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Speaker 3: But we all know governments and banks are absolutely committed
Speaker 3: to eliminating cash. They're closing down bank branches, they're eliminating ATMs,
Speaker 3: and businesses are constantly pushing the convenience of using FPOs.
Speaker 2: You know, tap and go.
Speaker 3: But one Woollongong University student, well, he's pushing back against
Speaker 3: the cashlist society in a very unique court case. Oliver
Speaker 3: Griffiths is his name, and he's refusing to use f
Speaker 3: POSS to pay for on campus parking, instead offering to
Speaker 3: pay cash and offer that the university have repeatedly ignored.
Speaker 1: This is a.
Speaker 4: Note I leave in my car for parking inspectors to
Speaker 4: know that I'm happy to pay for my parking in cash.
Speaker 2: They never read it.
Speaker 4: What am I supposed to do? Cash allows me to
Speaker 4: be free economically and free individually. It allows me to
Speaker 4: have privacy. It's a moral stand against digital currency being
Speaker 4: forced on everybody. I think it's more convenient for people
Speaker 4: to pay for cash for parking. It's small change. We
Speaker 4: don't need a bulk bill our parking fees. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So he's left a note in his car saying happy
Speaker 3: to pay cash. Here's my contact details. The university ignored
Speaker 3: the note and instead issued him with a ninety seven
Speaker 3: dollar fine. Rather than pay the fine, he's going to court.
Speaker 3: Then he's going to argue I offered to pay in cash.
Speaker 3: If the university won't accept cash, which is legal tender,
Speaker 3: well then that's a problem for them, not for me.
Speaker 2: Freyer, does he have a good argument.
Speaker 5: Here, Well, according to the H Trible C businesses don't
Speaker 5: have to accept cash, but they need to tell customers
Speaker 5: that in advance. So you need to be informed that
Speaker 5: this is a cashless operation. Otherwise, if you give them cash,
Speaker 5: they have to accept and from twenty twenty six all
Speaker 5: businesses will have to accept cash for essential services. So
Speaker 5: really this will come down to the technicality over whether
Speaker 5: there was a disclosure statement on any of these parking
Speaker 5: signs that this was a cashless car park. If there wasn't,
Speaker 5: I don't know. I reckon Oliy's got to shut here.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 7: It's interesting because I feel like this guy, Oliver Griffiths,
Speaker 7: is like the queen essential Australian.
Speaker 1: He saw they in that video was really in that
Speaker 1: the parking parking lot there it looked like it had
Speaker 1: been rating.
Speaker 7: He was out there making a stand and I I
Speaker 7: really love it that he's been called now the cash King.
Speaker 1: I mean, what an absolute name.
Speaker 7: Look good on him, I say, because he does indeed
Speaker 7: raise a very good point. Now, I do also think
Speaker 7: that the majority of young people are not using cash,
Speaker 7: but I mean that's beside the point. What if they are.
Speaker 7: My only concern with this is is that he's been
Speaker 7: fined ninety seven dollars. He's now started to go fund
Speaker 7: me page. I think he's looking to raise about five
Speaker 7: thousand dollars. That is a very big jump between ninety
Speaker 7: seven dollars and five.
Speaker 1: Thousand dollars just to prove a point.
Speaker 7: But look, I applaud him for standing up for this
Speaker 7: because in the end he is right, He's not wrong.
Speaker 7: It is still a legal tender in this country cash,
Speaker 7: and I do think we forget about that because it's
Speaker 7: just so easy to tap and.
Speaker 1: Go these days. But it's an expensive exercise.
Speaker 7: But all the power to Oliver Griffin standing out there
Speaker 7: in the pouring rain trying to make his point.
Speaker 1: Good on it.
Speaker 3: Well, like you said, young people are pretty o fay
Speaker 3: with using f pass or whatever. So it's going to
Speaker 3: see a young person who stirred up about the need
Speaker 3: to keep cash in circulation. Imagine if he wins, though,
Speaker 3: what this would mean for carpucks. Do you remember the
Speaker 3: days when on toll roads or in car pucks had
Speaker 3: the big basket and used to throw your coins out
Speaker 3: the wind you're looking at.
Speaker 1: Remember viewers will remember a big.
Speaker 3: Sort of bucket you'd throw your coins in. Although these days,
Speaker 3: with inflation the way the Albanezy government is running the joint,
Speaker 3: you need a wheelbaar of coins being pulled out your
Speaker 3: window to pay for your parking.
Speaker 6: And I honestly think good on Ali.
Speaker 5: There are some real even though I must admit I
Speaker 5: don't remember the last time I had cash in my wallets.
Speaker 5: I'm an Apple pay person through and through, but there
Speaker 5: are some genuine uses for cash. Women fleeing domestic violence
Speaker 5: often you know you need cash conceal payments from an
Speaker 5: abusive partner potentially. Also, there are some genuine national security
Speaker 5: concerns here. Our Internet system is so fragile and we've
Speaker 5: seen around the world when you have blackouts. If your
Speaker 5: whole payment system is digital, it just stops your country,
Speaker 5: your economy, it all stops. So being able to use cash,
Speaker 5: I think is really important.
Speaker 3: And of course we should point out Ollie is a
Speaker 3: fourth year law student, so it's a good way to get.
Speaker 5: Some exerience exactly. But moving on now to Sydney University.
Speaker 5: Now you probably remember the horrendous encampments we saw at
Speaker 5: the university. I was a student there at the time
Speaker 5: and genuinely there were, as you can see, hundreds of
Speaker 5: students who were camped at the university four months. I
Speaker 5: think it lasted for up to two months, and you
Speaker 5: can see the images there. You couldn't walk around campus
Speaker 5: without being confronted by this. Alongside the tent encampments, there
Speaker 5: were weekly protests, which I think you will also be
Speaker 5: able to see on the screen exactly, and so it
Speaker 5: was a lot of chanting and it was very distressing
Speaker 5: for a lot of students. Now, there was a big
Speaker 5: concern at the time that non students were coming onto campus,
Speaker 5: and many people felt that the university was not taking
Speaker 5: appropriate action.
Speaker 6: It's now been revealed through a freedom.
Speaker 5: Of information request that the university was panicking naturally, and
Speaker 5: one of their proposed solutions was to segregate Jewish students
Speaker 5: for their own safety, because they wanted away from them
Speaker 5: to avoid avoid the encampments, and they couldn't see any
Speaker 5: other way other than to separate Jewish students for their
Speaker 5: own good. Now, I'm not criticizing the university for trying
Speaker 5: to protect Jewish students. I think that's exactly what they
Speaker 5: should have been doing. But the problem here is they're
Speaker 5: essentially saying your right to protest is going to trump
Speaker 5: the rights of Jewish students to be able to move
Speaker 5: freely and safely around campus, and I just do not
Speaker 5: think that's right.
