WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 19 May 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.080 On scor lids Ostrodia. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.320 This is the Wader Panalty Show. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.399 Good evening and welcome to the readA Panety Show. Coming 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.040 up tonight, the debt riddled Victorian government imposes another crippling 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.239 tax on propertyholders dan while we'll be here to discuss 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.960 the day's top headlines, including the impact of the Albanza 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.720 government's plan tax on unrealized games. Josh Hammer will join 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.360 me with the latest from the US, including the curious 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.839 timing of Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, and later in the 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:40.040 hour Kins's Scofield we'll be here with celebrity and world news, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.800 including Megan Markle's popularity pummitting to a new low. And 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.760 we never forget Left is losing it tonight, the race 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.320 obsessed Left object to a few dozen Afrikaners being granted 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:53.639 asylum in America. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.400 We can't be ourselves in the Episcopal Church and take 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.760 the step of resettling white Africaners from stuf North Africa. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.920 Our church has a long commitment to racial justice and reconciliation. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.800 But First Liberal leader Susan Lees under mounting pressure to 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.240 drop the net zero policy negotiated by Scott Morrison with 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.639 the Nationals in twenty twenty one as the party seeks 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.959 to forge a new path forward. The Australian newspaper revealing 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.119 today that both the Liberal and National Party rooms are 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.520 divided over their commitments to net zero and energy policies. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.280 Joining me now for more on this is Deputy Executive 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.160 Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, Dan Wild. Dan. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.880 The Coalition adopted net zero in twenty twenty one and 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.760 since then they've suffered two devastating election losses. Do you 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.000 see a link between those two events? 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.080 Yeah, net zero is a vote loser. Time to try 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.000 something different. You know, you and I have discussed the 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.720 many and varied economic and social consequences of net zero 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.680 to Australia talking about the Liberal Party. Though obviously net 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:10.600 zero is inconsistent with Liberal values. It enables a massive 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.440 expansion to government bureaucracy to interfere in almost every single 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.600 aspect of our lives, whether it's the food we can eat, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.040 the cars we can drive, the houses we can live in, 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.000 the kind of industries that we can have in our economy. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.799 So it's inconsistent with any ethos of smaller government. It's 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.520 also a threat to our national sovereignty because it requires 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.440 us to import foreign technology, including from China, into Australia, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.440 and it's also a massive tax on working Australians when 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.920 you look at how energy bills are going up and 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.160 the cost of living is going up, which is primarily 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.400 driven by energy costs. So on any account, of course, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.480 the Liberal Party should be dumping net zero. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.840 You're a candidate at the recent election in a safe 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.960 labor seed. Did you, as a Liberal candidate have any 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.480 input into any policy into the net zero position? 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.519 Not at a central level, reader, I mean, I advocated 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.520 the cause on the ground. But you know one thing 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.320 I can tell you, particularly in out of suburban electorates 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.040 such as the one I stood for, is that not 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.600 one single person came up to me and asked me 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.240 how is Australia going in meeting our nationally determined contribution 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.239 to cutor additions to net zero by twenty fifty under 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.160 the Paris Climate Agreement. Funnily enough, that wasn't raised even 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.480 once Rita. It might be hard to believe, but you know, 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.760 Australians are just over the climate fanaticism and one a 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.720 government which is focused on the bottom line, not on 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.000 bureaucrats in Brussels. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.520 I just can't understand the coalition sticking with this policy. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.480 I said it all throughout this year during the election campaign. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.240 The last time they fought an election on this issue, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:00.040 they won the unwinnable election back in twenty nineteen, and 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.520 they signed up to zero devastating loss. Devastating loss again. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.840 And you can't fight about issues like cost of living 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.040 when you signed up to this madness, because it impacts 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:18.920 every facet of life, from businesses to households to large 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:23.400 scale manufacturing sector. It is absolutely crippling for us. But 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.960 let's move on to the Abanazy government's tax on unrealized 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.920 gains on superannuation funds in excess of three million dollars. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.919 It will come into effect July one. It's expected to 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.560 pass both the Lower House and the Senate with ease, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.760 given the Greens have the balance of power in the 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.640 upper house and the Liberals really fail to explain why 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:50.960 this tax is so so unfair, so grossly unfair. And 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.800 it doesn't just impact the reach, it also has a 0:04:53.880 --> 0:05:01.080 massive impact on investment, a negative impact on the investment. Yeah, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:01.480 that's right. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.840 I think there's a couple of things. You know, as 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.800 with any kind of new tax, it's actually often the 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.719 rich that can avoid at the best because they have 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.720 the resources told to their investment portfolios to minimize the 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.160 impact of tax. Actually those are the middle that tend 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.200 to copy it. The other point is this will damage 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.440 self you know, the sm self run super funds, and 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.360 it will channel more money into industry super funds, and 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.480 which is obviously a benefit to labor and the unions, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.400 given that those super funds are run by unions. I 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.520 think the other point reader is this tax is incredibly opaque. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.680 It's not really clear how it will be administered. And 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.680 one of the fundamental principles of taxation is you need 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.320 to actually know how much tax you're liable for. So 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.160 you know, you earn an income, you've got to pay 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.560 income tax, you buy something from the shops, you pay GST, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.359 you own a business, you pay payroll tax. That we 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.840 can debate the sites and the magnitude of those taxes, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.800 but at least they're obvious in terms of how much 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.520 you have to pay. But this tax is very opaque, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.640 so I don't even know if the treasure himself can 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.000 explain how this is going to be enforced or how 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.839 much packs The typical investor is actually going to pay. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.599 Well, it's going to impact as many as one point 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:14.120 eight million Australians, could spread to other income levels and 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.960 other structures. It's one that would think we have to 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.960 keep talking about. But now to the Victorian state budget, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.839 and despite the net debt soaring towards two hundred billion, 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.919 premierges Into Allen and Treasurer Jacelin Simes are hailing a 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.239 six hundred million dollar surplus stand This is nine hundred 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.400 million dollars lower than what was forecast last year. They 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.640 are hailing this as the state's first back in black 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.360 budget since the pandemic. But really, who are they fooling here? 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:49.120 Victoria is in dire financial straits and we're facing a 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.559 credit downgrade Dan. The state's credit rating is already at 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.880 a record low and it could fall further. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:00.760 Yeah, that's right. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.920 I don't think that the claim surplus is worth the 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.760 paper it's written on, because we know that tens of 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.440 billions of dollars, particularly in the infrastructure investments, have been 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.920 shuffled off the books. They're done through other vehicles that 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.760 aren't accounted for in the normal The headline figures that 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.760 we see written up in the media and propagated by 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.760 the government. So you've got the massive suburban railroop, which 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:29.360 is unpopular, unnecessary and is unaffordable, and many other costs 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.680 that aren't included in this. So look, I think that 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.560 ultimately everybody knows that Victoria is going downhill when it 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.880 comes to its finances and economy. This is no longer abstract. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.240 We're seeing cuts to funding of schools, potential cuts to 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.520 health and other services of. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:45.680 Victorians rely upon. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.920 And of course if Victoria goes down, it will bring 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.120 the rest of the country with it. We already know 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.440 that it's getting a larger distribution of the GST to 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.280 compensate for the Victorian government's financial mismanagement. And at the 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.360 end of the day, it's going to be everybody else 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.600 in this country that will have to bail out the 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.440 failing state that is Victoria. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.920 Now. CFE volunteers across Victoria have stopped attending callouts and 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.440 some have threatened to quit. Some have even burned their 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.720 uniforms in fury over the state government's new emergency services tax. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.600 This tax replaces the fire services levy, will be raising 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:29.280 more money and it will be changed alongside council rates. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.600 And while all landholders in Victoria are going to be 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.320 paying for this. It's farmers in particular who are facing 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:41.360 massive increases, possibly tens of thousands of dollars, and a 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.439 lot of farmers volunteer for the CFA. DAN, you can 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.000 understand why they're so upset. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.000 Yeah, this is an absolute disgrace. It's being done primarily 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:58.760 because the volunteers in the CFA are not unionized, so 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.400 they want to government wants to shove out the volunteers 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.400 and bring them under a union rubric. So this is 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.480 a disgraceful attack on a critical volunteering organization being done 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:13.320 for political purposes. It heightens the risk of risk to 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.719 human life in the event of a bushfire because Victorians 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.480 rely upon the services of volunteers, and I think it's 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.400 an example of just how short sighted the government is 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.560 when they're attacking the very people they're engaging in a 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.720 community surface that is so valuable. So I think there's 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.240 a lot to be worried about in the direction of this. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.959 But unfortunately, as we just discussed, because the government is 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.800 so cash strapped, they're going to be looking to tax 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.839 absolutely everything that moves. Well. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.240 We are saying that in Victoria in particular, they are 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.840 absolutely hooked on property taxes in particular, whether it's land tax, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.320 stamp duties and now we've got emergency services tax Stan. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.680 It really is again a disincentive to invest in Victoria. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.400 Why would you invest in this state where you're going 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.920 to be absolutely crippled with taxes, particularly if you're a 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.800 mum and dad a landholder. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.160 Well that's right, and I think it's also cautionary tale 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.840 for the rest of Australia, which is, you know, this 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.880 is what happens when you don't get your financial house 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.800 in order. I think for a lot of people, massive 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.480 government debt it's a pretty abstract concept. It doesn't appear 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.720 to affect their day to day lives. But what actually 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.920 happens is you get reduction to services and higher taxes. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.480 And yes they'll start at the top end. They say, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.480 oh we're any taxing property investors. That won't affect people 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.280 on the ground. But then salami slice after salami slice, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.480 it gets worse and worse until you find the economy 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.800 is plunged into a very deep recession, which is where 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.040 I fear Victoria is going. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.000 Now before you go, you are in South Australia, I'm 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.400 interested in your take on the latest development in the 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:58.320 Willie Rioli saga. He's served a one match suspension for 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:03.760 threatening a player via a teammate online. But Dan was 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.439 seeing many in the AFL world, and in particular at 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:11.280 Port Adelaide, trying to frame Willioli as the victim. Now 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.200 Port Adelaide president David Kosh even suggested that he was 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:20.120 the victim of culturally insensitive comments from the Bulldog, something 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.959 the Bulldog's coach was not going to cop. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.240 As a matter of fact, that the comments weren't culturally 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:34.160 in sensitive. That surprised me that he would insinuate or 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.560 accuse our pliers of going down that track. But we 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:39.760 won't ask for an apology. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:40.280 We'll just. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.840 Obviously remember it for the next time. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.199 Dan Luke Befridge made some good points. They also made 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:54.400 the excellent point that port is effectively enabling Rioli's poor 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.520 behavior with these endless excuses. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:01.320 Yeah, that's right. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.319 I think your article a couple of days ago summed 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.400 it up, which is another exam example of the hypocritical 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.960 double standards of the AFL. You know, I thought the 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.760 AFL W stood for AFL Women's It turns out it 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.240 stands for AFL woke. You know, time and time again 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.959 we see this sort of double standard apply to identity politics. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.480 You know, you could take the example of tex Walker 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.360 and another great South Australian footballer who you know a 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.480 little while ago, was rubbed out for a number of 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.360 games and had to pay a massive fine because of 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.600 alleged racial comments that he made that I don't believe 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.000 we're ever recorded anywhere, and maybe he made them, maybe 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.800 he didn't, but you know, how come that gets one 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.440 treatment and you know, this situation with Rioli gets another one. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.400 I mean, you also make the point about Port coach 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.440 Hinckley who got a massive fine for you know, something 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.960 that was pretty innocuous, and again we see the double standard. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.680 So I just think the football fans had a gut 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.559 full of this double standard that applies to the AFL, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.440 and if the rules are there, they should be applied 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.000 to everybody on an equal basis. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.560 Yes, they're very selective about how they apply their rules 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.240 and a lot of people presumed there was some racial 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.640 aspect to why they were initially so soft on Willie Rioli. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.000 They find the coach, they're twenty thousand dollars for something 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.360 that wasn't offensive or threatening. It may have not been 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:24.240 a good look. They find players thousands for giving the finger, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:29.440 but a player making a threat and basically getting away 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.719 with an apology Initially, that did raise a lot of eyebrows. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.720 Dan Wild, thank you so much for your time tonight. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.880 Joining me now is esteem geologist and author Professor Ian 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.640 Primary inlets start in the US, where engineers have discovered 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.600 kill switches embedded in Chinese manufactured power inverters installed at 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.040 American solar farms, prompting fears that the Chinese Communist Party 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:59.440 could physically destroy grids across the US, UK and other 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.280 parts of U We're by remotely switching off the power supply. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.040 Are we shocked by this development? This is precisely what 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.559 you've been warning about as a possibility. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.920 No, not at all shocked. It's been on the cards 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.080 for a very very long time. And it could be 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.119 a Chinese solar industrial complex. It could be a wind turbine, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.400 it could be a Chinese car, it could be Huiwei 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.680 telecommunications network. We've known that this possibility existed for a 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.320 very long period of time. It's fairly easy to do, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:36.560 and it's just a method of industrial chaos. Is trying 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:42.000 to weaken your opposition, so there are no surprises. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.800 Can we trust the Chinese Communist Party not to resort 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.760 to these sort of tactics at some point? 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.520 I don't think you can trust any Communists, whether it 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.960 be Chinese or Russian or East German, that goes with 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:55.720 the territory. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.760 Well, and we already know when it comes to trade, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.560 with this latest tariff war we're having, that they do 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.520 not play by the rules, They steal intellectual property, they 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.960 do all sorts of things that are just grossly unfair. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.600 And this is just another aspect of that. And we 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.400 are so reliant on them for this infrastructure, aren't we. 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:22.320 When we look at renewables, China's really the greatest beneficiary. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.240 Well, there's a simple solution to that. Don't go net zero, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:26.520 don't go renewables. 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:27.360 Go back to. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.720 Cheap, reliable coal fired electricity. We had it for a 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:31.200 long time. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:36.400 Typed China users reduce these solar Yes, that's exactly what happens. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.640 China buys our coal and then produce the solar panels 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.040 and wind turbines and other machinery to compete against our industries. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.680 So they get it both ways, and we copy it 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.280 in the eyes both ways, So this is absolute manner. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.520 So the solution is simple, go back to cheap, reliable 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.560 coal fired electricity in this state, Victoria, it was the 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.320 cheapest in the world with the brown coal that we 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.680 had here. Now it isn't no. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.680 And it's amongst the most expensive you would say, our 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.280 energy prices. Now, what is your assessment of the newly 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.440 appointed Environment Minister Murray Wat. He's promising to deliver a 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.920 decision on the Northwest Shelf gas project by the end 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:21.400 of the month. Will he be an improvement on his predecessor, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:26.480 Tannia Plibasek. Of course, she infamously blocked a number of 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.000 major projects that would have raised significant tax revenue created 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.520 a multitude of well paying jobs in regional areas. Can 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.520 we expect better from Murray Wat? 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.160 Well, I don't know. He didn't shine in his previous 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.440 portfolio and it's not hard to outshine Tanya Plebasek. So 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.680 he's only going to be fairly dull and not very 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.680 reflective and he'll do better. It's very very clear that 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.120 there was an internal fight going on in the Labor 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.080 Party and Tanya Plebersek was driving this to make life 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.200 very difficult for the Prime Minister. She's lost at portfolio. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.840 Maybe the labor government might think that having a productive economy, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.719 an economy that actually creates wealth, an economy that actually 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.000 has organizations and people pay tax, maybe that's best for 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.359 the country rather than playing ideological factional games. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.320 Now to an issue that is getting scant media coverage, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.159 and that's the drought that has left parts of Victoria 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.439 in severe distress. Parts of the state have had really 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.520 no rainfall for two years. There is some relief, but 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.639 many farmers are missing out. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.199 Duncan Barber's farm at Metcalf is one of those that 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.200 missed out. It's been pretty hard to deal with seeing 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.440 all that death. You've got to deal with death neely 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.239 every day. He feels forgotten by the government. I know 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.439 they've got no money because poor management, and they're not 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.080 going to That's why they don't want to help us. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.840 There's a nationally recognized framework that brings areas into the 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:01.240 drought declaration. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.560 It's hard not to think that the state government here 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.800 has just great disdain for farmers. For regional areas, there 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.040 is a great deal of suffering out there at an anger. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.520 Well, that's the case. Farmers get the short straw country wide. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.560 They suffer drought, they suffer floods, they suffer bush fires. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.400 This droughts not only restricted to southwestern Victoria, southeastern South 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:33.040 Australia as well. Yet northeastern Victoria is quite wet, so 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.719 these are localized droughts. These have a dramatic effect on 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.160 the cash flow of farmers. Farmers get treated with absolute 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.360 disdain in this country. You've only got to see how 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.560 they're treated with putting high voltage power lines across their land, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.600 sterilizing their land, or putting wind turbines proximal to their properties. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:58.160 So we actually should be treating our farmers much better. Now. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.720 If the farmers had really you got sick of this, 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.920 they actually could go and strike like our union friends, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.159 and they would not deliver food to the cities and 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.360 every one week before we'd have absolute chaos and possible 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.040 anarchy in the cities. So the farmers have a huge 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.000 amount of muscle, and we have to be careful to 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.600 treat farmers as people who are actually providing a great 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.959 service and that is food on your table. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.480 I think there's going to be some protests in the 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.520 Melbourne CBD tomorrow morning, so we'll bring you news of 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.119 that tomorrow. Now, before you go the new Greens leader, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.840 Larissa Waters, I'm interested in your take on her. It 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.720 doesn't look like she's going to be returning the Greens 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:44.399 to their environmentalist roots. She's all about social justice. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.560 We're the Greens, so of course we stand firm always 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.880 on social justice and human rights, whether that's First Nations justice, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.320 whether that's a free Palestine, whether that's peace and human rights. 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.359 Globally, we will always. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:03.160 Be there calling out atrocities, calling out a genocide and 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:09.359 standing strongly on social justice and human rights. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.000 Is it more of the same, Well, I think it's 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:12.600 more of the same. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.879 I mean, a Green Party really should be concerned about 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.280 environmental matters, and they are not. They are supportive of 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.560 bulldozing large amounts of rainforest in Queensland to put in 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.760 wind turbines. They're supportive of bulldozing large amounts of forest 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.880 and the snowy mountains to put in high voltage power lines. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:35.080 And these people are basically concerned about issues which communists 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.639 around the world are concerned. So they've got nothing to 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.359 do with the environment. And if they were an environmental party, 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.080 they wouldn't be killing the forests. They wouldn't be killing 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.280 birds and bats with turbine blades. They wouldn't be killing 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.199 whales with offshore turbines. They wouldn't be poisoning soils with 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:55.680 wind blades and with detritus coming off solar panels. They're 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.000 not a Greens party at all. They are a minor 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.400 group of rat bag communists who want to control everything 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:03.160 in the country. 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:07.520 Professor in Plymouth, thank you for those insights. Still to 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.480 Kalma left his Losing ed class the latest from the US, 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:16.240 including the curious timing of Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. Josh 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:26.000 Hammer has the details. You're watching the Reader Panny Show, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.320 and it's time for lefties losing it. Let's start with 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:33.480 another celebrity who is determined to trash their own reputation. 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.520 This one appears to have no qualms about his legacy 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:42.399 being damaged with his ignorant, hair brained hate and vitriol. 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:47.760 Here is Bruce Springsteen launching into a boring anti Trump 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.879 die tribe to an audience who would rather he just 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.280 sang some of his classic songs. 0:21:54.280 --> 0:22:02.800 They're removing residents of American streets out due process of law, 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.840 are devoting them to foreign detention. 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:11.840 Centers and prisoners. This is all happening now. 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:21.760 The majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.280 the American people from the abuses of an unfit president. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:34.720 And a rural He wasn't done yet, though the audience 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.359 seemed to be thoroughly fit up. You can tell that 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.400 by the scant applause. 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:44.920 The America of that I've sung to you about for 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.760 fifty years is real. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.679 And regardless of its face, it's a. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:57.000 Great country with a great to will survive this morning. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.080 Look, we can't talk about Bruce Springstey without featuring his 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.720 great work during the election campaign, where he appeared at 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.879 Kamala rallies to built out the classics. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:15.359 You'll be carming you about right, See, you gotta stay hungry. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:22.840 Well, I'm just about starving the night. Oh dear. 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.560 Little world falling apart. 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:29.480 This gun's for higher. 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.840 Even if we just dancing in the girl. 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.720 Now, trust me, that was literally the best bit. I 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:44.000 could have been mean and played this, working on. 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:52.000 Dad's grin, driving all like cheez and some rush. 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:57.040 That is green. But at least old Bruce is short footed. 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:15.840 Sure he can't sing anymore, but he can dance. I'll 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:20.040 have more celebrities disgracing themselves tomorrow and I but now 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.960 to the left losing it because the Trump administration is 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:27.800 granting refugee status to a few dozen Africanas. Of course, 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:32.640 white landholders are increasingly fleeing the racial hatred and violence 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:37.000 of modern day South Africa. But MSNBC would prefer them 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:40.360 to stay where they are. Here is Donna Edwards. 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:41.840 Well. 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:44.320 In my view, what makes it different is that they 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:48.359