Speaker 1: Live on Sky News Australia. This is Ta Nika di Giorgio.
Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the show. Coming up tonight.
Speaker 3: I'll explain why Labour's Economic Roundtable has been a dud
Speaker 3: as Jim Chalmers sets his sights on your superannuation. The
Speaker 3: government minister who thinks men should be eligible to win
Speaker 3: a Woman of the Year awards.
Speaker 2: What has the world come to?
Speaker 3: Plus another green energy project collapses, this time a massive
Speaker 3: offshore wind farm in New South Wales had Bizarrely, Chris
Speaker 3: Bowen is blaming Donald Trump for its demise. But first tonight,
Speaker 3: Labour's three day Productivity round Table or Economic Roundtable, whatever
Speaker 3: the heck they're calling it now, has been.
Speaker 2: A dud, a complete failure. Yet it was all hyped up,
Speaker 2: wasn't it?
Speaker 3: As this big event, lots of fanfare, a contest of
Speaker 3: ideas to change your life. But there are no outcomes,
Speaker 3: no plans, no decisions. And it got me thinking, what
Speaker 3: does productivity look like under labor? And I think this
Speaker 3: sums it up. Yep, that is productivity under labor, A
Speaker 3: big joke, a big laugh, falling over, having no clue
Speaker 3: which direction to go in. Essentially a bumbling fumbling, dancing mess.
Speaker 2: And that's what we've seen this week.
Speaker 3: Jim Chalmers sprigged his big plans to lift living standards,
Speaker 3: make people better off, make our nation more resilient, when
Speaker 3: really it was just a ploy to tax us more
Speaker 3: and go after baby boomers. In fact, the Productivity Commission
Speaker 3: Chair Danielle Wood has delivered her verdict on the summer.
Speaker 2: She says the outcomes from the round table are not
Speaker 2: enough to.
Speaker 3: Fully repair Australia's sluggish productivity. So, in other words, politicians
Speaker 3: and bureaucrats sat in a circle for three days, singing Kumbaya,
Speaker 3: eating taxpayer funded catering, smiling for the cameras and each
Speaker 3: patting themselves on the back. As I said, it was
Speaker 3: a dud charmers can't even outline any immediate policies, but
Speaker 3: insists it's all about future policy development.
Speaker 4: There was twenty nine hours of discussions. In the end
Speaker 4: there was by our count, something like three hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty seven different contributions made over the course of those
Speaker 4: three days.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all talk, but one thing is certain, and we've
Speaker 3: been warning for weeks now that this talk fest was
Speaker 3: all just a ploy to raise taxes and look out
Speaker 3: right on cue, Jim Chalmers is coming after your super
Speaker 3: reforms been considered by the Treasurer include cracking down on
Speaker 3: superannuation tax breaks for wealthy retirees, tightening family trust regulations
Speaker 3: and reducing capital gains tax concessions. So essentially, Charmers has
Speaker 3: declared war on baby boomers.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't put it like that, Sarah. If you look
Speaker 4: at the tax changes I've made already as Treasurer that
Speaker 4: the Prime Minister's government has made. They've been all about
Speaker 4: making sure that when it comes to income tax cuts,
Speaker 4: for example, that those income tax cuts are made available
Speaker 4: to younger workers and women, people right up and down
Speaker 4: the income scale.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all about punishing those who have spent their
Speaker 3: whole lives paying taxes and worked very hard to contribute
Speaker 3: to the economy under the guise of intergenerational inequality. Now,
Speaker 3: make no mistake, Labour would have known all of this
Speaker 3: prior to the election. It was written in the books.
Speaker 3: Don't forget leak Treasury documents for shadow this week's ago.
Speaker 3: The only way to get the budget in order is
Speaker 3: to raise taxes. Yet Labor took a mandate to the
Speaker 3: election and promised it.
Speaker 5: Would not happen Antheoberanzi only said last week that the
Speaker 5: government would not make any tax changes that they didn't
Speaker 5: take to the election, and yet Jim Chalmers wasn't able
Speaker 5: to make that same commitment at his press conference yesterday
Speaker 5: and is ominously talking about what sound like quite significant
Speaker 5: tax changes to fix his spending problem.
Speaker 2: And that is just the issue.
Speaker 3: The talk fest has failed to address Labour's spending problem,
Speaker 3: and so Jim is coming after your super to pay
Speaker 3: for his failures. Government spending is at its highest since
Speaker 3: World War II. Debt is sitting at one hundred billion.
Speaker 3: Labor is fiscally irresponsible and you will pay for it now.
Speaker 3: I think there were missed opportunities for discussion this week. Firstly,
Speaker 3: the elephant in the room Labor does not want to
Speaker 3: address immigration.
Speaker 2: Big Australia is getting bigger again.
Speaker 3: More than fifteen hundred people are arriving in Australia every
Speaker 3: day every day, and that is on top of the
Speaker 3: already more than one point one million people who've come
Speaker 3: into this country since Labor was first elected in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Migration has exacerbated the cost of living in
Speaker 3: housing crisis. I mean, anyone looking for a rental right
Speaker 3: now knows just how tight the market is. Have a
Speaker 3: look at the rental vacancy rates for July one point
Speaker 3: five percent in Sydney, one point eight in Melbourne, zero
Speaker 3: point nine percent in Brisbane, just zero point seven percent
Speaker 3: in Perth and zero point eight percent in Adelaide. And
Speaker 3: if current trends continue net permanent, our long term arrivals
Speaker 3: could reach almost six hundred thousand by December. So fifteen
Speaker 3: hundred people are arriving here every day.
Speaker 2: Where are we going to put them? Where are we
Speaker 2: going to put these people?
Speaker 3: But it was not addressed at the talk fest, presumably
Speaker 3: because high immigration suits labor politically, and of course the
Speaker 3: left think it's racist to talk about it now.
Speaker 2: The other key missed opportunity was energy.
Speaker 3: How can charmers sprook lifting living standards and making our
Speaker 3: nation more resilient when we can't even keep the lights on?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I have lost count at the amount of renewables projects
Speaker 3: which have gone bust or have been delayed in recent months.
Speaker 3: Especially just today we found out that Norwegian energy giant
Speaker 3: Equinor has abandoned a ten billion dollar offshore wind project
Speaker 3: which was a cornerstone of the Hunter's clean energy transition.
Speaker 2: They are not surviving, they're collapsing.
Speaker 3: Yet there seems to be a serious lack of interest
Speaker 3: by labor to have a proper debate and a serious
Speaker 3: debate about cheap and reliable energy in this country.
Speaker 2: The problems are so obvious.
Speaker 3: Government spending is out of control, the economy is not
Speaker 3: growing fast enough. Too many people are coming into the country.
Speaker 3: Energy policy is a disaster. You didn't need a round
Speaker 3: table to tell you that. But right Alban Easy and
Speaker 3: Mao Chalmers have our lives in their hands under.
Speaker 2: The central control system. God help us.
