Speaker 1: Welcome, Joe wait Bay.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond coming
Speaker 3: up tonight. The AFL might have tried to outlaw the bump,
Speaker 3: but a South Australian footy fan has used it to
Speaker 3: great effect in a citizen's arrest. Will show you what
Speaker 3: happened a little later. Plus when we look at what's
Speaker 3: making news tomorrow. Of course cyclone Alfred the big story,
Speaker 3: how the papers are reporting that, and don't forget we'll
Speaker 3: provide regular updates throughout the weekend here on Sky News.
Speaker 3: Plus an incredible story in Melbourne a teenager at Avalon
Speaker 3: Airport managed to board a Jetstar flight with a shotgun,
Speaker 3: a loaded shotgun. All of that when we get to
Speaker 3: tomorrow's papers. But first, speaking of AFL, I'm a massive
Speaker 3: AFL fan, Caleb is a massive AFL fan, Liz is
Speaker 3: learning to be a massive AFLAT Wesson.
Speaker 4: I will sing the song to pro loyal.
Speaker 3: Do not lose them, so we won't have Liz do
Speaker 3: any musical numbers.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you could say.
Speaker 5: Lizzie is a big, big sound though I think that
Speaker 5: would be apt.
Speaker 3: That is very true here's something I didn't know about
Speaker 3: the AFL. Though it's a registered charity and doesn't pay
Speaker 3: any tax, it's tax exemption status states back to the
Speaker 3: nineteen fifties and was granted by the government in recognition
Speaker 3: of the work it does to promote community sport.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, but the AFL is a very different beast
Speaker 3: these days. It's a one billion dollar a year business.
Speaker 3: The CEO earns well over three million dollars a year,
Speaker 3: and so there are calls for the AFL and other
Speaker 3: sports I must say, like the NRL to start paying tax.
Speaker 3: This all comes out of report in the Journal of
Speaker 3: Australian Taxation.
Speaker 2: I must say. It's a sad, sad life, Caleb.
Speaker 3: When you are spending your time reading the Journal of
Speaker 3: Australian are you.
Speaker 1: Telling me you don't read it every night.
Speaker 2: It's been a while, Caleb, it's been while.
Speaker 5: I go home every evening, crack a bottle of red,
Speaker 5: read the Australian Journal Taxation, and then I call my
Speaker 5: accountant tap to.
Speaker 1: Talk about what I've read. I thought everyone did it.
Speaker 3: Not everyone, But let me tell you what it says
Speaker 3: for those who aren't reading the Taxation Journal. The tax
Speaker 3: exemption given to the AFL is not justified because on
Speaker 3: the size of the league's revenues. The tax exemption was
Speaker 3: designed for community sporting clubs and leagues with low levels
Speaker 3: of income and not wealthy professional sports entities. Now it
Speaker 3: goes on to talk about two problems with the AFL
Speaker 3: not paying tax the revenue and the size of the
Speaker 3: CEO's salary package. But I'm not sure their good arguments, Liz,
Speaker 3: because when you look at the size of the AFL's revenue,
Speaker 3: it's a billion dollars. But World Vision have a revenue
Speaker 3: in Australia of about four hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3: The Salvation Army have an annual revenue in this country
Speaker 3: of about eight hundred and ninety two million dollars. They're
Speaker 3: charities that do great work. It's not the size of
Speaker 3: the revenue, it's how much you contribute back into the community.
Speaker 3: And as for executive salaries, if you're running an organization
Speaker 3: like the AFL with so many moving parts, it's a
Speaker 3: national organization, you've got thousands of employees, you've got a
Speaker 3: billion dollar a year income. Well, you're not going to
Speaker 3: pay someone pittance to run that. You're looking for someone
Speaker 3: who would be able to bear that responsibility. They've got
Speaker 3: five hundred and twenty six thousand registered players in this country,
Speaker 3: most of those in community sports, and ten percent of
Speaker 3: all of their revenue goes back into local sport.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't think anyone has a problem with the
Speaker 6: salaries of the head honchos, who will say running the clubs,
Speaker 6: running the leagues. The problem is, I don't know about you,
Speaker 6: but this became a game. As a complete spribes to me,
Speaker 6: I didn't know that these guys around. We're talking about
Speaker 6: a billion dollar industry here, and even more than that
Speaker 6: if you throw in cricket Australia, the NRL, the list
Speaker 6: goes on. I didn't know that these guys had this
Speaker 6: tax exemption. It's very hard to argue when you look
Speaker 6: at the minuture of it that this isn't a business,
Speaker 6: and a very lucrative one at that. When you think
Speaker 6: of non for profits, you think of organizations that focus
Speaker 6: on health education, the financially disadvantage, you do not think
Speaker 6: of billion dollar sporting leagues. What needs to happen here
Speaker 6: is pretty obvious, and that is the law needs to
Speaker 6: differentiate between those amateur sporting.
Speaker 4: Clubs that should be tax exempt.
Speaker 6: We want all those country kids and whatever else. It
Speaker 6: is the smaller community sporting clubs, absolutely, and that was
Speaker 6: the intention of the nineteen fifties legislation.
Speaker 4: That they would be exempt.
Speaker 6: Back in the nineteen fifties, we didn't have these massive,
Speaker 6: behemoth leagues who were posting huge revenues, huge profits every year.
Speaker 4: And sure they give a bit.
Speaker 6: Back, but let's keep in mind some of their revenue
Speaker 6: comes from these massive sponsorships lucrative broadcasting deals.
Speaker 4: Then we've got the fact that.
Speaker 6: They receive tens of millions of dollars in the form
Speaker 6: of a percentage of the income of betting agencies.
Speaker 4: This is a business.
Speaker 6: There's no way, shape or form in which they should
Speaker 6: be considered a non for profit.
Speaker 4: And the change that.
Speaker 6: Needs to happen is exactly what New Zealand has in
Speaker 6: their legislation, where they differentiate between the big wigs and
Speaker 6: the little guys who should be tax exempt.
Speaker 1: I think this is the problem right now.
Speaker 5: As someone who reads the Taxation Journal, I can tell
Speaker 5: you that it is Section fifty point four to five
Speaker 5: of the Income Tax Assessment Act that provides this exemption.
Speaker 5: But I think this is the problem because you wouldn't
Speaker 5: have an argument against it if you could say that
Speaker 5: all of the money that flows into the AFL and
Speaker 5: the NRL is put back into the local clubs and is.
Speaker 1: Put to good use.
Speaker 5: But when you watch sporting leagues having gay pride rounds
Speaker 5: and all this sort of thing, spending their money on
Speaker 5: things that is not really for the betterment of the
Speaker 5: sport in any way is making some kind of.
Speaker 1: A political overture.
Speaker 5: And quite often we've seen the big sporting leagues get
Speaker 5: involved in politics in this country. If you want to
Speaker 5: go down that road, you can have the right to
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 1: But we're going to call you a business.
Speaker 5: If you are a not for profit outfit that is
Speaker 5: solely involved in promoting sport which is good for health,
Speaker 5: et cetera in the country, I've got no problem calling
Speaker 5: you and not for profit. But if they're to go
Speaker 5: down that road and they have, I think they're a business.