Speaker 7: Sorry, Sorry, I was just going to say the way
Speaker 7: that these universities have failed Jewish students. I think never
Speaker 7: ceases to amaze me. And can you honestly, genuinely imagine
Speaker 7: a situation where you say, Okay, if you're Jewish, you
Speaker 7: get to go through that door. I mean, if you're
Speaker 7: going to do that, what if you're a black student,
Speaker 7: you go through the left door. If you're Caucasian you
Speaker 7: go through the right door. If you're Asian you can
Speaker 7: go through the back door. I mean, in what society,
Speaker 7: in what country do we segregate people based on race,
Speaker 7: the color of their skin, and their religion. I think
Speaker 7: this is absolutely disgusting by the University of City to
Speaker 7: even have considered it, given we saw some shocking moments
Speaker 7: on campus like this one, and this is in Australia,
Speaker 7: and this is what was going on in this country,
Speaker 7: and yet.
Speaker 1: The board thought that the only.
Speaker 7: Way to solve the problem was to segregate Jewish students.
Speaker 7: I mean, congratulations, if you're out there chanting anti Israel sentiment, James,
Speaker 7: it pays off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this Sidney University should be ashamed of themselves. They
Speaker 2: had two choices.
Speaker 3: We could shut down the racist encampment, or we could
Speaker 3: just create a special entrance for Jews. So the Jews
Speaker 3: can just go over there and come into the university
Speaker 3: that way, and that's the option they were tempted to
Speaker 3: go with. They certainly didn't shut down the encampment like Eupreu,
Speaker 3: and you saw a lot of that.
Speaker 2: I went along one.
Speaker 3: Day just to check it out, and I was shocked
Speaker 3: that the university would allow something like that on campus,
Speaker 3: with not only university students who should be expelled in
Speaker 3: my opinion, if you're going to carry on that way,
Speaker 3: but allowing people from off site to come on and
Speaker 3: create a situation where Jewish students were put in a
Speaker 3: position where the university actually contemplated giving them a special
Speaker 3: Jews only entrance to keep them safe. And I think
Speaker 3: you're being a little kind to the university by saying, well,
Speaker 3: they were trying to help Jewish students. If that's the
Speaker 3: best they could do, it doesn't say much for the
Speaker 3: regard in which they hold Jewish students.
Speaker 5: And the other thing is the riot police. This came
Speaker 5: out in a Senate inquiry. The riot police offered to
Speaker 5: come onto campus to remove the protesters, but the vice
Speaker 5: chancellor refused them access to the university. He said, we
Speaker 5: don't need you here because he wanted to de escalate
Speaker 5: the situation and he didn't want to risk violence. So
Speaker 5: it's like, Okay, you've got violent people on the campus.
Speaker 5: The police are offering to come in. No, no, no,
Speaker 5: we wouldn't possibly want to make the protesters, the people
Speaker 5: who are breaking the rules upset, so let's just leave
Speaker 5: it and move Jewish students away.
Speaker 6: It's completely ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Look at it from a parent point of view, right,
Speaker 3: So you spend seventeen eighteen years raising your kids, and
Speaker 3: the kids are the apple of your eye, and you're
Speaker 3: trying to teach them to be good people and to
Speaker 3: have good character, and then you send them to university.
Speaker 3: Are you more likely to send them to a university
Speaker 3: where they allow something like those encampments to go on
Speaker 3: month after month, or are you more likely to send
Speaker 3: them to a university where they say, you know what,
Speaker 3: we're not tolerating this. Bring the right police in. You
Speaker 3: have one ugly scene, but it's all dealt with. I'd
Speaker 3: send my kids to a university that say we're not
Speaker 3: going to stand for this.
Speaker 2: We'll deal with absolutely.
Speaker 7: And you know, it's so bothersome that the argument from
Speaker 7: the universities was always well, we don't want to infringe
Speaker 7: on free speech.
Speaker 1: There's a very different, big difference.
Speaker 7: Between infringing on free speech and actually when it becomes
Speaker 7: dangerous when Jewish students.
Speaker 1: Are going there to learn.
Speaker 7: It is their freedom, it is their right as Australians
Speaker 7: to go to these universities to learn and they should
Speaker 7: be able to do that without feeling like their lives
Speaker 7: are at risk or feeling completely unsafe. So that there's
Speaker 7: a very very big difference in the way that the
Speaker 7: universities have handled themselves has been absolutely appalling. But look,
Speaker 7: let's move on because I've got to ask the question,
Speaker 7: can nobody have fun or have a laugh these days
Speaker 7: without the perpetually outraged, always simply being outrage. Now this
Speaker 7: all centers around a story with Brisbane Broncostarrhyese Walsh. Now
Speaker 7: he is currently being investigated by the club after putting
Speaker 7: out a video on social media on his TikTok account.
Speaker 1: He was with his mates.
Speaker 7: They were having a bit of a fun and we
Speaker 7: were talking two mates getting together having a laugh doing.
Speaker 1: Whatever boys do.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I've got no idea what that is,
Speaker 7: but the point is they were mucking around.
Speaker 1: This is what he uploaded. Have a look at this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, two.
Speaker 1: Mates having a laugh.
Speaker 7: Punches is made in the face up, can we just
Speaker 7: put a disclaimer? Wearing a glove for goodness sake? And
Speaker 7: the guy on the floor, it didn't look like he
Speaker 7: was injured. Again, this was two mates having a laugh.
Speaker 7: But the problem that I have with this is the
Speaker 7: questioning from the media on this issue. Today Reese faced
Speaker 7: the media and this is what he said.
Speaker 1: Have a look in his defense, just having a laugh
Speaker 1: with my mate.
Speaker 8: Obviously, you know we don't support violence and stuff like that.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it's not a good good look for you know,
Speaker 8: myself and that or haven't trying to have.
Speaker 7: A laugh and okay, trying to have a laugh. But
Speaker 7: this line violence, why was violence brought up? In my opinion,
Speaker 7: that was the line that the Broncos probably said. If
Speaker 7: you get asked from the media a question about this,
Speaker 7: just say you do not condone violence, and push on
Speaker 7: that and push on that. It's got nothing to do
Speaker 7: with violence. It happened in a private residence. It's toommates
Speaker 7: consenting to having fun. And yet apparently Reese Walsh was
Speaker 7: forced to talk about how he's working to be a
Speaker 7: better person.
Speaker 8: Oh, we're working really hard here to you know, obviously
Speaker 8: be the best versions of ourselves and be the best
Speaker 8: footy player. So you know we're working extremely hard. We're
Speaker 8: behind Madge, supporting him and you know, really excited for
Speaker 8: the journey. These are these times when it's tough, a
Speaker 8: sort of the ones that you know, bring the people
Speaker 8: out and see what we're really made.
