WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 26 May 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.400 Lately. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.680 Welcome to the Late Debase. 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:07.880 Good evening. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.840 I'm James Macpherson with kayleb Bond and welcoming our new 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:12.720 Late Debate team member, Freyer Leech. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:14.680 Freyer, great to have you part of the team. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.400 It's so wonderful to be here. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.800 Well, I'm looking forward to tonight because I suspect on 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.759 the very first topic we're going to have an argument 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.560 straight off the back, so be prepared for that. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:24.000 Freyer. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:28.440 Coming up tonight, some very strange footage from Vietnam of 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.920 the French President Emmanuel mccron who's caught on camera seemingly 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:33.360 in an. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.800 Altercation with his wife or was it a play fight? 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.879 We'll let you decide. Plus, when we look at the papers, 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.960 home ownership reach. Home ownership affordability reaches an historic low. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:45.320 But it's not all bad news. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.960 One state opposition is promising to scrap sales tax for 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.440 a stamp duty rather for first home buyers. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.200 So we'll get to that shortly. But here's a question. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.639 Should prisoners be allowed to smoke cigarettes in jail? They 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.840 were up until twenty fifteen when it was banned and 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.560 instead prisoners were supplied with nicotine patches, But then they 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.480 started using nicotine patches combined with pages from the Bible 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.520 to make their own cigarettes, and so they were banned. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.039 And now we've got a situation where liquid nicotine that's 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.800 used to make e cigarettes is one of the most 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:25.880 smuggled items in prisons around Australia. Victorian authorities have seized 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.720 four hundred and fifty liters of nicotine oil in the. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.440 Nine months to March. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.720 I think this is one of those issues where every 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.440 solution just creates another problem, and so I can't believe 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.959 I'm going to say this Freyer and Caleb I reckon 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.720 allow prisoners to smoke cigarettes and solve a raft of problem. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.640 I don't see why they shouldn't be able to smoke 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.600 when everyone else is allowed to smoke. And you might say, oh, well, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.440 you know you're in prison, you should be deprived of 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.480 your rights. But let's be honest, prisoners are pretty prickly 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.080 characters at the best of times, right, and so something 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.960 to calm them down a little bit is probably not 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.320 a bad thing. And it's probably also not a bad 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.280 thing if they smoke themselves into an earlier grave. I mean, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.520 if you're in prison and you want to say, yep, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.160 I'm willing to give up ten years of my life 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.919 so that the taxpayer doesn't have to spend one hundred 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.519 thousand dollars a year to feed me and put a 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.400 roof of made. At least that's what it used to be. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:19.839 I mean, it was one hundred and grand a year 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.440 ten years ago. So I hate to think of what 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.040 they're spending every year now to keep someone in prison. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.200 You want to smoke yourself into an early grave, go 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:28.720 for your life, couldn't give a stuff. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.320 I totally disagree. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.240 I mean, we should be trying to make prison as 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.519 unbearable as possible. There are very few rights for prisoners, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.680 and smoking certainly is not one of them. And then 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.840 you consider the cost to taxpayers when these people are 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.640 out of prison, or even while they're still in prison, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:51.560 cancer treatments, all the medical issues associated with smoking. I 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.000 am sure that the cost of treating them, whether they're 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.760 prisoners or back in the public system, will far outweigh 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.000 any potential tax is we collect from cigarettes. And therefore, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.160 why are we just allowing people to continue there essentially 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.480 their drug addiction and facilitating it. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.440 Well, it does, and on the tax point, it doesn't. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.280 So in this financial year, we'll pull in seven point 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.720 four billion dollars in exercise, which is well down on 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.080 what it used to be. By the way, it peaking 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.240 at about fourteen billion. But of course the federal government 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.880 buggered it all up with the illicit tobacco market and 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.160 they're now losing all the tax. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.280 But the latest numbers we have from the National. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.720 Drug Research Institute is that at six point eight billion 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.240 dollars a year in healthcare. So the government actually turns 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.560 a profit on smokers, which is why, as I've said before, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.960 they are the true lifters of this country. Smokers and 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.960 drinkers are the true lifters of this country because they 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.960 spend money they give tax voluntarily to the government that 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.760 other people don't. So it's actually a net profit maker 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.680 for the federal government. So you can't argue it on 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:50.040 that point. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.320 My problem with the ban is it's not achieving what 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.200 it was set out to do. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.920 The bans ostensibly to improve the health. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.400 Of prisoners, except studies have shown that what is at 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.520 sixty three percent of prisoniness. This is from the Medical 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.320 Journal of Australia. Sixty three percent of prisoners upon release 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.320 from jail smoke a cigarette the day they get out 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.720 of prison, so they're not quitting even though the ban 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.960 is in place. They're just finding other ways to smoke. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.080 Hence we've now got this illegal trade within prisons. Have 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.279 look at this footage, amazing footage from park Lee. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.360 Prison here in Sydney. See that bin. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.320 It was left in the middle of the courtyard and 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.400 if you can watch there on the screen carefully, we'll 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.440 play it again. There's an item that falls from the 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.120 sky perfectly into the bin. It's been dropped from a 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.880 drone flown over the prison yard. It's dropping a vape 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.560 and tobacco into that bin. So, aside from being bad 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.839 using drones to deliver illegal goods into the prison, I 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.520 reckon find the operator of the drone and give him a. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.200 Job of the ADM. He could save us at the 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.359 event of war with China. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.520 I know we need him. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.760 And you know the reports I'm getting here of people 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.640 having full blown fights in prison now over cigarettes because 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.760 if someone manages to smuggle some in like it is 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.120 genuine currency in prison now, because they have made it 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.200 a currency, just like they've done of course with you 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.880 listen tobacco, Margaret. While we're talking about crime and related matters, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.800 as well, checking people off into jail. It's interesting. There's 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.040 two stories here. One, of course, in South Australia, the 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.920 former DPP has said that they should get rid of 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.200 the what do you. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.080 Call it, the parole board. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.120 I was about to go for bail because of course 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.960 that's what we've been talking about excessively. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.599 Of course he wants to get rid of the parole board. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.880 He says, you'll lock people up for longer and that'll 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:35.440 be a good thing. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.200 Something tells me that won't quite work, because you say, okay, look, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.160 here's a response to a. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.600 Problem we're having at the moment with crime. We've got 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.800 rampant youth crime. So look, we'll get rid of the 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:46.520 parole board. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.640 Therefore you won't have parole, so we'll lock them up 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.640 for longer and that'll fix the problem. Well, you know, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.560 people sort of need a way to transition from prison 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.719 to real life. Again, I think, and again, these knee 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.760 jerk reactions. We saw one yesterday from Jacinder Allen the 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.320 Mirror Victoria. There was terrible gang violence, as Paul was 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.760 talking about before, in Melbourne over the weekend, including of 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.000 course that attack at a Northland shopping center where you 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.960 had a young man wielding a machete. So Cintra Allen says, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.440 I've got the answer to all of this. We'll just 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:18.479 ban machetes. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.560 These knives are dangerous weapons. They have no place on 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.159 our streets anywhere, and that is why i will introduce 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.240 as many laws to get these dangerous knives off the streets. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.800 Which is why I'm announcing today that, effective immediately, will 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.080 be bringing in place a ban on the sale of 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.719 machetes here in Victoria. And this ban will be in 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:48.440 place from midday on Wednesday under consumer powers. Using these powers, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.920 Victoria will be banning machetes from being sold anywhere in 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:52.440 the state. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.440 Look, machetes don't kill people. People wielding machetes kill people. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.040 People wielding kitchen knives kill peaple. I mean, you still 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.360 might have seen Andrew Bolt earlier tonight pulled in an 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:04.880 array of things that he had. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.520 In his garden shed. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.640 You know, an axe and a hatchet and whatever that 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.560 you can go and kill someone with a ringe of 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.680 them with if you want to simply saying well, we've 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.520 fixed the problem now, no more machines in Victoria. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.360 It does not fix youth crime. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.200 I mean, this is all a distraction technique. By the 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.960 Allen government to distract from the fact that they have 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.440 failed to control the youth crime crisis. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.320 Crime is at a fifteen year high. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.720 But get this, although they're committing record numbers of offenses, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.840 the number of offenders hasn't really changed. That's because this 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.880 is being driven by repeat violent offenders. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.360 Now, what just since Alan won't tell. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.120 You about the event over the weekend, was that three 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.520 of the four kids participating were actually out on bail. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.640 And that is the problem until. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.440 Much of this year, remand or keeping people in jail 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.920 until their trial. Fourk children were seen as a last 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.320 resort by courts. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.080 That man, all these violent. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.200 Kids were just immediately released onto the streets. Hence the 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.320 incredible youth crime problem. So all of this is just 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:14.960 a cover up. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.920 I reckon, I reckon. You're absolutely right. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:21.360 Talking about machetes is much easier than talking about youth crime, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.720 specifically gang crime, just much easier. I love to language 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.240 knives have no place on our streets. What about gangs 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.720 have no place on our streets. I will get these 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.280 dangerous knives off our streets. How about getting dangerous gangs 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.240 off the streets. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.960 You've absolutely failed to do that. So you've made. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.560 Machetes, and the definition of machete it's a knife blade 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.280 that's longer than twenty centimeters. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.840 Well, there are bread knives that are longer. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.320 Than twenty centimeters, so big loaves of bread, it must. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.360 The other thing about this, of course, is that ban 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.079 will apply from midday on Wednesday. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.760 Is this is such a big problem, why wouldn't we. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:03.199 Ban it immediately, but to provide opportunity for retailers to adjust. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.280 In other words, there's going to be an absolute. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.280 Run on machetes for the next two and a half 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.440 days up until midday on Wednesday. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.200 People are rushing and buy them all. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.120 And when you ban machetes, wouldn't these kids just move 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.880 to knives or sissys then you. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.320 Buy then you ban knives, and your band scissors. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.120 Or axes, then you buy hammers. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.439 Then you ban hammers like I could name so many 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.120 rope like goodness, anything could be violent, and that is 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.920 the problem. They don't want to address the underlying drivers 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.520 of the crisis, so it's easier to just ban things. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:33.000 Now. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.360 Should kids have access to machetes obviously not. Should we 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:43.120 control access to machetes totally, But let's be very clear 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.280 this is not some newfound desire to reign in crime. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.360 This is just into Alan trying to cover up the fact. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.439 That her government has failed. 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.360 And like we talked about with the ban on cigarettes 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.000 in jails, do you reckon in a couple of days 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.560 time on the orb were Donga border, there'll be a 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.360 big store opening up machete the machete shop. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.120 I'm going to go and do it if it doesn't 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:03.840 really exist. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.120 But it concerns me as well how easily people are 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.400 willing to give up liberties and freedoms right. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.600 And most people might sit there and say, well, I. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.480 Don't have a machete. I'm probably never going to buy 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.559 a machete, so I don't really care if you ban 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.240 the machete. But there are plenty of people who would 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.120 go bush walking or work on farms or whatever it 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.960 might be, who would argue that they have a legitimate 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.720 use for a machete and that they should be able 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.040 to buy one. And so you start with the machete 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.120 and you say, well, for the good of the people, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.320 will stop the sale of the machetes. And one by 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.000 one we have these little changes that we make to 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.840 our lives and say we'll give up a little bit 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.680 of freedom, a little bit of liberty, because we believe 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.200 that will make the rest of us safer until you 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.280 get to the point where you have no liberty or 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.800 freedom left. Because that's the ultimate version of safety, is 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.920 that there is no risk in life. I mean, if 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.320 that's the kind of world you want to live in, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.280 go for it. But it's not the kind of world 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.000 I want to live in. The kid with the machine 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.079 Eddie will find something else to use. Whether he's got 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.240 the machete or not, he's still going to commit crime. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.040 It doesn't change. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.760 She's dealing with the symptom and she's ignoring the root issues, 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.199 which is so common amongst our governments. Another area where 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.800 they continue to ignore root issues is of course, in immigration, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.400 particularly illegal immigration. Figures released from the Department of Home 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:25.559 Affairs today just show an extraordinary situation in this country. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.720 We now have fifty one thousand failed asylum seekers living 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.200 here in Australia, though they have no right to be here, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.440 which begs the question, when, if ever, will they be 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.240 deported and go home. We read today there are forty 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.440 three thousand, four hundred and ninety three people challenging the 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:48.360 rejection of their visa application in the Administrative Tribunal. But 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.880 the number of immigrants have gone through the system and 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.720 now have no right to remain in Australia is estimated 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.600 to have reached fifty one thousand, six hundred and seventeen. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:58.800 Let me show you a graph. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.520 You can see how the number of people who have 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.480 been denied a visa but are. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.800 Yet to be deported has grown over. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.120 The last few years while Labor has been in power. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.920 There is currently ninety five, one hundred and ten of whom, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.360 as I said, fifty one thousand have now exhausted all 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.400 of their court options and yet are still here in 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:24.480 this country now. Tony Burke, when answering questions from journalists 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:29.280 about this extraordinarily Freyer said, what we expect them to leave? 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:30.400 Well, these are. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.560 People, many of whom arrived here illegally, others who have 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.080 gained the system using all sorts of novel excuses to stay, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.559 and Tony Burke, the Immigration Minister, says, well, we expect 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.840 them to live. You can't expect these people to just 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.520 voluntarily leave. The government has to do something. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:52.040 He's essentially asking people to self deport Trump style, except 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.880 he's not offering them any incentive to do so. In fact, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.120 why would anyone want to leave Australia at all. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.520 We are one of the. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.880 Best countries on earth, so I totally understand why tens 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.280 of thousands of people are willing to break the law 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:07.720 in order to stay here. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.560 But that doesn't mean it's right. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.680 And actually this was an issue even back in Margaret 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.640 Thatcher's time, and she made this great comment in Parliament 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:17.200 in the UK. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.320 Kable gentlemen is suggesting that we ever get to a 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:27.240 position when you cannot return illegal immigrants to that country 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.960 of origin, then here's proposing international chaos. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.560 And that is one of the key issues. In order 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.440 to deport people who've had their asylum claims rejected, the 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.160 country that they originate from has to accept them back. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.880 Now an increasing list of countries are simply refusing to 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.160 do so, and it is straining the international order. How 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.200 can we be expected to cooperate with these countries when 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.199 they don't respect our sovereignty and our right to control 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:56.760 our borders. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:57.719 Kalab Well, this. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:58.920 Stuff should be so simple. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.079 I mean, you know, James, if you were decided to 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.120 rock up to my waterfront, padded beal Maine, because you 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.839 can't resist the view of the Sydney Harbor. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.360 Bridge whenever I ring the bell and you never answered, Well, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.960 that in the driveway suspicious. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.480 I'll tell you why. If you've read the doormat it's 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.720 his wine required for intro. Yes that he's actually written 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.800 on my door, and he's never brought the wine. But say, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.720 I'll let you in, and you block yourself on the 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.240 Eames chair and you sit there and look at the 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.840 harbor Bridge and you go, bug it, I'm staying here. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:28.640 I'm not leaving. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.160 Well, i'd call up the coppers, and the coppers have 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.440 come and take you away for trespass, right, I. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.960 Mean, surely it is as simple as that. If you 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.200 have allowed yourself into an area. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:39.920 What if I had a really good lawyer who was 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.160 funded by the government and by taxpayers to provide twenty 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:44.840 different appeal boards. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.320 That I complicating facts? 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:47.280 That's what I went there. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.000 And you know, I mean, how hard is it you 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.680 come to my property you're not meant to be that 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.800 the police will come and take you away as you trespassed. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.080 It should be exactly the same. You're not meant to 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.920 be here. We have ruled that you are not an 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.880 asylum seeker. So you should be on the first plane 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:02.880 back home. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.000 And I'm really worried we're going to go the way 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:05.680 of the UK. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.200 And we keep getting these insane stories out of the 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.960 UK recently. I mean, my favorite one was that the 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.600 Albanian bloke who he couldn't go back to Albania because 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.400 he had a child in the UK who didn't like 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.600 foreign chicken nuggets and so it would be against his 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.840 human rights to send him back to Albania. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.400 Because this is the cheat code. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.080 You go to the country, but you're not meant to be, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:30.560 saying you're a student or whatever. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.640 You apply for asylum status. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440 It takes us about seventeen years to assess whether or 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.880 not you're actually allowed in the country. In the meantime, 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.720 you hook up with some bird, getter up the duff, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.760 have a few kids, bag we can't get. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.120 Rid of you now because you've got roots in this country. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.560 What the Albanizer government did, and we said earlier, there's 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.800 about forty three thousand people still going through the appeals process, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.560 so freer. They gave extra funding, right to move people 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.520 through the process quicker, But all that achieves is putting 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.840 more people into the position where now they've exhausted their 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.720 legal rights. You've got to do something about those people. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.520 It's one of those situations where it starts off as 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.400 so small we won't bother addressing it, but quickly it 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.360 becomes so big. If you're going to address it, it's 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.880 going to cost a mozza. And can you imagine the 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.400 controversy once they start physically deporting and forcing people out 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.480 of the country. If they don't start on this soon, 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.360 we're going to end up with chaos. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:22.320 And that's the thing. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.840 Last month, less than five people were actually involuntarily imported, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.120 five out of over fifty thousand. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.560 It's an absolute joke. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.040 But moving on now, I feel like councils always give 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.240 us so much to talk about, and this time it's 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.120 Melbourne City Council. Of course, during COVID they had a 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.560 one hundred million dollar fund with them and the state 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.120 government and it was all about trying. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.360 To revive the businesses that. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:51.640 They shut down. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.120 Except it's now been revealed under a Freedom of information 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.760 request that instead of spending this money supporting businesses, they 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:05.119 actually spent it making Melbourne even more unlivable. Eight hundred 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.080 and twenty five thousand dollars from Melbourne's fund has been 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.240 diverted to changing these speed limits in suburbs from fifty 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:20.520 and sixty kilometers down to forty kilometer zones. That sounds great, Yes, 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.359 let's have this money to revive the city we killed, 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.119 and let's. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:24.920 Kill it even more. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.440 I just think that's ridiculous. Shouldn't that money be going 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:28.399 to business as Kyler? 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:29.919 Of course it should, But I mean this is just 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.200 typical stuff, right, I mean, they've done this in so 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.720 many places now, so many councils across the country just 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.800 made vast swayes, not only cities with suburbia forty kilometers 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.280 an hour for whatever reason, because I don't know, some 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:43.440 dumb kid runs out. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:44.880 On the road and you'd hit them a little. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.399 I mean, seriously, forty kilometers now fifty kilometers an hour. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.399 Unless you're screaming down the street at seventy it is 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.919 probably not that much of a difference. But they tried 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.840 this in Adelaide in twenty thirteen. They need a trial 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.800 in the CBD where they cut the speed limit back 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:03.080 when Steven Yard would my great mate not was lord mayor. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.720 In twenty thirteen, they cut the speed limit in parts 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.640 of the city to forty and Less than a year later, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.000 they scrapped it because they realized it didn't make a 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.560 lick of difference, and all it did was discourage people 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.720 from driving into the city because oh good, say we're 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.320 going to go at forty kilometers an hour. I go 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.240 to the places where I can go fifty because I 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.119 want to be actually able to move around. There are 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.560 places in Melbourne now where they're actually reducing the speed 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.520 limit to thirty kilometers an hour. I mean, where does 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.120 an end you go from fifty to forty, forty to thirty, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.240 thirty to twenty and then it'll be bike lanes everywhere, 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.600 which is probably their ultimate goal anyway, because that'll be 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:40.720 the fastest way to move. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.240 And like Freya said, this just makes the cities even 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.479 more unlivable when the point of the fund was to 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:51.719 reinvigorate CBD businesses after they were devastated during the pandemic 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.240 eight hundred and what was it fifty million thousand dollars 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.720 towards bike lanes slowing down cars to forty kilometers an hour. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.400 I love what one of the council spokesman said when 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.800 trying to defend this decision, that there was one hundred 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.159 million dollars allocated right to reviving inner city businesses, and 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.160 the spokesperson said, and I quote, more than sixty million 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.280 dollars was directed to support businesses. Now, my math isn't 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.919 great the best of times, prayer, but you've already cottoned on. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.440 If one hundred million dollars was dedicated and they have 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.159 spent sixty million, to what happened to the other forty 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.000 million that was meant to help businesses a that this 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.880 is typical though Mooney Valley Council famously a few years 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.080 ago there were floods in the area and they spent 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.639 flood recovery money funding an indigenous artist to do an 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.240 Indigenous sculpture for a children's playground which was far removed 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.840 from the area that was flooded. So councils continually use 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.800 money allocated for one thing to fund their pet projects. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.680 If you did that in any other sector of. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:54.000 Society, you'd be at least sacked, if not investigated and prosecuted. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.879 And yet councils repeatedly use rate payer money for things 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.560 other than what it was intended for, and in this. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.800 Case, to make things worse rather than better. 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.040 But one of the problems as well, is that the 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.880 people who live in these inner city areas and who 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.439 vote for the councils are often perfectly happy to just 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.120 ride around on their bike, no cars. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.280 They don't even want businesses. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.240 Half of them are socialists, and so the councils can 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.560 get away with this stuff. But it's the businesses that 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.520 ultimately pay. And that's what I think is really sad. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.960 It's going to be the small businesses, the mums and 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.680 dads who can't afford to keep up as these draconian, 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.960 anti fun, anti freedom councils have their way. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:36.520 Well, and it's all anti car. 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.959 I mean, have a look around any city now and 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.080 look at how many loading zones there are. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.120 And it's not to say it's anti track the whole thing. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.400 How do they think that cities operate? I mean things 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.919 get brought into cities on trucks. Trucks need loading zones 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.560 to park. Oh, we'll take the loading zones out more 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.480 to bike lane in instead. They just well, I think 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.200 they do get it. They know exactly what they are doing. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.560 The point is to stop you from driving your car. 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.320 But newsflash, when if you can't drive your car, people 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.000 just won't go places and it'll hurt the cities, and 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.000 then there won't be anyone to pay the rates anymore, 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.560 and then there'll be no counsel, which perhaps is the 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:16.200 best thing that could happen for all of us. Sometimes 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.760 I scratch my head and I think, why have you 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:19.640 made this decision? 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.560 That's one of them. I mean, why would you reduce 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:22.280 the speed limit? 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.000 And another one of those moments I had today, ADHD 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.879 diagnosis in New South Wales is now going to be 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:33.080 extended to GPS. So currently if you want a diagnosis 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.440 of ADHD you have to go to either a pediatrician 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.639 if you're a child, or a psychiatrist they're also qualified 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.560 to give out ADHD medication. Well, the New South Wales 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:46.639 state government says no, no, we should be able to 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.560 allow GPS to do it now, just the average family 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.879 doctor to say, yes, you can have an ADHD diagnosis, 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.960 and you can have an ADHD diagnosis, and why don't 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.480 we sign everyone up for an ADHD diagnosis, because that's 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.239 where we seem to be going these days. I mean, 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.639 every second kid apparently has ADHD and ADHD is not 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:10.159 on the NDIS, but one in ten young boys is 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.920 now on the NDAs with autism or some such thing. 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.480 And of course the schools encourage parents to get ADHD 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.840 diagnoses because I get special dispensation funding and all sorts 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:26.400 of things. Parents cutcrook if their children don't get diagnoses 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:30.760 that they ask for, whether it be ADHD or autism 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.520 or whatever. All the autism they've been diagnosed with is 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.040 two miles so they can't get on the NDAs. This 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.919 is going on all the time, and it's a serious diagnosis. 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.960 So you say, well, without any real basis, we'll just 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.920 allow an average GP to start maybe start making these is. 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:50.960 They've got to take another course so. 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:54.280 That they can have the power to give out ADHD diagnosis. Well, 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:56.240 once it gets around that the GP down at this 0:22:56.320 --> 0:23:00.960 clinic is handing out ADHD diagnoses, how many kids do 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:01.359 you reckon? 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.760 We'll be lined up out the front with their parents 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.080 to go and get it. It's just a business. 