Speaker 5: They're making shed loads of money. And if you want
Speaker 5: to argue that football is a public good, and I
Speaker 5: would say it is a public good, it's great.
Speaker 3: For our mental health, if it not our physical health.
Speaker 3: But although supporting North Melbourne is not good for you.
Speaker 5: It wouldn't it for your blood pressure either. I'd be
Speaker 5: going to see your doctor about that. But surely me
Speaker 5: doing this program is a public good, right. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm informing the public of things they may not have known.
Speaker 1: I'm giving entertainment to people.
Speaker 5: I'm giving a company to people who might be at
Speaker 5: home on their own, and this is a bit of connection.
Speaker 1: To the world.
Speaker 5: That's a public good. So why do I have to
Speaker 5: pay tax? I mean, if you keep following this down
Speaker 5: the line, basically everyone can argue that what they're doing
Speaker 5: is somehow a public good and so they should be
Speaker 5: classified as a not for profit. The only problem with
Speaker 5: the not for profit thing is that they will argue
Speaker 5: the AFL, the NRL, every other sporting league that they are,
Speaker 5: in the truest sense, are not for profit because they
Speaker 5: don't deliver a dividend to a hareholder, right, so the
Speaker 5: money doesn't ultimately flow in profit to someone else. And
Speaker 5: on that point you'll probably never win the argument. But
Speaker 5: when you're making the money they are, it's pretty clear
Speaker 5: it's operating like a business even though it's technically a
Speaker 5: not for profit.
Speaker 3: Well, any good charity should operate like a business, because
Speaker 3: if you're not making money, but.
Speaker 1: There are a certain liberty if people, there are certain
Speaker 1: liberties you shouldn't be taking.
Speaker 3: If you are an agree which the AFL is the
Speaker 3: most woke sporting organization in the country. If they are
Speaker 3: getting charity status, they shouldn't be having all these different
Speaker 3: rounds that divide the community. I should point out they've
Speaker 3: got a billion dollars and your revenue there and your
Speaker 3: profit last year I think was forty five million, so
Speaker 3: that's important to note.
Speaker 1: Indeed, speaking of profit.
Speaker 5: An interesting column today in the Daily Telegraph from their
Speaker 5: property reporter Jonathan Chancellor. He's been in the game a
Speaker 5: long time, but he's written about the plan that's going
Speaker 5: to come in at the end of the month for
Speaker 5: foreign buyers to be banned from buying.
Speaker 1: Existing homes in Australia.
Speaker 5: Now he's mounted the argument that it will make basically
Speaker 5: zero difference to the availability of housing.
Speaker 1: In Australia, and he may well be right on that point.
Speaker 5: It's only two percent of property, residential property that is
Speaker 5: owned by foreign investors in Australia. Most of that is
Speaker 5: off the plan stuff. It's not existing properties, but in
Speaker 5: the last quarter or the last quarter that we have
Speaker 5: numbers four, which was the first quarter of the financial year.
Speaker 5: The September quarter, there was one point three billion dollars
Speaker 5: spent by foreign investors on residential property in Australia, and
Speaker 5: that is potentially one point three billion dollars of property
Speaker 5: that Australians otherwise could have bought. So the Coalition mounted
Speaker 5: an election promise in their Budget reply speech last year
Speaker 5: that they would ban foreign investors from buying homes in Australia.
Speaker 5: The Labor Party recently matched that.
Speaker 1: There was some polling done.
Speaker 5: I think it was about sixty three percent support for
Speaker 5: that idea, so Labor said, well, we.
Speaker 1: Better get on board with this.
Speaker 5: Chancellor writes actually that you've had an increase in foreign
Speaker 5: investors trying to get into the market anticipating this ban
Speaker 5: coming in on.
Speaker 1: April the first.
Speaker 5: But regardless of whether or not it actually makes a
Speaker 5: substantial difference, I don't see how you can argue it's
Speaker 5: a bad thing, because surely Australian property should be available
Speaker 5: for Australian people. I don't think that's controversial to say,
Speaker 5: and my major problem with it is that it doesn't
Speaker 5: go far enough. It bans the purchase of existing properties,
Speaker 5: but not off the plan. So if you're a Chinese investor,
Speaker 5: and you know, we often talk about Chinese investors because
Speaker 5: they make up at least half of the people spending
Speaker 5: money in this country. But there are people from other
Speaker 5: countries investing in Australia too. But why should you be
Speaker 5: able to come in with all your money and buy
Speaker 5: thirty apartments off the plan and then say well, I'm
Speaker 5: going to put them up for end when they're apartments
Speaker 5: that a first home buyer potentially could have snapped up.
Speaker 5: But how are you, as a first home buyer going
Speaker 5: to compete with Richie rich sitting over in China, who
Speaker 5: can buy the whole damn.
Speaker 6: Building, especially when most sales are by auction nowadays, especially
Speaker 6: if you're anywhere on the East Coast.
Speaker 4: It's auction auction option. So richest man wins.
Speaker 6: And guess what, foreign investors are extremely wealthy. So you're
Speaker 6: quite right all these missing out.
Speaker 4: But why is this ban only for two years? Runs
Speaker 4: out in March twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: They'll review it.
Speaker 4: Not good at yes, then they'll review it.
Speaker 6: But this is a national good just to ban it outright?
Speaker 6: Why does it only include new homes as you've rightly asked, Caleb, and.
Speaker 4: Why is it not immediate? Real estate agents.
Speaker 6: I was on several websites today and they're all saying, great,
Speaker 6: now we've seen this massive uptick in foreign buyers who
Speaker 6: were trying to get on the gravy train before the
Speaker 6: door slam shut on April the first.
Speaker 4: It should have been immediate.
Speaker 6: If you asked me, what would we have missed out
Speaker 6: on by making it immediate. Absolutely nothing except for less
Speaker 6: foreign investors snapping up properties that should be going into
Speaker 6: Ossie hands.
Speaker 4: It's that clear.
Speaker 6: And let's not forget even though this may may not
Speaker 6: make much of a difference, won't even put a dent
Speaker 6: in the housing crisis. Heck, it's a step in the
Speaker 6: right direction. This government, all of the government, state and federal,
Speaker 6: got together in twenty twenty three and launched this big idea.
Speaker 6: They called it, what was it, the National Housing Accord.
Speaker 4: So impressive. We're going to be building twenty.
Speaker 6: Thousand houses every month for five years straight. We are
Speaker 6: going to build one point two million houses.
Speaker 4: That was supposed to kick off in July.
Speaker 6: Right know how many new houses have been approved since then,
Speaker 6: ninety thousand.
Speaker 4: We are not putting a dent in it.
Speaker 6: They get together, they make these amazing announcements and don't
Speaker 6: deliver on it. In fact, put nothing in place in
Speaker 6: order to ensure that it was even possible. This is
Speaker 6: going to be the same. It's in the lead up
Speaker 6: to an election. It sounds like a very good headline,
Speaker 6: but it's temporary.
Speaker 4: It doesn't cover off a new homes.
