WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 24 March 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:05.640 Late Welcome the Late Debate. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.160 It's great to have your company on the Late Debate. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.119 I'm James Macpherson with this store and Caleb Bond back 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:14.080 after a week away. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.960 You want to every other show, Kalb. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.480 I know it's terrible to be back with you. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.360 Lotto was well rather enjoying going home at about seven 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:22.680 pm instead of eleven. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:23.880 But that's okay. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.480 The things I do to keep our beloved Late Debate 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:28.760 viewers entertained, I. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:29.240 Tell you what. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.160 We're glad to have your back, Caleb. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.760 We're a lot to talk about tonight, including coming up 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.720 a little later, a woman tries to snatch a Trump 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.879 supporter's mega hat on the subway, and well, let's just 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.320 say instant karma. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.200 We'll show you what happened a little later. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.880 Plus when we look at what's making news tomorrow, of course, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.599 most of it will be about the federal budget being 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.360 delivered tomorrow night, including a story on tomorrow's front page 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.600 of the Daily Telegraph explaining just how young people are 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.800 the hardest hit by bracket creep, and the Australian newspaper 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.800 reporting tomorrow that it may your green hydrogen project will 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.080 shut down just days after Anthony Albanesi insisted it's all 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.080 part of the made in Australia future that he's been promoting. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.200 All of that a little later, but first, a Sydney 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.720 council will vote this week to remove anti racism signs 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.080 that they erected just a few years ago. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.319 The Cumberland Shire. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.919 In Western Sydney was one of a number of councils 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.880 that spent thousands of dollars putting up fifty racism not 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.240 Welcome signs. This was all done back in twenty twenty 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.560 two over fears that Chinese people would be blamed for 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.880 the COVID virus. Now, just on that. If you're so 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.520 irrational that you think your Chinese neighbor is responsible for 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.760 a virus that originated in Wuhan, you're hardly going to 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.440 be convinced to behave because of a few street signs. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.720 But Cumberland Shire have decided, having erected about fifty of 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.760 these signs, they're now going to bring them down, which 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.840 begs the question, why are they saying the street signs 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.760 of worked racism has been eradicated, Or maybe they've changed 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.040 their minds and decided racism is welcome after all, or 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.120 just maybe and I think this one is that they've 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.880 decided the signs were always silly and provide no practical 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.360 purpose other than allowing, you know, virtue signaling counselors to 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.600 grandstand the man behind the motion to remove these signs. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.280 Paul Jared explained. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.240 Quote, I know there's racism within elements of our community, sadly, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.880 but having said that, is it an issue that we 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.040 have to put values on telegraph poles. You might put 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.799 them on the front door of your building, but putting 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.760 them on telegraph poles isn't something we should be condoning, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.120 Which is a really good point caleberin Liz, like, if 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.120 you're going to put signs up saying no racism, how 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.760 many other morality tales should you display? 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.800 This is the thing that Cumberland Council have been telling 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.600 on themselves for so long that they're thoroughly homophobic. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.680 I mean, where is the homophobia. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.800 Is not welcome? So clearly is lamophobic? Where's the islamophobia 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.160 is not welcome signed? I mean it is clear that 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.240 they condone all of these things because they refuse to 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.840 put up any signs against it. As I said privately 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.320 to this lot earlier, I mean, clearly the signs are 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.840 now surplus to requirements because they put them up, they 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.720 fix the racism. The racism is gone. Why do you 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.360 need the signs anymore. The fact that anyone thought and 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.800 they're everywhere. They're all over Sydney, I assume there are 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.239 in other parts of the country as. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.560 Well as a national campaign. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.960 The fact that anyone thought, yes, I know what we 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.600 can do to solve racism, will put a sign up 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:39.240 on a Telegraph poll and that'll finally change everyone's mind. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.800 You don't change people's minds with street signs. You change 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.920 people's minds by actually talking to them and convincing them 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.360 of things. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.920 And I think this is a. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.560 Major problem with a lot of the campaigning on the 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.680 left is that they don't understand if you actually want 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.480 to change someone's mind, you've got to challenge them. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.160 A street sign is not challenging any one. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.480 It's a slogan, and so often that's all they care about. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.080 It's the symbolism, the virtue signaling to say that, well, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.440 this is what I think. I mean, I think racism 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.240 is bad, so I must be a good person. But 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.680 you've not made any attempt to actually change a racist 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.000 person's mind. You've done nothing to better the world. You've 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.360 just made yourself feel better. It's why they talk about, oh, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.479 we've got to change the date of Australia Day. You 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.440 know how many Indigenous lives that would help in this country, 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.679 big fat zero. But it doesn't matter because I feel 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.239 better because I think I'm doing something better for the world. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.279 That's what these signs were all about. I'm glad someone 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.680 has worken up to the fact that they mean nothing. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.560 Well, there's always been people on the Cumberland Council that 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.719 have known this was ridiculous. So they voted in February 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.479 of twenty twenty two to put these signs up. But 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.320 the previous year the mayor at the time, Steve christ two, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.760 which you'd be familiar with is an absolute legend, had 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.360 used a tie breaker vote to vote them down. These 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.719 signs aren't going up in our electorate. This is ridiculous. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.320 Why are you inferring that our council is racist to 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.040 begin with? That's the unspoken inference if you're going to 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.799 put up such signs. So the following year, Steve christu 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.880 is no longer the mayor, and in February the council 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.440 went to vote again back in twenty twenty two. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.960 And this time it got up. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.960 So you can imagine that Steve Christu who is still 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.640 on council, he is just not mayor. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.440 And this fellow Paul Gerard, who's. 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:39.200 Been a counselor for fifty years as of September last year, congratsmate, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.080 talk about a lifetime of service. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.359 That's incredible to put it up with all of that. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.000 These guys, goodness knows how many numbers they've otherwise gotten 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.560 on council. But smart counselors, no, there's no use me 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.440 putting this to a vote if I don't have a 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.919 chance of winning. These guys are part of the original 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.400 contingent who votes to know in the first place. And 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.440 it's funny to note that in February twenty twenty two, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.760 as Cumberland Council, I keep going to say, Choir Cumberland Choir, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.920 Cumberland Council was voting to put these up. Walara Council 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:19.120 were voting to take theirs down. Of course that vote 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.920 didn't get up, it was lost by a vast majority. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.680 But those councilors in Wallara were doing exactly the same thing, saying, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.000 why are you insinuating that people who live. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.240 In Wallara are racist. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.719 We've had so many people complain to us and be like, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.800 why are these signs popping up all over Wallara? We 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.120 don't where's the data to support this? Where's the racism outbreak? 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.640 Is their violence? Is their name calling that we're unaware of, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.799 to which, of course, the councilors couldn't support their decision 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.520 at all because as usual, it is, like you say, Caleb, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.240 just a virtue signaling exercise. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.320 It is a problem in the Inner West where you 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:58.400 are from and. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.720 They I'm not sorry there, I'm not from where when 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:03.520 you moved in there. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.000 But they had to explain when they put these signs 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.560 up in different streets, because I mean, it's fifty signs, right, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.920 so it's not every street, it's selected streets. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.040 So they had to explain them. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.800 When they put up a racism not welcome sign in 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.560 a particular street, they weren't inferring people in that street 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.160 had a particular problem with racism. But then what do 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.200 you say to people of other ethnicities in streets where 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.320 signs were not directed the council saying they don't care 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.800 about protecting those particular people, which shows just how ridiculous 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.800 this virtue signaling becomes. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.840 I can't wait for the onslaught of racist people who 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.720 now move into Cumberland Council because they've realized, they will 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.000 realize fairly ap it's OK to go. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.000 Yet it hasn't yet. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:43.800 Been no no, I know. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.720 And then hopefully Wednesday night. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.200 Wednesday, hopefully we can bring you some good news. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.880 You know. It's just that the force of those. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.840 Signs has kept the racist people out of Cumberland for so. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.840 Long, and that's going to be dagging away. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.520 While we're talking about councils, and you'll remember back during 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.320 the Voice referendum, there are a number of councils around 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.720 the country that openly campaigned for the Yes side. I'm 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.800 not aware of any council that's openly campaigned for the 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.920 No side of the Voice referendum, probably because they figured 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.360 that would be not a great use of taxpayers or 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.680 rate payers money. But of course when you've got to 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.760 left wing social issues to push well, rate pays money 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.800 is always on the table. And we have discovered some 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.160 years later that one of the councils that was doing 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.120 this the City of Melbourne. Of course, our mate Nicholas 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.520 Reese is the Lord mayor there now they spend one 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:40.199 hundred and forty thousand dollars campaigning for the Yes campaign. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.120 I mean, imagine what you could do with one hundred 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.040 and forty thousand dollars. I was going to suggest you 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.440 could employ someone in the town hall, but perhaps we 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:47.360 don't want them to do that. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.040 They've probably got enough of them already. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.800 But you could instead to employ probably two people to 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.160 go out and look after the parks and the playgrounds 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.440 and whatever in Melbourne bike lanes. You go, well, we 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.400 need definitely need more of them in Melbourne. Who could 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.160 spend one hundred and forty k on helping to rip 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.040 them out, starting to rip them out, I think, But 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.680 this is what they are doing with your money, Because 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.000 of course you can't make your mind up on your own. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.120 We need the council to take your rates from you 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.040 so they can tell you how to think. A spokeswoman 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:17.880 for the council said that the council spent one hundred 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.240 and forty grand on the campaign and this is how 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.080 they justify it, with the majority of funding spent on 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:28.800 educational information targeted those most likely to be uninformed about 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:34.160 the referendum process, including non English speaking communities and older voters. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.880 So in other words, they saw some vulnerable people and 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.320 they thought they'd take advantage of them and shove it 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.000 down their throats that they should go and vote yes. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.839 I mean, I thought we had the Australian Electoral Commission 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.480 to inform people that there was a referendum on. If 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.760 you weren't aware there was a referendum on and how 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.560 you could vote in one, you probably were living under 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.719 a rock. You didn't need the City of Melbourne to 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.480 spend one hundred and forty k to tell you that 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.480 it was on, let alone how they wanted you to 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:00.920 vote well. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.679 And they spent this one hundred and forty k when 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.800 they were promoting a fifteen million dollar deficit, So they 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.200 spent money they didn't have pushing opinions they had no 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.240 right to push on an issue they. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.960 Weren't elected to address. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.199 The Local Government Act governs how councils behave and I 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.240 and we talked about it a couple of weeks ago. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:24.240 Blacktown Council Is voted to stop debating foreign policy issues, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.720 stop doing things to address things happening overseas. They just decided, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.679 let's focus on rates, roads and rubbish their relationary revolutionary idea, 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.720 which makes you wonder why doesn't a local government minister 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.720 move to change the legislation governing councils so they can't 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:43.000 do this kind of thing. Councils have no remit to 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.079 be involving themselves in a federal government referendum, and yet 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.960 they do these things over and over again. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.800 We talk about it ad nauseum. It's a wonder why. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.960 And maybe the coalition, if they win the federal election, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.839 maybe a local government minister will actually do something to 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.000 rain these councils in. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.280 No, because they're part of the problem. State governments push 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.360 the same nonsense, so they're not going to smack down 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.280 their local government cohorts. I mean this is something that 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:13.760 this same issue was perpetuated, especially throughout the labor governments 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.439 around the country. And it just goes to show because 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.080 we all know the results of the Voice campaign now, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:21.520 don't we very comprehensive. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.280 It doesn't work. So not only are you wasting rate. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:30.000 Payers money trying to brainwash them, trying to indoctrinate them 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.280 on their own dime, It simply doesn't work. But you're 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.240 quite right, it should just be taken out of their 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.360 remit none of this nonsense from you guys, Thank you 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.520 very much. This is not what rate payers pay for 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.880 six states in the US, which isn't that many when 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.080 you've got fifty states, but it's better than nothing. They 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.400 have taken this to the policy level and they make 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.560 sure that their local governments cannot engage, and not only 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.760 on the ratepayer level, but tax pay funds aren't allowed 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.440 to be implemented in a way that's going to try 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.040 to sway the public psyche on matters like this, DEI 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.840 matters and so and so forth. It's something that the 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.880 government should do, and any government who was interested in. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.760 Being effective at their actual jobs would do so. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:23.199 It begs the question why is nothing happening? But speaking 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.920 of things you'd like to see happen that, well, it's 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.280 not happening if you're in Sydney beaches. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:30.360 Get this. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.640 The coastal councils have got together with the men's government 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.200 and decided that at fifty one beaches across New South 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:44.400 Wales they're going to take down the shark nets because 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.839 the turtles are migrating during April. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.599 We've had this squabble before. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.360 How are turtles in any which way more important? Than 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:02.079 protecting human beings from white sharks, tai sharks, bull sharks. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.640 What is this nonsense? 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.199 And you've got to argue, why on earth are they 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.160 doing this now? Notice it's the end of summer, so 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:17.000 the peak season for beaches is over. So to me, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:22.480 it tells me they're actually not that confident in their 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:27.280 alternative methods, which are going to be technologies of drone 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.840 and smart drum lines. Just leave the nets up for 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:37.199 crying out loud. Now will these alternative technologies work? I 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.280 guess we're about to find out the hard way, aren't we. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.640 I can't do this anymore. I gotta I gotta have 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:45.800 a moment, a moment. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.920 I'm in the turtles, the turtles who. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.600 Might die so that people won't die. It's a disgrace, I. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.040 Mean, for goodness sake. I know I've done this before. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.880 We've talked about this before. The animal activist loonies get 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.920 on my emails and social media and whatever and carry 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.040 on because I say this. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.040 But we are number one. We're top of the tree. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.400 Evolution came through. We rose to the top. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.600 We get to live on the land and we also 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.600 get to go into the water. We make the decisions 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.160 as human beings in this world as to how things operate. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.000 And you know, what would you rather? And this is 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.840 you asked the greenies this question, and they always come 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.560 back and say, well, it's the it's the shark's domain. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.200 You're going into his home, which sounds to me a 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.040 bit like victim blaming. And you know, and then it's 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.200 what is this since your fault, you silly? It is 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:41.880 you in the water? What you think you weren't going 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.360 to get chopped on? But surely to save one human 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.760 being is worth it. It doesn't matter whether you sacrifice 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.800 one hundred turtles in the process. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.960 No one wants turtles. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.760 To die, but nor does anyone want a human being 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.520 to die. And their suggestion seems to be that the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.120 turtles and the sharks have more right to be in 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.400 the water than we do. Now, sure, they might be 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.120 born in that water and they might live there, but 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.680 by virtue of the fact that we're human beings and 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.200 we've learned how to swim, we also have a right 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.240 to be in that water, and we want to be safe. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:17.960 When we do so. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.240 The six councils that have signed up and agreed to this, 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:27.520 Waverley Central Coast Northern Beaches, Southerlandshire, Woolengong and Randwick should 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.640 hang their heads in shame because they are potentially putting 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.160 people's lives. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.080 At risk to save the turtles. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.440 Again, I don't want turtles to die, but I don't 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.320 want human beings to die, and that seems to be 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.280 the alternative here. The greenis should just put their hands 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.280 up and say, actually, I want people to die, because 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.000 that's basically what they're on board that. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.320 There was a scientist, Sheldon Dudley who did a major 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.600 study of sharknets in New South Wales, in Queensland, and 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.119 in South Africa, and he found shark nets were impressive 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.640 in reducing the number of sharks and in all of 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.160 those places, Queensland, New South Wales and South Africa, after 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.960 the introduction of shark nets, shark attacks fell by ninety percent. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.880 He found him twenty one in New South Wales there 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.240 were forty sharks that were caught in the net ziesa 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.480 sharks that they would want to catch. Of course, not 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.880 all sharks are dangerous, but forty dangerous sharks caught and 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.560 three hundred and thirty five non target animals, not. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.040 All of them were turtles. A lot of them were 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.920 just fish that you'd catch with your line and hook. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.520 So for councils to be advocating for the removal of 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.840 shark nets on some of our most popular beaches, I mean, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.920 including Bondai, their first responsibility is to ratepayers. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.360 I'm not sure turtles pay rates. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.000 No, if I can find a way to make them 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.400 pay rates, they would be who. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.440 Rely on tourism, who swim in those waters. The council 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.600 was responsible first and foremost, in fact, only to protect them. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.080 Everything else is superfluous. Speaking of protecting people, the courts 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.680 are supposed to do that, but increasingly people losing confidence 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.440 in our magistrates and our courts to uphold justice and 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.160 protect victims of crime. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.560 What's happening recently. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.280 Is more and more cases are being dismissed because the 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.840 accused is pleading mental health issues. More than three thousand, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.120 five hundred cases were dropped last year in New South 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.960 Wales alone on mental health grounds. Many of these cases 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:25.120 involving common assault and people breaching AVO orders. But god 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.399 off scot Free. The case is dismissed because, as I said, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.639 the accused said that they had mental health issues and 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.600 the case went no further. Now that's three and a 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.320 half thousand cases dismissed up by one thy two hundred 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.080 just five years ago. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.880 So this is a growing problem. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.359 David Hilpern, a former magistrate, said this is exploiting what 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.000 some people would perceive as a loophole in the law. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:50.920 It's not to. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.320 Suggest there are genuine cases, of course there are with 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.399 people with mental illness, but the threshold for claiming mental 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.760 illness in court is arguably too low. There should be 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:06.960 a greater hurdle than just suffering from a condition. There's 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.880 no question that whether or not a mental health issue 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.000 is present, that doesn't change the fact a crime has 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.639 been committed. It doesn't change the fact that a victim 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.919 has been affected by that crime. And I think this 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.280 is the natural result of pathologizing everything as early as Kindy, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.199 and we've talked about this on the program as recently 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:29.639 as last week. Our children, our teenagers, are being increasingly pathologized. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.200 There's no behavioral issues anymore, there's no personal responsibility. It's 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.640 ADHD or some other issue. I know it personally myself 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.479 because we had a kid who was mucking up at 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.240 school in primary school and the teachers couldn't have tried 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.480 to twist our arm harder if they had help to 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.679 get us to go get a diagnosis, so they'd received 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.880 more funding. So you're continually pathologizing things. Is it any 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.359 wonder if that starts in kindy that eventually you end 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.800 up in our courts with people claiming the same thing. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:57.640 And if you. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.200 Follow this to its logical conclusion, could begin to make 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.960 the argument that every criminal has some kind of mental illness, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.440 because because most of us understand what is right and wrong, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.000 you might, in the case of someone who was caught 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.840 going five compters over the speed limit, say they had. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:15.800 A mental illness. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.439 But most of us understand what is right and wrong, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.679 and so there are clearly people who just have no 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.280 compunction about the fact that what they are doing is wrong, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.800 and so that is in some way a mental illness 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.440 because it's out of the norm of what the rest 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.680 of us experience. So why don't we just say everyone 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.840 is associopath or a psychopath or or whatever it might be, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.960 and they've got a diagnosis for having been so, which 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.440 is why they committed the crime, and so everyone. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:42.200 Gets let off. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.680 Sure, some people are off their brains, they're having mental episodes, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.280 their schizophrenic, whatever it might be, but it doesn't change 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.639 the fact they have committed a crime. And quite often 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.960 you will find it is people who have committed crimes 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.879 while having mental episodes who are the the last people 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.280 who should be allowed out or in the community or 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.560 let off on a crime, because they should be locked 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.400 up somewhere for their own safety as well as everyone else's. 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.639 It's a cop out. And this is happening increasingly now, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.520 and funnily enough, we should note it's happening mostly at 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.439 courts in wealthy suburbs. And why do you think that 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.719 is because they've gone to their lawyer and said, what 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.600 do I do to get off on this? And the 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.080 lawyer said, well, if you're going to get a diagnosis 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.399 and they say you had this mental illness when you 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.199 committed the crime, then you're in a. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:34.520 Much better position to do it. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.879 People who are going to magistrate's courts and whatever in 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:42.600 less socioeconomic suburbs often are self represented, or they've just 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.359 got a duty solicitor of what is that they have 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.000 someone to tell them to go and do this. These 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.840 are people who are being advised clearly to get a 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.400 diagnosis because it'll help you get off on a crime. Well, 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.080 that's not in the spirit of the justice system. Quite 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.640 often it doesn't seem to be a justice system. It's 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.520 a legal system. It's not delivering it all. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.439 Yeah, Section fourteen of the Mental Health Act has to 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.520 be reviewed. That is patently obvious when you look at 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.000 these ridiculous numbers. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.760 But like we say, it's the same with bail laws. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:19.000 These cases come down to a magistrate's judicial discretion. Okay, 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.320 so only that judge has got the full facts of 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.920 any one case. Of course, these are assessed on an 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.720 individual basis. They're looking at all the facts, the crime 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.440 that was committed, the fallout from that crime, how many victims, 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.359 is this person likely to reoffend, is it their first offense? 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.280 And then they're also weighing up the strength or weakness 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.760 of that person's claim to Oh, but I suffer from 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:48.080 poor mental health. Now is that just an extreme case 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:48.840 of anxiety? 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:49.919 We don't know. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:54.280 It's up to the judge to say, look, you may 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:59.639 have a case of ADHD that's quite severe. That doesn't 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:04.520 just what you have done as an example. At the 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.600 end of the day, it comes down to whoever that 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:12.119 judge is and their judicial discretion and once again, we 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.560 the public are sat here going what on earth are 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:20.760 you flogs thinking? Because it's not an instruction. Section fourteen 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.920 is like, well, where's some guidelines. At the end of 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.280 the day, it comes down to the judge. Why are 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:31.320 so many judges, one would think knowingly being taken for 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:31.879 a ride. 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:34.320 The other issue here that we never talk about is 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:38.280 what are we doing with serious mentally ill people. If 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:42.200 you walk around any CBD, whether it's Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:46.439 it's amazing how many people who are clearly not well 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:51.439 are behaving in very odd fashions all around the place. 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.400 No one seems to do everything, everyone walks around them. 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.399 I noticed just this weekend in the CBD police dealing 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.320 with a guy who clearly was not right in his 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.160 mind from moving him on. 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.000 I'm not sure what help. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.240 He gets, let alone what protection there is from the 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:07.719 public from people who clearly aren't right. And that's an 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:09.639 issue that no one wants to talk about. 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.040 No, and it's a disgrace. 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:14.040 I mean, you know, we changed our thinking last century 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:15.720 on how mentally. 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.520 Ill people should be treated. That there used to be asylums, 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:20.320 insane asylums where. 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.400 We locked people up for their benefit and the benefit 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.320 of the rest of society, and at some point we decided, oh, well, 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:27.280 that's not humane. 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.600 We have to allow people to be out in the community. 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:31.159 But again it's not. 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.240 Just about the rest, it's about them as well, because 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:37.120 they often pose a serious risk to themselves and the 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.320 public mental health system is in tatters. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.439 If you go to a hospital. 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:48.040 And try to get treatment for a mental health issue 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:51.040 a public hospital, it's almost impossible. I mean they want 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.840 to get you out the door as fast as possible. 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.600 There was a case in Adelaide last year or the 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.240 year before where there was a bloke who had presented 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:05.679 to hospital with the mental health issues and he was 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:09.880 detained there by police order for fourteen days I think 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:13.040 it was. And then at the end of that fourteen days, 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.879 instead of the hospital telling the police that they were 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:19.120 going to discharge him, they just discharged him. 