WEBVTT - Credlin | 20 August 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.520 Peto Quedlin Live from year twenty four. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.320 Good evening, Welcome to the program. Here's what's coming up 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.440 tonight on Credline. Well, the sorry milestone that no politician 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.599 can celebrate, Commonwealth Dace saws past one trillion dollars today 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.319 and an incredible tax break handed out by labor to 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:27.520 foreign companies building wind and solar in Australia. They've just 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.840 extended this in a secret deal with the Greens. I'll 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.640 explain that in a moment, Ben Carroll today and Victoria 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.640 announcing his Royal commission into conruption on the big build. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.599 So is this a political stitch up? I suspect it 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:41.600 is more on that. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.839 In a moment, class, don't rape, don't sexually assault to 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.080 or make kissing noises at people. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.560 I'm not kidding you. That's the actual advice handed out. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.800 To asylum seekers in the UK as an asylum seeker 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.600 religionly rapes an elderly man outside of church in rural 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.440 England and precious still on the trime, Minister Tonight to 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.160 sack the veterans, Minister Matt Kego. I'll speak to a 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.040 veteran tonight who says veterans no longer trust their minister. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.759 Can the minister name a single ex service organization, one, 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.160 just one which supports his plan to cap access to 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:23.280 Allied health services for Australian veterans Australian heroes. Minister who 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.800 brought forward Labor's plan to cut three quarters of a 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:31.800 billion dollars from veterans Allied health support. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:34.720 Well, no surprises. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.200 The Minister could not name one service organization today. I'll 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.720 come back to him with a veteran in a moment, 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.399 But first, today, Commonwealth Dead hits one trillion dollars for 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.440 the first time in our nation's history. And just to 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:53.120 be clear on how big that is, one thousand million 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.600 equals a billion, one thousand billion equals a trillion, or 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:04.400 expressed another way, one million millions equals a trillion. Now, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.640 if it's easier, think of this in terms of time. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.760 A million seconds equates to eleven point six days. A 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.480 billion seconds, well that's more than thirty years, and a 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:23.240 trillion seconds. Well that's just over thirty one thousand years. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.720 So let's not gloss over the numbers too quickly. Let's 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.000 not get used to numbers like this, because whatever way 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.000 you look at it, one trillion dollars is a massive 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.000 amount of money. And if it was just money, that'd 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:38.760 be one thing. But it's more than that. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:39.760 It's debt. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.280 It's debt that we owe as a nation. It's debt 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.480 that we borrow from overseas. It's debt that we have 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.560 to service by spending billions on interest before government can 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.520 spend money on the essential services that we have a 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:54.000 right to. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.399 Expect as taxpayers. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.799 Let's go back and listen again to those comments from 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.720 former treasure Repeater cost Stello when he spoke to me 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.440 in April on the twentieth anniversary of that day in 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.519 two thousand and six, when as a country, Australia had 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.600 paid off its debt and at a commonwealth level at 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.320 least we were debt free. What do you think when 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.920 you look at the fact we're almost on the precipice 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.600 of having one trillion dollars of debt. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.359 Well, it's heartbreaking. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.440 To have worked so hard and to have got Australia 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:30.080 into such. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:30.680 A good condition. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.680 We were strong, we were admired around the world. I mean, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.960 the Americans couldn't do this, the British couldn't do this, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.160 the French couldn't do this, the Germans couldn't do this, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.320 The Japanese. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:42.400 Couldn't do this. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.800 Australia stood out and we were admired around the world. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.600 We got our budget under. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:54.000 Control, we'd eliminated commonwealth debt net debt. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.200 We're a shining example of a success story. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.840 Right Well, we were here we are now just twenty 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.400 years on. Commonwealth debt's gone from zero under Howard and 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:10.520 Costello to one trillion dollars under alban Easy and Charmers. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:17.119 Look at our economic position and I say, we lost 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.520 our way. You know, let me give you two Marcus 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:27.559 April two thousand and six, no debt April twenty twenty 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:33.320 six trillion dollars. We lost our way, you know, we 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.240 lost we lost the sense that we could do this. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.839 We lost the sense that we could we could be special. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.599 We lost the sense that we were prepared to work 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:51.479 to make our country better. In economic terms. You know, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.040 you're either building the pie up or you're running the 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.120 place down. And we've been running the place down. And 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.760 I do feel I do feel sorry for young people. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.120 I don't think Chalmers's idea to give them higher texes 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.000 is a good idea, but I do feel sorry for 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.719 them because I think for twenty years. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.400 Their opportunities have been diminished. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.360 This is why government debt and spending maters as much 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.920 as it does. It's why politicians wasted your money where 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.920 the big amounts of it are on smaller things. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:26.000 Is a killer. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.200 Now, Labour's out there today are basically saying that none 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.360 of this is their fault, that it would have been 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.400 worse if the Liberals were in power. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.960 The Speaker, if they cared about debt, their policy wouldn't 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:38.839 be to make it worse. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.200 Their policy is to make it worse. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.240 Sorry, Jim, no one's buying that. And if you think 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:50.000 one trillion and national debt is a problem, wait until 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.000 you factor in the cumulative debt across the states and 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.480 the biggest basket case of all, Victoria. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:02.240 The Commord's got about a trillion dollars out in gross debt, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.960 and the states haven't got quite a trillion, but well 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.599 getting up there at three quarters of a trillion dollars 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:09.880 at the state level as well. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.160 Now what that. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:17.279 Means is the commonwork government's got to pay interest bill, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.880 and the state governments have got to pay their interest bill. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.599 A lot of money going out and interest on inherited 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.279 debty at the moment. It's worse at the state level 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.840 because the states don't really have much of a tax 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.360 base to service their debts. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.640 There in lies Australia's a big problem, out of control 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.960 debt and no one left in control anymore, who's even 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:52.360 willing to rein it in Look, let me now bring 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.520 to your attention something I think that most in the 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.839 media appear to have missed, and I really need to 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.640 know about this because the up shot is that foreign 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.120 companies are getting a special tax holiday at the same 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.839 time that the Albanezer government's hitting mum and dad investors. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:09.800 So here's what's happening. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.760 Back in the May budget, the Treasurer announced changes to 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.800 capital gains tax designed to hit every Australian with an investment. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.120 And we know already that there's been a whole lot 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.280 of unintended consequences like rate hikes and rent hikes, the 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.280 widow's tax, the widow's tax in particular that Labor was 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.280 forced this week to urgently fix with legislation. But here 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.520 is where Australian citizens are being hit at foreign companies 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.000 or they're getting away with a special deal from Labor. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.480 And it all goes back to the billions and billions 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.320 of foreign money in renewables. Let me explain, on Budget Night, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.760 while the Treasure was busy doing over any one here 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.840 with a rental property, Jim Charmers was quietly slipping in 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.640 a special deal for foreign investors to avoid the capital 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.720 gains tax hit. There it is in the budget papers 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.520 now as announced. It would give foreigners investing in certain 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.920 renewables in Australia, this is mainly large scale wind and solar, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.560 a CGT tax break. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.040 For five years. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.520 And this was done, I'm told because Chris Baren was 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.200 panicking that Labour's changes to capital gains tax would see 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:27.920 the big foreign investors in renewables pack up and leave Australia. Well, 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.000 fast forward to this week and it would seem that 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.560 this generous five year tax holiday wasn't generous enough. In 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.320 a dirty deal with the Greens is a way to 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.640 keep this bill out of a Senate inquiry. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.040 This five year deals. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.640 Now pushed to be ten years. That's right, The special 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:52.120 renewables tax deal for foreigners will run out right up 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:57.199 until twenty forty. So we've got this bizarre situation now 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.280 in this country. At the same time that Albany and 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.000 charmers have announced they're breaking promises to you about not 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.800 putting taxes or touching taxes on your investment property. They're 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.760 giving multinational investors a ten year tax break if they 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.360 invest in Australian wind farms and other renewable assets. I 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.400 mean that you were going to pay a tax hit 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:25.960 that these foreign companies will not the wind and solar farms. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.839 Of course that more and more Australians say they do 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:34.439 not want wrecking their farms or their regional communities staying 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:39.280 with renewables. Here's to peas in a pod. If ever 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:39.920 I saw. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.720 Them have all the reasons for acking on climate change, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.120 what do you think is it drives us to do 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:44.960 more all the time. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.079 I mean, we've only got one planet, Elon Musk hasn't 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.719 found a new home for some Mars yet, so if 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.000 we don't take action, we will fry our own home. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.000 And there's still a bit of climate denial skepticism about 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:58.160 what do you say to that? 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.920 What do you say to people aren't you or or 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.840 here those skeptical arguments. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.720 It's like it's physics. It's like saying I believe in gravity. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.600 Gravity does not care whether you believe in it or not. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.160 Chris Brian's out today talking about a new carbon tax 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.840 by default. Well, no surprises, mister Harveside Mansion wanted to 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.840 stand beside him in Canberra. You want to know why 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.920 our energy grid is in such a mess? In one image, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.200 the two of them there. It is not to mention 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.040 the man, of course who started the inside the Liberal Party. Honestly, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.559 what did we deserve as a country they have either 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:35.640 of them in power? 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:36.520 I don't know. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.559 Let's got a camp it out for the headlines. It's 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.040 the end of the sitting fortnite. There's a bit around 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.320 here's our political reporter cam Reddin good evening. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.960 The Foreign Minister has expressed her outrage at a decision 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.640 to clear five IDF soldiers who were involved in the 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.559 air strike that killed Australian aid workers Zombie frankem and 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:00.839 six of her colleagues. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.040 And we do not have confidence in the IDF's Military 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.360 Advocate General's process given the many unanswered questions. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.800 Ambassador Hillel Newman says it was all a terrible mistake. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.280 I do say, I say, we express our seign grief 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.280 with the family. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.000 But on whether justice has been done. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:20.400 What does it mean? 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.439 Justice lynch people in the street. 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.720 No justice is That's why you have a court. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.760 Australian government will continue to keep pressing his role for justice. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.880 Australia's national debt has passed the one trillion dollar mark. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.520 Every minute Austrains pay over fifty two thousand dollars in 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.800 interest on Labour's trillion dollar debt. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.400 The overwhelming majority of the dollars in gross dead and 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.720 the budget was racked up by those opposite. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.280 News twenty four has revealed yet more controversial comments from 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.560 the One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, who four years ago 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.640 made this claim about the twenty twenty US presidential election. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.880 Do you believe that he lost that election or dold 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.679 you believe there was Stolin other powers involved? 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.080 That's yeah. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.599 I've got one of my staff is all over the 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.040 American political scene. He knows what's going on. He knows 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.360 about the electrocologism, but deeper behind that. And he was 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.079 telling me that he was unmasking some of the counting 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.400 before it was actually happening, and he sat Trump's walked 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.080 this in, but it was still Stolin. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.440 And now, despite a string of remarks spanning several years 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.040 that cover keem Trail's false vaccine claims and praise for 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.480 Vladimir Putin. Paul An Hansen is standing by her lieutenant 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.760 Tamon Reddin. News twenty four Canberra. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.480 Well, let's get into the wrap of the fortnite. Joining 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.760 me in our deputy executive director at the IPA, Dan 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.880 Wilde and News twenty four contributor currently Katsimbarnas. I'll get 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.400 into the state of our books in a moment with 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.800 someone who is out of the Treasury Department, but across 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.600 the board, across the board economically bad news. We've got, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.760 obviously the one trillion dollar debt marker crossed to unemployment 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.760 ticking up in the data out as well. Almost every 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.280 day we've got a story of someone copying higher rents 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.360 or falling house values. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:08.640 Dan. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.679 But Labour says, not us, nothing to do with us, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:12.760 and nothing to see here. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.439 Yeah, I think the passing of a trillion dollars national 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:24.080 debt is a marker of our national economic decline. I mean, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.400 at one level, there's nothing special about the number. Just 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.160 because it tick diver doesn't mean anything dramatically changes, But 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.600 it's a symbol of how much our country has changed 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.520 in a bad way. We used to be an exceptional country, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.760 you know, you remember this. We used to be treated 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.840 and looked upon by our international peers as different, as better, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.600 as exceptional. We were sort of the golden economic boy 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.840 of the national economic community. We had stable finances, We 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.720 had a rapidly growing economy that was based on productivity, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.640 not population growth underpin by mass migration, but productivity growth. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.560 We had wealth that was being created because of policy 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.760 that was favorable towards our natural resources, which has been 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.720 the wellspring of growth since settlement. But this is all 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.280 now changed. And as you pointed out in the editorial, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.320 the state governments are spending like drunken salors. My colleague 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.280 Adam Crichton had to report out today documenting the shocking 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.400 rise to state debt on top of this as well. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.560 Now when we look at the current government, what role 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.320 are they playing here? Well, as we've talked about before, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:27.400 this government is not interested in economic growth. They're interested 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.880 in economic redistribution. So they come into power and what 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.200 they see is a pot of honey that's there and 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.280 they want to take that and distribute it to their 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.520 sectional political interests. So they don't have a growth strategy whatsoever. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.080 And to the extent that the economy is growing. It's, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.080 as I said, all from population growth. About ninety percent 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.640 of the growth is from population. None of it's coming 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.640 from productivity. So no wonder people are losing jobs and 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.240 living standards are going backwards. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.480 Danny is surprised by the work. I found today in 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.400 some legislation that there was a deed for foreign companies 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.880 investing in renewables to have basically a tax free holiday 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.160 whilst mum and dad investors are copying changes to CGT, 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.040 but that that has now been extended out to twenty 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.720 forty and a deal with the Greens to keep this 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.720 legislation away from a Senate inquiry. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.400 Even I was shocked by this, you know, and I 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.280 probably come at this from a naturally cynical point of view, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.800 but even I was shocked to find just how brazen 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:31.120 the government has become with dealing out favors. I mean, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.720 I just mentioned the sectional interests. I mean, this is 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.520 how it works. They use the economy, They use the 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.359 budget as a funnel, as a financial and economic funnel 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.120 to the interest groups that they prefer, who are politically favorable, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.000 as you mentioned, to keep the Greens on site. Now 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.360 there's many facets that are concerning the foreign element to this, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.720 the fact that it's going to continue to underwrite the 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.520 net zero disaster, everything that means for regional communities, as 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.360 you've been discussing now for many years as well. So 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.520 again when you look at the budget, just as you 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.440 have done, and you go through every nook and cranny, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.040 what you realize again this is not a nationally minded government. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.680 This is a narrow sectionally minded government. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.920 Let's go to that decision today by Golf Australia, Carolely, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:14.640 because I thought. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.440 They must have had it wrong. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:21.120 You know, we have seen the International Olympic Committee finally 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.720 moved to say biological sex will be the only determinant 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.440 when you are competing as a female or competing as 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.720 a male. It won't be what you identify yourself with. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.440 But lo and behold, Golf Australia say, well they will 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.200 allow transingendit verse players to compete based on whatever they 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.400 identify as and not their biological sex. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.080 Well, this is ridiculous. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.720 I know a thing or two about competitive golf, and 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.560 what I can tell you is this is opening up 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.600 a Pandora's books. It's very difficult for people to get 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.520 onto any professional tour as a man or a woman. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.480 But once you've got a biological male who has been 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.440 through puberty, they are always stronger than a female. Twenty 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.560 two years ago we have Michelle Wee who missed the 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.120 Sony Open cut in two thousand and four by one 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.800 shot in the Open. There was a lot of what's 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.600 the word enthusiasm and conjecture about that. That was twenty 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.439 two odd years ago. Now there will be pathways for 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.960 people that don't make it onto the male tour, but 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.440 they want to become a professional golfer and they go 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.719 this way and Golf Australia. It's funny they've reversed their 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.439 decision in twenty sixteen. I'm really sorry. The world is 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.439 a very unfair place. But for a small minority of 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.359 people that may be transgender golfers, you don't change the 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.480 rules that have been established to accommodate a small minority. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.440 It is going to turn things upside down. I'm really sorry. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.919 When you've gone through puberty, as I said, as a 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:50.199 biological male, you cannot then decide to go onto the 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.959 women's the women's handicapped system and play women's golf. And 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.720 that's what they're going to do. This is why it's 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.520 been done. It is absolutely ridiculous. We seem to hang 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.240 our hat on decisions by the United Kingdom, but we 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.359 won't accept what the High Court said in the UK 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.280 that you know, a biological female is a woman, right, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.040 This is madness. The rest of the world is laughing 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:11.960 at us again. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.080 And of course we've had a lot to say this 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.920 week about AFL clubs men not treating women with respect. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.480 I'll leave that for the courts and I support those comments. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:28.000 But what about the Australian Women's Football League allowing a 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.959 biological male six foot two ninety odd kilos to compete 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:33.320 with women? 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:34.440 Now I'm over six foot. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.960 There is no way I could out muscle a ninety 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.280 two kilo biological male if I'm in the center square 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:44.760 or if I'm trying to run for a goal, and 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:45.920 it's just not going to happen. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.520 Yeah, and that particular person is Freer Golding. And you've 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.200 had three clubs in Adelaide that have made a complaint 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.120 and they're willing to actually four foot matches so they 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.439 don't need to put their players her at risk of 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.840 in playing against this player. And the AFL still won't 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.400 listen to them either. It is ridiculous. Everything is being 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.160 turned upside down. This does not happen. This doesn't happen 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.840 in the Middle East, this doesn't happen around other places 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.800 of the world. Australia always seems to be cowtowing and 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.680 having to go very woke with some of these things. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.960 That should just be a very common sense decision. And 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.800 for people out there that say, oh, we're all pro rights, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.080 wait until perhaps you have children, or you're an aunt 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.639 or an uncle, or you're involved with young people and 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.119 you actually realize the injury risk of this person at 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.720 ninety two kilos as well. I wouldn't want to play 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.359 against them. I'm tall and it's an absolute risk. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:43.240 And when you've. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.320 Got clubs that have made three individual complaints, good on 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.160 them saying to the AFL this needs to be addressed. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.840 Why the hell are the AFL going on the side 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.200 of the woke. Can't they make a decision. This is ridiculous. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.800 Let's just be consistent about your words about women. I fell, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.159 That's all I'd say on that one. Let's go to 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.920 the carbon tax because like a bad penny, it's back. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.280 No surprises though, of course Dan while because we saw 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.240 sidling up to Chris Bowen and camera was Malcolm Turnbull. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.240 Malcolm turmwol loved a carbon tax in his day. What 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.520 do you make of this one? That is certainly written 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.720 up in a discussion paper issued today by Chris Bowen. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.359 Well, there's a lot of facets to this. I've started 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.280 the headline, which is to do with net zero because 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.080 this is all to do with net zero, right, So 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.639 number one is Chris Bowen won't even say the words 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.720 net zero anymore. You remember his National Press Club address 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:38.639 a couple of weeks ago. He didn't use the words 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.360 net zero in his address because the public doesn't support 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.080 it anymore. But they're continuing with these policies that the 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.719 public doesn't want and that are destroying our economy. But 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.000 why does labor like these policies? Why do they like 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:57.000 net zero? Because it is a tool to centralize economic control. Okay, 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.399 this is a command and control government and netsz is 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.560 the vehicle they use to achieve that, so they can 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.920 run the economy from their desks in Canberra. So whether 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.639 it's the cars that you can drive, the food that 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:10.960 you can eat, the houses that you can live in, 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.560 the kind of food that we can grow as a nation, 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.320 the types of industries that we can have, and therefore 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.560 the type of jobs that you can have, and also 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.959 what's taught in our education system around climate change and 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.680 so forth. This is all about having government control over 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:28.080 our economy. Now, this particular policy couldn't come at a 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.040 worse time. You're going to impose a great, big new 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:36.880 national tax on everything, because fuel supply is everything. We've 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.359 just been through this. We've just had a situation where 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.440 the price of diesel went up to three plus dollars 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.560 a leter because of the shortages induced by the Iram War, 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.720 exacerbated by bad domestic policy. Now, what the government is 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.840 going to do is basically take what happened there and 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.639 embed that permanently in our economy. They're doing this because 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.120 they want to drum out of existence people who drive 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.200