WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 14 August 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.120 From the Skyinging Center. 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.160 This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:08.440 I thanks very much for watching. Lots to get to 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.440 it tonight. Yes, of course, the battle about who should 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.000 come to the country and the manner in which they 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.200 should come, it's been one that we've had for more 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.160 than twenty years, and new version of it tonight we'll 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.040 get to that. From a bishop and Stephen Conroy. There's 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.200 also great idea about something that I know a lot 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:23.680 of it you care about, which is how do. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.119 We get more people into their first home. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.200 Great idea, a solution, not just talking about the problem tonight, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.360 and a maniple Beacon Kelly about everything that is happening 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.440 in the United States. If I seem a little different 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.599 tonight than I normally am, it's because I am. If 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.560 I seem a little rattled tonight, it's because I am. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.440 If it seems I'm a little emotional tonight, I apologize 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.040 because I am. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:50.920 As you know, I am. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:56.000 The father of the world's best little girls, and they 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:01.040 are in the public education system. I'm proud of them 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:04.360 and proud of their teachers, and I'm proud of their friends. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.040 But we have to talk tonight about how we are 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.600 letting our kids down and that the kids are not 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.160 all right. I'm not saying that about my girls. I'm 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.040 saying that about. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:16.479 All the kids. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:25.040 We spend in public education between the federal, state and governments, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.680 twenty eight billion dollars from the federal government, fifty two 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.320 billion dollars from the state governments, back and forth. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.040 Take a little year, push a little. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:42.080 There, seventy billion dollars, seventy billion dollars. Today we learned 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.480 that yet again, despite the money which has gone up 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.720 a little since those numbers, despite. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.600 The fact that if you look at it over. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.200 Five years or ten years, you start to get into 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.560 crazy numbers of hundreds of billions of dollars, we are 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:05.360 going backwards. It matters because education is such a key. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.680 It's an ability to change your life and its ability 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.680 to set you up for a life. Today, the Napline 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:20.960 results showed that one in three Australian students primary upper primary, 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.960 high school one in three are not meeting basic literacy 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:29.840 and numeracy standards. Now, I know that this is not 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.440 going to fire up people like the refugee stuff and 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.200 all the rest, but this is the only thing that 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.760 really matters, because this is our country and it's the 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:45.160 future of our country. And I've done versions of this 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.079 editorial multiple times where you thunder and scream and flip the. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.680 Table and hope that that's going to get a bit 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.519 of attention, but it doesn't. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:58.120 Instead, the same results every bloody year. Well again, the 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.960 results again are across numeracy and spelling and. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:04.639 Grammar and everything else. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.079 Now half the country's great, sixteen percent of the country 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:12.200 absolutely nailing it. But then there's about thirty three percent 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.919 of the country that is below standard. There's the best 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.520 part of ten percent of the country that are so 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:21.440 far behind. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:22.280 That they need support. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.640 The article from the ABC about this there's one in 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.799 three Australian school students is not meeting the literacy and 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.760 numeracy benchmarks and more than one in ten additional support 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.880 one intend and need additional support. Experts say that the 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.120 scores demonstrate the urgent need for classroom reforms. Otherwise a 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.840 significant part of a generation looks set to miss out 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:46.040 on crucial foundational learning. Now, I repeat every teacher that 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.240 I've met the whole time in my little girls. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:49.800 You are amazing. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.920 Thank you, And to so many of the teachers, they 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.160 are great. Whoever setting the curriculum and whoever sort of 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:58.720 throwing in the wokeness. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.080 I have my issues with you, all right, So I 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:01.520 know there's a. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.600 Difference between the ultra ultra frontline and the people that 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.520 are making decisions about I get all of that wrong. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.440 This is the future of our country. We talk about 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.280 the future of our country. Are we able to defend 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.680 ourselves against China? Well, this is our country today and 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.480 we are getting a report that a third of its 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.560 future is not up to scratch. And not because they're dumb. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.800 Something's wrong. Something's wrong in the fundamentals, it's wrong in 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.280 the way where parenting or I don't know, but something's wrong. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.520 And I want to ring a damn bell that something 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:38.040 is wrong. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.920 And if you're one of. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.520 The people whose kids are in the fifty percent that 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:44.719 are fine or the sixteen percent of. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.080 Great, good luck. But all of us have to care 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:49.480 about who's been left behind. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.120 Here Someone from the Gratin Institute, Yes, are lefty, but 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.160 still says in plain English one third of Australian children 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.760 are not on track with their learning. It's almost half 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.560 a million students around the country that are not where 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.800 we need them to be. The results are bad everywhere 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:11.080 bad in New South Wales, bad in Victoria, bad in Queensland. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.920 Now amazingly. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.719 There was not a lot of focus today in cambrid 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.080 because again, the more interesting conversation is all the sort 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.479 of heavily emotional conversations about who should come here in 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.200 the manner in which they should come. And I understand 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:30.880 why that debate matters, but I absolutely believe that this 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:38.960 is the lead story today. We have become so used 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.719 to these results that they don't they said, no, shutter 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.840 up a spine, and nobody's asses kicked into action, and 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.800 nobody loses their job because of the endless failures, and 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.400 nobody promises to do better, and we don't change the thinking. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.440 As Kevin Donnelly the education experts often says it, the 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.000 same people keep read writing the rule book. Well guess 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.640 what happens, the same outcomes. We absolutely need fresh and 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:10.200 new thinking. Why don't we turn to school systems that 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.080 work better than ours, that get better results than ours, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.400 and try to bring in some of these experts from 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.279 overseas to have a look at our system and say 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.920 that's wrong, that's wrong, that's okay, that's a good idea. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.400 But if we just keep sort of having the same 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:23.919 conversation amongst ourselves. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.000 The results are obvious. A couple of years ago I 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.039 told you the three hundred. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.440 B four billion dollars had been spent on schools, yet 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.520 things started going backwards and had been going backwards every year. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:36.560 It's a couple of. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.920 Years after we had that conversation, so you can add 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.719 another couple of hundred billion dollars onto it, like half 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:48.200 a trillion dollars, and they go backwards every year. A 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:53.920 significant number of kids are left behind. Now Jason Clare 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:59.479 is the Education Minister, he should be ashamed of these results. Instead, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.040 he is trying to use these results to yet again 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.800 have a change of the education system, where no doubt 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.680 the exact same people who got us in this mess 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.600 will be the exact same people who will design a 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.040 new way of getting back into the same mess. But 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.200 that said, he said the right thing today in our 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.640 federal Parliament about how bad these numbers are. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.120 What the results don't show. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.600 But I want to inform the house is it's only 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.320 twenty percent of those children who fall behind when they're 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.640 little who catch up by the time they're in year 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.240 nine in the middle of high school. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:34.680 Hear that. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.360 Just twenty percent of the kids that fall behind actually 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:44.000 catch up, so eight out of ten of the three 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:51.120 out of ten do not catch up. Now, I'm a 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:56.360 person who speaks with no authority but absolute interest in 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.680 this subject because, as I've told you many times before, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.680 I'm high functioning dyslexic. I'm a person who absolutely bombed 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.320 year twelve and got like forty something out of one hundred. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.200 I'm lucky because i have a certain series of talents. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.760 And I'm sitting here tonight not asking for pity, but 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.840 very aware that there are people who struggle in our 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.200 school system who don't end up sitting where I'm sitting 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:28.000 right now, and we've got to talk about it. I 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:29.640 want those kids to be okay, and I want our 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.040 system to be the one that will help them be okay. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.199 And I don't care how much money it costs if 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.440 it's not the same people making the same mistakes over 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:43.040 and over again, well again. If you had results like 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.319 this and you were the chief financial officer, you'd be 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.720 very close to losing your job. If you've got the 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.079 same results and your chief executive officer, you would be 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.640 very close to losing your job. If this was a 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.000 listed company, that keeps performing as poorly at share price 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:04.520 would be through the floor. Yet nothing changes. Not one 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.959 person will lose their job as a result of this performance. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:11.320 And we know that there are plenty of examples of 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.040 kids who are told not even to turn up for 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.000 these tests because they too would further pull down the numbers. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.720 No one is served by that sort of blindness. Nobody 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.480 is served by that sort of ignorance. And while I 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.840 say thank you to the Education Minister for pointing out 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.960 the gravity of the situation, whatever credit he had with 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:37.560 me immediately flushed down the toot same answer in Parliament today. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.040 Rather than talking about everyone pulling together and getting our 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.280 best minds left, right and center from here and overseas 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:51.120 to save a generation of Australians, he made a crass, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.440 piss week political point. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.560 And that's what the fifteen percent pay rise that we 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.600 announced for Earlierede Cats is all about. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:07.319 Opposed by the Liberal Party and opposed by that guy 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.680 in the Senate what's his name again, Jared Reddick, who 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.640 said that paying early educators more. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.480 Was going to destroy the family unit. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.199 This is the bloke that the Opposition leader endorsed and said, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:25.520 quote unquote was a great defender of liberal values. Mister speaker, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.000 if they're liberal values, then God help us. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.360 Shame on you, minister, truly, shame on you. Look, things 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:36.080 are really terrible. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:37.920 There's a huge number of kids that are falling behind, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.839 and the kids who fall behind, they don't make it up. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:45.559 But back to the politics. This report should have the 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.520 same media impact. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:54.280 As a closing the gap style failure because it is 0:10:54.320 --> 0:11:00.760 an indication about what is not working. Sadly, there's more 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.160 evidence about how the kids aren't right. I'm sorry it 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.560 ain't a rock and roll starts at tonight's show. But 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.080 tonight we're talking the real deal here, the real deal tonight. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.679 Professor Patrick mcgurry is a brilliant Australian. Don't agree with 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.319 everything he's ever said in his life, as I'm sure 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.160 he would never agree with most of what I say, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:19.600 but he's a brilliant Australian. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.040 He and again. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.440 Made of Mind Professor Ian Hickey are two people that 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.240 have always fought for better mental health systems. He of course, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.760 was the Australian of the Year, that being Patrick in 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.400 twenty ten. Today he released a report that was about 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.920 the mental health failures of this country and particularly yet again, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.959 how we are failing a generation of kids. Now, if 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.679 you're somebody who just thinks all they need is in 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.000 a tablespoon of cement and hardened up and all they 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.679 need is a swift kick in the buttet, sorry, that 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.760 ain't the real world. The real world here is that 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.400 the kids are in trouble now. Yes they are in 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.920 trouble because they're being told the planet's ending. Yes they're 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.800 in trouble because they're being told it's on stolen lamb. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.720 But there is clearly something deeper. The incidents of mentally 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.000 ill of the mental ill health in young people in 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.000 Australia has risen by fifty percent in the past fifteen years. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.240 Oh that's because they're over diagnosing port. I know, all 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.240 the little off ramps that people say to not have 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:23.120 a real chat about this, I'm not going to take them. Also, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.240 there has been a further rising and a steep rising 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.000 since the COVID nineteen pandemic, which is why I raged 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.640 the way that I did about schools being closed. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.680 And all of the people who got screwed over. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.720 But no, people like Daniel Andrews, they get a little 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:43.840 gold medal. They have ruined a generation of kids, kids 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.280 who will become adults, who will become parents, and who 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.360 knows what happens after that. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.240 Of course, with what is passed. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:55.000 Down teenage girls, fifty percent of women age between sixteen 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.360 and twenty four experience having a mental health disorder. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:58.760 Oh that's because of social media. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.640 No, yeah, all of these things they make it worse. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.280 All of these things make it worse. But there's stuff 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.559 that's chemically going on. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:07.480 All right. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.160 Again, I don't say this as some sort of wellness 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.000 preacher or blogger or someone who's suggesting that every kid 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:15.480 needs riddle. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.560 And the reality is that mental health. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.120 There are things that are going on inside people and 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.560 when their brain is building, when there are difficulties or 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:32.200 deficiencies or things aren't connecting properly. Again, just go for 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.840 a walk outside. It ain't going to fix it. We 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:39.160 continue here, Patrick mcgurry his quotes. The conclusion is that 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.480 society is in trouble in terms of its ability to 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.640 safeguard the mental health of young people as they make 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:51.200 the transition from childhood to adulthood. Yeah, this is depressing. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:52.600 It's not as much fun as it is to watch 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.199 the block. I'm sorry for that tonight, but rather than 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.439 spoon feed a whole bunch of stuff that will make 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.000 you feel nice and warm on the end. Inside there 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.000 is tough chats that have to be had sometimes, and 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.240 the tough chat tonight he's something's wrong with our kids. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.080 I don't know what the answer is. Because I'm a 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:13.080 TV host. All I can ever do is try to 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.440 point us in the direction of what the problems are 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.480 and really pay attention with the people who are experts 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.080 in this stuff, not the people who turn around and 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.240 say that we should wear masks outside. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.120 Not the experts. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.160 And I'm not talking about all those people again, I 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.440 know all the off ramps that people throw to make 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.840 sure we don't have the conversation, that. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:32.840 We don't have the chat. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.400 And you will feel a little bit helpless thinking about this, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.400 because again, what can we do well? Again, let's get 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.600 into a little more from this report, A little more 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.120 from Professor Patrick mcgury, the Australian of the Year in 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:51.240 twenty ten. He talks about how there is a huge 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.400 gap between the number of people who have issues to 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.840 do with mental health and the amount of money that 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.720 there is to actually deal with mental health. He puts 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.360 some numbers on this that are going to frighten you. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.680 He refers to it to the form of discrimination in 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.400 a funding sense against against the middle ell. It means 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.520 only fifty percent of people with mental illness get access 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.320 to treatment. Repeat, fifty percent of people with mental illness 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.200 get access to treatment. Just fifteen percent of that treatment 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:28.680 is an acceptable quality. So think of those numbers. Fifteen 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:33.000 percent of fifty percent is the right amount of treatment 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.200 that's taking place. Yet, we have so many people with 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:38.960 so many problems that we all know this. We see 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.080 it every day, We live it in our own lives, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.000 We talk about it with our friends and our families, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.160 or sometimes we keep it so deep inside. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:49.360 One last one from you. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.440 This is all under the radar, and under the radar, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.320 the public is simmering about this issue. If you talk 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.440 to any family and anyone that's trying to access mental 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.240 health care, they have terrible difficulties. We want to see 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.800 this become a number one health priority. Mental health has 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.520 always been a poor cousin. This crisis is not going 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.400 to be reversed overnight. It is going to take a 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.920 political consensus to do so. And while we're dealing with 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.280 the rising tide, we've got to actually help the casualties, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:31.600 which are two out of five young people. The kids 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:37.320 aren't all right, and I don't know what the reason is. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.520 And yet there's all those other things that I said 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.000 are all the off ramps so that we don't talk 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.400 about this yere but clearly one of the big things 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.120 we have to do is start to throw money at 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.120 treatment in the way that we would like cancer. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.240 That's how serious this is. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.520 We need to make sure that in the same way 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.600 you have the capacity to go to a GP, you 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.680 should be able to get access to some sort of 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.439 assistance in all of the very complicated ways when it 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.480 comes to mental health. And I'm talking about the young, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.760 I'm talking about the old. I'm talking about people who 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.600 think they're at the top of their game. I'm talking 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.480 about the manic depressives, I'm talking about the depressives, I'm 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:16.680 talking about the anxious. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:17.359 All of this. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.520 Because either we have something going on inside of us 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.440 that has been diagnosed or hasn't been diagnosed, but there's 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.880 a very significant number of people who have been diagnosed, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:30.879 and those people need to make sure that they have 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:36.399 maximum treatment. One of the earliest things that the Abenezy 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:41.439 government did that I will never forgive them for was 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.040 they reduced the number of free telehealth sessions that you 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:53.120 could have with mental health professionals. That needed to be reversed. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.400 It was reversed in some regional areas, but it should 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:00.480 be reversed in every area in the country. The amount 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.440 of money that goes to things like crisis hotlines needs 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.879 to be trebled. The amount of money that goes to 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:14.160 serious healthcare professionals who can take care of people, all 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.439 the way from pastoral care to professors. All of it 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.639 needs more money, more support. This is not because I'm 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.840 a bleeding heart, but it's because, like you, this is 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.680 all that life's about. It is about having a safe 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:35.199 country and having a certain set of values, but it's 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.280 also about making sure that people have the strength to 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:41.919 get through the day. We are being told today that 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:48.199 our kids are being left behind at school. We are 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.679 being told today that our kids are being left behind 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:56.400 when it comes to their mental health. I hope someone listens. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.919 I hope that the same Prime Minister who made that 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:07.359 despicable decision about telehealth reverses it because there's money out there. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.840 There's money out there every single day. When it comes 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.160 to this Prime Minister, it will be harder for him 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.640 to deal with this than just hanging out with Olympians 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.800 like he did today. It will be harder for him 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.360 to deal with than just pandering and saying that AFL 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:30.120 should become an Olympic sport. It will be harder than 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.439 trying to convince the country of your position when it 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.120 comes to a referendum. But more importantly, it'll need more 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.879 than the half a billion dollars that was spent on it. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.200 And again the Prime Minister is planning to spend four 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.400 hundred and something million dollars on not one, but two 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.320 private jets ordered by the previous government but not canceled 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.399 by this government. I just came up with a billion 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.240 dollars for your Prime Minister, and I just pointed in 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.360 the direction of how you should spend it. 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.440 As for the actual story. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.560 That apparently the media was focused on today, this was 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.560 the beginning of the end of the earth, you know. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:10.320 Peter Dutton. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.199 Peter Dutton has been labeled heartless for saying Australia should 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.760 stop taking refugees from Gaza. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:18.880 Peter Dutton is. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.680 Being called heartless and racist after the Opposition leader said 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.480 people fleeing war torn Gaza should not be granted visas 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:27.160 to Australia. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.720 Peter Dutton says they pose a national security risk. 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.440 The comments of anger Muslim leaders. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.080 So what did he actually say here? It is unedited. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.280 If people are coming in from that war zone and 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.240 we're uncertain about identity, all their allegiances, that Harmas's enlisted 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.639 terrorist organization. They've just committed an atrocity against the Jewish people, 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.800 the biggest attack on people of Jewish faith since a Holocaust, 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.560 and that the government wouldn't be conducting Czechs. I don't 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.040 think people should be coming in from that war zone 0:20:59.119 --> 0:20:59.560 at all. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.080 About two thirds of that's right, the last third is wrong. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.679 Here's the reality. In the same way that the people 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.600 of China are not the Chinese Communist Party, the people 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.680 of Russia are not Vladimir Putin, the people of Gaza 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:16.640 are not Hamas. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.400 That's the reality. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:26.360 Australia is a place that has a responsibility to yes, 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.040 have a lifeboat, a lifeboat that cannot take everyone who 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.200 needs to get into that lifeboat. And we have certain 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:37.680 number of seats, and if people from Gaza pass the test, 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:38.440 then yes they. 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:39.600 Should come to the country. 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.120 But the tests, of course they do need to be rigorous. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.320 They do need to be higher than what has been 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:50.560 said in the past. But we are in a place 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.240 right now where I don't know why it has to 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:58.199 be said, but it has to be said. The idea 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:04.160 that all Palestinians are us is not true. By saying that, 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:05.960 I am not pretending that the horrible things that a 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.080 mass has done did not happen or are not terrible. 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:09.960 I am not trying to solve a problem on the 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:10.760 other side of the world that. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:11.439 I can't solve. 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.640 But I am saying that Australia has a lifeboat and 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.480 we try to take people from all parts of the world, 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.520 including places like Gasa. Should we take everyone? 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:20.760 No? 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:22.280