Speaker 1: Lately.
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Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Caleb Bond and freyer Leitch coming
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Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that.
Speaker 3: Shortly, but first, you know, I remember growing up and
Speaker 3: being able to easily recognize all the cars on the road.
Speaker 3: You had Ford's, Holden's, Toyotas, Mazdas, Mitsubishi's. But these days
Speaker 3: I hardly recognize any of them, and it feels like
Speaker 3: there's a new brand pretty much every other week.
Speaker 2: Now. If you feel the same as I do, you're
Speaker 2: not imagining it.
Speaker 3: Australian roads are increasingly dominated by Chinese vehicles. In fact,
Speaker 3: one in every six cars sold in this country is
Speaker 3: now a Chinese vehicle. In fact, in the past twelve months,
Speaker 3: ten new brands from China have been introduced to our market.
Speaker 3: Consider the pace of change when it comes to cars
Speaker 3: in this country. Back in nineteen seventy we had a
Speaker 3: population of twelve and a half million people. We manufactured
Speaker 3: in our own factories four hundred and seventy five thousand cars.
Speaker 3: We exported cars to other countries. But in the space
Speaker 3: of just fifty years we've gone from manufacturing and exporting
Speaker 3: vehicles to importing every single car on our roads, and
Speaker 3: increasingly from China.
Speaker 2: So here's the question. Is that a problem and if
Speaker 2: it is, Caleb, what do we do about it?
Speaker 4: Well, at this point there's not much we can do
Speaker 4: about it. I mean, it's an interesting point you raise
Speaker 4: about the loss of manufacturing in this country, which, of
Speaker 4: course you know we all know quite acutely, particularly when
Speaker 4: Holden shut down in the great state of South Australia.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are people who lost their jobs at
Speaker 4: Olden who never got a job afterwards because they'd spent
Speaker 4: their whole career working in a car manufacturing plant. They're
Speaker 4: in their mid to late fifties. What hope did they
Speaker 4: ever have of getting another job afterwards. We used to
Speaker 4: make everything in Australia. Refrigerators, washing machines, Kelvinator, Westinghouse were
Speaker 4: all manufacturing here. In fact, if you go to the
Speaker 4: National Motor Museum in Birdwood in South Australia, you can
Speaker 4: see a car built by a washing machine company. Yes,
Speaker 4: we used to do these sorts of things in Australia
Speaker 4: and then it all disappeared. And of course we had
Speaker 4: the introduction of Japanese cars in the eighties and.
Speaker 1: Everyone said, oh, want this jap crap. But of course
Speaker 1: it turned.
Speaker 4: Out that Japanese cars were quite reliable. But of course
Speaker 4: the biggest Japanese manufacturer, Toyota, built cars here in Australia. Ford,
Speaker 4: of course, was an American company, but they built cars
Speaker 4: here in Australia.
Speaker 1: Holden was an Australian company.
Speaker 4: Brought out by GM, which is an American company, but
Speaker 4: they still built cars in Australia. What we're talking about
Speaker 4: now is total imports. Every car in this country is imported.
Speaker 4: We have given so much manufacturing to China specifically, I
Speaker 4: don't mind so much a car that's imported from Japan
Speaker 4: or Germany or elsewhere in Europe or Korea, countries that
Speaker 4: we're pretty sure we're not going to have any sort
Speaker 4: of military conflicts.
Speaker 1: With these days.
Speaker 4: But China is a country that we might have military
Speaker 4: conflict with.
Speaker 1: And we have a.
Speaker 4: Situation where nearly everything now, including cars, comes from China.
Speaker 4: What happens on the day that war comes and our
Speaker 4: supplies are totally reliant on China, they can turn the
Speaker 4: tap off like that, and then we are stuffed. We
Speaker 4: have become too reliant on China, and I think that
Speaker 4: is the greatest danger of this, and I think there's.
Speaker 5: A deeper issue here as well.
Speaker 6: Yes, the future potential for conflict is concerning for our
Speaker 6: supply chains, but the danger has already arrived with the
Speaker 6: thousands of Chinese cars that are already on Australian streets.
Speaker 6: Biden banned Chinese and Russian cars from going into the US.
Speaker 6: If Biden, if Joe Biden is banning something and actually
Speaker 6: taking action.
Speaker 5: You know, it's really bad.
Speaker 6: And part of the problem with these cars is the
Speaker 6: amount of data harvesting they can do.
Speaker 5: They can see your location.
Speaker 6: They have cameras, so they can see you while you're driving,
Speaker 6: they can see where you're driving, and under Chinese law,
Speaker 6: Chinese companies are legally obligated to pass that data back
Speaker 6: onto the CCP. So we are hopelessly exposed. But it's
Speaker 6: even more concerning because our Minister for cyber Security, Tony Burke,
Speaker 6: himself drives a Chinese car and he's been questioned on this,
Speaker 6: what if you're going to sensitive sites, how much data
Speaker 6: are they getting from you? What steps are you taking
Speaker 6: to mitigate the national security risk of this? And the
Speaker 6: typical answer will take that on notice, no answer, And
Speaker 6: this is happening from our ministers down and we are
Speaker 6: so exposed.
Speaker 3: And that's the issue with automobiles now because they're not
Speaker 3: like they were, but they're basically computers on wheels now,
Speaker 3: hence the national security risk that was not a factor
Speaker 3: twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't have been even thinking these thoughts.
Speaker 3: But now suddenly it's not just about our manufacturing base
Speaker 3: that's been lost, it's not just about supply chain being interrupted.
Speaker 3: It's about national security and it's a big problem. But
Speaker 3: whether anything will be done about it, if Tony Burke
Speaker 3: won't change his habits because of this you can't expect
Speaker 3: anybody else in there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And Chris Bowen's also been flogging Chinese cars on
Speaker 6: his social media because of course the EV tax credit
Speaker 6: is one of Labour's proudest achievements, so he's literally flogging
Speaker 6: byd Chinese cars as the minister for the Australian government.
Speaker 4: And imagine as well, because of course data is collected centrally,
Speaker 4: and we know it's being collected centrally because you've had
Speaker 4: car manufacturing companies actually selling data to insurance companies so
Speaker 4: they can track how you drive your vehicle.
Speaker 1: When you go through anew your insurance.
Speaker 4: You know, imagine if mister Jijinping wakes up one day
Speaker 4: and says, can you just go and hackle those cars
Speaker 4: we've sent out there and make them go one hundred
Speaker 4: mile an hour? I mean, these are the things that
Speaker 4: they could conceivably do. And as for being watched with
Speaker 4: the cameras Tesla was doing that, we know of a
Speaker 4: case where they had had footage. They'd taken footage from
Speaker 4: the camera on someone's car where they'd approached their car
Speaker 4: in the nutty and this footage had been shared around
Speaker 4: in chat groups inside of Tesla and that got out
Speaker 4: and they had to deal with that. So if they're
Speaker 4: doing it at Tesla, don't think that they're not doing
Speaker 4: it over in China. While we're talking about the Chinese
Speaker 4: infiltration of the West.
