Speaker 1: Long showing.
Speaker 2: Thanks Andrew, and make sure you stick around for your
Speaker 2: horoscope later in the show. No, we're not actually going
Speaker 2: to do that here now. Last night I spoke to
Speaker 2: you just into Nampagen per Price, of course, about what's
Speaker 2: going on in Alice Springs with.
Speaker 3: The curfew, but also the need to.
Speaker 2: Look beyond just knee jerk band aid responses to problems
Speaker 2: in indigenous communities and start doing something to actually stop
Speaker 2: them at the cause. And today, on the third day
Speaker 2: of curfew in the troubled town, reports that a major
Speaker 2: brawl has erupted outside a local supermarket. Police confirmed that
Speaker 2: they made multiple arrests after the group was seen fighting
Speaker 2: with various weapons. Now, this is all a bit like
Speaker 2: a weed. You can rip the top off it and
Speaker 2: it'll looked like it isn't there. But unless you actually
Speaker 2: pull out at the roots, take it out roots and all,
Speaker 2: it's simply going to grow back. That's what will happen
Speaker 2: in Alice Springs and it's what keeps happening in indigenous
Speaker 2: communities across the country. This is what Senator Price had
Speaker 2: to say to me last night.
Speaker 4: This labor government, the Albanezer government, the territory government want
Speaker 4: to maintain Aboriginal people on welfare on dependent on governments
Speaker 4: instead of allowing them to stand on their own two
Speaker 4: feet and creating real jobs out on communities, not a
Speaker 4: jobs program, but actually opening up for economic development opportunities
Speaker 4: in remote communities so that there's.
Speaker 1: Not this double standard going on.
Speaker 4: You know, if life got better out of communities, we
Speaker 4: wouldn't have the influx of people in our towns, know,
Speaker 4: using the services well.
Speaker 2: The Australian Today reported on an essay Senator Price has
Speaker 2: written for its sixtieth anniversary Collectors Edition magazine, which will
Speaker 2: be published this Saturday, in which he calls for an
Speaker 2: advancement movement in Indigenous affairs, whereby Indigenous people who are
Speaker 2: on welfare would do the jobs in their communities that
Speaker 2: are currently filled by fly in, fly out workers to
Speaker 2: quote meet the standards other Australians are expected to meet.
Speaker 2: She writes in the essay, we can continue along the
Speaker 2: separatist road that sees Indigenous Australians as irrevocably damaged by
Speaker 2: settlement and wants to keep Aboriginal culture stuck in time
Speaker 2: like a museum piece. Traditional culture is romanticized by those
Speaker 2: who do not live it. While reinvention of culture has
Speaker 2: become an industry in the name of reconciliation for the
Speaker 2: purpose of political influence. This separatist way forward leaves negative
Speaker 2: parts of Indigenous culture alone to grow and fester, things
Speaker 2: like cultural violent payback, arranged marriage and apportioning tragedies and
Speaker 2: mishaps to sorcery, all of which are anathema to modern culture.
Speaker 2: This is a view that lowers standards for Indigenous Australians.
Speaker 2: This has been the strategy of decades of government agencies
Speaker 2: and academic activists, and yet they fail to draw the
Speaker 2: obvious connection between this approach and the failure to make
Speaker 2: up much ground on closing the gap spot on. This
Speaker 2: has been the problem with Indigenous affairs policy for decades.
Speaker 2: No one is willing to do what is right what
Speaker 2: is difficult, because it's either too hard or it means
Speaker 2: facing hard truths about what is going on in Indigenous communities.
Speaker 2: Hard truths like the fact that Aboriginal women are thirty
Speaker 2: four times more likely to be hospitalized with violence related
Speaker 2: injuries and six times more likely to die from them.
Speaker 2: Hard truths like the fact that Indigenous children are eight
Speaker 2: times more likely to suffer abuse or neglect the non
Speaker 2: Indigenous children. Hard truths like the fact that the rates
Speaker 2: of sexual assault reported to police in twenty twelve among
Speaker 2: Indigenous children age zero to nine in New South Wales, Queensland,
Speaker 2: South Australia and the Northern Territory were two to four
Speaker 2: times higher than rates among Nonindigenous children. And yet we
Speaker 2: keep talking about Australia Day a Native Title and truth
Speaker 2: and treaty and all these other things that do very
Speaker 2: little to materially change the lives of Indigenous people for
Speaker 2: the better. Now. I've used this line before, but the
Speaker 2: closest many inner city lefties who claim to care about
Speaker 2: Indigenous issues have actually been to an Indigenous person is
Speaker 2: when they see them on the footpath from their BMW's.
Speaker 2: They say they are, but they don't. You know, if
Speaker 2: they really cared, they'd be talking about these issues, the
Speaker 2: root issues that lead to violence and disruption in places
Speaker 2: like Alice Springs and lifelong cycles of welfare. I sometimes
Speaker 2: feel like I'm shouting into the abyss saying this, but
Speaker 2: Indigenous affairs needs hard action and tough decisions, not virtue
Speaker 2: signaling talk. God knows we've had enough of that. We
Speaker 2: have nothing to show.
Speaker 1: For it.
Speaker 3: Now, there's probably been a little bit of.
Speaker 2: Concern in the New South Wales greyhound racing industry of
Speaker 2: late that perhaps the bad days were back. Of course,
Speaker 2: last time the industry found itself in trouble in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: then Liberal Premier Marke Baird tried to.
Speaker 3: Ban the sport.
Speaker 5: He said the industry would not be economically viable in
Speaker 5: the long term, it would still lead to the slaughter
Speaker 5: of thousands of healthy dogs and lie baiting would likely
Speaker 5: to continue. Now, when confronted with those facts, the only
Speaker 5: humane response is to close that industry down and do
Speaker 5: it in a way that we work with every single
Speaker 5: stakeholder with order, with respect, and ensuring we minimize the consequences.
Speaker 3: And well we all know how that went.
Speaker 2: Three months later, after facing massive political heat, particularly from
Speaker 2: within in his own coalition, that ban was gone.
Speaker 5: Now the feedback that I have received, my cabinet colleagues,
Speaker 5: MPs across government have received from the community is yes,
Speaker 5: they were horrified by the findings in the Special Commission
Speaker 5: of Inquiry of what was going on in the industry,
Speaker 5: but they have also said why did you not give
Speaker 5: the industry one last chance? That is what they have
Speaker 5: said consistently again and again. So it's clear in hindsight
Speaker 5: as we reflect on this, well we got it wrong.
Speaker 2: He certainly did get it wrong, and then three months
Speaker 2: after that Bad's premiership was over. It was one of
Speaker 2: the most extraordinarily moronic, unilateral decisions I've seen a politician make,
Speaker 2: and ultimately, of course he.
