Speaker 1: Les General, Welcome to the Late Debate. Good evening and
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Speaker 2: why later on, but first a Late Debate special. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not an episode of The Late Debate if we
Speaker 2: don't get stuck into at least one council. So we're
Speaker 2: going to start the batting with that tonight. And tonight
Speaker 2: it's Randwick Council in Sydney. That's in our cross here
Speaker 2: is because of course Day, like many other councils, decided
Speaker 2: it would be a grand idea to debate about Israel
Speaker 2: and Gaza, because you know Benjamin nettin Yahu and Hamasa
Speaker 2: sitting around with baited breath waiting to find out what
Speaker 2: Randwick Council thinks before they take any further action in
Speaker 2: that conflict. But we find out today how much money
Speaker 2: Randwick Council spent having these debates and apparently for the
Speaker 2: security and catering they needed for the special meetings in
Speaker 2: order to discuss geopolitics issues on the other side of
Speaker 2: the world. Randwick Council spent thirteen thousand dollars. And you
Speaker 2: might think, well, that's not a great deal of money.
Speaker 2: Who really cares about that? But think about all the
Speaker 2: other councils that did exactly the same thing. This is
Speaker 2: your rates, after all, this is magnified across the entire country.
Speaker 2: And we find out these numbers because of a new
Speaker 2: lobby group called Better Council Group. If only we could
Speaker 2: actually get better councils, the leader of which Sophie Calland
Speaker 2: is now painning to get rid of the Greens in Randwich.
Speaker 2: She says it suits the Green's agenda to continuously distract
Speaker 2: voters when presented with the facts of their performance in
Speaker 2: these roles. Let's talk about all the things that councils
Speaker 2: can't have any effect on, like war in Gaza, for instance.
Speaker 2: But it's not just the thirteen thousand dollars they spent
Speaker 2: staging these meetings. The mayor, the Greens mayor in Randwick
Speaker 2: put up a Facebook post with photographs of an anti
Speaker 2: Zionist rally. Someone a member of the community then made
Speaker 2: a complaint to the council under the Code of Conduct
Speaker 2: and said that this was discriminatory and so's division within
Speaker 2: the community. So that was then investigated. Can you imagine
Speaker 2: how much it cost them to investigate a Facebook post?
Speaker 2: Thirty four five hundred dollars to be precise. The complaint
Speaker 2: said the posting of these images may be construed as intimidation,
Speaker 2: harassment to famatory, threatening and discriminatory to our community, which
Speaker 2: includes two Jewish days skuls and two synagogues. I mean,
Speaker 2: what better for councils to get up to debating these
Speaker 2: issues that they have no effect over is and then
Speaker 2: spending tens of thousands of dollars investigating complaints about Facebook posts.
Speaker 3: Business as usual for counsels Like you say, this is
Speaker 3: just one council, how many of them have taken upon
Speaker 3: themselves to venture into geopolitics and who should be blowing up?
Speaker 1: Who shouldn't be?
Speaker 3: Whose side are we on instead of roads rates and
Speaker 3: rubbish for crying out loud. I love the idea of
Speaker 3: this Better Counsel's campaign. I hope they're absolutely cashed up.
Speaker 3: I hope they've got some full time staff on board,
Speaker 3: because that is a full time job. And I don't
Speaker 3: know how effective they can be, because of course these
Speaker 3: councils don't seem to change very drastically. Come each election,
Speaker 3: you hope for drastic change, except for this year. Of course,
Speaker 3: nobody's hoping for drastic change because the vast majority of
Speaker 3: the Limbs didn't even get their application, so there is
Speaker 3: no vote for change this time round. So you'd almost
Speaker 3: wonder why Better Counsel this campaign isn't just cooling their
Speaker 3: jets at this point because almost all hope is lost.
Speaker 3: So many of the others couldn't even apply to run.
Speaker 3: Some of them are incumbents, so they won't be.
Speaker 4: They say they will.
Speaker 5: I'll get all those votes that can't go to the
Speaker 5: Libs now, so I think exactly perfect time you can.
Speaker 1: It's just going to be more of the same from
Speaker 1: these council.
Speaker 5: I think, I think Randwick Council. I think it just
Speaker 5: it doesn't go far enough. I just I don't understand
Speaker 5: why we only know their position on one foreign policy?
Speaker 5: What's their position on Yemen? What's their position on South Sudan?
Speaker 5: What's their position on Brexit Amenia? What's the Armenia? Ukraine
Speaker 5: joined the AU NATO? I mean, can council NATO?
Speaker 3: No, So maybe they should send a letter to NATO
Speaker 3: letter Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Can't join at the moment, they what do they make
Speaker 2: of the EU elections?
Speaker 5: I imagine that would be emotional itself. I remember it's
Speaker 5: always whenever the Greens get involved, unsurprisingly, like most councils
Speaker 5: go about their business and they kind of and indeed
Speaker 5: the local government minister is now as a former mayor
Speaker 5: of a council, he's one of the more sensible ones.
Speaker 5: But it's always wherever the Greens get controlled, and they
Speaker 5: always get control of sporadically of the in a West council,
Speaker 5: it's with Labour now, thank god at the moment, but
Speaker 5: when they've.
Speaker 2: Been debating the whole Israel guards Greens and they've been
Speaker 2: having like vicious fights at Council meeting security called in
Speaker 2: slanging matches.
Speaker 5: Also, I remember when the Greens Ranichhart Council was the
Speaker 5: precursor that in the West and they were doing like
Speaker 5: I think they were sending money to East Team or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and then there was another one there was And when
Speaker 5: the Greens were running in a West council more recently,
Speaker 5: they were debating orcas.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine about it? Worried about it? Nuclear submarines sailing.
Speaker 2: You would know, being an Inner wisty as mr and
Speaker 2: you know it's it's it's amazing living in the Inner
Speaker 2: West as a right winger. Actually quite like it because
Speaker 2: no one in the Inn West knows what I do
Speaker 2: because they don't consume this kind of media. If only
Speaker 2: they did, they'd have an education.
Speaker 1: But because they don't, watch out, so I.
Speaker 2: Can just sort of walk around with total anonymity in
Speaker 2: the Inner West. But just down the street from me
Speaker 2: is a little sign that says, you know, the Inner
Speaker 2: West or Lighthart Nuclear Free. As though there was going
Speaker 2: to be a nuclear subarge just sort of sail.
Speaker 5: Up all those plans to build a giant nuclear reactor
Speaker 5: in King Street, New Town.
Speaker 1: Somehow, well that would be the best nuclear.
Speaker 5: Also, racism is not welcome in the in the West
Speaker 5: and Blara Council.
Speaker 4: You'll be solved to know.