Speaker 3: The New South Wales Minister for Women thinks men can
Speaker 3: be women. Now the proposition sounds about as absurd as
Speaker 3: it is. Joni Harrison is so convinced of her position
Speaker 3: she even thinks men should be eligible to win a
Speaker 3: Woman of the Year awards.
Speaker 6: Is it the position that a man who identifies as
Speaker 6: a woman a trans woman is eligible to enter and
Speaker 6: participate in the twenty twenty six New South Wales Women
Speaker 6: of the Year Awards?
Speaker 7: All women can be eligible to be nominated, So.
Speaker 6: You're saying trans women can be eligible to be nominated
Speaker 6: and awarded. The New South Wales Women of the Year,
Speaker 6: the Premiers, Woman of the Year, of Excellence, Community Hero
Speaker 6: and are.
Speaker 7: Eligible to be nominated and be awarded those categories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could really see the mental gymnastics going on
Speaker 3: in there, the knots of confusion really churning away as
Speaker 3: Jodie Harrison desperately tries to explain without explaining the difference
Speaker 3: between men and women.
Speaker 2: Now, look, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 3: Perhaps she missed her biology classes in school, but she
Speaker 3: can't quite compute the absurdity of the situation.
Speaker 6: Well, is it not absurd situation that a biological man
Speaker 6: who identifies as a woman could potentially be announced on
Speaker 6: the fifth of March twenty twenty six awards event as
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty six New South Wales Woman of the Year.
Speaker 8: As I said to.
Speaker 7: It's the view of this government that all women should
Speaker 7: be able to be nominated and to be awarded if
Speaker 7: they meet the standards that are needed to achieve these awards,
Speaker 7: that they be rewarded for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she says, if they meet the standards needed to
Speaker 2: achieve these awards.
Speaker 3: Well, geez, surely the number one standard of Women of
Speaker 3: the Year awards is actually being.
Speaker 2: A biological woman. But nope, the Minister doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: think so is it.
Speaker 6: Actually fair to a biological woman that is being assessed
Speaker 6: under those various criteria? Really should be a very good
Speaker 6: It looks like an excellent program.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 7: Well, there is a very robust process for assessing the
Speaker 7: winners of each of those categories.
Speaker 3: Now the question is, how can she be the Minister
Speaker 3: for Women if she doesn't even know what a woman is?
Speaker 2: Well, it's too late, isn't it.
Speaker 3: A man winning New South Wales Woman of the Year
Speaker 3: is coming to a local community category near you. Now, look,
Speaker 3: we are at a real crossroads in this country. What
Speaker 3: sort of a country do we want to live in?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I've asked myself many times this exact question since October seven,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, because since then, Labour's abandonment of Israel
Speaker 3: has seen our values collapse and our social standards decline,
Speaker 3: and the only people benefiting are the Jihades terrorists Hamas.
Speaker 3: The Israel Australia relationship is at rock bottom, and that
Speaker 3: was all but confirmed by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in
Speaker 3: an exclusive interview with my colleague Sharry Markson.
Speaker 1: We've had a great relationship over the years. I think
Speaker 1: it's been gone astray because I think leaders did not
Speaker 1: show the strength and conviction that they should have when
Speaker 1: we're fighting, Actually we're fighting the war of Western civilization
Speaker 1: against these barbarians. And I think ultimately, I think most
Speaker 1: Australians will get it. If they don't get it now
Speaker 1: they said about it, I think many of them will
Speaker 1: get it today, and many we'll get it once we
Speaker 1: finish this war and give a future of peace and prosperity.
Speaker 3: And if you missed that interview, you can catch it
Speaker 3: in full on Sky News tonight at eight forty Australian
Speaker 3: Eastern Time. But look, the Israeli PM raises such an
Speaker 3: important point that I think is actually being lost in
Speaker 3: this debate. Israel is not just fighting for itself, It's
Speaker 3: not just fighting for its own survival. It's actually fighting
Speaker 3: for the West. It's the only country willing to take
Speaker 3: a stand on terror to make the West a better place,
Speaker 3: to make our lives more secure.
Speaker 2: In the future.
Speaker 3: Yet somehow it's been labeled as the enemy, and Albo
Speaker 3: and Wong have been an absolute, complete and utter disgrace
Speaker 3: and have put our country out of very dangerous crossroads.
Speaker 3: Johnavy now for more on this is shadow Foreign Affairs Minister,
Speaker 3: Michaylia Cash, Senator, It's good to.
Speaker 2: Cash up with you as always.
Speaker 3: Look Benjamin Ya, who has stepped up his criticism of
Speaker 3: Anthony Abernesi, telling Shari Markson that his record is forever
Speaker 3: tarnished by the weakness he has shown in the face
Speaker 3: of these hummas terrorist monsters. What does this mean for
Speaker 3: the relationship between the two countries now?
Speaker 9: Well, in the first instance, Tanika, when you reward terrorists
Speaker 9: as our Prime Minister Alberanezi has done, I don't know
Speaker 9: how your record is anything but tarnished forever. That was
Speaker 9: an utterly extraordinary interview. But Danika, I think it was
Speaker 9: also a really salient reminder for all of us of
Speaker 9: what actually occurred on October the seventh, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9: The worst terrorists in the world savages, murdered women, raped women,
Speaker 9: beheaded men, burnt babies alive in front of their parents,
Speaker 9: took hundreds of hostages, many of whom they later murdered,
Speaker 9: and many of whom are still in the tunnel. And
Speaker 9: let's be very very clear, her Musk was not exercising
Speaker 9: its right to self defense. It was seeking to achieve
Speaker 9: its long held ambition to see the destruction of Israel.
Speaker 9: I have a simple principle, Hamas are terrorists. They do
Speaker 9: not share, as you have said, the shame values that
Speaker 9: we share.
Speaker 8: You do not reward terrorists.
Speaker 9: And yet that is exactly what mister Alberanizi has done.
Speaker 9: Israel aren't just fighting for their life, if you said,
Speaker 9: they are fighting for the shared values that we live
Speaker 9: here in Australia on a daily basis, freedom, democracy, the
Speaker 9: rule of law.
Speaker 8: He must don't care about any of them.
Speaker 9: And yet what is mister Albanesi and Penny Wong done.
Speaker 9: They have said to Israel in their time of need,
Speaker 9: we're walking away from you and rewarding the terrorists. That
Speaker 9: is a shameful record for this government to have.
Speaker 2: It's an absolute disgrace.
Speaker 3: And yet here we are with the situation where Hamas
Speaker 3: is actually openly praising labor and has done multiple times,
Speaker 3: and that is an absolute blight on this country. Benjamin Etna,
Speaker 3: who also said also said this have a listen.
Speaker 1: He called a peace feeding the crocodile. You know, you
Speaker 1: feed the crocodile that's chasing you in the hope that
Speaker 1: he will somehow spare you. But he said he's not
Speaker 1: going to spare you. He's going to eat everything you
Speaker 1: give and then eat you. And that's what the you know,
Speaker 1: the Western leaders, including unfortunately in Australia, are doing.