Speaker 1: Of course, TikTok, you'll remember, that's another.
Speaker 4: Thing that Biden wanted to ban in the United States
Speaker 4: that was meant to come into effect on January the nineteenth.
Speaker 4: It did come into effect for just a few days,
Speaker 4: and of course President Trump came to power and he
Speaker 4: put a stop to all of that. I mean, it
Speaker 4: was the worst twenty four odd hours that I think
Speaker 4: many people had ever experienced in their lives. Normally, when
Speaker 4: something happens, I would get on TikTok AND's are complaining
Speaker 4: and I can't even do that.
Speaker 2: We learned so much about things we didn't know about, opportunities,
Speaker 2: places to eat, movies to watch, books to read.
Speaker 1: I just seen the video of the girl that made
Speaker 1: the Renegade dance, and I'm curing because I read a
Speaker 1: comment that was like the algorithm saying good biteers, Okay,
Speaker 1: this app was literally supposed to be my way out.
Speaker 1: So sad.
Speaker 4: Now, of course, the deal was that if TikTok wanted
Speaker 4: to avoid a bite Dance Switch is parent company of TikTok.
Speaker 4: TikTok wanted to avoid being banned in the United States,
Speaker 4: they had to divest to top that was being used
Speaker 4: in the United States, so therefore it wouldn't be linked
Speaker 4: to China and then data wouldn't be sent back to
Speaker 4: the CCP. Trump said, look, we'll put a three month
Speaker 4: stay on this and we'll try to come to an
Speaker 4: agreement where fifty percent of TikTok is owned by.
Speaker 1: The United States.
Speaker 4: That came up in March, and he then extended it again,
Speaker 4: and so it will come up on June the nineteenth,
Speaker 4: in just two days. There still has been no sale
Speaker 4: of any part of TikTok.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump has said tonight that he thinks he will
Speaker 4: probably extend the deal again so they can.
Speaker 1: Try to find a buyer.
Speaker 4: But as far as I'm concerned, TikTok has had far
Speaker 4: more time that it was originally offered to get this done.
Speaker 4: They have not been able to sell it off. I
Speaker 4: don't think they have any interest in selling it off
Speaker 4: because China thinks it's far more valuable to own a
Speaker 4: service like TikTok because it gives us all this data
Speaker 4: on the people who are using it, gives them access
Speaker 4: to the mobile phones with the people who are using it,
Speaker 4: and more importantly, it gives them influence in the West
Speaker 4: because they get to control the algorithms and decide what
Speaker 4: people in the West are looking at. They don't want
Speaker 4: to sell it. They are playing Trump for a fool here.
Speaker 4: And he ought to turn around and say, if you
Speaker 4: haven't been able to sell it by now, too bloody bad.
Speaker 1: Your banned until you've done it.
Speaker 3: So what hope do we have dealing with Chinese cars
Speaker 3: if we can't even deal with a Chinese social media app.
Speaker 3: And this is the test for Donald Trump, who of
Speaker 3: course made a big song and dance about the dangers
Speaker 3: and the evils of TikTok, only to then change his
Speaker 3: mind when of the Pido might be helping him with
Speaker 3: younger voters. Have he extended the deadline a couple of times?
Speaker 3: If he extends it a third time, does anyone really
Speaker 3: believe he's serious?
Speaker 2: But he should be.
Speaker 3: Remember this clip from US sixty minutes talking about the
Speaker 3: fact that the Chinese produce one version of TikTok spinach
Speaker 3: if you like, for their own children, and yet leave
Speaker 3: us with a version of TikTok, which is like a
Speaker 3: drug that's messing with our kids' minds.
Speaker 7: If you're under fourteen years old. They show you science
Speaker 7: experiments you can do at home. Is exhibits patriotism videos
Speaker 7: and educational videos, and they also limit it to only
Speaker 7: forty minutes per day. Now, they don't ship that version
Speaker 7: of TikTok to the rest of the world, so it's
Speaker 7: almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids development
Speaker 7: and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok,
Speaker 7: while they've shipped the opium version to the rest.
Speaker 1: Of the world.
Speaker 3: When you've got a social media app that is so
Speaker 3: obviously being used to influence Western young people for bad,
Speaker 3: why wouldn't you just get rid of it rather than
Speaker 3: carry on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not of the deal.
Speaker 6: Well, it is a bit of a charade because realistically
Speaker 6: there is about a zero percent chance that TikTok will
Speaker 6: actually manage to find a buyer. The first issue is
Speaker 6: it is so expensive, So the app is valued at
Speaker 6: around between one hundred and two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 5: To put that into.
Speaker 6: Perspective, Elon Musk bought the whole of Twitter for forty
Speaker 6: five four billion dollars, so you're talking about something that
Speaker 6: is double the size. The other problem is that algorithms
Speaker 6: to the CCP are actually considered a core national asset.
Speaker 5: So algorithms have even.
Speaker 6: Been put on a list of restricted technology, which would
Speaker 6: require the CCP to consent to the sale of it
Speaker 6: to any Western buyer, which naturally they're not going to
Speaker 6: do because, as you've pointed out, they have so much
Speaker 6: power and influence in the Western world through these algorithms.
Speaker 6: And then you have the other factor of that there
Speaker 6: are simply no Western companies technologically able to run TikTok.
Speaker 5: Microsoft has tried and back down.
Speaker 6: Oracle thought about it but couldn't. Meta would or would
Speaker 6: have a monopoly on social media if they did take
Speaker 6: it on, so it probably wouldn't be allowed to I
Speaker 6: think the best bet for someone to buy TikTok would
Speaker 6: be Elon Musk, but I don't think he's going to
Speaker 6: be doing Trump any favors anymore, and that was probably
Speaker 6: the only option.
Speaker 4: I have to ask though, as someone who uses chickens
Speaker 4: compied into it, do you worry about the data that
Speaker 4: the CCP is harvesting on you?
Speaker 6: Yes, I need to get a bernafhone. I think that's
Speaker 6: the solution. And because my approach has always been TikTok
Speaker 6: is such a powerful app in that you can go
Speaker 6: viral very quickly, you can reach a lot of people.
Speaker 6: My TikTok's during the Voice referendum got over four million
Speaker 6: views and similarly during the last federal election, so it
Speaker 6: is very powerful.
Speaker 5: As long as young people are there, we have to
Speaker 5: use it. But I should take some more precautions.
Speaker 3: But your Twitter feed was spinach for Australian young Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: Up there upholding the quality of TikTok. But of course
Speaker 6: the other impact of social media on kids is mental health,
Speaker 6: and mental health is an issue that seems to be exploding.
Speaker 5: In our country.
Speaker 6: Fifteen percent of six year old boys are now on
Speaker 6: the NDIS, with issues mostly around autism and being neurodivergent.