Speaker 3: Paid the price.
Speaker 2: So I guess it's no great surprise that Labor New
Speaker 2: South Wales Premier Chris Mins today ruled out banning greyhound racing.
Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have to be.
Speaker 2: A complete idiot to open that can of worms again. Now,
Speaker 2: the reason all of this was potentially back on the
Speaker 2: table is because the governing body's former chief Vet Pender report,
Speaker 2: which was sent to Greyhound Racing New South Wales in
Speaker 2: June that claimed rehoming rates had been inflated, dogs were
Speaker 2: racing too much, causing too many injuries, and that they
Speaker 2: were left to quote unquote live out their miserable post
Speaker 2: racing lives in industrial kennels. Now, some of the allegations,
Speaker 2: including those relating to veterinary care, warranted further investigation. According
Speaker 2: to a response by Greyhound Welfare and.
Speaker 3: Integrity Commission g wick As it's called.
Speaker 2: That was tabled in state parliament yesterday, but it also
Speaker 2: dismissed others as wrong, including that hundreds of dog deaths
Speaker 2: had been hidden. That's the Integrity Commission saying that, not
Speaker 2: the industry itself, and the chief executive of greyhound Racing
Speaker 2: New South Wales resigned yesterday. Now I know not everyone
Speaker 2: is that interested in greyhound racing.
Speaker 3: In fact, the vast majority of people probably aren't.
Speaker 2: And older Claire, as many viewers would know that I
Speaker 2: have owned racing greyhounds and I still have one. But
Speaker 2: you see the issue is that because greyhound racing isn't
Speaker 2: as popular as horse racing, it makes it an easy
Speaker 2: target for activists and ultimately an easy sacrificial lamb for
Speaker 2: state governments to offer up to the animal activists to make.
Speaker 3: Them shut up. But they won't shut up.
Speaker 2: Racing should be as safe as absolutely possible in all
Speaker 2: its forms, but like anything in life, it does come
Speaker 2: with risks. Animal welfare should always be paramount. But don't
Speaker 2: think that if you hand over greyhound racing because well
Speaker 2: it's pretty small, who really cares that it'll save horse
Speaker 2: racing from being next, Because it will be next. It's
Speaker 2: the same reason I argued so strongly against jumps racing
Speaker 2: being banned in South Australia because it's a win for
Speaker 2: animal activists.
Speaker 3: It just emboldens them.
Speaker 2: And again I'll declare that I have jumps horses that
Speaker 2: run in Victoria, because of course that's the only place
Speaker 2: that still runs jumps races in this country. And speaking
Speaker 2: of South Australia, they ran an inquiry into greyhound racing
Speaker 2: last year and appointed an inspector this year. Premier Peter
Speaker 2: Malinowskis has said that the industry has two years to
Speaker 2: clean itself up, otherwise it faces the prospect of no
Speaker 2: longer being able to enjoy the social license and the
Speaker 2: government support that is required for it to be able
Speaker 2: to operate. In other words, it could be banned now.
Speaker 2: Having been involved in the racing industry both horses and dogs,
Speaker 2: as an owner and a journalist, I can assure you
Speaker 2: that the vast majority of people adore their animals. That's
Speaker 2: why they go into racing in the first place. Activist
Speaker 2: elites don't like racing, and they certainly don't like greyhound
Speaker 2: racing because it's largely a working class pursuit and the
Speaker 2: only thing that inner City. Green's voters hate more than
Speaker 2: hard working people in the suburbs is those people enjoying themselves.
Speaker 3: But believe me, if.
Speaker 2: Greyhound racing is sacrificed at the altar of animal activism,
Speaker 2: more dominoes will fall. Also tonight, a second group of
Speaker 2: both people intercepted at our border this week and sent
Speaker 2: back home. Plus the Sydney River has become the latest
Speaker 2: target in the left pursuit to rewrite history. And the
Speaker 2: Australian Defense Force gets a new chief, but will he
Speaker 2: be able to reshape our work adf Well. It's been
Speaker 2: revealed by the Daily Telegraph that under this Labor government,
Speaker 2: more than two three hundred asylum seekers flew into Australia
Speaker 2: in May. Now that's the highest monthly number since Albanizi
Speaker 2: took office two years ago. The majority of arrivals have
Speaker 2: been from China, followed by Vietnam, Columbia and India, and
Speaker 2: then from Palestine. One hundred and nineteen people have applied
Speaker 2: for protection visas from there. Let's bring in our panel
Speaker 2: to discuss former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and
Speaker 2: former Labor Senator Graham Richardson Graham, the numbers are as
Speaker 2: high as they've been in two years. My assumption, I
Speaker 2: don't know what yours is, but my assumption is that
Speaker 2: after n Z YQ and all the other things that
Speaker 2: have happened, you've had boats that have reached the shore.
Speaker 2: We've always known that the vast majority of a salem
Speaker 2: seekers come by plane, but they've looked at us now
Speaker 2: and gone, gee, Australia is a soft touch.
Speaker 3: Let's give it a go. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think you know.
Speaker 7: It's a sort of case of bring back Scott Morrison,
Speaker 7: who can at least lay claim to having stopped the
Speaker 7: boats because he did. Look, I don't think there's any
Speaker 7: nice way to handle this, and I don't believe that
Speaker 7: we should give any support to cure jumpers, no support whatsoever.
Speaker 7: So as far as I'm concerned, you can be as.
Speaker 1: Tough as you like.
Speaker 7: I don't think we should sink the motes, but I
Speaker 7: certainly think we should stop them.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael, of the eighty thousand rejected asylum seekers in
Speaker 2: Australia eighty thousand, only eleven have actually left the country.
Speaker 3: Eleven.
Speaker 8: Mate, it seems like there'll be a while before the
Speaker 8: eighty thousand are leaving. Look, here's the problem. There are
Speaker 8: more than fifty million people worldwide the uns AT a
Speaker 8: few years ago who were refugees looking for somewhere else
Speaker 8: to live. The truth is probably more than a million
Speaker 8: people would prefer to live somewhere else. They want to live.
Speaker 8: That's why you know, nine ten eleven million have crossed
Speaker 8: the southern border into America from Mexico. Because of the
Speaker 8: tyranny of distance, is harder for people to get here.
Speaker 8: But if the truth be known, Caleb, there would be
Speaker 8: millions of people who would like to make their way
Speaker 8: to Australia. And if they find a way to get
Speaker 8: here and then can use a legal system which they
Speaker 8: can to delay their deportation if they fail to win
Speaker 8: citizenship or asylum, they're going to do it. And as
Speaker 8: you say, and everybody, every Australian knows, labor a week
Speaker 8: on these issues. They always have been. And yeah, as
Speaker 8: Richo said, you know, Abbott and Dudden got it right.