Speaker 7: On me, I'm so baffled as to why he's apologizing
Speaker 7: for this.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Now, the footy club this afternoon actually concluded their investigation
Speaker 7: and they say that he will now need to make
Speaker 7: a donation to the black Dog Institute and not for
Speaker 7: profit mental health research organization.
Speaker 1: For his actions, and he's also not.
Speaker 7: Going to be facing any further discipline reaction. Look what blokes,
Speaker 7: I mean, James, what blokes haven't mucked around? I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't know if you've ever punched a mate in
Speaker 7: the face like that, but you know, I just my
Speaker 7: only criticism would be, maybe don't post it on social media,
Speaker 7: maybe have a think, keep it between your mates.
Speaker 2: But seriously, come on, did he get you've met my
Speaker 2: twin boys? I have so Christmas a year ago.
Speaker 3: We're enjoying Christmas afternoon and they got out some boxing
Speaker 3: gloves and decided to do kickboxing. So I didn punch
Speaker 3: each other, but kick each other, and I filmed that.
Speaker 3: Actually I didn't upload it, so I didn't get in trouble.
Speaker 3: Boys are being boys. But the biggest insult is not
Speaker 3: to the footballer. The biggest insult is to you and
Speaker 3: I the public. As if somehow the Broncos or the
Speaker 3: Karens in NRL headquarters think that we don't understand the
Speaker 3: difference between boys mucking around and doing what boys do.
Speaker 3: And you might not like it, and you might think
Speaker 3: it was inappropriate, but that's the sort of thing that
Speaker 3: boys do when they get together. But we know the
Speaker 3: difference between that and violence. So to have him come
Speaker 3: and stand before the media and say I don't condone violence.
Speaker 2: Should we have every.
Speaker 3: Father who play fights with his kids come out and
Speaker 3: say I don't condone violence. It's insulting to us. Beyond that,
Speaker 3: boys will be boys. NRL players are chosen not because
Speaker 3: they sit around eating SCons and drinking cups of tea.
Speaker 2: NRL players they're chosen.
Speaker 3: Because they run flat out at each other, into each other,
Speaker 3: risking life and limb. So when they're not playing football,
Speaker 3: they're the sort of guys so who do punch each
Speaker 3: other in the face for fun. That's the kind of
Speaker 3: people they are. And you speak about mental health, consider
Speaker 3: the mental health of a twenty two year old kid
Speaker 3: who's dragged before the media, shamed before the media totally
Speaker 3: has to say that he doesn't condone violence.
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to thoughts about his mental health.
Speaker 3: He's a kid who just happens to be good at football,
Speaker 3: that's his skill. But then we expect him to be
Speaker 3: this otherworldly person who's not like a normal twenty two
Speaker 3: year old. I mean the damage it does for him.
Speaker 3: And finally, Dinika.
Speaker 2: Before a throat to you, Franks, I can see you're
Speaker 2: itching to.
Speaker 3: Get Can we please just take a joke these days,
Speaker 3: to have some fun.
Speaker 5: Well, it's almost like the journalists creating this whole beat
Speaker 5: up have never watched a game of NRL in their lives.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: That is far more violent, far more aggressive, far more
Speaker 5: dangerous than this silly little dare with a glove on
Speaker 5: with the whole group of friends laughing about it, Like,
Speaker 5: come on, it's the biggest beat up ever it must
Speaker 5: have been a slow news day for these journalists.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they racket.
Speaker 7: But the questions that the media were actually asking you,
Speaker 7: because I watched that for press conference, I subjected myself
Speaker 7: to it. But they were like, are you remorseful? Why
Speaker 7: did you do it? Should you have done it?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 7: And the guy, I mean, how many times can the
Speaker 7: guy repeat himself? He had to obviously say that line,
Speaker 7: we don't condone violence, We don't condone violence, because that
Speaker 7: was the line that the Broncos would have told him
Speaker 7: to say. But he's only twenty two. As you said,
Speaker 7: come on, let boys be boys. The Karens of the
Speaker 7: community games.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people watch that press conference Danika,
Speaker 3: because he's quite a good looking twenty.
Speaker 2: Two year old.
Speaker 1: But not bad.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on.
Speaker 3: There's a chronic shortage of male teachers in our schools
Speaker 3: and maybe that's why we're having a bit of problem
Speaker 3: with boys.
Speaker 2: Check out this.
Speaker 3: Australia's male teacher shortage has sparked calls for how to attract.
Speaker 2: More men into the teaching workforce.
Speaker 3: In primary schools, fe male teachers outnumber male teachers by four.
Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty percent. It's in primary schools.
Speaker 3: In secondary schools it's seventy percent in twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: in all of New South Wales. Freyer, Guess how many
Speaker 3: boys graduating from high school in twenty twenty two in
Speaker 3: this state listed teaching as their number one thing they
Speaker 3: wanted to do.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, two.
Speaker 3: Hundred and ten out of it all the year twelve cohort,
Speaker 3: two hundred and ten boys said teaching was their number
Speaker 3: one career choice, and that was twenty four percent less
Speaker 3: than the year before. A Macquarie University study was done
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one and they said, on current projections,
Speaker 3: by twenty sixty seven, there will not be a male
Speaker 3: teacher in any school in Australia if.
Speaker 2: This trend continues.
Speaker 3: Now, what's interesting is that education departments and governments right
Speaker 3: around the country have plans to attract more teachers. Were
Speaker 3: all aware theneaker of the teacher shortage, and they've got
Speaker 3: plans to attract more indigenous teachers. But there's not a
Speaker 3: single plan to attract more males into teaching.
Speaker 2: I think that's a problem. What do you reckon?
Speaker 7: No, I don't think it's a problem. I don't know
Speaker 7: why we need to attract more males into teaching. In
Speaker 7: the end, I don't care if you are a male
Speaker 7: or a female. I don't care who you are, as
Speaker 7: long as you are the best person for the job,
Speaker 7: the best person to inspire and teach the young minds
Speaker 7: the next generation.
Speaker 1: Your gender means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: Let me break in.
Speaker 3: Boys and girls are different, right, and especially when they're young,
Speaker 3: they learn differently, don't you think.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's fine, and I agree in that sense, but
Speaker 7: I don't think it matters.
Speaker 1: I think it is up to the.
Speaker 7: Best person for the job, the most the best teacher
Speaker 7: for the job, James. I mean, okay, we sit around
Speaker 7: and we talk about gender quotas. Yep, Okay, we say no,
Speaker 7: we don't want gender quotas for women because that's offensive,
Speaker 7: because a woman should not get a job based on
Speaker 7: the fact that she's a woman. She should earn it
Speaker 7: through a merit and earn it through hard work. This
Speaker 7: is literally the shoe on the other foot. This is
Speaker 7: basically gender quotas for men.
Speaker 2: No one's calling for quote, I know, but no one's.
Speaker 1: Calling for quotas.