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.560 Rule, and no one's denying there's an issue here. But when, 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.160 as you said, between six and ten percent of young 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.240 people in this country have got a mental health disorder, 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:17.359 wouldn't the response be to say, WHOA, let's stop for 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.040 a second and figure out what is going on, rather 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.280 than to say let's make it as easy as possible 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.600 for these kids to get diagnosed and then prescribed and 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.280 put on medication. And I've got firsthand experience of this, 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.480 as many parents around the country would where your child 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.879 goes to school misbehaves, and then in our situation, it 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.360 was teachers saying, we need you to go and get 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.960 your child seen to and diagnosed with ADHD because then 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:47.040 the school gets extra funding for extra support to provide 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.399 behavioral management in classrooms, et cetera, et cetera. And so 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:53.600 we took our kid along because we don't want our 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.600 kid to suffer and be behind at school. And I 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.920 was actually shocked with a pediatrician at how quickly after 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:04.520 one consultation that was very brief, Oh yeah, ADHD put 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:08.080 them on whatever the ADHD drug is. And as parents, 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.320 we were kind of horrified. We had the school encouraging 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.280 us very strongly from one end, we had a health 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:20.080 professional who seemed pretty quick to diagnose and prescribe, and 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.639 as parents, you just want the best for your kids, 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:25.640 and I certainly don't think most parents want to put 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.840 their children on some sort of drug. So we're going 0:24:29.880 --> 0:24:33.160 to get an explosion in diagnoses. You would think, as 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:35.360 you said, Caleb, if you've got GPS. 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:35.800 Now prescribing this. 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.840 They're already giving out four point six million prescriptions for 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:42.000 ADHD drugs. That was between twenty twenty three and twenty 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.760 twenty four in one year, four point six million prescriptions. 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:46.879 This will make it more and I'm not sure it's 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:47.280 a good thing. 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:49.880 Well, it's so sad, and we also don't know what 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:55.400 the long term consequences are of essentially drugging a significant 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.400 proportion of an entire generation in one of the biggest 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:04.840 medical experiments on children we've ever conducted what happens, and 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.600 we do see from some of the early research coming 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:10.040 out that, particularly in boys, one of the things it 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:14.000 does is reduce their drive and ambition, and that's partly 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.160 why now across our education system you're actually seeing girls 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:21.080 now outperforming boys, and now there's a reverse gender gap 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:24.640 where girls are excelling at record rates, but it's boys 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:28.000 being left behind because the system, now if you're not 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.280 a nice little girl in school, will go put you 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:34.359 on medication with no idea about the long term consequences. 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:36.960 And so once again it is children. 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:40.720 It is society's most vulnerable people that are going to 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:42.080 pay the price for this. 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:45.879 Experiment, so I should point out quickly because I used 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:49.320 some personal experience. We just adjusted some behavioral management issues 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:51.720 with our son and that he's now doing brilliant and 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:53.400 it's probably the best kid in this country. 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:55.640 Yeah, very good. 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:59.800 But you see, of course, you pathologize increasingly things that 0:25:59.840 --> 0:26:02.760 are part of the normal human experience. You know, worry 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:08.760 becomes anxiety, sadness becomes depression. You know, a boy mucking 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:12.160 around because he's perhaps not being treated as he should 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:14.959 or no one really understands him. Where he's got ADHD 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:17.840 And that's the point of ritalin and all these other 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:21.280 means is to try and essentially dull and create an 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:25.120 equilibrium for these kids. But the rought that I talked 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:27.880 about before, where do you think that the number one 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:32.679 school in New South Wales that had the most students 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:38.360 approved for disability provisions under the HSC last year? 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:39.440 Have I guess where it was. 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:41.480 And what school it was? I wouldn't even know where 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:42.439 to begin with edge. 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:45.439 I've got to Gasfoya Kayla. Was it a school in 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:46.440 the eastern suburbs? 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:47.720 Wasn't in the eastern suburbs? 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:47.960 It was? 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:50.360 It was in Cremorn, so right right next to all 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:52.800 Redlands where. 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:58.080 Forty nine point four percent of HSC students had some 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:01.880 kind of special dispensation to do with disability. And that's 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:05.399 exactly why they want the diagnosis, because it means the 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.119 students will maybe get some extra time in their exam, 0:27:08.240 --> 0:27:10.000 or they get to mixed through assistance, or they can 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:12.400 do something a bit differently, and the schools use. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.800 That to jack up their results. I mean, why wouldn't 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:15.159 you do it? 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:17.800 And Caleb, the thing is as well, kids from truly 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:22.159 disadvantaged backgrounds often don't have the resources or the know 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:24.880 how to work through the medical system to get these 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:28.159 diagnoses and get the special privileges. So once again it 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.439 is the most vulnerable that tend to suffer. 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:31.639 But let's move on now. 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:36.119 So the ABC has been forced to apologize to two 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:41.720 national MP's after one of its political reporters falsely claimed 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:46.520 that they abandoned their electorates while people were dying. 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:47.840 Check this out. 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:50.919 I think the other thing that's probably really important to 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:53.720 regional communities is that they have a local member who's 0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:57.760 there when their electorate is, for example, flooding. So I 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:00.639 went through this earlier today. I went and check so 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:03.159 on Wednesday afternoon. There was a sixty three year old 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:05.800 man in Moto that's near Tyree. That's in Allison Penfold's 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:09.240 seat the National He died on Thursday morning. The body 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:10.879 was recovered of a thirty year old a man his 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.600 thirties in Rosewood that's in her seat as well. On 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:16.280 Thursday afternoon, that's when we had the press conference from 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:19.080 the Nationals in the Hall. Just to go over that timeline, 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:20.959 a sixty year old woman died in her car near 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:24.200 Koff's Harbor in this flood. That's in Pact Conahan's seat 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:24.679 of Kauper. 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:25.400 I think the. 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:27.160 Important thing is that when you're in opposition, it's also 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:29.639 still your job to be a local member and represent 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:31.600 your communities, to be there for them. 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.040 Now, initially when I saw this story, I thought, oh, no, 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:38.520 some poor reporter we've never heard of has made an 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:42.280 innocent mistake. Oh this is really sad and awkward. But 0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:46.320 you can hear there this was no an innocent mistake. 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:50.720 She was on a witch hunt to attack National Party MPs. 0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:54.960 She researched everyone who had died in their. 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:59.000 Electrics, which is totally a tragedy, but she failed to 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:02.200 check where that the MP's were actually there, and in 0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:05.160 fact they were they never abandoned their electorate. 0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:08.120 Fifty percent of her research was outstanding. It was just 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:11.560 the other fifty percent, which was pretty much nonexistent and 0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:14.560 meant that the ABC had to issue an apology, which 0:29:14.600 --> 0:29:17.880 is pretty embarrassing. It just goes to show it it's 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:19.960 just easy to whack a member of the coalition, and 0:29:20.000 --> 0:29:22.240 the ABC are pretty proficient at that, and it's a 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:26.320 classic example of just take a whack without checking first 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:29.320 to see whether it was deserved or in fact based 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:30.200 on truth. 0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:31.880 Well, I think this might have proved that it's not 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:33.600 that easy to take a whack at a member of 0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:36.440 the coalition because there was no basis for the whack whatsoever. 