WEBVTT - Danica De Giorgio | 17 October 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Live on Skyn's Australia. 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:09.000 This is to Nika de Georgio, Hello and welcome to 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.320 the program coming up tonight. An innocent woman ambushed and 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.800 stabbed in broad daylight in the middle of Melbourne's CBD, 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.759 Yet Victorian Premier Justin to Alan insists the city is safe. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.000 Who does she think she's kidding? Two years on from 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.320 the Voice referendum and labor governments across the country are 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.200 still trying to divide us by the color of our skin. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.879 The Liberal Senator Justinta nampajin for price will join me shortly, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.680 and military chiefs have begun high level talks about potential 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.760 Australian involvement in guars of peacekeeping operations. But first tonight, 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.400 three days ago, Victorian Premier Justin to Allan declared Melbourne's 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.200 CBD safe. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.960 The CBD of Melbourne is safe, and I wish to 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.320 reiterate that the Melbourne CBD is safe. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.480 Well, Justin to Alan should clip that up and make 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.720 it part of her campaign material because it's such a 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.840 wonderful selling point for the city, isn't it. But the 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:10.280 only people it serves to benefit are criminals. The very 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.840 words the CBD is safe is a criminal's paradise in 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.240 a city where crime is out of control. Now, I 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.760 don't know what the premier's version of safe looks like, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.120 because have a look at the video I'm about to 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.560 show you and ask yourself, does this look safe to you? 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.160 The confronting vision you're about to see shows an innocent 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.240 woman being ambushed and stabbed in broad daylight in the 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:37.720 middle of the CBD. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.960 Stalking her target from behind, the attacker pulled a long 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.399 knife from her pocket, then plunged it into a random 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.560 victim's chest. Thirty six year old Wine Lay left stunned 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.800 and bleeding on Little Burke Street. Her sister says it 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:54.800 was unprovoked. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:00.680 Suddenly phil someone touch her len very hurting. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.640 Miss Leigh had been walking to work as a sushi 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.720 chef at seven thirty five am, unaware she was being followed. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.880 Horrific thirty six year old Wan Lee was stabbed in 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.360 the middle of the CBD on her way to work 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.800 at seven thirty five in the morning on October two. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.320 She was left with a punctured lung and spent three 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.280 days in hospital. In fact, the knife just missed piercing 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.600 her heart, and yesterday she moved out of her apartment 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.280 as she is too scared to live there. But hang 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.680 on a minute, what did you center Allan tell us. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.600 Again the CBD of Melbourne is safe, and I wish 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.160 to reiterate that the Melbourne CBD is safe. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.400 No, nothing at all, nothing to see here, And here 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.320 is what we know about the alleged defender. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.520 CCTV captured the attacker running off down Spencer Street with 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.040 her blade still out. Police say she was on bail 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.440 for other offenses at the time. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.680 So she was out on This is what Jacinta Allen's 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.520 so called toughest bail laws in the country looks like. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.760 And putting this case aside for the moment, this is 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.840 a government so captured by ideology it avoids locking people 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.720 up rather bailing them, and the public is paying the price. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.280 Police are clearly stretched to the max with youth crime 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.920 out of control and weekly protests and it's now just 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.960 an all in. It's another day in Melbourne, isn't it? 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.480 Peppered with a daily stabbing or two, several carjackings and 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.120 home invasions. And of course these alleged tough bail laws 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.920 may as well be rendered useless. They only work if 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.160 the justice system obliges. These crims are laughing at us 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.600 in a city deemed safe. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.560 The CBD of Melbourne is safe, and I wish to 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.760 reiterate that the Melbourne CBD is safe. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.120 Now. Look what makes this even more offensive is the 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.320 premier's response to the stabbing today. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.320 This alleged to Bendel was on mail have your top 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.280 of oil laws Dale? 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.160 Well, this act of shocking, brazen violence that we've seen 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.520 on Little Burke Street in Melbourne's CBD is just absolutely sickening. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.200 It's sickening, and my thoughts and support go to the 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.719 victim and her wider family who are also supporting her 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.760 what is no doubt an incredibly difficult and traumatic time. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.960 Yes, thoughts and prayers again and offering up support that'll 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.960 do it for a young woman who's now been left 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.040 traumatized and is too scared to leave her own home 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.880 because in the CBD that the premier declared safe is 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.600 not actually safe. And this premier speaks as if it's 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.480 just another run of the mill incident, and that's exactly 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:52.200 the issue to her. It's another incident for her, It's 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.160 another incident where she just offers up support for Melbournians. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.640 It's another worrying day of out of control crime because 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:00.880 there is there's no support. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.839 She then went on, I want to thank Victoria Police 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:10.080 for moving swiftly, for moving swiftly, for apprehending this individual. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.440 This individual is now on remand in jail awaiting a 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.960 court date, and I thank Victoria Police for that swift 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.640 work in responding to this just sickening crime. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.440 So thank you police, Well done, bravo. And well that's it. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.320 She moves on like nothing ever happened. Thanks police, you 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.680 did it again. You saved just into Allan's backside again. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.120 So let's ask this again. Melbourne CBD must be safe? 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.960 Right, is Melbourne CBD sad? 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.480 So this was a brazen, shocking act. It was a shocking, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.640 brazen act of violence that has no place on any 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.039 street in any town. And that is why I'm thanking 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.080 Victoria Police for their very very quick response and that 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.240 this individual is now in jail, on remand waiting for 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:01.880 their next court appearance. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.919 So let me get this right. Three days ago it 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.760 was safe. Today Justina Allan couldn't even say because she's 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.240 got nothing to say. And you know what, let me 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.480 just give you a quick summary of everything she said today. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:23.559 Shocking, brazen violence, absolutely sickening. It's sickening, raisen, shocking act. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.320 It was a shocking, brazen act of violence. The shocking 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.520 act of violence. It was brazen, it was an extreme 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:31.400 active violence. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.880 That is just sickening, terrible, shocking, sickening and act of violence. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.240 We know that, we know that. But that was her 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.000 playbook today, her labor lines written out in advance, committed 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.200 to memory, to sell to the public, and we all 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.600 know it's now a sick joke. Justina Alan does not 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.240 have the willpower to get on top of this. Enough 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.920 is enough. Her disaster is playing out in front of 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.960 our very eyes. Last night there was a stabbing attack 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.160 in reservoir. A man has been left with life threatening injuries. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.960 Three days ago, a man allegedly pointed a gun at 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.359 police as he ran from offices in Melbourne, CBD in 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.440 the middle of the day. He was on bail allegedly 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.680 for stealing a car. Day in, day out, it's one 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.000 machete attack after another. Kids are slashing each other in 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:35.480 violent machete brawls. Shopping centers have become the new fight clubs. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.880 Kids have been killed, warring youth gangs, home invasions, carjackings. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.360 I could go on and on, because it never ends. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.480 Victoria is in the middle of record breaking crime. In 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.600 twenty twenty four, in New South Wales there were twenty 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.440 seven thousand burglaries, fourteen eight hundred and ninety nine stolen vehicles, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.040 and just over twenty eight thousand fests from shops. Do 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.400 you compare that with Victoria forty eight thousand burglaries, almost 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.560 twenty nine thousand stolen vehicles and just under thirty nine 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.480 thousand thefts from shops, and bear in mind the population 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.600 of New South Wales is twenty percent larger. John Roscom 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.200 writes in the Australian Financial Review Today that this crime 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.200 crisis was all Daniel Andrew's doing and it started during 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.320 the pandemic. He says, young Victorians were locked in their 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.680 homes for months on end, without school, without work, and 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.240 without support. It should be no surprise that a small 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.880 minority of young people are treating Victorians with the same 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:42.320 sort of contempt that a few years ago Victorians treated them. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.000 It was so easy to see this coming and Jacinta 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:52.600 Allen's magic carpetride solution is a machete amnesty bin and 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.600 if it wasn't so serious, you'd actually laugh at the 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.520 very prospect. And all I can put it down to 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:03.720 is this, This comes up Jacinta Allan's tough on crime approach. 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.680 The CBD of Melbourne is safe, and I wish to 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.880 reiterate that the Melbourne CBD is safe. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.080 Yeah, her tough on crime approach is a marshmallow. She's 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.880 not up to this, she's not got the courage to 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.320 get on top of this, and its innocent civilians paying 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:29.160 the price daily. Well, what does it mean to be 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.320 Australian under labor? Now? When I think of what it 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.160 means to be an Aussie, I think of pride in 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.720 this country, pride in our flag. I think of the 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:41.400 values the ANZACs instilled, like madship, courage and bravery. But 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.199 that is all redundant under labor, which continues to make 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.280 a complete mockery of this country and a mockery of 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.680 everyday Aussies through the people it keeps bringing. In. Home 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.000 Affairs Minister Tony Burke has announced that as many as 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.240 seven hundred Garzens could soon call Australia home. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.160 The people who we have on our caseload, there's roughly 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.960 six to seven hundred of them, well, roughly six to 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.720 seven hundred on our caseload. Sometimes we had peaceful on 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.720 our caseload where we don't know if they're still alive, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.000 but we've got roughly six to seven hundred on our caseload. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.400 Look, this is an utter insult to every day Laura 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.040 abiding peaceful Aussies. Last year they let in under two 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.960 thousand gardens with little to no security checks. Tony Burke 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.520 even did a private meet and greet at Sydney Airport 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.440 with one family when Gardens touched down a few weeks ago. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.959 In fact, he spoke of the delight in welcoming them 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.480 in just yesterday. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:44.960 That mother and daughter had spent eighteen months hiding in 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:50.040 a church in Gaza before I had the portfolio. Just 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.040 by chance, someone had handed me a phone and I'd 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.960 found myself having a video conversation with them while they 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.480 were hiding. I was really pleased to be a minister 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.880 in the sort of country where I could meet them 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.880 the airport and I could say you're welcome here, You're safe. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.600 Garza's neighbors, including Egypt and Jordan, have refused to take 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:14.240 refugees despite the two year Israel Humas War, but Australia 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.600 under Labor has the welcome matte unfilled. And don't forget 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.800 the majority of Gazans support HUMAS and supported the October seven, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.520 twenty twenty three attack on Israel. And what Tony Burke 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.120 is just so sure that those he's let in don't 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.040 support Humas. I mean, we already have a rampant anti 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.160 Semitism problem in this country and the minister wants to 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.960 bring in more refugees, some of whom may be sympathetic 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.120 to Humas. Really not to mention Isis brides have been 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.880 welcomed in with open arms. We have a mass migration 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.480 problem as it is, what is this Australia and what 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.839 does it mean to be Australian under labor anymore? Because 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.040 I think Australia is a soup bowl of dangerous ideology 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.360 which has been imported and throw that into a big 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.559 Australia policy which has seen some people come here whose 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:09.800 values are entirely incompatible with our own, and Labour calls 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:14.040 of multiculturalism and keeps the door open. And look, federal 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.760 labor is not immune. The Daily Telegraph revealed today that 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.920 tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars have been thrown at 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.880 a Sydney Islamic group with Hesbela ties and whose leader 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.520 publicly vowed the annihilation of Israel. That is, South Wales 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.800 government granted the Araham Benevolent Society thirty three thousand dollars 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.760 in social cohesion and security payments. It comes eight months 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.720 after the society's mosque and Sydney held a commemoration ceremony 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.200 for three killed Hesbela fighters. And don't forget that Hesbela 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.800 is a listed terror group in Australia. When will our 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.520 interests as Australians be put first? Because labor is a 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.559 threat to our social cohesion And I've said this before 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.080 and I'll say it again. I do not think we 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.400 have control over the culture where trying to create anymore. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.439 The horse has bolted and what a shame. Labor does 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:13.320 not know what it means to be Australian. Let's go 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.079 straight to the Shadow Attorney General, Andrew Wallace. Now, good 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:17.880 to see you again, Andrew, thanks for joining me. I 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.520 want to start with this stabbing in broad daylight in Melbourne. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.640 I'll show the clip once more and a warning it 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.200 is distressing. Now you were in the city this week 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.240 with Susan Lee talking about crime there jacent to. Allen 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.880 has again shot down calls for Jack's Law, which is 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.040 legislation in place in your home state of Queensland as 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.800 well in New South Wales. It allows police to use 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.480 handheld metal detectors. What message does this send to citizens 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:42.280 of her state? 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.920 Well, Donica, thanks for having me on. I mean that 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.840 footage is just absolutely sickening. I'm sure that Australians across 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.360 the country are very upset just to see that. I 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.120 want to extend my best wishes to the young lady 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.520 and her family. It is utterly unacceptable where we have 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:09.319 a situation where Australians and visitors cannot simply walk down 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.960 a street in a capital city in broad daylight and 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:20.600 not be assaulted. It's just unfathomable that Melbourne has got 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:25.240 to this stage. The Melbourne crime rates have increased by 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:30.880 eighteen percent over the last twelve months. Eighteen percent just 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.400 in the last twelve months, Danika, there've been nine thousand 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.040 additional offenses against the person from compared to last year. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.800 That's things like rape, assault, murder, the sort of violent 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.840 physical offenses. An additional nine thousand from the figures of 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:56.359 last year. It is utterly inconceivable that this is acceptable 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.560 to Australians. They're getting angry and what I'm hearing from 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.240 people on the street is that it is that the 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.200 crime is becoming the number one hot issue for Victorian's. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.160 Oh look absolutely, and you know the Premier had the 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.640 goal to say that the CBD is safe. How much 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.320 more evidence do you need that there is clearly a 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.640 serious issue. You know, it's just unbelievable. Now I'll ask 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.320 you what do you make of the comments by Nationals 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.880 leader David little Proud saying that he would welcome any 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.080 Liberals defecting to the junior party. There were reports in 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.600 The Australian this week that a Liberal MP has maybe 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.600 tossed up the idea that if seven of his colleagues 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.040 defected to the Nationals, the balance of power within the 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.920 coalition would be flipped. The differences between Moderates and Conservatives 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.240 are reconcilable, particularly on energy andrew to the point where 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.400 there may be defectors to the Nats. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.680 Well, Denika, I'm now in the role of the Shadow 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.880 Attorney General and I can tell you now that I 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.760 am absolutely fixed on ensuring that we toughen our laws 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.240 in Australia. I want to back police and I want 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.000 to return safety and security to Australians. That's what I'm 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.480 focused on everyday. Australians aren't concerned with who's talking to who, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.320 who's saying what to who. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.560 They just want us to get on with our jobs. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.200 And that's exactly what I'll be doing, and I'll be 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.640 encouraging all my colleagues to do exactly what's saying. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.000 I do agree. I think that the parties spent enough 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.080 time talking about themselves, But I mean is they're a 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.040 genuine prospect of defectors. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.240 Look, it hasn't worked well for others in the past, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.080 so I don't think it will work well for others 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:33.960 and if they. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:34.840 Tried it in the future. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.880 But I'm certainly not hearing any whispers along those lines. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.240 So I'm just concentrating on my job as a Shadow 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.320 Attorney General to make people more secure and more safe 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:46.040 in this country. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.000 All right, Well, the big meetings coming up next week 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.600 in the US. Anthony Aarbeneasy to meet Donald Trump. We've 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.840 been waiting for this for a while. What sort of 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.840 a reception do you think he's going to receive? 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.760 Well, we want this to be a success full outcome. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.520 This is a team Australian moment. When the Prime Minister 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.760 of Australia meets with a foreign leader, we want a 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.560 successful outcome for the Australian people. I know that Susan 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.280 Lee has written to the Prime Minister and set out 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.720 various markers as to what she'd like to see out 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.479 of the meeting, not the least of which is the 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.959 most important military alliance that we've ever been involved in, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.520 and that is that military agreement, and that is AUCUS. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.560 Aucust remains under somewhat of a cloud at the moment, 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.719 and we need to assure ensure that as a result 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.879 of this meeting with the President, that the Prime Minister 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:46.359 walks away with a solid commitment from him that the 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.520 United States will continue with AUCUS. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:55.080 We also need to see a commitment to reduction of 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:56.199 tariffs as well. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.639 The trade agreement between Australia and the United States important 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.120 for Australians, and Australians just want to see their Prime 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:05.600 minister and they'd be happy to see him. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.000 Have a meeting with the Prime Minister. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:12.240 That's taken a long time, and just like every. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.280 Other Australian, we want to see the Prime Minister succeed. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.960 Well, let's see what happens next week, but I look 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.160 forward to hearing the outcome. We're almost out of time, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.760 but just very quickly want to ask you about a 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.560 very important story. Child sex offenders could get a mandatory 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.480 minimum of five years in jail. This is under a 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.760 bill being backed by the opposition. I'm surprised it's actually 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.520 not in place from the start, to be honest, Andrew, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:35.720 but tell us more about it. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:37.400 Well. 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.800 Last sitting week, Julian Lisa, who was the former Shadow 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:45.640 Attorney General, moved an urgent bill to be debated which 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:50.320 would increase penalties for people involved in Commonwealth child sex 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:55.680 offenses offenses. This arose out of a case in Victoria 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.160 where an individual had sexually assaulted his five year old 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:07.040 daughter on nineteen occasions, and to make matters worse, he 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.920 made seventy seven images digital images, both videos and still 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.520 shots and then transmitted. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:15.240 Datas over the internet. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.520 And for the physical offense and the Commonwealth offenses he 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.840 got two and a half years in prison, six months 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.160 of which were for the Commonwealth offenses. Now those Commonwealth 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.920 offenses alone carry a maximum term of fifteen years imprisonment. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.840 So Julian and Lisa moved a bill that would see 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:37.679 those sort. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.280 Of Commonwealth offenses have a mandatory minimum sentence of five 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.199 years for a first offense or six years for a 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:50.240 subsequent offense. Unfortunately, Labor didn't support that, debating that bill 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:55.560 and said, well, no, you can wait till Parliament resumes. Look, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.200 I'm really struggling with this. Two hundred and twenty six 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:05.560 children a day are reported to the ACE ye and shocking. 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:06.560 We've got to do better. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.600 I completely agree. Look, I'm just shocked that this is 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.320 not something that's in place from the very beginning. It 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.320 should be a It's so basic, really, Andrew Wallace, we've 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:17.879 got to leave it there. Nice to see as always, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.199 thank you so much for joining me. Well. Look, a 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:24.000 company overseeing China's controversial Belt and Road initiative has been 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.520 engaged to work on Australia net zero projects. News Corp 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.480 is today reporting the developers of two battery farms have 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.919 outsourced work to the China Energy Engineering Corporation, which is 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.480 owned and under the direct supervision of the Chinese Communist Party. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.600 Now one of the batteries has been handed priority status 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.320 by the Albanezi government Jody. Now for more on this 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.240 is Adam Morrison, the Energy program director at the Center 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.480 for Independent Studies. Aiden, we now know why Albo loves 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.639 spending so much time in China. The majority of our 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.800 solar panels already, they're made in China. Now we've got 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.880 these reports that battery farms are being overseen by the sea. 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.600 How worried should we be about where our taxpayer money 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:05.440 is going into these schemes. 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:10.800 Look, I think we have every right to ask some 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:12.840 questions here. It's up to Albert where he chooses to 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.160 take his holidays. I suppose if China's a nice destination, 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.920 all well and good. But these batteries are actually expected 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.240 to play a really crucial role in our energy system. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.920 In particular, batteries and some advanced inverters that are still 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.359 being developed are supposed to help with a thing called 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.960 a black start capability, which means if there's a blackout, 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:30.919 how do you get the grid up and running. And 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.600 this is previously relatively simple when coal and gas plants 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.160 were able to use their huge inertia of their spinning machines. 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.680 But now under the wind and solar plan, we need 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:40.760 other systems and the batteries are going to be relied 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.199 on for that, and one of these Australian companies has 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.240 been particularly active in trying to engage in the processes 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.840 to set the standards for this black start restart capability. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.080 And so I think when it comes to being able 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.560 to switch the lights back on in a critical emergency 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.520 where there's a blackout, this is very important for Australians 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.480 literally being able to turn the lights back on. And 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:02.320 so you'd think there would have to be some reasonable 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.760 scrutiny about the degree of trust that we have in 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.760 the companies that are providing what is truly critical infrastructure. 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.919 Well, you'd absolutely hope. So I just think it's a 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.520 really frightening to be honest. Now, Look, there's been another 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.240 blow to the renewable energy magic carpet ride. The two 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:20.239 gigawa Kent offshore wind project on Victoria's Gippsland Coast has 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.400 been dumped as global energy companies continue to quit our market. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.639 Aiden how critical was this project in terms of the 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.200 state's renewables transition. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:34.520 Look, the Victorian government is the only one that has 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.800 actually put in a special government policy target for an 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.359 amount offshore wind and they expect to have nine gigawats 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.239 in place by twenty forty. There's no other state that 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.439 has actually had a state target mandating a certain amount 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.520 of offshore wind. So two gigawa's out of that nine 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.600 is a pretty significant chunk overall. But I'd also like 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.119 to point out that the original plan, the premise for 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.720 why Victoria one and to actually start an offshore wind 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:00.840 policy one of the original policy papers, and that said 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:03.960 that if they relied on onshore resources that require something 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.359 like seventy percent of Victorian agricultural land to be taken 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.280 up by wind and solar. So if they're not going 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.359 to put it offshore, that will increase the amount of 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.440 pressure that goes to onshore wind and solar. And as 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.680 you can see every day, the landowners in many of 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.680 these regions are extremely upset about the industrialization of the 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.120 landscape that's going on there, with all the towers required 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:29.400 for solar panels, batteries, and the transmission lines and turbines. 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.520