Speaker 1: Live on Skyn's Australia. This is to Nika de Georgio.
Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the program coming up tonight. Labour
Speaker 2: celebrates as Australia escapes.
Speaker 3: An increase in Trump's tariffs. But it's not a win
Speaker 3: no matter how Labor spins it. I'll get reaction from
Speaker 3: Liberal MP Andrew Wallace.
Speaker 2: Shortly.
Speaker 3: We're standing by to hear whether the new South Wales
Speaker 3: Supreme Court will permit the anti Israel march across Sydney's
Speaker 3: Harbor Bridge this weekend. Plus fairness finally trumps insanity in
Speaker 3: the debate over women's sport. Yet the Senate doesn't want
Speaker 3: to talk about the definition of a woman. But first tonight,
Speaker 3: it's confirmed Australia will escape a tariff higher than ten
Speaker 3: percent on exports to the United States after Donald Trump
Speaker 3: handed down his long awaited decision today. Now Labor claims
Speaker 3: it's been vindicated that its watch and weight approach has worked,
Speaker 3: when really it's just taken the default tariff that we
Speaker 3: were always going.
Speaker 2: To get slapped with. Now let me break it down
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Trump has kept Australia at his lowest baseline tariff rate,
Speaker 3: that's at ten percent. The most hard hit country is Canada,
Speaker 3: which has seen its tariffs rise from twenty five percent
Speaker 3: to thirty five percent. The UK will also remade at
Speaker 3: ten percent, while New Zealand is our subject to fifteen
Speaker 3: percent tariffs. Now, obviously this is good news for Australia
Speaker 3: when you do compare it to other countries, and clearly
Speaker 3: it is testament to the fact that we are long
Speaker 3: standing allies.
Speaker 2: But we really didn't dodge a bullet today.
Speaker 3: We've had a free trade agreement in place with the
Speaker 3: US for twenty years, yet we are still being slugged
Speaker 3: with ten percent baseline tariffs and still and aluminium imports
Speaker 3: to the US are already subject to a fifty percent tariff.
Speaker 3: Yet of course hubris has set in and labor is
Speaker 3: out today patting itself on the back.
Speaker 4: We believe this is a vindication of our call and
Speaker 4: calm negotiations with our trading partners. At no stage did
Speaker 4: we introduce tariffs on American goods. America still has a
Speaker 4: significant advantage in terms of our trading relationship. We export
Speaker 4: or the Americans export about double to US what we
Speaker 4: export to them. But we will continue the discussions until
Speaker 4: we get all of those tariffs removed.
Speaker 3: Cool and calm negotiations more like throw up your hands
Speaker 3: and hope for the best. We may be in a
Speaker 3: much better position than other countries, that's clear. But Trump
Speaker 3: was never going to budge on getting tariffs below that
Speaker 3: ten percent baseline. It was going to be the minimum
Speaker 3: default for every country, as announced by the Way House
Speaker 3: after Donald Trump was inaugurated, including those the US runs
Speaker 3: a trade surplus with, like Australia. So this isn't a
Speaker 3: win no matter how Labour spins it. Trade Minister Don
Speaker 3: Farrell also spoke there of getting that ten percent baseline removed. Well,
Speaker 3: what does Australia have Seriously, as a bargaining chip. We
Speaker 3: aren't budging on our defense spending. The US could target
Speaker 3: pharmaceuticals next, and we aren't budging on the pharmaceutical Benefit scheme.
Speaker 3: Labor lifted the ban on US beef without any assurances
Speaker 3: that our biosecurity.
Speaker 2: Standards would not be put at risk.
Speaker 3: In fact, the Senate voted down an inquiry into it
Speaker 3: put forward by the Nationals yesterday. We folded to the
Speaker 3: US using this cool and calm diplomacy before the PM
Speaker 3: can even be bothered to get on a plane and
Speaker 3: have a meeting with Trump.
Speaker 2: We took the default tariff that was handed to us.
Speaker 3: Being scared to engage with our number one ally does
Speaker 3: not make this a victory. Yet, it seems today's decision
Speaker 3: has given a labor a mandate to continue doing just that.
Speaker 4: What we did do was negotiate and use cool and
Speaker 4: calm diplomacy to prosecute our case that these tariffs were counterproductive.
Speaker 4: That's the approach we'll now take with the United States.
Speaker 2: Well, look, that's just not going to get us anywhere,
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 3: And what does that mean for a meeting between the
Speaker 3: Prime Minister and the president.
Speaker 4: The Prime Minister has had two very good discussions with
Speaker 4: President Trump and I'm sure that at the appropriate time
Speaker 4: there'll be be further discussions.
Speaker 2: Good, okay, So at the appropriate time there will be
Speaker 2: a discussion. Now, where have I heard something similar?
Speaker 1: When we have a meeting.
Speaker 4: We'll have a meeting and when it's scheduled that will occur.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Albo, keep going with that call and calm diplomacy. Well, finally,
Speaker 3: to some common sense, a woman's right to a fair
Speaker 3: and even sporting match has been restored after World Athletics
Speaker 3: mandated gender tests for female category eligibility.
Speaker 2: Now, let's just be real.
Speaker 3: This has only happened because men kept competing in the
Speaker 3: women's leagues. Remember the farce that was the Olympic Games
Speaker 3: last year when algery and boxer Ammann Khalif, who has
Speaker 3: male chromosomes and previously failed a gender test, was allowed
Speaker 3: to compete in the women's competition and went on to
Speaker 3: win gold. But it seems fairness has finally trumped insanity.
Speaker 3: Athletes will now be eligible to compete in the female
Speaker 3: category only if they clear a one off, non invasive
Speaker 3: gene test. World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said, I'm absolutely
Speaker 3: committed to doing everything I possibly can to protect and
Speaker 3: preserve the female category.
Speaker 2: If you don't do that, we know where that leads.
Speaker 3: I don't want my sport to witness what many of
Speaker 3: us witnessed in boxing or.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah for that.
Speaker 3: But here's Coe's quote that's really got the lefties in
Speaker 3: a spin. He said, it was always very clear to
Speaker 3: me and the World Athletics Council that gender cannot trump biology.
Speaker 2: Gee, who would have thought. It's simple.
Speaker 3: If you're a man, go compete in the male competition,
Speaker 3: where you belong, but Australia is now one of the
Speaker 3: only countries denying that very simple biological reality. The UK
Speaker 3: Supreme Court ruled in April that a woman is someone
Speaker 3: born biologically female. Donald Trump has signed an executive order
Speaker 3: recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and just this week,
Speaker 3: trans athletes have been banned from representing the US at
Speaker 3: the Olympics and Paralympics.
Speaker 2: The founder of Giggle.
Speaker 3: App Salgrov, put it best when I spoke to her
Speaker 3: on Sharry this week.