Speaker 6: So what about all the new homes that are being
Speaker 6: built during that time?
Speaker 4: They're totally open to foreign investors.
Speaker 6: What's the use of even bulking up our supply, which
Speaker 6: we're not doing, but for argument's sake, let's say we
Speaker 6: were when the foreign investors can get their mits on
Speaker 6: it first.
Speaker 3: Well, this policy is the brainchild of Claire O'Neill, who
Speaker 3: rose to fame as the Home Affairs Ministry.
Speaker 2: Remember she and Andrew.
Speaker 3: Giles did such a great job bringing a huge number
Speaker 3: of immigrants into our country, which may have had something
Speaker 3: to do with the housing shortage we're now experiencing. She said,
Speaker 3: and I quote it's not a silver bullet to the
Speaker 3: housing crisis, because there is no silver bullet. But I
Speaker 3: really firmly believe it's good. She doesn't just believe, she
Speaker 3: really firm yeah, yeah, that given the housing pressures that
Speaker 3: Australians are facing today, we need to orient the entire
Speaker 3: efforts of the Australian government around security of housing for Australians.
Speaker 3: It's estimated that this policy will free up about one thousand,
Speaker 3: eight hundred homes a year. That's out of about half
Speaker 3: a million that are sold every year. So it really
Speaker 3: is a drop in the ocean. If Claire O'Neill and
Speaker 3: the federal government were serious about solving the housing shortage,
Speaker 3: they'd do something that involved her previous portfolio, which was immigration.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the.
Speaker 5: Think is there are really only two ways you can
Speaker 5: do anything about this. That is to turn off the
Speaker 5: tap of migration though it should have been turned off
Speaker 5: a long time ago, and increase the supply of homes.
Speaker 5: But it is the increased supply that will be up
Speaker 5: for grabs for the foreign investors. So what was the
Speaker 5: point of all that, you know, unless we're saying again
Speaker 5: that everyone must rent forever.
Speaker 1: But I don't think as a society we want that
Speaker 1: to be the case.
Speaker 5: But even if it's eighteen hundred and sixteen hundred extra homes,
Speaker 5: you know, that's potentially eighteen hundred and sixteen hundred extra
Speaker 5: new families who have a house to live in that
Speaker 5: they can call their own. I don't care if the
Speaker 5: number is fifty houses. If that means there are fifty
Speaker 5: Australians who have a piece of dirt that they own,
Speaker 5: I think it's a good policy. No one's saying it's
Speaker 5: going to fix the world, but it's a step in
Speaker 5: the right direction. And I think the principle is the
Speaker 5: most important thing here that Australian property should be for
Speaker 5: Australian people.
Speaker 6: Oh imagine that an Australian government putting Australians first.
Speaker 4: Mind blowing.
Speaker 6: Speaking of this government, the big question on everyone's minds
Speaker 6: is is alban Easy going to call the election this
Speaker 6: weekend or within the week. It's highly expected.
Speaker 4: But now with cyclone. I was about to say cyclone elbow.
Speaker 2: To cyclone and it.
Speaker 5: Was going to be called Anthony, so that they couldn't
Speaker 5: do it. But someone emailed me the other day and said, look,
Speaker 5: it's a good thing they didn't call it Anthony, because
Speaker 5: we've already got two s hi t storms going on
Speaker 5: in this country at the moment, and one of them
Speaker 5: is called Anthony.
Speaker 3: But we didn't need a second one with the other
Speaker 3: irony about this is that just the other day, you know,
Speaker 3: they've been tracking the pathway of the cyclone and it
Speaker 3: keeps changing. But at one point they were predicting that
Speaker 3: the cyclone was going to go straight through Peter Dutton's seat.
Speaker 2: Which is just north of Brisbane.
Speaker 3: So could you imagine cyclone Anthony going through Dutton's electric.
Speaker 2: Just destroying it.
Speaker 3: Very symbolic Alfrid cyclone.
Speaker 6: Alfred so alban Easy of course has been asked about
Speaker 6: this here.
Speaker 4: He was earlier.
Speaker 6: Today on Sky being like like, oh, the election, last
Speaker 6: thing on my mind right now.
Speaker 7: You couldn't call an election in the face of a
Speaker 7: natural disaster like this.
Speaker 6: That's just not going to I mean that will that
Speaker 6: would be a tiny which you don't have, that would
Speaker 6: that couldn't happen.
Speaker 8: Surely, Kieran, I'm focused on not on votes. I'm focused
Speaker 8: on lives. I'm focused on Australians and Australians showing our character.
Speaker 2: At this debuilt time.
Speaker 8: You know what I've been focused on, Kieren is governing.
Speaker 8: We have a budget that we're prepared for and we
Speaker 8: put out the time.
Speaker 4: Sounds like you're delivering the budget.
Speaker 8: Well, we put out the timetable of that last year. Karen,
Speaker 8: what a line.
Speaker 4: I'm not focused on votes, I'm focused on lie.
Speaker 5: See the smirk on his face when he says I
Speaker 5: came up with a good line.
Speaker 1: A good line, feet right, I did.
Speaker 6: There's some staff sitting in the PM's office being like nailed.
Speaker 3: I thought he was laughing because he's like, are they
Speaker 3: really going to buy this? And then say I'm focused
Speaker 3: on governing? Or did he say at some point I'll
Speaker 3: get around to governing.
Speaker 1: I could.
Speaker 6: He's focused on governing, not campaigning.
Speaker 4: This isn't about compaining this could.
Speaker 6: I think it very much depends on how big of
Speaker 6: a natural disaster this turns out to be.
Speaker 3: You're talking about his prime ministership or you're talking about it.
Speaker 6: We already know that that's a very very natural disaster,
Speaker 6: huge fallout from that one. But if in fact cyclone
Speaker 6: Alfred turns out to be as we all hope so,
Speaker 6: not as detrimental as some are projecting.
Speaker 4: These things are highly unpredictable.
Speaker 6: You just never know until when and where it hits
Speaker 6: how bad it's going to be. Of course, if it
Speaker 6: does turn into a proper national emergency, he'd be totally
Speaker 6: teneed to call it.
Speaker 4: And if it turns out to.
Speaker 6: Be, say, a really bad storm and not that many
Speaker 6: people are homeless, et cetera, and so on, I reckon
Speaker 6: he will go for all. This momentum has been building
Speaker 6: for a Sunday announcement. So as we said earlier when
Speaker 6: we were discussing this off air, poor.
Speaker 4: Guy's damned if he doesn't.
Speaker 6: Damned if he doesn't, because if he doesn't, everyone will
Speaker 6: be like what a cower. Now he's just using this
Speaker 6: as an excuse to put it off for as long
Speaker 6: as he can, And if he does, everyone will be like,
Speaker 6: how could you While Australia is grieving and we've got
Speaker 6: floods and we've got.
Speaker 4: So there really is no win here for Albany's.