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:21.200 He just left and he walked out and. 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.480 He went into a real estate agency and he killed someone. Right, 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.960 So the system does not talk. The left hand of 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:30.560 the system does not talk to the right hand. How 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:33.040 do these cases happen? And of course if you are 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:36.320 having issues with mental health, follow the number on the 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:41.359 bottom of the screen. We've talked about Trump derangement syndrome before. 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:42.320 It's a real thing. 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.400 I mean, people who just cannot get it through their 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:49.800 heads that somehow the majority of electors in America would 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.360 think he was the right look to be the president. 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:55.080 Will show you one of those people later in the 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:57.840 program before we leave you tonight. 0:24:57.960 --> 0:24:58.840 It's a great clip. 0:24:58.840 --> 0:24:59.960 You've got to stick around to the end of the 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:02.359 show for that one. But now they've moved on from 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.440 just Trump derangement syndrome. Now they're on board with Elon 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:08.800 Musk derangement syndrome as well, because, of course he and 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.000 his doge mob have been going through the books in 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:14.160 America and cleaning it up and getting rid of government waste. 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:15.159 And they can't believe it. 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.000 I mean, how dare you threaten our public service jobs 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:20.960 and actually try to get some value for the taxpayers 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:24.320 of the United States. So they gathered online over the 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:28.679 weekend in a meeting they call themselves Tesla Takedown, to 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:31.640 talk about exactly how they're going to take down Tesla, 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:36.040 which is, of course the electric vehicle manufacturer owned by 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:38.920 mister Musk. I'll show you some highlights from this meeting. 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:41.760 We'll start with Micah Lee, who is a journalist. 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:42.439 Take a look. 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:46.320 We're a non violent, grassroots protest movement that's focused on 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:50.239 an actual winnable strategy to bring down Elon Musk. If 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:53.240 we kill the Tesla brand, if we drive down the 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:55.680 stock price low enough, we can force him to sell 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.199 his stock to pay back the billions of dollars of 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:00.920 debt that he took on to buy Twitter. This will 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:03.160 drive Tesla stock into a death spiral. 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:06.119 So there you go. That's the plan. We're going to 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:08.880 force him to get out of Tesla. 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.399 How are we going to do that, Well, let's start 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:13.159 with a woman, a professor. 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:17.000 She's a professor memes. Apparently he's her plan. 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:21.800 I study memes, and the most obvious meme nobody's. 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:23.600 Talking about is Elon's black hat. 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:27.000 And he thinks of himself as this black hat hacker 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:30.280 that's broken into the government and socially engineered his way 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:33.520 into the treasury, and he's going to abscond. 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:33.960 With all the data. 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:38.399 It's an obvious data heist, but he believes he's living 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:42.359 a meme. And so we need to be very clear 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:45.520 about what our demands are, about what our bright lines are, 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:49.239 and that we're not going to stop until Tesla is 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:50.440 done with Musk. 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:53.679 He's the richest man in the world and he's just 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:54.440 living in a meme. 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:56.720 You know, he's not aware that he's in the real world. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:27:00.720 Please give me a break, Actor John Cusack, I mean, Charlie, 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:01.840 he puts h may I want it? 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:03.479 Didn't He's a ghoul. 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:10.399 These are unprecedented times of mass criminality going on in 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:15.000 the United States right now, and that, like Trump, Musk 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:20.840 is a pathological liar. He's a criminal, He's a sociopath 0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:21.480 and a ghoul. 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:23.760 He is a criminal. 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:27.320 We shall await the charges. But my personal favorite is 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:28.320 Jasmine Crockett. 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:31.840 She's a US rep. And well, this is why she 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:33.400 wants e Long to go down. 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:36.879 I'll make sure that I keep it short, but I 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:41.600 am truly here for very selfish reasons, starting with on 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:44.840 March twenty ninth, it's my birthday and all I want 0:27:44.920 --> 0:27:47.760 to see happen on my birthday is for Eli to 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:48.760 be taken down. 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:53.240 Yet that's what we want in our elected representatives, isn't 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.800 They have lost the plot because they can't get over 0:27:56.880 --> 0:28:01.159 how effective that mask has actually been with his doge. 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:04.400 It's just blowing their brains that someone's actually gone through 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:06.520 the books, going, hang on a minute, there's a bit 0:28:06.520 --> 0:28:09.240 of waste here. We can do something about. Maybe we've 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:12.160 been running the show improperly for a very long time. 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:13.119 They can't cope with it. 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:15.600 Of course, boasting it, you want to drive Tesla stock 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:20.040 into a quote unquote death spiral. Do they forget that thousands, 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:23.639 maybe millions of Americans have stocks in Tesla, many of 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:27.199 them it's their pension plan. And on top of that, 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:29.439 I think there's about one hundred and twenty thousand people 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:33.320 employed by Tesla's So they're not just talking about hurting 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:36.919 one person because they disagree with him politically. They're talking 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:40.920 about hurting thousands, tens of hundreds of thousands of their 0:28:40.920 --> 0:28:43.360 own countrymen because of their own political bias. 0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:45.240 And it's incredibly popular. 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:48.600 There were like two eight hundred people on this call 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:51.640 at any given time during it. And these are the 0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:56.240 ones who are leading these protests. They want mass protests 0:28:56.560 --> 0:29:01.000 on the twenty ninth of March, not even necessarily in 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:05.160 places where there is a Tesla dealership. Those are being targeted. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:08.040 They're very calculated, but they're like, heck, if you just 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:09.640 want to protest Tesla in the. 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:14.360 Straight as well go for it. These guys know that sixty. 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:18.720 Percent of Elon Musk's wealth is tied up in Tesla, 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:21.040 and if they can make a big enough dent by 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:24.120 people not wanting to buy them anymore lest they be 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:29.640 graffiti less they're carby Molotov cocktailed, as has happened to 0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:34.520 Tesla dealerships across the US at this point, then they're 0:29:34.560 --> 0:29:35.560 going to be successful. 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:38.040 People are too scared to buy them now. 0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:41.560 And the stocks were already falling, and even the current 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:44.600 owners are saying, well, I can't even onsell it because 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:49.280 nobody wants it. They've taken to using stickers that say. 0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:52.520 I bought this Tesla before. Elon Musks, through his. 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:57.440 Weight behind Donald Trump, please don't target mine. The Trump 0:29:57.440 --> 0:30:02.280 administration has talked about classifying these people as domestic. 0:30:01.960 --> 0:30:03.920 Terrorists, and yet here. 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:09.640 They are having an organization call with thousands. 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:12.520 On it, planning their next steps. They were even really. 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:15.800 Instructional, saying don't do the swastikas. We don't want any 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:19.120 more swastikas out into the world. As you will recall, 0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:23.000 Elon was accused of doing a siege hile in a 0:30:23.120 --> 0:30:27.160 ridiculous rally move which was clumsy at best, but they're 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:31.200 still running with this idea of he's a closet Nazi. 