WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 20 January 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.840 Late General, Welcome to the Late Base. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:08.680 Well, good evening and thanks for joining us on the 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.960 Late Debate. I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.080 Coming up tonight, the New Zealand Parliament is set to 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.759 grant a mountain the same rights as human beings. You 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.840 think we've got problems here in Australia not being able 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.720 to tell the difference between a man and a woman. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.200 Well across the ditch, they don't know the difference between 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:27.920 a pile of rocks and a person. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.440 We'll get to that a bit later. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.159 Plus, when we look at the papers, the number of 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.839 businesses going out of business in Victoria reaches record levels. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.400 And an interesting story on the front page of Tomorrow's Australian, 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.200 a violent former immigration detainee claims he's not a threat 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.680 to the public right after being released from prison having 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.839 been convicted of fighting in public. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:50.480 We'll get to that one. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.559 Shortly, but you know, on the Late Debate we love 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.320 to make fun and have a laugh at local councils 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.800 doing dumb things, and to be honest with you, every 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.720 week we are spoilt for choice. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.480 Normally it's fun stuff. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.640 You know, they fly the pan sexual flag over town Hall, 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.160 or install the kid's playground with no kids play equipment 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.640 in it. But we want to draw your attention tonight 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.119 to the City of Melbourne where they used ten million 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.880 dollars of pandemic recovery money to bankroll forty kilometers of 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.000 bike lanes through the CBD. Now you should immediately be 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.200 able to see the problem with this. The money, partly 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.360 provided by the state government, was meant to help small 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:34.600 businesses by kickstarting the city economy that was dilapidated by 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.240 the pandemic lockdowns. Well what did the city councilors do? 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.959 They thought, you know what, nothing will help inner city 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.560 retailers more than removing cars from the city and replacing 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.840 them with barely used bike lanes that serve no practical 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.320 purpose aside from scratching an ideological itch in town Hall. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.680 The Herald Sun got hold of freedom of information documents 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.160 that revealed the recovery fund there was one hundred million 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.560 dollars in total, but they used well over ten million 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.200 dollars for things like street projects and the bike lane rollout. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.360 There was also a two point six million dollar program 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.560 for streetscape improvements at the southern end of Elizabeth Street. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.799 The biggest spend, of course, from the fund was ten 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.640 million dollars for as I said, that ideological fetish that 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:28.560 so many councils have for bike lanes, Liz, bike lanes 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.480 are not going to help revive the city center. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.239 That's what the money was for. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.560 If you're a Victorian business person, it's just one hit 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:37.520 after another. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.040 Oh, this adds insult to injury. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.720 Not only are you against the wall, many of them 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.080 did not survive as we well know. Not only are 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.520 you against the wall because of the tyranny of this 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.480 state government, but now you find out councils have also 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.400 got their fingers in the pie of what is supposed 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.120 to be government money to help you get back on 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:07.040 your feet revitalize the CBD. Bike lanes do the exact opposite, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.320 and the council admits in this report. Or because it 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.400 was pandemic and everything, we didn't have time to liaise 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.200 with the public as to whether they actually wanted them 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:23.040 or not. The fact that in any CBD here in 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:28.320 Australia bike lanes are given precedents over cars is absolutely nuts. 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.120 Unless you are let's say. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.800 Between fifteen and forty five years of age, you're able bodied, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.080 the weather's nice, you don't have much luggage to take 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.600 to work, and you live close by. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.480 Because you're not going to cycle. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.840 What twenty k's either way, then you're going to need 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:44.800 a car. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.680 Or public transport. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.640 Those should be the two priorities in any CBD. The 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.920 amount of times I'm in Sydney CBD because I'm blessed 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.200 enough to live not too. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.480 Far away, I never see anyone in the bike lanes. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.600 Where are the bikes? This isn't Holland. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.760 Okay, So City of Melbourne that have tracked out forty 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.960 k's of this stuff to the tune of ten million dollars, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.760 I bet even the cyclist in Melbourne is like, what 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.320 a flip and waste of money. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.240 Well, see, it's not really about the cyclist. It's more 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.520 about the hatred of cars. And then they know they 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.280 are not actually going to be any cyclists on. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.640 These biplanes a gender. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.880 It's put the bike lane there so that it's difficult 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.320 for you to then drive your car through the Melbourne 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.760 CBD and then you crack it and say, well I'm 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.599 not going to do that again. But of course, in 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.719 order for the Melbourne CBD to operate, cafes, restaurants, shops, etc. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.200 I mean, all the things in these places they get 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.599 there somehow, and I'll give you a tip. They don't 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.880 come on the back of a bike. Actually, well, that's 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.160 not entirely true. There are such things as by couriers, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.560 but most things get delivered in a van or a truck, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.960 and the vans in the trucks have to get around 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.919 the CBD in order for the CBD to operate, and 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.479 they need somewhere to park as well. They had quite 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.159 large vehicles, and it's almost impossible to do that in 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.080 most capital cities now because they either can't get a 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.880 park because all the parking space has been taken up 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.880 by by lanes. All the by plane takes out an 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.760 entire lane of traffic, which means that it's now essentially 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.800 one lane of traffic and then one lane of parking. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:19.960 And so when a. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.039 Truck decides it needs to reverse parallel park, everyone's backed 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.800 up to Wilson's Promontory in Victoria waiting for this track 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.800 to be able to park because you cannot get past them. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.160 And I want to know two point six million dollars 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.640 spent on quote unquote beautifying improving the streetscape of the 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.320 southern end of Elizabeth Street. Now I know you were 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.600 in Melbourne over Christmas. I don't know whether you went 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.599 to that end of Elizabeth Street. But I lived in 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.280 Melbourne at this time, and I looked at that end 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.600 of Elizabeth Street almost every day. I would walk from 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.159 South Bank through the underpass, you know, over the river, 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.920 through Flint of Street Station and there would be Elizabeth Street. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.840 And I don't remember doing anything to beautify it. I 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.160 just remember it being full of more homeless people and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.239 drug users than it was when I arrived in the city. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:07.320 Well you know what they did there. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.280 They closed off one side of Elizabeth's and. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.159 They put down fake turf. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.039 Yes, but then it and it became a gathering point 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:17.840 for drug addicts. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.160 Yes, I was almost anti social behavior. So I thought, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.800 they can't do that. So the council came back. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.720 They took away the plants, they took away the park benches, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.400 they ripped up the artificial turf. They left that section 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.000 of street block to traffic, which goes to your point. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.280 This isn't about bikes or any other things, about time 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.480 to remove cars from the city, which does the exact opposite. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:38.520 And yet the Council. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.080 The coun still keep saying this was quote as people 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.360 change their travel habits during the pandemic, You mean as 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.960 you forced them to change their travel habits because it's 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.719 more of a nightmare than ever to have a vehicle, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.200 whether a car or a truck in Melbourne. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.320 CBD, thank you very much. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:03.280 They always all always put across their agendas as oh no, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.800 this is what the people want. That was written in 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.159 the same report where they admitted with in liaise with 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.360 the community regarding this, and it makes just out and 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.080 out lying, and it. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.440 Makes even less sense considering the city that Melbourne has 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.000 now become what the CBD has now become, which is 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.120 an entertainment place on the weekend. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.240 People don't go there to work during the week. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.720 The numbers of people in Melbourne during the week are 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.520 below what they were before the pandemic. On the weekend 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 they're much higher than they were during the pandemic because 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.320 people are at home working during the week, and then 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.000 on the weekend they decide, well, we're going to go 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.360 into the city and have some fun. Then you can 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.480 maybe justify riding your bike to work during the week 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.120 because you're just going to go there and then come 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.560 home at the end of the day. But you're not 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.040 going to get on your bike with the kids, go 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.800 into the city, have six pints over lunch and then 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.960 ride the bike back home, are you. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.400 It just does not make any seat. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.200 Speaking of things that don't make any sense, unless, of course, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.560 you have the lefty hive mind, the woke mind virus. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.720 As Elon Musk likes to talk about the Australian Classification Board. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.920 This is the mob that looks at books and movies 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.520 and video games and cassettes. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.000 Well, actually we don't have cassets. How did I come 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.640 up with cassetts? I don't know where that came from. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.880 Look you're too young to rememberchanic, no, no no. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.440 I had cassettes in the boomboxer record songs off of 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.440 FM radio and whatever. When I was a kid classic FM. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.040 I was recording music off. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.640 Of it should be. I don't know how I came 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:29.440 up with casseets. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.360 I mean, I haven't used a cassette v years nor 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.200 a CD mind you, but I do have lots of 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.320 old radios. Maybe that's where my mind was going. But anyway, 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.640 they look at the cash hets if anyone still makes them. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.440 The CDs the albums that get released and put a 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.000 rating on them. You know, you go to the movies, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.959 it's G or it's PG, or it's M, or it's 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.120 M A fifteen or. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.319 It's R or whatever. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.880 That mob now wants to take their responsibilities even further. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.120 They want to go into the past and reclassify movies. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:58.880 And books, et cetera. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.440 Because, wait for it, there might be something in a 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.720 movie or a book that was made written fifty sixty, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.160 seventy eighty years ago. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.960 Wait for it, it reflects the time it was written. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.400 Who would have known, I mean, imasion making a movie 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.559 about the eighteen hundreds or the seventeen hundred, it's got. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:20.080 Slavery in it. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.160 Well, we must now go back and reclassify that movie 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.600 so that you know before you watch it that it 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.320 has slavery in it. I mean, for goodness sake, what 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.600 we are talking about here is not the classification board. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.440 It's the trigger warning board. They have to now, They 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.120 want the power now to go back and look at 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.080 everything that has ever been made to say, oh, well, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.520 you know, the standards have changed, so we must now 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.079 apply to dose standards to the old product. As if 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.800 you didn't already know when you were watching Gone with 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.480 the Wind that it wasn't made yesterday. This is from 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.280 the Australian. The federal government agency that is the Classification 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.719 Board wants to reclassify publications every ten years. It's told 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.679 her view of Australia's classification scheme. They cite the British 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.600 Sensor's reclassification of classic children's film Mary Popp'in's For Heaven's 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.679 Sake last year. The Australian Senser needs says that it 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.400 needs new powers to proactively reclassify our cake and out 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.400 of step movies. I'll repeat that our cake and out 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.679 of step. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.840 Movies, books and TV shows. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.840 That no longer a line with the current guidelines or 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:31.200 community standards, as if we don't already know that when 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.080 we're watching it or reading it. We know that slavery 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.840 is bad, We know that many things that happened in 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.240 the past are no longer the standards of today. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.320 Do they really think people are that dense that they. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.640 Put on an old movie or pick up a Dickens 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.840 book and they're. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.440 Like, heavens, that's how life should we live now? I 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.839 can't believe it. Like we know, we. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.920 Don't need to be told I mean, the next thing 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.800 they want is the power to hold public book burnings. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.600 But we've s where this goes because they've done this 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.080 in the UK, whether it's in Enlightened Doctor Seuss, whether 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.960 it's Role Dal. They've put warnings on those books. Some 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.200 of them have been withdrawn from shelves, episodes of Friends 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.800 have been changed, trigger warnings outed because people have been 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.640 upset by modern sensibilities. Mary Poppins, when it was released 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.400 in nineteen sixty four was rated universal. That rating was 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.640 repeated in twenty thirteen, but last year it was reclassified 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.760 as PG because it uses the word hottentots I've never 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.880 heard of before, but apparently that refers to an African person, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.719 but they used it for chimney sweeps whose faces were 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.640 covered in soot, and of course that's very racist. There's 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.200 a fatal flaw with what the Australian Classification Board is 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.120 doing here, and that is the assumption that our morality 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:52.080 is improving, that somehow we are more enlightened than our grandparents' generation. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.000 I would argue that that is a big call. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.839 We are the generation that can't differentiate between a man 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.000 and a woman, and we suppose that sense of morality 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.040 is superior to our grandparents. I think the world was 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.320 a much more moral place when my grandparents were alive 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.280 than it is these days. So the arrogance of the 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.520 Censorship Board to believe that somehow they are superior to 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.240 previous generations and should go back and reclassify and mop 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.160 up the mess of our grandparents, for instance, is just astonishing. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.840 Well, thankfully this doesn't have a snowflake's chance in the 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:26.560 hell of getting up. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.240 Let's all be angry that they tried. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.920 Sure, but given we are currently in the environment just 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.400 off a few months after the comprehensive defeat of the 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:41.400 Combating Misinformation Disinformation Bill, I was watching Minister O'Neill on 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.600 Sunrise just this morning and she was shooting this down 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.360 the woman best known as she who would fail finger 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.120 painting in Albanesi's cabinet. Even she was like, no, no, 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.439 this is a terrible. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.920 Idea, not going to happen. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.920 Barnaby Joyce was saying, there's no way the Communications Minister 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.920 Michelle Roland would allow this. I'm thinking I still remember 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.680 how purple in the face jug yellar veins sticking out 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.960 that woman was frothing over her amazing Combating Misinformation Disinformation Bill. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.120 But I take Barnaby's point, even she would have learnt 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.520 her lessons. So I don't think this is going to 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.320 get up by any stretch of the imagination. But I 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.080 always encourage everyone every time. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.400 Stuff cut like this comes up. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:31.000 Remember what they tried on that bill that we're talking about, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.920 perfect example. Imagine if they got their way. What these 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.920 guys are trying to do is edit history, which is 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.400 indeed straight out of nineteen eighty four, the famous quote, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.680 who controls the pass controls the future, Who controls the 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.200 present controls the past. So those who are in power 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.719 today are trying to make out like, oh, slavery never existed, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.439 Blacks were never subservient to white Oh, and men were 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.040 never really really masculine, and women were never really really 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.440 feminine and actually really liked men being really masculine. Now 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.120 we just pump out movies where it's always. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.120 A strong female lead. All the guys are pathetic. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.920 Have you noticed that every single male in your average 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.840 Hollywood film is just an absolute loser. He's down on 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.120 his luck, he doesn't earn as much money as her, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.440 he's not as good looking as her, he's got a 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:29.080 really bad self esteem. They have cast men for decades 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.840 now as complete losers. Hollywood didn't about face and made 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.960 all the women the strong, you know, kick down the door, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.400 real ball buster types, and people look at that and 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.040 admire that and think it's something so something else. You 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.920 can be sure these people would be editing out of 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.040 history is a time of the John Waynes, the type 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.440 of man who slapped women's butt sheets, who were like 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:58.520 ultra ultra like masculine, really rough and something, and all. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:59.280 The chicks loved it. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.480 But they want to reach classify movies that are quote 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.320 out of step with current standards. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.640 What is out of stepman? 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.320 And I hate. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.960 Hypocrisy from the Australian Classification Board who while they want 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.040 to go back and put trigger warnings on Mary Poppins 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.720 and Gone with the Wind, just last year they approved 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.880 a novel that depicted pedophiles gang raping children and a 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.600 comic book that had basically violent pornography. They approved those 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.840 works because of their literary, artistic and educational merits. These 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.600 same people want to go back and edit versions of 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.760 Friends and books by land Blab. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.960 They're out of step. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.960 James, the fox trot wrong? 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.000 Didn't you know that but you took me about you know, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.240 John Wayne slapping women on the barmers. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:47.960 What happened to Benny Hill? Right? 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.000 This is something I don't know what they did with 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.720 the classification of Benny Hill, but I remember as a 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.560 kid watching Benny Hill on Channel seven on a Saturday 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.000 nightgel I loved it. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.440 I mean most of it went. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.920 Over my head, the sexual innuendos, but I thought Benny 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.360 Hill was the best thing ever. They don't show Benny 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.680 Hill anywhere anymore. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.600 That's what's wrong with the I wouldn't be able to 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:07.240 watch the Pull Home. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:08.600 I mean imagine all that. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.360 You could not make a lot of the films and 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:16.360 comedies of the sixties, seventies, eighties, particularly the UK ones. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.120 You know on the buses. Are you being served? I 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.280 mean I think of Missus Slocum walking in on a 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.560 cold morning saying that her puts it was frozen solid, right, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.920 and as a kid, that straight over the top of 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.440 my head. But you couldn't make that stuff anymore, And 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.080 they reckon, we haven't got new Puritanism. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:33.480 Get and they don't. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.080 They won't let us show it either, because then people 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.600 would wake up to the fact that we are being 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.160 robbed and TV was actually way better back in the day. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.320 We haven't progressed, we've regressed. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.360 Moving on now, President Trump is about to get a 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.960 whole lot more popular with the younger demographic in America. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.400 You may recall TikTok was set to be banned in America. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:03.040 One hundred and twenty million American TikTok users, especially the left, were, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.160 of course, completely losing their mind. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.240 Normally, when something happens, I would get on TikTok. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.840 It's a complaining and I can't even do that. We 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:21.760 learned so much about things we didn't know about, opportunities, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.280 places to eat, movies to watch, books to read. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.600 I just seen the video of the girl that made 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.160 the renegade dance and crag because I read a comment 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.440 that was like the algorithm saying good bye? 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.040 Does this app was literally supposed to be my way out? 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:46.359 Well after and in executive order, Trump has managed to 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.600 extend not it's the band's not completely off the table. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.800 He wants to do a deal with TikTok. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:58.480 So earlier this weekend, TikTok users melted down when they 0:17:58.600 --> 0:17:59.760 saw this on their screen. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.560 Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now. A law banning. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.800 TikTok has been enacted in the US. Unfortunately, that means 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.240 you can't use it now. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.280 We are fortunate that President Trump has. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.840 Indicated that he will work with us on a solution 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.360 to reinstate. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:20.000 TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned. Well this 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:20.879 was true. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.879 It turns out TikTok early ended up going dark for 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.240 just twelve hours in the United States of America, and 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:33.280 then Trump announces this is his idea for reinstating it. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:34.080 How do you like this? 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:41.200 As of today, TikTok is back. I said, I'll approve, 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:46.600 but let the United States of America own fifty percent 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:47.320 of TikTok. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.600 So, whether you like TikTok or not, we're. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:50.440 Going to make a lot of money. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.359 We're gonna have TikTok's availing our people. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.560 We want to avail them. True, we want all that 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.800 data on them. China can't have it by themselves. We 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.000 won in on this, Thanks very much. That's my read 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.520 on this. It's quite hilarious. But the lefties don't care. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.800 They're drying their tears because next time they logged into TikTok, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.600 they saw this wondrous message welcome back, Thanks for your 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:17.760 patients and support. 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.880 As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:22.520 in the US. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.479 You can continue to create, to share, and discover all 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.800 of the things you love on TikTok while we harvest 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:36.359 your data like you wouldn't believe good thing or bad thing. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:41.640 Well, look, I am troubled by the idea that TikTok 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.320 and Elon Musk was pointing this out yesterday, that Twitter 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.960 cand or x as it now is, can't operate in 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.879 China because of course China wouldn't allow any sort of 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.360 Western outfit to go and set up shop over there, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.920 but we do allow a company that has inextricable links 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.560 to the CCPs all companies in China do to. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.440 Set up shop in the US. 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.919 And then we say it's a free speech argument, Well, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.280 how far does your free speech go when you literally 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.159 just hand opportunities to foreign powers to come over and 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.359 start inserting things that are so discord et cetera. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.720 And we know from the way that TikTok. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.840 Is presented in the US and Australia and the UK 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.840 the Western world, compared to the version of TikTok that's 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.520 handed up in China, to kids. I mean over there 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:31.280 are chosen science experiments, very homework stuff, and what they 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.840 can only use it for forty minutes a day, et cetera. 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.280 They're using TikTok to fill their kids' minds with things 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.200 that actually matter. Over here, of course, the algorithm just 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.120 fills kids' minds with brain rot. But that's what China wants. 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.720 If you can make weak Chinese sorry we Western children 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.240 and strong Chinese children, that's exactly what China wants. So 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.080 it makes total sense that you would want to go 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.560 for a band. What Trump has done here is sort 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.840 of taken what was the original proposition, which was that 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.360 Byte Dance, the owner of TikTok, would have to divest 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:06.960 its US version essentially to someone else want a continue operating. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.399 He said, well, why don't we come to an agreement 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.880 where we have fifty percent of the bargain. Now, whether 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.280 or not they can actually do that remains to be seen, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:16.880 but he's shown his card and said, look, we'll let 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.560 you operate, but you've got to play by our rules. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:20.639 I don't see a problem with that. 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:22.080 It's a good business decision. 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.080 TikTok is worth an absolute fortune. I mean, it's eighteen 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.879 billion dollars in advertising revenue last year. It's a good 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.560 political decision because, of course Republicans have never exactly been 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:37.560 popular with the younger demographic, although Kamala Harris failed miserably 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.400 in that regard at the last election, attracting only about 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.399 fifty four percent of young voters compared to well I 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:44.480 was sixty percent by. 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.560 Previous Democrat candidates. But Trump now is the hero. We 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.480 saw all those lefties having meltdowns. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.240 They'll wake up today thinking thank God for our Lord 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:55.560 and Savior Donald Trump, which is the first time I 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.040 left he has ever said that. So politically it's good 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.360 for him. But as you say, TikTok is like it's 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.800 like cultural cancer. And Congress had agreed to ban this, 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.479 the ban had been enacted. I know Trump is pro 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:11.920 free speech, but is there a point at which you 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.800 say this is a malignant force that is destroying our 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:16.720 younger generation. 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.879 Added to that, there's the security concerns, let's ditch it. 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.720 Sure it's a political when sure he can say he 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:27.400 really is the free speech, but are their bigger concerns? 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:27.600 Right? 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:30.000 But you see, is it about free speech because obviously 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:34.639 there's a lot of other social media platforms. You've got Instagram, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.000 you've got all metas, you've got X. 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:38.879 There are other places that. 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:44.240 These same people can go that aren't CCP owned and controlled. 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:47.000 We know that byte dancy is, as he pointed out, Caleb, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.040 So is it actually a freedom of speech issue? 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:52.960 That is my big question? 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.680 Like you say, X can't operate in China because they 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:00.280 do not want that influence on the Chinese people. 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.160 They know what's good for them, and they're making sure. 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:06.120 That happens the way simply hasn't done the same by 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:08.960 their own kids. And if I'm taking something off you 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.879 that's actually quite damaging the vast majority of an impure brain. 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.280 Rot Am I really limiting your freedom of speech? Or 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:19.840 am I ensuring that you're going to spend your time 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.399 doing a lot more intelligent things in the future. 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.200 And sure you may stick with what you're. 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.120 Doing, but go onto those other platforms and use those 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.360 to do the exact same thing. Anyway, So I don't 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:35.200 know that it is restrictive of freedom of speech. But 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:38.359 something else Trump has promised to do, and I am 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:43.560 beyond ampt for this, is release the files on the 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:49.280 rfk jfk MLK assassinations check it out. 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:54.840 As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government. 0:23:54.960 --> 0:24:00.080 We will also reverse the overclassification of government documents, and 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:03.600 in the coming days, we're going to make public remaining 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:08.520 records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:13.160 his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as doctor Martin Luther 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:17.520 King Junior, and other topics of great public and Jesse 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:18.960 do it. 