WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 21 May 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:04.439 On scoring US Australia. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.200 This is the Reader Panekey Show. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.080 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panekey Show. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.280 Coming up tonight, the Victorian government's attack against property investors 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.960 intensifies with crippling Lantax hikes and a new task force. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.080 Another car manufacturer, rethinks their electric vehicle strategy. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:27.160 Propsy Im Primer. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.320 Will join me shortly to discuss that the Biden administration 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.080 releases an official message of condolence for the butcher of Tehran, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.200 Josh Hammer. With the latest lunacy from the US and 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.000 talking about left is losing it, these ladies are having 0:00:43.040 --> 0:01:00.760 a bad day. Let's now bring in see writer of 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.080 the Herald Sun, Patrick Carlin and Patrick with the Queensland 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.920 state election coming up in October, and seems Stephen Miles 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.759 has learned giggling like a schoolgirl won't keep him in power. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.880 Tough immigration policies might and he can read a poll. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:16.520 As well as anyone. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.280 And immigration is shaping up to a critical issue at 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.920 both federal and state level. Stephen Miles is backing Peter 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.960 Dutton's call for a severe cut in migration numbers. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.200 This has surprised many, but not me. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.480 I think Stephen Miles is a savvy politician and he 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.200 knows what Queenslanders want to hear. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.559 Absolutely. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.160 Look, I think if there wasn't a labor monopoly across 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.440 the States, you'd hear more state premiers talking like this, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.720 wouldn't you. Yeah, you can't. You can't make two plus 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.120 two egal three. And that's what's happening with this migration 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.560 policy at the moment, where you're getting a lot more 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.720 people coming in than houses being built. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.360 But yet they tell us it's not adding to the 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.320 housing crisis. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.040 Of course, of it defies logic. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:01.880 Of course it is. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.600 And look, I think it's important that Peter Dutton's sort 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.320 of brought this debate to the table. It's such an 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.480 important debate, isn't it. I mean, it defines who we 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.639 are and how we live, the number of migrants we 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.680 have and there's not enough houses at the mart. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.480 It's a very simple equation. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.519 It absolutely is. And the polling on this is clear. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.600 We know that overwhelming majority you want to cut to 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.080 migration numbers, and it's the will of the majority has 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.440 been completely ignored and by both sides of politics for 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:32.040 many years. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:32.760 It must be said. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.400 It hasn't just been labor labors ramped up the numbers 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.200 to record amounts, but they were pretty high under coalition 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:39.919 governments too. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.480 Absolutely, and I think, look, we suffer. We all suffer 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.120 for the fact that if somebody suggests cutting migration, they 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.840 risk being labeled as racist or anti multicultural or whatever. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.680 It's such an important debate, it's something that we need 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.120 to be talking about, and we need to be a 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:55.960 cross in a big way. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.160 And like you say, I think. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.320 There is a silent majority who sort of do wonder 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.399 we're an island nation. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.639 That's one of the benefits is we should be able 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.160 to have a population policy that we determine this is 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.560 our ideal population, this is where we want to be, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.840 and then we set policies to achieve that. Most countries 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.359 where they've got poorest borders can't do that. Now, let's 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.280 go to our home state of Victoria, and the state 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:24.720 government reliance on property taxes is seeing land tax rates 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.560 sow to unsustainable levels for many families and landlords who are. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.639 Preparing to sell up Patrick. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.120 We can expect to see rents going up higher as 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:40.800 the rental pool becomes more a more constraint. Because some 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.600 of the examples we're seeing and I think what some 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.880 examples from the Herald Sun today, one property owner reveals 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.080 his family was hit with a forty three thousand dollar 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.240 bill for a little beach shack they've got down in 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.720 Safety Beach, about an hour and a half from Melbourne, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.840 which has been in his wife's family since the forties. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.200 He says, since twenty twenty one, the land tax on 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.360 this simple holiday home has increased from around twelve thousand 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.040 to forty three thousand, So twelve thousand to forty three 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.360 thousand in three years. It's going to keep going up, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.240 and we're going to see more and more homes on 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.039 the market. And some will say, well, that's a good 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.560 thing because maybe they will bring down prices, But that 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.440 hasn't been the experience in Victoria, has it, Because we 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.599 saw last year there was a report that one in 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.279 four landlords in Victoria had sold a property that did 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.000 nothing to alleviate the housing shortage. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.240 Look, I mean it's not fair. It's a dishonest tax 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.360 to begin with. It's going to push up rents. If 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.479 you're a land obviously you've got to cover your own bills, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.960 and your bills are high because of this silly tax. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.640 You're going to put it on the renters, so it 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.000 rips off renters. Firstly, it's also very dishonest. They talk 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.560 about making up it's a COVID debt sort of levy. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.400 It's paying for all the infrastructure projects that most Victorians 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.840 rather don't understand or don't think that we need. I mean, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.679 we've got a state debt of one hundred it's approaching 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.000 one hundred and eighty billion. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.800 Dollars, highest in the country. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.120 And you know when the Dan Andrews government came in 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.560 twenty fourteen that debts sat at twenty billion dollars. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.360 This is not to repay COVID. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.560 This is to repay the mismanagement of the finances of 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:20.000 the state. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.719 And it's drastically unfair and very anti aspirational. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.520 Absolutely, And people will say, and I know people around 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:31.080 the country say, well, you voted for this, you're Victorians, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.120 this is what you want. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.160 But what options do we have. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.520 It's not like we've got an opposition that is coming 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.560 up with bold policies. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.720 They're pretty much on the same bandwagon. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.000 They haven't committed to reducing state taxes or what they're 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.520 going to do to drastically cut debt. They've got the 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.240 same crazy energy policies as labor. So it's top blaming Victorians, 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.560 it's victim blaming, Is that what that is. We've also 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:03.880 got the Victorian state government warning landlords that got a 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.760 rental task force coming after them. It increased numbers inspectors 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.560 and investigators. I've got to be performing spot checks and 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.240 looking into rent as complaints. With that powers to find 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.040 and even prosecute landlords in court. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.839 I think they're sending a very. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.799 Clear message here to property investors invest elsewhere in the country. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.560 Perhaps Victoria isn't for you. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:26.320 Absolutely. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.640 Look I do feel sorry for renters at the moment. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.719 I mean, rents are going up, cost of living is 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.320 going up, some of them are getting very desperate in 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.800 ways that they weren't two or three years ago. But 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.880 landlords are facing the same sorts of issues as well. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.479 And I think there are lots of laws as. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.000 It is for egregious landlord behavior. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.960 We certainly don't need sort of inspectors turning up so 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.880 I knocking on the door saying we're just checking to 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.240 see whether you fix the hot water or whatever. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.000 You know, because they won't be abused either. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.479 I mean, please now to the death of Iranian President 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.960 ibrah Racing in a helicopter crash yesterday. Patrick, you will 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.520 not believe this. Just when you think the UN couldn't 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.280 think any lower, it has held a moment of silence 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.080 for this mass murderer and tortuit. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.680 It's utterly depraved. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.520 And I'll be speaking to Josh Hammer later about the 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.240 Biden administration's reaction. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.000 But how can the UN pay. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:28.120 A tribute to this monster who's responsible for the murder 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:29.840 of so many innocent Iranians. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.320 It's outrageous, it really is. And I'm in the UN. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.360 If you look at it, it's morally corrupt at the 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.200 moment you look at all these resolutions that are anti Israel, 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.480 I make very little mention of a mass or a 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.080 massacre or even Jewish hostages. It's very tipped towards this 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.800 sort of Middle East sort of autocracy, if you like. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.880 And as you say it, I mean, this man. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:55.000 Was oversaw a political prisoner program that had five and 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.000 a half thousand political prisoners executed. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.680 It is the Five Trials. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.360 Yes, suppressed women's rights, There's no freedom of speech. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:09.600 He is horrible, absolute monster, absolute Islamus monster. I mean, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.520 if you're going to acknowledge his death. You should have 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:12.960 a little cocktail party. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:13.720 That's about it. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.160 And check out this ridiculous headline from BBC World News. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.760 President Ibraham raises mixed legacy in around mixed legacy. That's 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.360 almost as bad as when the Washington Post called Islamic 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:28.480 state leader. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.480 An austere religious scholar. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.559 I mean, I don't know what it is with pandering 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.319 to extremists for the mainstream media is a culprit now 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.840 from the Iranian regime to vegan. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:39.439 Mums in Melbourne. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.920 We cover all the big stories here Patrick, and this 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.600 one has got folks talking. A vegan mother has requested 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.400 that his son's footy team stop serving meat sausages at 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.439 postgame sausage sizzles. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.600 And replace them with meat free options. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.400 The animal rights activists wrote to South Melbourne District's Oskick, saying, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.840 I've requested that if sossages must be served, which I 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.080 believe is not essential at a morning event, we swap out. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.520 The regular sausages for vegan ones. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.840 The club Patrick has refused, and instead advised her that 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.440 she could bring her own vegan sausages to be cooked 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.000 on the barbecue instead, along with the meat ones. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.080 Where do you stand on sausage gate. This is an 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.160 issue that is tearing apart in Melbourne. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.320 I'm pretty sure I stand with about ninety nine percent 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.760 of parents. As a parent, I went to four junior 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.160 football matches on the weekend. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.679 In a netball game, I. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.560 Think I would have had probably six sausages across that time. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:38.000 They are utterly essential for getting through, absolutely absolutely essential. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:39.720 So that's going nowhere. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.960 That one's I'm with you. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.760 It's one of the treats of having to get up 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:50.319 early on a cold, rainy Saturday morning is that you 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:52.880 get a sausage at least out of it. None of 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.880 these vegan concoctions are they give it five years. I 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.480 bet you in a city Melbourne there'll be more v option. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.360 I'm never going to eat a vegan sausage never. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.199 Okay bold words there from Patrick Carline. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.160 And let's go to the Deputy Opposition leader Susan Lay, who. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.200 Has called for broadcasters to support the Campaign against Domestic 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.400 Violence by ceasing to play Sean Comb's p Diddy Puff 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:24.520 Daddy's songs following revelations of his abusive and violent behavior 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.160 towards his ex girlfriend. I mean, this is a very 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.520 easy thing to request. And I'm sure the till women 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.920 will all be backing this. But I think and I 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.560 think Diddy should be behind bars, perhaps for the rest 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:39.240 of his life. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.040 Let's put that, make that clear. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.480 But I think this is a slippery slope. Indeed, when 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.280 you want to ban the work of artists who have 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:56.000 got questionable behavior, whether it's music, movies, paintings. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.520 There are a lot of great artists. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.200 Whose personal behavior has been atrocious. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.920 It's interesting driving to work this morning. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.000 Michael Jackson was on the radio, but you're never going 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.320 to hear Gary Glitter or Rolf Harritt. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:07.319 I think the. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.320 Market also, their songs are rubbish to the. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.560 Point, but the market's going to sort it out for itself. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.839 We don't need politicians saying there must be a band 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.280 on this. He's very much on the nose. He should 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.360 be in jail from the looks of it. People will 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.520 decide for themselves, and I think they drastically turned off 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.959 for all the right reasons on this particular artist. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.520 We don't need bands. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:31.360 We don't. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.079 But we've got all sorts of great artists whose music 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.800 is now being played. But we look at their behavior, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.400 some of them marrying girls who are essentially children at 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:47.040 that time, and certainly by modern standards, their behavior does 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.600 not pass the pup test, possibly even by the standards 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.400 back then. So I would just I'm not for just 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.120 these blanket bands. I think that's just being silly. But 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.760 you're right, I think the individuals make those choices, and 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.280 no one should be surprised that if you've ever looked 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:08.760 at P Diddy's lyrics and what he's promoted openly, that 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.080 the man was an absolute disgusting piece of work. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.800 It's all there in the lyrics. Patrick Carline, thank you 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.480 so much for your time this evening pleasure. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.400 Let's bring in renowned geologist professor Ian pi may In. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.199 Thanks for joining me in the studio once again. Let's 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.440 start with our favorite cabinet minister, the helpless Chris Bowen. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.120 Here he is proudly standing in front of a big battery. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.839 He writes, the North Epping Community battery is the latest 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.440 in the four hundred community batteries we are rolling out 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.080 across Australia. Step by step, day by day, we are 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.040 building our renewable energy future. He looks very happy there 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:49.559 in front. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:50.040 Of the battery. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:57.000 But Ian, what exactly do these community batteries achieve. What 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:01.440 do we know about their cost, their capacity, city, their lifespan, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.240 that sort of detail haven't come across yet. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.160 Well, I think they're absolutely fantastic. We used to have 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.680 a time when we all sat in our houses with 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.400 reliable and cheap electricity. Now we've got batteries, community battery, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.920 the community batteries and they last a few minutes. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.400 So you all go out. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.560 To the community battery with a candle and you meet 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.600 fellow power deprevies and you sit around and chat and 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.920 hopefully've had a warm mill because there's nothing to cook 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.120 the meal with when you get home. And these batteries 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.319 last a few minutes. Now, the one that's meant to 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.600 run all of South Australia, if all the power goes 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.800 last five and a half minutes, that's to keep an 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.320 industrial state going. So you can imagine a community battery 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.400 and it's going to last a few minutes. You get 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.760 to know your neighbors, you make friends with them, and 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.560 then the lights go out and you can get up 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.360 to all sorts of mischiefs. I think it's just fantastic 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.040 for community bonding. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.400 Well at a cost, because those few minutes of capacity 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:58.720 are not cheap, are. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.880 They Well, you'd have to sell your house soon, have 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.800 paid the electricity, and go and live in a tent 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:03.319 in the bush. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.160 But it's great for the community. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.520 It's great for the community. I just like the term 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:08.520 community battery. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.120 It's a bit like battery hents. It all crammed in together. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.160 It's very nineteen eighty four. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.400 Now let's talk about the viability of electric vehicles. We've 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.560 got another car manufacturer that seems to be having second thought. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:27.040 Senior Tourta boss says the company is still not sure 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.960 about electrification and that no one knows the future. Well, yeah, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.160 we could have told you that they're going to continue 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:40.200 investing in combustion engines and hybrid technologies. Evs are looking 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.160 less and less attractive, and you do wander in without 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:48.480 the market interference from governments. Just how many Australians would 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.240 be buying evs right now. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.080 Well, Toyota is the biggest car maker in the world, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.600 and other car makers have seen the light. For example, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.720 Mercedes benz I said, no, we're giving up on evs. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.040 They're just not economically viable. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.680 They can't last a distance, they don't have the resale value, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.480 and we're giving it away. Absolutely totally. Unless you have 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.320 subsidized evs. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.640 People are not going to buy them. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.720 And to make it worse, once you've got an EV 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.320 and it's been subsidized, you try to sell it after 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.680 you've done, say one hundred thousand kilometers. Yeah, the value 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.600 has just dropped through the floor. And I quite often 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.320 do long drives. Last week I drove to Broken Hill 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.720 in one afternoon, was there for a few hours. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:30.840 In the morning, and then drove back. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.800 Now I did that six hundred kilometers from Adelaide to 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.200 Brekenhill non stop. It would have taken me nearly three 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.080 days to do in an EV and it might have 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.960 caught a light if I'd hit a kangaroo. God knows 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.560 what would have happened. So I think we stick with 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.960 what we know is tried and proven and reliable, and 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.320 the biggest car maker in the world cannot possibly get 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:53.760 it wrong. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.119 Well, yeah, Mercedes. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.240 You mentioned Mercedes because I think they were going to 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.520 go EV only and now they've said Noel, wait on, 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.400 We'll just keep on doing combustion engines and hybrids. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.000 And evs until we know what the future holds. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.400 But you're right about the resale value because we've got 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.280 a bunch of evs who are about to come out 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.920 of warranty, and you wonder what the value is at 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.520 that point where, at any minute when you buy it, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.080 if the battery fails. Some of these evs, the batteries 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.840 cost over forty thousand dollars. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:25.800 Well, that's quite right. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.160 If you buy an antique car, maybe a car that's 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.080 sixty eighty years old, the value goes up. Every other 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.120 car you have, the value goes down. But if you 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.480 want it to go down absolutely rapidly and drop through 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.680 the floor, get yourself an EV because the cost of 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.760 replacing the batteries is horrendous. You've only got to touch 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.920 the underside on the curb and there are no technicians 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.840 that know how to repair that, so you scrap the 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.880 whole car. These cars are wonderful if you want to 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.480 drive a couple of kilometers a day and go to 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.240 the shops and feel morally superior, not telling people how 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.600 slave labor created the caboard for your car. If you 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.359 live in the center of the city. But if you 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.879 live where you have to travel great distances, such as 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.160 in rural Australia, or you want a plour field, an 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.679 electric vehicle is absolutely useless and a waste of money. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.639 Their ideal for those til seats, those affluent inner city 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.359 areas where you know, the ladies might just be driving 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.840 a couple of kilometers to lunch and back and that's ideal. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.240 Now to one of the funniest stories of the month, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:34.600 the UK Telegraph reports eco friendly break cables are being 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.080 eaten by foxes after manufacturers s which from petroleum based 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:44.159 insulation to soy, forcing owners to wrap their cars in 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.399 tarp hoole And look at that car wearing a nappy 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:52.080 right there. Since two thousand, peanut and soy based oils 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.200 and waxes have been used on car parts, including gearbox insulation, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.280 primer bols and diesel injector wires. And the foxes don't 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.040 mind the taste of this sort of insulation. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.639 Ian Well, you couldn't make up stories like this and 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:06.760 it's too glabulous. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.600 Now, if I were a fox, this should be terrific 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.040 because you'd get free tucker, you don't have to go hunting. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.399 And the second thing is you get in underneath the 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.920 car you keep yourself warm. And the third thing is 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.119 quite often they have a pan underneath so you can 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.560 actually sleep in that pair so I think these people 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:28.600 are rewilding nature by having sawyer and peanut butter vegamine 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:29.920 cables on their vehicles. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:30.840 I think it's terrific. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.440 The foxes are enjoying it, that's for sure. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:34.720 It can possibly go wrong. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.400 Now, an interesting piece in the scientific journal Nature entitled 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:44.240 the Importance of Distinguishing Climate science from Climate Activism. If 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:48.960 Bunkton rides, I'm concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.520 an't we all? I see potential conflicts when scholars use 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.240 information selectively. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:58.879 Oh, yes, this is all very problematic. Yeah. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:03.480 He also writes without self critique and a diversity of viewpoints, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:08.240 scientists will ultimately harm the credibility of their research and 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:14.440 possibly cause a wider public, political, and economic backlash. He's 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.639 going to get attacked for this piece, but is one 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:24.520 hundred percent right. You can't have scientists corrupting science with politics. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.160 This is where they lose faith. We sword with COVID 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.000 and we've certainly see it with climate change. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.399 Well, I used to be an avid reader and subscriber 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.520 to Nature, and when it turned into an activist journal, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.679 I gave up. So I'm surprised at such an articular 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.720 piece in an activist journal. But when a climate scientist 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.719 can show me about human emissions, then I will believe 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.760 that they're not activists. And what they've got to show 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.679 me is half a dozen scientific papers that demonstrate that 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.639 human emissions drive global warming. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:58.720 They've never done that. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.720 So as soon as you talk about humans and climate, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:06.200 you are an activist. So almost by definition climate science, 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.880 whatever that is in their language, climate science is an 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:14.919 activist venture. So the climate scientists have to show that 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.560 human emissions drive global warming. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:18.440 They haven't done that. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.679 And if they did do that, then then have to 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.200 show that the natural emissions, which are ninety seven percent 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.800 of the title, don't drive warming. So I think climate 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:32.840 science is an activist activity. Rather like many areas of sociology, 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.560 like gender studies, that is certainly not an area of scholarship. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:38.480 It's an area of well. I would have to. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.320