Speaker 1: Welcome to the Late Debate.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: I'm Caleb Bond with Liz Storer and filling in for
Speaker 3: James McPherson is Kel richards Well. The former British Prime
Speaker 3: Minister Boris Johnson has made a shocking claim about the
Speaker 3: death of the Queen. Will tell you what it is
Speaker 3: later in the show. Stephen Miles, Premier of Queensland, has
Speaker 3: backed the political trend and said he would do a
Speaker 3: deal with the Greens if it comes to minority government.
Speaker 3: And a father to be has landed himself a day
Speaker 3: in court after revealing the gender of his coming child.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you why later.
Speaker 3: Now we are continually told renewable energy is the cheapest
Speaker 3: form of energy available, and you, like me, look at
Speaker 3: your power bill every month and know that that is
Speaker 3: absolutely not the case. It costs a lot of money
Speaker 3: to get these things over from China, primarily to then
Speaker 3: put them up on pieces of land where people generally
Speaker 3: don't want them. But what happens when twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: years down the line you have to get rid of them?
Speaker 3: How much does it cost? Well, you now have people
Speaker 3: and blow and behold this reporting has come ya the ABC.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm just as shocked as you are. But you
Speaker 2: now have people.
Speaker 3: Saying that, look, we could put wind turbines up on
Speaker 3: our properties and they stand to gain about seven hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars in profit per turbine over the
Speaker 3: twenty five year lifespan.
Speaker 2: But what happens when we have to get rid of it?
Speaker 3: Because the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner now estimates that decommissioning
Speaker 3: a single wind turbine costs six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: And so if you agree to have one.
Speaker 3: Of these wind turbines, or presumably many of these wind
Speaker 3: turbines on your property, you've got a hope that the
Speaker 3: company that pays to put them up in the first
Speaker 3: place is still going to be around in twenty five
Speaker 3: years time so they can pay to take it down.
Speaker 3: Otherwise you're going to be left up the creek. So
Speaker 3: landowners are saying, well, we need the government to step
Speaker 3: in here if we are possibly going to allow these
Speaker 3: things to be built, because hell, we don't want to
Speaker 3: be left with a six hundred thousand dollar bill for
Speaker 3: every single wind turbine that we allow to be put up.
Speaker 3: But presumably all of this then if it's going to
Speaker 3: be paid for by the government or the power companies, has.
Speaker 2: To be factored into what you pay.
Speaker 3: So, Liz, not only do we pay for the thing
Speaker 3: to be put up in the first place, which is
Speaker 3: hideously expensive, now we've got to pay for the thing
Speaker 3: to be decommissioned six hundred thousand dollars per pop. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how many turbines there are across
Speaker 3: the entire country.
Speaker 2: I know in.
Speaker 3: Victoria there's about two thousand, five hundred. I mean multiply
Speaker 3: that by six hundred thousand dollars a pop for every
Speaker 3: single one of them. We are talking about huge money
Speaker 3: here for the cheapest energy in the world.
Speaker 4: Apparently, and quite rightly, people who are being asked to
Speaker 4: put these up on their land saying well, hang on
Speaker 4: a minute, you don't have a clear decommissioning process here. Now,
Speaker 4: according to the math that the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner
Speaker 4: has put out there, saying well, we'll give you if
Speaker 4: you're getting seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per wind
Speaker 4: turbine on your property, and you may have to fit
Speaker 4: the bill for the six hundred thousand to decommission it,
Speaker 4: you'd still be making one hundred and fifty thousand per turbi, and.
Speaker 3: That's seven hundred and fifty k over twenty five years.
Speaker 3: Once you've accounted for inflation. Surely you're six hundred grands
Speaker 3: out the wink well.
Speaker 4: Who knows what you'd actually end up fitting the bill for.
Speaker 5: Quite rightly the good point, good point.
Speaker 4: But we already have ninety operating wind farms in Australia,
Speaker 4: three hundred in total if the summer being built, some
Speaker 4: are planned, they are underway, and we don't yet have
Speaker 4: a clear decommissioning process.
Speaker 6: How on earth is this supposed to happen?
Speaker 4: And we know from last year you may remember this
Speaker 4: when Nick Cada from Menzies Research Center took himself up
Speaker 4: to far North Queensland and discovered we already have wind
Speaker 4: turbine graveyards in our own country. Check this out and
Speaker 4: tell me how renewable you think this looks.
Speaker 7: Just dumped here here they are. This is renewable energy.
Speaker 7: By the way, remember that word renewable. There's nothing much
Speaker 7: renewable about these things. These are old turbine blades, quite
Speaker 7: short ones actually, I mean they look big but they're
Speaker 7: some of the early twenty meters I think, and now.
Speaker 1: They've worn out.
Speaker 7: You can see you look at the quality of it,
Speaker 7: there's not much life left.
Speaker 3: In that.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: Those ones discovered last July had been lying there for
Speaker 4: eight years already, and it bears noting that the ones
Speaker 4: we're now building are four to.
Speaker 8: Five times bigger than that.
Speaker 4: So what kind of graveyards are we going to be
Speaker 4: having twenty five to thirty years from now and then
Speaker 4: what's the cost of Obviously we won't be able to
Speaker 4: just ditch them without replacing them.
Speaker 8: By then we will be very reliant on them.
Speaker 4: Indeed, I just can't believe the short sightedness of this government.
Speaker 9: The blades now are the length of four buses. The
Speaker 9: problem is the people living in Teels electorates are now
Speaker 9: near them, so they've got no idea how big they are.
Speaker 9: And they remember as kids going out to the bush
Speaker 9: and seeing those cute little southern cross wind mills, wind
Speaker 9: mills that pumped up bore water for the cattle, and
Speaker 9: that's they're nice.
Speaker 1: No they're not.
Speaker 9: They're an average of four hundred and fifty feet high.
Speaker 9: They're huge. They're like you know, multi story buildings. As
Speaker 9: I say, one blade fills the back of an entire
Speaker 9: semi trailer, so they're to get rid of it. You've
Speaker 9: got concrete and in the base, you've got steel in
Speaker 9: the town and those big blades are made out of
Speaker 9: fiberglass and bals of wood.
Speaker 1: And this is not the ball.
Speaker 9: The fiberglass is not particularly degradable or reusable stuff.
Speaker 2: And where are you.
Speaker 9: Going to put that graveyard that nixaw was just lying
Speaker 9: on the ground.
Speaker 1: There's going to have.
