WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 19 February 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:07.280 On scorn Lives Austrodia. This is the Wader Panalty Show. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.879 Good evening and welcome to the readA Panny Show. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.200 Coming up tonight, Australian business leaders fight back against industry 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.880 super funds and the file left ideology infecting the corporate world. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.840 Gary Hardgrave and Prum McSween will be with me shortly 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.160 to discuss that and the day's top stories. Matt Cunningham 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.360 will join me with some shocking news from the Northern Territory. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.080 The brilliant Fatia Unga Sagon will have the latest from 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:39.919 the US, including the death of man feminism as beta males. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.639 Learned that they are not immune from me. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.879 To activism, and later in the hour will look at 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.960 Megan Markle's latest rebrand efforts with Diane Dunlevy. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.680 And Left is Losing It features They them energy, the. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:04.160 Energy, the Energy. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.520 Okay, But first the election is close and the. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.400 Prime Minister is on a charm offensive. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.440 He was on the front pages of the newspapers to day, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.520 The Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph with fiance Jody talking about 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.199 his marriage plans. It's a bit of a puff piece. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.640 It included details about a possible outdoor wedding and the 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.399 role the couple's dog may play on the day. The 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.199 media blitz comes days after the couple posted this now 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:38.160 infamous val Valentine's Day video on Instagram. Jody we now 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.000 for more on this. Sky News contributors pro McSween and 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.399 Gary Hardgrave Gary, We've had our first interest rate cut 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:51.200 in more than four years. We're hearing about outdoor weddings 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:51.960 and dogs. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.520 An election isn't far away. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.920 Yeah, I'm waiting for a close up shot of the 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.160 covertal corsage. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:03.920 You know it's coming. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.320 Reader, Look anything other than the reality that an interest 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.440 rate cut is not going to solve the everyday problems 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.919 of people paying more for everything. You know, they might 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.200 give you zero point two five percent reduction in about 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.239 ten days or a fortnight after the banks have made 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:22.480 tens of millions of dollars. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.720 But let's face it, for a lot of every. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.960 Day Australians, the price of fuel just went up. You know, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.079 the price of electricity is going up constantly. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:31.000 The price of. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.280 Electricity keeps increasing at such a rate, and not that 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.040 knots that nobody actually can keep up with the increasing costs, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.560 and it's killing industry. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.400 And I think that's the reality. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.840 So Albo says, you know, never mind the quality, feel 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.080 the width, this is this is a pe under a 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.240 shell game going on here, and I don't think Australia 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.359 is going to fall for it. It's you know what, Frankly, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.360 a lot of people can't afford the kind of intimate, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.320 covertle corsage wedding that he's talking about. So I think 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.240 a lot of people have tuned right out. It's going 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.760 to take a lot more charm to get a you know, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:07.520 ticked from me. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:12.079 I can assure you, well, pray, what do you make 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.440 of the charm offensive? The media bleedzer Obviously they've had 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.119 some sort of focus group data coming in telling them 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.200 that well, Jodie is a good look for the PM. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.160 The more we see of her, the more we think 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.320 of him. Is this going to be a boost for 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.800 the Prime minister and for the Labor Party coming up? 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.920 Or we're going to be weeks away now from an 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:37.640 election date. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.800 Well, it's so predictable, you know, wheel out the little 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.880 missus or the little missus to be and you know 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.040 all the you know, the old old ladies might think 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.560 it's so sweet. Look the Women's Weekly, you know the 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.800 media today, nothing's going to save him. This is the 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.680 point that Gary was making that we're so focused on 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:04.160 just staying alive, basically economically alive, being able to put 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.640 food on our table and pay our mortgage or rent, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.600 that you know, he can will out as much charm 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.600 as he likes, and it is offensive. That's what I 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:21.560 find when he's talking about and timing his wedding, you know, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.320 announcement and the intimate details to soften us up. Oh well, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.560 he's really a nice guy. Well, he may be a 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.720 nice guy, although I'm yet to appreciate that, but you know, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:38.200 he's incompetent and he's basically you know, the nuptials that 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.479 he's proposing will not work out for him with the 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.840 Australian public and the Australian voter. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:44.680 I believe. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.640 I think it'll be a know at the altar of 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.160 the voting booth, and let's hope it is. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.839 Oh yes, we've alould prefer competence over niceness. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.159 About to pick between the two. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.760 Now, company directors shareholder groups are at war with Australia. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.800 It's four trillion dollars superanuation. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.920 Industry over corporate diversity guidelines. The nineteen members of the 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.279 ASX Corporate Governance Council were asked last week to vote 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.000 on a new set of corporate governance principles, which could 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.040 have resulted in company directors needing to disclose their sexual 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.160 orientation and even their religious beliefs. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:26.400 Now it's the. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.039 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia that's pushing for these 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.200 diversity reforms. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.600 But it's good to see business leaders. 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.680 Including the likes of John Wiley, calling for an end 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.559 to this sort of debate. He said, I personally think 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.039 it's a gross invasion of people's personal privacy to have 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.360 to disclose their sexual identity when it comes to eligibility 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.640 for board positions. And mister Wiley also told the Australia 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.719 And what is the relevance to corporate performance and the 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.920 suitability of sitting on a board? 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:02.719 Very good question there. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:07.640 Through the ASX Council is now set to drop its 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.480 push for these diversity reforms for the time being. Anyway, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.880 there's no consensus even amongst those council members. But isn't 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.600 it good to finally have some corporates taking a stand 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.360 against this sort of insanity. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.800 Well, they've been so limp and weak up till now, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:30.159 you know, following this whole energy debarcle, and you know, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.840 so scared that they're going to be whipped by the 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.280 government if they don't support them, even though it's against 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.240 their principles. In this case, I suppose they feel empowered 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:46.360 because Trump's rubbish DEI. And we're seeing also examples with 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.440 you know, with Woolworths, what happened to them when they 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:55.560 went woke, But like Disney, all these profits that are 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.159 going down the toilet and the branding impacts that it's having. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.920 I don't care what the sexuality of a board member is, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.560 whether they're indigenous, if they're disiabled, you know, all these 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.200 ridiculous imposts they're wanting them now to impose on them 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.880 or proposing to impose on them, impose on them. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:18.320 I want to know that. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.440 The people in boards are actually worrying about delivering a 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.920 profit to shareholders, that they have proper corporate guidance and 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.320 they have the expertise to be able to give this guidance. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.200 And that's all you worry about if you're either an 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.720 investor or you're a customer of these companies, and to 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.600 have the superation mob. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.200 Wanting to take a stand. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.480 I would say that a lot of the superannuation people 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.560 they represent are older people who would be horrified to 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.840 think that this is going to be posed on board members. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.280 It is gary. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.280 The industry super funds are behind so much of this 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.560 far left ideology that we're seeing adopted in the corporate world, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.000 even pushed by the corporate world but pre touched on 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:14.160 Donald Trump's policies is cut DEI programs, diversity, equity inclusion, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.960 and it's seen a massive shift in the debate even 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:18.760 in Australia. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.160 Yeah, absolutely, and thank heavens for Donald J. Trump. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.600 But you know, DEI is an anagram of DEE, which 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.760 is what's happening to a lot of companies who are 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:30.280 held bent. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:31.160 On box ticking. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.680 And you know, these industry super funds, they've completely begged 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.320 up the power generating investment regime in Australia. They're the 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.360 ones that are behind the wind farms. They're the ones 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:41.960 that are behind and I shouldn't call them wind farms 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:46.520 because they're industrial installations. Are the wind turbines and the 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.839 solar panels. These are the people who are driving your 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.160 electricity prices up, your superannuation funds. The industry funds are 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.240 helping to drive up the price of electricity. They load 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.760 them up with lefties and they expect the world to 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.679 con Look. I think you just need competence. I'm a 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.040 company director, I'm said on a couple of different organizations, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.560 and what we hire is competence. If you keep putting 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.920 people into boxes rita that you have to tick and 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.319 say I've got one of them, I've got one of 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.319 those things, we're not building Noah's ark. I mean, heavens above, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.840 look at me. I can't get any whiter than I am. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.839 I can't be any more male than I am. I 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.200 don't think I'm as alpha as some others. But I'm 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:31.760 just saying I'm a bloke. I'm an older bloke, I'm white. Heavens, 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.800 I'm completely bigger, aren't I? Under this regime? 