Speaker 3: But you've got to tell you is what you were
Speaker 3: telling us a fair about someone you know in Queensland
Speaker 3: who they're facing the storm is approaching, but they had
Speaker 3: a really good take on the election.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: So I got in touch with my aunt who's born
Speaker 6: and bred a Brisbane girl, and I was like, are
Speaker 6: you battening down the hatches? How's it all going? You know,
Speaker 6: Brisbane's set to be hit thinking of you guys, she says,
Speaker 6: my main concern is that alban Easy is going to
Speaker 6: use this to put off the election and he won't
Speaker 6: announce it after. So there you go, straight out of
Speaker 6: the mouth of a Queenslander. They do not want this
Speaker 6: used as an excuse. Very small poll there, one person,
Speaker 6: but it's still I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 3: Able to Let's say he does call an election, right
Speaker 3: the cyclone hits and there's flooding and stuff, and he says,
Speaker 3: by the way, we're going to the polls on April twelve.
Speaker 3: Aside from the media going oh it's bad form and
Speaker 3: the optics aren't good, it doesn't affect anybody's life. It
Speaker 3: doesn't stop the cleanup, It doesn't change anything for anybody.
Speaker 3: It gives us some certainty about when the election will be,
Speaker 3: which would be nice rather than this ongoing speculation. So
Speaker 3: I really don't see a problem if in the middle
Speaker 3: of the disaster cleanup or whatever, he says, by the way,
Speaker 3: in a few weeks we're going to the polls.
Speaker 2: What's the problem.
Speaker 5: I think the fact that people are hooing and harring
Speaker 5: about it is pathetic.
Speaker 1: Really, what does it matter? Like?
Speaker 5: It will not make one iota of difference to anyone's
Speaker 5: life if he makes the call. Actually it'll make a
Speaker 5: difference if he doesn't make the call, because it means
Speaker 5: we'll have him the longer as Prime minister. But it's
Speaker 5: not actually going to make it difference to anyone's life
Speaker 5: in Queensland or Northern New South Wales or wherever if
Speaker 5: he makes the call on the weekend or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you.
Speaker 5: Really telling me that if someone's had their roof ripped
Speaker 5: off and Albert Ezy gets up on Sunday and after
Speaker 5: the WA election on Saturday announces there'll be a federal
Speaker 5: election that they'll be standing to go Albo, how dare
Speaker 5: you call an election in my roof has being ripped off.
Speaker 5: I think they'll be more concerned with the roof than
Speaker 5: they will with Alban Easy making any sort of announcement.
Speaker 1: But it happens often on both sides of politics.
Speaker 5: And they tried to do it to Dutton this week
Speaker 5: as well, because he was in Sydney on Tuesday. He
Speaker 5: came down for a fundraiser with Justin Hems and he
Speaker 5: met up with a property developer for lunch. And you've
Speaker 5: got the AFI today and a few other outlets running
Speaker 5: these articles making it sound like it was scurrilous in
Speaker 5: some way that Peter Dutton had come to Sydney on
Speaker 5: Tuesday because he's a Queenslander when it was known that
Speaker 5: the cyclone was on the way here, he should have
Speaker 5: been back in Queensland doing what like standing the coast,
Speaker 5: going and trying to stop the cyclone from coming. Like
Speaker 5: he went back to Queensland yesterday. He was talking to
Speaker 5: Chris Kenny from his house on Wednesday evening. What do
Speaker 5: you expect to do? We're in a quasi election campaign.
Speaker 5: I've got to stop campaigning because there's a cyclone on
Speaker 5: the book.
Speaker 3: Well, let's imagine the cyclone is an absolute fizzer, right,
Speaker 3: it's just a bit of a storm. Will the Australing
Speaker 3: Financial Review then give Peter Dutton credit for a brilliant
Speaker 3: judgement like he knew it, master stroke. This guy has
Speaker 3: incredible insight. I think it's a bigger problem for Anthony
Speaker 3: Alberonizi actually, because if he calls the election in the
Speaker 3: middle of a disaster cleanup, he's not going to get
Speaker 3: the coverage and the headlines that you would be banking on.
Speaker 3: When you make that announcement, you're trying to get the
Speaker 3: momentum straight away with yourself. If he makes that announcement
Speaker 3: in the middle of a disaster, paradically.
Speaker 5: It might actually be the best time to do it,
Speaker 5: because what's he really got to go to an election
Speaker 5: roit So if he starts the whole thing off without
Speaker 5: actually having to talk about chip might be better for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, bring it on a lot of hot
Speaker 2: air either way.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about council because oftentimes on the late debate
Speaker 3: we talk about stupid things councils are doing. But Blacktown
Speaker 3: Council here in Sydney have come up with a great
Speaker 3: idea that I think we can all get behind. They
Speaker 3: have a new policy that bans counselors from debating international
Speaker 3: politics and overseas conflicts, and it demands that the council
Speaker 3: maintain a mutual stance on all international affairs. Now this
Speaker 3: is welcome news because you've got in a West Council
Speaker 3: here in Sydney that had to have police called when
Speaker 3: the Greens moved the motion to ban the council from
Speaker 3: associating with any companies that dealt with Israel. You had
Speaker 3: the City of Sydney move a similar motion and debate
Speaker 3: that you had the Willara Council who they actually moved
Speaker 3: the motion to change the street name on which the
Speaker 3: Russian consulate was located. They changed it from Fullerton Street
Speaker 3: to Ukraine Street. See what they did there. And then
Speaker 3: Cumberland Council they had a massive debate over whether or
Speaker 3: not they should fly the Lebanese flag out the front
Speaker 3: of the council chambers in support of Palestine. They used
Speaker 3: ratepayer money to erect a monument for children killed in Palestine,
Speaker 3: and of course no one is happy about kids being killed,
Speaker 3: but again, what's that got.
Speaker 2: To do with rates, roads and rubbish.
Speaker 3: So the councilors at Blacktown have decided we have a
Speaker 3: policy we don't debate international affairs, we don't take a
Speaker 3: position on international conflicts. The only people opposing this idea,
Speaker 3: can you guess, the Greens who say it will limit
Speaker 3: free speech, But of course it doesn't limit free speech.
Speaker 3: The only reason that these councilors have a platform to
Speaker 3: pontificate on all these sorts of issues is because someone
Speaker 3: elected them to fill potholes, and then they disrespect the
Speaker 3: station they're being given to use it to talk about
Speaker 3: all other things that are really not their purview. Peter Kamaliy,
Speaker 3: a councilor Blacktown, said, we have one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: eight nationalities of residents living in Blacktown, which does seem
Speaker 3: a lot considering I think there's one hundred and ninety
Speaker 3: six countries.
Speaker 4: Maybe they have one for me, So.
Speaker 5: They're going to have to rename it from Blacktown to
Speaker 5: everyone Town.
Speaker 3: It would have seen that way, but they've got one
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty eight nationalities of residents living in Blacktown,
Speaker 3: and anything that asks us to pick aside when you
Speaker 3: have one hundred and eighty eight points of view will
Speaker 3: only ever divide, not unite fair enough.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of things I like about this.
Speaker 3: First, I think obviously it will help counselors to focus.