Speaker 9: To be a burial process for these things so they
Speaker 9: don't have to be put into some sort of massive
Speaker 9: transport delivered out to the center of Australia or somewhere
Speaker 9: and have a huge pitch together. Plus, don't forget, we've
Speaker 9: also known to dispose of the solar panels. Because the
Speaker 9: solar panels contain toxic waste material. They need to be
Speaker 9: very deep enough to be safe. The figures I looked
Speaker 9: at was minimum of say thirty dollars each to get
Speaker 9: rid of a solar panel, even a small one, and
Speaker 9: there will be millions of thirty dollars. They were saying,
Speaker 9: if you don't transport it, they can they can get
Speaker 9: rid of it for thirty dollars. Mind you, I went
Speaker 9: to an environmentalist website, so it might have been miss cheap, and.
Speaker 1: We are immediately I am I gift, it's in your blood.
Speaker 9: But the point is there are millions of them, and
Speaker 9: they're going to have to be buried somewhere where they'll
Speaker 9: be safe because they become toxic waste material. And you
Speaker 9: talked about the setup cost. After we've buried them and
Speaker 9: got rid of at the cost of six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Each, we then have to spend the money to build
Speaker 1: them again back out.
Speaker 9: So the construction costs going on now happen every twenty years.
Speaker 3: But I love that we complain, not we I mean,
Speaker 3: we obviously don't hear, but oh, we could not possibly
Speaker 3: have nuclear waste anywhere in this country because it's so dangerous,
Speaker 3: it's awful, it's bad for the environment. Yet in the
Speaker 3: name of the environment, we put up the wind turbines
Speaker 3: and the solar panels and whatever that are equally as
Speaker 3: bad by the time you've decommissioned them, full of heavy
Speaker 3: metals and all sorts of stuff that buggers up the land.
Speaker 3: But there's no problem with that. I want to know
Speaker 3: what the land looks like after they've decommissioned these wind turbines.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you've said you can have my pad
Speaker 3: it to put up all these wind turbines, it's going
Speaker 3: to look like a minefield by the time.
Speaker 4: Well, I imagine that they just rebuild on the same land,
Speaker 4: because it makes sense. Otherwise, then you'd have to go
Speaker 4: through the whole process again.
Speaker 8: To build a new wind farm or solar farm.
Speaker 9: I think we should change the language. They're not farms.
Speaker 9: They produce nothing that we can actually buy in the supermarket.
Speaker 1: They should be called wind factories.
Speaker 9: These are the mills of Satanis, the dark mills.
Speaker 1: They're wind factories.
Speaker 2: They're not farst or bird choppers eyes.
Speaker 1: And they also burst into flames.
Speaker 4: Exactly know, because Labor told us last year, people crunch
Speaker 4: the numbers. They've got to erect a wind turbine every
Speaker 4: single day, at least one until twenty thirty in order
Speaker 4: to reach their goals.
Speaker 6: And as for solar.
Speaker 8: Panels, twenty two thousand a day.
Speaker 4: We need new solar panels in order to reach these
Speaker 4: twenty thirty goals that everyone has said for very good reason,
Speaker 4: is entirely impractical. You're never going to get there, and
Speaker 4: in fact, we very much hope that you don't. To
Speaker 4: the US now where the Carmala campaign and the Trump
Speaker 4: campaign are facing off regarding every single little detail, poking
Speaker 4: holes in each other's even Twitter posts. Now we know
Speaker 4: that the US has been hit by Hurricane Helene recently.
Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty people have lost their lives. Countless
Speaker 4: others are unaccounted for due to the terrible communications. They
Speaker 4: literally just don't have range on their phone out there
Speaker 4: at the moment. So the government is getting absolutely whacked
Speaker 4: for this, and Kamala is doing her best to make
Speaker 4: sure everyone knows they're at the helm, it's all under control.
Speaker 4: And to that end, she shared a picture of herself
Speaker 4: and what appears to be Air Force too. She captioned
Speaker 4: this saying, our administration will continue to stay in constant
Speaker 4: contact with state and local officials to ensure community have
Speaker 4: the support and resources they need. But you'll notice she's
Speaker 4: got the phone unplugged on the desk while having an
Speaker 4: ear piece in So Donald J. Trump jumped straight on
Speaker 4: Twitter and replied with this epithet. He said, another fake
Speaker 4: and stage photo from someone who has no clue what
Speaker 4: she is doing.
Speaker 6: You have to plug the cord.
Speaker 5: Into the phone for it to work.
Speaker 4: Biden and Harris abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. They have sacrificed
Speaker 4: Americans to an open border, and now they have left
Speaker 4: Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and
Speaker 4: elsewhere in the South. Under this administration, Americans always come
Speaker 4: last because we have leaders who have no idea how
Speaker 4: to lead now. Biden, it bears mentioning was he stayed
Speaker 4: in Delaware the entire time, and while this hurricane was
Speaker 4: ravaging the States and copped a lot of heat for it,
Speaker 4: he did return to Washington to give this press address
Speaker 4: and again convince convince the country that not on He's
Speaker 4: still at the Helm and they're taking care of all
Speaker 4: of this.
Speaker 10: There's mat reports of over one hundred dead and consequence
Speaker 10: of the storm, and there are reports of up six
Speaker 10: hundred people on account for because they can't be contacted,
Speaker 10: God willing, they're alive, but there's no way to contact
Speaker 10: them again because of the lack of cell phone coverage.
Speaker 10: I've directed my team to provide every available resource as
Speaker 10: fast as possible to your communities.
Speaker 4: Every available recess except of course, the communications that people
Speaker 4: need on the ground to be able to contact each other.
Speaker 4: He was then asked as he left, why weren't you
Speaker 4: guys in Washington? Where were you guys while this hurricane
Speaker 4: was raging, leaving a trail of destructions to retaliate.
Speaker 5: I'm a hurricane is for president.
Speaker 2: Why weren't she and Vice President Harris Sar in Washington
Speaker 2: commanding this this weekend?
Speaker 10: I was committed, and I was on the phone for
Speaker 10: at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well.
Speaker 2: I command. It's called a telephone. It's all my security.
Speaker 3: It's a nonmordant populacy.
Speaker 6: I was delegating from Delaware. Why couldn't you.
Speaker 4: Tell us taking care of business from my beach house.
Speaker 4: Thank goodness, somebody is acting president, even if he isn't yet.
Speaker 4: Here's Trump on the ground in Georgia doing the actual
Speaker 4: work of a president in such a trauma state.
Speaker 11: And to the families and loved ones of those who
Speaker 11: have perished, with mourn alongside of you, and we grieve
Speaker 11: every single life so tragically lost. I'd like to now
Speaker 11: ask for a moment of silence and prayer, if you would,
Speaker 11: for those who have died.
Speaker 4: Thank you, He's showing them up every chance, and with
Speaker 4: this administration, it's not hard well.