Speaker 3: Look, and I agree with him is he's trying to
Speaker 3: quote Churchill there. But this could have all been resolved,
Speaker 3: Senator from the start if the world just called for
Speaker 3: the hostages to be released on October eight. Yet of
Speaker 3: course Penny one called for restraint. Labour's gone down this
Speaker 3: appeasement route from day one, as as the UK, Canada, France.
Speaker 2: What does this mean for the future of.
Speaker 3: The West when these leaders are essentially bowing down to terror.
Speaker 8: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 9: Appeasement never works and all it has done in this
Speaker 9: case is actually in Bold and.
Speaker 8: The terrorists Daneka.
Speaker 9: There was only one response for Penny Wong and Anthony
Speaker 9: Albernizi on October the eighth, twenty twenty three, after.
Speaker 8: The atrocities occurred.
Speaker 9: It was the right response, the correct response, and the
Speaker 9: moral response, and that was of course to call immediately
Speaker 9: on the terrorists to release unconditionally the hostages.
Speaker 8: And yet they didn't.
Speaker 9: They called for restraint and look where we are now.
Speaker 8: Appeasement does not work. It emboldens.
Speaker 9: But I think what was so important about last night's interview,
Speaker 9: and in particular from Australia's perspective, We wake up every
Speaker 9: day in the luckiest country in the world, and I
Speaker 9: think we're almost starting to take for granted the fact
Speaker 9: that we are a.
Speaker 8: Country that abides by the rule of law.
Speaker 2: We are a.
Speaker 9: Country that has democratic elections. We are a country that
Speaker 9: has freedom of speech, that has freedom of the press.
Speaker 9: They are the values that Israel is currently fighting for.
Speaker 9: For God's sakes, Hamas are a terrorist group.
Speaker 8: They do not share those same values. Mister Albernizi and
Speaker 8: Penny Wong.
Speaker 9: They will go down in history as people who did
Speaker 9: not fight for the fundamental freedoms that we live and
Speaker 9: breathe in Australia on a daily basis.
Speaker 8: Danika, this cannot end well for Australia.
Speaker 9: Ultimately, you reward terrorists who don't just not share your values,
Speaker 9: they fundamentally oppose them and fight against them. Again, that's
Speaker 9: the country we now live in under Anthony Albnizi and Pennywong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, and I actually think this reelected albo
Speaker 3: is more dangerous than the first. This Radi agenda is
Speaker 3: just getting fundamentally worse, and our values are being eroded
Speaker 3: day by day by these dreadful, morally bankrupt decisions that
Speaker 3: we're seeing play out. Now, before we let you go,
Speaker 3: I just want to ask you about Chinese spies, because
Speaker 3: concerns have been raised about the influence of the Chinese
Speaker 3: Communist Party after the director of Chinese property developer Country
Speaker 3: Garden Australia said he could pay party officials to access
Speaker 3: the we chat messages of his staff in Sydney and
Speaker 3: in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: How concerned should we be about this?
Speaker 9: Well, I saw those reports and they are concerning. I
Speaker 9: mean any company that operates in Australia. It doesn't matter
Speaker 9: where the company is headquartered. If you are operating in Australia,
Speaker 9: you are bide by our laws and that ends upholding
Speaker 9: the principles of privacy, of transparency, but more than that,
Speaker 9: respect for employees.
Speaker 8: And so I think that we need to make it.
Speaker 9: Very very clear that we are concerned by those reports.
Speaker 9: And if you work in Australia and you employ people
Speaker 9: in Australia, then you abide by our laws.
Speaker 8: That's it.
Speaker 2: Nope, I completely agree with you.
Speaker 3: Good good point Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Michayley Cash.
Speaker 2: Always great to catch up with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining me on the show
Speaker 3: this evening. Well, as I mentioned earlier, energy giant Equinor
Speaker 3: has abandoned the ten billion dollar Novocastrian offshore wind project
Speaker 3: in New South Wales. Now this was touted as a
Speaker 3: cornerstone project of the Hunter's clean energy transition, and yet
Speaker 3: it's another blow to the renewables only magic carpet ride
Speaker 3: fantasy and of course to the minister overseeing the mess,
Speaker 3: Chris Bowen.
Speaker 10: So that's disappointing. And also offshore wind is facing some
Speaker 10: global international investment bed wins right at the moment, partly
Speaker 10: partly driven by some uncertainty in the United States.
Speaker 3: I yes, blame the United States. It's Aul Donald Trump's fault,
Speaker 3: isn't it. Joining me now is Adam Morrison, the Energy
Speaker 3: program director at the Centate for Independent Studies.
Speaker 2: Aida.
Speaker 8: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining me. Here we go again,
Speaker 3: another failed project. How big was this project meant to be?
Speaker 2: And what does it.
Speaker 3: Say again about this fairy tale fantasy we're living on?
Speaker 11: Well, this project was meant to be about two gigawatts,
Speaker 11: So to put that into perspective, that's about fifty percent
Speaker 11: larger than the biggest onshore wind farms that we've got
Speaker 11: in Australia in the proposal development at the stage. But
Speaker 11: it's actually it's about ten times larger than all the
Speaker 11: floating offshore wind that exists in the world today. And
Speaker 11: that's something we don't realize is this technology of floating
Speaker 11: offshore wind as opposed to standing on piles driven to
Speaker 11: the sand, is totally prototypical. It's just in development stage.
Speaker 11: And that's because it costs something like three or four
Speaker 11: times as much as the standing version, which is already
Speaker 11: double the cost of the onshore wind version. So that's
Speaker 11: why developers are walking away from it, because it's just
Speaker 11: absolutely impossible that the economics of this type of wind
Speaker 11: development stacks up. It's going nowhere, and it's going nowhere globally,
Speaker 11: and it'll go nowhere in New South Wales as well.
Speaker 2: Well. Chris Brolin's blaming the US, is that fair?
Speaker 1: Not at all?
Speaker 11: You know, it's the fundamental economics that are working their
Speaker 11: way through the process in the US and the UK.
Speaker 11: There is simply no offshore wind being developed anywhere without
Speaker 11: governments basically having to force taxpayers to pay for it
Speaker 11: or force electricity consumers to pay for it. And again
Speaker 11: the floating offshowind variety. Again, Chris Barne was assuming this
Speaker 11: project alone would be ten times what currently exists, and
Speaker 11: that zone would be something more like, you know, forty
Speaker 11: times what currently exists globally. So he was completely away
Speaker 11: with the fairies. There's no chance that any of that's
Speaker 11: going ahead.
Speaker 2: No, he's always away with the fairy.
Speaker 3: It's always somebody else's fault when it comes to this
Speaker 3: pipe drave.
Speaker 2: Now, look, the Herald's sun.
Speaker 3: Mood of the Bush survey reveals that the proportion of
Speaker 3: regional Victorians who are supportive of the transition to renewables
Speaker 3: has plummeted from sixty six percent three years ago to
Speaker 3: forty four percent now.
