WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 1 May 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.519 On scorls Ostrodia. 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.280 This is the winder Panalty Show. 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.360 Good evening and welcome to the reader. Panekey show coming 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.960 up tonight. A massive payday coming for the union movement 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:20.040 as business leaders warn of the Albanesi government's industrial relations agenda. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.560 Nick Kata and Gary Hardgrave will be with me shortly, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.360 the brilliant Batia Unga Sagon will have the latest from 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.600 the US and later in the hour Kinzisko Field with 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.600 all the celebrity and royal news and Left is losing 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:39.800 it features this startling revelation. Punctuality is white supremacy. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.120 Being on time is weight supremacy, because what are they 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:43.760 always on time? 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.640 They do? Oh press but first. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.640 Fears of an eighteen billion dollar hit to the economy. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.720 AMID claims that the Albanezer government is planning to implement 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.760 a nationwide portable long service leave scheme, meaning workers would 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.800 accrue long service leave when working in a single industry 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.960 rather than in a single company industry. Analysis obtained by 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.640 The Australian show such a scheme could deliberate nine hundred 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.720 million dollar revenue stream to unions, with business chiefs concerned 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.920 about the potential for employees to double dip via different 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.720 long service leave laws. Joining me now for more on 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.479 this are at Menzi's Research Center. Senior fellow Nikata and 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.440 Sky News contributor Gary hartgrave Nick. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:27.600 I'll start with you. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.920 Business leaders are raising concerns that a second term Albanesi 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.720 government is going to push an even more radical industrial 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:37.880 relations agenda. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:39.360 I've got to. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.560 Ask, where have these business leaders been. The election is 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:44.479 two days away. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.840 Yeah, we would like to hear more out of them. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.160 I think the problem is when you talk about business leaders, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.280 you're usually talking about the big end of town, the 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.040 if you represent the big corporations. Because small businesses, you know, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.560 the corner shop or the people that run the service 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.320 station or run a plumbing operation. Time they don't have 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.960 time to engage in this so and nobody does it 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.320 for them. Nobody stands up for them. And of course 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.120 to this kind of measure that you've outlined, there's so 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.440 called portable long service leave, so you don't actually do 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.920 long service with anybody. You just you know, have no 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.359 incentive to be loyal to a company. But it really 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.360 will hit small business hard. They can't provision for this 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.840 in the way that big business can. And because as 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.480 you point out it's going to be run by the unions, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.639 who will clip the ticket on the way through, as 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.760 they do so much of the time, which is where 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.079 they get most of their money. Nowadays. It's not from 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.400 members fees because very few people are joining unions. It 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.880 comes from schemes like this. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:40.840 Gary. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.840 This will be a windfall for the union movement, and 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.680 certainly the union movement has been emboldened in recent years. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.320 But surely that's a good thing for workers. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.880 Well, it may not be, reader because you see, this 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.880 is the ongoing match who fully corporatized Australia, Big unions, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.639 big business, big government, and they don't want small business. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.839 They don't want to deal with the difficulty of individual entrepreneurs. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.639 They don't want individuals at all to have rights. It's 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.680 about you've got to plug in to this. You've got 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.320 to be beholden to government. Government will provide you with this, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.120 and if they don't, of course unions will provide you 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.639 with that. That suits big business because they are quite 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.640 happy to deal with smaller groups of people as well. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.239 So look, I think this is frightening, it's dangerous. The 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.960 impact on everyday Australians will be enormous. But it's not 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.800 the only thing Elbow wins on Saturday. We're going to 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.639 get inheritance tax, we're going to get unrealized capital gains tax, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.200 We're going to get Voice two point zero. It's going 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.520 to be okay to lie yourself back into office. This 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.680 is a very serious situation right now, just days out 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:43.320 from the election. 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.520 Well, let's just talk about that for a second, Nick, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.040 we are just a couple of days away. And it 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.920 seems the scare campaigns have come primarily from labor who 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:56.680 are in power. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.280 Normally it's the other way around it. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.720 Normally it's the opposition that's in attack mode. But there 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.840 are actual policy areas where the Liberals should have gone 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.320 far more negative. Voice two point zero is one of them. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.360 We've had Penny Wong in recent days saying that's something 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.360 that's they're going to look at again because it was 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:21.080 a mistake. She's likened it to same sex marriage. And 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.880 then when you look up look at these industrial relation laws, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.400 when you talk about tax reform with capital gains tax negative. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.880 Gearing, there was a lot of area. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.400 Where the Coalition could have gone on the attack far 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.800 more strongly than they have. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:40.040 Yeah, with a lot more evidence incidentally, than this crazy 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.520 attack on nuclear power is costing fifty billion trillion dollars 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.800 or whatever they're saying it is, which is clearly not. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.640 It's lots, so that the coalition could have gone on. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.320 I think that they should have gone harder from the start, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.520 But to be fair, I don't think they've had much 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.799 oxygen because what's happened because Albin Easy sets in train 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.120 this it's all the position's fault idea, and of course most 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.559 of the media, ninety percent of the media just jump 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.200 onto this, all the questions they get asked on this 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.279 stupid nonsense because they want alb and Easy to win. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.960 That's the cold, hard fact of it. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:15.440 They do. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.720 And so you've got a contenders opposition leader of your 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.080 conservative opposition leader, not just against the government of the 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.240 day in this case, but against almost the entire media establishment. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.320 Is a big, big battle. So I'm not going to 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.200 be too critical at this stage, but yes, yes, there 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.240 is so much that's wrong with the government's policy, including 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.560 the fact that it ductually doesn't have any serious policy 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.560 on things like energy, and with what's happening at the moment, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.440 that's really scary. Once the Greens get hold of that 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.360 agenda and start pushing it forward. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.960 Well, that definitely has been growing voter concern around the 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:00.800 Liberal's nuclear plan, if you believe the polling that's today. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.520 That has been a significant issue in this election. And 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.359 much of that fear is driven by the Labor Party's 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:13.159 persistent use of the very misleading six hundred billion dollar 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.200 figure that was concocted by the Smart Energy Council. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:18.799 Now, this is a. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.400 Renewables lobby group, it's linked to the Labor Party, and yes, 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.120 yet their data is used as gospel by so. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.360 Many in the media and by the government. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.919 Now, the Smart Energy Council has really refused to explain 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.520 how they came to this figure, how they put the 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.640 study together, what was behind their modeling. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.039 Gary the six hundred. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.279 Billion dollar figure, it's even a lot higher than Chris 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:50.400 Bowen's favorite organization, their CSIRO's modeling. But you've got to 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.400 say the strategy has been effective if the polling is accurate. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.480 Voters are scared of the cost of. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.120 Nuclear Yeah, no, they can't handle of truth, so they 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.360 go with the lie and let look readA In the end, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.160 the three of us have all reported on news items 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.000 over a long period of time We've all seen all 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.880 this stuff before. Where's the inquiring mind amongst journals? Why 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.160 have journals turned into pr agents? George Orwell said, if 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.040 they're not criticizing you, its public relations. You know, there 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.880 should be a cynical journalist that work somewhere in Australia 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.880 that's actually asking the hard questions. The facts are that 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.320 nuclear is a thousand times more efficient use of any 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.960 land than all of these wind turbines and solar panels. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.840 They have to take up so much more space and 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.200 they produce a lot more electricity for the amount of 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.000 space they take up. And every other country around the 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.600 world is going towards nuclear. We're not. So I just 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.160 think whoever wins on Saturday, nuclear is going to be 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.400 on the agenda. It's going to happen. It has to 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.040 happen because we're not going to be able to make 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.560 anything in Australia. We're not going to be able to 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.400 be self sufficient on any front. We're not going to 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.880 be able to defend ourselves. We're going to be lying 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.400 on China to make our warships. I mean, spare me. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.040 Is this how bad Australia has got to get? And 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.200 we're going to go further down the tubes for people 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.640 in Australia to finally understand how bad this government has been. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.320 And well, whether the Opposition win or lose on Saturday, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.320 we are going to go nuclear because we just simply 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:17.640 have to. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:20.800 We have to. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:26.280 But how could the Prime Minister Chris Bowen possibly prosecute 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.840 that case Nick? With everything they have said about nuclear energy, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.400 all the scare campaigns they've run, all the claims about 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:39.640 how is not sustainable, it's not commercial, it could never 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.920 possibly happen without bankrupting the economy, how can they do 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.760 it what eighty and introduce nuclear after all that? 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.080 Well, they're stuck, and if they're asked a few hard 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.319 questions they might be in a bit of bother because 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.760 the question is how can you do without nuclear? 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:54.199 Right? 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.880 If we're not allowed to use coal anymore, what's your baseload? 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.440 I mean they're trying to tell us that win solo 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.480 can be baseload. I mean they're denying the physics, just 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.320 in the same way that the trans lobby deny the biology. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.079 You know, you just can't get round those facts that 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:17.240 intermittent non the power that doesn't set in a neat 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.360 fifty cycle is dangerous in the system. It's not just 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.480 not very helpful, it is positively dangerous, as we've seen 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.680 this week from Spain where their energy grid decided to 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.480 take us to Esther in the middle of the afternoon. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.640 Now, well we'll get back to Spain. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.920 But Gary, just lastly, on the Smart Energy Council, they 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.920 enjoy charity status. Does that pass the pop test? 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.120 Well, I don't think so. And if anybody is going 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.280 to go around and call themselves smart anything, they're really 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:46.840 not smart. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:47.040 You know. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.280 The Labor Party have lied and conveniently lied and lied 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.760 and lied and lied. And if Australias want to back 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.920 the lie, then I guess that's what we've got to suffer. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.800 But there's going to be a lot of angry people 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.760 on May fourth. Whether it's going to be the Jedis 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.600 of the Empire, I don't know what's going to win, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.200 but I think the Cyths are going to be in 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.520 control and the Greens are going to have a lot 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.319 more than they should when it comes to the way 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.240 Australia's run and we're just going to be ruined. We're 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.680 going to This country is stuffed and it's going to 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.280 get more stuffed if the election goes the wrong. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.679 Way, it certainly is a consequential election, and I think 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.040 that's why it's so disappointing that it's been so lackluster. Really, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.600 we haven't had those great debates, those great ideological debates 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:34.200 about energy, about population, about cultural issues that I think 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.839 has been what's disappointed a lot of people. I want 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.839 to ask you about this clip of Anthony Alberaneasi. It's 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.679 getting a lot of attention online. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.120 It's a bit of an. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:51.280 Awkward, awkward little encounter with a Labor Party volunteer that 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.920 the Prime Minister appears to brush off. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.120 Are you excusing your boss? 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:04.480 Yeah? How the Liberals have seized on that footage and 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.360 put out this social media ad not keen to get 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:09.320 stuck talking? 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:16.200 Are you kissing your boy? Yeah? 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:22.480 Nice? Anyway a liberal camera? 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.640 Oh Nick, that's a bit cheeky from the coalition, isn't it. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:32.520 I'm sure prime ministers politicians have done that many times, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.959 brushed off somebody when they don't have the time to 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.960 to to speak to them. I do you think they 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.400 were being a bit harsh with the Prime minister there not. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.120 A Tory reader, because he's is the Prime minister who 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:48.199 says his story is no one left behind unless he 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.520 decides to push them behind him. You know, it's completely 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.760 against what he's saying. He's trying to tell us that 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.679 that Peter Dutton is a bully, that he's aggressive, that 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.520 he's just is you know, bosh, and we'll get completely 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.760 the opposite from Peter Dutton. And yet from the Prime Minister. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.160 He gets very short tempered and he doesn't seem to 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.079 care much about ordinary people, does he. I mean he 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.000 treated that woman like he's seems to be treating most 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.200 ordinary people over the cost of living and other issues 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.520 which are really hurting people's lives. So yeah, no, I do. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.040 It's pretty pretty nasty behavior for the Prime Minister. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:23.640 Gary. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.760 I've got to say, if the situation was reversed it 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.040 was Peter Dutton treating a volunteer that way, the media 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.480 would be in meltdown over it. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.120 And we've seen footage. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.960 Peter Kredlin has played this on her program throughout the 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.800 week of the press pack being so hostile to Peter 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.880 Dutton when questioning him, whilst they treat Elbow like he's 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:45.480 a mate. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.600 It is hard to deny. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.839 Despite the fact that they're supposed to be impartial unbiased journalists, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.079 not opinion leaders. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.560 Yeah, we do opinion. That's what we do. I mean, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.720 I host radio on what we see in Brisbane. I 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.520 do opinion. You do, opinion reader, I mean, this is 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.160 what we do. But journalists that are basically still overcoming 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.480 the shock of puberty are showing up to actually ask 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.280 alternative prime minister's tough questions. They're reading it off their 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.800 iPhone because the editor said, here, stupid work experience, kid, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.520 go and ask somebody a tough question because grownups won't 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.600 ask these questions because grown ups would actually filter it. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.040 Now, Labor has managed to successfully make Medicare and share 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.400 this election. They've whipped up a medi scared two point 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.000 oh and pulses are saying that it's working, that the 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.960 coalition's attempts to counter these attacks is not resonating with voters, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.320 and instead that coalitions counter promises on Medicare are being 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:48.200 drowned out by Labour's scare campaign warning of cuts under 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:53.840 the opposition leader Nick. This is surprising because if you 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.800 look at the detail, Labour's own Medicare policy promises are 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.640 being criticized by peak bodies like the National Association of 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.240 General Practice Management. They say, it's all smoke and mirrors. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.600 This notion that most patients will be able to see 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.520 a doctor for free is a fantasy. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:20.400 Well, exactly what they've put forward is hopeful statement that 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.640 everybody will get Medicare for free, to get doctors visits 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.400 for free, with no actual way of backing this up. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.920 So they haven't actually thought through the policy challenges. How 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.520 do you get enough doctors, how do you get enough 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.280 doctors in the right places at the right time. How 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.960 do you get a doctor to work in the back 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.560 of Burke on a Sunday afternoon when he's needed. You know, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.760 none of these things they address. It's just all about slogans. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.440 And they also, of course conveniently brush over the fact 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.160 there's been a massive drop in bulk billing rates since 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.200 they came to power unpresidented for over the last three years. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.560 And I'm not saying that's necessarily all together their fought. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.480 There are structural things to hear about, you know, supply 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.920 of doctors and so forth, but they won't address any 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.960 of that. It's just a slogan, isn't it. So we 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.680 can't expect them actually to achieve anything at all in 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.880 government unless they're keeping all those planned secrets somewhere. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.560 Now, let's get back to those blackouts in Europe. We 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.160 spoke about it earlier in the week. This is just 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:24.800 a enormous crisis. Sixty million people plunged into darkness, and 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.400 just days before this mass blackout, Spain was celebrating its 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.480 reliance on renewable energy. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.760 They're not celebrating any more, Nicker. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.760 What lessons can we take from what's happening in Europe 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:38.400 right now? 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.640 Well, the number one lesson, of course is we cannot 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.280 possibly get to net zero this way. In fact, we 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.640 can't get there anyway. In my view, I agree with 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.720 Tony Blair, the former Labour Prime Minister of Great Britain, 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.960 who's told Keir Starmer, the current Labor Prime Minister, that 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.640 he's dreaming with the idea of zero twenty fifty. But 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.440 putting that aside, what we've got here is just it 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.800 shows up that what we've been pushing into the system 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.200 is junk energy. It really can. You cannot keep putting 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.200 more and more renewables into the system and expect the 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.400 grid to remain stable. That's what's happened in Spain, and 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.160 it's funny to watch the renewable lobby here Rita come 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.040 up with all sorts of excuses. I read one article 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.760 to day in renew Economy, which as you know, is 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.080 the sort of prafter for the renewable industry. It's saying 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.320 that it was all Spain's fault because they didn't put 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.080 in enough batteries. What really a country dow size with 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.560 that population, they're going to keep the light on with 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.480 batteries like it's nuts. But the people, I don't know 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.600 whether they're deluded or just driven by the money, but 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.880 either way they are completely stark, staring bonkers. And as 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.200 soon as we wake up to that as a country, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:52.720 the better it'll be. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:55.360 Gary. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.320 Doesn't seem like we're going to be waking up to 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.560 it anytime soon. This could have been an election that 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.080 was fought on energy policy. Could have been a referendum 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:11.800 on energy about whether most Australians value reliability and low 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.520 cost or whether their priority is emission cuts, and that 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:20.040 would have been a real debate, and we didn't have it, Gary, No, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:20.600 we didn't. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.560 Add of course, the first week, every first week of 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.800 every federal election for the last forty years has been 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.040 about save Medicare. And then you move on to the 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.480 real issues, because no one's getting rid of medicare, so 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.480 I'll just say that. But look, the Prime Minister could 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.439 have gone down the path of saying, I'm going to 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.199 give you two hundred and seventy five dollars off your 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.880 power bill. Oh wait on, he tried that. He lied, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.760 We're going to and by the way, that should be 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.159 every power bill. I get one every quarter. So that 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.840 was four by two hundred and seventy five dollars. Basically 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.520 thirteen hundred dollars is what I was expecting off my 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.520 power But this race to renewables is a race to ruin, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:53.840 and that is the end of the story. Net zero 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.480 is a nonsense. We're going to have net zero productivity, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.600 net zero chance of defending ourselves to the outside world, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:04.120 because net zero chance of making anything in Australia. And 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.760 in the end, what has happened in Spain and Portugal 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.840 this week will happen on the East coast of Australia 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.120 incoming years. It just will because as more and more 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.880 renewables go into the grid, and the only reason they're 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.200 called renewable is they've got to be renewed every ten 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.359 years because the whole thing falls over. The wind turbines, 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.920 the solar panels, the batteries, everything falls over. They're renewables 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.200 because you've got to buy them again. That's why there's 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.760 the big raw. The people making money out of it, 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.600 they're not deluded. They know that they're going to follow 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.480 the idiocy of people like Chris Bowen and Anthony alban 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.400 Easy all the way to their bank. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:44.520 Yes, there's some very rich people getting even richer off renewables. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.480 Before you go, gentlemen, I just want to talk a 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.760 little bit about US politics. We've had promises made, promises kept. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:56.240 Just nine illegal immigrants were released into the US during 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.840 President Trump's first one hundred days in offers, which this week. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.720 That represents a ninety nine point nine nine percent decrease 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:09.120 in what's called get got aways. These got aways are 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.879 unlawful entrants who are not turned back, who are released 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:13.840 into the country. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:14.480 Now. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.960 To contrast that to the same period last year under 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.399 Joe Biden, there were one hundred and eighty four thousand 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:27.240 got aways. Nick Resolving the illegal immigration crisis would have 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.880 to be among Donald Trump's top achievements, and I don't 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.720 think anyone expected him to get it done. So quickly 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:36.000 and so effectively. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.240 No, because they never do, because the lovies will tell 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.879 you this isn't possible. You know, you can't possibly do this, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.560 just as they told the Tony Abbott that before the 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.240 twenty thirteen election, Oh, you can't turn back boats, it's impossible. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.359 Well Tony abbittt did so and got the same result 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:56.000 as Donald Trump, an immediate reduction to almost nothing of 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.480 illegal immigration. As we know, the people smug as who 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.840 bring these people over watch the news very carefully. They 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:08.240 would have known that they're in trouble with with Donald Trump, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.440 and and they've stopped sending people that way. They'll find 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.040 another route no out, possibly via Canada perhaps, but you 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.080 know they're not they're not going to use that border 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.080 with with the with Trump in power, in the in 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.280 the in the with the firm mindset he has on 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:24.080 this issue. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.679 Gentlemen, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for your time. Tonight, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:30.040 still to come. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.639 Left is losing it Plus Donald Trump sits down for 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.159 a combative interview with ABC Bationga Sargon. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.560 As the details. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.040 You're watching the reader Pany show and it's time for 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:50.960 lefties losing it. And this is genuinely amusing listen here 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.920 as the worst vice presidential candidate ever. Tampon Tim Tim Walls, 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.199 you remember him, the man famous for putting tampons in 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.080 boys bathroom across his state. Well, he's revealed that he 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.320 was selected by Kamala Harris because he could co talk 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:12.400 to white dudes. Really, white dudes watching football and fixing 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.400 their trucks were going to vote for this. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.159 I also was on the ticket quite honestly, you know, 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:21.280 because I could code talk to white guys watching football 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.239 fixing their truck doing that that I could put them 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.200 at ease. I was the permission structure to say, look, 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:28.520 you can do this and vote for this. 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:34.120