Speaker 5: Trans athletes are not banned from the Olympics, Males a
Speaker 5: band from competing in the woman's category.
Speaker 2: That's it. The men in dresses are.
Speaker 5: Completely welcome to go and compete with the men in shorts.
Speaker 2: It's that simple. And the other issue is our lawmakers
Speaker 2: still don't know what a woman is now. I happen
Speaker 2: to know a woman is an adult female.
Speaker 3: Apparently these days, just knowing the answer to that question
Speaker 3: makes you either a bigot, some sort of incredible genius,
Speaker 3: or just someone with common sense.
Speaker 2: It depends on who you ask.
Speaker 3: In the Senate yesterday, Labor Block debate on Senators Alex
Speaker 3: Antik and Matt Canavan's bill to restore biological definitions in
Speaker 3: the Sex Discrimination Act. Now Julia Gillard amended that Act
Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen and removed the definitions of sex man
Speaker 3: and woman, but Labor used its numbers to stop the
Speaker 3: bill even being read or whatever, there being twenty five
Speaker 3: eyes and thirty six no's, the matter is resolved in
Speaker 3: the negative. But it was this from the Minister for Women,
Speaker 3: Katie Gallagher that was quite extraordinary.
Speaker 6: We do not agree with the Senate being a place
Speaker 6: where individual harm can be done to young people across
Speaker 6: this country, and that is what would have happened had
Speaker 6: we allowed this fiel to proceed in a normal course,
Speaker 6: and we won't stand for it. Trans children deserve better
Speaker 6: from this chamber.
Speaker 3: I mean, why is the Minister for Women not concerned
Speaker 3: about the safety of women and girls whose spaces and
Speaker 3: sports have been invaded by men who claim to be women.
Speaker 3: And why is it now harmful to debate our own
Speaker 3: laws in parliament? I mean, seriously, what is the purpose
Speaker 3: of having a democratic country if we can't even discuss
Speaker 3: and debate ideas at all? For what to protect a
Speaker 3: small percentage of the population. I mean, Australia is gripping
Speaker 3: onto this woke ideology.
Speaker 2: A man in a dress is not a woman. You
Speaker 2: don't have to be a genius to know that. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get into it now. Joining me is Shadow Cabinet
Speaker 2: Secretary Andrew Wallace. Andrew, good to catch up. Thanks for
Speaker 2: joining me.
Speaker 3: I want to start with today's ten percent baseline tariff
Speaker 3: announcement by Donald Trump. Labour says it's been vindicated in
Speaker 3: its approach to this.
Speaker 2: Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1: Not at all.
Speaker 7: You know, look, we have seen the most tepid response
Speaker 7: from this government. I have sat back and really tried,
Speaker 7: didn't haven't even tried to get.
Speaker 1: A meeting with the US President Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: The Prime Minister is now two hundred and seventy days
Speaker 7: since President Trump has come to office, two hundred and
Speaker 7: seventy days that the Prime Minister has missed an opportunity
Speaker 7: to have a meeting with the President to really push
Speaker 7: forward the best interests of Australians and Australian workers. You know,
Speaker 7: once again, we've seen a situation where when we're in government,
Speaker 7: we had Joe Hockey and Arthur Sinnadinas.
Speaker 1: Were able to work together as our ambassador in the
Speaker 1: US to secure zero tariffs, and yet this government hasn't
Speaker 1: even tried.
Speaker 7: And here Don Farrell this evening talking about this sort
Speaker 7: of quiet diplomacy. Well, I mean it has been an
Speaker 7: extremely tepid response.
Speaker 1: Tepid and timid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tepid and timid.
Speaker 3: And I said that that's a sort of approach they're
Speaker 3: going to keep going with.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck. Then you're never going to get a
Speaker 2: meeting with that sort of a ridiculous approach. Now we've
Speaker 2: just had some breaking news.
Speaker 1: I don't think they I don't think he wants a meeting.
Speaker 2: No, well I don't think so either as.
Speaker 1: The Prime Minister wants a meeting.
Speaker 3: No, well, clearly, I mean he doesn't want to get
Speaker 3: upstage like Kiir Istama this week and other leaders that
Speaker 3: have had a meeting with Donald Trump. But the reality
Speaker 3: is he's going to have to at some point and
Speaker 3: this is just not the way to do it. Now, Andrew,
Speaker 3: we've just had some breaking news in the New South
Speaker 3: Wales Supreme Court will rule tomorrow morning on whether this
Speaker 3: Sunday's harbor Bridge pro Palestine protest can go ahead. Look,
Speaker 3: I don't think it should go ahead regardless. I think
Speaker 3: you know, spare me this argument about the reconciliation protests
Speaker 3: or the Pride one that shut down the bridge in
Speaker 3: the past. The difference is that takes months of planning,
Speaker 3: yet this group wants to shut it down with only
Speaker 3: a few days notice. And Andrew, the issue is, who's
Speaker 3: not to say that they're not going to get out
Speaker 3: there shouting death to the IDF and the rest of
Speaker 3: those slogans on one of our national monuments.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I am absolutely and utterly opposed.
Speaker 1: To this demonstration.
Speaker 7: You know, just put aside for the moment the destruction
Speaker 7: that it would cause to Sydney Cider's traffic. We've seen
Speaker 7: demonstrations like this on the streets which have caused a
Speaker 7: significant amount of upheaval for local communis. But the hate
Speaker 7: and bile that spews from a lot of these people,
Speaker 7: there's no place for that in Australia in modern day.
Speaker 7: And I'm absolutely behind the New South Wales government and
Speaker 7: the New South Wales Police on this. It should not
Speaker 7: go ahead. No, you have I hope the court rules accordingly.
Speaker 2: No, I agree, and you're right.
Speaker 3: I mean it's going to shut down the main artery
Speaker 3: getting people to and from the CBD.
Speaker 2: You know, what about emergency services?
Speaker 3: There's so much to think about, huge impact and aside
Speaker 3: from the fact that the sort of slogans we can imagine.
Speaker 2: Now look I found.
Speaker 3: This well, I'm surprising and in a shock.
Speaker 2: To no one. The green dream has hit another.
Speaker 3: Hurdle after it was revealed a critical Victorian energy project
Speaker 3: has had cost blowouts of about three point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 3: The Australian Energy Market Operator report has revealed the Victoria
Speaker 3: to New South Wales interconnect A West so this is
Speaker 3: a series of high voltage power lines has blown out
Speaker 3: to seven point six billion, but uncertainty over the estimates
Speaker 3: mean it could saw to eleven point four billion. Andrew seriously,
Speaker 3: how much longer can this go on?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Look, it just defies belief that the Victorian in fact
Speaker 7: most of the state governments and importantly the federal government
Speaker 7: are continuing along with this. It is totally disrespectful of
Speaker 7: farmers and their property to be effectively, we're seeing large,
Speaker 7: broad scale destruction of natural habitat. You know what amazes me,
Speaker 7: Janika is that the greens are nowhere to be seen
Speaker 7: on this destruction of natural habitat. So farmers can't destroy
Speaker 7: trees on their property for grazing, but it's okay for
Speaker 7: transmission lines.