Speaker 3: I mean I was going to say it's unbelievable. It's
Speaker 3: entirely believable. Joe Biden has just totally checked out at
Speaker 3: the president. Oh yeah, since it was taken off in
Speaker 3: the candidacy, was taken off him. So there he is
Speaker 3: in the middle of a natural disaster at home in Delaware,
Speaker 3: sitting on.
Speaker 2: The b.
Speaker 9: Following the pattern of working from home in Austrica. But
Speaker 9: I've got to say, what Biden and Harris have done
Speaker 9: between them is they make Trump look really presidential. I
Speaker 9: mean he looked presidential. In behind him was Franklin Graham,
Speaker 9: the son of Billy Graham, who comes in on these
Speaker 9: situation because they have a rescue team and they come
Speaker 9: in and they help people in need. This was a
Speaker 9: man doing exactly what presidents do. The only person doing
Speaker 9: it is the only one looking like a president. Can
Speaker 9: we go back for a moment to that still of
Speaker 9: Kamala Harris on the plane. Can you find that that still?
Speaker 9: Put that up on the screen, because there's something else
Speaker 9: you need to notice.
Speaker 1: Ye have a look.
Speaker 9: Not only is the phone not connected, it's all blank paper.
Speaker 1: That tells what you need to know.
Speaker 3: Well, I reckon that ear piece is actually plugged in.
Speaker 3: It's just plugged into the people who are telling her
Speaker 3: what to say while she's on the phone. She's got
Speaker 3: her master's in area telling you what to do. Every
Speaker 3: time something like this happens, and they seem to happen
Speaker 3: with alarming regularity, whether it be in American politics or
Speaker 3: Australian politics. Of all the people who are employed particularly,
Speaker 3: I mean, forget about how many advisors whatever you have
Speaker 3: in an Australian Prime minister's office. The number of advisors
Speaker 3: specifically working on media who sit in the President's office
Speaker 3: and the Vice president's office is enormous. How does no
Speaker 3: one look at that photo and go, oh, hang on
Speaker 3: a minute, you've got a problem.
Speaker 1: It looks like tell you why.
Speaker 9: The answer is found in the answer to this question, Gayla,
Speaker 9: what's the difference between Kamala Harrison artificial intelligence?
Speaker 1: Well, she's only artificial.
Speaker 2: I was going to.
Speaker 3: Say, artificial intelligence actually has some intelligence. I mean, Trump
Speaker 3: might have had a point the other day when he
Speaker 3: suggested that she's not entirely all up there when it
Speaker 3: comes to these sorts of.
Speaker 2: Things that all right, but it's just awful to think.
Speaker 2: And she has said.
Speaker 3: Camala said, I can't go down to Georgia right now
Speaker 3: because it would be a distraction and I would get
Speaker 3: in the way of the work being done on the
Speaker 3: ground by the emergency. She cares, I seriously, it's not
Speaker 3: like I was going to say, it's quite comparable. And
Speaker 3: remember when Scott Morrison was over in Hawaii during bush
Speaker 3: fires here in this country, going back four odd years ago.
Speaker 2: Now will Joe Biden there?
Speaker 3: He is holidaying in Delaware, back home on the beach,
Speaker 3: while natural disasters are unravaging and unraveling, and all he
Speaker 3: can say is, you know what a phone is. I've
Speaker 3: got the phone that we're going while we're talking about
Speaker 3: US politics. Of course, tomorrow will be the vice presidential
Speaker 3: debate between JD.
Speaker 2: Vance and Tim Waltz.
Speaker 3: You can watch it right here on Sky News from
Speaker 3: eleven am Australian Eastern daylight time. And I think, kel
Speaker 3: this is going to be a really important debate, more
Speaker 3: important than the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: because that just turned out to be a vanity project,
Speaker 3: basically for Kamala to say, well, here here, I actually am.
Speaker 3: But you know, Trump is staring down the barrel of
Speaker 3: being eighty and so there is of course the possibility,
Speaker 3: much like Biden, that he could carget while he's.
Speaker 2: In office, and in that case JD.
Speaker 3: Vance could potentially be the next president of the United States.
Speaker 3: And so he has the opportunity tomorrow to say, well,
Speaker 3: I am the guy not only who's got a hand
Speaker 3: on Trump's shoulder to keep him in line, if that's
Speaker 3: what you're worried about, but I am a potential future president.
Speaker 3: I suspect he will wipe the floor with Tim Watz
Speaker 3: because he is a great orator and a good debate
Speaker 3: and he's.
Speaker 1: Been preparing well.
Speaker 9: The way he's been preparing is using something called murder boards.
Speaker 1: Have you heard the expression murder boards?
Speaker 2: I hadn't until today. It sounds a bit concerning.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 9: It's where a panel of people sit up in front
Speaker 9: of him and ask him the hardest questions they can
Speaker 9: think of, and really grill him and throw things at him.
Speaker 9: Murder board is an expression born in the American Army.
Speaker 9: Goes back to nineteen forty four, and originally a murder
Speaker 9: board was any promotions board or anything like that. Because
Speaker 9: the soldiers hated them and they regarded them as Absolutely
Speaker 9: you've got.
Speaker 2: A promotion because the other boat got popped off.
Speaker 9: But anyway, but it's a lovely expression. We've now learned,
Speaker 9: know it's the wordsmith in me. We've learned a new expression.
Speaker 1: Murder board. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 9: But what it means is he's actually working hard at
Speaker 9: being prepared and doing the really tough stuff.
Speaker 1: He's got a very good mind.
Speaker 9: He needs to convince them that at forty he would
Speaker 9: be the youngest president of the United States, even younger
Speaker 9: than John F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy.
Speaker 9: So he needs to persuade them. I've got the smarts
Speaker 9: to be able to do this.
Speaker 2: What do you expect will see tomorrow, Liz Befo.
Speaker 6: It will be a blood bath.
Speaker 2: It ought to be a bloodbath.
Speaker 3: But Tim Waltz, I mean, you know, we've seen her
Speaker 3: do that interview with Kamala Harris where he essentially held
Speaker 3: her hand his stick.
Speaker 2: Seems to be the whole dad thing. You know. I'm
Speaker 2: just a knock about sort of lad. I don't know
Speaker 2: that that's going to play well in it.
Speaker 4: No, especially not up against JD. Vance, because like you say,
Speaker 4: he is a great orator. He's very well spoken and
Speaker 4: he's no stranger to debates. So this is I genuinely
Speaker 4: think we'll see JD. Vans eat Tim Waltz alive because
Speaker 4: Tim Waltz is like this bumbling dad like figure and JD.
