Speaker 1: On Scorn Loves Australia.
Speaker 2: This is the Wider Panalty Show.
Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panety Show. Coming
Speaker 3: up tonight, will Peter Dutton rediscover his voice mojo as
Speaker 3: the Liberals lose momentum and the lead up to the
Speaker 3: federal election. Adam Crichton will be here to discuss that
Speaker 3: and plenty more. Kosher Gator will have the latest on
Speaker 3: the tariffs as the EU seeks to negotiate a fresh
Speaker 3: deal with the White House. Alex Stein will have the
Speaker 3: latest from the US, including shopping revelations about the trans
Speaker 3: national school shooter, and later in the hour, Colleen Parkin
Speaker 3: will join me to discuss some of the radical racial
Speaker 3: politics infecting Australian universities and will play your audio of
Speaker 3: a University of Queensland law lecturer for rating first year
Speaker 3: students and left he's losing It features this anti trumper
Speaker 3: wanting to know who's going to pay for her therapy.
Speaker 4: So here's what I want to know as an American
Speaker 4: for this repeated trauma that I'm going through and the
Speaker 4: rest of the world, to be quite honest, asking for
Speaker 4: the world, who do we send our therapy bill to.
Speaker 3: But first we'll start with the fallout from Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: tariff strategy and thanks to Labour's reckless economic mismanagement over
Speaker 3: the last three years, Australia may have to face the
Speaker 3: recession while in a weak fiscal position. The economic term
Speaker 3: all in recent days saw more than one hundred billion
Speaker 3: white from the ASEX two hundred on Monday, and the
Speaker 3: Australian dollar dropped under sixty US cents for the first
Speaker 3: time since April twenty twenty. But it's not all bad news.
Speaker 3: In fact, mortgage holders are set to benefit from the tariffs,
Speaker 3: with a seventy percent chance of a fifty basis point
Speaker 3: rate cut in May that will certainly ease loan repayments.
Speaker 3: Here's what Treasurer Jim Chalmers had to say.
Speaker 5: Markets are now expecting around four intrast rate cuts in
Speaker 5: Australia this calendar year. There's even a more than even
Speaker 5: money expectation in the markets, more than fifty percent expectation
Speaker 5: in the markets that the next Reserve Bank interest rate
Speaker 5: cut in May might be as big as fifty basis points.
Speaker 3: Joining me now for more on this. A senior fellow
Speaker 3: and chief economists at the Institute of Public Affairs Adam
Speaker 3: Kricht and Adam the Australian government continues to overspend. That's
Speaker 3: something we'll discuss. But on a household level, a half
Speaker 3: a percent rate cut would just be a godsend right
Speaker 3: now with the cost of living pressures we're facing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly, that's right.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's one of the ironies of the super
Speaker 6: hysterical reaction for these tariff cuts is that actually, for
Speaker 6: the ordinary punter out there, you may have four interst
Speaker 6: rate cuts this year, and not only that, you've got
Speaker 6: the price of petrols fall and fifteen percent I think
Speaker 6: in three days, So both of those key costs could
Speaker 6: be coming down for ordinary people. But as you say,
Speaker 6: the government here is really not prepared for this heightened
Speaker 6: geopolitical uncertainty, the heightened economic uncertainty. We've got taxes going up,
Speaker 6: we've got spending going up, we've got get going up.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 6: I know the Prime Minister and the Treasurer say, oh,
Speaker 6: we're so well prepared, but you know one thing that
Speaker 6: is worrying, and that is the effect of these possible
Speaker 6: tariffs on China. We've seen the price of iron ore
Speaker 6: drop significantly. That is our biggest export this could hasten
Speaker 6: the end of the resource boom, and if that is
Speaker 6: the case, we need to batten down the hatches and
Speaker 6: get serious.
Speaker 3: We may have to start approving a few projects a
Speaker 3: little bit quicker than the ten to fifteen years it
Speaker 3: can take to go through all the green and red
Speaker 3: and sometimes black tape as well. Now, the Liberals have
Speaker 3: continued to self combust. This week they dumped one of
Speaker 3: their own candidates for having the same opinions as their
Speaker 3: shadow Defense Minister. Benjamin Britain. The Liberal candidate for the
Speaker 3: New South Wales seat of Whitlam, was disendorsed by the
Speaker 3: party for saying that the Defense Force needs to remove
Speaker 3: females from combat roles in order to fix the military,
Speaker 3: in line with similar comments made by Andrew Hasty in
Speaker 3: the past. Adam, this is just more evidence of how
Speaker 3: weak the coalition is. That you're not back their own
Speaker 3: They do not back their own position and arguments. They
Speaker 3: don't tackle these difficult debates they submit no.
Speaker 6: Certainly, I thought the Liberal Party was supposed to be
Speaker 6: a so called broad church. Well this is not showing
Speaker 6: much evidence of being a broad church. I mean that
Speaker 6: fellow's views, I said, he said I think that women
Speaker 6: should not be in some combat roles. Well, that's a
Speaker 6: view that more than fifty percent of Australians probably not.
Speaker 3: In those combat roles. Most men wouldn't qualify to be
Speaker 3: in them.
Speaker 6: That is certainly true. But the point is, I mean,
Speaker 6: he's not saying anything too extreme. And the other so
Speaker 6: called extreme view was he was anti lockdown and he
Speaker 6: was anti compulsory vaccination from the COVID vaccines.
Speaker 3: On the right side of his street.
Speaker 6: So basically he's been right about everything and he just
Speaker 6: holds normal views. So I don't know why they've done that.
Speaker 6: They've just kind of wrong footed the campaign.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 6: There's always media focus on that and it really should
Speaker 6: be on the government and its failings.
Speaker 3: Now to the coalition's other major bungle this way and
Speaker 3: the part is messy. Retraction of its plan to have
Speaker 3: public servants stop working from home has left liberal MPs
Speaker 3: dismayed and angry at how badly public sentiment on the
Speaker 3: issue was misread. Multiple backbenches have privately revealed the coalition's
Speaker 3: plan to get the majority of Canberra federal public servants
Speaker 3: back into the office had proven toxic in their electorates,
Speaker 3: as many voters did not realize that policy only applied
Speaker 3: to bureaucrats and not to ordinary workers. Adam, this is
Speaker 3: again a problem, a failure in messaging, in failing to
Speaker 3: communicate a policy that actually should be hugely popular. I
Speaker 3: don't recall Premier Chris Mince having many problems with this
Speaker 3: when he campaigned on it before he became New South
Speaker 3: Wales premier.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, that is true. It should have been so
Speaker 6: much better. Although, just to briefly blow my own trumpet,
Speaker 6: I did say a month ago on Q and A
Speaker 6: that this policy would not work politically, and it hasn't
Speaker 6: because they haven't been able to sell it properly. Sadly,
Speaker 6: work from home is very popular with a lot of people,
Speaker 6: and they thought that this policy applied to them. Of
Speaker 6: course it did not, as you suggested, only about the
Speaker 6: public service. But you know, people don't pay much attention
Speaker 6: to politicians into politics, especially this election campaign, which, let's
Speaker 6: face it is a bit of a snooze fest.