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:23.200 I never get tired of being right about absolutely everything. 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:27.159 If he genuinely does this, and we don't get a 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:31.440 redacted pile of crap. If he actually does this, this 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:36.080 is going to change the game in terms of how 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:41.520 massive sways of particularly the Western world, relate to their government, 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:44.200 particularly the CIA. 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:47.200 This is going to do. This is why they haven't 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.800 released it. They're all like all national security concerns. Yeah, 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:52.720 of your own. 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:55.680 Concern You guys are the ones that are going to 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.760 look absolutely terrible if and when this is revealed. 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.480 I mean, I can't tell you how excited I am. 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:03.720 Well will you suppose that? 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:05.639 I mean, look, none of us have read it, so 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:08.480 I don't know what's actually in it will be the 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:09.760 case we have. 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:13.760 Outside of these files, the stuff that we have put 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:19.040 together in the succeeding decades. I mean, the proof is 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:21.000 just mountainous at this point. 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.159 This will just be a final nail in the coffee. 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.040 The question was whether or not he goes through with it, 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.119 because last time he said he was going to do 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:28.520 this and then he backed off. 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:30.840 Exactly, which is why I keep saying if. 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.240 So, we'll wait and see if he follows through. 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:36.240 But it would be a huge step in rebuilding trust 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.400 between the public and the government, which is completely eroded, 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:40.960 especially after the COVID. 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:45.800 Stuff fixing estimate all that. I love this. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:49.320 This is what Trump can do, right because he's an outsider, 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:52.080 So no one's expecting someone like Trump to come in 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:54.320 and suddenly say, you know what, let's open the windows, 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:55.280 open the doors, let the. 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:56.200 Light shine in. 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.200 But of course, this is just one of about two 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:02.280 hundred things he's planning to do on day one. It'll 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:04.960 take the news media a week to cover just the 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:06.480 things he's going to do in the first twenty four 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:10.840 hours after inauguration. If he follows through, particularly on this one, 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:12.480 you might even find out about the moon landing. 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:16.639 I already know about the moon landing. I already know 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:20.200 about Well done, you guys, to I know that you're 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:24.360 not literally taking this apart. He's by piece. Why isn't 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.080 the flag moving? They've taken a part of the pot 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:29.000 the photo. 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:33.600 I'm sorry you'll miss James. 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:40.000 The amount of chime the winders, I know it's pretty easy. 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:42.440 But the amount of time that has passed since these 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.520 events occurred, there's very little reason now to say that 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:47.560 we shouldn't be able to see those dogs. And the 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:51.240 difference in terms of him last time not releasing it, 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:53.600 and the difference to this time, I think is it 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:56.720 last time he came to the with no political experience whatsoever. 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:00.520 He walked in completely green, and then of course people 0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:02.200 got in his ear and told him what he could 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:04.480 and couldn't do, or should or shouldn't do. Forereas this 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:07.440 time he comes in with total knowledge of how to 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:10.639 do the job, how the system of government works, how 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:14.080 the cogs work within the wheel, and so he will 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:17.040 be much more confident to be able to make more 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:20.800 decisions and other decisions and whatever that will allow him 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:22.960 to do this, if he doesn't have to be scared anymore. 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:25.520 I mean, this is literally his last throw of the dice. 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:28.159 He can't run again after this, so hell if he 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.159 wants to get anything done, now is the time to. 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:31.679 Do it now. 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:34.080 I don't know whether you've been watching the tennis that's 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:36.320 been going on, of course in Melbourne, the Australian Open. 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:38.600 If you're watching US, of course that's much better. Don't 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:39.720 go changing any channels. 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:42.520 Watch the late debate, but we will give you the 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:43.280 process of. 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:45.960 What has been going on in the tennis, not necessarily 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:48.280 the game going on on the court, but some of 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:50.800 the going goings on around it. I don't know whether 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:55.400 you've ever seen Tony Jones over on Channel nine TJ. 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:57.719 As they call him, Chompers, they call him. 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.600 He's on the Sunday Footy show during the al season, 0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:03.639 fills in all over the shop, he reads news, he 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:06.520 fills in on the three a W Mornings, which he's 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:08.520 doing at the moment, and he is one of their 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:12.040 sports broadcasters, so he has been reading the sport at. 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.840 Night on Channel nine. He's also been involved in some 0:28:15.160 --> 0:28:16.160 of the coverage. Well. 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:20.000 On Friday there were Serbian supporters behind him when he 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:24.119 crossed in to do his sports segment on nine News 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:26.879 in Melbourne and they were charting away and having a 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:29.320 good time and well this is how TJ took it. 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:34.119 The Novak Djokovic fan's there in full voice. Yeah, the 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:39.400 chances are quite a surety Novak, he's overrated Novaksa has 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:41.480 the Novack kick him in. 0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:43.960 Boy, I'm glad they can't hear me. 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:46.360 Boy, I'm glad they can't hear me. 0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:49.080 Oh, forgot about the TV camera in front of me 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:51.880 going out to all of Melbourne Live. That will then 0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:54.760 get put on social media and go around the world, 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:59.360 which it did, which is why this happened. Novak Djokovic, 0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:02.880 to winning a match, went to do the normal interview, 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:06.280 so you win the game, the interview the winner, except 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:08.240 he didn't do the interview. 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:09.040 He walked off. 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:11.120 He took the microphone and he said thanks for the fans, 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:14.280 thanks to the fans, sorry, and handed the microphone Matt. 0:29:14.360 --> 0:29:16.560 He was like, hang on, why did Jokovic not do 0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:20.680 the interview? Well, he explained that old Mat TJ had 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:24.560 insulted his country and his fans and until old Mate 0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:27.840 TJ and his Channel nine apologizes for it, he won't 0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:28.960 be given no interviews. 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.760 Well, I was hoping he's going to apologize in public, 0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:34.960 which he hasn't done yet. 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:38.760 Native into the Channel nine so That's. 0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:42.120 The only reason why I didn't do the interview. 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.680 It was, of course not a great feeling for me, 0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:46.920 and it was quite awkward on the court. 