Speaker 4: Vance has been a politician for a long time now
Speaker 4: and he knows his stuff. And also it's very poor
Speaker 4: timing for Waltz because most and you won't hear any
Speaker 4: questions about this tomorrow. I don't believe he's had some
Speaker 4: concerns raised by an oversight committee regarding his ties to
Speaker 4: the Chinese Communist Party, so.
Speaker 5: Very bad timing.
Speaker 4: Whistleblower allegations against him have tied him to the CCP,
Speaker 4: the oversight the House Oversight Committee has subpoened the Department
Speaker 4: of Homeland Security after an internal employee group chat raised
Speaker 4: quote serious concerns, So they're digging into that. It's making
Speaker 4: headlines in the US again. There'll be softball questions tomorrow
Speaker 4: night at the debate because CBS is moderating it.
Speaker 2: So it's Fox, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I think it's on Fox, so it should actually be
Speaker 3: half a decent gun.
Speaker 9: It is CBS, and can I say all that stuff
Speaker 9: about Wolves. It could be a distraction. I think Vance
Speaker 9: has got to be careful about this.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 9: Wolves has told a whole lot of lies about his
Speaker 9: military service, but the rank he achieved Williams in combat,
Speaker 9: a whole lot of things like that, And the temptation
Speaker 9: would be to go at Walsh and nail him on
Speaker 9: all these lives. I think Vance has got to be
Speaker 9: there nailing Harris. She's the presidential candidate. He's got to
Speaker 9: keep drilling Waltz about how this woman who is clearly
Speaker 9: incompetent and all she can do is giggle nicely. However,
Speaker 9: how she could ever be the leader of the free
Speaker 9: world and the commander in chief.
Speaker 1: That's what he's got to push, the Harris line.
Speaker 2: I think. I'm not sure how I came to think
Speaker 2: it was on Fox. It must have been wishful thinking.
Speaker 4: The Harris's campaign would never allow sure moderating.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be great to actually see them face They wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Friendly's just so balling their way through the entire thing
Speaker 4: and causing Americans to your nationwide, no doubt to the
Speaker 4: UK now where Boris Johnson's new book is set to
Speaker 4: come out on October ten, so very soon.
Speaker 6: Don't rush to your book shelves.
Speaker 4: There's so many spoilers in the headlines already you barely
Speaker 4: need to read the book. You've got the best bits already. Surprisingly,
Speaker 4: he's chosen.
Speaker 8: This book to reveal that he believed the Queen to.
Speaker 4: Have bone cancer before she passed away. Now, of course
Speaker 4: this has I believe rightly gotten a lot of censure
Speaker 4: from people because this is something so inappropriate to reveal.
Speaker 5: In your memoirs.
Speaker 4: This is something that, if true, the Palace would have
Speaker 4: taken great pains to ensure that her personal private health
Speaker 4: matters were hers alone. And he decides just to drop
Speaker 4: this on the world at large in a book that's
Speaker 4: supposed to be about his time in the PM's chair.
Speaker 2: I think it's frankly pathetic.
Speaker 3: I mean, Boris Johnson is going back to his days
Speaker 3: as a journalist here, right, that's what he was before
Speaker 3: he was a politician. But when you are a journalist,
Speaker 3: you know that certain things are off the record. I mean,
Speaker 3: someone says to you, look, I'm telling you this off
Speaker 3: the record, So you either don't reveal that information, or
Speaker 3: there is a way to reveal that information.
Speaker 2: Because they've told it to you.
Speaker 3: Because they want you to reveal it without revealing what
Speaker 3: the source is. It is well known that when you
Speaker 3: have discussions with the firm as they call it in
Speaker 3: the UK, which is the royal family, that is all
Speaker 3: off the record. Boris Johnson is trying to sell books
Speaker 3: here by revealing information that he has no right to reveal.
Speaker 3: And I can't believe that he would think he would
Speaker 3: get away with it. I mean, if there is anyone
Speaker 3: in the world beyond the UK that is beloved, it
Speaker 3: is the Queen.
Speaker 2: Yes. And to reveal.
Speaker 3: Personal, private medical information about the Queen, he says he
Speaker 3: you for a year before her death that she had
Speaker 3: bone cancer.
Speaker 2: I think is a low.
Speaker 1: Act and we don't need to know and we don't want.
Speaker 5: To It was none of our business.
Speaker 9: And we say rest in peace, we mean rest in police.
Speaker 9: But he's other stuff in the book as well. He's
Speaker 9: got a story in the book that he was recruited
Speaker 9: by the Palace to talk to Harry to try to
Speaker 9: persuade Harry not to leave the UK. So he had
Speaker 9: this manly chat, you know, manu amanu with Harry. But
Speaker 9: the Palace has now come out and said no, no,
Speaker 9: we gave him no such commission. No such thing happened.
Speaker 9: I mean, you did say very quickly in passing. He's
Speaker 9: trying to sell books, and it's fairly obvious he's trying
Speaker 9: to sell books. That's what it's all about. He's not
Speaker 9: being employed as a journalist anywhere. He's lost his political employment,
Speaker 9: so he needs this to sell well. And he's had
Speaker 9: a look at Spare and he's thought, I can do
Speaker 9: as well as that. I can spill that sort of
Speaker 9: stuff you know, that will sell a million copies. I'll
Speaker 9: be okay, I'll be able to buy the bigger country house,
Speaker 9: all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But it is the blokenose scruples.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, sorry, I am, and I say this
Speaker 3: as a journalist former reported myself.
Speaker 2: You know, journalists and.
Speaker 3: Titians probably rank up there with used car sales real
Speaker 3: estate agents when it comes to public perception.
Speaker 2: But you know, does the blowcoats have no scruples to go?
Speaker 3: Oh look, I should probably leave that bit out of
Speaker 3: the book about the queen, for heaven's sake.
Speaker 2: I just cannot get over it.
Speaker 3: And he continues in this book he's crapping all over
Speaker 3: everyone he can possibly find, including his replacement as prime minister,
Speaker 3: who of course was Rishi Sunak, and he says he
Speaker 3: was basically assassinated by Rishi Sunak, which you know is
Speaker 3: a bit of hyperbole.
Speaker 2: But again, he's got to sell books.
Speaker 3: I suppose, he writes in his new memoirle as I
Speaker 3: read his resignation letter that Sunaki's talking about with its
Speaker 3: laden phrasers, I murmured, at least internally, the dying words
Speaker 3: of Julius Caesar kaisu technon, which is Latin for you
Speaker 3: two child. If Caesar had twenty three stab wounds from
Speaker 3: his assassins, I ended up with sixty two, in the
Speaker 3: sense that a grant total of sixty ministers. Sorry, decided
Speaker 3: to follow Sage and Rishi out the door. That, in
Speaker 3: the end, was why I had to go. I could
Speaker 3: still have built a government. I had enough straw to
Speaker 3: make my bricks. I mean, the bloke can't let go.
