WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 3 February 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.040 Lately, General Man, Welcome to the Late Plain. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:08.360 Well, good evening and thanks for joining us. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.280 I'm James Macpherson with Liz Staorer and Caleb Bond coming 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.600 up tonight. We were going to show you all the 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.919 fashion from the Grammys Awards. However, the big story was 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.319 the lack of fashion, in fact, the lack of any 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:20.160 clothes at all. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.840 Will show you some of that a little later on. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.480 Plus, when we get to the papers, the Environmental Defender's 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.480 Office looks set to be stripped of their charity status, 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.200 and business leaders urging the federal government to ditch their 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.080 renewables goals in order to save small business. We'll get 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:38.519 to all of that, as I said, when we look 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.600 at what's making news tomorrow. But first you might imagine 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.160 the Australian Defense Force exists, you know, to fight wars. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.600 As Rush Limbaugh once said, the military exists to kill 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.360 people and to break things. But those at the top 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.600 of the Australian Defense Force as well, they have different ideas. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.120 They seem to regard our military as a sort of 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.920 camouflage Petrie dish in which to indulge their woke fantasies. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.720 They've currently advertised a one hundred and thirty thousand dollars 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.840 position for a quote gender Diversity and Inclusion officer. Now, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.960 the task of this person in our military is to 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:21.679 make science and technology research within the ADF more gender diverse. Now, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.720 back in November twenty twenty two, there was research done 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.240 to show that if Australia went to war today, we 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.080 would run out of ammunition within one week, and the 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.120 ADF's response to that seems to be, well, we need 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.199 more women. There was a report last year that said 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.920 of our six submarines, only one of them is actually operational. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.440 So the ADF reply with, let's get some non binary 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.959 sailors as well. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.640 That's craziness. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.640 As was pointed out by Shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hasty, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.880 he said, the no fail mission of the Defense Force 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.880 is to fight and win Australia's wars. Everything must support 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.480 this vital mission. Our military, he said, is not a 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:08.360 test tube for social engineers or the plaything of political activists, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.960 and he's absolutely right. For a start, we live in 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.919 perilous times. Everybody agrees this is one of the most 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.680 dangerous environments we've ever faced in terms of geopolitics, and 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.079 our Defense Force is engaging in woke nonsense like this. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.519 On top of that, everyone knows the budget is tight 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.840 at present, Australia spends less than two percent of GDP 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.760 on defense. That's not enough in the best of times, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.240 let alone when, as I said, when times are perilous. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.240 So to be wasting the little money we have for 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:44.639 defense on a gender diversity officer seems to be quite reckless. Third, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.280 we all know that there's massive problems recruiting soldiers to 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.160 the ADF and maybe one of the reasons for that 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.960 is what young men want to go and fight for 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.400 a country that seems more concerned with recruiting women and 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.560 non binary officers than even having enough ammunition to actually 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.440 fight a war. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.440 And finally, it's a bit of a worry. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.160 When the people at the top of our military seem 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.600 to be, if not on board with this, at least 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.960 shrugging their shoulders at it and allowing. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:12.600 It to go ahead. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.240 And if you think that there's not a problem, consider 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.600 last July, the Australian Defense Force put out a press 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:23.639 release boasting and I quote, doubling down on diversity. While 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.119 America is running from diversity, the ADFRE doubling down caleber Liza. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.080 They actually listed six diversity areas that they are focused on. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.240 This is July last year. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:34.800 I'll name them for you, though you'll be able to 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:41.880 guess what they are. Women, first Nations, LBGTQIA plus linguistically diverse. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.040 I thought was interesting because you can't have too many 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.880 soldiers for whom English is a second language. Ready aim 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:54.000 and the other two groups were disabled people and autistic people, whom, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.720 of course they described as neuro guyverse. This is the 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.440 focus of our top military grass at a time when 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.400 everyone says war could be imminent in our region. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.920 I thought you were going for linguistically diverse there when 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.440 you started stuttering between giving us the last two options there. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.760 I actually want a diverse military. I'm going to say, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.640 I want a diverse military. I want a diversity of weapons. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.600 I want a diversity of tanks. I want a diversity 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.400 of killers. That's what I want. I want them to 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.159 be able to do the job. I don't care whether 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.919 they're fat, shorts or whatever. I just want them to 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.880 actually be really good at the job. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.400 And that's the silliest thing here. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.919 Right We're talking about a gender diversity officer who is 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.279 trying to make the research team in science and technology, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:40.919 more gender diverse. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:42.359 What does it matter. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.760 I mean, we're not even talking about soldiers if we're 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.479 talking about people who are doing research in this the military, right. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.680 I want the best minds in the country working in 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.120 that room. Again, I don't care if they're gay, or 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.839 they're straight, or they're black, or they're brown, or their brindle. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.120 I want the. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.840 Best people in the country in that room working on 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.080 technology and science that will. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.240 Defend my country. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.159 I'll pay obscene amounts of money to get the best 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.200 people from anywhere. It shouldn't even enter the discussion. And 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.280 what you have is while the US in particular, which 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.040 is leading a revolt against all of this stuff across 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.680 the world and particularly through the corporate world, and most 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.440 of the corporate world exists in America and that will 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.520 eventually have flow on a fix to the rest of 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.159 the world. But while America is having a revolt against 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.159 this stuff, you have the government and its arms in 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.000 Australia doubling down and going even harder. And you have 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.560 to wonder whether they're going even harder. Almost as a 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.159 little fu to Trump to say, oh, look at us, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.120 where different. But I'm afraid to tell you people are 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.800 sick of it. They're sick of it everywhere. They're sick 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.080 of it in the US, the sick of it in 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.360 the UK, they're sick of it in Australia. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:55.760 And as Peter Lee. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.560 Said last week in The Australian, the ex Army Chief 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.400 and you alluded to it, the reason people don't sign 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.839 up to the military anymore is because there's no national 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.840 pride and they don't feel like this country is worth defending. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:08.920 And then they look at this and they go, oh, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.840 maybe I will go and join the military. And then 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.679 they go, oh, damn, I'm not a woman. I can't 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:14.080 make it. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.880 I mean, why would you want to sign up? 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.719 But the numbers don't actually hold this up. Do you 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.400 know how many applicants we had to the ADF last year? 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:28.160 Go on, sixty four thousand. Sixty four thousand people applied 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.120 to join the ADF. Now, at the beginning of twenty 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.039 twenty four, we were four thousand, three hundred short of 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:39.440 the authorized military strength. We are four thousand, three hundred 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:44.040 short of the permanent numbers that the ADF is allowed 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.440 to have. It's now twenty twenty five. Guess how many 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:54.000 we are short? Four thousand, three hundred the exact same number. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.720 How is this possible when you had sixty four thousand applicants. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.520 I'll tell you why. The average time that it takes 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:10.520 them to process these applications three hundred days. Who were 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.400 among us would apply for a job and wait three 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.520 hundred days to hear back. These people are just going 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.880 off and finding other jobs. How is it possible that 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.360 not even ten percent of those sixty four thousand applicants 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.000 were up to scratch, Especially at a time when you've 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.600 got these six diversity points. You want more women. You're 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.080 lowering your standards. You're like, hey, if you have a disability, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.320 we will make exceptions. Prior to this, that was unheard of. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.720 People simply weren't allowed into the forces unless you were 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:49.080 sound of mind and very sound of body. There's you know, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.480 there's quite ruling links that you have to go to 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.680 to prove yes, I'm fit enough. I don't know if 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.440 any of us would even make it in there. I'd 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:56.920 love to know. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:07:59.960 Tell and I would probably be general. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.960 I'm speaking for all of us, Mac, and you know 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.880 I am. But do you want to recruit people or not? 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.920 Because you know those numbers now? And I think it's 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:16.400 quite obvious that the answer is no. How is that 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.679 even possible, especially at a time when, as Mack said, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.120 perilous times you're always bashing about, oh, we need more people, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.800 We're not getting enough people. We're just not recruiting enough. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.840 People are leaving, there's turnover, we're not even at replacement rates. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:38.160 You had sixty four thousand applicants. Where the hell are they? 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.080 And how have you not done something about this cumbersome, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:48.840 clearly ineffective procedure whereby you are onloading people. Why haven't 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.679 you done something about that? The question I'm asking is 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.800 very simple, do you want to recruit or not? And 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:01.360 if you look at the raw data, the answer is no. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.880 This is why we need a doze to go and 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.000 clean this crap up. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.360 But maybe the problem. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.280 Is that all the people who are applying as straight 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.679 white men, and they're turning them away because. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.600 They're not In terms of that, you know, you talk 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:18.120 about the lengthy application process, right, but what if what 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.320 if people just put their pronouns on their resume? 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:21.240 It would speed up the. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.640 Process because then they could sift through the ones that 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.600 they wanted. Your comic Caleb that maybe it's just an 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.679 f you to the Trump administration. The great irony of that, 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.920 of course, is that if war does break out in 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.640 the Pacific, the first phone call the Australian government will 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.240 make will be to Donald Trump to say, hey, get 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:39.760 your stuff down here, we need help. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.080 So good luck with that if that's the case. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.760 I'm going to say that you said before, Liz, you 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.240 know who among us would be able to make it. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:47.880 I'd put you at the top. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.040 I'd put you at the top because you could stair 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.679 someone down with a gun and kill them, no questions asked. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:55.920 You would be fiering. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.600 You would be fier But do you. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.200 Think Liz would take orders from anybody? That's a fact 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.640 that you'd be caught mustered within five minutes. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:04.520 It's so true. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.720 As if they were rolling out this kind of crap. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.559 I've been kicked out on day one, I'd be like, you. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.240 Shut up exactly. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.000 Well, speaking of the US, who will come to our 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.440 help if there is a war that breaks out, they're 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.720 looking at the way they help people around the world 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.480 through USA. Now that's their foreign aid arm and they 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:31.000 currently spend forty million dollars, sorry, forty billion dollars a 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.800 year providing foreign aid through US Aid but Trump has 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.480 put a nine month suspension on all aid while they 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.920 review what's actually happening, because they found out. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.079 Through Doge looking at all that's going on. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.720 They're spending money on condoms for Gaza, there's climate justice 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.240 marketing services for people in Gaboon. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.000 There's clean energy programs for women in Fiji. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.839 All of this under foreign aid, which clearly is a 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.640 waste of taxpayer money. Now, when Musk and his Doze 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.320 Committee went in to look at how money was being 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:13.679 spent by USAID, security tried to keep them out. So 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.720 Trump has now put on leave up to one hundred 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.239 us AID staff, some of whose emails have been revoked 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.240 as they look at what's going on here now. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:26.319 Stephen Miller, who's the. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.760 White House Deputy chief of Staff, pointed out on CNN 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.199 one of the big problems with the way foreign aid 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.760 is being dispensed by America is that those responsible for 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.080 it are all lefties. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.120 Have listened to what he said. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:44.160 There's two million employees in the federal government. Overwhelmingly the 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.600 career of federal service in this country is far left 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.640 left wing. The American people, I don't know that to 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.240 be a fan. Well, I'll give me you a great example. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.600 We looked at USAID as an example. That's ninety eight 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:01.120 percent of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris, another 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:02.920 left wing candidate, just as an example. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.600 Okay, but we're just saying an entire workforce is having 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:05.880 a point. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:06.800 Wait wait, who WHOA? 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.160 Did you just say that saying someone voted for Kamala 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.920 Harris is demonizing them? No, so of course your suggestion 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.080 is that there's a by so you use the word demonizing. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.360 You just said that I'm demonizing somebody by saying they 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.520 voted for Kamala Harris. Let's get back on I just 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.880 I am on track. Let me stay on track. What 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.040 I'm saying to you is this, there are two million 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.240 employees in the federal government. Right, they're overwhelmingly leftist turn to. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.560 The reactions has been extraordinarily is from USA. They don't 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.480 want anyone scrutinizing the money. But when you've got forty 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.600 billion dollars annually, if you don't have someone looking over 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.920 that regularly, it's ripe for corruption and graft. On top 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.199 of that, if you really believe foreign aid is important, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.880 as I think all of us would, then it's incredibly important. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.200 To scrutinize it to make sure that money is being used. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.240 Well, well, I. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.360 Think the whole idea is that it is deliberately used badly, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.160 like us AI d is that guy referred to it 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.199 because he's like, this is not aid and the Trump 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.960 administration knows it. It's been used as a front for 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.959 the CIA for many, many years, worst cap secret. Look 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.480 it up. Don't take my word for it. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:12.600 And one of the. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.440 Best examples of this is the one hundred and seventy 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.760 seven billion that's been sent to Ukraine, and Zelensky sat 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.720 there saying, well, I've only received seventy seven billion. I've 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.520 only received seventy seven billion. They keep saying one seventy 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.480 seven billion, where's the other one hundred and what most 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.920 people don't know, again, don't take my word for it, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.600 look it up, is that Ukraine is a very long 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:40.360 history of selling weapons on the black market. Between ninety 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.360 two and ninety eight, they trafficked, for one of a 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.800 better word, sold off that was stolen or lost in 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.000 terms of arms in the UK, thirty two billion American 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.679 dollars worth of it. And it's now again look it up. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.480 It's being said by those in the know that over 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.360 half of the arms being sent to Ukraine is being 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.800 sold by the Ukrainian military on the black market because 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.120 they're pocketing the money. The US doesn't send them money. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 The US sends them arms, and they're like, well, we 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.559 want money and we want to be able to spend 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.120 it however we like. And this is what USA does. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:26.760 It just dolls out ginormous, like mind blowing amounts of 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.080 money in foreign countries in which they want to create 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:36.320 a stronghold. They'll fund resurgencies against governments they don't like 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.320 because that government is acting against US interests. They use 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.280 this not as aid, and heck, we do the same 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.880 thing with our aid. We all know it's not very ad. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.520 We're trying to buy the favor of certain countries or 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.720 in the case of establishing American hegemony in different regions, 0:14:55.320 --> 0:15:00.440 buying up these NGOs. So these NGOs go, Okay, all 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.640 this money available to us through USAID, We're going to 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.920 start up an NGO, get the money from the government, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.120 spend it as they will, and then guess who's some 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:17.320 of the biggest donors to the Democratic Party these NGOs. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.840 So it's also been this brilliant money laundering type of 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:26.040 exercise for the Democratic Party within the States for a 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.880 very long time. So there's another reason why Trump is 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.160 just like, I am gotting this thing. Say goodbye to 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.280 your gravy train, and we are having another look at 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.120 what this agency is actually doing. The fact that their budget, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.760 USAID's budget is bigger than the State Department and the 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:50.680 CIA's combined. And yet this is an independent agency. An 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:56.200 independent agency, are you kidding me? Funded billions and billions 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.920 of dollars by the US taxpayer that has no idea 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.360 how this money is being spent, not for real. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:03.320 And that's the. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.680 Most bizarre thing about it is that you have an 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.240 outfit that is charged with distributing foreign aid, but it 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.200 is an independent agency, so it operates as an independent 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.600 arm of the government, which is like, for instance, in 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.200 Australia the Communications and Media Authority, which has a certain 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.240 level of separation from government because it regulates the communications 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.120 and media market and you don't want the government itself 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:27.840 to interfere in it. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.160 You can understand that. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.200 But when we're talking about foreign aid, which is surely 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.680 a decision of a government to make about your money goes, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.280 that is a separate, independent entity that is allowed to 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.800 spend the money as it wishes without the interference of 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.080 the government and the president. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:48.800 That's literally insane. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.160 I mean, the decisions that are made about where foreign 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.040 aid goes in Australia are made by a minister and 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.520 their department. They're not made by a separate organization that 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.200 independently gets to spend billions and billions of dogs. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:01.240 However it wants. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.720 The Prime Minister can stand up and say this is 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.520 how much foreign aid we've got. It's put down in 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.120 the budget and this is where it's going to be spent, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.840 bing bang boon. In the US, they can't do that 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.040 because it's literally taken away. And that's what Trump is 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.520 trying to do, is wrestle that control of this money. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.080 He could spend as much, he could spend more, he 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.320 could spend less, but that surely should be the prerogative 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.320 of the present to decide how that money is spent. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.320 At the moment, he can't do that. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.960 When the people he has sent to work out and 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.320 look at the books go down to the office, they 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.960 try to block them from coming in the front door 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:36.840 because they know what they're going to find. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.879 Marco Rubio has said they've got three objectives now with 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.720 going through the books with a fine tooth comb, rooting 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.399 out waste, blocking woke projects, I would suggest there's a 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.680 good number of those, and stopping all projects that are 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.000 counter to US interests. Have got quite a bit of 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:57.000 criticism because you've said the purpose of usaid is to 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.160 make America safer, America stronger, and America more prosperous. So 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.199 you would have thought maybe the first thing was to 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.040 help the poor in the down and outs. But they're saying, no, no, no, 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.280 even our foreign aid has to be to America's advantage. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.399 I think that's the right of every sovereign country, So 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.800 get control of it and make sure it's for your interest. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.879 Indeed, in Mariny, Americans at the moment are just like, 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.280 how do we call a foreign aid? Like, we have 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.800 enough problems right now, can we just cool it? And 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.080 that's exactly what Trump has done with this nine month period, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.919 just being like, while we go over the books, nothing, 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.800 no one's getting a scent. We are absolutely just going 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.800 through everything making sure this is up to scratch and 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.800 good on him. Who wouldn't be if you're an American taxpayer, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.120 you'd just be like, well, thank god. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.560 The charity begins at home. As indeed, speaking of charity 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.760 beginning at home, Remember when Donald Trump, after his inauguration, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.840 went to a national prayer service at an Episcopalian church 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.520 and the bishop marrying bud gave him this treatment. 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:03.160 The people who our crops and clean our office buildings, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.320 who labor and poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who washed 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.879 the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:14.000 night shifts and hospitals. They they may not be citizens 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.879 or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.919 immigrants are not criminals. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:23.840 Yes, remember that. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.240 And the faces of Trump and Milani and JD. Vans 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.359 as they listen to all this go on, and she 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.040 goes on about how transgender people are fearing for their 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.600 lives now in Trump's America was all quite odd, and 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.199 you'll remember that Trump responded afterwards. He said, the so 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.960 called bishop who spoke at the National Prayer service on 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.520 Tuesday morning was a radical left, hardline Trump hater. She 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.840 brought her church into the world of politics in a 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.280 very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone and not 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.359 compelling or smart. She failed to mention the large number 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.879 of illegal immigrants that came into our country and killed 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.000 people when he were deposited from jails and mental institutions. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.200 It is a giant crime wave that is taking place 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.760 in the USA. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.280 was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.040 very good at her job. She and her church owe 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.720 the public and apology. Well, they certainly owe the public 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.600 and apology, but I think they also owe the public 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.960 affair deal of thanks because we now know why she 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.400 went so hard on Donald Trump in that sermon. It's 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.000 because her church made fifty three million dollars out of 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:35.080 the Biden administration to resettle migrants in America under programs 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.720 that Trump has now paused. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:39.040 So this wasn't her. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.960 Genuinely standing there saying I'm so worried about the state 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.120 of the world, and I'm saying this because I'm a Christian. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.840 I'm saying this because it lines the pockets of my church. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.480 And of course, at no point did she mention the 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.560 fact that they got this fifty three million dollars to 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:02.720 resettle three thousand, six hundred refugees in America last year. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:03.840 Sorry that was twenty twenty three. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.440 Last year, they had six four hundred people that they 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.119 resettled in America, pocketing all this money through another arm 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.760 they called the Episcopal Migration Ministry. Isn't it, Candravenien, isn't 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.680 it that the man walks in who's decided to cut 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:19.960 off the flow of money, Because you're just making shed 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:21.840 loads by getting a bunch of people to come over 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.920 to America. And that's a lot of money. Fifty three 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.439 million dollars for a few thousand people. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.040 That's not a bad racket. 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.920 He turns the tap off and all of a sudden, Oh, 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.400 she's so worried about these migrants and these transgender people 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.080 who are fearing for their lives. 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:38.640 No, she was worried about the bottom line. 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:40.639 I don't know if you should be too critical calib 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.320 I mean, Jesus said you can't serve God and money. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.560 But the bishop is going to give it a shot anyway. 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.680 So the fact is they get up this fifty three 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:49.320 million dollars. 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:53.080 This is not for providing anything for these refugees. This 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.479 is simply connecting refugees with service providers. Oh my god, 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:01.040 it's a pretty great job. And then American government they 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.719 pay for the airfares for these refugees to arrive in 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:05.560 the US. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.600 If these refugees end up paying back the government the. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.640 Cost of the airfares, the Episcopalian Church gets twenty five 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.600 percent of the airfares as a bonus for helping these. 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:16.080 People settle well. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.320 So clearly this bishop had a massive conflict of interest 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.359 which was not shared from the pulpit. If the church 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.080 want to help the poor, then the church should help 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:27.840 the poor foot the bill themselves. But you can't be 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.160 claiming to be the church helping the poor when you're 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.399 expecting the taxpayer to put the hand in their pocket 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.680 and do it. Anyway, this bishop has clearly ruined the 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:38.920 Episcopalian Church, and now she's trying to ruin the country. 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.199 But when you consider they got fifty three million to 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:44.840 settle three thousand, six hundred and like you say, not 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.840 actually settle them, just connect them with the Organization the 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:51.040 Middle we will settle them. And the article says, we 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:53.800 don't know the figure for last year. That is twenty 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.439 twenty three's figure. We don't know the twenty twenty four figure, 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:01.320 but they settled almost double the people last year. So 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.439 you can imagine we're probably talking in the vicinity of 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:09.119 well over one hundred million dollars last year. So she 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:11.440 is seeing a lot of shiggy walk out the door, 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.480 and she's very unhappy about it. But what she thought 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:18.359 she was going to achieve vibrating a brand new president 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:23.560 which got overwhelmingly the popular vote. This guy is missed her. 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:27.359 Everyone wanted him. Okay, there's no denying that. And she 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:31.639 thought instead of uniting Americans, who a lot of them 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.880 are Bible believers and would have tuned in and been like, yes, 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:39.080 this is the National Prayer Service, instead of uniting Americans 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:42.480 and getting a powerful message that everyone could get behind, 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:48.080 she basically picked out the entire Trump campaign's main bastions 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.760 of what they campaigned on and begged him not to 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:55.119 do it, all the LGBTIQ stuff as well as the 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:59.000 refugee stuff. I mean, talk about screaming into a pillow. 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:02.000 Who would have thought that bullying Donald Trump is not 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:05.160 the big way to get the man to change his mind. 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:08.160 I'm not sure she has much political smarts this last. 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:10.639 Yeah, and she may be putting people off church in 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:12.480 the US, but I'll tell you, people are turning to 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.359 God in Victoria. At least year twelve students are because 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:18.440 they'll need a miracle if their exams are to go. 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:19.439 Well, if you look. 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.240 At the track record of the Victorian Education Department, that's 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:24.880 if they don't get leaked. Well that's where I'm going 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:26.920 with this, So I mean it goes from bad to worse. 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:30.520 You remember that last year year twelve students were trying 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.240 to do their exams in Victoria, but the Victorian Curriculum 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:36.119 and Assessment Authority and a few problems with the exams. 