WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 26 May 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:07.280 On scoring Leeds Ostrodia. This is the Wider Panalty Show. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.040 Good evening and welcome to the reader Paney Show. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.280 Coming up tonight is Zoe Daniel That's threat to democracy 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.800 as the teal refuses to concede defeat in the seat 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:18.799 of Goldstein. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.000 Adam Criton will be. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.560 Here to discuss that and today's other top stories. Professor 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.560 in Kimer on the Queensland government ducking a billion dollar 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.440 wind farm project for ad'angelus. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.200 We'll have the latest from the US. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.880 And later in the hour kinsisco Field on why Disney executives. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.440 One of the ladies of the View, to tone. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.600 Down their anti Trump hysteria and talking about lefties losing it. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:47.120 Tonight's edition features a trans park ranger at Yosemite National 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.800 Park with this important message. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.600 Hecs that can transition success can be found on every 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.000 continent and in every ocean one planet Earth. So call 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.160 it a protest, call it a celebration. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.480 But first, the youth crime crisis in Melbourne has intensified further. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.959 In the latest escalation, please say that two rival gangs 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.800 organized to meet at Northland Shopping Center on Sunday, armed 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.920 and ready to fight after an incident the previous day, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.280 terrified shoppers were forced to run for their lives in 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.640 the busy shopping complex in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:25.520 with families barricading themselves in stores as the machete wielding youth. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.560 Ran riot And then we got let out, and then 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.640 when we got let out, lost all my belongings, went 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.000 back to the food court, no arms, nothing, We had 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.319 no idea where anyone was. And then there was a 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.399 second lot that had come through, got knocked over, got 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.240 knocked over, and yeah, I'm here today to collect my 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:44.959 car and see where my belongings are. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.400 I've lost. Everything was hectic. It was just crazy like 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.600 an iPhone, yeah, with machetes. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.440 Glanced over and he was holding quite a big machete, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.440 so I obviously was like, oh my god, you know, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:57.800 terrifying and displayed. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.840 It was just a man lying on the floor like 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.559 a surrounded by cobs with big flood on the floor. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.680 The other man with the big machetes still in his stomach. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.079 A sixteen year old and a fifteen year old have 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.280 since been charged with multiple offenses, including a frey intentionally 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.600 causing injury, possession of a controlled weapon and use of 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.480 the controlled weapon. Premier just Into Alan has today announced 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.239 a ban on machetes. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.720 We are choking the supply of machetes by bringing about 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.320 this immediate band from them being sold anywhere in Victoria. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.360 Joining me now for more on this is IPA chief 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.240 economist and senior fellow Adam Crichton. Adam, this seems like 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:38.520 a great solution. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.239 Just banned machetes. Don't worry about. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.720 The underlying issues with crime crisis. And I'm sure these 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.919 thugs are going to be abiding by the new rules 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.880 and not accessing machetes. If it's not a machete can 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.520 be another large later weapon. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.600 Yeah, look to focus on machetes, I think is somewhat amusing. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.560 I don't think the number of machetes and Victoria has 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.079 changed dramatically. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.080 In recent years, and yet we have seen this spiking crime. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:03.440 I think. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.120 You know, one kind of a sad anecdote here on 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.200 the state of politics in this state is that, you know, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.240 the machines were meant to be banned on the first 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.079 in sectum, but now they're going to be banned overnight. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:14.760 Just it's of one particular incident. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.680 So it just goes to show you how reactive the 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.480 state government is there's really no long term planning. But 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.040 on the broader issue of youth crime, this has certainly 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.280 been increasing recently. This is very, very distressing to see. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.359 It would have been very scary being at that supermarket 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.920 that day. And you know, my sense is that you know, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.000 certain groups in the community don't have as much respect 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.640 for the law. I don't think that's kind of saying 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.119 anything kind of out there. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.160 And the state government for so long has deny that 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.760 there is a gang issue in this state, particularly youth gangs, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.360 and until they acknowledge there is a problem, they're going 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.640 to be in no position to solve it. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.760 And just banning things isn't the answer. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.839 And the opposition, I've got to say, haven't exactly been 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.280 groundbreaking on this either. They not look at the broader issues, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.000 underlying issues and to do with the criminal justice system 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.840 as well. I mean, look at this case. This is 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.200 a more youth crime in Victoria. Sixteen year old charge 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.040 with seventy separate offenses, mostly assault related, in just the 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.960 last twelve months. While in arguing for bail, the teen's 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.640 lawyers told the Children's court that he now self identifies 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.440 as First Nations, despite his parents telling police he isn't 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.360 had him putting that to it To one side, it's 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.839 just another example of a teen facing serious charges getting 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.919 bailed time and time and time again. The criminal justice 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.839 system in this state is broken, and you're right, the 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.479 Alan government is reactive. They're taking measures now, but it 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.920 all seems to be too little. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:50.080 Too late. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:50.400 Yeah. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.680 Look, certainly in this particular example, this kid does not 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.040 seem like a good young fellow in all those charges. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.640 But more broadly, I would say in Australia, and you're 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.600 probably think I'm going to be soft on prime here reader, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.640 but you know, we probably have too many nonviolent offenders 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.560 in prison. It costs, it costs a huge amount to 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.039 look after them. I think at the. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:09.480 IPA we did some research last year. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.359 It costs about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.960 year to keep one person in prison. And the prison 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.920 population has been growing five percent, it grew last year. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.520 That's three times population growth. So you know, this is 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.000 billions and billions of dollars. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:22.560 A year we're spending. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.160 So so you know, there must be a better way 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.760 with you know, with criminals like this guy. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.320 You know he's probably from away with family. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.840 Perhaps I don't know anything about his particular case, but 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.760 more broadly, we've got to try to keep well. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:41.480 That's an interesting discussion about whether non violent criminals should 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.760 just have a some sort of a tracking device. I'd 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.000 be fined to home atsion. Now let's talk about the 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.440 Australian Electoral Commission holding a partial recount of votes in 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.760 the seat of Goldstein amid till candidate Zoe Daniels continued 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.680 refusal to concede defeat. This is despite the fact that 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.599 it's been declared now several times and she may have 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.800 forgotten this, but back in twenty twenty, Zoe Daniel lash 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.440 Donald Trump on social media, posting Trump has to find 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.919 an excuse for losing that is not himself, because he 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.640 can't accept being a loser. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.560 Now it's Zoey Daniel or should that be Zoe denial. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.160 That he's refusing to accept defeat. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.240 Is she a threat to democracy? 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.159 Do you feel like you can't sleep at night with 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:31.080 this sort of threat. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.480 Look, it's very funny when the shoes on the other foot, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:34.920 that was a very good fine of yours. I think 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.120 you found that in her Twitter feed, didn't you? Oh no, No. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.520 Some other person on expounded I've just used it. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.000 But look, I mean, you know she's you know, it 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:43.839 is embarrassing for her. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.599 I mean, I think the footage of her claiming victory 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.440 will be one of the funniest sets of footage I 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.400 think in Australian political history. The fact that there's a 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.840 recount that's somewhat interesting because the triggers meant to be 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.400 one hundred votes I think it's two hundred and sixty 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.080 votes different, so they didn't have to do a recount. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.240 I noticed it's a partial recount, so it's we're not 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.920 going to change the outcome. I mean, I think she 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.160 would have been better just not asking for one, especially 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.040 given the embarrassment I just mentioned earlier. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.160 About oh No, I think that's holding onto dear life 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.600 and the man who beat her. Tim Wilson has posted 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.560 this on x He said, I'm concerned about the increasing 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.120 escalation of commentary from the former Member for Goldstein that 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.880 is trending towards bringing the Australian Electoral Commissions Count into 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.960 question and needlessly seed in questions about the AEC's processes. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.640 The AAC has been very thorough. The count has gone 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:36.080 on for three weeks liberal until scrutineers observed the process 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:36.840 votes were. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.160 Counted multiple times. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.320 Margin hasn't dropped below one hundred once in a majority, 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.920 and our two hundred and sixty margin nearly doubles and 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:51.400 imagery one pin forty auto recount threshold. So that's very interesting, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.320 isn't it? So three weeks, I mean that is a 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:55.920 long time. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.440 It is. Well, that's a whole other issue. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.920 We should have known the results by now, many days ago, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:01.640 I would say. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.400 Now we've got more details of the Liberal Party's disastrous 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.960 election campaign. A senior Liberal source has told The Australian 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:15.960 newspaper that internal polling by Freshwater Strategy was extremely inaccurate 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:22.120 and gave the campaign flawed information throughout the election. The 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.040 polling was a huge problem. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.360 It was way out. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.000 If we had known the truth, we would have changed 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.319 course overnight. Well, Adam, if they just watched Sky News. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.319 We've been telling them all year and certainly throughout the 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:40.160 election campaign that they were absolutely stuffing it up. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:41.680 They were going to lose. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.840 They were going to lose comfortably because this was just 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.839 the most lackluster nothing campaign and opposition has mounted well 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:50.800 in my lifetime. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.319 Yeah, Look, I mean i'd probably have a slightly different view. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.400 I mean, of course, in hindsight, we're all geniuses now. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.560 But I know it was a hindsight. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.280 I said it throughout the election campaign. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.160 I don't know, but now others I thought it would 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.800 be closer than it was. And I guess I was 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.960 misled by the polling and everyone's beating up on freshwater, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.240 and I get that it's kind of funny, but it 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.920 was all the polling was kind of wrong. I mean, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.040 it wasn't just them, it was all. It was all 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.600 hugely out. I mean, it was kind of the Polster's 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.240 twenty sixteen moment, if you're like, in relation to the US, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.480 when they all got it completely wrong, except the era 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.319 didn't go to the right, went to the left. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.720 So look, let's hope they. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.320 Improve their polling for next time, especially for the Liberal Party, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.000 so that they're not kind of operating blind. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:30.000 Yes. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.880 Yes, And it was an interesting piece by Greg Sheridan 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:37.239 over the weekend in The Australian about the country being divided, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.600 misgoverned and in retreat. Hero to Australia is a nation 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:46.719 in decline across every indicator you can imagine, economy, living standards, 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:54.200 social cohesion, crime, health, military capability, the creativity and virtuosity 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.920 of the arts. We're in a serious decline. Is it 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:57.720 really that grim? 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:58.080 Adam? 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:59.200 Look, I think it is. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.360 I share his piece, and in fact I wrote a 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.400 similar column a few weeks earlier in The Australian. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.319 Look, I think, I think, I always dimensions. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:06.760 But let's just look at the economic You know, we 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.000 did have the biggest fall of living standards in the 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.440 OECD over the last three years, which is extremely embarrassing, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.920 and it's hard to see how that's going to stop. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.640 We've got the resource boom ending soon that the Chinese 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.800 economy is going to start to shrink, and yet no 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.640 one is talking about this. I mean, how are we 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.520 going to pay our way in the world. We've been 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.200 relying on order to do it for the last ten 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.719 or so years. That's going to slowly dry up. And 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.679 yet we keep regulating our economy, increasing taxes. There's no 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.920 debate really about our taxation system or our economic future. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.480 And you know what we've imported I think one point 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.920 three million migrants in three years, the fastest population growth 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.520 in the developed world by far. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.480 Not sufficient housing for them. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.160 That's right, absolutely not. And then there's a social cohesion issue. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.000 I mean that's starting to phrase surely. I mean we 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.640 talked about some issues earlier on the program that possibly 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.280 relate to that. So look, I just think it's almost 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.839 like the political class is actually trying to destroy to destroy. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.880 Australia on purpose. That's how I has a mystic. I 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:02.560 am about it. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.559 Before you go. I know you love the city of Melbourne. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.320 You're a new residence, a new resident, but this news 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:11.480 isn't going to make you happy. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.240 More than eight hundred thousand dollars of the COVID Relief 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.920 Fund was redirected by the City of Melbourne. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:20.640 This money was. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.800 Supposed to help revitalize the CBD, but instead it's gone 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.920 to creating forty kilometer zones in East Melbourne and North Melbourne. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.120 Adam, it's funny. I mean I saw this story and 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:30.640 I was shocked. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.480 But one of my pet peeves about the city since 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.240 moving here from Sydney is the slow speed limits, especially 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.200 going from the airport to the CBD, where you've got 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.840 this beautiful highway and you can't go any faster than 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.400 eighty ks an hour. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.400 And so this is forty k speed limit I mean 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.440 you'll almost be better off walking, which is the idea. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.040 That's what they want to do. What it can't bikes, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.200 That's right, they want everyone on bikes. So I think 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:52.880 that's just so embarrassing. I mean, if you want to 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.640 be a world city, you can't have forty k speed limits. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:56.280 It's just a joke. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.560 Adam crist And thank you so much for your time. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:11:59.280 Thanks render. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.559 Joining me now is steam geologist and author Professor Ian Primer. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.320 Let's start with the shocking revelations that the City of 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.080 Melbourne spent around nine hundred thousand dollars on fifty four 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:17.280 memberships to environmental and social justice organizations in just one year. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.760 These include the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, Diversity Council Australia, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:27.719 the Hume City Council's Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action, and 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.080 the City of Sydney is a City Switch Climate program, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.160 many many others. In their end, is this a good 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:35.600 use of taxpayers money? 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:36.640 Ratepayers money? 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.240 Or when you walk around the streets of Melbourne, they're filthy, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.720 there's rubbish everywhere, there are potholes. I would have thought 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.560 that their priority which to look after the City of 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:52.120 Melbourne rather than following their ideology. I'm surprised that on 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.480 that list there isn't a member ship to the Australian 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.439 Communist Party because that's exactly what they're doing. What an 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.840 appalling waste of money always happened every time Labor has 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.720 got the purse strings. They will spend money on their 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.960 little pet hobbies and not be concerned about the people 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.160 who actually pay them. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.120 Well, it seems like they're using rate payers money to 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.680 prop up other city council's climate obsessions as well. There's 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.559 money here going to the Human City Council, Sydney City Council. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.240 I don't know. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.400 It does not pass the pup test in my eyes. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.160 But let's go to Queensland and the Chris of Foley 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.599 government has dumped a billion dollar. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.040 Wind farm project. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.640 The Moonlight Range wind farm project is a go on. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.679 It was said to be located forty kilometers northwest of Rockhampton. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.240 And this decision comes in after five hundred. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.120 And fifty submissions were received during the forty day public 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:53.040 consultation process. The overwhelming majority wanted a review despite the 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.520 fact that Labor had to approved this project. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.400 Yes, well, this is people power at its best. These 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.920 wind industrial complexes. They're not farms actually destroyed large amounts 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.680 of the bush. They destroy wildlife. And it is not 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:15.440 the work of an environmentalist to flatten forests to put 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:21.080 in inefficient, unreliable energy environments. Shouldn't be killing off koala habitats. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.120 And that's exactly what happened. And people power finally has won. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.680 Now there were a dozen of these projects going on 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:33.000 around in Australia, Perfectly good farmland being destroyed by solar panels, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.640 perfectly good farmland being criss crossed by whole high voltage 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.920 power lines and people can't use heavy equipment underneath it. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.400 So it's about time that the people will listen to absolutely. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.440 If you fly across Australia, you will see dozens of 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:52.480 these projects all across the countryside. Now the Country Liberal 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.160 Party in the NT has scrapped the previous Labor government's 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.520 renewable energy targets. The Labor government had pledged to fifty 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.320 percent of the Northern Territory is grid supplied by renewables 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.480 by twenty thirty, but eight years in there's only twenty 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.880 percent coming from renewables, and it seems like achieving that 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.400 fifty percent would cripple their economy would cost another five 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.480 billion in these targets, and not only unattainable, I would 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.640 argue they're entirely undesirable. Why were they ever committed to 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.640 it's just so economically reckless. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.920 Well, we're seeing around the world now people are saying 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.520 we cannot achieve net zero. There was recently report done 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.680 in Finland showing that the closest thing to impossible is 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:44.120 actually net zero. You cannot achieve it. And then the 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.920 next step down is to cushcross the country with high 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.040 voltage power lines over very large distances, which you've got 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.560 in the Northern Territory. Now, just because you've got a 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.200 lot of sun doesn't mean you've got cheap electricity. What 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.440 you've got is the ability to generate electricity for a 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.760 few hours day, and then what do you do? 