Speaker 3: And I know local government is pretty boring. It's mowing
Speaker 3: the lawn, filling in potholes, collecting bins, but it would
Speaker 3: be good for them the focus on those things because
Speaker 3: those things typically don't get done, but they find time
Speaker 3: to debate all sorts of things from overseas. And Second,
Speaker 3: calib I reckon it would weed out some of these
Speaker 3: people that run for local government, and maybe we would
Speaker 3: end up people who are there to actually represent residents
Speaker 3: rather than activists who aren't quite good enough to make
Speaker 3: it in the state or federal politics, like you know,
Speaker 3: like security guards who couldn't make the police force, but
Speaker 3: I got into security of course standing outside kmart. And
Speaker 3: so they use a council platform to grandstand and fulfill
Speaker 3: their dream of you know, pontificating about international affairs.
Speaker 2: Get rid of those people.
Speaker 5: Of course, I hope you don't run into any caman
Speaker 5: security guards anytime soon that you might have to pay
Speaker 5: for saying that.
Speaker 1: But I mean this should be pro former.
Speaker 5: Every council should just do this now. Of course they
Speaker 5: won't do it because they're not there just to worry
Speaker 5: about roads rates and rubbish many of them.
Speaker 1: And like you say, you know, it may be boring,
Speaker 1: but it's really important.
Speaker 5: I mean, these are things that we deal with every
Speaker 5: single day, driving on the roads, walking through the parks,
Speaker 5: having our rubbish empty. This is stuff that is arguably
Speaker 5: in many ways more important than stuff that our federal
Speaker 5: and state politicians are dealing with.
Speaker 1: Big How does it affects your everyday life?
Speaker 5: It is important, But what was your list of things
Speaker 5: you had there before?
Speaker 1: Who was it put? Change the street to Ukraine.
Speaker 2: It was the Willara Council war solved.
Speaker 1: What else did you have there?
Speaker 3: We had the Cumberland councils erected a monument to children
Speaker 3: who have died in Palestine because of the Gaza conflict.
Speaker 1: Waring Gaza solved. What else we've got?
Speaker 2: Inner West? Do you still live in the West?
Speaker 1: You used to?
Speaker 3: They actually had to have police called to the council
Speaker 3: chambers to quieten down the crowd when the Greens moved
Speaker 3: a motion to cut ties with Israel.
Speaker 5: There you go, warring Ghaza solved again by two councils
Speaker 5: in Sydney. I mean, do you think that her Maas
Speaker 5: is sitting there, you know, hanging on tinderhooks to hear
Speaker 5: what the Inner West Council did in Sydney.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's all over.
Speaker 5: We're going to have to do something now, Oh Israel.
Speaker 5: Benjamin Detnya who's sitting there in his office, going, oh
Speaker 5: my god, the Inner West Council's not going to have
Speaker 5: any relations whether it's anymore, we'd better call off these war.
Speaker 5: I mean, these are people so often who have risen
Speaker 5: above this station in life. They are neighborhood busybodies, who
Speaker 5: get elected often on two hundred votes, and then they think, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm so important and high and.
Speaker 1: Mighty, and I can talk about everything.
Speaker 5: If you want to do that, go into real politics,
Speaker 5: go to state policies, go to federal politics. You'll probably
Speaker 5: get two hundred votes there as well. But just stick
Speaker 5: to your knitting.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 6: Well, even then, if you're in state or federal, again,
Speaker 6: this is kind of none of your business. These national
Speaker 6: wars on the other side of the world, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: I'm very self indulgent, so here's my five cents, and
Speaker 6: we're all.
Speaker 4: Like, nobody's listening to you.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares.
Speaker 6: Doesn't matter if you're in federal, state, or local government.
Speaker 6: It just gets funnier the further down the food chain
Speaker 6: that you get. But probably for the first time in
Speaker 6: well since the foundations of the earth were laid, the
Speaker 6: Greens may have a point here in terms of it
Speaker 6: incurring upon free speech, because what the counselor has done
Speaker 6: is not just applied this to their council meetings, but
Speaker 6: to counsel properties. We read in this article the policy
Speaker 6: also extends to public council lands such as Main Street
Speaker 6: in Blacktown, Blacktown Showground, and the Blacktown Civic Center, meaning
Speaker 6: any private or public event deemed as touching on international
Speaker 6: politics would be refused. So you are now gagging the
Speaker 6: entirety of your electorate that they can't in the public
Speaker 6: places within Blacktown. Council be allowed.
Speaker 4: To discuss these issues. Either they can't hire the town hall, they.
Speaker 6: Can't gather safe a protest on main Street in Blacktown.
Speaker 6: This is a massive no. And if you're living in Blacktown,
Speaker 6: you should absolutely make sure that your council amends this
Speaker 6: because it does absolutely trash the rights of everyone living
Speaker 6: within their borders.
Speaker 3: If you want to run a private function at the
Speaker 3: town hall and you can afford to hire it, you
Speaker 3: can celebrate I don't know, Chinese New Year or festival
Speaker 3: of whatever.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that. You should be allowed to do that.
Speaker 3: So in the council chambers, yeah, no international stuff. But
Speaker 3: if you want to privately hire a public facility, you
Speaker 3: should be allowed to do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, fair point. Just counselors, keep your mouth shut. If
Speaker 5: they had kept their mouth shots a little bit.
Speaker 1: Maybe they wouldn't have gone that far with this. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, bager everything up. Stop baggering everything up, will
Speaker 1: you please?
Speaker 5: It's interesting polling out of the UK on an ethical quandary,
Speaker 5: which is the idea of having wombs outside of a woman.
Speaker 5: So we're talking about an artificial womb here that you
Speaker 5: could have a baby growing in right now. This has
Speaker 5: been done developmentally in the United States with the aim of.
Speaker 1: It being used for premi babies. That's the aim. That's
Speaker 1: not to say that, of course, at some.
Speaker 5: Point in the future there will be an argument mounted, well,
Speaker 5: we should now be able to have children without actually
Speaker 5: having children in a human being. Everything stuf with good intentions,
Speaker 5: but it doesn't always end up there. This is from
Speaker 5: the Telegraph in London.
Speaker 1: They say.
Speaker 5: In a study commissioned by THEOS, a think tank that
Speaker 5: studies religious and social issues, twenty two hundred and ninety
Speaker 5: eight people were asked whether they would support growing a
Speaker 5: fetus entirely outside of a woman's body. So we're not
Speaker 5: talking about what it's been designed for here, which is
Speaker 5: for premi babies entirely outside of a woman's body. Overall,
Speaker 5: only twenty one percent of people were supportive, with fifty
Speaker 5: two percent opposing the idea. Those who identified as religious
Speaker 5: were even less likely to support it. Unsurprisingly, while women
Speaker 5: were less supportive than men, perhaps more interestingly, but it
Speaker 5: does say all age groups were more likely to oppose
Speaker 5: rather than support, the idea, apart from those aged eighteen
Speaker 5: to twenty four, of whom forty two percent supported it
Speaker 5: and thirty two percent opposed the concept. So I don't
Speaker 5: know where the young people lining up to say they'd
Speaker 5: be more likely to have kids if they didn't actually
Speaker 5: have to have kids.
Speaker 1: I don't think it would increase birth rates.