Speaker 6: But a pre eminent psychologist, Pat McGrory wrote an interesting
Speaker 6: opinion piece today where he essentially says what we're seeing
Speaker 6: is the rise of unmet need and met unneed in
Speaker 6: our mental health system. So what he means by that
Speaker 6: the unmet need, people with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia
Speaker 6: are not experiencing not having the same access to support
Speaker 6: that they did when things like institutional care existed. Those
Speaker 6: were obviously dismantled in the nineties and nothing similar has
Speaker 6: replaced them. So people who really do need structured environments
Speaker 6: aren't getting that support. But on the flip side, people
Speaker 6: with low levels of mental illness like autism or depression
Speaker 6: and anxiety are getting a lot of support through the
Speaker 6: bloated NDIS. So what he points out is there is
Speaker 6: a really unfair mismatch in need versus support provided by
Speaker 6: our system, and it's the most vulnerable again that are
Speaker 6: paying the price. And now, he says, our mental health
Speaker 6: system is like an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
Speaker 6: There is no support to stop them jumping off that.
Speaker 4: And what he's called out is that there are people
Speaker 4: in the system now who really shouldn't be in the system.
Speaker 4: He writes in the column, rates of diagnosis of ADHD
Speaker 4: are also surging, driven in part by a welcome catch
Speaker 4: up for historical underdiagnosis, but equally by a wave of misdiagnosis,
Speaker 4: which includes substantial met and need. At the same time,
Speaker 4: severely disabled older adults with severe mental health illnesses are
Speaker 4: locked out of vital health and psychosocial care. And basically
Speaker 4: what he's saying is that the divide between these people
Speaker 4: has actually grown. And of course we talk about, oh,
Speaker 4: mental health is such a big issue now and we're
Speaker 4: spending more mo on mental health. Well, he points out
Speaker 4: that the proportion of health funding that is spent hasn't
Speaker 4: really changed in thirty years.
Speaker 1: The numbers of.
Speaker 4: People committing suicide in this country are not really moving
Speaker 4: because you have all these people coming into the system,
Speaker 4: and he points out largely come from wealthier parts of
Speaker 4: the country who can afford to access mental health care,
Speaker 4: but in the process of clogging up the mental health
Speaker 4: system because they think they have anxiety, or they think
Speaker 4: they have ADHD, or they think they have depression or whatever,
Speaker 4: because they've been told that everything that they experience in
Speaker 4: their life has to be medicalized in some way, as
Speaker 4: opposed to it being just, you know, sometimes part of life.
Speaker 1: Those who need real care and.
Speaker 4: Could be a danger to themselves and to others cannot
Speaker 4: get it. What he is saying, and he's been on
Speaker 4: this case for a very long time. Of course, was
Speaker 4: Australian of the Year in twenty ten, is that we
Speaker 4: are just not up to scratch. We say we care
Speaker 4: about mental health. We don't care about mental health.
Speaker 1: We care about.
Speaker 4: Mental health being fashionable, and we have you know, are
Speaker 4: you Okay? Day and they give out some cupcakes in
Speaker 4: the workplace and say, oh, if you're feeling depressed, go
Speaker 4: and talk to someone. But if you have a real
Speaker 4: mental health problem and you want to get help in
Speaker 4: this country, it's nigh on impossible. Try to take yourself
Speaker 4: to a public hospital and get help for mental health.
Speaker 4: It is impossible. I know from personal experience, not me
Speaker 4: going to a hospital, I.
Speaker 1: Know people who have like they have gone to a hospital.
Speaker 4: Desperate for help, and they cannot get it because we
Speaker 4: cannot provide it because we have too many people clogging
Speaker 4: up the system, and we don't spend the money where
Speaker 4: it's need to be spent.
Speaker 1: I think it is an absolute disgrace.
Speaker 3: Well, if you want to know how bad it is,
Speaker 3: I mean the conversation about what are we doing for
Speaker 3: people with schizophrenia. That conversation really didn't exist much until
Speaker 3: the Bondai a Junction stabbing, and then when it came
Speaker 3: to pass that we realize this is a guy who's
Speaker 3: slipped through the system multiple times, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: there's a conversation. It took something like that to get
Speaker 3: people talking about this issue, and the labor government haven't helped.
Speaker 3: They cut by half the number of Medicare subsidized mental
Speaker 3: health appointments you can make from twenty to ten. And
Speaker 3: I was talking to a psychologists recently who said the number.
Speaker 2: Of people requiring.
Speaker 3: Psychology appointments since the pandemic just exploded. But the frustration,
Speaker 3: she said was you get just a few sessions with people,
Speaker 3: it's enough, she said, to put a band aid on it.
Speaker 2: But then you send them.
Speaker 3: Back out and you just know they're going to have
Speaker 3: ongoing problems, either with themselves or with other people.
Speaker 2: But that's it. There's no more funding, and they just
Speaker 2: move on to the next one. So it's frustration all.
Speaker 3: Around because it's much easier to do that are you
Speaker 3: okay day everyone feels good about themselves than to deal
Speaker 3: with the really hard pressing issues.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: And the other problem that I've heard from psychologists about
Speaker 6: the increased subsidies is the challenges It drains resources from
Speaker 6: the psychology and psychiatrist profession, but it's not necessarily going
Speaker 6: to the most vulnerable And the interesting point that was
Speaker 6: raised in this article is that when they were called
Speaker 6: asylum centers mental asylums, but really structured institutional care for
Speaker 6: people with severe mental illness.
Speaker 5: When those were disbanded in the nineties.
Speaker 6: Everyone promised that some new revolutionary model of integrated community
Speaker 6: care would happen. But it just hasn't, and so they've
Speaker 6: broken that promise and now the people who are most
Speaker 6: in need have been left with nothing.
Speaker 3: Indeed, let's go to the Middle East, where everybody is
Speaker 3: on tetorhooks.
Speaker 2: At the moment.
Speaker 3: The Israeli Defense Forces and her Masterol eagerly waiting the
Speaker 3: outcome of tonight's Northern Beaches Council meeting, where our councilors
Speaker 3: here in Sydney will debate whether or not they should
Speaker 3: call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The motion been moved
Speaker 3: by a Greens counselor you're not surprised at all by that,
Speaker 3: are you, Ethan Henjik, who is just twenty one years old.
Speaker 3: So I'm not sure Cayleb whether this is because he's
Speaker 3: twenty one or because he's a Green. Maybe you put
Speaker 3: those two things together and you get ridiculous motions or
Speaker 3: he's a bit thick, or it could be that a
Speaker 3: combination of all three no doubts. So this Greens Council
Speaker 3: at twenty one years old, as I said, he's having
Speaker 3: the Northern Beaches Council debate tonight to call for a ceasefire,
Speaker 3: to boycott Israel companies and get this to formally commend
Speaker 3: activists aligned with the anti Israel movement.