Speaker 5: They have little signs there saying races. Apparently, if you
Speaker 5: go to any council area, any local government area where
Speaker 5: there isn't a sign saying racism isn't welcome, it's fine
Speaker 5: to be just becaus racist as you want. It's totally fine.
Speaker 5: I love it, unless you've got a sign saying don't
Speaker 5: be racist. Also, I just assume that bank robbery is
Speaker 5: legal unless there's no sign saying bank robbery not welcome here,
Speaker 5: sign that it's okay.
Speaker 4: That's waiting for it.
Speaker 5: Really again, I want to know what is Randwick Council's
Speaker 5: position on bank robbery. Why haven't they felt this right?
Speaker 5: If you're going to go into all the jurisdictions which
Speaker 5: councils have absolutely not in it with, let's go into
Speaker 5: the crime.
Speaker 3: Were right on the raygun controversy.
Speaker 1: I don't give them ideas. We need to know.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're in New South Wales, maybe hope is
Speaker 3: on the way for misbehaving counselors. As the state government
Speaker 3: has decided to weigh in, there's been so many complaints
Speaker 3: behavioral complaints leveled at counselors that the state government has
Speaker 3: decided we're going to do a report on this, and
Speaker 3: we're going to start by reducing the code of conduct
Speaker 3: down from one hundred pages to two or three pages.
Speaker 1: Get this.
Speaker 3: The data provided as part of this report that the
Speaker 3: state government is doing found four two hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: nine complaints over the three years preceding twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty three, but of these, fewer than twenty
Speaker 3: resulted in serious repercussions for offending counselors. So the states like,
Speaker 3: clearly the system's broken, we're gonna tidy it up. Check
Speaker 3: out this graph, which I believe may have just been
Speaker 3: up on your screen. This is how many complaints there
Speaker 3: have been in just these six councils.
Speaker 1: What the heck is going on?
Speaker 6: In Cumberland they had eighty four complaints, spent almost one
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty thousand rate pay of dollars on sorting
Speaker 6: those out, and zero zero what there were found to
Speaker 6: be a breach.
Speaker 3: So you've gotta love government because you make a complaint
Speaker 3: and they say, thank you for that. We'll investigate our
Speaker 3: selves and get back to you as to whether there's
Speaker 3: been a breach, but the Office of Local Government in
Speaker 3: New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Is onto it.
Speaker 3: Here's a quote from the Local Government Minister Ron Hohenegg.
Speaker 3: He says the options presented in this discussion paper put
Speaker 3: the owners back on addressing and resolving issues of council
Speaker 3: and misbehavior at a local level, rather than escalating complaints
Speaker 3: for the state government or private investigators to fix. For
Speaker 3: far too long the system has been abused. It's time
Speaker 3: to restore public confidence in councils.
Speaker 1: And ensure the dignity of.
Speaker 3: This vital third tier of government is upheld. Mate, that
Speaker 3: ship has sailed. But hey, dreams are free, so go
Speaker 3: your heart.
Speaker 1: At I mean, great idea, a great idea.
Speaker 2: And then what they're proposing now is that you know,
Speaker 2: councilors who misbehave could face fines and suspensions and all
Speaker 2: this sort of thing. But from reading these numbers, it
Speaker 2: sounds to me like it's not necessarily the council's council
Speaker 2: laws who are being complained about that are behaving badly.
Speaker 2: It's the councilors and members of the public who are
Speaker 2: making the complaints. So if you can have eighty four
Speaker 2: complaints in one council investigated to the tune of one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty UK and not one of them was uphild.
Speaker 2: You've got a bunch of vications litigans who ought to
Speaker 2: be kicked, it.
Speaker 4: Would appear so.
Speaker 5: And interestingly Cumberland, I'm not sure exactly what if the
Speaker 5: time period overlapsed, but most recently Cumberland was the subject
Speaker 5: of a very deliberate campaign of complaint by people who
Speaker 5: are upset about a book about same set in the
Speaker 5: local library. And this caused all sorts of furora. So
Speaker 5: that may explain those high numbers. It's where of course
Speaker 5: that was recent.
Speaker 4: Though that was really recent.
Speaker 5: It might have been captured in these numbers, but certainly
Speaker 5: that was that was one of the things that definitely
Speaker 5: blew up recently and it was one of those things
Speaker 5: that was found to.
Speaker 4: Be completely fruivalous.
Speaker 5: So it's quite easy for people to whip up outrage
Speaker 5: about something or particular, something something or other in particular,
Speaker 5: and then there's another one in Bumbrey Council that's happened,
Speaker 5: in w A that's happening, and have all this stuff
Speaker 5: brought to bear, often from people outside the l g
Speaker 5: A and then then to be found that it's just
Speaker 5: a big nothing butter and I love the idea of
Speaker 5: private investigators bring it all nine hours when I saw
Speaker 5: the counselor escape.
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot of confidence in this proposed
Speaker 3: new system though, because get this, this is this is
Speaker 3: how the state government is proposing.
Speaker 1: This would now go.
Speaker 3: So you make a behavioral complaint against one of your counselors,
Speaker 3: this is how it's decided. Three tests for alleged misbehavior.
Speaker 3: We're trying to simplify here, right, So there's just three
Speaker 3: tests proposed. One any unbecoming conduct, Okay, that's clear as mud.
Speaker 3: Number two bringing counsel into disrepute, Okay, because that's not highly.
Speaker 5: According to Caleb, every single council has already been brought
Speaker 5: in executive.
Speaker 1: So that's all of the three.
Speaker 3: Behavior assessed as being outside the norms and expectations of
Speaker 3: a sitting counselor. I'm pretty sure that's just the same
Speaker 3: thing said three times over, slightly differently, but okay, And
Speaker 3: under this new system, this would then be sent to
Speaker 3: a committee of mayors in ex mayors to decide whether
Speaker 3: you have, in fact breach one of these three. But
Speaker 3: they all sound so highly subjective.
Speaker 1: Something that you.
Speaker 3: Say brings disrepior, I might argue is just free speech,
Speaker 3: and so on and so forth and counselor.
Speaker 5: And not only does it go to a career of
Speaker 5: mayors and x mayors. The local government minister who came
Speaker 5: up with this is himself.
Speaker 2: An X may and council is just make umpteen complaints
Speaker 2: about each other because they know it gets caught up
Speaker 2: in the process and it takes so long, and it's
Speaker 2: hanging over people's heads, and they do it in the
Speaker 2: lead up to council elections, so it's still there on
Speaker 2: the books when the election.
Speaker 1: Comes along on and on it goes.
Speaker 2: These people are so damn petty, it's not funny, and
Speaker 2: they're doing it with your money and my money.
Speaker 1: Let's go to some.