Speaker 7: But I'm saying this is a kin to saying we
Speaker 7: need more quotas.
Speaker 3: No it's a kin to saying there's a massive disparity here.
Speaker 3: And we all know that boys learn differently. We all know,
Speaker 3: especially little boys, their behavior is different. And I think
Speaker 3: any parent would know, especially if you've got boys, some
Speaker 3: male teachers in the classroom would be really, really.
Speaker 2: Harmful for their self.
Speaker 7: I would suggest that we look at attracting the best talent.
Speaker 7: There was a story recently where there are teachers going
Speaker 7: through the system that when they do their year twelve
Speaker 7: exams they're eight are they're getting a thirty nine? That
Speaker 7: is talking about very poor academic performers. The focus should
Speaker 7: be on how we can attract the best more and
Speaker 7: put more resourcing into teaching our teachers, not if you're
Speaker 7: male or female.
Speaker 5: Freyer, what do you think, Well, I think we need
Speaker 5: to have more Well. I think firstly, before we even
Speaker 5: talk about male teachers, we need young boys to have
Speaker 5: positive male role models. And I think that is lacking.
Speaker 5: The number of children growing up that fathers is increasing,
Speaker 5: broken homes, and now if they're not even encountering male teachers,
Speaker 5: you can go, you know, your whole childhood really without
Speaker 5: encountering a positive male role model. Now, I think that
Speaker 5: is scary so can male teachers play a role in
Speaker 5: fixing that for sure? Now, I think one of the
Speaker 5: challenges in the education system is it has been so
Speaker 5: feminized that it really benefits girls the way you learn
Speaker 5: the whole system. But boys they're often written off as undisciplined, rowdy.
Speaker 5: Let's just put them on ADHD medication so they can
Speaker 5: be quiet, and I think that that probably trickles through
Speaker 5: that negative experience of education the boys have going through
Speaker 5: the system probably means a lot of them are turned
Speaker 5: off from having the career. Now, my brother actually is
Speaker 5: training to be at primary school teacher at the moment,
Speaker 5: bucking the trend. Shout out to Oliver and what it
Speaker 5: was for him was he was a basketball coach and
Speaker 5: he never considered teaching, but he loved teaching the kids basketball.
Speaker 5: And so maybe this is the avenue to recruit more
Speaker 5: men because eighty percent of sports coaches and men.
Speaker 6: So that could be the jump.
Speaker 5: You go, Hey, you might not have thought about teaching
Speaker 5: because it is typically a female dominated field, but you
Speaker 5: actually do like children, you do like seeing them improved,
Speaker 5: and this is a way you can do it.
Speaker 3: What you said ring is true for me because two boys,
Speaker 3: one of my boys went through a bit of a
Speaker 3: difficult patch in primary school.
Speaker 2: He was just naughty and he was.
Speaker 3: Constantly in trouble until he got his first male teacher.
Speaker 3: And the male teacher was brilliant because he just understood
Speaker 3: the boy and realized, you know what, he just needs
Speaker 3: a bit of and instead of just having his tight
Speaker 3: rain on him, gave him a bit of room. Treated
Speaker 3: him differently as to the female teachers. Made a massive difference.
Speaker 3: But the other question we should ask is why don't
Speaker 3: young men want to do teaching. That's a very interesting question,
Speaker 3: I think, and there's reasons around that they're so badly paid,
Speaker 3: but also I think male teachers are desperately afraid of.
Speaker 2: Being accused of doing that thing.
Speaker 3: I read one story of a guy who was in
Speaker 3: a teaching interview desperately want to be a teacher. In fact,
Speaker 3: they said why do you want to be a teacher?
Speaker 3: So I just love young kids, and he said the
Speaker 3: moment those words left his mouth, the atmosphere in the
Speaker 3: room changed and he thought, oh.
Speaker 2: I've just said the wrong thing.
Speaker 3: Well, he decided not to continue with teaching based on
Speaker 3: the reaction in that interview because he thought, do I
Speaker 3: really want a career where every single.
Speaker 7: Action is takes one student is double guest. Yeah, one student,
Speaker 7: one student to wreck the life of a male teacher. Absolutely,
Speaker 7: I think exactly.
Speaker 6: Well, let's move on to the US now.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is always up to something, and this time
Speaker 5: he has announced the concepts for his revolutionary air defense system.
Speaker 5: This is called the Golden Missile Defense Program, and it
Speaker 5: is pretty incredible.
Speaker 6: What it is is a multi layered system.
Speaker 5: It's going to cost at least two hundred billion dollars
Speaker 5: and it will have the ability to intercept missiles at
Speaker 5: every stage of their journey, so it'll be able to
Speaker 5: detect them before they're even launched. It can shoot them
Speaker 5: down mid air, and as they're descending onto their targets,
Speaker 5: they can also shoot them down. Now, the Americans help
Speaker 5: the Israelis develop their Iron Dome system, which has completely
Speaker 5: transformed the country. And this is really critical now because
Speaker 5: we know North Korea now has ballistic missiles. They have
Speaker 5: successfully tested them and they are able to reach any
Speaker 5: part of the United States. Iran is about ten years
Speaker 5: away from achieving space launched into continental ballistic missiles, and
Speaker 5: those missiles can then be converted into nuclear weapons as well,
Speaker 5: so this is really the new avenue of warfare. It'll
Speaker 5: be the first time the US has put weapons into space.
Speaker 5: But they have to because as well, China and Russia
Speaker 5: have said they are now building a nuclear power plant
Speaker 5: in space. I mean, we can't even build one on
Speaker 5: land in Australia, but Russia and China are building it
Speaker 5: in space.
Speaker 6: It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 5: So Trump is very excited about this, and apparently Canada
Speaker 5: is also keen to get involved in the action.
Speaker 6: This is what he had to say about them.
Speaker 9: It's a believial world out there, so this is something
Speaker 9: that goes a long way towards the survival of this
Speaker 9: great country. And as they said, we'll be discussing Canada.
Speaker 9: They want to hook in and they want to see
Speaker 9: if they can be a part of it, and sort
Speaker 9: of makes sense.
Speaker 2: I guess that's what I was talking about from day one.
Speaker 9: You know, it just automatically makes sense, and it will
Speaker 9: be very difficult to do, but they'll pay their fair share.
Speaker 5: If there are intercontinental ballistic missiles coming from space, I
Speaker 5: think we will all want to be part of the
Speaker 5: air defense system that stops that.
Speaker 6: Please, let us get in on the action.
Speaker 3: Trump went on to explain how his plan for the
Speaker 3: Golden Dome was inspired by Israel's Iron Dome.
Speaker 9: Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of
Speaker 9: intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides
Speaker 9: of the world, and even if they are launched from space,
Speaker 9: and we will have the best system ever built. As
Speaker 9: you know, we helped Israel with theirs and it was
Speaker 9: very successful. And now we have technology that's even far
Speaker 9: advanced from that.