Speaker 2: Now, he says, this vote is very important.
Speaker 3: Because there's one other thing on the agenda tonight in
Speaker 3: the Northern Beaches Council, and that's a twenty five percent
Speaker 3: rate rise. Now those two things are connected. I'll let
Speaker 3: the Greens councilor explain. In his own words, he says,
Speaker 3: considering we may be asking residents for an increase in rates,
Speaker 3: this meeting is the perfect time to put our community
Speaker 3: at ease. That counts is not complicit what in this
Speaker 3: complex international issue. Because of course, if you're living on
Speaker 3: the Northern Beaches of Sydney, you don't want.
Speaker 2: To copp a twenty five percent rate rise.
Speaker 3: But if you know that your council members are calling
Speaker 3: for a ceasefire in gas, I tell you it helps
Speaker 3: you deal with that twenty five percent rise. Far more
Speaker 3: easily caleber. Everybody knows this to be the case.
Speaker 4: I'm gone, I'd take a twenty five percent increase in
Speaker 4: my council rates any day to know that my council
Speaker 4: really cares about geopolitics. I mean, how dumbed do you
Speaker 4: have to be? And by the way, how slow do
Speaker 4: you have to be? How slow are they in the
Speaker 4: Northern Beaches. I think we're up to twenty twenty months
Speaker 4: since since the war started October twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 4: now we get.
Speaker 1: A motion at the council to talk about it. Please
Speaker 1: stick to your knitting. This is none of your business.
Speaker 4: Roads rates rubbish, like I know why they do it
Speaker 4: because councils populated and you can you know, he's twenty one,
Speaker 4: he's a member of the Greens, so clearly he has
Speaker 4: political ambition and he can't quite hack the fact that
Speaker 4: in order to work up to where he wants to get,
Speaker 4: which is state or federal politics, is to do his
Speaker 4: dues in local.
Speaker 1: Government for a while.
Speaker 4: He's really care about the issues of local government. He's
Speaker 4: just doing it so that when he goes for pre
Speaker 4: selection one day, it'll look good on the piece when
Speaker 4: he gives it to the members to say, pre select me.
Speaker 4: He doesn't actually care about the roads or the rape
Speaker 4: or the rubbish. He cares about other stuff, So he's
Speaker 4: trying to insert his pet politics into the council.
Speaker 3: Go away, say if the Liberal Party cared enough about
Speaker 3: the people of the Northern Beaches, they would have got
Speaker 3: their nominations on time and we probably wouldn't have this
Speaker 3: Greens guy whose previous work experience.
Speaker 2: According to other council members.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if this is in jest or if
Speaker 3: it's true, but Vincent de Lusa, an independent councilor there
Speaker 3: with the Green, said this immature twenty one year old
Speaker 3: whose highest experience is working at conducting fried chicken, and
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with using the Northern Beaches Council to climb
Speaker 3: the Green.
Speaker 5: Political No, but you will laugh at this motion.
Speaker 6: And while I'm not one for pro Palestine motions, especially
Speaker 6: ones that don't mention Hamas or bringing the hostages home,
Speaker 6: I will say there is one aspect of this that
Speaker 6: I particularly like, and that's where he says the Northern
Speaker 6: Beaches Council needs to offer targeted support to Palestinian refugees
Speaker 6: on the beaches. One I would like to know how
Speaker 6: many Palestinian refugees are there on the beaches and if
Speaker 6: there are none, could we take this as an offer
Speaker 6: to host the three thousand gardens who've just been granted
Speaker 6: tourist visas, because I think the Northern Beaches would.
Speaker 5: Be a perfect place to put them.
Speaker 6: And if after receiving three thousand gardens, the Northern Beaches
Speaker 6: still wants to vote in the Greens councilor I will
Speaker 6: be very shocked.
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you, if you think the Northern Beaches
Speaker 3: Council is bad, it could be worse. You could be
Speaker 3: living in Melbourne, where the Merybeck Council has just realized
Speaker 3: twelve years after the fact they overcharged two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty eight thousand motorists by twelve million dollars on parking fines. Now,
Speaker 3: I think the reason why it's taken them so long
Speaker 3: to realize they've overcharged locals twelve million dollars for parking
Speaker 3: fines is they were otherwise occupied occupied on things like well,
Speaker 3: they changed the name of their council area. They changed
Speaker 3: it from Morland to Mirriback. Spent half a million dollars
Speaker 3: doing that because Morland was associated with a Jamaican slave trader.
Speaker 3: Back in April, they spent forty five thousand dollars on
Speaker 3: Pride crossings. They in twenty twenty three came up with
Speaker 3: an eleven point resolution on the conflict in Gaza, so
Speaker 3: little wonder it's taken them so long to realize. Back
Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen, they overcharged residents by twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3: They've promised to repay the money, but get this calib
Speaker 3: it's an opt in refund system. So rather than them
Speaker 3: going to residents who have been over charged, they are
Speaker 3: waiting to see residents come to them, what twelve years
Speaker 3: after the event, for a refund on the money that
Speaker 3: they were not supposed to have paid.
Speaker 4: This is a scam and mary Beck, by the way,
Speaker 4: is not a real term when they came up with that.
Speaker 4: I was at the Herald Soun in Melbourne at the
Speaker 4: time and one local Indigenous elder said that he'd scoured
Speaker 4: through the local language and he could not find the
Speaker 4: word beck anywhere, that the closest translation was probably actually
Speaker 4: big bb ik, and that the word they come up with,
Speaker 4: mary Beck, which Brent me rocky country, is not.
Speaker 1: Grammatically correct in the language. So there you go.
Speaker 4: They did a great job when they went out to
Speaker 4: be culturally sensitive.
Speaker 1: But this is a scam.
Speaker 4: The idea that a council or any level of government
Speaker 4: for that matter, can find you more than they are
Speaker 4: allowed to and they think it was about fifty dollars
Speaker 4: per fine above what they should have been charging for
Speaker 4: twelve years, twelve odd.
Speaker 1: Million dollars more than they we're allowed to ask for.
Speaker 4: And then they say it's all good because we've set
Speaker 4: up a bit on our website where you can go
Speaker 4: and apply to get.
Speaker 1: Your money back.
Speaker 4: I mean they should be compelled by law to give
Speaker 4: this money back to people. How can you take more
Speaker 4: money from people than they owe to you and then
Speaker 4: say well, you've got twelve months to claim it back.
Speaker 1: That's theft and.
Speaker 5: No one's going to do it.
Speaker 6: Who on earth is monitoring the council website in Merrieback
Speaker 6: and will happen to assemble across the fact that, oh,
Speaker 6: maybe that one time I was fined a decade ago,
Speaker 6: I may have been overcharged.
Speaker 5: Let me just apply and with that receipt.
Speaker 2: But it gets worse than that.
Speaker 3: Let's imagine they do pay back the twelve million, right,
Speaker 3: what council these days, has got twelve million dollars down
Speaker 3: the back of the couch. Where will they get the
Speaker 3: money from?