Speaker 2: More madness in Melbourne where one hospital, Monash Hospital, is
Speaker 2: now telling staff that it may have to discharge people
Speaker 2: early because they don't have enough money to keep them
Speaker 2: in hospital.
Speaker 1: What an extraordinary position to be in now.
Speaker 2: This is despite the fact that one and a half
Speaker 2: billion extra dollars was given by the Allen government two
Speaker 2: hospitals in its last state budget. But the hospitals still
Speaker 2: think they do not have enough money to do the
Speaker 2: jobs they need to do. They send an email around
Speaker 2: Bonish Hospital, that is to the staff this week saying,
Speaker 2: in the meantime, our current budget directives remain in place.
Speaker 2: We will continue to drive efficiency and reduce costs where
Speaker 2: we can be this through reduced length of stay, improved
Speaker 2: coding and data capture, reduced failure to attend rates, or
Speaker 2: simply working smarter.
Speaker 1: You're not entirely well yet doesn't matter. You've got to
Speaker 1: go home. We've got to put someone else in that bed.
Speaker 1: We can't afford to keep me here.
Speaker 2: And there's even the suggestion in Victoria that some doctors
Speaker 2: are going to have to take a pay cut so
Speaker 2: that the hospitals can keep running. You know, it's the
Speaker 2: most basic staff for a state government to be on
Speaker 2: top of.
Speaker 1: To think that you would a kick people out of.
Speaker 2: Hospital early when they're probably not entirely well because you
Speaker 2: can't afford to keep them in the hospital and asked doctors,
Speaker 2: some of the most hard working people in the public system,
Speaker 2: to take up pay cut.
Speaker 1: That's insane.
Speaker 3: It makes sense though, that these hospitals are sticking with
Speaker 3: the budget because so the state government handed down these
Speaker 3: budget cuts in May, all the hospitals freaked out and
Speaker 3: advise the state government, Hey, this would literally mean drastic
Speaker 3: cuts to care, Like, let's be completely frankier, we simply
Speaker 3: can't do this. But they've crunched the numbers they've come
Speaker 3: up with their new budgets. The state government backflipped a
Speaker 3: month later and said, here's an extra one point five bill.
Speaker 3: But a hospital like Monash and any other hospital in
Speaker 3: Victoria doesn't know how much of that is now going
Speaker 3: to come into their coffers. So naturally they're still like, well,
Speaker 3: we just need to stick with the cuts that we've
Speaker 3: made to be far more efficient. But efficiency and kicking
Speaker 3: people out of hospital beds early, and like you say,
Speaker 3: this is one of the most crucial, simplistic, bottom line
Speaker 3: issues for the government to pay for. This is what
Speaker 3: we give you our tax dollars for, so when people
Speaker 3: are sick you can look after them, and you can't
Speaker 3: even do that. It's just yet another notch on the
Speaker 3: belt of why to leave Victoria.
Speaker 2: Tell that, I mean, they've got to be so broken, imagining,
Speaker 2: so broke that you can't even keep people in This that.
Speaker 5: Is broke in both senses of the word, it is
Speaker 5: just broken functionally, it has become institutionally broken, and obviously
Speaker 5: the various corruption bodies in the Oberinsmen have had something
Speaker 5: to say about that. But also it's just got no money.
Speaker 5: And all the people say, are we living in society
Speaker 5: not an economy. If you can't balance a budget, if
Speaker 5: you can't keep a state economy ticking over to the
Speaker 5: point where you can run budget surpluces to pay for
Speaker 5: the services you need, this is what happened. You get
Speaker 5: people gotten up with little aprons on and marched out
Speaker 5: the doors with their little white tushy flashing in the background.
Speaker 5: And if that wants if you want that to be
Speaker 5: the face of Victoria, carry on well.
Speaker 3: Speaking of them having no money, the Allen government in
Speaker 3: Victoria is now facing seventeen thousand, five hundred police officers
Speaker 3: who want a pay rise yesterday, and our undertaking industrial
Speaker 3: action to see that they get it. The nurses just
Speaker 3: got a twenty eight percent pay rise. The firefighters are
Speaker 3: fighting for similar, so are the paramedics. This is a
Speaker 3: broke government who is simply sitting there with empty pockets
Speaker 3: saying we can't help you out at the moment. So
Speaker 3: the cops are taking matters into their own hands, demanding
Speaker 3: a twenty four percent pay rise, which would be six
Speaker 3: percent annually over the next four years, as well as
Speaker 3: the introduction of eight point five hour shifts, because of
Speaker 3: course they do a lot of overtime and they're not
Speaker 3: getting paid for it, so they're sick and tired of it.
Speaker 3: They want a fair deal. The nurses just got one
Speaker 3: and they like the idea of it. Here is Police
Speaker 3: Association Secretary Wayne Gatt telling us just how dire the
Speaker 3: situation for police in Victoria.
Speaker 4: Is right now.
Speaker 7: Morale is hopeless in policing. I've really seen it worse,
Speaker 7: to be quite honest, and I know it's easy to
Speaker 7: come out and say that, but just imagine it. The
Speaker 7: police station behind me is all all but closed. It's
Speaker 7: all but closed. There's a couple of police officers inside,
Speaker 7: but that's all you got today. Fitzroy is shut. That's
Speaker 7: the closest police s action. We can't do this press
Speaker 7: conference there because it's shut today. That's how threadbare these
Speaker 7: police stations are. So imagine what it's like working in
Speaker 7: that environment. Because I can tell you now crime is
Speaker 7: not going down in Victoria, so the workload confronting police
Speaker 7: officers and persos is not getting any less.
Speaker 3: Way to tell the crimson Victoria, Hey, stright, now, while
Speaker 3: the iron's hot. Should they actually get this deal with
Speaker 3: the state government, it would add two hundred and ten
Speaker 3: million dollars to the three point two billion dollar bill
Speaker 3: that the taxpayer pays every year in Victoria to fund
Speaker 3: the police. When you put it that way, it doesn't
Speaker 3: sound like that much more.
Speaker 4: And show's got no money.
Speaker 5: Don't give the hospitals to stop sick.
Speaker 3: These guys are saying, we can't keep operating under the
Speaker 3: current system.
Speaker 4: We need more.
Speaker 3: You've got to do better by us. What what option
Speaker 3: does the state have these.
Speaker 4: Guys going again?
Speaker 5: They destroyed the economy during COVID. They destroyed the economy
Speaker 5: for votes to stoke and appease people's fears.
Speaker 4: And this is the result of it.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 5: They have literally driven the state into the ground. They've
Speaker 5: given the economy into the ground to the point where
Speaker 5: they can't even put on the Commonwealth games basically an
Speaker 5: egg and spoon race, and they've simply.
Speaker 4: Got no money.