Speaker 5: Well, you couldn't call it birth rates, could you, because
Speaker 5: you're not actually giving birth. I don't think would make
Speaker 5: a look of difference to people actually having kids, because
Speaker 5: that's economic factors that get in the.
Speaker 1: Way of that.
Speaker 5: But I was really interested in the fact that it
Speaker 5: said women were less supportive than men of this, because
Speaker 5: you would have thought logically women might be more likely
Speaker 5: to say, well, I don't want to go through all
Speaker 5: the pain and whatever of childbirth. I think what it
Speaker 5: proves is when push comes to shove, naturally women want
Speaker 5: to have children. And as much as we've tried to
Speaker 5: deny this reality in recent times, of course, every woman
Speaker 5: has to go to work now, and then you must
Speaker 5: go straight back into the workforce after you've had a kid,
Speaker 5: et cetera. I think this proves that innately people actually
Speaker 5: want to have kids of their own, natural kids.
Speaker 3: I think mothers also understand that, you know, you can
Speaker 3: have a baby in a bag, which is literally what
Speaker 3: they're calling this technology, instead of a baby in a
Speaker 3: woman's baby in a bag, and it provides all of
Speaker 3: the logistical features that would be part of a womb,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't provide the breathing of the mother, or
Speaker 3: the heartbeat of the mother.
Speaker 2: Or the voice of the mother.
Speaker 3: And remember when I adopted our children from Ethiopia and
Speaker 3: we talked to.
Speaker 2: What do you call doctors who deal with babies, pediatricians, pediatricians.
Speaker 2: They are explaining, you know, for our kids.
Speaker 3: Who were carried by their birth mother for nine months,
Speaker 3: but they're never heard her voice ever. Again, that's a
Speaker 3: real tragedy for a baby who's born for nine months
Speaker 3: have become familiar with that voice. And then we were
Speaker 3: told when we adopted our kids, don't hand them around
Speaker 3: to other people because the kids don't know who mum
Speaker 3: and dad are. They've got to become familiar with your
Speaker 3: voice because they've never heard it before. And I've never
Speaker 3: really considered that in the womb. It's more than just
Speaker 3: the logistical facility that the womb provides. But it's the mother,
Speaker 3: it's her voice, it's her heartbeat. Is why you hold
Speaker 3: a baby close to your chest right, and that soothes
Speaker 3: and comforts the baby because it's used to hearing that breath,
Speaker 3: feeling that heartbeat. There's a lot more than just the mechanics. Oh,
Speaker 3: there's the human connection that is really important. And maybe
Speaker 3: the reason the young people are most inclined to support
Speaker 3: growing babies in bags is because they don't appreciate that.
Speaker 3: And don't they say, especially with young men, your brain
Speaker 3: is not fully developed until you turn twenty five. And
Speaker 3: as the parent of two nineteen year old boys, I'm
Speaker 3: sure that is true. Maybe that's why eighteen to twenty
Speaker 3: four year olds are in support of this and don't
Speaker 3: understand their ramifications.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Indeed, Also, pregnancy is something that I mean, just earlier, Caleb,
Speaker 6: you're referring to it as who wants to avoid the
Speaker 6: pain and that I haven't yet experienced it, but I
Speaker 6: know many people who have. Pregnancy for many is really
Speaker 6: really magical. You is the most beautiful, wholesome thing. This
Speaker 6: is the circle of life. You are literally the source
Speaker 6: supplying life to the world, and you've got this little
Speaker 6: person growing inside of you.
Speaker 4: It's not talked.
Speaker 6: Up enough, and I think that's deliberate. It's part of
Speaker 6: every time you see people discussing pregnancy or being a mother,
Speaker 6: or it's always negative press unless you're just listening to
Speaker 6: usually god loving influences online who are like, being a
Speaker 6: mum's the best thing ever. This brought so much purpose,
Speaker 6: so much joy into my life. And I'm not surprised
Speaker 6: that it's the younger generations. It's gen Z that's the
Speaker 6: most okay with this idea of baby in a bag
Speaker 6: because they've grown up watching all these futuristic I mean,
Speaker 6: how many probably don't watch the same movies as them,
Speaker 6: but how many movies have we seen whereby these babies
Speaker 6: are being made in these giant labs. It's a whole
Speaker 6: like Eldest Husk Huxley, what was it, Free World, Brave
Speaker 6: New Well, that's it where Yeah, these babies are now
Speaker 6: just pumped out. No one's pregnant. This is how we
Speaker 6: bring life into the world now. And when you talk
Speaker 6: about playing god. You may have heard about IVF, but
Speaker 6: check this out. They're now talking about IVG. You're about
Speaker 6: to hear from a doctor called Aaron Kerriati. He's a bioethicist,
Speaker 6: and what he has to say, we'll go get here.
Speaker 7: So many in the LGBT community who want to have
Speaker 7: a biologically related child. Two men who could potentially use
Speaker 7: IVG for reproducing a child who's genetically related to both
Speaker 7: parents of the same sex. The other thing that has
Speaker 7: been proposed some people have talked about so called multiplex parenting.
Speaker 7: You could use IVG to create two embryos, use the
Speaker 7: IVG technique again to create sperm and eggs, and then
Speaker 7: create yet a third embryo. Now you have essentially what
Speaker 7: is genetically a grandchild.
Speaker 4: And they murder the two other enbrands.
Speaker 7: Exactly, and you can do this as many iterations as
Speaker 7: you wanted.
Speaker 4: How's that?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's absolutely unbelievable what they are getting up
Speaker 6: getting up to in labs these days, unbeknownst to the
Speaker 6: rest of us. But now you know before we go
Speaker 6: to an ad break to Victoria quickly now.
Speaker 4: Where Premiagor Center.
Speaker 6: Alan has refused three times to say that the justice
Speaker 6: system in Victoria does have her trust.
Speaker 4: Check out this transcript.
Speaker 6: We tried to get you the audio, but it was
Speaker 6: too poor quality to show you, so I'll read it
Speaker 6: out for you. This reporter asked her today, do you
Speaker 6: have absolute trust in our courts?
Speaker 4: This, of course is after quite a.
Speaker 6: Few bungles in the courts have come to light in
Speaker 6: the headlines. She said, I think it's important that we
Speaker 6: have confidence in our justice system that's supporting the community,
Speaker 6: and that is why we are bringing charges to the
Speaker 6: Victorian Changes rather to the Victorian Parliament.
Speaker 4: The reporter pressed to a second time.
Speaker 6: You said it's important that we have confidence in the
Speaker 6: justice system.
Speaker 4: But do you have confidence in the system?
Speaker 6: Alan replied, Victorians want to see the laws strengthened.
Speaker 4: We've been listening to Victorians.
Speaker 6: It's important that the community does have confidence in our
Speaker 6: system as a whole. Our court system is working hard.
Speaker 6: The reporter hats off tries a third time. Do you
Speaker 6: have confidence in the court system? Alan's reply, I think
Speaker 6: that it's very important that we respect all of the
Speaker 6: independent agencies that make up our justice system.
Speaker 4: We need to strengthen the law.