Speaker 2: Caleb? I reckon they'll probably add a little bit more to.
Speaker 1: The rates, you know what.
Speaker 4: They should be banned from doing so they should have
Speaker 4: to pay for this quite literally in all the money,
Speaker 4: and then have to deal with the fact that they
Speaker 4: don't have the money to make up for him and parsulably,
Speaker 4: they've already spent that twelve million dollars, So good luck
Speaker 4: to them. If you didn't overcharge people, you wouldn't have
Speaker 4: a problem. Speaking of overcharging overseas in Europe, they're going
Speaker 4: tropo at the moment about all the tourists who are
Speaker 4: coming over. Of course, it's summer in Europe now and
Speaker 4: tourists are flocking there to soak up some of the
Speaker 4: warm weather. Made de Mands just done two weeks in
Speaker 4: Morocco and then arrived in Spain the other day, and
Speaker 4: he's thoroughly enjoying that.
Speaker 1: Spoke to him.
Speaker 4: I think it was last night at about ten am
Speaker 4: local time. It was already over thirty degrees. He was
Speaker 4: about to jump into pool, which sounded quite pleasant. As
Speaker 4: I was driving into work here in Chile, Sydney, but
Speaker 4: they're angry. Would you believe you can see it on
Speaker 4: the screen here with all these tourists. They've been protesting
Speaker 4: in Spain, in Barcelona, They've been protesting over in Milan,
Speaker 4: in Venice, Lisbon, Naples, on and on it goes because
Speaker 4: there are too many tourists, the locals say.
Speaker 1: They say they've been over by.
Speaker 4: Tourists and everything is now far too expensive. They can't
Speaker 4: afford coffee, apparently, they can't afford to go out to eat,
Speaker 4: they can't afford to buy an alcoholic drink because of
Speaker 4: course they're jacking up all the prices in the restaurants
Speaker 4: and the cafes to cater to the cashed up tourists
Speaker 4: have come in with all their money from the UK
Speaker 4: and Australia, etc. And I can kind of understand bother
Speaker 4: they were shooting tourists with water pistols, which is actually
Speaker 4: quite funny. I can kind of understand where they're coming from,
Speaker 4: because I get it. If you're a local and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden you're essentially priced out of your own
Speaker 4: city because the city is now overrun with tourists who
Speaker 4: are awash with money, you would go well, what the
Speaker 4: hell this is my town.
Speaker 1: I've lived here my whole life. I should be able
Speaker 1: to afford to live here.
Speaker 4: And Barcelona had twenty six million tourists last year. It's
Speaker 4: a city of one point six million people, so that
Speaker 4: these are sizeable numbers of people. But are they not
Speaker 4: biting the hand it feeds them to some degree? Because
Speaker 4: to tourism is huge business for Europe. So you can say, look,
Speaker 4: it's become too expensive to live here, and I don't
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: But if you took the.
Speaker 4: Tourists away, what underpins the economy, particularly this time of
Speaker 4: year for these countries, they'd find themselves in recession, would
Speaker 4: they not?
Speaker 5: Exactly?
Speaker 6: And in those Mediterranean states where they were protesting Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Speaker 6: tourism makes up to twenty percent of their GDP twenty percent,
Speaker 6: millions and millions of jobs. If tourism was taken away,
Speaker 6: if those cashed up Aussies and Brits didn't get to
Speaker 6: go to Spain, then they would also suffer. So, yes,
Speaker 6: things are more expensive, but you're also making more money.
Speaker 6: And tourism is also critical for Europe because they have
Speaker 6: barely any innovation. Their productivity is lagging they're extremely overregulated.
Speaker 6: It's hard to do business in any other sector other
Speaker 6: than tourism and agriculture and a lot of these Mediterranean countries.
Speaker 6: So if they don't have that, what else do they have?
Speaker 6: Do these protesters want to get out onto the farm?
Speaker 5: I doubt it.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of sympathy for these guys.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the stats, right, So Barcelona one point six
Speaker 3: million people living there, twenty six million tourists a year.
Speaker 3: Santorini fifteen thousand people living there, three point four million
Speaker 3: tourists a year, Lisbon half a million people living there,
Speaker 3: six million tourists a year, compared to Sydney five and
Speaker 3: a half million people living here three point five million
Speaker 3: tourists a year.
Speaker 2: So I can understand why they'd be upset.
Speaker 3: So they're trying to take some measures to counter this, right,
Speaker 3: So they're not anti tourists, they're just anti mass tourism
Speaker 3: that is unregulated and unchecked. In Venice, they've introduced a
Speaker 3: tourism tax to try and mitigate some of the lifestyle
Speaker 3: factors that are impacted by huge numbers of people in Barcelona,
Speaker 3: that put regulations on airbnbs to try and mitigate the
Speaker 3: housing crisis caused by mass tourism. I like in Santorini,
Speaker 3: they've actually regulated who can and can't ride on donkeys
Speaker 3: because they had so many people arriving and needing to
Speaker 3: go up the hill on donkeys. There were complaints from
Speaker 3: locals that donkeys' spinal injuries were through the roof, and.
Speaker 2: So now it's actually a regulation.
Speaker 3: Tourists who weigh one hundred killing rounds are not allowed
Speaker 3: to ride on donkeys.
Speaker 1: No Yanks allowed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're put in sub mitigating strategy. But I understand,
Speaker 2: and the villain here is not the tourists.
Speaker 3: The villain is the socialist governments who have stripped manufacturing,
Speaker 3: gotten rid of all the jobs. They've created a massive
Speaker 3: welfare state and the only way to pay for it
Speaker 3: now is to show off the ruins of their culture.
Speaker 2: What about modern day now? What's happening now?
Speaker 3: The villain is the socialist governments who've left these people
Speaker 3: with not much option now to make abut them to
Speaker 3: wait tables.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly right, And in that respect, I do feel
Speaker 5: bad for them.
Speaker 6: Their city has basically become a theme park rather.
Speaker 2: Than while they're mad it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, here's another interesting story also coming out of Europe.
Speaker 6: Could sunlight become the next whapon and in global warfare? Well,
Speaker 6: A leaked memos headed for Downing Street thinks it may.
Speaker 6: Technology is designed to combat global warming, mainly where you
Speaker 6: reflect sunlight back.
Speaker 5: Into the atmosphere could potentially.
Speaker 6: Be used by hostile powers in a form of geo
Speaker 6: re engineering to disrupt climate crops and cause mass catastrophic
Speaker 6: weather events. Essentially, it sounds pretty dire, but the UK
Speaker 6: government is taking this so seriously that they're spending about
Speaker 6: fifty seven million pounds on a research study into the
Speaker 6: potential for geore engineering through sunlight by hostile foreign powers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 3: Want to do soular geoengineering, but we're worried that others
Speaker 3: might do it, so we're going to research and learn
Speaker 3: how to do.
