WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 10 June 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:08.039 Late Welcome to the Late Debase. Good evening and welcome 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.640 to the program. I'm Caleb Bond with Liz Storer and 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.960 Joe Hildebrand. Well, look, I am not renowned for my 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.880 exercise regimen, but I have decided maybe I need to 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.079 take it up because the Guardian has come up with 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.640 the best reason ever to exercise. Apparently it turns your 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.480 right wing. We'll tell you a little bit more about 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.400 that later in the show. The Chinese premiere is also 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.400 on his way to Adelaide with a gift. We'll tell 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.440 you what it is when we get into the papers. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.640 And how long does it take to solve homelessness? 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.479 We have found the answer. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.600 But first you would think if someone commissioned you to 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.040 build a toilet block, it would be pretty straightforward. You know, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.360 I've got to get the cistern and put it in 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.000 the right place. So I've got to get the sink 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.800 and put it in the right place. It probably needs 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.280 a few walls, a door on the front. All seems 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.680 pretty straightforward. Well, no, that's not a case. If you 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.240 go to Allenby Garden's Reserve in Adelaide to a toilet 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.000 that was put up by Charles Sturt Council. Now, this toilet, 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.240 by the way, has apparently been in place for years, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.720 but it's only just come to the attention of the 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.479 locals that the doors on the cubicles look a bit 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.320 like this. Hey, look at this photo here of the 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.920 cubicle door on the front of this toilet. It is 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.800 entirely true. That is a woman in the toilet about 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.960 to do her business, and well anyone walking past could 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:32.399 notice it. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.160 Now, congrats on getting the though. 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.919 Yeah. Look, I had to go and investigate for myself. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.640 You know where it's really important stuff right now. Apparently 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.399 the council actually did some work on this toilet block 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.960 recently because it was vandalized, and even at that point 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.160 none of the council workers bother to look at it 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.920 and go hang on, that is a mesh door on 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.000 the front of the toilet. Now that the locals have 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.000 realized what's going on, they are outraged. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.360 I think it's a bringin freeman upon someone's privacy. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:05.960 It should refixate half. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.120 I come here all the time with my three children 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.600 and I wouldn't feel comfortable sending them to the toilet here. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:11.160 I think it. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.200 Scares me more as there is a playground like behind us, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.080 and knowing that there's kids who are vulnerable. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.480 If you want something to be done badly given to 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.120 a council. I can only imagine that the meeting between 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.600 the CEO and whoever designed this thing, when they worked 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.600 it out recently, when something. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:35.720 Like this, I'm familiar with the event itself. Mister Wilson. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.800 What I'm trying to ascertain is are you absolutely sure 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.960 that the two hundred meters track is two hundred meters long? 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.320 It is because it's half the four hundred meters track, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:45.520 which is four hundred meters long. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:46.120 That's right. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.960 The two hundred meters is half the four hundred meters. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:48.560 You can measure it. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.440 Ye, no, no, no, no, But the four hundred meters track 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.320 is exactly four hundred meters long, is it? 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:53.799 That's right? 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.080 So the two hundred meters track is exactly two hundred 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.079 meters long, of course, But what you're telling me is 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.799 that the one hundred meters track is a one hundred meters. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.920 Long slightly different arrangement? 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.040 Is a meter a slightly different concept? 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:07.280 Is it? 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.920 In one hundred against two? Well, I don't understand, mister 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.320 Wilson quite why in the construction of a one hundred 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.680 meters track, you would want to depart too radically from 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.760 the constraints laid down for us by the conventional calibration 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.480 of distance. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.680 The brilliance of John Clark on the Games, and one 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.359 wonders Joe why you would want to depart too radically 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.840 from the concept of a I don't know, not a 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.120 door that you can see through on the front of 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.000 a toilet Cuba. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.640 I just love everything about this story. I love firstly 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.040 the quote that kind of almost tells you everything and 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.280 nothing at the same time, which is where local resident 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.160 Felicity Graham tells seven years these doors have apparently been 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.920 here for years and no one thought it was an issue. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.640 So I don't know. I don't know how you could 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.040 have I could see that, like would there be a 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.240 thing like I can almost imagine like the you know, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.680 the council Child Safety commissioners saying, oh, no, we can't 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.400 possibly it's a playground nearby. We have to make sure 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.480 that children can be seen at all times, including on 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.200 the toilet, which is kind of creepy. But there are many, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.760 many things. Firstly, one excuse from council has been that 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.480 it was response to focus groups where ratepayers were demanding 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:29.680 more transparency. But I find that with these sorts of issues, Caleb, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.560 I know you have problems with counsels not taking responsibility 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.800 for their decisions, and I think this is happening in 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.400 this time because no matter what happens, no matter you know, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.279 what's gone wrong, there never seems to be anyone who's 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.120 actually personally at fault. They always just blame the system. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.040 Oh so, how many more can we get into? I'm 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.800 going to actually, but it's the fact that it took 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.360 so long for anyone to notice. But you've got to 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:58.320 wonder when a council commissions something to be built, surely 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.600 someone brings a design to them, right, And how at 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.719 the point of the design coming to them did no 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.560 one go hang on the doors a see through? Then 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.200 from that point forward, how did no one go hang 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.440 on the doors a see through. Either this is the 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.560 least used toilet block in the history of man, in 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.800 which case just knock it over, or the people of 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.880 Allenbe Gardens are a bunch of pervs and they didn't 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.039 mind the fact it was see through. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.000 What's going on? 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.240 Well, obviously no one can believe it took them this 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.680 long to be like, Ah, toilet doors are see through. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.239 That's actually a euphemism I've used for something that's really useless. 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.359 This is as useless as a glass door and a 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.520 toilet cubi gold. It's supposed to be funny. Okay, you're 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.080 not supposed to actually run with it. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.360 It's good grief. Also, it looks like some sort of caging. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.520 Yeah, it actually looks like the world's high indore looks 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.560 like the world's least secure juvenile detention center, completely. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.200 Perforated, so you can't do anything in your cell that 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.880 everybody else isn't privy to. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.680 I mean, this is just so noticeable and yet it's 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:00.479 been there. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.240 And you just saw the inside of it. That's from 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.279 inside the cubicle. So you're sitting there taking a dumb 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.600 or whatever, and you go, hang on a minute, I 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.520 can see the outside wall. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.560 About these things, because in some toilet cubicles it's just 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.360 the gap in the door, like. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.560 It can be really tiny. But if they're flimsily made, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.640 you can be in the cubicle going hang on a minute. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.880 If I can see you, you can see me through 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.320 this tiny crack that is clearly big enough for us 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.240 to make icontract. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.240 You had one job. I mean, if a council can't 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.800 even build a toilet block properly, what can we trust 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.159 them with millions and millions of dollars in ratepayers money 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.400 and they can't even build toilets properly. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.840 Well, I'm sure they could at least build a park, Caleb, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.599 because they don't even have to build a park. It's 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.200 just there. You just have to do nothing. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:46.080 It's just that. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:47.920 It's a beautiful part when. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.320 You're given forty million real government thank you. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.520 For coming to my segue. Yes, and you say that 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.880 Labor Government has ordered Hornsby Shire Council to repay thirty 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:03.480 six million dollars from a controversial grants fund for which 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:08.479 it built a park that never was. It's the money. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:09.920 It means they didn't kill the park. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.640 It's a bit it's a bit like it's a bit 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.280 like Jerry Seinfeld and the reservation. They took the money, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.080 they took the resumes, they took the money to build 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.600 the park, but they just didn't build the park. So 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.640 they got the job half right, but just didn't fire through. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.320 This is, of course Hornsby Shire Council, which I think 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.520 is the mayor the local mayor's Philip Roddicker used to 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.960 be the grand old There you go, the former flo 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.360 If you're watching, not too late to get it done. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.600 I reckon, if you get that park built by sun up, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:37.640 maybe they'll. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:38.920 Let you pay you and I could go with a 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:39.640 backup and do it. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.920 But yes, the Stronger Community's Grant Fund is set up 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.280 in twenty seventeen to support councils that were forced to merge, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.760 and but ninety six percent of grants were awarded to 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.800 councils in liberal and national seats. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.280 Can't be right, Marilyn Coalition would never. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.840 Sit the Flabor Party would never do something like this. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.520 Back in twenty eighteen, we're gonna build a park. We're 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:04.400 gonna build a park. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.320 Here's a mock up of what that park was supposed 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.360 to look like. What rate payers were, well taxpayers, I 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.080 should say, we're supposed to be getting for forty million dollars. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.920 And here's what they have six years later. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.320 Fantastic, some unknown grass. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.680 As far as I'm concerned that I's just as beautiful. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:30.920 But listen, hornsby what are they hornsby Shire Council. If 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:36.559 you were smarter, you would have spent the money quicker. Yeah, notably, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.760 this is a former council as I do I do 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.840 you get a grant, you spend the grants, Okay, no 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.000 mucking around. So now the federal government is like, can 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.920 you give our money back? Because not only was there 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.720 the whole pork barreling thing going on, but you haven't 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.079 spent it and there's no park and the Shire can't 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.080 justify to the federal government, Oh it's properly underway. No 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.160 it's not even underway. So they want a refund. They've 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.080 obviously spent four million of it lawn plans and whatever, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.920 but they're like, we want the other thirty six million back. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:11.679 Couldn't they have said we were going for more of 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.040 a sort of Christine natural industrial backwater. This is what 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.880 we had a mine all the long. And look there 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.360 are no sea through toilet doors. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.000 No no no no no no no no. They should have 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:22.720 built the sea through toilet and then they could have 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.040 actually shown that they've made an effort to do something 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.559 on that piece of land. I mean again, it's just 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.760 another example of how maddening all of this is. And 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.880 we did a story last night Shoe on the Sunday Showdown, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.520 great show, watch it every Sunday since well you never missed. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.160 You can watch these two great fellas, Sir Joe. And 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.600 that's right, every Sunday. But I did this story last 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.520 night about a fifth of councils in Victoria in this 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.240 council term have either been sacked by the state government 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.360 or they've had a state government monitor put in charge 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.839 of them just to make sure they don't go off 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.960 the edge because they're that badly behaved. They can't build 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.560 toilets properly, they can't build parks when they're given forty 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.560 million dollars in order to do so. They get sacked 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.280 because they can't even get through a meeting. As I 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:13.199 said last night, just abolish councils. All the powers councils 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.839 have come from the state government, just absorbed all but 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:17.440 to the state. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.960 Although whenever they do a local government who actually runs 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:21.679 does rate it. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.720 I know that that's it. They absolutely should, and I 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.200 have no problem that whatsoever. But strangely, when they do 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.320 surveys of people usually come back they say, no, we 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.319 want to get rid of state governments and keep local 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.679 and federal, which is that would be just even worse. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.400 But my favorite part we never got to it last night. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.440 My favorite part of those councils who were just absolutely 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.120 useless was Deriban Council in Melbourne, which is just the 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.719 most dysfunctional lefty council you can possibly imagine, apart from 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.720 maybe the city of Yarra itself. And there was this 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:55.200 amazing exchange that council's chamber where one council is complaining 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.319 to the acting mayor said we didn't I'll let you 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.640 acting mayor just so you could be a dictator and 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.120 the acting there are said back tough, but they don't 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.120 even deny they're a dictator, Like isn't that It's like 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.680 they waited it elect you, you know, read it elect 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.960 your policeman to find out you're a sexophone. And I said, well, surprise, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:18.280 do you want to be there? 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.240 Like why else? One election? 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:22.120 Don't? 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.480 Then you might not be. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.920 They have your moment in the sun. I mean, you're 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.080 not good enough to make it to the real deals 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:35.080 date or federal politics. So you can just pile right here, mate. Okay, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.640 one exception over here. But you know, seriously, the number 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.920 of people who end up on councils who just are 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.480 there because I don't know, they get angry about the 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.360 toilet block on the corner, which you know, in the 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.679 case of Adelaide, was actually legitimate. But you know, they 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.280 get elected on such small issues like the street needs 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.120 a pothole fixed in it or something, and then they 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.480 get there and they fix the problem and they go, oh, 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.720 good god, what do I do for the next feet? 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.920 It does attract a weird demographic, which is what does 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.079 You've got the looney, the lonely, and the ambitious. You 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.400 look at the lay party of any party and that's 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.120 who you've got. And then you look at Parliament, which 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.200 is just an extended version you know. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.240 What I'm talking about. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.560 But that's true. There are two types of people. There 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.400 are ambitious, bloodless politicians and people who write letters to 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.040 newspapers and that's it. It's like I'm writing to you 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:25.720 about the. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.079 Stop side on Warren or a parade. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.120 It's been there. And then you've got the people who 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.319 are like, you know, Mark Latham, It's like I'll kill 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.880 everyone who gets in my way. He did not, actually, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.679 so you're not actually killing You're not. Definitely a few 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.280 good sort. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:47.199 Of hip and shoulders working for a state MPs. I 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:48.760 felt like half my job. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.559 Was telling all these people who write in about these issues, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.199 that's a local government issue. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.520 That's a local government issue. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.959 And I'll never forget speaking to one lady who was 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.240 so convinced that I was yanking her chain and there 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.360 was no other kind of government. And I'm like, had 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.920 to literally try and explain to where the three tiers 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.679 of government and how they work, and how her fence 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.360 issue was actually not a matter for the state government. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.200 But let's get to Europe because in a. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.920 Win for the almost four hundred and. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:22.680 Fifty million people living in the European Union, the leftist 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.600 cesspool that has been European Parliament for a very long 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:33.360 time has been drained in this year's European elections. Every 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.840 five years they get a chance to drain that swamp. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.640 And this year, gosh did they deliver. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.040 Now, if you watch any mainstream media, they're saying the 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.000 far right. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.440 The far right parties I've taken. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:51.640 Over, or maybe just mainstream values one out because if 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.960 they're that popular, then they must be mainstream. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.679 So bad was the blood letting or good? If you 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:00.920 still ending where I am? 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:06.360 That Belgian's Prime minister wasted no time resigning in tears 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:25.520 the world's smallest violin place by globalist scum. And then 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.720 of course there was President French President Emmanuel Macron, who 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.440 again the results were so devastating he knew that, Okay, 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.280 the French people are telling me, I am on the nose. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.560 He's called a snap election. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.440 Demagogue's and nationalists on the rises. Bad for our nation's 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.080 bad for Europe, and it is bad for the place 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.360 of France in Europe and in the world. Yes, far right, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.760 it's bad for the French people and for the French nation. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.600 At the end of the day, you not able to 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:01.840 just pretend nothing. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.800 The far right are bad, but the vast majority of 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.840 you clearly want it. Because Lepen's Conservative party has given 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.680 that man a hiding he will never forget. And while 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.960 he was dissolving parliament and calling a snap election due 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:39.080 to take place next month, France was celebrating, as was Germany, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.760 as their af D party, known as the right wing 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.800 party in the country, also was elected to the European 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.280 Parliament five year. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.440 And then there was Ireland, the rowdiest bunch of the lot. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.480 And here is that newly elected member Malache speaking to 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.200 the press. One message in. 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.200 Euview, does your election. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.200 And a very clear message that. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.600 The revolution has been worn. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.000 What a win for the European Union. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.040 Check out as quick summary of this blood letting France, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:43.280 the National Rally wins. Germany, the AfD party surgers. Belgium, 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:48.480 PM's gone Maloney's brother of Italy wins. You'll recall that 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.160 she is best known as a staunch conservative. Austria, the 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:58.000 FPO becomes the largest party in the country. Spain, the 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.720 right was bidding the left by ten percent, sent in 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.400 the end they won by more than that. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.960 And Luxembourg first. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:09.200 Ever seat for the ad R, which is also known 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.760 as a Luso right wing party because that's. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.920 What they try to convince everybody else that mainstream values 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.600 are now. I just love this. I just love this. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.080 Four hundred and fifty million people go to the polls 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.840 once every five years, but we've never seen a European Union. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:28.920 Election like this. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.720 I love that you've come in read tonight to signify 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.720 the bad leading and read in my ties. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:36.919 Revolution to. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.119 Get the joke out of the way. First, when I 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.359 first heard about the AfD Party, I thought I'd never 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.840 vote for them because AfD stands for alcohol free days, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.399 and that would never appeal to me. But it is 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.120 so good to see. I want to use the term 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.760 uprising because people think, oh, you know, you're coming to 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.200 take the place direction. It was not a storm. People 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.080 exercise their democratic vote to say we're not happy with 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.960 the way that Europe and for that matter, that the 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.600 rest of the world is going, and we're going to 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.760 do something about it. This is a movement that has 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.320 been on the move for quite some time now. You've 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.000 seen it move through domestic politics in Europe, through various 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.240 different countries, and Maloney's a great example of it in 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.840 Italy and being elected as Prime Minister. You've got no 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:25.959 doubt it will happen in France as well. And it's 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.040 curious that mccron has decided to go at this point 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.320 because they only had an election in twenty twenty two. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.159 Now he hadn't. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.240 He could just hang on and use the power he's 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.480 got while he's got it. But he's realized things are 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.280 so bad that he's like, I got to get out 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.560 of here because it's going to be really bad if 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.520 I don't do something now, almost to try and arrest 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.760 the loss that may come later. But this is a 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.119 great thing for Europe. It's people sticking the two fingers up, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.440 much like they did when UK left Europe through Brexit, 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.280 and saying we don't like it, how about you have 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:00.480 a go. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.000 Yeah, I can't figure out what the hell. Curious is 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.840 not the sea word I would have used to describe 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.919 Emmanual Macron's decision. I cannot figure out what the crazy. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:14.720 By the way, well that's what I would or Humphrey 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:20.240 Applevie would say. Correct. But this seems to me insane, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.840 and it seems to me the action of someone who, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.000 if there's any rationality to it whatsoever, it would be 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.040 the action of someone who's thinking, what, it's bad now, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.800 but it's only going to get worse, so I better. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.520 But that seems to me to be pretty insane, because surely, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.600 as you say, you'd stick it out and try to 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.120 make it better. Other than that, you can only imagine 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.680 that it's the reaction of someone who is in this 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.400 sort of elitist bubble who thinks that everyone thinks it's 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.119 this terrible thing that all these far right parties have 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.960 got this surge of popularity. Therefore we must call it 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.480 election straight away, so all the normal people who think 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.040 exactly like me can come out to the ballot box 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.359 and show them that they're in the minority and that 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.000 they're dangerous, and that you know that people of France 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.879 won't tolerate their extremist ideologies. And isn't that how you 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.639 get Brexit presently? 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:12.640 Hey, you get Donald Frans. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.200 Isn't that how you get the voice vote going down? 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.359 How's your pitch in in? 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.600 You saw them just there staring down the barrel saying, 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.840 you know, we're going to the polls France, but in 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.479 that very announcement saying how bad the far right are? 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:33.320 I mean, the vast majority of your country mate just 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:39.280 voted for the Penn's Conservative Party, so lost words, dead words? 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.040 Why are you trying to now basically insult the vast 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:49.240 majority of French chees who said we don't want you anymore? 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.840 And noticeably, one of the things that every single one 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.159 of these winning far right parties had in common was 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:03.240 cutting down on im aggraation. We have not seen anything 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.159 here in Australia like Europe has been seeing for a 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.720 very long time, with illegal aliens changing the face of 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:18.040 their countries forever, and the natives are absolutely sick of it. 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.920