Speaker 2: So it's not going to be the Iron Dome. It's
Speaker 2: going to be the Golden Dome.
Speaker 3: I think this is where Trump got the idea from
Speaker 3: Golden Golden Oh.
Speaker 7: Golden dime, Golden cop home.
Speaker 3: Trump is saying that this space system, which really was
Speaker 3: an idea of Ronald Reagan forty years ago, wasn't We
Speaker 3: called it star Wars. Everybody said it was impossible, and
Speaker 3: I suppose forty years ago it was impossible, but the
Speaker 3: idea was a good one. Israel have proved it, though
Speaker 3: in a very small area of land with missiles being
Speaker 3: launched from short range. So the task that Trump is
Speaker 3: setting is that much greater. It's a huge area he's
Speaker 3: trying to defend. He's trying to defend against missiles being
Speaker 3: launched from the other side of the world and from
Speaker 3: outer space.
Speaker 2: It's going to cost them.
Speaker 3: Here's been all sorts of reports today, from one hundred
Speaker 3: billion dollars to up to I saw eight hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3: But the point is this is the sort of visionary leadership. Yes,
Speaker 3: that is an investment in the safety of Americans. Everyone
Speaker 3: calls Trump a warmonger. This is not overseas adventurers, and
Speaker 3: this is doing something to keep Americans safe.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well.
Speaker 7: Again, this is what Donald Trump was elected on his
Speaker 7: mandate to make America greater again and to keep Americans safe.
Speaker 7: And I think good on him because he's getting on
Speaker 7: with the job.
Speaker 1: And you know, look, it'll be interesting if he can
Speaker 1: pull it off in that timeframe as well.
Speaker 7: But Donald Trump is really thinking visionary about the future.
Speaker 1: Of warfare, and of course he has to do that.
Speaker 7: I mean, the Pentagon has been warning for you is
Speaker 7: that the newest missiles that are being developed by both
Speaker 7: China and Russia are so advanced that updated countermeasures.
Speaker 1: Are needed quickly and urgently.
Speaker 7: It was also interesting I was reading that the Defense
Speaker 7: Intelligence Agency says that China could a mass dozens of
Speaker 7: orbiting missiles with nuclear warheads in about ten years time,
Speaker 7: and that these missiles would be able to get to
Speaker 7: the United States in significantly less time than conventional intercontinental
Speaker 7: ballistic missiles. So no wonder Donald Trump is out there
Speaker 7: trying to move quickly in the event that China or
Speaker 7: Russia does attack. Now, look, the US does have a
Speaker 7: number of missile defense capabilities, and of course this Golden Dome,
Speaker 7: as you mentioned, is akin to Israel's Israel's defense system
Speaker 7: which has worked really well. There's an interesting statistic that
Speaker 7: during the twenty twenty one gars A conflict, he must
Speaker 7: fight about four thousand rockets at Israel and that iron
Speaker 7: Dome intercepted ninety percent of them, so you can see
Speaker 7: how successful it is. But this Golden Dome that Donald
Speaker 7: Trump wants is actually larger, it can cover a larger area,
Speaker 7: and it is far more sophisticated.
Speaker 1: So you've got Donald Trump forging ahead.
Speaker 7: Here in Australia, we've got a situation where our ADF
Speaker 7: is struggling with recruitments. They're dealing with people wearing gender
Speaker 7: neutral uniforms. China's laughing at us while they're developing all
Speaker 7: their ballistic missiles. The US is getting on with it,
Speaker 7: and what are we doing? Exposed and they're laughing.
Speaker 2: And that old adage.
Speaker 3: You know, if Trump cured cancer, he'd be criticized for
Speaker 3: putting on cologists out of work. Trump comes up with
Speaker 3: this idea, and immediately all the critics come out saying, oh,
Speaker 3: this is just a way to get money to Elon
Speaker 3: Musk because of course he'll get the contract, and it's
Speaker 3: impossible to actually do technologically, and it's going to cost
Speaker 3: too much. And all the critics come out instead of saying,
Speaker 3: here's someone who's trying to do something to defend future
Speaker 3: generations of his countrymen.
Speaker 2: Will it work?
Speaker 3: I don't know, But when you're facing China, Russia, North Korea, Iran,
Speaker 3: and the world, as Trump says, is getting more and
Speaker 3: more dangerous, why would you immediately react with criticism rather
Speaker 3: and saying go ahead. Maybe it's a crazy idea. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but to your hope that it works, absolutely
Speaker 3: start with that.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, be proud of what your country is doing to
Speaker 7: try and protect you. Now, look, we need to talk
Speaker 7: about COVID vaccines because remember when we were when we
Speaker 7: were told that we had to get our COVID vaccine.
Speaker 7: Otherwise we wouldn't be able to go to work, we
Speaker 7: weren't able to go to restaurants, we weren't able to
Speaker 7: go to shopping centers, and our lives, which is absolutely
Speaker 7: tipped upside down.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 7: Look, it's funny how in a couple of years things
Speaker 7: have really changed because in the US, the Food and
Speaker 7: Drug Administration over there has now decided to make sweeping
Speaker 7: changes to the eligibility criteria for COVID booster shots. So
Speaker 7: and your COVID shots for healthy young adults and children
Speaker 7: in America will no longer be routinely approved under a
Speaker 7: very new sweeping policy shift unveiled by the Trump administration.
Speaker 7: The FDA has released a statement saying that this is
Speaker 7: intended to create more of a streamlined approach and to
Speaker 7: quote the FDA Vaccine Division boss been a He says, quote,
Speaker 7: we're finally falling in line with all the other thoughtful
Speaker 7: people in the world who think it is ridiculous to
Speaker 7: give a healthy twelve year old girl her seventh dose
Speaker 7: without any evidence.
Speaker 1: And we're not saying we're never going to do it.
Speaker 1: We're just saying, prove to me.
Speaker 2: It helps her before we do it.
Speaker 7: Well, what a stunning sentiment that is, isn't it? I mean,
Speaker 7: perfectly put, And this is the problem. We've gone from mandates.
Speaker 7: We've gone from you can't work, you can't go to restaurants,
Speaker 7: you can't go about your lives, to suddenly it's no
Speaker 7: longer being approved. And what a slap in the face
Speaker 7: for those people whose lives were tipped upside down.
Speaker 1: They lost their careers, they weren't able to go to work, they're.
Speaker 7: Still out of a job simply because they didn't get
Speaker 7: the vaccine in the first place. Now, I'm not saying
Speaker 7: that these vaccines didn't work, but the facts that it's
Speaker 7: no longer being recommended really does speak volumes and authorities
Speaker 7: have a lot to answer for here for shoving the
Speaker 7: vaccines down our throats during that entire period, and no
Speaker 7: wonder they lost faith in their authorities.