Speaker 2: It ourselves, just so we know what our enemies might
Speaker 2: get up to. But this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Really, Russia is going to destroy the UK by producing
Speaker 3: an actual summer.
Speaker 2: That's their strategy. And what will the UK do if
Speaker 2: Russia are successful.
Speaker 3: They'll issue everyone with hats, so it'll be like the
Speaker 3: Iron Dome for people in Britain.
Speaker 2: They'll get a hat and they'll be fine.
Speaker 3: To attack the UK with sun, you have to have
Speaker 3: somen in the first instance.
Speaker 2: Even Doctor Evil wouldn't go with a plan this stupid.
Speaker 4: No, you'd attack the UK or any other part of
Speaker 4: the world by making it rain all the time, because
Speaker 4: you can destroy the crops by doing that.
Speaker 2: It's already raining in the UK all the time.
Speaker 4: I know. Well, they actually over the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: they've had significant rainfall in the UK, to the point
Speaker 4: where it's like been the worst farming conditions that they've
Speaker 4: experienced in a century. Farmers saying we just can't do
Speaker 4: this anymore because we can't plant anything, we can't pull
Speaker 4: crops out of the ground, nothing is growing properly. So
Speaker 4: they've had serious problems in the last few years. So
Speaker 4: my worry would not be so much that they were
Speaker 4: going to allow you to have sun, because it would
Speaker 4: be rather pleasant. But if you can find a way
Speaker 4: to manipulate the weather to cause lots and lots and
Speaker 4: lots and lots of rainfall, you can harm food security
Speaker 4: quite significantly. If you cut off the supply of foods
Speaker 4: from other parts of the world and then make it
Speaker 4: rain three hundred and sixty five days a year in
Speaker 4: the United Kingdom, they won't be able to sow seeds
Speaker 4: in the ground, and they won't be able to go
Speaker 4: they do this, that's what they want to do.
Speaker 3: I think you'd see the Russian plane flying across London,
Speaker 3: you know, spraying aerosol into the atmosphere, or well, seedy cloud.
Speaker 4: Who knows what technology we might have in ten, twenty, thirty,
Speaker 4: forty fifty years time. I just want to say though,
Speaker 4: I mean, the idea of weather modification we were told
Speaker 4: was a conseriracy theory, right, it must be, you know,
Speaker 4: column A for the conspiracy theorists one hundred, column B
Speaker 4: for the people who say it's all.
Speaker 1: Conspiracy theory zero at this point.
Speaker 4: Because every time there's a conspiracy theory like weather.
Speaker 1: Modification, it seems to come true.
Speaker 2: It's true. Let's go to Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Now, we're never glad about a business going out of business.
Speaker 2: That's never a good thing.
Speaker 3: But there has been a bakery in Melbourne that's just
Speaker 3: shut their doors and it's a rather curious. The bakery
Speaker 3: is called All Are Welcome. There's three locations around Melbourne.
Speaker 3: This bakery came to our attention in the first instance
Speaker 3: because they used to advertise that they would be open
Speaker 3: on Australia Days. That they never called it Australia Day.
Speaker 3: They advertised will be open on Invasion Day, and they
Speaker 3: would put a little note on their Instagram adding sovereignty
Speaker 3: never seeded.
Speaker 2: So this bakery was very.
Speaker 3: Keen to be seen to be on the right side
Speaker 3: of these sort of progressive issues. Well, now, sadly they've
Speaker 3: gone out of business. But what's interesting is they've left
Speaker 3: their approximately sixty staff almost four hundred thousand dollars out
Speaker 3: of pocket. According to a report by the ABC, this
Speaker 3: very woke bakery owes two hundred and forty three thousand
Speaker 3: dollars in superannuation payments and about one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars in leave entitlements to their staff. So
Speaker 3: again not rejoicing they've gone out of business, Freyer, But
Speaker 3: it's a little interesting when you're signaling how virtual you
Speaker 3: are in terms of what happened in this country two
Speaker 3: hundred years ago, but can't pay your staff the superannuation
Speaker 3: they're owed today.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit hypocritical.
Speaker 5: Well, it was definitely all a marketing ploy.
Speaker 6: If you look on their Instagram where that graphic was posted,
Speaker 6: that had over three hundred likes, whereas their typical post
Speaker 6: only has one to two hundred. So clearly the people
Speaker 6: of Inner Melbourne love that stuff and so the progressive
Speaker 6: issues they drive business, whether or not they're actually committed
Speaker 6: to being virtuous in their own management of the business.
Speaker 3: WHI seems like people like the Instagram posts. They just
Speaker 3: didn't go there and buy the product, otherwise that you'll
Speaker 3: be in business.
Speaker 4: I guess it's the old case of go work, go broke,
Speaker 4: isn't it.
Speaker 1: But my advice would.
Speaker 4: Be, if you want to signal your virtue, perhaps make
Speaker 4: sure you have some virtue in the first place.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, we look at what's making headlines tomorrow,
Speaker 3: including Anthony Albanesi under real pressure now to increase our
Speaker 3: defense spending after he missed that meeting with Donald Trump
Speaker 3: at the G seven.
Speaker 2: That and more in just a moment, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Let's take a look at what's making headlines tomorrow, and
Speaker 3: of course, Freyer, most of the papers are talking about
Speaker 3: that G seven meeting and Anthony Albanese's missed schedule with
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: It's pretty huge.
Speaker 6: The headline in the Australian says rock Starmer locks in
Speaker 6: subs as PM MISSUS gig Anthony Albanezi will face extreme
Speaker 6: pressure to ramp up Australia's defense spending following Donald Trump's
Speaker 6: decision to cancel their long awaited meeting in Canada shortly
Speaker 6: after delivering British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tariff exemptions and
Speaker 6: assurances on the future of the three hundred and sixty
Speaker 6: eight billion dollar or Casteele on the last day of
Speaker 6: his one week overseas trip. Geared around his first in
Speaker 6: person meeting with the US President, The Prime Minister was
Speaker 6: blindsided when the White House revealed mister Trump would leave
Speaker 6: the G seven summit too early to deal with the escalating.
Speaker 5: Israel Iran war.
Speaker 6: Now can't blame Trump for leaving early to deal with
Speaker 6: what could potentially turn into a global conflict, but it
Speaker 6: does underscore how low on the list of priorities for
Speaker 6: the US we in Australia are like. The meeting initially
Speaker 6: was only supposed to be twenty minutes, which is pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 6: In the first place, it was at the back of
Speaker 6: the agenda. Now we're not even getting that well.