0:29:47.920 --> 0:29:50.560 Now. Of course, Jones in that early eclip mentioned you know, 0:29:51.120 --> 0:29:54.440 no kick him out, which is a reference to a 0:29:54.600 --> 0:29:59.400 national disgrace, which was the deportation of Novak Djokovic in 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:01.920 twenty two twenty two when he came out to play 0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:05.840 in the Australian Open. It is a stain on this 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:08.680 country that we kicked him out. But he just had 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:10.960 to bring it up, just to rub the salt into 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:13.400 the wound a little bit more. Not forgetting, of course, 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:15.440 the fact that Djokovic came back the year later in 0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:18.080 twenty twenty three and won the Australian. 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:21.120 Open, just to prove the point. But TJ rolled over 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:25.440 and gave his apology. Well apology, I don't know you ever. Listen. 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:29.520 The comments were made on the news on the Friday night, 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:32.600 which I considered to be banter. I considered it to 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:35.800 be humor, which is consistent with most things I do. 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:38.520 That the Jokovic camp was not happy at all with 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:39.360 those comments. 0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:39.560 Now. 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:44.520 As such, I immediately contacted the Djokovic camp and issued 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:47.120 an apology to them. So this is forty eight hours 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:51.440 ago for any disrespect that Novak felt that I had caused. 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:54.840 And as I stand here now, I stand by that 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:56.240 apology to Novak. 0:30:57.560 --> 0:31:00.600 So here we are twenty days is it's the twentieth 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:03.840 of January. They were twenty days into twenty twenty five. 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:06.200 I did not have on my twenty twenty five bingo 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:11.560 card an international diplomatic incident caused by chompers on Channel nine. 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:11.880 Jack. 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:14.440 There's so many problems with his First of all, I mean, 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:15.800 he says it was banned it was a bit of 0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:17.600 humor because that's what he does. Well, he needs to 0:31:17.760 --> 0:31:20.720 find a different job, because it was so funny, it 0:31:20.840 --> 0:31:24.640 was cringe worthy. Beyond that, it was just stupid. You 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.000 pointed out his comment. You know, lucky they can't hear. 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:29.440 He's on television. That's his job. 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:33.520 Of course, it's going to go not just locally but internationally. 0:31:34.120 --> 0:31:36.080 And of course, if you're going to make a joke, 0:31:36.280 --> 0:31:39.080 don't make a joke of Novak Dokovich, the man who 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:42.640 was persecuted by our government for the crime of standing 0:31:42.720 --> 0:31:47.080 up for bodily autonomy during the COVID pandemic, and then 0:31:47.160 --> 0:31:50.440 the apology. It's the first apology I've ever seen where 0:31:50.480 --> 0:31:52.560 someone says, I stand by my apology. 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:56.640 Is that you know why apology? 0:31:56.880 --> 0:31:58.840 It was forty eight hours ago, and to be honest, 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:00.400 I've reconsidered you might. 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:02.960 Want to reissue it. He should have said, you know what, 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:04.520 it was a stupid thing to say. 0:32:04.560 --> 0:32:06.760 I wasn't thinking. It wasn't funny. It was a dumb 0:32:06.800 --> 0:32:10.440 thing to say. I apologize unreservedly. Dokovic is an absolute champion, 0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:11.640 and I'm really sorry for you. 0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:16.080 He completely wasn't sorry, though, he was completely not sorry. 0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:19.440 That apology had all the charm of a colossomy bag 0:32:19.520 --> 0:32:23.959 hitting a windshield. This guy just stood there making excuses, going, oh, 0:32:24.120 --> 0:32:27.520 I just I thought it was being funny, insinuating the 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:31.920 team Djokovic were actually just precious little souls. They couldn't 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:32.280 take it. 0:32:32.480 --> 0:32:34.040 He was cracking a joke, and. 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:37.720 They've cracked the UNO once because they don't have thick 0:32:37.800 --> 0:32:42.280 enough skin. That is genuinely, he just piled on the 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:45.760 insult in that apology. It wasn't an apology at all. 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:48.360 They of course have taken the apology. They want to 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.120 get on with the game. Good on them, But the 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:53.920 fact that Channel nine would have written that out word 0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:57.520 for word and thought, oh yeah, this sad excuse of 0:32:57.560 --> 0:33:01.760 an apology with all the genuine of a vanity license plate. 0:33:02.080 --> 0:33:04.480 Let's go live on it. This will really, you know, 0:33:04.680 --> 0:33:06.960 get rid of the international stink. 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:10.120 This is caused because once again Australia we are in 0:33:10.320 --> 0:33:15.440 international headlines for treating this guy like dirt, for doing 0:33:15.640 --> 0:33:20.040 absolutely nothing wrong. Every year he rocks up nearly every year, 0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:24.280 he wins ten times the Australian Open, and this time 0:33:24.440 --> 0:33:27.760 we've got the official partner of the Australian Open, the 0:33:27.840 --> 0:33:31.760 official network covering it. Their guy decides to call him 0:33:32.160 --> 0:33:36.680 has been a loser, Kick him out the thing. 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:38.880 There's no excuse for this whatsoever. 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:42.040 The other weird thing about that apology is instead of 0:33:42.080 --> 0:33:44.160 looking straight down the camera and saying you know what, 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:47.200 I regret what I said or whatever, they filmed the 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:50.160 apology where he's being much sort of like talking about 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:52.520 and we just kind of are listening in, which is 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:54.320 a really odd way, I would. 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:55.480 Say, genuine way. 0:33:56.360 --> 0:34:00.480 But can I just say, master stroke of Djokovic just 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:03.280 taking to Twitter. That video that you saw of him 0:34:03.400 --> 0:34:06.280 just there has over sixty six million views. 0:34:06.320 --> 0:34:09.760 So Channel nine could get stuffed. Beat that fat cats. 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:15.560 He just bypassed the nasty media posted by himself filming 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:20.280 himself onto his own Twitter account and the world was watching. 0:34:20.520 --> 0:34:24.520 So who needs these nasty media types anyway? It's just like, 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:27.040 you know what, you want to insult me after I've 0:34:27.080 --> 0:34:30.360 come all this way. Novak has already talked at length 0:34:30.440 --> 0:34:33.520 about the fact that he's genuinely traumatized coming back. 0:34:33.400 --> 0:34:35.960 Into Melbourne because he was locked up like. 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:40.439 A criminal in Chrisportation at Christmas sent home. He said, 0:34:40.480 --> 0:34:43.880 even the food apparently got some sort of lead poisoning 0:34:44.040 --> 0:34:48.200 from it. We did so atrociously in terms of looking 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:50.720 after him, not looking after him at all. 0:34:51.160 --> 0:34:54.280 And this guy's joking about it for shame. 0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:56.160 All right, before we go to a break, I want 0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:59.840 to get your opinion on a coalition policy. Peter Dutton 0:34:59.840 --> 0:35:02.560 has come out and said that if elected, he will 0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:07.800 legislate mandatory sentences for people who commit terror offenses and 0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:10.960 for people who display terrorist symbols. Now, this is an 0:35:11.000 --> 0:35:14.800 interesting move because Anthony Alberenezi appointed a special Envoy for 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:17.600 Anti Semitism to advise him and the government on what 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:20.440 they should do will She advised that they should implement 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:25.000 mandatory sentences, and Anthony Alberanzi said no to his specially 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:28.440 appointed envoy, but Peter Dutton is saying yes to Anthony 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:31.160 Albanese specially appointed envoice. 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:33.359 So Dutton is proposing. 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:37.440 One to five year minimum mandatory sentences for anyone who 0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:42.840 displays a terrorist flag, has bala Hamas or a terrorist 0:35:42.960 --> 0:35:48.080 symbol including the Nazi symbol Caleb good move or bad move. 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:50.080 I'm going to have to pull the splinters out of 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:52.560 my ass on this one because I am in two minds, 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:55.480 because part of me says that anyone who has any 0:35:55.480 --> 0:35:58.600 sympathy for a terror organization ought to be deported fly. 0:35:58.680 --> 0:35:59.759 The flag even more so. 0:36:00.320 --> 0:36:02.399 The one thing I worry about, though, is that when 0:36:02.520 --> 0:36:06.080 you ban or outlaw certain ways of thinking, as a 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:09.400 borring as they might be, they don't disappear. They just 0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:13.120 go underground, and it then potentially becomes even harder to idea. 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:15.840 What type of mandatory min sentences are you saying it 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:17.720 shouldn't even be illegal to waiver has bluff? 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.200 The idea troubles me to some degree because I just 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:24.600 worry that the ideology doesn't go away. And if you 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:27.719 tell someone that the way they think is bad, they 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:30.320 actually have less reason than to do anything about it. 0:36:30.400 --> 0:36:32.200 You don't deradicalize that. 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:35.680 Their organization is to kill certain people. Isn't waving the 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:37.360 flag incitement to violence? 