Speaker 1: And I've got to say prayer. The left of completely
Speaker 1: freaking out about this.
Speaker 7: I've seen online they're like, how dare you make these recommendations.
Speaker 1: It's Stockholm syndrome.
Speaker 5: And one of the points that was made is that
Speaker 5: the over promotion of boosters and basically the one size
Speaker 5: fits all approach to everyone regardless of age one. There's
Speaker 5: not much science to back that up from a risk
Speaker 5: benefit perspective. But then also it's created a vaccine fatigue,
Speaker 5: so the rates of vaccinations for other things have declined. Measles,
Speaker 5: for example, the vaccination rates fallen from around ninety five
Speaker 5: percent to ninety two percent, and now there is there
Speaker 5: are measle outbreaks throughout the US. Two people this year
Speaker 5: have actually died from measles. These are the first measle
Speaker 5: deaths since twenty fifteen, and that is because people are
Speaker 5: now so sick of all of these vaccines that they
Speaker 5: aren't getting vaccinated at all. And that is the terrifying fact,
Speaker 5: because vaccines are amazing, especially for these preventable diseases that
Speaker 5: we now have great vaccinations for, but people are ignoring that,
Speaker 5: especially for their children, and that's the real danger in this.
Speaker 3: It's amazing the change we've seen in relationship to the
Speaker 3: COVID vaccine over just a few short years. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Victoria quickly, where farmers protested this week over the
Speaker 3: Emergency services levy, which many claim will effectively bankrupt them
Speaker 3: and mean they'll have to leave their farms. They met
Speaker 3: outside Victorian Parliament and well, they weren't too complementary to
Speaker 3: the Victorian Premier over her proposed levee, describing it literally
Speaker 3: as BS. But not only did they describe it that way,
Speaker 3: they decided to communicate that to the premier, and so
Speaker 3: they delivered to the front door of the Premier's office.
Speaker 3: What I suppose would be described here is a I'm
Speaker 3: going to call it a pooh parcel. You can see
Speaker 3: they're very tastefully put it in a night box, wrapped
Speaker 3: in tissue paper with some pink string, and they included
Speaker 3: a note that read, dearest Jacinta, I have considered your
Speaker 3: levy and here's my feedback. It's BS, love, brutus and family.
Speaker 3: Now what's caused a stink, if I could use that term,
Speaker 3: is that the farmers who delivered it to the Premier's
Speaker 3: office were escorted into that area by a couple of
Speaker 3: liberal MP's. Of course, Jacinta Allen is outraged, and I.
Speaker 10: Say disgraceful, because can you imagine coming into any workplace,
Speaker 10: coming into a hospital, dumping dumping cow manure on a
Speaker 10: colleague's desk, going into a factory and dumping that in
Speaker 10: the tea room.
Speaker 3: Bev McCarthy who was one of the MP's who allegedly
Speaker 3: helped the poo parcel be delivered, said labor MPs are
Speaker 3: acting like they've never seen col s before. Maybe they
Speaker 3: don't get out of Melbourne so much, which is not
Speaker 3: a bad comeback. Liberal leader Brad Batten said he wouldn't
Speaker 3: have done it, but the real issue is not the
Speaker 3: poop parcel, it's what just Sinta Allan is doing to
Speaker 3: the farmers of Victoria.
Speaker 11: Well, it's not something I would have done, but what
Speaker 11: I do know is yesterday people were very, very angry
Speaker 11: when it comes to the new taxes that are impacting
Speaker 11: on farms across Victoria. There is a reason that thousands
Speaker 11: of farmers came from all over Victoria with their fire trucks,
Speaker 11: with their uniforms to explain to the Victorian government that
Speaker 11: they are fed up with ben the feeding cow for
Speaker 11: this government's budget.
Speaker 2: They are sick.
Speaker 6: I've been taken granted of.
Speaker 3: Personally, I think just Into Allen should be glad for
Speaker 3: the pooh parcel. I mean it could be worse.
Speaker 2: She could be a politician in the Netherlands. Have a
Speaker 2: look at this vision.
Speaker 3: Farmers angry at government policies, well, they spread them and
Speaker 3: you were around, not in a neatly wrapped parcel Deneava.
Speaker 2: Oh, they just let government official.
Speaker 1: They've had loose, they've let loose.
Speaker 3: I've got to say to me, this stunt in Victoria
Speaker 3: is sort of more akin to a Greens politician I
Speaker 3: would have thought than a Liberal.
Speaker 2: Do you think I think got lost in the delivery
Speaker 2: or no?
Speaker 7: I actually no, I think it's actually pretty funny. And
Speaker 7: I don't know how just sint to Alan could sit
Speaker 7: there with it, stand there with it with a straight face.
Speaker 7: She was very serious and very straight down the light.
Speaker 7: Come on, look, farmers are angry, and you can see
Speaker 7: why they're angry.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a joke. I think, lighten up.
Speaker 5: She needs to learn how to take a joke. And
Speaker 5: also comparing Parliament to somewhere like a hospital, she ruins lives,
Speaker 5: whereas hospitals save lives, and she's ruining these farmers' lives.
Speaker 5: So I think she should be a little more humble,
Speaker 5: drop the victim complex and laugh at the joke.
Speaker 3: Well, when justin to Ellen laughs at criticism, that will
Speaker 3: be an interesting day we when we go to a break,
Speaker 3: when we come back, but look at what's making headlines tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Barnaby Joyce sways in on the coalition bust up and
Speaker 3: some good news for the trick that of Alzheimer's, that
Speaker 3: and more in just a moment.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Let's take a look at tomorrow's headlines and see what
Speaker 3: we'll be making news on Thursday. The Newcastle Herald goes
Speaker 3: with the headline Coalition's explosive split. As you can imagine,
Speaker 3: this is still making news we'll do for the rest
Speaker 3: of the week, I'm sure, but their angle is comments
Speaker 3: from Barnaby Joyce, Senior National Party MP. Barnaby Joyce believes
Speaker 3: his party will be better able to promote issues such
Speaker 3: as the construction of a nuclear power plant in the
Speaker 3: Upper Hunter without the constraints imposed by Coalition partnership. Joyce
Speaker 3: goes on to say the historic split with the Liberal
Speaker 3: Party was inevitable after the election defeat of the Coalition,
Speaker 3: and he says it has to be acknowledged. There's a
Speaker 3: completely different worldview in the Hunter Valley where the Nationals
Speaker 3: have a very strong representation compared to say Waringa in
Speaker 3: the northern beaches of Sydney. Fourth time there's been a
Speaker 3: fracture in the coalition. I think Barnaby Joyce probably makes
Speaker 3: a pretty good point. Freyer, you're looking at me like
Speaker 3: you don't agree, But surely it's easier for them to
Speaker 3: promote their policies without having to cowtow to Liberals who
Speaker 3: were focused on winning back to Youlsey.