Speaker 2: While one in.
Speaker 3: Two people living in the regions still support pursuing net
Speaker 3: zero emissions, they're far more pessimistic about the impact on
Speaker 3: their households and communities than those in other states, and
Speaker 3: are more likely to oppose new wind and solar.
Speaker 2: And I mean, we can't be surprised.
Speaker 3: By this because I just feel like, really it's the
Speaker 3: regions that suffering the most from this push to get
Speaker 3: to net zero by twenty fifty.
Speaker 11: That's exactly right, because it's such a diffuse and dispersed
Speaker 11: form of energy collection. It's not really generation they're collecting it.
Speaker 11: It has to have just such a large impact on
Speaker 11: the land. So there are towers everywhere, these huge amounts
Speaker 11: of transmission lines, and every time I go to the
Speaker 11: bush and talk to a farmer, I learn a new
Speaker 11: way that I hadn't considered, be it not being able
Speaker 11: to move your machinery around on the lines, firefighting access,
Speaker 11: your ability to do aerial fire fighting, for example, flashing
Speaker 11: lights for aerial hazards, for wind turbines. It is just
Speaker 11: a real challenge for the people that actually have to
Speaker 11: put up with it. So no surprise at all to
Speaker 11: see the bush is starting to sour and the more
Speaker 11: and more they experience it, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely terrible. And if we look as well as
Speaker 3: what's happening in New South Wales, there was a really
Speaker 3: great story today the Daily Telegraph by James Willis, and
Speaker 3: he writes our quote, farmers are tearing up their contracts
Speaker 3: with green energy companies, alleging they've not been paid to
Speaker 3: allow wind farms near their property. This is a standoff
Speaker 3: near Crookwell and Regional New South Wales, and also includes
Speaker 3: claims from land owners that the new turbine have breached
Speaker 3: noise restrictions.
Speaker 2: So people are saying it sounds like a jet engine
Speaker 2: aiden they can't sleep. It's just on and on.
Speaker 3: But you know, you have to wonder how many landowners
Speaker 3: are in this position, possibly hoodwind of promises of wind
Speaker 3: farms and now they're stuck with noise complaints and they're
Speaker 3: not being paid.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
Speaker 11: I think it's a common story actually, and all the
Speaker 11: assessments that you hear, and I've been to some of
Speaker 11: the discussions and the planning panels, it seems like there
Speaker 11: are obvious flaws and faults in the initial assessments of
Speaker 11: how little noise there will be. One simple one I've
Speaker 11: seen is just to assume that the turbine is at
Speaker 11: ground height and you've got all the obstruction of the
Speaker 11: trees to basically mask the noise, when in fact two
Speaker 11: hundred and fifty meters in the air on top of
Speaker 11: a ridge line. So these types of things are going
Speaker 11: to be very much more common in the future, I'm
Speaker 11: afraid and from what I hear, the noise is really
Speaker 11: disturbing if you're anywhere in the region.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I feel sorry for those landowners. They're really
Speaker 3: dealing with it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Now look, before we let you go, I've got to
Speaker 3: play you this latest die Tribe by the Minister and
Speaker 3: Charge Chris Bowen.
Speaker 5: Have a look at this, hey boss, how's rebuilding the
Speaker 5: energy system goings?
Speaker 6: Your report today from a EMO which actually shows that
Speaker 6: the reliability of our energy system is improving.
Speaker 3: And what reliability do you think the minister are in
Speaker 3: charge of the mess is talking about.
Speaker 2: Now that's a really good question.
Speaker 11: A emo's playing massive word games here, because if you
Speaker 11: read that report, which I have, they actually specify the
Speaker 11: reliability is not actual reliability. What they mean is will
Speaker 11: there be enough energy in the system to go round?
Speaker 11: But a different question they call it security, is whether
Speaker 11: the grid would still stay stable and not collapse like
Speaker 11: it did in Spain. Because of course the Spanish blackouts
Speaker 11: occurred when it was the middle of the day, they
Speaker 11: were drenched in soul of sunshine. But the grid is
Speaker 11: not stable in those circumstances, so the grid can still
Speaker 11: collapse and actually this report of Chris Bowen's, it actually
Speaker 11: does say that we are facing those system security collapses
Speaker 11: where the frequency in voltage might not be managed properly
Speaker 11: as soon as twenty twenty seven if coal closes as planned.
Speaker 11: So it actually does not give the rosy impression at
Speaker 11: all that Chris Bowen has presented there.
Speaker 3: It probably were just gives us a little bit of
Speaker 3: an insight into the future. When you've got Spain blackouts,
Speaker 3: that's what we're going to be experienced.
Speaker 2: Exactly what we're heading to. That's what that reports DoD Well.
Speaker 3: You know, as much as a minister in charge thinks
Speaker 3: that he can hoodwink all of us, Luckily we've got
Speaker 3: experts like you to come on and tell us what's
Speaker 3: actually going on. Ada Morrison, good to see you, Thanks
Speaker 3: so much for joining me on the show this evening. Well,
Speaker 3: coming up after the break my panel, we'll discuss the
Speaker 3: new suite of safety reforms for the childcare sector, including
Speaker 3: CCTV and a ban on mobile phones.
Speaker 2: That's next. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Sky News contributor Tina McQueen and
Speaker 3: New South Wales Independent MP Tanya Mahala. Kind of both
Speaker 3: of you. Thank you for joining me as always. Now
Speaker 3: let's start with childcare big reforms. Today, all childcare staff,
Speaker 3: including teachers, careers, cooks and cleaners will be listed on
Speaker 3: a national register to verify qualifications and track their work history.
Speaker 3: Of course, this is part of reforms endorsed by education
Speaker 3: ministers amid allegations of child abuse in the sector. Tanya,
Speaker 3: you know other changes CEECTV will be trialed in childcare centers,
Speaker 3: workers with a banned from using their mobile phones, and
Speaker 3: there'll be a lot more trad I guess I'm surprised
Speaker 3: to be honest, we didn't have this in the first place,
Speaker 3: but welcome changes.
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, it's a good start. It's a good start,
Speaker 12: and it is long overdue. The idea that we don't
Speaker 12: have uniform working with children checks in Australia is absurd.
Speaker 12: So it's certainly long overdue. But I do want to
Speaker 12: say it's not a silver bullet and parents shouldn't be
Speaker 12: lulled into a false sense of security to think that
Speaker 12: it's going to stop predators from getting into the system.
Speaker 8: Yes you will be able.
Speaker 12: To check their work history. Yes you'll be able to
Speaker 12: do criminal checks on individuals. That will be standardized across
Speaker 12: the nation, but it still won't standardize data and the
Speaker 12: collection of complaints, and that's a bigger issue because each
Speaker 12: state regulates the early childhood and care sector separately. The
Speaker 12: Children's Guardian, for example, conceded to me at the inquiry
Speaker 12: last week that she still doesn't have a memorandum of
Speaker 12: understanding with the Department Medication over the issue and data sharing, so.