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.400 How do you keep the system running? 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.120 So I think people are finally waking up to the 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.920 common sense and finally waking up to the absolutely extraordinary 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.800 costs of running sol and wind in rural Australia and 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.280 areas without much population. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.800 The IPA has been doing research on this issue for 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.640 some time now, and their latert starter shows that most 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.680 Australians want the government to prioritize affordability over achieving net 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:32.640 zero emissions. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.080 Fifty six percent want. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:39.040 Affordability to be the top priority, whilst twenty one percent 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.280 favor reaching net zero over lower prices. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.800 And you can see that figure is actually increased. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.120 Back in twenty twenty two, it was forty one percent 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.840 who wanted affordability prioritized. Now it's well over fifty percent. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.000 And I guess that's the function of path prices going up. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.680 People are waking up to the reality that more renewables 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.680 doesn't mean cheaper prices. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.920 Well, we keep getting told that renewables are the cheapest 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.480 form of energy. That is a lie. People have only 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.639 got to look at the electricity bill to see that 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.280 renewables are crippling this country. And the more and more 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.800 renewables we put into the system, the more expensive it gets. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.679 Now that state Victoria once had the cheapest power in 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.040 the world, and we have six thousand years of brown 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.320 coal in Victoria for generating electricity. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:29.120 We're ignoring that. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.359 And what happened is Victoria now is the most expensive 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.359 power in the world, and right across the world people 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:40.040 have realized this was a fundamental ideological error to rely 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.040 on wind and to rely on solar to actually keep 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:45.840 an industrial society going. 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.720 And in you're right around the world they are abandoning 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.199 this madness. Even New Zealand has abandoned its pursuit of 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:57.320 net zero. The edgisinn era policy is gone. They're now 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.480 investing one hundred and eighty five million in offshore gas 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.960 projects in their latest budget because guess what gas works well. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.399 New Zealand's got the Taranaki Basin, which has been a 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.480 gas and oil producer for quite a long period of time. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 New Zealand has some of the best quality coals in 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.640 the world on the west coast of the South Island 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:23.159 and that sequence of rocks extends offshore and associated with 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.040 that coal is gas. So New Zealand is doing the 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.600 right thing. There's only a certain amount of geothermal that 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.119 can get from New Zealand, and that is isolated parts 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.520 of the North Island and the rest has to come 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.200 from conventional fossil fuels. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.320 Now, finally, before you go, I know we haven't talked 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.400 about Chris Bowen for a few weeks now and you've 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:45.000 missed him, but he's copped at almighty thrashing from a 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.360 priest for eating a bowl of pasta during Catholic Mass. Yes, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.000 Chris Bowen arrived late to the religious ceremony before sitting 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.240 in his assigned seat in the front row and then stuffing. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.760 His face with a bowl of pasta. During the rest 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:00.680 of the Mass. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:07.000 The presiding priest, Reverend Anthony Freglance, was aghast, and he 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:12.320 finished his service by reminding his congregation Italian not to 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.600 eat during Mass. He told the Daily Telegraph, mister Bowen 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:20.800 needed to have more respect for the sacredness of the place. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.720 When you arrive halfway through the service, you should go 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.920 to your place and be quiet, he said. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.000 But Ian Chris Bowen claims he had no idea. It 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.480 was a mass. It was a mass service. So yeah, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.440 that's that's Chris. 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.680 For he really has no idea what's happening. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.080 He has no respect for people's hip pockets. Why should 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:44.480 he have respect in a church? 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:46.040 I do like it. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.360 This is the most the funniest story of the day. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.520 You've got to say, look at him, he's he is. 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:56.040 A hungry, hungry man. For see and blymer, Thank you 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.679 so much for your time today. Thank you still to 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:04.879 come left his plus, the WNBA holds a moment of silence. 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.360 For George Floyd, for Indangelis, for it cost. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.359 You're watching the Riata Penny Show and it's time for 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.119 lefties losing it. And you know, when I think about 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.159 the wonders of the natural world, I made it. They 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:31.520 think of puberty blockers, bottom surgery and other irreversible trans treatments, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.600