Speaker 5: But it was a Liberal policy at the last election.
Speaker 5: The Liberals adopted it, and they might be able to
Speaker 5: talk about it, but good luck ever building it, because
Speaker 5: you'll never be in government without a coalition with the law.
Speaker 2: To be fair to Barnaby Joyce, the Liberals aren't sure
Speaker 2: whether they're going to go with it.
Speaker 5: It's under review, but if past election commitment to anything
Speaker 5: to go by, I don't I'm not buying this whole
Speaker 5: line that the Liberals are going to chuck out nuclear
Speaker 5: at all, and so I just think this is him
Speaker 5: trying to rationalize a very silly decision on the part
Speaker 5: of the National Party.
Speaker 1: Well, I do hope that Barnaby Joyce is okay.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's obviously getting his cancer treatment and he's
Speaker 7: probably thinking, thank goodness right now. I'm actually it's not
Speaker 7: here dealing with this fallout. But I've got to say
Speaker 7: to be honest. I think he makes a very good point,
Speaker 7: and I've said this other show last night. The Liberals
Speaker 7: need to continue with this nuclear policy and they need
Speaker 7: to get it out there and sell it to the
Speaker 7: public over the next three years because the Nats cannot
Speaker 7: do it alone. I do agree on that point. The
Speaker 7: Nets cannot do this policy alone. It has to be
Speaker 7: a coalition. They'll probably come together back at some point,
Speaker 7: but they've got to sell nuclear.
Speaker 3: I think the Nets can't win government alone, that's true,
Speaker 3: but I think that's also begging on the fact the
Speaker 3: Liberal Party can't win government without the Nationals.
Speaker 2: That's true, and so there's leverage both ways.
Speaker 6: And that's the reality.
Speaker 5: You have to have nuclear if you want to have
Speaker 5: any hope of abandoning that zero. So if the Liberals
Speaker 5: abandoned nuclear, well then they're abandoning that zero as well.
Speaker 5: And I really don't see that happening. So this is
Speaker 5: the only path forward.
Speaker 2: Unless the Liberal Party completely embrace renewables, well that would
Speaker 2: be disased.
Speaker 6: That would be an interesting mood.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it.
Speaker 6: We'll wait and see.
Speaker 5: Now let's move on to the Daily Telegraph, where we
Speaker 5: are in hot Water Tapa funded handouts, combined with poor regulation,
Speaker 5: have allowed Australian homes to be flooded with dodgy and
Speaker 5: potentially dangerous hot water systems, a crisis that has been
Speaker 5: described as pink Bats version two. Industry experts have warned
Speaker 5: lucrative government discounts which lasts which until last year allowed
Speaker 5: some new heat pumps to be installed for free, have
Speaker 5: unleashed cowboy workers who have been selling cheaper Chinese made
Speaker 5: products to unsuspecting customers.
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like this is always the way.
Speaker 5: When you start giving out free stuff, you will always
Speaker 5: have the people that want to jump on that bandwagon
Speaker 5: and wrought the system. So I can't say I'm particularly surprised, James.
Speaker 3: The Building Commission did inspections and they found of the
Speaker 3: hot water systems newly installed that they inspected, guess how
Speaker 3: many were compliant?
Speaker 2: Nine percent? Can you believe that?
Speaker 3: And so they're comparing it to the pink Back's fe
Speaker 3: yes go and rightly so maybe not as dangerous.
Speaker 2: I don't think as the pink bats, where people died.
Speaker 7: That was really really bad, but still nonetheless like heading
Speaker 7: into winter, that is very concerning. When you've only got
Speaker 7: nine percent, that is a very worrying statistic.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'm actually I'm quite puzzled how it has come to this.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't understand how it's actually come to
Speaker 7: this level.
Speaker 5: And if it's taxpayer funded as well, how are they
Speaker 5: what is the process for them to get this money?
Speaker 6: How's the funding all working? This seems really dodgy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly, no, I completely agree.
Speaker 7: Let's move on to The Australian for tomorrow a couple
Speaker 7: of really good stories there. We'll start with self identifying
Speaker 7: activists undermining genuine Aboriginal democracies. We're Adualie Leader Roy RC,
Speaker 7: a former Indigenous policy advisor to the Coalition, says self
Speaker 7: identifying Aboriginal activists frustrated with moderates are breaking apart a
Speaker 7: statewide network of land councils, threatening one of Australia's few
Speaker 7: effective Aboriginal demos proceeds. The former co chair of the
Speaker 7: Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council says activists with fringe ideals
Speaker 7: are establishing dissident groups to block developments and delegitimize the
Speaker 7: network of one hundred and twenty one land councils across
Speaker 7: New South Wales that are by law representative bodies for
Speaker 7: Indigenous people in specific areas.
Speaker 1: Now, look, he.
Speaker 7: Actually raises quite a very good point our audience. You'd
Speaker 7: remember that the Blainey Mind decision here in New South
Speaker 7: Wales where Tanya Plibisec decided to overturn that decision, and
Speaker 7: that was due to the fact that there was a
Speaker 7: group of an Aboriginal group about eighteen people said that
Speaker 7: they didn't want it, and she listened to them as
Speaker 7: opposed to the actual local.
Speaker 1: Land council there.
Speaker 7: I think from memory it was the Orange Local Land
Speaker 7: Council said no, it's okay to put the Blaaney mind
Speaker 7: on that particular patch of land, and royalc has been
Speaker 7: very vocal about this issue.
Speaker 1: So I think he raises a good point.
Speaker 7: If you're not going to go to the land council
Speaker 7: and you're going to listen to these fringe groups, then
Speaker 7: there's never going to be any productivity or development in
Speaker 7: this country.
Speaker 3: He goes on to say that these self appointed claimants
Speaker 3: have become so common. Members of land councils around the
Speaker 3: country now have an acronym sex self appointed Claimants that
Speaker 3: they use for these people identifying as indigenous and then
Speaker 3: making claims on various properties. It's just so common it's
Speaker 3: almost become cliched amongst Land council members themselves.
Speaker 5: And this was part of the concern with the Voice
Speaker 5: to Parliament. If you establish another one of these bodies,
Speaker 5: the challenge is that activists have a lot to gain
Speaker 5: by infiltrating and taking them over and then using them
Speaker 5: for political purposes or just profit and self promotion, as
Speaker 5: is the case here. And unfortunately, the people that always
Speaker 5: suffer from the activist class are the disadvantage, the people
Speaker 5: who don't have the time or the energy to get
Speaker 5: onto these councils to fight for themselves, and then they
Speaker 5: eventually get hijacked by activists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is the madness of dividing people up
Speaker 3: by race, and detain always if I race, because then
Speaker 3: you've got to do racial tests to work out who's who,
Speaker 3: who's who exactly?
Speaker 2: Why can't we discribe it then?