0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:40.040 That is that about half of them were leaked prior 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:43.040 to students sitting the exams, and then thousands of students, 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:46.159 having prepared, couldn't actually do the exams, and then they 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:48.320 had to work out how are they going to assess 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:51.200 them not having been able to actually sit the exams. 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:53.800 So the whole thing was an absolute mess. Well, it's 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.800 twenty twenty five, a brand new year. Hopefully the Education 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:00.159 Department in Victoria are going to do better, but it 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.639 seems not so. The Education Department decided to put together 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:04.480 a website. 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:05.560 How hard could that be. 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.399 It's a pretty simple website, just you know, so people 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:13.800 can access basic data like enrollment details, your exam timetables, 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:16.320 and you know, maybe you could get access to your 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.800 own academic record. Now, the first point of interest with 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.640 this website that is going to provide these pretty basic 0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:25.639 points of data is the Victorian government was going to 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:29.239 spend two point four million dollars on a website. This 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:32.400 website isn't designing rockets. It's just so you can access 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.920 your exam timetable and get hold of your academic records. 0:25:35.960 --> 0:25:38.600 Two point four million dollars. But you know what Victoria 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:40.639 is like. This thing is not going to come in 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.120 on time or on budget. It's not being produced yet 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:48.080 and it's already twenty five percent over budget. A report 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:51.520 in The Herald's Sun revealed that the Student Portal Project, 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.920 which will give senior students access to enrollment details, exam 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:58.880 timetables and academic records through a new digital channel, had 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:01.360 its delivery cost cut. I'm from two point four one 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:05.560 million to three point zero three million, and the projects 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:09.960 revised delivery date also appears to not have been met. 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:13.240 What I don't understand about this, Caleb is Ben Carroll 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:17.120 is the Education minister in Victoria. He's also the Deputy Premier. 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:20.040 He put his hand up for leadership of Victoria when 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:23.760 Dan Andrews resigned I mean, you think Jacinta Allen is bad. 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:27.040 Thank god this guy didn't become the premier because his 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:30.959 department screwed up exams for thousands of kids. Now they 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:34.560 can't even get a website in on time or on budget. 0:26:34.560 --> 0:26:37.399 Well, clearly we need a Minister for Websites to start 0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:40.359 looking after this stuff. I mean, for goodness sake, I 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:43.520 was staggered when I read that number. Even two point 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:47.040 four one million dollars turn out to build a website 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:50.359 that's got some timetables and exam results on it, and 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:53.320 then it becomes three million. I mean, I'm pretty sure 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:57.000 one of my best mates at school, who's quite appted 0:26:57.040 --> 0:26:59.280 in has ability in all of these areas, could have. 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:01.720 Done it for a fraction of that. I reckon he 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:03.399 could have done it for a few grand to be 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:04.240 perfectly honest. 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:07.080 Another one of these government contracts that I wish I 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:09.120 could get my hands on, because I'll take the three 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:11.520 million dollars and then I'll just outsource it to some 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:13.920 bloke in Manila who I'm sure can do it for 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:17.560 a fraction of that. But my favorite part of a well. 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:19.320 The sound of it, that's what these guys have done. 0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:21.800 Probably my favorite part of all of this is that 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:25.000 they had already decided that the delivery date was going 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:29.000 to be March this year, twenty twenty five, and then 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:32.359 someone in their wisdom decided that they should change that 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:36.720 to August last year, twenty twenty four. I'm assuming they'd 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:39.440 only just been hired, because anyone who's been in government 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:42.920 for any period of time knows that you don't bring. 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:46.880 The delivery date backwards to make it sooner. You always 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.720 send it further down the line because it gets. 0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:50.520 Pushed over the edge. 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:52.679 Who thought they were actually going to this is going 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:55.199 to come fast. It's a government project that's going to 0:27:55.200 --> 0:27:56.280 come faster now. 0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:59.239 It's been taking Victorian bureaucrats, so they probably decided we'll make 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:01.280 it due in August twenty twenty four. But they made 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:03.080 that decision in October twenty twenty four. 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:04.720 That's right of your o thing they have. 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:07.119 But this is typical in Melbourne, right, us in Melbourne 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.560 over Christmas and you're trying to travel on public transport 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:13.639 and they've got this my key system, which is absolutely hopeless. 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:13.920 Right. 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:17.920 I can't believe this education portal has never been done 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:20.280 anywhere else in the world. Wouldn't you find one. I 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:22.720 don't know in New South Wales, maybe Queensland's got one. 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:24.840 Maybe there's one in New Zealand. You would find one 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:27.640 and just buy it off. The showf Coffee implement it 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.480 the same with their transport system, the New South Wales 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:31.280 transport system. 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:34.440 You tap on, you tap off. It works perfectly, but. 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:37.240 Victoria had to invent their own and it's cost them 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:40.040 a huge amount of money, well over a billion dollars. 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:41.800 Still doesn't work properly. 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:43.800 And it's delayed because they've been trying to upgrade it 0:28:43.800 --> 0:28:45.440 so you can use your credit card and that's all 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:47.520 been delayed and it's blown out again. Was the story 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:48.440 the other day, Danny. 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:50.200 The latest thing, right, So when you go to the 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:52.560 train station, this is just last week, you've got a 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:57.080 person telling you via the announcements, tap on, but it 0:28:57.120 --> 0:29:01.080 doesn't actually tap. You've got a hob of the card overpping. 0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:03.040 You've been told to tap, but if you tap, it 0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:03.600 doesn't work. 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:05.040 But it's been over a billion. 0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:07.680 Dollars cover and you're look like a failed magician being. 0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:09.640 Like But because I was down in Melbourne on the 0:29:09.680 --> 0:29:12.280 weekend and I don't know how many Mikey cards I 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:15.160 now have because I forget to take one with me. 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:18.400 Every time I go back to Melbourne, I must have 0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:22.160 through coat and jacket pockets in my wardrobe at least 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:25.360 a dozen Markeye cards because in Victoria, for those who 0:29:25.440 --> 0:29:28.240 don't know, you can't actually tap with your phone like 0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:30.880 you can in South Australia and New South Wales and most. 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:31.280 Of the country. 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:33.240 You can't do it in Victoria. So every time I 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:35.480 go down there, I have to buy the Micie card, 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:38.120 which is six dollars and then put the credit on 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:39.000 top of it in order. 0:29:38.960 --> 0:29:39.320 To use it. 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.000 I must have hundreds of dollars sitting on Mici cards 0:29:42.000 --> 0:29:42.840 in my wardrobe. 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:44.680 I got to tell you, I was at Southern Cross 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:46.600 station and I'm trying to use the Mikey card and 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:47.520 it is not working. 0:29:47.600 --> 0:29:49.600 I've put fifty bucks on it, right, I'm trying to 0:29:49.600 --> 0:29:50.400 get this thing to work. 