Speaker 1: The greens, they just know where to be seen. They
Speaker 1: don't talk about it.
Speaker 7: And in the meanwhile, Australian energy retailers are putting their
Speaker 7: prices up and you and I are the punters. We're
Speaker 7: paying thirty percent higher in our energy bills now than
Speaker 7: what we were three years ago. And the likes of
Speaker 7: Chris Bowen still stand up in Parliament and say renewables
Speaker 7: are the cheapest form of energy.
Speaker 1: Well, how can they be the cheapest form of energy
Speaker 1: when our prices have gone up by thirty percent?
Speaker 7: And don't get me started on the Prime Minister's two
Speaker 7: hundred and seventy five dollars price reductions.
Speaker 3: No, well, I mean Chris Bowen didn't want to answer
Speaker 3: any questions about that when pressed by the Opposition in
Speaker 3: question time this week before we let you go Andrew
Speaker 3: you you're running a marathon?
Speaker 2: Well where are you? What are you doing tonight?
Speaker 7: My marathon days are well and truly over, Danika. The
Speaker 7: best I've done is a half marathon here a couple
Speaker 7: of years ago. But no, we've got the Sunshine Case
Speaker 7: Marathon Festival on this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
Speaker 7: We'll see tens of thousands of runners to doing the
Speaker 7: forty two k and the half marathon, and there's also
Speaker 7: some other races of smaller races as well.
Speaker 1: But it's great. I'm a big I love running. I'm
Speaker 1: a big bo There's nothing like that.
Speaker 7: Run is high you get at the end of a
Speaker 7: good run, and it's just it's just a beautiful time.
Speaker 1: Of the year to be doing this year on the
Speaker 1: Sunny Coast.
Speaker 3: No good on you, As I said to you, you
Speaker 3: are such an advocate for your local community and I
Speaker 3: can hear there's some very excited kids around you tonight
Speaker 3: as well. Andrew, good to catch up as always, Thanks
Speaker 3: so much for joining.
Speaker 2: Me on the show.
Speaker 3: Well, joining me now is Macro Business chief economist Leith
Speaker 3: van Onslan.
Speaker 2: Leith, thank you for joining me.
Speaker 3: First, I just want to get your reaction as well
Speaker 3: to today's tariff's decision by Donald Trump. Is it really
Speaker 3: the vindication that labor claims it is.
Speaker 8: Look, it's certainly good news, and I guess the government
Speaker 8: can claim credit for not antagonizing the Trump administration administration.
Speaker 8: You can probably also gain a bit of credit for
Speaker 8: relaxing by security rules around beef imports, which obviously would
Speaker 8: have pleased President Trump. But the reality is, Danika, that
Speaker 8: the lower baseline tariff of.
Speaker 1: Ten percent that's been applied to.
Speaker 8: Australia makes sense because we are one of the few
Speaker 8: countries that has a very large trade deficit with the
Speaker 8: United States. We import more than double the amount that
Speaker 8: we export the United States. You also have a free
Speaker 8: trade agreement with the US which has been in place
Speaker 8: for twenty years, so the trade relationship with the US
Speaker 8: is very heavily.
Speaker 1: Weighted in the americans favor.
Speaker 8: And I think that's why we got the lower ten
Speaker 8: percent baseline tariff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean it was always going to be
Speaker 3: the default, as announced by the Trump administration after the
Speaker 3: president's inauguration.
Speaker 2: Now, look, I want to ask you about this story.
Speaker 3: The Treasurer could introduce a new cash flow tax on
Speaker 3: Australia's largest companies. The recommendation was made by the Productivity Commission,
Speaker 3: of course, ahead of Labour's upcoming round table.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: It recommends the corporate tax rate for businesses with revenue
Speaker 3: under one billion be slashed in twenty percent, while around
Speaker 3: five hundred companies so major banks, miners and supermarkets would
Speaker 3: miss out on a cut leath.
Speaker 2: Is this a good move? Do you think?
Speaker 8: Look, I'm a little bit lukewarm the idea. The Protein
Speaker 8: Commission claims that the move is going to boost private investment,
Speaker 8: which is at recessory levels and it's part of the
Speaker 8: reason why Australia's productivity absolutely stinks. But personally, I think
Speaker 8: there's better ways to boost investment and cheaper as well.
Speaker 8: So I think first the federal government should offer time
Speaker 8: limited tax breaks for startup businesses. And the reason why
Speaker 8: startups is that they're more likely to employ staff than
Speaker 8: existing businesses, which already have the staff they need. They're
Speaker 8: more likely to innovate because they're typically looking to introduce
Speaker 8: new products and services or provide older ones in new ways,
Speaker 8: so they are very innovative. And also there's way fewer
Speaker 8: startup businesses than there are existing businesses, so it'd be
Speaker 8: very cheap. And of course, because it'd be time limited
Speaker 8: to startups and startups don't stay startups forever, it's also
Speaker 8: a way of containing the cost. And I think the
Speaker 8: government also needs to provide direct tax breaks for new
Speaker 8: investments only, so this would boost business investment directly by
Speaker 8: encouraging said business investment, and that's better than blanket corporate
Speaker 8: tax cuts because corporate the blanket tax cuts for everyone,
Speaker 8: or at least for businesses blow one billion basically rewards
Speaker 8: existing businesses for past investment, not new investment. And the
Speaker 8: government needs to stimulate new investment and it needs to
Speaker 8: do it the lowest cost way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I just said we've got this productivity round table
Speaker 3: coming up. Let's see what sort of taxes are on
Speaker 3: the table. And I'm sure that the Treasurer already knows
Speaker 3: what could be coming up, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Now let's talk immigration Leith.
Speaker 3: We've just witnessed the highest net arrival number on record
Speaker 3: in May, and now there's more proof that high immigration
Speaker 3: is harming productivity. Now, obviously productivity is a disaster in
Speaker 3: this country. But what's the link with Labour's Big Australia policy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I just mentioned that that business investments at
Speaker 8: processionary levels. But the flip side of that is the
Speaker 8: main reason that Australias productivities collapse is that we've grown
Speaker 8: the population aggressively eight point seven million this century through immigration,
Speaker 8: at the same time as we have not grown business investment,
Speaker 8: structure of housing anywhere near to keep up and as
Speaker 8: a result, the capital labor ratio has fallen significantly and
Speaker 8: what that's led to is so called capital shelling. So
Speaker 8: basically we've got less tools, less equipment per worker, and
Speaker 8: that means we've got less productivity growth. And we've also
Speaker 8: driven up housing and congestion costs through just traffic, congestion,
Speaker 8: those sorts of things, and they're harmful for productivity. So
Speaker 8: with Australia's population projected to grow by thirteen and a
Speaker 8: half million people in the next forty years officially Taneka
Speaker 8: that's another Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, it basically means that
Speaker 8: Australia's population productivity is going to stink unless we can
Speaker 8: keep up with business investment with infrastructure and housing, which
Speaker 8: seems very unlikely. We basically need to replicate another Sydney,
Speaker 8: Melbourne and Brisbane in forty years. So one of the
Speaker 8: ways to actually improve productivity is to slow the population
Speaker 8: growth so that business, housing, infrastructure investment can.