Speaker 8: And you know, Dan Teene impresses me as a bloke
Speaker 8: who's got the courage to do something about this. You
Speaker 8: cannot have an open door policy. It destroys people's confidence
Speaker 8: in the immigration process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean the strength of the border force
Speaker 2: has been under question as well. And as I said before,
Speaker 2: we've actually had boats reached the shore under this government
Speaker 2: in the last year or so. And we saw a
Speaker 2: story I think it might have been last week where
Speaker 2: one boat that was turned back. Well the boat wasn't
Speaker 2: turned back. They actually took the boat away, destroyed it
Speaker 2: and gave them a speedboat to go back to Indonesia.
Speaker 2: You know, here's a gift to go and do more
Speaker 2: people smuggling.
Speaker 3: How good can it get? Now?
Speaker 2: Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta has announced that it
Speaker 2: will be removing more posts that attack Zionists.
Speaker 3: But there is a catch.
Speaker 2: It'll only be done and the term is used to
Speaker 2: describe Jewish and Israeli people in a general context, not
Speaker 2: when it involves supporters of Zionism as a political movement. Graham,
Speaker 2: it feels like they're having a bet each way here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's too wellb each way for sure. I wouldn't
Speaker 7: have that kind of restriction. I think the reality is
Speaker 7: that we've all been called Zionists at times because anyone
Speaker 7: associated with support with the State of Israel is labeled
Speaker 7: that way. That's just a fact. Now, Well, I accepted
Speaker 7: the label a long time ago.
Speaker 3: So I don't care, Michael. Your response, well.
Speaker 8: At least it's a start, that's what i'd say. At
Speaker 8: least it's a start. You know, Big Tech have been
Speaker 8: incredibly slow on these issues. They've just started, right, They've started,
Speaker 8: and you know what they need to understand is that
Speaker 8: the language of the left is to attack, oh, the
Speaker 8: st of Israel, the Israeli government or Zionists. They never
Speaker 8: use their taught don't use the word Jews. Don't say
Speaker 8: we hate Jews, because you'll get into trouble like those
Speaker 8: people did on October eight in Sydney. So they use
Speaker 8: these synonyms. Oh, we're just against Zionism, we're against net Yahoo. No,
Speaker 8: these people basically hate Jews. They are hard left racists.
Speaker 8: And the sooner Big Tech works that out, the better, mate.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only thing that does consume me a bit about
Speaker 2: censorship with Facebook is we've seen how they've used it before,
Speaker 2: and of course when they during the Voice campaign, for instance,
Speaker 2: we're deciding that stuff that was patently true, including comments
Speaker 2: by our own creedline, were deemed to be misinformation and
Speaker 2: disinformation and they wouldn't post it. I do worry a
Speaker 2: little bit Michael that sometimes, you know, they like to
Speaker 2: say that they're doing the right thing and this is
Speaker 2: probably an easy win for them, but sometimes their application
Speaker 2: of these kind of rules is pretty cluster.
Speaker 8: Mostly it's like cluster. But there's start. They're starting, mate,
Speaker 8: they're starting to get to the they can see where
Speaker 8: the center of rationality is and they're starting to move
Speaker 8: towards it. It'll take come a long time though.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: The New South Wales Premier Chris Mindsey, of course announced
Speaker 2: today that the retail trade ban on Anzac Day will
Speaker 2: be extended. So it used to be until one pm.
Speaker 2: Now it'll go for the entire day as of next year.
Speaker 2: Here's what he had to say earlier.
Speaker 10: Creeping commercialization of Anzac Day over a prolonged period of
Speaker 10: time to the detriment of the importance of the day.
Speaker 10: There's many things that divide up our community in New
Speaker 10: South Wales and Australia, and the truth of the matter
Speaker 10: is the nation's national day is Anzac Day.
Speaker 2: Here here and Grahamipendercolin for News dot com dot Au
Speaker 2: today about this, basically saying that you know, I hope
Speaker 2: this might be a moment for some people who've lost
Speaker 2: connection to Anzac Day. To stop and think because because
Speaker 2: they can't go shop anymore, to stop and think, hang on,
Speaker 2: this is a really important day for our nation, and
Speaker 2: to take stock of why it's an important day for
Speaker 2: our nation because we are now closer to global conflict
Speaker 2: than we have been in a long time, and that
Speaker 2: makes Anzac Day more important than it has ever been.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 9: See.
Speaker 7: I think that the distinction is that Australia Day is
Speaker 7: a holiday, whereas Anzac Day is a holiday that means something,
Speaker 7: that has something behind it. There's a raison deetra for
Speaker 7: Anzac Day that I think we can all stand up
Speaker 7: and salute. And so I'm a great fan of Anzac Day.
Speaker 7: Always will be Australia Day. I never mind another day.
Speaker 2: Off, well, who doesn't mind another day on? But this
Speaker 2: ought to go national Markel?
Speaker 1: Well it should.
Speaker 8: And look can I say this about this fellow Chris Mins.
Speaker 8: He seems to understand what most politicians don't. Most politicians think,
Speaker 8: I've got to spend more money on health than the
Speaker 8: next person, more money in education. I'm going to build
Speaker 8: bigger roads, I've got to have more bridges, et cetera.
Speaker 8: Center spending the public's money and expect them to be
Speaker 8: grateful for spending their hard earned taxes. This guy Mins
Speaker 8: seems to understand that the success, the key to a
Speaker 8: successful politician is for the electric to think he thinks
Speaker 8: what I think.
Speaker 3: Yes, his values, his views.
Speaker 8: In other words, its culture. It's why the left hate
Speaker 8: culture wars, keep saying everything the culture war because they
Speaker 8: don't want to talk about culture because they know the
Speaker 8: moral massive working middle class heavily influenced by these cultural issues,
Speaker 8: like the disgraceful voice trying to divide the country by race.
Speaker 8: So Men's comes along and he taps into a very
Speaker 8: important element of the Australian psyche, which is that many
Speaker 8: Australians alive today, or our parents or our grandp parents
Speaker 8: have fought for democracy and liberty which doesn't come for free.
Speaker 8: And Mince taps into this and says, I'm not afraid
Speaker 8: to say what he has said today. This will build
Speaker 8: him an enormous cultural support base in the electorate which
Speaker 8: is traditionally this area is traditionally, as we know, not
Speaker 8: Labour's are and not their strength. This is an outstanding
Speaker 8: cultural move by this fellow and it will endear him
Speaker 8: to so many people in New South Wales and around
Speaker 8: the country who understand that Anzac Day is probably the
Speaker 8: most important day in the Australian calendar.