Speaker 8: That's a concervative.
Speaker 12: Issues already issues everywhere across the state.
Speaker 2: So there's still a lot of work to do. I
Speaker 2: don't know about the CCTV.
Speaker 12: A lot of the stakeholders that told us last week
Speaker 12: at the inquiry that we held in New Southall's Parliament
Speaker 12: that they were very concerned about that. That was perhaps
Speaker 12: helpful after the fact, but it doesn't weed out the
Speaker 12: bad actors that can still enter the system. Is about
Speaker 12: staffing and making sure you have qualified staff, yes, that
Speaker 12: actually got the right character to be in early childhood
Speaker 12: and care.
Speaker 3: I agree, and I'm not sure about the CCTV. To
Speaker 3: be honest, I don't like the idea of Big Brother.
Speaker 2: Is watching twenty seven. Well you know, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 3: But do you think that that this goes far enough?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look, you've got to try something.
Speaker 13: I mean, it just appalls me that these things are
Speaker 13: going on in childcase centers. I still say, all the
Speaker 13: hundreds of millions that they're throwing at this, please please
Speaker 13: throw some money to the mothers.
Speaker 2: Who want to stay home with their kids. That's always that's.
Speaker 13: The safest bet. And I know some people have to
Speaker 13: have childcare and that's fine. But for mothers who want
Speaker 13: to and get no financial support and aren't recognize that
Speaker 13: it's a very hard job to do raising kids. I
Speaker 13: just it annoys me that government after government doesn't realize this.
Speaker 3: I agree, give parents the freedom if that's what they use,
Speaker 3: and give them, give them a choice, don't force them
Speaker 3: into child.
Speaker 13: Later wants every kid in child key, of course, ridiculous
Speaker 13: and I think that's just wrong.
Speaker 2: It's a central control system absolutely.
Speaker 3: Now, look, the cost of coffee in Sydney could hit
Speaker 3: twelve dollars just to keep businesses afloat. The Coffee Commune,
Speaker 3: which is a network supporting cafe owners and roasters, have
Speaker 3: worn that the price of a flat white or Lata
Speaker 3: could rise within three years if businesses were to regain
Speaker 3: their pre COVID COVID twenty percent profit margins. Gee, twelve dollars,
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, to be honest, Tanya. Why would you
Speaker 3: want to go into business right now when your overheads
Speaker 3: are so big?
Speaker 12: Well, I think these business operators need to put on
Speaker 12: the coffee cup. Why it is twelve dollars? Hey, you
Speaker 12: can say thanks to knit zero agenda, high energy prices.
Speaker 12: You can say thank you to the multitude of hidden
Speaker 12: taxes and levies that they have to pay to both
Speaker 12: the state and federal government. You just had an economic
Speaker 12: round for three days.
Speaker 2: Did small business even get a mention in.
Speaker 3: The probably not talkfest that they had?
Speaker 2: And back in July a small.
Speaker 12: Businesses, Federal Minister and Ali had a small business round.
Speaker 2: Table as well.
Speaker 13: We didn't the table life it was Matt Canavan's.
Speaker 2: I thought that it was terrific.
Speaker 13: The real, the real, well, the Prime Minister's round table.
Speaker 13: No representing from mining or can you believe it? Mining
Speaker 13: was not represented at that roundtable?
Speaker 2: Just dismiss no. Well, as I said earlier, I thought
Speaker 2: the Bush Summit.
Speaker 3: Thank god for I think it was a disgrace that
Speaker 3: energy really wasn't brought up in this talk fest and
Speaker 3: migration because no one wants to talk about migration, but
Speaker 3: we got fifteen hundred people coming into this country every
Speaker 3: single day, So no, I agree.
Speaker 2: To us there.
Speaker 3: We would we would have solved all we always every Friday,
Speaker 3: we solved the world's problems.
Speaker 2: Brought us there. Jim, what were you doing now? This
Speaker 2: stumps me? Author JK.
Speaker 3: Rowling has slammed the breathtaking misogyny after an Australian parliamentary
Speaker 3: inquiry into steelbirth argued that men who have transitioned to
Speaker 3: become women should be part of the conversation around miscarriage.
Speaker 2: I mean please wait to begain.
Speaker 3: The South Australian Women's and Children's Health Network Chief Rebecca
Speaker 3: Graham told the committee in our decision discussion today the
Speaker 3: terms women and women will be used.
Speaker 2: It's intended to include.
Speaker 3: Those with diverse sexualities as well, intersex women and transgender
Speaker 3: women as well. So you know, I mean men can't
Speaker 3: fall pregnant, believe it or not, shock horror, but they
Speaker 3: can be part of the conversation.
Speaker 12: Well, Australia yet again makes international headlines for the wrong reason,
Speaker 12: doesn't it. So this was supposed to be a simple
Speaker 12: South Australian Parliamentary inquiry into the health serves that are
Speaker 12: better support women who have suffered a traumatic event like
Speaker 12: a still birth or miscarriage, and instead it became a
Speaker 12: gender ideology. You know, activism at its worst.
Speaker 8: And JK.
Speaker 12: Rowling was right to call it out for what it is.
Speaker 12: And it's appalling that someone has attempted to trivialize what
Speaker 12: is a very serious issue.
Speaker 2: He's a real warrior, j he is a great warrior.
Speaker 12: And thank god, she says, but I.
Speaker 3: Mean it's ridiculous though, Tina, men can't fall pregnant, news flash,
Speaker 3: it's just nuts.
Speaker 2: But where do you begin with it? Where are we
Speaker 2: coming to in this? And where does it end? Where
Speaker 2: does it end?
Speaker 13: Where are we going to serious to pull in the
Speaker 13: reins at some point, because now it's just going beyond
Speaker 13: in any sort of sense.
Speaker 2: No, look, I completely agree with you.
Speaker 3: Now look before we let you both go, I've got
Speaker 3: to ask you about cash, because there is an economist
Speaker 3: who is arguing that Australia should phase out cash in
Speaker 3: the next three years and a bit to stamp out
Speaker 3: tax evasion. This is coming from Richard Holden. He says
Speaker 3: the black economy is costing the government ten billion.
Speaker 2: Dollars a year. I don't know, Tina, is cash king?
Speaker 2: He should hush his mouth. I love this, smell of it.
Speaker 2: I love this. I love it, love it, love it,
Speaker 2: love it. No, cash will never be out of my life.
Speaker 2: So it still has a place in the country. Still
Speaker 2: the place still has a place in my place. God,
Speaker 2: so that I'll allow goodness. What do you think of course.
Speaker 12: Cash is king? And the idea that we listen to
Speaker 12: some university academic who lives in an ivory tower and
Speaker 12: has no idea what the real world is about going
Speaker 12: out to Southwest or Western Sydney or any part of
Speaker 12: a town.
Speaker 2: Everybody relies on your.
Speaker 12: Green partner of how you're opposing small business?
Speaker 2: What about the tooth ferry? You need?