Speaker 3: It is, and the Labor Party and their activists of
Speaker 3: which there are many in the media, when hard on
Speaker 3: this policy. This was anti female, it was misogynist. It
Speaker 3: was going to set female workers back decades. I mean
Speaker 3: the hyperbole employed was extraordinary, but it's work. They've backtracked
Speaker 3: on a key policy. Now let's check in with how
Speaker 3: the election campaign is playing out on social media. We'll
Speaker 3: look at some Labor Party ads. I've got to say
Speaker 3: that they are creative. You've got to give them that.
Speaker 3: We'll start off with Environment Minister Tania Plebisex shed They
Speaker 3: had this to say, so apparently.
Speaker 6: Peter doesn't stand a backflip on working from home. Who
Speaker 6: believes that he can change what he says, but he
Speaker 6: can't change.
Speaker 1: Who he is authorized perics and ALP camera.
Speaker 3: Now that was a bit more conventional. That's the sort
Speaker 3: of ad we expect. Let's have a look at some
Speaker 3: of the more wacky, bizarre or this time, I think
Speaker 3: they're attempting to portray Albow or some kind of I
Speaker 3: don't know, alpha male heartthrop M, lock up your wives.
Speaker 3: I don't know what. I don't know who that's targeting.
Speaker 3: Here's Elbow dropping some mad beats. These are official ads, people,
Speaker 3: official ads.
Speaker 8: They are.
Speaker 1: Completely authorized per ALP camera.
Speaker 3: And Labor are not above a little bit of election misinformation.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: The problem Pit is.
Speaker 8: All no no, no, no to tax cuts.
Speaker 4: No to help in the cost of living.
Speaker 3: Coming shouldn't debt.
Speaker 6: He's a note of everything unless it's big long lunches
Speaker 6: for bosses.
Speaker 3: Then he's a massive Yes.
Speaker 1: Authorized perics and alp camera and the Greens.
Speaker 3: We should never forget the Greens. Let's have a look
Speaker 3: at this effort. Yeah, they want to know.
Speaker 10: Authorized by ACROF for the Greens, New South Wales, Sydney.
Speaker 3: I've got a pause for some sort of commentary there.
Speaker 3: What was that, Adam?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 3: Look what are the green smoking?
Speaker 12: Look?
Speaker 6: I just think taken collectively, if these ads are effective,
Speaker 6: it's a reminder that we have to get rid of
Speaker 6: compulsory very soon.
Speaker 3: But let him cook one.
Speaker 6: I mean he's been cooking for three years that the
Speaker 6: dish is not particularly tasty. But no, maybe, but maybe
Speaker 6: people like this stuff. But overall it's a sad indictment
Speaker 6: on our politics, isn't it.
Speaker 3: These ads are pathetic, are pathetic, But there's ones that
Speaker 3: are having cuts through on social media. As we know,
Speaker 3: social media is where people are absorbing so much of
Speaker 3: their news. It's not just young people anymore. We're talking
Speaker 3: to people fifty and under and increasingly over fifty as well.
Speaker 3: This is where you can reach people who are not
Speaker 3: that engaged, and this is a sort of nonsense reaching them.
Speaker 3: Let's have a look at what a conservative activist group,
Speaker 3: Advance has been up to.
Speaker 1: Forget you Pal, thanks for nothing?
Speaker 3: Shall I say, forget you Pal, thanks for nothing?
Speaker 2: And I start right out of there.
Speaker 7: That's talent them.
Speaker 12: Homer, authorized by Sandra Berg, Advance Australia Camera.
Speaker 3: I've got to say Advance are a lot more clever
Speaker 3: than whoever's doing the liberals ads. And I would just
Speaker 3: stay far were them my maxim phone calls and collaborate
Speaker 3: because they are just putting ads together, whether they're social
Speaker 3: media ads or mainstream media ads that actually are huge.
Speaker 3: They're not cringey and just so predictable.
Speaker 6: And everyone loves the Simpsons to the Simpsons illusion.
Speaker 3: It's kind of our generation. Maybe that's so we like it.
Speaker 6: But you know, generally the two major parties are so
Speaker 6: close together that you just get these sorts of ads
Speaker 6: kind of adds about nothing. So it's really an indictment
Speaker 6: on both the major parties.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Rising tide has struck again. Earlier today, a climate protest
Speaker 3: a disrupted at press conference about mental health to heckle
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister.
Speaker 11: When it came to working from home and the sacking
Speaker 11: of forty one thousand public services.
Speaker 7: And and I haven't been.
Speaker 3: Adam. These folk will never be happy. I mean, how
Speaker 3: much more green can the Australian government be? But they're
Speaker 3: still carrying on like that. I'm surprised we're not having
Speaker 3: masses of them super gluing themselves to the streets because
Speaker 3: we saw that for several years.
Speaker 6: Well look, I thought it was ironic that she was
Speaker 6: crashing a mental health sum because if there's any evidence
Speaker 6: of a mental health crisis, it's surely that woman.
Speaker 3: I mean, not passing any sort of judgments on her
Speaker 3: mental health. Let me just say that in case, just
Speaker 3: particularly now. Of course, now this is worry news for
Speaker 3: Peter Dutton anth now but easy as we know, strengthening
Speaker 3: his position in the polls as preferred leader and the
Speaker 3: negative feedback from voters is very interesting on Peter Dutton.
Speaker 3: Now let's take this with a grain of salt because
Speaker 3: this is Labor Commission focus groups that I'm about to
Speaker 3: quote from. But these are some of the words that
Speaker 3: these people in these focused groups have used to describe
Speaker 3: the Liberal leader. They include extreme creepy, agro charmless too, trumpy,
Speaker 3: looks better with glasses and a banker with a w
Speaker 3: AM I allowed to say that on television. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure do we take this seriously. I mean, certainly the
Speaker 3: polls show that Anthony Alberanese is increasing his lead, but
Speaker 3: I would suggest that's not because he looks scary Peter Dutton.
Speaker 3: It's just because we're not hearing much from him. That
Speaker 3: differentiates the coalition from what we already have, and.