Speaker 2: Mate, definitely, now, very quickly before we move on. Donald
Speaker 2: Trump returned to the campaign trail today. He challenged President
Speaker 2: Biden to another debate at his Florida rally.
Speaker 11: Let's do another debate this week so that sleepy job
Speaker 11: Biden can prove to everyone all over the world that
Speaker 11: he has what.
Speaker 3: It takes to be president. That wasn't the only thing
Speaker 3: he challenged him to.
Speaker 2: The former president has sit his sites on a game
Speaker 2: on the golf course.
Speaker 11: In the debate, Slippy Joe also declared that he wanted
Speaker 11: to test his skills and stamina against mine on the
Speaker 11: golf course. Can you believe this? I'm also officially challenging
Speaker 11: Crooked Joe to an eighteen hole golf match right here.
Speaker 3: Ah, how good.
Speaker 2: We've only got thirty seconds, Michael. But Trumps will give
Speaker 2: a million dollars to charity of Biden's choice if he
Speaker 2: can win.
Speaker 8: He won't need to because Biden wanting stick. If Biden's
Speaker 8: a six handicapper made, I'm Bryson de Chamba.
Speaker 3: Seriously, Graham Richardson, thank you so much. For your time. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but this constant.
Speaker 2: Push to reduce speed limits is really getting on my nerves.
Speaker 2: Cars are safer than they have ever been, so surely
Speaker 2: we should actually be able to drive faster than we
Speaker 2: ever have, or at the very least we can have
Speaker 2: the same speeds.
Speaker 3: But we have knut councils.
Speaker 2: They keep trying to impose a ghostlow and the latest
Speaker 2: is Sydney City Council, which has decided that fifty kilometer
Speaker 2: in our streets across much of its area will be
Speaker 2: cut to forty kilometers an hour. And of course they
Speaker 2: say it's just about making everything safer, particularly for pedestrians.
Speaker 2: But something tells me it's all an effort to discourage
Speaker 2: people from using their cars.
Speaker 3: Joining me now as founder of.
Speaker 2: Car Expert Paul marriage Paul am I right, is this
Speaker 2: all just an effort to stop people from using their
Speaker 2: cars and I don't know, make them get on bikes instead.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, And that is what's happening in Melbourne at the moment.
Speaker 12: They have put bike lanes everywhere. There is gridlock all
Speaker 12: around Melbourne. They do not want you driving your car
Speaker 12: in and around the city, and they portray it as
Speaker 12: pedestrian safety, But ultimately, when are we actually going to
Speaker 12: put it onto a pedestrian to watch where they're going
Speaker 12: because there's no risk of getting hit by a car.
Speaker 1: If you're actually watching where you're going.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a very fair point. But in forty kilometers
Speaker 3: an hour.
Speaker 2: Seriously, I'm not much of a runner, but I could well,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe if I was you, Saint Bolt, I
Speaker 2: could run.
Speaker 1: That bakes to it.
Speaker 3: But you know, at some.
Speaker 2: Points you feel like maybe I should just get out
Speaker 2: of my car and walk, and of course that's what
Speaker 2: they want you to do. The reality is that Australia
Speaker 2: is a car nation because it's a big nation and
Speaker 2: it has urban sprawl. Now I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 2: still the case, but Adelaide used to be, per capita,
Speaker 2: one of the biggest urban sprawls in the world. We
Speaker 2: know how big Melbourne and Sydney are in terms of
Speaker 2: their urban sprawls.
Speaker 3: People need a car to get around.
Speaker 2: It's just the reality of life and a country like Australia.
Speaker 2: And instead of acknowledging that, governments and councils keep putting
Speaker 2: the speed limit down and punishing you because you dare
Speaker 2: to live out in the suburbs, but work in the
Speaker 2: city and have to go through these suburbs that are
Speaker 2: included in some we like the city of Sydney.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 12: And I mean, you look at the cost of living pressures.
Speaker 12: A lot of people have to travel longer distances to
Speaker 12: get into the city and that'll mean catching countless changes
Speaker 12: on public transport. And people don't even want to be
Speaker 12: on public transport at the moment, so driving is the
Speaker 12: only option, and.
Speaker 1: They just make it harder and harder and more and more.
Speaker 12: Expensive to operate a vehicle to the point where you
Speaker 12: have no choice but to hand your vehicle in and
Speaker 12: this sort of guys of pedestrian safety. Ultimately, we just
Speaker 12: need to call it for what it is, and that
Speaker 12: is having less vehicles in the city.
Speaker 1: And if that's what it is, just say it that way.
Speaker 12: We don't need to just keep putting pressure on drivers
Speaker 12: but already have enough pressure as it is at the moment.
Speaker 2: Indeed, so what about the alternative, which of course is cycling.
Speaker 2: They want you to get on your bike and ride
Speaker 2: into work. And as you said before, Melbourne's put in
Speaker 2: all these bike lanes. There's all these bike lanes. They
Speaker 2: have here in Sydney thanks to the illustrious Lord Mayor
Speaker 2: Clover Moore, who seems to be impossible to unseat.
Speaker 3: Are is anyone actually using these things?
Speaker 12: Well, they're definitely not in Melbourne, and it is so
Speaker 12: cold out here at the moment.
Speaker 1: I don't know why anyone.
Speaker 12: Same person if you're riding a bicycle, But you have
Speaker 12: to think of the logic of a bicycle.
Speaker 1: A bicycle is fine if you don't.
Speaker 12: Really need to be doing anything at the end of
Speaker 12: your journey, but if you need to be carrying things,
Speaker 12: if you're buying something, a bicycle is virtually pointless. And
Speaker 12: to be honest, I don't want to be on a
Speaker 12: bicycle when there's a distracted driver. And this is the
Speaker 12: issue they're having with pedestrians. If you have a distracted
Speaker 12: driver and you get cleaned up on a bicycle, it
Speaker 12: is going to hurt.
Speaker 1: It is the last place I'd want to be.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure, and I don't know whether there's
Speaker 2: data to bear this out. I'm not sure that making
Speaker 2: people drive slower actually makes the roads any safer, because
Speaker 2: of course they say that, Well, it means if you
Speaker 2: have a crash, you as the driver will be safer
Speaker 2: because it will be lower impact and whatever else. But
Speaker 2: I would have thought that it would just make drivers
Speaker 2: more frustrated, which makes them more likely to do silly
Speaker 2: things that they otherwise wouldn't.
Speaker 3: On the road.
Speaker 12: Absolutely correct, and that's the thing. You can reduce the
Speaker 12: speed limit to the point where you're doing two kilometers
Speaker 12: an hour, then it's safe for everyone, but then no
Speaker 12: one gets anywhere and you end up with very frustrated drivers.
