Speaker 1: Live on Sky News Australia.
Speaker 2: This is to Nika de Giorgio.
Speaker 3: Hello and welcome to the show coming up tonight. The
Speaker 3: fallout from Dan Andrews's trip to China continues as Beijing's
Speaker 3: puppet issues a bizarre defense of his propaganda tour. The
Speaker 3: debate over our flag and why we need to stand
Speaker 3: up to the left and fight for our values, and
Speaker 3: Albow holds a late night call with Donald Trump, but
Speaker 3: there's still no sign of an in person meeting. But
Speaker 3: first tonight, what sort of a country do we want
Speaker 3: to live in? It's something I've asked myself regularly, particularly
Speaker 3: since October seven, twenty twenty three, because since then it
Speaker 3: seems our values have been eroded daily by people who
Speaker 3: walk among us and seem to hate us, and by
Speaker 3: the left to are ashamed of our national pride. Now
Speaker 3: it feels as if it's too far gone now in
Speaker 3: the face of a changing Australia, because Wednesday should have
Speaker 3: been a day of pride on National Raise the Flag Day,
Speaker 3: the first time the flag was flown on the third
Speaker 3: of September nineteen oh one. Instead, I believe it was
Speaker 3: a flashpoint moment. It descended into an absolute farce and
Speaker 3: was hijacked by lunatics like the Greens off the back
Speaker 3: of Pro Australia marches at the weekend. Now, we have
Speaker 3: so much to be proud about in this country, but
Speaker 3: I believe we are at a juncture because now, if
Speaker 3: you wave the Aussie flag, the left call you a racist.
Speaker 3: If you show pride in your country, the left call
Speaker 3: you a racist. If you want to put Australia first,
Speaker 3: the left call you a xenophobe.
Speaker 4: And if you question.
Speaker 3: Rampant, out of control migration, well, don't even get me started.
Speaker 4: Yet.
Speaker 3: We've brought people into this country, some who hate us
Speaker 3: and our values and don't want to adapt to our
Speaker 3: way of life. And we profess that multiculturalism has been
Speaker 3: a success. Now I don't doubt it largely has. We
Speaker 3: are a nation of migrants. But the common denominator in
Speaker 3: this decade is we've brought in people whose values are
Speaker 3: incompatible with Western democracies. And the weekend's Marches for Australia
Speaker 3: proved just that. Thousands of everyday Aussies, mums and dads
Speaker 3: took to the streets saying.
Speaker 4: Enough is enough, we want our country back.
Speaker 3: We are sick of our values being eroded, and because
Speaker 3: a small number of Neo Nazis rocked up and were
Speaker 3: booed by the masses.
Speaker 4: By the way, they.
Speaker 3: Didn't want these borrn individuals there. Everyone who attended was
Speaker 3: painted with the same brush.
Speaker 5: Then the tone, of course of much of the rallies
Speaker 5: was unfortunate is the best way that you could put it,
Speaker 5: but hateful in some of the extreme examples.
Speaker 6: Marine Feruki will speak more about the racist overtones of
Speaker 6: these rallies.
Speaker 3: The Andy immigrant rallies on the weekend must be called
Speaker 3: out for what they are, acts of racist, fear mongering
Speaker 3: and heat.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen a good fascist yet.
Speaker 8: We absolutely condemn the March for Australia rally that's going
Speaker 8: on today. It is not about increasing social harmony now.
Speaker 3: When our leaders ignore real and genuine worries by everyday
Speaker 3: Aussies by labeling them racist, it actually only gives life
Speaker 3: to those who hold those extremist views. Yet, when these
Speaker 3: flags aflown the Palestinian flag week in, week out, and
Speaker 3: those of terror groups, the left don't even bat an eyelid,
Speaker 3: They don't even care when the Aussie flag is set
Speaker 3: alight by anti Israel protesters have a listen to Sarah
Speaker 3: Hansome Young falling over herself.
Speaker 4: Do you can.
Speaker 3: Well it was her, Well, it wouldn't be her yesterday
Speaker 3: speaking here on first edition on Sky News. And she
Speaker 3: didn't have a comment to say about the flag. She
Speaker 3: didn't want to talk about the Aussie flag being burnt.
Speaker 3: I mean, what sort of a country do we want
Speaker 3: to live in? And she thinks that setting the flag
Speaker 3: alight is dear to our democracy. Will tell that to
Speaker 3: our brave soldiers who fought for us and continued to
Speaker 3: do so under the Australian flag, so we can actually
Speaker 3: have a freedom of democracy. And as I said, Wednesday
Speaker 3: was a flashpoint. And here is how National.
Speaker 4: Raised the Flag Day played out in the Senate.
Speaker 2: I was appalled by the footage of pro Palestinian protesters
Speaker 2: burning our national flag.
Speaker 9: If it's okay for Senator Nampa Jimber Price to wrap
Speaker 9: herself in this flag, I would intend to wrap myself
Speaker 9: in a Palestinian flag.
Speaker 2: No flags to be worn in the chamber until the
Speaker 2: matter has been resolved by the PROCEIDUREUS Committee. So it
Speaker 2: asked you to take.
Speaker 3: The flag off now, Thank goodness for two of only
Speaker 3: a very small handful of politicians willing to show courage
Speaker 3: on this issue. Senator just sent a Nampajip Price and
Speaker 3: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, two women who love their
Speaker 3: country and aren't afraid to show it.
Speaker 10: We are told we can't display it.
Speaker 4: In our parliament on the one special day, which.
Speaker 10: Is our Australian Flag Day. And that's how gus these
Speaker 10: people are. And I warn people out there, you keep
Speaker 10: voting for these bastards that actually don't have pride in
Speaker 10: our country and Australian flag, then be prepared to get
Speaker 10: what we're going to get.
Speaker 3: And gee, we need more of that courage and conviction.
Speaker 3: But how do we get to a point where our
Speaker 3: national flag is deemed offensive? The ABC even asked the
Speaker 3: question this week what if.
Speaker 2: We changed it?
Speaker 11: What if we changed the Australian flag? Is it time
Speaker 11: for a fresh take? And how's the flag we've got
Speaker 11: turned into something quite different from a flag of national pride?
Speaker 3: And if that wasn't bad enough, it seems a public
Speaker 3: broadcaster thinks our flag is a big skit. Here's it's
Speaker 3: behind the news segment teaching children about national pride this week.
Speaker 12: There are still some mixed feelings about the flag.
Speaker 4: What why? Well, for Sutter's there's the Union Jack.
Speaker 12: Oh, yes, you did say you'd flag this for later.
Speaker 12: To some, the British flag is an important symbol of
Speaker 12: Australia's past, but for many First Nations people it's a
Speaker 12: reminder of colonization and the loss of their land. And
Speaker 12: a big percentage of Ossies don't have British ancestry, and
Speaker 12: some reckon we'd be better off with the flag that
Speaker 12: represents everyone.
Speaker 3: Loss of their land, better off with a flag that
Speaker 3: represents everyone. Well, how about teaching our kids to be
Speaker 3: proud of one flag, not flooding them with woke ideology.