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:35.200 Completely unfounded of course. So they're saying, when you graffiti 0:30:35.280 --> 0:30:38.080 these cars, please no swastikas. 0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:42.160 They even suggested to just graffeiti. 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:46.240 Them with a man's private part, that's fine, or some 0:30:46.520 --> 0:30:48.800 expletives that's fine too. 0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:52.000 But no swastikas. They literally got down into the nitty. 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:55.800 Gritty of how to deface people's private property, but. 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.520 Essentially use a form of domestic terrorism because you're the 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:03.760 idea is to discourage people from buying a certain product 0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:06.160 because they're going to make a target of themselves if 0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:09.000 they do that, they're trying to terrorize them like it 0:31:09.160 --> 0:31:10.720 is actually a. 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:11.680 Form of terrorism. 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:13.640 And I'm trying to think of an example of this 0:31:13.960 --> 0:31:15.840 if it were to happen in Australia. And it's almost 0:31:15.840 --> 0:31:18.320 impossible to think that anyone would do anything like this 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.800 in Australia because we just don't do those sorts of 0:31:20.840 --> 0:31:23.040 things here. But if you are saying to someone if 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:27.080 you buy this product, which is a legal or normal 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:30.680 product that until five minutes ago, was like a symbol 0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:33.400 of how great you work, because you were driving around 0:31:33.440 --> 0:31:36.520 in a Tesla electric car. So I'm doing something to 0:31:36.560 --> 0:31:39.400 help the planet, and all of a sudden you're supposedly 0:31:39.520 --> 0:31:42.280 evil for doing it. I mean, do they understand that 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:45.600 they're trying to bring down an electric vehicle manufacturer? 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:47.520 Here we say it wouldn't happen in Australia. 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:51.400 The only Tesla dealership in Tasmania has been vandalized with 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:53.760 this kind of graffiti that has been encouraged in the 0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:56.560 United States, but pretty much these days, if you wear 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:58.239 a Maga hat, and as you said, we'll show an 0:31:58.240 --> 0:32:00.680 instance of someone with a Mega hat being abused a 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:02.760 little later in the program. If you were a Mega 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:06.280 hat or you drive a Tesla, you're almost guaranteed that 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.640 you're begging, making yourself a target. You're begging for chars, 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:14.480 domestic terrorism. They are bullying, humiliating and threatening people to 0:32:14.560 --> 0:32:15.800 make a political point. 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:18.680 And I dare say the magacrowd can take it. But 0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:21.479 the Tesla buyers, who are probably on board with the 0:32:21.840 --> 0:32:25.240 lefty climate cult, they're not cut out for this kind 0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:29.320 of pushback to Victoria now, where you may remember former 0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:32.520 Premier Daniel Andrews and the lead up to the twenty 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:38.520 eighteen election, promised to build Craigieburn Hospital Community Hospital. 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:41.560 And nine others like it. What a way to get votes. 0:32:41.760 --> 0:32:45.520 Who doesn't want more hospitals in their state. As we 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:49.360 know nationwide, no state is doing very well when it 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:53.240 comes to their health portfolio. Well now two of those 0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:57.480 have been built, but they're sitting vacant. 0:32:58.320 --> 0:32:59.640 Nobody's using them. 0:32:59.680 --> 0:33:03.520 They are not open for business, and it's got locals 0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:07.400 wondering what the heck is going on. Quote it's been 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:11.600 sitting abandoned for months now. One local mother wrote on Facebook, 0:33:11.920 --> 0:33:15.280 the lights are on twenty four seven. What a waste 0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:19.000 of electricity. Another local wrote, I would say the state 0:33:19.080 --> 0:33:24.920 government is baroke real broken. To that local, I say 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:26.360 cigar for you, buddy. 0:33:26.480 --> 0:33:29.440 I think you've hit the nail on the head. Now. 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.600 The idea of these extra hospitals was to take the 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:36.320 pressure off the emergency departments in the bigger hospitals. 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:37.720 What a wonderful idea. 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:40.520 But here we are in twenty twenty five and the 0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:44.600 state doesn't have two cents to rub together. It's one 0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:48.200 thing to build it, it's another thing to staff it, 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:53.320 to run it, to actually be a functioning hospital. 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:55.120 They haven't got the shiggy well. 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:56.280 I think you hit the nail on the head. They 0:33:56.360 --> 0:33:57.080 promised to build it. 0:33:57.640 --> 0:34:01.280 Excit over and of course the building it is you 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:05.880 get to wear a high viz vest and hat opportunity 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:09.200 expensive one. But I've got an idea. It doesn't matter 0:34:09.200 --> 0:34:11.880 that these hospitals are empty of patients. Why don't they 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:15.320 use them as juvenile romance centers that could work in Victoria. 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:16.359 Use them. 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:20.400 If someone had told you five years ago that there 0:34:20.440 --> 0:34:23.400 would be a state government somewhere in Australia that would 0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:24.839 build hospitals and then. 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.200 Just shut the gates, leave the lights. 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:29.080 On and not have anyone you would say, oh, come 0:34:29.120 --> 0:34:30.919 on mate again, offered. 0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:32.720 I've said immediately Victoria. 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:34.719 Heah, Victory. Now that that's a very good point. But 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:36.040 how ridiculous. 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:38.680 How can you go to the expense of doing I 0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:41.280 mean that's the most expensive part, is to actually build 0:34:41.320 --> 0:34:43.239 the thing and then you shut the gate and leave 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:45.920 it there. I mean, if you live next door or 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:48.520 you live in the local community and you've been promised 0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:51.239 to hospital, I mean you do expect the front door 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:53.560 to open every now and again, don't you. It's nice 0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:55.560 there to be able to walk past it go oh look, 0:34:55.680 --> 0:34:58.160 we've got a new hospital, but no one goes there. 0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:00.000 That's fine, seriously helpful. 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:01.799 Well maybe they could staff it with some of the 0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:04.879 public servants that the Coalition is going to cut if 0:35:04.880 --> 0:35:07.360 they win office. Of course, Peter Dutton has promised to 0:35:07.400 --> 0:35:11.400 slash thirty six thousand jobs from our bloated public service, 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:15.920 very similar to what Elon Musk is doing in the US. 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:18.000 And Anthony Albanezi. 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:19.520 Is making this sound like the worst thing that could 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:23.200 possibly happen. He's the Prime Minister talking about the coalition's plan. 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:28.959 And the idea that Peter Dutton wants to do. Two 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:33.720 things when it comes to public servants. One questioned working 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:37.560 from home, But secondly he's also said I want you 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:40.759 to be at home seven days of work, twenty four 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:43.319 hours a day because he's going to sack thirty six 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:44.920 thousand public servants. 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:47.920 Hang on, hang on, can I just interrupt. 0:35:48.360 --> 0:35:51.240 I've just learned from the Prime Minister that unemployed people 0:35:51.239 --> 0:35:53.000 are not allowed to leave the house. I didn't know 0:35:53.080 --> 0:35:53.880 that was a thing. 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.920 They trained at home four seven. 0:35:57.160 --> 0:35:59.520 No wonder they're unemployed because they can't go out and. 0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:02.040 Go do The funny thing is someone wrote that line 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:03.960 for him. I thought it was really good and I'm 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:05.480 not sure if it was the delivery that let him 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:08.720 down or the line. But then came Finance Minister Kadie 0:36:08.760 --> 0:36:11.439 Gallagher and she said that if Dutton slashes thirty six 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:14.200 thousand dollars from the public service, it's going to endanger 0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:14.840 the nation. 0:36:15.560 --> 0:36:17.160 She said, defending our. 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:21.320 National interests delivering aucust maintaining a robust immigration system. That 0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:24.200 one is funny. A robust immigration system. I'm not sure 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:27.960 where she thought that one from our veterans. It requires 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:31.239 funding and requires people. The safety is at risk under 0:36:31.280 --> 0:36:34.280 Peter Dutton, who is more obsessed with slashing government jobs. 