Speaker 2: They can't get enough coppers, they can't keep people who
Speaker 2: are sick in hoss and it's extraordinary that they've got
Speaker 2: no money because the land tax in Victoria, and anyone
Speaker 2: who owns a rental property in Victoria will know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, has gone through the roof. Daniel Andrews
Speaker 2: fiddled with that, jacked it up so much. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know people who are selling up in Victoria any
Speaker 2: property they've got and buying in wa Queensland, New South Wales,
Speaker 2: South Australia, basically anywhere else because the land tax has
Speaker 2: gone so high. And you know what that's done, It's
Speaker 2: driven the rents up. Well done to the Alan gup.
Speaker 2: The one win, the one win though that the police
Speaker 2: have had in Victoria is they've been given the power
Speaker 2: to move on a bunch of do good a protesters
Speaker 2: who are going to rock up to one of the
Speaker 2: biggest military expos in Melbourne next week. Now there's been
Speaker 2: a threat from the Greens in particular this thing, what's
Speaker 2: it called. I've lost the lame horses the landforces, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much, Joe. It's the biggest military expo in
Speaker 2: the country. It's one of the biggest military expos in
Speaker 2: the world. Actually it was in Brisbane two years ago
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. This edition is going to be
Speaker 2: held in Melbourne just next week, and there have been
Speaker 2: threats that will be up to twenty thousand protesters rocking
Speaker 2: up to this thing. How exactly they're going to do that,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but the police have now been given
Speaker 2: the power to move on any protesters who rock up
Speaker 2: with masks on, because of course if you rock up
Speaker 2: with a mask, you're concealing your identity because you're going
Speaker 2: to be up to no good. We've got a little
Speaker 2: taste of how all of this might go in Brisbane
Speaker 2: two years ago.
Speaker 1: Take a look, I mean Granny with her pot. There
Speaker 1: is doing a lot.
Speaker 2: But of course now we have the other complications laughing.
Speaker 2: We have the added complication of the war between Israel
Speaker 2: and Gazas. So the Greens are incensed about it. How
Speaker 2: dare you have a military expo? We should not be
Speaker 2: allowed to defend ourselves in this country, should we? It's
Speaker 2: all just a great celebration of war. Well I'd like
Speaker 2: to see what the Greens will do when China finally
Speaker 2: rocks up at the shores. We won't have anything left
Speaker 2: to defend ourselves because they said you don't need military whatsoever.
Speaker 2: But I do find it slightly ironic that the Victorian
Speaker 2: police have now been given the power to move on
Speaker 2: people who wear masks to protest, when just three odd
Speaker 2: years ago, if you rocked up to a protest and
Speaker 2: you didn't have a mask on, will you be.
Speaker 1: Arrested for that?
Speaker 2: Ah? Very good.
Speaker 3: It's hard for these guys to stay on top of things, really,
Speaker 3: I mean, no wonder the Victorian police are just like,
Speaker 3: we've had enough, We're out of here. These Queenslanders are
Speaker 3: going to be doing the same. Do you want mass
Speaker 3: on or mass off for crying out loud? But whatever
Speaker 3: you've got to do to get rid of the protesters
Speaker 3: so people can go about their lawful business. It's not
Speaker 3: a protest if you're stopping people from doing that. Back
Speaker 3: to Victoria, where a lesbian group is seeking the Administration
Speaker 3: Tribunals of Appeals to overturn a decision made by the
Speaker 3: Human Rights Commission back in October last year which said
Speaker 3: that they were forbidden to disallow trans women and bisexuals
Speaker 3: from attending their public events. For lesbian group says, we
Speaker 3: are seeking to discriminate. We're female and.
Speaker 1: We'd like some rights please.
Speaker 4: Well, good luck, lesbians.
Speaker 3: We scrape women haven't had any luck in this space,
Speaker 3: but strength to your arm, try your hardest while not Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: a member of this group says they are so isolated
Speaker 3: speaking about lesbian feminists. They have no one else to
Speaker 3: talk to and they don't know where to find the support.
Speaker 3: There's nothing anti trans or about our application at all. Well,
Speaker 3: if only we could say that every time we'd like
Speaker 3: a biology man ejected from our female lonly gyms or
Speaker 3: female only sports or female lonely anything. So I'm very
Speaker 3: curious to see how this ends, because if the lesbians
Speaker 3: get the rights that us straight women have been fighting
Speaker 3: for four years now unsuccessfully, that's going.
Speaker 1: To I was going to say.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, I was going to say,
Speaker 2: more strength to the lesbian arm. But a lesbian arm
Speaker 2: probably has more strength than a lot of other women's
Speaker 2: arms in many cases. But well, I'm just saying that
Speaker 2: they actually know they work out, and have you ever
Speaker 2: watched the AFLW.
Speaker 1: Right women don't work out anyway?
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 2: The comparison that they're making in this case is to
Speaker 2: the Peel Hotel in Melbourne, which was a gay bar
Speaker 2: that was given the ability to turn away straight men
Speaker 2: because it was a haven for gay men. And this
Speaker 2: is go back decades, but it was a place for
Speaker 2: gay men to go and feel safe away from the
Speaker 2: rest of society. So they were given the ability to
Speaker 2: turn straight in a way at the door. And the
Speaker 2: lesbians are saying, well, why can't we have exactly the
Speaker 2: same right. The only difference here is that we are female,
Speaker 2: and I don't see why they shouldn't have the right.
Speaker 2: We had this discussion all the time about whether there
Speaker 2: should be men's only clubs and women's only clubs, and
Speaker 2: of course the complaint is always about men only clubs.
Speaker 2: We never talk about the fact that, you know, for
Speaker 2: the Adelaide Club, there's also the Queen Adelaide Club, and
Speaker 2: on and on it goes there are exclusive clubs only
Speaker 2: for women.
Speaker 5: Member.
Speaker 1: Well, well, I mean you can.
Speaker 2: Club is a gay bartrite my applications in for the
Speaker 2: Queen out of the club because I could be a
Speaker 2: woman for all you know. But but why should they
Speaker 2: not be able to have a place or a space
Speaker 2: or an event that is exclusively for lesbian women.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would think if it's your group and you've
Speaker 5: kind of started, it's kind of like saying anyone should
Speaker 5: be allowed to be in the Beatles. Well, no, if
Speaker 5: it's your group and you've formed it for a particular.
Speaker 3: Look how that went in the courts with Giggles versus
Speaker 3: Giggle versus Tickle exact que a ridiculous same for a
Speaker 3: court case. How is anyone supposed to take that seriously?
Speaker 3: But they had created an online space that was supposed
Speaker 3: to be women only and they've lost.
Speaker 1: They've lost in court.
Speaker 4: That's right not to mention the case of Giggle and
Speaker 4: who which is about an owl? And anyway, point.