Speaker 6: I think the coalition should be taking advantage of this persona.
Speaker 6: I mean, he comes across as stern and serious and authoritative,
Speaker 6: and these are uncertain times, so that should be working.
Speaker 6: But sadly it's not so far with the coalition.
Speaker 3: Well, what can they do to turn things around? We
Speaker 3: saw how successful Peter Dutton was in turning around those
Speaker 3: poll numbers and getting the voice vote defeated, getting the
Speaker 3: referendum defeated. How can he tap back into that, Peter Dutton,
Speaker 3: because that's been missing, I've got to say in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, because there was a stark difference, there was
Speaker 6: a real choice. I think so far in this campaign
Speaker 6: there's not really a real choice I mean the issues
Speaker 6: are fairly minor. I think if they want to turn
Speaker 6: the tie, they need a big announcement that gets everyone's attention,
Speaker 6: and it's going to be controversial, you know. I think
Speaker 6: we get the IPA would suggest say that we're going
Speaker 6: to dump net zero. That's what the Tories did in
Speaker 6: the UK. They've done it, They've announced it. It's not
Speaker 6: economically or even scientifically possible, so we may as well
Speaker 6: dump it and let's have the argument.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, let's have the debate. It's a cost of living election,
Speaker 3: and cost of living is impacted greatly by energy costs,
Speaker 3: so absolutely, that would be a battleground that I think
Speaker 3: he could win. Adam Christ And thank you for your
Speaker 3: time tonight.
Speaker 7: Thanks Reda.
Speaker 3: Well, here is a case of HUTSBA. China is accusing
Speaker 3: the US of bullying after America's slapped tariffs on Beijing,
Speaker 3: and Old Trump has made it clear that he will
Speaker 3: impose additional tariffs on China if they impose retaliatory tariffs.
Speaker 8: They put a thirty four percent tariff on above what
Speaker 8: their ridiculous tariffs were already, and I said of that
Speaker 8: tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at twelve o'clock. We're putting
Speaker 8: a fifty percent teriff on above the tariffs.
Speaker 9: That we put on.
Speaker 3: This comes as countries scrambled to make deals with the
Speaker 3: White House, offering to remove tariffs on US products in
Speaker 3: return for relief from US tariffs. Joining me now is
Speaker 3: Guyanese contributor Kosher Gata. Kosher China, which uses economic coersion
Speaker 3: to bully smaller countries, is seriously claiming to be bullied here.
Speaker 3: It's rich and they impose these tariffs on countries around
Speaker 3: the world, so for them to be upset about this.
Speaker 3: It's one thing for Australia to be upset, but China
Speaker 3: is not really embrace free trade as we know it.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of stagecraft going on in this issue
Speaker 12: that's rocked the world obviously, and between the US and China,
Speaker 12: which is a special part of this whole trade what
Speaker 12: that's happening, It really is the battle of the century
Speaker 12: between the two superpowers.
Speaker 3: And if we're.
Speaker 12: Moving towards a multipolar world, which is what Tiam Trump
Speaker 12: actually does believe in, which no longer going to be
Speaker 12: a single superpower, but China is going to be a
Speaker 12: fellow superpower. It has to be recalibrated and tariffs is
Speaker 12: where this battle is coming to a head. So they're
Speaker 12: jockeying against it with each other. And what they're after
Speaker 12: is obviously trade balance where they're both doing ten to
Speaker 12: twelve percent of trade with each other. But if you
Speaker 12: add indirect trade that US bound, China relies on the
Speaker 12: US more. So that's the leverage that Trump is imposing.
Speaker 12: The leverage that China has is that a lot of
Speaker 12: the supply chains that sit there for vital goods from
Speaker 12: fertilizer to penicillin, and they know that semiconductors, et cetera
Speaker 12: hard to bring that back overnight. And so this is
Speaker 12: where you're kind of seeing the rubber hit the road.
Speaker 12: It could spill out into arenas beyond even tariffs and trades,
Speaker 12: which is restricting immigration or student visas. We're not anywhere
Speaker 12: near there yet, but I would not be surprised if
Speaker 12: all of that gets put on the table.
Speaker 3: The supply Chin issue is enormous, isn't it, because successive
Speaker 3: leaders have really neglected that area. I think during COVID
Speaker 3: we realize how dependent we were on China and how
Speaker 3: dangerous that was, and it's something that has to be
Speaker 3: addressed whoever's in the White House. You cannot have vital
Speaker 3: goods dependent on China. You've got to be self sufficient
Speaker 3: enough that your penicillin doesn't have to come via China
Speaker 3: or a portion of it come from China.
Speaker 12: And that is something to write that. COVID really put
Speaker 12: that in the spotlight, and the US has a lot
Speaker 12: of economic mate to wield in that regard, but it
Speaker 12: is a lesson for everybody, including Australia.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now, au nations are ready to negotiate with the US.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from the European Commission President.
Speaker 13: We stand ready to negotiate with the United States. Indeed,
Speaker 13: we have offered zero for zero tariffs for industrial goods,
Speaker 13: as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,
Speaker 13: because Europe is always ready for a good deal, so
Speaker 13: we keep it on the table, but we are also
Speaker 13: prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.
Speaker 3: It's interesting they have offered zero for zero tariffs for
Speaker 3: industrial goods. Is that going to be enough for Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: Or is that too narrow?
Speaker 12: It feels like it's a start, and it happened awfully quickly.
Speaker 12: I think Madame Ursula over there, you know, talks about
Speaker 12: it as, ah, this is something we do all the time.
Speaker 3: It's no big deal.
Speaker 12: She didn't do it last week or last month or
Speaker 12: last year when she could have. Look, it's a start.
Speaker 12: I think what Trump is after is twofold. One is reciprocity,
Speaker 12: so the zero for zero is one shape that that
Speaker 12: could take. The other is actually trade balance, where the
Speaker 12: number of things that are present in the market here
Speaker 12: that come from Europe is somewhat reciprocal in terms of
Speaker 12: the trade that we do there. So he talks about
Speaker 12: how US streets are flooded with European and Japanese cars.
Speaker 12: The reverse is not true, for instance, so that will
Speaker 12: take longer. Where the tariffs even the playing field enough
Speaker 12: that step two is that hopefully the Europeans are actually
Speaker 12: importing more American goods, which helps to go towards reindustrializing America,
Speaker 12: which is.
Speaker 3: Ultimately his coal now a massive wind for the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: In the Supreme Court lifting a lower court order that
Speaker 3: blocked the deportation of Venezuela and Gang bang Is, among others.