Speaker 6: Just say no, lady, just say no, because you cannot
Speaker 6: justify what's gone on in recent months. Victorians are sick
Speaker 6: of reading the headlines. We're sick of talking about the headlines.
Speaker 6: People being out on bail when they shouldn't be, etc.
Speaker 4: And so on.
Speaker 6: She can't just say, look, clearly changes.
Speaker 4: Need to be made.
Speaker 6: The public's been disappointed in recent times.
Speaker 1: Just be honest.
Speaker 2: I think it's an old ad.
Speaker 3: Don't answer the question you're asked, answer the question you
Speaker 3: wish you were asked. And she played that to perfection.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to a break. When we come back,
Speaker 3: we look at what's making news tomorrow, including a dramatic
Speaker 3: arrest at Avalon Airport in Victoria, a teenager gets onto
Speaker 3: a jet staff flight with a loaded shotgun. All of
Speaker 3: that and more in a moment. Well, the biggest story
Speaker 3: in the country is, of course, the cyclone bearing down
Speaker 3: on southeast Queensland and Liz. Most of the papers tomorrow
Speaker 3: have that on their front page.
Speaker 6: They are, indeed, most notably, of course, the Courier male
Speaker 6: stay alert calls as cyclone slows waiting for alf The
Speaker 6: splash reads we're on a nickname basis with this cyclone.
Speaker 6: Already the four million people who live in the warning
Speaker 6: zone for Cyclone Alfred have been urged not to become
Speaker 6: complacent with the storm still very much on its way
Speaker 6: and still packing a punch. The Gold Coast Bulletin says
Speaker 6: the Premiere. The acting mayor and police chief are incredulous
Speaker 6: as resident failed to heed warnings to avoid beaches coasting
Speaker 6: to a cyclone. I've seen some footage of that. If
Speaker 6: you ever doubted that OSSI's are a raisy, you won't
Speaker 6: after seeing that footage. And lastly, the Australians stalking stalling
Speaker 6: the water torture begins cyclone Alfred's erratic slowdown could trigger
Speaker 6: a five day flooding disaster as residents in seven thousand
Speaker 6: northern New South Wales homes were ordered to flee with
Speaker 6: just hours noticed on tonight, and more than four million
Speaker 6: Queenslanders braced for.
Speaker 4: Its projected wrath.
Speaker 6: Here's hoping, like you said earlier, Mac, this this is
Speaker 6: more of a whisper than a scream, but only time
Speaker 6: will tell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And of course Southeast Queensland hasn't had a cyclone.
Speaker 3: I think it's fifty years since they had one.
Speaker 5: So's seventy years actually, but seventy And of course that
Speaker 5: the trouble now is if they're talking about it's not
Speaker 5: going to be you know, one potentially just the cyclone
Speaker 5: hits and it going to be really aggressive in one go,
Speaker 5: you end up with days and days and days of flooding.
Speaker 1: But which is actually worse.
Speaker 5: In that situation if you're sitting there, which are you
Speaker 5: more likely to put up with the one and done
Speaker 5: or just dealing with all of this torrential rain coming
Speaker 5: in because of course the cyclone.
Speaker 1: The wind where you live well, exactly because the winds of.
Speaker 5: The cyclone might rip your roof off or whatever. Flooding
Speaker 5: could potentially do a lot more damage to.
Speaker 1: A lot more people.
Speaker 5: But of course keep in mind, as we told you
Speaker 5: last night, the official advice from.
Speaker 1: The Bureau of Meteorology is.
Speaker 5: That if you are leaving your home to avoid this
Speaker 5: flooding and cyclone, make sure you take a COVID nineteen
Speaker 5: mask and hand sanitize.
Speaker 1: It with you because you have to be COVID safe. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was real. If you missed the show last.
Speaker 3: Night, very very important. Let's go to the front page
Speaker 3: of the Herald Sun. Incredible events at Avlon Airport in
Speaker 3: Melbourne Airport shotgun, shot gun, horror, terror on the tarmac,
Speaker 3: reads the headline. A hero Shearer can always trust sheep
Speaker 3: sheer as they're good people. Hero Sira has dragged down
Speaker 3: a teenager with a loaded shotgun in Victoria's most dramatic
Speaker 3: airport security incident in years. Major investigations were underway last
Speaker 3: night after the weapon, tooting seventeen year olds somehow made
Speaker 3: his way onto a jet staff flight at Avlon Airport.
Speaker 3: A security source said there were fears of what was
Speaker 3: to come. Video showed the moment the team was restrained
Speaker 3: on the Sydney bound plane at two fifty pm. We've
Speaker 3: got some footage here that we can show you. That's
Speaker 3: the teenager who's just been restrained by another passenger who
Speaker 3: apparently was a sheep sheer on his way to Sydney
Speaker 3: to watch an AFL game. He jumped on top of
Speaker 3: the guy and held.
Speaker 2: Him down along with the pilot. And so you can
Speaker 2: see that there.
Speaker 3: Apparently, according to the paper, this guy you can see
Speaker 3: he's wearing a high visvest. He's got a tool belt
Speaker 3: around his waist. He allegedly parked his car near a
Speaker 3: security fence, got through the fence, walked brazenly across the tarmac,
Speaker 3: up the stairs to the cabin of the aircraft and
Speaker 3: said he was there to do maintenance work, which people
Speaker 3: found a little strange. And then it got stranger when
Speaker 3: he opened his vest and had a loaded shotgun. Thanks
Speaker 3: to the quick thinking of that other passenger, he was,
Speaker 3: as you saw, restrained. God knows what might have happened
Speaker 3: if that passenger hadn't acted well.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, talk about toolbox to blow. He's
Speaker 5: a tool clearly, but just imagine the fact he could
Speaker 5: get through the fence in the first place is really scary,
Speaker 5: and that he got that close to a plane because
Speaker 5: you like to think, you know, in the post nine
Speaker 5: to eleven world, we've got all this bloody security when
Speaker 5: you go to the airport, so you can't even breathe
Speaker 5: in an airport without someone tapping you on the shoulder
Speaker 5: to tell you you're doing the wrong thing. And he managed
Speaker 5: to get through a fence with a shotgun. But that
Speaker 5: bloke who put him in a headlock, if he's not
Speaker 5: up for some sort of bravery award or Australian of
Speaker 5: the Year or something that is a real fair di.
Speaker 1: Income ossie, is it not?
Speaker 5: Because we all like to think that in a situation
Speaker 5: like that, we would be brave enough to intervene and
Speaker 5: do something. But most people I think would be looking
Speaker 5: for a new set of underwear. If a bloke walked
Speaker 5: onto a plane with a shotgun like.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't know what to do. Most people would freeze.
Speaker 5: And he said, no, I're going to save all these
Speaker 5: people on this plane and get the bloke in a headlocked,
Speaker 5: dead set legend.
Speaker 3: We might have two nominees for Australia of the Year
Speaker 3: because of course after the break will show a South
Speaker 3: Australian bloke who absolutely let a guy who is assaulting
Speaker 3: a woman in Rundle Moore have it, will show you
Speaker 3: the vision of that a little later.