Speaker 2: You've got me.
Speaker 3: Were deposed as prime minister, make Shulak ended up replacing you,
Speaker 3: and here he is trying to rewrite history.
Speaker 2: I could have held on. I could have held on.
Speaker 3: He's even gone so far as to suggest that if
Speaker 3: he was leading the Tories at the election a few
Speaker 3: months ago, three months ago, then.
Speaker 2: He would have retained government. I mean, is the bloke
Speaker 2: properly delusion ego. I have liked Boris Johnson for a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 4: He is alike and I was I was glad.
Speaker 2: When he became Prime minister.
Speaker 3: But I think, like a lot of conservative leaders, including
Speaker 3: ones here in our country, he turned out to be
Speaker 3: a squibby, signed up to every green policy he could find.
Speaker 3: And now he's trying to tell us, oh no, if
Speaker 3: they just left me in charge, it all would have
Speaker 3: been fine given.
Speaker 8: And trying to blame Rishi for this.
Speaker 4: I mean, he literally writes of Rishi's resignation, it was
Speaker 4: worse than a crime. It was a mistake both for
Speaker 4: Rishi and for the.
Speaker 5: Party, never mind the country.
Speaker 4: So now it's Rishi's fault that the country has fallen
Speaker 4: into the Labor Party's hands.
Speaker 6: It's entirely Reshie's fault.
Speaker 4: If he hadn't walked out the door, the others wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Rishi led the.
Speaker 4: Charge according to this grand narrative that he's selling here,
Speaker 4: and were it.
Speaker 5: Not for him, he could still be Prime minister.
Speaker 9: There's a very simple message that is running through all
Speaker 9: of this. Boris Johnson is looking at us really seriously
Speaker 9: with his serious face and saying I am important, I
Speaker 9: am very important. Take me very seriously, because Boris is
Speaker 9: very impressed by Boris. If Shakespeare was alive, he would
Speaker 9: write a play about me.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, genuinely believe that there's probably a line about
Speaker 4: it in his book. But while Boris Johnson is paying
Speaker 4: out on Rishi Sunak, the polls in the UK are
Speaker 4: telling us that people in England very much miss Rishi Sunak.
Speaker 4: Kirsama has only been PM since July, and yet in
Speaker 4: three short months his popularity has plummeted. A survey by
Speaker 4: think tank More in Common shows the Labor government is
Speaker 4: already less light than the previous Tory one, despite taking
Speaker 4: power less than three months ago. The poll of two
Speaker 4: thousand and eighty adults showed that thirty one percent preferred
Speaker 4: mister Sunak's government, while twenty nine percent preferred.
Speaker 6: The current one. It goes on.
Speaker 4: The Prime Minister's net approval rating with More in Common
Speaker 4: has now fallen to minus twenty seven percent, down thirty
Speaker 4: eight points from when.
Speaker 6: Labor took office.
Speaker 4: It is a stark contrast to the reception that Sir
Speaker 4: Tony Blair received in a similar point for following his.
Speaker 8: Own landslide in nineteen ninety seven, when.
Speaker 4: It was reported his net score was as high as
Speaker 4: ninety three percent.
Speaker 5: Wow, how popular can you get?
Speaker 6: But this has got to.
Speaker 4: Set a record for pummeting popularity within your first three months.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 9: This is an embodiment of up like a up, like
Speaker 9: a fire, working down like a stick in a minute.
Speaker 9: It has it is an embodyment. But I think there's
Speaker 9: a real reason for this, and it's because he sold himself.
Speaker 9: Keir Starmer sold himself really heavily as a centrist, just
Speaker 9: a bit left of center and not a lot of
Speaker 9: policies and safe hands.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing.
Speaker 9: I mean, I have to say our own Prime Minister,
Speaker 9: Anthony Albertiez, he did the same thing. I'm just a
Speaker 9: bit left of center. I know I belonged to the
Speaker 9: socialist left for many years, but now I'm just a
Speaker 9: bit left of center and Albi and I can remember
Speaker 9: Kevin Rudd. I'm just going to be a younger better
Speaker 9: John Howard. Safe pair of hands, that's what they do.
Speaker 9: And he did the same thing. He's in office. He's
Speaker 9: now taken them to the hard left with a whole
Speaker 9: lot of looney, hard left policies. That's not what they
Speaker 9: voted for. That's why these sorts of numbers turn up.
Speaker 9: That is the game the left of politics now plays
Speaker 9: is we know no one loves the left of politics
Speaker 9: except all the university students.
Speaker 1: No one else does.
Speaker 9: Consequently, we've got to pretend to be something else and
Speaker 9: then govern the Wobie Water government.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: It's possibly the greatest case of buyer's remorse I've ever
Speaker 3: seen in entire life. You know, they say that the
Speaker 3: people never get never get it wrong when it comes.
Speaker 2: To elections, but I think they've got it.
Speaker 3: Pretty bloody wrong here by their own acknowledgment. And of
Speaker 3: course Sir Kirs Starmer has not had an easy start
Speaker 3: to his prime ministership, which is mostly of his own making,
Speaker 3: and he lost a labor m P went to the
Speaker 3: cross bench on the weekend after all these allegations they're
Speaker 3: not allegations. All this free stuff that he was taking
Speaker 3: as Prime minister while preaching about how you know, we're
Speaker 3: going to be an egalitarian government and we're standing up
Speaker 3: for the working man, etc.
Speaker 2: He's taking donations of you know, free trips to the.
Speaker 3: All clothing, all sorts of stuff, thousands and thousands of
Speaker 3: pounds that have come to light, and he's not taken
Speaker 3: that very well.
Speaker 2: They're now calling him free gear Kia in the UK, and.
Speaker 3: Then before that, of course, they were calling him two
Speaker 3: tier Kia because shortly after the Prime Minister, you had
Speaker 3: riots across the country after the killing of a number
Speaker 3: of children, which was initially reported online as to have
Speaker 3: been committed by a young refugee. He didn't turn out
Speaker 3: to be refugees parents were migrants originally, but that caused
Speaker 3: all of these riots across the UK, and you saw
Speaker 3: the police cracking down on people who were essentially trying
Speaker 3: to defend their country, saying, look, we've got a problem
Speaker 3: with migration here that's been ignored for years and years
Speaker 3: and years. The police cracked down on them. But meanwhile
Speaker 3: the counter protests, which were just as numerous as the
Speaker 3: others from Muslims getting around in the UK fighting back
Speaker 3: against it, well they were just allowed.
Speaker 2: To let go. Essentially, it was the two tierke policing system.