Speaker 3: Kosher was a five to four decision. Amy Coney Barrett,
Speaker 3: who Donald Trump appointed in his first term, sided with
Speaker 3: the three leftists in the court, tell me about this victory,
Speaker 3: what it means for the deportation plan and the commentary
Speaker 3: around Coney Barrett. A lot of people are saying she's
Speaker 3: Donald Trump's biggest mistake.
Speaker 12: A lot of people from the Trump base are not
Speaker 12: happy with her for this decision and another decision her
Speaker 12: and Chief Justice John Roberts can't rely on them as
Speaker 12: always been conservative. But notwithstanding that, this is a win
Speaker 12: five to four for Trump. This is that case a
Speaker 12: few three Saturdays ago when Justice Boseburg, the Federal DC
Speaker 12: District Coort judge, said and ordered the planes that were
Speaker 12: midflight outside of US airspace on their way to taking
Speaker 12: those to El Salbert or taking those gang members out,
Speaker 12: have to be turned around and brought back. They defied it.
Speaker 12: This has been running its way up the court. Trump
Speaker 12: team asked for an emergency hearing with the Scottis and
Speaker 12: they said that he does have as Commander in chief
Speaker 12: jurisdiction in invoking that act and seeing and declaring who
Speaker 12: is a predatory invasion or incursions or not at war
Speaker 12: with Venezuela. That's where people were arguing. But it is
Speaker 12: an invasion as defined by him, and he has full
Speaker 12: jurisdiction to do that, not this judge from DC. They
Speaker 12: did say that there are some due process rights that
Speaker 12: should be or could be allowed to these folks, but
Speaker 12: it would have to be in the venue where they
Speaker 12: were held, which would be Texas and not DC. So
Speaker 12: it's definitely a slap back on Judge Boseburg. And it
Speaker 12: is a win for Trump because they're going to be
Speaker 12: able to continue declaring these most criminal violent gang members
Speaker 12: and the lake and getting that out of the country quickly.
Speaker 3: And the venue is particularly important, very big difference between
Speaker 3: DC and Texas there. And this development in the Supreme
Speaker 3: Court comes as more than one hundred illegal immigrants were
Speaker 3: nabbed as part of a five day mess deportation operation
Speaker 3: in New York. Now, what's interesting about this Kosher Among
Speaker 3: those detained worth three convicted killers. Reports. The group of
Speaker 3: murderers includes a forty nine year old from Trinidad and Tobago,
Speaker 3: a thirty two year old from El Salvador, and a
Speaker 3: seventy year old from the Dominican Republic. When Trump talks
Speaker 3: about criminals, hardened criminals being amongst these illegal immigrants, this
Speaker 3: is what he's talking about. Because the border was so
Speaker 3: completely compromised, that he literally had killers crossing over and
Speaker 3: living freely in the.
Speaker 12: Community, and the horrible cases that will live on an
Speaker 12: infamy like Lake and Riley and others who were killed
Speaker 12: by people exactly like this and this profile. This is
Speaker 12: the thing, right. So there's the legal thing with the
Speaker 12: Scottish ruling and the minutia of which jurisdiction and what
Speaker 12: the Article two powers are versus Article three. That's all important,
Speaker 12: But the everyday person isn't in the weeds. Following that,
Speaker 12: the everyday person does understand criminals with tattoos all the
Speaker 12: way up to their faces coming in. These young, able
Speaker 12: bodied men who have no business being here were openly
Speaker 12: welcomed in and then committing crimes. So that it really
Speaker 12: is a win win for Trump. No matter what he does,
Speaker 12: he wins. The people are behind him, and the Democrats
Speaker 12: are really in a box they think politically when they
Speaker 12: keep defending people in.
Speaker 3: This The Democrats were smart, they would just ignore this issue.
Speaker 3: They would just try not to bring any publicity to
Speaker 3: it and let him do what he wants to do
Speaker 3: in this arena. Because, as you said, anytime there's any
Speaker 3: sort of media attention, there's any courtroom challenges. It's good
Speaker 3: for Trump. This is a policy that he wins on
Speaker 3: with the majority every single time. Now, this has got
Speaker 3: to be the funniest story of the year for me
Speaker 3: so far. The New York Post reports Kamala Harris was
Speaker 3: absolutely blindsided by her landslide loss to Donald Trump. She
Speaker 3: had bought the hype herself. She thought her campaign was
Speaker 3: in good shape. They had more money, they had good press,
Speaker 3: and of course those dodgy poll numbers that no one
Speaker 3: with a brain trusted. But she actually thought she was
Speaker 3: going to win, win comfortably. This is all in a
Speaker 3: new book on the twenty twenty four presidential election by
Speaker 3: The Hill correspondent Amy Parnes. She also says Tim Walls,
Speaker 3: Kamala's VP candidate, was so stunned by Kamala's terrible performance
Speaker 3: that he was unable to speak on election night. The
Speaker 3: author describes the Minnesota governor sitting in his hotel room
Speaker 3: silently on election night as staffers tried to explain the
Speaker 3: crushing loss. I can just picture that that is kind
Speaker 3: of a hilarious in many ways. How could they not
Speaker 3: see this? Surely they have learned over the years that
Speaker 3: the polls always underestimate Trump that no matter how much
Speaker 3: good press you get, the media's influence has diminished, and
Speaker 3: Kamala was a poor candidate, just like Hillary was.
Speaker 12: It is so hard to believe. I'm sure sure Amy
Speaker 12: Parnas reporting is well sourced and this did happen, and
Speaker 12: it is in that way it is possible to believe
Speaker 12: because but Kamlin goes to the point that she didn't
Speaker 12: have a lot of depth, just to be very blunt
Speaker 12: about it, and a lot of people said that about her.
Speaker 12: So she sounds like somebody who at the high level.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've got.
Speaker 12: More money than Team Trump, which she did. I've got
Speaker 12: more press and favorable press, which she did. So everything's good.
Speaker 12: I've got some polls that are saying I'm going well.
Speaker 12: And she never was able to go deeper and dig
Speaker 12: deeper and like, check the validity of that, or how
Speaker 12: much does money matter? How much does mainstream media press matter?
Speaker 12: To your point, So maybe she was just floating on
Speaker 12: that surface level and got a shock. We heard similar
Speaker 12: reports of Hillary Clinton. Apparently it was very very shocked
Speaker 12: twenty sixteen November.
Speaker 3: That one you.
Speaker 12: Could still believe because she was a worthy contender. This
Speaker 12: one to anybody who's not in the little bubble. It
Speaker 12: just feels so impossible to imagine kershageda.
Speaker 3: Thank you pleasure still to come. My lefties losing it?