Speaker 3: You need cash for the seed. Cash will always be there,
Speaker 3: I think. But yeah, no, I agree. I I don't
Speaker 3: know why he would come out and say it's gone.
Speaker 2: In three years. Very strange.
Speaker 3: Tanya Mahalik, Tina McQueen, thank you so much to both
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 2: Good to see you as always. We're coming up.
Speaker 3: We'll across to the US where the President has been
Speaker 3: busy delivering pizza and hamburgers to the National Guard patrolling
Speaker 3: the streets of DC.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Well, the Queensland l ANDP has become the latest branch
Speaker 3: to vote to abandon net zero. By twenty fifty hundreds
Speaker 3: of members at the L ANDP state convention in Brisbane
Speaker 3: today voted tobacc a resolution calling on the Federal Coalition
Speaker 3: to abandon its support for a net zero mandate. They
Speaker 3: now join WA, South Australia and the Northern Territory Liberals
Speaker 3: and look, great move. We emit just one percent of
Speaker 3: global emissions and this scheme over rule is sending us
Speaker 3: broke and backwards. Joining me now is Shadow Cabinet Secretary
Speaker 3: Andrew Wallace. Andrew, good to see you as always. Do
Speaker 3: you support this move by your Queensland Party.
Speaker 14: Well, look, Denika, the Liberal Party is a broad church
Speaker 14: and it's great that the people and members of the
Speaker 14: Liberal Party have the ability to be able to put
Speaker 14: forward these motions. Susan Lee, our leader has consistently said
Speaker 14: that we're working through all of our policies and we'll
Speaker 14: no doubt take these motions into account when we're doing that,
Speaker 14: but we'll take our time. We'll go through a very
Speaker 14: deliberative process and we won't be rushed on it.
Speaker 2: But we will get there in the end.
Speaker 3: Well, that's going to take twelve months though, twelve months
Speaker 3: to come up with an energy review. But now you've
Speaker 3: got Queensland, WA, South Australia and the Northern Territory saying
Speaker 3: it's time for the Federal Coalition to abandon it. I mean, surely,
Speaker 3: Susan Lee is under immense pressure.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 14: We've got three years will over a bit under three
Speaker 14: years now to the next election. So whatever policies we
Speaker 14: come up with are not going to change people's power prices.
Speaker 15: Now.
Speaker 14: Just yesterday I was speaking with Howard, a local convenience
Speaker 14: store owner who's told me that his power bills have
Speaker 14: gone up by twelve hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2: That's just one business.
Speaker 14: Now, he can't recoup those sort of costs by selling
Speaker 14: coffee or some Strasbourg.
Speaker 1: Or some hand or a leader of milk.
Speaker 14: He can't recoup those costs, those higher energy costs. So
Speaker 14: the path that Labor have us going down is simply
Speaker 14: not working. They promised Australians two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 14: dollars price reduction and that has absolutely failed. They're failing
Speaker 14: on all of their measures in relation to renewable energy.
Speaker 2: But any decision that we make, whether it's today, next
Speaker 2: week or in six.
Speaker 14: Months time, is not going to make a jot of
Speaker 14: difference to people's power prices. Whilst Anthony Albanezi and Chris
Speaker 14: Bowen are at the Helm, I.
Speaker 3: Think it's more about the Coalition coming up with a
Speaker 3: strong counter policy to take to the next election and
Speaker 3: actually be a genuine alternative.
Speaker 14: And that's three years away, Baker, and we will get there.
Speaker 14: We will have a policy for the Australian Institute.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll stand by for that now. Look, I mentioned
Speaker 3: this earlier. Jim Chalmers is coming after. Super Reforms being
Speaker 3: considered after the talk Fest roundtable include cracking down on
Speaker 3: superannuation tax breaks for wealthy retirees and among others. Andrew
Speaker 3: what happened to Labour's mandate that there would be no
Speaker 3: new taxes.
Speaker 14: Well, I mean this is just another example of how
Speaker 14: Labor tell you one thing and they do another. Labor
Speaker 14: promise you the world and they deliver an atlas.
Speaker 2: That's just what they do.
Speaker 16: Now.
Speaker 14: This roundtable that's come out out of during the week,
Speaker 14: not one idea has come out of this roundtable. It's
Speaker 14: much discussed much vaunted roundtable, not one idea has come
Speaker 14: out about how it's going to reduce the cost of
Speaker 14: living for Australian families. And I tell you what's really
Speaker 14: concerning me out of this roundtable is that it's a
Speaker 14: trojan horse for the reintroduction of Bill Shorten's.
Speaker 1: Twenty and nineteen tax policies.
Speaker 14: They failed Labor Party in twenty nineteen, and now they're
Speaker 14: with a super majority in Parliament, they're going back, what
Speaker 14: mark my words, They're going to come back and they're
Speaker 14: going to introduce these tax policies which lost in the
Speaker 14: election in twenty nineteen. Because that's what Labor does when
Speaker 14: they run out of money, they come after yours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they love to resurrect the ghosts of the past.
Speaker 3: So no doubt this is exactly how it's.
Speaker 2: Going to play out. Andrew, where are you joining us
Speaker 2: from tonight? I'm joining you from your Mate's brewery.
Speaker 14: It's an iconic brewery on the Sunshine Coast. And we're
Speaker 14: saying our farewells to Todd and Sammy, to local radio
Speaker 14: identities on Mixed FM who are retiring after many, many years.
Speaker 14: They're just absolutely fantastic locals on our coast.
Speaker 1: And as you can tell, they are very very popular.
Speaker 2: Oh it sounds fantastic.
Speaker 3: I do enjoy every week you're coming on and joining
Speaker 3: us from different locations. I've always said that you're a
Speaker 3: great advocate for your local community. Andrew Wallace, good to
Speaker 3: see you as always. Thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 2: On the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Nika, Thank you well.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has delivered pizza and hamburgers to a group
Speaker 3: of police and National Guard forces who are tackling rampant
Speaker 3: crime and homelessness in Washington, d C.
Speaker 8: And they'll eat with you and we're going to have
Speaker 8: a little fun.
Speaker 12: We're going to celebrate, but then we're going to get
Speaker 12: back to work and we're going to take care of
Speaker 12: these criminals.
Speaker 17: We're going to put them where they have to be.
Speaker 14: We're gonna You're going to say, don't don't play around
Speaker 14: with us.
Speaker 1: Don't play around with us.
Speaker 4: So let's go have something to eat.
Speaker 1: You're going to like the hamburgers.
Speaker 3: Would you rather have hamburgers from the White House or
Speaker 3: pizzas from a good place?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I think you want want the hamburgers.
Speaker 3: Johnny me Now is Sky News contributor Bo Davidson, both
Speaker 3: thanks for joining me. I've got to say Trump really
Speaker 3: is a man of the people. But how much does
Speaker 3: this show how seriously he is taking this mission to
Speaker 3: stamp out crime, that he's personally thanking law enforcements.