Speaker 12: So ultimately you need accountability for drivers to watch what
Speaker 12: they're doing, You need accountability for pedestrians to watch what
Speaker 12: they're doing, and then you would have no reason why
Speaker 12: the two would ever need to interact. But ultimately that
Speaker 12: is very hard to clamp down on, very hard to
Speaker 12: educate people on, and they're just taking the easy approach
Speaker 12: that they also earn money off on speed cameras as well,
Speaker 12: so it is just a cyclical thing for the government.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I think you should be able to drive
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty everywhere and have open speed limits
Speaker 2: on the highways. But you know I'm never going to
Speaker 2: get that, am I Poor marriage, Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time. Well, coming up, the Sydney River has
Speaker 2: become the latest victim in the leafs pursuit to rewrite history. Plus,
Speaker 2: the Australian Defense Force has a new chief.
Speaker 3: What's he going to do? We'll discuss that after the break.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Caleb bond In for Shari this week. Well,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four has been the year of the left
Speaker 2: attempting to rewrite history. First it was the Health Department's
Speaker 2: work move to rename it Serious Building because the name
Speaker 2: was apparently associated with the first Fleet. Then there was
Speaker 2: a push to rename Latrobe University because of its namesakes,
Speaker 2: links to Victoria's colonial history and quote genocidal violence. And
Speaker 2: today we learned have yet another idiotic proposal to rename
Speaker 2: an Australian landmark, Sydney's Cooks River.
Speaker 3: It's the latest victim.
Speaker 2: Now the Government backed Cook's River Alliance is unhappy with
Speaker 2: the name's connection to obviously Captain Cook and has proposed
Speaker 2: that it be changed to its traditional indigenous name. Let's
Speaker 2: bring in our panel to discuss this and more. Joining
Speaker 2: me now is Liberal MP Keith Wallahan and Sky News
Speaker 2: contributor Roco Lecano. Keith, I don't know how many times
Speaker 2: I have to say this right and every time they
Speaker 2: go after these activists go after a statue of Captain Cook,
Speaker 2: I always bring up the fact that he was dead
Speaker 2: nine years before the first fleet rocked up in this country.
Speaker 2: Why do they always get so upset about Captain Cook?
Speaker 2: He was a navigator and explorer. He wasn't involved in
Speaker 2: the colonization of Australia.
Speaker 3: For heaven's sake.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 13: And when you think about the man that was Captain Cook,
Speaker 13: there was so much to admire about him. He was
Speaker 13: someone who appreciated art and science and was fascinated by
Speaker 13: nature and it was an explorer. So there's a lot
Speaker 13: to admire about him. But in terms of renaming landmarks
Speaker 13: and rivers, there is an enormous amount of cost and confusion,
Speaker 13: and the onus is on those who want to seek
Speaker 13: a change. There must be a really compelling reason, and
Speaker 13: there must also be widespread community support for that to occur,
Speaker 13: and from what I've read about this proposal, those conditions
Speaker 13: are just not there.
Speaker 3: Oh and rock.
Speaker 2: It goes back to what I was saying in Ladatorial
Speaker 2: at the top of the show, which is that we
Speaker 2: always talk about these things when it comes to indigenous
Speaker 2: policy that do nothing to improve anyone's life. I mean, oh,
Speaker 2: you could rename Cook's River to anything you absolutely wanted.
Speaker 2: Is he going to do anything for a single Aboriginal
Speaker 2: person in the country.
Speaker 6: No, No, absolutely not. I mean I don't see. It's
Speaker 6: like they want to wave a magic wand will change
Speaker 6: the name of a river or a landmark and all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, the problems with substance abuse, school truancy
Speaker 6: and what's going on, and Alice Springs will magically disappear.
Speaker 6: And you also mentioned Caleb the ignorance of history. I
Speaker 6: mean Captain Cook as well as what Keith mentioned being
Speaker 6: an explorer and someone who loved science, he actually preserved
Speaker 6: a lot of Aboriginal artifacts, spears and the like, which
Speaker 6: are preserved at Cambridge. So and we wouldn't know what
Speaker 6: we know about Aboriginal culture and heritage. People at Captain
Speaker 6: Cook didn't preserve those things.
Speaker 2: Yep, Captain Cook was a great man and they keep
Speaker 2: demonizing him because these people don't actually understand the history
Speaker 2: that they claim to be prattling on about. Now, the
Speaker 2: Australian Defense Force has a new leader. Admiral David Johnston
Speaker 2: officially stepped up to the role as chief at a
Speaker 2: ceremony in Canberra today. Here is what he had to say.
Speaker 14: My role is to ensure that the ADF is ready
Speaker 14: now and into the future, able to protect our nation
Speaker 14: security through our strategy of denial now Keith.
Speaker 2: Under the former ADA of Chief Angus Campbell, we saw
Speaker 2: an array of work initiatives only recently that the ADF
Speaker 2: job application forms included. You know, you had to put
Speaker 2: your pronoun and your sexuality if you were aspiring to
Speaker 2: be a soldier. Do you expect that any of that
Speaker 2: is going to change after i'mder sorry, I should say
Speaker 2: Admiral David Johnston.
Speaker 13: I listened to his changeover speech and there was some
Speaker 13: very important parts to it, none more important than his
Speaker 13: acknowledgment that our greatest asset in the Defense Force are
Speaker 13: our people. But let's not forget that the full time
Speaker 13: defense force of about sixty thousand is short five thousand,
Speaker 13: So for every twelve ADF personnel around the country, there's
Speaker 13: one missing. And that should be his number one priority
Speaker 13: is attracting and retaining the best people that we can
Speaker 13: who are willing to put their hand up to fight
Speaker 13: and if required, die for us. It is a job
Speaker 13: like no other and that's where the Chief of Defense
Speaker 13: Force should focus his attention on the first day, is
Speaker 13: making sure that that gap of five thousand is bridged
Speaker 13: as soon as possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean the idea of his staff to
Speaker 2: be perfectly Frank Rockholm in the resources the declining numbers,
Speaker 2: as Keith has just talked about, it's a hell of
Speaker 2: a task to bring us back from that. But what
Speaker 2: sort of change can we actually expect because it has
Speaker 2: to be cultural in parts, but it also has to
Speaker 2: be systemic.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And as Keith was saying, we need to get
Speaker 6: people in there actually want to fight and who want
Speaker 6: to defend this country. And when we have surveys on
Speaker 6: at the moment, which I think there was a survey
Speaker 6: out last year by the IPA that less than fifty
Speaker 6: percent of Australians would have been prepared to lay down
Speaker 6: the life for their country in the event of a war,
Speaker 6: there's a big job to be done and that he's
Speaker 6: got a lot of work to do if he wants
Speaker 6: to recruit the people who we need because we're heading
Speaker 6: into very dangerous waters. I mean, with China getting more
Speaker 6: belligerent by the day, this is the critical time. This
Speaker 6: is a critical time for a change over the head
Speaker 6: of Defense.
