WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 20 May 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.559 On Skyland's Australia. 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:09.200 This is the Wider Panalty Show. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.119 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehy Show. Coming 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:16.040 up tonight, Thousands of furious farmers and firefighters descend on 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:22.360 Melbourne's CBDs victorious dead Royal government expands the emergency services tax. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.200 Patrick Carlin will have more on that shortly. John Persudo 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.120 breaks his silence after being ordered to pay over two 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:33.919 million dollars in legal fees. Sephanibastian weighs in on efforts 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.720 to save the former Liberal leader from bankruptcy. British Prime 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:42.000 Minister Kis Starmer morphing into Donald Trump with tough talk 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.800 about borders, foreign labor and English language requirements. Kosher Gator 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.720 will be here with the details, and later in the 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.919 hour Alex Stein will have the latest from the US. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.240 And Tonight's Left is losing. It is heavy on a 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.080 list celebrities, including this clown. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.679 America's philistine president has had himself appointed head of one 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.040 of our premier cultural institutions. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.880 But first volunteer firefighters and farmers gathered in huge numbers 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.559 in Melbourne, CBD today to protest the state government's expanded 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.880 emergency services tax. They travel to the steps of Parliament 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.520 in convoy from all corners of the state demand just 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.440 center Alan scrapped the controversial tax amid the disastrous drought 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.000 that is crippling many parts of the state. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.399 Is this another expense we don't need? I mean, the 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.280 problem of we've got now risk fite profile is huge. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.200 I've really these fixed costs and this is just another 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.520 big fixed cost we don't need. I mean, the flow 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.080 on effect is going to be huge, hecause, I mean, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.679 this money's going to leave leave our districts. It's going 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.080 to end up down here. And now, if it was 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.040 going back into our CFA, back where we are, wouldn't 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.600 be quite so bad. But we know for a fact 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.920 it's coming down here to filter center Allen's big black 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:56.760 hole in the budget. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:57.240 Now. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.240 The outcry comes as farmers in draft to ravaged areas 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.480 are being forced to send thousands of dairy cows to 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.520 be slaughtered as they don't have sufficient feed to keep 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.000 them alive and healthy. The cost of hay has gone 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.160 up considerably in the last week alone. Farmers say that 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:17.320 the Alan government has failed to provide adequate support, instead 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.120 slugging them with yet another tax. Joining me now for 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.919 more on This is News Corps senior writer Patrick Carli 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.320 and Patrick, the farmers and indeed many in regional areas 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.000 are furious. There does seem to be this divide between 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.800 the city and regional areas, and people out there are 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:36.440 doing it tough. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.120 Absolutely. Look, the farmers have got the triple whammy today. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.640 Basically they've got a draft, they've raising rising feed prices, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.320 and they've got this ridiculous new tax which who knows 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.560 who came up with this idea to this tax. I mean, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.640 let's just punish the people who are doing it tough. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.440 It's tinued, it's ridiculous, it should be scrapped, and you'd like, look, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.519 I welcome the farmers coming out in four They've got 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.079 some very legitimate grip. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.799 It takes a lot for them to leave their farms, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.680 travel hours in some cases to go to the steps 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.160 of Parliament. They're not people who protest at the drop 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.960 of a hat. But things are pretty grim, as you said, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.400 and we've got the Victorian state budget today, biggest debt 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.800 in the country, bigger state debt, and an annual interest 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.720 bill that's hitting ten billion dollars shortly. That is frightening 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.760 and all they seem to have is property taxes, and 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:33.919 this is yet another one. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.640 Well, look, the taxes are gone up. If you look 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.720 at the budget today, the taxes have gone up from 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.400 thirty one billion dollars in twenty two to twenty three 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.400 to forty one billion dollars in twenty eight. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.680 Twe and they say there's no new taxes. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.640 And at the same time, we've got this debt going 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.000 up to I think one hundred and ninety four billion dollars. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.280 That works out it's ten billion dollars in interest per year. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.120 That works out to a million dollars an hour in 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.640 interest repayment. It's crazy. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.160 You said, you hope that just into Allen government will 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.080 scrap this tax. Is there any likelihood of that happening 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.160 given the distraits therein financially. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.720 Look, what I get upset about is the naked gouging 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.480 that this government does. They just attack people who are 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.360 asset rich to try and pay down on those debts 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.480 that they created over the course of the last nine years. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.240 They're not cutting spending, They're just whacking Victorians who have 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.840 been whacked over and over in so many different ways 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:27.400 over so many years. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.880 Now to the other big news today, the coalition is 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.680 no more. Nationals leader David Little Proud announcing earlier today 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.479 that the Nationals will not be reinstating a coalition agreement 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.080 with the Liberals at this time. Here's what you have 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:42.560 to say. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.279 Our party room has got to a position where we 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.359 will not be re entering a coalition agreement with the 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.880 Liberal Party after this election. What we have got to 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.080 a position is that the National Party will sit alone 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.720 on a principal basis their need to we discover who 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.000 they are and what they want to be. We're very 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.360 clear about who we are and why we're here. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.000 Patrick. Is this heading for divorce or is it just 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.440 a trial separation and they're going to kiss and make 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.559 up before the next election. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.600 I think it's a time out, you'd call it at 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.240 this stage. Look, the Nationals did pretty well at the election. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:19.720 They did. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.200 I think they've lost one seat, and over the last 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.320 two elections the Liberals got smashed. The Liberals don't know 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.800 who they are or what they want to be. They 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.880 don't know how they're going to appeal to particularly young 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.560 people and to women in those electorates where they did 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.600 so poorly. The Nationals, in contrast, actually did very well 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.479 they want to prosecute the policies that they took to 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.760 the election and those policies which won over electorates in 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.480 a very successful way. So look, I think you can 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.040 assume they probably get back together at some point. They 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.080 have split three times previously, which I didn't realize. It 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.400 does happen from time to time, and it probably is 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.240 a good time for a time out. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.839 Well, the Nationals seem to have a much firmer idea 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.039 of who they are, what they stand for, and it 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.440 speaks to the electorate because as you said, they did 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.560 pretty well in an election campaign that was disastrous for 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.200 the coalition. Overall, there's only I think five or six 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.360 seats between them. The Nationals could be the lead opposition, 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.320 which would mean the Prime Minister or the alternative prime 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.760 Minister could come from them, So it's quite a different 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.880 set of circumstances to what we've seen in the past. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.320 Look, I think it just emphasizes that regional city divide, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.920 which has been really growing rapidly, especially over the last 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.159 ten years. What the Bush is talking about and what 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:43.120 the Bush cares about is dramatically different to the retoric 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.120 coming out of camera and out of the Capital cities. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.919 They have their own interests and they did good. The 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.440 Nationals did a good job of representing those interests, and 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.640 it'll be interesting to see. Look, I don't know how 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.880 you change that divide. I don't know how you bring 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.360 it back together, but it's there. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.599 The issue of net zero is going to be crucial 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.680 energy policy. If Susan Lee wants to go down this 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.720 renewables road and stick with net zero, then perhaps this 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.640 reconciliation is not going to be as amicable as you 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.679 would like because the Nationals, and they certainly have people 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.880 within that party who are outspoken on this one, this 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.640 policy abandoned. They see it as holding the party back. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.800 And you've got to say, since they embraced net zero 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.760 in twenty twenty one, they've lost two elections in devastating circumstances. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.920 Absolutely, Look, the Nationals are realistic. They're saying we need nuclear. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.120 The renewables is not going to work. And I think 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.760 time will tell and I think that will be shown 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.640 to be so that nuclear has to be on the table. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.400 They haven't sort of run away from that. The coalition 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.080 together sort of brought forward this nuclear idea, then the 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.320 Liberals sort of ran backwards from it a million miles 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.080 an hour, whereas the Nationals said, well we need this, 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.920 this is what we need. So look, the Liberals need 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.120 to do a lot of soul over many months to 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.400 actually work out who they are and what they're going 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.600 to do. The National is an entity unto themselves, and 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:09.600 they're doing pretty well. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.880 They are. They're certainly doing better than the Liberals of 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.640 the moment. Now to the other side of the isle 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.480 and Anthony Albanize is welfare working group known as the 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.920 Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee what a name, is pushing for 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.800 Labor to end its six point eight billion dollar power 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:32.560 bill rebate scheme and instead redirect that money to more 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.600 solar panel and battery subsidies, more money for the renewable 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.440 sector from your taxes, Patrick, what do you think of 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:40.160 this suggestion. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:46.240 Look, there's a standout statistic in this discussion. Power prices 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.920 across Australia have gone up forty seven percent this year, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.240 out of pocket prices at forty seven percent. There's no 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.559 way in the world politically this government is going to 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.480 drop out the rebate. They need the rebates just to 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.920 keep everything going. And I just seems so pine in 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.000 the sky. I mean low income people subsidizing soular batteries 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.400 on their rooms. How are they going to find the 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.680 difference which is ten thousand dollars to try and save 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:14.200 the planet. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.800 Absolutely, and a lot of low income people have rent, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.839 so how are they going to be getting subsidies for this? 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.360 It is so hair brained. But then so is the 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.680 whole notion that renewables are cheaper. And we keep pumping 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.439 money into renewables and our power bills keep going up. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.080 I wonder at some point we're going to sort of realize, well, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.880 maybe the renewables aren't that cheap after all. Now to 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.800 the insane costs of real estate in this country, including 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.960 parking spots. Six parking spots in Sydney's CBD have sold, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.679 for get this, six hundred and eight thousand each at auction, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:56.439 each supposed to be patrick a record price per per space. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.800 That is crazy. In most countries, they would look at 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.120 that and would refuse to believe that six hundred thousand 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.520 in whatever currency that transfer transfers to would buy you 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.720 a substantial house in most countries. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.400 Absolutely. Look, I think there was there was ninety two 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.240 inquiries for these car parks. It is prime real estate 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.920 it's near Circular Key in Sydney. It is if you've 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.360 got a parking spot, it is a parking spot. They 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.520 had thirty bids. They went past the reserve after four bids. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:32.200 I think there is still money around and something like that. Look, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.280 that is very desirable to have those car parks. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:35.920 Oh. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.080 Absolutely. Now I know you're a footy fan, so before 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.880 you go, I want to get your input on this story. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.600 The AFL has been lobbied in recent years to make 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.960 it mandatory for each club to recruise at least one 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.160 Indigenous player. What do you make of this proposal? The 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.480 number of Indigenous players on AFL list has reduced in 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.520 recent years, but do we really need to have quotas 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.760 and mandatory recruitment. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.840 Look like quotas in every aspect of industry across the board, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.679 they don't work and it's not going to work in 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.440 an elite sport context, is it. Look the numbers are sad. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.920 I think there's eighty seven Indigenous players playing AFL five 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.559 years ago. It's down to sixty two the. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.520 Akill there's an overrepresentation though, I mean, obviously a lot 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:28.680 of Indigenous players are hugely popular. Some of the best 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.600 players in the league and they've always been overrepresented. So 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:38.280 the rationale for quota or a mandatory recruitment requirement seems 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.160 a bit odd. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.760 Well, it simply wouldn't work those players if they were 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.520 recruited as a quota sort of deal, they're not going 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.720 to get games, They're not going to play AFL. It's 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.440 not going to work. I mean, a lot of things 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.360 need to be done. There are systemic issues here in 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:59.959 terms of getting great players to the AFL playing field, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.400 and there's lots that needs to be done. But quotas 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.600 he's not going to fix anything. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.280 Patrick Carline, thanks for it time tonight. Joining me now 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.960 is Women's Forum Australia's head of advocacy, Stephanie Bastian Stephanie. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.280 Former Victorian opposition leader John Pursuito is in danger of 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.679 being declared bankrupt and losing his seat after being ordered 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.480 to cover Mora Deemings two point three million dollar legal bill. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.320 John Pursuito has conceded an interview with The Herald Son 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.880 that there is a part of me that thinks, geez, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.240 if only I had taken a moment, I could have 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.400 done things differently or better. But in the same interview, 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.920 also said I did everything that I possibly could to 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.200 settle the matter, and that I've always acted then as 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.000 now in the best interest of the party. Stephan I've 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.040 got to ask, is he delusional or dumb? It's hard 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.880 to think of another option. There were plenty of opportunities 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.839 for him to do a U turn here before he 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.000 got to this point. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.320 Absolutely, it's on the public record that he he didn't 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.000 even respond to Mora's last letter of offer to settle 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.720 the case for one hundred grand. But one thing that 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.280 Pursuito hasn't mentioned is the one big lesson that he 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.080 and his faction should learn, and that is to stop 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.280 the witch hunt against Conservatives. What happened to Moira follows 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.840 a plethora of women, particularly within the Victorian Division, that 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.760 had been demonized by his faction. There was Cynthia Watson 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.680 in Ringwood, whose husband had attended a big event in 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.720 Queensland with an afarious character, and despite the fact that 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.520 she was mayor and an elected local counselor, she was 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.800 somehow unfit to run for the seat of Ringwood. And 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.360 this whole story came from within the division. Renee heat 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.040 almost didn't sit in the party room because her father, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.600 and you were a pastor in a Muslim country and 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.880 he was too conservative, once again damaged by association. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.080 Of course, then she was dragged through the MUDs. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.200 After she refused to fix the minutes to make Vesudo's 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:54.160 story fit. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.280 But one after another, these women have been mistreated. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.400 Moira as the first woman to actually stand up and 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.800 push back say no, and that is cost Purseudo at 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.640 this point, it looks like it's costing his seat. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.199 He's up for. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.839 Millions of dollars in damages. But the shoe is now 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.440 on the other foot. So I think the lesson here 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.280 is for them to stop demonizing conservatives and to start 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.400 working as a broad shirts that they should be. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.480 Now let's turn our attention to an author want to 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.800 be Pirate and husband of Lisa Wilkinson, Peter fitz Simon's 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.440 who posted these comments about Mara Deeming and they're still up. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.960 This was posted back in twenty twenty three. I can't 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:37.160 believe it's still up on x in It Fitzimon's response 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.080 to a post praising John Pursudo for expelling Deeming from 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.480 the party room, and Fitzimon writes, if we Australians don't 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.960 draw a line in the sand on Nazis, Where does 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:54.480 it stop? Charlottesville, Stephanie is a shocking thing to put 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:59.480 out there about Mora Deeming who was there to protect 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.560 women's right. I know Moura is absolutely shattered about that post. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.080 How is it still up today? How do they have 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.280 a license to defame this poor woman despite everything she's 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.600 done to clear her name. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.040 Well, I think that's probably a question for her lawyers. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.280 I hope they write him a strongly worded letter to 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.240 enforce him to take that down. But I mean, Peter 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.960 Fitzgibbons is a nasty man. He has constantly mocked women 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.320 who have expressed concern about women playing in sport. And 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.800 the fact that he didn't go and fact check this situation, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.400 I think it probably didn't suit him to do so. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.240 But this just shows the ramifications of what pursudo did. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.520 He went out with this story with these lies that a. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.720 Court found to be incredibly damaging, he didn't fact check 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.440 and he probably didn't want to. And the consequences of 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.480 his Pursuito's actions is that people like Fitzgibbons, who also 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.280 have large followings, have furthered the damage by spreading it 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:02.360 around on social media. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.800 And if you're pandering to the likes of FitzSimons then 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.480 you're kind of losing the fight. He's supposed to be 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.040 a conservative leader. This was such a lost opportunity by 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.560 Pursuito to actually lay a glove on the Dan Andrews 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.160 government and speak for the eighty percent. This is an 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.600 eighty twenty issue. You might even argue it's a ninety 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.400 ten issue. But sadly we've got Labor, the Liberals, the 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.360 Greens all siding with a ten to twenty percent activist 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:32.200 class now fast for FitzSimons, he's a typical lefty losing it. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.480 He's triggered now by the Australian flag. He posted this 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.880 in recent days. He said, it really is weird how 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.800 the OS flag these days on Twitter is the surest 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.560 sign of mad, bad and dangerous to know Cookers, I 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.880 mean really, Now, let's turn our attention to the Abortion 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.680 Access Bill, which has now passed the New South Wales 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.120 Parliament after the Greens did the deal with the Chris 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:04.520 Means government. Steph, tell me about your concerns about this legislation. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.240 Surely if it's expanding women's rights, it's a good thing. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.360 Well, that's the way they've pitched it. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.840 But the problem with the remnants of this bill, and 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.359 it has been wound back significantly, is that women in 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.000 regional areas will be given access to the pill without 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.640 the necessary medical support in the case of adverse events. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.119 There was a big study out with over eight hundred 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.399 thousand participants earlier this year. One in ten women have 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:36.600 had serious adverse health events to taking the medical Abortion 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:44.720 Bill sorry abortion pill, including hemorrhaging and needing hospitalization. There's 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.960 been a range of adverse events. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.639 Now to the US where the Trump Department of Justice 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:57.320 has reallocated federal funding for groups that support transgenderism and 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:02.480 DEI policies diversity equity inclusion, and they've diverted that funding 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:07.240 step to boost law enforcement efforts. It's precisely the sort 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.760 of being that your group advocates for, and I would 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.720 think most people would be in support of this sort 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.879 of action because that is something that is again another 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.960 eighty twenty issue, and for too long the twenty percent 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.920 has had disproportionate power and influence. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.120 Absolutely, I think the austrained public would be shocked at 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.840 the millions of dollars that are put into these activist 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.680 lobby groups. Acon's one single organization that receives over sixteen 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.320 million dollars. Every local council across the country now are 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:47.280 implementing these LGBTI Advisory Board. State governments are rolling out programs. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.000 You've got programs and schools, millions and millions of tax 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.840 funded dollars being poured into these activist groups that are 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.760 wreaking havoc on society and taking away the rights of 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.560 women and girls. I think it's extraordinary, and this is 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.640 money that could be going to good use to address 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:08.879 domestic violence, boosting domestic violence shelters and support networks for women, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.840 dealing with the mental health crisis in our schools, for kids, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.600 providing more counseling. I think that it would be great 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.119 to have a review into just how much waste is 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.159 going into these organizations, because they're wreaking a lot more 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.280 havoc than they are adding a benefit to our society. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.879 And at tax payers expense. Deevanie Bastion, thank you for 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:37.320 your time tonight, still to calm lefties losing it? Plus, 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.600 why is kiss starmas slowly morphing into Donald Trump? Kosher 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:56.120 Gata has the details You're watching. The reader Paney Show, 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.639 and it's time for Left is losing it. Let's go 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.440 to the caln't feel first of all that the uber, 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:06.159 rich and famous gather to congratulate themselves about how special, brave, 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.920 humble and inclusive they are, and how they are at 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:14.760 the forefront of fighting fascism. Here is a once great 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.320 actor turned teds sufferer, Robert de Niro. 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.360 In my country, we're fighting like hell for the democracy 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.680 we once took for granted, and that affects all of us. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.800 That affects all of us here because the art art, 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:40.120 democratic art is inclusive. It brings people together tonight. Art 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.760 looks for truth. Art embraces diversity, and that's why art 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:49.080 is a threat. That's why we are a threat to 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.320 autocrats and fascists. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.880 Yes, the film industry is so inclusive, Robert, You actors 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.960 have such a perfect moral compass with your sick, sordid 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.840 personal lives. Did you notice global warming? Hysterically and out 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.520 of dicaprion stage there were DeNiro, the dude who flies 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.479 around the world in private jets and seals in massive yachts, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.920 but is really really concerned about emissions. And as for 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.560 being inclusive, well, the fifty year old is not very 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.119 inclusive of women over twenty five, not in his dating 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.960 life anyway. But let's get back to Robert de Niro 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.879 as a mad rant. Here he lies with gay abandon. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:34.280 America's philistine president has had himself appointed head of one 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:39.040 of our premier cultural institutions. He has cut funding and 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:43.399 support to the arts, humanities, and education. All these attacks 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:48.880 are unacceptable, and this isn't just an American problem, It's 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.359 a global one. Unlike a film, we can't just all 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:57.000 sit back and watch. We have to act, and we 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:58.000 have to act now. 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.680 We have to act. We have to act now. It's 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.080 amazing that Donald Trump, the fascist dictator, allows DeNiro to 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.320 defame him so easily. Why isn't he arresting him, putting 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.240 him in jail. Isn't that what dictators do? And isn't 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.840 that what we were told would happen. Remember when De 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:20.280 Niro and fellow Teds sufferer Bill Maher was saying before 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:22.880 the election, what would happen if Trump won? 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:27.800 If he is he wins the election, you won't be 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:28.880 on the show anymore. 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:30.159 He'll come looking for me. 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.080 There'll be things that happened that none of us can imagine. 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:41.320 That's what happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.800 is what he says. Let's believe him. Take him at 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:44.200 his work. 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:45.520 I did from the beginning. 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.520 Yeah, I mean, I said from the very beginning, this 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:49.840 guy is never going to concede power. 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:54.040