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:37.160 The reality is the public service has to be resourced 0:36:37.160 --> 0:36:39.360 to do the job we want it to do. Now, this, 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:43.600 of course assumes that Peter Dutton's thirty six thousand jobs 0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:47.719 gone will sort of just be evenly spread across all departments, 0:36:47.719 --> 0:36:50.560 including the defense. So she makes it sound like suddenly 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:53.560 we're not going to have, you know, submariners to We 0:36:53.560 --> 0:36:56.879 don't have submarines, so it doesn't really matter. The thing 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.200 I thought was brilliant and a total own goal here 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:02.160 is in this statement, Calebs, you talked about the fact 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.440 that we are you know, increasing our defense spending as 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:08.680 a percentage of GDP to two point four percent over 0:37:08.719 --> 0:37:11.839 the next decade, which is hardly anything at all. 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:12.480 Yes. 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:14.960 And in addition, if we're cutting public servants from the 0:37:15.000 --> 0:37:17.680 defense forces, isn't just a couple of weeks ago, Liz, 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:21.160 that our defense force were unaware a Chinese warship was 0:37:21.200 --> 0:37:24.160 firing live rounds off the coast of Sydney. So maybe 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:26.759 there are some people who, you know, maybe shouldn't be. 0:37:26.800 --> 0:37:30.920 And also we can't recruit any speaking of numbers, lady, 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:34.279 because you guys outsource the ADFS. 0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:36.640 Recruitment to a jolly Swiss company. 0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:40.440 And it's interesting that they're using this like they're treating 0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:42.879 this public servant issue the labor party as though it's 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:46.000 like a major election issue, which I met thirty six 0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:48.600 thousand people. There are something like one in seven people 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:50.560 in this country who work in the public service, but 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:52.799 most of them are at the state level, they're not 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.600 at the federal level. But they're trying to tug on 0:37:55.680 --> 0:37:58.400 those people and make them think, like, you know, your 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:01.640 number could be up tomorrow, You're going to lose your job. 0:38:01.920 --> 0:38:04.879 And that's why labor governments in particular want a big 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:07.360 public service because if you've got to rely on the 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:10.640 government for your money, my guess I'd better vote for 0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:11.279 the mob that's going. 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:11.919 To keep my job. 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:13.680 Indeed will in a moment, we'll look at what's making 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:16.120 news tomorrow, and of course all the talk is about 0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:19.120 how Jim Chalmers will deliver his budget tomorrow night. 0:38:19.560 --> 0:38:21.280 We look at what they're saying in just a moment. 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:31.440 Well, with Jim Chalmers bringing down his budget tomorrow night, 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:34.040 as you can imagine, most of tomorrow's news will center 0:38:34.160 --> 0:38:35.719 on the budget and finances. 0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:37.759 Liz, you've got the Daily Telegraph, I do. 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:40.000 Indeed, will it make any difference. 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:40.760 To these guys? 0:38:40.920 --> 0:38:45.160 Gen Z hit hardest by tax brackets creeping US out 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:48.560 reads the slash. Young people are being hit the hardest 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:51.839 by bracket creep, with gen Z and millennial full time 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:55.759 workers on a median wage paying up to three five 0:38:55.840 --> 0:39:00.480 hundred more income tax now than three years ago age 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:03.960 fifteen to thirty four will experience the biggest jumps in 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:06.600 how much of their wage goes to the tax office 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:10.000 in percentage items sorry, percentage terms. 0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:11.520 According to new. 0:39:11.320 --> 0:39:15.680 Coalition analysis, young professionals like Manly couple, which you can 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:19.440 see there in the picture. Hannah Maxwell and Matthew Nicole, 0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:23.120 both twenty one, say current tax rates can be daunting 0:39:23.600 --> 0:39:27.480 in a costs crunch. Yeah, I don't suspect any relief 0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:30.960 will be coming there anytime soon. I've always thought that 0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:32.600 our tax bracket. 0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:35.520 System here is utter nonsense. 0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:38.440 The fact that someone on as little as forty five 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:43.920 k excuse me, forty five K and one dollar our 0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:46.920 tax the same percentage as someone on one hundred and 0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:47.799 thirty five K. 0:39:48.400 --> 0:39:49.840 No one can make that math work. 0:39:50.600 --> 0:39:53.279 And I can't believe this hasn't been an issue that 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:56.440 the Coalition has run with so much more. 0:39:56.360 --> 0:39:59.400 Because bracket creep is the dirty secret. 0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:02.080 Right governments have used this, and this is why the 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:04.120 Coalition hasn't talked about it, because they've been guilty of 0:40:04.160 --> 0:40:06.920 it too, and have used this for a very long 0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:09.399 time to just claw in more and more of your 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:11.919 money without actually having to tell you. 0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:13.480 That they're going to tax you anymore. 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:16.520 And it does disproportionately hurt young people. 0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:18.399 I've been saying this for some time. 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:21.000 That was the biggest problem with the changes that Labor 0:40:21.040 --> 0:40:23.279 made to the Stage three tax cuts, where they didn't 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.160 get rid of the thirty seven and a half cent 0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:28.239 tax bracket because it is young people who will have 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.600 career progression in the next decade who will see more 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.719 of their money eaten up by bracket creep. Now, I 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:37.960 know Paul went through some numbers in his program before 0:40:38.040 --> 0:40:40.439 us about how much government spending has gone up and 0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:43.200 government apartments have gone up in the last twenty years. 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:45.960 I'll give you some numbers over the last ten years. 0:40:46.280 --> 0:40:50.920 Income tax receipts this financial year so this we'll hear 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:54.320 some of this in the budget tomorrow night are expected 0:40:54.360 --> 0:40:57.560 to be four hundred and ninety six billion dollars. 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:01.799 That's double what it was ten years ago. 0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:05.600 Right, So, how in that period of time do you 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:10.480 manage to increase your income tax receipts by that much? 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:14.400 The working population has increased by twenty five percent in 0:41:14.440 --> 0:41:18.360 that same period, and yet we have doubled the income 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:19.240 tax receipts. 0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:21.919 How do you do it? You do it by bracket cream. 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:25.839 People earn more money naturally, inflation goes up, which means 0:41:25.880 --> 0:41:28.240 they earn more money in their wages because their wages 0:41:28.320 --> 0:41:29.719 have to go up to match it, and then the 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:30.640 government cashes in. 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:33.799 It is a joke. Something has to be done about it. 0:41:33.880 --> 0:41:36.240 Well, this story talking about how it affects younger people 0:41:36.320 --> 0:41:39.640 comes from analysis done by the Coalition. The Coalition are 0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:42.680 always struggling to attract younger voters. It's amazing to me 0:41:42.760 --> 0:41:44.400 they haven't made an issue of this and come up 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.600 with an idea to help young people out. 0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:48.640 So hope they run with it now. Now, of course, 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:52.600 tomorrow will be the bouget and we will find out 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:55.040 what Jim Sharma's has heated up for us in the 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:58.920 Microwavey will be here at eleven PM to talk it 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:01.000 all through. I hope you can make it through. I 0:42:01.080 --> 0:42:03.200 know it's a long time, but we will give you 0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:06.360 the entertaining analysis of the budget when you get to 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:08.000 us at eleven, because you'll be sitting there with a 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:09.680 glass of red and you'll be ready for a bit 0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:11.920 of fun with it. That's exactly what we'll give you. 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:14.239 But the papers tomorrow are alluding to some of what 0:42:14.360 --> 0:42:17.160 will be in the budget. The Canberra Times says back 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:20.880 for the future, Treasure Jim Charmers sees one hundred and 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:23.920 seventy seven billion dollar debt turnaround will enable the federal 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:27.120 government to invest in the future. Today's budget papers will 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:30.360 forecast gross debt of nine hundred and forty billion dollars 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:32.839 for this financial year, down from the one point one 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:36.160 trillion dollars forecast at the twenty twenty two election, a 0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:39.920 reduction for one hundred and seventy seven billion dollars in 0:42:40.160 --> 0:42:44.239 real terms. Hooray, the debt is slightly less big than 0:42:44.280 --> 0:42:45.319 we thought it was going to be. 0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:47.520 That's a win for mister Charmers. 