Speaker 2: Force certainly is now just Cindra Allen's governments in Victoria
Speaker 2: is planning to fast track a trial that would involve
Speaker 2: ankle bracelets being slapped on some of the states.
Speaker 3: Worth youth offenders.
Speaker 2: The Queensland opposition leader David Chris Fooley had already unveiled
Speaker 2: a policy much the same that would have underage offenders
Speaker 2: tried as adults in Queensland for serious crimes. I mean
Speaker 2: something has to be done, Keith. And I know that
Speaker 2: putting an ankle bracelet on someone probably doesn't stop crime necessarily,
Speaker 2: but at least it's something.
Speaker 13: Well, it's treating the symptoms and not the cause. Labor
Speaker 13: weakened here in Victoria the bail laws in March, and
Speaker 13: since then we have seen an explosion in youth crime.
Speaker 13: So ankle bracelets aren't going to cut it. They need
Speaker 13: to restrengthen the bail laws, but they're reluctant to do
Speaker 13: that because it's an admission of failure. So they're more
Speaker 13: worried about the political optics rather than keeping Victorian safe.
Speaker 13: And can I say that as a Victorian. I'm a
Speaker 13: federal member and this is largely a state issue. My
Speaker 13: office is constantly receiving feedback and emails and calls from
Speaker 13: people who have had break ins on their street or
Speaker 13: their neighbor have been broken into, mostly by young offenders
Speaker 13: who feel like there are no consequences for them. So
Speaker 13: this is on labor and they need to be held
Speaker 13: to account for it.
Speaker 2: The thing I've never understood Roco, is that it's very
Speaker 2: rare for a government to lose an election on a
Speaker 2: tough on crime agenda.
Speaker 3: Why haven't we seen more of it?
Speaker 6: Look, there is that's right culor the responsibilities of a
Speaker 6: state government for law and order, schools, hospitals and infrastructure,
Speaker 6: and if you look at Victoria, they're failing on all four.
Speaker 6: And obviously there have been polls coming out which suggests
Speaker 6: that the government needs to crack down, which is very
Speaker 6: interesting considering that not all that long ago, injecting rooms
Speaker 6: near schools were seen as a as an option for
Speaker 6: reducing crime. So you have to wonder where this this,
Speaker 6: this government's priorities lie.
Speaker 2: And just very quickly to France, you know we've got
Speaker 2: months of gridlock lying ahead after no party captured a
Speaker 2: majority in their chaotic election, where we obviously saw an
Speaker 2: unexpected surge for the left in their second round of voting. Keith,
Speaker 2: how do you expect things are going to unfold?
Speaker 13: It's too to tell. But what we do see from
Speaker 13: the results in France is that there has been a
Speaker 13: shift from anti Semitism largely on the right, to now
Speaker 13: anti semitism on the left. It exists on both spectrums
Speaker 13: of politics, but we're seen it more and more in
Speaker 13: the left. And I was disturbed to hear some of
Speaker 13: the comments by some of the candidates are now members
Speaker 13: in the French Parliament, even legitimizing the attack on the
Speaker 13: seventh of October, and that is really quite worrying for
Speaker 13: people of Jewish faith in France and Rocco.
Speaker 3: You've written about exactly this point, haven't you.
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean, Keith, you alluded to some of those quotes.
Speaker 6: I mean, I can read some of them.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: One was from Mellan Sean, who's the trotsky I head
Speaker 6: of Franz Sanbaudi said that Jews trained dogs to rate
Speaker 6: Palestinian women. I mean, these are the kind of comments
Speaker 6: that are being made, and we also have to look
Speaker 6: the President of Emanuel Macron, with his vanity projec that his
Speaker 6: presidency has become. I mean he has to he has
Speaker 6: to share some of the blame for this. I mean
Speaker 6: he tried to demonize the le Penn's hard right, and
Speaker 6: all he's ended up doing is is empowering extremists on
Speaker 6: the left, and we've got gridlock.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Keith Wallahan, Roco Leocano, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time. Well coming up, World leaders are in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. For NATO's annual summit. We'll get the latest
Speaker 2: plus a second group of both people intersept that at
Speaker 2: our border this week and sent back home.
Speaker 3: Don't go away.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 2: Leaders from all around the world are in Washington, d
Speaker 2: C right now for NATO's annual summit, where the Ukraine
Speaker 2: War is of course at the center of discussions and
Speaker 2: Defense Minister Richard Marles is set to announce a new
Speaker 2: aid package for Ukraine, whilst US President Joe Barden has
Speaker 2: committed to providing Ukraine with five new strategic air defense
Speaker 2: systems to bolster their fart against Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3: Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 16: The United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Italy will
Speaker 16: provide Ukraine with the equipment for five additional strategic defenses.
Speaker 16: To make no mistake, Ukraine can and will stop Putin.
Speaker 2: To a bit shaky, but it's amazing what he can
Speaker 2: do with a teleprompter. Joining me now is Strategic Analysis
Speaker 2: Australia director and Sky News contributor Michael Schubridge. Michael, what
Speaker 2: do you make of the developments, particularly in relation to
Speaker 2: Ukraine in terms of this aid. It's a hell of
Speaker 2: a lot of aid that has been provided to Ukraine
Speaker 2: so far, there's more to come.
Speaker 3: Where does it end?
Speaker 9: Well, I think it ends with Putin failing to meet
Speaker 9: his war objectives, which is dismembering Ukraine and toppling the government.
Speaker 9: So it is good to see some positive news out
Speaker 9: of this Washington NATO summit that has extra patriot missile
Speaker 9: defense systems and some shorter range ones as well. Obviously,
Speaker 9: the Russian missile strike on Ukraine's largest children's hospital shows
Speaker 9: this is essential for the civilians as well as the
Speaker 9: Ukrainian military. But I think a bigger issue on every
Speaker 9: other leader's mind at that NATO meeting is when Biden
Speaker 9: projects certainty and strength in the US contribution. It's hard
Speaker 9: for them to even see certainty in him staying the
Speaker 9: Democrat residential candidate over the next few months.
Speaker 2: Indeed, and of course there's no talk anymore, certainly not
Speaker 2: in the short term the Ukraine will itself join NATO.