Speaker 3: But it's politicians like Senator Price and Pauline Hansen who
Speaker 3: understand how many of us think and feel about where
Speaker 3: we're at because the quiet Australians have been left behind
Speaker 3: by this bolting horse that is captured ideology as well
Speaker 3: as self loathing under the guise of healthy and sustainable multiculturalism.
Speaker 3: And it's these voices like you at home who are
Speaker 3: silenced by Labor and the Greens as they paint the
Speaker 3: quiet Aussies as racist. National Senator Matt Canavan summed it
Speaker 3: up well.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 3: He writes the isolated voices on our fringes are not
Speaker 3: the greatest threat to our social harmony. It is the
Speaker 3: powerful voices with our agenda to marginalize our unique Australian
Speaker 3: way of life. And as I said, I feel we
Speaker 3: are at a juncture and the only way to claw
Speaker 3: it back from the left is to stand up proudly
Speaker 3: for our values.
Speaker 4: Fly the flag, be proud of the flag.
Speaker 3: Don't be scared to show that pride, because we're all
Speaker 3: Australian and we should be proud of that. And to
Speaker 3: those who walk among us that aren't.
Speaker 4: Proud, the door is open now.
Speaker 3: I thought China had its own mouthpieces to spread daily propaganda,
Speaker 3: but it looks like there's a new player in town
Speaker 3: to rival all of the megaphones. His name is Daniel Andrews,
Speaker 3: Beijing's puppet, has released a statement on his national Chinese
Speaker 3: propaganda tour defending his decision to attend the Tianaman Square
Speaker 3: military parade and g This statement seemed like it was
Speaker 3: written with Shijingping peering over his shoulder the form of
Speaker 3: victorian premier says quote, I was invited to Beijing for
Speaker 3: the eightieth anniversary of China's victory over Japan in World
Speaker 3: War Two. Well, that was his first mistake, because just
Speaker 3: because you were invited, it doesn't mean you are SVP.
Speaker 4: Yes, does it.
Speaker 3: Even Australia's ambassador to China had the sense to turn
Speaker 3: down the invite. He goes on to say, I've said
Speaker 3: for years that a constructive relationship with China, our largest
Speaker 3: trading partner, is in Australia's national interest and hundreds of
Speaker 3: thousands of Australian jobs.
Speaker 4: Depend on it.
Speaker 3: That hasn't changed. And that was his second mistake. Australia's
Speaker 3: national interest? Was it in our national interest?
Speaker 13: Dan?
Speaker 3: When China sent spy ships our way, conducted live fire
Speaker 3: drills off our coast, bullied US militarily and economically through tariffs,
Speaker 3: and he claims he was there in our national interest.
Speaker 4: Now correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: But Dan left office in twenty twenty three, making him
Speaker 3: a private citizen. Therefore he's not there to represent us.
Speaker 3: He's there to embarrass us on the world stage for
Speaker 3: his own selfish purposes. Oh and on his decision to
Speaker 3: pose in a delightful photo with the axis of evil
Speaker 3: like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, the president of Iran,
Speaker 3: and Shijing Ping.
Speaker 4: Nope, no mention of that, just quote.
Speaker 3: It was a chance to meet and engage with regional
Speaker 3: leaders like former New Zealand Prime Ministers John Key and
Speaker 3: Helen Clark, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwa Ibrahim, and of course
Speaker 3: Chinese President she We also shared an official photograph. Well look,
Speaker 3: he must think that we haven't seen the image, I mean,
Speaker 3: never mind the axis of evil I met with John
Speaker 3: Key and Helen Clarky says, so that's it, But you
Speaker 3: are right down.
Speaker 4: You did share in an official photograph. So let's zoom
Speaker 4: in on it.
Speaker 3: There you were a few paces behind North Korean leader
Speaker 3: Kim John Lull, among others, responsible for human rights abuses
Speaker 3: and terror attacks on home soil.
Speaker 4: So what's his excuse?
Speaker 3: Just to clear up any confusion, he says, I have
Speaker 3: condemned Putin and he's a legal war in Ukraine from
Speaker 3: day one. That's why he banned me from Russia last year.
Speaker 3: He goes on to say further, my support for Israel
Speaker 3: and Australia's Jewish community has been outspoken and unwavering, and
Speaker 3: I unequivocally condemn Iran for its attacks on Australia, Israel
Speaker 3: and elsewhere around the world. So hang on, I condemned them,
Speaker 3: but I'll still pose with them in photos.
Speaker 4: Jee, good one, Dan, keep telling yourself that.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think former Home Affairs boss Mike Pozzolo
Speaker 3: summed it up best on Sky News today.
Speaker 1: All they could get from liberal democracies are Dan Andrews
Speaker 1: and John Key. I don't want to be disrespectful to
Speaker 1: the two gentlemen, but I suspect most of the spectators
Speaker 1: would have had to have had bio notes and looking up,
Speaker 1: who are these guys? Don't know who they are? That's
Speaker 1: the best they could do.
Speaker 4: It's not wrong.
Speaker 3: The best China could do was Dan Andrews. Gee, isn't
Speaker 3: that tragic? Let's go straight to Shadow Cabinet Secretary Andrew Wallace. Now, Andrew,
Speaker 3: good to see you as always. Well, let's start with
Speaker 3: Dan Andrews. His mere presence is excited China. He's even
Speaker 3: appeared front and center today in Beijing's propaganda machine, which
Speaker 3: has quoted Daniel Andrews in the Communist Party's flagship Daily
Speaker 3: as being deeply honored to attend President Shiji Ping's military parade.
Speaker 3: How would you describe the former premius trip over there?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm absolutely speechless, Danika. I mean, every politician knows
Speaker 9: you need to be very careful about who you get
Speaker 9: happy snaps with. And for Daniel Andrews to be over
Speaker 9: in China sharing the red carpet with the likes of
Speaker 9: Putin and Xi and the North Korean president Kim Jong wun,
Speaker 9: it just absolutely defies boif. I mean, even the Australian
Speaker 9: ambassador had the good sense to be two hundred kilometers
Speaker 9: away at the time of this parade, which was absolutely
Speaker 9: sending a signal to the Western world about the rise
Speaker 9: of the military strength of China. And there's the former
Speaker 9: Premier of Victoria cozing up to the three of them.
Speaker 9: It is I mean, can you imagine how Voladimir Zelenski,
Speaker 9: how how the leaders of countries that have been absolutely
Speaker 9: attacked by countries like Russia. How do our Australian Ukrainian
Speaker 9: community feel about that? How does the Australian Tibetan community
Speaker 9: feel that one of our former premiers is now closing
Speaker 9: up to these despots. I just cannot believe it.
Speaker 3: I just honestly, I think it was just shocking from
Speaker 3: the very beginning, and then his statement that he released
Speaker 3: yesterday was just equally as appalling. There was no accountability
Speaker 3: for what he has done. There was just no sense,
Speaker 3: no recognition. I just think it's absurd. Now, look, let's
Speaker 3: move on. Because Anthony Arbernezi has spoken with Donald Trump
Speaker 3: for the fourth time since the president was re elected
Speaker 3: in November. The PM said he had another warm and
Speaker 3: constructive conversation with President Trump. He says, we discussed our
Speaker 3: trade and economic relationship, as well as areas for growth,
Speaker 3: including critical minerals. We also discuss shared US Australia security interests.