Speaker 3: Plus Alex Stein is here with the latest from the US,
Speaker 3: including shocking revelations about the trans Nashville school shooter. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: It's time for lefties losing it? And what is it
Speaker 3: with the left and violence? They cannot help themselves. Time
Speaker 3: and time again they resort to violence, whether it's mass
Speaker 3: violence like we saw with the BLM and Antifa riots,
Speaker 3: or one on one violence like this next clip. What
Speaker 3: chair as this lefty loses it during a discussion about abortion,
Speaker 3: attacking a pro life activist Savannah Craven and Taau.
Speaker 14: I think that you just don't understand the magnitude of
Speaker 14: having a child's here. Well, I'm not the one who
Speaker 14: admitted they would be okay with killing maybies and foster
Speaker 14: care and killing children that have been abused.
Speaker 3: That's the point.
Speaker 15: What a sex really.
Speaker 3: With charming? That punch left Savannah bruised and bleeding. But
Speaker 3: it's okay because the charming abortion enthusiast who threw that
Speaker 3: part lunch has since apologized. Well, sort of. Brianna Rivers
Speaker 3: of The bron said this of her victims. She said,
Speaker 3: Savannah is a professional antagonist, not a reporter, and the
Speaker 3: truth will be told. I will not allow my image
Speaker 3: to be defamed by this woman's actions. Anyone who knows
Speaker 3: me knows how respectful I am. I don't even litter.
Speaker 3: There's no way you believe I'm punching people for disagreeing
Speaker 3: with my point of view. A lady, I do believe
Speaker 3: you would punch people because of their point of view,
Speaker 3: because I've just been watching it. That's precisely what you did.
Speaker 7: Dear me.
Speaker 3: I think what these lefties need is therapy. This next
Speaker 3: woman agrees with me, but she wants taxpayers or Trump
Speaker 3: supporters to pay for her therapy because she can't cope
Speaker 3: in the age of Trump.
Speaker 4: All right, So here's what I want to know as
Speaker 4: an American for this repeated trauma that I'm going through
Speaker 4: and the rest of the world, to be quite honest,
Speaker 4: asking for the world, who do we send our therapy
Speaker 4: bill to? Because now that you've dismantled the entire healthcare system.
Speaker 3: RFK Junior, you find moron.
Speaker 10: What are we supposed to do?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Actually, are there any therapists left. They're probably not allowed
Speaker 4: to therapize us, right right.
Speaker 3: I really do think it's high time that we made
Speaker 3: asylums great again. Forget about building the wall, build asylums.
Speaker 3: Talking about asylums, Time to check in with MSNBC. Let's
Speaker 3: hear from Democrat operatives Simone Sanders here, she's crying for
Speaker 3: gang bangers being sent to Al Salvador. Remember, the American
Speaker 3: taxpayer saves a fortune by housing these criminals in El
Speaker 3: Salvador instead of US prisons.
Speaker 16: I would like to know who's the camera crew that
Speaker 16: was hired to film this propaganda and what company is
Speaker 16: literally exploiting the men in these videos for what The
Speaker 16: men that you see in these videos that are dressed
Speaker 16: in white, that the United States sets to El Salvador,
Speaker 16: your tax dollars are paying for them to be housed there.
Speaker 16: They didn't just pay for the plan. The tax dollars
Speaker 16: are paying for every single one of these men, many
Speaker 16: of them. Now we now innocent to people who are
Speaker 16: not gang members.
Speaker 3: Innocent people, she says, yes, the sort of innocent people
Speaker 3: covered in gang tattoos, cavorting with criminals and in the
Speaker 3: country illegally. Time for a Scott Jennings special on sin
Speaker 3: and this time his schools. A Karen No, really, that's
Speaker 3: that's her name.
Speaker 2: So if we were to just keep question who's more
Speaker 2: popular right now, Donald Trump, are congressional Democrats, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: Don't Trump happens if you do, it doesn't He said,
Speaker 7: A fifty.
Speaker 6: You're sitting at twenty eighty.
Speaker 4: He's fifty actually, And increasingly people are okay, you want
Speaker 4: to call the ass sure, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: We're not going to go to the map over to.
Speaker 4: His numbers are going his approval readings are going down.
Speaker 3: We got to leave it there now. This week I'll
Speaker 3: be bringing you plenty of footage of the mass tantrum
Speaker 3: happening around America and in other countries as well. It's
Speaker 3: like it's twenty seventeen all over again. Let's check out
Speaker 3: the crowd here and tell me if you notice something
Speaker 3: about these supposed pro democracy protesters. Yes, did you notice
Speaker 3: the number of boomers, their elderly folk. These are the
Speaker 3: people who benefited greatly from America being a manufacturing superpower
Speaker 3: once upon a time, who bought their homes at a
Speaker 3: reasonable price. They're protesting for the status co if you
Speaker 3: think the majority of Trump voters care about billionaires losing
Speaker 3: billions and the share markets diving, then you haven't been
Speaker 3: paying attention. Here are some sobering facts. In the US,
Speaker 3: ninety three percent of the stock market is held by
Speaker 3: just ten percent the top ten percent. The bottom fifty
Speaker 3: percent of Americans hold only around one percent of all
Speaker 3: stocks and mutual fund shares. Now let's go to Senator
Speaker 3: Josh Howley. He's had enough of paid activists and assorted
Speaker 3: lefty troublemakers. Here he turns the tables on Code Pink
Speaker 3: activists who are calling him a baby killer, and he
Speaker 3: reminds them of their funding from China, China, the blood
Speaker 3: of leaders.
Speaker 11: You're a baby killer, blood, the blood.
Speaker 3: Of the Chinese. Yep, it's high time that these anti
Speaker 3: Israeli mobs got a taste of their own medicine.
Speaker 2: You're along the ride.
Speaker 1: No, no, don't use the offense.
Speaker 17: You're a you.
Speaker 8: We're speaking their money, and that you are rapidly inta.
Speaker 2: You are absolutely morally districtive, and I look forward to
Speaker 2: one day the moral come upments that you will deserve.
Speaker 2: You are morally uphil You are appalling for the Jews.
Speaker 14: You you are a war criminal, baby killer, baby killering.
Speaker 3: I just love the way he said, so what when
Speaker 3: she kept saying I'm a healthcare worker like that gives
Speaker 3: her immunity from criticism for her abhorrent activism. Now we've
Speaker 3: covered at length Disney's latest woke disaster, snow White film
Speaker 3: that is bombing at the box office, and one that
Speaker 3: is so bad that even Disney seems a little bit
Speaker 3: of shame, scaling back the promotion dramatically. But listen here
Speaker 3: as the star Rachel Zegler does a massive backflip. She's
Speaker 3: gone from bagging the original story to saying it'sn't an
Speaker 3: example to admire.
