WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 10 June 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:07.280 On scoring leads Ostrodia. This is the Wider Panalty Show. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.639 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehy Show. Coming 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:15.120 up tonight, the ourb News and government's green hydrogen dreams 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.759 in DISARRAYUS costs blow up fourfold. The Panel will be 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.440 here to discuss that shortly the leading child gender physician 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.759 in the country cops heavy criticism in the family court. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.320 Stepanie Bastian will join me to cover that unfolding story. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.960 Kosher Gator will have the latest from the US, including 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.519 the violent far left protests and the always roll Alex 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.000 Stein will be here to celebrate Pride Months. You don't 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.760 want to miss that, and Left is losing It is 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.200 a little bit nausea inducing tonight. You've been warned. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.479 This woman has been a heroin a hero for me 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:50.800 for so many years. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:51.760 I've been myra from. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.160 Macfarre But first joining me is the Panel News Corps 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.520 Senior writer Patrick Carline and research fellow and director of 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.880 the Institute of Public Affairs rul's program, Colleen Hearken. Let's 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.560 start with the Prime Minister's speech today. He addressed the 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.560 National Press Club in a speech that was filled with 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.680 all sorts of motherhood statements. Here is what I'm talking about. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.920 Our vision is for a society that is a microcosm 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.920 for the world, where all are respected and valued, and 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.920 our diversity is recognized as a strength, where our international 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.160 relationships in the fastest growing region of the world in 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:35.280 human history benefited us, but also provide a platform for 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.600 us to play a positive and stabilizing global role in 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:41.959 uncertain times. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.959 Colleen, all very warm and fuzzy. Diversity is our strength, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.640 all the usual nonsense we've come to expect. Was there 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.960 much substance, No. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.240 There was a lot of lofty motherhood statements. It was 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.400 like reading a Hallmark gift card early. You know, real 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.480 difference in people's lives, global vision and leadership. But the 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.640 problem with this is that it's not ambition, it's actually 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.400 negligence because the real difference so he can make in 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.960 people's lives is the cost of living. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.120 And their energy bills. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.640 And you know, the economy is driven by the cost 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.520 of a foundation is driven Sorry, the foundation of the 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.040 economy is driven by the cost. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.040 Of our energy. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.080 And he really should be focusing on what's broken at home. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.359 You know, people are barely able to keep the lights on. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.520 It was a sort of you know, like being at 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.880 an afternoon tea with the girls and a few glasses 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.440 of champagne and not really concentrating on what people need 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:39.079 him to do. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:39.919 Well. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.960 The Prime Minister's Patrick hoping to have some FaceTime with 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:49.160 President Trump. How is he going to explain Australia's reluctance 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.320 to increase defense spending So many of our allies have 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.600 and we seem to be a little bit racalcitrant saying no, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.079 you're not going to tell us what to do. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.239 Well, there is one theory of thought that you will 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.440 actually have that and then announce a rise in spending, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:09.600 which politically might be savvy if you like. Look, we've 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.520 been like this country with the ostrich head in the 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:17.040 sand for so long we're basically we're just denied talking 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.119 about it or thinking about this fact that the world 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.960 has changed. We have to be able to defend ourselves. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.000 And it's something that's become a separating soul over a 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.839 long time that we're in this position where we don't 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.560 spend any money on defense, we have no great plan 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.000 for spending money on defense, and we're decades behind where 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.800 we need to be in a quickly changing world. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.520 Colleen the plan appears to be America will save us 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.280 if anything happens, and America is asking us to raise 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.440 defense spending to three three and a half percent of 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.000 GDP And if we're not willing to do that, can 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.560 we have this expectation they're going to come and save 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:53.960 the day. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.520 Well why would they if we're not going to be 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.040 proper partners in this process, why would they come out 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.200 and help save us? 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.120 Absolutely, And just finally with the Prime Minister, he is 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.560 in a blessed position. He's just one in a landslide. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.240 He's got the Greens in the Senate just he doesn't 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.720 even need to deal with the crossbenches. But Patrick, the 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.799 financial issues facing this country are real and a landslide 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:20.720 doesn't change that. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:21.640 No, that's right. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.640 Look, energy bills is the obvious place to go on this. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.800 Energy bills are going up, cost of living is going up. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.719 These are things that Australands have been feeling since twenty 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.840 twenty two, since Elbow was first elected. He's not really 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.280 saying anything that's addressing those issues in a massive way, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.000 and I think that's why today's speech is so disappointing. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.719 He does have a mandate, really, he has the numbers 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.600 in the House of Representatives, he can do things, and 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.719 basically today's speech suggests that he doesn't really need to 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.600 do much. He just wants to sort of dabble around 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:51.080 the edges. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:51.760 Well. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.120 On energy policy, let's check in on how the Abanza 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.960 government's Future Made in Australia plan is going and Intercontinential 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.680 Intercontinental Energy, the co owner of two massive green hydrogen 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:09.080 projects in Western Australia, has conceded initial costs for delivering 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.160 green energy from these facilities is going to be between 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.000 eight and eleven dollars a kilogram. Eventually, they hope that 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.200 falls to about four do dollars a kilogram, But according 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:24.159 to MSD market analysts, sol cabinic hydrogen prices need to 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.440 be below two dollars a kilogram to become close to 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.440 competitive with other energy sources. Eight to eleven dollars a 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:36.279 kilogram equates to over sixty dollars a giga jewel, which 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.479 no major energy user can afford. Meanwhile, the average cost 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.800 of natural gas patrick in Australia is just under twelve 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:50.440 dollars per giga jewel. This is again one of the 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.400 prime ministers the Labor parties dreams about green hydrogen. We're 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.880 going to become this renewable superpower, and the evidence so 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.520 far is not there. Our prices are going up, and 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.279 the more we invest in this sector, the more prices increase. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.359 Look, countries and energy companies all over the world have 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.880 looked at green hydrogen. They've tried to make it work. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.280 It's simply not viable at the cost that it comes at. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.200 At the moment, the technology doesn't exist. And the fact 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.920 that green hydrogen is a pillar of our energy future 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.599 according to this government is hilarious and it's really sad 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.320 because it doesn't exist yet. No, it's not on the table. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.800 It's not an alternative, and it can't be an alternative 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.440 until the technology exists. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.480 Yeah, they're obsessed with green hydrogen, Colleen, but we've got 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.000 plenty of gas, coal, uranium, all very reliable sources of 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.080 energy that were not properly using. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.840 Yeah, and this is just recklessness, reader, because it's four 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.039 to five times the cost of the gas and they're 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.400 wanting to call this a plan for the future. Can 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.880 you imagine as CEO announcing to the shareholders that we're 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:03.039 going to invest ten dollars and maybe in twenty years 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.919 time we might get a return on investment. You know, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.480 it's not an investment, it's ideological indulgence. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.680 It is so ideological. This is they've just completely abandoned 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.640 reality and ideology is ruling the day. Now to Channel 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.160 ten's decision to act its flagship current affairs program, the 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.680 Project that's been on air for sixteen years, our colleague 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.880 Steve Price is defending the unwatchable lefty talk Fairsie has 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.920 been the sole conservative voice, some would say token conservative 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.000 voice on the program, and he writes in the Herald 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.080 Sun that people dancing on the grave of tens the 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.520 project are ignorant. It means that virtually all live television 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.920 bar some AFL panel shows and some comedy programs and 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.120 the six PM news are now run out of Sydney. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.000 Melbourne is the big loser today and the city will 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.720 never get back what it had ever Again. Colleen, I 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.000 don't think the whole Melbourne Sydney rivalry comes into this. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.760 That's not why people are mocking this program. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.120 Yeah, so I have to confess I've never actually watched 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:13.160 Project for sixty Yeah, I've never actually watched it for 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.920 the reasons that you just said. You know, it's a 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:21.800 lobsided not balanced perspective of the day's news. But to 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:26.920 Steve Price's comment about business leaving Melbourne, IPA research will 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.920 tell you that there's one hundred and thirty thousand businesses 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.600 have left Victoria in the last year. So it's not 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.280 just something like the project. It's not just this sort 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.640 of lack of reflective of what people want to see 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.280 in here. There's an undercurrent of businesses leaving Melbourne regardless 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:44.480 of the project. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.880 Wow, one hundred and thirty thousand. What is the predominant 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.160 reason that's happening. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.839 Well, red tape, difficulty of doing business in Victoria, all 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.920 of those sort of economic pressures. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.680 State taxes were correct at all. Patrick, I can't believe 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.800 Colleen has not watched any project in sixteen years. Surely 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.760 you've caught an episode here and there. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.640 Not for many years, I think, to be fair, it 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.800 is aimed at the audience far younger than us. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.240 It was sort of sixteen years ago you were that young. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.800 That's true, okay, But it always seemed that there was 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.240 always a hint of sanctimony in the messaging of it. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.080 Wasn't that That's what I did like, it was the 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.440 mix of sanctimony arrogance mixed with stupidity. I mean, if 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.119 you have the sanctimony without the stupidity, or the stupidity 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.640 without the sanctimony, could work. But is it sad though 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.480 for Melbourne that it's no longer here? 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.360 Look, I think Price you made a better point when 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.960 he talked about panel shows being balanced. You don't see 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.280 that on the ABC as a starting point. I mean, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.560 I always grow up to think that good TV was 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:53.720 sort of disagreement and conflict and passionate opinions and heavy 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.560 debating if you like, And you don't see a lot 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.480 of that anymore. The middle has been lost on TV. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.760 But I I think the panel provided that. It really didn't. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.560 But I mean it is commercial TV. They're not obliged 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.120 to have that balance. They don't have the charter like 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.160 the ABC do. And here the ABC never live up 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:20.480 to that. Now this is only in Victoria story another 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.320 disappointment for the Victorian taxpayer. The Labor government here have 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.199 spent two hundred and fifty million dollars on a high 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.200 speed express busway from Doncaster to Melbourne that was supposed 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.760 to be high speed as the name suggests, cut down 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.480 travel times. But despite those promises from Premier Allen. It 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:45.240 seems like this bus trip could take even longer, Colleen, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.280 because instead of one hundred kilometer speed limits, we might 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.400 be down to as low as sixty in sections. So 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.720 we've spent two hundred and fifty million dollars to have 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.160 a longer bus trip to the city from Doncasters. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.360 It's like, well, it's like a Monty Python episode, isn't 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:05.120 it It is. It's ridiculous, And apparently, of course there's 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:06.600 issues with the trains as well. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.200 There's always issues with the trade. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.280 That the new trains don't actually fit on the gauge 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.400 of the new infrastructure that's been built. So it's just 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.520 a crazy situation and like an extreme waste of taxpace 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.320 money not doing the planning that's required. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.160 Patrick the committee. Comedic value aside, this is a pretty 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.000 massive stuff up, two hundred and fifty million dollars and 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:30.680 very questionable value. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.719 It's not funny anymore. I mean, the Northeast links a 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.600 little funny. The budgets are blown out. I drive through 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.360 there going to and from home from time to time. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.480 It's just like a bomb site. It's been like that 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.400 for years. And the idea that all that all that 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.400 waiting in traffic jams is going to amount to something 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.559 that's not even as good as what it was before. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.280 In this context is so galling. No, it's not funny anymore. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.360 It's a little bit funny, but you're not for the taxpayers. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.760 I've got to admit it before you go. The United 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.960 Youth Bradge has made some unbelievable claims saying that Queenslanders 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.280 young Queenslanders can't have a night out or see their 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.640 friends because they're terrified they're being targeted by their government's 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.839 adult crime at Old Time youth crime crackdown. I think 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.880 you're only targeted if you're breaking the law. The UN's 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.600 got no idea. They've tried to dictate to the Queensland 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.880 government what to do. Premier Kristap fully had no time 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.120 for that, and they're continuing on with their campaign. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.040 Right behind Christophully on this one. People have a right 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.000 to feel safe when they go out, and I don't 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.240 know what these people think that they do that they 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.160 go out, that they can't just go out and have 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.439 a good time unless. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:42.880 They break the law. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.680 I mean, it's an absurd sort of proposition to say 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.160 that they're being targeted, you know, and Victoria is having 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.920 a similar scenario about youth crime, and I know that 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.480 the Coalition are talking about break what does it breach? 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.959 Bail do jail time. It's the same scenario. I think 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.280 people have fed up with not being able to live 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.480 their civil life in a comfortable, expected way to be safe. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.960 Patrick, you've got teenage children. Are they scared to be 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.480 out and about in Queensland if you're out there for 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:08.000 a holiday. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.920 Look, I'm pretty sure this didn't resonate anywhere, but especially 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.000 as Colin was saying, in Victoria. I mean the premier 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.080 up there in Queensland has talked about adult crime, adult time. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.240 Wouldn't we love to have that down here? 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:19.440 Oh? 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.920 Yes, But I do invite the author of that report 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.040 to come down and go shopping in Victoria and perhaps 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.760 we'll have some machette wielding years running past. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.280 And it'll be very enriching for them, I'm sure, Patrick, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.280 Carli and Colleen Harkin thank you so much for your 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.600 time tonight. Now, as reported by The Australian newspaper, Australia's 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.800 foremost gender medicine expert and the lead author of the 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.920 nation's guidelines on so called gender firming care Michelle Telfer 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.840 was heavily criticized by family called Judge Andrew Strom for 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.280 giving misleading evidence in support of a mother who wanted 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.000 her child to be prescribed puberty blockers. Now this judgment 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.400 has again called into question the integrity treatment of gender 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.280 confused kids. Judge Andrew Strum in this case strip the 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.920 mother of custody and effectively block the twelve year old 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.040 from accessing these sort of gender treatments, but also criticize 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.320 the Royal Children's Hospital here in Melbourne and its gender clinic. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.800 The Australian also reports that Justice Strum question the Australian 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.480 Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for trans and gender 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.600 diverse Children and Adolescents authored by Professor Telfer for not 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:35.000 recognizing children may not be capable of making life altering 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.840 medical decisions about their gender identity. Is said, it is 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.360 concerning that an oddly binary approach is adopted in relation 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.360 to children, especially of the age of the child the 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:51.160 subject of these proceedings. That is, to affirm unreservedly those 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:56.920 who present with concerns regarding their gender, brooking no questioning thereof. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.640 He wrote in the judgment, the case of the mother 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.040 is is that because the child says so, the child 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:08.480 is and must unquestionably be affirmed as being female in 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.320 gender identity. However, that overlooks the obvious, namely that the 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.360 child is still a child, and not even if it 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.320 matters a teenager. Joining me now is Women's Forum Australia's 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.920 head of Advocacies, Stephanie Bastian and steph everything I read there, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.120 the comments from the judge just seem like pure common sense. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.320 But it's common sense we have not heard in the 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:38.160 family court on these sort of issues. How significant is 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:38.800 this case? 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.800 This is the most significant development so far. Michelle Telfer 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.600 is the head of medicine at the Royal Children's Hospital. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.360 She's also, as you mentioned, the author of the so 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.720 called standards of care, and the judge has delivered a 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.280 damning appraisal of her standards of care and the treatments. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.000 It's very clear that these treatments are not evidence based, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.200 they are based on ideology. Children can't consent to these treatments. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:09.400 The side effects, which include things like infertility, cancer, damage 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:14.760 to bone structure are horrendous. They cannot consent, and quite 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.920 often also children who are struggling with gender dysphoria also 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.920 struggle with other chomorbid mental health issues, including anxiety, depression 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.200 and autism, and arguably adults young adults with these mental 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.120 health issues also can't consent, which we will see. There's 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.440 a case being run in the Supreme Court in Victoria 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.760 with mel Jeffries. Will know where that sits in due time. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.720 But the fact of the matter is you're dealing with 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.400 bunderable people who cannot consent and the treatments that they 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.840 are being prescribed lack the evidence, which we know this 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.120 should be enough for Health Minister Mark Butler and Prime 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:53.280 Minister Anthony Alberesi to intervene immediately to halt these treatments 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.880 and to hold a national review rather than the soft 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.640 approach that they're taking at the moment. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.200 Well, if it wasn't for this case and this course 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.160 of action being challenged in the courts, that twelve year 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.000 old child would be on puberty blockers right now, and again, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.240 how can a twelve year old consent to that when 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.960 the consequences can be quite serious, and when we know 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.680 of so many cases where these gender treatments have had 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.800 all sorts of medical consequences that the child will just 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:32.800 have no understanding of at that age. Now nine newspapers 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:38.359 columnist Peter Fitzsimon's The Pirate has declared shame on those 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.560 who whip up hate against trans athletes for clicks and votes. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.200 This is an article he wrote recently where he said 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:51.320 the nastiest and most ruthless purveyors of hate bait continually 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.879 push out a catastrophically cliched warning that the sports world 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.680 is a wash, with swarthy truck drivers wearing tutus and 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:04.439 time's storming and swarming their way through girls' changing rooms 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.560 and fields to lear and sneer their way to every 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.080 trophy going. The truth of the matter that we are 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.000 talking about mostly just a handful of gentle souls with 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.480 the extraordinary courage to live as what they believe is 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.600 their true gender and want to be included in sport. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.800 Doesn't rate as hate bait, So forget it. Your job 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.840 is to whip it up. That's quite an amusing, unintentionally 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.919 amusing little die tribe their Stephanie. But I think the 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.840 Pirate is not happy with you or me, it seems. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.960 Look, I just hope female athletes aren't paying attention to 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.639 this latest dribble from Pirate Pete but it just shows 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.000 how out of touch he is. He is a man 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.159 telling women who are talking about their sex base rights 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.439 that they should be quiet to protect the feelings of 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.560 these so called trans athletes. A young woman from Victoria 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.720 called into Ben Bordham's show this week and she talked 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.000 about her experience of being confronted with a transathlete and 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:08.840 I want to share it because I think it's very relevant. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.360 But she is five foot to four. He was six 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.119 point six foot two, and she talked about being confronted 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.760 with him in the change room and her fear of 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.720 being crushed into the pavement in the event of an accident, 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.960 and she talked about the fact that the violation that 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.280 she felt when his body brushed against hers to block 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.560 her from shooting a goal. She is representative of many 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:36.040 girls around this country and Pirate Pete has no concern 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.520 or consideration for what these girls are going through. And 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.679 it is absolutely ridiculous that he is so out of 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.280 touch that he would mock these women and the very 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.760 real plight that they are fighting but also fighting to 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.240 be able to speak in public about. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.879 Well, this is I think what the consequence of this 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.880 article is those of us who have been reporting on this, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.359 and I've been writing about it for a decade before 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.440 he was a big issue. I'm not going to be silenced, 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.520 but I do worry whether young girls, women who are 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.680 competing in sports where there are men present, men who 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.280 identify as women present, whether they're going to be discouraged 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.359 from speaking because they're being called nasty and spreading hate 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:26.160 bait and what are the other hyperbolic language the pirate 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:31.320 used there? And that's really the effect of this activism 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.440 from the left is to silence women who are being 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:36.880 impacted by these men. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.720 Absolutely, and I think I'm fearful that that is the 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.879 intent from Pete's article. He is trying to continue that 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.760 culture of silencing people who oppose this ideology, and he 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.320 will do it at all costs, with no regard to 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.320 the women and girls that he is impacting. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.840 Absolutely, Stephanie Bastian, thanks for your time. Still to come. 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.040 Left is Losing at plus the latest from the US, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.080 including the violent fi Left protests in La Kosher Gator 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:20.840 as the details. You're watching the Reader Patty Show, and 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.800 it's time for Lefties Losing it, and we will get 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:27.520 back to the demented Left's latest round of riots shortly, 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.359 but first the Tony Awards were on overnight. You didn't 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.680 know if near the did I until this dude caught 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:45.920 my eye on the red carpet. Stunning and brave. That's 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.520 Cole Escola, who beat out the likes of George Clooney 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.639 and John Michael Hill to win the Tony for Best 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:56.320 Leading Actor. And the media were of course keen to 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.640 trumpet the fact that he was the first openly non 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:04.680 by artists to win Leading Actor. Yes, a groundbreaking night, 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.520 and the publications were also keen to mangle the English 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:14.280 language to respect a scholars. They them pronouns. USA Today 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:18.480 reported they are now the first non binary performer to 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.959 win in that Tony category. I mean they are they 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:25.439 multiple people. It was a piece just rendered nonsensical with 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:30.120 deliberate grammar crimes. And let's not forget the non binary 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.479 dude here says he prefers they then pronouns, but was 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.800 nevertheless very happy to be nominated and win the very 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.240 gendered Best Leading Actor award. 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.800 All the scholer if you want to thank the other nominees, 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:53.040 George and John and Harry and Daniel and Louis. It's 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.359 an honor to be in your company, the most important 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.240 people in my life, my friends who are here tonight, 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:03.399 Jeffrey jen Ben, everyone watching at home, Christian Dakota, the 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:07.600 whole Gang, John Claudia Oh and Tibo from Grinder. 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.400 Can't forget Tbo from Grind. I here's fun na less 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:15.160 one is this duo the Queens of Performative Caring, as 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.440 Douglas Murray would call them, And gosh, don't they love 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:20.840 each other? Or at least they pretend to get your 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:24.119