Speaker 3: Kevin rud was certainly eager to weigh in. He said,
Speaker 3: lots going on in the US Australia relationship and going
Speaker 3: from strength to strength.
Speaker 4: Andrew so another corps but no meeting yet.
Speaker 3: But does this give you some hope that maybe a
Speaker 3: face to face is on the way.
Speaker 9: We look, it's really hard to judge what's going on
Speaker 9: from here, Danika, but I suspect this was an attempt
Speaker 9: by the Prime Minister's office to try and sound the
Speaker 9: President out as to how that interaction may go if
Speaker 9: there is a face to face at the General Assembly
Speaker 9: meeting in a week or so's time. I think that
Speaker 9: the Prime Minister's team is absolutely driven to try and
Speaker 9: ensure that there's not a repeat of the sort of
Speaker 9: embarrassment that we saw with the President and President Zelenski
Speaker 9: of the Ukraine. And whether this was some sort of
Speaker 9: ham fisted attempt by the Prime Minister's office just to
Speaker 9: try and test the waters to see what does he
Speaker 9: love me? Does he love the Prime Minister? I'm not
Speaker 9: quite sure, but the reality is it's now been three
Speaker 9: hundred and three days since President Trump took office. We
Speaker 9: are supposed to be one of, if not the closest
Speaker 9: partner of the United States. Everybody seems just about every
Speaker 9: allied country their leader has met with President Trump in
Speaker 9: person some several occasions, and yet there's been no face
Speaker 9: to face with our Prime minister. So it's really it's
Speaker 9: getting it's going from bizarre to quite sort of cringe
Speaker 9: worthy and embarrassing. Now as to what's going on, is
Speaker 9: the relationship breaking down, is that the Prime Minister doesn't
Speaker 9: want to be seen with him. I don't know, I
Speaker 9: mean he certainly people need to realize that the Prime
Speaker 9: Minister absolutely singled Peter Dutton out and tried to say
Speaker 9: to the Australian people and the lead up to the
Speaker 9: last election that Peter Dutton was Trump like, and clearly
Speaker 9: that information has got back to President Trump and I
Speaker 9: can't see that that would have gone over to well.
Speaker 3: Well you mentioned it's embarrassing. Yeah, it's also embarrassing that
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister now has to rely on a series
Speaker 3: of upcoming summits in the hope that he will actually
Speaker 3: bump into the President, in the hope of having some
Speaker 3: sort of face to face meeting. It's really tragic. We're
Speaker 3: almost out of time. Just very quickly. I want to
Speaker 3: ask you about the social media band for under sixteens.
Speaker 3: It's now going to take effect in less than one
Speaker 3: hundred days.
Speaker 4: The problem is is.
Speaker 3: That we still don't have any detail Andre on how
Speaker 3: this is actually.
Speaker 4: Going to work.
Speaker 6: You're right.
Speaker 9: I had a delegation of the Let Them Be Kids
Speaker 9: into my Parliamentary office a couple of days ago. Families
Speaker 9: of children who've taken their own lives because of the
Speaker 9: bullying on social media, people like Emma Mason came to
Speaker 9: see me and they're all saying that there and the
Speaker 9: reality is there is just no detail from this government
Speaker 9: about how this is going to work. We want this
Speaker 9: to work we think it's a really important initiative. The
Speaker 9: Coalition led the initiative, but with less than one hundred
Speaker 9: days till the start of this band, the government has
Speaker 9: provided no details on how it's going to work, nor
Speaker 9: have they provided any material evidence whatsoever about education programs
Speaker 9: for instance, for schools or parents or the kids themselves.
Speaker 9: It's really it's very concerning for parents because they just
Speaker 9: don't know how this is going to work, how it's
Speaker 9: going to operate, and I just hope that the government
Speaker 9: gets their act together very very quickly.
Speaker 3: Well, well, it's also concerning I think for every day Aussies.
Speaker 3: I mean, we are going to have to produce an
Speaker 3: ID to go online. Now, what's going to happen with
Speaker 3: that information? That's certainly my concern. Andrew Wallace, we've got
Speaker 3: to leave it there. Thanks very much for joining me
Speaker 3: on the show as always.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: A Twitter post about biological men claiming to be women
Speaker 3: has seen the comedy writer of Father Ted Graham Lynon
Speaker 3: arrested upon landing in the UK. In one of the posts,
Speaker 3: he said, quota, if a trans identified male is in
Speaker 3: a female only space, he is committing a violent you
Speaker 3: sacked making make a scene call the cops and if
Speaker 3: all else fails, punch him in the balls.
Speaker 4: Well gee, it's hard to argue with that, is it.
Speaker 3: But the UK's censorship laws are gagging every day Brits
Speaker 3: and completely destroying free speech. And so Graham Lynon rocked
Speaker 3: up at court overnight the very best way he could
Speaker 3: have a look at this, swearing a there's no such
Speaker 3: thing as a transgender child sign.
Speaker 4: How good.
Speaker 3: Now, one person who knows all about being censored and
Speaker 3: being taken to court for speaking out about this very
Speaker 3: issue is Giggle founder Sal Grover, and she joins me, Now,
Speaker 3: so nice to see you.
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3: So this trans ideology it's not only infiltrated society but
Speaker 3: law courts.
Speaker 4: You know that firsthand.
Speaker 3: And of course it's in the laws, and you speak
Speaker 3: out about it and look what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: First of all, it's great to see you, But I
Speaker 2: mean I'm really lucky I get to call Graham a friend.
Speaker 2: I've spoken to him since he was arrested. For anyone
Speaker 2: who's watching this issue proof really they me think think
Speaker 2: that the Graham issue is a one of No, he's
Speaker 2: just actually the most high profile example that has happened.
Speaker 2: I mean women especially have been people had their lives
Speaker 2: turned upside down around this issue and had been going
Speaker 2: to court for years, years. I mean, it almost makes
Speaker 2: that sixteen hour arrest feel like a sanctuary in comparison.
Speaker 2: I mean in Australia, just in the past week, Curly Smith,
Speaker 2: a mother and the spokesman for binary was told that
Speaker 2: she had unlawfully villified a man who claims to be
Speaker 2: a woman, purely because she disagrees with him being on
Speaker 2: a woman's sports team and spoke out about it publicly,
Speaker 2: which is her job. She is facing two hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars of fines. So this is happening in this country.
Speaker 2: It's not just in the UK or in America, where
Speaker 2: we can look to other countries being crazy. If I
Speaker 2: was to make an argument, I would say, actually Australia
Speaker 2: is the craziest country on this issue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are so far behind the rest of the world.
Speaker 3: And actually I want to talk to you about that
Speaker 3: because the other question that seems to be very difficult
Speaker 3: to answer is what is a woman? And you and
Speaker 3: I know the answer to that, which I don't know.