Speaker 3: Keep up well while we keep keeping the door open.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're just not heading in a good direction.
Speaker 3: But it seems to be Labour's big policy.
Speaker 2: Leak before we let you go.
Speaker 3: Inflation of course, as f Allan, based on the new
Speaker 3: results this week, can we expect a rate cut? Do
Speaker 3: you think when the board meets next Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Lock it in.
Speaker 8: So the RBO is waiting on two key pieces of
Speaker 8: data and that was basically the Q two CPI which
Speaker 8: you got this week and the tune labor force which
Speaker 8: we've got a few weeks back. Both of those were
Speaker 8: very benign for inflation. So I think a rate cut
Speaker 8: is virtually guaranteed.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I'm sure mortgage holders were very pleased
Speaker 3: with that. Leif van Onsen, good to see you, Thanks
Speaker 3: very much for joining me on the show this evening.
Speaker 3: We're coming up after the break my panel, we'll discuss
Speaker 3: our relationship with the United States. More than twenty world
Speaker 3: leaders have met with Donald Trump. Wait till you hear
Speaker 3: which countries have while Albo, of course remains out in
Speaker 3: the cold.
Speaker 2: That's next. Welcome back, Johnny me now is Skinnies contributor
Speaker 2: Tina McQueen and New South Wales Independent MP Tanya mahalo Kai.
Speaker 2: Both of you. Good to see you. Thank you for
Speaker 2: joining me.
Speaker 3: Now we've been speaking about Donald Trump and would you
Speaker 3: believe it, more than twenty world leaders have met with
Speaker 3: the US President since his inauguration in January, but of
Speaker 3: course Anthony Albineasy.
Speaker 2: Is not one of them.
Speaker 3: The Daily Telegraph has gone back into the archives to
Speaker 3: find that that includes the West African nations of Senegal
Speaker 3: and Liberia, plus Gabon and Guinea Bissou, both with a
Speaker 3: population of just two million people.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really been that easy. Have a look
Speaker 2: sitting across the table at the White House Israeli Prime
Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin Etaniahu Bitjanana to have the Prime Minister of.
Speaker 6: Italy with US President Trump meeting this morning with UK
Speaker 6: Prime Minister Keir Starmery.
Speaker 1: Because you're a no position to dictate that.
Speaker 8: You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
Speaker 3: It was a meeting that had all the potential hallmarks
Speaker 3: of another White House bust up.
Speaker 9: Donald Trump and Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Speaker 10: For the third time in just over a week, the
Speaker 10: White House opened its doors to another world leader, this
Speaker 10: time India's Narendro Moody.
Speaker 2: Oh dear, no, but not Anthony Arberaneze. But you've even
Speaker 2: met with Donald Trump, Tina, you could be a world
Speaker 2: leader at this point. A few times. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 2: but Albo Nope, still know. But these small countries in
Speaker 2: West Africa, West Africa nations rather no problems.
Speaker 11: I think at this point Albo's scared to meet with him.
Speaker 11: I mean he's seen the president demolish some of some
Speaker 11: of those leaders. I mean remember his meeting with Zelenski
Speaker 11: and others. So yeah, it's just unbelievable. I mean you
Speaker 11: look at that and you cannot believe that Australia, we're
Speaker 11: supposed to have this close relationship with America, which we
Speaker 11: have had for a number of years, that's.
Speaker 2: Been blown up. I mean it's quite it wasn't so laughable.
Speaker 2: It's sad. Well, it is sad, and it's also a concern.
Speaker 2: They're meant to be a number one ally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're taking this wait and see approach, even with tariffs,
Speaker 3: despite the decision today. But now, Tanya, you've got the
Speaker 3: Prime Minister banking on a series of upcoming world meetings
Speaker 3: and summits and the hope that he might get five
Speaker 3: minutes on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: Well, I think we should actually be given it.
Speaker 9: That as what only ten percent for Australia, maybe we
Speaker 9: should actually be grateful that Alberanesi hasn't much. Probably maybe
Speaker 9: it would have been far worse the outcome if he
Speaker 9: did indeed meet with Trump. I think there's enormous pressure
Speaker 9: now on alban Easy because it's not just the outcome
Speaker 9: of the tariffs. We know the steel and aluminium ministries
Speaker 9: at fifty percent. Okay, let's beare a thought for the
Speaker 9: three hundred and seventy seven million dollar industry that really
Speaker 9: does need Albanesi to step up and actually meet with
Speaker 9: Trump and we'll have generally business confidence impact as a
Speaker 9: result of this. And in due course you've got to
Speaker 9: expect that more and more businesses and investors will think
Speaker 9: again about Australia because it doesn't have a closer relationship
Speaker 9: with the US.
Speaker 2: Yes or no.
Speaker 9: I think you've got Don Farrell coming out today, say
Speaker 9: you're going to continue negotiations.
Speaker 2: Who's listening to Don Farrell today?
Speaker 11: Farrell would go down like a tomato in America.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine him at the White House.
Speaker 11: I'm maison just and they're in disbelief and we've only
Speaker 11: got that ten percent tariff because we're taking the beef.
Speaker 11: You know, maybe no mistake of bee exactly this do
Speaker 11: nothing diplomacy is working for Albanez.
Speaker 9: Because the yeah, is it working for Australia though, Tina, No,
Speaker 9: and exactly, it's definitely not working.
Speaker 2: No, clearly it's not. Now.
Speaker 3: Look, it's been revealed Australian's forked out more than one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty one million dollars in June alone to
Speaker 3: visit the GP.
Speaker 2: But hang on, remember this, this little green and gold card.
Speaker 4: This thing here your Medicare card. As this little green
Speaker 4: and gold piece of plastic.
Speaker 10: This your Medicare card, Medicare card.
Speaker 2: Look, it's an absolute nightmare, Tina.
Speaker 3: He waves that thing about as if it's the best
Speaker 3: friend that he's ever had. He is gripping onto it tightly.
Speaker 3: He was elected on a bulk billing mandate. Yet we've
Speaker 3: paid about two billion dollars out of pocket to see
Speaker 3: the doctor in the past two years.