Speaker 5: Being, I think you should be able to you, you
Speaker 5: should be able to decide, you should have a right
Speaker 5: to do and don't want to associate with. And again
Speaker 5: I do not understand a Melbourne left This is another
Speaker 5: example of how broken Melbourne is. I don't understand Melbourne
Speaker 5: left wing landscape in which lesbian separatism is not allowed.
Speaker 4: How fitial home.
Speaker 1: Melbourne.
Speaker 5: My entire nineteen nineties at Melbourne University, that's just all
Speaker 5: everything is turned upside down now. And I know a
Speaker 5: bit about the appeals policy on heterosexual men because I
Speaker 5: went to the Peel when my youth, and I always
Speaker 5: thought it was very unfair because I I went there
Speaker 5: and you know, the girls would often want to go
Speaker 5: there because girls I want to go to gay bars
Speaker 5: because they don't get harassed on the advance floor and stuff.
Speaker 5: But I, you know, I get dragged along. And I
Speaker 5: always thought it was terribly unfair because of course I
Speaker 5: am incredibly hot, and so as soon as I walk
Speaker 5: in the door, guys hitting on me right and said,
Speaker 5: I don't want to hurt their feelings or anything. And
Speaker 5: I also obviously don't want to say, oh sorry, I'm straight,
Speaker 5: because that's just false advertised, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: And so you.
Speaker 4: Know I've got you know, I had this poor guy
Speaker 4: hitting on me for like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Cruel to Joe.
Speaker 4: That's right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm supporting it to some boundaries here. There's only so
Speaker 5: much of the Joe dog to go around.
Speaker 2: But you know, you'd be more worried if they weren't
Speaker 2: interested in you, because you go, well, then I really am.
Speaker 5: No, I'm beautiful, I'm hot to try and you should
Speaker 5: see me cuts and moves on the down floor.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that. Actually, we should do
Speaker 1: that one night.
Speaker 2: There's a you don't see it here on the set,
Speaker 2: but there is actually over behind Liz's shoulder. There there
Speaker 2: is a little bit where you could do a jig,
Speaker 2: and I reckon, we should get Joe up there one
Speaker 2: night after we've got a couple of shep see how
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 1: We're going to do some karaoke on the Late.
Speaker 2: Debate one night, let's go to the UK where the
Speaker 2: Nottingham Shear Police have come up with a novel idea.
Speaker 2: And I hate this stuff because you know, the world
Speaker 2: is divided enough as it is, but the Nottingham Shear
Speaker 2: Police are now asking members of the public to dobby
Speaker 2: in other members of the public for things that aren't
Speaker 2: quite crimes, but they don't particularly like. So if you
Speaker 2: see someone doing something on the road that perhaps isn't
Speaker 2: against the law, but you think it's a bit iffy,
Speaker 2: well seeing some vision after the police, and then the
Speaker 2: police will use their abundant resources. They must be doing
Speaker 2: a bit better than the Victorian police to send a
Speaker 2: letter to the driver of that vehicle or the owner
Speaker 2: of that vehicle to say, buddy, you should do a
Speaker 2: little bit better next time.
Speaker 1: And of course some of the.
Speaker 2: Complaints that are coming in are about people shouting at
Speaker 2: cyclists and one man has put his letter up on
Speaker 2: X of course formerly Twitter, in which it says, and
Speaker 2: you can see the letter on the screen. The police
Speaker 2: have taken the time to write this. He's not committed
Speaker 2: any crime runing to him anyway. The letter says, quote,
Speaker 2: it is alleged that the driver of the vehicle pulled
Speaker 2: alongside a group of cyclists and shouted single file, you
Speaker 2: bunch of and the next word starts with a C.
Speaker 2: Whilst riding to a breast may appear to take may
Speaker 2: it bear to take up more road space? Cyclists can
Speaker 2: ride to a breast and it can.
Speaker 1: Be safer to do so, particularly in larger groups.
Speaker 2: So please bear be a r that's not how U
Speaker 2: spell bear shame mind when using the roads. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure there are cyclists watching tonight who are like, hooray,
Speaker 2: finally someone standing up for us. But surely police resources
Speaker 2: could be better used than sending off letters to people
Speaker 2: for using naughty words. But to the cyclists who are
Speaker 2: watching and have encountered this before, well they know what
Speaker 2: we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Have a look.
Speaker 8: But you really pressed me on what I haven't done
Speaker 8: anything that's the problem.
Speaker 2: But d'ant to bought you over down?
Speaker 1: Well, Tom Dimon all blah, don't you like her? Back
Speaker 1: to polite job, I get the back way. I am
Speaker 1: in the bicklayyah.
Speaker 3: Well just.
Speaker 2: For our deputy head of Programs, James Birtles, who was
Speaker 2: complaining before the show that we we're going to slag
Speaker 2: off cyclists here tonight. But surely the police have better
Speaker 2: things to do than sending off letters because someone swore
Speaker 2: it someone Well.
Speaker 4: Look even James of Defense.
Speaker 5: I was going to slag off cyclist until I got
Speaker 5: his email and discovered he was a cyclist. Now I
Speaker 5: am fighting for cyclists to the dead. I will die
Speaker 5: on this shill. These not all heroes wear capes somewhere
Speaker 5: like her.
Speaker 4: They shouldn't be wearing on behalf of the on behalf
Speaker 4: of the community.
Speaker 2: James James is actually a fit bloke, so he probably
Speaker 2: doesn't look as bad in like her as some of
Speaker 2: the blokes I see getting around.
Speaker 1: My father's a mammal bug.
Speaker 4: No, I I can't stand up for them.
Speaker 3: I almost had a heart attack just last week taking
Speaker 3: out a cyclist who seemed to think it was perfectly
Speaker 3: okay to cut in front of a car.
Speaker 1: He did not indicate that he.
Speaker 3: Was turning I'm going straight and I heard, for the
Speaker 3: first time in my life a grown man's scream. But
Speaker 3: it was terrifying thought for me. I almost someone through
Speaker 3: no fall to my own. This guy's just blissfully cycling
Speaker 3: along and decides to without even looking over his shoulder,
Speaker 3: so there wasn't any hand out.
Speaker 1: I'm about to go right. He didn't even look. He
Speaker 1: was just veering off to the right in front of me.
Speaker 3: It was absolutely terrifying, right into the police.
Speaker 1: When you should ride into the police and traumatize.
Speaker 2: The only problem is that because he's riding a bike,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a registration plate or anything on the front,
Speaker 2: so they won't know who he is.
Speaker 1: They can't write back to it.
Speaker 4: I'm not for that.
Speaker 1: I'm not for that. I know you would be.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Actually, I do not think that bikes should be registered,
Speaker 2: because the one beauty of riding a bike is that
Speaker 2: you can break the law, you can run red lights,
Speaker 2: you can speak as you.