Speaker 3: Sal it might make us geniuses or bigots. I guess
Speaker 3: it depends on who you ask these days. But One
Speaker 3: Nation leader Pauline Hanson, is pushing to restore the legal
Speaker 3: definition of a woman. But she asked the Minister for Women,
Speaker 3: Katie Gallagher, in the Senate this week, what measures the
Speaker 3: government was taking to ensure women's rights are being protected
Speaker 3: from transactivism.
Speaker 4: And here was the answer.
Speaker 14: The issues you raised have not been raised with me
Speaker 14: as Minister for Women by all of the range of
Speaker 14: stakeholders I deal with on a day to day basis
Speaker 14: around addressing women's policy and about driving gender equality. That's
Speaker 14: apposition this government takes.
Speaker 3: Sus claims that no stakeholders have ever raised it with her.
Speaker 4: What do you make of that response?
Speaker 2: Well, I am happy to resend my emails to her.
Speaker 2: She would like to, but in the manner of moving
Speaker 2: this issue forward. I actually emailed her this week after
Speaker 2: she said that on the Senate floor, and you will
Speaker 2: be shocked to find out that she has not responded
Speaker 2: to me. I have to meet with her to talk
Speaker 2: about this. As a stakeholder in this issue. She spoke
Speaker 2: on the Senate floor about you know, economic equality for women.
Speaker 2: My livelihood has been destroyed because men who claim men
Speaker 2: are claiming to be women and the government is supporting
Speaker 2: them in that I created a space exclusively for women,
Speaker 2: and I can't run it because of the Sex Discrimination
Speaker 2: Commission and the federal courts interpretation of the law. So
Speaker 2: I mean she would have to be living under a
Speaker 2: rock to not know that there is an issue here.
Speaker 2: And furthermore, if there's no issue, then let us have
Speaker 2: female in the spaces. There's only an issue because they're
Speaker 2: not letting us have them. But I will say a
Speaker 2: big thank you to Pauline Hanson because she spoke brilliantly
Speaker 2: on the Senate. She is one hundred percent right on
Speaker 2: this issue. Even if you agree with her on other issues,
Speaker 2: she's right on this issue. And it's partly because she's
Speaker 2: not stating opinion, She's stating a fact. The other side
Speaker 2: is stating opinion. You can have the opinion that men
Speaker 2: can be women until the cows come home. Knock yourself out,
Speaker 2: have fun, that's your opinion, Pauline Hansen. Women like myself,
Speaker 2: Currily Smith, we are seeing that women are adult human females.
Speaker 2: We are a class separate from men, and legally, when
Speaker 2: it matters that needs to be acknowledged. It's that simple.
Speaker 2: So the other side is the irrational, crazy ones.
Speaker 15: Not us.
Speaker 4: No, as I said, I don't know if we're.
Speaker 3: Biggots or geniuses at this point, how very stratgy geniuses exactly. Now,
Speaker 3: before we let you go, I want to ask you
Speaker 3: about this landmark decision by a Brazilian court to drop
Speaker 3: criminal charges against graphic designer Isabella Sepa for misgendering a politician. Now,
Speaker 3: she became the first person to be given international protection
Speaker 3: from persecution for speaking against transgender ideology, and she was
Speaker 3: actually forced to flee the country for referring to a
Speaker 3: trans woman who's a federal MP as a man in
Speaker 3: a social media post. So this week, a federal court
Speaker 3: judge found that her comments did not amount to hate
Speaker 3: speech and that stating the facts about gender was actually
Speaker 3: protected under freedom of expression.
Speaker 4: I guess there's this further show.
Speaker 3: Again how far we are behind on this issue.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I am very, very honored that I've
Speaker 2: been able to speak to Isabella, and I actually feel
Speaker 2: very bad that I have not spoken to her in
Speaker 2: the last few weeks. Life's kind of just gotten in
Speaker 2: the way. But she's this amazing woman and that has
Speaker 2: had her entire life turned upside down. That try and
Speaker 2: think of it, that you have to leave your country,
Speaker 2: leave your family, leave your friends, live your livelihood simply
Speaker 2: because you know that men are not women. Now, that
Speaker 2: is insane. But the only redeeming quality that Brazil has
Speaker 2: on this issue right now is they've actually paused it.
Speaker 2: They've actually said no, actually, it's not hate speech. She
Speaker 2: hasn't done anything wrong. You compare it with Australia and
Speaker 2: there is no pause on anything that is happening here.
Speaker 2: There's no government intervention, there's no federal court or lesser
Speaker 2: court judges going, oh, you know what, maybe this is
Speaker 2: absolute irrationality and nonsense. Australia just seems to be trying
Speaker 2: to run away with this issue, thinking we're the only
Speaker 2: one who's going to be able to make it work.
Speaker 2: We will not be able to make it work because
Speaker 2: no matter how much courts or politicians, or media or
Speaker 2: anyone institution, sex discrimination commissions, anyone try to tell you
Speaker 2: that men can be women, they are not. They will
Speaker 2: never be. And the fact that Isabella Curely Graham my
Speaker 2: life and anyone else who dares to speak out our
Speaker 2: lives have turned upside down proves that the only way
Speaker 2: that this issue can exist is if they punish anyone
Speaker 2: who dissents from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and it's just disgraceful. Seriously, Sal Grover, we've
Speaker 3: got to leave it there. Nice to see you again,
Speaker 3: Thanks very much for joining me on the show this evening.
Speaker 4: We're coming up after the break my panel.
Speaker 3: We'll discuss the debate over ramp at migration, plus is
Speaker 3: it a crime for a man to tell.
Speaker 4: A woman they look beautiful? Welcome back?
Speaker 3: Joining me now is former New South Wales Police Minister
Speaker 3: David Elliott and New South Wales Independent MP Tanya Mahala.
Speaker 3: Happy Friday is always. Thank you for joining me now. Look,
Speaker 3: I spoke earlier about how it's not racist to be
Speaker 3: proud of your country or to talk about how can
Speaker 3: out of control rampant migration is, you know, particularly when
Speaker 3: every day ossies can't get into houses. But I thought
Speaker 3: National Senator Matt Canavan summed it up today. He said
Speaker 3: the vast majority of the Australians marching last week and
Speaker 3: not against migration.
Speaker 4: They are against mass migration.
Speaker 3: Yet labor ministers lined up to accuse the protesters of
Speaker 3: spreading hate the isolated voices on our fringes are not
Speaker 3: the greatest threat to our social harmony. It's the powerful
Speaker 3: voices with an agenda to marginal our unique Australian way
Speaker 3: of life. David, I think he's absolutely spot.
Speaker 16: On nailed it, and I mean i'd add in a
Speaker 16: massive immigration without capacity. But they're not in favor of
Speaker 16: they're not against immigration. And for the Labor Party to
Speaker 16: then go and criticize the marches for being racists have
Speaker 16: forgotten that last month there was a march headed by
Speaker 16: Labor politicians that were calling for the death of people,
Speaker 16: yes that were carrying flags that were on the verge
Speaker 16: of being illegal in this country because they inspire hatred themselves.