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:38.960 I mean, you know, if you're going to go for someone, 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:41.600 you've actually got to get your facts right before you 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:44.400 do it. And I had a situation a bit like this, 0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:49.040 not involving the ABC, but a journalist at an outlet 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:49.560 that will. 0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:53.000 Remain unnamed sent me this email recently saying you said 0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:55.400 this on air, and this is wrong and that was wrong, 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:56.680 and we're going to write it up. 0:29:57.160 --> 0:30:00.320 And I went back and methodically went through exactly what 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:03.160 I had said on air, and how it all had 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:06.040 basis in fact, and that what they were telling me 0:30:06.120 --> 0:30:07.280 I had said was wrong. 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:09.000 I could point to the exact. 0:30:08.680 --> 0:30:11.240 Piece in the document where it said, no, what I've 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:14.280 said is exactly true. Funnily enough, that piece didn't end 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:17.880 up getting written. At least they did the due diligence 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:22.240 to reach out beforehand and ask before they ran the piece. 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:24.680 What has happened here is a journalist has gone on 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:26.720 air and run her mouth and said, oh, well, you know, 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:29.480 why aren't they in their electric now? If she had 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:31.640 made the point that all of this is a great 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:35.800 side show while there is a natural disaster going on, 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:39.160 and that the Nationals as a party roof point should 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:43.000 have been far more interested in flood victims than their 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:45.600 own personal issues this week, that would have been a 0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:50.160 totally legitimate point to make. But she deliberately and specifically 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.480 pointed out MP's and suggested that they weren't in their 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:56.480 electorates when they were. I mean, it is the most 0:30:56.760 --> 0:30:59.800 basic stuff. And here, but for the grace of God 0:30:59.840 --> 0:31:03.120 goes oh. You and I have worked as newspaper reporters, James, 0:31:03.480 --> 0:31:06.640 We've all made mistakes before and had to issue retractions 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.320 for some minor issue or whatever, but this is a 0:31:09.360 --> 0:31:10.080 pretty big one. 0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:13.120 Well, and when you're talking on live television, off the cuff, 0:31:13.360 --> 0:31:14.920 you can say things, you know, in the heat of 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.320 the moment that maybe it was not exactly correct, or 0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:19.880 maybe you're kind of sure but not totally sure. But 0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:22.240 as you said, Freyer, she had her notes there. She 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:26.240 came prepared to make this charge, to fire this bullet, 0:31:26.240 --> 0:31:29.200 only to find it wasn't true at all. And of 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:33.160 course the damages always that so many more people actually 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:37.680 see the initial report, which is inaccurate, then see the retraction, 0:31:38.280 --> 0:31:39.600 and so the damage is done. 0:31:39.720 --> 0:31:42.960 And it also just continues to erode public trust in 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:47.160 the ABC. And that's what's happening consistently over time. When 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:50.800 you make these political tacks that clearly are politically and 0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:53.280 emotionally motivated, people get annoyed. 0:31:53.320 --> 0:31:55.920 Well, remember ABC had to deal with our mit for 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:58.080 a fact check units, right, I mean, if that would 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:00.840 have happened to that, if that will by the wayside, 0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:03.320 because they were even the APENC worked out that the 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:06.160 affection unit wasn't all that crash on, but if it 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:08.800 still existed, this is something that they should be looking at. 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:13.120 Let's go to Queensland quickly because the LNP government have 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:16.320 made an interesting decision that I think will please a 0:32:16.320 --> 0:32:19.680 lot of people. They have canned the approval for a 0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:23.280 wind farm forty kilometers outside of Rockhampton. This was a 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:28.240 massive wind farm, eighty eight turbines, a one billion dollar project. 0:32:28.480 --> 0:32:30.640 It was going to supply power to over two hundred 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:33.280 thousand homes. But the LNP have said no, it will 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:38.320 not go ahead because the locals were not properly consulted. 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:40.760 The l ANDP of created new laws saying that from 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:45.480 now on local councils must give consent and there's mandatory 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:51.400 consultation with locals before any renewable company can lodge a DA. Now, 0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:54.440 of course, as you would expect, the Labor leader, Stephen 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:59.360 Miles has labeled this just dumb quote unquote, saying that 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:02.800 this proves the NP hate renewables or maybe they're just 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:05.360 really sympathetic to people who hate wind turbines being put 0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:06.520 up in their backyard. 0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:08.600 Though this does raise. 0:33:08.440 --> 0:33:11.200 Some questions for me Caleb if the LNP in Queensland, 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:14.800 who would not support nuclear power going into the federal election, 0:33:15.240 --> 0:33:18.240 but nor do they want wind turbines. They're not opening 0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:21.920 coal fired power stations anytime soon. So I'm just wondering 0:33:22.720 --> 0:33:25.560 where does the power come from in the lnp's plan. 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:28.160 I like that decision to scrap the wind farm, but 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:30.280 it just means they've got to come up with some 0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:33.240 better policy really, because it doesn't quite make sense yet 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:33.440 to me. 0:33:33.640 --> 0:33:34.560 No, you don't get power. 0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:36.920 China gets power with the coal that we're selling them, 0:33:36.920 --> 0:33:39.120 but we don't get power in the end or handles, 0:33:39.160 --> 0:33:41.000 which is well, I mean, you know that's where they 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:43.680 want to go essentially, right. I mean that the idea 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:45.880 that we can't use coal and we can't use cheap 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:48.920 and efficient forms of energy is essentially a form of regression. 0:33:49.000 --> 0:33:53.920 I mean, we have spent all of eternity, all of humanity, progressing, 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:57.040 and we've now reached the point it apparently we've progressed 0:33:57.040 --> 0:34:00.000 too much, and so we need to regress backwards. 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:02.000 It's a common sense decision, right, of course. 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:05.160 The community should be consulted on these things. But most 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:09.640 often when you have community consultation, whether it's from state 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.759 government or council or whatever, they already made up their 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:14.799 mind and then they go out with the bit of 0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:17.480 paper and saying, excuse me, sir, what do you think 0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:19.920 And cir comes back and says I don't like it, 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:22.080 and they say, well, I don't care, made my mind 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:25.480 up anyway, so it doesn't particularly matter. And maybe this 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:27.719 is an example of how un actually doing what they'll 0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:28.520 say they'll. 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:29.320 Do, no exactly. 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:31.920 And then the problem is as well with community consultation, 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:34.160 like we see this in housing all the time. How 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:37.800 many councils willingly accept new homes in their council areas 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:40.080 Very few. But I think we've gone too far the 0:34:40.160 --> 0:34:44.319 other way, where communities have been bulldozed and disrespected and 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:47.320 not considered at all, which is actually breaking with precedent. 0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:48.759 So if you want a massive. 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:52.560 Agriculture project or mining, you have to consult the people 0:34:52.560 --> 0:34:55.439 that will be affected. But there's a double standard when 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:57.799 it comes to renewables. So seeing that corrected is a 0:34:57.800 --> 0:34:58.279 good thing. 0:34:58.640 --> 0:34:59.080 Absolutely. 0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:00.600 I think a lot of people will be very happy 0:35:00.600 --> 0:35:01.280 with that decision. 0:35:01.360 --> 0:35:03.320 Let's just be real for a moment as well. 0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:06.959 So we've got all the green hydrogen projects gone right, 0:35:07.400 --> 0:35:09.480 Twiggy's pulling all of his money out. I think it's 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:12.279 ninety nine percent of the green hydrogen projects having got 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:17.399 past the approval stage. You've got wind projects gone. They're 0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:20.560 all disappearing overnight. And yet we're still saying that we're 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:23.799 going to make net zero by twenty fifty, and we're 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:26.200 going to have eighty percent of the grid renewable by 0:35:26.239 --> 0:35:29.759 twenty thirty. It's not going to happen. Everyone in the 0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:31.440 energy sector knows it's not. 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:33.360 Going to happen. So why don't we just admit it 0:35:33.360 --> 0:35:34.759 won't happen and get rid of it. 0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:37.000 We'd of saying, thank God, it won't happen, because if 0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:39.720 you get eighty percent renewables in the grid, the experience 0:35:39.760 --> 0:35:43.160 of Spain is the grid won't sustain that, So God willing, 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:44.120 we'll never get there. 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:45.399 All right, we're going to go to a break. 