WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 8 April 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.920 Lewens General, Welcome to the Late Debate. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.440 Good evening and welcome to the program. I'm Caleb Bond 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.640 with freyer Leitch and Liz Storer. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:13.680 Coming up in the. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.759 Program, a third of UNI students are being admitted with 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.400 special dispensation for some problem or another. We'll tell you 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.680 what they are and why a little later in the show. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.120 In the papers, one state is scrapping its renewable energy targets. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.560 Will tell you who that is. And the former foreign 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.840 prime minister who's been attacked by an ostretch will show 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.479 you the vision a little later. But of course, the 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.480 big story of the evening is the Sky News Daily 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.199 Telegraph People's Forum, which was broadcast right here just a 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.519 few hours ago. We know that the winner of that debate, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.760 though not by a majority, was the Prime Minister Anthony Alberanzi. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.920 The numbers were forty four percent of attendees these are 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.920 undecided voters when they walk into the room saying that 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.640 they thought Alberizi had won. It was thirty five percent 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.240 for d and twenty one percent said they were undecided. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.679 Here's a few of the questions that were asked tonight. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.080 How are we going to cope with the Trump pandemic 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:12.360 that we're going through right now. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.800 I was wondering, if we're getting any sort of funding 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.440 towards public education in the near future. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.240 How will those universities pick up the shortfall? 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.800 And will will my son's unifees increase? 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.280 Our taxes are going towards the funding of weaponry, eating 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.360 the onslaught on the innocent people of Gaza. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.679 What are you doing to stop this primement asay opposition lead. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:31.840 And what you're going to do for some of our 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.240 all sort of areas like Tamil. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.160 Do we want to increase Medicare funding so we want 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.160 to have to bear a strug up fee? 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.480 What will you do to ensure migration discussions remain respectful 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.000 and avoid demonizing migrants? 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.080 Now, look, I thought largely this was a who hum 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.120 sort of debate. No one made any major mistakes, nor 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.280 did anyone have any great wins, and that probably is 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.880 reflected in the twenty one percent who walked out of 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.440 that room still undecided on. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:01:59.720 Who they would vote for. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.360 They hit the points that they ought to hit, but 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.760 you didn't particularly get a feeling that anyone was landing 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.960 major blows in this debate. Probably the best performance I've 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.320 seen from Peter Dutton thus far, as Andrew Clonel said 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.360 earlier this evening here on skytes the best he's seen, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.360 and if he still couldn't win that it gives some 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.480 indication of how much trouble he and the Liberal Party 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.440 in the coalition may well be in. I do think 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.880 one of his strongest moments of the night, though, was 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.280 when he went back to someone who'd asked a question 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.240 about Medicare to ask, well, when you go to the 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.000 doctor are you just using that Medicare card that Anthony 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.600 Albanezi keeps waving around? 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.840 Can I just ask, please? It's a great question, but 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.480 can I just ask what's your experience? So when you 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.000 go to the doctor that you talk about with the 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.400 gap fee, do you have to use your just your 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:49.920 Medicare card or do you have to use your credit 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:50.440 card as well? 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.920 Sport because billing doesn't cover the full chance I have. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:55.400 To pay something. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.440 But plead you tried when you were the healthman stuff 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.320 you tried to abolish folk billing by having a fee 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.320 every time people visit a doctor. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.920 I mean you'd have to say, Liz, on the basis 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.079 of the numbers that came out of there, tonight, they're 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.560 really pushing it uphill the coalition at this point. I 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.880 thought it was a great performance from Dutton, albeit not 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.519 a stiller one, but it was certainly better than we'd 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.120 seen on the campaign. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:24.919 Trail thus far. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.840 And Albinisi, I don't think, really brought his a game. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.760 He was just sort of meandering through the points that 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.239 he walked into the room with. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.960 Doesn't fill you with a great deal of confidence. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:35.600 No it doesn't. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.720 I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:43.520 profoundly under welmed. I mean, look, nobody with a single 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.360 firing neuron actually thinks the Libs can win this thing. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.720 Flipping twenty three seats is you know that would take 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.320 an absolute act of God. But I think watching this 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.280 debate for many people, and as you said, it's reflected 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.040 in the undercided voters still leaving the debate. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.880 I think Clive Palmer. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.440 Hit it on the head in the ad that I 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.520 saw tonight, being like, this is the UNI Party. I mean, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:11.200 other than cheaper petrol and some new clear what is 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.120 the differences that these two major parties are taking to 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:15.920 the election. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.520 Can you imagine if Trump ran against the Dems. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.600 With this new policies, strong, well articulated policies that set. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.120 Him apart from the Dems. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.360 Goodness knows what the outcome would have been. People are 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.080 hungry for change. Dutts and the Libs had a great 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.320 opportunity to actually just put the pedal to the metal, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.200 being like, look, we're not going to flip twenty three seats, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.560 but let's go our hardest, let's put the biggest dent 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.640 in it that we possibly can. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.960 But I think more and more Australians instead. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.839 Are waking up to the fact that there's very little 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.240 points of difference, especially on the issues that we bang 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.000 on about every single night. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.840 They know it was the Libs that created. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.520 The e Safety Commission, the supported restrictions on. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.000 Free speech in other legislation. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.160 They know this is the party that oversaw the burning 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.640 dumpster fire that was the pandemic response. They haven't done 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.159 anything about men in women's sports. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.800 They refuse to leave the Paris Accords. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.479 Even though with Trump with America pulling out of them, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:29.680 they're completely useless. People are hankering to see this widening 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.520 gap between the two major parties that makes it clear 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.760 all right on these issues. That's where these guys get 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.640 my vote. That's where I'm putting it instead. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.360 All I'm seeing. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:45.839 Across socials, especially because that's where you see feedback in 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.880 real time from just the average punter on the street 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.159 who are going to be going to the polling box, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:56.320 is saying, what's the difference, I'm voting independent, I'm voting independent. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.760 That seems to be popping up everywhere, and never more 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.120 so then directly after this debate. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:03.960 And it reflects, of course, when you look at the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.479 primary vote for the parties, because if you look at 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.480 the latest News poll, which of course showed that Labor 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.080 was back fifty two forty eight a two party preferred, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.920 it wasn't because of a great surge in the labor vote. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.680 It was because one percent had been wiped off the 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.000 coalition's primary vote. So the primary vote is collapsing for 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.960 the major parties. And I know you've been campaigning with 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.800 the Libs Pray, so you've got a bit of a 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.480 view from the inside about how all this is going. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.840 Do the numbers tonight worry you? 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.200 I think, Look, I think Dutton did well tonight and 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.240 I think that is his to be commended for that. Also, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.479 his father had a health episode right before coming out, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.000 and I thought Dutton did a really good job at 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.720 not being baited by Alban easy, not coming across as 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.039 to sort of domineering or hardline. He's really had to 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.640 work hard at trying to soften his image a bit, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.600 and I think he did well at that aspect of 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.000 the debate. One of the things that disappointed me about 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.080 the debate, and particularly the questions that were asked, was 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.200 just how shallow there they were. There was nothing about 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.880 long term reform. There was nothing about how we're going 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.720 to pay down the debt, how are we going to 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.320 reign in government spending, how are we going to actually 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.400 fix cost of living beyond a tiny tax cut or 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.880 twelve months of fuel excise relief, nothing around that, And 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.239 I just thought, if this is the state of political 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.440 debate in Australia where we're just worried about, you know, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.560 my bits of funding for this and that and my 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.080 you know backyard. That stuff's all important, but there was 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:41.920 there was really very little in the. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.320 Way of long term vision. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.440 And so I think Dutton can still win this election 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.520 one hundred percent. He still can, but it will take 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:56.280 him inspiring a new vision for Australia, something that is bold. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.080 That is different, and I think he has it in him. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.120 He showed during the voice he can be bold, he 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.240 can be courageous. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:04.880 He's just got to tap. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.760 Back into that and then I think there is a 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.880 really good shot for the Liberals this election. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:11.240 They certainly need something. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.200 And you mentioned talk about debt and deficit and all 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.360 these kinds of things. Dutton did hit on it briefly. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.880 He pointed out that Albanezi has been the highest spending 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.760 prime minister since Whitlam, but Albo falsely claimed that. In fact, no, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.440 it was the Liberal Party that did that during COVID. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:34.240 Take a look, are you the biggest spending government since 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.160 Whitlam so forty years? In forty years, there has not 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.160 been a higher spending government than your government. Is that correct? 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.960 Well, that's not true, except for the one that you 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:49.199 were a part of. Jeria's course, it's true, and it's 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.040 also true. It's also true that there was a seventy 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.720 eight billion dollar deficit. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.000 Well, hold tight, because we have a story on the 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.560 front of The Australian a little later that dispel all 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.120 of that. But I suppose it's indicative of the fact 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.400 that it just seems to have dropped off the agenda 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.560 as an issue now. I mean, you know, we're hurtling 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.200 towards trillion dollars of debt in the next financial year. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.559 And that wasn't really the headline that came out of 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.600 the budget, was it. It's that you'll get a measly 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.120 five dollars a week tax cut. It's almost like it's 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.240 disappeared from the public consciousness. And of course it was 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.280 something that was so strong for the Libs for a 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.800 long time that almost seemingly they can't fight on anymore. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.920 No, and neither of them are talking about any kind 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.720 of reduction in government spending, which we know is what 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.440 drives inflation, which we know is what's killing us all 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.720 right now. Not one of them is like, oh, okay, kids, 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.200 time to pull our socks up tight now, belts. Things 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.199 are going to be tricky for a while, but we're 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.560 doing this for your children's children, so they won't be 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.720 paying down a ginormous debt. Not one of them has 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:59.480 said a word about that, And it's just another day 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.520 in government, isn't it. I guess they all know, as 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.599 Milton Freeman said, we're the ones responsible for the ridiculous 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.800 government spending because we incentivize them to keep promising us 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.800 all these freebies in the lead up to an election. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.760 We all know winning election doesn't come cheap. You've got 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.160 to make all the promises that people want to hear. Now, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.400 whether you deliver on them or not is a whole 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.000 nother thing once you actually get into power. We're all 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.120 still waiting for that two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.880 Of our power bills. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.880 But before he went to the debate and I Prime 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.280 Minister Alban Easy was doing a presser in Ashfield, Sydney 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.839 on the campaign trail when he was accosted by this 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.320 climate protester. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.600 When it came to working from home and the sacking 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.839 of forty one thousand public services. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.240 He's getting elected. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:54.640 And the Prince. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:57.920 And I haven't been. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.320 Her name is Alexis Stewart, and I don't know about you, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.520 but it breaks my heart to see that young woman. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.760 Who's clearly a true believer in. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.679 The climate change narrative that has no doubt been fed 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.839 to her from a very young age. Indeed, here she 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.360 was later talking to reporters saying that she's suffered from 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.920 climate anxiety since she was fifteen. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.920 I have experienced eco anxiety since I have been fifteen. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.800 I am worried that my future will be full of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.040 increased floods, fires, famines and drought. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.800 And I know that the number one driver of that. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.559 Is the continued approval of new coal and gas projects. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:52.760 Is it any wonder? 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.040 According to a youth mental health organization here in Australia 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.280 by the name of Origin, last month they released. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.200 Some research which showed that sixty. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.679 Seven percent of the youth of today in Australia are 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.640 saying that this climate change narrative is having a very 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.599 negative effect on their mental health. Gen zas are the 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.040 fruits of the left's labor. When it comes to the 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.040 fact that they have been taught this from a very 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.840 young age, they are facing imminent doom. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:28.520 And when we. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:34.880 Put this together with how prevalent we know anxiety already is, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.920 depression already is in these younger generations, is it any 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.920 wonder that for many young people like Alexis Stewart there 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.680 this is a very real and terrifying reality. And of course, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.800 as we've discussed before, Freyer, absolutely nobody is being held 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.280 to account for the fact that these guys are suffering 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.160 due to having been indoctrinated in to this climate cult. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:01.760 Yeah. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:06.120 Well, I also saw some pretty scary statistics that forty 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.079 three percent of young Australians between sixteen and twenty five 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.120 were hesitant to have children because of climate change. And 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.320 when you make those kinds of decisions, they live with 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.120 you for the rest of your life. So if you 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.199 put off having kids when you're young, that's it. You're done. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.280 And to think that people like their whole lives are 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.880 being determined by these narratives that they've been taught, it's 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.679 very sad and it is no wonder Like I went 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.760 through the education system recently, went through university, and the 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:42.720 sense of doom and despair is palpable. Palpable on the 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.560 climate change front, but also more broadly, there is a 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.880 sense that the West is in decline, that where the 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.320 first generation that will be worse off than our parents. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.840 That is all very real, but I think our leaders 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.480 have to step up and go. You were right to 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.040 be concerned. The world is uncertain. It is a scary place, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.920 but human beings have always innovated our way out of crises. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:06.800 In the early. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.559 Nineteen hundreds, everyone thought London would be covered in horse 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.680 manure because everyone was driving horses and carriages, and where 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.280 was all all the pooh gonna go? Well, guess what, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.560 We invented cars, And you know, people are scared of emissions, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.760 of course, but we've invented nuclear and clean energy, and 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.960 there are a whole bunch of other innovations that are 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.880 now overcoming these problems. But it's the lack of optimism 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.120 in humanity that I think is just so sad, and 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.720 that bears itself out in climate change, but also in 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.960 a whole range of other areas. And I think we've 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.440 really let our young people down. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.800 There's a number of things that play here. One I 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.280 think everyone who educated this woman ought to be put 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.080 in the gulag. I mean, and we should know, we 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.720 should point out out, we should point out she rocked 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.160 up to a presser that ALBERANIZI was giving to announce 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.040 a billion dollars of funding for mental health. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.240 And so the point she was making. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.680 Is the reason my mental health is so bad and 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.560 the mental health of other young people in Australia as well, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.720 is because we have this existential dread and crisis over 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.960 the future of the world that we are expected to 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.800 live in. Well, it's nonsense. I mean, the world's not 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.280 going to blow up tomorrow. She's not mentally ill or 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.360 experiencing any form of mental illness because the world is 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.960 going to end. She's experiencing dread and eco anxiety, as 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.240 she calls it, because people have put that in her brain. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.760 People have convinced her that she should be anxious. She's 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.800 not actually anxious because she's looked at the world. She's 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.440 anxious because people have convinced her that. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.480 She ought to be. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.240 And the people who are pushing this stuff on kids 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.760 should hang their heads in shame. Take a good look 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.960 at yourself in the mirror and consider what you are 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.200 doing to young people. You are sapping them of their 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.520 will to live. I mean, these are the young people 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.560 of tomorrow who could actually go out and achieve the 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.200 advancement of the human race. And until this point, that 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.440 is what we have always driven to do to advance 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.000 the human race. We had the Industrial Revolution. At every 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.680 point in our existence, we have tried to move forward. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.480 And for the first time in history, we're reaching a 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:18.760 point where we're actually regressing, and we're willingly regressing because 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.640 we are being told we have to regress in order 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.400 to save the planet. It's just not how it works. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.280 We are an adaptable species. I mean, are you telling 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.840 me that if the planet goes up another two percent 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.920 that we won't find a way to live with it. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.520 Of course, we will find a way to live with it. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.600 But of course, the other thing you have to consider 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.720 in all of this is that it's about the destruction 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.640 of the capitalist system. And so if you convince people 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.680 that the world is going to end if we keep 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.680 advancing humanity, and of course humanity has been advanced through 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.440 business and the capitalist system, well we better dismantle the 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.640 capitalist system. It all plays in together, and what you 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.040 end up with in the end, all these young people 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.040 who just can't hack the world they're living in because 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:03.680 they're told they're. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.679 Going to die, they are the victims. Gen Z in 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.200 particular are the victims. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.200 Goodness knows what kids today now coming up through whichever 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.920 gen that is coming up through Alpha. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.640 They're being taught this. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.160 As young as jolly pre school because we have these 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.439 lefty activists in our educational system and there seems to 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:25.680 be no rooting. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.040 Them out, and certainly no political will to do. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.480 So anyway, and they don't have the brain capacity, particularly 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.240 primary school age children to understand these massive concepts that 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:38.959 are being put in front of them that the world 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:39.920 is going to end. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.960 And any wonder then that people like Violet Coco and 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.840 many others who when they're finally bought before a court 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.720 of law because you know, you've held up the Sydney 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:55.639 Harbor Bridge. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.320 You can't do that. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.240 People just trying to go about their lawful business. They 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.639 get let off with a slap on the risk. Why 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.840 because of climate anxiety. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.640 As Pink Floyd once saying, we don't need no education, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.359 we don't need no thought control. All in all, just 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.000 another brick in the wall. And so it goes as 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.560 well when we. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:15.639 Talk about universities. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.120 I mean this stuff is just going on in primary 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.520 and high schools, etc. It's going on in the universities 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.280 as well. And we don't have record numbers of people 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.800 being admitted to universities with special dispensation for problems such 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.760 as divorce, disability, and poverty. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.920 A third of all university. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.000 Students are now being admitted with some sort of special dispensation. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.680 Now there's been a large increase because in twenty twenty 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.359 or twenty twenty one, there was this system brought in 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.000 where they take into account your postcode and the school 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.200 you went to, so you would be able to get 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.719 further up the queue if you perhaps came from an 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.280 area with a lower socioeconomic background. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:55.439 That accounts for some of it. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.639 But there's been a forty two percent increase in people 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:03.040 getting into university with a special requirement because of a 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.160 disability or a medical condition, or what they call family disruption, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.560 which comes in the form of a death in the family, 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.600 or domestic violence or divorce, or they say they're going 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.600 through financial woes. So you get an extra chance or 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.720 an extra shot to go into university above someone else 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.760 who perhaps hasn't had their parents divorce, or perhaps doesn't 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.200 have a disability, etc. Or isn't struggling with money right now, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.760 or happened to be born in a suburb that had 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:34.720 a higher socioeconomic background than yours. A third of all 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.760 university entrants now fall into that category. And I think 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.400 there's two points here. We are continually afraid at getting 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.600 people into university. You probably shouldn't be there in the 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.480 first place. We just say come one, come more. We 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.880 don't care, and the unis don't care because they get 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.840 your money once you sign up. I think you've just 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:53.280 got to be there for a year and then if 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.479 you drop out, it doesn't matter. They still get your 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.080 funding anyway, so they don't particularly give a toss. But 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.160 surely you're then sending a bunch of people perhaps ant 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.200 up to the job and then will eventually discover that 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.920 they're not really cut out for UNI and they've wasted 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.440 one or two or three or four years of their 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.399 lives getting there, and then they've got to go and 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:13.480 find something else to do. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.240 Well, that's exactly the problem, because our universities in Australia 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.920 have turned into multi billion dollar corporations and for them 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.240 to keep expanding and keep climbing the global rankings, they 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.080 need to keep growing. And so how do you do that, Well, 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:31.040 you recruit more students. So it's actually in the university's 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:36.679 interest to open up access to university, whether or not 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.120 it is in the interests of those students to actually 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.640 attain a university degree. And the problem is it's actually 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.959