Speaker 16: And the only flag that was carried by last Sunday
Speaker 16: was the Australian flag. So I think they're being very,
Speaker 16: very hypocritical about this. But Matt Canavan has nailed it.
Speaker 16: They're not against immigration. We're all immigrant, but my two
Speaker 16: grandmothers were Polish. We are all immigrants, absolutely, we are
Speaker 16: unless you're unless you're Aboriginal Australian. But this suggestion that
Speaker 16: this is race based is just not right. You just
Speaker 16: have to get onto a train in Sydney during peak
Speaker 16: hour and no. People have had enough.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know by saying that, you know, these
Speaker 3: are every day Aussies that we're talking about here, but
Speaker 3: by saying they're racist, it actually fuels on the neo
Speaker 3: Nazis and the extremists.
Speaker 4: That we saw a couple of them hijacking the protests.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Tony Iviott said that there was a couple
Speaker 6: of wrap bags. But you know, you've got to ignore that.
Speaker 6: You've got to acknowledge that the pulk of the people
Speaker 6: there are ordinary Australians and I'm sure some of them
Speaker 6: were labor voters. They write from labor electorates in Western Sydney.
Speaker 6: So I think it's a wake up call for the
Speaker 6: Governor of the day to understand and appreciate that people
Speaker 6: have had a gut full. They are tired of mass migration.
Speaker 6: And David's right, it's not about migration itself. I think
Speaker 6: many of us. I'm a first generation Australian, many families
Speaker 6: have come out here and of course assimilated into Australian.
Speaker 4: Way of life.
Speaker 6: Can't say the word assimilation anymore.
Speaker 4: That's been scrapped.
Speaker 6: It's integrate now. Whatever is the latest term for the
Speaker 6: Department Immigration.
Speaker 4: But the reality is that people.
Speaker 6: Ordinary Australians are speaking out. They're fighting for the country.
Speaker 6: They love the Australian way of life, and it's about
Speaker 6: understanding and appreciating that. You know, we welcome people if
Speaker 6: they've got skills to bring to Australia, not just a handout. Okay,
Speaker 6: we're not a welfare state, a global welfare state.
Speaker 3: We have to have a conversation about capping it. And
Speaker 3: this is a it's not racist to say that, but
Speaker 3: we have to have this conversation.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Look, speaking of fighting for your country, Donald Trump assigned
Speaker 3: an executive order to change the name of the Department
Speaker 3: of Defense to the Department of War, reverting to the
Speaker 3: agency's former namesake as a former defense in yourself, what
Speaker 3: do you make of this, because I thought it was
Speaker 3: quite interesting and I feel like this is sending a
Speaker 3: message to the world, particularly China.
Speaker 4: We're ready.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And he is sending a message. And he's the
Speaker 16: commander in chief. He can call these soldiers whatever he
Speaker 16: wants to call these soldiers. You can call these department
Speaker 16: ever he wants.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 16: I mean, I'm a traditionalist, so it's always been a
Speaker 16: Department of Defense unless there is a time of war.
Speaker 16: So you're dead right, they are saying to that everybody,
Speaker 16: we are we are considering ourselves if and when there
Speaker 16: is a department. If there is and when there is
Speaker 16: a war, this is the department that's going to be
Speaker 16: managing it. But I mean, it doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 16: I mean it would still the fact that the military
Speaker 16: in the United States is the most powerful the world
Speaker 16: has ever seen, still would put the fear of guide
Speaker 16: into people. Whether it's called war or defense. It doesn't
Speaker 16: make any difference.
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: But I mean we saw China's military prowess on display,
Speaker 3: and of course you know, Dan Andrews got a free
Speaker 3: ticket there.
Speaker 4: But you know, I just think this is powerful. What
Speaker 4: do you think, Yeah, it's a little bit.
Speaker 6: Look at most things that Trump announces, I think is great.
Speaker 6: But I've got to say these little bit of odds
Speaker 6: with the fact that he now wants you know, has
Speaker 6: been nominated for a Noble Peace.
Speaker 4: Prize, so I think ironic with the timing on that.
Speaker 6: And he's also always boasted about being an anti war president. Okay,
Speaker 6: he's always said that it's a Democrats sort have not
Speaker 6: governed properly and have led into situations like the mush
Speaker 6: Ukraine War and other wars and conflicts around the world.
Speaker 6: So he's always blamed the Democrats. So it's unusual, I think,
Speaker 6: and I'm surprised that he's had this, has made this move,
Speaker 6: to be honest, I'm assuming some people around him have
Speaker 6: put the pressure on they would like the name change.
Speaker 6: I don't know if this is necessarily Trump, because he's
Speaker 6: always been an anti war president.
Speaker 4: That's been his position.
Speaker 3: It looks like it's America first, America first, Department of
Speaker 3: War America.
Speaker 4: I get exactly.
Speaker 3: Now, look, this is an interesting one. Is it a
Speaker 3: crime for a man to tell a woman they look beautiful? Apparently,
Speaker 3: so on Tuesday night you weren't allowed to say beautiful,
Speaker 3: gorgeous and sexy. At the Australian Women and Security Awards,
Speaker 3: the words were actually banned. Every man who entered the
Speaker 3: venue tickets were five hundred dollars by the way, was
Speaker 3: given a card telling them that compliments were discouraged because
Speaker 3: it was a night.
Speaker 4: Of accomplishment, not attributes.
Speaker 3: Instead, they were encouraged to use more appropriate words such
Speaker 3: as nice, great and fabulous. Well, David is the man
Speaker 3: on the panel today, I'm eager to get your views
Speaker 3: what's appropriate and what's not.
Speaker 16: Well, it's contextual that of course you can at night
Speaker 16: like that when the ladies are all dres stuff and
Speaker 16: have made an effort. I mean, let me take you
Speaker 16: into my world. So when we're going to a party,
Speaker 16: I get told Biden, Nicole, such and such as had
Speaker 16: a hair done. Don't forget such and such. I spent
Speaker 16: two weeks buying new new shoes and such and such
Speaker 16: was this is a new dress. If I don't go
Speaker 16: and say that they look good on the way home,
Speaker 16: I get hot tongue and cold shoulder.
Speaker 4: You're in trouble.
Speaker 16: So I wish it's illegal to call people beautiful and pretty,
Speaker 16: because then I would get myself out of trouble. True,
Speaker 16: but this is and they wonder why people have voted
Speaker 16: for Trump. They wonder why people have voted for Trump,
Speaker 16: because if you're being told that you can't say that
Speaker 16: a pretty lady is pretty or a beautiful woman is beautiful, Well,
Speaker 16: then that is in my mind, brave new world stuff.
Speaker 16: And we are in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel sorry for men, and the reason is
Speaker 3: that I feel like every man has been tainted and
Speaker 3: painted with the me too brush since the Me Too
Speaker 3: movement that I feel like men are scared now, Tanya
Speaker 3: to even speak because they worry that a woman's going
Speaker 3: to go that's harassment.