Speaker 2: He's had a terrible run of it.
Speaker 6: So far, he really has.
Speaker 4: And now his government has come up with this operation
Speaker 4: to empty prisons of actual criminals in there doing time
Speaker 4: in order to free up prison space because they're completely
Speaker 4: full in the UK, so that they can put some
Speaker 4: of these rioters in there.
Speaker 6: Because he was.
Speaker 4: Gracing the headlines every day saying we will crack down
Speaker 4: on these protesters with the full force of the law,
Speaker 4: he meant business. The courts were then working over time
Speaker 4: trying to process hundreds of protesters who had been arrested.
Speaker 4: There was nowhere to put them in the meantime, and
Speaker 4: they are genuinely now releasing criminals before their time is
Speaker 4: done in order to cram these protesters into the prisons.
Speaker 4: It's been an absolute shoust muzzle and I think you're
Speaker 4: quite right Kelln saying he sold himself as one thing
Speaker 4: and very quickly became another, because I still remember his
Speaker 4: inaugural speech as Prime Minister, and he genuinely said he
Speaker 4: spoke of small government. He said I want to be
Speaker 4: out of your lives as much as possible. And then
Speaker 4: if you were watching last week, he stood up at
Speaker 4: the first Labor conference as Prime Minister and said the
Speaker 4: exact opposite. He was talking about big government.
Speaker 8: He was saying, we want to.
Speaker 5: Be more in control of your lives.
Speaker 4: He used the word controlled and uncontrolled fifteen times in
Speaker 4: a rather short speech, and it gave off a completely
Speaker 4: completely different idea of the government. That the UK had
Speaker 4: been sold and went to the polls believing what they
Speaker 4: were going to get.
Speaker 9: What it makes there's a very interesting figure. There's another
Speaker 9: figure we haven't quoted yet from the survey. Remember he
Speaker 9: won in our landslide, massive landslipe FO one hundred and
Speaker 9: eleven I think out of the six hundred and thirty
Speaker 9: six huge landslide, big win and that was really only
Speaker 9: months ago. Effectively, this survey says now twenty one percent
Speaker 9: of the people surveyed think he'll win the next election.
Speaker 1: One in five. Now that's a crash from a landslide.
Speaker 9: And it tells me that who the Conservatives settle on
Speaker 9: as their leader is now vitally important. It's got to
Speaker 9: be someone good, it's got to becoming Badanock or someone
Speaker 9: who was really conservative and really intelligent, really courageous and
Speaker 9: really articulate.
Speaker 1: And because there's a.
Speaker 9: Good chance this, like the Albaneze government, may turn out
Speaker 9: to be a one term government.
Speaker 1: Not impossible.
Speaker 3: Something tells me, Liz that the British people might actually
Speaker 3: prefer a sausage to be running the UK right now.
Speaker 4: I don't know if not everyone will get that reference.
Speaker 4: When Kirs Starmer was at the Labor Conference last week,
Speaker 4: he famously said in his spit speech that the UK
Speaker 4: called upon the Power that be for a cease firing
Speaker 4: Gaza and to bring the sausages home, a line that
Speaker 4: will no doubt haunt him for the rest of his life,
Speaker 4: and he was duly roasted online, as he should be,
Speaker 4: for such a terrible slip up to the UN Assembly
Speaker 4: now where a week ago they passed their new Pack
Speaker 4: for the Future, which is basically a New World Order
Speaker 4: by another name. You would have heard of Agenda twenty thirty.
Speaker 4: Many Western countries are implementing it right under our noses.
Speaker 4: And I bet you didn't know that. The UN just
Speaker 4: went right ahead at their General Assembly and pasted it
Speaker 4: without your knowledge. We don't get a say in these things,
Speaker 4: but then of course.
Speaker 5: You hear about them for years on end.
Speaker 4: The Paris Accords, this treaty, this thing that you agreed
Speaker 4: to at the UN, and they bashes with.
Speaker 5: It for years on end. This is going to be
Speaker 5: no different.
Speaker 4: And this one is one of those multifaceted type packs
Speaker 4: that will literally impact every area of anybody's life, especially
Speaker 4: in the Western world, because where the ones that seem
Speaker 4: to take these packs so seriously. And again, nobody got
Speaker 4: a vote, nobody would even be aware that they've done this,
Speaker 4: but they've just gone right ahead and implemented it.
Speaker 8: This forty two page patch.
Speaker 5: You can read it.
Speaker 4: I really encourage you to do so. It's just frightening
Speaker 4: how these guys operate. Nobody elected them, They just get together.
Speaker 4: They make decisions on behalf of all of us. And
Speaker 4: here you have not only more green policies, but what
Speaker 4: is literally ushering in I believe to be a new
Speaker 4: world order.
Speaker 3: Well, they're essentially saying we've got to go faster towards
Speaker 3: the Paris Accords. They're coming up with rules now that
Speaker 3: allow governments to share information with each other about what
Speaker 3: they deem to be, you know, major crimes. Now the
Speaker 3: government themselves gets to deem what is a major crime,
Speaker 3: and this gives them access to information that is held
Speaker 3: in governments that would otherwise be secret or private. Journalists
Speaker 3: across the world, including the US, have said, hang on
Speaker 3: a minute, this is a threat to free speech. It
Speaker 3: is a threat to the free press, and Antonio Guterres,
Speaker 3: the General Secretary of the UN, said that this packed
Speaker 3: kell was because the whole point of the UN was
Speaker 3: in a dire straight like the UN was basically losing
Speaker 3: its metal because as we know, it's failed in the
Speaker 3: one job that was set up to do, which was
Speaker 3: to stop global conflict. Well, there's plenty of global conflict
Speaker 3: going on right now. People were saying, hang on a minute,
Speaker 3: that the UN's in a bit of trouble here. So
Speaker 3: they come up with a pack to say, hang on
Speaker 3: to revive the UN, we actually need more power.
Speaker 9: They are not doing what they were set up to do.
Speaker 9: Australia's Clive Effort was involved in setting up the United Nations.
Speaker 9: It was just after the Second World War, late nineteen forties,
Speaker 9: and the purpose was exactly what you said, to stop
Speaker 9: that kind of global conflict, to stop warsters. And in
Speaker 9: a lot of ways they've done well. They've sent in
Speaker 9: peacekeeping forces, the famous Blue Berets. And what's happening in
Speaker 9: southern Leblon now is a United Nations failure because there
Speaker 9: was a United Nations resolution saying Hesbela was to stay
Speaker 9: north of the Latani River. That's a resolution of this organization.
Speaker 1: The UN.