Speaker 4: Want, and you can die out of dark places. Here
Speaker 4: what are they? This is this is the existential question
Speaker 4: of the bike of the cyclist. What are you?
Speaker 5: I was in Darlinghurst, in City, in the city city,
Speaker 5: very urbane, sophisticated environment. You know, I would vote for
Speaker 5: Clover more and more often if they could. And I'm
Speaker 5: right there with my old stumping ground, and this perfectly
Speaker 5: like cool little, friendly, little inner city type is just
Speaker 5: sitting there in the cool little inner city fuel efficient
Speaker 5: motor vehicle and e bike user sort of crossed the
Speaker 5: road in front of them and then was and then
Speaker 5: was on the road in front of them, So it's
Speaker 5: just sort of like cross the road like a pedestrian
Speaker 5: and then and then took off like a car as
Speaker 5: I was using the lane, and.
Speaker 4: You could see the driver's head exploded and he.
Speaker 5: Just got okay, and you want car or and he
Speaker 5: didn't make up your mind?
Speaker 1: What are you?
Speaker 5: I think this is what This is what we've got
Speaker 5: to get to the bottom of, because everyone like there
Speaker 5: is they are?
Speaker 4: Is they think they are?
Speaker 5: This is a matter of intense psychoanalytical interest. This could
Speaker 5: change the way the human mind works.
Speaker 4: Is it a bird?
Speaker 1: Is it a plane?
Speaker 4: Is it an e is it a cycle?
Speaker 2: Let's stick in the UK for a moment where the
Speaker 2: Manchester Museum has well, I've been having a strange exhibition recently.
Speaker 2: They've decided that they need to reinterpret everything within the
Speaker 2: museum within the lens of lgbt IQ. I thought Pride
Speaker 2: Month was back in June, but apparently they're only just.
Speaker 1: Catching up Pride Month in the UK. That's correct. In fact,
Speaker 1: every day is Pride Day.
Speaker 2: They get to three hundred and sixty five days a year,
Speaker 2: and three hundred and sixty six in a leap year
Speaker 2: these days, it seems. But the Manchester Museum has seen
Speaker 2: fit to sort of tell you everything you're looking at
Speaker 2: in the museum and what sort of connection it might
Speaker 2: have to lgbt IQ history, which means they've deal into
Speaker 2: the history of a lot of the things that they
Speaker 2: have in this museum, including the texta Dormied Animals and
Speaker 2: who would have thought that taxidermied animals are proof of.
Speaker 1: All the discrimination in the world. Manchester Museums proved it somehow.
Speaker 9: So you can see behind me, Who've got a lot
Speaker 9: of birds, a lot of taxidermy birds, and so during
Speaker 9: the Victorian period was when a lot of these birds
Speaker 9: were taxidermy. The Victorian period was really run by sins,
Speaker 9: straight white men, and is very clear their perceptions that
Speaker 9: are shown in beers.
Speaker 1: So the woman was.
Speaker 9: Usually seen as quite submissive. That's why she's seen us
Speaker 9: lower down. The man was seen as very dominant, so
Speaker 9: that's when he was positioned higher up. And then having
Speaker 9: the children is really solidifying that nucleus family that was
Speaker 9: a big thing back day. What's very interesting as well
Speaker 9: is that when we actually look at the collection that
Speaker 9: we have, about eighty percent of the animals and insects
Speaker 9: are male. So even when we're looking around the museum,
Speaker 9: most of this as a proportional to what we see
Speaker 9: day to day.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, there are too many male taxidermy birds
Speaker 2: nuclear family, which was big back then, she says. She
Speaker 2: then goes on because that clip thing goes on for
Speaker 2: another minute or so. She then goes on to say
Speaker 2: that there are lots of examples of insects and stuff
Speaker 2: that they've got in the museum, and that these insects
Speaker 2: are intersex and you know, this is proof of the
Speaker 2: l g B t i Q stuff going on in
Speaker 2: the world. I thought, I thought we all knew that
Speaker 2: snails and certain fish and whatever can change their sex.
Speaker 2: Took nothing to do with them being l g B
Speaker 2: t i Q. I don't think a fish could tell
Speaker 2: you what it identifies as it's just a part of nature.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: But well, supposedly the penguins are gain but they never
Speaker 2: actually asked the.
Speaker 1: They just assumed because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine delving so deep into the fact that there
Speaker 2: are too many male texta dormied animals and thinking that
Speaker 2: that is proof of misogyny.
Speaker 3: Even taxidermied animals speak to.
Speaker 1: The fact that we're all oppressed.
Speaker 4: I just love the fact that she that she said
Speaker 4: that the Victorian period was run by straight hock.
Speaker 1: Did she forget who the queen was?
Speaker 4: There was one exception to that rule.
Speaker 5: Okay, she's right, she's right, But in almost every other
Speaker 5: case it was one fairly significant exception to that rule.
Speaker 3: Just the queen didn't get a mention, clearly doesn't know
Speaker 3: her history, among other things. Just quickly, before we go
Speaker 3: to the break, Elon Musk has agreed to censor Elon
Speaker 3: Musk basically in Brazil, following a court order. You may
Speaker 3: be across this long running now fight between Brazil, who
Speaker 3: does not want freedom of speech in its country and Elon,
Speaker 3: who's here to bring free speech to the world.
Speaker 1: They the court in Brazil.
Speaker 3: That is, has cut off star Link's assets. They literally
Speaker 3: froze their account to pressure the company to cover fines
Speaker 3: imposed on X, otherwise known as Twitter in Brazil. So Starlink,
Speaker 3: which is owned and operated by Elon Musk, has finally
Speaker 3: agreed to deplatform X, which is owned and operated by
Speaker 3: Elon Musk, to obey the court order while fighting using
Speaker 3: everything at his disposal to overturn this and get it
Speaker 3: back up and running.
Speaker 5: So despite all his money, despite all his money, all
Speaker 5: his wealth, all his power, all his intelligence, he still
Speaker 5: couldn't handle a Brazilian whack.
Speaker 1: Very evil judge.
Speaker 3: There's a lot more to this story, and I'm telling
Speaker 3: you we're in the fight of our lives when it
Speaker 3: comes to free speech in the free world.
Speaker 2: X Max the spot he After the break, we'll get
Speaker 2: into the papers and you'll learn that Bill Shorten has
Speaker 2: a fat dog.
Speaker 1: I promise you the story is better than it sounds.
Speaker 1: Little bit more.
Speaker 2: Let's get stuck into the papers, beginning with the camera times.
Speaker 3: The camera times, and a fat dog owned by departing
Speaker 3: MP Bill Shorten.
Speaker 4: No tears shed there care of the dog.
Speaker 3: The headline raids get it instead of hair of the dog,
Speaker 3: badoom tish.
