WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 21 November 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.920 Lately. General, welcome the late base. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:08.239 Well, good evening, thanks for joining us. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.360 I'm James Macpherson with Liz Storer and Caleb Bond coming 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.720 up tonight. Incredible footage from Victoria where three blokes set 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.639 fire to a nightclub, but not before setting fire to 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:19.160 each other. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:20.560 Will show you that a little later. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.160 Plus, when we look at the papers in Townshill, they've 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:23.919 got a new. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.320 Plan to tackle car theft. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.640 They're going to regard car theft as an addiction and 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:29.600 treat it as such. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.440 We'll see how that goes. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.720 And embarrassment for the Albanezy government as one of the 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.840 country's largest wind turbine manufacturers stops producing. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:40.800 We'll get to all of that in a moment. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.080 But this week the United Nations have been holding their 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.520 climate conference in Azerbaijan, and everything would be going. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.400 As you would expect. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.000 You've got chart climate chicken littles running around warning that 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.120 if we don't do exactly as the government. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.440 Tells us to do, we're all doomed. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.400 You've got Pacific Island leaders running around saying Australians I 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.080 have to give them money otherwise their entire countries will 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.280 disappear under the ocean. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:05.399 And it'll be our fault. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.160 And then you've got Chris Bowen doing exactly as you'd 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.640 expect Chris Bowen to do, running around throwing our money 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.720 around like it's confetti. And you've got an Australian bureaucrat 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.839 giving an acknowledgment of country, except there's no Indigenous people 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.280 to acknowledge, and she's not even in our country. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.640 Whilst we're not on Australian lands, I'd still like to 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.560 start with acknowledging the traditional owners of Australia and the 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.000 Torres Strait Islands and pay my respects to their elders, past, 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:36.280 present and emerging. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.480 So I'm going to sit down today. We've got a 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:42.520 great panel for you. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.160 In fact, there's only two panel members and myself. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.160 So first she explains that an acknowledgment of country is 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.160 not necessary, only then to do an acknowledgment of country. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.160 Thank god there were only five people in the Australian 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.280 pavilion to witness this embarrassment. But does that not prove 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.400 how brainwashed these people are? She says, don't really need 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.560 to do this since we're not in our country, but 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:08.720 I'm going to do it anyway. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.760 Well, well, if there's one bit of solace out of 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.760 all of this. It's that she didn't get to brainwash 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.280 many other people, either about four or five in that 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.160 crowd there for. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.200 The great panel of two people. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.320 You know, we paid eight hundred and seventy grand for 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.360 that pavilion at COP twenty nine, eight one hundred and 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.120 seventy grand, and there were all of five and then 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.120 six seven eight when you count the people on the stage, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.560 and when they paid for it. They said, this all 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.600 came out last week. Of course, when COP twenty nine 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.400 kicked off. They said, you know, it would be a 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.920 home away from home for Australians who had gone to 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.520 COP twenty nine, and it would be a chance to 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.320 showcase all that is great about Australian industry when it 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.720 comes to renewable energy. And those who wanted in managed 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.519 to get welcome to country that they may well have never. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.000 Even been to. But the big problem with it, of course, apart. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.760 From the fact that it's happening in Azerbaijan, is that 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.120 she's given an acknowledgment of country for the traditional owners 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.480 of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. Now, if you 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.440 talk to the some four hundred odd countries that existed 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.680 within the land that we call Australia before it was colonized. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.440 They would say, what the hell are you. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.440 Doing, because, of course, the point is to acknowledge the 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.200 particular traditional owners of the piece of land on which 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.560 you stand, of which there happen to be more than 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.880 four hundred groups. So now she's just tossed them all 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.880 into the one bag as though they're exactly the same thing, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.360 and said, oh, yeah, all Aboriginal people, they're all from 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:36.920 the same mob. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:38.000 Well they're not. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.720 So she herself has done something that you could argue 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.080 was anti indigenous, potentially racist, because she didn't acknowledge the 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.200 actual traditional owners. They're all the same now apparently. I mean, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.440 it just shows how ridiculous this whole thing is. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:53.520 Liz, I just loved the guy. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:54.800 I don't know if you saw it on the video, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.560 but the guy seeing the front row as she's doing 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.040 the acknowledgment of country, he grabs his phone and takes 0:03:59.040 --> 0:03:59.400 a photo. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.520 I'm going to remember this moment forever. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.320 He's probably filming it, just being like, this has got 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.160 to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen. But how 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.560 do you like us forking out this much money. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.640 So this fifty million was for loss and damage. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:20.359 Pennywong said, we're responding to extreme weather and slowing onset 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:25.799 climate events in the Pacific. Can you give us some examples? 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.680 What kind of bang can we expect. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.760 For this buck? That's fifty million? 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.880 But this fifty million, ladies and gentlemen, is on top 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.680 of the one hundred million that we've committed to the 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.640 Pacific Resilience Committee. What do they do? Do you just 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.000 literally make up names for committees? 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.000 And that is on top of another fifty million for. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.919 The Australia Pacific Partnership for Energy Transition. Now we'd like 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.760 to assume that their purpose is in the name. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.239 But again, how are you transitioning? 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.080 Since you're doing such a great job here at home 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.039 in Australia with your green transition, how are we transitioning 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:10.640 the Pacific? Exactly? That's two hundred million dollars right there. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.520 How much more do you need before we change the weather? 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:14.039 Like? 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.799 Can we just cut to the chase? How much more 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.159 do you need? 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.080 Of course, you and I know that this is a 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.919 bottomless pit and this has got nothing to do with 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.279 changing the weather and everything to do with the massive 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.240 Global Wealth Redistribution Project, that this whole thing is a 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:36.160 trojan horse, for it drives me up the wall. Is 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:42.720 China is China with its massive output of emissions. Are 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.400 they contributing to the Pacific nations? 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.560 No? When they go to Pacific nations, they're smarter. They 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:50.680 just buy up bits. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.000 They just give. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.479 Them facilities and other things that the Pacific islanders are like, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.120 oh yeah, we want a piece of that. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.599 Only China's really buying them up. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.440 They're far more strategic. We just throw the massive wads 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:10.039 of cash. We the taxpayer never see that ever again. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.520 We never get a receipt as to what that was 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:14.280 spent on. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.720 And here's wong. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.720 She says, the government recognizes the profound impacts of climate 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.720 change on Pacific communities, culture, livelihoods. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.480 How is how is it? Can you give us a 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.080 pie chart? 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.560 Can you give us anything showing the impact that it 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:35.400 is happening on culture over there, on livelihoods over there? 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.320 If they could show us, oh this many jobs are 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.280 being lost due to these conditions, et cetera, and so on. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.520 But they play us for complete flogs. They do not 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.479 even justify the expenditure. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.039 That the part that really stuck in my craw from 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.680 Penny Wong's quote is where she talks about being responsible 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.720 for the livelihoods of people in the Pacific Islands, throwing 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.919 and two hundred million dollars. I just like two hundred 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.839 and seventy five dollars we've forgot. I love that we've 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.599 got people in this country homeless, elderly people who can't 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.400 pay their power bills, and the government's worried about the 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.360 livelihoods of people in the Pacific Islands. Now, I'm not 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.280 saying that we shouldn't care about other people, but take 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.760 care of those at home first. And when the government 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.240 can't afford to do what they promised prior to the election, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.600 they shouldn't be splashing money around overseas. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:20.880 We will. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.760 It's be pacific about what's going on here. See, I 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.560 hate it when people say pacific instead of specific. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.480 I'm sure kill Richards if he's. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:34.520 Watching more or less. When people say new Killah. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:42.000 Starts manifesting, ladies, someone is killer like. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:47.200 It's spelt in ucl A, New clear, it's not got 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.000 him going Pacific not Pacific anyway. Having made that point 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.360 to be pacific about what he's going on here, this 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.960 is just blackmail money, right, because, as you said before, Liz, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.840 China goes in and gave is in debt diplomacy Belton 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.480 Road where they give these Pacific nations loads and loads 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.080 of money and say, oh, it's all yours. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:07.880 Don't worry about it. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.800 And we know at some point they'll come in and 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.000 cash the check and say, actually, thank you very much, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.840 we're going to get our money back. Now, Oh you 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.280 can't pay it, well, maybe there's something else you can 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.480 do for us. So we're just splashing around the cash 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.679 in the hopes that will somehow combat China. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:23.880 We ain't going to combat it. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.720 And to say because they're developing exactly, and I think 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.000 they've got one of the largest militaries in the world. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.440 They've got a space station, but they're still developing. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.200 And they went to COP twenty nine asking for a 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.000 billion dollars from US and other countries to be given 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.320 to countries like China. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.719 I mean seriously, speaking of. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.760 Spending all this money and what happens when you don't 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.880 spend it properly. North Sydney Council, now you probably know 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.400 about the North Sydney Pool. If you've never been there, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.000 you would definitely have seen a photograph of it. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.319 It's right under the Sydney Harbor Bridge. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.640 It is probably the most famous pool in the country 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.800 and a few years ago North Sydney Council decided, being 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.559 the great landmark that it is, that it. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.760 Deserved an upgrade. Now, when they began this upgrade. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.480 It was going to be sixty four million dollars. That 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.400 then blew out to ninety one point five million dollars 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:16.880 and now they say it's going. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.440 To be one hundred and twenty two. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:24.080 Point two million dollars to complete an upgrade of a 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.760 dam swimming pool. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.360 This has been going on since twenty twenty two. Mind 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:29.680 you were coming up to two. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.640 Years of this. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.080 In the midst of all of that, they had to 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.920 pull down the new roof frame that they put up 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:40.200 because they discovered there were quote unquote design problems with it. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.480 When you've actually started building the thing and realized there's 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.320 something wrong, then there is definitely something wrong. But of 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.480 course the council now says, heck, we don't actually have 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.200 the money to deal with the fact that this project 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.080 has doubled in budget, So where are they going to 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:55.800 get the money from. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:56.880 They're going to get it from. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:57.839 The poor schmacks. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.360 The rate payers of North City Knee, aren't they. The 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:06.280 suggestion is that rates could almost double in some cases. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.240 I mean they're talking about here property rates increasing by 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.080 sixty five to one hundred and eleven percent. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.400 Over the next three years. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.000 They're also going to consider selling some of their facilities 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.439 to fund these works. The residents, as you can imagine, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.360 have hit the roof about this. The minimum rates in 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.160 North Sydney Council. Because the cost of building a pool 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.360 has gone up to one hundred and twenty two million dollars, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.319 the basic rates could go from seven hundred and fifteen 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:33.840 bucks to thirteen. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:34.160 Hundred a year. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.600 The average rates at the moment are one thousand and 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.160 forty that had go to one thousand, six hundred and 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.120 if you're a business, you go from six thousand, seven 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.840 hundred and twenty four bucks to eleven thousand, three hundred 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.840 and seven all because they couldn't build a pool for 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.400 less than one hundred and twenty million dollars. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.800 And actually, sorry I'm wrong, I'm saying build the pool. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.640 The pool already exists. They just starts creating it. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.840 Like what sort of pool a you're going to get 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:01.520 for one hundred and twenty two million dollars. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.880 I expect the thing to be gold plated. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.320 If that's what they're going to handle, and. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.680 They're using bottled water, I think to fill it. But 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.480 I mean their answer is to raise rates that the 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.320 answer is never that they should resign. I mean, if 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.480 you did something like this in the corporate sector, you 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.920 would be on the gutter so fast. But somehow, if 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.280 you work in government, you stay in your position. And 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.880 the bureaucrats who probably performed even worse than the counselors 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.880 who signed off on this. The chief financial officer of 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.160 the council said that part of the problem, I can't 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.480 believe this was they proceeded with the work prior to 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.040 the designs being completed, and so they put a roof 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.319 on this pool and then realized there were major flaws 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.120 with the design. The problem was they started it without 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.520 the designs having been finished in the first place, the 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.280 financial officer said, and I quote, significant risks were taken 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.440 and indeed were realized. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.319 No show, and where. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.200 Were you, chief financial officer? 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.840 Where were you when they decided to gamble with millions 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.120 and millions of rate payers dollars? I mean, isn't that 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.240 your job to go. Hang on a minute, this could 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.280 easily blow out. Your plans aren't even finished, and yet 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.760 you're turning the sod. Can we just hit the pause 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.880 button here? Don't you love paying for all three tiers 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.800 of government inefficiency. It's not just local government, it's not 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.000 just state government, it's not just federal government. It's all 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.880 three of them, consistently saying, oh, the health service is 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.439 in the toilet. We need more nurses. We can't afford 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.240 to pay them more. The police are striking. This is terrible. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.200 The council's saying, we're going to have to put your 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.200 rates up because we've staffed up. It's always their fault. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.200 We give them the money, we pay our taxes. We 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.160 have no choice in the matter. It is their responsibility 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.480 to spend it wisely. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.440 Is it that hard? Is it that hard? 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.520 I've been a city councilor You've got to pore over 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.120 the budget every single year, it's the most important part 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:07.439 of the. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.439 Year, and then stay within your means. How hard is it? 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:12.240 Remember? 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.000 Oh, maybe a month ago we were laughing about the 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.080 fact that the Adelaide Hills Council had come up with 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.440 a deficit of four million dollars. You know, they got 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.160 to the end of the year when oh heck, we 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.440 spent four million dollars then we actually had in the bank. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:25.240 How did that happen? 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.600 And we thought that was ridiculous they were doing about 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.079 a project that doubles from you know, sixty odd million 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.120 to one hundred and twenty odd million. The state government 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.880 needs to intervene here seriously, like rate payers should not 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.640 have to pay through the nose for the incompetence of 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.280 counselors and staff. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.360 It's not their fault. This project has ballooned out. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.439 So I even use the jolly people. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.040 No exactly, it was probably a lot of out of 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.240 towers who come in and use it. I mean they 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.800 should that the state government has to go in there 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.280 and either bankrupt them, tell them you insolvent, you're trading 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.960 insolvent and so you've got to go or you say, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.280 the entire council and seen in an administrator. Because if 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.880 that is how you are running a form of government 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.200 in this country, you do not deserve to keep your job. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.400 We should not have to pay for the incompetence of 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.520 idiots like this. It is plain and simple. If the 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.880 state government doesn't intervene in this situation. They're asleep at 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.000 the wheel. That's what the local government minister is doing. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.760 He should just be replaced with the commissioner, Like, really, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.160 the council is not. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:26.120 Fit for purpose. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.640 You guys didn't do your job to the tune of 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.640 this many million dollars to the States now where we 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.200 know that Trump's picks for his top roles have been 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.800 causing eye rolls and a lot of angst, but perhaps 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.920 none are more bizarre than this one education secretary. He's 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:50.160 chosen Linda McMahon, who has no education background whatsoever, and 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.800 perhaps she won't need it because, as we know, Trump 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.160 has famously promised he's going to get rid of the 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.000 education department at a federal level and leave it back 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.320 to the states. What a great idea, if only we 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.480 did the same thing here. Why do we need a 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.320 federal educational department as well as each state having an 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.600 educational department? 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:10.440 Riddle me that. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.040 Well, Trump's decided he's sick of this nonsense and he's 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:18.520 dedicated to cutting the fat in Washington. So he's chosen 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.440 this woman, Linda McMahon, who hails from, of all places, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:29.200 the world wrestling entertainment where she has been the CEO 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.800 for some years. If you don't know Linda, here's an 0:15:32.880 --> 0:16:02.720 introo believe and he's also chosen to Mehmet Oz. He 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.640 was a household name in the US. He's somewhat of 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.960 a celebrity. He features on TV every other week in 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.359 American Households. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:12.800 He is in fact a. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:17.120 Heart surgeon, but then turned to TV celebrity giving out 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.440 health advice to all in sundry on a weekly basis. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.720 Trump said that Oz will quote work closely with Robert F. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.280 Kennedy Jr. To take on the illness. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.320 Industrial complex and all the horrible chronic diseases left in 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:33.240 its way. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.080 Kahati amen from me. If you know you know, ladies 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:37.640 and gentlemen. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.520 This guy has come under a lot of scrutiny, with 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:45.360 some saying that, oh, well, he's encouraged pseudo science. Well, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.960 I don't know exactly everything he's ever encouraged throughout his long, 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.200 lengthy and much meddled career, but I do know that 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:57.120 he recommended hydroxychloroquin during the pandemic, and in my book, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.640 that gets you my vote, not that I can vote, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.120 but this again, Trump is keeping in line with this 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.120 I don't give a stuff as to the Washington elites 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.640 opinion of my pick. I am going after everyone who 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.320 has a been loyal to me. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.640 Mainly, there's a few people that he's forgiven. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.520 He is magnanimous when he wants to be, But for 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.639 the most part, he's gone after those who are loyal 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.520 to him and those he knows who will cut the fat. 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.560 So what Mamet will be in charge of is the 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:34.840 centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. The US government spent 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:39.840 one point four trillion on Medicare and Medicaid in the 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.399 last year alone, in twenty twenty three, that is what 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:49.400 those departments spent. And Trump's like, I'm getting doctor Osmamet 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.560 to just take a chainsaw to this thing. It's going 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.280 to be so interesting what these guys come up with. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.280 I'm not surprised Trump is unconcerned by the way the 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.960 media tique his nominees, because you remember how the media 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.119 critiqued Joe Biden's nominees. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.880 I mean they formed over them. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.200 Rachel Levine was Assistant Health Secretary because she was trans 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.240 Pete Boudages was Transport Secretary because he was openly gay. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.560 Kareeine Jean Pierre was the spokesperson at the White House, 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.960 historic figure she claimed herself to be because she was black, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:23.120 and the lesbian. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.399 You had Sam Brinton, remember Sam Brinton, the drag queen 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.160 was in charge of hopefully. 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.000 Waste stealing other pe stealing luggage at the airport. You 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.399 had deb Haylend, who was in cabinet because she was 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.320 a Native American and at the time, now now I remember, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.520 the media are critiquing all of these people, right, well, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.920 you can't have this person as the education secretary because 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:46.200 she once was involved in world wrestling entertainment. Well, NPR 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.240 they critiqued the Biden nominees on the basis of diversity, 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.439 because Biden promised, I'm going to have the most diverse 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.199 cabinet America's ever seen. And so the NPR ran an 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.720 article headlined, here's how his nominees stack up as a 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.760 diversity cabinet, and they gave him a glowing report based 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.760 on melanan and sexual preferences. So that's how they critique 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.560 Biden's nominees. I think Trump is well within his rights 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.879 to say I don't care what you say about my nominees. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.760 After the way you critique Biden's I'm not listening. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.040 Well, well, they could do a score on Trump's on 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.600 the basis of diversity as well, but instead this time 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.720 it would be on basis of diversity and sorry, thought 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.400 and experience that kind of diversity, not when we're talking 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.560 about race, etc. I mean, it's hard to think of 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.920 a cabinet that has been more critiqued than this one 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.480 from Donald Trump. I don't remember it being this heavy 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.320 the first time round in twenty sixteen when he was elected. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.919 But of course it's because he has just made it 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.000 very clear this time that he's going to go in 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.320 and dismantle government waste and bureaucracy. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.160 And that's what they're so worried. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.360 About, that outsiders are being brought to the inside. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:00.000 To run the inside. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.960 I'd like they've run the outside, because of course, we've 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.200 always said for ages, you know, heck, we've got to 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.240 run household budgets and we've got to run business budgets. 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.960 Why the hell can't the government do the same. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.679 And so you have a businessman in Donald Trump who goes, well, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.200 I'm going to go and find a bunch of people 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.880