Speaker 7: And then but then suddenly you know, there's a rainbow
Speaker 7: serpent in every river and in every part of the country.
Speaker 7: So you know, this is why you actually got to
Speaker 7: go to the right people, not these little fringe groups.
Speaker 7: Otherwise again, there'll never be any any development in this
Speaker 7: country now. The other story on the front page of
Speaker 7: The Australian is Dopitch Morn's for abusive dad.
Speaker 1: Tennis champion Jolena.
Speaker 7: Dokicch's notorious father Demir has died and she says it
Speaker 7: signals the end of a chapter marred by heartbreaking trauma.
Speaker 1: It's understood he had cancer.
Speaker 7: Demir had been known as the tennis dad from Hell
Speaker 7: and had reaped havoc, abusive havoc on and off the
Speaker 7: court for Elena, a talent once heralded as Australia's greatest
Speaker 7: tennis hope since Evon Gulagong. In a post Instagram, Eulena
Speaker 7: spoke about the difficult and complicated grief associated with losing
Speaker 7: her father, who she had not spoken to for over
Speaker 7: a decade. Look, you know, I remember watching tennis when
Speaker 7: I was younger and just seeing this play play out.
Speaker 7: It was it was actually awful to see. They obviously
Speaker 7: had a very fractured relationship. He was her coach for
Speaker 7: a very long time, and I remember reading she was
Speaker 7: just so unhappy and it really really drove her to
Speaker 7: the brink.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, at one point he knocked her unconscious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: She tells in the story she reached number four in
Speaker 3: the world and even then that was not enough. Of course,
Speaker 3: her tennis career lifted her family out of poverty. They
Speaker 3: benefited greatly, but she really never had that relationship with
Speaker 3: her father. He passed away. It's been a decade since
Speaker 3: she last spoke to him. But I must say, if
Speaker 3: you read that article in The Australian tomorrow, what comes
Speaker 3: through is a woman who on the inside she's not embitted,
Speaker 3: she's not enraged. She sounds like someone who's really come
Speaker 3: through that and kept a soft heart through it all.
Speaker 3: And full credit to her, she's got incredible strength to
Speaker 3: the landa Dockic. It was just a great Australian And that's.
Speaker 5: Always the challenge in these scenarios, Like obviously he was
Speaker 5: horribly abusive, but he was also her father, and so
Speaker 5: as a human being processing both of those emotions at
Speaker 5: once at a time like this, I really feel for
Speaker 5: it and I hope she's doing well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, all right, before we go to a break,
Speaker 3: some good news on the front page of Tomorrow's Melbourne
Speaker 3: Herald's son Hope for Rescuing Memories, reads the headlines.
Speaker 2: This is an exclusive story by Robin Riley.
Speaker 3: A new drug to treat the early stages of Alzheimer's
Speaker 3: disease has now been approved for use in Australia. The
Speaker 3: drug is made by pharmaceutical giant Ellie Lilly and already
Speaker 3: in use in the US, the UK, China and Japan.
Speaker 3: It's been widely tested in clinical trials here in Australia
Speaker 3: and the drug's approval has just been given.
Speaker 2: So we flagged this. I think it was a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: There were some stories doing around saying this was likely
Speaker 3: to happen, and of course Alzheimer's disease, which affects so
Speaker 3: many people so tragically, I can imagine people would be
Speaker 3: grasping for any hope and a glimmer of hope for
Speaker 3: treatment with people suffering.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic here, it really, really is.
Speaker 7: Any sort of cure for this awful, awful disease is wonderful.
Speaker 6: And it's also just so encouraging.
Speaker 5: Whenever I see these feats of human progress, it's like,
Speaker 5: go humanity. We actually are capable of incredible breakthroughs. This
Speaker 5: would be unimaginableter generations passed so good on these scientists.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of incredible breakthroughs and hope for humanity and
Speaker 3: inspiring deeds. Wait until you hear about the French world record.
Speaker 2: We're going to show you after the break.
Speaker 3: Well, an unusual crime in the western suburbs of Melbourne,
Speaker 3: and I'm not sure how committed police are to solving
Speaker 3: this one. Back in April, some bella clava wearing men
Speaker 3: stole a fiberglass cow statue called Betsy from outside a business.
Speaker 3: Now Betsy, as you can see there, you can see
Speaker 3: the bella clava wearing men grabbing Betsy and they load
Speaker 3: it onto the back of a ute and take off
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 2: Betsy's work about three and.
Speaker 3: A half thousand dollars. So police are appealing for help
Speaker 3: to find Betsy and return her to her owner. I say,
Speaker 3: I'm not that sure police are really that serious, because
Speaker 3: listen to the police media release. They say that it's
Speaker 3: a quote high stakes theft. They say that the thieves
Speaker 3: move Betsy, and they go on to say that the
Speaker 3: owners are utterly devastated. I think the police are having
Speaker 3: a little too much fun making dad jokes rather than
Speaker 3: finding the thieves. But there, you know, if you know
Speaker 3: anything about Betsy's whereabouts, call the Victorian police interrupt their
Speaker 3: pun festives.
Speaker 5: And going to the effort of dressing up in your balaklava,
Speaker 5: getting your hold in commodore out driving down to steal
Speaker 5: this piperglass cow.
Speaker 7: It's strange and I mean just a vision of that
Speaker 7: cow on the back of a trail going down that road.
Speaker 1: Iconic.
Speaker 5: Now, in other iconic news, a small town in western
Speaker 5: France has broken in the world record for the greatest
Speaker 5: number of Smurf costumed.
Speaker 6: People gathered whoa one place.
Speaker 5: They had more than three thousand people come out for
Speaker 5: this event, which took place in a town of only
Speaker 5: sixteen thousand people. So that town is really punching above
Speaker 5: its way. Now, this record was previously held by a
Speaker 5: German town that reached the unassailable number of two thousand,
Speaker 5: seven hundred smurfs back in twenty nineteen. But alas, the
Speaker 5: French have conquered once again. Now one smurfett said, we
Speaker 5: have smurfed the record, and another one, an eighty two
Speaker 5: year old, said a friend encouraged her to join, and
Speaker 5: she thought, why not. It's giving the French junasqua.
Speaker 6: Why not dress up in a smurf.
Speaker 1: Oh fry, I mean ripping out the frame.
Speaker 6: I didn't high school French for nothing.
Speaker 1: Well, what is that in French? It's at stromps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I prefer prays.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna I'll see myself out now.
Speaker 3: Today I'm so hard about this is it's the third
Speaker 3: time they tried to break the Smurf record. They tried
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty failed on a technicality, tried in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, failed because of rain, but they finally achieved
Speaker 3: fame and fortune for their town and Fray. Your parents
Speaker 3: will be thrilled to hear your friends being used to
Speaker 3: such good effect.
Speaker 2: That's my stick around. Coming up is the read a
Speaker 2: Pennanty show. Good Night,