Speaker 9: And then they set in a United Nations peacekeeping force
Speaker 9: of Blue Berets to patrol that area on the Israeli border,
Speaker 9: on the Lebanese side, to make sure it happened. The
Speaker 9: Hezbollah came back again and they just as they infiltrated
Speaker 9: back again and filled that area and brought their arms
Speaker 9: back in. What did the UN peacekeepers do the people
Speaker 9: in the Blue berets Nothing, well, nothing at all. That
Speaker 9: is a UN failure. This is a pointless US activity.
Speaker 3: And as we warned you right throughout COVID, once they
Speaker 3: get a taste of the power that COVID gave them,
Speaker 3: they will do absolutely everything they can to hang on
Speaker 3: to it. And that is exactly what they're doing now.
Speaker 3: After the break, we'll get into the papers. Would you
Speaker 3: buy power from Stephen Miles if he knocked at your door?
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what it wants you to do.
Speaker 3: If he wins government again, unlikely, but he's going to
Speaker 3: give it a shot.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that more. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Let's get into the papers, starting with the Mercury tomorrow
Speaker 3: where it says tas own way on vape law new
Speaker 3: vaping laws across most states and territories came into effect yesterday,
Speaker 3: that is today, because of course it's tomorrow's paper. But
Speaker 3: those rules will not apply in Tasmania and Western Australia
Speaker 3: from October one. Certain e cigarette products can be brought
Speaker 3: over the counter at pharmacies in other parts of Australia
Speaker 3: without a prescription. But it goes on to say that
Speaker 3: the Public Health Director in Tasmania is quoted saying, despite
Speaker 3: changes elsewhere, Tasmania is retaining the current requirements for the
Speaker 3: buying and selling of e cigarette products.
Speaker 2: Now, these rules were just.
Speaker 3: Sort of nonsense to begin with, because of the federal
Speaker 3: government thought it would be a smart idea to ban
Speaker 3: the sale of vapes altogether, which is allowed an legal
Speaker 3: market to go bunter, and of course all of that
Speaker 3: money ends up in the hands of organized crime games
Speaker 3: that they then use to murder and rape and traffic
Speaker 3: and all this sort of stuff that they do. But
Speaker 3: you've got a federal law, okay. Now, surely, however bad
Speaker 3: the federal law might be, it ought to be respected
Speaker 3: by the states because at the very least they've said, okay,
Speaker 3: you can now go into a pharmacy and I know
Speaker 3: the pharmacies don't want it, but you can go into
Speaker 3: a pharmacy and get a vape without a prescription, which
Speaker 3: means that if you are a vapor you don't have
Speaker 3: to go to a dodgy tobacconist and buy an illegal
Speaker 3: vape that's come from China. That leads to money going
Speaker 3: to organized crime. So these states Tasmania and Western Australia,
Speaker 3: in their infinite wisdom Liz, have said, no, let's make
Speaker 3: sure more money remains in the hands of organized crime
Speaker 3: games because the only place you'll still be able to
Speaker 3: buy a vape is in an illegal shop.
Speaker 2: Make it make sense?
Speaker 6: I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't make sense of any of this.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know why they're bothering to do this
Speaker 4: at all. I harghly suspect it's because they haven't been
Speaker 4: able to figure out how to make as much money
Speaker 4: off fates as they have off the tobacco in thestree
Speaker 4: because that's still not banned, is it No, because then
Speaker 4: the government would be out of pocket to the tune
Speaker 4: of billions of dollars every single year. So they rather
Speaker 4: like that industry, even though they own that it is
Speaker 4: very detrimental to many people's health and puts a massive
Speaker 4: weight on our health system.
Speaker 8: But here we have a product that they still can't tell.
Speaker 4: Us why it is bad, and I, for the life
Speaker 4: of me, still don't understand the lack of research about this,
Speaker 4: because all they're trying to do now is tell predominantly
Speaker 4: young people vatees are bad.
Speaker 8: But there's nothing to back that up.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's a cocktail of chemicals. Okay, what are the stats,
Speaker 4: Show me a pie chart, show me anything. And yet
Speaker 4: they've not been able to produce that, and they're churning
Speaker 4: out legislation.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, There is a reason, and the
Speaker 9: reason is it contains nicotine. Nicotine has two properties. One
Speaker 9: is it's highly addictive. It hits the same parts of
Speaker 9: the brain that erin hits. The other is nicotine actually
Speaker 9: attacks the internal walls of the arteries. So the reason
Speaker 9: why smokers often lose limbs and things like that, because
Speaker 9: they have lots of blood clots, is because that's what
Speaker 9: nicotine does. So they put flavorings in and various other
Speaker 9: things in. But they're putting nicotine in a because it
Speaker 9: gets the users halked. They want them to come back
Speaker 9: and back and back and b they don't care about
Speaker 9: what happens to their bodies in the meantime. So there
Speaker 9: is a reason. I don't think anyone's explained it, Liz,
Speaker 9: but there is a reason behind this.
Speaker 3: But in the UK they actually the NHS gives them
Speaker 3: out for free to people. They did it off get
Speaker 3: off the cigarettes right because.
Speaker 2: They acknowledge that it's less bad cigarets.
Speaker 3: But the reality is people are going to vape just
Speaker 3: like people are going to smoke. But you can walk
Speaker 3: into the supermarket and buy a packet of daries, no problems.
Speaker 2: And if you want to go and get a.
Speaker 3: Vape which is on all the available evidence less damaging
Speaker 3: to your health, they got to go and buy it
Speaker 3: from a bikey or a pharmacy.
Speaker 9: Can I just say that is the most attention given
Speaker 9: to the Hobart Mercury for all long.
Speaker 1: We do. We do, and it's a lovely place, I've
Speaker 1: got to tell you.
Speaker 9: But on the front page of the Herald Sun tomorrow
Speaker 9: in Melbourne is the story which will be on the
Speaker 9: front page of a lot of newspapers today about racism
Speaker 9: systemic at the ABC. The story by our own Sophie
Speaker 9: Olsworth says ABC staff have been subjected to systemic racism,
Speaker 9: including racial slurs, derogatory and offensive comments about their appearance,
Speaker 9: stereotyping and being mistaken for someone else because of their
Speaker 9: racial appearance, and explosive new reporters found, prompting an apology
Speaker 9: to staff by managing director David Anderson. I spent can
Speaker 9: I admit this because I'm in this company.
Speaker 1: It may be really bad.
Speaker 2: This is a safe space.
Speaker 9: I actually worked for the ABC for twenty five years.
Speaker 9: It was a younger KEL and it was a long
Speaker 9: time ago, was quite a different ABC, and we worked
Speaker 9: with people from all racists and everyone were just mate.
Speaker 9: I think the reason they've got this report is they
Speaker 9: went to a racist organization and said find racism, and
Speaker 9: blow and behold they found racism.