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.320 So you are? 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.040 You are the problem on competence, not on They got 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.079 to hire on competence, not on identity. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.800 This is crazy, and yet I've got a problem. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:49.400 I get to know, Well, yes, you don't tick any boxes. Gary, 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:56.520 You're white, you're male, your privilege, your heteronormative able body Duman. Yeah, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.200 it's downhill for you now. Before you two go, ask 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:04.560 you about the Queensland government being warned that its decision 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.520 to pause cross sex hormones for children for children, mind you, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.079 could result in a tsunami of court cases being brought 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.719 against it. A group of high profile mental health experts, scientists, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:22.560 churches and lawyers have written to Premier Christa Fooley and 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.840 they're saying that this pause may be in contravention of 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.800 Queensland's Human Rights Act. Really, Gary, this pause came about 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.680 after it was discovered that children at Ken's Sexual Health 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:39.319 Clinic had been given puberty blockers cross sex hormones without 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.080 either the required specialist input or parents' permission. Can you 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:51.400 believe the activism that's coming from these characters, From Patrick mcgruorie, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.920 who I would have expected more from, and even church groups. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.360 And the Human Rights Act in Queensland is obviously written 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.040 by the extreme left who were in power to write 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.440 this act for a start, So they're using a tool. Look, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.960 I think in so many ways these people are part 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.160 of an industry that's heavily get around. Frankly, you're turning 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.840 our children into elaborates, turning our kids into a great experiment. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.400 Let's see, they think they're this, so let's do that 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.000 to them. You can't do that. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.320 I think kids, people, individuals are able to make their 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:23.920 own decision. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:25.560 It's such a small percentage of people. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.280 They obviously clearly have some trauma, mental trauma in their 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.920 mind about who they are and what they are. But 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.000 these doctors and church groups are just looking for victims. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.800 They're victim farming with this, and the mere fact they're 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.319 raising this means they're not reading the room. So they 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.439 look like they're clever, but they're pretty stupid. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.839 Yeah, and they're ignoring the best research that has been 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.000 done in this area. You only have to look at 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.760 what we've seen in the UK and Scandinavia, what we're doing. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.280 If you want to talk about a tsunami of court cases, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.719 it's probably going to come from people who've been irreversibly 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.719 damaged by these drugs and treatments and irreversible surgeries. That's 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.120 where the tsunami of court cases is going to come from. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.640 Prim Ex Sween, Gary Hardgrove, thank you so much for 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:12.360 your time tonight. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:18.280 Joining me now is Sky News Northern Australia correspondent Matt Cunningham. Matt, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.079 you've reported some alarming statistics out of the NT this week, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.760 school attendance rates amongst Indigenous students in the territory have 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.800 fallen to just fifty five point two percent, with many 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.800 children attending schools so infrequently that more than sixteen hundred 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:39.199 of them have been removed from the official attendance roles altogether. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.400 Matt, how much has the. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:45.080 Attendance rate for Indigenous children fallen in the NT and 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:51.439 how does it compare for other students for non Indigenous students. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.840 Well, when it comes to Aboriginal students, read, the drop 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.560 off is fairly alarming. So this Education Department data we've 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.719 managed to this week shows that if you go back 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:06.040 to twenty sixteen, they're about sixty seven percent of Aboriginal 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.680 children who were attending school. And by attending that means 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.640 attending on average at least four days per week, So 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.160 sixty seven percent back in twenty sixteen. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.439 But by twenty twenty. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.360 Four that number, according to the latest data, has fallen 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.360 to fifty five point two percent. Now the real number, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.480 if you can believe it, Riada is actually significantly worse. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.400 The other thing we've uncovered is that they have a 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.319 thing here in the Northern Territory called an intensive support role. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.200 It basically means that if a child doesn't attend school 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.720 for twenty days, they're taken off the official role, they're 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.040 removed from the official attendance data and they're placed on 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.920 this intensive support role. The idea is that they get 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.840 extra wraparound services to get the kid to school, but 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.280 it also means they're not being included in the actual data. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.800 So when you take that data into account, you're looking 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.199 at basically one in every two Aboriginal children in the 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.680 Northern Territory are basically not going to school. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:01.000 Now. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.199 Over the same period, there has been a slight drop 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.200 off when it comes to non Indigenous kids. The rate 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.959 was at about eighty nine percent eight years ago. It's 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.720 at eighty five percent now, so probably a worrying fall 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.640 off there, to be honest, but nothing compared to what 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.400 we're seeing go on with Aboriginal children. The new government 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.800 here is taking a hardline approach. They've introduced truancy officers. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.560 They brought in fies to three hundred and seventy dollars 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.360 for parents who don't send their kids to school. So 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.360 obviously they're trying to take the big stick approach to 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:32.480 try and get a different outcome. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.600 Well, the way they count those stats, it almost is 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.120 designed to hide how bad the situation is, because you're 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.000 removing the students who are most likely to be truant 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.920 from the equation, and that just seems a silly way 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:54.160 to be presenting statistics. You're actually worried about fixing the problem. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.280 And I do wonder if one of the possible reasons 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.280 attendance rates in the nt are lower than the rest 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.840 of the country is the level of violence. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:04.720 At some schools. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.920 There's been a spate of school yard bashings at Catherine 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:12.160 High School, which has been described has been uglier. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.280 Than many street fights. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.640 Traumatized parents have told the nten user they are fearful 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.000 and keeping their kids at home. One parent said, I 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.800 fear it is only a matter of time before someone dies. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.000 How widespread is this problem, Matt, And why aren't authorities 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.680 cracking down on the thugs? 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.320 Well, I think that it's clearly an issue at Catherine 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:43.359 High School, and those videos that have been published absolutely horrific. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.160 And I think that description is right that when it 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.400 says in many ways they're worse than street rules, and 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.240 the fact that this is happening in the school yard 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:56.160 or on school buses is absolutely appalling. I don't have 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.120 any specific evidence that it's more widespread than Catherine. I 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.440 think there've been issues at schools in Darwin that you know, 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.760 I'm certainly aware of over the years. I don't know 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.800 how significant it is when it comes to Indigenous attendance rates. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.840 From the videos I've seen in Catherine, a lot of 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.359 the students involved in those fights appear to be non Indigenous, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.400 so I don't know if there's a link there. I 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.640 think there are other reasons that we're seeing a lot 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:27.040 of Aboriginal children not attend school in the Northern Territory. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.440 That they're many and varied, and they've been going on 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.120 for a long time. I mean, if you look at 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.480 the rates of alcohol abuse, you look at some of 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.360 the decisions made by government returning alcohol to town camps 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:41.120 in Alice Springs, an absolutely horrendous decision that had far 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.720 reaching impacts that I would suggest probably affected school attendance 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.720 as well. And you look at some of the domestic violence, 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.680 domestic and family violence rates across the Northern Territory and 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.040 particularly in some of those remote Aboriginal communities, that they 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.880 really are horrific. So I think that's probably driving those 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.520 Aboriginal school attends rates more than what we're seeing in Catherine. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.399 But as you say, what we're seeing there in Catherine 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.600 at that school is shocking, But the Education Minister has 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.399 said she wants to crack down on it, so I 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.520 think we'll probably see some action there in the next 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.359 few days. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:14.640 Now. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.639 Staying in the NT, a horrific case of alleged domestic 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.600 violence in Darwin which has left a woman dead allegedly 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.280 at the hands of a partner with a long criminal 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.120 record who has been granted bail again and again despite 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.040 serious offending. And that this comes just days after a 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.040 mother of four in Alice Springs was allegedly killed at 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.119 the hands of her partner, who also has an extensive 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:47.080 criminal record. Are the courts doing enough here to protect 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:48.200 vulnerable women? 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.080 Well, I think there's an argument that they're not. Reader 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.600 This latest case in Darwin here this week is absolutely 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.879 horrific and I've spoken to police sources, so they are 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.879 just shocked and appalled by what has happened in this 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.840 particular circumstance. You're talking about a mother of three young 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.080 children here who was in a safe house in the 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.800 Top End to try to get protection from her violent 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.439 partner and now she's been killed. I mean, it's just 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:24.359 an absolutely tragic incident. Her father's a well known Territorian 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.440 who's worked for in Indigenous affairs for a long time, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.159 a highly respected person here in the Northern Territory, and 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.840 the woman who was killed in this incident as well 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:39.560 as someone who has worked in the arts industry across 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.720 the Northern Territory. So you know, this is a tragic case. So, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.200 as you mentioned, this is the second in nine days, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.360 a woman killed in Alice Springs nine days ago. It's 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.919 the third this year, and I believe it's the twelfth 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:54.440 domestic violence death in the Northern Territory since June last year. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.080 All of the victims in those cases are Aboriginal. This 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.080 is a shocking crisis that's going on in the Northern Territory. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.880 We talked about those School of tendant's rates falling, Well, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.119 I can tell you domestic violence rates not falling in 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.280 the Northern Territory. Domestic violence incidents in the Northern Territory 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.880 have risen eighty two percent in the last eight years. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.320 That is a shocking statistic and overwhelmingly the victims in 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.800 these incidents, and I have to say, to be frank, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.199 the perpetrators are Aboriginal. And people look at the prison 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.600 system up here and they say, why there's so many 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.360 people in prison. We've got more than two twenty seven 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.639 hundred people in prison here in the Northern Territory. I 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.560 can tell you that a large part, a large number 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.200 of those people are in prison for acts of domestic violence, 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.320 for violent acts committed against another Aboriginal person. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.560 The amount of overrepresentation is shocking, and you called it 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.720 a crisis. It's precisely what it is. Indigenous women more 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.360 than thirty times likely to be hospitalized due to domestic 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.800 violence than non indigenous wa. It is I think our 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:06.120 greatest shame in this country, the fact that we don't 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.280 seem to be able to do anything about that. Matt, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.679 what sort of programs, what's happening in the NT to 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.120 actually address these shocking rates of abuse. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.000 Well, it's interesting because you know, every time one of 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.720 these horrific incidents happens, and we've seen a lot of 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.240 this recently, there are calls for more funding for services. 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.520 And there's no doubt that those services are required and 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.399 that that funding is required. But you know, there's a 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.120 lot of funding that gets directed in this area already, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.639 and a lot of this funding goes basically to putting 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.399 the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. I think 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.320 that more work needs to be done to try to 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.439 change the behavior of these men. In the first place. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:49.680 There is a great program run up here. It's called 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.600 the No More Campaign. It's run by a man by 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.919 the name of Charlie King who for the past twenty 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.080 years has been trying to tell Indigenous men that they 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.600 need to stand up and take responsibility for their actions, 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:06.240 that they need to stop engaging in acts of family violence, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.440 and that there need to be consequences for them if 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.480 they do. But at the moment, you know, he's sort 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.160 of a lone voice out there trying to change things, 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:16.919 and I think we need to see more of that. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:21.400 We need to see more responsibility taken by absolutely these 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:23.800 people who are being the perpetrators of business. 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.679 Matt Cunningham, thank you so much for your time. Appreciated. 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:29.600 Thanks. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:31.000 Rader, still to come. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:32.560 The left is losing it. 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.560 Plus the latest from the US, including the growing romance 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.439 between the leader of the free world and the world's 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:40.160 richest man. 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.320 But Tijunga Sagon is up. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:54.959 Next, Welcome back, and ow it's time for lefties losing it, 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.160 and we have more celebrities stepping up, eager to embarrass 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.280 themselves with lame attempts at polytical humor. Here is actor 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:08.120 and transactivist David Tennant taking a painfully funny shot at 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.560 President Trump. It's a little sad. 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.680 A film about incredible architecture. In fact, it's the baldest 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.080 architecture in film this year, apart from Donald Trump's Here 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.800 and The Apprentice Donald Trump, because he says he hasn't 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.840 seen The Apprentice, because it's a fifteen. It's not on Nickelodeon. 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.280 See Donald Trump. I've said his name three times. It's 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:38.360 like beetlejuice of summoned and talking of villains. 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:48.320 Yes, about as funny as an ingrowing tone. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:48.640 Awl. 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:50.159 And did you see at the end there who was 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.280 clapping away at that embarrassingly bad joke. 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.920 It's Mark Hamill. Trump, deranged Mark Hamill. 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.880 Who actually gave us the biggest laugh the height when 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.920 his pants fell down on stage. 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:05.240