WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 16 May 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:05.279 Le welcome late pay. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.800 Thanks for joining us on. James Macpherson with Liz Storer 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.280 and Caleb Bond Well, the Victorian State government can't afford 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.040 hospitals or cancer research, but wait until you hear what 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.720 they can afford to spend thirty seven million taxpayer dollars on. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.400 It will blow your mind when we tell you about 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.200 that a little later. Plus when we look at the papers. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.800 The front page of Tomorrow's Australian outlines Peter Dutton's vision 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.479 for the country. Of course, he stated that during his 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.000 budget reply speech earlier this evening, and the front page 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.559 of Tomorrow's Herald Son reveals just how much stop and 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.800 go sign holders are earning. And I promise you once 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:43.880 you hear about it, no matter where you are tonight, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.320 you will pack up and move to Melbourne and apply 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.559 for a job. It's a great wicket if you can 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.640 get on it. But if you live in New South 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.640 Wales and you have solar panels on your roof, you 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.320 might want to go out and buy a tar pole 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.120 and to cover them up during the daytime hours. At 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.640 least that's what I would do. After Osgrid announced plans 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.800 to charge householders if they export electricity into the grid 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.040 during daylight hours. The energy company, which owns the poles 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.759 and wires for about two million customers in Sydney and Beyond, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.240 says that solar panels are producing too much electricity between 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.600 the hours of ten am and three pm when demand 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.120 is low. Now, if that continues, they'll be forced into 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.480 a costly upgrade of their entire network. So what they're 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:33.880 proposing is to penalize households a one point two cents 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.440 per miller watt hour for electricity that is exported into 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.319 the grid. Now, helpfully, they say, you can avoid this 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.720 penalty by going out and buying a battery, so you 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.199 can just keep the energy rather than pumping it back 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.320 into the grid. And the good news is a battery 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.680 lonely costure about nine thousand dollars. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.960 On the other hand, with that problem solved. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.600 You can take up my suggestion, Liz, you can go 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.760 to Bunning and get a top hole and for about 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.520 twenty bucks. Now, if you remove the top and from 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.840 the roof between the hours of four pm and nine 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.280 pm when demand is high, Osgrid will pay you two 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.840 point three cents per killer what hour to put solar 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:14.480 panel back into the grid. But back to daylight hours, Calebin, Liz, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.919 We've got this situation now where citizens generate electricity that 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.600 we then pay power companies to take off us so 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.919 they can sell back to us at a later date. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.880 There's a program on the ABC called Utopia which satirizes 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.120 government departments. I mean, they don't need to pay a 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.560 script writer. They're getting their scripts for free. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.640 Ridiculous, isn't it. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.440 By the way, I wouldn't be going to Bunnings for 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.080 our taps. I just give the Port Adelaide Football Club 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.079 a call and see if they've got any leftovers that 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.080 they put on the seats at Adelaide Oval because they 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.600 can't get enough fans into the ground. They might lend 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.800 you one. But it is absurd because everyone was told 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.880 to put solar panels on their roof because they would 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.240 get these massive feeding park right. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.320 That was the idea was that you. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.519 Put the solar panel on your roof, you generate electricity 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.760 that you then sell to the power companies, and the 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.280 power companies sell that to other people. You are creating 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.000 the power for the power companies and. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.760 For that you will be rewarded. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.000 So millions of people across the country have gone out 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.760 spent their money on their solar panels, expecting that they're 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.680 going to get a return on investment, and now they're 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.520 told that because everyone has put solar panels on their roofs, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:24.800 there's far too much. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.080 Solar power swimming around. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.280 Therefore you no longer get any benefit. And if you 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.800 want the benefit, you've got to go and get the 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.480 battery for yourself. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.840 And I couldn't believe. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.400 A woman posted on X today her power bill. She 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.720 goes by art in lily Dale as her handle, and 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.960 you can see the power bill there that she's posted. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.280 She's been charged six hundred and thirteen bucks for the quarter. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.720 But if you have a look, there's a graph there 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.160 that shows the ingoings and outgoing. So that peachy looking 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.920 color is the power she's using. The green is the 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.480 power she has put back into the grid from her 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:07.000 solar panels. She is putting twice as much power into 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.040 the grid as she is personally using, and she still 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.160 has to pay six hundred dollars for her power. I mean, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.760 you would have thought I paid for these bloody solar 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.320 panels so I don't have to pay for the power. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.800 Now they tear. You've got to pay even more if 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.159 you want the benefit of it. The whole thing has 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.479 been a sham. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.320 An absolute riff off. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.839 By the way, lady, there goes you three hundred bucks 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.880 from the Helm and easy other to help pay your 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.960 power prices. Not exactly what anyone had in mind, was it. No, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.039 which is not what they had in mind either. When 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.680 you buy solar panels. My parents did this years ago 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.920 as well, because that turns out the sun actually does 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.480 shine for free. So if you invest in that, you're like, hey, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.400 we're laughing all the way to the bank. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.280 Well not anymore. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.839 And wait a minute, wait a minute, aren't we told 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.600 on a daily basis by the government's across this country 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.040 that the more renewables we get into the grid. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:11.360 The cheaper energy will be. Here you're being fined for it. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:17.400 You're literally being punished for sending renewable energy into the grid. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.400 And this whole like, oh, well, if it's after four pm, 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.279 then will reward you. You're going to get two point 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.839 three cents per miller watt? What when the sun's going down? 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.960 I mean, if we're talking about winter here, it's not 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.640 much good after four pm. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.359 You're really not going to get much bang for your buck. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.080 At all. And what this does. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:44.320 Is punish the poor because now this means that if 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.280 you have solar panels on your house, unless you can 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.080 find a lazy nine grand lying around to invest in 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:57.200 these batteries, I wonder who battery friends our government has. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.640 Unless you have that money to take that investment, now 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:02.920 you are screwed. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.880 Well, I want to know why it's consumers problem this 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.080 excess energy. Shouldn't osgrid invest in batteries. I mean they're 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.120 now a company harvey batteries and solve the problem exactly? 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.000 You think they could harvest the power You've got all 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.359 the extra power swimming around in the system. Isn't it 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.520 the ultimate solution that they no longer have to buy 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.520 as much coal fired power from other generators because they've 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.000 got people literally generating the power. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.520 For them on their roofs. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.560 And it's a bit like the electric car situation right 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.040 where we're all told, going by an electric car, it's 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.040 the panasee or it's the next big thing. So a 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.599 lot of people did go and buy electric cars, and 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.440 then they found out that the more people who did it, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.120 the more difficult it is to actually make the system 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.640 operate because we don't have the charges. We don't have 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.880 the technology, we don't know how to recycle the batteries. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.480 You've got low range, et cetera, et cetera. The more 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.560 people you have in the systems, great for those who 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.839 are there at the beginning, right, they got their feed 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.799 in tariffs and made a lot of money at the time, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.680 But since then it's all fallen apart because we're not 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.200 ready for it. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.960 Funny about that, and they never they never seem to 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.800 think of the domino effects because part of the whole 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.320 solar panel fiasco as well is, of course they generate 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.280 most of their power during the day when people aren't 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:23.040 homey don't work, and then what happens is the call 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.280 fired power stations have to rev up big time at 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.960 peak demand, which is when everyone gets home from school, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.040 everyone gets home from work. Now, the call fired power 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.880 stations weren't designed to do that. So then you've got 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:40.720 the power generator charging for that because it's semi damaging. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.440 That's not what coal fired power stations were designed to do. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.920 Suddenly ramp up at four pm every day, the power 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.680 generator is charging for that. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.400 They pass that charge. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.400 Onto the power retailer, and the power retailer passes it 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.160 on to us. So, yay, you did get free power 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.320 through your soul while you weren't at home in that day, 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.480 and now you're getting fined for that. Essentially, you're being 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.080 punished for it. And now that you have got home 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.880 and everyone's requiring power right now. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.520 It's just way more expensive. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.040 And we're damaging our coal fired power stations happening to 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.480 ramp them up to top notch at four pm every day. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 Well, I reckon what they should do is they should 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.120 restrict the hours you can use power. But we had 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.720 water restrictions once upon a time. You can only run 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.320 your dish washert during the afternoon, you can only run 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.040 your washing machine during the afternoon. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.840 You know. Look, I mean they can do anything else. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:35.760 Anyway. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.840 It'll happen at some point. I'm not joking. It will 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.480 happen at some point. Scientists have already. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.280 Talked about the fact that that is where we will 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.320 have to go with the energy, if we're going to 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.440 be relied on renewable energy. While we're on the topic 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.040 of climate and renewable energy and fossil fuels, et cetera. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.360 The Walkley Awards, or should we call them the Wokely Awards, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.840 of course, the top gong in journalism in a Australia. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.080 They've decided that they will sever their sponsorship with a Ampole, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.880 of course, is the oil company. You can go to 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.520 any of their service stations and fill your car up 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.520 with diesel or unleaded or whatever it might be. They 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.480 signed on for a two year deal nearly two years ago. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.360 It comes up in October and the Walkleys have said 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.360 we do not want your sponsorship anymore because they've changed 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:30.240 their policy whereby they now refuse sponsorship from companies that 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.720 quote offer no tangible benefit to humanity. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.600 Now, I would suggest to. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.640 The committee at the Walkleys that you know, if Ampole 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.880 were to shut down, and every other you know, gas 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.480 company and petrol company, oil company, coal producer in this 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.679 country were to shut down. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.680 There would be a little bit of a difference to humanity. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.800 You'd have to stop all the cars, and you'd have 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.400 to stop all the electricity, and you'd have to stop 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.880 all the planes, and you'd have to stop all the tray. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.439 I think am Pole actually does a fair bit for humanity, 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.360 to be perfectly honest. But the thing I love about 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.720 this the most is that the Walkleys were established in 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.920 nineteen fifty six by a man called Sir William Walkley. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.480 Now, apart from establishing. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.840 The Walkleys, do you know what else Sir William Walkley 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.160 did have a guess? 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.120 I know the answer, But tell us Caleb, he established 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:23.920 am Pole. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.200 For heaven's sake, the man who started the Walkleys started 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:28.840 am Pole. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.800 And now the Walkleys. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.960 Say they don't want money from the company that the 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.960 man who started the Walkley started. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.120 It isn't it ridiculous? 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.439 It's a Walkley Foundation are committed to closing down organizations 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.000 that have no tangible benefit for humanity. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.400 They need to shut up shop. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.000 They'd be shutting down the ABC, That's what they'd be 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.080 looking for. I mean. But the irony, of course, is 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:55.840 delicious that am Pole and Walkley are intimately connected exactly. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.400 He is also one of their sponsors. So I'm like, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.840 how about my resources? BHP must be like, well, where 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.280 the next to go? And if I was you, BHP, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.960 I'd just withdraw my sponsorship. I mean, how ungrateful is 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:14.160 this that Ampole sponsorship. They had a platinum sponsorship, hundreds 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.720 of thousands of dollars. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.559 They were welcomed into the Wokely family in twenty twenty. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.199 Two, and two short years later, they've been given the boot. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.439 Because last year awards, a bunch of cartoonists boycotted the awards. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.560 Other journists got very upset that it was sponsored by 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.400 a fossil fuel company. And of course the other upset 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.000 was that there was no specific award for a climate 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.600 change report. But this year ampole are gone and one 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.320 lucky journalist will be rewarded for his climate catastrophe. There'll 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.240 be a special award. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.320 What this essentially says, and we've seen banks and other 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.800 people start doing this now, being like, oh, we won't 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.080 give loans to anyone associated. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.120 With coal, oil gas, those. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.040 Terrible fossil fuels, is that it's a reputational risk now 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.080 to be involved with these companies that, like it or not, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:08.120 they make your lifestyle possible in countless ways. Baby, So 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.960 you crossing them off your sponsorship list and then living 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.000 off their backs on a daily basis, in every which way, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.360 that is the stupidest virtue signaling you can possibly do. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.400 Would they say it's a reputational risk? I kind of 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.920 imagine these same people when they're filling up their car 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.040 with unleaded are they sort of putting their hand over 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.040 their phone. They don't want to be seen because they're 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.960 going to reputation seeing at a gas station. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.920 Please, you are gushing emissions every single day, just like 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.120 the rest of them, as you probably flew a plane 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.280 to attend the Woke Please but no, they say their 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:47.640 new sponsorship policy contains an explicit focus on ethics and 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:52.680 working with sponsors that share their woke values a climate communism. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.920 Fantastic, there you go. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.920 Well, one person who won't be catching a plane, it 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.080 would seem, is Australian runner Adams. Now he was expecting 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.600 he would be able to go over to Paris for 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.520 the Olympics this year. He's a marathon runner and he 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.239 is seventy fourth in the world. Now, he and Athletics 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.079 Australia and pretty much every other country were sort of 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.680 under the impression that the eighty runners who would get 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.720 to run in the marathon at the Olympics this year 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.640 would be the top eighty runners in the world. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:25.960 Not the case. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:31.440 Apparently only the top seventy have qualified for the Paris Olympics, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.240 and then the last ten have been given to what 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:41.040 they call universality athletes. Now the idea that is its diversity, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.719 equity and inclusion. There are ninety three nations in the 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.559 world who are deemed to be underrepresented at the Olympics, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.480 so they essentially get a golden ticket into events to 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.720 try and boost their numbers a bit. There are thirty 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.960 five nations in Africa, eighteen in the Americas, seventeen in Asia, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:04.280 in Europe, and fourteen across Oceania. It's almost half the 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.200 world is eligible to get a golden ticket into these 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.560 Olympic eventually. And Adams though he was sort of taken 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.559 by surprise. He talked to the ABC about this this morning. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.120 We were all under the impression that you finished in 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.160 the top eighty and you'd be going to the Olympics. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.400 And yeah, when I found out the shock's news three 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:30.560 days after the qualification period had ended, the universality athletes 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.480 had displaced the ten athletes that had qualified in rankings, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.760 it was a complete shock. I felt like it was 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.440 a kind of nightmare and I was just wondering how 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:46.560 it all happened. And yeah, it's been a complete shock and. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:49.000 It's hard to compute. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.480 Really, maybe I'm missing something here. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.640 I thought the idea of the Olympics, the pinnacle of 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.120 athletics in the world is the you know, the best 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.600 in the world go over there and represent their countries. No, no, no, no, no, no, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.440 no no, we don't do that. We'll let sort of like, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.240 you know, the first seventy best in the world represent 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.360 their countries. Then we'll just have some also rams make 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.360 it in because they happened to come from a smaller country. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:18.640 How does that work? 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.240 I actually like it because do you remember at the 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.240 two thousand Olympics there was a guy called Eddie the Eel. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.920 Do you remember this guy, Eddie the Eel turns up 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.440 representing an African nation. He'd only taken up swimming eight 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.960 months before the Olympic Games, and he got to the 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.840 Olympic Games. He had never seen a fifty meter swimming 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.680 pool in his life. He rocks up, he swims in 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.360 the fifty meters. It took him one minute and fifty 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.200 two seconds to complete it, more than twice the time 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.120 of the eventual winner. But here's the great thing. In 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.120 twenty twelve, twelve years later, he is the national swim 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.200 team coach of his country. It's a beautiful story, Caleb, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.400 And so I think it is. Universality of athletes is 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:58.160 a wonderful thing. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.840 Was he one of the universally the athletes that basically 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.360 gets given this as a charity. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:04.760 You've got a. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:10.240 Wild card entry just to encourage the athletes of his 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.400 nation who typically don't swim, and he proved that they 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.680 typically don't swim and they haven't had a compere that 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.720 since I don't think, but I mean, Palestine are getting 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.840 a free pass for the next Olympics. They've announced that 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.520 Palestinian athletes will be enabled to compete, though they won't 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.720 qualify for any events, and though they're not actually a nation, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:34.560 but this is done to encourage nations to help their athletes. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.880 Well they literally say, the Olympic Committee say it's to 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:43.400 increase the diversity of participating nations. So sorry, Leam Adams, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.200 you've been pipped by DEI and good grief, isn't that 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:48.240 a growing list? 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.080 But you had to laugh. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.960 Reading one of the headlines in the Sydney Morning Herald today, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.000 they are under fire for calling ballerinas too thin and 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.480 this is a national disgrace. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.080 How dare they? 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:01.760 So? 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:07.760 Someone did this rite up? What's his name, Nui tech coat? Yes, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.160 David Holberg, actually. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.119 So, David Holberg's the artistic director of the Australian Ballet. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.960 Yes, yes, but he's the one who's slamming it. He's 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.720 not the one who did the ride up. I was 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.680 referring to the person who did the ride up. Calling 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.439 them too thin. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.080 Better than calling them too fat. Right, Nope, you can 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:25.880 never get it right. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.960 Well, actually I should point out Nui wrote the story 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.240 and I know knew he's a good fellow. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:31.760 He wrote the story for the Herald's. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.000 Son about the SMHS getting slammed by the Australian Ballet. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.880 The piece in the SMH was written by a woman 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.840 called Chantal Newan, who is a barrister and the dance 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.840 critic for the Sydney Morning Herald. So a woman called 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.880 the dancers too thin is what happened? 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.119 Oh so all you wanted to do was let everyone know, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:50.840 don't worry. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:52.640 It wasn't a man, okay. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.320 So then we've got David Holborg, who was Artist director 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:01.520 of Australian Ballet. He says comment regarding body image is 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.320 not acceptable and I am compelled to address this. Comments 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.080 about weight, shape and body comparisons can have a serious 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.719 negative impact on a person's self esteem and body image 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.119 can be detrimental to individuals mental and physical health. Professional 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.840 ballet dancers, like other ascetic athletes, are identified as a 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.200 high ROOSK group for the development of body image concerns, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.160 disordered eating and eating disorders, for. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.479 Crying out loud. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:34.199 Anyone who knows anything about ballet knows you can't do 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.320 it if you're a heifer like you. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:44.000 And a woman said that one of my I would 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:44.720 never have said that. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.119 One of my best friends of fifteen years is a 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.800 ballet dancer, right, she's a ballet dance teacher now, but 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.440 she has told me so many stories about the agonies 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.760 these girls go through. Obviously, to keep the number on 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.959 this scales down, that is the name of the game. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.920 I've also have a very good friend who went to London, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.919 was a prima donna, ballerina, all the rest of it. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:16.320 There is no understating how imperative that is if you 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.840 want to be a ballerina, if you want to excel, 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.240 as obviously these guys do because it's the Australian Ballet 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.920 So I'm sure that no one, none of them anyway, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.719 reading this critique saying gosh, they're really skinny, would have 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.159 had that much of a problem with it. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.400 They would have been like I am. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.520 What if the language was not the problem. What if 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.359 the artistic director of the Australian Ballet was upset not 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.520 about them being called unusually thin. What if it was 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.120 just upset generally about the review. Because let me read 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.359 you some of this review. It says that this particular 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.119 performance felt like a banal hour of channel surfing. You 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.720 watch a series of dissatisfying, self indulgent scenes unrelated to 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.360 those you've just watched, and will watch after. The only 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.520 difference between that and channel surfing is when you're channel surfing, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.800 you can leave the room. It goes on to say 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.120 that the ballet's score sounded like a combination of dental tools, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.120 a flight path and my neighbor's techno music leaking through 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.440 our shared apartment Briill. So I wonder if the artistic 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.320 director was not really upset about them being called unusually thin, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.080 just hated the review. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.199 Well, it was a one and a half star review. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.920 And back in the day I used to review shows 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.680 for the Adelaide Fringe for the Advertiser, and I think 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.560 I did once hand out a one star review and 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.720 the performers did not take very kindly to it because it. 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.000 Was a crap show. It's just how it goes. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.840 But miss Newan wrote in the quoting question was the 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:48.120 dancers are fabulous, although, and perhaps this was the lighting, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.359 seem unusually thin this season. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:51.760