Speaker 6: Yep, that's my thoughts. I've got two sons, and I
Speaker 6: really worry for that generation, the younger generation, because they
Speaker 6: can't say anything now. And you know, those blokes should
Speaker 6: have just not turned up. They should have walked out
Speaker 6: of that event. Honestly, it's time for men to get
Speaker 6: out there and maybe have their own rallies, Okay, to
Speaker 6: be able to speak their mind and fight back a bit,
Speaker 6: because it's crazy. What are we doing now to people?
Speaker 6: They're just becoming robotic. This PC's gone, mad.
Speaker 4: Im I'm with you all the way. We're almost our time,
Speaker 4: but very quickly.
Speaker 3: Victoria's Commonwealth Games debarcle has been listed among the world's
Speaker 3: worst ever flops in global event history, rate twenty fifth
Speaker 3: out of the fifty of the world's biggest major event fumbles.
Speaker 3: This was by a list that says it blamed a rushed,
Speaker 3: inadequate business case, unrealistic cost estimates and hidden contingencies, and
Speaker 3: a financial model so flawed. It couldn't survive first contract
Speaker 3: with reality for this debarkle wrong.
Speaker 16: Well now we know why Dan Andrews ran off to China.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the money and this is embarrassing for the so
Speaker 2: called a major events capital of Australia, if not the
Speaker 2: South PacifiCan.
Speaker 16: And you know it was always a marching to darkness
Speaker 16: for the come Wealth Games to go to a state
Speaker 16: that wanted to have regional events because critical mass means
Speaker 16: that you cannot have this sort of event.
Speaker 6: Well, were you simply cost taxpayers six hundred million dollars
Speaker 6: and now we're paying money out of the Scotland Yeah
Speaker 6: to cover this.
Speaker 3: Well, and I wonder he's off to China kind of
Speaker 3: stay there, I think, David Elliott.
Speaker 4: Nice to see you both. Have a good weekend. Thanks
Speaker 4: for joining me.
Speaker 3: Coming up a fresh warning from business about the massive
Speaker 3: cost of cutting emissions plus live to Birmingham as Reform
Speaker 3: UK's conference kicks off.
Speaker 4: That's next, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Well, as we know, our power bills keep going up
Speaker 3: and up under the renewables only magic carpet ride, and
Speaker 3: now the true cost of the net zero dream is
Speaker 3: being laid bare. A Business Council of Australia report has
Speaker 3: found cutting emissions by seventy percent or more would carry
Speaker 3: a price tag of up to five hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: billion dollars addition to financial costs. The BCA warns an
Speaker 3: additional fifty nine thousand electrical trade and engineering workers would
Speaker 3: be needed by twenty thirty to achieve a sixty percent
Speaker 3: emissions reduction target within a decade.
Speaker 4: But the Prime Minister will tell you.
Speaker 5: My word, if my bond, my word, if my bond,
Speaker 5: my word is my bond, and I'll continue to engage.
Speaker 1: But I want bullshit people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure you won't. Prime Minister.
Speaker 3: Joiningy me now is Adam Morrison, the Energy program director
Speaker 3: at the Center for Independent Studies.
Speaker 4: Adam, thank you for joining me.
Speaker 3: Do you think that five hundred and thirty billion dollar
Speaker 3: figure is on the money.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Look, I think that five hundred and thirty billion
Speaker 17: dollar figure is somewhere in the ballpark for that seventy
Speaker 17: percent investment. But I emphasize that figure is just for
Speaker 17: investment in capex capital expenditure investment. It's not for the OPS,
Speaker 17: which the operational expenditure, the REPEX, which is the replacement
Speaker 17: expenditure for things like batteries that need to be degraded
Speaker 17: and maintained over time. It doesn't cover the financial cost
Speaker 17: of actually financing that and what the rate of return
Speaker 17: that's given to all those asset onners are. So it's
Speaker 17: just a crude figure that is probably somewhere in the ballpark. Yes,
Speaker 17: and I'm sure that it will lead to us having
Speaker 17: a much more expensive electricity in the future.
Speaker 3: Well, I just think it's extraordinary when you think Labor
Speaker 3: of course drummed up that six hundred billion dollar price
Speaker 3: tag for the coalition's nuclear policy throughout the election, which
Speaker 3: of course was false. And now they could be needing
Speaker 3: five hundred and thirty billion plus additional workers and yet
Speaker 3: aid and they're still behind on their targets.
Speaker 17: Yeah, look, that's right. It's a real shame that the
Speaker 17: coalition of the last election didn't prosecute more aggressively that
Speaker 17: six hundred billion dollar number which was plucked from the air.
Speaker 17: So it seems something like double the most expensive case
Speaker 17: of nuclear power for the capital cost. It was really
Speaker 17: had no relevance to our debate, but yet it was
Speaker 17: allowed to go unchallenged for a very long time. So actually,
Speaker 17: the real cost of what we're trying to build is
Speaker 17: probably in that ballpark anyway. So I think it's very
Speaker 17: clear that we could have a cheaper and cleaner electricity
Speaker 17: system if we had a different alternative, which would include
Speaker 17: nuclear energy. But at the moment, there's just really no
Speaker 17: hope realistically that we can achieve the current targets. Anyway,
Speaker 17: it's not realistic that we could get that kind of workforce,
Speaker 17: which require sort of doubling or tripling the number of
Speaker 17: people in certain trades and skills, just in the next
Speaker 17: few years. So it's not going to happen, and it
Speaker 17: will be very expensive, much more expensive than alternative would be.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of you know, we're waiting for the Prime
Speaker 3: Minister and Chris Bowen to unveil the twenty thirty five
Speaker 3: emissions reduction target that's expected at the next fortnight. What
Speaker 3: do you think we can expect and will it actually
Speaker 3: be feasible.
Speaker 17: Look, it's a very good question, and this is one
Speaker 17: of the really highlighted awkward things about this BCEA analysis,
Speaker 17: the Business Council's own analysis is they've targeted basically trying
Speaker 17: to suggest we can't be too aggressive for a target
Speaker 17: for twenty thirty five but they have basically said that
Speaker 17: we can hit one hundred percent reduction in twenty fifty,
Speaker 17: which I think is totally infeasible. And they've also assumed
Speaker 17: in their base analysis that we can hit the targeted
Speaker 17: reduction of forty three percent in twenty thirty, which I
Speaker 17: think is also are totally infeasible. So it's a really
Speaker 17: strange report that I just don't think stands up to
Speaker 17: much intellectual scrutiny when they're saying trying to make some
Speaker 17: case about what is realistic in that interim target when
Speaker 17: there's no chance that will reach our twenty thirty target befoward,
Speaker 17: no chance will reach the twenty fifty target afterwards, So
Speaker 17: I think it'll be it's really going to be hard
Speaker 17: for the government to make any claim that what they
Speaker 17: can do in twenty thirty five when they are just
Speaker 17: so far off track reaching our twenty thirty target. Our
Speaker 17: current emissions are basically the same as what they were
Speaker 17: back in two thousand and five. The only changes have
Speaker 17: been from changes in land use and forestry, and that
Speaker 17: accounts for almost all our reductions and emissions. All the
Speaker 17: renewable build out so far has done almost nothing to
Speaker 17: reduce our actual emissions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean I've lost count as well over
Speaker 3: the number of projects that have gone bust in recent
Speaker 3: months or delayed.