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:38.360 Quite illegal? 0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:39.480 Quite quite possibly. 0:36:39.560 --> 0:36:42.920 I mean, I just worry that if you cannot identify 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:43.480 clearly idea. 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:44.879 I mean, you look, if you feel like you come out. 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:46.560 Way there's a black blake, we know the bloke to 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:48.080 keep an eye out, or we know the bloke you 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:50.600 need it ought to be in a deradicalization program. But 0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:53.239 they're not going to stop saying these things. That's the 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:55.239 only thing that worries me is they will do it. 0:36:55.640 --> 0:36:58.080 They will just do it in places where you don't 0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:00.920 know they're doing it, which I think makes it more 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:03.279 difficult to identify them and potentially do something. 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:06.560 Yeah, I'm on that as a as a free speech absolutist, 0:37:06.640 --> 0:37:09.320 as a free expression absolutist, even if I think you 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:12.520 hold the most abhorrent views in the world, I want 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:15.080 you to express them so the authorities know your name, 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:19.320 know your address. It actually helps them out exponentially. And 0:37:19.400 --> 0:37:20.960 I think there's a lot to be said. I just 0:37:21.200 --> 0:37:25.320 do not like banning things, period. And as we discussed 0:37:25.440 --> 0:37:28.920 last week. Mandatory sentencing. Minimum mandatory sentencing. 0:37:29.360 --> 0:37:34.680 That is an absolute can of worms. 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:37.920 Because it does away with the situations in which people might. 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.160 Be when they commit these acts. 0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:42.160 Also, I do think this is quite a bit of 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:45.640 window dressing by the Libs here, because the vast majority 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:48.799 of flags flown at the rallies that we've seen are 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.960 not Hamas or Hezbla flags. They are the Palestinian flag, period, 0:37:53.080 --> 0:37:56.240 So it sounds great. They're probably trying to get votes 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:59.279 from certain people in the community. Makes sense coming up 0:37:59.320 --> 0:38:00.960 to an election, but I think that's all that is. 0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:01.480 Essentially. 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:02.280 I'm going to disagree. 0:38:02.320 --> 0:38:05.280 If you're waving a terrorist flag, you're inciting violence against 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:06.600 a particular grip in the community. 0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:10.200 Not only that, but you're harassing, bullying and threatening them. 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:10.879 It should be bad. 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:12.279 We're going to go to a break when we come back. 0:38:12.360 --> 0:38:17.480 Look at the papers in just a moment, welcome back 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:19.080 to the late debate. Let's take a look at what's 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:22.200 making news in tomorrow's papers and Liz Donald Trump is 0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:23.719 dominating tomorrow. 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:27.240 In more ways than one. Check out these headlines The Courier, 0:38:27.320 --> 0:38:30.960 Mail and New Dawn get It instead of Dawn It 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:34.399 says Donald Trump has promised the blitz of executive orders 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:36.719 he will sign after taking the oath of office as 0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:40.640 US President for a historic second time today, will fix 0:38:40.920 --> 0:38:44.439 every single crisis. This is a direct quote, fix every 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:49.160 single crisis facing our country end quote and Herald. 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:51.960 In a new golden age for America. 0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:54.879 Talk about talk and beg but if there's one guy 0:38:54.920 --> 0:38:57.960 who can deliver on it to the advertiser. Now, Don 0:38:58.120 --> 0:39:02.160 goes for woke, kicking it all out, ready to launch 0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:08.080 his conservative revolution. Newcastle Herald They've all got this picture 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:12.840 of him doing that iconic YMC hag dance Don's Party, 0:39:13.040 --> 0:39:14.240 the headline reads. 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:16.600 And lastly the Herald's. 0:39:16.160 --> 0:39:19.920 Son Maachroman Trump back as president. 0:39:20.280 --> 0:39:24.360 Tail to the chief. Love that also on the front 0:39:24.400 --> 0:39:25.440 page of The Herald's son. 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:30.160 Business sick in Vic, Victorian businesses are collapsing at a 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:34.319 nation leading rate. A soaring operating expenses, coupled with cost 0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:38.120 of living pressures and an aggressive taxation offers crackdown on 0:39:38.280 --> 0:39:39.800 unpaid debt force. 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:41.920 An alarming number to close. 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:45.240 It says. The state had a seventy one percent increase 0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:50.200 in insolvency appointments in the six months to December. 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:52.760 My goodness, these numbers. 0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:56.560 Are eye watering, but oh well, Melboyne, at least you've 0:39:56.640 --> 0:40:01.520 got ten forty kilometers of bi planes. 0:40:01.120 --> 0:40:02.040 In your CBD. 0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:05.279 Any minute now, they're going to lift these businesses from 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:08.040 the dust. Being the ten million that should have been 0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:10.200 spent on keeping these guys in business. 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:14.359 The city just decided now by Clanes instead. I'm sure. 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:16.440 I mean, you know it all comes out in the 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:17.640 Welsh at the end of the day. 0:40:18.000 --> 0:40:21.440 Not We really surprised. So many businesses are going bust 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:24.959 in Victoria, and today simple Hellen announced her big plan 0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:28.440 to revive the state was to force the state's fifteen 0:40:28.520 --> 0:40:32.840 hundred petrol stations to lock in their prices for twenty 0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:36.040 four hours each day. That's going to save some pennies, 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:40.400 but people really need pounds in Victoria and property taxes. 0:40:40.600 --> 0:40:42.440 You're not allowed to drill for gas, which means the 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:43.879 price of energy is through the roof. 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:46.680 We could go on and on the cost of security 0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:49.400 because of crime. There's a million things she could do 0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:53.000 that would make a difference. She's tinkering with fuel prices so. 0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:55.000 They may not need pounds because they've certainly taken a 0:40:55.080 --> 0:40:58.160 pounding in Victoria and it says here that this has 0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:01.360 made up a lot of these numbers by the hospitality sector, 0:41:01.760 --> 0:41:04.320 which it says he had a sharp increase on this 0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:07.040 time last year in terms of insolvencies, because of course, 0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:09.080 you know, in a cost of living crisis, what's one 0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:11.239 of the first things that you say, okay, well i've 0:41:11.280 --> 0:41:13.719 got a four go that it might be takeaway or 0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:16.680 going out for dinner, or buying a coffee in the morning, etcetera. 0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:19.920 They're the things that you cut back on, and so that's. 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:20.160 Good for you. 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:22.040 It means you've got some more money in your pocket. 0:41:22.280 --> 0:41:24.799 But more than likely the person running that place where 0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:27.719 you went for dinner was a small business owner and 0:41:27.880 --> 0:41:29.719 now they have no business at all. 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:31.160 They've gone to the wall. 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:34.160 Their business may well have been attached to their house 0:41:34.320 --> 0:41:37.480 mortgages collateral, they may have lost the house. I mean, 0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:39.719 the follow on effects of all of this are really 0:41:39.840 --> 0:41:42.520 serious when we talk about businesses going under. Let's go 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:46.719 to the Australian Now interesting story here says seeds of 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:53.239 positivity for Albanezi Trump relationship X envoy. Former Australian Ambassador 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:56.840 to Washington, Dennis Richardson says the early signs are positive 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:59.920 for the establishment of a good working relationship between Anthony 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:04.080 Albanizi and incoming US President Donald Trump. He made the 0:42:04.120 --> 0:42:08.040 comments as former form she is current. That was wishful thinking. 0:42:08.239 --> 0:42:10.400 I'm just hoping later in the year she will be 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:13.920 former Foreign Minister Benny Wong. She touched down in Washington 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:17.040 to attend the inauguration, and of course she'll be going 0:42:17.120 --> 0:42:20.080 there with Kevin Rudd, and she flagged a meeting with 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:24.000 the incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio, noting his recent 0:42:24.239 --> 0:42:27.759 endorsement of the Orcist Security Agreement. But as you read 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:31.040 on in this story, I didn't come across anything that 0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:36.239 told me why we should have any positivity about the relations. 0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:41.520 Dallas. What are we basing this positivity on? Because I'm 0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:42.719 genuinely confused. 