WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 23 October 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.320 On scolds Australia. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.080 This is the Reader Panalty Show. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.200 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panney Show. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.960 Coming up tonight, Melbourne labeled cold, broke and a terrible 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:15.960 place to invest. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:17.439 I'll speak to Nick Kata about that. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.840 Shortly, Professor Ian Plymer on Matt Keane's latest. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:22.880 Claims about nuclear energy. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.200 We'll also have the latest from the US with Army Horowitz, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.960 including just how much more the Democrats are spending than 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.239 the Trump campaign and later in the hour he is 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.280 an absolute gem. We're thrilled to have Alex Epstein. He 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.760 had to fact check some of the boldest lies told 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.519 by mitzero activists and of course left he's losing it. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.760 What's more dangerous? Straight white conservative men or axe murderers? 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.960 A straight white conservative man? 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:51.600 Why is he more dangerous? 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.680 Because they're capable of doing anything. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:54.320 They're crazy. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:55.600 We'll make them crazy. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:56.240 They're wait. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.160 But first, King Charles and Queen Camilla's royal to where 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.200 of Australia has come to an end. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.600 They farewelled Sydney this morning. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.679 Crowds have flocked to us see the royal couple during 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.280 their visits to Canberra and Sydney. During their final full 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.840 day in Australia, the King and Queen took part in 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.000 a community barbecue in Parramatta before heading over to the 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:22.679 Sydney Opera House, where they were greeted by hundreds of fans. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.679 They observed a military display around Sydney. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.120 Harbor, and after being on her feet for almost the 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.160 entire day, Queen Camilla was seen carrying her heels as 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.800 she returned to Admiralty House barefoot. You've got to love that. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.679 She should have stayed on for the Melbourne Cup. That's 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.800 what all the ladies do there. The visit, as we know, 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.360 was not without controversy. We'll discuss Lydia Thorpe a little 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.680 more later, but there was also that damage, and there 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.720 has been a development there with a man being charged 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:57.960 with malicious damage after Sydney's iconic Queen Victoria statue was 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:59.960 defaced with red pain. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.840 Let's get a senior fellow. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.320 At the Menzies Research Center, Nick Kater, into her discuss 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.000 the latest news of the day. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:08.320 Nick. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.720 Lydia Thorpe did certainly still many of the headlines during 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.080 this royal tour. What were your feelings about King Charles 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:16.960 and Queen Kimilla. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.200 I was smitten. I have to say, Rita, I was 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.280 in the crowd on Sunday looking at them from a 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.079 great distance. As close as I got. I didn't get 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.160 to meet the King or the Queen, but look, I 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.200 think it was terrific they were here. I mean for 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.240 those of us. In fact, I guess almost everybody who's 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.760 watching this program would only have known one monarch, and 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.560 that was Queen Elizabeth. And we all were nervous about 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.560 the transition of power, how that would go, because we've 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.160 never seen it before, but it's gone seamlessly. And to 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.480 have King here, the King here, was just to put 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.200 the stamp on that. So I'm very much grateful that 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.840 his Majesty came. And you're hearing from a convinced royalist. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.640 Jim mononkis chair, Rita, So I'm afraid that's about the 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:00.840 best I can say. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.440 Well, yeah, I'm interested in your thoughts on Senator Lydia 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:10.040 Thorpe because her antics are still being debated and criticized, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.440 as I her demands, because it wasn't just a stunt. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:15.600 She does have a list. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.160 Of demands she once met. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.560 And she has been criticized for being an enthusiastic participant 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:26.919 a beneficiary of the system she claims to hate. And 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.200 not only is she senator in the Australian Parliament on 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.600 her healthy salary, fantastic benefits, but she's also a regular 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:41.040 nick in the ultra exclusive quantus Chairman's Lounge. Now, how 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:47.120 does she reconcile that with her thoughts on Australia. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.360 Well, you've got to remember, Rita that the Chairman's Club 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.720 always was and always will be ourboriginal land, sovereignty, never 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.320 seed it. So it's actually lucky that she. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.320 Lets the rest of us in it. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.040 Course. But look, I mean, I'm really astounded that the 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.920 Senate cannot get together and vote her out because she 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.880 did take a loyal oath when she came into office, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.880 all bit through gritted teeth, to the Sovereign, to the Crown, 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.240 and she's clearly disobeyed that and clearly shown that she 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.760 didn't mean that one inch by her outrageous behavior on 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.120 the in this week. I mean, this very unkempt, unprincipled 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.200 woman stands up and starts screaming senities at the King, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.320 and she is a member of our Parliament. I'm embarrassed 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.159 by that, quite frankly, and I think the Senate. I'm 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.480 surprised that the Senate doesn't seem to think it's got 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.359 the powers to actually get her out or make her 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.040 accountable for that, because they should. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:45.720 Now. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.000 I know she's got plenty of criticism, and rightly so, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.159 but I do think she will see this week as 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.919 a win. She has had enormous coverage overseas, particularly in 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:02.400 the British media, and there'll be plenty of Republicans here 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.640 who might quietly agree with some of her points, which 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.800 tells you more about them. I guess now I'm going 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.719 to play some painful footage. Painful for Victorians. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:13.200 Nick. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.719 Here are some folk in Glasgow telling Harold Sun reporter 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.200 knew he just how happy they are that long suffering 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.039 Victorian taxpayers are paying for their Commonwealth games. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.560 We've been executive the opportunity and how to develop the 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:29.400 people testity. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.080 Yeah, together, it's give them the place a little buzz here. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.600 I'm really exciting to have something actually in Scotland than 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:37.880 something to travel elsewhere. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.640 I think it's very good for the city. Most of 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.159 that quet number of people about to visit the city. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.200 That's pretty bringing for an income. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.560 Yeah, I'm sure it'll be great for them. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.880 I'm sure it'll be fantastic to have all the tourists 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.320 and the locals enjoying the Commonwealth. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.120 Games that we've paid for. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.840 Victorians have played around six hundred million in total, and 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.599 around two hundred million of that going to Glasgow to 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.159 actually hold the games. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.440 The state's not in a good place, Nick. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.080 No, it's not, you said the introduction of the show's 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.280 cold and broke and unbankable, and it's certainly cold. I 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.560 always find it cold, and I was either whether not 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.880 being too kind you down there at the moment. And 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.719 it's got one hundred and fifty six billion dollars state 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.640 debt and that's going to rise to almost one hundred 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.080 and ninety billion by twenty twenty eight. And no wonder 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.480 because they keep throwing money around like confetti and then 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.839 end up you know, oh they decided they didn't want 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.160 the games after all, but they've still got to pay 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:47.200 money to Scotland. It's disgraceful. And you know, Dan Andrews 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.240 is the mystery to me is anybody ever voted for him? 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.799 But plainly people down there there did. Perhaps the cold 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.680 gets to their heads or something. But you know, he 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.080 is what he is and I just think that which 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.240 is desperate for an opposition that can turn itself open 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.159 to a government, well, I. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.120 Think you just hit the nail on the head. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.359 Then he got re elected, not only because he was 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.240 a skillful politician, but he had no opposition. And I 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.440 think people look at Victorians like were some sort of 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:16.280 a freak show. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.240 But when you've got a. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:24.800 Completely spineless, principleless hopeless opposition, then you do have the 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.640 other side elected quite easily. Now, one of Australia's top 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.360 property developers, him Gerner, has weighed in on Victoria's housing 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.600 crisis and the dire state of Melbourne. He told the 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:40.480 Australian Financial Review that the strong consensus in other states 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.760 is that Victoria is broke, it's cold, and your property 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.040 prices don't go up. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.239 While would you invest in Melbourne when there's been next. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.880 To zero capital growth and the state has a massive 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:57.400 debt problem. But Nick Gernar is supportive of the stamp 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.960 duty discount being offered by the just to Alan government, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.520 saying it'd give investors a reason to consider the city again. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.160 But I've got to say I'm going to disagree. I 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.640 think this is an absolute travesty. I wrote about this 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.280 in Today's Herald's Son The entire scheme seems to be 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.400 hair braining these towers that are going to be building 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.320 along train stations, but just on this stamp duty discount. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.560 It's just so unfair. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.960 On the face of it, a family buying a brand new, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.000 modestly priced house and land package out in the suburbs 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.320 to live in white qualify for that discount. But you 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.959 might have someone who's buying a penthouse off the plan 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.280 for three million dollars that they plan to rent out 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.240 and they will qualify for the discounts. It seems to 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.480 be designed just to entice people to buy off the 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:54.600 plan apartments, something that hasn't been a fantastic investment in 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:55.240 recent years. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:00.360 Nick, Yeah, yeah, I mean that's right. Land Act is 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.200 incredibly unfair form of taxation. All forms of taxation are 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.920 unfair in my view, but this is particularly unfair because 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:12.320 you're taxing people on unrealized capital gains essentially, and as 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.280 you're right in saying that if you build a sixty 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.120 story tail block, if you were to build such a 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.520 thing in Melbourne and stick lots of apartments in there, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.720 the land tax per unit to be relatively low. But 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.200 if you've got an elderly person who's living in the 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.760 family home or they've got a boarder investment property out 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.040 there in the suburbs on a quarter acre block of land, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.000 then they're in for real, real trouble. And it does 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.160 punish people very hard, people that have script and saved 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.240 to pay off them more it is get themselves a 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.280 property or investment property. They're the ones being punished by this, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.120 and it's just a very unfair way of doing it. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.760 Stamp duty is not great, by the way, but this 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.439 is not the way to get rid of stamp duty. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:54.120 I don't know. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.480 This is just a scheme that they're introducing to make 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.000 it more attractive to buy of the plan, but it 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.520 doesn't extend to buying off the plan for a house. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:09.120 It's only really for units apartments. And they're going to 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:14.560 nick by building these towers on train stations across Melbourne 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.880 without consultation, without much of a planning process, so they're 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.120 going to completely change the character of those suburbs. And 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.280 the locals have invested and have got their home as 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.600 their biggest investment or obviously fairly irate about that. And 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.080 it's not a surprise most of those train stations are 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.720 in liberal areas, not that there's that many of them 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:36.680 left in the city. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.400 Now. I'm interested in a piece. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.640 You wrote for The Australian newspaper about the real reasons 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:48.719 behind Australia's declining birth rate. Australian National University demographer Is 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.720 Alan told the Sydney Morning Herald that it's housing affordability, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:58.480 economic insecurity, gender inequality and climate boiling. That's the reason. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.520 But you point the birth rate has been falling since 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.719 nineteen fifty nine, when the average house in Sydney was 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.560 less than ten thousand dollars in today's money one hundred 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.920 and eighty two thousand dollars in today's money ten thousand 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.200 dollars back then. So what is the real reason behind 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.000 our birth rate plumbating? 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.720 Well, serious democracies really can't tell you because there's so 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.520 many factors here. It is possible that housing may deter 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.640 people to some extent from having children, but it's far 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.920 from the only reason, because when you look at it, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.400 this is a trend that's been going on since the 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.920 late fifties early sixties in the entire world. Right even 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.840 in places like Thailand, they are now way below our 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.560 birth rate and way below replacement level, even though they 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.720 had a birth rate of six in the nineteen sixties. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.640 So everywhere except Sub Saharan Africa, birth rates have fall 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.679 and off a cliff and are continuing to fall. And 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.120 so contrary to what the environmentalists have been telling us 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.040 for the last fifty years that were in trouble because 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.200 there's too many people, the fact is there's too few people. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.320 That's a real problem. And there's a problem with obviously 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.240 assuredage of labor around the world, not just here. And 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.920 it seems to me extraordinary that so few serious politicians 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.160 or policymakers have even mentioned this, let alone worked out 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.040 what we do about it, because we have got to 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.440 do something about it, sooner or later. We can't keep 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.920 making up for it in immigration. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.480 Well, that seems to be the fix, isn't it. That's 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.520 the band Aida method that they have used. We did 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:36.080 have that have a baby for the country under the 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.679 Howard government, didn't we We had the baby bonus and Peter 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.760 Costello remember that work picture with him with all the 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.760 newborn babies that did work. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.680 We saw a bit of a spike there they were. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:47.760 I do like it. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.920 Hung Yeah, a spike that came off at about twenty 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.400 ten it started to decline again. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.200 Yeah, that's it. I do like Hungry's approach. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.400 They give a massive lifetime discount to mothers for the 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.720 number of babies that have So if you have one child, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.199 twenty five percent discount of your income tax for life. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.520 If you have four, forget about income tax, you're not 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.800 paying it. And that's seen their birth rate at skyrockett. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.840 They've got a few other measures to boost it as well. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.839 So yes, something to think about. Nikata, Thanks so much 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.719 for your time tonight, Thank you. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:23.040 Rider. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.679 Joining me now is leading geologist and author Professor Ian Plymer, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.000 and let's start with Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi and Foreign 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:32.920 Minister Pennywong. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.640 They're heading off to. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.880 Samoa for the twenty twenty four Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.360 which King Charles will also be attending. And it seems 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:47.760 Australia is about to experience another climate shakedown with Pacific 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.760 nations putting pressure on Australia over fossil fuel exports. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.480 How much is this trip going to cost us, Professor, Well. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.640 It's going to cost us a huge amount of money. Secondly, 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.599 it's going to cost us a lot of credibility. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:02.320 Here. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.560 We have two people from the Australian government and they're 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.040 entourage who are flying there now unless they're going to 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.880 swim from Manly Beach across this somehow, and they're going 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.760 to be using a lot of fossil fuels. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:15.000 To get there. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.680 And these fossil fuels, some of the South Pacific Island 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.600 islanders claim putting carbon dioxide. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:23.600 In the air. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.960 This is warming the climate and the sea level is rising. Well, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.880 that's contrary to data that we've had since eighteen forty 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.120 two on this part of the world. It's contrary to 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.280 what we know about carbon dioxide. So I think this 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.800 is yet again a massive display of hypocrisy, and yet 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.280 again our Prime Minister running away from problems in Australia 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.480 and gallivanting somewhere else around the world. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.680 And I fear that the checkbook will come out at 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.960 some point during this trip. So let's just brace ourselves 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.000 for that now. The chair of Labour's Climate Change Authority, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.920 Matt Keane for Liberal Treasure of New South Wales, has 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.880 lashed out at nuclear energy advocates, accusing them of being 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.640 delay mongers who are trying to prevent renewables from succeeding. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.440 He labeled a push for nuclear and more gas as 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.920 and I quote, an illiberal drive to intervene in the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.560 market led energy transition. And he also went on to 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.280 say that the delay mongers have latched onto nuclear power 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.240 despite the overwhelming evidence that he can only drive up 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:35.360 energy bills, can only be more expensive, and can only 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.640 take too long to build. This in a cost of 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.320 living crisis. It seems to me that people calling for 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.920 gas to be included in the capacity investment scheme are 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.760 trying to stop renewables in are very very interested in 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.000 your response to Matt Keane's claims. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:57.440 There, Well, this is just Sheer's stupidity. Mister Keane should 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.920 know that when Finland put in its reactions the latest reactors, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.960 the cost of electricity went down and the retailer and 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:13.160 the wholesaler also had lower costs. So we have evidence. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:18.360 Very recently, we've just had the Page Research Center do 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.320 a study on the cost of energy. This was done 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.680 by Gerrard Holland, and he looked at solar and wind, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.160 he looked at nuclear, looked at gas, and looked at coal. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.080 By far the most expensive energy in Australia. Is solar 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.640 and wind. This is when you look at the total costs, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:39.320 the land use changes, the putting in the new power lines, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.280 et cetera, Nuclear is quite cheap compared with that, Gas 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.400 is also cheap, as his coal coals the cheapest, and 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.960 that's because we already have the infrastructure for coal. Now, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.520 what mister Keane doesn't say is that sol and wind 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:59.320 are not reliable, whereas nuclear, gas and coal are reliable. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.400 What he doesn't say is that sol and wind have 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.760 a very short life, less than twenty years, whereas nuclear 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.400 is at least sixty years for a nuclear power plant. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.639 It's more than forty years for gas, more than fifty 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.960 years for coal. What he doesn't say is that our 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.920 future demands for energy are going to increase enormously. We're 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.679 already using ten percent of energy for data centers with AI, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.720 it's going to be a lot higher. And what he's 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:33.119 really saying is that the practical economics of the nuclear 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.719 lobby groups are starting to frighten people. The practical economics 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.120 of the gas groups are starting to frighten the wind 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.320 and solar people. These are the cheapest and most reliable 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.159 and best forms of energy we can have in a 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.320 country like Australia. And so we've got all these foreign 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.080 corporations who are running the solar and running the wind, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.760 who are lining up for their subsidies, and the subsidies 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.160 make the energy renewable. The subsidies say keep getting renewed. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.560 And he's getting worried that the whistle's going to get 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.080 blown on this. And we can see around the world 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:13.920 that we can have cheap, reliable energy for very long 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.840 periods of time from nuclear. So I recommend that viewers 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.280 look at Gerard Holland's report from the Page Research Center. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.200 He aired these findings at the AIC conference on Tuesday, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.720 and these are showing that we are going down the 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.160 wrong path. We've got far too many vested interests who 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.760 are whisperinging mister Keynes here. He doesn't understand the fundamentals 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.640 of energy generation, and he doesn't understand the fundamental weaknesses 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:43.560 of solar and wind. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.840 And I do love the comment he has here about 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:52.800 the illiberal drive to intervene in the market led energy transition. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.040 But what do they do so much exactly? 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:02.240 There has been so much market manipulation subsidies to pretend 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.919 that this is something that's being led by the market, 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.520 it's purely organic, is just wishful thinking. I've got an 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.720 early Lefty losing it for you. It's from the New 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:13.640 Zealand Greens. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:23.800 Coal, don't dig it, live in the ground, get with it. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.240 I don't know what to say, But what do you 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.159 say to the New Zealand Greens this, Prefessor Pliman. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.520 I think they've been taking some of Kamala House scripts 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.960 and talking from them. I have no idea what they're 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.480 talking about. But what we do know is that the 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.320 New Zealand coals on the west coast of South Island 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:51.159 exceptionally clean, very high calorific value, very low ash and 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:56.119 upprised coals. New Zealand does have energy from other sources 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:00.280 from oil and gas in the Taranaki base, and some 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.560 get thermal energy. That the New Zealand colls are some 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.600 of the best in the world. I have no idea 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.120 what they're trying to say, except that perhaps they want 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:09.960 New Zealand to become even more backward. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.640 I think that would actually enjoy that very much, Professor 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:17.960 im Plymer, thank you so much for your time this evening. 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.760 Thank you still to came a bumper edition of Lefties 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.359 Losing It and Army. Horowetz joins me with these laters 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.560 from the US, including just how much more are the 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.520 Democrats spending compared to Donald Trump? 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.560 Welcome back. Now it's time for lefties losing it. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.160 And here is some great advice from Kamala Harris telling 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:53.119 US supporters to be just like Jimmy Carter go out 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.960 and vote early, followed by mad cackling naturally. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.119 So look, it's Jimmy Carter. You can vote early. You 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:08.440 can do. Jimmy Carter voted early. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.560 We did have the Washington Post claiming he's very excited 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:12.480 about Kamala. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:14.720 Let's check in on Jimmy Carter. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.159 This is the former president on his one hundredth birthday, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:24.040 just a few weeks ago, enjoying, hopefully enjoying a military flyover. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.360 I mean, really, shame on his family for putting him 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.560 on display in that state. Whatever you think of Emi 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.200 was a former president, he deserves a little dignity. You 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.840 think his family would be watching out for him. Joe 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.080 Biden's family has been accused of elder abuse over. 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.880 The years, but then you hear a speech like this. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:57.160 From Joe and you suddenly stop feeling sorry for him. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.239 Before the cognitive decline. He was a dishonest scrote and 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.840 he's still a dishonest scrote. Here he is earlier today 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.520 expressing a desire to lock up Donald Trump. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:10.119 He means it. 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:11.240 This is not a joke. 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.879 This the guy who also wants to replace every civil servant, 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:20.359 every single one. Thinks he has a raton of the 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.960 Supreme Court ruling on immunity to be able to need 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:29.520 me if it was the case to actually eliminate physically eliminate, 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.240 should kill someone who is he needs to be a 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:38.000 threat to him. I mean, so, I know this sounds bizarre. 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:40.960 It sounds like I said this five years ago. You 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.159 locked me up. We gotta like him up. 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:52.159 If you like him. Did he just claim that Donald 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:55.360 Trump wants to shoot and kill someone he. 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:57.119