Speaker 4: We're so far behind before we let you go.
Speaker 3: Labour's still clinging onto this, it's dream of hosting the
Speaker 3: UN Climate Summer in twenty twenty six, undeterred by warnings
Speaker 3: that could cost tax payers hundreds of millions. Here was
Speaker 3: the Environment Minister over the weekend about Chris Bowen.
Speaker 8: I know Chris Bowen in particular is working over time
Speaker 8: to secure this for Australia, and we still consider it
Speaker 8: would be a really great opportunity for Australia.
Speaker 3: To host that well aidan Thank goodness, someone's working overtime.
Speaker 3: For the bargain price, of course three hundred million dollars,
Speaker 3: we could get the privilege of hosting thousands of private
Speaker 3: jetting climate crusaders.
Speaker 17: Look, you start to worry that this is what this
Speaker 17: is all about, this sort of really dogmatic fixation, sort
Speaker 17: of facts be damned on a target that we know
Speaker 17: we can't reach in an even more ambitious one afterwards,
Speaker 17: because if we're really doing all this just for the
Speaker 17: performative element of impressing a bunch of other kind of
Speaker 17: like minded people around the world. That's really disappointing because
Speaker 17: this is absolutely inevitably going to push a lot of
Speaker 17: costs a lot higher for Australians, make us a less
Speaker 17: competitive place, drive away a lot of industry. So if
Speaker 17: it's being purely done for those purposes to perform and
Speaker 17: impress other people around the world, that's really shocking. But
Speaker 17: unfortunately it would explain things.
Speaker 4: It explains everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Ada Morrison, good to see you again, Thanks very much
Speaker 3: for joining me on the show. Well, Nigel Farage is
Speaker 3: preparing to outline his road to downing straight today as
Speaker 3: Reform UK begins its twenty twenty five conference. Joining me
Speaker 3: now is News Corp Europe correspondent and Sky News contributor
Speaker 3: Sophie Ellsworth, who's in Birmingham at the conference today.
Speaker 4: Sophie, thank you for joining me. What can we expect?
Speaker 18: Well, great to be with you, Janika on this glorious
Speaker 18: day here in Birmingham. So the two day Reform conference
Speaker 18: is set to kick off in about an hour or so.
Speaker 18: There's heavy security presence around the center here with the
Speaker 18: expected protests here in the UK. But Nigel Farrage is
Speaker 18: set to address the conference explaining his road to what
Speaker 18: he hopes to be Downing Street. He's come out and
Speaker 18: said that he expects there could be an early election
Speaker 18: here in the UK. There's one due in twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 18: but he thinks it could come earlier. Look Reform UK Denika.
Speaker 18: This time last year they had about eighty thousand members
Speaker 18: and now they're up to two hundred and forty thousand
Speaker 18: members with more than four hundred and fifty branches across
Speaker 18: the UK. They are growing at a rapid pace and
Speaker 18: they are surging in the polls. They have all the
Speaker 18: momentum here in the UK, and this is their national
Speaker 18: conference where Nigel Farage and many of his many of
Speaker 18: his staff and are like are hoping to really get
Speaker 18: this messaging across to the British public that they are
Speaker 18: a force here and that they really are serious about
Speaker 18: trying to win the next election.
Speaker 4: Well, they're performing so well on the polls.
Speaker 3: I saw that Reform has risen to as high as
Speaker 3: thirty five percent recently. And I've got to ask you
Speaker 3: about this because former Tory and P Nadine Dorries has
Speaker 3: announced she's defecting to Reform and she had this warning,
Speaker 3: have a listen.
Speaker 13: This is probably the hardest decision I've ever had to
Speaker 13: make in my life. It's something I've been thinking thinking
Speaker 13: about for every year.
Speaker 2: The toys of Dad. They're gone. It's a slow and
Speaker 2: painful death.
Speaker 13: I'm looking at what they're doing, I'm listening to what
Speaker 13: they're saying, and I can't believe that people are all listening.
Speaker 4: So, Sophie, how significant is this? She thinks the Tories
Speaker 4: are done?
Speaker 18: It's extremely significant, Danika, because she was Culture Secretary in
Speaker 18: the Tory government. She was an MP for eighteen years.
Speaker 18: She's very well known here in the UK. She's written books,
Speaker 18: she's got a column in the Daily Mail. She was
Speaker 18: front and center in Boris Johnson's government and a key
Speaker 18: allive of his and to defect now to reform is
Speaker 18: extremely significant and it shows that they are trying to
Speaker 18: get politicians that have credentials, politicians with experience, because that
Speaker 18: has been one of the attack points by Nigel frags.
Speaker 18: You know people who are trying to bring him down
Speaker 18: by saying, look, you don't have experience in your party. Well,
Speaker 18: Nadine Dorries definitely has it, so her making this move
Speaker 18: is very significant for reform UK.
Speaker 3: Now I've got to ask you about this, Sophie. An
Speaker 3: investigation has been launched after a mobile phone was hidden
Speaker 3: in the Commons as part of a prank to broadcast
Speaker 3: sex noises during Prime Minister's questions.
Speaker 4: What's happened here?
Speaker 18: Well, the British lover sex scandal, and this is one
Speaker 18: that's certainly drawn attention here, Danika, because a mobile phone
Speaker 18: was placed underneath the Commons table where during question time
Speaker 18: Sekir Starmer and Kemy Badenock go head to head and
Speaker 18: the idea was that someone would bring this phone and
Speaker 18: it would have the sounds of sex noises during when
Speaker 18: they were going to give their responses in Parliament. Now
Speaker 18: this was found by security before this whole thing unfolded
Speaker 18: and turned into it garrassing situation, and now there is
Speaker 18: a very serious investigation underway of how this happened and
Speaker 18: who planted this device.
Speaker 3: Janika, my goodness, I mean, seriously, anything's possible in the UK.
Speaker 3: I look at the UK, go what on earth is
Speaker 3: going on? And then you hear a story like this
Speaker 3: and it just adds to that as well. Sophiel's worth
Speaker 3: a lovely Daan Birmingham. As you said, thanks very much
Speaker 3: for joining me on the show this evening.
Speaker 4: Appreciate it well.
Speaker 3: Back in a moment with the winners and losers of
Speaker 3: the week, including some hard truths from a retired children's commissioner,
Speaker 3: plus the AFL.
Speaker 4: Legend who bought off intruders.
Speaker 3: Time of the week where we sought the winners from
Speaker 3: the losers, and helping me to do it is Sky News.
Speaker 4: Contributed James Bolt.
Speaker 3: James, nice to see you. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: joining me on the show this evening. Now your winner
Speaker 3: this week is Mick Moltouse fighting off home invasions invaders
Speaker 3: and here he was last night on Peter Kredlin.
Speaker 15: It was more just trying to get which I managed
Speaker 15: to be able to get the crowbar of one of them,
Speaker 15: and so once I had two weapons, I think that
Speaker 15: was sort of i'll see you later, and they bolted.