Speaker 1: That's their job when they do the server.
Speaker 2: Why would the abacy want to find it?
Speaker 1: Because stupid? They're stupid on you know.
Speaker 2: They say, don't ask a question unless you.
Speaker 9: Know they've decided how far can we go down stupid street?
Speaker 2: Well haven't got far enough.
Speaker 3: But doesn't it prove once again that the great virtuous
Speaker 3: ABC is not as virtuous as we all think that is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've made this argument for so long, and
Speaker 3: they did a survey as well on sexism and misogyny
Speaker 3: in whatever it is back in July and came back
Speaker 3: and found that people were being sexually harassed all over
Speaker 3: the shop. Moreever, I've made this argument before about quote
Speaker 3: unquote male feminists that men who say they are feminists
Speaker 3: usually turn out to be the most misogynistic of all
Speaker 3: because they have this sort of patronizing view about women,
Speaker 3: and they get really upset when women don't ignore that.
Speaker 2: They say that they're famous, and it's exactly the same here.
Speaker 3: They're like, we're the most white people in the world.
Speaker 3: We think everyone of every race is great. In fact,
Speaker 3: we want to put you up on a pedestal. And
Speaker 3: then when a black person walks into the newsroom and says,
Speaker 3: hang on a minute, you've just.
Speaker 2: Got that story entirely wrong.
Speaker 3: While you're a this, you're that what they don't like
Speaker 3: being talked down to.
Speaker 4: You would have thought by now after the previous survey
Speaker 4: that you referred to, which found a quarter of the
Speaker 4: employees at the National Broadcaster said that they'd experienced bullying
Speaker 4: at work. Thirteen percent of them said they'd been sexually
Speaker 4: harassed over the last two years. See can you shall
Speaker 4: find ABC. If you keep doing these internal surveys, especially
Speaker 4: amongst the type of people that they.
Speaker 5: Would be employing, you're.
Speaker 4: Going to find a heck of a lot of what
Speaker 4: you're looking for. To the front page of the Courier,
Speaker 4: Mail Now Exclusive Premiere promises you publicly owned energy retailers
Speaker 4: People's Power. The splash reads state would compete against itself.
Speaker 4: A re elected labor government would set up a state
Speaker 4: owned electricity retailer to effectively compete against itself in a
Speaker 4: bid to make power bills cheaper. Premier Stephen Miles will
Speaker 4: use the second full day of the election campaign to
Speaker 4: unveil plans for the new statewide retailer tasks with taking
Speaker 4: on publicly owned Ergon in the regions. It's simple people
Speaker 4: before profits, mister Miles said, that's my guarantee to Queenslanders.
Speaker 4: The guy talks as if you're not responsible for the
Speaker 4: extortionate power prices in Queensland.
Speaker 6: He's like, I'm gonna fix it. You created it.
Speaker 4: This is the state that's got the worst power prices
Speaker 4: in the country.
Speaker 9: And also it's the state that owns ERGON. I know,
Speaker 9: why doesn't he just call up the forward of Ergon
Speaker 9: say we own you, we are the boss.
Speaker 1: You reduce the prices.
Speaker 9: Why is he setting up another organization? It makes no
Speaker 9: sense whatsoever.
Speaker 2: It's an answer in search of a problem, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Of course the problem is Stephen Miles, and we won't
Speaker 3: have time to get to it. But he is saying
Speaker 3: on the front of the Olds tomorrow, but if he
Speaker 3: ends up in minority.
Speaker 2: He do a deal with the Greens.
Speaker 3: He's about the only labor leader who's ever said it.
Speaker 3: And well, let's see how that goes for him.
Speaker 2: After the break.
Speaker 3: Paris Fashion Week is currently on and you know me,
Speaker 3: I like my fashion, as do we all hear on
Speaker 3: the late debate.
Speaker 2: Well, this isn't quite to that taste. We'll show you
Speaker 2: that after this.
Speaker 3: Now, of course, you can catch me at every fashion
Speaker 3: show in town. It is exactly the place you would
Speaker 3: expect to find me. And I was thinking about going
Speaker 3: to Paris this year for fashion week, because why the
Speaker 3: hell not? Kel I thought you were going to join me,
Speaker 3: but you pulled out at the last minute because you
Speaker 3: saw what was going to be on show.
Speaker 1: I've got a reason.
Speaker 9: My wife has got a really good taste and dresses
Speaker 9: exceptionally well and I showed her some of thee have
Speaker 9: a look at this. This is what's happening at the
Speaker 9: Paris Fashion Show this year, and you won't see it
Speaker 9: on the course o at. Mainly, it'd be really nice
Speaker 9: if you'd come back with a clever comment. But all
Speaker 9: you could do when you see that is laugh. You've
Speaker 9: got to say to yourself, are these people who are
Speaker 9: half witch? Or are they unhinged? Or possibly are they both?
Speaker 9: This is not clothing.
Speaker 4: Anyone in the audience keep a straight face, That's what
Speaker 4: I want to know.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is Paris Fashion Week.
Speaker 4: Everyone travels from around the world to witness the esteemed
Speaker 4: heights of fashion and that's what they're met with. But
Speaker 4: before we leave you tonight, quickly to Melbourne where a
Speaker 4: gender reveal given a very very let's say unique version.
Speaker 6: A dad decided to take.
Speaker 4: It into his own hands to let everyone know what
Speaker 4: he was having and climb behind the wheel and get.
Speaker 5: A massive burnout. Check this out.
Speaker 4: If you live in carm Down's in Melbourne, you're probably
Speaker 4: familiar with those roadmarks now. But who was reported to
Speaker 4: the police who have now charged him for this?
Speaker 2: Oh MEI on the road. What do you think is
Speaker 2: going to happen?
Speaker 3: You go and do big burnouts with big blue smoke,
Speaker 3: So no one's going to take any notice of that. Ay,
Speaker 3: and it's filmed and ends up online as if he.
Speaker 2: Wasn't going to end up in front of the coppers.
Speaker 2: But I got to say he got what he deserved.
Speaker 2: That is karma coming for that blow.
Speaker 3: Because as far as I'm concerned, Kell, these gender reveals
Speaker 3: are so crings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they should be left in the bin.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I come from a generation that never did that sort
Speaker 9: of thing. I mean, it was meant to be a
Speaker 9: surprise for all the friends and relatives. Gender reveals are nonsense,
Speaker 9: And this is going to be a boy. He'll grow
Speaker 9: up to be that sort of driver.
Speaker 2: And that's not good luck to him when he goes
Speaker 2: to get e license. That's it from us tonight. App
Speaker 2: Nix's the riad of handing joke with that