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:53.000 Finally I give up, but fortunately they've got like an 0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:55.760 information booth and there's three people standing around all. 0:29:55.680 --> 0:29:57.480 With here to help you t shirts or whatever. 0:29:57.360 --> 0:29:58.720 So I over I couldn't help. 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:01.719 We spent ten minutes trying to work it, and then 0:30:01.760 --> 0:30:03.240 said I don't know what to do with it. 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:08.239 The public and It makes you feel very helping. Is 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:10.160 just doing what I've been doing for the last five 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:11.440 minutes to no avails. 0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:12.920 It makes you feel so silly. 0:30:12.960 --> 0:30:17.040 I was on a train on Saturday from Warrigal to Melbourne, 0:30:17.120 --> 0:30:20.400 right and these kids got on the train clearly without 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:23.280 a Markey card and they were carrying on and yelling 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:23.960 and shouting. 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:25.000 Bunch of buffoons. 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:26.520 How did they get on there? Is it not like 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:29.000 Sydney where we have the barricade. 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:30.440 You get on and off, So it's like if you 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:33.320 go to a train station in Sydney that isn't a 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:36.640 central law whatever. You just tap on anywhere when you arrive. 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:39.360 There's no gates. So they get on at Warrigle where 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:41.080 I got on, and it's like that, and they got off. 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.160 I think it danned it on, which probably tells you 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:46.800 half the story, doesn't it. But they carried on right 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:50.120 throughout the trip, and the inspector came down and checked 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:53.120 all our marking cards and he walked past the kids 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:54.640 and I thought, hang on a minute, and he got 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:56.560 a bit further down and then he turned around and 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.360 came back and the kids said to him straight up, 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.560 we don't have iikey cards and he said, I gathered that, 0:31:02.760 --> 0:31:04.240 but please don't vape. 0:31:03.920 --> 0:31:11.400 On the train. What am I doing paying to use 0:31:11.440 --> 0:31:11.920 the train? 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:13.960 So if you have the inspects, I know you haven't 0:31:13.960 --> 0:31:15.760 got a mikey, but can you're not vape. 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.400 So if you're asked by an inspector on Victorian Rail 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:19.160 like do you have a ticket? 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:20.680 You say no, but neither of my vape. 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:22.960 I'm not vaping, so let me get away with it. 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:25.360 He's like, yeah, I know you're breaking that law, but 0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:29.760 the other one, don't break that one. To the UK, now, 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:33.960 where counter protests have been running rife through the streets 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:38.120 of London, you've probably heard of activist Tommy Robinson. 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:38.960 This guy is a. 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:42.600 Very colorful character. He has gotten up to a lot 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.560 in his time. He's known as like an online jock, 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:49.040 but goodness me, he's done a lot of unsavory things, 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:53.760 including forging documents, flying into countries on the different identities. 0:31:53.760 --> 0:31:56.200 But he gets around the world and he does expose 0:31:56.560 --> 0:31:59.120 quite a few things going on in what you might 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:03.000 call the deep state. Well right now, Tommy Robinson is 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:07.000 serving eighteen months in jail in the UK. This is 0:32:07.000 --> 0:32:09.840 for a case that dates back to twenty twenty one 0:32:10.240 --> 0:32:13.920 where he was found guilty of libel against a fifteen 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:19.080 year old refuge but being Tommy Robinson, he then disregarded 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:22.760 the injunction related to that label and went ahead and 0:32:22.840 --> 0:32:27.160 repeated it. So now he's in jail for eighteen months now. 0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:30.200 Whether you think that that's good or bad, I don't 0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:33.320 know that you should be jailed for words. To me, 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:37.120 that seems rather and I think Elon Musk agrees with 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:42.280 me because he's taken to Twitter to say release Tommy Robinson. 0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:45.360 Because one of his good pieces of work was a 0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:49.040 sizeable documentary you can find it online that was all 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:53.800 about the grooming gang scandal. And it was this piece 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:57.480 of brilliant doco work by Tommy Robinson who just gets 0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:01.520 around with a camera by himself, doing all the work 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:06.160 that journalists are supposed to do but don't because they 0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:09.360 have vested interests and the media bodies that they're working 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:13.320 for wouldn't cover the work anyway. So he publishes this 0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:17.320 doco on x It goes absolutely viral, and now we 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:21.000 all know about the Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK 0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:24.920 and what has been happening for well over a decade. 0:33:25.000 --> 0:33:28.880 So this guy is currently behind bars, and check out 0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:32.680 the scenes in London, not only a protest demanding he 0:33:32.800 --> 0:33:36.680 be freed, but a counter protests saying no cap him 0:33:36.680 --> 0:34:00.800 in there. 0:33:59.520 --> 0:33:59.640 Now. 0:33:59.640 --> 0:34:03.160 One of the think has really exacerbated the situation is 0:34:03.200 --> 0:34:06.320 the fact that Tommy Robinson, among other things, has always 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:11.319 been very hardline anti Islam in the UK, and we 0:34:11.440 --> 0:34:14.160 know that well, there's a lot of Islam in the UK. 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:17.680 Now a lot of British people are feeling completely overwhelmed, 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:22.560 completely overrun by the amount of immigration, legal and illegal 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:26.040 in their countries, and the vast majority of them from 0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:31.160 Muslim countries. So I'm wondering how much of this protest 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:33.920 has to do with the fact that they could actually 0:34:33.920 --> 0:34:37.000 give a sod about Tommy Robinson and the reason why 0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:40.239 he's behind bars, which again I think in this case 0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.640 is questionable. He had to pay out to that fifteen 0:34:43.719 --> 0:34:48.040 year old refugee one hundred thousand pounds. I don't know 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:51.239 what he said, but good grief, one hundred thousand pounds. 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:55.440 But I think that this outlaw and he actually is, 0:34:56.000 --> 0:34:59.600 has become the face of this movement now because he 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:04.000 is a champion pushing back on the mass immigration, and 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:07.640 that's who these people are rallying behind because we don't 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:11.239 cover it enough. But these protests in the UK are 0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:15.120 happening on a weekly basis. Now, tens of thousands of 0:35:15.160 --> 0:35:18.560 Brits are taking to the streets saying we want our 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:19.719 country back. 0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:23.120 He has become a lightning rod. And it's quite similar 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:26.640 I think to that case last year where a number 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:31.680 of young girls were stabbed at a Taylor Swift dance 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:36.040 lesson right, and there was misinformation put online saying that 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:38.920 it was a refugee who'd done it, and that caused 0:35:39.280 --> 0:35:42.720 protests all over the UK saying, you know, we should 0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:44.280 be safe in our own country. 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:47.560 So the thing that becomes the cause. 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:49.320 Of it, or the face of it, or the lightning 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:53.280 rod for it is often questionable, but it is because 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:56.960 there are underlying issues in a country that eventually lead 0:35:57.000 --> 0:35:59.480 people at a certain moment to come out and say 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:00.920 we need to do something about this. 0:36:01.000 --> 0:36:01.920 I mean, you're talking. 0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:04.600 About a country in the UK. Well, it will England 0:36:04.640 --> 0:36:07.799 in Wales for this statistic, but we're talking about a 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:11.320 country where the number one name for boys in twenty 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:14.439 twenty three was Muhammad. I mean, oh it was last 0:36:14.520 --> 0:36:18.799 year in the UK, right, So no wonder people feel like, well, 0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:21.480 hang on a minute, this doesn't look like the country 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:23.600 I grew up, and this doesn't look like the country 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:26.520 I recognize. And if it's Tommy Robinson or it's someone else, 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:29.520 it doesn't matter. Someone becomes the lightning rod for it. 