Speaker 5: I suspect there will be a lot more to come
Speaker 5: on this story though. How did he get there? What
Speaker 5: was his plan? That could have been so much worse?
Speaker 5: Let's go to the front of the Daily Telegraph tomorrow
Speaker 5: at says five zero civil servants live into state.
Speaker 1: What's going on here?
Speaker 5: More than seven four hundred New South Wales public servants
Speaker 5: live in other states or overseas, with some of the
Speaker 5: most senior bureaucrats sorry getting taxpayer funded travel to Sydney
Speaker 5: for work. Well, some of that legitimately live in border
Speaker 5: towns that service. Nearby New South Wales Town's Premier, Chris Mins,
Speaker 5: has acknowledged that too many public servants are taking tax
Speaker 5: payers for a ride. I'm actually in two minds about this,
Speaker 5: because it's not unusual in business to have a CEO
Speaker 5: or whatever of a business who actually lives in Adelaide,
Speaker 5: but he flies up to Sydney during the week because
Speaker 5: that's where their offices are. And of course the public
Speaker 5: service would want to attract the best people. And if
Speaker 5: the best person happens to be in Adelaide of Brisbane
Speaker 5: or wherever, and they're willing to travel to Sydney during
Speaker 5: the week for work, you go, okay, well that kind
Speaker 5: of makes sense. But then I also think, if you're
Speaker 5: working in the public service and you're serving a particular state,
Speaker 5: do you not need to have some kind of connection
Speaker 5: to that state to really understand the job.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm actually I'm sitting on the fence. I've got splinters
Speaker 5: in me.
Speaker 6: Bum On this way, we found an instance in which
Speaker 6: you're open to people working from home, the ones.
Speaker 1: The ones who travel to Sydney. I'm okay with working
Speaker 1: from home. I'm not so.
Speaker 3: At first reading, it sounds that's ridiculous. But we don't
Speaker 3: know what those roles entail. We don't know whether it's
Speaker 3: a highly specialized role where someone living into state or
Speaker 3: in fact overseas is able to use the Internet to
Speaker 3: do their job and New South Wales is getting good value.
Speaker 3: Without those details, it's a bit hard to judge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can imagine, you know, someone on holiday
Speaker 5: in Italy logging on doing their work.
Speaker 1: I'm actually sure it goes on quick.
Speaker 3: Do you hear about that guy at an airport speaking
Speaker 3: of working from home and soon he was in the
Speaker 3: middle of a work teams meeting. He had Skype on
Speaker 3: and he put his phone in the tray to go
Speaker 3: through the X ray thing while the meeting was still
Speaker 3: being broadcast on his phone.
Speaker 5: Dear me very quickly before we go to a great
Speaker 5: Another story on the front of the Telly Tomorrow preachers
Speaker 5: visa torn up by Burke, a controversial preacher sit to
Speaker 5: visit Australia to speak at events in Sydney and Melbourne.
Speaker 5: Weeks after he attended the funeral of slain his BLA
Speaker 5: leader has An Israela has had his visa canceled and
Speaker 5: that of course followed Cherry marks and breaking that story
Speaker 5: exclusively here on Sky News last night. Good thing that
Speaker 5: his visa's been canceled. Rather curious that it was allowed
Speaker 5: in the first place.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we're gonna go to a break after the break.
Speaker 3: Our second nominee for Australian of the Year. A football
Speaker 3: fan in Rundell Mall, Adelaide saves a woman from being
Speaker 3: assaulted with a classic AFL hip and shoulder.
Speaker 2: That's coming up in a moment.
Speaker 1: Adelaide.
Speaker 3: Well, a great story about a citizens arrest in Rundell Mall,
Speaker 3: Adelaide today. There was a football fan sitting in the
Speaker 3: mall just quietly enjoying his lunch. Port Adelaide fan. And
Speaker 3: if you know anything about Port Adelaide, one of their
Speaker 3: toughest players was Byron Pickett, also played for North Melbourne,
Speaker 3: but he was famous for the good old hip and shoulder.
Speaker 2: He's Byron Pickett.
Speaker 1: He's got a man out one instead.
Speaker 3: So this Port Adelaide supporter is sitting in Rundell Mall
Speaker 3: just thinking about the AFLCS and to come and his
Speaker 3: favorite player, Byron Pickett, when he notices a woman being
Speaker 3: assaulted by a man in the mall. And so what
Speaker 3: does he do, he puts into action his AFL dreams
Speaker 3: and he gives the guy a good old fashioned hip
Speaker 3: and shoulder, knocking him beautifully down. Police are quickly on
Speaker 3: the scene to make an arrest. The guy was charged
Speaker 3: with AsSalt and possession of an ice pipe, but the
Speaker 3: hip and shoulder didn't go unnoticed. Port Adelaide Football Club
Speaker 3: have invited the guy to come down to the club
Speaker 3: and meet all the players, and the South Australian Premier
Speaker 3: has said he wants to host that gentleman in a
Speaker 3: corporate box at an AFL game between Port Adelaide and Hawthorne.
Speaker 3: I must say Caleb and I were joking during the
Speaker 3: break that the guy who caught the assailant with the
Speaker 3: hip and shoulder was a Port Adelaide supporter. But if
Speaker 3: you know anything about Port Adelaide, maybe the assailant was
Speaker 3: also a Port Adelaide supporter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite possible, Quite possible.
Speaker 5: I would have thought, I want to see how many
Speaker 5: teeth they've got collectively.
Speaker 1: What a legiend.
Speaker 5: What a legend again, A real Aussie fan, income bloke
Speaker 5: getting in there, getting a job done.
Speaker 2: A good bump.
Speaker 1: It was a really good bump. I just wish he
Speaker 1: was a Crow's supporter.
Speaker 5: But you know, to be fair, now that we've slagged
Speaker 5: off the Port supporters, most Crow supporters are probably too
Speaker 5: old to.
Speaker 1: Do a hip and shoulder like that. You know.
Speaker 5: The thing is the joke banning everybody tonight Dom they're
Speaker 5: too scared to go. I can say this is a crost,
Speaker 5: but the joke is that it's all nanasu go along
Speaker 5: to the footy and put blankets over there, knees and
Speaker 5: eat apricots slice. That's what they say about us, Paul
Speaker 5: Crow supporters before we go. How good is this? This
Speaker 5: is a real proper Ossi politician getting around in his
Speaker 5: ossie car. You might remember the Ford Ltd. This is
Speaker 5: his nineteen seventy nine Ford Ltd V eight that he
Speaker 5: has done up Royd Butler independent MP here in New
Speaker 5: South Wales as his campaign car. He's getting around his
Speaker 5: electorate in a V eight. We were lamenting recently, James,
Speaker 5: the fact that there are basically no V eights around anymore.
Speaker 5: He's got a map of the electorate from the bonnet.
Speaker 5: Doesn't get any more ossie than that.
Speaker 1: Its brilliant.
Speaker 3: Well, that's all we've got time for stick around Coming
Speaker 3: up is the readA Penney Show and everyone in Queensland
Speaker 3: stay safe.