WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 25 September 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.520 General, welcome the late base. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.240 Great to have your company. I'm James Macpherson with Liz 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.720 Storra and Caleb Bond. Coming up a Chinese zoo forced 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.160 to admit that the pandas everybody was paying to see 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.120 were actually dogs painted black and white. Amazing nobody figured 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.160 it out. Will show you that a little later. Plus 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.479 when we look at the papers. International students about to 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.240 storm the tribunal en mass protesting visa cancelations, and the 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.680 Northern Territory government splashing around money in a bid to 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.080 attract new residents. We'll get to that when we look 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.880 at tomorrow's news. But first, and I don't want to 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.520 get too excited about this because it's still early days, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.160 but there's a new trend among local councils that seems 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.480 to be catching on. Councils are increasingly starting to ask 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.560 residents what they want instead of simply imposing woke nonsense 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.279 upon them. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:52.640 Now. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.800 It all started on Monday night, when the only council 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.160 in South Australia voted to return Australia Day celebrations to 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.840 January twenty six, after a poll of citizens found sixty 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.160 percent of them had always wanted Australia Day celebrations to 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.200 be on the traditional day. And tonight we can tell 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.800 you that Rockingham Council in Western Australia has just voted 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.080 to do the exact same thing. Now Rockingham Council likes 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.640 so many councils around this country moved Australia Day celebrations 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.039 away from January twenty six without ever consulting rate payers. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:33.360 But when they randomly surveyed ten thousand households lo and behold, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.279 they were shocked to discover sixty three percent of people 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.680 had never wanted the date to be moved. And so 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.240 this week, ten out of twelve councilors voted to restore 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.960 ceremonies to the rightful date. So it's a win for 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.080 common sense and it's a win for representative government. Lizen Caleber. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.560 Imagine if our representatives started surveying the people they represent 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.120 as to how they would like to be represented in 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.280 this country, come up with a brand new form of 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:10.320 government called, I don't know, representative democracy. Possibility sounds incredible, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:11.919 an I get one. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.560 This is amazing and here's hoping it's a trend that 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.480 really takes off a lot of these councils surprisingly made 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.120 this move last year when, of course there was a 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.240 lot of talk about the voice, and initially it was 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.000 looking popular in the polls. So I think a lot 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.680 of councils just took it upon themselves to assume, we 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.600 know what our people want. They clearly want the date change. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.320 We're all virtue signaling in the direction of voting big 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.720 fat yes at the referendum. Of course, as the months 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.960 continued and the referendum day became closer and closer, it 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.359 became very obvious in the polls that this thing had 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.840 a snowflake's chance in hell of getting up. So you 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.480 do wonder how many of these councils that has been 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.200 part of the onus for them going, you know what, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.440 we probably need to revisit this. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.359 That hats off to Ony council, hats off. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.080 To Rockingham, because this is quite a humbling thing for 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.880 a council to do. They don't then have to go 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.480 back and ask the residents and then act accordingly. But 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.799 it's interesting to note that in each of these instances 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.040 it was the residents getting in touch with their councilors. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.600 I used to be a city councilor seriously, people smash 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.680 them with your emails. Get in their numbers matter because 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.400 it drives them to take action like this and yes, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:32.960 even reverse their own decisions. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.400 Well you know what I mean. Most of the correspondence 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.160 councilors received, as you would know, is from wackos. Usually 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.880 busybodies send ten emails a day to complain about things. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.200 So we need more normal people to come out and 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.600 say what they actually think. I think what's happened here 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.720 is that people are actually starting to feel more comfortable 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.520 to say that they like Australia Days. The moment I 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.680 think all of this turned was January this year, when, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.920 of course Woolworth's to say I did that they wouldn't 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.840 have any Australia Day paraphernalia for sale in their supermarkets, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.920 and there was quite a public backlash that then forced 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.920 Woolworths to actually stock some gear and say, oh no, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.440 we never meant that in the first blaze. Don't worry, 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.560 I rubbish. We know what they were trying to do. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.120 But it was the first time I feel like people 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.760 actually stood up and said, no, we want Australia Day 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.599 to be celebrated on January the twenty sixth, and I 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.240 think that's emboldened people to actually come out and say 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.880 what they think. The Voice has probably played a small 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.000 part in that as well, because it was proof that 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.320 the silent majority is actually the majority. Even though most 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.440 of the media was taken up by people saying must 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.679 vote yes, you must vote yes, et cetera, et cetera. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.719 The activists haven't taken any notice of it. They're just 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.599 going hell for leather and pretending none of this ever happened. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.839 But real Australians are actually feeling like they can show 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.479 a bit of national pride and thank God for that. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.080 I just hope this catches on and other council's cotton 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.560 on and go, well, hang on, maybe we should commission 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.880 a survey of our residents as well. What a novel 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.919 idea asking them what they want. Now, look, it is 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.719 better if you do that before you make decisions instead 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.760 of after making decisions. That would be ideal. But we 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.200 must give credit where it is due to Onley and 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.560 Rockingham for taking notice of their residents when they've come 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.520 through with their views. And it's interesting to note as 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.479 well that of the people who were polled in this 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.159 survey by Rockingham, of the Indigenous people who were polled, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.000 even the majority of them said they would prefer Australia 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.160 Day celebrations to be on Australia Day itself. I mean, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.640 how much clearer can it be? And let's hope it 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.240 keeps going. There's a campaign going in Adelaide now after 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.680 the only council decision on Monday night up in the 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.320 Adelaide Hills to get their council to reverse their decision. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.520 A bunch of residents have banded together. They're running a campaign. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.160 I think we've got a photograph here of some good 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.240 local patriots fund pay us action group where it is. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.880 There's even a petition that's gone around up there, a 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.960 thousand signatory saying that they want Australia Day back where 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.479 it is. We need to see more of this because 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.760 I know sometimes it can feel like you're swimming against 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.400 the tide and that your vote really doesn't matter, and 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.560 your view really doesn't matter because everyone you hear in 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.599 the media and your counselors and your politicians isn't taking 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.159 much notice of what you're saying. But what we have 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:24.200 here is concrete proof that we can actually make a difference. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.840 Ordinary Australians have to speak up about the things in 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.440 which they are interested and the things in which they believe. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.520 The other interesting part of this, and you mentioned it, Liz, 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.440 is that since the Voice referendum, people have been emboldened. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.200 It was about sixty percent nationally that voted against the Voice. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.479 In Only it was sixty percent that voted to keep 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.720 Australia Day on January twenty six. In Rockingham it's been 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.720 sixty three percent. So that number seems to be fairly 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.960 consistent so far and overwhelmingly means a majority of Australians 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.960 aren't interested in race wars, aren't interested in revising everything. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.240 As one of the residents from the Adelaide Hills who 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.520 we just pictured on screen said, history is history. Some 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.599 of it's good, some of it's bad. We've got to 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.000 move on with the world and get on as Australians. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.600 I think that's the overwhelming sentiment. And so let's hope 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:13.720 this momentum continues. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.640 Well, don patriots, we ride at dawn for King and Country. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.880 And it's interesting to note that that Ratepayers Association in 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.320 the Hills there who are on this bandwagon to get 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.760 their council to overturn their decision as well. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.280 They said, if you don't. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.760 We're organizing our own massive extravaganza in Federation Park on 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.480 January twenty sixth anyway. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.080 So you can sob the National Day. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.600 But we won't be to the UN General Assembly now 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.200 because we love paying out on these guys, so when 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.880 they sit, we pay attention. And one of our favorites, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.840 Argentinian President Javier Malay, took the podium today to give 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.560 them a piece of his mind. It's no secret that 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.720 he's no fan of the UN. And the funny thing 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.760 about this is when he takes the podium, he's no 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.840 laughing matter. Since coming to power in December of last year, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.240 he's done so many of the things that he promised. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.600 In fact, Argentina's share sorry not stock market, I was 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.000 about to say shareholders, that would be very nice, but 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.640 you might want to invest in Argentina. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:24.000 Once I've told you this. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.160 Argentina's stock market has surged more than forty four percent, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.960 making it the top performing this year. This guy has 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.840 achieved wonders. He has slashed federal agencies by half from 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:42.360 eighteen to nine. He's slashed public spending by thirty percent. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.560 And would you believe it when you're slash public spending. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.680 What happens inflation goes down. When he came to power 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:54.079 in December, it was twenty five percent inflation in December. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.199 It now sits at a humble four point two percent 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.480 in comparison. So they know that they can't can't laugh 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.520 this guy off stage even as he's going full Skirch 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.800 scorched earth on them, completely condemning their patch for the 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.880 future which they all signed up to. On Sunday, he 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.920 took the podium to say Argentina. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.240 Wouldn't be having a bar of it. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.520 He called it socialist, and he said that instead Argentina 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.000 will be a vanguard for freedom. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:23.520 Here he is. 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.280 This organization stopped looking after its main aim set out 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.199 in its founding declaration and started to change. This was 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.600 an organization that had essentially been thought up as a 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.080 shield to protect the rain of men, and it became 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.760 the leviathan with various tentacles purporting to decide not only 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.800 what not only what each nation state should do, but 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.880 also how all the citizens in the world should live. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.679 That's how we move from being an organization that pursued 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.880 peace to an organization that imposes an ideolog ideology on 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.960 its members about an endless list of topics in society. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.360 Well, it's far less rousing having a female with a 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.679 meat mouse like voice voice it for him. But I'm 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.520 telling you he went scorched earth. This was exactly what 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.080 he did at the World Economics Davos in January, where 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.079 he basically just attended to tell them how trash they 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.160 were and that he wasn't signing up to any of 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.800 their agendas. I love that he still bothers to attend 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.000 and they still give him the platform, knowing that he's 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:28.440 just going. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:28.920 To do it again. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.400 Well he stares him down. He just looks them straight 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.360 in the eye and tells him exactly what he thinks. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.160 And we are so lacking in political leaders like that 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.920 these days, who are willing to stand up for conviction. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.160 I mean, we need to get Harvey Malay here and 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.280 run all of the councils and you wouldn't have to 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.560 worry about Australia Day not being held on January twenty six. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.960 And the funniest thing about this Pact for the Future 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.480 that most of the UN signed up to this week 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.400 is that the whole idea of it is to save 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.360 the UN from becoming, you know, no longer a force 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.520 in the world because even the UN realizes now that 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.280 they are on the nose. Antonio Guterres, bloke who runs 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.720 a shop, said this will bring multilateralism back from the brink. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.640 I mean, that was the whole point of this pack 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.600 for the future, which by the way, says we've got 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.040 to go faster towards the boards and all of this 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.720 sort of thing. But they're just openly admitting we're a 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.200 bit stuffed here. We've lost our way. As Malay said, there, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.040 the whole reason the UN was set up was to 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.440 stop conflict in the world, and you've utterly failed in 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.360 your duty to do that. They know that they've come 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.640 up with some cockeyed idea about will go faster towards baris. 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.880 He said, for even's sake, you are no good anymore. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.200 Just pack it in, go home, let us run our 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:44.840 own countries. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.400 Good on him, and he went beyond that, and he 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.640 explained why the UN has lost all of its credibility 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.000 because it has no moral authority. He talked about the 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.520 fact that the United Nations is meant to stand for 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.800 human rights and yet has some of the worst human 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.160 rights abuses on those committees. He talked about the that Afghanistan, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.679 which won't allow women to show any bare skin in public, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.880 is on the Committee for Women's Rights. And then he 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.640 promised those at the United Nations that Argentina would end 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.679 its long history of neutrality when it came to votes 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.199 at the United Nations, and he said, we don't care 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.280 who proposes what idea. We don't care whether there's consensus, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.160 whether it's popular or not. We will take an active 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.560 stance in voting for freedom and for human rights, freedom 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.559 of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of ownership of property, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.679 limited government. And he said Argentina, from this point on, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.959 I'm not just going to sit back, and I'm thinking 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.480 about this with Penny Wong's recent decision for Australia to 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.360 be neutral when it came to that vote on Israel, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.160 because we don't want to upset people. We don't only 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.160 get involved, we're trying to play politics. And Malia simply 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.720 saying I will be a person of conviction and of 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.480 principle and you can count on that from Argentina. And 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.840 I am looking for a airline ticket because it sounds like 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.680 a pretty good place to be. And of course he 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.600 ended the speech with his now famous line which I 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.360 guess it's the second time I've heard him do it. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:08.040 I don't know. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.000 You've probably heard more. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:09.680 Of him than I have. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.520 But what does he say? Long Live Freedom? And then 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.360 he ends up live freedom damn it and leaves the stage. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.680 So he's quite the showman. But as you said, Liz, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.080 he's got the credibility to back it up. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.120 They have to listen to him. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.160 It's working for him, leaving, walking, breathing, talking proof of 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:32.640 how quickly a country can turn around under the right leadership. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.480 Which is why I always joke about our government. You 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.920 can't be this bad at your job accidentally. It's not 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.640 an accident. You know what is conducive to human flourishing, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.800 You know what is conducive to a flourishing economy. You 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.160 won't even admit that government spending drives inflation. You guys 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.640 are still just spending it like it's well, not your money, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.920 it's our money, so you don't care. These guys are 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.800 not doing the most basic things. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:02.680 Every time we talk. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.080 About our failing birth Rateyett, No matter what we're talking about, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.400 our government is falling short. These guy's only been in 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:15.120 the job a matter of months, and the transformation Argentina 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.760 has seen under this man's leadership is just extraordinary. But 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.000 it's a big I guess embarrassment to others looking on 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.800 because he's showing them up. This is just what one 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.440 strong leader who genuinely loves his country, who genuinely wants 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.360 the best for his people, this is what he can 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.080 pull off. And he doesn't go to places like the UN. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.040 He doesn't go to places like the World Economic Forum. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.280 To press the flesh and just fit in and not 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:43.160 be awkward. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:48.240 He goes there to act absolutely like full barrels blasting, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.920 tell them what he thinks of them, and say, you 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.880 guys don't do what's best for us. You don't do 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.920 what's best for any of these people signing up to 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:55.520 this pact. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:56.680 We're not in on it. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.560 And he said in his speech, I encourage all you 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.320 other follow me, follow my example. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.160 Don't sign up to this crap. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.400 You're onto a trick going to Argentina. I've got to say, James, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.000 they have great steak over there, and they have very 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.200 good red wine. I'm going to join you if we're 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.880 going over there. And just very briefly, while we're talking 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.000 about the UN, Joe Biden got up and gave a 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:20.800 speech as well, sort of you know, closing out his 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.160 presidency and revising history. And he was talking about pulling 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.400 out of Afghanistan, which James mentioned before, and he said 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.360 it was a hard decision, but the right decision. Well, yes, 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.720 tell that to the troops who died over there, and 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.080 tell that to the Taliban. Well, they think it was 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.480 the right decision because of course you left all your 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.520 weapons behind and they just simply moved in and took them. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.200 Well done, hard decision, but the right decision. Give me 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.040 a break. While we're on overseas news, Harvey and Malay 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.080 and Biden have been speaking at the UN. Sir Kia Stama, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.280 of course, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.360 has been speaking at the Labor Conference. And I tell 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:03.000 you what he has come through with a chilling warning. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.560 Now he does not know it is a chilling warning. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.080 He's hid it straight faced as though it's a good thing. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.720 But it should be taken as a warning. Sir Kia 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:16.160 has promised to take more control of your life. Take 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:16.600 a listen. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:24.000 Markets don't give you control. That's almost literally their point. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.320 So if you want a country with more control, if 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.080 you want the great forces that affect your community to 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:36.200 be better managed, whether that's migration, climate change, law and order, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:41.160 or security at work. Then that does mean more decisive government, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.200 and that is a labor government. Taking back control is 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:46.359 a labor. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:51.680 Argument, taking back control, by which he means you have 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.200 less choice and less freedom and the government makes more 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.120 decisions for you. He's not even hiding it, he's not 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.520 lying about it, saying this is Labor Party policy. We 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.840 control run your life as much as humanly possible. In fact, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.760 he says that is the point of government. Well, I'll 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.479 tell you what, you've done, a bloody bad job of 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.840 it for the last one hundred odd years, there and 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.080 here and everywhere else. As if we want to give 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.800 them more control. But he's like, sure, you gave me 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.399 a massive majority. I'm just going to take over the 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.080 old joint. He reminds me, to fix. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.960 Your problems, give us more power, make it all go away. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.240 Ignoring that they created the problems in the first place. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.320 This should be utterly terrified. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.359 I mean, I watched this entire speech and I was 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:43.080 just like, this is some totalitarian, tyrannical crap. This guy 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.800 is saying, in a very authoritative manner, he used the 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:53.520 words control or uncontrolled fifteen times uncontrolled to use to 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.680 refer to things that need more control. And of course 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:01.639 he's talking about more government interfere and this was such 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.240 a stark contrast to remember when he gave his first 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.040 speech as Prime minister and he literally said, I quote 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.520 that he would tread more lightly on your lives end quote. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.080 What what's changed, kids, Darma? 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.680 Now it's all about control. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.000 We need more control. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.680 Any problems that we have is due to a lack 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:23.560 of control. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:30.600 It's utterly completely unveiled their real agenda and the real 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.439 nature of the man who's now elected to be Prime minister. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.000 As I'm watching his speech today, I'm reminded of Ronald 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.959 Reagan's words the nine most terrifying words in the English language. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.520 I'm from the government and. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:42.679 I'm here to help. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.400 When did anybody ever believe that giving the government more 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.320 control was going to make things better? The one thing 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.080 I did like about his speech is he promised that 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.160 he was not afraid to be unpopular, and on that score, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.800 I'd say he's doing very well because he's increasingly unpopular. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.760 The Daily Telegraph, which reported his speech, or sorry The 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.919 Telegraph in the UK, which reported his speech had at 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.600 last count I think it was just over six thousand 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.320 comments on that particular news report, which is astonishing that 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.600 of quick flick through there were no positive ones at all. So, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.920 you know, we've talked about all that's going on in 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.240 the United Nations. It's very interesting. The clampdown on freedoms 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.040 in the UK, that's fascinating. There's the US presidential election 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.439 at the moment, assassination attempts on Trump News that there 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.159 are five hit squads after him. All of that is 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.440 very interesting. So when you turn on the World Today 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.919 on ABC Radio, you'd expect to get updated on all 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.080 of these things. In fact, the ABC's premier radio program 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.679 advertises itself as presenting events and issues of interest and 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.600 importance to all Australians. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:51.760 So we turned it on. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.280 Today and we heard that Ballarat has a transgender op shop. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.639 An inclusive opshop has opened in Regional Victoria, providing a 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.199 safe space for gender diverse people to swap, try on 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.800 and purchase clothes. It all started two years ago in 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.640 one woman's garage in Ballarat. Is a way to give 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.000 the local trans and gender diverse community a chance to 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:18.399 find gender affirming clothes Now, thanks to some community fundraising 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.200 and a grant, the shop is out of the garage 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.800 and onto the street from Ballarat. Rhannon Stevens prepared this 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:26.160 report nice. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:29.399 Jas ten bucks. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:30.840 Yeah yeah, it's. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.600 A bargain, yes for Ballarat resident Charlotte Johnson. She says 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.239 when she first transitioned, her style was constantly changing, so 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.360 having an affordable place to buy clothes is really helpful. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:43.360 You think you know what. 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:44.760 You want and then the next day you go, oh, 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.800 I hate this song now, I hate what I'm wearing 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.800 now to want to change it that quickly as well, 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.600 if you can walk in and go, oh, I just 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.439 want to grab like a couple of things. I think 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.080 this is what I want to look like now, and 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.440 then maybe next week you go, oh god, I hate 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.560 what I've got now. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.000 God bless all the people using that fine facility. But 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.280 events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians, 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.800 we do you reckon that would rank in importance to 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:08.879 all Australians. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.480