WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 2 June 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.479 On Scolus Oskolia. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.240 This is the Reader Panalkey Show. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.360 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panekey Show. Coming 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:16.120 up tonight Swedish Doom Goblin. Greta Thumberg is sailing to Gaza. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.200 We'll discuss that and plenty more with Caroline Marcus. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.160 The cost of Victoria's renewable. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.240 Energy plan has been understated by at least sixteen billion. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.440 Professor Ian Plimer. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.680 Will tell us more, and the wonderful Shamika Michelle will 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.080 have the latest from the US, including a terrifying domestic 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.640 terror attack in Colorado. Later in the Alkinsy Schofield, we'll 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.000 have all your celebrity and will news, including the latest 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.720 on the ugly Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Ferness divorce 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.800 and leftis Losing It has a new YO pronoun do 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.880 you identify as a flow? 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:59.040 Flow suggests fluidity, movement, change, which can be important symbols 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.920 for gender. All right, now, let's see how to use 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.480 these pronouns in a conversation. And this came so much. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.800 Have you seen Floria today? Yeah, Iran into floor at 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.920 the library. Earlier today, Flawa was working on Full's presentation 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:09.640 for tomorrow. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.640 But first let's have a look at the day's top 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.240 headlines with Sky News senior reporter Caroline Marcus. Caroline, the 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.040 US has made it clear it wants allies to pull 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.039 their weight and increase their defense spending to at least 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:26.360 three percent of GDPA. US Defense Secretary Pete Hexett has 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.240 met with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Miles and Singapore and 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.840 asked Australia to boost its defense budget. This is something 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.560 that many experts have also called for. But Caroline, it 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.440 would mean tens of billions of extra money going into 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.520 the defense budget. Is that something you can see happening? 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.880 Well, where would that money come from? Rieu? 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.040 The government's already made all these big spending promises in 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.720 order to win the election, and frankly they don't have 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:55.880 the money to bear. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.240 But that could be a huge problem for US. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.520 According to a readout from this meeting in Singapore, Pete 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:08.680 Hegseth asked his Australian counterpart, Richard Miles, to boost defense 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.920 spending here to three point five percent. That's because the 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.880 US wants it's allies, including Australia, to stop taking it 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.320 for a free ride when it comes to defense spending. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.840 And expect all the money to be put in from 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:26.320 the US and not make a fair contribution themselves. Now, look, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.880 Richard Miles seemed to open to the idea initially. He 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.160 even said that though he would continue the conversation and 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.080 he understood why those that request was being made. But 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:42.280 our Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi quickly dismissed them and he said, no, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.240 we will determine our own defense spending, thank you very much. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.400 So it'll be interesting to see where this leads, because 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.160 in a couple of weeks, mister Albinizi is Judah met 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.720 Ju to meet the US President Donald Trump in Canada 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.600 and he's going to be asking the US to reaffirm 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.440 its commitment to orcus our nuclear submarine deal, as well 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.760 as to lower the tariffs that it's going to put 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.799 on our imports there. So will Australia get its way 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.160 if it's refusing to do what the US is asking 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.359 of it as a friend. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.480 Well, I'll be speaking to Professor Implymer a little bit 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.720 later about those steel tariffs and how the ub and 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.720 Easy government is negotiating a decent deal for the country. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.840 Yeah, there's a few things to worry about there. 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.320 Meanwhile, the coalitionist said that it's open to negotiating a 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.200 deal with Labor regarding its proposal to double the tax 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.600 rate on superbalances. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.080 Of over three million. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.040 Opposition trutary spokesman Ted O'Brien told The Australian what is 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.320 being put forward really does breach a red line in 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.640 taxing unrealized capital gains. But if Jim Chalmers is prepared 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.000 to be humble for a moment and realize has made 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.760 a mistake and which is to engage with me, my 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.120 door is open. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:06.240 Caroline. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.240 Do you think Charmers is open to negotiating this policy. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.279 He doesn't need to labor one with a massive landslide. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.400 They have a mandate and they have the Greens holding 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.160 the balance of power in the Senate. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.560 Well, that's all very true. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.080 I mean, look, he could be open to it at 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.279 the moment. This policy as it stands would rake in 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:33.080 two point three billion dollars initially per year for the government, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.560 and as we just talked about, they need all the 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.560 money that they can get in order to pay for 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:43.440 their big spending promises. Now they don't need the coalition supporter. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.520 As you point out, the Greens hold the balance of 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.279 power in the Senate. But if they were to make 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.960 the deal with the coalition instead and maybe water down 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:57.680 this policy or add protections like indexing the levels so 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.760 that it doesn't with bracket creep take in more and 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:05.080 more people on and their super annuation balances, then it 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.600 will be less of a contentious issue going forward. If 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.919 they make the deal with the Greens who want the 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.640 threshold lowered from three million dollars to two million dollars, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.360 then this stays a hot topic, possibly until the next 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:19.720 election in another. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.120 Three years time. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.480 Well, we've got the Greens wanting the threshold to be lowered. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.040 Greensley that Larissa Waters told Australian that her party supports 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:32.919 taxing unrealized capital gains. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:33.640 Of course they do. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.719 The only objection they have is that they want that 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.279 threshold to be lowered to two million dollars Caroline. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.720 And it sounds like a lot of money, but it 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.840 really won't necessarily be, especially if that's baked in and 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.279 in years time, you know, is an indexed with inflation, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.280 people could a lot more people could be earning that 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.400 amount of money and having that in their superbalances, so 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:58.560 it will catch a lot more. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:05:59.320 People in the net. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.160 It's already seen as an unfair policy by the Opposition 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.400 and many economic experts. Because of the way that the 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.120 policy is structured. That would make it even more unfair, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.560 you'd have to say. And possibly the most unfair aspect 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.039 of it is it doesn't seem to include politicians like 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.120 the Prime Minister, like many of the ministers, who have 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.000 special benefits attached to their super and their pensions, and 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.080 they wouldn't be personally affected by it, So that's possibly 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.839 the most unfair aspect of it all. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.080 Absolutely, and there's a fear that they will extend it 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.400 to apply to other asset classes, whether we're talking about 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.800 share portfolios or property or. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.719 Any number of other assets. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:48.560 Meanwhile, Senator James Patterson has admitted to tactical errors Caroline 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.800 within the Coalition's foiled election bit, stating the obvious there. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.120 He also conceded it was a mistake to oppose Labour's 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.600 income tax cuts at the election, and the Liberals also 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.839 needed to be less antagonistic towards big business and support 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.200 free enterprise. Now, Caroline, I don't know if the Coalition 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.680 get it. I don't think if the Liberal parties still 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.840 get it. They're clinging onto net zero. They're stating absolutely 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:22.000 captain obvious areas here. Of course they should have supported 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.240 income tax cut. What sort of liberal party stands opposed 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.680 to people keeping more of their own money, money they've earned. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.600 That's what the core values of the Liberal Party should be, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.320 that it's for smaller government, for lower taxes. And the 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.920 way that it argued against Labour's policy here made it 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:46.160 look like they were the party of higher taxing than 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.680 even the Labor Party, which is it's pretty extreme. I mean, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.560 the thing is that the coalition did offer various incentives 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.280 harving the fuel excise. It offered a one off tax 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.200 offset for people, as well as other incentives when it 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.640 came to property and mortgages, but I think these were 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.640 more complex for voters to understand. Of course, everyone is 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.720 an expert in hindsight, but that is just one thing 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.679 as a liberal party that you can never be seen 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.680 to be against and harrow tax cuts. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.960 Absolutely, But I don't know if it's being an expert 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.000 in hindsight, because if the Liberal Party actually listened to 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.480 the advice given on Sky News, they wouldn't have made 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.720 these mistakes. These are statements that were made throughout the 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.240 election campaign that were in fact statements that were made 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.480 throughout the year that they were on the wrong track 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.719 and they really needed to make some bold decisions if 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.319 there were any chance of winning, and they listened to 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.920 none of that advice. Now, Carra to a story I 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:53.120 know we've both covered extensively, and World Boxing has banded 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.680 Olympic gold millists Iman Khalif from the sport, advising the 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.280 Algerian Boxing Federation the Khalif would have to undergo a 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:05.000 mandatory sex test if Khalif wants to compete in future 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.079 boxing competitions. International Boxing Bodies saying that it has introduced 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.120 the measure following the furor surrounding Khalif winning gold at 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.600 the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics. Caroline, I remember at 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.160 the time there were a lot of people outrage that 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.679 this was even being talked about, but there was quite 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.520 obviously something very wrong. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.480 Absolutely in this case Imman Khalif and the Taiwanese boxer 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.120 who also won at the Olympics gold medal. They are 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.520 DSD athletes disorders of sex development slightly different from trans 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.079 but it's similar in the sense that they are also 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.080 said to be biologically male. They have x Y chromosomes, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.520 but they're born with disorders that mean that they during 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.760 They don't go through puberty in exactly the same way, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.160 but they do go through a male puberty. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:58.920 They might just not look male. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.320 At birth, but there are to test whether you've got 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.320 this disorder, and. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.480 That's what both of these athletes are said to have. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.280 Now it's similar to the issue of transgender athletes and 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.640 women's sport because they've both reportedly gone through male puberty. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.640 They have all the advantages that male. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:23.080 Puberty affords you, bigger muscles, bigger heart, greater lung capacity. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.800 The Italian boxer female boxer Angela Karini, who came up 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.960 against Munk Khalif in the Olympics in the first round, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.080 gave up after something like forty eight seconds. She said 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.640 she'd never been punched so hard as she had by 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.240 Imunk Khalif. So this is completely a common sense move 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.280 and it's just unfortunate that it's taken this long to 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:49.800 get here. People were like yourself and and me were 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.960 speaking out during the Olympics and many more people around 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.319 the world, and we were dismissed by the Olympics Committee 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.080 president Thomas Buck who called it a war issue and 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.160 said these are women. Well, if they're women, have the 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.120 very simple gender test, it's a cheek or those swab 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:13.120 and it will define you as being biologically female and 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:14.560 that by all means compete. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.680 But until then, no, thank you. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.880 Now Swedish doom goblin. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.079 Greta Thumberg is in a boat and she's heading to Gaza. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.520 Hello, I am currently standing on the Madeline, the ship 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:37.560 that on Sunday, June first will attempt to again saale 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.640 towards Gaza and to try to break the siege and 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:45.880 open up a humanitarian corridor by delivering aid like food 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.360 and medical supplies. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:53.319 Carolina, what more can you tell me about this expedition. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.720 Well, this is the second time Greta Thumberg is hoping 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.000 to jump on a ship. Plan to jump on a 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.360 ship and head out to go where frankly, I hope 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.240 she remains and sees what life is really like, especially 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:11.080 for women in Gaza. She is on this expedition with 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:16.480 this group called Freedom Flotilla Coalition. They set off from 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.680 Sicily and Southern Italy. They're hoping to as they say, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:26.880 break the Israeli siege on Gaza, deliver aid, raise awareness, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:33.080 of the humanitarian crisis there. But of course Greta Thumberg 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.880 only speaks about what she calls the genocide in Gaza 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.160 and the starvation of. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:40.720 All these people. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.440 She never speaks about her mass, about the horror. She 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.600 never puts any context into it, that this is a 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.840 war that was started by a terror organization that has again, 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.400 only days ago, refused to accept a ceasefire deal put 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.560 forward from the US. It's only ever one side with 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.440 her own, only ever propaganda. Apparently she's got tied a 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.800 limit stuff now she's preaching us to us on this. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.320 Yes, yes, Carolina Marcos, thank you so much for your 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.760 time tonight, joining me now is a esteem geologist and author. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.000 Professor in Plymer. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.040 Let's start with Victoria reports in the Australian Financial Review 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.600 that the cost of Victoria's renewable energy plan has been 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.240 understated by at least sixty billion, with the total cost 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.280 of households and businesses as a result of the transition 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.080 to renewables said to be more than four times the 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.720 four point three billion figure set out in the state's 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:44.280 transition roadmap. Ian builds up high already in it seems 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:45.240 they're only going to get. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.120 Higher well, it doesn't surprise me. Every time you ask 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.240 LA the government what's again to cost, they can never 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.320 give you the number. Yet they are rapiting on about 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.040 the cost of proposed nuclear using a false number. By 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.760 the way, So the one thing that lay governments can't 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.000 do is to handle the economy. They can take your 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.840 money from you and spend it on all sorts of 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.440 pet projects, but they can't balance the books and run 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.240 an economy. So every time they've been asked the cost 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.360 of a project, they can't give it. So I'm not 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.079 surprised it's a cost overrun. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.160 But this is some doozy. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.200 I mean, it's one thing to get the cost wrong 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.840 by say twenty even one hundred percent. We're talking about 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.280 four times that four hundred percent. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.200 Well, how do you make it stuff up like that? 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:33.680 That's almost possible to do. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.840 I would have SAYD any project, you normally have a 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:41.040 contingency in there, and so if you go beyond that contingency, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.520 it is a cost overrun. So not only have they 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.960 gone above the contingency, they've just blown this right out. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.600 Now I don't know how you can do that. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.720 Now, partly, you can do it if. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.600 You have a lot of your mates from the unions 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:59.840 working and overcharging. That's quite normal. But what governments have, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.040 it's the ability to actually raise revenue through tax. But 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.480 what they never do is cut their costs. And this 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.480 is a classic example of an ideological project that no 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.880 one has costed, no one's looked at the costs, and 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.680 people have thought, oh, yes, r okay, if we run over, 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.239 we can retrieve this money from the poor, bleeding consumer. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.000 Now we've got two hundred residents of the Victorian town 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.320 of drang and apologies if I mispronounced that it's and 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:36.160 many of these volunteer firefighters have expressed fears that proposals 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.760 for two lithium ironed battery energy storage systems in the 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.600 area would create an unacceptable fire risk, which has and 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.440 this is an area in that's been ravaged by numerous 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.200 bushfires over the years. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.680 This isn't an isolated issue. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.320 There are regional communities across the country with similar fears. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.960 Well, there've been some huge battery fires around the train 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.400 apps and these batteries you cannot put out a fire 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.040 when you've got a big fire operating, and that's because 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.840 they're a chemical battery and you've basically got to let 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.320 them burn out. Now, during that burning, they produce toxic fumes. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.000 One of them is hydrofluoric acid. Now where geologists in 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.840 laboratory is we dissolve rocks in hydrofluoric acid. That's how 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.400 strong it is. If you want to etch glass, you 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:31.400 use hydrofluoric acid. So these battery fires produce extremely toxic chemicals. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.880 They can't be put out, and if you're in a 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.560 bush fire prone area, they're the trigger from war fires. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.240 So any CFA member would be better to go down 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.000 the pub rather than to try to put out one 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:43.720 of these fires. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.760 Well, hopefully a pub well away from the fire. Judging 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.320 by these chemicals, is the same chemical that would be 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.240 released if an electric car was alive. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.840 Yes they are, but in the batteries see much much 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.880 bigger and electric car fires. Again, you can't put them out. Now, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.920 some of these battery buyers can't be put out and 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.840 they just burn out. But sometimes they take a week 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.199 to burn out, during which time you've got no operational 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.400 power systems, during which time you're putting toxic fumes into 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.760 the air, into the soil, and into the waterways. It 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.480 is a really bad idea. We once said, cheap reliable 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.560 electricity without these sort of problems and we've got rid 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:23.760 of it. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.160 Yes, it's psych They haven't thought this through. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.679 Never mind the cost overruns, but just the practicality. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.760 That's an understatement. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.080 Haven't thought it through. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.760 Now Prime Minister Anthony Alberdeasy has given Donald Trump some 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.359 unsolicited advice following the US President's decision to double tariffs 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.480 on Australian steel, lifting the tariff from twenty five percent 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:51.639 to fifty percent. Labor labeling the move as an inappropriate action. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.800 That's a Albo's assessment there, and he wasn't done yet. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.719 He also said it would be an act of economic 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.000 self harm for the United States. I'm sure the President 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.199 of the United States is really appreciating these words of 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:11.439 wisdom from Anthony Albernezi. Economic advice from the labor prime minister. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.800 Well, economic advice from someone who has no idea about economics, 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.080 Economic advice from someone who's been in the politics and 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.680 the union movement all their life, compared with that from 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.720 a multi billionaire who's made a lot of money and 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.760 had to watch his pennies, and economic advice from a minnow. Now, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.040 whatever Australia does, it's not going to affect the economics 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.119 in the US, and tariffs have been around for a 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.760 long period of time. The balance of trade is in 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.280 our favor. I don't know what mister Albin is going 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.320 on about, because people in this country don't care about tariffs. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.239 The Americans don't care about the tariffs. They're looking at 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:54.159 bigger things. And to have an economic illiterate trying to argue. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.000 With someone who's been thinks it would tell you, oh. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.680 Yes, yes, well that's with tofu as well, you're a 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.280 green that's economically good. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:04.800 What of the tariffs? 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.479 The Prime Minister is going to finally have a meeting 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.479 with the President. It's taken some time to get this meeting. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.720 Now we know President Trump is well aware of things 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.680 that people have said about him over the years, and 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:24.479 the labor ministers, the Prime Minister himself have been very 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:30.440 very foolish in saying some things that are really uncharitable, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.120 and that's putting it kindly. Is that going to come 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.560 back to haunt us when these negotiations happen. 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.760 Well, Trump settle schools and there's been a lot of 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.240 comment about Trump from people who are not very wise, 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.119 and it wouldn't surprise me if Trump gave Albo a 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.320 tongue lashing. He's done it to others. We saw it 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.880 recently from the President of South Africa. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.080 He's imagine if it pulls in a big TV screen. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.560 Albert he's not getting that sort of true, but is. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.359 Well informed, and he does have a number of Australian 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:11.680 friends and he talks to them, and we have one 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.399 big Australian company, Visy, who are active in the US. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.720 I'm sure he would talk to the Pratt family. I'm 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.359 sure he would talk to others, and he would be 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.960 well informed by his own staff as well as insiders. 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.280 So it wouldn't surprise me if we saw a wonderful 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.119 bit of television and see a tongue lashing of Elbow. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.400 I do hope the meeting is televised, but it may 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.160 just be a very quick thing behind closed doors. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.920 Well, he's got to learn who Elbow is first. He 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.760 doesn't know his name, so he's got a bit of 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:44.399 catching up to do. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.359 He does. I think he knows Albow's name. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.240 I don't know if he knew Peter Dutton's name, so 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.720 that was a little bit sad for Peter Dutton. So 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.600 you think we are in a decent position to get 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:02.320 a trade deal that's at least better than our trading partners, 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.680 given that we're in a rare position of having a 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:05.840 deficit with the US. 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.959 We are in fortunate and very rare position, and I 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.840 suspect we could get a good trade deal, but it 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.280 would not be mister Rado, mister Albinizi that could negotiate it. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.199 Someone like Joe Hockey would be the perfect person to 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.240 do it, or even Anthony Pratt, or even Gina Reinhart. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.840 These are the people that you get the trade deal 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.119 that we would need because the balance of trade is 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.600 in the US Australia. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.240 And that is highly unusual. There's only a handful of 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.480 counties in that position. So let's hope for the best. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:38.919 Prophecy employment. Thank you so much for your time tonight. 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:40.480 Thank you still to come. 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:45.600 Lefties losing it plus a terrifying domestic terror attack rocks 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:59.440 the state of Colorado, Chamigan Michelle as the details. You're 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.440 watching the Panny his show and it's time for left 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:06.720 He's losing it and bad news for MSNBC. Their ratings 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:11.199 were already low, but they have plummeted even further in 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.960 the crucial twenty five to fifty four age demographic. MSNBC 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:19.119 has seen its ratings plunge forty one percent during prime 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:24.480 time and thirty four percent across the total broadcast day compared. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.159 With just a year ago. Now, this is according to 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:32.480 leaked ratings figures. And I can't imagine why we finished. 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.440 It's bad. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:39.840 It's a rare, it's a rare. 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:46.840 Weback. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:53.840 Meanwhile in the back they're like, Okay. 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:54.080 Come back. 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:56.119 Why isn't there show a rating? 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.560 It's it's a mystery. And the host has suffered. The 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:03.840 most humiliating collapse is Jensaki. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:04.680 Let's have a look. 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.320 The speeches are getting much more disturbing and much more unhinged. 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:09.640 And we should all hear it that way. 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:14.359 Now to CNN, who would have been none too happy 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.800 about airing an interview where a hostage helped by her mask, 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:22.080 made it clear that the terrorists wanted Kamala Harris to 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:22.800