Speaker 3: Anthony Albanizi has been reduced to trying to pick up
Speaker 3: clues from Kios Starmer's meeting with Trump as to what's
Speaker 3: going to happen with Australia. Keir Starmer says that Orcus
Speaker 3: is going to be okay, So Albanezi is taking that
Speaker 3: as a hint that Trump believes that's where our relationship
Speaker 3: with the US is at.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Penny Wong defended the Prime Minister as you would expect
Speaker 3: her to do, saying, well, you know, the fact he's
Speaker 3: missed this meeting is not a big deal. Trump missed
Speaker 3: meetings with other world leaders. But Anthony Albanzi has had
Speaker 3: three quote constructive phone calls with the US present. Well,
Speaker 3: if they were that constructive, why do we still not
Speaker 3: have anyemption on tariffs? Why are we're still not sure
Speaker 3: on the orcst submarine deal.
Speaker 2: They're the issues.
Speaker 3: We don't know what's happening, So they can't have been
Speaker 3: that constructive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also, you know, while I acknowledge, I understand
Speaker 4: why Trump left, and he didn't have to like get
Speaker 4: up from his dinner seat and.
Speaker 1: Bugger off back to the United States straight away.
Speaker 4: It did he could have you know, organized twenty minutes
Speaker 4: with Albanzi on the way out, but that clearly was
Speaker 4: not at the.
Speaker 1: Top of his mind.
Speaker 4: And we should also note as well that Albanze has
Speaker 4: gone to the G seven, of which we are not
Speaker 4: a member, to be on the sidelines, so he can
Speaker 4: have twenty minutes with Trump. He's not gone to the
Speaker 4: White House like basically everyone else had. I mean even
Speaker 4: Cyril Ramaposa went to the White House for heaven's sake,
Speaker 4: and Albanesi has gone then now, of course.
Speaker 1: He's still in the region.
Speaker 4: Albaniese is in Canada at the moment, so he should
Speaker 4: be getting on the phone or his people should be
Speaker 4: getting on the phone to organize a meeting at the
Speaker 4: White House in the next few days if possible.
Speaker 1: And if we can't pull that off, we should be
Speaker 1: asking why not.
Speaker 3: If we had a decent relationship with our major Ally,
Speaker 3: Trump could have said, hey, it's a what three hour flight,
Speaker 3: jump on Air Force one, come for Arrival'll have a
Speaker 3: chat on the way and then I'll be off in
Speaker 3: my office dealing with things.
Speaker 6: Part of me does think this is a negotiating tactic
Speaker 6: by Trump string Albanesi along to increase the pressure in
Speaker 6: Australia to actually.
Speaker 5: Come to the table and defense spending, so we'll see.
Speaker 6: I don't think Trump will even consider meeting with him
Speaker 6: unless he actually changes the stance on lifting defense spending.
Speaker 3: Well, the next schedule is a UN meeting in September,
Speaker 3: So in vain, Anthony Alberizi is going to be pacing
Speaker 3: the corridors hoping for a chance meeting with the leader
Speaker 3: of the free world.
Speaker 6: It's embarrassing for Australia, but also in the Australian. On
Speaker 6: a similar note, Israel takes out Iran's military chief. Israel
Speaker 6: says it's killed Iran's top military commander as the nation's
Speaker 6: escalating war prompted Donald Trump to leave the g seventh
Speaker 6: Summon early, ordered a second carrier strike group to the
Speaker 6: Middle East and call for Tehran's evacuation. As Israel and
Speaker 6: Iran exchanged missile fire for a fifth consecutive day, there
Speaker 6: were growing fears the conflict could spiral out of control,
Speaker 6: with Tehran warning the US of unfathomable consequences if it
Speaker 6: joined the Jewish States attack. I mean, this is the
Speaker 6: difficult position Trump is in. Internally, within the MAGA movement,
Speaker 6: they're divided between the neocons, and the isolationists. But this
Speaker 6: really is the Western world's one chance to take out
Speaker 6: the head of the octopus of terror.
Speaker 5: If they don't do it now, when are they going
Speaker 5: to do it.
Speaker 3: They're upset right because Trump promised not to drag America
Speaker 3: back into a foreign war. I think this is very different.
Speaker 3: He's not talking about putting troops on the ground. He's
Speaker 3: talking about using some specialized bombs. They have to once
Speaker 3: and for all eliminate the nuclear threat that Iran boses,
Speaker 3: not only to Israel but also to the United States.
Speaker 3: I don't see why Mega people are upset about it.
Speaker 4: And I think we should be cleaned. Trump is not
Speaker 4: in isolations. There may be people in the Mega movement
Speaker 4: who are Trump is not an isolation think he's an
Speaker 4: anti interventionist. He doesn't want boots on the ground under
Speaker 4: any circumstances, and I think he's right from that perspective.
Speaker 4: But I think it was very interesting to see his
Speaker 4: post on Truth today, of course, saying evacuate Tehran now,
Speaker 4: and all the people who got in their cars and
Speaker 4: in the middle of the night drove out of Tehran
Speaker 4: at the mere thought that the US might do something
Speaker 4: over there, and.
Speaker 3: We should note Israel taking out the military leader of Iran.
Speaker 3: That's the second time they've done that in just five days.
Speaker 5: And that's the other thing.
Speaker 6: Just quickly on this note, the MAGA camp doesn't want
Speaker 6: to be dragged into an unwinnable war. But this is
Speaker 6: one of the longest wars Israel's ever been in. Normally
Speaker 6: there wars last around six days, so it's very different
Speaker 6: to going into Afghanistan or Iraq.
Speaker 2: Inde.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the front page of the Adelaide Advertiser.
Speaker 3: Ozempick use in kids skyrockets. The number of children injecting
Speaker 3: prescription drug ozempeck to manage diabetes has risen nine hundred
Speaker 3: percent in three years in South Australia, prompting alarmed gps
Speaker 3: to warn families to tackle diet before drugs. The startling
Speaker 3: jump in children as young as twelve being prescribed the
Speaker 3: anti diabetes JAB is revealed in data obtained by the Advertiser,
Speaker 3: showing an increase from eleven to one hundred and eleven
Speaker 3: over a three year period.
Speaker 2: That's where statistics get you.
Speaker 3: A little bit, isn't it that you read You think nine
Speaker 3: hundred percent, Well, it's gone from eleven to one hundred
Speaker 3: and eleven. Doctors, to be fair, are still worried.
Speaker 2: I'm just not sure.
Speaker 3: Is the worry that so many more children have been
Speaker 3: diagnosed with diabetes or is the worry that they're being
Speaker 3: prescribed as particular drug rather than being put on a
Speaker 3: diet to try and alleviate some of the It's probably both.
Speaker 4: Because the story goes on to say that, you know,
Speaker 4: there's concerned that they're using other similar drugs, including off label,
Speaker 4: which means they're not being used for diabeteses there being
Speaker 4: used for weight loss, and so you know, the numbers
Speaker 4: might have jumped from eleven to one hundred and eleven in.
Speaker 1: A few years.