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.800 When we come back, we'll look at what's making news tomorrow, 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:52.600 including how's it Affordability hits a historic low, but one 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:56.359 state opposition is promising to scrap stamp duty for first 0:35:56.400 --> 0:35:58.200 home buyers. We'll bring you all of that and more 0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:07.239 in just a moment. Welcome back. Let's take a look 0:36:07.239 --> 0:36:10.920 at what's making headlines tomorrow. We'll start with the Daily Telegraph. 0:36:11.000 --> 0:36:16.120 The headline reads special report Housing affordability hits a historic low. 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:21.880 Sydney's Unlucky thirteen. I'll explain the significance of thirteen. Shocking 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:24.719 new data reveals owning a home is the impossible dream 0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:28.040 for young Sydney siders, with the median house price now 0:36:28.280 --> 0:36:33.160 thirteen times the average salary. The Australian Property Institute's report 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:36.359 highlights the stark reality in which new buyers have been 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:39.759 shut out of the market. The median house price in 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:44.359 Sydney is now one point six million dollars and to 0:36:44.480 --> 0:36:47.279 afford a home in Sydney now they're saying you need 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:49.760 to be on two hundred and fifty grand a year 0:36:50.200 --> 0:36:52.600 to be able to afford a home. So, as the 0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:56.200 article reports, just so many young people now just despairing 0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:58.080 that they will not even thinking about ever owning a home. 0:36:58.120 --> 0:36:58.680 It's his rent. 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:01.160 And this is a failure of government, this is a 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:03.880 policy failure. We live in a huge country, but we 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.680 have this housing crisis because we've had too little supply 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:10.200 and too much demand from massive levels of immigration. But 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:12.480 if we move on now on that theme of housing, 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:16.720 to the Herald Son, Libb's call of duty stamp duty 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:19.560 acts for first home buys spending up to one million 0:37:19.600 --> 0:37:24.879 dollars under bold election promise from Victorian Opposition stamp duty 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:27.440 would be acts for first home buys spending up to 0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:30.359 one million dollars if the Opposition is elected next year. 0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:34.240 Under the massive one billion dollar commitment, first home buyers 0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:37.480 would save up to fifty five thousand dollars in taxes 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:39.200 on the purchase. 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:40.360 Of any existing new home. 0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:45.560 Now it's estimated that this would benefit seventeen thousand Victorians 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:48.640 in the first full year of operation. As someone who 0:37:48.760 --> 0:37:51.920 did just purchase a first home, I actually qualified for 0:37:52.080 --> 0:37:55.120 the I think it was fully stamp duty exempt, actually 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:58.280 New South Wales, and it was huge. 0:37:58.280 --> 0:37:59.000 It was massive. 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:02.319 Stamp duty is one of the most inefficient taxes in 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:05.000 our tax system. It locks young people out of the 0:38:05.000 --> 0:38:07.800 property market. I think good on the Victorian Liberals. 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:10.359 You know, when I bought my first joint, I think 0:38:10.360 --> 0:38:12.080 it was like a year when I was in South Australia. 0:38:12.120 --> 0:38:14.160 It was like a year before they brought in rules 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:15.760 down there to get rid of stamp duty. 0:38:15.800 --> 0:38:18.080 So I paid full tot odds. 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:20.320 To Steven Marshall at the time when he was running 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:22.279 the joint, and he didn't take too kindly to me. 0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:24.839 After that it would seem so I'm sorry I made 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:27.960 that donation to him. I think the point is to 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:29.680 go back to the previous story. But you know, the 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:33.240 impossible dream, as Andy Williams once saying, you should still 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:37.480 dream the impossible dream and fight the unbeatable foe. But 0:38:37.560 --> 0:38:41.080 we have to recognize that even with these things like 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:44.239 you know, removing stamp duty for first home bars, that 0:38:44.480 --> 0:38:47.200 number that it is now thirteen times. 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:49.200 The average wage to buy a house is. 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:51.279 A lot more than it was twenty years ago, and 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:53.680 it's a lot more than it was twenty years before that. 0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:56.000 And I understand the argument. 0:38:56.080 --> 0:38:59.160 You know, young people pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:02.640 and times out of ten, I would absolutely say that, yes, 0:39:02.719 --> 0:39:06.040 don't sit around winging and asking for things and waiting 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.960 for a handout and complaining how bad you've got it. 0:39:09.320 --> 0:39:14.279 But the reality is that the housing market has exploded 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:18.240 and it is more difficult to buy a home now 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:20.680 than it used to be. It's not just because all 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:24.440 the kids are having avocado on toast. It is actually 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:26.919 more difficult to buy a home. And if you don't 0:39:26.920 --> 0:39:28.759 address those I mean, I don't know. You've got two 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:32.000 young sons, how do they feel, James about the possibility 0:39:32.040 --> 0:39:33.200 of buying their own home, and. 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:35.040 It's how do I feel about having those two young 0:39:35.080 --> 0:39:36.440 sons and living with me forever? 0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:38.080 You mentioned Adelaide. 0:39:38.080 --> 0:39:40.799 Did you know Adelaide is now the sixth most expensive 0:39:40.840 --> 0:39:43.520 city in the world buy a house. Yep, more expensive 0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:47.520 than London, more expensive than New York, more expensive than Chicago. 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:55.120 So that's no great surprise to everyone wants to be 0:39:55.520 --> 0:39:57.719 set you up beautifully to It is self evident, and 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:00.359 lot people like me who bought but at the. 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:03.799 Right time are cheering about that because I have made 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.760 so much money in the last five years by doing 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:10.400 literally nothing right. I bought the place right before the 0:40:10.400 --> 0:40:12.840 market went through the roof, and I've just sat on 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:15.600 the asset and I've done well. I'll acknowledge that I've 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:18.239 done very well by buying when I did, but I 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:20.480 feel sorry for my younger brother. It's only a few 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:23.040 years younger than me, but you know, the chances of 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:25.680 him buying a home are exponentially more difficult than they 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:26.640 were for me. 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:28.359 Anyway, Let's move on to the. 0:40:28.280 --> 0:40:32.880 Australian tomorrow, where it says USI's Darwin Port Prize the 0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:35.239 US private equity firm with strong tires to the Trump 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:37.840 administration is poised to make an offer to buy the 0:40:37.880 --> 0:40:41.319 Port of Darwin from its Chinese owner in a test 0:40:41.360 --> 0:40:44.080 of Anthony Albernizi's resolved to bring the port back under 0:40:44.120 --> 0:40:44.920 Western control. 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:46.520 The Australian can reveal New. 0:40:46.440 --> 0:40:51.239 York based Cerebras Capital Management is preparing a formal proposal 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:54.719 to buy the port from Landbridge Group billionaire owner Yi Ching, 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:59.360 who was a close confidante of seeingior Chinese Communist Party figures. 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:02.279 And let's hope that they actually managed to pull it off. 0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:03.040 I mean, the. 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:06.600 Fact that we ever gave away the Port of Darwin 0:41:06.640 --> 0:41:09.960 in the first place is a disgrace. Thank you Malcolm 0:41:09.960 --> 0:41:13.120 Turnbull for that. And then, of course, when Anthony Albanizi 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:17.120 had the opportunity to do something about this, commissioned to 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:20.680 report that he then sat on for six months and 0:41:20.760 --> 0:41:23.239 released at four pm. I remember I was in here 0:41:23.560 --> 0:41:27.080 four pm on a Friday afternoon saying there's absolutely nothing 0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:29.400 wrong with the Port of Darwin being owned by the Chinese, 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:32.959 approximately a week before he flew to China to meet 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:35.200 with Jiji Pink. I mean, it's the oldest trick in 0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:37.080 the book. And then of course in the election. 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:39.560 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well we'll do about the border, Darwen. 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:41.280 I mean, for goodness sake. 0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:43.480 Yeah, I mean he made that pledge during the election 0:41:43.640 --> 0:41:45.840 to try to get ahead of the coalition, who of 0:41:45.840 --> 0:41:48.600 course always saw national security as one of their strengths. 0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:51.440 He didn't even know what he was pledging, but he has. 0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:54.080 Gotten quick, so he tried to, you know, nullify that 0:41:54.160 --> 0:41:57.160 as an issue. I don't believe that he's serious about 0:41:57.160 --> 0:41:58.400 I don't think many people really do. 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:00.880 Indeed, another story on in front of the Ulster tomorrow, 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:05.480 PM's Israel, since he hailed Palestine's representatives in Australia have 0:42:05.680 --> 0:42:09.720 ordered comments by Anthony Albinezi decrying Israel's actions in Gaza, 0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:13.480 describing his indivention as a significant quote unquote advancement in 0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:17.120 Australia's position on Palestine and urging the government to take 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:19.279 concrete action against the Jewish state. 0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:21.200 These were the Prime Minister's comments today. 