Speaker 8: An emotionally warm bulldog named Walter help Bill Short and
Speaker 8: regroup after his dreams of becoming PM were shattered by
Speaker 8: his unlosable election defeat in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: With a new role at the University of Canberra, which
Speaker 3: will pay him one point one million dollars. After his
Speaker 3: retirement from parliament, the pair will be spending even more
Speaker 3: time in the capitol.
Speaker 2: Why we're supposed to care for high price, We're supposed
Speaker 2: to care?
Speaker 5: I think it's I mean, he's a major states and
Speaker 5: he's a major Australian political figure, the dog. He's leader
Speaker 5: of the he's leader of the biggest party in the country.
Speaker 1: For and managed to lose unlosable.
Speaker 3: I know, but he was so unlikable anyone could have
Speaker 3: beat him.
Speaker 4: That's smarting the dimples.
Speaker 3: I still remember that debate where I was just like,
Speaker 3: you just lost every vote in this country, even the
Speaker 3: hardcore labor voters, because he's just so smug all the time,
Speaker 3: with nothing to be smug about.
Speaker 4: It's okay to be smug for me.
Speaker 1: Usually got for me. It was the jogging with the
Speaker 1: demand boobs that kept.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Guys issues.
Speaker 5: I had my issues with Short for a while as well,
Speaker 5: over the various leadership change challenges and some other stuff.
Speaker 5: But you know, again, I think he's it doesn't make
Speaker 5: its own great work with the nd I s. The
Speaker 5: funniest thing.
Speaker 1: About this Thuy is quotable, quotes.
Speaker 4: Fantastic is he has made it finally laid the bones.
Speaker 5: At least for it actually to be workable and actually
Speaker 5: financially sustainable. All the writing it's it's very difficult thing
Speaker 5: to do. But he's cut down on the rotting. He's
Speaker 5: cut down on the kind of ridiculous sort of large
Speaker 5: s that was more.
Speaker 3: Ships and like exactly crystals exactly.
Speaker 4: And if there's no sex workers on cruise ships, then
Speaker 4: why would you want.
Speaker 1: To say, yeah, well that's what the Pineapples episode.
Speaker 5: But what is very funny is that there's a saying
Speaker 5: that in politics, if you want loyalty by a.
Speaker 4: Dog, got it.
Speaker 2: And Bill Bill Shorten would know about a lot about loyalty,
Speaker 2: wouldn't he. Well he did, But I just is this
Speaker 2: not the most Canberra story ever? Like so that the
Speaker 2: dude who could have been Prime Minister leaves Parliament and
Speaker 2: the front of the Canberra Times is he got a
Speaker 2: dog after he lost in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if he've been a camera much.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot else going.
Speaker 5: Okay, to the greatest newspaper in the world from the
Speaker 5: greatest city in the world, the Daily Telegraph, and this
Speaker 5: yarn is absolutely spectacular. There's a little comment piece by
Speaker 5: very handsome journo in the paper to go with it.
Speaker 4: We would not believe this. We're too dense, is the
Speaker 4: class the headlight.
Speaker 5: Mossman locals say they have no room for new home,
Speaker 5: no room for you, the well heeled suburb of Mossman.
Speaker 5: Don't allow when the Telly gets involved a bit of
Speaker 5: class war.
Speaker 1: We're going to get complaints because you're not saying Mosman.
Speaker 5: Musman has been accused of not pulling its weight amid
Speaker 5: their state's housing crisis, delivering just sixteen new homes out
Speaker 5: of a proposed yearly.
Speaker 4: Target of one hundred hundred target.
Speaker 5: So to put this in perspective, right, black Town, which
Speaker 5: is basically the heart of greater western Sydney.
Speaker 4: I think it's the biggest LGA. It's got about two
Speaker 4: hundred fifty three hundred thousand residents in it.
Speaker 5: They had a target of four thousand, three hundred new homes.
Speaker 4: They exceeded it.
Speaker 5: They built more Mossman had a target of just one
Speaker 5: hundred and built just sixteen.
Speaker 4: They are shameless, they are well, this is the thing.
Speaker 5: And as I pointed out in my think, these are
Speaker 5: people who have four times more likely to go to
Speaker 5: private schools and the rest of the New South Wales
Speaker 5: population and twice is likely to have a university degree
Speaker 5: or higher. And so they're obviously not two days. They're
Speaker 5: obviously smart enough to know there's a housing crisis going on.
Speaker 4: They just don't give a raad.
Speaker 3: But the irony of very is, can we get that
Speaker 3: picture back up again. He's standing in his own home,
Speaker 3: obviously with ocean front views saying where full He literally says,
Speaker 3: forcing Mosman to build more homes quote just stinks end quote.
Speaker 3: So props to him, actually, because this is a mayor
Speaker 3: who actually is representing his constituency, because anyone who lives
Speaker 3: in Mossman knows the whole point of living in Mossman
Speaker 3: is to keep the unwashed out, the great unwashed out.
Speaker 3: The whole point of living in this hallowed suburb is
Speaker 3: that you're all just as rich as each other, and
Speaker 3: you're all that close to the beach, and you're all
Speaker 3: living it up and beautiful.
Speaker 5: The same local government area where residents complained about a
Speaker 5: bowls club because there was a trivia night and a
Speaker 5: kid's jumping castle. Another resident complained during COVID lockdowns about
Speaker 5: their neighbor allowing their kids into the backyard before nine am.
Speaker 4: Too much noise, our play.
Speaker 5: And also the same suburb which complained about it's only
Speaker 5: the only one in the entire The entire suburb complained
Speaker 5: about a COVID testing site.
Speaker 4: And the council shut it down.
Speaker 2: All complains, all complaints about this moment addressed to the
Speaker 2: late debate care of Joe Hildebrand, that.
Speaker 4: Meryl candidate, it's got himself.
Speaker 1: Exactly correct.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Australian tomorrow where it says, what
Speaker 2: a surprise, eat less red meat? Climate advice The government
Speaker 2: agency advising Anthony Albanezi on climate change is suggested Australians
Speaker 2: could eat less red meat to help produce greenhouse gas
Speaker 2: emissions amid revelations it may not give the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: crucial advice on a twenty thirty five target until after
Speaker 2: the election. And they always come back to this, got
Speaker 2: to eat less red meat, Gotta eat less red meat,
Speaker 2: got add.
Speaker 1: Insects eat zibugs zibugs.
Speaker 2: As they say at the World Economic Forum class schwab.
Speaker 2: And seriously, we've already know that they're talking about or
Speaker 2: going to rewrite the nutritional food pyramid thing to recommend
Speaker 2: not what is the most nutritious food, but what is
Speaker 2: supposedly the best for the planet. So even if red
Speaker 2: meat is better for you, they're going to tell you
Speaker 2: to eat other stuff to say the planet. Well, what's
Speaker 2: the point If I can't have my stake, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be on the planet.
