WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 12 May 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to the late Plase. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:09.640 Good evening and thanks for joining us. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.639 I'm James Macpherson, with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond coming 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:17.040 up tonight. A school teacher receives compensation after being sacked 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.600 for having an untidy desk. I live in Liza, both 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.600 quickly shuffling their papers on to make sure they'll retain 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:24.960 their jobs at Sky News. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:26.880 How have I not been sacked already? 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.000 When I worked at the TiSER, they used to have 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.160 to come along and literally take piles of paper off 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.599 my debts because quote unquote in a newspaper newsroom it 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:37.720 was a fire hazard. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:38.600 There you go. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.839 Well, we'll get to that and other stories like it 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.640 a little later. Plus, when we look at what's making 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.519 news tomorrow, a report on how many Australians are traveling 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.360 overseas to select the gender of their baby, something that's 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.040 illegal here in Australia. And on the front page of 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:58.400 Tomorrow's Australian newspaper all the information about the Liberal leadership vote. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:00:59.960 All of that coming up shortly. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.200 But first, if you thought net zero was an absolutely 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.200 crazy idea, we'll wait until you hear what Twiggy Forest's 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:12.360 latest green fantasy is the Australian billionaire reckons net zero 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.160 is for WIMPs. He wants what he's calling real zero, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.000 which calls for a complete ban on all fossil fuels 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.200 from twenty forty. He told the Sidney Morning Herald today, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.199 I believe net zero is an effing con Real zero 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.880 is serious. Just stop burning fossil fuels. You'll get rid 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.920 of climate change because so much swings off that, and 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.039 you'll lower your cost of living and increase your standard 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.279 of living. And by the way, every politician knows that's 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.560 what they're there for. This is the kind of statement 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.760 that would make even Adam Bant blush. Fossil fuels gone 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:54.320 completely within just fifteen years, running the whole world of 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.200 breezy days and sunbeams. The problem, of course, Liz and Caleb, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.000 is that to make wind turbines and solar panels you 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.480 actually need fossil fuels. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.600 This is not zero, real zero. This is just real stupid. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.760 I mean, I can't believe it. He's cracked the code. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.960 You know, eight billion people on the face of the planet, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.360 and the only person who's thought, yes, the answer here 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.119 is to just turn off. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.000 All the fossil fuels is tweety forest. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.239 He's worked it out, well done, twigging. There may well 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.320 be a reason that you're the only bloke who's running 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.680 around talking about real zero. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.120 Because it would do the exact opposite of what you say. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.400 I mean, he says it would have a decreased cost 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.639 of living. I mean, where on Earth does he get 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:40.000 that from? 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.400 Yes, what will turn off all the coal and will 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.080 turn off all the gas, and then the lights won't 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.400 be able to Actually, he's right, Sorry, I've worked out 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.519 he is right. There will be a lower cost of 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.880 living because you won't be able to turn the lights 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.760 on because there won't be enough power, and so your 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.679 power bills will go down dramatically. That's the only way 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.560 I can possibly see. And your gas bill, of course, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.720 because that'll be outlawed too. It's the only way I 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.160 can possibly see that he could argue that this would 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.560 result in a reduced cost of living, and the idea 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.520 that it would just, you know, magically save the planet overnight. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.639 You know everyone's going to buy an electric car. How 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.680 does that go for your cost of living? Et cetera, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.120 et cetera. It's all good and well when you're one 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.240 of the richest blokes in Australia to run around saying, well, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.800 just turn off the fossil fuels and that'll fix the world. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.519 You can well afford it, but the rest of us can't. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.799 That's always been the problem with net zero, let alone 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.600 real zero, which he says, but he reckons this is 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:32.480 great for business. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.840 I mean, he says, everyone else is pulling out. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.960 Of these renewable projects in green hydrogen, which he has 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:39.920 also pulled out of, by the way, he was all 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.200 about it, but. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.080 He says this is great. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.520 No one else is doing it, so I'm just hoovering 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.160 up all the business and making lots of money. I mean, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.640 if you're making money, good for you. But you can't 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.120 tell me that the rest of us are going to 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.840 be better off with real zero. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.560 And how does he figure that that could be remotely 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.200 possible by twenty forty when we're failing every single twenty 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.920 thirty times. Anyone set here in Australia with all the experts, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.080 especially the energy companies, up in arms saying, look, we're 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.560 just not going to get there. Okay, it's not feasible. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.000 Can someone remind this guy. I appreciate the passion. I 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.080 appreciate that he had a near death experience in twenty 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.000 sixteen which he had his Road to Damascus experience and 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.480 emerged from that this green zealot. But can someone remind 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.880 him Australia is responsible for one point three percent of 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.320 global emissions, so it really doesn't matter what we do, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.880 even if we do go back to living in caves, 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.839 and for as long as Trump is in office, which 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.880 is going to be a while yet. And America, one 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.480 of the top three emitters in the world, isn't participating 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.440 in the Paris Accords. We also know China and India, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.719 the top two biggest emitters, could not give a flying 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:59.160 rip about emissions. All of this is porky pies. All 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.839 of this is absolute nonsense. Like I say, appreciate the 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.560 guy's passion, and maybe if I owned a company that 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.159 was worth fifty billion dollars, I too could have the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.279 time and passion to pour into a pet project. But 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.599 when you're talking about the guy that has his fingers 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.960 in this many Australian pies and the real world consequences 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.400 of what he's talking about, it's just laughable. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.719 And this business about just turn off the fossil fuels, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.239 don't use them at all, and there's an idea built 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.800 into that that most people want to turn off the 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.599 fossil fuels, that they'd be quite happy to do away 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.920 with it. But we see time and again that that's 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.200 simply not the case. I mean, you look at electric 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.400 vehicles for instance, which of course the Labor Party told 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.880 us before they won the election in twenty twenty two, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.200 we're going to make up eighty nine percent of all 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.760 vehicle new vehicle sales by twenty thirty. The federal transport 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.200 departments now revise them back to twenty seven percent, which 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.600 is a hell of a discrepancy. But at the end 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.839 of the federal government took off the subsidy that they 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.760 were applying to plug in hybrid vehicles, and that had 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.760 actually been one of the fastest growing markets of electric vehicles, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.960 and all of a sudden, the sales of plug in 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:19.080 hybrids had last month in April because the subsidy doesn't 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.559 exist anymore. So people, when they're given the choice without 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.640 any government interference, will continue to buy the product that 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.520 uses fossil fuels. There's no great desire amongst people to 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.520 walk away from fossil fuels. They'll only do it if 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.520 the government gives them a dirty wad of cash in 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:36.960 their hand in order to do so. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.320 Well. I'll tell you who won't walk away from fossil fuels. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.240 You mentioned them. This is the Chinese. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.479 So can you imagine within fifteen years no fossil fuels 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.240 used in Australia. But the Chinese, meanwhile, are going from 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.000 strength to strength. Talk about a way to not only 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.400 bankrupt your country, but to make it completely defenseless. But 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.239 Tweini going from net zero to real zero. You mentioned 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.840 a green hydrogen. He believed that would be a super 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.320 fuel of the future, but he's failed with that. This 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.560 is typical of those who espouse the green dream. The 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.800 more it fails, the harder they double down. You know 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.920 that the Albanezy government's answer to the increasing cost of 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.240 electricity is more renewables. So the worse it gets, the 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.960 more they double down on their mistakes. That's exactly what 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.000 Twiggy is doing. But I guess he can afford to 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:21.560 so good? 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.880 Well can he afford to? 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.440 Because we know that Trump is looking to ban those 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.560 green energy tax credits that Biden came up with. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.120 He says that's boguus. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.520 It just allows companies to keep burning fossil fuels while 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:35.840 patting themselves. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.720 On the back for saving the planet and doing such 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:38.520 a great job. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.760 He reckons he's just gonna I don't know, sweet talk 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.600 Trump around, but I do not see that happening. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.800 By the president who got elected. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.800 On a drill baby, drill platform, and he means business 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.360 to South Australia now, where parents that whose children attend 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:01.960 a private Catholic school in South Australia have been very 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.520 very angered, rightly so, and extremely disappointed in their school 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.600 when a recent sports day revealed a boy was completing 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:15.520 against their girls. It's a thirteen year old transstudent who 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:21.840 absolutely came first in both running, high jump, javelin discus, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.760 beat records some of which were up to thirty years old. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.040 So the parents are naturally saying, excuse me, this happened 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.960 last year with the same student. Our daughters are losing 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.760 to this biological boy. Why are you allowing this to happen. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.840 But once again, Catholic parents and Christians across Australia, you 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.240 can't count on the government to back in basic biology. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.760 Here's what the Education Minister, Blair Boyer in South Australia 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.440 had to say. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.480 He said, I can see that they are angry. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.080 But what I would say to them is the minister, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.400 I say to all our schools, I want them to 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:07.080 be places where everybody feels welcome. And what can you 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:12.480 expect from a government that has enshrined in law a denial. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.240 Of basic biology. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.400 This is the South Australian Departments of Education policy. 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.199 It reads the goal of full. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:24.080 Participation by gender diverse children and young people in all 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.720 types of sport. Activity includes participation in competitive sport. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.080 All children and young people. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.600 Must be supported to participate in events that align with 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.640 their gender identity. This includes all sport run by schools, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:45.240 including inter school competitions and school sports South Australia. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.040 So what is the school supposed to do. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.640 It's got all these rightly angry parents on their hands 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.240 and the poor schools just. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.960 Saying, look, this is the law. We have to do 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:58.760 what the law. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.520 States, and that is to allow this boy to compete 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:08.480 and beat all of your daughters. This once again, every 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.600 time this comes up, it does my absolute head in 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:17.280 because once you've changed the law to profer feelings over facts, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.160 all of the schools hands are tied, and rightly so. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.360 These Catholic parents who pay top dollar to send their 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.640 child to a private school in the. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.240 Hopes that they won't be exposed to this kind of 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.680 gender ideology. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.440 They're angry, the school's helpless, and the politicians just give 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.520 off these one liners of we understand you're angry, but 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:41.839 we don't care. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.520 We don't care, or the Education minister with that statement, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.160 I can see that parents are angry. The question I 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.600 would ask is, so why do you think, minister, that 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.200 parents are angry? Any idea as to why they might 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.280 be upset? And parents, by all reports, are ropable, not 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.680 only because their daughters are being unfairly disadvantage on the 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.720 sport field, but the very reason they sent their kids 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.320 to a Catholic school was to avoid much of the 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.600 nonsense that goes on in the public system, only to 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.240 find the Catholic school can't protect their kids either. They 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.520 put the concerns for one child above all the other kids. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.760 That's the first mistake. The second mistake is they're going 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.520 to destroy girls' sports. How many of these kids will 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.720 be back on the athletics track next year having learned 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.840 there's no point competing because there's a kid who obviously 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.840 has an unfair advantage being of a different gender is 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.040 going to destroy them all over again, so girls will 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.719 just quit playing sport again. You're starting to normalize a falsehood. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.120 You're teaching children this gender ideology, theory that there are 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.040 numerous genders, that genders are interchangeable. But the worst thing 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.760 I think about this is you're undermining the goodwill of 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.920 good people towards a kid who I presume has gender dysphoria. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.760 According to the news reports, many of the parents were 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.599 at pains to tell the journalist, we don't want to 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.480 see this boy abused. We don't want to see this 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.640 boy ostracized. It's not about this boy and making an 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.319 example of him. It's about fairness for our daughters. But 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:16.040 when you ignore basic biology and fairness, then you drive 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.120 parents to getting really upset, and whatever good will they 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.240 had towards this student threatens to be undermined. So you're 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.640 doing the young boy with gender dysphoria a disservice by 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.520 allowing him to participate in girls sports. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.600 And surely fairness is the number one. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.040 Issue here and it always safety, it always has been right. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.840 So this is not legislation that should be noted. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.719 It's departmental policy which could change at any time, and 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.920 I would have thought, as a Catholic school, you don't 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.120 have to follow departmental policy because you're not operated by 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.400 the Department of Education. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.480 You can do whatever the hell you want. And they've 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.160 still made the choice to do this. But the policy itself, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:54.560 which is. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.880 What the minister has backed in and I thought Blair 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.000 Boy was smarter than this. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.840 But the idea that the number but one thing. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.400 Is inclusion, well to that, I would say, and I 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.840 understand that the goal, which is to not ostracize any. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.200 Particular student on board with that. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.000 But I would say, if you had a student who 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.360 was in a wheelchair and he said that he wanted 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.400 to compete in the cricket team, do you think they 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.000 would change the composition of the sport in order to 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.079 accommodate one child in a wheelchair in the cricket team. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.000 Probably not, because he can't bat, he can't bowl, and 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.000 he'd find it very difficult to field. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.560 And so you say, well, sorry, there are. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.400 Just some things that you can't do because of a 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.040 physical position you are in. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.960 And surely we can also say that to a child 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.359 with gender dysphoria. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.080 If you identify as a girl, that is fine, and 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.080 we'll support you whatever, But you can't compete as a 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.960 girl in the school sports because it's not fair to 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.200 the biological girls in the school and it's not safe 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.320 on a physical level, particularly once you've gone through puberty 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.200 for the girls to be competing against. You just have 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.360 to accept that sometimes those things aren't available to you 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.439 because there is something different about you. I don't think 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.640 that's to exclude someone. It's not to say that they 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.520 are lesser than It's just to acknowledge an obvious truth. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.800 And of course it's the same in the military, right 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.800 I mean I wouldn't qualify. I mean, the rules may 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:20.880 be different these days. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:21.440 I don't know. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.760 They may have loosened them because they're just so desperate 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.760 to get people in. But once upon a time I 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.920 would not qualify for the military because I have problems 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.160 with my left leg. It's shorter than my right leg, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:32.960 and my foots bung and all this sort of stuff. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.480 So once upon a time they say, no, you cannot 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.360 participate in the military because you are not a fit 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.280 and able person to go out onto the battlefield. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:42.240 And they're going through. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.320 This discussion in the US again with transgender people at 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.680 the moment, and you know that Trump said when he 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.520 came to power again that he would get rid of 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.680 transgender people in the military. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.640 And the day is ticking down. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.480 June sixth is the day that they will all be 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.480 booted out. And the Defeend Secretary pa Hexith has said, look, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.000 you have the opportunity to leave now if you want, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.440 but if you don't on June sixth, we will remove you. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.400 Here he is talking about this policy. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:20.240 We are leaving warkness and weakness behind. No more pronouns, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:28.280 no more climate change obsession, no more emergency vaccine mandates. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.160 No more dudes in dresses. We're done with that. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:38.760 We're focused on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards, and readiness. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.840 And of course all the usual suspects have come out 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.720 and said it's discriminatory and how dare you and it's 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.880 shameful and all this other stuff. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.440 But I'll make the same. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.240 Point as I made just before about a transgender child 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.680 competing in sport as a girl who is obviously a boy. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.760 If you are a transgender person, you know, maybe they're 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:04.080 off jobs. You can compete a complete sorry within the military. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:08.760 But if you're a transgender you have suffered from or 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.480 are suffering from a mental disorder, which is gender dysphoria. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.560 It's in the DSM. It is a diagnosable mental illness. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.320 Now we have ways we say we can treat that. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.680 It's the only mental illness on the face of the 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.680 earth where we actually lean into what is the problem 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.720 to say we can then treat it. You're a person 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.640 who is fundamentally, whether you like it or not, suffering 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.160 with a mental battle, and so on that basis, it's 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.720 not unfair to say that you're not a fit and 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.440 proper person to serve in the military, just as you 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.000 would say to someone who's got a gammy leg that 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.360 they're not a fit and proper person to serve in 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.320 the military. You want your best and brightest and certainly 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.800 people you don't have to worry too much about when 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.280 they're on the front line serving in the military. And 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.800 if you've got someone who is being treated for a 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.280 mental illness and they are transgender or any other mental 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.520 illness for that matter, they're not what the sort of 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.800 person you want on the front lines, because they are 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.119 a liability and a risk. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:04.959 It's as simple as that. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.840 Beyond that, there's the ongoing requirement of medication, especially once 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.560 they've transitioned to sustain that. And furthermore, Donald Trump pointed 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.720 out that if you've got a group of people men 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.280 asserting to be women and then requiring everybody else to 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:26.280 honor that his words, falsehood, then you're lacking the humility 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.400 and selflessness that is required to be part of the military, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.280 where you're literally willing to lay down your life, not 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.040 demanding that other people use the correct pronouns for you 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.120 on the battlefield. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:38.399 It's interesting. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.320 Andrew Hastiback in twenty seventeen, of course he's the opposition 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.760 defense spokesperson. He pointed out that the reason he left 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.879 the military was he was sick of social engineering. And 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.960 of course we have difficulty now recruiting people for the military, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.840 he says, that's the reason he left. He quoted figures 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.080 saying that Australian taxpayers had spent a million dollars on 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.399 helping military person and l to transition to the opposite gender. 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.359 Is about twenty seven people over the five years up 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.639 to twenty seventeen, he said, and this continues in the 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.320 Australian military. So while the US military have said we're 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.640 not doing this anymore, we're focused on one thing lethality. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.720 The Australian military last year had an International Day against 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:24.240 homophobia by biphobia wherever it is, bisexual phobia whatever the 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.919 word is for that, and transphobia, and they had a 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.920 big article on the ADF website with a transgendered person 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.320 who's serving in the military saying getting a transition is 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:35.760 the best thing that ever. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:36.680 Happened in my life. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.199 And so you've got two very different approaches to this 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.560 issue between Australia and our main military ally the US. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.240 Well, Trump knows that in these tenuous geopolitical times, you 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.359 need a weaponized military, and that's what he and Heg Saith, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.080 who's the Defense Secretary now in the Trump administration, have 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.760 repeatedly said, we're returning to Mission first principles. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:02.760 And this is that. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.159 Just last week they ordered the Pentagon to order that 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:12.040 all their bases, all their military schools, all their military academies, 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.959 review their libraries and get rid of all books that 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:21.200 involve LGBTIQ matters, as well as any books and literature 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:26.480 exploring racial identity. They have absolutely had it with this. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:27.199 Kind of stuff. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.720 One of my favorite Hegseth quotes, he said earlier this year, 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.000 he said, our diversity is our strength is the single 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.080 dumbest phrase in military history, because, of course, when you're 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.880 talking military, only one thing matters, and that is, as 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.760 you say, the best and the brightest are on the 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.960 front lines. It doesn't matter whether they're operating drones, it 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.199 doesn't matter if they've got guns in their hands, it 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.280 doesn't matter if they're peacekeepers on the ground. You want 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.919 people that you can rely on in all circumstances and 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.720 are in no way going to be a liability to 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:00.520 to the Dean. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.879 It's interesting the changing perceptions on this. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.600 Back in twenty nineteen, a Gallop poll found seventy one 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.439 percent of Americans had no problem with transgendered people in 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.280 the military. As of February this year, that seventy one 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.240 percent has fallen to fifty eight percent, so more Americans 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.240 are becoming persuaded that it's not the place for transgendered 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.480 people in the military. But regardless of that, you don't 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.960 do a poll to work out who should serve on 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.159 the front line of your military. You talk to your 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.800 military people and say what's the best way to protect 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:29.440 the country and. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.120 Just do that whatever it is. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.640 Speaking of Poles, Anthony Albanesi, of course won the pole 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.160 and is now getting his front bench in order. They'll 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.840 be sworn in tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. So he've 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.919 got two big news events tomorrow, the swearing in of 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.879 the Labor government's front bench and of course the Liberal 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.160 Party selecting. 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:48.760 A new leader. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.160