0:42:22.480 --> 0:42:27.680 Australia finds these actions as completely unacceptable and we find 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:35.680 Israel's excuses and explanations completely untenable and without credibility. People 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:40.640 are starving and the idea that a democratic state with 0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:44.520 hold's supply is an outrage. 0:42:45.040 --> 0:42:47.239 And of course there is talking about the supply of aid, 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:51.160 food and supplies of course into Gaza. It's a vex 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:55.240 question because of course it is immoral to deprive people 0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:59.560 of food and aid that they rightly deserve and absolutely need. 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:03.279 On the other hand, you don't want to basically har 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:05.240 mass with extra things. 0:43:05.400 --> 0:43:07.760 You know, the risk is that they take it away. 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:09.919 So what do you actually meant to do? 0:43:10.160 --> 0:43:12.680 And one of the problems was this aid that was 0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:15.560 coming in and being distributed would inevitably end up in 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:16.399 the hands of her mass. 0:43:16.560 --> 0:43:18.520 They would then sell it on the black. 0:43:18.239 --> 0:43:21.919 Market, rake in profits and use that to pay their 0:43:21.960 --> 0:43:25.000 people and keep recruiting this. But this comes back to 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:29.479 the fundamental question of the entire war. The best thing 0:43:29.719 --> 0:43:33.960 for Palestinians, the best thing for Garzens, is to get 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:37.000 rid of her Maas, and any way the Israelis can 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:40.080 do that by depriving them of by depriving her Mass 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:42.880 of access to the aid that they can loot and root, 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:46.879 is a good thing. And also the accusation that there 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:50.440 was going to be mass starvation in Israel was a 0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:55.719 shameless libel against the Jewish state that was categorically debunked totally. 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:58.480 There is suffering but that's war. So let's get rid 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.080 of her maas and end the war, return the hostages. 0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:03.920 This is just a classic case. I think now Albaneze 0:44:03.960 --> 0:44:06.600 has won the prime won the election again, he doesn't 0:44:06.600 --> 0:44:09.680 care about the Jewish community and is abandoning them once again. 0:44:09.800 --> 0:44:12.000 Well, I'd just like him to speak as strongly as 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:15.359 he did then about the hostages exactly being released. As 0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:18.240 he does every time he talks about his perceived wrongs 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:20.440 regarding Israeliti's never the same. 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:22.320 Let's move on to another story. 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:27.080 Two foreign nationals have been banned full life from Ularu 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:31.200 after they were busted defacing it, with their embassy issuing 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:35.040 the ban and an apology to the Anangu traditional owners 0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:38.080 for the deep offense the foreign nationals cause. Now this 0:44:38.160 --> 0:44:41.200 is in the Northern Territory News and the headline reads 0:44:41.320 --> 0:44:46.360 banned for life. Apparently they're from the Bhutan embassy. A 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:49.560 quick Google search showed so I don't really know what's 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:51.320 going on here. I kind of want to know. 0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:53.320 How they defaced Ularu. 0:44:53.400 --> 0:44:56.120 I mean, it's bad no matter what it was, but 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:58.480 I'm just curious what they did. 0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:01.040 It shows how sensitive this is that their own embassy 0:45:01.080 --> 0:45:02.439 have said they are gone and they. 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:03.120 Will never return. 0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:04.319 They got the twig out. 0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:06.880 We was here as you used to put in the 0:45:06.920 --> 0:45:08.120 tree back in primaries. 0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:09.879 Hey really quickly before we go to a break. 0:45:09.880 --> 0:45:12.480 The Gold Coast Bulletin has a story for AFL lovers 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:15.680 on the cusp of history. The Gold Coast Sons have 0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:19.720 never started better as they close in on a final spot. 0:45:19.920 --> 0:45:22.280 Got my attention, Caleb, you're an AFL man. The Sons 0:45:22.280 --> 0:45:24.240 have been in the competition for well over a decade, 0:45:24.239 --> 0:45:27.600 have never made the finals. But has any Gold Coast 0:45:27.920 --> 0:45:31.239 sporting team on a national basis ever done well? 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:32.080 And why would they? 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:35.360 You young people on the Gold Coast, you're on lots 0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:38.920 of money, you're on the beachrav than training and becoming 0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:39.680 the best athlete. 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:41.359 You think it'd be a bit like Geelong because all 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:43.400 the players go in there because they love the lifestyle. 0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:45.719 It's a very good question. I don't know of anywhere 0:45:45.760 --> 0:45:47.680 that's done it. I just love that. Ross Lyne, the 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:50.120 coach of Sint Kilda the other day, called them the 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:52.000 Nippo babies that. 0:45:52.000 --> 0:45:52.880 Did not go down. 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:54.520 Well, we're going to go to a break when we 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:58.160 come back. Some extraordinary footage of the French president was 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:00.759 he having a fight with his wife. Were they just 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:03.240 mucking around? Will let you decide in just a moment. 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:10.040 Welcome back, Caleb. Some extraordinary footage of the French president. 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:11.279 It's got me puzzled this way. 0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:13.960 I think we needed a welfare check to be perfectly honest, 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:19.120 on Emmanuel Macron. He landed in Vietnam and this is 0:46:19.200 --> 0:46:22.400 what the camera's captured. As the doors opened on the 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:24.960 front of the plane. There's the president there, and then 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:27.160 you will see he gets. 0:46:26.920 --> 0:46:28.239 Smacked in the face, or at. 0:46:28.200 --> 0:46:31.960 Least pushed, and he sort of gestures back to the 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:35.480 bloke there, smiles at him, and then turns around and 0:46:36.200 --> 0:46:39.040 with a far more stern look on his face, walked 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:41.319 back onto the play And then you can see that 0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:45.560 is the sleeve that you saw pushing Macron in the face. 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:48.080 Was that of his wife, Bridget. 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:51.279 Now you know whether or not that was some sort 0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:55.319 of playful tiff or she was actually going at him, 0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:57.440 you know, I mean, that's a potential case to domestic 0:46:57.520 --> 0:46:58.480 violence right there. 0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:00.680 I think it should be pointed out. 0:47:00.480 --> 0:47:03.440 If that was him doing that to her, there wouldn't 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:05.840 even be a discussion about it. He would have to 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:09.240 resign tomorrow and I don't think we can have double 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:10.000 standards about this. 0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:11.839 Yeah, that's a really interesting point. 0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:14.160 And you can see his reaction there when he realizes 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:17.760 there are cameras and his stern face becomes a quick smile, 0:47:18.080 --> 0:47:22.240 waves and then disappears back in. It's very weird footage. 0:47:22.280 --> 0:47:24.719 I don't know if we'll get an explanation such. 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:27.280 A strange moment, but there's a lot about the French 0:47:27.360 --> 0:47:31.279 that's quite weird. But moving on now to another weird episode. 0:47:31.480 --> 0:47:37.400 Chris Bowen was reprimanded by a Catholic priest for chomping 0:47:37.560 --> 0:47:42.600 down on a bowl of knocky pasta mid mass. He 0:47:42.760 --> 0:47:47.319 arrived late to the mass, then proceeded to enter and 0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:51.279 sit down in the front row and started eating his 0:47:51.480 --> 0:47:56.320 pasta through the rest of the mass. Now, rightfully, religious 0:47:56.400 --> 0:48:01.200 leaders have criticized this as being quite disrespectful and insensitive. 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:03.839 But he's claiming he didn't even know he was in 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:06.400 a mass. I don't know what's more ridiculous. 0:48:06.640 --> 0:48:08.560 I think it's easy to believe Chris Bowen had no 0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:11.680 idea where he was, because he typically has no idea 0:48:11.760 --> 0:48:15.280 about anything. Let's give the final word tonight to former 0:48:15.480 --> 0:48:20.200 US Vice president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. She of course, 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:23.760 is in Australia speaking on the weekend and the Gold 0:48:23.800 --> 0:48:27.319 Coast at a real estate conference of all things. She 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:31.080 was interviewed extensively, and he's just a short clip of 0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:32.240 some of what she said. 0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:35.120 As I said, I think your best work is a 0:48:35.160 --> 0:48:36.840 hinterview for sure, one hundred percent. 0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:40.520 Unemployed right now. 0:48:46.640 --> 0:48:49.040 Two things. Thank god she's unemployed. 0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:52.120 But for the host to say, Kamala, your best work 0:48:52.200 --> 0:48:52.760 is ahead. 0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:54.200 Of you, I don't think that would be very difficult. 0:48:54.360 --> 0:48:56.320 I was going to say, I think that is entirely 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:59.920 true because she is now unburdened by what has been 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:02.840 so everything that does come ahead of you is surely 0:49:02.880 --> 0:49:04.520 better than any things she's done in the past. 0:49:04.640 --> 0:49:04.839 Right. 0:49:05.120 --> 0:49:08.680 Absolutely, That's all we've got time for tonight. Appreciate your company. 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:11.160 This evening stick around to coming up in just a 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:12.640 moment is to read a penny show. 0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:13.160 Good Night.