WEBVTT - Sharri | 3 December 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:03.279 Live on Sky News. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:08.119 This is Sharry Good Evening. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.879 Well, we've got just under two weeks left until the 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.640 Christmas break. That's seven shows and you don't want to 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.680 miss any of them. Coming up tonight to Donald Trump 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.720 putting Joe Biden to shame before he's even in the 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.080 White House's threatening to rain down hell on America's enemies. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 James Patterson will join me to discuss whether Alban Easy 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.720 and Penny Wong should take a leaf out of Trump's playbook. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.120 Also tonight, the economist calling out Labour's reckless spending will 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.800 be on the show. Chris Richardson says families are getting 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.560 less as the taxman is getting more. That interview coming up, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.440 and the academic who seems to be protected by Sydney 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:54.080 University despite a police investigation and threats made to hosts. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.160 Here on Sky News, Carolyn. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.120 Marcus will share her exclusive with us plus our much 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:05.319 loved and famous Christmas light displays under threat thanks to 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.479 soaring power bills. I'll talk about that a bit later 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.960 on and tonight a topic close to my heart. A 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:17.200 new United States report to tay concluded that COVID originated 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.200 in a wu hand lab I'll speak about that with 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.160 Bronwan Bishop and Kayleb Bond in a moment also on 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.160 the show Tonight, Meet the newest Liberal pre selected to 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.280 try win back a seat from a Teal his first 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.840 interview tonight. But now another politician has come out today 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.039 to accuse Albanzi of not telling the full story on 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:45.320 those environmental laws. We've been speaking about how Albanezi torpedoed 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.680 a deal that Tanya Plibisek had done with the Greens. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:50.480 The Prime Minister. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.480 Denied a deal had been done, acting as if Plebisek 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.640 was from another political party, not a senior cabinet minister. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.600 These environment laws. Clearly a deal was either close or, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.760 according to the Greens, was done. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:06.520 They reckon you did. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.320 Course say that, no, we hadn't, and they don't say 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.240 that David, there if no one in the Green says 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.720 that I agreed to it. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:16.840 Clearly there was an agreement. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.880 It just wasn't with Albanizi himself, it was with his minister. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.800 And now today more evidence is building that Albanezi misled 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.400 the public when he claimed a deal hadn't been done. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.639 Independent Senator for the Act David Pocock has come out 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.919 to say that as far as. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:40.440 He was concerned a deal had been done. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.560 I certainly thought we had a deal. Municipal of Sec 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.120 was a good faith negotiator in this. I thought we'd 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.680 landed at a point where where everyone was happy. And 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.280 it's incredibly disappointing that neither the Greens nor the PM 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.400 seemed to want to be able to sort of really 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.280 prioritize this, and I think internal party politics probably got 0:02:59.280 --> 0:02:59.760 in the way. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.680 At the end of the day, clearly there was a 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.920 deal ready to be signed, sealed and delivered, but Albinizi 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.720 killed it off, realizing it would cost votes in Wa 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.799 after an intervention from Wa Premier Roger Cook. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.080 The laws were radical and should never have gone ahead. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.280 But the point is this is disunity at the highest 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:28.400 level of the Albanese government. It's the Prime minister undermining 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.040 and gas lighting a senior cabinet minister and its poor 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.560 treatment of a senior woman. The rift between Albanesi and 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.360 Plibasek is now causing internal angst in the Labor Party. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.800 But this saga also shows how. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.760 Sketchy Albanzi can be with the truth, how he doesn't 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.480 feel the public necessarily has a right to know the 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:57.360 honest truth behind why some laws go ahead and others don't. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.000 Remember this is the man who promise to do politics differently, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.480 who promised transparency. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.400 The truth is that where an open transparent party for 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.560 there needs to be complete transparency. What we need is 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.680 a prime minister who's prepared to be transparent, a more 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.520 honest and transparent a government going forward who will make 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.640 it transparent but being transparent. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.799 But that was before the election campaign. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.000 Promises clearly don't count, not as far as Albinizi is concerned. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.360 And today Peter Dutton is highlighting another broken promise that 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.440 power bills would be two hundred and seventy five dollars cheaper. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.120 He claims it's been three years to the day that 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.360 Albanizi made this now failed promise, and he didn't. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.640 Just promise at once two hundred and two hundred and 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.880 two hundred and seventy five. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.440 DOLLARSS Labour said at ninety seven times before the last election. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:55.640 But what's he delivered? 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.480 Well, electricity prices are now up to one thousand dollars 0:04:58.480 --> 0:04:59.839 more than what Labor promised. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.320 Well, power bills and energy will be a key election 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.320 issue and if there are blackouts across Australia this summer. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.200 Chris Bowen and Alban Easy will be held responsible and 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:18.080 it'll be yet another reason for voters to abandon alban Easy. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.640 And this is on top of the growing list so far, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.000 which includes government spending skyrocketing, and we'll talk about that 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.760 with Chris Richardson later, the cost of living crisis deepening 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.480 while countries around the world are emerging from the woods, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.320 the Big Australia policy, the housing affordability crisis, and the 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.840 devastating issue of anti Semitism and lawlessness that's been compared 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:47.279 with nineteen thirties Europe. All of this under Albanesi's watch. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:53.680 It's no wonder the coalition has now overtaken labor in newspot. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.320 Albin Easy, you'd have to say, is a failed prime 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:03.960 minister who doesn't deserve to be sitting in the lodge. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:04.880 Well. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.120 Donald Trump has today come out swinging in full support 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.240 of the one hundred and one innocent hostages remaining in Gaza. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.039 He has threatened that if the hostages aren't released by 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.920 January twenty, there will be hell to pay. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:21.800 He's said on social media. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.320 If the hostages are not released prior to January twenty 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.000 twenty twenty five, the date that I proudly assume office 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.280 as President of the United States. There will be all 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.440 hell to pay in the Middle East, and for those 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:41.119 in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity. He said, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:46.040 those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.440 hit in the long and storied history of the United 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:55.720 States of America. Well, that's deterrence, and that's what strength 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.400 and determination looks like. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.320 Well, you'd have to go back and think. Think, what 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:01.880 were the strongest. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:06.159 Words the current President, Joe Biden ever said about the hostages. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.200 Mostly the attitude of the Biden administration was to put 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.960 pressure on Israel for not doing enough to release them. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:20.040 There's been absurd victim blaming. There was certainly more pressure 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:21.880 on Israel than on Hermas. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:30.720 There the civilian suffering of the Palace Indian people, and finally, finally, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.240 finally deliver a cease firing in this war. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.240 For months, people all over the world have called for ceasefire. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.960 I've consistently pressed for a pause in the fighting for 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.520 two reasons, to accelerate and expand humanitarian assistance going into Gaza, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.760 and two to facilitate the release of hostages. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.880 I mean just asking for a cease fire, not demanding 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.920 and forcing, as the leader of the free world, should 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.600 that the terrorists released the hostage, who, by the way, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:07.080 include American citizens, And unlike Trump's clear threat to the 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.480 barbaric terrorists that they'd be held to pay, well, this 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.520 was Biden's weak message to Iran. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.400 It would have apprisedge to Iran in this moment. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:24.000 Don't don't, And in his delusional state, perhaps he thought 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.960 his message resonated because he repeated it on other occasions 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:29.440 as well. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:36.199 What is your message to Hezbollah and its backer Iran, don't. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:38.960 Don't, don't don't. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.920 The Ayatolas of Iran were hardly quaking in their boots, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.400 and in response to Biden's one word message, what did 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.040 Tehran do will? It launched unprecedented direct attacks on Israel, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:55.719 including a barrage of. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.439 Two hundred ballistic missiles. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.959 Biden also did everything he could to work against Israeli 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.680 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo. Biden made demands that Netanyaho not 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.120 go into Rafa, where the hostages were being held. He 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.560 demanded he let Nozralla live. He demanded there be no 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.240 ground invasion. This despite the fact that four hundred and 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.880 twenty three days on, there are still one hundred hostages 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.920 held captive by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:32.480 They've been in the dark dungeons, underground, starved, beaten, and 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.400 some execute it. It's thought, but we don't know for sure, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.200 that about half are still alive. Those who are still 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.160 there include baby Kafir, his brother Ariel, and their mother. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.480 And it breaks my heart to think of them. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.800 Baby Kafir never even got to celebrate his first birthday 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.360 in the outside world before he was dragged away by 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:05.480 bloodthirsty terrorists to the hell hell of underground tunnels. It's 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.840 beyond devastating to think of that, and yet no one 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.160 speaks about the hostages. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.480 No one does anything. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.840 When I was in Israel, I spoke to two former 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.240 hostages and they told me just how bad the conditions were. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.880 One of them a sixty three year old Aviva Siegel. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.880 She was kidnapped in her pajamas from her bed. She 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.360 said she could barely breathe in the tunnels. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.680 The conditions were the worst conditions that you can think about. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.880 I just thought that I'm going to die. The kid's 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:37.440 going to die. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:44.120 She spoke about how Palestinian civilians celebrated as she was 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.800 dragged terrified into Gaza. She said it was like a 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.439 party for them. And her husband, Keith is still captive 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.560 and she can only pray that he's alive and he's 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.319 an American citizen. By the way, the American president should 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.920 have done everything in his power to try and secure 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:08.679 the release of American hostages, but Biden hasn't, and more 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.440 than four hundred days on, Trump is now threatening brutal 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.400 hell if the hostages aren't released, and it's a threat 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.800 he made after having dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Nettiyahu's 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:27.080 wife Sara, and sanyayir At Mari Lago and Sarah did 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.160 discuss the plight of the hostages at that dinner with Trump. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.880 It's a strong signal that Trump and Neettiyahoo will be 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.480 able to work together to defeat terrorism, to bring home 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.319 the hostages, and to stop Iran's aggression. It's been long enough. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.920 Strong action needs to be taken. We've been begging for 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:52.040 international leadership, and finally we're starting to see that leadership. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.080 We can hope that this determination and strong approach from 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:01.120 Trump has a chance of working. Because Joe Biden's approach 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:06.640 of appeasement, of going softly softly with terrorists, Well it 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:13.560 was never going to work. All right, Another big show ahead, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.480 as I said, Leading economist Chris Richardson will join me 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.160 live later on, plus James Patterson and Carolyn Marcus all 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.679 coming up. But now let's bring in former Speaker of 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.720 the House Bronwin Bishop and Stein New's host Caleb Bond. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.280 Welcome to you both. Great to see you, as always 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:29.000 in a Tuesday. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.400 I want to ask you your reaction to David Pocock, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.920 the Independent Senator coming out today to dispute Albanezi's version 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.400 of events that there wasn't a deal on the environmental laws. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.160 You don't have to be very bright to figure out 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.680 there was a deal done by Plibasic and that Alberanize 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.160 you spoke to the Premier of Western Australia. This will 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.560 put the seats. It was plask out, so all the 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.280 people who thought they were going to get this deal, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.719 which was hideous for Australia. So I'm rather pleased we've 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.560 ulled out of it. Otherwise it would be up to 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:10.599 Prime Minister Dunton to reverse it. So but equally he's 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.319 simply took and the bad blood between two to six. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.920 And Albanesi is palpable for all to see. First of all, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.880 he thought he could bury it, bury her in the 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.120 environmental portfolio. Yeah, and that's turned out to come back 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:24.720 and bite him. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.360 She's causing him ASTs of problems. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.200 Which he has so and of course they are they're rivals. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.640 There are seats next door to each other and both 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.240 on the left. And she had the temerity to come 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.520 out as deputy b deputy prime minister when or would 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.360 be deputy Prime Minister to shortened when Albanesi thought that 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.680 was his kid. So there's there's lots of things. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.880 And he'd be worried about her as a future leadership 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.800 rival as well. But Caleb, you know what about the 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.200 fact that he has effectively, as I said, undermined and 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.319 gas lit a senior woman in his cabinet. I mean 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.040 he claimed Scott Morrison had a woman problem. Look, he 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.400 is treating the scene a female and his own. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.480 Dis It's a very good point. I mean, you know, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.840 it's hardly reeks of cabinet government, does it. It reminds 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.319 me a bit of his matedown in Victoria. Daniel Andrews 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.080 who ruled the cabinet with an iron fist. It was 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.839 Dan's way or the highway, and he was very effective 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.280 in consolidating power by threatening the members of his own 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.120 cabinet and saying, well, if you want to stay here, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.440 you've got to join my faction. I mean, he managed 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.240 to turn the Treasurer Tim Pallas from the right to 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.880 the socialist left. How does that happen unless you put 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.840 a gun against someone's head. The problem for Elbow now 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.200 is I think we're talking about exactly this last week 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.880 on this panel. He has basically nothing to point to 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.480 as an achievement. While he has been Prime Minister going 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.480 into the next federal election and in getting rid of 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:52.080 the FEDERALLYPA, which was an election promise as bad as 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.680 a proposal it might have been. He's broken a promise 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.960 and he's next one of the only things that he 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.200 could have said, oh yeah, we actually did something that 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.120 was on our policy platform, because he's realized, oh well, 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.400 it'll get us in trouble. Like Bronwin said in Western Australia, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.200 the man has no principles. He's realized now that he's 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.000 cooked and he's doing everything he can to go backward. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.160 To one hundred miles an hour in the hope that 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.240 it will save him at the next federal election. I 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:18.680 think it's a little bit late for that. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:23.160 It's so frustrating when politicians campaign on transparency and accountability 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.520 actually a bit like the Teals, and then they go 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.000 on to do the exact opposite. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.920 I don't think any of them can spell transparency letter 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.480 known know what it means. Yeah, indeed, all right, I 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.960 think you're a bit kind about saying ab and as 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.360 he had a steel fist. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.320 No, no, it's a bit of a lympnos I suspect, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:42.680 but you know he's giving it a go. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.520 Yeah, I actually think it's the opposite. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.960 He lets the ministers do whatever they want. He's not 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.040 across the detail. He tries to pretend that's a good thing, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.520 but really he's just too lazy to do the work 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:53.560 to get across the detail. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.080 He's already checked out personally. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.680 Yeah, he is living in the Copacabana Clift Up mansion. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.000 And he's dreams already. All right. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.200 Well, Amo is warning that gas supplies need to now 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.720 be carefully managed heading into summer, or else there'll be 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.720 a risk that the energy grid stability will be damaged 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.360 or will be volatile across the East coast. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.040 Run when this is. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.040 Yet another warning from a EMO that you know we 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.040 have a vulnerable energy grid. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.360 Yeah, a bit to catch up, aren't they, because there 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.280 are lots of us saying this is a problem, that 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.960 it is all going to happen, and Albow will be 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.760 regretting the fact that he didn't go on the seventh 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.720 of December when they were all ready to go. Lost 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.240 their nerve because it's not going to get any better. Blackouts, 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:46.480 more strikes, people who are cancelling, more deals, the whole scene. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.160 There'll be no red cup. The whole thing is going 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.560 to get worse blowouts from the budget which will become 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.400 more apparent. There's no way they're having another budget. So 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.840 when we see AMO come out like this and suddenly 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.640 admit what we've all known, that blackouts are on the 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.440 horizon and that the gas hasn't been produced, and at 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.360 about time they demanded of those people who own those 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.840 coal fire power stations to up the maintenance and have 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.760 them ready to go because they're getting to be needed. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.440 It makes people so angry when we think that we've 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.760 been exploiing so much gas. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.199 Caleb, Yeah, well, we don't really have a gas reserve 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.600 in this country, which is insane, and the gas reserves 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.760 held by our allies have been depleted in recent years 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.240 that the US gas reserves were at their lowest point 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.000 I think in forty years. Last year they've started building 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.800 that back up again. But we have so much gas 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.760 in this country, particularly in places where we can't extract it, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.600 including Victoria, which will be the most reliant on gas 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.679 if things go wrong over summer. By the way, it 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.639 was only last year, or might have be been earlier 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.680 this year where the Victorian government finally opened up the idea. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.120 So oh, yes, we can drill for gas in Victoria 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:00.720 in but of course no one wants to go and 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.879 spend the money because they know that it was banned 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.399 for a decade under Andrews, So why would you bother 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.520 going to do that. We don't use the resources that 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.760 we have in this country, whether it's uranium or coal 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.120 or gas. We send it all overseas for other people 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.160 to burn, and we used to go a lot. We're 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.600 doing the great thing for the environment here. It doesn't 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.600 matter where you burn it. We all live in the 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.240 same world, So why don't we just keep some for 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.240 ourselves so we can have cheap and reliable energy. Otherwise 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.399 you end up like South Australia, where now the Energy 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.560 Minister Tom kots and Thomas is begging for Eneri to 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.879 put two diesel generators back in the market. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.200 How's that for queen and green energy insanity? Okay, let's 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.560 turn to the US now. A congressional subcommittee today has 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.320 declared that COVID nineteen most likely originated in a lab 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.040 in Wuhan. This finding was part of a five hundred 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.119 and twenty page report after a two year investigation. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.760 China has tonight hit back, have a look. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.760 Lape origin of the pandemic is extremely unlikely. The United 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:08.439 States should immediately stop weaponizing and politicizing this issue. Stop 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:09.440 sling maud. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.200 Or the ABC the whole way alongsided with China claimed 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.000 this was a conspiracy branwin. 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.760 Yet now in this report. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:24.119 Even more official you know evidence, Yet no apology to 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.879 viewers by the ABC for misleading. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.760 Them not to mention your excellent book. Thank you very well, researched, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.639 very well, presented in a slam deck case. Yes, of 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.880 course it came out of Wuvan, Of course it did. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.560 The Chinese could just as easily be, mister Fauci, because 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.919 he was. He was complicit the whole deal too, in 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:50.320 my estimation. So I just think that the Chinese don't 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.320 want to lose face. That's their problem. They don't want 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.000 to lose face, says I'll hit out and hit out, 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.600 but it will become quite apparent, as it did to 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:00.919 many of us very early on that of course it 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:01.600 came out of there. 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.119 Yeah, and by the way, you were ridiculed. I just 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.600 remembered as well by the ABC for your comments on this. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.600 Just before we go. Look, we've been talking. 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.879 About how Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter. Well, it 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.200 was a very funny comment on this from the TV 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.359 host John Stewart. If we can play that and have 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.679 a look at that clip, eleven years is. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.520 A very specific. 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:33.199 And not rounded amount of time, So honor, I'll give 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.600 you a pardon a few years, five years, ten years. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.040 It needs to be eleven. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.600 And if you would be so kind, make sure this 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.760 upcoming New Year's Eve is also covered. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.200 Shit's going to get Christy. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.160 It's hilarious, Caleb, but it's also you know, so thus 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.320 you and ridiculous because you know very specific time period 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.840 eleven years that the pardon applies to. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:07.760 Yeah, of course, and it goes all the way back 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:12.200 to Hunter beginning to do deals with Barrisma and Ukraine, etc. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.840 And the question is what was the connection between Hunter 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.480 and his father when these deals were being done. Close 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.919 associates of Hunter Biden's have testified that he was using 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.240 his father, who was then Vice president, to get business 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.720 deals done overseas and that potentially the Biden family benefited 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.760 from that. So, including those eleven years is running cover 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.080 for the president as much as it is for his son. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.400 And if you've got that power available to you, why 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.760 wouldn't you use it? I know it's insane and it's awful, 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.200 but why wouldn't you use it? He's just done what's 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:47.880 in front of him. 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.760 I'm sure they'll find some way, the Trump administration of 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:55.000 getting around and having a look at what they can investigate. Nonetheless, Bronwan, 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.200 Bishop cayleb Bond, thank you both very much. All right, 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.080 returning to the major story today that Donald Trump has 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:05.240 threatened to unleash Hell if the hostages aren't returned. Let's 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.840 bring in now Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson. James, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.800 thanks for your time as always look, we've seen weak 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:17.800 international leadership more inclined to criticize Israel than demand Hamas 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.800 actually hand back the hostages, and the Albanese government seems 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.320 to think the hostages are an afterthought as they keep 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.040 criticizing Israel. Should our politicians take a leaf out of 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:33.359 Trump's book and deal with terrorists through strength rather than appeasement. 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:37.600 It's great to be with you, Shari, and I think 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:40.520 you're absolutely right that the Albanezy government's response from the 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:44.320 very beginning of this crisis has been weakness and false 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.320 moral equivalents, and it's now very clear that they're being 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.960 driven by their political interests, and they are putting that 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.520 ahead of the national interest. The national interest and Australia's 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.199 values would have dictated that immediately after the seventh of 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.280 October we stood shoulder to shoulder with our friend and 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.320 our ally Israel, and that we did everything we could 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:05.400 to support them in their attempts to regain their citizens 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.280 who are so cruelly taken hostage by Hamas on the 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.439 seventh October. The especially cruel thing about this today, as 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:14.120 you pointed out in your editorial, Shari, is that of 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.840 those one hundred and one hostages who are still captive 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:20.119