Speaker 17: Well, you hit the nail on the head. He is
Speaker 17: a man of the people, and I think his style
Speaker 17: the NIKA is to go to the source, whether it's
Speaker 17: the scene of the crime or the people solving it.
Speaker 17: You have politicians that go to fundraisers and to donor
Speaker 17: meetings and things like that, they never visit their constituents.
Speaker 17: But that's never been Donald Trump's style. You look at
Speaker 17: his visits to the southern border or where there's a
Speaker 17: natural disaster, and he wants to be at the point
Speaker 17: of action and he wants to be with those people
Speaker 17: who are solving it. Think about his work back as
Speaker 17: a real estate developer. He would go to the construction site.
Speaker 17: He wants to be hands on and to see what's
Speaker 17: happening and how to solve that problem. And more importantly,
Speaker 17: as you stated, I think it shows that there's a
Speaker 17: solidarity with law enforcement officers. We look back at the
Speaker 17: last four years and a lot of law enforcement officers
Speaker 17: probably thought that no one had their backs. I think
Speaker 17: to go there to deliver pizza, to have a moment
Speaker 17: of camaraderie, and to show his solidarity with them speaks
Speaker 17: volumes as to who he is. But I think he
Speaker 17: has had a long trajectory of actions like this where
Speaker 17: he's gone to the source, visited with the people involved,
Speaker 17: and said, I'm going to help you solve this problem.
Speaker 17: I'm here and I'm with you. And I think that's
Speaker 17: an important quality of.
Speaker 3: His Yeah, great ladyship skills, I agree, And I also
Speaker 3: thought it was funny bow He even managed to take
Speaker 3: a bit of a subtle dig at Joe Biden. Have
Speaker 3: a look, Yeah, Bo, He's not wrong, is he?
Speaker 17: And no, he's not wrong at all. There's his ever
Speaker 17: present sense of humor. That's typical Donald Trump. And you
Speaker 17: know what, I think it's kind of true. I think
Speaker 17: Biden probably would have tripped and then wished the officers
Speaker 17: of Merry Christmas on his way out. That's probably what
Speaker 17: he would have done. But in all seriousness, look at
Speaker 17: the difference in that administration versus this one. That was
Speaker 17: a disastrous administration. It was an embarrassment of a present,
Speaker 17: it was an embarrassment of an administration, and the Trader's
Speaker 17: staff that propped him up. And as I said earlier,
Speaker 17: I just think you look at how law enforcement is
Speaker 17: now versus how they were then. Trump is supporting these people.
Speaker 17: He knows that these law enforcement officers, they don't make
Speaker 17: a big salary, Danika. People need to know that, and
Speaker 17: they put their lives on the line every single day.
Speaker 17: They may not come home tonight to their families because
Speaker 17: of what some criminal might do. So for someone to
Speaker 17: get out there and to support these people who go
Speaker 17: into the streets of DC and are very crime ridden
Speaker 17: areas and support them, I think speaks volumes. And it's
Speaker 17: a huge transition and a welcome transition from the last
Speaker 17: four years of a joke, which was Joe Biden's administration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the difference is absolutely incredible. Now.
Speaker 3: Look, we saw the meeting at the White House this
Speaker 3: week between Donald Trump and Ukraine President Zelenski. Trump has
Speaker 3: appeared to really ramp up his rhetoric overnight, saying crooked
Speaker 3: and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine fight back,
Speaker 3: only defend.
Speaker 2: How did that work out?
Speaker 3: Regardless, this is a war that would have never happened
Speaker 3: if I were present a zero chance. Interesting times ahead, bo,
Speaker 3: How would this go down with Moscow given that he
Speaker 3: has just met with Putin?
Speaker 17: Well, it's difficult to say. You know, Russia launched an
Speaker 17: overnight strike, huge overnight strike with ballistic missiles and cruise
Speaker 17: missiles against an American company as well, and I think
Speaker 17: it just shows it that Vladimir Putin does isn't doing
Speaker 17: good faith negotiations unfortunately. I think he can't be trusted.
Speaker 17: So you have Zelenski saying that he needs security guarantees,
Speaker 17: and you have Russia saying any discussions without them are utopia.
Speaker 17: But I think let's look at this from a different perspective.
Speaker 17: There's a lot of things going on. You have Trump
Speaker 17: the negotiator, Trump the peacemaker, Trump the coalition builder, but
Speaker 17: you also have Trump the punisher because remember there is
Speaker 17: the carrit which are economic incentives in trade, but there's
Speaker 17: also this stick and that could be sanctions, that could
Speaker 17: be TIFFs. The US might even provide air support to
Speaker 17: Ukraine in the future. We'll have to see. But there's
Speaker 17: a level of three D chess going on here as well.
Speaker 17: We're putting pressure on Venezuela, which is a partner of
Speaker 17: Putin's and Russia's we're putting pressure on India for buying
Speaker 17: Russian Or the million dollar question Denika is can Trump
Speaker 17: get Putin and Zelensky in the same room in about
Speaker 17: the next ten days? And that hand is on really
Speaker 17: two questions. One, what are the security guarantees? European armies
Speaker 17: are not so big anymore, so can they do that?
Speaker 17: Number two is what does the landswap look like? This
Speaker 17: map redraw looks a lot like the old Novarosia map,
Speaker 17: and don Bass is still a strategic area of concern
Speaker 17: that Russia wants. So on the one hand, I think
Speaker 17: Trump could wield his power and put pressure on Putin himself.
Speaker 17: On the other hand, you look at this tweet and
Speaker 17: you say, well, maybe Trump allows a little Ukrainian offensive
Speaker 17: with the help of his European friends. The goal, of course,
Speaker 17: is a bilateral meeting or probably a trilateral meeting. Secretary
Speaker 17: of State Marco Rubio is drafting article like five security
Speaker 17: guarantees as we speak. But at the same time, I
Speaker 17: think we have to look at this from a three
Speaker 17: D chess perspective. Sometimes something Trump is saying is also
Speaker 17: intended to have a certain effect, and in this particular case,
Speaker 17: I just don't think Vladimir Putin can be trusted. He's
Speaker 17: not negotiating in good faith, So at that point you
Speaker 17: bring out the stick rather than the carrot.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, that's a really great analysis. I agree. Now. Jd.
Speaker 3: Vance, the Vice President, has cautioned Elon Musk against forming
Speaker 3: a third political party.
Speaker 2: This is what he said.
Speaker 16: Disagree with me all you want, disagree with the President
Speaker 16: of the United States, but don't pretend that you can
Speaker 16: make a big difference with a third party. I think
Speaker 16: Elon would make a much bigger difference if he stayed
Speaker 16: loyal to President Trump's Republican Party.
Speaker 2: Bo is jd Vance Right.
Speaker 3: Could Elon Musk wield more power by sticking with the Republicans?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think he can.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 17: Jdvance just has this great, organic, disarming, plainspeak way of
Speaker 17: framing his issues and disagreements, and I think he's the
Speaker 17: robin to Trump's batman. I agree with jd that must
Speaker 17: could be much more effective as a GOP architect from
Speaker 17: within than a disgruntled outsider. Musk clearly has shifted the paradigm.