Speaker 11: Time I go to the doctor, I've had a few issues,
Speaker 11: so I've been frequently lately. It's cost me ninety bucks.
Speaker 11: And in a room for patients, I remind them the
Speaker 11: Prime Minister promised me it would cost nothing. Here's my
Speaker 11: Medicare card.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work at the doctors. I can tell you.
Speaker 11: I think I get forty or forty five dollars back,
Speaker 11: but it's not the point. This is ridiculous and Labour
Speaker 11: has used this medi scare campaign a number of elections
Speaker 11: now and Liberals are so stupid they never counteracted.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. I don't think they're not going to have.
Speaker 11: By twenty It was twenty thirty, twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: Five, where you pay nothing. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: It was always be a long term goal and it's
Speaker 2: clearly not working. Doctors are against it. The doctors are
Speaker 2: against it.
Speaker 3: They're not going down the way of bulk billing that
Speaker 3: the majority of doctors are not. And it's impossible tenure
Speaker 3: to find a bulk billing clinic anywhere, and when you
Speaker 3: do find the rare ones, particularly here in Sydney, you've
Speaker 3: got away in a waiting room with hundreds of other people.
Speaker 9: Why would you expect a doctor to do that, given
Speaker 9: they've studied something like ten years.
Speaker 2: Or twelve years to be a doctor in the first place.
Speaker 2: The idea that they would accept what forty.
Speaker 9: Two dollars for a twenty minus minute session, I mean
Speaker 9: you're paying more for a head and neck and shoulder massage, Okay,
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, I think that you can completely
Speaker 9: understand why doctors expect to be charged more. But it
Speaker 9: is a terrible firthy and this article has raised a
Speaker 9: terrific issue because it should be exposed that Australians are
Speaker 9: indeed paying for health. This idea that we're not paying
Speaker 9: is a total furthy. It's a lie. Australians will hoodwink
Speaker 9: to believe that if you just have a Medicare card
Speaker 9: that their health service is free.
Speaker 2: It's not true.
Speaker 9: You want quality healthcare in Australia, you have to have
Speaker 9: a credit card.
Speaker 2: You've got to pay. That's the thing.
Speaker 3: You can wave that thing about. It was waving it
Speaker 3: about in question time or a week this week as
Speaker 3: well waved They all wave it around. They're obsessed with
Speaker 3: their Medicare cards. Now look, moves to a mortalized form
Speaker 3: of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in Bronze could be in doubt,
Speaker 3: with the controversial honor to be debated in Parliament. A
Speaker 3: petition opposing the statue was this week tabled with over
Speaker 3: twelve six hundred signatures calling for the State Labor government
Speaker 3: to abandon it. So look, we thought this would be
Speaker 3: a great opy wouldn't it to roll out Dad's greatest
Speaker 3: hands have exercise.
Speaker 12: Is just that it's not an opportunity for seven families
Speaker 12: to catch up in the park. There will be no
Speaker 12: removal of masks to consume alcohol outdoors. Whole bunch of
Speaker 12: people down the right back beach last night who thought
Speaker 12: the best thing to do is to go and watch
Speaker 12: the sunset. I'm sure it was a beautiful sunset, but
Speaker 12: that's not in the spirit or in the letter of
Speaker 12: these rules.
Speaker 2: It sends shivers up to Fine all these years later,
Speaker 2: doesn't it. Seriously? But look, hey good, it's going up
Speaker 2: for debate.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Hopefully common sense.
Speaker 11: Will overdeering that he's going to be debated. But this
Speaker 11: poor guy, I mean, he's not the most attractive person
Speaker 11: on the planet in real life. I hate the bloody
Speaker 11: statue of so hopefully that will be hit on the
Speaker 11: head and you know, sanity prevailed once the costs and
Speaker 11: everything are revealed in parliament.
Speaker 2: Absolute. I'd love to know how much this, this, this
Speaker 2: bronze statue is going to cost of a.
Speaker 9: Former gay Yeah, well a Stalin style bronze.
Speaker 2: Yeah, actually in the middle of town.
Speaker 9: Well, actually, he wanted people to stay indoors, So maybe
Speaker 9: the statue could stay indoors about how that would be
Speaker 9: a criteria for this particular statue. You think he shows
Speaker 9: some humility and actually say no, I taught himself to
Speaker 9: mortalize himself.
Speaker 2: Past the ego and the big leaders come on. You
Speaker 2: know they're never going to they want this, They never
Speaker 2: want they do want this. They want the embarrassed.
Speaker 9: You think he'd be embarrassed, Well, it is his fault.
Speaker 11: True three thousand days true.
Speaker 2: Exactly comes back to like you, yeah, that's see exactly.
Speaker 3: Now, look, I've got to ask a question, what on
Speaker 3: earth is going on with gen Z job hunters. This
Speaker 3: oversharing cohort is asking what is appropriate to share with
Speaker 3: a prospective employer in a job interview.
Speaker 2: Including have a listen to this.
Speaker 3: Should you tell a prospective employer you have ADHD in
Speaker 3: an interview? Is it okay to share in an interview
Speaker 3: that you have anxiety?
Speaker 2: What about talking about your recent breakups? Would that be appropriate?
Speaker 2: I mean to look, seriously, it actually really annoys me.
Speaker 3: They just have no concept of the real world whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Seriously, do they want to get hired or not?
Speaker 11: And one makes them think they're going to get the job.
Speaker 11: If they're going to say, oh, I'm anxious and I've
Speaker 11: just wake up with my boyfriend, I think like it's
Speaker 11: not going to happen. Sopize BB strong and pretentious credentials
Speaker 11: without all these other flu.
Speaker 2: I'm actually embarrassed to hear that.
Speaker 9: But I mean you think that, you know, the whole
Speaker 9: point of your CV and your job interview is to
Speaker 9: talk about your skills, your achievements, and what has.
Speaker 2: Happened today's generation.
Speaker 9: To think that you can put a pile of your.
Speaker 2: Problems on Oh, it's embarrassing. It is embarrassing. Look, do
Speaker 2: they want the job or not?
Speaker 9: That's a real question in the I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Literally, if you were, if you're a boss, you would
Speaker 3: not hire these people, and for good reason, because they're
Speaker 3: going to end up being absolute shopping employees. You just
Speaker 3: would not want them on you pay off problems and
Speaker 3: future problems. Yeah, I feel like that they'd be the
Speaker 3: type that would claim workers compensation outf it's on your
Speaker 3: very basic.
Speaker 11: Lent me the wrong way. I'm crying at work exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh look, honestly, it's ridiculous. What is going on? Anyways?
Speaker 3: Good to see you both at Tina McQueen tamy Ma
Speaker 3: Alex thank you very much for joining me on the show.
Speaker 2: We'll see you again next week. We'll stay with us
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 3: For Across to the UK and check out the list
Speaker 3: of the top baby names. There's a couple of surprises.