Speaker 3: Well, news flash, the food pyramid was never about nutrition anyway.
Speaker 3: Remember when all the grains were at the top shore
Speaker 3: that is marvelous if you want obese people, some of
Speaker 3: which can't even process said grains, and they're all like, oh,
Speaker 3: five portions a day. Turned out to be a backdoor
Speaker 3: deal done with a certain industry at a certain time.
Speaker 1: Remember when eggs were like, oh.
Speaker 3: These are terrible cholesterol. Nobody touched them.
Speaker 1: Then eggs were back on top.
Speaker 3: Everyone eat eggs, great source of protein. These guys change
Speaker 3: their minds according to whatever the political whimsy of the
Speaker 3: day is.
Speaker 1: And here's more.
Speaker 4: Proof of it.
Speaker 3: It's happening in our time right arounder our noses. But
Speaker 3: this time they're not even pretending to say red meat's
Speaker 3: bad for you. It's just bad for the planet.
Speaker 1: That's right. Well, got to say this.
Speaker 5: And remember when they said drinking sixteen standard drinks every
Speaker 5: single night was bad for you.
Speaker 2: Now I don't remember that, probably because I was too
Speaker 2: drunk to remember them saying it. Anyway, one thing that
Speaker 2: is good for you, because I always maintained you don't
Speaker 2: see a fat French person, but they do not exist.
Speaker 1: All they sizes and all that. It is really rich food.
Speaker 1: They eat lot.
Speaker 4: You're lucky you don't some meat French.
Speaker 2: I know, I know you hate the free you hate,
Speaker 2: but they they eat lots of red meat. They eat
Speaker 2: lots of carbs, they eat lots of fatty stuff like
Speaker 2: like bushes, and they eat lots of dairies.
Speaker 4: And lots of um, lots of humble pie.
Speaker 3: A lot of croissants.
Speaker 1: Jersey of dairy.
Speaker 3: At the front page of The Murk, we have a
Speaker 3: very sad story like King Island cream and cheese producer
Speaker 3: Clothses Dairies, Demise reads the splash. The shock announcement that
Speaker 3: the iconic King Island Dairy, which has operated for more
Speaker 3: than a Century will close next year. Has devastated the
Speaker 3: local community, which is fighting to keep it open. The
Speaker 3: announcement was made today that they are basically going under
Speaker 3: its sad that they make. They had your poles and
Speaker 3: lillies and buy up Beg.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can still.
Speaker 4: Say I make the best.
Speaker 5: Ironically, given that their French cheese has bit, Australians do
Speaker 5: it better. They makes the best Camembert and cheese and cheese.
Speaker 1: I just you know, and I don't know.
Speaker 2: Exactly why these shutting down, but you have to wonder
Speaker 2: whether it's a sad statement about where we're at now,
Speaker 2: where everyone's.
Speaker 1: Gluten free, dairy free. You know, everyone drinks alm and milk.
Speaker 2: If you can find me the teat on an arm
Speaker 2: and I'll believe it's arm and milk. The people are
Speaker 2: turning away from dairy. Now go out and buy some cheese, please,
Speaker 2: I promise you it's good for you. After the break,
Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin has thrown his weight behind one presidential candidate.
Speaker 1: This news has just come down. We'll tell you who
Speaker 1: it is soon, all right. If all the people in
Speaker 1: the world, you would not want to be I reckon.
Speaker 1: This navy commander is one of them.
Speaker 4: Jerm This is absolutely amazing. I just caught up with this.
Speaker 5: I'm usually up to speed with my military news, being
Speaker 5: a soldier of fortune myself.
Speaker 4: Just to kind of you know, like as you can see,
Speaker 4: outdoorsy kind.
Speaker 5: Of military, highly disciplined type. But this is the story
Speaker 5: of a navy warship commander. A commander of the naval
Speaker 5: warship the USS John McCain. You might be familiar with
Speaker 5: that name, Liz, which is currently I believe in he
Speaker 5: has been relieved of his duty, which is a polite
Speaker 5: way of saying being shown. The door dropped, the axe
Speaker 5: flushed down the toilet after a post that he posted
Speaker 5: on social media. And I don't know if we can
Speaker 5: get a close up of this post.
Speaker 4: What's wrong with this picture?
Speaker 3: Hmmm hm.
Speaker 2: He's actually really obvious, like he actually put that scope
Speaker 2: on himself.
Speaker 5: I don't know how he did it. I wouldn't have
Speaker 5: thought it was able to go in both ways. But
Speaker 5: basically he is lining up his firing site on himself.
Speaker 5: He's got the scope on backwards and he's posted this
Speaker 5: on social media. This has viral. The Navy got fully
Speaker 5: trilled and when you're you know, the world's biggest navy
Speaker 5: is getting trolled.
Speaker 4: That can be quite embarrassing.
Speaker 5: He has now been relieved of his duty about four
Speaker 5: months after the incident, and the Navy said that it
Speaker 5: was due to a loss of confidence in his ability
Speaker 5: to command the guide miss destroyer.
Speaker 4: I wonder why.
Speaker 1: I wonder why the bloke can't even operate.
Speaker 4: Seriously, you just.
Speaker 1: Jijinping.
Speaker 2: You have nothing to worry about now, I told you before.
Speaker 2: Breaking news Vladimir Putin has endorsed a presidential candidate for November.
Speaker 1: Who do you think it is? Of course, it's Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Putin was speaking at an event today where he said
Speaker 2: that Joe Biden, who was previously his pick for president,
Speaker 2: had backed Kamala Harris, and so he will be doing
Speaker 2: the same, he said, we will do the same. We
Speaker 2: will support her. His reason for doing so.
Speaker 1: He says, is that she laughs so expressively and infectiously.
Speaker 2: That it means that everything is fine with her, and
Speaker 2: so it gets the impression because she seems to be
Speaker 2: so lovely, that maybe she'll refrain from putting any.
Speaker 1: Further sanctions on Russia.
Speaker 2: He then went on to say that Trump had put
Speaker 2: more sanctions on Russia than any other US president, and
Speaker 2: that he thought Trump was erratic and he couldn't predict
Speaker 2: what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: So so Kamala bring it up.
Speaker 3: He's clearly picking the weakest. He's clearly picking the weakest.
Speaker 3: Before that, he was backing Biden because he said he
Speaker 3: was a more predictable politician. Of course, Russia is just
Speaker 3: going to choose whoever gives them the smallest pain in
Speaker 3: the neck, which would be Kamala.
Speaker 1: Don't you give everyone else a pain in the neck.
Speaker 1: That's it from us today, Thank you so much for
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