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:35.080 And even if an imperfect person, as Robinson quite clearly is, 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:38.640 start saying what a lot of people are thinking, they'll 0:36:38.680 --> 0:36:41.839 put aside their differences with him and say, well, at 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:44.240 least he's saying the stuff that needs to be said. 0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:47.840 And that's the danger in people not saying what is 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:50.919 plainly obvious, because if you won't say it, someone else will, 0:36:51.040 --> 0:36:53.520 and it may will be someone unsavory who starts saying it. 0:36:53.560 --> 0:36:57.000 Yeah, the silence of conservatives on matters of truth makes 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:01.160 heroes of rogues or as you said, outlaws, and then 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:04.520 of course the whole issue gets muddied. Right, So the 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:08.120 right protest about immigration levels and a discussion on that 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:10.920 gets confused with the character of Tommy Robinson, yes, and 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:12.080 the whole thing just and. 0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:15.560 Then they can besmirch everyone who's protesting in his name, 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:19.759 oh radical right wing bunch of rabble. So yeah, it 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:21.800 definitely plays off against. 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:23.879 It if conservatives don't speak about the issues that people 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.640 on the street feel strongly about, and these are issues 0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:29.560 that people really care about. Then some rogue talks about it, 0:37:29.600 --> 0:37:32.120 and then you end up with what we end up with. 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:33.000 We're going to go to a break. 0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:34.840 When we come back, we'll look at what's making news 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:38.120 in the papers, including the federal government being asked by 0:37:38.200 --> 0:37:41.160 business please reconsider your renewables targets. 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.279 You're killing us. It's coming up in this a moment. 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:48.200 All right, welcome back. Let's take a look at what's 0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:51.520 making headlines tomorrow. Liz, you've got the Northern Territory. 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:52.319 Time, Yes, I do. 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:56.480 Future of EDIO unclear. This is good news. We don't 0:37:56.560 --> 0:38:01.480 like the Environmental Defenders offers legal activist group. The Environmental 0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:05.120 Defender's Office sounds so great, doesn't. It could be stripped 0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:08.200 of its charity status if a watchdog finds it breach 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:13.520 public trust by coaching a witness against Santos. Hot tip 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:17.720 if you're a witness against Santos, you really shouldn't need coaching. 0:38:17.840 --> 0:38:20.840 I could do an hour long monologue for free without 0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:25.239 drawing breath. Shadow Resources Minister Susan McDonald has referred the 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.719 Legal Activist group to the Australian Charities and Not for 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:33.959 Profits Commission. Here's hoping that the commission finds that they're 0:38:34.080 --> 0:38:39.360 guilty and this guy does this guy, this place does 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:42.800 lose its charity status. It's arguable that it should have 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:44.040 it at all in the first place. 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:46.160 We had to pay nine million dollars I think to 0:38:46.320 --> 0:38:50.480 Santos as a fine for being found guilty of coaching 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:54.640 witnesses against them, and part of the Charities Commission says 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:58.399 that anyone who has charitable status should avoid serious risk 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:02.359 to public trust and confidence in the charity sector, and 0:39:02.440 --> 0:39:04.160 it would seem that they have done that. 0:39:04.360 --> 0:39:06.439 Indeed, I mean this thing gets public money as well. 0:39:06.760 --> 0:39:10.000 They should be getting zero public money because they are 0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:15.680 spending government money, taxpayer dollars to fight in often in 0:39:15.800 --> 0:39:19.440 many cases projects that have actually received the support of 0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:22.239 state and federal government. So the state federal governments are 0:39:22.239 --> 0:39:24.480 paying to send out a mob to fight against the 0:39:24.480 --> 0:39:27.600 projects that they are supporting and putting taxpayer money into. 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:28.920 It's just ridiculous. 0:39:28.960 --> 0:39:29.320 Anyway. 0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:32.120 DIO sounds like some sort of STD or something. Oh 0:39:32.160 --> 0:39:34.520 you've got IDIO won't go near you, which. 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:35.040 Is probably amazing. 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:39.320 Probably let's go to the front page of tomorrow's Herald's 0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:42.680 son Premier's shock admission reads the headline, Well, I wonder 0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.680 what just Center Allen has come up with. Allen concedes 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:49.160 more must be done to keep people safe. You don't 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:52.440 say and vow's action. Well, we'll wait and see. Bail 0:39:52.520 --> 0:39:56.560 laws are too soft. That's just Center Ellen's conclusion. She 0:39:56.640 --> 0:39:59.920 has conceded Victoria's bowl laws are too soft and has 0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:02.960 ordered an immediate here we go a review. Well, I 0:40:03.040 --> 0:40:05.239 think we can all wait with baited breath for that 0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:09.480 review to be concluded. Sometime around twenty fifty eight. Just 0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:12.080 last year, there was a sixteen year old in Melbourne 0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:16.960 who was driving a stolen vehicle recording himself live streaming 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:20.200 on Facebook or whatever platform. It was boasting about the 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:22.920 fact that he was driving a stolen car and doesn't 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:25.000 care if he's picked up by the police because he'll 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:27.560 be back out on the street about ninety minutes later 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:30.520 doing it all over again. In fact, this sixteen year 0:40:30.520 --> 0:40:33.520 old actually talked about how ridiculous it is that you 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:37.160 could be charged with murder as a young person in 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:39.719 Victoria and back out on the street in just a 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:43.280 couple of weeks. So when you've got teenage boys driving 0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:48.040 stolen cars, live streaming themselves joking about how bad the 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:51.439 criminal justice system is in Victoria. Do we really need 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:55.000 the premiere to suddenly have a Damascus Road experience and 0:40:55.080 --> 0:40:58.040 realize what everybody else has known for a long time. 0:40:58.040 --> 0:41:01.080 But this can be a review, so that surely will. 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:03.400 So you know, it's just a matter of time before 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:07.040 it's going to be perfect. Honestly, I don't know a 0:41:07.080 --> 0:41:10.480 single state or territory whose bail laws aren't a complete 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:14.000 and utter nightmare. And this is something that they just 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:18.000 outright state. When you're doing criminal law at UNI, all 0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:21.120 of the lecturers who are lawyers themselves are just like, 0:41:21.400 --> 0:41:23.680 God help you. And at the end of the day, 0:41:23.719 --> 0:41:27.120 what it comes down to is judicial discretion. It comes 0:41:27.160 --> 0:41:30.399 down to the magistrates. So when you hear of these 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:34.600 cases of these kids committing fill in the blank and 0:41:34.680 --> 0:41:39.560 walking free three seconds later, you've got to ask, has 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:43.040 this magistrate got rocks in their heads? Especially at a 0:41:43.080 --> 0:41:47.640 time when like Queensland, like Victoria, we're seeing these kids 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:52.000 go on crime spreeze with the full confidence that there 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:54.640 will be no punishment meet it out. 0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:56.840 And I think it shows that you said to Alan 0:41:56.960 --> 0:42:01.640 is worried. She's concerned that she could well lose government 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:04.359 next year when they go to a state election. And 0:42:04.400 --> 0:42:08.000 what a turnaround from Daniel Andrews who was returned in 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:11.440 twenty twenty two with an extra seat, to the woman 0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:14.680 who replaced him being very concerned that she could well 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:18.040 lose government. I've said it at the time in twenty 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:20.360 three when she took over as in many other people, 0:42:20.520 --> 0:42:23.120 she sinder allen ate no Daniel Andrews, and I think 0:42:23.160 --> 0:42:25.719 she's proving that quite well. Let's go to The Australian 0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:29.640 to borrow, where it says eighty two percent of no charts. 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:33.360 Funny about that the nation's largest business body is predicting 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:37.600 Labor will have to revisit its renewables target of twenty 0:42:37.719 --> 0:42:41.920 thirty amid crippling energy prices and looming supply shortfalls, calling 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:45.359 on Anthony Albersi to hold urgent talks with gas executives 0:42:45.480 --> 0:42:48.719 to unleash the shackles of the resource so it can 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:52.480 play a bigger role in Australia's energy sector. Every time 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:54.759 we come across one of these stories, I feel like 0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:57.360 I'm bashing my head against a brick wall because for 0:42:57.480 --> 0:43:00.440 how long have we known? For how long have we 0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:03.280 been saying that we are not going to meet these 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:05.520 targets by twenty thirty And then once we get to 0:43:05.520 --> 0:43:08.080 twenty thirty, they're going to set a target for twenty 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:12.120 thirty five, So you know, it's all stuffed. And as 0:43:12.400 --> 0:43:14.319 the problem for us is that if you assign up 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:16.919 to the Paris Accords as we are, if you set 0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:20.560 a target, you can only revise it upwards. You're not 0:43:20.600 --> 0:43:23.640 allowed You're not under the terms of the Paris Agreement. 