Speaker 3: More on that next.
Speaker 2: When back Well.
Speaker 3: I spoke earlier in the show about World Athletics mandating
Speaker 3: gender tests for female category eligibility and as I said,
Speaker 3: this has only happened because men keep competing in the
Speaker 3: women's leagues, so it's about time that they competed in
Speaker 3: male only competition where they belong. Joining me now is
Speaker 3: Women's Forum Australia CEO Rachel Wong.
Speaker 2: Rachel, good to see you.
Speaker 3: Look finally we're seeing sporting bodies make some crucial changes.
Speaker 13: Good evening, Danica, Well, this is fantastic news. And we
Speaker 13: know that World Athletics already had protections of female sport,
Speaker 13: but this latest GENIS requirement has made those protections much
Speaker 13: stronger and protective of female athletes, and we're seeing this all.
Speaker 2: Around the world.
Speaker 13: For the last few years, we've been seeing international sporting
Speaker 13: bodies like swimming, rugby, netball and so on putting protections
Speaker 13: in place to protect the female sporting category, and we're
Speaker 13: seeing at the national level as well, not in Australia,
Speaker 13: but in countries like the UK, like the US and
Speaker 13: like New Zealand.
Speaker 2: So great news for women and girls.
Speaker 3: Look, I agree, and I found it interesting because the
Speaker 3: Athletics president Sebastian Coe, he said that gender cannot trump biology.
Speaker 3: I mean, who would have thought, Yeah, why is it
Speaker 3: still so hard for woke governments, including our own here
Speaker 3: in Australia to understand this basic biological fact.
Speaker 13: Look, I think Australia is fast becoming an outlier on
Speaker 13: this issue, and there is no sensible explanation for why
Speaker 13: other than that they are entirely captured by gender ideology
Speaker 13: and maybe that they're fearful as well. But it's absolutely
Speaker 13: critical that the Australian government acts on this. I've spoken
Speaker 13: to elite sporting bodies who want to change theirs, but
Speaker 13: because of our tenures, discrimination laws and activist guidelines, they're
Speaker 13: scared to do that. And that's not good enough. The
Speaker 13: Australian government needs to do what the US has done,
Speaker 13: which is to mandate that there are single sis sports
Speaker 13: for women and girls. Otherwise, you know, the takeaway funding like,
Speaker 13: for example, what Trump has done. Otherwise, women's sport is
Speaker 13: going to continue to be eroded in this country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just it's already at that level right now.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Look, you mentioned the Sex Discrimination Act in the Senate
Speaker 3: yesterday Labor blocked debate to restore biological definitions in that Act.
Speaker 3: And the most bizarre thing about this is that the
Speaker 3: Minister for Women, Katie Gallaher, said that the Government would
Speaker 3: not allow the Senate to become a forum which could
Speaker 3: enable harm.
Speaker 2: Have a listen.
Speaker 6: We do not agree with the Senate being a place
Speaker 6: where individual harm can be done to young people across
Speaker 6: this country and that is what would have happened had
Speaker 6: we allowed this fiel to proceed in the normal course,
Speaker 6: and we won't stand for it. Trans children deserve better
Speaker 6: from this chamber.
Speaker 3: Rachel, the Minister for Women doesn't at all seem worried
Speaker 3: about the safety of women.
Speaker 2: Look, Danika, it is bad enough that Labor and the Greens.
Speaker 13: Blocked the spill, but the fact that Australia's Minister for
Speaker 13: Women labeled as harmful a bill which would have restored
Speaker 13: women's sex base rights across Australia, which is so desperately needed.
Speaker 13: Is absolutely disgraceful. And how has she not given a
Speaker 13: second thought to the harm being done to women and
Speaker 13: girls who are being forced to share spaces and sports
Speaker 13: with men who clan to me women, Labor and the
Speaker 13: Greens love to share platitudes when it comes to talking
Speaker 13: about things like ending violence against women, but when it
Speaker 13: comes to, you know, ensuring that, for example, a domestic
Speaker 13: violence center or a rape shelter is free from men
Speaker 13: who clan to me women, they look the other way. Yeah,
Speaker 13: and I just also don't understand why it's now so
Speaker 13: harmful to apparently debate our own laws in parliament.
Speaker 3: I mean, where are we heading? Rachel Wong, It's nice
Speaker 3: to see you. Thank you so much for coming on
Speaker 3: the show this evening. Appreciate thank you well. The name
Speaker 3: Yaya saw a larger increase in baby name popularity than
Speaker 3: any other male name in the top one hundred in
Speaker 3: Britain last year.
Speaker 2: Now, why is this a problem?
Speaker 3: Well, the name is shared by the former leader of Hamas,
Speaker 3: Yaya Sinhwa, who.
Speaker 2: Was killed by Israeli forces.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Muhammad is now the number one baby boy's name
Speaker 3: in the UK for a second year running.
Speaker 2: Same though can't be said for Kia.
Speaker 3: There were no babies called that name shared by the
Speaker 3: dad of a Prime minister, Kiir Stama. And look, probably
Speaker 3: for good reason joining me now for more on this
Speaker 3: is reform. UK Counselor Darren Grives. Darren, it's always lovely
Speaker 3: to see you. Thank you for joining me. So we've
Speaker 3: got Yaya and Muhammad. What does that say about the
Speaker 3: cultural shift happening in the UK right now?
Speaker 10: Well, great to be with you, Danika. Look, I think
Speaker 10: the baby named charts they actually scream louder than one
Speaker 10: of those children you find in a supermarket throwing a tantrum.
Speaker 10: You know, it's absurd that we've got ourselves in a
Speaker 10: position where the likes of harmss are being linked to
Speaker 10: names in this country. These names are climbing out there
Speaker 10: faster than a sort of kangaroo on a trampoline. You've
Speaker 10: got Muhammad. It's been locked in actually for a number
Speaker 10: of years now, and I think what it suggests is
Speaker 10: that actually there is a demographic explosion in the country.
Speaker 10: Now people should be free to call their children whatever
Speaker 10: they want, but it's indicative of the fact that actually
Speaker 10: the population that haven't more recently arrived simply aren't having children,
Speaker 10: and certain communities absolutely are. And the fact of the
Speaker 10: matter is, if you were to look and analyze every
Speaker 10: name that's coming over the English Channel in record numbers,
Speaker 10: I imagine that that name wouldn't be too far away
Speaker 10: from the top of that list either of Danika.
Speaker 2: I think you probably are on the money there, Darren.
Speaker 3: I just find it fast I to say that the
Speaker 3: cultural shift that's particularly happening in Britain at the moment. Now, look,
Speaker 3: let's talk about keep Starmer's pledge to recognize Palestine. Of
Speaker 3: course basically rewarding Hamas, but it could actually be breaking
Speaker 3: the law. According to some of Britain's most prominent lawyers,
Speaker 3: forty members of the House of Lords say would not
Speaker 3: meet the criteria for recognition as set out under a
Speaker 3: nineteen thirty three treaty.