Speaker 18: That is part of the beauty of Snowweight. It has
Speaker 18: been for eighty eight years now that she just sees
Speaker 18: the good and everyone and everything. And I hope that
Speaker 18: I and so many people who watch this film can
Speaker 18: embody that as well.
Speaker 3: And let's have a good news story. Watch this thief
Speaker 3: be chaste and tackle to the ground. And the humiliation
Speaker 3: did not end there. Watch Granny put the Baddy in
Speaker 3: a headlock. Now, too, fresh revelations of what fuel the
Speaker 3: deadly rampage of the National school shooter who killed six,
Speaker 3: including three children aged just nine at a Christian school
Speaker 3: in March twenty twenty three. So much of her manifesto
Speaker 3: was deliberately excluded from the official report released last week,
Speaker 3: but Megan Kelly got her hands on the FBI report
Speaker 3: and the full manifesto.
Speaker 19: The report from the Nashville Police barely touched on the
Speaker 19: full scope and breadth of what was contained. The killers
Speaker 19: struggles with her gender, her obsession with gender identity, alarming
Speaker 19: racial animis toward herself as a white person, and how
Speaker 19: those factors contributed to the act that she committed that day.
Speaker 19: Why do you think they excluded all of this? Why
Speaker 19: are those two things too hot to touch? What the
Speaker 19: Nashville Police represented was that her trans ideology, her gender
Speaker 19: confusion had absolutely nothing to do with a horrific action too.
Speaker 3: From how do you why?
Speaker 19: How do you glean that this stuff is all over
Speaker 19: her ratings.
Speaker 3: Not only was this mass killer who was born Audrey
Speaker 3: but calling herself Adrian, obsessed with radiol gender ideology, she
Speaker 3: also had a deep hatred of America and of white people.
Speaker 19: The killer writes about how epic it would have been
Speaker 19: if she had shut up her own high school quote,
Speaker 19: kill all the white kids. Kill my own race fys,
Speaker 19: destroy all the white people who are teachers, Let all
Speaker 19: the black kids go unless if I don't like you.
Speaker 19: The killer goes on, un quote being white sucks, but
Speaker 19: being black is so cool. Black people should rule, White
Speaker 19: people should fall every white person who lived and died.
Speaker 10: I hate you all.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is comedian and host of Primetime with
Speaker 3: Alex Stein on Blaze TV. Alex Stein. This is deeply disturbing,
Speaker 3: but it paints a very vivid picture, indeed, of what
Speaker 3: motivated this mascular and for two years, authorities have deliberately
Speaker 3: suppressed those key details.
Speaker 17: Well, Rita, they have to suppress those key details because
Speaker 17: when you look at this situation, like multiple other situations
Speaker 17: that are similar, it's not a gun problem, it's a
Speaker 17: mental health problem. And when you see that there's a
Speaker 17: multiple transgender shooters that are you know, on mentally you know,
Speaker 17: they're all diagnosed as mentally ill, and they're all on
Speaker 17: some sort of anti depressent or anti psychotic drug.
Speaker 7: So there seems to be.
Speaker 17: A pattern when it comes to this, and they try to,
Speaker 17: you know, keep that narrative from actually you know, reaching
Speaker 17: the mainstream. Even though conservatives have been screaming about this constantly,
Speaker 17: So this only reinforces people like libs of TikTok and
Speaker 17: people like myself and people that have actually spoke out
Speaker 17: about the pattern recognition when it comes to these shootings.
Speaker 3: Now, alex I mentioned in Lefties that the stock market
Speaker 3: correction or crash, whatever you want to call it, is
Speaker 3: obviously enraging the usual suspects. It's certainly alarming segments of
Speaker 3: Trump's supporter base as well, including the few billionaires who
Speaker 3: support him. They've lost a lot of money. But the
Speaker 3: majority of his supporter base expected, indeed voted for major
Speaker 3: economic reform. They knew full well they'd be upheaval, they'd
Speaker 3: be winners and losers. The goal is to make American
Speaker 3: manufacturing and American workers the winners in the long run.
Speaker 3: Tell me how this policy is being received, not just
Speaker 3: by Americans in general, but particularly by Trump's base.
Speaker 17: Well, you see people like Elon Musk who's speaking out
Speaker 17: against it. But of course Elon Musk owns a multinational corporation,
Speaker 17: multiple multinational corporations, so it makes sense why he wants
Speaker 17: open trade, so you know he has a vested interest
Speaker 17: in it. But when it comes to the fairness of
Speaker 17: the trade between America and all these other foreign countries.
Speaker 17: It's been unfair for a long time.
Speaker 7: And you said it best.
Speaker 17: I mean, when in reality, lesson one percent of the
Speaker 17: population owns ninety nine percent of the wealth.
Speaker 7: When stuff like this happens, of course, people get affected.
Speaker 17: People have put in money in their portfolio, and they
Speaker 17: that go down.
Speaker 7: But I have no doubt in my mind that the
Speaker 7: stock market will recover, because it usually always does and
Speaker 7: will bounce back.
Speaker 17: So it's just kind of a tough time in the
Speaker 17: short term. In the long term, when all of these
Speaker 17: manufacturing jobs, like Hyundai potentially building a twenty billion dollar
Speaker 17: factory in the United States, it's going to create American
Speaker 17: jobs and it's going to make our economy stronger in
Speaker 17: the long run.
Speaker 3: Well, the bottom fifty percent in America only hold one
Speaker 3: percent of shares. They're far less concerned by stock market fluctuations,
Speaker 3: no matter how dramatic they may be. And I found
Speaker 3: this discussion illuminating. This is the Treasury Secretary Scott percent
Speaker 3: speaking to Tucker Carlson about the two Americas, not left
Speaker 3: and right necessarily, but those who are financially comfortable and
Speaker 3: those who are struggling like never before.
Speaker 2: I was really struck by two different statistics. Last year,
Speaker 2: summer of twenty twenty four, Americans took more European vacations
Speaker 2: than they had in history. Summer of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: more Americans were using food banks than they ever have
Speaker 2: in history. I went into two food banks near my
Speaker 2: hometown to ask what's the story, and they said, you know,
Speaker 2: for a lot of people, it's a loss of dignity
Speaker 2: to walk in a food bank. Course, it wasn't their
Speaker 2: traditional clientele. Wasn't people who'd lost their homes. Were was
Speaker 2: it people out on the street. These were working families.
Speaker 3: Alex working people having to go into food banks just
Speaker 3: to put food on the table. They just cannot afford
Speaker 3: it to feed their families. That is just not something
Speaker 3: that is sustainable for a first world nation to have
Speaker 3: people who are working full time who still can't afford
Speaker 3: the basics.