0:43:23.840 --> 0:43:27.000 You're not allowed to revise your target downwards because you 0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:29.400 realize you can't make it. So the only way to 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:31.000 actually get out of it is to pull out of 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:34.360 the Paris Accords, as we should do. But every expert 0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:37.759 in the energy sector has known for years and has 0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.480 been saying four years that we're not going to meet 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:43.080 these targets, and we're still talking about it. 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:45.960 And Chris Bowen's response to this is that we have 0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:50.600 to have more renewables because coal is too unreliable. But 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:53.120 of course the reason that coal is unreliable is because 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:56.960 the government have created zero incentive for coal fired power 0:43:57.000 --> 0:43:58.520 stations to receive. 0:43:58.200 --> 0:44:02.080 Adequate Oh and they've got read if they haven't been 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:03.400 blown up by the government. 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:06.560 Yes, so the ones that are remaining are like, dear God, 0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:11.160 you got rid of a pile of coal power stations, 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:14.680 and now the ones remaining are happening to work double 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:18.160 time to make up for the deficit because you stupid 0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:23.040 flogs have realized in hindsight, Ah, we needed those. Yeah, 0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:27.800 actually we can't keep the lights on without And this again, 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:31.640 now gas is okay, gas was so bad we couldn't 0:44:31.640 --> 0:44:34.040 have gas. No, no, we weren't going to be relying 0:44:34.080 --> 0:44:36.320 on gas. Okay, we're going to be relying on gas 0:44:36.360 --> 0:44:38.600 a little bit just to prop us up while we 0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:40.799 get over the line. Okay, now we need a hell 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:44.440 of a lot more gas. And he's convening these meetings again. 0:44:44.800 --> 0:44:48.120 How is the sector supposed to cope when for years 0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:51.200 they've been told, actually, sit on your laurels. We are 0:44:51.320 --> 0:44:53.880 not going to be putting the pedal to the metal 0:44:54.239 --> 0:44:57.759 in your gas sector. We're very like question mark about it. 0:44:57.960 --> 0:44:59.480 And then all of a sudden you have them turn 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.200 around and be like, we need you. I mean, what 0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:06.600 kind of infrastructure, the people, power, all the rest of it. 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:10.839 Are these poor people having to be like, oh great, now, 0:45:10.880 --> 0:45:13.480 all eyes on us. We've got to keep the lights 0:45:13.480 --> 0:45:16.000 on after you've been telling us for years we're all 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:16.920 but redundant. 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:18.919 Indeed, well, I'll tell you one place where the lights 0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:21.640 ought to go off. It's this blokes mosque. This story 0:45:21.719 --> 0:45:25.880 word spreads radical back's new outposts. Now you will remember 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:29.520 this guy from last year and since October the seventh, 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:33.560 of course, he was talking about, you know, trees killing Jews, etc. 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:37.560 A cleric could have newly established Islamic center in Melbourne 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:41.680 backed by radical Sydney preacher with him, Haddad has lamented 0:45:41.719 --> 0:45:45.920 that young Australian Muslims are being brainwashed, falling victim to 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:49.719 liberal ideologies, and that the first words spoken by a 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:54.160 child shouldn't be mother or father but Allah. 0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:55.319 Well there you go. 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:59.040 I'm glad I'd take parenting advice from this blow. Had 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:01.520 you even poach a kid to say allah before it's 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:03.759 his mum or dad? For Heaven's sake. But isn't it 0:46:03.800 --> 0:46:07.920 funny these Muslim boys and girls are being taught about 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:10.000 liberal Western ideologies? 0:46:10.280 --> 0:46:10.520 Hmm? 0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:14.279 Would that happen if you weren't living in Australia? What 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:17.200 do you think was going to happen? For goodness, say well. 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:19.200 I mean, the fact is they can practice their religion 0:46:19.200 --> 0:46:21.279 anyway they want it. If they think kids should say 0:46:21.320 --> 0:46:22.600 Allah before they. 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:24.719 Say Mum or dad, that's their prerogative. The question we've 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:26.279 got to ask is, what are. 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:27.080 You doing in my country? 0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:28.760 Is that the sort of culture of a lot to foster? 0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:29.719 Are we happy about that? 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:30.279 We are? 0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:34.239 We think that's problematic. Maybe we should reflect that in 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:35.560 some of our policies. We're going to go to a 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:38.560 break when we come back. Fashion or rather no fashion, 0:46:38.800 --> 0:46:40.840 no clothes at all. At the Grammys, that's a moment. 0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:44.239 Well. 0:46:44.239 --> 0:46:46.359 I think the US selection proved that we really don't 0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:48.960 pay much attention to celebrities anymore. And I think they 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:51.640 know it, which is why the Grammys they're going to 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:54.680 such extreme lengths to try and get our attention. Check 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:58.400 out this outfit from Jaden Smith. He's the son of 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:01.520 Will Smith. He literally went on the red carpet with 0:47:01.560 --> 0:47:04.319 a house on his head. I'm not quite sure the 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:07.239 significance of that. Maybe there is no significance at all. 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:10.120 He just wanted to get on the Late Debate mission. 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:12.719 I mean, some people can't even afford houses, and he's 0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:14.440 walking around with one on his head now. 0:47:15.640 --> 0:47:17.520 And I got to tell you, I thought that was 0:47:17.520 --> 0:47:19.400 the worst thing on the red carpet. And then along 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:24.319 came Kanne's girlfriend, Bianca sensory, sensory by name, but not 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:29.720 sensory by nature. She was basically wearing one leg of stocking. Evently, 0:47:29.760 --> 0:47:32.360 karannye with all his money, couldn't afford to buy her address. 0:47:32.880 --> 0:47:36.040 And I would have thought, Caleb, somewhere between the burker 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:39.239 and that travesty, you know, maybe humanity could find I 0:47:39.239 --> 0:47:42.000 don't know something that would be, you know, between the two. 0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:43.480 I don't know, like clothes. 0:47:43.680 --> 0:47:46.040 Yeah, I mean, look, if you or I walked around 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:49.400 in the nick, we probably get nicked for public indecency. 0:47:49.560 --> 0:47:52.960 But that's art, Caleb, that's oh, for goodness sake, if 0:47:52.960 --> 0:47:54.960 you're a celebrity, you can get away with it. Day. 0:47:55.000 --> 0:47:57.279 I think they need to check into an institution very 0:47:57.320 --> 0:47:59.520 quickly before we go. He at tasked. 0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:00.799 I don't know if you've used it, but you can 0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:02.960 go on there and advertise for all sorts of odd 0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:05.120 jobs to be done around your house or even at. 0:48:05.120 --> 0:48:06.400 The local park. 0:48:06.520 --> 0:48:08.680 One bloke who's put up an ad saying, look, I'm 0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:11.880 having a picnic in the afternoon or later in the morning. 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:14.640 I need someone to get down there in the morning 0:48:14.680 --> 0:48:17.280 as soon as the park opens and reserve the park 0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:21.360 bench for me. He is offering fifty dollars for someone 0:48:21.400 --> 0:48:23.839 to go to a park in Randwick and sit at 0:48:23.840 --> 0:48:26.120 the table for two hours so he can come along 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.360 later and use it. Fifty bucks doesn't sound like a 0:48:29.400 --> 0:48:31.920 bad deal for me on a lazy morning. 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:32.919 But how about this one. 0:48:32.960 --> 0:48:35.200 I saw this last week or a week or two 0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:39.839 ago a blog advertising in Sydney for a fake girlfriend 0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:43.000 five hundred dollars because he's going to a family dinner 0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:47.400 and obviously mum keeps asking you know you've got a 0:48:47.440 --> 0:48:51.239 girlfriend yet, and he's like, I will literally pay five 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:54.520 hundred dollars for a girl to come to family dinner 0:48:54.520 --> 0:48:56.360 and pretend we're together again. 0:48:56.400 --> 0:48:57.840 That seems like a pretty good deal to me. 0:48:58.440 --> 0:49:01.040 He mustn't see his family often, though, because this is 0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:04.439 if this is gonna be a long standing ruse, you're 0:49:04.480 --> 0:49:06.560 just gonna have to be like, next time you see them, yeah, 0:49:06.560 --> 0:49:09.000 we broke off. I mean, don't go to be a 0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:09.719 long term plan. 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:11.880 One hundred dollars for someone to pretend to break up 0:49:11.880 --> 0:49:14.200 with me. That's it from us. 0:49:14.200 --> 0:49:16.160 Stick Around. Coming up is The Reader Penney Show.