Speaker 15: I might have been decided you didn't put shoes on
Speaker 15: so I could very chase him down the street, but
Speaker 15: the fact was by then I had something in each
Speaker 15: hand and I think that was probably enough for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, James, the crime crisis in Melbourne stripes again.
Speaker 7: It does, but let's put it like Mick Bolthouse is
Speaker 7: in his seventies. I mean, I'm thirty one. If three
Speaker 7: people try to get into my house, I would not
Speaker 7: have the wherewithal to start grabbing weapons around my house
Speaker 7: and being able to not only get them out of
Speaker 7: the house, but then to chase him down the street.
Speaker 7: I mean, what an incredible effort from Mick Moldhouse to
Speaker 7: stand like that.
Speaker 3: I completely agree, and you know, good on him because
Speaker 3: I know that he said that he just wanted to
Speaker 3: protect his wife. That was his first thought when he
Speaker 3: was running after the intruders. I don't think anyone's been
Speaker 3: caught or there's been no arrest made, but yeah, good
Speaker 3: on Mick Malthouse.
Speaker 4: What an effort, What an effort. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Now look, my winner this week is South Australia's recently
Speaker 3: retired Children's Commissioner Helen Connolly, because she's delivered it's some
Speaker 3: hard truths, saying that childhood has changed and kids need
Speaker 3: to be kids again. She said, quote parents are so
Speaker 3: obsessed with safety. The messaging kids are getting is the
Speaker 3: world is unsafe. Kids are now talking about not feeling
Speaker 3: safe a lot more than they were eight years ago.
Speaker 3: To restore a care free childhood will require adults to
Speaker 3: make an active decision on how they can allow kids
Speaker 3: to have more freedom. I completely agree with this twofold one.
Speaker 3: I think kids have been corrupted in the classroom these days.
Speaker 4: You know, they're told about the climate hysteria. They don't
Speaker 4: know if they're a boy or a girl.
Speaker 3: So they're thinking the world's coming to an end. But
Speaker 3: I think also at home, James, you've gotta let kids
Speaker 3: be kids and make mistakes of it.
Speaker 4: You can't wrap them up in cotton wool all the time.
Speaker 4: I don't know what do you think.
Speaker 7: I just think like there's so much and you know,
Speaker 7: the media can play a part in this, but there
Speaker 7: is so much fear and anxiety about the direction of
Speaker 7: the world and the reality of the world right now.
Speaker 7: But the fact is this is the best time in
Speaker 7: human history to have ever been alive. And if kids
Speaker 7: are growing up thinking that the world is set up
Speaker 7: against them, it's something to be feared, and you know,
Speaker 7: it's hard to navigate it. It's just not as true
Speaker 7: as it has been in past. And I think, you know,
Speaker 7: you need to sell that message as well. It is
Speaker 7: a beautiful time to be alive and to be a kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd agree, and Also, I think social media plays
Speaker 3: a big role.
Speaker 4: Kids are at home, they're on their games, they're on
Speaker 4: their phones. Go out and see the world. There's a
Speaker 4: big wide world out there. Go out and play and
Speaker 4: have fun. So I agree.
Speaker 3: Now, your loser this week is the owner of a
Speaker 3: yacht which sinks.
Speaker 4: Shortly after Anika.
Speaker 7: I want you to you know, you work very hard
Speaker 7: around here, You work very hard. You deserve a one
Speaker 7: million dollar yacht. So I want you to close your eyes.
Speaker 7: I want you to close your eyes and think if
Speaker 7: I did have that million dollar yacht, where would I
Speaker 7: like to take it.
Speaker 4: Look, I'd say we're on the Mediterranean.
Speaker 7: I think that is what this next person was hoping
Speaker 7: to do, but it didn't quite go according to plan.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so, like I know those flash things are about,
Speaker 7: you know, the missing passages of time. There wasn't a
Speaker 7: whole lot of missing passages of time that was within
Speaker 7: a couple of minutes of that boat leaving. And that's
Speaker 7: a million dollar yacht going to the bottom.
Speaker 4: So how does that happen? Did I do testing?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how that happens on a maiden voyage
Speaker 3: to be unlucky, right, and.
Speaker 7: I should point out at home it is very okay
Speaker 7: to laugh at this because no one was harmed. I
Speaker 7: just want to make sure everyone knows no one's actually
Speaker 7: had don't last So it's all good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're all having fun.
Speaker 3: We're all having fun here. But I mean on a
Speaker 3: maiden voyage, you've got to be pretty unlucky. No, it's
Speaker 3: got Titanic vibes, not extent anyway, one point five million dollars.
Speaker 3: You've got to be the most unlucky person. Now, look
Speaker 3: with the boat theme.
Speaker 4: I've got a loser of the week.
Speaker 3: I've given it to our good friend Grenna Thunberg. God,
Speaker 3: she just irritates me, that woman. Seriously, she's back on
Speaker 3: the floatiller off to Gaza to you know, again on
Speaker 3: her humanitarian crusade.
Speaker 4: So this is a flow tiller two point zero.
Speaker 3: You recall, James, remember the first one was a was
Speaker 3: a buster. But she's given it a crack again. There
Speaker 3: she is, Palestinian flags on display.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: A colleague, Sharry Marks, had revealed this week that Greta's
Speaker 3: flotilla is organized by a supporter of a Rum backed
Speaker 3: terror group, HEZBLA, and it's murderous slain leader Hassansralis so well,
Speaker 3: I don't know really.
Speaker 4: What she's doing. I don't even think she knows what
Speaker 4: she's doing at this point.
Speaker 7: James, I think she knows exactly what she's doing. So
Speaker 7: here's what I would tell Israel, because the whole thing
Speaker 7: is Israel. They're going to float in and they're going
Speaker 7: to intercept them like they did last time, and then
Speaker 7: they get their media stunts. So if I were the
Speaker 7: IDF on this one, I would let her land because
Speaker 7: you've got these small boats that don't actually have a
Speaker 7: whole lot of aid on them. When you think about
Speaker 7: the resources these guys could have if they've got these
Speaker 7: small boats with not a lot of aid, let them land,
Speaker 7: let them not be able to help that many people.
Speaker 7: Let them pose for selfies in the middle of the
Speaker 7: terrorist controlled area of the world. Yeah, and then because
Speaker 7: I think the planeds to get intercepted, then say okay, well,
Speaker 7: you know, you guys can sail off now, but probably
Speaker 7: don't have enough suppli So how are you going to
Speaker 7: get it?
Speaker 4: I didn't work.
Speaker 3: You know, she's on her crusade to save Gaza, and
Speaker 3: I think that's right.
Speaker 4: Let her go there.
Speaker 7: Don't given accept that, don't give her what she wants,
Speaker 7: don't give.
Speaker 3: Her what, give it a crack and we'll be watching
Speaker 3: from afar. James Bolt, You're brilliant and as always, thanks
Speaker 3: so much for joining me on the show. Appreciate it,
Speaker 3: Thank you for your company. I'll be back seven pm
Speaker 3: on Sunday for Denekron James. Here's Steve Price.
Speaker 4: Good night,