Speaker 2: That has been rejected at this point in time. So
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see how these things develop. What
Speaker 2: else are we expecting to come out of this summer.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm prepared to be underwhelmed yet again by the
Speaker 9: Australian contribution to Ukraine. Now the rumored package is three
Speaker 9: large three D printers for printing spares. That's handy, But
Speaker 9: the Australian Army is retiring its M one Abrams tanks
Speaker 9: because it's getting the new model it could give them
Speaker 9: and a training package to Ukraine. And it's doing the
Speaker 9: same with attack helicopters that are European. But remember the
Speaker 9: last helicopters the Australian military retired, the defense bureaucrats cut
Speaker 9: up and bury it. So I would love to see
Speaker 9: Richard Miles do the right thing by Ukraine, but I
Speaker 9: doubt we'll see that. The other thing I think we're
Speaker 9: seeing is President Duda of Poland is saying the sensible
Speaker 9: thing NATO members shouldn't be clapping themselves on the back
Speaker 9: for a lot of them meeting two percent of GDP
Speaker 9: on defense. They need to be spending three percent. And
Speaker 9: I think Richard Miles should bring that message back home here.
Speaker 2: Yes, he certainly should, but whether he does is another
Speaker 2: matter entirely.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 2: Now, while we're talking of the Albanezy government, I was
Speaker 2: talking before about national borders and the way things are going.
Speaker 2: And you know, in just one week a second group
Speaker 2: of boat people have been intercepted by authorities and sent
Speaker 2: back to Indonesia. I mean, it seems pretty clear that
Speaker 2: people smugglers are starting to change their tactics. They think
Speaker 2: that we are a soft touch. That's the message that
Speaker 2: they received from the High Court decision and boats being
Speaker 2: able to hit land, which they did last year. The
Speaker 2: Albanezy government doesn't seem to have really updated the twenty
Speaker 2: thirteen sovereign Borders program for the modern world.
Speaker 9: Yes, you can see that rising pressure. And I don't know,
Speaker 9: I'm a little bit skeptical about this policy that the
Speaker 9: government has of when a legal boat rivals turn up,
Speaker 9: if their boats aren't any good, we give them new ones.
Speaker 12: See.
Speaker 9: I kind of think they could drive a whole different
Speaker 9: kind of influx of people looking for new boats free
Speaker 9: as a free gift from the Australian government. And the
Speaker 9: other concern I have you mentioned the new Chief of
Speaker 9: Defense for is having to deal with that collapsing recruitment problem. Well,
Speaker 9: the nave's having trouble putting it ships and boats. To see,
Speaker 9: that's going to create porous borders for us. So David Johnstone,
Speaker 9: that new chief, he needs to show that he's not
Speaker 9: just going to do what he's done for the last
Speaker 9: six years as Vice chief, and he needs to address
Speaker 9: some of the challengers that have been staring him in
Speaker 9: the face in his previous job.
Speaker 3: Quite right.
Speaker 2: Another story I mentioned earlier in the show, but remaining
Speaker 2: on the border theme, was that the Daily Telegraph had
Speaker 2: revealed today that under the current government, in the month
Speaker 2: of May you had twenty three hundred asylum seekers that
Speaker 2: flew into Australia by plane, which is the highest month
Speaker 2: on record since the government came to power. Again, it
Speaker 2: just seems like we have sent a message to the
Speaker 2: world that we're open for business and our borders a
Speaker 2: porous and so many of these people who fly in
Speaker 2: and claim asylum turn out not to be asylum seekers,
Speaker 2: but very few of them get sent home.
Speaker 9: Well, I remember a Christie Kennearly when she was a
Speaker 9: Labor senator, being deeply critical of the then government for
Speaker 9: dropping the ball on illegal arrivals by air. But I
Speaker 9: haven't seen the alberan Easy government do anything new or effective.
Speaker 9: And you've got to think the combination of large numbers
Speaker 9: of arrivals by air that then claim asylum after they're
Speaker 9: off the plane and in Australia, combined with what looks
Speaker 9: like a more porous border, that's going to make immigration
Speaker 9: and illegal arrivals a radioactive issue for the Alberansi government.
Speaker 9: They really need to start investing in both.
Speaker 2: These areas most definitely, Michael Shubridge a pleasure as always.
Speaker 2: Well after the break, no one can understand why Biden
Speaker 2: is so desperate to stay in the race, But we
Speaker 2: might have just figured out why don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you after the break. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know whether you caught this on the Kenny Report,
Speaker 2: which of course is being hosted at the moment.
Speaker 3: By Steve Price.
Speaker 2: Pauline Hanson tried to do an interview in front of
Speaker 2: a Mary Poppen's statue and this is what happened.
Speaker 17: I'm in Marava, Steve, and I've got to tell you this.
Speaker 17: We're setting up to do the film here. So our
Speaker 17: staffer came from the council and told me that I
Speaker 17: can't film here next to Mary Poppins because they're apolitical,
Speaker 17: and told me I shouldn't be here. I told them,
Speaker 17: get lost. I'm doing the interview here. They said, we're
Speaker 17: going to bring the police up the please turner. And
Speaker 17: you see a confrontation here, you know what's happening with
Speaker 17: it because Mary Poppins is apolitical and I shouldn't be
Speaker 17: actually doing.
Speaker 9: The interview here.
Speaker 2: I mean, for goodness sake, reason four thousand and five
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six to.
Speaker 3: Abolish councils right there. All right, let's go over to
Speaker 3: the US.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's Democratic aids are desperately trying to carve a
Speaker 2: path forward for the US president, and of course, in
Speaker 2: the wake of these multiple catastrophic public performances, he's had
Speaker 2: the Debate, of course chief among them. But a recent
Speaker 2: piece by The Wall Street Journal was highlighted a potential
Speaker 2: reason as to why the Democrats are still going to
Speaker 2: battle for their frail president now Currently, Joe Biden has
Speaker 2: an estimated one million US dollars in the war chest
Speaker 2: for this year's campaign, but apparently the rules specify that
Speaker 2: if Biden drops out before the Democrats formally make him
Speaker 2: their nominee at the National Democratic Convention in August, they're
Speaker 2: no more than two thousand dollars sorry if any campaign
Speaker 2: funds can be transferred to another candidate.
Speaker 3: So it's no wonder Biden.
Speaker 2: Is so desperately keeping on to discuss this and much more.
Speaker 2: Is Brianna Aligneman, elections correspondent for the Federalist Brianna, what
Speaker 2: do you make of this theory?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think it's definitely plausible as an explanation why
Speaker 15: Biden has yet two step down. But I don't think
Speaker 15: that Biden has any plans to step down, especially when
Speaker 15: you know that you know, the one hundred million dollars
Speaker 15: that he has in his war chest that can go
Speaker 15: to the DNC, and the DNC is not stupid. They
Speaker 15: will spend that money wisely to target where were they
Speaker 15: residential nominee is So I think this is just Biden
Speaker 15: being defined and not wanting to leave his post. And
Speaker 15: the best part is we wouldn't even need to have
Speaker 15: this conversation if Democrats didn't subvert the you know, actual
Speaker 15: democracy that they want to talk about and allow a
Speaker 15: real primary to happen a few months ago. But they didn't.
