WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 28 April 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.000 On Sconlands, Australia. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.240 This is the Reader Panalkey Show. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.280 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panekey Show. Coming 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.159 up tonight. That arise of left wing violence on our 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.320 city streets with feral protesters again attacking women holding eight 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.799 peaceful rally. Adam Crichton will be here to discuss that 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.119 and much more. A new pole shows the majority of 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.040 Australias want to see and to all Welcome to country ceremonies. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.559 I'll speak to Professor Ian Plimer about that controversy. The 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.240 Great Josh Hammer will have the latest from the US, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.880 from the arrest of judges hiding criminals to the fake 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.920 news about Donald Trump's blue suit, and later in the hour, 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.240 Kinsis Scofield will tell us why pop stars Beyonce and 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.480 Katie Perry are struggling to sell concert tickets and left 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.560 is losing. It features an Irish band praising Hamas and 0:00:54.640 --> 0:01:06.560 his buller. But first, a women will Speak rally in 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:11.760 Melbourne organized by Women's Voices Australia descended into chaos on 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.760 the weekend after it was disrupted by a protrans counter protest, 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.880 which quickly became violent. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:25.440 Street fights breakout in the city fists fly as transgender 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:31.640 rights protesters and opponents scuffle in skirmishes. Capsico spray used 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.520 to disperse crowds. A women's rights protest was organized for 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:36.800 midday at Parliament. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.399 It's women who are losing their rights, not. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:46.040 People who have a gender identity. Women's spaces, women's sports 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.800 men are encroaching on all of that. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.040 It is frightening. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.440 I found it very difficult to walk past those people. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.160 They are rabbit. Joining me now senior fellow and chief 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.760 economists of the IPA, Adam Cricht and Adam. There was 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.480 four hours of utter mayhem in Melbourne. Roads were blocked, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:14.560 public transport was disrupted, widespread violence and I haven't heard 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.440 condemnation yet. I may have missed it from the premiere 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.480 from the Prime Minister. There seems to be just this 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.639 tolerance of left wing violence. Yeah. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.520 Well, actually I ended up in that protest. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.600 Finally enough the transfer part of the violence walked around 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.400 the corner and something. I was surrounded by all these 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.679 rabid people. That lady certainly used the right work. It 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.040 was shocking how vicious and horrible these people were. I 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.320 was actually very depressed about Melbourne actually watching it all. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.520 They were spitting at police, pushing police, screaming at police. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.560 And yet there was only a couple of arrests. When 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.880 you're talking about four hours of mayhem, of just lawlessness, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.840 I don't know how you can have just two arrests. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.280 You saw them literally spitting on police, yep. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:58.600 Well one person did. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.440 They tried to break into the voter fora in store, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.639 strangely on the corner, but just on your broader point, Yeah, 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.640 we always hear about far right this, far right that, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.720 but you know one of these people, these are extreme 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.920 far left, and you never hear it called out. So 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.240 it's extraordinary double standard and it's very depressing. These people 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.079 are extremists in the true sense of the word. I 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.799 think they're very aggressive and can be dangerous. And finally, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.000 they're all wearing their COVID masks, and I'm not sure 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.840 whether they're still scared of the virus or virtue. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.079 Signaling, or they just don't want to show their identity. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.800 I think it's a little from column A and B 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.559 and C because I think given some of the antics 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.560 that rather not be identified by police, they. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.240 Don't have jobs, so it's they're probably not concerned about it. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.440 And this protest was a three ProMED protests, so that 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.520 we're there because the women were holding a women's rights rally, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.840 so of course that can't be allowed in Melbourne. But 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.320 they were also an anti Israel protest amongst them, and 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.640 also an anti police one because there was a police 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.360 shooting in Melbourne about a week ago. So it just 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.560 shows you it's the same leftist crowd. Whether it's an 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.200 anti police rally, whether it's an environmental rally, whether it's 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.120 a trans rally, it's the same usual suspects. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.840 Yeah, the police did a good job too, I must 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.400 say they're putting up with a lot. They were very 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.400 calm under pressure, and you know, I felt sorry for them. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.440 Actually sometimes I'd like them to sort of show the 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.479 attitude they showed with the anti lockdown protesters, with these 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:30.680 protesters that they arguably went in very hard. Not arguably, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.560 they did go in very hard with what were peaceful 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:38.320 protests during lockdown, and now they have a very permissive attitude. Indeed, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.040 also more controversy in Melbourne. I'm going to be talking 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.400 to a professor Ian Plimer about this later, but I 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.400 am interested in your thoughts on the ANZAC service, the 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.640 Dawn service being disrupted in Melbourne when the Welcome to 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.760 Country was underway. It was a five minute long welcome 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.200 to country. What do you make of the controversy? And 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.479 it should also be noted that along with the five 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.560 minute long official welcome to country one thousand dollars a minute, apparently, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.520 there was also the MC who had an acknowledgment of country, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:18.120 and also the governor added an acknowledgment of country. So 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:23.160 it was a lot What are your thoughts about? What 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:24.080 about the whole thing? 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.599 What shocked me was that both sides of politics basically 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.360 defended the Welcome to country at the ENZAC service when 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.560 they must know that the vast. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.360 Majority of Australians would not think it's appropriate. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.360 Look, I don't know if there's been surveys on that, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.160 but I would bet one thousand dollars that the majority 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.000 would say on ANZAC Day it's not appropriate. And what 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.920 i'd certainly bet a lot more on is that if 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.120 you surveyed veterans, or surveyed our men and women in 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.880 the armed forces now, they would also say it's not 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.720 appropriate on ANZAC Day because you know, to welcome soldiers 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.560 to the country that they defended is somewhat ridiculous, and 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.039 I do think the broader point, we just have so 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.400 many of these things it's becoming a joke. You know, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.600 the plane lands as a welcome to country, plane takes 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.640 off as well in the country, you know, an Zac 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.279 Day before, every. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:09.520 Single before every meeting, sometimes multiple announcements during meetings. I mean, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:14.000 it's beyond absurd. I've always said is a PC way 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.200 of saying, go back to where you came from. I 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:21.480 find it, as a migrant very offensive. It's pretty telling 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.599 me this isn't my land because I'm not entitled to 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:29.400 see Australia as fully my home because of my ethnicity. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:34.120 I mean, how is that anything other than racial? Extremely 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.320 it is, Yeah, I know. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.440 Just to give you an anecdote, when I landed in 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.279 Australia for I spent four years in the US, it 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:40.960 was a Quanters flight. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.520 There was a welcome to country when I landed. I've 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:43.559 never experienced that before. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.520 This is in Sydney, this is back in January, and 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.360 I thought, you know, honestly, like seven of my eight 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.200 great great grandparents were born in Australia and I'm being 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:50.720 welcome to. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.520 Where will you not be have to be welcome where? 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.760 Is actually home exactly coming. Come on, now, let's watch here. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:04.720 As three right wing activists from the National Workers Alliance 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.279 launched a protest at a Friends of the ABC event 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:14.000 attended by til MP Monique Ryan. Naturally, the response of 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.800 some of the lefties there was to get very upset 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.840 and one of them hit, ran and hit one of 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.760 these protesters. Now, Monique Ryan, instead of perhaps admonishing this 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.440 woman for that act of violence, is quick to comfort 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.040 her and give her a hug. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:43.840 Have a look at this, Oh, there is Monique coming 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.960 in for the hug the group hug. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.440 Look. I don't even know who these protesters were, what 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:55.360 they were saying. That's not the point, right obviously, But 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.920 why is someone running up to someone and punching them. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.880 It's crazy, it's funny. Actually, it's a little old. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.560 It was a little old. It's just not going to 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.480 do much damage. But I mean, really, again, if the 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.440 cases were reversed, it was a far left activist who 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.280 wasn't being violent but being punched by somebody, and the 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.480 conservative politician went in and hugged the person throwing the punch, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.600 it would be front page news. People would be irate. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.240 But we're just laughing. At this that's right. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.120 It's just, you know, the inherent bias of the media. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.360 Eighty percent of journalists folk one way, and it chose 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:31.600 in the. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:37.160 Reporting absolutely Now to more serious matter. Despite vehement opposition 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.439 from Victoria Police, registered sex offenders in Victoria are successfully 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.800 applying to have lifelong reporting conditions lifted, with some even 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.200 winning the right to live next to Victorians schools. As 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.760 a report from the Herald Sun, recent cases include a 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.720 foster carer who raped a fifteen year old in his care, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.520 but has now successfully argued that ongo reporting conditions have 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.280 become onerous. The man known as GT, has argued he 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.800 wanted to travel freely into state to visit his parents 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.840 and honeymoon overseas with a new partner, Adam. The judge 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.960 in that case determined that while GT's offending was very serious, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.760 it was in the public interest to ease his reporting obligations. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.559 I'm not sure about that rationale. Maybe you can explain it. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.720 Well, it's certainly not in the public interest. Look, I 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.240 mean there's a difficult force. This is a difficult philosophical issue. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.679 You know, people serve their time, should they still have 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.760 various conditions attached to them? But I do think in 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.240 the case of sexual abuse of children, you do forfeit 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.880 your rights, I think somewhat permanently when you commit these crimes, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.520 and you have to understand that the rest of the 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.320 community would like to know where you are or at 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.280 least generally, and there should be some restrictions. I mean, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.839 I'm not a criminologist, but my understanding is the rehabilitation 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.080 rates of this class of crime is not great. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:53.600 Well. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.360 I think if the police vehemently against it, that should 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.719 tell us something because I don't think there are a 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.520 signing up to do more work. I think they're concerned 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.920 because they think there will be some sort of reoffending, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.720 or at least a risk of reoffending. Now let's talk 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.640 about what's happening in Queensland, and new figures from the 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.600 government are showing that the tough on crime approach with 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.320 youth offenders is working. They've got these new adult crime 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.280 adult time laws. There's been a thirty two percent drop 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.640 in cases against children charge with at least one of 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.760 the thirteen offenses that are included in these laws. So 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.280 we've had quite a dramatic drop there, Adam, and I 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.840 think it just shows that though tough on crime measures 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.559 are enormously unpopular with the activists who work in that sector. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.040 They actually work, No, they do work. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.880 And they've worked all around the world for many decades. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:50.280 We know this. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.360 Economists not this. They test this some in New York's 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.760 a classic example. There was the huge crime waves in 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.599 the seventies and eighties. The new mayor came in, it 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.720 got very tough and the crime went way down. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:00.719 So this is this is a good thing. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.560 I think, well done to the Queensland government. And what 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:03.720 a contrast with Victoria. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.400 I think they maybe need a bit of the. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:10.040 Queensland attitude down here where crime has been increasing. So yeah, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.520 so I think it's job well done. I mean I 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.520 was a little bit surprised actually just these youth offenders. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.120 I don't think they're the smartest kids in the world. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.000 I'm shocked if they even know what penalties are. But anyway, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:19.360 maybe they've looked into it. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.559 Now before you go, we've just had the long weekend. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.160 We've had two consecutive long weekends. A lot of people 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.880 have paid surcharges when they've been out dining and the 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.520 Prime Minister has had his say about this issue. He 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.000 says this supports the rights of workers to earn penalty rates, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.199 is all for that, but he doesn't think businesses should 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.920 be charging these public holiday surcharges to cover the increased 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.960 wages bill. I mean, this is just another sign to 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.400 me that the Prime Minister perhaps is economically illiterate. How 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.800 can you have these enormous cost imposed on small businesses, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.280 little cafes, restaurants paying around eighty dollars an hour for 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:08.640 people waiting, and how can they absorb that without passing 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:08.880 it on? 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:09.240 Yeah? 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.480 Well, actually I was at a bar in Melbourne on 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.200 Friday and the head bartender was telling me all the 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.240 staff were earning seventy two dollars an hour because an. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.120 Hour I had these sashes were earning seventy two dollars 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.280 an hour on the weekend in Victoria. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:23.720 So of course they have to pass it on to 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.920 some extent. And the fifteen percent, by the way, is 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.200 a lot less than the added costs, so their margins 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:29.280 would be a lot smaller that day. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.760 Well, it's basically you either shut up shop or you 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.960 have to have the surcharge. I mean, no one likes 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.320 getting that surprise on their bill and off when it 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.679 is a surprise you missed the little note on the 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.800 menu that tells you it exists. But I don't think 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.720 you can be blaming the cafe owners for being greedy 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.280 in that instance. Adam Krista, thanks bittime tonight, Thanks for now. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.280 The latest news poll out today has revealed that while 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.960 almost half the country believes the Albanezi government doesn't deserve 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.040 another term, even more people believe that the coalition isn't 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.120 ready to return to power, with the major party's primary 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.040 votes remaining unchanged from the last poll, with a two 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.920 party preferred figure stuck at fifty two forty eight percent 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.680 in Labour's favor. And that's actually an improvement for labor 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.360 on the twenty twenty two election result. Let's bring in 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.800 a esteem geologist and author, Professor Ian Plymer, Professor, the 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:30.599 opposition leader is still confident of victory. Is that confidence misplaced? 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:32.960 Perhaps? 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.680 But one has to have a lot of faith in 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.120 the polls. I'm not so sure I do. This is 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:44.720 a elect by electorate, a campaign. There are some seats 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.560 that will go against the national trend. There are others 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.400 that will go with it or follow the polls. Now, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.640 we have a situation in this country where we used 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.000 to have two major parties and the ILP is the 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.920 political wing of the unions. Have so few people that 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.680 are in unions now and the ALP has performed so badly. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.959 The people are leaving the Alps. They've gone to one nation, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.880 some Family First people. Actually we're once ALP people. For example, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.680 Family First in this state is run by the former 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:21.560 Labor State treasurer. So Labour has lost people. The Libs 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.240 have lost people. They've lost people into Libertarians, into one nation, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.880 into Family First and perhaps living the Parment party. So 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.800 the game has changed a lot, and we now rely 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.440 on preferences. We really have no idea how they're going 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.520 to go. And I think a hung parliament is going 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.960 to be the worst thing for this country because we 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.040 will be making decisions that are very very few people 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.840 will be pushing for very hard, and they will be 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.960 against what the nation really requires. The best thing can 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.680 happen would be the ALP to win outright or the 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.520 Libs to win outright. But a hung parliament will not 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:01.520 help this country. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.080 And particularly if the Greens hold a balance of power 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.600 or even some of those tills, I think either case 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:11.560 would be a disaster. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:12.520 Now. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.760 Peter Darton has done a bit of a u turn 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.920 in the space of forty eight hours on the Welcome 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.320 to Country ceremony and the controversy that was sparked over 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.600 the weekend or over ANZAC Day. I should say he 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:31.200 initially said this after the ANZAC Day ceremony was disrupted. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.800 Welcome the Country is an important part of efficient ceremonies 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.480 and it should be respected. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:41.400 And I don't agree with the doing, and I don't agree. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.920 In our democracy the people can't accept the user and 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:46.960 the others. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.080 But last night, during the debate with the Prime Minister, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:51.800 he had this to say. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.920 For the opening of Parliament, fair enough, it's respectful to do. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.600 But for the start of every meeting at work or 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.880 the stuff out of a football game, I think a 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.280 lot of Australians think it's overdone and it cheapens the 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.040 significance of what it was meant to do. It divides 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:08.720 the country. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:10.320 Not dissimilar to the Prime mister. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.960 Look, I don't know why you didn't just say that 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.560 to begin with. You could condemn the ANZAC service being 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.120 disrupted without backing the Welcome to Country, which you did 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.400 in that first clip, saying was an important part of 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:27.680 the ceremony had to be respected. There's an online poll 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.720 that's just been published. Over fifty thousand Australians participated, and 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.320 ninety percent of them want to see less or no 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.160 more welcome to country ceremonies. The poll had sixty seven 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:45.479 percent saying that wants welcome to country ceremonies to stop completely, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.960 while another twenty three percent said they want to see 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.120 less of them. I would have thought this is a 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.320 fairly clear cut issue, particularly if you're the conservative candidate. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.920 But I there just seems to be a reluctance to 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:00.920 take a firm position on this. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.360 Well, people who had a gut full of welcome to country. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.320 You can't move without having a welcome to country. We 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.240 should be opening Parliament with a prayer, not a welcome 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.040 to country. That's happened for generations. You cannot travel an 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.359 aeroplane without getting some sort of political propaganda as you 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.440 land on an international flight. You come in from well, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.800 I came in from Dallas Fort Worth not so long ago. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.359 The plane was full of Americans and they get a 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.120 welcome to country. I mean, they have no idea what 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.119 this means. It's absolute total nonsense. Now people have had 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.600 enough and The only place I can go to and 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.639 be guaranteed of not getting a welcomed to country isn'to 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.520 my local pub. I might get welcomed as a creditor 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.840 to pay off my tab, but you can virtually not 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.800 move without having. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:49.479 A welcome to country. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.360 I'm over it. I'm thick of it. Well, I think 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:53.639 most of the population is. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.879 I think you're one hundred percent right about most of 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.040 the country being sick of it. And it's something that 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.040 Senator just Enter Price has spoken about, and she is 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.760 very articulate on the issue, and I don't know why 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.760 we're not seeing more of her during this election campaign, 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.639 particularly talking about these sorts of issues. Now, before you 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.359 go pitter. Dutton was booed after he refused to do 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:30.480 a showy on Anzac Day at a RSL in Townsville. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.760 Oh and it's a bit of fun, But I can 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.119 see why you refuse. I could just see him copying 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:51.399 all sorts of criticism backlash for glorifying drinking culture if 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.960 he actually did it. But I think it would have 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.600 endeared him to young male voters, and I think he's 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.560 got to stop worrying about a backlash from people who 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.160 are never going to vote for him anyway. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.480 Well, North Queen's Land's a bit different from the rest 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.320 of Australia. Their hairy chest and real people. If you 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.080 can knock off half a dozen pints in ten minutes, 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.760 you are one of them. And Bob Hawk understood that 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.199 he was able to compete with the best. He had 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.560 a period of abstinence, well so he says, but then 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.200 was back on it again. So I think that does 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.240 connect with the working man in North Queensland. They actually 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.359 connect with people who speak their language. Perhaps it was 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.040 a mistake, perhaps it wasn't. I don't think it's important. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.000 The important thing is the matters of principle that mister 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.440 Dutton has to stand up for. And these are the 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.560 situations that people find themselves in, being unable to pay 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:52.280 their electricity bill, unable to buy food, unable to pay rent, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:53.960 never able to buy a house. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.639 These are issues which affect. 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:01.680 Everyone and just having a drink, you know, that's not important, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.920 but the legacy media want to harp on with this 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.200 and keep away from the major issues. The major issues 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.600 are that if we have a labor coalition with the Greens, 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.119 then this country really goes backward economically. We're on that 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:17.000 path already. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:23.200 Let's stop it, Professor Employmer, thanks for your time. Thank 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.879 you still to carm Left is Losing It? Plus the 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.359 latest from the US, from the arrest of judges hiding 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.240 criminals to the fake news about Donald Trump's blue suit, 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:46.840 the Great Josh Hammer as the latest. You're watching the 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.159 reader panning your show, and it's time for left is 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.919 Losing It And let's start with a musical flavor. And 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:57.320 it seems that leftism destroys everything. Even the biggest superstars 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.840 like Beyonce and Katie Perry become figures of ridicule in 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.720 twenty twenty five. Let's start with Katie, who, fresh from 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.879 pretending to be an astronaut, is now being mocked for 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:30.480 her cringe performance in her latest concertour. Did she leave 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.880 any discernible talent she had in space? I mean, imagine 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:35.520 paying good money to see this. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:52.200 Now. 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.800 She never had much of a voice, but if that's 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.359 how she dances nowadays, I think we can give the 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.119 concert a miss. You can't odo tune whatever that now? 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.760 I do. Wonder where did it all go so wrong 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.960 for Katie? Perhaps it was on election Eve last November 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:09.200 when she posted. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.280 This PI guys, I'm with one of my favorite senators. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:16.520 This is Kamala Harris. She's going to be well, or 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.520 perhaps it all went pear shape when she posted this 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:24.199 on election dates, her Orlando bloom chumming it up with 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:35.760 Kamala and Doug Oh dear. Now Paul Katie is reduced 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.840 to a punchline, and she's not alone. Pop stars don't 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.560 come much bigger than Beyonce. But then she went all 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:46.040 Kamala on us. Remember that woeful speech she gave at 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.399 a Kamala rally When people thought she was going to perform, 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.760 they thought they were going to get a free concert. Instead, 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:56.000 they heard Beyonce mention a bunch of suburbs in Texas. 0:22:55.800 --> 0:23:06.240 Texans and Houstonians from Thurlward River Books, Sugarman, Bit bore 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:14.080 Ailey Memorial, Southwestern North sign Alloway down. 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:18.520 To Moll City, and now no one wants to go 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:23.560