WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 24 March 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.479 On Scoring Lives Austrodia. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:09.880 This is the winder Panety Show. Good evening and welcome 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.160 to the Reader Panney Show. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.160 Coming up tonight, Australia headed for years of deficits as 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.040 Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down a big spending budget. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.720 Adam Criton will be here to discuss the day's top headlines, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.320 including Menique Bryant's husband caught tearing down a sign for 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.440 the Liberal candidate in q Yok. Professor eam Plymer will 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.360 fact check labor claims that energy bills plummeted in twenty 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:36.120 twenty four. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.400 The Great Josh Hammer will have the latest from the US, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:40.319 and later in the. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.240 Hour, Kinseysko film will have the figures for what looks 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.559 like being one of Disney's most disastrous films ever. And 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.280 Left Is Losing It features this UK delicate for the 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.600 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.200 I'm actually going to be talking to you about my. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:04.800 Nipples, Okay, but first, the latest news poll is in 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.720 and women, young women in particular, are ditching Labor and 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.240 the Coalition for the Greens. Labour's female support base has 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.319 dipped to twenty nine percent for the first time, with 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.040 the Greens now the beneficiaries of fifteen percent of the 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.760 female vote, but the two party per therred vote remains 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.800 at fifty one to forty nine in favor of the Coalition, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.880 thanks mainly to growing anti labor sentiment in Victoria and 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.840 a surgeon support for the Coalition in Queensland. Pitter Dutton 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.319 does appear to have a problem with young women. His 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.839 approval rating is just twenty one percent among that corehort, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.600 with a disapproval rating of sixty four percent. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.280 Compare that to the Prime Minister's. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.160 Approval rating of forty percent for that demographic. But the 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.640 issue appears to be with young women only. If you 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.320 add women of all ages into the mix, the two 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.200 party per free third metric favors the Coalition fifty one 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.440 to forty nine percent. Joining me now for more on this, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.440 a senior fellow and chief economis at the Institute of 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:10.760 Public Affairs. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:11.520 Adam Crichton. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.960 Adam, young women are increasingly leaning left. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:16.520 We can see that from the data. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.359 We can see that anecdotally fifteen percent of them. You 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.120 could argue you are leaning radical left. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.560 Yes, Look, this is a phenomenon that's actually happening all 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.000 around the world, and it's hard to explain. The only 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.720 theory that I can come up with is it's the 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.320 education system, which is increasingly far left and increasingly feral, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.680 if you like, and it tells young women that young 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.520 men and many in general are the enemy and art 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.120 to be trusted, et cetera, et cetera. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.960 So I think that's what's polarizing it. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.839 And of course we also saw on that data I think, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.760 or at least maybe not that data, but we certainly 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:46.640 see it around the world. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.040 Is that young men are. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.040 Actually becoming more conservative. Yes, so that's happening at the 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.680 same time. And actually just this week in the New 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.160 York Times there was an editorial saying that actually, young 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.160 people as a whole now have actually become a lot 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.079 more conservative, which is quite interesting. And I actually put 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.680 that down to COVID, to their experience with COVID, to 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.400 their experience with big government, having their lives destroyed. I 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.720 think has actually made some of them wake up to 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.239 the pernicious nature of government. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.359 Yes, particularly the young men. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.760 And I think it's also a rebellion because if you 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.760 look at all the institutions, whether you're talking about education, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:25.959 whether you're talking about the corporate world, Hollywood, sporting organizations 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.000 that have all become so left leaning, so woke. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.880 So you actually want to be a rebel, you'd be 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.000 a conservative. You don't want to be a part of 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:33.919 that group think. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.440 And you mentioned what we're seeing in this newspot mirroring 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.720 what's happened elsewhere, and certainly the trend in the US. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.360 It's all with Donald Trump's election in twenty twenty four. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.480 He won married men, he won unmarried men, He won 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.120 married women, but lost and lost badly amongst unmarried women. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.800 You look at the data, there's sixty eight percent. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.200 To thirty one when he came to unmarried women, but 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.560 every other category he was winning. So that does seem 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:09.200 to be this very particular demographic that is leaning increasingly left. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.000 And because the margin is so dramatic and it's a 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.360 growing group, it will have an impact on elections. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.160 Yeah, look, that's that's probably true, and it does. Although 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.040 I think I'd rather be I'd rather be in the 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.320 position of Donald Trump in the USA because, as you say, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.960 he's actually won more of these subcategories, if you like. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.039 It's just the white women who are educated in particular, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.440 for some reason, lean left increasingly and The reason I 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.560 think is the media I think encourages it, and also 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:38.680 the education system. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.560 I think universities of a lot to answer for. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:48.400 And if you faced just well over a decade of doctrination, it's. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.240 Going to have an impact. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:54.560 Now to this astonishing footage of Monique Ryan's husband Peter Jordan, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.600 who was called removing a sign backing the liberal candidate 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.440 for Q Young Amelia out Hamer. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.719 Watch this footage. I'm going to play you the whole thing. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.760 He refuses repeatedly to identify himself and seems very proud 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.560 of what he's done. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.800 So hang on, mate, what are you doing? 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:15.119 I'm taking the sign? 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.520 Yeah, beg you pardon? 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.839 I'm taking the sign out? 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.800 What are you doing that for? It's on public land. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.640 I'm I'm not saying who I am? 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:24.000 Who are you? 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.479 Or you wearing a teal T shirt. I'll start to 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.159 film you now, are you Monic Ryan? 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:33.039 Supporter of ripping down people's people's signs are so? 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:33.560 What are you doing? 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.160 It belongs to me. Hey, you can take it off 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.520 the property, but it belongs to me. If it goes 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.479 back up, it'll be taken down again. There you go, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:41.800 Monique Ryan, There you go. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:47.280 Community values, but he has since changed his tune, is 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.400 now saying I unreservedly apologize for removing the side. It 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.359 was a mistake. I believe the sign was illegally placed, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.760 but I should have reported my concerns to counsel and Monique. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.880 Ryan too has also apologize, saying it should not have happened. Adam, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.240 I do wonder whether there'd be any apologies without that 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.479 footage being taken and becoming public. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:10.360 Not certainly not. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.320 Look, I mean, I'm not sure it actually hurts her though, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.760 to be honest, I mean, it's kind of sweet that 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.600 her husband's out there helping her, you know, even if 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.240 it's not you know, it's romance. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:19.960 It's dead. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.240 Yeah, it goes on a lot, and look, there are 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.719 rules about where things can and can't be put. But yeah, look, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.320 I mean it's it's kind of embarrassing, and clearly she 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.080 was embarrassed by it. She's apologized, he's apologized. We'll probably 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:34.600 see more of this through the election campaign. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.359 I would say, yeah, but you would hope not to 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.200 see it from the husband of the local MP. You 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.080 would think they would have more sense. The just have 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.800 brazen and entitled. You'd have to be do. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.040 You wonder whether she hate like that. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.120 Do you wonder whether she knew in advance, whether he 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:50.600 told her? 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:51.040 Who knows? 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:51.960 We'll never find that out. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.440 No, no, we can't blame the sins of the husband 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.000 or not on Monique. Now let's go to tomorrow night's budget. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.599 We're going to see labor doing what labor does best, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.839 handing out bundles of tax payer funds and plunging the 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.120 country to further economic strive. Treasury give Chalmers has considered 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.360 that Australia is headed for years of deficits, saying that 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.160 it remains to be seen when the budget will return 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.200 to a surplus. With billions of dollars in extra spending 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.000 set to be announced just weeks before the federal poll, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.520 the timing couldn't be better for looking. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.640 So it's all pretty depressing, to be honest, to talk 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.760 about the budget we've just had. You're living through the 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.840 biggest increase in federal spending since GoF Whitland fifty years ago, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.040 and this is all being paid for through the proceeds 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.920 of a fading mining boom. So that's all going to 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.240 run out. The tide's going to go out. If you 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:42.800 like the revenue tide's going to go out and it's 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.600 going to expose all of these spending problems, spending programs 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.120 that we just can't afford. So I'm hoping that in 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.920 the budget we see some signs of fiscal rectitude, but 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.080 I am far from confident. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:55.880 That's interesting. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.120 Do you think there's going to be a price to 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.880 pay for labor for really failing to deliver on their 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.280 election promises. We were promised our electricity bills were going 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.640 to go down, we were promised all sorts of cost 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.640 of living relief, and if anything, things have gone backwards. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:20.680 People's living standards have fallen sharply in some cases. Is 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.080 there going to be a reckoning or our Australian's going 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.080 to be forgiving given this is a first term labor government. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.320 Well, look, I mean I certainly hope so that there's 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.280 a reckoning and that labour suffers at the polls. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:35.440 But it's too early to say yes. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.800 But I certainly do think people are waking up to 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.280 the cost of net zero. I mean, it was promised 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.800 that power prices would fall I think by two hundred 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.800 and seventy five dollars somewhat Fastically, yes, and I think 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.000 we've read just in recent days that the power bills 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.160 will be going up by nine percent. So clearly something 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.319 is not working out there. Someone's lying and I think 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.240 it's the it's the renewable energy exhialos who have been lying, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:58.960 and I think more and more people are waking up 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.280 to this. So I think the fact that Labour's had 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.120 to announce another one hundred and fifty dollars, I think 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.480 another two billion dollars, I think that's very embarrassing for them. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.960 It is and taking our money, wasting some of it 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.320 in the bureaucracy and then handing back the rest. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.559 That is not really a way to drive down energy prices. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:16.520 Let's go to. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.280 Canada now, and the newly appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.240 has decided to capitalize on the Donald Trump trade war 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.840 with a nation and call a snap election for April 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.000 twenty eight, well ahead of the original date of October 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.680 twenty with support for the Liberal Party in Canada growing 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:40.959 amid the tariff war with Donald Trump and course for 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.120 Canada to become. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.920 The fifty first date. Not a smart move here. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.760 Of course, you're going to capitalize if you and you've 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:53.160 got Canadians finally being proud of Canada being patriotic. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.240 Who could have imagined this? Donald Trump can work miracles. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.280 Now, Look, it's been an absolute godsense for Mark Carney, the 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.640 whole tariff and Donald Trump's comments about Canada. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.640 So I mean it's very unfortunate for the. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.080 Poor opposition leader who was basically coasting to victory. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.800 I think Olivier is a very capable candidate, but Donald 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.960 Trump doesn't like him and he's not doing him any favors. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:16.040 I know. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.800 The great irony here is that the globalist Mark Krney 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.760 is going to cruise to victory on a wave of patriotism, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.360 which is basically. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:24.760 What's going to happen. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:25.959 I think if you look at the polls, I mean 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.360 their election, I think is it's for late April, right, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.559 so there's still a few weeks, but it's not looking 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.440 good for Pierre. Well. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.440 Yeah, this Carney character has got all sorts of red 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.960 flags with him. So we'll be remains to be seen 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:43.960 where the Conservatives can capitalize on that. Now, the reimagined 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:48.080 Australian five dollar bill will sport a new indigenous theme 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.680 and replace the long standing portrait of the British monarch. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.360 This is country, is the land of water and sky. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.800 The RBA has said in a statement, and key to 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:04.440 the theme is the recognition of First Nations communities contribution 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:10.120 to the restoration and conservation of our environment Adam. They say, 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.920 this is an important context. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:13.360 For this connection. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.439 What do you think I mean as the country crying 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.000 out for a new five dollar bill? 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:22.440 No, And look, I think if you are going to 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.480 have a constitutional monarchy, which is what we have, you 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.079 should have the monarch's face on something. And I think 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.720 it's always been on the five dollar not or at 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.160 least for a very long time it has. And so 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.480 my personal view is that Charles should be drawn on 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.640 that note. I think this is republicanism by stealth. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:36.640 You know. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.920 I don't have strong views either way with monarchy or not, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.160 but if you are going to have one, you know, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.720 I think as a sign of respect you should have 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.440 the head of state's face on something. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.640 You should And let's got two sides. Why can't you 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.480 have on one side and change the other side? Now, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.880 before you go, you've been the US correspondent for the 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.000 Australian newspaper for several years. You were there for much 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.520 of the COVID madness, and you would be very familiar 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.800 with his next character the file left activist teaches union 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.960 boss Randy Windagan and who's been attempting to reride history, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.959 claiming that she was always for pushes to reopen schools. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.000 This is what she's claiming. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.560 She wanted schools to be reopened as early as April 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:19.800 twenty twenty. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.959 But the receipts say otherwise. Let's have a look. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.560 Just because Donald Trump wants to take a risk with 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.640 people who go to bars or beaches, those of us 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.839 who have spent our life teaching kids are not going 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.480 to take a risk with kids or with our members' lives. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:41.440 Remote and hybrid are really the only two ways you 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.200 can reopen schools safely. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.360 We got at the Lady School opening because if you 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.520 don't have the mask, how are you going to. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:51.400 Be able to do this. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.439 There's a huge difference between working in Walmart and working 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:56.199 at a school. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.520 You know, even in a situation like Florida where it was 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:04.280 pretty that schools should not reopen and where Miami schools 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.240 did not reopen because you had people who were courageous 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.600 and who were willing to divide. De Santosis denials. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.200 This is like thirty seconds. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.720 There's about ten minutes of her just railing throughout the 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.040 entire COVID era against any school reopening. We had the 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.280 same experience here, absolutely, but these people have found themselves, Adam, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:25.440 on the wrong side of history. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:26.800 Well certainly. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.440 One thing that I did learn in the US is 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.840 that the teachers unions over there are so extreme and 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.800 far left and powerful. That really shocked me. And they were, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.800 you know, they did a terrible job during COVID and 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.080 so many young American kids have suffered just you know, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.640 just as they have here, and we really do need 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.160 a raw commission into you know, who said what went. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.160 At least in America you did have states like Florida 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.280 and Texas that reopened schools, whilst here the experience was 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.920 very different, particularly in the state of Victoria where we're in. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.040 Adam Christian, thank you so much for your time, Thanks 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.400 for joining me. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:01.240 Now is esteem geologist and author Professor I Primber In 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.840 Labor's extending its energy rebates. It's going to be providing 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.200 another one hundred and fifty dollars in energy bill relief, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.719 and the Albaneezy government has used the so called savings 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.760 provided by this existing rebate to claim that they've reduced 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.400 any energy bills by twenty five percent. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.080 But Ian, I'd love a fact check from you. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.160 Is taking money from the taxpayer and giving some of 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.280 it back to them in the form of a rebate. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.240 Is that really something that you could call a drop 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:34.360 in energy prices? 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.280 And certainly nothing to be proud of. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.560 And I would say by any objective measure, energy prices 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.360 are going up, not down, as the treasurer claims. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.080 Well, the average elector is not going to be conned 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.400 by this. This is a simple job where we're still 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.640 waiting for our two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.680 After that we might get one hundred and fifty, but 0:14:58.920 --> 0:14:59.720 we're paying for it. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.400 And when that money shifts from one hand to the other, 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.240 the ticket gets clipped and there's a bit. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.680 Of money taken out. Now, what the government should be 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.680 addressing is the root cause of their extraordinary high cost 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.000 of electricity. Remember it was once cheap and reliable. Now 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.360 because of renewables, it's very expensive. So they should be 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.960 addressing the question, should we have so much renewable in 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.160 the grid, Should we not resurrect our coal fired power stations? 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.600 Should we not change the regimes such that we can 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:37.520 get gas producers getting their gas into the market very quickly. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:39.240 This is a band aid solution. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.720 It's not treating the problem at its source, and it's 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.160 treating the electric with the absolute disdain. So they're taking 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.800 a huge amount of money with one hand and giving 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:51.800 us back peanuts. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.640 I don't fall for it. That no one else does. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.520 And there's growing resistance against renewable energy infrastructure in the 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.520 regions Australia's energy infrastructures are Tony. Maha said the rollout 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:10.560 of the nation's renewable and transmission projects face significant. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.960 Hurdles to win over rural communities, with. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.960 The latest example in South Australia's Brossa Valley. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.040 We've got the locals. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.560 They're protesting against a major wind projects later for the area. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.640 They say the idea is absolute idiocy, and I've got 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.720 to agree in we're talking about a beautiful area being 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.600 scarred by these monstrosities. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.840 Well, we have foreign solar and wind companies who are 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:43.360 building their facilities using Chinese parts and Chinese machines to 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.720 generate electricity. We once had cheap, reliable electricity. We're now 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.880 putting these monstrosities across beautiful areas. Areas which are farming areas, 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:59.480 and areas which are areas where people actually live and 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.680 make money and keep themselves alive from farming. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.679 Now, the Barossa is a beautiful area, but it's one. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.920 Of the many areas that's being attacked by these wind turbines. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.040 For example, the potato farmers just north of Ballarat are 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.080 suffering the same problem. And this is in the seat 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:20.600 of Catherine King. She is the infrastructure Minister. She should 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.280 be concerned about infrastructure and how that infrastructure is going 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.520 to stop potato farmers using heavy equipment underneath the wires 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.639 that are going across their land. This is politically a 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.920 disaster in marginal seats such as Ballarat. It's a political 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.680 disaster for those in rural Australia. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.880 And we are. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:47.480 Absolutely dismissive of the farmer's concerns. They're treated with disdain 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.359 and it's divisive in the farming community. Is creating mistrust 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:57.480 of governments and bureaucrats and it's a really poisonous. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.440 Policy that's been put into practice now. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.440 Armors count when we want to eat, but they don't 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.800 count when we want to destroy their land. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.639 And this is what's happening. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:08.840 Now. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.560 In Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has refused to say whether 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.199 the coalition would increase defense spending, repeal price caps on 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.840 coal and gas, or by how much it would reduce 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.119 net overseas migration, which is going to be a big 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.720 issue in the upcoming election. And Opposition finance spokeswoman Jane 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.119 Hume has refused to commit to delivering income tax cuts 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.960 for workers, despite vowing lower and simpler and fairer taxes 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:43.200 under a coalition government. What exactly is the coalition plan here? 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.600 It seems to have left itself with scan policy detail, 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.879 really not articulating a position that's dramatically different to labor. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.040 What are they taking to the federal election. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.840 I think they're making themselves a small target. They are 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.159 not having twenty seven different policies on the table. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.359 The major policy is the cost of living. Part of 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:08.600 that is related to. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.200 The cost of energy, part of it is related to 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:16.320 government inefficiency, and so they're actually trying to reduce the 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:21.040 areas where the opposition can be attacked by the government. Now, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.440 the principal area that the opposition should be looking at 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.760 is cost of living, but they also should be looking 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.160 at how businesses operate when businesses are in trouble. They 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.560 cut their costs. Governments are not doing that, and they 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.159 should be pushing very very hard what they want to 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.840 do with just enterprise and cutting the cost of government 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.719 and the cost of creating services to people. This is 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:52.280 above and beyond the necessary costs that you should have. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.520 And they're trying to make a small target of themselves 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.760 and not trying to have a situation where they can 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.560 be attacked on every quarter and such that they'll lose. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.440 A few votes. You lose a few votes there. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.920 So I think it's a deliberate campaign by the opposition 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.120 to reduce the amount of a text that they get 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:10.800 from the government. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.920 Yes, but I don't think that's the way to get elected, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.000 essentially running on the platform that we're not the Anthony 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.120 Albanese government. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.639 The Victorian Lives have tried. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.359 That at state level and it does not work. You 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.879 need to actually stand for something and give people a choice. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.399 Professor Ian Plymer, thank you so much for your time tonight. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.080 Thank you for your time, and still to come. Lefty 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.160 is losing it. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.920 Plus the latest from the US, including Bill Maher's plans 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.800 to visit Donald Trump. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:44.960