Speaker 7: Yeah, here in America, I mean I they say the
Speaker 7: land of milk and honey.
Speaker 17: But for a lot of people, they're struggling, especially with
Speaker 17: our college system. You know, these kids get out of
Speaker 17: college and they're in so much debt. They have to
Speaker 17: do some sort of gig economy type job like you
Speaker 17: know uber or uber eats, just to kind of make
Speaker 17: ends meet in between.
Speaker 7: Working a nine to five entry level job.
Speaker 17: So it sounds crazy that you have to work two
Speaker 17: jobs in America to make it, but you really do.
Speaker 17: And you know you're competing with legal immigrants for some jobs,
Speaker 17: you're competing with artificial intelligence, so you know, it's tough.
Speaker 17: And even if you do make a living, I'm going
Speaker 17: to be honest, I make a decent living. But still,
Speaker 17: you know, my dad's older trying to save money for him,
Speaker 17: and it's just even me making a decent amount of money.
Speaker 17: Things are so expensive now, so I'm not surprising more
Speaker 17: people are going to food banks, and really I'm happy
Speaker 17: at least there are food banks in our country. At
Speaker 17: least we can help some people out. We probably need
Speaker 17: to do more to help out the struggling Americans, and
Speaker 17: I think in our country is headed in that direction.
Speaker 3: Well, this is why so many people in the States
Speaker 3: and elsewhere really do not care too much about stock
Speaker 3: market fluctuations. That they're not that that's not what's keeping
Speaker 3: them up at night. What's keeping them up up at
Speaker 3: night is how they're going to feed their families now.
Speaker 3: President Trump hosted the LA Dodgers today at the White House.
Speaker 3: He had the team cracking up after he refused to
Speaker 3: name a couple of senators that he doesn't like and others.
Speaker 9: We have a couple of senators here.
Speaker 8: I just don't particularly like them, so I won't introduce.
Speaker 9: Over the course of this amazing season the members of
Speaker 9: this team.
Speaker 7: I didn't think it was that big a deal.
Speaker 3: Washington never seen him so relaxed. He doesn't seem too
Speaker 3: bothered by the tariff milldowns.
Speaker 17: No, And isn't that just so funny to watch Donald
Speaker 17: Trump just be himself? You know, that was totally off
Speaker 17: the caff. He just had listening. I don't even want
Speaker 17: to recognize the senators. I don't like them. They don't
Speaker 17: like me, so I'm not going to give them my attention.
Speaker 17: That's just him being himself. And that's what we didn't
Speaker 17: have with Joe Biden. Joe Biden was constantly if he
Speaker 17: was off script, he was basically just drooling on himself, sadly, So,
Speaker 17: you know, I love to see a president pretty relaxed
Speaker 17: like that. And that was an own and he wasn't
Speaker 17: even trying to own the senators that were there, So
Speaker 17: that was hilarious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was surprised that that was such a big
Speaker 3: deal that he wasn't going to do that. He had
Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw presenting him with
Speaker 3: his own forty seven jersey.
Speaker 12: Let's have a look, mister President, we have a gift
Speaker 12: for you as well.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 3: He's quite a superstar, Clayton, and you've got a history
Speaker 3: with him, Alex, do tell me what it is.
Speaker 7: Well read.
Speaker 17: Clayton Kershaw and I we went to high school together
Speaker 17: at Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas, where Clayton
Speaker 17: and I in middle school. We were on the same
Speaker 17: Lim League baseball team. And he's a future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 17: You see that's me. I'm the really obese athlete right there,
Speaker 17: you can tell.
Speaker 20: And then also Matthew Stafford, who was a quarterback for
Speaker 20: the Los Angeles Rams who recently won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 20: So I used to think of about baseball, but maybe
Speaker 20: it's because I was playing against two, you know, future
Speaker 20: Hall of famers in different sports. So yes, I'd love
Speaker 20: to see Clayton give that jersey to Donald Trump and Clayton.
Speaker 20: You know, he's a pretty politically moderate, but I know
Speaker 20: that all the liberals in California and Los Angeles especially are.
Speaker 17: Crying seeing him hand that jersey to Donald Trump. That
Speaker 17: was awesome to watch.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you had two absolute superstars in that
Speaker 3: one little team. I mean, that is incredible, little little
Speaker 3: school in Texas, and you've got well three stars now
Speaker 3: from that little team. Now, before you go, Alex, Michelle
Speaker 3: Obama's podcast has been a big failed despite considerable hype
Speaker 3: and promotion and I'm sure a very lucrative contract. She's
Speaker 3: gone there, she just isn't getting the numbers on YouTube
Speaker 3: or elsewhere. I kind of meagine why.
Speaker 21: I think a lot of young people, a lot of
Speaker 21: people in general, because of their narrow view of what's possible,
Speaker 21: they find themselves limiting what life could look like. And
Speaker 21: I always challenge young people now to first think about
Speaker 21: your why, you know, don't think about the what. Don't
Speaker 21: worry about numbers and titles.
Speaker 3: Alex, She's supposed to be wildly popular, but this little
Speaker 3: chat we're having right now is going to have more
Speaker 3: views on YouTube by the morning than her podcast.
Speaker 17: Rita, You're exactly right, and you're not being egotistical at
Speaker 17: all of this left he's losing it. Clip will have millions,
Speaker 17: and I believe her last podcast had thirty eight thousand views.
Speaker 7: And she has a marketing team.
Speaker 17: That is, you know, the same ones I think that
Speaker 17: work with the royal family. So the fact that they
Speaker 17: can't even get people to care about her podcast, and
Speaker 17: that's with her brother, it's just it's it's really it
Speaker 17: shows you that she's not as likable as the Democrats think.
Speaker 17: And what I really think though, would make the podcast
Speaker 17: a hit. If she talked about a relationship with Barack
Speaker 17: and she said that they were having problems. Could you
Speaker 17: imagine if it was almost like a divorce therapy podcast?
Speaker 17: Then you would watch that. Then I would watch. I
Speaker 17: think that's what she has to do. She has to
Speaker 17: have the public Hollywood divorce and that sounds insane, but
Speaker 17: that's the only way to save that podcast.
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, she's got to take one for
Speaker 3: the team and have a big revelation. Alex Stein, thanks
Speaker 3: for your time. Tonight still to come, Colleen Harken joins
Speaker 3: me to discuss some of the radical racial politics infecting
Speaker 3: Australian universities. Welcome back. Joining me now is Institute of
Speaker 3: Public Affairs Research Fellow and director of the IPS Schools Program,
Speaker 3: Colleen Hearken with a University of Queensland where senior lecturer
Speaker 3: Danny Linda has berated first year law students after she
Speaker 3: supposedly witnessed tens of students walking out of a previous
Speaker 3: lecture when she started talking about Indigenous Australian legal history.