Speaker 17: You go back, you look at his disenchantment with California.
Speaker 17: You look at his purchase of Twitter, you look at
Speaker 17: his shift then to Trump, and then you look at
Speaker 17: his leadership at Doche he's very effective, but he's got
Speaker 17: to realize that Democrats will use his defection. It'll look
Speaker 17: like he sold this soul to the devil if he
Speaker 17: goes third party. Republicans on the other end, have embraced
Speaker 17: Elon Musk's acumen and his ideas, but they don't like
Speaker 17: the infighting. Nobody does. I think there's room at the
Speaker 17: table for Elon's ideas, but there's no room at the
Speaker 17: Democratic table for Elon Musk other than maybe his money.
Speaker 17: So I think the ball is in Elon's court right now,
Speaker 17: and I'll make an analogy to American history. He can
Speaker 17: be like Alexander Hamilton, who was a great leader in
Speaker 17: the battlefield, but he was really more utilized for his
Speaker 17: brain and his mental acumen. Or he can be like
Speaker 17: Aaron Burr and switch parties on a whim and go nowhere.
Speaker 17: That's kind of the choice that's in his court right now,
Speaker 17: and I think I really do think he'll make the
Speaker 17: right win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's figures crossed.
Speaker 3: Let's hope so Bo Davidson thank you so much for
Speaker 3: joining me as always.
Speaker 17: Beg you, Denik. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 3: Back in a moment with winners and losers of the week,
Speaker 3: including some good news for fans of the Beatles. Per
Speaker 3: McSwain is next time of the week where we sought
Speaker 3: the winners from the losers, and helping me to do that,
Speaker 3: as always is premixt way from communication through. But now
Speaker 3: your winner this week is a teacher who has gone
Speaker 3: viral for singing to her first grade students about body
Speaker 3: safety and consent.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks, Prey, that's going to be my head now
Speaker 2: for the rest. I know it has been in mine
Speaker 2: all day.
Speaker 18: But that's the thing that it resonates with people and
Speaker 18: children in particular with music, you know, absorb it all.
Speaker 2: And I just think this is.
Speaker 18: Brilliant way to really warn children and protect our children.
Speaker 18: And I just think, good honest, she really gets into it.
Speaker 2: Doesn't she do.
Speaker 18: But with all the concerns we have about childcare in
Speaker 18: the industry and just generally, children need to be warned
Speaker 18: and prepared and I just think this is fabulous and
Speaker 18: I hope that Australian schools adopted.
Speaker 3: I think so too. It's a good way to teach kids.
Speaker 3: It's simple, it's straightforward. I absolutely agree. Now my winner
Speaker 3: this week is Beatles fans. You know I like a musical,
Speaker 3: you know a musical theme. Now this is because thirteen
Speaker 3: unreleased Beatles tracks are set to feature on a new
Speaker 3: anthology compilation almost thirty years since the last. And in
Speaker 3: addition to this, there'll be a book at a documentary
Speaker 3: series to stream later this year on Disney Plus the
Speaker 3: Beatles Story in their own Words, and it's going to
Speaker 3: have unseen footage of the Fab four have a.
Speaker 15: Look, I need somebody?
Speaker 2: How does that? All will be released in November.
Speaker 18: And what I love is a whole new generation going
Speaker 18: to discover them. They're just anthropologists will look at the
Speaker 18: Beatles ear and think wow, that was a turning point.
Speaker 18: And I just think they're wonderful. They still resonate, don't they.
Speaker 18: I don't want to have them in my brain now,
Speaker 18: I know.
Speaker 3: Well, I prefer that over these are my private parts.
Speaker 2: I much prefer the Beetles. Now. Your loser this week
Speaker 2: is well.
Speaker 3: Jimbo Big Jim Jim Charvers and his unproductive talk best Look.
Speaker 4: There was twenty nine hours of discussions. In the end,
Speaker 4: there was by our count something like three hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty seven different contributions made over the course of those
Speaker 4: three days.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a success story. Oh wow we all hanging out. Wow,
Speaker 2: Well productivities fixed ticks that one off Gimmer. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean they've had four.
Speaker 18: Years to get productivity right, but they didn't have They
Speaker 18: don't have one clue, didn't have one idea.
Speaker 2: So they had to get this brains.
Speaker 18: Trust of the live likely you know, suspects. And what
Speaker 18: did they get?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 18: Even Daniel Woods, the Productivity Commissioner, couldn't wax it lyrical
Speaker 18: about it. I mean, blind Freddie knows what needs to
Speaker 18: be done. Get rid of this renewables fast, get rid
Speaker 18: of net zero, stop the ir issues that are plaguing
Speaker 18: business and hamstringing them. And of course the bureaucracy, the
Speaker 18: red tape, the green tape. It's just observed we cannot
Speaker 18: get on in this country. This is the loser country.
Speaker 18: We're not the lucky country because we've had in politicians
Speaker 18: for years who haven't got a bloody clue.
Speaker 3: And now Jimbo's coming after your superannuation. That's his big thing.
Speaker 3: Now that's spending so much he needs to get up.
Speaker 3: That said he's he's got to find some money to
Speaker 3: deal with his spending problems. So no, it was a
Speaker 3: complete talk fest, no outcomes, nothing out of it. They
Speaker 3: were just thinking kumbaya basically. Now look my loser this
Speaker 3: week Women's Rights. A neo Nazi jail for hate speech
Speaker 3: is now serving time in a women's prison over in
Speaker 3: Germany after changing gender now Sven Leibick legally changed the
Speaker 3: name and gender to Marla Savena. After being sentenced to
Speaker 3: eighteen months behind bars, the Justice Ministry said the inmate
Speaker 3: must be admitted in line with their new gender identity.
Speaker 2: Well, you know we're seeing this around the world, aren't we.
Speaker 3: At the moment, it's just this, you can suddenly be
Speaker 3: a woman if you put yourself yourself whatever you like.
Speaker 18: Yeah, well, I mean jails, and you know employers generally
Speaker 18: have a duty of care.
Speaker 2: What's going to happen to those women in those jails?
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 18: Now there is a man in jailp and you know,
Speaker 18: it's really terrifying. But I just hope that there are
Speaker 18: some repercussions when it backfires. I mean, I feel sorry
Speaker 18: for the women in the prisons who are going to
Speaker 18: be subjected to the to the threat of this.
Speaker 3: I completely agree with you and it just shows you
Speaker 3: how far behind as well certain countries are Germany, Australia
Speaker 3: where exactly the same the UK. You know at least
Speaker 3: that there was that ruling, the court ruling, but still
Speaker 3: not great from McSwain. Good so you always, thank you
Speaker 3: for joining me, Thanks.
Speaker 2: For your company.
Speaker 3: I'll be back Sunday night for Deneka and James at seven.
Speaker 3: Stay with us Steve Prices next.
Speaker 2: Good Night,