WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 25 November 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.200 On scor us Oskodia. It's the Reader Panehy Show. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.440 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panehy Show. Coming 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:16.479 up tonight, Australia's Gender Equality Ambassador spend over three hundred 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.759 thousand dollars of your money in less than two years 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.000 on airfares and hotels. Gary Hardgrave will join me shortly 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.200 to discuss that and much more. Professor im Plimer will 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.400 be here to fact check the Prime Minister's latest claims 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.360 about renewable energy. Also joining me tonight is Alex Stein 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.919 with the latest from the US, and later in the 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.479 hour best in the Business, Kinsey Schofield with royal and 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.560 celebrity news, including Justin Trudeaux anticks at a Tailor Swift 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.720 concert and of course Left He's Losing It features more 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.800 Trump induced meltdowns. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:01:01.760 May dresses were too long? After what our country has 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.200 been through this week, you all deserve to see my unfiltered. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.760 Joining me now a Sky News contributor Gary Hardgrave. Gary. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:15.080 Australians have the worst decline in living standards since the 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:20.080 nineteen fifties, with analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistic STATA 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.080 showing the fall in living standards over the past two 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.680 years is worse than what we suffered during the last 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:31.440 four recessions. Australia is doing considerably worse than many other 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.240 developed nations. Gary it all paints are rather alarming picture. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.200 We can't ignore the fact that we're in a per 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.839 capita recession right now. It seems to be glossed over, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:49.760 but the reality is hitting households. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.640 And reader's been like that for what eighteen months, maybe 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.040 even two years. I mean, look, we came out of 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.560 COVID and we knew times were tough in COVID. We 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.960 pulled everything back, we went into some additional debt and an 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.040 enormous amount of debt and the capacity to repay that 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.120 was always relied on growing the economy. And then we 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.120 had Chris bowencom and Anthony Alban easy cuff and all 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.560 they did was kill off our economy big time by 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.360 going helpful leather on this renewables push. The secret to 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.000 all of our problems, the key pointer on all of 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.000 our problems is the price of electricity. I mean, we 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.160 used to have plenty of food. We used to make 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.359 stuff here Victor Lawnmowers, Hills Hoyst saw these things. We 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.239 invented Wi Fi and all these other things. We all 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.160 did this off the back of cheap, reliable and plenty 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.160 of it power and we don't have that anymore. And 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.239 the reason why Australia can't pick itself up is because 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.120 we're now reliant on other countries to provide everything that 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.200 we used to make ourselves. And reader even coming out 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.040 of this Council of Parties, this COP twenty nine event, 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.560 the idea that they're are going to try and impose 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:56.480 the Australian style emissions reduction standards, all these taxes and 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.240 stuff on Chinese stuff. I mean, we can't have a 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.240 future made in Australia if our present is currently being 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.320 made in China. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.959 We're going to kill off China as well. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.760 I mean, we are so stupid or sorry, we're being 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.640 governed by stupid people. And I think the anger is there. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.720 It's very large and it's very loud, and I reckon 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.600 come the next election, there's going to be a few 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.720 big baseball or maybe cricket bats out for this government, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:21.600 and so it should be. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.720 You wouldn't have thought, after a very comfortable victory for 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.800 the Albanezy government that they could be a one term government, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.440 but it is looking like a real possibility, like you said, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:43.760 because the impact of their economic irresponsibility is being felt 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:49.360 so far and wide, businesses, households. There's really nobody you 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.200 can think of who's untouched by this per capita recession 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.720 that we're in the midst of. And you're right, it's 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.160 been going on for almost two years now. To add 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.920 insult to injury for those of us live in Victoria, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.680 the state government here, led by Dan Andrews and now 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.520 just in to Allen, has been spending like crazy. Victoria's 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.760 economy is looking more die than ever. Look at these 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.200 figures as reported by Today's Herald's son. Victorian government's tax 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.680 take has more than doubled gary from sixteen point three 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.960 billion to thirty six point three billion in just ten years. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.479 Government wages have blown out, the bureaucracy is huge, it's 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.520 gone up from eighteen point nine billion to thirty six 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:37.599 point seven billion, and the debt per capita has more 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:42.000 than tripled. Net debt was forecast in May state budget 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.480 to reach one hundred and eighty seven point eight billion 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.440 by twenty twenty seven twenty eight, and that's twenty two 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:55.040 percent of Victoria's gross state product well above the average 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.919 of eleven point two percent for other states and territories. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.760 That's as reported by Today's Herald's signing Gary, and it 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.000 all paints a very dire picture. Indeed, it shows you 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:12.160 why so many people are fleeing Victoria going into state, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:17.039 whether they're business people, whether they're employees, If you are 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.119 paying payroll tax, if you're paying land tax, you're seeing 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.039 those bills explode. And if you're just trying to make 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:30.880 ends meet, it's becoming increasingly harder in the state of Victoria. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.200 You can't tax your way into prosperity. Reader, we do 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:40.679 need a department of government efficiency. To borrow the Trump mantra, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.039 we do need less government. We need government to be 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.800 as big as it needs to be to do what 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.560 needs to be done, but as small as it should 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.239 be to make sure it's not interfering in people's lives. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.359 But Victoria's gone exactly the other way. And this is 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.880 the problem. And you know, they can build a statue 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.160 to Dan Andrews, never get a statue built while is 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.960 still alive, because the pigeons may not be the only 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:07.120 thing that's pupping on you. This whole government of Victoria 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.440 is dragging the whole of Australia down, and it is 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.880 the place, the place to flee. Victoria. That's what the 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.280 number place should say. Victoria the place to flee. It 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.960 used to be the place to be. Look, Rita, this 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.680 has to be fixed. It has to be repaired. No 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:29.240 one will want Victoria. The symbolism of paying Glasgow to 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.960 do the Commonwealth Games kind of sums it all up 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.400 to me. This is a state that's now lost its 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.360 way to the point where it doesn't get the basic 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.000 stuff done, but it certainly does employ a lot of 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:46.160 favored friends and a big constantly growing wages and I 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.000 think that it's holding back the whole of Australia. This 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.560 is the rust bucket state. Look and I'm in Queensland 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.800 and there's a whole lot of trouble. It's got to 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.880 be repaired here because at one stage we were per 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.120 capita even worse than Victoria's that level under the previous government. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.240 I don't know what the current stats are. New government 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.440 will see what happens. But unless we get the confidence 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.760 to build for the future, our president is going to 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.960 continue to be poor. And we've got people in government 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.560 who just want to manage our misery and they reward 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.920 themselves well and line themselves up for jobs after politics. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.840 That's just not what Australians need right now. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.800 You're so right, and that perception of Victoria as being 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:34.920 broken broken, I think is spreading across the country. That's 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.760 going to help with investment into the state. Why would 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.880 you want to move here or invest here when that's 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.200 how the state is viewed and you can understand why 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.440 it's viewed because those numbers are pretty grim. Indeed, I 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.600 want to speak to you about Australia's Gender Equality Ambassador, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.280 Stephanie Copper's Campbell. I don't know if you've heard of 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.239 her before, but we learned today that she has spent 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.360 more than three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars in 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.800 taxpayer funds on airfares and hotels. She's traveled to twenty 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.440 four countries, including five trips to the US. This is 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.640 since her appointment in December twenty twenty two, so we're 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.320 not talking about a lengthy period here, less than two years. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.280 Is this a good use of taxpayer funds? 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.200 Gary, Well, of course it isn't. But at least she's 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.360 got a spot in the chairman's lounge. I mean, Rita, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.480 you know, I'm sure she had fain that would get 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.960 her in the chairman's lounge. That sort of money being 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.120 spent quants and say, come this way, you know, let 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.360 us make it comfortable. Would you like a chamblis? Look, Rita, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.760 this is the problem. Government is just constantly finding new 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.040 ways to take your money, my money, everybody's money, and 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.160 spend it on what they think is right. Who do 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.320 they think they are? Government, the super funds and the 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.040 big banks. They just keep taking money office and spending 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.679 it on the things they like to talk about. And 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.400 this is just a nonsense. This will be one of 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.439 the first things you could get rid of. But I 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.360 would like to volunteer, and would volunteer for the role 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.280 of the head of the Department of Government Efficiency. I 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.240 could get rid of a whole lot of this stuff. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.439 I would have governments smaller, I would have it more efficient, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.880 I would have it less intrusive. I'd actually have it 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.479 doing things like, oh, building infrastructure so people could be productive, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.480 using taxpayer funded money to build infrastructure, so the private 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.000 sector can go and make money and employ more people. Reader, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.079 These are the sorts of things that are doing all 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.920 our heads in and rightly so, because everyday Australians are 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.280 doing it tough and they're seeing a few people who 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.640 are well placed doing it very very well. Three ound 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.960 thirty five thousand in less than two years. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:38.640 Where do you get it? 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.720 As the old TV ad used to go, how do 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.840 you get a piece of this action? It's offensive to 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.120 me in any decent person, and. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.280 I think there'd be if you would argue that office 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.880 doesn't even need to exist. So the mentally having that 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.200 sort of expenditure is but yeah, who needs an Elon 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.160 Musk and Vivet gramas we've got, Gary Hardgrave. You could 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.360 go in there and just cut, cut, cut, cut, and 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.160 got them line all for it. You would be excellent. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:15.320 Add it now got a political row erupting between the 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:20.160 Coalition and Labor figures over the Albanese governments deal with 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.760 Indonesia to have convicted drug traffickers who were part of 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.960 the Bali Nine brought back to Australia. Labor insists that 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.240 they won't be released into the community when they return. Gary, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.680 I've heard several Coalition MPs speak out against this. They've 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.880 been very strong in condemning the deal, but I'm going 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.600 to take a contrary view here. Haven't these Australians paid 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.080 a heavy enough price for their crimes? Do they really 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.880 deserve to die in prison? 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.200 Well, no they don't, and read I'm on your page. Look, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.840 I think nineteen years in prison is equivalent to three 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:03.160 life sentences under the Australian supposedly judicial but really just 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.880 legal system. They would have probably gone to jail for 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.520 a handful of years max and been out in our 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.120 community anyway. And look, I declare that I had made 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:17.600 advocacy for the Rush family, Scott Rush, Christine and Lee Rush. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.679 Those two people, the parents of Scott, were constituents of 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.800 mine in years past. We've met with former Prime Minister 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.280 John Howard at one stage. This is twenty years ago 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.600 when it all first happened. I feel very sad about it. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.839 I understand that there's nothing nice about anybody involved in 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.120 dabbling in drugs, but I think there's some mitigation, particularly 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.320 for young people like Scott Rush. I just say to you, Rida, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.360 that the penalty has been paid and I think that 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.640 whatever the deal is, we need to know. I think 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.240 it's reasonable they come back. The Australian system takes it 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.520 over and if after a period of time there's a 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.160 determination they're allowed out in the community, well, you know 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.960 what they've done the time, because they did the crime. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.840 But this is becoming inhuman now. I'm pleased to see 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.160 that maybe after three different presidents and five or six 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:08.200 different Prime ministers, we're actually starting to see a relook 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.959 at this. And look, there'll be people who say go hard, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.120 but no, I think that they need to go home. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:15.679 It's time for them to come. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.800 Home with you one hundred percent. I thought we were 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.719 going to have an argument on this one, but I 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.880 just think it's inhumane to keep punishing these young Australians. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.080 Well they're not young anymore. They were most of them 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.880 when they were convicted that they were not the brain's trust. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.000 They were the very bottom of the wrong. They were dumb. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.040 I'm not saying they shouldn't have been punished. They have 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.480 been punished. They were used, but they were greedy and 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:49.800 they paid a price. But serving time in Indonesia is 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.240 significantly harder than serving time in Australia, and they have 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.199 served it, as you've said, for close to two decades. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.440 I think they've paid their debt. You've dealt with the parents, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:05.280 of one of these Australians. And we've had the death 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.280 penalty for people who've been convicted of these crimes in 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.080 Indonesia and I've been dead set against that as well. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.400 It's just the punishment doesn't fit the crime. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.160 Yeah, time to bring them home. Reader. Look, I think 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.520 that anybody who goes there is really plainly stupid thinking 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.560 that they can get away with trafficking in drugs. The 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.280 signs are writ large in all of those airports. But 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.160 they did a dumb thing. They got used a couple. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:32.360 Look. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.360 I can only speak about the Scott Rush matter. I'm 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.600 satisfied this is a kid troubled and looking for attention, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.520 filling with the wrong crowd, got used, being penalized for 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.960 twenty years basically in jail. I think it's time for 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.640 him to try and get a bit of a life back, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:46.640 and hopefully. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:46.800 He can. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:54.120 Well, said Gary Hardgrave. Thanks for your time tonight. Joining 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.359 me now is leading geologist and author Professor Ian Plymer, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:04.400 ins from Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi, who posted this little 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.000 rant on X and was promptly fact checked. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.320 Even if you were a climate skeptic and didn't believe 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.200 any of the science and didn't notice that there were 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.760 more floods and more bushfires and more cyclones. It would 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.040 still be good policy. It will produce the cheapest form 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.240 of energy, not the most expensive, which we know is nuclear. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.560 It will create jobs. It will allow Australia to have 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.560 a future made in Australia, because the vision of clean, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:40.360 renewable energy powering advanced manufacturing is where Australia's future is 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:41.800 into the twenty thirties. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.840 Let's start with the first part of that statement, that 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:50.520 claim that we're having more floods, more bushfires and cyclones 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.040 because of climate change. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.440 Is that true, Well, mister Albanez, he should follow his 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:01.640 own misinformation and disinformation legislation and he would be jailed 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:02.360 for what he said. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.760 We have more people building on floodplanes. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.320 We have more people building on floodplanes, but we don't 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.600 have more flooding. And what that's doing is diverting the 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.480 amount of runoff and showcage and changing that formula. We 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.800 have extremely good records that we have and fewer bushfires 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.720 now that in the past, the big years for nineteen 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.000 thirty nine and eighteen fifty one. We also have very 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.280 good evidence also over one hundred and fifty years showing 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.720 us that the number of cyclones and the intensity of 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:39.480 cyclones has decreased over time. And since Cyclone Tracy, we've 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.960 been building cyclone proof buildings in the cyclone prone areas. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.240 So that is absolutely totally misleading and deceptive. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.800 It is, and the same is can be said for 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:59.720 incidents of cyclones and bushfires and floods overseas. And yet 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:05.680 we hear this misinformation consistently from the climate catastrophists and 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.960 really with very little pushback from anybody in the media, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.320 any of the fact checkers. What about the claims he 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:18.200 made there about renewable energy boosting the economy, boosting jobs, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:23.200 lowering our energy costs, and making us a more attractive 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.640 for manufacturing. Any of that ring true? 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:28.400 None of it. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.840 Every country in the world that has embraced the renewables 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.360 has actually had their electricity costs go up. Countries like 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.320 Germany have lost their major industries, Countries like Australia. Every 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.760 time we put in more renewables, our electricity costs go 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.000 up and we kill off small businesses and we drive 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:54.400 businesses overseas. As for powering advanced manufacturing, pull the other 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.160 one that's got bells on it. Exactly the opposite has happened. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.760 You cannot have advanced manufacturing which operates twenty four to 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.560 seven when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.280 What is an advanced manufacturing unit go to do at 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.680 three o'clock in the morning. So this is just absolute, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.480 total nonsense. We know from the building of nuclear power 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.520 stations in places like Finland the cost of electricity has 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.959 gone down enormously and the productivity has gone up. And 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.480 the decrease in Australian project productivity is an absolute embarrassment. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.119 We also have a decrease in our standard of living. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.920 We are now going backwards in this country and that 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.160 is driven almost one hundred percent by our embrace of 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.840 renewable energy. And as I keep saying, the only thing 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.640 renewable about renewable energy are the subsidies. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.040 They just keep coming. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.480 You're paying for it with your electricity bills, and we 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.560 are sending this country broke. We are finding that major investors, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.320 and I'm only talking to one this morning here in Brisbane, 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:02.119 they are preferentially if investing in our Argentina. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:02.960 Rather than Australia, I mean. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.440 Argentina investing rather than Australia. That's telling you about sovereign 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.960 risk and this country has become so risky and so 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.960 expensive you can go to wild South American countries and 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.720 invest rather than in the country like Australia. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.000 Shame on us. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:26.720 Well, Argentina. Argentina has Javier Milay and we've got Anthony Albanesi. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.119 That could be an explanation for why the investment is 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.439 flowing over there. And soon the US is going to 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:38.280 be drilling baby drilling, and that can't be helping us either, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.800 because they are going to create an environment where there'll 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.280 be less red tape, lower corporate tax rate and again 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.280 very attractive for investment. I want to ask you about 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.320 COP twenty nine. It's a concluded. Enormous amount of money 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.360 was spent just holding this gap fest. The UK government 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:03.119 alone sent four hundred seventy delegates. But the end result 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.320 of this whole thing is countries like Australia, rich countries 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:12.040 handing over huge bundles of cash to developing countries. The 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:18.480 deal is for three hundred billion US in essentilly climate reparations. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.520 How is any of this actually helping the environment In. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.000 Well, the UK sending over four hundred and seventy delegates. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.560 It's just laughable. They are sending people, which is costing 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:35.600 a fortune, over to Buku and Azerbayan so that their 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.760 money can be stolen and going to dictators and third 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:43.440 world despots, such that the UK can have higher energy costs, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.399 can have more people struggling, have more pensioners having to 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.679 make a choice between warm water, a warm meal and 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.439 heating a house. Now, this is what it's got to. 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.720 This is an absolute wrought. It's time that these cop 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.040 functions were stopped. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.120 They have no to do with climate. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.200 They're all to do with highway robbery. They have nothing 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.240 to do with the environment, and they have nothing to 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.000 do with science. We cannot change the way the Sun 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.120 operates and the Earth orbits, and those are the two 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.359 factors driving climate, and no legislation will change that. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.960 We are, in this country and in many other countries, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.880 destroying our wildlife by putting up these bird and bat 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:29.359 munching wind turbines, by putting up turbines offshore which are 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.680 killing whales, by destroying all of our agricultural. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:38.440 Land with solar panels. Now, if the English, the four 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.119 hundred and seventy English delegates really wanted to do a 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.719 good conference, they should argue to have it in, say Hawaii, 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.000 so these sun starved English bureaucrats could actually get a 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.680 bit of sunshine and maybe a bit of common sense 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.800 would shine on them as well. These cop functions a 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:00.879 rip off. They are aimed at destroying Western sization, and 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.680 we have to see it for what it is. It's 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.000 got nothing to do with climate the environment. It's to 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:07.600 do with destroying our culture. 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.639 I want to ask you about this video the UN 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.600 posted on its social media pages talking about the importance 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:23.480 of gender positive climate action gender positive climate action. This 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.679 was focused at COP twenty nine, the same conference that 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:32.760 the Taliban we're attending, and we're talking about gender and climate. 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.879 Let's have it. Listen to the message the UN is pushing. 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:40.240 By breaking down data by gender, they can point to 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:45.920 opportunities we cannot afford to miss because a gender responsive 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:50.919 approach isn't just the right thing to do, it is 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.000 in fact the smart thing to do. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.000 I claim there that the world needs climate action and 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:01.120 gender equality to go hand in hand. I'm not even 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:02.119 sure what that means. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:02.360 Ian. 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:05.639 Can you explain this intersectionality to me? 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:11.000 Well, I'm just having a moment recovering from vomiting, because 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:16.600 if you had gender involved with climate, you would actually 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.280 make sure that women in the Third World didn't have 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.960 to collect twigs, leaves and done to cook and heat 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.320 inside huts where they died of respiratory diseases and their 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.199 children died of spiratory diseases. You would tie them into 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:36.760 a grid based on coal fired electricity. So that is 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:42.439 the role of gender in climate. Stop women dying from 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:47.439 having you and imposed restrictions that actually kill them. Another 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:53.239 gender equality measure could be maybe we could counsel that 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:57.480 little Swedish pixie and tell her how climate works, How 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.920 it's got nothing to do with traces of a tray 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.280 guests in the atmosphere, how we've had billions of years 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:03.920 of climates. 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.720 You don't have to worry about Greta, and you don't 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.680 have to worry about Greta anymore. She's now focused on 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:16.200 the pro Palestinian course. She's an anti Israeli activist these days, 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:18.360 so she seems to have got bored with the climate 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.320 message for now, but I'm sure we'll hear more from 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.760 her again. Professing in Clymate, thank you so much for 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:28.800 your time this evening and congratulations on the special award 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:33.080 you won at National Mining Day last Friday. That was 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.159 quite an honor. We'll speak about that next time. 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:38.560 Thank you, reader. 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:43.360 Still to come. Left is losing it? Plus why is 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:49.560 MSNBC scared of Trump's Attorney general pick? Alex Stein? Joins 0:23:49.560 --> 0:24:02.480 me next, welcome back. Now it's time for lefties losing it. 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:08.040 Let's start lefties with the neo Marxist kendole himself, Justin Trudeau, who, 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:10.200 if the polls are ride, is going to lose in 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:14.560 a massive landslide. And what is the Canadian prime minister 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:18.640 doing as parts of his country for victim to violent 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:24.760 anti Semitic writers. Well, he's swapping bracelets with teenagers at 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:29.040