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.680 Well, I think he says seeds of positivity. Pennywong touched 0:42:45.680 --> 0:42:48.960 down in the US, so that's the positive for. 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:51.000 She made it. 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:52.960 She was not more than she's done that. 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.480 So whether those seeds will actually bear any fruit. 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:01.200 Can't see anything. Yeah, yeah, Germany. 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:04.080 I thinks Dennis good to know the seeds. 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:07.920 If only if wishful thinking underground, then we wouldn't have 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:08.480 to listen to it. 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:12.680 For heaven's sake. Oh the seeds are there. She's touchdown. 0:43:12.800 --> 0:43:15.000 It means that her visa hasn't been canceled. 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:17.640 So I suppose that's a positive, right. How is this 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:19.600 three yard where no threat? 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:26.360 Violent former detainee? Sears a violent former immigration detainee convicted 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:29.399 of kidnapping and breaking into and freed under the High 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:32.720 Court in did y Q ruling has been quote unquote 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:36.640 set up for failure and claims most detainees are not 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:40.800 even threats to the public. Well, if there is anyone 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:43.239 I'm going to take that advice from, it's definitely going 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:43.719 to be here. 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:45.640 My favorite part of what he says is he says, 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:48.120 you know, the money is spent on you know, electronic 0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:51.719 surveillance and tags and ankle bracelets and that. 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:54.680 Sort of thing. It should have been spent on rehabilitating me. 0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:59.280 Oh better that I need rehabilitating. 0:44:00.320 --> 0:44:03.200 Game, But you know, you could have done some rehabilitation. 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:05.959 What's rehabilitation these days? 0:44:09.719 --> 0:44:13.200 About these detainees, And it turns out we were wrong 0:44:13.320 --> 0:44:13.920 all along. 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:19.120 They're completely harmless. To worry according to one of them. Wow, yeah, 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:20.959 compelling and rich Right. 0:44:21.040 --> 0:44:24.879 I'm ons from prison having been convinced it's got out 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:26.040 fighting in public. 0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:29.680 I kidnapped. There's no problems, all right, Let's go. 0:44:29.719 --> 0:44:31.320 To the Northern Territory News. 0:44:31.520 --> 0:44:36.480 The headline reads defense dollars experts call for mega spending boost. 0:44:36.960 --> 0:44:38.920 As Australia's top strategists. 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:42.480 Brainstorm how to improve national security. Well, we could have 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:44.960 a military or a navy or something like that might help. 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:45.799 A submarine or. 0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:46.440 Two would be good. 0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:48.840 A group of experts is calling on the government to 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:52.200 lift defense spending to three percent of gross domestic product 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:57.480 by twenty twenty eight twenty nine. Our current defense spending 0:44:57.600 --> 0:45:00.400 is just slightly under two percent. I think of gd REPEA, 0:45:00.960 --> 0:45:03.440 which is virtually nothing, and you would think, the way 0:45:03.520 --> 0:45:06.799 the world is now, with the geopolitical situation, that three 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:09.439 percent of gdp G you might have to cut back 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:12.840 on or I don't know, flagpoles on the Sydney Harbor Bridge. 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:15.200 Maybe cut back on a referendum here or there. That 0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:16.279 would divide the nation. 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:20.319 Some things like that. Some bike lanes, not. 0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:22.319 The bike lanes, where are the. 0:45:25.920 --> 0:45:29.400 That's just not three don't you know that the soldiers 0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:30.919 rolled in on the bike. 0:45:31.120 --> 0:45:32.040 Maybe that's what it is. 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:34.040 If we've just got bike lanes everywhere, no one's going 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:35.000 to want to invade. 0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:37.000 That's a very good point, though. 0:45:37.040 --> 0:45:38.799 They can just remove the barriers and turn them into 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:41.160 nice little roads when the Chinese rock up. But because 0:45:41.200 --> 0:45:42.920 if you want to go right back to the start, 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:45.239 you've actually got to create a country that people want 0:45:45.280 --> 0:45:47.400 to sign up to the defense force to defend. But 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:50.160 were we not last year talking about somewhere up in 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:53.080 fan North Queensland, at a military base where you couldn't 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:56.440 even have multiple people going to the toilet because it 0:45:56.640 --> 0:46:00.920 climbed up the sewerage system. If that's the military bases 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:03.600 we've got in this country, and we've got strategists, top 0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:07.000 strategist sitting around, Oh, what can we do to improve 0:46:07.080 --> 0:46:12.839 the national security? Have toilets for maybe give soldiers working toilets. 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:13.480 As a good basis. 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.279 We're sitting, Oh God help us, we're going to go 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:18.360 to a break when we come back. The New Zealand 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:21.680 Parliament is about to give a mountain the same rights 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:22.960 as if it were a person. 0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:23.840 Talk about that. 0:46:27.360 --> 0:46:29.400 Well, if you think things are weird here in Australia, 0:46:29.520 --> 0:46:31.400 get a load of what they're doing in New Zealand. 0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:34.440 The Parliament is about to grant the rights to a 0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:38.560 mountain as if it were a human being. Mount Taneraki 0:46:39.040 --> 0:46:41.640 on the North Island of New Zealand will be classified 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:46.360 legally as a person, which means tourists who quote mistreat 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:49.799 the mountain whatever that means, will be liable as if 0:46:49.840 --> 0:46:53.800 they have mistreated an actual person. Clearly they don't do 0:46:54.000 --> 0:46:57.160 science in New Zealand, but they do do Maori spirituality. 0:46:57.600 --> 0:47:02.200 The mountain is regarded as an ancestral mountain, which means 0:47:02.280 --> 0:47:05.840 on that basis it can be classified as a human 0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:09.520 I have questions Calebin this. If someone dies on the 0:47:09.600 --> 0:47:13.160 mountains due to the negligence of the mountain, the mountain 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:19.000 charged with murder. All the mountain used male or female toilets? 0:47:19.120 --> 0:47:22.040 Will this New Zealand mountain answer if you call him bro? 0:47:22.760 --> 0:47:25.360 And how long before this mountain is on welfare? 0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:31.200 Well, the mountain may not identify with Bro. The mountain 0:47:31.280 --> 0:47:34.840 may well be gender fluid, James or gender neutral. 0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:35.480 For all we know. 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:38.520 I think it puts a new spin on having rocks 0:47:38.560 --> 0:47:39.880 in your head, doesn't it. 0:47:39.960 --> 0:47:40.120 Now? 0:47:40.360 --> 0:47:44.279 This is the Union of the year. I mean we've 0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:45.160 been waiting for this. 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:48.640 You've been waiting for this like I have four years 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:53.400 like literally since Donald Trump started playing YMCA, I have 0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:57.200 wanted to see it, and finally it has happened. The 0:47:57.360 --> 0:48:03.080 Village people Donald Trump together on his victory lap in Washington, DC, 0:48:03.480 --> 0:48:07.480 performing as they will again tonight in the morning. If 0:48:07.520 --> 0:48:10.560 you're awake for it, that is inauguration here it is. 0:48:14.239 --> 0:48:26.480 It's fine to stay. I mean, how good is this stuff? 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:29.160 Right? I mean, who would have thought you would ever 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:33.239 get Donald Trump and YMCA together. That man has led 0:48:33.320 --> 0:48:35.400 such a massive boost in their royalties. 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:37.399 They owe it to him to rock up and from 0:48:37.400 --> 0:48:38.640 Florida they do. 0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:40.799 Who would have thought Donald Trump would be the best 0:48:40.800 --> 0:48:43.160 thing to happen to the village people or vice versa. 0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:45.360 I'll tell you what, the inauguration is going to be 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:48.680 something to watch it live on Sky News three am 0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:52.160 tomorrow morning and just a few hours. It will be 0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:55.799 well worth watching, a historic moment. And who knows whether 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:57.239 village people going to be part of that again? 0:48:57.360 --> 0:48:58.879 Yes, yeah, the village village people. 0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:02.399 If I think Snoop Dogg performing as well as I've 0:49:02.520 --> 0:49:04.880 seen that, I mean, you know, she Trump struggled a 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:08.360 bit to get before. He struggled to get people to perform, 0:49:08.440 --> 0:49:11.360 because of course, you know, most artists are lefties, et cetera. 0:49:11.680 --> 0:49:14.000 But I think he's got Snoop dogg. He's got the village. 0:49:14.040 --> 0:49:16.320 But what more do you want? Seriously, the d O 0:49:16.440 --> 0:49:16.840 double G. 0:49:17.160 --> 0:49:19.759 Well, we'll all be watching at three a m. Maybe 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:22.000 you will be too. But stick about courture right now 0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:23.040 is read The Pendent