre election scare campaign warning
Speaker 1: of coalition cuts now the camera. Time also reported that
Speaker 1: about one point five million Australians did not go to
Speaker 1: see a doctor in the last twelve months because they
Speaker 1: couldn't find anyone who bulk bills and so couldn't afford
Speaker 1: to pay the gap. So that's pretty concerning, but even
Speaker 1: more interesting when you consider that Labor, as the paper reports,
Speaker 1: are ramping up this scare campaign against the coalition. They're
Speaker 1: not doing great on health themselves. We're going to go
Speaker 1: to a break when we come back. The Victorian government
Speaker 1: started a sobering up center for drunken Victorians to give
Speaker 1: them a bed for the night. Turns out no one's
Speaker 1: using it, but Victorians are paying a mozza that's coming
Speaker 1: up in just a moment. Well, Victoria continues to amaze
Speaker 1: the public. Drunkenness used to be a offence in Victoria,
Speaker 1: but then the Labor government, in their wisdom, decided drunks
Speaker 1: don't need to sell for the night and to find.
Speaker 1: What they need is love and a warm bed. Provided
Speaker 1: that taxpayer expense. They stripped police of the ability to
Speaker 1: erect people for being drunk in public and instead ordered
Speaker 1: police to take people to taxpayer funded sobering up centers.
Speaker 1: They built three of these centers at a cost of
Speaker 1: seventy nine million dollars over three years. So how do
Speaker 1: you reckon they're going? Do you reckon people drunk on
Speaker 1: the streets say, oh, look, we'll go to a sobering
Speaker 1: up center run by the government for the night. It
Speaker 1: turns out, on average, two point nine people per night
Speaker 1: are using the sobering up centers, which Liz means that
Speaker 1: on current trends, victorians will be paying twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars per person per night to have a government funded
Speaker 1: bed so they can get sober. I reckon the politicians
Speaker 1: who came up with this were themselves in need of
Speaker 1: a sobering up center.
Speaker 4: They were drunk at the time.
Speaker 3: No, but honestly, what drunk have you ever been privy to?
Speaker 3: That is like, you know what, I'm going to take this.
Speaker 4: Opportunity stop being drunk.
Speaker 3: But they're not so that they can't what look up
Speaker 3: on the website?
Speaker 4: Where are these centers? Where's my nearest one? Maps it?
Speaker 3: Maybe catch an uber or stagger there themselves, like have
Speaker 3: you not met any drunk people? They are not going
Speaker 3: to do that, my goodness.
Speaker 5: Oh and like public drugon when was the last time
Speaker 5: you heard of someone being arrested for public drunkenness drunken disorderly?
Speaker 5: But hacky, you're making a dickhead of yourself. You're going
Speaker 5: to get picked up by the Hea.
Speaker 2: You're disturbing the people.
Speaker 5: It wasn't even a problem in the first place. But
Speaker 5: the Labor government of Victoria has lots of solutions to
Speaker 5: problems that don't exist. Speaking of Victoria, the Victorian Trades
Speaker 5: Hall rocked up to Peter Dutton's quasi campaign launch yesterday
Speaker 5: with that three eyed fish who saw of course, when
Speaker 5: Dutton first said that he was going to bring nuclear
Speaker 5: energy to Australia, he's the image here. Remember that we're
Speaker 5: posting Labor MPs, etc. We're posting photos of this thing
Speaker 5: online saying oh, this is what's going to happen if
Speaker 5: you have nuclear energy. Albanezy todd to take that stuff
Speaker 5: down and this is what the Victorian Trades Hall reckon
Speaker 5: is going to win the election for Albanezi.
Speaker 2: Again, I say to them, keep going, let's have more
Speaker 2: of this three.
Speaker 5: I fish stuff, because if you think that's gonna work
Speaker 5: you've got another thing.
Speaker 1: I just love the fact they're dragging around a toy
Speaker 1: made of petrochemical perfect. That's it from us, good night,
Speaker 1: but stick around. Coming up in just a moment, it's
Speaker 1: the Reader Penny Show.