Speaker 3: Let's listen to some of what she had to say.
Speaker 15: What I'm not going to tolerate, no matter what your
Speaker 15: politics are, is any form of discrimination, particularly when it's
Speaker 15: directed at me and my cultural identity as an average
Speaker 15: nor woman.
Speaker 22: I am an expert in the field.
Speaker 15: I'm recognized internationally and nationally for the work that I've done,
Speaker 15: and I'm the course coordinator with authority to run this subject.
Speaker 22: The way in which I see fit and the way
Speaker 22: in which I see fit is in alignment with the
Speaker 22: Council of Australian Law Deeds and their approach to indigenizing
Speaker 22: and their commitment to in digenizing the curriculum.
Speaker 3: Now, Colleen, she's told the students she would remember their
Speaker 3: faces and they better watch them because this could be
Speaker 3: impacting the academic results. After all, she's going to determine
Speaker 3: how well they do in this course.
Speaker 10: It's appalling, Rita.
Speaker 23: The fact that the irony of this is that her
Speaker 23: area of expertise is the foundations of law, and she's
Speaker 23: a lawyer herself, and she's threatening students.
Speaker 10: So where does that fit into the.
Speaker 23: Framework of actually the rule of law and what it
Speaker 23: means to implement the law fairly to everybody. It's an apputation.
Speaker 23: My personal view is that she should be still down.
Speaker 23: She's threatening students that unless they actually agree with her,
Speaker 23: she's indigenizing a curriculum that is not really related.
Speaker 10: To actually legal studies.
Speaker 23: As you said, these people have got really good schools
Speaker 23: in their atar. They have a right to a proper education.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we are seeing this sort of activism across
Speaker 3: the board, whether kids are studying medicine, studying law. It
Speaker 3: seems to be infecting every area on can and if
Speaker 3: your grades are dependent on lecturers like this, if they
Speaker 3: take a if they object to your political positions, if
Speaker 3: they don't like your politics, then that could impact your
Speaker 3: school potentially and your career prospects completely.
Speaker 23: You're very exposed to their sensitivity. Whatever this sensitivity happens
Speaker 23: to be. Our research showed that we did an audit
Speaker 23: of the teacher training and about a year and a
Speaker 23: quarter of teacher training is work material where indigenous curriculum
Speaker 23: is pustioned.
Speaker 10: So we've got people who are being.
Speaker 23: Retrained to be uneducated and they're the people who are
Speaker 23: going back into classrooms. This sort of activism within primary
Speaker 23: secondary and university sector is rife absolutely now.
Speaker 3: The Coalition has announced plans to get rid of work
Speaker 3: activism and ideological agendas in universities through ministerial intervention in
Speaker 3: what is taught in courses. Opposition Education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson
Speaker 3: said she would direct the Tertiary Quality Education and Standards
Speaker 3: Agency to take action against the indoctrination of students if
Speaker 3: the Coalition wins the election. Well, how would that work?
Speaker 3: Coaline air And it's all good and well to have
Speaker 3: a policy like that, but will it actually be implemented
Speaker 3: and will it have any effect on campus level?
Speaker 23: Well, hopefully if Senator Henderson becomes the Minister for Education,
Speaker 23: hopefully she actually has the courage to see through those
Speaker 23: statements because it's one thing to save them and that
Speaker 23: it's another thing to actually do them and the Coalition
Speaker 23: was in government for a long time and didn't make
Speaker 23: the great you know, it didn't make the inroads that
Speaker 23: they said that they would. So it is imperative that
Speaker 23: students have the right to a non indoctrination environment in
Speaker 23: the school and that they get the opportunity to critically analyze.
Speaker 10: And to think for themselves.
Speaker 23: And as I said, I hope she has the courage
Speaker 23: to actually implement what she's saying.
Speaker 3: You're so right. We've had successive coalition terms and they
Speaker 3: really did very little to tackle this, whether it's at
Speaker 3: higher education or primari or secondary school level. Now we're
Speaker 3: hearing that special equity provisions for student entry into university courses.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be pretty rare occurrences when someone has
Speaker 3: got a genuine issue that is impacting their ATAR score,
Speaker 3: But according to fresh Starter, one in three university applicants
Speaker 3: are using special access schemes to gain bonus entry points
Speaker 3: as equity enrollments reach record highs. Colleen, we've got things
Speaker 3: like divorce, disability, poverty. They're amongst the more common equity
Speaker 3: provisions being claimed, but one in three, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: almost making the entry score seem irrelevant.
Speaker 23: It's an extraordinary statistic, and of course through periods in
Speaker 23: time where something extraordinary happens during that year twelve year,
Speaker 23: and of course special considerations should be given. But that's
Speaker 23: the whole the keyword there is special consideration. It ought
Speaker 23: not to be as common as thirty percent of the population.
Speaker 23: And I personally want to keep my airplanes in the air.
Speaker 23: You know, buildings staying afloat, not buildings a float, but
Speaker 23: you know, building staying up and in place.
Speaker 10: I don't want to have a scenario where we are
Speaker 10: at risk.
Speaker 23: Of the standard of the students, so I actually can't
Speaker 23: do the job that this diversity, equity and inclusion process
Speaker 23: has compromised the whole of society really because whatever the
Speaker 23: course that their students are doing, if they're not capable
Speaker 23: of doing the study, they're simply not capable of doing it.
Speaker 10: And we have to be realistic about that.
Speaker 3: Now before you go. The University of Sydney has started
Speaker 3: hiring a team of academics to help indigenize and decolonize
Speaker 3: its courses. One of the new roles is going to
Speaker 3: be a Senior Education Design Officer who would be executing
Speaker 3: transformative curriculum projects aimed at embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Speaker 3: Island and knowledge perspectives, texts and media within curriculus projects.
Speaker 3: This sounds very much like what we're seeing in secondary schools.
Speaker 3: In primary schools. Why stop there?
Speaker 23: Why not have it at universities too, correct The activism
Speaker 23: in the curriculum is from kindergarten all the way through.
Speaker 23: They're just not listening to what the people wanted. We
Speaker 23: had a referendum, the result was very clear. It sounds
Speaker 23: to me like they're trying to push this division by stealth.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Colin Harkin, thank you so much for your time tonight,
Speaker 3: and that's it from May. I'll see you at eleven
Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Up next is Newsnight