Speaker 2: Darren, So it might be illegal as well as immoral.
Speaker 10: Oh absolutely, I mean this is a if this is
Speaker 10: a cultural shift of the UK government actually making clear
Speaker 10: that Britain stands side by side with Hamas. I'm not
Speaker 10: sure I want to be part of it. I don't
Speaker 10: know about millions of other Brits, but you nailed it.
Speaker 10: There this pledge. It isn't just to recognize Palestine, it
Speaker 10: isn't just immoral. We've got top lawyers in this country
Speaker 10: actually saying, look, you cannot do this. Then that this
Speaker 10: is a legal brain that actually come up with the
Speaker 10: Rwanda scheme that was supposed to enable us to send
Speaker 10: and process migrant applications offshore. So ultimately, I think what
Speaker 10: we're doing here, And I was in Israel a month
Speaker 10: before October seventh, right, and I cannot imagine the horror
Speaker 10: and the post traumatic stress disorder that that nation still
Speaker 10: is going through to this day. Still there are hostages
Speaker 10: in Gasa who are not free, not released by those terrorists.
Speaker 10: So morally, it's an absolute disgrace because I can't imagine Danika,
Speaker 10: We're Scotland to suddenly adopt its own hamss that actually,
Speaker 10: if they came into the United Kingdom, kidnapped, hundreds, killed,
Speaker 10: one two hundred people, that Sekir Starmer and the UK
Speaker 10: Prime Minister would be patting themselves on the back to
Speaker 10: acknowledge this rogue state that had been created under the
Speaker 10: banner of an evil Islamist death cult. I find the
Speaker 10: whole thing frankly sickening and we in this country ought
Speaker 10: to be a shining example of better. We are pandering
Speaker 10: to the worst excesses of I think the new culture
Speaker 10: that is pervasive within the United Kingdom.
Speaker 2: And you know what I found extraordinary, Darren.
Speaker 3: When Kirs Starma made his announcement that he would, you know,
Speaker 3: we threatened to recognize a Palestinian state later this year,
Speaker 3: he said, well, it's about working towards a two state solution.
Speaker 2: Well, Hamas doesn't want a two state solution.
Speaker 3: And this is what I think the world leaders don't
Speaker 3: understand where they're making these pleasures, Darren, is that Hamas
Speaker 3: doesn't want.
Speaker 10: Peace absolutely right, you know, standing up at the United Nations,
Speaker 10: making yourself look nice around the dining tables of all
Speaker 10: these globalist leaders whilst waffling on, as you say about
Speaker 10: a two state solution, it's just him groveling to Hamas
Speaker 10: and the frankly, I'll be honest here to pro Hamas
Speaker 10: sympathize and MPs within his own party while actually betraying
Speaker 10: one of our closest allies. It's both illegal, it's both immoral,
Speaker 10: and if this is Starmer's foreign policy some in itself up,
Speaker 10: really then we need to actually be in this government.
Speaker 10: We need to stand with democracies, not terrorists. And actually,
Speaker 10: I think the fact that we haven't to see that
Speaker 10: Danika tells you everything we need to know about the
Speaker 10: state of the United Kingdom today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the state of the West.
Speaker 3: I mean, our prime ministers exactly the same as yours
Speaker 3: over there, Darren. Now look, Darren, fascinating what's going on
Speaker 3: with you and your counsel Durham County.
Speaker 2: You have officially scrapped diversity training for counselors. So what
Speaker 2: a shame you've been missing out on such a fundamental activity.
Speaker 2: But look good on you tell us about this decision.
Speaker 10: Oh well, Denika, you know I'm absolutely distraught. I'm distraught
Speaker 10: to have been missing these classes telling me that because
Speaker 10: I was born a white man and the grandson of
Speaker 10: a minor and more working class than certainly the Prime
Speaker 10: Minister and his lot, that actually I am guilty of
Speaker 10: some form of unconscious by Deneka, I don't know how
Speaker 10: I'll be able to operate in the world without that train.
Speaker 10: And no, look, there is no law force and counselors
Speaker 10: to sit through hours of tripe about racist notions such
Speaker 10: as unconscious bias.
Speaker 2: It's called for you are.
Speaker 10: You're a bigot and you don't know it.
Speaker 1: You need to be educated on it.
Speaker 10: It's devices clapped app it's slicing people up by race
Speaker 10: or background or immutable characteristics. And we here in the Northeast,
Speaker 10: we here in the Reform Party, are saying, well, equality
Speaker 10: means treating everyone the same full stop. Do you remember that, Deaneka.
Speaker 10: It wasn't all that long ago that we all recognized
Speaker 10: that laudable aim and objective. I want to fix the roads,
Speaker 10: I want to cut taxes, I want to backwork and
Speaker 10: class people. I don't want to actually winge on about
Speaker 10: under and progress in the form of a new neo racism.
Speaker 10: So to be perfectly honest with you, Deaneka, I will
Speaker 10: have no misgivens about ditching the war and buck in
Speaker 10: the fulks. That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 2: Darren. Can you come to Australia please and start injecting
Speaker 2: some of that common sense into our work council. Seriously,
Speaker 2: I mean, good on you, well done, and yet not
Speaker 2: surprised you're taking a stand on this. Good to hear,
Speaker 2: Darren Grimes.
Speaker 3: Lovely to see you as always, Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for joining me on the show this evening. Well back
Speaker 3: in a moment with the winners and losers of the week,
Speaker 3: including our Ossie swimmers dominating the World Championships, plus the
Speaker 3: ABC picks a fight with Blueye that's next.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: It is that time of the week where we sought
Speaker 3: the winners from the losers. And helping me to do that,
Speaker 3: as always is PROBMC Sween from verth Communicator.
Speaker 2: See here we go for another week.
Speaker 3: Gosh quick, Now your winner this week are our Aussie swimmers.
Speaker 3: The World Championships are underway in Singapore and Molly O'Callahan
Speaker 3: has equalled.
Speaker 2: Ian Thorpe's record of eleven gold medals. Have a look
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 14: Molly normally is unbeatable in this situation. Richie's racing Katie
Speaker 14: and she's going to take it right down to the finish.
Speaker 14: But Molly might have a big enough Marget, Molly I
Speaker 14: is getting tired, but the margin's too big. It's more
Speaker 14: glorious God for Ausonia's girls.
Speaker 2: How good's that? It's fabulous?
Speaker 15: And of course Callie mckinn as well, who was astounding
Speaker 15: with the dislocated shoulder four weeks beforehand winning gold. Look all,
Speaker 15: I just want to say about that is isn't it
Speaker 15: a great example? These kids are what twenty four? Yeah,
Speaker 15: you know, dedication. The sport is so important. All I
Speaker 15: say to parents, if you're having trouble with your kids,
Speaker 15: get them into sport. The discipline, the fact that it's
Speaker 15: so healthy for them, the team, you know, teamwork that's required.