Speaker 4: But you look at the use of a zempic now
Speaker 4: across adults, I mean it has increased exponentially in the
Speaker 4: last twelve months, and these are the numbers from twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, So you would just expect that these would
Speaker 4: keep increasing, increasing, increasing. If you're starting kids on a
Speaker 4: zim pick now, if you want to maintain that weight
Speaker 4: loss forever, you've basically got to stay on a zimpic
Speaker 4: for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Is that really the merry ground we want to put
Speaker 1: kids on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: But trying to get kids to stick to a diet
Speaker 6: as well would be virtually impossible, so maybe this is
Speaker 6: the best option.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that's a bit of parenting.
Speaker 4: I think let's go to the Cans Post where it
Speaker 4: says a common user facility in Dowd ahead of budget
Speaker 4: off the cuff, the Far North will miss the boat
Speaker 4: on major defense contracts and thousands of new jobs if
Speaker 4: the state government fails to commit to building critical marine
Speaker 4: infrastructure in the region. The Member for Cans Michael Healey
Speaker 4: in set says, I think it's the inset really that.
Speaker 1: Is the point of this story.
Speaker 4: I mean, they haven't just put this photo on the
Speaker 4: front page of the Cans Post for nothing, because you
Speaker 4: can see Michael Learly there has rocked up to a
Speaker 4: pressa in his shorts.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I know it gets pretty warm up per in Cans,
Speaker 4: but we're in winter at the moment, and you know,
Speaker 4: you sort of get to mid sometimes high twenties up
Speaker 4: in Queensland at this time of year.
Speaker 1: It's a bit rich to be rocking up in your
Speaker 1: bodies to a press conference, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I think he's expecting to do a radio interview, not
Speaker 3: a television interview, and the podium is standing behind did
Speaker 3: not provide anywhere near as much cover caliber as this
Speaker 3: desk provided.
Speaker 2: Exactly the sorts you wear on the show.
Speaker 4: Hey, what are you talking about? I've got Chino's on
Speaker 4: under ear, Thank.
Speaker 2: You very much.
Speaker 6: He clearly just thought he was still working from home.
Speaker 6: He had the business up top, party down the bottom.
Speaker 6: But just finally, in the Canbra Times, Summer NATS is
Speaker 6: too noisy. Noisy events at Summer NAT's, the annual car
Speaker 6: event that attracts more than one hundred thousand people to Canberra,
Speaker 6: cannot practicably comply with im post sound limits, an independent
Speaker 6: assessment has found. I mean, perhaps the solution is they
Speaker 6: all just jump in their Chinese electric vehicle and whoosh
Speaker 6: around a memory silence.
Speaker 2: That will be a very unpopular event.
Speaker 4: But could you get any more Canberra than overpaid public
Speaker 4: servants complaining about people coming along to enjoy themselves at Samminets.
Speaker 1: It's Australia, goddamn it.
Speaker 4: Let us enjoy our noisy cars for as long as
Speaker 4: they continue to exist.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're going to go to a break when we
Speaker 3: come back. Hollywood, A just no, not a bit. Pamela
Speaker 3: Anderson is in a brand new movie. We'll show you
Speaker 3: a clip in just a moment. Politicians are usually very
Speaker 3: careful to appear polished and in control, but I want
Speaker 3: to show you something that happened at the G seven
Speaker 3: meeting when Trump signed a trade deal with Kirstarma from
Speaker 3: the UK.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Trump's best moment. He said he'd signed a
Speaker 2: trade deal with the EU.
Speaker 3: Of course it's the UK and the UK are part
Speaker 3: of the EU. And then to make matters worse, Trump
Speaker 3: um the freshly signed agreement all over the ground. But
Speaker 3: worse was for Kirs Starmer. You know how reluctant Western
Speaker 3: leaders are to be seen kow towing to the US president.
Speaker 6: We all know the great Prime Minister of the UK,
Speaker 6: and we just signed a document.
Speaker 3: This is about that.
Speaker 4: This is it very important document.
Speaker 1: A little.
Speaker 5: We just saying it and it's done, and so we
Speaker 5: have our trade agreement with the European Union.
Speaker 3: Well immediately images of that interaction went viral online from
Speaker 3: KOs Starmer's opponents, accusing him of bowing down to Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: kow towing to the US leader.
Speaker 2: And doing whatever Trump wanted.
Speaker 3: I suspect those images will haunt Kirs Starmer for quite
Speaker 3: some time, though kind he was just being polite.
Speaker 1: Well, that's right, he was just picking up the papers.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know he's a conscientious man, is sir
Speaker 4: Ki is starmer who doesn't want the world.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can blame him for that.
Speaker 4: While we're talking about Donald Trump, we know that he's
Speaker 4: a big businessman. But while he's president, he's handed it
Speaker 4: over to his sons, Don Junior and Eric to carry
Speaker 4: on the Trump business. And they see all sorts of
Speaker 4: stuff picking off the back of mister Trump. Of course
Speaker 4: watches all sorts of Now they're doing mobile phones, a
Speaker 4: gold mobile phone. No less, you will be able to
Speaker 4: buy the Donald Trump gold iPhone with the big T
Speaker 4: on the back. I'm sure they'll be flying off the shelves.
Speaker 4: They're also going to start a mobile phone service, Trump
Speaker 4: Mobile lo'ks like it was all predicted on Saturday Night
Speaker 4: Live ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Guys getting in on this. You used to call me
Speaker 1: on the cell phone, name call me on the cell phone.
Speaker 4: Now, look, you know, I like Donald Trump, but you
Speaker 4: have to be a bit tragic. Don't you to run
Speaker 4: out and buy a gold Trump iPhone.
Speaker 6: That's even if it is physically possible. To fully manufacture
Speaker 6: an iPhone in the US, which experts seem to say
Speaker 6: it's absolutely not.
Speaker 5: But never let reality.
Speaker 6: Get in the way of a good business idea, especially
Speaker 6: when you're a Trump. In other news, Hollywood Bombshell, Pamela
Speaker 6: Anderson is back on the big screen in the sequel
Speaker 6: to the Naked Gun series.
Speaker 5: Check out this trailer over here.
Speaker 2: The tenant, I think someone murdered my brother. Please take
Speaker 2: your share, thank you, I'll find them.
Speaker 4: This is tway too.
Speaker 2: So as you serve twenty years for man's laughter, you
Speaker 2: mean manslaughter must have been.
Speaker 6: Quite the joke, pretty good. So whoever says Hollywood is ages.
Speaker 6: She's in her late fifties and still going strong.
Speaker 3: Fifty seven years old, and why are you smiling?
Speaker 4: As you said earlier, she was about seven, so you
Speaker 4: know this was before the show. I'm just glad they're
Speaker 4: remaking The Naked Gun. I mean, you know, the days
Speaker 4: of Leslie Nielsen, etc. They were fabulous films. So it's
Speaker 4: good to see a proper comedy film coming back again.
Speaker 3: Indeed, that's all we've got time for tonight. Stick around
Speaker 3: coming up is to read a Pennty show.
Speaker 2: Good Night,