Speaker 15: They wanted to silence anyone, including Dean Phillips who was
Speaker 15: a Democrat challenging Biden for the nomination and said Joe
Speaker 15: Biden's not all their mentally. They didn't allow him to
Speaker 15: really have a fair primary challenge because they didn't want
Speaker 15: to address these problems head on. And now they find
Speaker 15: themselves in a rock and a hard place because they
Speaker 15: have no choice but to address these issues.
Speaker 2: And this is the shard and forrad every little right
Speaker 2: like they coveted up for so long, the American media
Speaker 2: coveted up for so long even though it was so
Speaker 2: obvious to everyone in a long come to the debate,
Speaker 2: and it is absolutely obvious to everyone, and they have
Speaker 2: to do something if they want to win this election.
Speaker 3: There's no two ways about it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, this is extreme damage control mode right now. You know,
Speaker 15: they thought that they could hide Biden. You know, they
Speaker 15: can hide them from the press. He rarely takes questions.
Speaker 15: He is the president. And I think what four decades
Speaker 15: that has given the least amount of media interviews, yet
Speaker 15: he prides his administration on being, you know, one of
Speaker 15: transparency that we don't actually get. Back in February, Republicans
Speaker 15: were concerned when the Robert Herbert word came out that
Speaker 15: said that Biden was basically forgetting things and not cognitive
Speaker 15: or not all cognizant, and Democrats refuse to release the tape.
Speaker 15: In fact, Mary Garland, our attorney general, is being held
Speaker 15: in contempt of Congress because he's refusing to release the tapes.
Speaker 15: If they weren't damning, like we know they are, they
Speaker 15: would release them. But instead they're trying to run defense
Speaker 15: and create this bubble around Joe Biden to really prevent
Speaker 15: him from being kind of, you know, shot down any
Speaker 15: more than he already is now.
Speaker 2: Of course, they know that they will be in big
Speaker 2: trouble if Biden goes to the election. Trump will just
Speaker 2: walk all over him like he did at the debate. So,
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to win this election, you've
Speaker 2: got to get some votes from somewhere, right, And this
Speaker 2: legislation that's being proposed in the US today that would
Speaker 2: require a voter to prove that they are a citizen before.
Speaker 3: Registering to vote.
Speaker 2: You've written a brilliant piece in The Figuralist about the
Speaker 2: democrats somewhat redundant position on this bill. But why do
Speaker 2: you think they might be so hell bent against it
Speaker 2: when Biden's doing so badly.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Democrats benefit from loose election security laws, not just
Speaker 15: with non citizen voting, but for instance, you know you'll
Speaker 15: get unmanned, absentee ballid drop boxes right where people can
Speaker 15: just drop a ballot and nobody knows who's dropping it off.
Speaker 15: They benefit from that. It's why they spend millions of
Speaker 15: dollars to change your race in Wisconsin so that they
Speaker 15: could reverse a ruling that said those ballot drop boxes
Speaker 15: are illegal. And when it comes to non citizen voting, Democrats,
Speaker 15: especially Biden, keep saying that it's already illegal. Well, so
Speaker 15: is speeding. But if you don't get caught, you actually
Speaker 15: get in trouble. Right, And in the United States voter
Speaker 15: registration form, you just sign a box that says I'm
Speaker 15: a citizen and then sign your name right, so our
Speaker 15: free and for elections hinge on the honor system. And
Speaker 15: Democrats want you to believe that that's enough to make
Speaker 15: other Americans feel safe. And secure, but it's not. And
Speaker 15: so the legislation you mentioned would be give an enforcement mechanism.
Speaker 15: You sign that box saying your citizen prove it. There
Speaker 15: is nothing wrong with that, and the fact that Democrats
Speaker 15: are opposed to it is concerning.
Speaker 2: Well, it's terribly convenient when you've had millions of people
Speaker 2: pouring over the southern border, illegal bigrants pouring over the
Speaker 2: southern border out of the bid administraction, isn't it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, And it's really funny. You know, Joe Biden has
Speaker 15: led in almost as many illegal immigrants as Ellis Island
Speaker 15: did over sixty years legally, to just give you the
Speaker 15: scope of how bad our immigration system is. And Democrats
Speaker 15: will tell you, well, illegals don't really vote, it's rare.
Speaker 15: Fifteen hundred illegal immigrants were accidentally registered to vote in
Speaker 15: California at twenty eighteen and the state wouldn't even.
Speaker 1: Have caught it.
Speaker 15: The guy went to the state, they ignored him. So
Speaker 15: we went to a local newspaper and said, they're ignoring me.
Speaker 15: But this is what's happening, right. So the fact that
Speaker 15: we have all this proof that Democrats don't care when
Speaker 15: it does happen, actually support non citizens voting in local elections.
Speaker 15: It leads credence to the idea that Democrats are doing
Speaker 15: this on purpose.
Speaker 2: Now, they did actually manage to get the president upright
Speaker 2: and in front of a telly prompter for his NATO
Speaker 2: convention speech today.
Speaker 3: What did you make of it?
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, this is an opportunity for Biden to
Speaker 15: try and calm fears, and I don't think it did that.
Speaker 15: The reason being, Biden didn't make any serious guests during
Speaker 15: his speech, but he was reading off a teleprompter. That's
Speaker 15: how Biden has done this past four years, is reading
Speaker 15: off a teleprompter, reading off note cards, having predetermined questions
Speaker 15: given to him, so he has prep time for an answer.
Speaker 15: He is not good on his feet, and a president
Speaker 15: has to be good on his feet because when they
Speaker 15: go meet with world leaders, they're not given the upper hand.
Speaker 15: World leaders want to have the upper hand themselves, and
Speaker 15: so Joe Biden can't actually handle that scenario. So I
Speaker 15: think he's actually doing a press conference tomorrow in the
Speaker 15: United States. I'm hoping that that'll give us a better
Speaker 15: opportunity to see where he's at.
Speaker 2: Now you've only got ten seconds here, Brienna, But a
Speaker 2: golf playoff between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a million
Speaker 2: dollars to charity if Biden wins the Charities of the
Speaker 2: USA and gett.
Speaker 3: A Saint Halo.
Speaker 15: Look, Joe Biden couldn't even ride a bicycle. He can't
Speaker 15: walk process stage, and he can't walk down a flight
Speaker 15: of stairs, So I don't really know if you'd fare
Speaker 15: well in the golf match.
Speaker 2: A Brianna Lineman, thank you so much for your time. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm a pretty ordinary golfer, and I reckon even I
Speaker 2: could do better than Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: And that's saying something. That's all we've got time for tonight.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned now. James Murray is up next with Paul
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