Speaker 2: I just think that's a really positive message for all
Speaker 2: of us. I agree, good on them. Look, we've always
Speaker 2: done well in the pool, haven't we.
Speaker 3: But yay, it's really really good to see these young
Speaker 3: young women excelling. Now look my winner of the week
Speaker 3: pro I've actually given it to youth offenders in Victoria.
Speaker 3: And the reason is is because they're getting off of
Speaker 3: got free. Our Victorian parents are actually being told to
Speaker 3: find their kids machetes. So find these you know knives
Speaker 3: and throw in.
Speaker 2: A special bin.
Speaker 3: Would you believe it's been pushed by one of the
Speaker 3: state's top cops, Bret Curran, who's also conceded that the
Speaker 3: weapons weren't going to simply disappear and that criminals would
Speaker 3: actually find new weapons.
Speaker 2: Who would have thought? So, Look, pro, he're a you know,
Speaker 2: knife wielding team. Hey, mom and dad, you know I've
Speaker 2: got a machete. It might be a meat along it's
Speaker 2: sitting under me bed, But do us a favor.
Speaker 3: Would you go pick it up and drop it in
Speaker 3: a special sil you know, not get myself in trouble.
Speaker 2: So well done to youth crimes.
Speaker 15: What a shame They don't have disposal bins for politicians,
Speaker 15: so we could just.
Speaker 2: Go and use them.
Speaker 15: Wouldn't that be fabulous? You look at these people, and
Speaker 15: the problem is it's who's wielding the knives and why,
Speaker 15: And a lot of it is because of our immigration
Speaker 15: program where we have people coming in from countries where
Speaker 15: it's a national sport to have I mean, like machetes,
Speaker 15: like the accessory dazure, and you know, they're just not assimilated,
Speaker 15: probably hit properly here. So I just think, well, you know,
Speaker 15: it's not a laughing matter in terms of what they're doing,
Speaker 15: but clearly they've lost their way, their misfits in our society.
Speaker 15: They don't have our values or respectful of Some.
Speaker 3: Don't have our some don't have our mouty, some don't
Speaker 3: want to assimilate it where.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the cons it at all. But you know,
Speaker 2: in this case, in this case, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: how pathetic. Go here's a machete and there's a bin.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Seriously, Now look, your loser of the week is the
Speaker 3: UN's climate chief who's been out here lecturing.
Speaker 9: Us it is with mega drafts, make it fresh fruits
Speaker 9: and vege for one treat.
Speaker 2: Oh, please get a grip. Seriously, go home to your country,
Speaker 2: go go away.
Speaker 15: Please, yet another UN doomsday climate alarmist. And this is
Speaker 15: what really annoys me. What the hell is the UN's
Speaker 15: charter anymore? Because they just fly around the world emission's
Speaker 15: going crazy, come and lecture us, telling.
Speaker 2: Us what we should be doing.
Speaker 15: You know, now every vegan's in a fetal position worrying
Speaker 15: about their fruit and bitch because it's not going to
Speaker 15: be around for much longer. There's mega drought. I mean,
Speaker 15: it is just absurdity and defensive. And I just feel
Speaker 15: like this climate alarmism with the UN, all of these
Speaker 15: international bodies, who that International.
Speaker 2: Court of Justice?
Speaker 15: How dare they and how dumb are we to be
Speaker 15: paying them money and allowing them to dictate to us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're so woke.
Speaker 3: But also you've got to laugh when a guy like
Speaker 3: this makes Chris Bowen look meek and mild.
Speaker 2: I mean, Bowen's he's back.
Speaker 1: Heah.
Speaker 2: The fact that he makes Bowen look meek and mild
Speaker 2: speaks absolutely volumes. But you're right, you know, lecturing us
Speaker 2: we had to up our missions. Hello, we can't even
Speaker 2: reach our mission, Zach colliots as it is, as if
Speaker 2: we're going to be able to up them. I mean, look, please,
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous. Now.
Speaker 3: I had to give my loser this week pro to
Speaker 3: the ABC after it removed a Bunnings inspired episode of
Speaker 3: popular kids show blue from its streaming service because it
Speaker 3: can't take part in commercial partnerships. Now, look, bear with me,
Speaker 3: prou while I try and explain why this is sobers are. Firstly,
Speaker 3: the ABC handed over merchandising rights for Bluey to Britain's BBC.
Speaker 3: The ABC has already bungled its rights to commercialize Bluey
Speaker 3: through merchandise, with the Queensland based program now generating more
Speaker 3: than a billion dollars a year for the BBC and
Speaker 3: g The ABC could be actually funded entirely by Bluey
Speaker 3: instead of the taxpayer if they didn't mess that up,
Speaker 3: which makes this decision to remove the season two episode
Speaker 3: called Hammerbarn. Even more odd now, Bunnings has partnered with
Speaker 3: the BBC to sell Bluey merchandise and will even be
Speaker 3: rebranding itself as the fictional Hammer Barn in a marketing stunt.
Speaker 3: But the ABC says it's gone too far and it
Speaker 3: cannot align with a commercial brand or partnership, so pro
Speaker 3: this Hammerbarn episode. It's still available to stream on Disney
Speaker 3: Plus in the US and the UK, but Ossie's will
Speaker 3: not be able to find it on iView today. You've
Speaker 3: just got to wonder what on earth decisions is the
Speaker 3: ABC undertaking right now.
Speaker 15: Well, they're moronic, as we know. And when you think
Speaker 15: about the fact that most other networks, commercial networks in particular,
Speaker 15: would think this is pure gold. They're delivering a huge
Speaker 15: audience to me. Wouldn't you normally think whack, this is fabulous.
Speaker 15: This is the same organization that had doctored footage and
Speaker 15: gunfire you know that was all fake put in. I mean,
Speaker 15: they put themselves above everybody else or no too commercial,
Speaker 15: and yet they're doing things like that. They have very
Speaker 15: little integrity, their partisan as we know, and I just
Speaker 15: feel like, you know, this is insulting insulting to everybody
Speaker 15: in Australia because really it's a lovely idea and wouldn't
Speaker 15: we want to be encouraging young kids to have you
Speaker 15: enjoy gardening, to be thinking about all these things that
Speaker 15: are positive role model.
Speaker 2: I mean Bunnings is a local emblem of Australia. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: don't understand this decision.
Speaker 3: To understand these decisions prove good to see you. Thank
Speaker 3: you for having book weekend, appreciate it. Thanks for your company.
Speaker 3: I'll be back at seven pm for Deneka and James
Speaker 3: on Sunday. Steve Price is next.
Speaker 2: Good night,