0:42:47.640 --> 0:42:49.640 Dr Charmers, I should say before he writes in a 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:54.240 complaint over on the odds tomorrow they say ALP's fiscal reckoning. 0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:58.040 Debt to GDP rises amid pre elections burge, decade of 0:42:58.239 --> 0:43:01.520 deficits looming Jim Charmers dead outlook has worsened a mid 0:43:01.520 --> 0:43:04.640 a pre election spending splurge of more than sixty seven 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:08.400 billion dollars in three months, with both both sorry gross 0:43:08.480 --> 0:43:11.800 debt as a percentage of GDP and it's expected peak 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:15.760 projected to be higher than forecast in last year's federal budget. 0:43:15.760 --> 0:43:16.560 Analysis by The. 0:43:16.560 --> 0:43:19.680 Australian reveals Treasury figures in Tuesday's budget are expected to 0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:22.040 show gross debt as a percentage of GDP in twenty 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:24.880 twenty four to twenty five will be higher than predicted 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:27.879 in the May twenty twenty four budget, and in December's 0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:31.239 mid year budget update it just gets better and better. 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:33.960 It'll be thirty seven percent of GDP, up from thirty 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:37.520 five point two percent that was forecast by Treasury ten 0:43:37.719 --> 0:43:40.600 months ago. They're going to try and I think they're 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:42.640 going to try and make this a cost of living 0:43:42.680 --> 0:43:45.080 budget as much as they can tomorrow, because it's the 0:43:45.120 --> 0:43:47.360 only thing they can do to try and get a 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.160 win out of it going into an election. 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:50.960 Let's throw some cash around. 0:43:51.320 --> 0:43:54.520 Ie will extend the power of subsidies and another one 0:43:54.560 --> 0:43:55.400 hundred and fifty. 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:56.400 Dollars off will P. 0:43:57.040 --> 0:44:00.040 But we haven't heard a lot actually licked out of 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.279 this budget yet, so it makes you think, how much 0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:03.600 are we really going to learn tomorrow? 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:05.480 Well, I wonder if not much has been leaked because 0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:08.040 Jim Chalmers wasn't thinking he would need to deliver this, 0:44:08.160 --> 0:44:11.920 but it was only because of cyclone Elfred. I'm pretty 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:15.200 sure that this budget is being brought down tomorrow night. 0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:17.239 The other question is whether this is a budget for 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:19.560 the next few years or whether this is a budget 0:44:19.560 --> 0:44:22.879 for the next five weeks, because for the government, that's 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:26.200 really the only thing that matters is getting across. 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:29.160 The line at an election in May, and of. 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:33.480 Course Thursday night, when Peter Dutton delivers his response. So 0:44:33.640 --> 0:44:37.200 far the Coalition have just matched spend for spend. Did 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:40.600 you say, it's seventy sixty seven billion dollars promised in 0:44:40.600 --> 0:44:43.360 the last three months, and there's been not much to 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:47.640 separate Labor and the Liberal Party. Everything Albanezi promises, Peter 0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:50.960 Dutton says, we'll do the same, which might be smart politics, 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:53.600 but I'm not sure it's great for our fiscal situation. 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:54.640 No, not at all. 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:57.720 And those who are fiscally minded are rightly going, oh great, 0:44:57.800 --> 0:44:59.560 it's tweet al ed and tweet all dumb. 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:01.600 I know we've got to rein this in. 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:04.560 It was Milton Friedman who said that when it comes 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:08.200 to government spending, you and I are the problem because 0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:12.880 we incentivize governments to promise all in sundry free ice 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:16.480 creams for roll you get a pony, all this free 0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:19.160 stuff that our children's children then. 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:22.040 Have to pay for. But they do it every election. 0:45:21.880 --> 0:45:26.440 Cycle because what else gets votes not much, if any, 0:45:26.600 --> 0:45:30.040 Although I dare say a lot of fiscally minded ossies 0:45:30.360 --> 0:45:31.600 would actually love. 0:45:31.480 --> 0:45:33.760 To hear one of these national. 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:36.960 Leaders talk like, all right, kids, we've got to tighten 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:39.200 our belts. We've got to pull our socks up. This 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:45.320 is for future generations. I'm going full Doge style. Why 0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:47.200 is the penny not yet dropped? 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:47.880 That? 0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:52.280 Actually that will get you votes in today's environment. 0:45:51.960 --> 0:45:54.479 And that did, as you say, passes on to younger 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:56.640 people who will eventually have to pay back, and they're 0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:58.640 the ones who are having more and more of their income. 0:45:58.640 --> 0:45:59.799 Take it away and break it creep. 0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:01.719 Want to be a young person in Australia. 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:02.240 Seriously. 0:46:02.480 --> 0:46:04.200 There is one thing though, before we go to a 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:06.920 break that they aren't going to spend more money on. 0:46:07.040 --> 0:46:09.520 Funnily enough, what do you think it is? Defense? 0:46:09.840 --> 0:46:12.960 Maybe will defire the Trump administration's calls for a substantial 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:16.840 boost to Australia's military spending, sticking to its current funding 0:46:16.880 --> 0:46:20.280 trajectory in Tuesday's federal budget while bringing forward a billion 0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:22.520 dollars for submarine. 0:46:22.000 --> 0:46:22.960 And missile program. 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:26.160 So there is something that this government doesn't want to 0:46:26.200 --> 0:46:27.080 spend more money on. 0:46:27.120 --> 0:46:28.279 We should be on. 0:46:28.360 --> 0:46:30.279 This was to be the one thing that is the 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:31.600 most important thing. 0:46:31.680 --> 0:46:32.760 I mean, isn't it brilliant? 0:46:32.840 --> 0:46:34.560 You've had a dollar for every time they said, oh, 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:37.920 it's very uncertain geopolitical times. At the moment you'd be 0:46:37.960 --> 0:46:39.920 able to afford those nuclear stufs. We're going to go 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:42.919 to a break where we come back that maga hat 0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:46.480 that was tried to someone trying to steal it, But 0:46:46.840 --> 0:46:48.960 karma too begins, toll will show you that it is 0:46:48.960 --> 0:46:55.319 the moment. Well, everyone knows the Teals were elected on 0:46:55.360 --> 0:46:59.720 a promise to restore integrity to politics. So how's that going, Monique? 0:46:59.800 --> 0:47:02.520 Right from the seat of Couyong. Well, her husband Peter 0:47:02.640 --> 0:47:06.560 Jordan was filmed taking down the sign of a political opponent, 0:47:06.640 --> 0:47:10.719 which maybe suggests the Teals should be called the Steals. 0:47:12.320 --> 0:47:16.160 So hang on, mate, what are you doing? I'm taking 0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:16.560 the sign? 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:19.279 Yeah, I beg your pardon. I'm taking the sign out. 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:22.360 What are you doing that for? It's on public land and. 0:47:24.080 --> 0:47:25.040 I'm not saying who I am? 0:47:25.120 --> 0:47:25.520 Who are you? 0:47:25.600 --> 0:47:26.839 Or you're wearing a Teal t shirt. 0:47:27.360 --> 0:47:28.680 I'll start to film you. 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:33.000 Are you, Monic Ryan supporter of ripping down people's people's signs? 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:33.239 Are you? 0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:36.680 Is that what you're doing? That belongs to me? 0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:38.160 Hey, you can take it off the property, but it 0:47:38.239 --> 0:47:38.719 belongs to me. 0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:41.520 If it goes back up it'll be taken down again. 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:43.239 There you go, Monique Ryan, There you go. 0:47:43.800 --> 0:47:44.960 Community values. 0:47:46.000 --> 0:47:47.760 I love the way they ask you. Are you a 0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:50.680 teal supporter? Nah nah nah No, I'm just her husband. 0:47:51.320 --> 0:47:53.279 He put out a statement later in the day saying, 0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:55.760 I apologize for the removal of the sign. It should 0:47:55.800 --> 0:47:59.040 not have happened. All concerns around signage should be reported 0:47:59.160 --> 0:48:01.720 to count So I reckon he's learned his lesson. 0:48:02.800 --> 0:48:06.600 They're not sorry they did it. They're sorry they got caught. 0:48:07.320 --> 0:48:10.080 But check out this case of karma on a New 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:12.279 York subway just goes. 0:48:12.040 --> 0:48:14.239 To show trumped arrangement syndrome. 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:17.560 Despite the vast majority of Americans voting for the man 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:40.840 is still alive and well. 0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:34.360 The Democrat. 0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:55.920 The bigger they are, the harder they fall. 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:59.800 I mean, she face planted, she ate concrete. 0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:03.759 That is the perfect example of f around and find out, 0:49:03.880 --> 0:49:07.040 isn't it. That is just so chef's kiss perfect. Let's 0:49:07.040 --> 0:49:07.960 hope that happens to a. 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:08.680 Few more of them. Mate. 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:10.840 That was pretty much a metaphor for the US election. 0:49:11.400 --> 0:49:14.319 He was Trump, she was Kamala Harris. That's all we've 0:49:14.320 --> 0:49:16.800 got time for tonight. We'll be on at eleven pm 0:49:16.960 --> 0:49:19.399 tomorrow night, look forward to your company. Then right now, 0:49:19.440 --> 0:49:22.480 here's rid of Penny.